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The VOL, 3. NO. 102. SEMI-WEEKL Night Riders Denounced? j aud on Farmers all over State;zens 11 Condemn Use of Lawless HaUi111! Methods. talked The News and Courier of Thurs- meJ*8 ^ day contained reports Irom its an ' oa 1)1 lor various correspondents throughout the State, civincr the view?. ^ ot leading members of the *un Farmers' Union aud other '^rm.e| representative farmers on the at- lin^ 1 11 O\DP08 tempts to intimidate cotton gift * ' tiers. Without a single except- ^'gnnq ion the night riders are condemn- n,? ed in unequivocal terms, and it is made clear that, the farmers of C*Ov. the State have no sympathy whatever with their lawless methods. (Jolt The report from Lancaster is lotte as tollows : Gov While it is rumored that three ed no or tour qinners in this county any s have been warned uot to gin night cotton no authentic case of the at Gre sort has been reported. In fact, regard the ma'ter is regarded here more cident in the light ot a joke. In one "Pl< instance, at least, it has turned vestigi out that a ginner was "notified" ?>nce a by friends, who wished to tease who t htm. they a W. 1'. Caskev. cliairm in nf , - -the executive committee of the it i* a Coun?y Farmers' Union, who is which in close touch with its member- and tl ship throughout the county, was m ide astted tins afieruoon lor ail ex this is pression ol opinion as to the at order, tempt oi "Might Riders" 10 ter- b? pro ronze giuners. He said he knew well a of his own knowledge that the less. Farmers' Union has nothing media whatever to do with this so-cad- oblige ed night riding business. The organization is a body ot lawabiding citizens, men who would The not for a moment tolerate, much less instigate or encourage, lawlessness in any shape or lorm. Nu The Uuion encourages the ^ holding of cotton tor belter pric- tjle l>0 es, but iu a legitimate way. It >)(i believes in having cotton guinea j ' (.( and ware housed so that those f ^ ( who are in debt can borrow mon . , , . , . ber ol ey on their cotton ana pav their variou obligations. Those guilty of try- c ing to intimidate ginners are ir- t)on c responsible, lawless persons CQ wanting to create excitement nt .. .. . . if any some kind in their community, (er or else they are enemies of the -jj ^ Union and are resorting to such tun5t' methods for the purpose of dis- t ^ crediting the organization. , , Later President E. B. Lingle, meetjn of the Couuty Farmers' Union, eiect^0 was asked what he thought about the matte:, and he expressed jiere t practically the same view9 as reirjs'lr those of Mr. Caskey. Kemei "If there are any night riders ,)0 j in the Union I don't know it," said Mr. Lingle. falthfu He went on to say that the or j gauization would not stand for 0 f() any such conduct.- "Why," said ( ujre(j he, ?? we want the cotton ginned. ^ . We are building ware houses to , < ? , . a t) 1 v Hi store cotton, and how can we ? ,orpil v< store it unless it 19 ginned?' [have 1 ~' ~ * ^ interes North Carolina Farmers ^jie Condemn' Night Riders" tion a Charlotte Observer of Thura- cincts clay : Mill men and others inter- | Van Wj ested in the cotton trade are still talking of the threatening cotton > letter sent by unknown parties Montfjoi to the manager of the Southern Vai"*U Cotton Oil ginnery at Shelby last Heaths Saturday- The uppermost teature uy'ufe public mind just at Tnwlosv this time is the question as to Kershav whether or "not the farmers ot Cleveland county had anything Rich to do with the mat'er. While The Bi there is small belief that they Va., A <# did, an Observer* man asked Mr. bed la_ C. C. Moore, former president sits ot ot the North Carolina division of evideni the Southern Cotton