The Lexington Dispatch,
LEXINGTON, S. 0.,
G. M. Harm an, Editor and Publisher.
Circulation, 1,784,
Wednesday, July 13, 1904.
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The Demcratic Convention.
The Democratic Xtiiooal Convention
at its meeting in St. Louis laefc
week, nominated Judge Alton Brooks
Parker, of New York, for President
and Hod. Henry G. Davie, of West
Virginia, Vice-Pre ident. If the Democrats
can carry New York and West
Virginia the success of the ticket is
assured. The following is the vote !
D.aoi.'lonliol oandi. j
DJ iSIBlSH lUt tUC X ICSIUVUWUI vuiuv.a
dates.
S Louis, July 9. 5 a. m.?The roll
call on the ballot nominating Parker
stood:
Alabama?Parker, 22.
Arkansas,?Parker, 18.
California?Hearst, 20.
Colorado?Parker, 4; Hearst, 5; McOlellan,
1.
?~ Connecticut?Parker, 14.
Delaware.?Gray, 6.
Florida?Parker, 6; Hearst, 4.
Georgia?Parker, 26.
Idaho?Hearst. 6.
Illinois?Hearst, 54.
Indiana?Parker, 30.
Iowa?Hearst, 26.
Kansas?Hearst, 10; Parker, 7; Miles,
2; Cockrell, 1.
Kentucky?Parker, 26,
Louisiana?Parker, 18.
Massachusetts?Olney, 32.
Maine?Parker, 7; Hearst, 1; Olney, 4.
Maryland?Parker, 16.
Michigan?Parker, 28.
Minnesota?Parker. 9; Hearst, 9! Cockrell,
1; Towne, 2; Gray, 1.
Mississippi?Parker, 20.
Missouri?Cockrell, 36.
Montana?Parker, 6.
Nebraska?Cockrell, 4, Hearst, 4; Patterson,4;
Olney, 1; Gray, 1; Wall, 1; Parker,
0.
Nevada?Hear" 6.
New Hampsh% ??Parker, 8.
New Jersey?Parker, 24.
New York?Parkar, 78.
North Carolina?Parker, 24.
North Dakota?Williams, 8.
Ohio?Parker 46.
When Ohio was reached a poll was ordered.
At that stage Parker had 473
vote, Hearst 145, Cockrell 41, Olney 37,
Gray 8.
Necessary to a choice to elect 667.
Oregon?Parker, 4; Hearst, 2; McClellan,
1; Coler, 1,
Pennsylvania?Parker, 68.
Rhode Island?Hearst, 6; Parker, 2,
South Carolina?Parker, 18.
South Dakota?Hearst, 8.
Tennessee?Parker, 24.
t Texas?Parker, 36.
Utah?Parker, 6.
Vermont?Parker, 8,
Virginia?Parker, 24.
Washington?Hearst, iO.
West Virginia?Parker, 10; Hearst, 2;
Gorman, 2.
Wisconsin?Wall, 2(5.
Wyoming?Hearst, 6.
Alaska?Parker, 6.
Arizona?Hearst, 6.
District of Columbia?Parker, 6,
Indian Territory?Parker, 5: Hearst, 1.
New Mexico?Hearst, 6.
Hawaii?Hearst, 6.
Oklahoma?Parker, 2; Hearst, 2; McClellan,
1; Olney, 1.
Puerto Rico?Parker, 2; Hearst, 4.
St. Louip, July 9.?The following
is the Democratic platform as adopted
by the national convention in St.
Louis yesterdaj:
The Democratic party of the
United States, in national convention
assembled, declares its devotion to
the essential principles of the Democratic
faith wLieh brings us together
in party communion.
Uoder tberu, local self-government
and national unity and prosperity
were alike established. They underlaid
our independence, the structure
of our free republic, and every Democratic
extension from Louisiana to
California, and Texas to Oregon,
which preserved faithfully in all the
States the tie between taxation and
representation. They yet inspire
the masses of our people, guarding
jealously their rights and liberties,
and cherishing their fraternity, peace
aDd orderly development. They remind
as of onr duties and responsibilities
as citizens and impress upon
us, particularly at this time, the necessity
of reform and the rescue of
administration of government from
the headstrong, arbitrary and spasmodic
methods which distract business
by uDcertainity and pervade the
public mind with dread, distrust and
perturbation.
FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES*
1. The application of these fundamental
principles to the living issues
of the day is tbe tiret step towara
the assured peace, safety and progress
of our nation. Freedom of the press,
of conscience and of speech, equality
before tbe law of all citizens; right j
of trial by jury; freedom of the person
defended by the writ of habeas
corpus; liberty of personal contract
untrammeled by eumptuiry laws;
supremacy of tbe civil over military
authority; a well deciplined railitia;
tbe separation of cburcb and State;
economy in expenditures; low taxes,
that labor may be lightly burdened;
prompt and sacred fulfillment of
public and private obligations; fidelity
to treaties: peace and friendship
with all nations; entangliog alliances
with Don*; absolute acquiescence in
tbe will of the majority, tbe vital
principle of republics; these are doctrines
wbich Democracy has established,
approved by the nation and
they should be constantly invoked
and enforced.
CAPITAL AND LABOR
We favor enactment and administration
of laws, giving labor and
capital impartially their just rights.
Capital and labor ought not to be
enemies Each is necessary to the
other. Each has its rights, but the
rights of labor are certainly no les3
"vested." no less "sacred1' and no less
"unalienable'' than the rights of
capital.
CONSTITUTIONAL GUARANTEES.
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Constitutional guarantees are violated
whenever any citizen is denied
the right to labor, acquire and eDj'oy
property or reside where interests or
inclination may determine. Any
denial thereof by individuals, organizations
of governments should be
eummarily rebuked and punished.
We deDy the right of any executive
to disregard or suspend any constitutional
privilege or limitation. Obedience
to the laws and respect for
their requirements are alike the
supreme duty of the citizen and the
official.
The military should be used only
to support and maintain the law.
We unqualifiedly condemn its employment
for the summary banishment
of citizens without trial at or
for the control of elections.
We approve the measure which
passed the United States senate in
1896, but which ? Republican congress
has ever since refused to enact,
relating to contempts in federal
courts, and providing for trial by
jury in cases of indirect contempt.
waterways.
We favor liberal appropriations for
the care and improvements of the
waterways of the country. When
waterwavs like the Mississippi river
is of sufficient importance to demand
special aid of the government, Buch
oVim-iM oTfenrtprt wirb a defi
Dite plan of confcinoue work until
permanent improvement is secured.
We oppose the Republican policy
of efcarving home development in
order to feed the greed for conquest
and the appetite for national "prestige,"
and display of strength.
ECONOMY OF ADMINISTRATION.
Large reductions can easily be
made in the annual expenditures of
the government without impairing
the efficiency of any branch of the
public service, and we shall insist
upon the strictest economy and frugality
compatible with vigorous and
efficient civil, military and naval administration
as a right of the people,
too clear to be denied or withheld.
We favor honesty in the public
service?the enforcement of honesty
in the public service and to that end
a thorough legislative investigation
of those executive departments of
the government already known to
them with corruption, afid the punishment
cf ascertained corruptionists
without fear or favor or regard to
persons. The persistent aDd deliberate
refusal of both the senate and
house of representatives to permit
such investigation to be made, demonstrates
that only by a change in
the executive and in the legislative
departments can complete exposure,
punishment and correction be obtained.
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS.
We condemn the action of the
Republican party in congress in refusing
to nrohibit an executive
o ? c
department from entering into contracts
witb convicted trusts on unlawful
combinations in restraint of
interstate trade. We believe that
one of the best methods of procuring
economy and honesty in the public
service is to have public officials,
from the occupant of the White
House down to the lowest of them,
returned as nearly as may be to
Jeffersonian simplicity of living.
EXECUTIVE USURPATION.
We favor the nomination and election
of a president imbued with the
principles of the constitution who
will set bis face sternly against executive
usurpation of legislative and
judicial functions, whether that
usurpation be veiled under the guise
of executive construction of existing
laws, or whether it take refuge in
the tyrant's pleas of necessity or
superior wisdom.
We favor the preservation, so far
as we caD, of an open door for the
world's commerce in the Orient, without
an unnecessary entanglement in
Oriental and European affairs, and
without arbitrary, unlimited, irresponsibe
and absolute government
anywhere within our juriediction.
We oppose, as fervently as did
George Washington himself, an indefinite,
irresponsible, discretionary
and vague absolutism and a policy of
coloniol exploitation, no matter
where and by whom invoked or exercised;
we believe with Thomas
Jtffersoc and John Adams, that no
government has a right to make one
set of laws for thoBe "at home" and
I another and a different set of laws,
| absolute in their character for those
1 "in the colonies." All men under
J the American flag are entitled to the
' protection of the institutions whose
j emblem, the flag is; if they are in|
herently unfit for those institutions,
then they are inherently unfit to be
members of the American body politic.
