Ledger Readers Should Patronize Ledger Advertisers. '■ * Th e r r Li it»t) i 11»i \ 11 To Reach Consumers in this Section Adver tise in The Ledger. . - i A Newspaper in all that the Word Implies and Devoted to the Best Interests of the People of Cherokee County. VOL. HI. NO. 44. GAFFNEY CITY. S. C.. THUKSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1896. 81.00 A YE All. n A hi CHEROKEE! Whoop! Whoop! Hurrah! Whoop-e-e! WE ARE THE PEOPLE! You Can Talk About Your Two to One But Look at This. Wc Are Going to Set Up Housekeeping for Ourselves-The Vote and How It Was Cast-Ta'lk of Fraud at White Plains. Landslide! Tonadol Earthiiuakc! Blizzard! Cyclone! Volcano! Whoop! Whoop-f>-e! We are the people! Geemany whia, great guns and what not! The people have spoken. Did you ever see the like? Talk about your two-thirds vote jing hard to carry ! I How about three-fourths and live to one? Thk Lkdgkh sends hearty greetings to the 22,000 people of Cherokee county. The day opened clear and bright. It was an ideal election day, neither hot nor cold and not too dry. The vot ing began early and by 12 o’clock three-fourths ! of the ballots had been cast and from that or. the vot ing was slow. In the afternoon the couriers began to arrive from the country precincts and in every in stance the news was incournging and that served to help those in town to work that much harder. There were no quaarels at this precinct that we know of and no fights anywhere. Let those good, brave, honest, courageous and manly men in town and country alike, who have worked so hard ond faithfully to help them selves and posterity keep shoulder to shoulder in time to come, as they have in this tight, and work for each others common good, and make this, the baby county of South Carolina, the banner county of the State. She lias the most fertile soil, the finest climate, as wonderful water power as there is anywhere, as brave, as honest, as manly men, as true, as pure and pretty women as ever made homo happy, or blessed a na tion. Let country and town keep hands joined as they have been in this fight—have no difTerenco in the towns and those in the country 'it has been our common inscrest we have fought for and won—our interests are one and the same; the people in the country arc, and have proven themselves our friends, and the town will prove by its kindly interest and treatment of our country friends that we recognize that we fought for our common good, and that our in terests are one and the same. We are cemented with interest of common good, let that same feeling exist and not be severed by the false reports of those who have none of our interests at heart, and who fought us bitterly and unfairly be fore the election, by circulating all sorts of false reports and false figures and preventing the truth to satisfy those for whom they were acting as hirelings. For those who have acted in good faith, and fought us honestly (and there were some) we bear no ill will or malice. To those whomjwe we have thought have not been fair, we extend to them a most hearty greeting and ask them to join with us—for our interest fare theirs, and make this the pride of the Tiedmont. There are some whose names have been brought more promln n ntly to the front in this fight than others, and every one knows who they are, and they have worked day and night without remuneration. Yet wo all recognize that a great deal of effec tive work was done by the quiet, un assuming voter in town and country, and our honest convictions are that each one who worked in their own way for what wo ho much needed, • nd those who wprked against it, will re^p great benefits—a rich har vest—in tile reduction of taxes and being surrounded with conveniences all taxpuyem should have in atr tending to private matters and pay ing their duty to their state and county. A step forward has been taken. We mean to move on toward prog ress, education and richness and ad vancement in general. The success of the election is duo to no one man or set of men. Every man laid down his prejudice and his business to bring about the desired result. The farmer left his farm to talk New County to his less enthusi astic neighbor. The banker forsook his hank, the merchant neglected his business, the mechanic laid aside his tools and all worked for the suc cess of the movement. It shall be the aim of The Ledger, and it speaks the wishes of the peo ple of both town and country, to have a reduction of taxes, and as soon as matters settle down we want the promises made on the stump, advocating a New County, carried out in full. Lot the people in each township, or portion of a township, elect, say five delegates, and meet at GafTney or some convenient place, snd formulate in the act creat ing the county what the people wish, fix the salaries of their public servants, reduce them to a plane \vhere the officeholder can live and not squeeze the taxpayer to death, and then when the legislature convenes and creates this county, the salaries agreed upon in con.en- tion here—fixed and approved by the people—can be put in the act creat ing the county, and we can, and will, show to those who have mis represented us, and the state at large, that ^Cherokee County can “live and let live M and run onus small a tax levy as any county in the state. Wo give the tabulated returns of all the boxes in the territory that will soon he Cherokee County, and as cun be seen Maud I'recinct in Spartanburg County is the banner precinct, custfng 5(1 votes for the county and 1 No : KI’AUTANHt'lUJ COENTY. Yes. N '" County Seat, Gaffney City. NamcJ Cher okee. Name. Lime stone. (Jii)Tii«-y. . .