Association, ionals. LANCA! LEDGER 18 b/ REVIEW 18: Y. LANCASTER, S/C. e of the best posted citi- A Farmers' Ur.i . the State, to what he offence when it about it. Mr. Moore iat lie had met with and Intended. to a great number of far Editor Lancaster rithin t he past several days appears in the issue at every one without ex- instant of your here 1 had condemned the esteemed sheet a pu affair without reserva- Kram fr?m Aiken I Not one believed that the ym,u, which v s ol Cleveland county had produce here, for it iik 10 cio witn ii ana all (ix^<i in the miiF.s c sed themselves in favor of who road it> We t ; rerolut ions condemning the Anlioch - unioi r'dmg keenly tlie eiur as " *" 1 ' that was intended Ansel After Night Rid- signing persons wl ers instigators of the imbia special in (lie Char- telegram. And we Observer of Thursday : e(^ 'n seFSi?n 'bat ernor Ansel is delermin- ^>r<^ fo RUPP(>rt a pa t to let night riding get ^shcs slot's cast at tart in this state. To- i!1 designing person lie wrote Sheriff Gilreath humiliate the enville an emphatic letter 's G10 bono and si ;ng the Willim >n gin in country. We hope , saying : not coPy such matte aase make a thorough in- lace *' bears the t ition ot this matter at s'urs cast at the nrt it you can ascertain farmer has started the parties are. see that by the help o re prosecuted and brought God we will do it. ice. 1 f ihis report be true, G- 1 Gaske; i species ot lawlessness . . ? . must be hautlled at once Kershaw Make he perpetrator ot it b?* ., to !eun the lesson tl?a' Contribution a free country 01 la v and Fund, and that every one mu*si Kcrslina*' public tected in his property as pairi-t < . citiz nsh s his person from the law- noth??r contribution ic11\0 tiic matter }uur im caixipaimn itind hs e attention and vorv much from e <n; losing , **M. b. Ansel Thursday's State: Governor dersigued citizens subscrib the am' Repdsrererl Vnt?rc nt Inur ?i nm -fill i!K) Douglas 46 Austria, and come t mory 11 Hallo Mine *7 with her dtughter, 7!' Holair K8 , , b .. eir 60f, Flat Crook ... 4.1 glowing description prings 28.1 New Cut 101 success and of the 1'S EETfai*::-? "hicb 2on#? cou uio 126 Antiodi r?r? here. He was the v i"6 Total 2661 as a clerk in a groci ~ Harlem. When hi imon 1, Va., Sept. 23? cousin arrived Eb< ink 01 Croaet, at Crozet, them to a hotel, lbemarlecounty, was rob- obtained rooms for ,t night ot $800, the depo Kberhardt had bet the day. The robbery was and $3,000 in cash tlv the work of protesB- carried in the bosorr On July 18, Kberha 3TER 78 ENTERPRISE 1891 , SEPTEMBER 26, 1908. idn Takes two women he was going None was ,ake ^iem *or * trolley ride in i country. When they got, ii New Jersey la'e in the evenii News: There Kberhardt took them to a Ion of the 19th ^Po1 near Rochelle Park s tofore highly tried to kiil them both, irported tele- 8*l?t Mrs. Kberhardt to de farmers to E. fired two shots a? the you ve need not ?,rl. One bullet was dffleci ; .1 I ^ -? l is vividly uv aviuraoi, s?em. matting a ^li! >f ill tanners flesh wound, and the other 1??< he larmers of e(l hi her hat. Sue r .n and ton i feel very refuge in a farm house, i we believe Eberhardt stripped the bo bv iho.,u de- nt his aunt, and possessed hims 10 were the Oi her money, which he buri i purported he had been hiding for seve ? have resolv- days when lie was caught. we cannot at- ? per that pub- Bryan Rebukes Roosev farmers by and Demands proof ,s in order to . latmer who Charges against Haskell new of the D-troit, Mich., Sept. 22.?' that you will most sensational development 'r when 011 its political campaign w ?s ippearance ot Mending today by William tanner, lhe pry}\n, Democratic candidate out to win President, of a telegram to P ! tlie Eternal