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i 1 The Gaffney ledger. ^STABL'SHED FEB. 16, 18H. A NEWBPAPKPI in all that thb word implizb. and dzvoted to thz beat interest op the PEOPLE OP CHEROKEE county. GAFPNEY, B. C-, FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1908. 91.50 A YEAR. ORATION BY SENA TORIAL CANDIDATES 1HE< SPOKE TO CHEROKEEANS YESTERDAY. So”-e Excellent Speeches and Some Not So Good-.-No Senatorial De- •. e opments. ^,-i.atorinl < fiinpaiin party ar- i .-•! \V<dijc>(la> nitl.'t. The meeting a *;.» * . ,i t li*■ v. ti.-> < all* <1 to order yesTerday ,it lorljO by Jlon. J. C. Otta, ( ■.(;!' < bairman. who < ailed on Uev. Harper- io open he meeting v. p;i p; (•)•. ]i;iin commenced to fall a - fei. • h'<ur and as a consequence ti.e a -cndano small, only about 1 .vo tiundjcd and lifty people beina prr-scrn. Mr. Ithett, of Charleston, was the firs' speaker who said in part that L*- earn* not as a llatterer hut as a T isini ss man. Tliat lie believed that the people would he best represented I- a business man. He spoke for- tiolv and fcr-lingly uf the sufferings *hich we- went tlirough prior to re- coiistruetion when w<- were forced to resoi-t ui tin- K. K. K. in order to re deem our grand old State from tne rule of the carpet bagger and scala wag He spoke of the infamous finan- c:al power of the gigantic trusts which rob the people and who in turn rob each ^her. That the- great sys tems of raiways are in the hands of a few people in New York; that, they are ’he great highways and that they should give everybody fair play but the. are not doing it. That the bonds tesued by the government are gob- bled up by the financiers of the North, and that the government would net send any money to the South curing the recent panic but sent 60,- PPO.OOO to New York. That in com- Erion with many other Democrats he had not voted in 1806 either for Bry an Palmer or McKinley. That in C&bO he voted for Bryan and in 1004 for Parker the regular nominee of tL<- party. That he went to the last. State Democratic convention as a delegate from Charleston, a support er of Mr. Bryan, although opposed to instructions, and that he is now a supporter of Mr. Bryan. Mr Rhett’s speech was a strong one and he was liberally applauded when he closed. John P. Grace, Esq., of Charleston, was the next speaker. He said In part that Mr. Rhett had accused him of following him around in order to defeat him for the United States sen- a’.e. but he denied this. He is run ning on his own merits and that he hoped to get the nomination. That his friend from Charleston is not a Democrat because in 1896 he bolted the party and refused to’ vote for Bryan for president. That Mr. Rhett said in f’hesterfield tha' the reason he did not vote for Bryan in 1896 was because the platform was dishonest. That if he belonged to a party that bad a dishonest platform he would quit the party and stay quit. That Mr. Rhett said in his speech that he received a message the day before he Grace) filed his pledge as a candi date for the United States senate that if he would support a certain local candidate in charleston that he would not file his pledge as a candi date. That if Mr. Rhett said that ho tGrace > had sent him any such mes sage that he stated what was not so. Mr. Grace’s entire twenty-five minu- 'es was devoted to Mr Rhett and the only time touched upon na tional issues was when he referred to Mr Rhett's predilection for ship-sub sidy and a protective tariff. He was applauded liberally a’ the close of his speech. Ex-Governor John Gary Evans, of Spartanburg, was next introduced and was received with applause. He said in part: That the government is controlled by the millionaires and trust magnets of the North, and that they are Republicans, and are^non- producers. That we of the # Seuth are Democrats and that we are the producers. That the farmers of the South produce three-fourth of the en tire exports of the United States, and that all the vast amount of money which arises from these exports goes into the hands of the manufactors of the North who make everything we wear except our cotton shirts. Taut this wearing apparel costa Juat one-half as much Id Europe as it costs here, hut when we buy these things over there and bring them here tbe duty wblcl we have to pay or them makes it cost us more than we could buy them for here. That New England is almost ready hi .oil, ’he South in her demand for our trade. That the great shoe fact ories of that section have been put out of business by the tariff on hides and that they have elected a Repub- lican governor on a free trade plat form. Governor Evans’ speech was a discussion of national issues and was very liberally applauded at its close. f'o). George Johnstone, of Newber ry was next introduced and said in part: That the Press of the State for some reason, he knew not what, were not publishing anything of the discussion of the vital questions in which the people are interested and that the only way to get the issues before the people would be for the candidates to organize a press bureau and then put the people