The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, January 29, 1908, Image 1
The Lancaster News
T FFKTFT? Din/iui?f ?
ivcvuiw 10/0 EJNUiRPRISE 1891
VOL. 3. MO. 33. SEMI-WEEKLY. 1ANCASTEB. S. C? Wa^T2B. I908"~ PniCE-FIVE CENTS dp. rn?v
What the Legislature Accomplished
the Past Week
?The Work Before It.
Columbia special in Monday's
News and Courier: 'lae House
during the last week has done u
great deal of work. Perhaps
the chief thing it has accompl
ished in the way of progress is
the disposition of the lien law
question, the bill to repeal the
law haviug been passed after debale
extending over two days.
The House has not yet taken up
the matter of railroad rate regulation,
the special message of
Governor Ansel having boon
sent in on this subject only on
Saturday. Neither has the liquor
question been touched on
this last week, and since the preliminary
skirmish on the Nash
/ prohibition bill there has been
nothing said on the subject. The
Charleston low license dispensa
ry bill has been killed; there
was only one round in this fight
and the bill was put to 9leep
without any todo whatever.
The elections was disposed ol
early in the week and since that
that time the members have set
tied down to business in earnest.
This session there is no definite
policy ahead; the General Assembly
having defined itself on
the liquor question last year, is
now rather much lost to know
what to take up, and the chance,
as frequently said before in this
correspondence, is an excellent
one for constructive legislation
that will do the State real benefit.
But there is not much evidence
of constructive efforts;
there is a flood of bills, over on?
thousand in this General Assembly's
two sessions, but. inauy of
them are local measures, many
more are wholly impractical and
visionary, and only a few are
destined to accomplisls any sub
stantial results.
Using Bombs in Alabama
Liquor Fight.
Columbus, Ga., Jan. 25 ?Feeling
between the members of the
law and order league at Girard,
Ala., and persona opposed to the
prohibition laws {reached its
height to-night when dynamite
bombs were exploded in front of
the residences of C. T. Gifford,
president of the league, and two
Girard ministers active in the
league. No damage was done to
persons or property.
The explosions followed the
arrest of six men, three whites
and three negroes, for violating
the prohibition laws. The law
andjordor league today swore out
11 warrants on [information secured
by a defective in the league.
Ofllcers of the league express
the opinion that the dynamite
explosions were made to intimidate
them. Friends of t.h? ant;.
prohibitionists declare that mi3
chievous young men caused the
explosions.
Giraril is just across the rivei
y Irora Columbus and the hoavj
explosions were heard here.
Bennettsville's Big FirePractically
All the Business
Section Burned.
_____ i *
Columbia special in Caarlotte
Observer : A $200,000 fire occurred
at Bennettsville, Marlboro
coutity, this morning, wiping
out the principal business
section and many of the best residences.
The town is practically
without fire protection and
it was impossible to check the
flames.
The fire started in the big
Skye Hotel, where there were
many narrow escapes from death
Col. J. J. Heckart. president of
the Bennettsville & Cheraw Railroad,
saved his life by jumping
from a Window, sustaining a broi~~
The following houses were
wjped out:
The Twentieth Century Library;
Fuller Bros, livery stables;
Skye IJotel ; Hamilton's store;
Excelsior hardware store; Rodgers
Bros, stores; Sol Brown's
furniture store; S. J. Pearson's
jewelry store; Pyson & Crosland's
insurance ollices; Marlboro Motor
Car Company's store; Marl
boro Drug Company's store :
Soencer's nlin)nr>rii ? >!-> 11
. frittiicry}
Bennestsville book store ; C. P.
Moore's store; the Rouse-Bostick
furniture store Burlington's
store; law office and residence of
Judge J. H. Hudson, ex president
of the South Carolina Bar
Association; residences of Capt
P. L Breeden. E. M. Row, C P.
Moore and A. J. Briat.ow; law
offices of Towneend <fc Rodders,
and Knox Livingston.
Negro Assassins Captured
or Killed.
Knoxville, Tenn., Jan. 25.?
Three of a gang of negroes who
brained a Cincinnati Southern telegraph
operator, John Brown,
at Annadel, Morgan County,
Tenn, and later shot and killed a
bridge watchman, David Langley,
last Saturday night, have
been captured or killed. One,
name unknown, was killed Monday
by a pons* A second one
was captured here yesterday and
is being held for safe keeping.
