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January 9, 1909, at the post ofllcc at
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Congress of March, 1879.
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' The only cure for Socialism in this
country is to inject more Democracy
In the government. Let the people
?anderstand that they have some
rights that even the Rockefellers, the
Morgans and other such plutocrats,
and the evil will cure itself.
The promptness and dignity with
Which young Beattie was tried and
executed for a most shocking crime is
Impressive evidence of the majesty
Of the law nightly administered, and
Virginia has set a fine example for
South Carolina and all other States.
Dr. Schurman and others who are
holding up their hands in holy hor
ror at the spread of Socialism in this
country have themselves to blame for
tt They vote the Republican ticket
always and the policies of that party
la what Is causing the ftpread of So
cialism.
In a little over four months from
the time he murdered his young wife,
Benry Clay Beattie, Jr., was exe
cuted for the crime at Richmond, Va.
A little of that kind of justice In
South Carolina would reduce the
murder record in this State to a min
imum in a short time.
The nation as a whede has abun
dant reason to- feel gratitude to the
God of Nations for the undoubted
prosperity that has been visited upon
the American people. The year whose
lengthening shadows will now soon
fade forever has been fraught with
manifold blessings and material fat
ness.
An effort is. being made In certain
Quarters to discredit the Prize Vot
ing Contest now being conducted by
The Times and Democrat Such spite
work generally does the person It
ftp aimed at more good than harm,
from the fact that people can so eas
ily eee the' motive thtit prompts It.
We feel that such will be the result
tn this ease.
The Greenri lie Hewn saya: "The
Democrats #111 "elect the president
next year, if all the Democrats in the
country will, just vote the Democratic
ticket The trouble for a number
of years has been that too many
Democrats would rote the Republican
ticket" The News la right li points
out the only danger to Democratic
success next year.
?The spread of Socialism in the
West and East Is causing the
thoughtful men of those sections to
think. The South has shunned that
Ism as she has all other Isms, and
we are not surprised at the speech of
President Schurman of Cornell Uni
Terslty at Atlanta, <n which he said
the South would have to keep the
nation cane.
Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., who was
executed at Richmond, Va.. on last
Friday morning for murdering hi3
young wife, was a young man oi cr
eation, refinement, high social stand
ing and wealth. Yet, all these could
not 6ave him in 'Virginia. In South
Carolina it is an Impossibility to
hang a man with such advantages.
The case would be kept in the courts
Indefinitely.
The Times and Democrat wants
the Democrats to nominate the man
that can win the presidency. Any
man will suit us, so long as ho is a
real Democrat, like Wilson, Cl\rk,
Folk or some other man of their
stripe. We favor Wilson because we
believe he can win, and Is a good
man. If the party has a good man
who Is stronger than Wilson, he
should be nominated, but until that
tB demonstrated we will stick to Wil
son.
We fully agree with the Post in
What It says about Murphy and
Hearst and also that Mr. Bryan
Should be hearkened to and his coun
sel should have respectful considera
tion, but if he cannot convince the
majority of the party of the sound
ness of hlB views, he cannot expect
to bare hla way, merely as a whim.
We are satisfied that Mr. Bryan will
tfitke no such position as Congressman
Wlckllf.*e saya he will. While Mr.
Bryan has his preferences as to can
didates, we believe ho will loyally
support any good man nominated by
his party.
The Spartanburg Journal says a
cotton broker of that city says cotton
has reached the low water mark and
will before long bo found soiling at
It cents. This gentleman says that
much of the cotton In the fields will
never .bo picked out. On account of
weather conditions it opened bo rap
Idly that there Is not labor enough
In the South to pick it. Consequent
ly it falls out on the ground and Is
destroyed. The saute weather condi
tions, he says, have brought the crop
Oirt early and caused big ginning flg
v -p:-*. From now on he predicts that
( '" :'"g figures will show a tremen
dous falling off. He places the crop
(it only 13,500,000.
Morrt Disgraceful Affair.
Four of the brutes who ccnfeBsea
lo a psrtieipil'or. in the tarring of
a young lady school teac [i<cT. at lln
com centre, Kamos, has teen sen
tenced to oae year In jail, which 13
the worst punishment that could be
Inflicted by the courts of Kansas for
such a crime. It is hard to belie ,e
that such a disgraceful crime could
be committed in a civllzed country,
and it Is a pity that tho brutes who
committed it escaped with such light
punishment. Some of the men who
have confessed to being guilty of this
hurrlble crime s.re rich and leaders
in the community, but did not save
them.
