University of South Carolina Libraries
? jt Ifceprasjcmtatitrn Baujspaper. Exxtrara Enxinptan and the gardars of the Surrounding Sountias Lihe a ?lanfcei, Ite. VQL xxxVI. ~ " LEXINGTON, S. C., "WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1908. 23 .;. - . *W\ 2-Z. MOlTC^TOlxf, JB., ^^.IT^G-EK, 'flL, fe mw> leao main ssrri?.kk:'r, - columbia, ts. o, Solicits a Share of Your Valued Patronage. Polite and Prompt Attention. -.V . . . '. < October istf | The President Bested. Senators Bailey md Tillman have been serving "Hot Mollies" in the railroad rate bill. Mr. Bailey accused the president of variability and said that instead of being a man of iron he is a man of clay, aDd veiy common nlav at that." Here is his closing ' remarks: I "Mr. President, I lore a brave man. I love a fighter and tbq president of the Uoited States is both on ocoaeioD, bat he can give np with as much alacrity as any man who ever went to i battle either civio or political. He " fights furioasly when it is a physical contest. I grant you, because that is a question of courage as well as endurance, but he seems to have no k endurance in these political contests here. Why, he was going to revise the tariff and bis friends called him off and then that great voice that was filling the nation with a demand for tariff revision suddenly sank into the gentleness and weakness of a whisper. "Then he was going to have the railroads regulated and it was announced that congress would be con, vened iu extraordinary session to deal with it, but the great leaders assembled with the president, prayed with him a little while, and no (fell was issued for ao extraordinary session of congress. He waited until the regular session and five months of that has elapsed and still no legislating And when we do fet a bill. I God save the country from such a bill as it will be. "If the president had been this heroic figure which the Benator from > Montana would have us believe he 2 was, you know what he would have done. He would have summoned these Republican leaders to a conference, from the house and from the senate and he would have said to them: 'Gentlemen, I am not talking ? a f (Via 19 yOU UUW Its iiUO picgiuuuu wi ?uv i Uoited States. I am talking to yon / as Theodore Roosevelt, the Republican. I am talking to you as a Republican. I want to tell you that I have learned that unless you pass a P good bill the president of the United States intends to veto it-,' and they would have passed a bill fulfilling in some degree the laudable expecta^ tions of this people. If congress had { failed to do it and he had vetoed the bill they passed and then convened them in an extraordinary session to ? ? 1] i _ n k pass a gooa one, ce woutu uavo writ- j WL ten his name by the side with the |W names af Jefferson and Jackson and Lincoln and others among his illustrious predecessors. "Bat, Mr. President, let us have ^ no more talk in the 6enate aod talk } in the country about this iron man. He is clay, and very common clay at that." , Senator Tillman. Senator Tillman came forth with documentary evidence, making his f first manuscript speech in the senate, which affords the biggest sensation of tbe present congress. He first \ startled all ears og tbe floor and in 1 Cm.mnn mw A T* W A T)T5'Q ? fe~J&?i?i? MbJU AA ***** M. I WONDER RIBBON SALE. F Big lot of Fancy Ribbons of all the spring novelties in floral designs, stripes and Persian effects, rose designs and rosebnd patterns, helitrope shades, pinks, greens and all the combinations in keep?ing with the season's latest fads are of- ! fered in this immense collection of love- ! ly ribbons. Special prices 10c., 25c., 39c. j and 89c. SILKS \ If Ifs Silks, and It's Stylish, TAPP has It. We are showing a full line of -Lonisme * Silk in Queen's Greys. Pure Silk Crepe / de Chine in white, cream, black and a good run of colors. Fancy Taffetas and Louisine Silks, all colors. Pure Silk ^ Peau de Cygnes in white, black and all colors. Chiffon Taffetas in white and colors. Black Silks, all prices. the senate by announcing tbat for more than a month he baa been io frequent indirect communication with the president through a mutual friend, ez-Senator Chandler, aDd Attorney General Moody. He then read a history t>f certain secret transactions, giving names, places and dates, all of which convict the president of double-dealing and of a complete change of front on the rate bill. t u:? l_ rr?:ii ?.,U jlg was wrmeu uy jluhjjbu biju buu* i mitted to Chandler, who approved it. I It is expected to call forth a statement from the president. Already, through Senator Lodge, the White Honee apologist in the senate, the president ht? characterized one of the statements imputed to Mr. Ohandler