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r "7 " ' I THE LEXINGTON DISPATCH. B-. * 'A' Bepresentatitre newspaper. Supers Lexington agd the Borders of the Surrounding Bounties Like a Blanket. P : VOL. XXXVL LEXINGTON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 1906. 34 [ *, GLOBE DRY GOODS COMPART, . W Ijf TX7". 231. MOHSTCZECIOItT, TE., ^E^-^T-A-O-Eie, tIL L fflL ?'^K' lasdO MAIN STREET, C OLUMIHA, 8. C. ^ M Solicits a Share of Your Valued Patronage. Polite and Prompt Attention. ' *|?tfe October wtf fit*- ' ' ? ???^_???????^?? ???i^???????i???? L - i' . I THE STATE CAMPAIGN k "gMBUBfnn | Candidates Declare Positions on Various Issues, Mighty Little ^ Ginger. Meeting Quiet. L * ' * FOR LOCAL OPTION. " Mr.-A. C. Jones, of Newberry, who "... has been a leader in the many fights against the dispensary and took the ciijimn in Tfpwhpmr mnnfnr last, sum > ' mer against Senator Blease and help ed in driving the dispensary out o? . that county, followed Mr. Edwards. Mr. Jones' speech hatf grit, and back.* bone in every line. He does not pro% / s: fess to be an orator, but he speaks forcefully and gives voice to his powerful convictions. He will be out of 0' : the campaign for several days cn account of illness at home.: ?' Mr. Jones stated that he is in favor r of education and of pushing the educational institutions so that this State shall in that respect be the proudest v- of them all. > After a few other generalizations, he got down to the liquor '-question. Three years ago he had !>-< written to the press a denunciation of * * the methods of the dispensary fastenf ing dispensaries on people who wanted ^: ; to be rid _o? them and partially as a ,5r result of his letter the Brice law was ? enacted. He endorses every letter of that get. The people should have the right to vote on that question. He has never voted for whiskey in any fortn, but this is a practical age and the iniquitous sale must be cut off littie by little, it can not all be done away with at one stroke. He denied Senator Blease's state- | ment with reference to Newberry since the dispepsary had been run out S of that county. Mr. Jones said that he has lived there twenty years and it is now the ipost orderly town that it has ever^been, and his observation, , - is that there is less liquor sold there .. now than there has ever been. The 1 trouble is in the effort to break up blind tigers some lawyers will come I along and take the case to the circuit eourt. That is the trouble?too much lawyers. While the investigating committee haA not at all times followed some of his suggestions he wanted to endorse every act they have done. He knows that they have worked hard, Messrs. t ( Christensen and Lyon, and their lives have been threatened, but they have accomplished a great deal. Mr. Jones jp, . said that his own life had been threatened at times, but he would continue i\ . to fight the dispensary until it would f some day go. , TO REFORM DISPENSASY.. Senator R. I. Manning, of Sumpfcer, who vrna next introduced, stated his . record for the last fourteen years as a legislator from Sumter county, and 1 for eight years of that time as senatorHe may have made mistakes, these he frankly admits, for all are human, but he had always tried to apply the rule right to every action. The educational institutions are growing and the fight against them is largely ar thing of the past. The institutions have grown and of course the appropriations have grown in order to provide necessary accommodations. He described the growth of pension appropriations from $50,000 to $225,000. The unequal assessment of property he declared to be a burning issue which he had not the time to discuss. There should be a strict business system in the conduct of the government fM???1^??? "JCEST 2CE AT TAPP'S." THE HI IS STILL OX . * * J, . - X / _ n_ru^J^ ? V ' This "Mill-End" business is and barrels. Every Departmei were popular and made Famous day will be the biggest, the mos ' The ?J v.. * ,1 , just as there is in business affairs. * It pains him to see the liquor problem made the paramount issue. He. does not stand as the champion of whiskey, but as one who is deeply interested in the habits and morals of the people. He is not an advocate of the State dispensary as it has been. The conscience of the people will hot tolerate even a suspicion of wrong doing in the governmental departmfl-nfo - TViQ rviATvlo Koliovo fViat, if. 1X1VU UO? XUV ^/W^/AV MVilV ? v V44V.V ?w has not been managed throughout its career as it should have been. That institution must be purged of the odium which attaches to it, if thfese things be true, or the whole thing will go. He does not believe it is an impossible thing to purge the institution