The young lady teacher who was
tarred was very pretty and popular,
and some of the young women in the
town in which she was teaching be
came Insanely jealous of her and be
gan to make plans to kill her popu
larity. They told certain young mar
ried women that the young teacher
was "taking on" with their husbands.
This angered the young married wo
men, and they Immediately took steps
to get even. When th< young hus
bands heard that she was boasting
that she had them "at her feet," so
to speak, and urged them to resent it.
The result was. that the little town
was stirred from center to circum
ference. The young husbands and
j single youug men held a meeting and
I determined to punish the young pret
ty school teacher they had been told
wa3 doig so much talking about her
conquests over them. After some
deliberation thty determined that she
should be punished, and they de
cided upon the most cruel torture
they could think of, which was to
apply hot tar to her person. The
young teacher was invited to a dance,
and on her way Jn a buggy with a
man in the plot, she was taken from
tho buggy and carried into some
nearby woods. There her clothes
were torn from her body and hot tar
poured on her.
The cowardly brute, who had de
coyed the young .woman from her
1 home on the pretense of taking her
to a dance, was first arrested, and
coward like, he told on the othen,
who, he said, had paid him for acting
his part in the horrible drama. Sev
eral arrests were made, including
tsome prominent men, socalled, of the
town. When they were brought to
, trial four of them confessed and two
' more have been convicted. Men com
mitting such a crime as this on a
defenceless woman are brutes of a
? low order, and no punishmen would
I be too severe for them. To start
j with they should have been tarred as
j they larred the young woman and
then sent to prison.
Coming Down !;o Clark?
(Representative 'SVlckllffe, of Louis
iana, expresses the opinion that
Speaker Champ Clark, of the House
of Representatives, in the most like
ly nominee of the Democrats for
President of the United States next
year. He reaches his conclusion by
a process of elimination, or Througa
a course of negative reasoning.
Woodrow Wilson, Juds?n Harmon,
Oscar Underwood and Champ Clark
are the four most prominent figures
In consideration for the nomination.
Hearst and Murphy, the Tammany
leader, he finds, will never consent
to Wilson,, Hearst and Bryan are op
posed to Harmon and* Bryan has
barred Underwood as an acceptable
candidate. Mr. Wickliffe thinks that
Hearst. Murphy and Biryan will have
to be satisfied, and he believes that
only Clark, of the four' c?ndldates
considered, will be acceptable; to all
nf them, therefore he concludes that
dark will be the nominee.
In commenting on the above tho
Charleston Post says "it will come to
a pretty pass, indeed, if the Demc
r.'atic party will have to pass over
strong, capable leaders to choose ?
mcdiDcre man as its candidate for
President because of the oppositio.i
of three individuals. Mr. Bryan is 3
respectable figure, to be sure, i.t?d
has a great following, despite hi3
three defeats for the Presidency. He
Is a man of principle and a moral
leader, who ha3 made a deep im
pression upon the politics of his time,
but he is not the dictator of the par
ty's fortunes, though he might have
it in his power to affect them ad
versely.
'VMurphy is a disreputable boss,
guardian certain narrow interests,
and while the support of Tammany
is always a mattar of Importance
the time has not feme when its dis
pleasure should bar the way of the
National Democracy. Hearst is a
self-seeker and a marplot. He has
I been in and out of the Democratic
party at will and bus played fast and
:loose with it and with all political
principle ever since he appeared upon
the stage. It might not be a bad
thing if he could be driven out per
manently from the party."
The Execution of Beattie.
The New York World says: "Beat
tle'e confession that he murdered his
wife was not needed as final proof of
his guilt. That had been established
to the satisfaction of all unprejudiced
pertons, and the prisoner's verifica
tion of the verdict was superfluous.
Yet the confession will have the good
moral effect of quieting any scruples
tha-: may have existed as to the exe
cution of a murderer convicted on
purely circumstantial evidence and of
thereby quashing the case of the sen
timentalists who sought on that
ground to secure commutation of sen
tence.
"No one saw Beattie kill his wife.
It was pf^sible that some oue else
had committed the crime, but in the
highest degree improbable in the face
of the proof of motive and in view of
the strong chain 0! incriminating cir
cumstances drawn about the defend
ant by the prosecution. Yet the re
mote contingency of error sufficed to
inspire an extraordinary appeal for
what would have been a mistaken act
of Executive clemency. The wisdom
of Gov. Mann's resistance of the pres
sure brought to bear on him to inter
fere with the finding of the courts is
now confirmed.