c" a deliberate falsehood. Ex Senator William E. Chandler of New Hampshire has been long known as a close friend of Mr. Roosevelt* Mr. Chandler's hobby of late has been the railroad rate legislation -* ??1? kn ftia h 0 Bbruugljr utgcu yjj vuc picoiuvux **?? is one of those who has stubbornly stood oat for court review only upon the two questions of whether or not the interstate commerce commission has exceeded its authority and whether or not it has infringed upon rights guaranteed by the constitution; in other words, the restricted court review. This the president has advocated, and this Senators Tillman and Bailey and the Democrats generally have advocated. Chandler is a close friend of Tillman. Nearly every night he can be found at the hotel of Senator Tillman. In the evening of late the two have been taking long walks together. Roosevelt could not communicate directly with Tillman, so Chandler has been the go-between. Mr. Chandler will say nothing for publication, but if the president persists in a denial of even a small portion of the statement, it is expected he will have / enmothino inforaatincr fn rav an llA BtfU.VlfW.Ug ?, ?? 1 and Tillman are indisputably together in the matter. In the present ease it is evident there is a lie out somewhere. What Senator Chandler Says. "At the time and place appointed the president said to me that he wished through me to get into communication with Mr. Tillman, Mr B*iley and other Democratic senators. He stated his purpose slowly and carefully and in exact substance bis statement was this; that he had reached the conclusion that'the beet plan for railroad rate legislation was to expressly grant a court review but to distinctly limit it to two points; c.?L ? : : u?i.u:?( ! urci, au inquiry wuetuci 1110 iuieistate commerce commission had ex* ceeded its authority, and, second, an icq liry whether the constitutional rights cf the carrier had been violated. He said that he had been much * troubled by the advocacy of an unlimited court review by some of the lawvers of the senate?naming SeDa ?r o " tors Kuox, SpooDer and Foiaker as trying to it j are or defeat the bill by i; : LZ L- I ingenious consul uuouni ar^uoieuic, ; WASH GOODS. ! Fancy Lawns, all colors and designs, i fast colors. Big line of fine Lawn and Batiste, fast colors, nice, new designs. j CURTAIN SWISS. We have a large stock in all designs, white with colored stripe, white with white dots, stripes, etc. WHITE LAWN. White Victoria Lawn, wears and washes better than any other. Cotton Mercerized Voile in all colors, wears well and is good style, Beantifnl White Nainsook, plain with Embroderedclover leaf, others with dainty stripe with dots. Mercerized White Madras in all designs, a very liandsome fabric for Suits and Waists, b J5 that he had come to a complete disagreement with them. He made thia point emphatic by repetition; said that he would go thus far and no further and this decision would be unalterable. He said that he wiebed to ascertain whether there could be united action in the senate among the friends of the bill so that it could be surely passed without injurious amendments and he named various Republican senators whom he thought were the friends of the bill, but said that it would take nearly all of the Democrats to carry the limitation and defeat all obnoxious provisions. "After the president had made his statement I replied that I had reason to believe that most of the Democrats in the senate would sustain his limitation of the courts' powers but that I was sure that Mr. Bailey and Mr. Tillman would insist upon coupling with the limitation some restriction upon the power of the courts to issue injunctions against the orders of the commission. Before I had finished mv statement on this point the presi V m. ? dent interrupted me, Baying that I need not explain further because he was warmly in favor of some such restriction. ' "That evening I saw Mr. Tillman and told him what bad occurred." "Mr. Chandler baa been urged by some of bis friends to make public a statement over bis own signature regarding tbe denial of tbe accuracy of tbe president's remarks in reference to Senators Spooner, Knox and Foraker. He declined, however, to be further brought into tbe controversy at this time, saying be would let the Mvaoenf vacf nn fhfl UittlllCl XUI tuc ^ICOCUV i cow VU vuv statement made public by Mr. Tillman. It was with Mr. Cnandler's consent that the portion of his written statement to Mr. Tillman of bis conferences with the president, was made public." T3ie President's Statement. Washington, May 34?The sensational rate bill incident in the senate Saturday, during which Mr. Tillman, on the authority of Former Senator Chandler, made statements