The times and democrat. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, December 02, 1911, Page PAGE TWO, Image 2
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* -'Not all the tinkering, cobbling, and
patching in the world will make
things right that are fundamentally
wrong.
"Favorite sons" and hosts of other
prospective candidates for election a
year hence, and possessed of more or
less qualifications, are being groomed
for the race.
.Oki age is the night of life even as
the night is the old age of the day.
But uight has a glory and charm all
its own, and that is a great comrort
^_ and even an inspiration.
Teddy vehemently denies that he
is a candidate for the presidency, but
he does not say ho would* decline if
the nomination was tendered him. In
the meantime he is fighting Taft. ?
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Those white men who took ad
vantage of the excitement during the
chase of that, fiend over in Hampton
County to Invade and rob the homes
Of some good, law-abiding negroes
should be severely punished.
As a general thiDg the fiends who
attack defenceless woman are the
roaming, thriftless characters that
move from place to place. They are
attack defenceless women are the
negroes as they are of white people.
Religion is more practical and lesz t
theological than It used to be. While
the glories of heaven are still recog
nized and longed for a great deal
.more Is being done, than In former
years, to make earth more heaven
like.
Every one has to fish for what he
gets. Others nay possibly bait and
-take off the prize from the hook and
paddle the boat, but "he fishing has
got to be done by your own hand.
Every other means you may try will
turn out a failure.
' Good roads are winning a perma
nent place in popularity with the
farmers and. no community Is con
sidered progressive that has not im
proved its public highways. Build
good roads and place 3"our community
in the progressive cIses.
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It Is said that the rose by any other
name smells as sweet. So it may be
said that the Standard Oil and To
bacco trusts will smell just as strong
under their new names. The change
of titles and management will not
dispel the odor of monopoly.
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v It is wrong to presume that all
negroes sympathize with and will en
deavor to protect the fiends of their
race who attack defonceless women.
There are plenty of negroes who ab
hor such characters us much as any
body, and who often help run them
down.
It Is a good thing to see China
'break away from her old time fossi
lized state. But it Is to be hoped she
will not repeat tho experience of
France in the Great Revolution, and
go to extremes that may cause dis
aster. Fortunately she has history to
guide her and the example of this na
tion.
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The Times and Democrat is for
Wooa\row Wilson' for President be
cause he stands for the highest ideals
in American citizenship, and because
we believe that the Democracy of the
nation can unite under his leadership
and win a grand victory for the
masses against the classes, and thus
restore constitutional government in
the country.
The somewhat restricted and com
plicated franchise that has prevailed
In Great Biritain will be swept away
and manhood suffrage substituted at
the next session of parliament if the
present government has its way, as
probably it will. The popularizing
of the franchise has been a long
and tedious process since the first
extension took place in 183 2.
A short time ago a white man over
!n Georgia entered the cabin of an
old colored woman for the purpose of
robbing her. She resisted him, and
he killed both her and her daughter
who came to her rescue. He was ar
rested, tried, convicted and executed
for his crime in less than six months
after its commission. He was con
victed by a white jury before a white
judge, and executed by a white sher
iff. What have our Northern critics
to say to this?
? Now is the time when thousands
of foreign residents who have saved
and accumulated considerable money
during their life here go back to their
native lands to spend the holidays,
and no one grudges them that relax
ation. Rut when people come to this
country just to make all they can out
of It, decline to assume citizenship,
and, after they have made what to
them seems wealth, go back to their
old- home to live on what they have
gained, one may recognize their
shrewdness but he also recognizes
that they are of no benefit to this
land.
United States Leads in Murders.
As the Atlanta Constitution ex
presses it "the United States is blood
crowned among nations." The Con
stitution goes on to say that "in this
twentieth century of civilization and
enlightenment, we lead the entire
world in the murder-rate?unpunish
ed murders, at that." We have be
fore noted the evil distinction and
analyzed its cause?futile technica
lities, flagrant miscarriage of justice,
wanton abuse of the pardoning power
archaic judicial procedure. But not
in recent months have we seen the
incictment more scathingly present
ed than in the latest issue of Collier's
Weekly by Carl Snyder.
Mr. Snyder shows that in the Unit
ed States the annual murder rate is
seventy to eighty per million. In
Italy it is less than fifteen per million
In Canada, less than thirteen per mil
lion. In Germany, less ? than five
[per million. In (Teat Britain, less
than nine per million. Mr. Snyder
estimates that in the United States
not one murderer in ten ever sees
the inside of the penitentiary. From
these figures he deduces the follow
ing amazing incitement to and im
munity from the consequences of
murder extended people by lax ad
ministration of law in this country?
If you commit a murder, it is a
better than 3 to 1 shot that you will
never be brought to trial.
It is a better than 10 tol shot that
you will never be sentenced to the
penitentiary.
It is a better than 80 to 1 shot
that you will never be hanged or
electrocuted.
