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The Lancaster News LEDGER 1852 REVIEW 1878 ENTERPRISE 1891 VOL. I. NO. 31. SE/VU-WEEKLY- LANCASTER. S C., JANUARY 20. 1906 PRICE-FIVE CENTS PER COPY Legislative Proceedings. Another Letter from Representative Foster?The Dispensary Situation Reviewed?Many Matters of Public Interest. l ne cinei interest now exer cisiug the Legislature in the Dispensary and how best to adjust the difficult question. The friends of tiie Dispensary have held fre quent conferences to unite on one definite plan, and the unti-dispensarites have been active in holding conferences for the pur pose of uniting against the Dispensary; these forces call it the common enemy, and its destruction is t lie bnttle cry The situation as I see it is this: The House is against the Dispensary and would repeal the law, hut the Senate is about equally divided and may prevent, the repeal of the Dispe.i sarv, and the House would not assist the Senate to patch up the law. and the present conditions would remain. The Dispensary members admit that unless the present law is greatly relormed the people will vote out the dis f pensaries throughout the State. If the dispensary law i6 repealed the Legitlature will pats a local option law providing for county dispeusaries, prohibition and high license. Local option or the dis pensary in tlie present condition will be the outcome of the present Legislature. Thursday, the 18th, was set for the memorial exercises to the memory of the late Altamout Moses, who was a member from Sumter county. Mr. Moses was a useful and experienced legislator and his loss will he felt in the General Assembly. Mr. Moses had been in the Legislature twenty years and was chairman ot the ways and means committee. Mr. John G. Richards, is now the chairman of that committee. Friday being a holiday, I he Legislature adjourned over to Monday Many of the members visited the State farms instead ot going home.. The bill to drive Coco-Cola troin the Stale is agitating the drug stoies and others. I am going to vote against this bill. While Coco Cola may be harmful it used to excess, the same is true of coll'ee, tea and butter milk.? Too much butler-milk will make you tight. I voted for the joint resolution to e nnge timeol meeting of the General Assembly to July. .Mr. (Jothran'H .joint resolution approving of the hill in Congress looking to securing Federal aid in improving the public roads 'ramrod a good vote after a spirif?d battle by Josh Ashley and others. Josh aid ''dis tiling is! to lectioueer for Latimer and I'm agin it." The t ii hour day hill killed last session is up again for a similar fate. The cotton mill opera tives of Lancaster have never in 1 ( dicated that, they wanted the la" ! reducing a day's work Irom elev en hours and 1 do uot propose to interfere with them. Mr. Irby introduced a joiot resolution proposing to amend the constitution to allow thecounties to manufacture fertilizers .. ..,1 ? 1 > aim uimiiiii seed ineai. i am opposed lo the proposition. Mr. Sinkler ol Charleston has a hill lo abolish ihe right ol (low er ; it will not pass There are numerous pistol car rying and liquor hills. Mr. Coth ran of Greenville wants to disfranchise any one convicted ot carrying a pistol, and Mr. Maukl ing of Pickens would disfranchise any one convicted the third time of getting drunk. Mr. Mauldimr of Pickens had a hill requiring persons making their return to the auditor to be sworn with right hand on the Bible and with right hand up. lined, Killed on the ground that a man did not have two right hands. Mr? Ford of Fairfield lost his fight to give magistrates more jurisdiction. Many members wanted to abolish the magistrates without even a recommendation to mercy. ? 