Wherever there may exist a
people incapable of being governed
under American laws, in consonance
with the American constitution of
that people ought not to be part of
the American domain.
We insist that we ought to do for
the Filipinos what we have done already
for the Cubans, and it is our
duty to make that promise now, and
upon suitable guarantees of protection
to citizens of our own and other
countries resident there at the time
of our withdrawal, set the Filipino
people upon their feet, free aud independent
to work out their own
destiny.
The endeavor of the secretary of
war, by pledging the government's
endorsement for "promoters'' in the
Philippine Islands to make the
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United stares a partner iu iue upeu- i
I ulative legislation of the archipelago, |
which was only temporarily held up
by the opposition of the Democratic
senators, in the last sessioD, will, if
successful, lead to entanglements
from which it will be difficult to escape.
The Democratic party has been,
and will continue to be, the consistent
opponent of that class of tariff
legislation by which certain interests
have been permitted, through congressional
favor, to draw a heavy
tribute from the American people.
This monstrous perversion of those
equal opportunities which our political
institutions were established to
secure, has caused what once may
have been infant industries to become
the greatest combinations of
capital that the world has ever
known. These especial favorites of
the government have, through trust
methods, been converted iDto monopolies,
thus bringing to an end domoai'xn
^nmnpHfcinn. which Was the
only alleged check upon the extravagant
profits made possible by the
protective system. Those industrial
combinations, by the financial assistance
they can give, now control the
policy of the Republican party.
We denounce protection a9 a robbery
of the many to enrich the few,
and we favor a tariff limited to the
needs of the government, economical'"7
administered and so levied as
not to discriminate against any industry,
class or section, and to the
end that the burdens of taxation sh?!l
b9 distributed as squally aa possible.
We favor a revision and a gradual
reduction of the tariff by the friends
of its abuses, its extortions and its
discriminations, keeping in view the
ultimate ends of "equality of bur
dens and equality of opportunities"
and the constitutional purpose of
raising a revenue of taxation, to wit:
the support of the federal government
id all its integrity and virility,
but in simplicity.
TRUSTS AND UNLAWFUL COMBINATIONS
We recognize that the, gigantic
trusts and combinations designed to I
enable capital to secure more than
its just share in the joint products
of capital and labor, and which have
been fostered and promoted under
Republican rule, are a menace to
beneficial competition and au obstacle
to permanent business prosperity.
A private monopoly is indefensible
and intolerable.
Individual equality of opportunity
and free competition are essental to
a healthy and commercial prosperity
and any trust, combination or monopoly
tending to destroy these by
controlling production, restricting
competiton or fixing price?, should
be prohibited and punished by law.
We especially denounce rebates and
discrimination by transportation
companies as the most potent agency
in promoting and strengthening
these unlawful conspiracies against
trade.
We demand an enlargement of the
powers of the interstate commerce
commission, to the end that the
traveling public and shippers of this
country may have prompt and adequate
relief from the abuses to
which tbey are subjected in the
matter of transportation. We demand
a strict enforcement of existing
civil and criminal statutes against all
such trusts, combinations and monopolies?
and we demand the enactment
of such further legislation as may be
necessary to effectually suppress
them.
Any trust or unlawful combination
engaged in interstate commerce
which is monopolizing any branch of
business or production, should not be
permitted to transact business outside
of the State of its origin. Whenever
it shall be established in any
court of competent jurisdiction that
such monopolization exists, such prohibition
should be enforced through
comprehensive laws to be enacted on
the Bubject.
RECLAMATION OF ARID LANDS.
We congratulate our western citizens
upon the passing of the ln\v
known a6 the Newlands irrigation act
for the irrigation and reclamation of
the arid lands of the west; a measure
framed by a Democrat, passed in the
senate by a non partisan vote and
? -3 llm /-. i-< o n Q/Trciinof. tl>? r
pUHSbU 1 Li I UC Li'.iUO r; ap; hili uu ? uw vf r
position of almost all of the Republican
leaders by a vote the majority I
of which was Democratic.
We call attention to this gieat
Democratic measure, broad and comprehensive
as it i?, working automatically
throughout all time without
further action of congress, until the
reclamation is accomplished, reserving
the lands reclaimed for homeseekers
in small tracts and rigidly
Continued next issue on page 6.