"Beattie's confession adds the fin
ishing act of completion to a case
notable equally for tbe atrocity of the
crime and the swift and sure judicial
methods by which the criminal was
brought to justice. The trial has
vindicated the reliance of courts on
circumstantial evidence to convict for
capital crime?3- and the case alto
gether redounds to the credit of the
courts and Executive of Virginia. It
has established a wholesome prece
dent for other States in the swift ad
ministration of justice. Meantime,
what of murder trials under the more
deliberate processes of justice in this
State."
Taft is a Dead Duck.
The Philadelphia North American,
a staunch Republican newspaper,
sent its (Washington correspondent,
Angus McSween, to Indiana to report
impartially on conditions there. This
is a part of the report he sent back to
his paper:
"Indiana is hopelessly lost to
President Taft and the Republicans.
From no indications is it possible to
reasbn that they will be as strong
as they were In the last election,
when they lost every congressional
district but one, and control of the
legislature. ? Since then the rapid
development of progressive republi
can sentiment into an open hostility
to the Taft administration, and the
reactionary policies which he advo
cates, makes It obvious that with
Taft as the Re'publica ncandidate
again, the vote against him In this
State will be overwhelming."
As we have said before, Taft is a
dead duck. If the Republicans en
ter the next campaign with him as
their candidate they will be disas
trously defeated if, as the Green
ville News says, <tll the Democrats
vote the Democratic ticket. 33,ut we
do not believe that Taft will be a
candidate before the Republican Na
tional Conveation. We agree with
the New York World that the Dem
ocrats must get ready to lefeat Teddy
Roosevelt a3 the Republican candi
date.
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Buy Your Display Vehicles?from
Sifly And Frith and take the
Blue Ribbon.
For Sale?An Oliver Typewriter,
very little UBed. Will be sold
cheap. Mrs. W. C. Evans, Elloree.
For Sale?One big nice first class
mule, seven years old?at once.
S. A. Blackmon, Orangeburg, S. C.
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Wanted?a man with family to run
two, three or four horse contract
farm. Apply at once. Paul A. Glea
ton, Springfield, S. C.
Go to T. O. Knottft, Neeses, S. C.,.and
buy your Shoes, Pants, Overalls,
Cloth, Notions and Groceries of all
kinds at.cost for the next fifteen
days. 11-28-6
For Sale?Residence 95 Whitman
street. Modern conveniences, sew
erage and lights. Terms reason
able. Apply W. W. Wannama
ker. 10-14-tf.
Wanted?Price on five cords of yel
low pine, 4 feet length, delivered
in Orangeburg. Write J. L. 6., care
Times and Democrat, Orangeburg,
S. C.
Wanted At Once?Contractor to roll
six room dwelling, distance of four
hundred and fifty feet. No turns,
grade downward. W. M. Fair &
Co., Elloree, S. C.
For Rent?One small farm of fifteen
acres cleared land with tenant
house and two out buildings for
particulars apply to Laura Hicksor.,
R. F. D. 5, Orangeburg, S. C. 1*
Wanted?A male teacher for Hili
Field colored school in District No.
10, Calhoun County. Salary $25
per month. Apply with stamp to
D. W. Haigler, Cameron, S. C.
For Sale?One good saw mill and
saw. One good 20 H. P. boiler and
engine. One good Timber Cart
and everything used around a mill.
Apply to J. W. Smoak or Mrs. F.
P. Langley.
Wanted?three families to run share
farms, also two wage hands, on my
plantation on the Ninety-Six Road,
about nine miles from Orangeburg.
Good lands, good schools and close
to churches. References required.
Apply to H. W. Black, R. F. D. 3,
Orangeburg, S. C . 11-28-6
Lost?Either in the Academy of Mu
sic or between that building and
the Orangeburg Hotel an open face
lady's gold watch, Email chain,
about four inches long, with a
patent fastener. Finder will be
rewarded by leaving at Times and
Democrat ofhee. R. R. Gross,
Holly Hill, S. C At Orangeburg
Hotel Tuesday. 11-1S-1*
Fine Farm For Sale?Will sell my
farm seven miles from Orange
burg, one and a half miles from
Jamison, S. C. Land consists of
350 acres. 225 cleared and in
hish state of cultivation. Seven
"foom dwelling. Five tennant hous
es. Thoroughly equipped with out
buildings gin etc. Only enough
cash wanted to insure sale. Bal
ance on easy terms. Apply to
E. J. Wannamaker, Orangeburg,
S. C.
For Sale?225 acres of land, five
miles from North, S. C; good six
room dwelling, six .tenant houses,
thoroughly equipped with barns,
stables and other necessary out
buildings; 185 acres under high
state of cultivation, clear of stumps
and level. This land easily makes
a bale of cotton per acre; on R. F.