1 voted tor a bill to pay Con federate veterans their pensions quarterly instead of annually. The bill prohibiting the sale n f nnrtri^rroo in * 1>u. me uiaiiC ed. Richland and Aiken counties have hills to provide county courts Mr. Hall of Anderson introduced a bill to prevent the use of any match in this State except a safety match. It is thought that this bill is the product, of the match trust. Respectfully yours, ?J. Harry Foster. Jan. I8th, 1906. Thp Mnnnmont Fund 1 IIV ill VIIII 111 VIII a UllUa The Daughters of the Confederacy Acknowledge the Receipt ofaDonation From Citizens--Waiting on the Men to Start Their Honor Roll. Reported lor The New . At the Inst regular meetii ?r of the U. I). C., the Chapter formally received end roost siratf-tnllv accented the nice sum nf $ H?. 10 donated hy some of our citizens. Our noble men can ?l ways be (Upended on to do I heir duty in liino ol w ar, as well as J11 lime ol peace. liy the way, we are just wa tunr for llie men of yraml obi Lancaster county to start ilieir honor roll for tho monument. The ladies have theirs?now tor the gent leinen. r...~ ..I ? i w i? <M *1 iir jiuiMUiic men nave I said they would each give twoj hundred dollors, and we know there are others just waiting to, give. A committee of gentlemen and ladies are ready for donations Thanks are due our | worthy editor lor courtesies ex tended. The monument has an enthusiastic advocate in the Lancaster News. !r. 1). C. AddressTo The Farmers. By Vice-President Tindal, Oi The State Cotton Association The annual meeting ot' the Southern Cotton As-oeiaton was held at New Orleans January 11, 12 and 13, every county in the sta^e being well represented Farmers, bankers, merchants representees ol ihe highest typt ot manhood in the so<? ii, were present, all determined to makt the organization stronger auc greater. They insist on raising more food crops, and farmers who did not reduce the cottor acreage last year must do so this year 25 per cent. I'residonl Haryey Jordan congratulated (the Southern Cotton Associatioi for ''standing together, and thai weliave accomplished everything up to now that we set out to do and that we bad only one anc one half million bales ot cottor iu the south, and pvprw halo , * - ? J this will be needed soon to fil contracts sold ahead." I'eac* has been restored in foreigi lands and a largor demand foi manufactured noods than we have ever had is caused Iron the late disturbances. The manufacturer admits that 15 cents was the price they ex pected to pay for the crop therefore we will have to gel fifteen cents for the remaiudei of our cotton to average twelve cents per pound. Cotton is the cheapestcommodity on the mar ket today. If there was a man at the Convention that thought fifteen cents was 100 High for cotton he did not dare show his head 01 open Ins mouth, and when the vote was taken it was unanimouf for fifteen cents. Amid shoutt and ?yells ; "We will have it ! Wo must have it ! We will hold until we do get it l'1 were expressions heard all over the house It would seem tnat. the cotton was in stronger hands and in the hands ol people that can cut out the cotton crop it necessary 01 plough it up alter it is planted 1 wish every man in South Carolina could have been at tins Convention. 1 am sure he would have been fully repaid lor going, an i would be willing to stand by tho Association now alt-r listening to Ihrv'y Jordan, E. lb Smith, John Temple Graves, 1'io-ident Ciark, of Mississippi, and many others, who spoke feelingly and strongly in behalf ot t he treat cause, wh'ch is for the protection ot the South. 1'residenl E. 1>. Smith made the speech of his life. Mr. (-lark said : "The farmers were damn 'oo|. to p!:?nl cotton to buy com, and ? hen his nei^h bor t 'i' 3 to plant all cotton he plants corn to sell him, and tins was all that saved him from financial ruin whoa cotton went to four and one half cents per pound." A man should raise corn and hay for sale, it does not matter how high cotton goes." . We cannot alFord to have our I p corn and smoke houses in the . West: neither can we afFord tol put our cotton in the hands of he mills, nor in the ware houses owned and controlled by them, > for that gives the bears a chance to figure and count the cotton It shuts ofF competition ; buyers ' (In nnl ?'inU J ....V ,? .o?. IU IJIU ?MI COllOllj ' sliellered by the mill raau, lor tbe mill will refuse to buy from them. The buyers have told me so, which forced me to get ex5 port buyers in this section last ^ summer. It was decided that the (armors must have their own ' ware houses, and I hope that I 1 will live to see the farmers, no' only of South Carolina, but of ^ the entire