HOSPITAL SECRETS. '
^ Nurse Says: ''Pe-ru-na is a
Tonic of Efficiency."
| MRS. KAT? TAYLOR. |
? /Krs. Kate Taylor, a graduated j
> nurse of prominence, gives her ex- $
> pericnco w ith Peruna in an open (
) letter. Her position in society and ?
s professional standing combine to ?
IIIC'ALO, ILL., -H7 Monroe Street.?
' "As f ir as I have observed, Peruna
e.o li-iojt t?nin anv man or woman I
can use "\\bo is weak from the after
effects of any serious illness.
"Perur.'a seems to restore vitality,
increase bodily vigor and renew heal tit
and strength in a wonderfully short
time."?MRS. KATE TAYLOR.
.' d dress The Persia Medicine Co.,
'? :!u! us. (>liio, if you desire free liters/
cr>: ,*rrh.
Barbecue.
I WILL GIVE A FIRST CLASS BARbecue,
with refreshments, at Cbaoin, on
July 3Uth. Candidatts and evenbodr invited.
P. M. FB1CK
July 6. 1901. 4w38.
CAPITAL,
POUR PER EE XT.
per f nnuio, payable quarterly on Savings De]
^ COUNTY AND TOWN DEPOS
Barbecue.
AN SATURDAY. JULY 30. 1004. I
U" will Inrnish a barht-cue and relresh- |
meats about two and half miles sonth of !
Lewedale, known as the Miins' old plsce !
Candidates and everybody are invited.
Music will be lurnished bv a brass band.
The 'cue ui;l be cooked bv Mr. T.^wie
Hallman. N. S. CROUT.
July Jl. 1001-38.
Barbecue.
WE WILL GIVE A FIRST CLASS
barbecne atid refreshments at Brit
Hotto's Mill on Tuesday. Angnst 9th,
Campaign Day. All the candidates will be
present and the public generally is invited
to come out and hear the speeches.
W. E BAUGHMAN,
J. G. M. SOX
July 13. 1901 39.
Barbecue.
WE WILL FURNISH A FIRST CLASS
barbecue, with refreshments, at
Steadman Campaign Day, July 27, 1904.
Music and dancing for tbe yoang people;
speaking and a good dinner for candidates
and old folks.
We had arranged lor our barbecue before
C. P. Mitchell ana H J. Burgess
changed theirs on tha 27th of Julv.
W. L. QUATTLEBAUM,
. F. W, QUATTLEBAUM.
E. R. SHULL.
July 4th, 1904. 3w37.
Barbecue.
T WILL FURNISH A FIRST CLASS
JL barbecue, with refreshments, at Gaston,
on August oth, Campaign Day. All
the candidates will be present and every
LMKIV IS J.I1\ lieu in euwie imi uun ?n <u
them speak. 0. S. GOODWIN.
I June 25 >. fiw35J.
Barbecue.
in: WILL FURNISH A FIRST
j class barbecue at our barbecue
grounds at Hilton, S. 0.. on Saturday,
July 2Jrd. 15J04. We will use our best
efforts to make the day a pleasant one
for all who attend. Everybody invited.
J. J. HALTiWANGER.
D. E. A MICK.
June !-'r. !!>'.>-{. ('two?.
Barbecue.
WE WILT. FURNISH A FIRST
?V class barliecue and refreshments at
Steadman on the 2?th day of July.
Every body is invited to come and enjoy
a good dinner. Speaking and dancing.
All candidates osjx'ciallv invited.
0. P.' MITCHELL.
H. J. BURGESS.
June HI. 1904. ihv37.
; FOR SALE. !
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I 105 Acre Farm in |
t Lexington county, %
S 2 miles south of %
J Gaston for $400. %
jg. ijj
* The Bookman Mill Property, *
J in the Fork section of Ltxing- *
* ton County, containing 320 ??
* acres, with fine ^ster power ^
* anH good mill for SO per ? c*e. *
? 22o Acre Farm, clay land, ?
J with dwelling and out buildings, J:
J 8 milep north of Batesburg, S. *
* C , for SI800 S
4o2& acres of hce clay land, *
& in a high stata of cultivation, a
% no waste land, ^ith dwelling,
J tenant houses, barnp, etc, 3-? j*
miles north of Abbeville, S. (J. &
J renting for 8000 pounds mid- *
* dime' lint cottou per year, for *
% $7500 |
! CHAS L. KELLY, |
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I REAL ESTATE AGENT, |
8 COLUMBIA, - - S. C. I
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I % April 50?ly.