in possession of the views of the candidates. That it is no use for him to say that he is a Democrat for everybody knows that fact. That one of the candidates prides himself upon the fact that he is a business man, the most business man of the campaign party, which the speaker thinks is Pharisaical a "holier than thou" doctrine. What the farm er needs more than anything else is a renurneiatjve price for cotton. The fanner desires to he in a position to hold his cotton until he can get a tair price for same am! he thanked God that the farmer had partially won tne fight We need an enlarged circulation ami an elastic currency. When we went to the hanks for mon ey during the recent panic that the hanks would reply “we are sorry, hut the financial condition of the country will not warrant our lending any money. We are'forced to keep our money to protect our interests.” That’s a fact gentlemen. Everything the hanker does he does it to protect his interest. Col Johnston asked ’-very person in the audience, includ ing the ladies, who had $5.00 in his pocket to rise. It is needless to say that no one arose. Turning to Mr. Rhett, he said; "Now. rny friend, you see how many votes you will get here. I will, ’ continued the speaker ‘ get all of the five cents men.” Col. Johnston, as usual, made a .strong speech and was applauded at. the close. The next speaker was Hon. E. D. Smith, who said In part: In Union 1 made the second ad dress afier the birth of the cotton holding movement at Shreevesport, this movement culminating largely in the present fair price for cotton.” He said that he thought that the de velopment of the natural resources of the South and the removal of some legislation serving to limit the world’s markets for cotton, was at this time, of far more importance to the pro ducers and the laboroers of all class es, than the tinkering with tte tariff or currency law. He is in favor of a revision of the tariff along democrat ic lines and in favor of currency leg islation, but points out that little could be done by the South in this matter, because this section has such a minority in Congress. Said his idea is to so enlarge and to so in crease the cotton markets of the Old World, by legislation, and to so aid the Southern States by water power surveys and other legislations tend ing to build up tfija section as a man ufacturing section, so that finally if we are to have a tariff it will fall alike on both North and South, thus giving the southern producer an equal '•fiance. He stands for the producers ol wealth and the laboring men, not that he wants special legislation in ih'-ir behalf, but that no unjust leg islation shall prevail against them. He suggested that neither Bankers. Lawyers, Physicians, nor any of the professional classes add a dollar to the wealth of this land, but are mere- 1> distributors of wealth. Railways charge th^ sSme freight, banks the same interest and lawyers the same fees, no matter what the price of our Krea J # sl ^fl le product. He said that a man of the great producing class could best serve that class in the Senate and reiterated that his wp ptfrt was his Farm in Lee County. Said bis four years' service in the Southern Cotton Association was well known to many in Gaffney and that his aspirations to serve his State as : a Senator' was not merely personal , hut a desire to be better equipped to j < a rry on the cotton fight because of his official position. He retailed that he was sneered at when he began this i fight, but now that a living price for cotton had been brought about and the whole South was feeling his heal-' fleent effect, lo, the politicians were I beginning to seek support as the producer and the laborer, when four years ago they lifted not a finger to assiet in the fight. He thanked the citizens of Gaffney for the loyal wa> in which they had "stuck” and hoped they would "stick” at the primary election, the twenty-fifth of August. He was liberally applauded at the close of his speech. Mr. W. W. Lumpkin, of Richland, was the next speaker. The speaker paid his respects to each of the can didates in turn and said they should all get out of the race except timself, Rhett and Grace. That -he wan'tetl Grace to stay in to continue to jump on Rhett. The Democratic party has since the war fought the national bank system and Andrew Jackson fought it while he was president of the Unted States. The party fights ihe system because it puts money in the hands of individuals and corpora tions. That the Democratic party is opposed to trusts. The speaker said he was opposed to the manufacture and sale of whiskey. The first ques tion which is asked by the business man an applicant for a position is "do you drink?” and if the answer is in the affirmative he replies, “I do not need you.” That whiskey is the most potent agent for evil that exists to day. ft robs home of peace and hap- piness and makes thieves and mur derers. Mr. Lumpkin closed by in- 'iting everybody to Washington when ho is elected to the Senate and prom ised to entertain them handsomely. He was liberally applauded. The last speaker was