The third surrendered today to a
farmer living near Wartburg, after
he had been shot by a posse
pursuing him. He win turned
over to Sheriff Langley, of Morgan
County, who atarted for
Knoxville with him. Excitement
is too high in Morgan Co.,
to keep the men in Wartburg
jail. The negro captured today
gives his name as Walter Cole.
Dynamite Kills Threa.
New York, Jauoary ?6.?Three
men were killed inatantly and
five others seriously injured by
the premature explosion from an
unknown cause of dynamite ir
( the Bergen Hill section of the
Pennsylvania tunnel, at Homes.
ted, N. J., today. The dead
r 1- ^ *
r|??uv.w.i?ou uunupu VJOVH, L.ftC
' II. M?cfcprly.
Tillman's Great Speech--His 1
Views on Immigration and 1
the Race Question. 1
t
Co'umbia, Jan. 24.?Before 1
several hundred people Senator
B. R. Tillman last night deliver- '
ed in the state capitol an address '
on immigration as it affects the 1
race questiou. Lie Bpoke in re- (
sponse to an invitation from the 1
^eueriii assemoiy. The address
lasted not quite two hours and k
was closely lollowed by those
present. 4
Cn the race problem the sena- 1
lor touched, arguing in the main f
for a repeal of the 15th amend '
raent of the con?titution of the (
United States, but h?s main ar- 1
guintnt was that South Carolina '
needs more settiers of the light 1
-ort, the kind authorized in the 1
act creating the department ot
agiiculture, cooimecre and im- 1
migration, and the only way t> V
get these settlers is by advertising
the advantages of South Cur- 1
olina?a plan now being used in 1
the West, where there . re also e
many advantages, v !: re the negro
is not met in competition.
Senator Tillman analyzed the
result of his lectures in the North,
I
told of the disappearance of sectional
leeliug and closed with a 1
strong plea for more education *
of the whiles, calling attention '
to the growing extent of the education
of the negroes, pointing 1
out Hie fact that the constitution 1
of 1895 was only a temporary *
remedy and emphasizing the 4
growing danger o! the uee of the
educated negro for political pur- '
poses. '
He believes that the most 4
dreadful crisis is ahead of us and '
claimed that he could prove it to 1
su intelligent audience. Some 1
have said there is no race prob- '
lem; that it was solved by the 1
convention of 1S9 5; that the ne- '
groes are uow quiet, why stir it '
op? These very men were op 1
posed to thiJ convention and as
'*1 was oue of those who sdvocated
the convention 1 have a right }
to speak and show that every. ]
thing is not quiet." '
It is true the new constitution
disqualified many negroes and <
that the government iu now con- 1
ducted by white men, but his '
analysis of conditions is that de- !
spite the educational and sufTraga f
qualifications, the expedient is i
only temporary, not a remedy '
but the best that could ho done i
at the time. Therefore lie want- 1
ed to warn tbe people (bat the i
term* of the const lu'ion reqnir
ing a man to read and write or
pay taxes od f300 of property i
before be coold vote, might react.
The report from every couaiy
showed that more negroes were
going to school than white child1
ren. There are more of them.
The school attendance by the
negroes shows that, at our ex
1 ponse. they are now getting the
1 ability to read and write and can
' comply with the reqairemente ot
the constitution. He was not
|oneu> object to their education,1
), but how long would it be before
enough of them can read and
write to equal the white vote j
md then balance the power?
tie was not objecting to the netro
schools ; he wanted to emahasize
this, but they are here. '
Nothing has save t the South
'rom the negro being tho balance
>f power but the democratic pri
nary. He referred to North
Carolina and <ltlie capture of
hat state by Prifcchard". Such 1
i thing would not happen in '
South Carolina in his day.
Coming to a question of r ame- '
ly he wanted to say first that
he problem had not yet been \
safely solved but he believed
here was only one answer to the
]ne~tion?the white race must
je reinforced. We have no race
suicide or divorce and wo have
she purest, blooded citizenship
n America with the most glor 1
ous history. All this should
lerve us to get at once more (
vhite men and white women in ,
South Carolina. In his travels
icro s the c ntinent he had notced
that other states want more
settlers and a great many of ?
hese Ptates have far mnr? !irlT7u?