jItooseveit. demanding t he produce proof that Gover v, for Com. harles N. Ha ko! 1, o Okla ma, trea-urer of th^ Democri S Another nal'onal committee, ever connected with itio Sianrl n? 1 to Bryan Comp'any. " Mr. Bryan serves notice on sj.iri'el and ''re-odeni th'*1 as the eatidh ave ma'e a- ')emo ratio party ''I sha'l to'the Bvran Perm,t any responsible meral will appear 1)1 1',e i publican orcanizui published in misrepresent the Democr We, the uii- Part-V i" die present ^eampai: of Kershaw, The telegram concludes i opposite l'ie statement that the Demo atnes to t'ie Par,.v is making "an hoi 'ii tund, trust 8?d honorable fight in defensi ler with the 'ts principles and policies, riptions that demand honorable tr shall be the ment from those who are a great Dem- charge of the Republican ci paign." 93.00 ^ l.oo Georgia Ginners Talk O 1.00 Night Riders' Warning j'yp Lawrenceville, Gaspecia .l.oo Atlanta Journal: I11 respo 1-,r>0 to a call ipsued last Friday tw 1.00 , . .. 1 00 ly-seven ginners met in the cc 1.00 liouse here Monday to take e j-JIJJ esaary action concerning run .!!!!!.! !.1.00 of notices aud warnings pis t-oo by so-called "night riders." j'JIJJ From the best information 1 in. tflinahlo nnlu t ota tirtllnnn I. v w j t " V >?WI !V>DO II r,() been posted in the county i 1.00 l',ey are within a narrow rati 1.00 north of Lawr mceville. 2? The meeting adjourned with .......... koo passing auv resolutions, it be comidered that the present s ol Mf|*tirs did not warr ' lurther action or justify any for Brutal due fears or excitement. 3 Aunt ^ large majority of those f sent were members ol Farrni !-K?Oustave union, and each individual c in liacken demned any effort at lawlessn of h:s aunt, or the sort indicated by the iardt, whom tices heretofore posted. B< ....J, ^ouioi notices posted were written Miss Oltillie, pencil and read as follows: obbery, was ''Twelve cenfs cotton noti thirty years Take warning this to all ginn t hard labor, do not gin 8-cenl cotton. Do ided his aunt move a wheel. We mean thi in Vienna, , ? , , ?aemlii)K?her 400 MiUs Idleis of his own Manchester, England, Sept. > ease with ?More than 400 cotton milh Id be made Lancashire are idle as the res >u employed 0f a dispute over wages betwi sry store in operatives and employers, s aunt and This meaus that 40,000,< srhardt took spindles are wholly or pai where he stopped,that more than $250,01 them. Mrs. 000 ot capital is not bringing ween $2,500 any return, and that 140, , which she operatives are without work i of her dress losing something o ver $700, irdt told the in wages a week. T v? W w& Wl v/l va XV |7 *I "icaster County--The Democratic eampaif , A ? int: thai it, togetl mber at each Precinct. manv otber 8Ub.c irman W. G. A. Porter, of ra?v be received, unty board of registration, mean* of assuring i behalt of Ihe board kind- ocratic victory liahed us at our request j. t. Stevens he list below ot the num Ma?ill t . , i . I?r. \V. McDowell, f voters registered at the K. N.Truosdale s precincts in the county. <?. a. Jeti'coat ommissioners of registra J'- }!^r< r ompleted their rounds ot Hayes AHregory!!!! unty some days ago, and T.c.t'lyburn. persons entitled to regis-j J;- "J; J(V^|"rn ire failed to do so, they i-:! M. Kstridge... .. ive but one more oppor- *? Ham rick. to obtain certificates, and T.'j^irogory.1!!^ on Oct. 2, on which day t. c. Nelson ?.,.j ?,;ii i i J -. - " ? * ' " >? - I IV. I?. HlltKUIltiy wii. I1U.U 118 Iinul j. .\. Mct'askill ig before tne November .j. \y. Ingram n. The meeting will be Benton t?t the registration office he books being opened lor .ino. u. Fade ation at 9 o'clock a. m. J. W.?'nnningham... , A.