Mr. Snyder quntes so high an au
thority as President Taft as saying
that our enforcement of criminal law
is a "disgrace to civilization." He
epitomizes the contributing causes,
showing that it is probable in the
case of the tyranny of technicality
Missouri probably leads, since the
supreme court of that state remand
ed a murder conviction for the quib
bling reason that a"the" was miss
ing, from the Indictment!
Not the Italian atrocities In Trip
oli, not the Armenian massacres In
Turkey, not the slaughter in the Chi- ?
nese revolution, not even the mur
de?\)us license of the jungle-age ov
er-tops this red record. For Ameri
ca's supremacy in human butchery
among nations Is condoned by the
shadow of law, and that in a nation
pretending to the highest standards
of civilization and Christianity.
The Constitution says "the remedy i
for this elevation to International in
famy lies in public sentiment. Sense
less technicality must >e stricken and
cases tried on their merits. Prec
edent and procedure that shield' the I
murderer and strike at society must
be amended. The barbarous concep
tion that allows a murderer to keep i
his case in court as long as he can ?
pay a lawyer must be ruthlessly dls- 1
carded. Maudlinism must be brought
Into stern restraint. Abuses of the
pardoning power, for political or oth- 1
er reasons, must be effectually,rebuk- I
ed'. The plstol-toter, the concealed j
weapon fiend, must be made what he ',
really is?an anachronism.
"We prate of our high achieve- l
ments to civilization. Until we wipe i
out this bloody distinction, such i
boasts will be the most terrible and ',
hollow of mockeries. We have no
right to criticise butchery among sav- i
ages, until we aboll?h butchery in our i
own country."
Theodore Roosevelt on Lynching.
Writing editorially in The Outlook
Theodore Roosevelt says "dreadful
though it is for the mob spirit to be
aroused in a communiy by attacks
on women, it would be eve-i a worse
calamity if the community did not
feel the fury of indignation which
produces the mob spirit." 1 he At
lanta Journal says "while it is very
clear that Mr Roosevelt decries lynch
ing no less than all the rest of us
do, it Is notable that he, a man who
has been reared to see the south
through northern glasses, thould
make even this much of a concession
that mob3 are sometimes humanly
possible. His thought Is not ambig
uously written, He regards a com
munity so apathetic toward its wo
mankind as to be unstirred by their
violation, as something even more
horrible than the outburst of fury
which follows the fearful crime itself.
"Mr. Roosevelt's editorial will have
a beneficial effect upon our critics in
remoter parts, many of whom have
already begun to realize that, as Mr.
Roosevelt says, tho mob spirit and
lynch law are not peculiar to the
South. Mr. Roosevelt classifies lynch
ing as a national crime, apt to be
committed in the north as well as the
south if the same provocation incites
it. He very justly exonerates the!
South from sole responsibility for
this national stigma. He admits
lynching is becoming more general,
and attributes its spread to the
slowness of the courts in dealing
with the one crime that he and oth
ers regard as worse than murder He
advocates making that a capital crime
in every State, subject to Immediate
death upon conviction. He assails
! lynching upon tho one specific point
that It is apt to be visited upon cul
prits for lesser crimes.
"These comments from Mr. Roose
velt are rather surprising, but they
are commendably frank. They are
j particularly interesting just now in
view of Sam Blythe's matter-of
course prediction in this week's Sat
urday Evening Post that President
Taft will shortly come out In con-'
demnation of lyuchings, expecting
t Hereby to win back his negro Repub
lican constituents in the South. They
also call to mind a recent mass meet
ing of negroes <tnd white people, held
in New York, at which the speakers
of both races ranted against the
South as a hot-bed of lynching, one
speaker expressing his conviction
that tho South will have to be purged
with fire and sword in another civil
war to check its hot-bloodedness.
Eight mulatto giris; referred to in
the New York papers as "pretty octa
roons" led the mixed procession into
the hall where that meeting was
held."
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For Sale?One big nice first class
mule, seven years old?at once.
S. A. Blackmon, Orangeburg, S. C.
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For Sale?One good saw mill and
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Apply to J. W. Smoak or Mrs. F.
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Wanted?three families to run share
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plantation on the Ninety-Six Road,
about nine miles from Orangeburg.
Good lands, good schools and close
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Kerosine oil, 5 gals, for 45 cents,
at Prescott's.
Five Room Cottage For Sale.
Will be sold on the First Monday
In January, 1912, by the Judge of
Probate, at the usual hour of the
Probate sales, at the request of the
owner, Mrs. E. M. Andrews, of
Charleston. This cottage Is situated
in the City of Orangeburg, on the
jast side of North Broughton Street,
:he second door south of Fenwick
Street. The lot measures 605/4 feet,
nore or lesi, on the north side line,
md 106 feet, more or less, on the
south side.
Terms one-third cash and the bal
ance in one and two years. Purchas
;r to pay for papers. 12-2-4
fotice to Creditors and of App lication
for Final Discharge.