but the committee bill, known as the Raysor-Manning bill, would afford the remedy. He does not believe in local optiop. He believes that it is a fundamental principle with all good men to favor the removal of graft, and he pledged his best efforts on this line. Mr. Manning's manly presence and straightforward talk made a marked impression on the thinking men present. mr. m'mahan. The address by Mr. John J. McMahkn was a classic. In statesman-like though it has-been unsurpassed by any expression on the political stump in this State in years. It can not be re prouuceu even IU p<tiu, as tut; uueuic would be marred in a condensed report. He inveighed against the ten- 1 dency of people to disregard or to give too little regard to their rights and duties as citizens. It is in periods of prosperity that the greatest dangers to governments creep in. People are then intent upon other things than the public weal., It is with shame that in these days 1 of prosperity we note the corruption, not in the dispensary alone, but in county affairs as well. It is the duty : of the people to be vigilant. We should be ashamed of conditions which wnnlH hn.vft intolprahlfi pvpti irn der a radical administration. ? The standard of integrity, of truth and of worth should be the same in public .affairs as in private life and yet too often is the excuse for a crime that it happened in politics. He stands in this campaign for the same educational reforms for which he fought in his four year's service as State superintendent of education. He advocates an experimental school farm in every county. As to the dispensary, he says that ?e sees no reason in the world for the use of liquor. But he sees no chance at present for actual prohibition until we can eliminate from coming generations the tastes of their elders. In concluding he said emphatically that if grafting has been going on he wants to see the rascals in stripes and behind the bars. LIEUT. GOV. SLOAN. CoL John T.' Sloan was the last speaker before recess. He regrets that the chief issue is whiskey. Col. Sloan gave a bfrief history of his life. He carried the Piedmount country for lieutenant governcor, as he did Dorchester and he would do the same in his race for governor. In 1874 he was a member of the house from Richland and in 1876 he was with Hampton and as a recognition of his sendees Gov. Hampton made him a lieutenant colonel on his staff. He was a member of the constitutional convention. He sen/ed two terms in the State senate. He had fought for Clemson and Winthrop in the days when they were created. He had stayed on a com GREATEST f AT TAPP'S l blessed for many reasons. We h it will have its full share of nev i for the Bargains given our Cust it complete and best of them all. AMSS ] v ' * / 1/ mittee of free conference one whole day rather than see a reduction* in the appropriation for State colleges so reduced that they would be crippled. It is the custom in the eastern States and in the northwestern States to promote the lieutenant governor to a higher position. He thinks he is entitled to this, from the people of South Carolina for there has been no appeal ! from the thousands of decisions in the chair which he had made. He congratulated South Carolina on his record as lieutenant governor. He proved his interest in education by telling of his having given twenty acres of land valued at $2,000 to the Columbia college. He stated his belief that the dispensary is the best solution of the liquor question. He does not know whether or not these reports as to grafting are true, but he wants to see the dispensary purified. The dispensary has been abused unjustly, he said, and recited instances to show that he got 4 'spiked" soda water in Maine and Kansas. There are 15,000 boys in South Carolina who have never been in a bar room, he said, and the dispensary is better for them than prohibition with 1,000 blind tigers rampant. MR. FRASER LYON. There had been little enthusiasm rhanifested in the course of, the speeches, but Mr. J. Fraser Lyon warmed the crowd up a bit. "Fellow Citizens: None of my opponents are here today and I shall not therefore undertake to go into details. But from the very outset I want the people of South Carolina to know that I am no straddler. ' I am unalterably opposed to the- State dispensary. I am a sworn enemy of graft. "If you could have gone to the various States that I have visited and where I have had to say 'I am from South Carolina and am investigating j the dispensary,' youyvould have heard them reply, 'Ugh! That rotten thing!' We should hang our heads in shape until we are rid of this rotten thing. I tell you the State dispensary is like a monster serpent that has wound its coils about the State of South Carolina and is crushing out its life. "Our friends that you have heard speak here today say we should tame II _ A. IT _ A. J lA.