~ ... The Kershaw hra.... nber, no certificates will led alter Oct. 2. Total. board ha* done ns duty ?? ? Uy and well. N? effort qiven 3q Years pn snared to get the volregister this year as re- Murder of hi! by law. Ot the number New York, Sept. '2 ir registered, 2561. prob- Kb *rhardi, on trial ot exceeding 100 are col sacic for the muidei >teis. The colored people t\irri C>ttillie Eberli iken comparatively little he lured from Germ it in the matter. vvi'h her daughter, following is the registra- tor the purpose of r iccording to voting pre- today sentenced to in states prison at rok .... 40 Taxahaw oh Eberhard' persui "" .',1 Sn.??h^. S to wll her property Tews PRICE 5 CENTS PER COPY to Boys and Cigarettes?The tlie News' Views Endorsed. nto ? _ From the Kershaw lira. ng. ejv Editor Connors lia-1 a most md timely editorial in 'he last Sat! unlay's issue of the Lancaster .'J^1 News on the subject of "Boys and Cigarettes," in which he , j calls the at len'ion of merchants | and all other persons to the pro] r_ vision in the Act making it unIr^(j lawful lor any one to sell or give c'garettes, tobacco or cigarette idv 1 PaPer '? H minor. The Act reads as iollows : e(j Code 11)02, Section 320. It ir;ij shall not be lawlul for any per son or persons, either by himself or themselves to sell, furnish, . give or provide any minor or e minors, under the age ol 18 of years, with cigarettes, tobacco or cigarette paper, or any substitute theretor. the The penalty is a fine of not 10 exceeding $100, nor less than 'he $25, or imprisonment tor a term of not m re than one year, nor ,or less than two months, or both, res tn the discretion of the Court, 'iaf one-halt of the tine to be paid to nor the informer and the other half to go to the county in which the ltlG conviction is had. was vVe are sure that the violations fhl oi this law are largely on ac I rouiii oi ignorance 01 it, and it 'nplj, ive'l en?ug'i 'ha the n i a should te called to i'. Almost not any day boys, front little lots up, both black and white, can be llon seen on the streets of any town Htu] puffing cigarettes, paving the :n way for affected lungs, loss ot ,%l"' health and diseased minds. It cra* the practice can ho broken up it uesl should be done, e of and oat- To Give Brvan an Old Gray ' 111 Mule. am Petersburg, Ind., Sept. 24.? William Beiridge, proprietor ot ver the Petersburg Mantel works, owns a gray mule 39 years old which he has named Mftud Ber 1 in ridge. He has great confidence nse in Brvan and a number of his en- Republican friends have agreed >urt to present him with a rubber 'pc tired buggy, together with bartors ness, it he would, in case of Bryted an's election, go to Washington with Maud to attend the Comob miner's inauguration, ave Berridge promised his friends and that in ca-e of Bryan's election lius he would not only go to Washington, but alter he got there, out he would present the whole outing fl I to l-tl-TTOTl it4- , ? , aot un- Night Riding to be Checked in Mississippi at any Cost >re jrs' New Orleans, Sept. 23.?tiov. on- E. F. Noel ot MDsie^sppi, speakie4-? tngof thj possible growth of night no. riding in Hie cotton bolt, said r?; h today that if necessary hi woul I in call on the federal government for troops to stop such raid*, ce. lie would first, use State troops, er* Mr. Noel said, and finally seek n't federal aid to restrain lawlesss'\ ness at any cost. He added that he expected night ridin g to stop without military interference 23 ? Jp Ex-Sheriff Killed by Tree Ben Dallas, Ua? sr.jcial in Atlanta journal: Isaac Williams a for000 raer sheriff of Paulding county, rtly was accidentally killed near 50,- Yorkville, in this county, last \ in night, while coon hunting. 000 He was cutting down a tree and when the top of a tree standing 000 near fell upon him, causing his death.