regarding the president's course in connection with pending railroad rate legislation, one of which statements was denied by Mr. Lodge on behalf of the president, had its sequel this evening, when an official statement was issued from the White House, giving an account of the subject on the part of the president aDd Attorney General Moody. The statement comprised two letters, one from the president to Senator AllieoD, aod the other from Attorney General Moody to the president, both dated today. The president says: 4Tq no case, either in the case of Mr. Chandler or any one else, was there the slightest opportunity fur aDy honest misconception of my attitude or any belief that I pledged myself specifically to one and ODly one amendment or set of amendments or that I would not be satisfied with any amendment which preserved tfae essential features "TApp,g q-beaTEBi We offer the greatest collection of Spi UnwinVvralfc T1 nrrunCict- 1 nf i tiVtU" MJU-Ll 1IC1COWUV.-7. Wash Goods and other Dress materials a Ribbons and Embroideries and the little and shirtwaists. And Millinery of the with new goods. YOUR SU1 No matter what the style, what the s< becomes you. With the immense variet ? *- -h ''An l>oro tA Kti T'ArV Aora CJUJimi' SUa|A:n, >LAIA uu'v/ I" ?AV/ ' Vi. w?^v.... you wish. We are showing some of the wonderfully neat creations of spring's la the fancier Dress Hats are charming. S blues, cactus and the Bordeaux shades, U tions. Ostrich plumes, ribbons and flow under the quaint shapes. Prices most ru The JAMES ! COLUMBIA, S. C? 1642, 164 of tbe Hepburn bill &s it came froc the houfe:" The president says thai as to many cf the amendments, in eluding, the so-called Long, Overman Bacon and Spooner ameudmentp, hi said he should be entirely satisfied tc have them in the bill and suggested modifications as to other amend meets, but that "as to none (of the amendments) did I ever say either tc Mr. Chandler or to any one else that I should insist upon having them in the bill as a condition of my approv al." And that on the contrary he (the president) was careful to state that he was not tryiDg to dictate aDy particular programme of action. r ? o The presideDfc says the statements made to Senator Chandler were the same in substance as those made tc Mr. Allison and other senators ol both parties. He said he was asked to see Senator Chandler as the representative of Mr. Tillman, in charge of the bill, and that the conferences Attorney General Moody had with Senators Tillman and Bailey were such as had been held with many other senators to determine the phraseology and discuss the effect oi amendments proposed by them. The president states tdat ne oecame convinced that it was impossible foi senators "with advantage" to use him as an intermediary and suggested to all to whom he spoke that the; communicate with Senator Allison, whose purposes and the president's were "identical." The president says that his owe opinion that the Allison amendmenl in no way changed the court review aa r?rr?vtflod in Ihn nrioinal Henburr bill is also the opinion of Attorney General Moody and Secretaries Rooi and Taft. The attorney general's letter gives an account, at tbe president's re quest, of the conference which Mr Moody had by the president's direc tion with Senator Tillman and Baile] regarding the court review feature He says he advised the president tha he should not at any stage becom< finally committed beyond recail t< any form of language in any part o the biil and the president sffirmec the wisdom of that course. He re views the discussion of interiocutor injunctions and concludes that then was nothing in the "conversations I between the senators and himsel I rohinh hnnnd the president to an^ particular amendment." The president does not refer to tbi statement made by Senator Chandler which he pronounced over the tele phone false. He tries to make it ap pear that Senators Tillman and Bailey sought conference with him insteac of bis seekiffc it with them. Senator Caandler published tbii morning the Utter he received fron Mr. Loeb inviting bim to the firs conference. It is also well knowi that four or five other Democratic senators had been called into confer ence with tbe president previously They alt remember what he said too It has been expected if the presiden persisted in his denial of SeDatoi DEPARTMENT STORET ing and wearables and stylish material: of Silks ever shipped South. And prett] re hern in variety and at prices numatched dress helps. Tailored Suits, special Skirt: higher order. Every department is lillec Smer hat. jason, yon only want the Hat that bes' y afforded this season m many colors, anc ill or you won't get quiet the pleasing effec handsomest Hats ever seen here. Simplj test style demands. Some of the effects it ucli lovely color combinations in the new o say nothing of black and white combina ers unmentionable. Roses that just lit ir oderate. r rr a td"d nn JJ, JL JLXX X VV., 14 and 1646 MAIN STEEET i Chandler's statement, tbat be (the ! t president) had charged Senators | - Kqox, Spooner and Foraker with j , trjing to defeat or weaken the rate 3 bill by "ingenious arguments,'1 that ) other senators would rise up in the I senate and give some testimony. Mr. Chandler's Statement. 