South, have their own ware houses, owned and con 1 trolled by tnera, and when the small farmer, who is forced to ' sell his cotton in September and ' October, can place his cotton there and satisfy the account 1 with his banker and merchant, ^ both of whom are his friends, as 1 ' was so acknowledge in our Con* veution by the largest bankers 1 and merchants in the South, who r are with us to stay. The man who is not willing to 1 help in building ware houses lor 5 the farmers has the good of the ' mills at heart more than the far mers' interest, and is not in good ? standing with our organization, f and should be spotted by the cotton growers. Let us be inde! pendent and fix the price of our 5 cotton, and it the mill man wants it he can come to us. YVe must not bow and beg them to take ! our cotton nnv Ionrrr?r (nr ?io 1 not dependent on (hem, but they 1 are dependent on us. Let the farmers understand tlieir power ! and demand justice. We support ' ' too many people on our cotton. 1 Cut out the middle man and put ^ him to ploughing the ''bull-ox.1' I IJ. B. Tindal. Greenville, S. Jan. loth 11900. i Mr. Witherspoon's Condi=|j tion. ji i !: TVT ~. . . A U!.. . _ V T T .. I i^uw .rvuic IU ue up--tsullet I ' I I' Located and is Doing no \ i Harm. j 5 I . 11 It afford* us especial pleasure to note tlie fact that Mr. Uasei Withers poo 11 ha* so lar recover ed from liis recent wounds as to be able to be up again. His 1 recovery lias indee 1 boon rapid. | Mr. Witberspoon went over t o P j tlie I'ryor sauitar-in 111 ,in Ohe-ter, ! Wednesday atieinoon and had p the bullet in his body located by ( I means of the X ray. The ball I ?,..a Fa I 1. - i <i an itnn>u ii'iiti'ii llCXl lO ! lit1 I third ri >. It was i ot lvinoved, as it is doing no hartn. Mr. J Wit herspoon returned home!1 Wednesday night. _ ( Marshall Field, of] Chicago,' ] tlie most famous merchant in the world, diod in New York i this week, of pneumonia. j :\/ I A Shocking Death. Mr. Chalmers B. Horton, one of Kershaw's Best and 9 Most Prominent Young I Citi'/pno ^.Uxv.iu, wini ci ra- K tal Accident, His Death 1 Resulting Some Hours La- & ter. The many friends throughout, j I lie county of Mr. Chalmers B_ ll Horlon, ol Kershaw, will l>e -1 deeply shocked and grieved to \ hear of his tiagic death, which I occurred in Kershaw Thursday a night. It ap pears that about i o'clock Thursday afternoon MrHorton went up in the elevator ; at the store of the Kershaw Bank- $ ing and Mercantile company* 1 with which he was connected,., t and just as lie was in the act of. . stepping out, at the second floor,:, the elevator suddenly fell, oausing Mr. Horton to fall also, a > distance ot about fifteen teet? ^ He fell on his side, sustaining ? internal injuries which resultedLvij in his death about midnight.? Thursday night. Mr. Horton was a young maoigi of exceptionally fine character f and much promise. He was a >\ son of the late I>r. James Horto* \ and was about 35 years of age ?? j He was marrieif Kdnie years ago. . to Miss Annie Hamilton, of Cliee*. | ter, who survives him. He also survived by his mother, Mrt. ^ Sarah Horton, and the followin|B|l brothers and sisters: Dr. K. Horton, Mr. Lovic Ilorton, Misses; Fannie and FJoride Horton. of the Heath Springs section; Florence Kelly, of Tinimonsville^. I and Mrs Lois Parrett, ot Hartsville. Mr. Ilorton's remains wer?? taken to Chester yesterday atteskvi noon for burial. Business Changes in Wathaw. The stylo ol tlie Waxhaw Bank-/$j infr sind Mercantile Comvn&flT lias been changed t<> the WauM? haw Mercantile Company. 'Swtma hanking dep rtment of thejMf noss will I>o discontinued ;*or of tlie Waxhaw B-r, Trust Company lec^'Jr ganized lioro ami. hopt'il. will soon 1) o 11 bu-iness. ThwT'V. Mor antile (Jompmf . om posed of Mr.' J, )' ind Ins son in drown, the latterjjffi The style of 1h#? yell known firm olx * Sle ith Sr. Nivon was, m. \ 'hanged to Rodman <% V*. 1 he new linn is compolH^^l \Y?<rs. .J Kodman and T". Mivon, Mr. K. ?J. 1 loath vvTjBBP xr of lit - former firm, liaviflH ,viitulniwn trom tlio businqpt.^ Mr J. M. Niven is the mnnjdflMB if the new firm, as lie was *1*9^ withdrawn a- a partn< r in tigjNr iV x a w Merranli'o ( "iiipaMw vncl the Waxhaw Drug i otml