^ 1 &nis serpent,. juet us araw its iangs,' they say. 'Let us loosen its coils.' They may draw its fangs and they may loosen its coils, but the nature of the serpent will remain there still and the fangs will grow again and the coils will tighten and again you will be in a death struggle. I point you, fellow citizens, to the head of this serpent and I bid you strike it off. "They ask you what you will have instead. I could point you to a number of county dispensaries in the State of Georgia, where they are down close to the people and where they make more money, and have more sobriety than we have. t tT f Lrv TTTAY?lriT>A?0 A ? fL A 1C 1 WciijUiicu. Liic nuixiiiigo L-iic; j pensary in Abbeville and it suited me, and it suits me yet, but I see too plainly the graft in the State institution. I heard one of the candidates for governor this morning say, Let us put the stripes on the grafters and j those who are disgracing this fair j State.' All I ask of you is that now j that I have finished this work of in- ! vestigation you elect me attorney ! general and give me the pleasure of ' putting on the stripes." MR. RAGSDALE'S STATEMENT. Mr. Ragsdale, candidate for attor- 1 TAPP'S SHEATEP, ] SELLING 1ND THE PEO Lave been preparing for this glo - c fprtm a h f ^UUUD ) 111 III M'J 11 uo livui wuw kj ;omers. It is no experiment wi Be sure to call, see and learn IL^rTrAJMI ney general, was not present at the St. George's meeting, but in reply to Mr. Lyon's position lie gave out the following statement at Charleston the next day: "I quoted the Charleston Evening L Post which stated that Lyon deserved the office of attorney general tor services rendered to the State and I said if you will turn "back to the day when I the young men of South Carolina went forth to do battle for their coun.try, if you will recall the services performed in Hampton's splendid campaign for white supremacy in the '70's, and the work then done by Gen. L. F. Youmans and compare it with the work that Mr. Lyon or myself has performed or ever will do, then you must agree that to Youmans and to neither of us, must the office be given, if it is to be as a regard for services performed. But I take it that a man's integrity and a man's ability shall be the standard by which he should be judged and the Democrats of South Carolina should go to the polls with due termination to 9elect that man in the race who will most ably discharge f.Vie* Hnf.ioc t.Vinf much rlpvnlvp nrt t.ViP next attorney general. Whether or not a man has- been for the investigating committee, whether he be for or against the dispensary, any lawyer of ordinary integrity if elected attorney general must stand for punishment of graft and must stand for enforcement of law as his duties under the statutes may arise. The real friends of the dispensary are opposed to graft and stealing and no man can try harder than I to bring the guilty to the bar of justice, to remove graft and stealing from offices and to tig crously prosecute those whom the governor of South Carolina may think should be made to answer in criminal courts." MB. LUMPKIN SPEAKS. The last speaker of the day was Mr. W. W. Lumpkin, candidate for the United States senate. He could not make his regular speech, as he wants Senator Tillman present to hear it, but he had a hard time to make any sort of speech at all. When he was first introduced by Senator Dennis, Mr. Lumpkin walked to the front of the schoolhouse porch?and there he stood while the crowd yelled at him in ever increasing volume: "Ben's good enough for us;" "Hurrah for Ben;" "Tillman, Tillman," etc. Finally, when he could be heard, Mr. Lumpkin said that Balaam must have left his beast of burden around these parts. When the crowd saw in what good humor Mr. Lumpkin had taken the gibing, he was given an audience. He would shoot the repartee at them as rapidly as they would make sport of him?and it "took," as the doctors say of vaccination. Mr. Lumpkin was knocked off of the line of speechmaking and spent the time making friends with the crowd. He declared - that he stands for the toilers. He had worked on the railroad, he had worked on the farm, and he feels great sympathy for the laboring man. His platform is: "I am a Democrat and will support Democratic measures in the national congress. "I believe a .candidate for the United States senate should leave State issues to be discussed and settled by the citizens of the State. He should be impartial in these matters, so that if national legislation is required, he may freely carry out the will of the people. "I stand for honesty in all public 3EPARTMBNT STORE. niriiT"oil LVmi OAK IPLE ARE RE J1 rious sale for months and month iggest and best people in Ameri< th us. It has proven the greates something that will surely pleas E?CO., ~C % \ . % / ? ' trusts. 