5 Former Senator Chandler tonight > refused to discuss tbe statement from 1 tbe White House. Regard'Dg his 1 visits to the White House, Mr. Chandler said that he did not go to the j White House as an emissary of Mr ' TillmaD, but tbat he went there in response to the president's invitation. Io is very evident ibftt the presi 1 dent is in a fix somewhat like Ai1 torney General Moody confessed to, 1 that is, flabbergasted. The Delineator for June. The June Delineator is a most at1 tractive number, containing the usual 1 array of of the latest styles, with the interesting fashion chronicles of 1 Helen Berkely-Loyd and EJouard JLa ij'ontaine, and literary iearures 01 | the greatest excellence. For children, there are "Stories and Past1 times." Published by the Butterick , Publishing Ct , Butterick Building, i New York, $1 per annum. THE GUARAA I i 1 The Clothes we sell are the ki 1 that fit, wear and retain th shape and we sell them at reas< j able prices. Our customers app t ciatethis; that's why we do an creasing BUSINESS each seasoi 3 We want and will appreci your business in the follow! lines: r MEN, BOYS' AND CHILDBE] CLOTHING, SHOES AND HA' 3 BOYS' KNEE PANTS. ME] ^ EXTRA PANTS, OVERAL f SHIRTS, UNDERWEAR, NE< . WEAR, HOSIERY and all seas 1 1 Tl f a Die X urmsmngs. 9 i) f OUR SPECIALITY: f ; HADE 10 I0EASI P 500 Samples ol J! Woolens to sell B | can not fail ti 11 and fit is G-uars :! F fi RRFHFR _ ; JLil Ul MJ llliiiuu a | CLOTHIERS-FURNIS 1 i r Lexington, ? NOTIONS. Elegant showing of best quality of Corsets. Splendid assortment of fine j plain Line Handkerchiefs. Fine Pearl Buttons, suitable for dresses, waists and j shirts. Fancy colored novelty buttons j for trimming purposes. Nice quality j Side and Back Combs in shell and amber. Heavy fine quality. Prices, 25c. and 50c. I SPRING SHIRTWAISTS. t Special lot of Silk Wash Shirtwaists. T Black Taffeta Shirtwaist Suits, we offer j t a special number, some very rich black ; r Taffeta Shirtwaist Suits. Silk Petticoats, j New Spring Silk Skirts. MEN'S FURNISHINGS. Men's brown balbriggan Undershirts j and Drawers in all sizes, short sleeves. Wear and wash better than all others. Men's full-size regular made seamless , Half Hose, in black and tan, all sizes. Dots from Salem. To the Editor of the Dispatch: Farmers an-4 nV>ufc done planting corn and cott.oi, bet th^re is little cotton thinned as vet. We bad some /? _ t _ . i - .1 it - ? ? uD8 rains itisc ween ana email gram is looking fine There will be plenty of peaches in this section, but. few applt-s. The farmers 6^11 b?ve a few bales of cotton for 12 cent. Let's hear from you buyers. Mr. Julius Btllentine is doing % good merchandising business at Bal- , lentine. Mr. John Bouknight is our shingle ujiii uiou. Rev. Pooser will preach at Salem the second Sonday in each month at 10*30 o'clock. Miss Janie Metz is our organist. Chris Seaoer has moved in his new dwelling near B-dlentiue. Best wishes to the Dispatch and its readers I am, M. Barbecue. ON SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1906, I will furnish a first class barbecue with refreshments at my residence about two and one-half miles south of Gilbert, S. (J. UiveryDoay is mvitea iu cuma and enjoy the day. 6w33 N. S. CROUT. ITEED KIND. JRE GARMENTS." .p the Choicest set from. We o please you tnteed. iHERS-HATTERS, - - - - S. C. "MEBT KS AT TAPP'S " LADIES' riJILNISHINGS. New and attractive Nock wear. Fancy Lace and Embrcdery trimmed CliimesHtes, with and without cuffs. Ladies' pretty Lace and Kmiroidery Turnover Collars. Pink and blue Silk Neck Scarfs, Fine assortment of Rucking for neck and sleeves, white, pink, blue, red and black. Ladies* medium weight Lisle Thread Hose, spliced heel and soles. Nice assortment of fine Lace and Dropstitch. Kosc. Children's fine Ribbed Black Hose. Best quality Lisle Thread Gloves, black and wnite, nice pearl clasp. Ladies' fine Lisle Swiss ribbed Vests. Ladies' Jersey ribbed Gauze Vests. Ladies' fine ribbed Silk Vests, cream white and pink. Sivcinl values in fine VaL. Round-Thread and Torchon Laces and Insertion. We have never had such a wonderful collection of Laces before. Ladies' fine Gauze Lisle Hose, very light and pretty.