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mruecue.
TTJ"E WILL GIVE A BARBECUE
VV near Rbbtou, at Shninpert's old
store, on July, (iH) nineteenth. Speaking
by ibe candidates and dancing by the
young folks. Abo tine brass and string J
bands. We guarantee a good time and a
fine dinner.
J OF. F. H.4RMAN.
L. L. GANTT.
July 13?36
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Barbecue.
MESSRS. P. AND S. M SMITH WILL
give one of the best 'cues of the sea- j
son at T. C. Smith's on August 13 All
the candidates who expect to be elected
will be present A good dinner and a
good time is promised all.
July 13?3!).
Barbecue.
WE WILL FURNISH OUR ANNUAL
barbecue at Edmund, C. on August;
11 1901, campaign day at that place.
Everybody come and hear the candidates
speak and get a good dinner.
FEEDER BROS.
Edmund, June 14, 190t. 9w40.
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posits. ) per annum, payable quarterly ou Che
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j Ga/.'i on onr new Furniture. handsome Suite
I Solas. Stoves, Wardrobes., Couches Iron ht
1 on and straw.) Dinning ("hairs, Extra Oak B
| tables. Hall Backs. Go Carts of all kiuds. I
your house lrom kitctieu to garret tor cash.
W. H. S
1114 PLAIN ST REE
Opposite Greaor
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I Barbecue. I
T WILL FURNISH A FIRST CLASS
i. barbecue with refreshments at Lees
ville, S. C., on Friday, July loth, in in
terest of the Second Annual meeting of I
the Confederate Veterans' Reunion. A
cordial invitation is extended to one and.
all to come and spend a pleasant day
with us. J. C. SWYGERT.
June 22. 4w36.
; Barbecue. j
I WE WILL FURNISH A FIRST {
> V class barbecue and refreshments on
Saturday, July 1(5, 15>04, at the residence
of John A. Shealy, near Boiling Springs,
The public is invited: candidates are expected;
music will be furnished by rhe
Lewiedale Brass Band. Dinner at a
reasonable price.
SHEALYS & BOOZERS. *
June 22 1904. 4w36 pd.
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T WILL FURNISH A FIRST CLASS
JL barbecue and refreshments at Boyleston.
(White church) campaign day,
Saturday, July 23. A pleasant time if*
promised to ail who attend.
WM. R. ARNOLD.
June 21, 1904. 5w37pd.
Barbecue.
AN AUGUST 0, 1904, THE BROOK
V/ land Baptist church will furnish a
first class barbecue, at New Brookland,
i S. C. The proceeds to go for the erec
I tion of the parsonage. The Ladies'
I Aid Society will furnish refreshments.
[ The public is cordially invited.
I June 22, 1904. 7w39.
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BARBECUE.
ON THURSDAY, AUGUST TWENTYfilth,
campaign day at Priceville, W8
i will serve a first class barbpeue at the resiI
denee ol G.F. Keider. All the candidates
I will be present and ever'body is invited,
i JOHN PRICE.
JAMES JUMPER.
Jnne 22. 1904 10w42.
Barbecue.
WE WILL FURNISH A BARBEW
cue and refreshments at the George
Long Old Mill on the 22nd day of July,
1904. The cue will be cooked by Mr.
Lewie Hallman. Everybody is cordially
invited to be present. There will be
music and amusements for the young
folk and speaking for the public, so come.
H. D. SMITH & SONS.
June 23, 1904. 4w37 pd. *
Barbecue.
T WILL FURNISH A FIRST CLASS
1 barbecue at Swansea, on Campaign
Day, August 4th. Come one, come all
and enjoy a first class dinner and hear
the various speakers, J. B. COATS.
Swansea, S. C,, June 24. 5w38.
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$30,000.00.
PER E^T,
:cking deposits on mimimum amount of $200
IS ATTENTION GUARANTEED.-*?
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HUB, & ||
lOTHINfi I
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FURNISHING GOODS. pj
WHITE GOODS. |j
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is. Lounges. Sideboards. Extension Tables*
*ds. iteed Lockers Trunfce, Mnttre*ses (coteds,
Wasbstan<ts, Centre Table5, Kitchen
Jousehold goods all new. We will furnish
31/ yy juJuJLi,
T, COL UMBIA, S. C.
y lihea Male Co.
JOB PRINTING CONE
in order.
I) Printing Office.
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