D. and within 3-4 mile of a good
school. High and healthy. For
further Information, apply to D. H.
Hydrick, North, S. C. 11-11-1*
Notice to Creditors.
State of South Carolina, County of
Orangeburg.?In Con.mon Pleas.
C. W. Balr, for himself and all others
similarly situated in interest, who
will come in this action and con
tribute to the expenses thereof,
Plaintiff, against The J. H. Blake
Lumber Company, and J. C. Tur
ner Lumber Company, Defendants.
?Under an order cf the Court of
Common Pleas in the above entitled
action, the creditors of the J. H.
Blake Lumber Company are required
to present and prove their claims be
fore me at my office in the City of
Orangeburg in said County and State,
on or before the 29th day of Decem
ber, 1911, or they will be debarred
payment.
Andrew 0. Dibble,
Judge of Probate, as Special Referee.
November 25th, 1911.
Notice to Creditors.
State of South Carolina, County of
Orangeburg.?In Common Pleas.
J. A. Bunch, et al., Plaintiffs, against
L. F. Bunch, et al., Defendants.
? Under an order of the Court of
Common Pleas in the above entitled
action, the creditors of Joel M.
Bunch, deceased, are required to pre
sent and prove their claims before
the undersigned on or before Dec
ember 16th, 1911, or they will be de
barred payment.
Andrew C. Dibble,
Judge of Probate, as Special Referee.
November 25th, 1911.
Notice to Creditors.
State of South Carolina, County of
Orangeburg.?la Co?::.">o;! Plea*;.
Shellie B. Hall, et al., Plaintiffs, vs.
G. Edna Hall, et al., Det mdants.
I*:: der an orJ3r of rlie K'o.i'.r of
Common Pleas in the nbove entilled
action, the creditors of Frances E.
Hall, deceased, are required to pre
sent and prove their claims before
the undersigned on or before Dec
ember 16th, 1911, or b*i debarred
payment.
' Andrew C. Dibble,
Judge of Probate, as S?9. *al Referee.
November 25 th, 1911.
Notice of Sale of Live Stock.
State of South Carolina, County of
Orangeburg.?In Common Pleas.
C W. Bair, for himself & etc., Plain
tiff, versus The J. H. Blake Lum
ber Co., et al., Defendants.
Pursuant to an order of court made
in above entitled matter, by Hon.
Robert E. Copes, Judge FirBt Judicial
Circuit, South Carolina, ,I will sell at
public auction, at Orangeburg court
house, Orangeburg, S. C, at 10:30 a.
m. on Monday, December 4, 1911, to
the highest bidder, for cash, the live
stock of the J. H. Blake Lumber Com
pany, consisting of three head of
mules and three head of horses.
Simon B. Rich, Receiver.
Orangeburg., ?. C, Nov. 20, 1911.
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Thanksgiv
ing Novem
ber 30th.
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This store will be
closed Thursday to
celebrate Thanks
giving Day.
We are very
grateful for our in
creased trade this
Fall. It has been
our best season.
We thank you all
for your very liber
al patronage. May
we ask a continu
ance?
We wish all a
pleasant Day.
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TO ALL OF OUR FRIENDS
With the hope that this Thanksgiving
Day finds you all enjoying a full measure of
satisfaction as a result of your relations with us
We wish to express
Our profound thanks
for your valued patronage during the year
And at the same time offer our assurance that
we will endeavor toremain always worthy
of your highest confidence
The House of McNamara
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[Thanksgiving
1911
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THE FASHION SHOP.
Municipal Reform In Georgia.
For several years there has been a
law forbidding the running of bulls
loose on the streets. This law has
not. been enofrced for several years,
but it does seem that it should now
be enforced, as there are several such
wilmals now at large.?Blacbshear
T- .es.
MY THANKSGIVING
PROCLAMATION
I have much to be thankful for this year,
191
I thank the public whose favor has enabled
me to do the biggest jewelry business betwe*n
two Thanksgiving Days since my first coming
to Orangeburg: and I accept this favor as an
obligation on me to still further improve my
6tock and my service in every possible way.
Especially do I thank the many who, after
finding my goods, my prices, and my ways
satisfactory to them have spoken words of
approval to theiir friends and so have increas
ed the number of my customers,
Most heartily do I thank the many hun
dreds of eye-glasses and spectacle customers
who have recommended me so kincly to their
friends for the satisfaction they have received
frori wearing my glasses,
Finally I thank you for all past favors and
sincerely ask for your furlhc valued patron
age.
no. T. Wise
Jeweler and Optometrest
.?50 TAST RUSSELL STREET.
ORANGEBURG, 8. G.
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