Hon. O. B. Martin, who said in part: The whole trouble in Hie price of cotton is the Wall street gamblers, who sells thous ands of bales of cotton that do not exist and thus keeps the price de- iwessed. and that if elected to the senate he would do all in his power to suppress the operations of these gamblers. He referred to a state ment made by Mr. Smith some time ago when he said that the Farmers’ Association should hang the first measly scaly officer of the associa tion who enters politics. He is op posed to allowing indiscriminate emi gration. He spoke of his services to the Stan- in the office which tie now occupies, and concluded with a very funny joke and closed amid applause. After recess the speaking was re sumed. Messrs. Butler, Finley and Bollock, candidates for Congress from this, the Fifth District, spoke In the order named. Colonel Butler was introduced by (’apt. J. B. Bell, who was acting chairman. He began by recounting his advent into this section; how he had become interested in the people and the active part he took in the for mation of Cherokee county. He was grateful to the people of the county for the honors shown him and the kindness shown him by the people. He had ever been faithful to tne trusts imposed in him and if elected to Congress would exhibit the same careful attention to their welfare and would exert his best endeavors to make them a live, active represent ative who would be ever mindful of their interests. He twitted Mr. Find ley for having waited until near the campaign before securing a public building for Gaffney, and declared that while he had done something lor his district that any other man with equal ability could have accomplish as mach in the same length of time, and that if he were elected he would certainly endeavor to prove to the voters of the district that they had made no mistake in changing their representative. Mr. Butler was liberally applauded before beginning his speech and also at its chose, and was also interupted several times during his remarks with enthusiastic applause, showing ’hat he was well thought of in his borne county. Mr. Finley was then introduced. He. too. was liberally applauded. He defended his course and gave an ac count of his stewardship during the time he has been in Congress. He recited the appropriations by Con gress to improve the Pee Dee river at Cheraw and the Wateree river at Camden, the appropriations to build public buildings at Chester, Rook Hill and Gaffney and claimed credit for tbe same. He said tha only reason why he bad not secured a public building at Gaffney earlier waa be* cause it was necessary to wait until a post office had become a second- class office before an appropriation for a public building could be secur ed. There were five hundred town* in the United States that were larger than Gaffney which had no public building He had been honored by bis colleagues in Congress and had been made a number of some of the moat Important oommftteea, and much of his time had been spent In committee room and that was tha WITH THE EDITORS AT LIMESTONE. THE SAGE OF ETTA JANE TELLS ABOUT IT. made us hHie\f- we <<mld command Beaverdam creek and one acrosl the under such trying circumstances, drain at Mr. Thomas Wilkerson s gin However, during these few moments house on the Howell’s ferry road, ot suspense (which seemed almost a few farmers have grass in their like hours) our mind was busy pictur- cotton but it is not so bad as one ing a scene wnich might possibly end might think from the amount of rain in the widowhood of Mrs, “J, L. S.” we have had. Last week the plow* and a profusion of flowers (which were practically idle In this section ha\e been carefully kept out of our on account of me rain, life’s pathway) being placed on our Mr. L. M. Hartford has worked out last resting place. It was not long, the road on the ferry hill this side of A Trip to HicKory Grove and What ,low< ‘ V( ' r - ’>oiil the situation changed, the river and put it in passable order. Mr. Decamp, who all this time had Mrs. Mattie Blackwell and child been actively engaged in seeing that spent Wednesday night with us. everybody was seated comfortably, i n a il our life we have never seen announced that all were now ready a better general prospect for a corn and the procession moved off—the crop than we now have. Much of It au’os m front. is too large to give another plowing, When tin- big automobile iwhich owing largely to its being tangled by had been loaded as long us an Inch of the wind. room could he tound on or in it) The large oak tree standing at the He Saw—Locals and Personal Para graphs. W’ilkinsville. July — We spent a short time with the editors at Lime stone college last Tuesday. They are a representative body of men— far above the average in intelligence reacho if not in style and beauty. We have often heard it said that literary men were generally poor and always ugly. We don’t know that that holds good with the South Carolina Press Asso ciation as we see it. At least we were not impressed with that idea while among them. Perhaps Bro. De camp had a picked