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2 The Senatorial Campaign. The Big Meeting in Lar. caster Saturday, the Glorious Fourth?Fine Speeches Heard by an Appreciative Audience-?The Eagle's Tail Pulled by More than One Candidate--"What the Speakers Had to Say. Lancaster's Senatorial campaign meeting held i ere Satur- j day?the ''Glorious Fourth'"? was an unqualified success in j every particular. The attendance was large, crowd orderly aud the speeches of the caudi dates remarkably good?belter than those made at other points ?due, most hkely, to the inspi ration of the day and the enthusiasm of the audience. The meeting was held in the court house, which was crowded, at least 400 persons being present. County Chairman \V. P. Caskey presided with his usual dignitv and introduced the speakers, each of whom was limited to 25 minutes. At the chairman's request, the Rev. O. W. Carini chael, pastor of the A. R. P. church, opened the meeting with a particularly appropriate prayer i j * I me lirsi speaker mirouuceu was MR. JOHN* P. OfoACE, OF CHARLESTON, candidate for U. 6. Senate, who begau by saying 132 years ago today our nation was born?132 years ago today there rang forth that immortal Declaration which at once established beiore the world that the people of America at least were tree. Already the thuudering cry of Henry had been heard and the battle ot Bunker Hill had been lought. The people were then in the gristle state, the muscle ot tnauhood developing later. It is not unfitting that we on this day, the Sabbath ot the Nation, should depart from the usual order, go back and look at the past, lelici- j tate each other aud read the i words ot the man who made the Nation?not the Declaration ot Independence, tor we all know it, aud it was yet to be crowned by the vietorie- ot Washington? but the words of the Sage of Monticello, not the lather ot his: country, but the prupl.et ot his country, whose words contain the essence ot Democracy. The speaker then read jellerson's first inaugural address, which lie declared embodies all the principles ot democracy. Continuing j his remarks he said he didn't; believe that men should divide along geographical lines, but on moral and philosophical lines ftllK' IT a nrruiti Uiilnntr/arl laf ferson, characterizing him as the founder of democracy. lie drew a distinction between the Ilatnil ; Ionian and Jeffersonian ideas of government, the termer being now represented by the lie pub-, lican party?the party ot special privileges, and the latter by the Democratic party?the party of! equal rights to all He pointed ! out how Jefferson arrayed himself with the masses. In choosing a representative, lie -aid, tlie i people should apply the test as to whether he is ot the Ilatnil-1 ,Avil a n Ar T i. U.rf A > i a ?-i f a r.A I Ionian WA JX. : Choose h man who feeis every I wound inflicted on you doubly! as though it were on himself?a man who teels the lash on his' back. The speaker said he: didn't have time to go into all | the issues dividing the Demo-; cratic and Republican parties, but took it for granted that his hearers kmew the difference between th^iii. k4You wouldn't think of asking me/' he said, *'if 1 were a Democrat alter I had taken the pledge." Referring; to ship subsidy, tie said it wa< the quintessence of protection and can't be reconciled with democracy. lie said he asked - THE one of the caudida'es at Camden Friday 'f he ever believed in ship subsidy, aud the candidate replied that he didn't rememoer, A man ought to be able to re member whether he has always been a democrat or not. He asked the question again, and cTtMrinrr no aiKivAr. h? aHrirPRRed 6 ~ - e> - * ?'* ? the question direct to-Mr. Rhett. who promptly told Mr. Grace to go ahead aud complete his own statement, adding that what he had to So)* would be said when it came his time to speak. The speaker then asked Mr. Rhett something about his not voting m 1896. whereupon the latter fired a question or two at his interrogator, asking him if lie didn't believe in lree silver and free trade. Mr. Grace replied yes, in the principles of both. His time being up, he was grant, ed five minutes more to explain his position, which he did by re counting the well known conditions during the panic of 1896 the dearth of primary mouty, the suffering of tiie debtor class the demand for an increase ol the currency, etc. He said the new discovery of gold fields had furnished the couutrv with the increased circulation needed COL. GEORGE JOHNSTONE OF NEWBERRY, was the second candidate for the Seuate to speak. He said it afforded him pleasure to appeal once again before a Lancaster audieuce as a caudidate lor the U. S. Senate. He thought it exceedingly appropriate that the meeting should be opened with prayer. He then paid a beautiful tribute to Mr. Carmichael's prayer. He said it most accurately outlined the duties and responsibilities of the voters and also the qualifications ot their representatives. He wished that the words could be embodied in the mind of ever\ citizen of the laud. The foundation ot the Republic rested upon the intelligence and virtue of its citizens, lie said he would try, under divine guidauce, to measure up to the requirements ot citizenship as laid down by that man of God. The eloquent speaker de clared that he didn't come here to feed ou empty issues and chad an intellectual people such as lie was addressing He then referred to some of the great men Lancaster has produced? the immortal Simuis, Crawford and others. He also threw a bouquet at the chairman, saying that he might well be taken for a portrait of Cleveland, the great Democrat whose death the country now mourns. He said he came here to talK about the great product ol this country?cotton ?the basic principle ot our industrial life. The South is coutrnntei! with a ctrp<t ?\rr\lilem ^ vw.v,... , and tba1 is. how to market its cotton to the be*t advantage m the same year of its production. Taking 12,000.000 bales as an annual crop, if 'wo crops are held, me holding wouid amount :o 24.000,000, if three crops, to 36,000,000 bales. With the three crops then en hand cotton would sell for only 1 or 2 cents a pound The problem theretore is to devise a plan by which one crop can be advantageously marketed in the course ol twelve months He recounted the exis'ins: troubles, how New York S100 Peward, $100. 