!
ages and it could bo easily unlerstood
wliv the people are not
>r?*aking I heir necks to get here.
'It's a good Hate, but a great ,
nany coldblooded people will (
lee the gulleys and the swamps (
ind may go elsewhere." ,
However there are things in j
his stale we have to offer and ]
,hese advantages can be display- |
?d. He has found people who (
lo not want newcomers. He ]
would like io adopt that theory, |
Dut conditions are such that set- ]
dors aro needed and are necesjary.
As to what kind is best, ]
ae declared that he had a fellow
feeling for the English, German ]
?nd Irish, having that blood in i
bis veins. He, however, in going
through this state was struck '
with the good s'.ock, the pure
alood and the fact that every ciizen
was proud of the state.
More of this kind are needed.
The general assembly a few
ears ago passed a bill for a department
of immigration. Now
what is wanted is homoseekers.
rhoee of us who have thousands 1
)f acres of land and are facing
abor trouble with the negroes,
ealiziog that the negroes are
nore independent, know that ?
o.metbing must be done. The
iitiicultie1* grow day by day aud I
what aould be the result of an <
influx of 200,000 people who
ieet to become South Carolin- ,
ant?
In roaming over the land he
was able to bring tho news back
that sectional feeling was dead.
There were a few old men who
still cling io the old ideas. Hut
there are many who have come
South during the Spanish-American
war end bare invested their
money here and have visited here
and claimed that he had aroused
more enthusiasm in Wisconsin
than here.
It depends upon the pill you take. {
I>eWitt'fl I.i.tie Earlv kis*r*
be^t piilH known for oonatipation and
nick boadacbe. Sold fey Crawford
Bros.
Death of J. Y. Brice.
Rock Hill Record: Mr. J. Y.
Brice died at I119 homo 011 Saluda
street Wednesday afternoon
and was buried this afternoon in
Laurelwood Cemetery, after services
at the home at 3 o'clock by
Rev. Oliver Johnsou, of Lesslie's.
Mr. Brice formerly lived at Catawba
Junction, and had charge
:>f the Southern Railway's pumping
station at Springdeil. Recently
his heal'h became bad and
tie had to retire und moved lo mis
city. He was field in high esteem
by the trainmen of the Rock Hill
and Charleston Division. The
reporter ol The Record has often
heard them remark that [lie w;is
tlio best pumpman on I fie road.
Mr. Brice leaves to mourn his
Remise a wife and eight childien,
-evera1 of whom are residents of
this city.
Virginian Kills Another's
Wife.
Roanoke. Va., Jan. 23.?A
rim?-8 8[ecial irorn Ohristians">urg,
Va , say -:
Frank Cathorne this afternoon
ihot and instantly hilled Mrs.
i\da Jones, ti e young wife of
Sidney Jones, in the Jones home
\t Cambria, Va. Jealousy was
jhe cause of the tragedy. There
wt*re no eye-witnesses to the killing.
Cathorne went to Christiansburg
and begged to be locked up,
but declined at fir?t. tn, t?n
- ?? i?n yv ii ao
crime he had committed. Later
he said he had killed Mrs. .Jones
because he ioved her and she had
married another man. He said
he went to her home and tol l her
he was going; to kill her, she
begged him to go away, hot that
he drow his revolver and shot her
to death.
Church Burned at Clinton.
Clinton, January 25.?The
L'resbyterian church here was
burned today about noon. A
revival meeting was in progress,
and the fire is supposed to have
originated from a defective flue.
The lues ia partly covered by insurance.
Fire in Monroe.
Mouroe special in The Ohservf
If i ra rroo 1
.... *...v r, ma uiiciiverea to tlie
Houston-Lee Building in th*1 centre
of town this morning .at 9
o'clock belore it had gained any
headway and was quickly extinguished
by the firemen, the only
damage resulting being from water,
which caused a loss of about
$100 to Mr. Van Sikes' st cb of
merchandise. The blaze started
rum a defective flue.
Store Robbed at Olympia
Mills.
Columbia State, of Mond.iv:
? Magistrate S. I. Rile*'* store,
wmcn is on the Blutl roftd in the
Olympia mill village, wan robbed
some time in the early part
of last night of $876, the safe
having been entered b^ means
of keys which tied been lost
since las! fair week. Three m?n
are in jail charged with the
crime.