crowd with him. We can’t say about that. They were a genial set of men, however—repre senting nearly every section of th<- State as well as some from other States. Manj of them had their wives or daughters with them. We were sort' we had no longer time to spend with thorn, but we made good use of what time we had. We were sorrx to miss seeing Gen. R. R. Hemphill—he had the college it began to "buck” as if it didn't mre whether it went any Fur ther or not. However, it was per- the grade coming up from corner of the piazza at the Sam Mitchell place was struck by light ning recently. A crowd of the Sharonites came swaded 'o make a second and then a over last Wednesday to fish at the third pul! which took it to the top of Thomson mill. Mr. Garner drew the tlie grade and then it sped on like a water off and they made a fine catch, thing of life leaving a blinding dust \v e asked one of the citizens of behind it which amounted to suffioca Gaffney the other day of what kind limi to those in the rear. The engin- of looking men he thought the Press ei i seeing the dust he was raising Association was made up? His reply pulled aside and let the carriages was; “They will do very well. I l )ass - reckon, but If I don’t believe Ed. i p to this time our driver had held DeCamp Is the best looking man In his horses in ' heck somewhat, but the crowd." when he passed the auto he “let his, We don’t know what the ladies grays out and to use a homely ex- think, but from what our friend said pression, they fairly burnt the wind, no one can make it appear that any 1 urning first into one street then in- nf the members were ugly. to another and so on. It was but a few moments until we reached Mr. Wheat's cornel when your corres pondent thinking Ids time was fully up to start for home, bid his com- J. L. 3. not arrived and we were told tliat it panions good bye and asked the driver was doubtful whether he would be to let him off which he did and thus able to attend. However, we met our brief but pleasant visit to the some with whom we wen acquainted State Press Association ended. •1 and many more we had never seen before, several of whom would say; 1 have often read your letters.” It's always inspiring for one who lias a respect for great men and great minds to be associated with them We couldn’t convince ourself that even if it be for only a short time. we were among strangers altogether, for we were not. A New Law Firm. 1 Spartanburg Herald.) Hon. Stanyarne Wilson iia-s form- a co-partnership with Attorney H. K. Osborne, of Gaffney, who will in the future move with his family to ’his city. The firms name will be "Wilson &, Osborne.” and the offices will lie over ’he First National bank, ’he same as are at present occupied by Mr. Wilson. Mr. Osborne is re garded as one of the ablest lawyers in ’he Ftare. Mr. Wilson has one of 'he largest practices of any lawyer in South Carolina. The new firm will doubtless prove one of the strongest legal teams in Carolina. Mr. Osborne is at present a member of ’he law firm of Osborne, Butler & Brown. Celebration of the Fourth. The Fourth of July was celebrated So, gentlemen of the Press Associa- ’ion, our best, wishes attend each and As we left the car and walked every one of you and we hope your toward the college building the yard, meeting in our city and county will door steps and porticos were so be long and pleasantly remembered crowded that one would otherwise by oach and every one of you and have thought, that the college girls also of your families which have had returned from their vacation and honored us by their presence, brought their friends wifh them. We We reached our home about 9 p. m. were met by Mr. DeCamp and escort- where we found another ordeal await ed to the dining-room where a sump- ing us—a good sound scolding from tuous dinner was waiting for us. To our better half for going among tnose this we sat dbwn and did ample Jus- strangers with no better clothes on. Saturday by both city and country tice. It consisted of anything and She was rather plain on the subject, people. No part of the proposed pro- everything calculated to please the We got cut of It by promising to let g ra m was carried out on account of fancy or tickle the taste of either a the editors and their families—wives ra i n except a game of ball in the laboring man or a confirmed epicure, and children—know that we had bet- morning between Pacolet and ’he ter clothes at home. This she object- Gaffney Manufacturing Company. The ed to again and we may get another base ball game, balloon ascension, sound scolding when she sees this in races, etc., were all arranged for ’he print. But we will try and be absent a fternoon. About 12 o’clock it com- when the paper comes In giving an menced to rain and continued to do account of our days’ experience, so for several hours. There were She says if we had told her that hundreds of people at Limestone in morning for certain that we were go- the morning and when it commenced somewhat of a Confederate reunion ing to Limestone she would have to rain there was hurrying from all in which everybody