*>12 « 514 421 04 Grassy I’oixl. .M 11 47 Mnud .Mi 1 Ml .Y> Ezells 47 :f'.i Macedonia., is 24 Tlilekcty.. |:i 6 White I'lal's. !• 1:12 Joe Allen's Jti »> MeKclvy.. . 1 4 . Arrow wood. Cowpens 2 17 Clifton 1 Trough • • UNION COUNTY . • Draytonvilie .V.* ^ in 51 Timber Kdjrc 77 it wait twelve years. They will say I’m meddling now. Well if I am I’m midd ling with Gaffney’s pudding. I don’t doubt the sincerity of the intentions but therejshould be no “ifs and ands” about it. If Rock Hill had the chance to bid on this courthouse, she would build you u $50,000 courthouse and do it at once. I know Gaffney is not less enterprising than Rock Hill. Greenwood will build at once, and Gaffney is too plucky not to build at once. The question to he considered is: “Is it worth the cost to establish a new county?” Law and trading go hand in hand at the courthouse, and any thrifty town ought to have a courthouse if it can. You can’t hope or expect to reduce your taxes for a while at lea-t, You may do that later 011. Your taxes may ho increased. The question is whether you want it. What is it worth to you? You consider with this the loss of time and tho wear and tear of your vehicles and stock. I believe a typical county should not have a man go over ten or twelve miles to a courthouse. I believe South Carolina should have fifty or sixty counties. I merely give this as my opinion. If I had my way I would make South Carolina look like a natch quilt. It has been charged that Edgefield has become conserva tive by the change. I want to say that I never have and I never will allow my personal interest to enter into tho matter. My personal urn- ^ , bitions are secondary when the inter- " est of the people of South Carolina is at stake. I do not care whether the new county may bo against mo’ or not. It is not a question of politics^ but as to whether you want this county regardless of politics. If I have erred in coming here, my inde pendence is worth nothing. I have never knuckled or bowed to get votes, and I never will. I have been ac cused of every sin in the decalogue, but it is a personal gratification to be able to say that I have not been accused of being a fool. T have al ways noticed that small counties have the best roads, A small coun ty is like a small farm. You can at tend to it better, You men who own large plantations of thousands of acres and rent your land, kno.v it is worn out and full of gullies. A small county is more compact and you can give it better attention than you can a large one. In largo counties you do not know who you are voting for half the time. You never see a candi date until he comes around to shake your hand and kiss the babies and flutter Mrs. So and So. Pick out the best men and put them in office and then watch thorn. Watch them, I say! Don’t he nig gardly in paying your public officers. Pay enough to secure competent men and pay them enough to keep them from pilfering. Don’t let them mon key with tho public money. Sentator Tillman then went into State affairs in general, and the dis pensary in particular. He declared that if the dispensary was honestly carried out. it was the best law tho Reform party had put upon the stat utes. He wound up by asking all that were in favor of the dispensary law and the carrying out of it hon estly, to hold up their hands. Hun dreds of hands went into tho air on the affirmative vote, while but a few declared their opposition to it. The speech was frequently inter rupted with applause, and it was tho almost the unanimous verdict of the people, that it did good for the new county. The Ledger returns thanks to the Senator for his coming, and hopes at some other time t" have him address tho citizens of Cherokee county. — -• -*•*- •- — Aching Joints Announce the presence of rheuma tism which causes untdld suffering. Rheumatism is due to“ lactic f acid in the blood. It cannot ho cured by liniments or other outward applica tions. Hood’s Sarsaparilla purifies the blood, removes tho cause of rheumatism and permanently* cures this disease. This is tho testimony of thousands of people who once suf fered tho pains of rheumatism but who have actually boon cured by tak ing Hood's Sarsaparilla. Its great power to act upon tho blood and re moves every impurity is the secret of the wonderful cures by Hood’s Sarsaparilla.