Notice is hereby given that on
Thursday, the 28th day of Decem
>er, 1911, the undersigned aB Ad
ninistrator of the estate of the late
tfrs. Elizabeth A. Dantzler, will file
with the Probate Court in and for
;be county of Orangeburg, his final
mcounting as such Administrator,
md will thereupon apply for his Final
Discharge.
All persons holding claims against
:he said eBtate must present them
luly proved on or before Wednesday,
:he 27th day of December, 1911, to
31aze & Herbert, Attorneys, Orange
Durg, S. C, or to the undersigned;
ind all persons indebted to said es
:ate must make payment to said At
:orneys or to the under-signed on or
jefore the said 27th day of Decem
)er, 1911.
David G. Dantzler,
Nov. 23, 1911. Administrator.
Circuit Court Sale.
State of South Carolina.
Couty of Orangeburg.
In Common Pleas,
[saac M. Bowman, Trustee of C. H.
Rives, Plaintiff, against William
R. Connor, et al. Defendants.
By virtue of a judgmen: of the
[^ourt of Common Pleas in the above
?ntitled action, I will sell at Orange
burg Court House on the first Mon
day in December, next, during the
legal hours for sale, at the risk of
the former purchaser, the following
described real estate:
All that certain tract or parcel of
land, situate, lying and being in Cow
Castle Township, in the County of
Orangeburg, and State aforesaid,
containing forty (40) acres, more or
less, and bounded on the North by
?nds of Holton Brown, James McCord
on the West by lands of Jarnt-s Rigby,
on the south by lands of James W.
Connor, and on the East by lands of
Dr. William Connor, and being same
laud conveyed to W. R. Connor by
?r. D. B. Connor, by his deed dated
January 3, ID05.
TERMS: Cash. Purchasers to pay
ior all papers and all taxes payable
after day of sale; and in ,:ase the
purchaser shall fall tb comply with
the terms of sale, then the said prem
ises will be resold on the same or
some subsequent p.alesday, on the
same terms and at the risk of the
former purchaser.
Andrew C. Dibble,
Judge of Probate as Special Referee.
November 10th, 1911.
Circuit Court Sale.
w-tato of South Carolina. County of
Orange-burg, In Common Pleas.
R. H. Jennings' and P. M. Saioak,
co-partners trading under the firm
name of Jennings & Smoak, Plain
tiffs.
AGAINST
J. C. Murphy, et al.,. . . .Defendants.
B'y virtue of a judgment of the
Court of Common pleas in the above
entitled action, 1 will sell at Or
angeburg Court House cm the first
Monday in December, next, during
the legal hours for sale, at the risk of
the former purchaser, the following
described real estate:
All that certain piece, parcel, or
tract of land, situate, lying and being
in Middle Township, in county and
State aforesaid containing eighty
(SO) acre-.', more or less, and bound
ed by ?ands now or farmerly of Mi
chael Arant, Ayers, and others, be
: AUCTION!
BARNWELL COURT HOUSE. S. C.
MONDAY, DEC. 4th, 1911
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I will Sell a Car Load of All Kentucky-Bred Horses
and Mares, 4 to 7 Years Old, and Ali Strick
ly Good Bred Kentucky Hroses.
Come One, Come All
THIS SALE WILL START AT 12 O'CLOCK.
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EVERY HORSE WILL BE SOLD TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER.
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SALE RAIN OR SHINE
GEORGETOWN
KENTUCKY
ing the same tract of land conveyed
(o the said .f. C. Murphy by .Martin
Murphy by his deed of conveyance
bearing date the llth day of March.
lSltT. and recorded in the office of
the Clerk of Court for Orangeburg
County in Rook 35, at page A'.\.
All that certain picece, parcel or
plantation of land, situate, lying and
being in Middle Township, In the
County of Orangeburg, In the state
aforesaid, containing one hundred
and three (103) acres, more or less,
ond bounded by lands of Dr. J. T.
Riley, George Wilson, Alex.
Robinson, J. C. Murphy, Hen
rietta Davis and Mary Ann Dav
s: being the 6ame tract of land con
veyed :o the said J. C. Murphy by T.
L. Ayers by his deed of conveyance
bearing date the 25th day of Octob
ei, 1905, and recorded In the office
of the Clerk of Court for Orange
burg County, iu book 43. at page
cr.r>.
The paid two tracts have been di
vided into eight (.SI parcels and will
be sold in parcels according to plai
which may be seen at office of Judge
of Probate previous to day of sale,
and will be exhibited at time of sale.
TERMS: Cash. Purchasers to pay
for all papers and all taxes payable
after day of sale; and In case the
purchaser shall fail to comply with
the terms of sale, then the said prem
ises will be resold on the same or
some subsequent salesday, on the
same terms and at the risk of the
former purchaser.
Andrew C. Dibble,
Judge r,\ Probate as Special Referee.
N.-/ember 10th, 1911.
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