knew somebody made us dress up better. She’s a sources for shelter. else. The cordial hand-shake maae right “fixy” old lady and don’t like one feel that the heart behind it was any of her people to appear to a dis- one full of fraternal fellow feeling advantage, especially among strang- and that the owner had a grasp as ers. well adapted to the wielding of a We made a hurried trip to Hickory It was splendid as well as abundant and wound up with a dessert of Ice cream cold enough to freeze a Nor wegian out of his winter quarters. Dinner over we set about our work of getting acquainted with the “pen cil pushers’’ as much as our limited time would allow. It reminded us occasion was thi- Gaffney brass Miss Mary T. Nance Speaks. Miss Mary T. Nance, president of the Rural School Improvement Asso- twenty pound mule as the guiding of Grove yesterday and found our Jolly oiatioT1 ' Soufh Carolina, delivered a delicate lead pencil. With us this old friend. Mr. Robert Westmoreland, an a<ldress before a large and a’ten- was a trying ordeal. Having some- in one of his happiest moods. We ,ive audience ,ai ' t Tuesday n:gh' at time ago got one our fingers hurt made him half-way promise to get up the Cherokee Avenue school, from which the soreness hasn’t yet a budget of “dots” from that growing she s P oke entertainingl> ou he left, we were frequently persuaded to and wide awake town. If “Uncle Possibilities of boys and girls, the holler “ouch” when one of these- big Bob" does undertake it The Ledger nee< * an< * ' a ^ ue developing .hese Ix-arted and strong muscled editors readers will get something rich, rare P 0B8 ibilities, the duty of a teacher, got hold of our hand. But we thought and tacy. and the ^ of co-operation between tliat wouldn’t do on an occasion of In the postofflee at Hockory Grove tea chers and parents, this kind for we despise this everlast- Mr. Meek McGill succeeds Mr. John music on this ing complaining business some folks K. Allison, who has resigned the post- we ^ are always in—never well—something mastership after a long term of the band, always wrong. If not one thing then most efficient and acceptable service. another they are sour about. A new bank building has been “Flag Day at Macedonia.” Dr. Lodge, Mr. DeCamp and other erected at Hickory Grove within the There will be a ‘Flag Day" at Gaffneyltes were on the qui vive to last year which is an ornament to the Macedonia the third Sunday, July 19. see how they could make their guests town. Mr. Nixon McGill, Jr., is the The afternoon will be taken up by feel happy and at home. cashier with Mr. Mason Wilkerson, the old folks singing old time songs, When the carriages and automo- assistant. in the “Old Timbrel of Zion,” song Idles lined up on the college ground Messrs. Will S. Jones and Watt book. Everbody is Invited to attend, to taae the visitors and guests on a Moss, of Hickory Grove, have bought W. D. Byars, ride through the city and to the base out the shop of Mr. Humphries and ____ ball grounds (or wherever they wish- are going to conduct tbe business at First Baptist Church Notss. ed to go) your correspondent was as- the o'd stand where they will be; ^ g , mmg t8 t0 fl „ hlg pu , plt signed a seat in one of the carriages pleased to serve their customers and i UB . , g . ..v guarantee their work. We didn’t get I behind a “snatching pair” of grays. When a neighboring auto began puf-, to see Henry McDaniel on this trip fing and grunting as it were going and we hope “Uncle Bob” will remem- into a state of rebellion, the grays her him in his letters when he writes to The Ledger. Sabbath school at 9:45. A cordial invitation to all to worship with us. Rains have been general and crops (Continued on page four.) didn't like it and began to show signs of unnecessary activity as we looked upon things in our general surround ings. We had no idea that well rais ed town horses were afraid of such a commor thing as an automobile. Had ; sented tbe first bloom this season. ! it beer, a pair of idiosyncrastic conn- Mr. Addie B. McKown, of Cornwell, 1 try mules attached to the carriage' spent Wednesday night with ua. He somebody else would have been wel- is a machinest and la fixing up en- come to our seat In ft. But It wouldn’t ginee in Western York. He Is s do to show the white feather now and i natural born meebanic and knows all so we kept our seat with a degree of I about as eagfae that la worth know- stolid Indifference or assumed j ing. bravery that no one could ever have i A bridge hat been built across It Can’t Be Beat. The best of all teachers is expert- along eur line of travel—especially ence. C. M. Harden, of Silver City, corn—is fine. Cotton in this section North Carolina, says: “I find Elec- is late. Master Hemphill Estes pre- trie Bitters does all that’s claimed for it. For Stomach, Liver and Kid ney troubles it can’t be beat I hava tried It and find it a most excellent medicine.” Mr. Harden is right; it’a tbe best medicine also for weakness, lame back, and all run down condi tions. Best too for chills and malaria. Sold undsr guarantee at Cheroksa Drug Co. 50 cants