Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ESTABLISHED IN J1869. Published Tliree Times Each Week On Tuesday, Tnursduy and Saturday. - Entered as second class matter on January 9, 1909, at the post ofllcc at Orangeburg, S. 0., under the Act of Congress of March, 1879. Jas. L. Sims, - Editor* and Prop. Jas- Izlar Sims, ? - Publisher. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One year.. .. . '. ..'.$1.50 One year, by carrier.2.00 Six months.? .75 Three m6nths.40 Remittances should be made pay able to The Times and, Democrat, Orangeburg, S. C, by registered let ter, check or money order. ' 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. CLASSIFIED COLUMN One-half Cent a Word Found Notices Free. 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. ll-24-4t 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. ll-24-2t Thanksgiv ing Novem ber 30th. ?,-1 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. i| ^Cj^lDJ&lsKir OIF ILvITTSIQ ! One Night, Wednesday, November 29 First Time Here A. G. DELAMATER and Wm. NORRIS OFFER, GEO. BARR McCUTCHEON'S MOST DELIGHTFUL ROMANCE Beverly of Graustark DRAMATIZED FROM THE NOVEL BY ROBERT M. BAKER A Story of Love, War and Laughter. A Cast of Un usual Excellence. An Elaborate and Beau tiful Scenic Production. A For tune in Georgeus Costumes Prices 50c, 75c, $1.00 and $1.50 Seats on Sale at Lowman's Drug Store. Order by Mail or Phone. <HK? 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 >.r ???; I ? ?>,;/. ml' . I jj i I - Orangeburg [Thanksgiving 1911 mm FOf? rALL- W?AJl "The PIKE" Model for Men The "Pike" is a" full, free duus ain souiuo yev? jawy and ginger so essential for a season's favorite. It pre serves in it's lin^s a symme try not found in other ex treme lasts which rely on drawing attention purely through their freakishness. Jn Patent leather as well as Gun Metal at $4 and S5. There is a WALK-OVER model just for yon. Maybe it's the "Pike," if it isn't one of the other stylish WALK OX'ER Models in our store ivc arc confident. Renneker & Riggs, 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. WE CARRY THE LARGEST BELTS IX STOCK IN SOUTH CARLOLVA. Wo have the 14 in 6-ply and the 1 6 and 18-in 8-ply Gandy Belt. It Is the Original Red Stitched Canvas Belt. There are a great many imitation* on the market, but you can always tell the GaDdy, for it Is stamped ev ery 10 feet (Gandy). We also have the X 4-inch 5-ply Giant Stitched. This belt has a national reputation. It Is the Original SeamlesB Ad Stit ched belt. Write for prices.. COL UMBIA SUPPLY COMPANY, 823 Weit Gervais Street, Columbia, S. C