'ILt readers of this paper will he pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to curt ' n llll its s*;i</ns nrul flint rnlavrb H ill s Catarrh Cute is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity Catarrh being a constitutional disease, re quires a constitutional treatment. Hall't Catarrh Cure is taken internally, actios directly upon the blood and mucous sur faces of the system, thereby destroying the inundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength hv building np the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work 'I he proprietors have ho njncfc tiith in its curative powers that they oftei One Ilun tied Dollars for any case that il tails to cure .Send for li?t of testimonials auuress r. i cnt,:>?.i a uu., loie>lo O. Sold by all drn^ists. 7oc Take Hall's Family Fills tor constipation, LANCASTER NEWS, ' is being fostered while the vitale i of the southern people are being > eaten out, how American specu, lators backed by millions o< American money are squeezing i out the life blood of the people, i how gambling in the New York i Cotton Exchange is affecting iht country. He said speculators heralded it abroad that cotton j was only 9 or 9 1-4 cents, when 'it was briugiug 11 3-4 Futures i regulated the price of spots j Federal legislation is the only I remedy. Cutout of cotton ex ; change its gambling features Icoutiuiug it to only bona fide purchases?to actu uities. Slop tbe selling ot a cr<>p in adyauce i by speculation. He said when I the tarniers through their fine I organization reduced the eottou acreage 15 per cent throughoui . the south the government bu i reau reported an increase of 10 per cent, and toriunes were made . by the speculators and the faith , less employes or uncials wilt , gave out information about the . crop iu advance of the publica tiou of the report. Referring tc > the punishment meted out to the I traitors he said not a seualoi > raised his voice on the floor ol congress to help the cotton association iu its fight to expost and punish them. Alter elimi uaiiu?. ajjocuitiihjii iucu utjienu? iue what is weighing your enter. ' prises and industries down. The financial system of this country is the trouble. It is centered iu New York and Washington. During last panic when you ap i plied to banks lor money to eu able you to hold your cotton you were told to sell your cotton aud thus relieve the situation. You couldn't borrow money because the currency system isn't sufficiently elastic. Not a centralized, but a decentralized system is what is needed. No system of finance is perfect, but one should be elastic enough to relieve local necessities. The speaker criticised the daily pap! ers for not giving fuller reports of the campaign meetings. COL. W. W. LUMPKIN, OF COLUMBIA, was next introduced as a candii date lor the Senate. Though hoarse with cold, he made an eloquent speech. He began by saying : "My wife's husband is not very pretty. I have 7 ot the i best children you ever saw 1 in your lite. But they are so atraid they'll do wrong they won't do 'nothing', so I have to work tor the whole : family. I have a pretty wife. 1 All ugly men. in fact, get pretty wives. In looking over this audience I see that some of you have pretty wives. The colonel I went on to say that lie was only a plam, ordinary working man, that he has spent half ol his life, time iu this State and has held various positions of honor here? not political however. He touclinigly portrayed his coming to i this State as a Confederate soldier, ragged and with woruout shoes, and with his comrades, i trying to keep back from its bor 1 der? the invaders' armv. Hf j graphically depicted the 6ad i tiorne coming ot the soldiers, lit | said he gave his parole in good faith and has since honestly ' i kept it and has done all in 1m power to help build up the counj try. lie spoke of the varioue powers of the government, to declare peace or war, to levy taxes, i make money, etc. No metal is ' money until the government . makes it so. The Democratic party has always fought the NaI tional banking system, and : should fight now auy one whc ' attempts to put upon us a system | i of national banks. The Govern| ment itself should say what shah ;i be money. The tariff, he said i is tne Jounuauou upon wuiet itrusts are built; and uumerou! I are thv> trusts in this country TaritF magnates say to the peo ' pie, ?we wiu, you lose." But the l-Y 8, 1908 X c* Rickets. [ A , Simply the visible sig A are not forming rapidly < gi (Lack of nourishment ; 'Scoffs Emulsh Y entire system. Stimulat ? Exactly what baby n< a all DRUGGISTS i 50c. I ,,, ? Wantc ; 1 ; 11 T. Y. W Lancaster, _ ) ~ I P X ^ great number of people < reductions in prices we close out our < Dress Not and all Ladies' Goods (excel to make another lower THE GOODS. W have the I Shoes, and Mer i We will posi at least $3.00 tc $10.00 you spe Y ours . Williams-I I Notice to Debtors and Credi:; tors. M All persons indebted to the e?tate of J. A. 1'. Mstare, deceased, are here by notified 10 make payment to the 1 undersigned, and all persons having c airns against said estate are directed j to present same duly attested. LOIriM SXSTARE, J P. C. CAHKEY, 1 75*84 Administrators. f Notice of Discharge . Xotice is hereby given ttiat the un1 dersigned, as administratrix of the ) estate of K. S. McDov, deceased, will on tbe28tbday of Julv. lftOA. mtu her tinal return and settlement as such administratrix, and apply to the I 1'robate ( ourt for Lancaster County for her final discharge Mary B Mr1 I>ow. Administratrix Estate of E. 8. : McDow, deceased, j; June 27. I9O8. 8. . I ???????????????????? FLECTRir THE BEST FOR k ' "'Vl biuocsnesh k BITTERS AND KIDNEYS. [. mr mt mmmmft I n that baby*. tiny bone^ A I enough. X fl it the cause. Q B on nourishes baby's I es and makes bone. 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