4'I would by proper legislation control all trusts so that they may not oppress the people." Mr. Lumpkin was frequently interrupted, and finally turning to a graybearded man who was the leader in the demonstration, Mr. Lumpkin made an eloquent reference to the Confederate soldier and told. how he" and his interrupter had fought under the same flag. This rhetorical flight caught the fancy of the crowd and many of them cheered him. Mr. Lumpkin then concluded and walking down from the stand accosted the old soldier who had been teasing him so. Mr. Lumpkin gives positive assurance that this old soldier has now pledged his vote to Lumpkin* You will hear these gentleman Saturday here. }Ve expect a large crowd frbm every section of the county, and we want as many of our people to be present as possible. They can see and hear the speeches and learn the various platforms upon which the candidates are running, and perhaps, come to the conclusion as to which you will support. Come, see them, and shake their clever hands. Train Passes Over Burning Bridge. - The disastrous wrecking of train No. 16 on the Columbia and Greenville line, due here at 10:45, but which was serveral hours late, was narrowly averted at Alston last night. The long approach to the bridge over the Broad river at Alston was burning at the time the train swept over it, but fortunately the lire had just started, and though five ties were burning briskly along with the supports just under them the fire had not been in progress long enough to weaken the support sufficient for it to give waj under the train. When the train had passed over the place some distance the engineer succeeded in bringing it to a halt, when the crew went back and extinguished the flames with the water from the tubs set at intervals along the trestle. ' The bridge was fired^rit is thought, by an engine that had passed over it a short time before the"passenger train came along. Had the passenger train come ten minutes later it is likely many lives would have been lost.?Record 22. Swansea News. To the Editor of Dispatch:? Miss Annie Rast, a charming and vivacious young lady of Cameron, after stopping over here for,a week with relatives on her way home from the Greenville Female college, returned home last Thursday. Misses Annie Rich, Bessie and Sallie Varn, left for their respective homes in Colleton Tuesday after having spent some time with Mrs. W. H. F. Rast. Miss Lilla Hook, of Lexington, to the delight of many friends, made here last summer, is again with her aunt, Mrs. S. J. Derrick. . Mr. C. M. Varn has gone for a short vacation to his home at Weimer. Mrs. D. L. Hildebrand and Misses Sallie Rast, Aline and Ruth Oliver were among those" who attended the Sunday school picnic at St. Andrew's chapel Saturday. Mrs. W. T. Brooker and Mrs. W. H. Simpson spent a few days in North OICED AT TH] s. The goods are rolling in by 3a. We have had two of the ! t selling event of the year. T1 e you. olumbi; last week. MissvLaconia Jeff coat, of Brookland, is visiting relatives here. The choir practice at Mr. P. E. Hutto's was well attended and en]oyed Sunday evening. Mr. E. H. Smith has been confined to his room for several days, but is again well enough to be out. June 25, 1906. "C." In Llemorium. In the early mom of June 28th, 1905. Julia A. Bradford, beloved wife of C. S. Bradford, departed this life. ? God is love; Through these brief words shines the highest truth of Christianity. Amid all the blazing constellations of truth, this is the central sun. Quench it, and a night, starlit perhaps, but appalling, would settle upon the universe. Il is this truth, which, more than any other, glorifies nature, brightens the pathway of humanity, sweetens individual life, and discloses a future ever radiant with promise-signs. It solves our darkest problems, lightens our heaviest burdens, and assuages our greatest griefs. Blessed is she who lived in its glow, and who, dying went home by its light. Home is where the heart is. But we could not keep our dear one here; our arms could not hold her. There is an empty chair in the home; and a voice we loved to hear is silent. In the churchyard is a grave fragrant with flowers, and dewey with tears? do you think she sleeps there? No, "V/-\ T'Vvo Virv/^ir f.rk rlnat. t.Vie* cnifif. God who gave it. But the home circle will be filled again: We shall meet her in heaven. With arms extended wide she will greet us. Beyond the rushing waters we catch the gleaming of her white robes as they beckon from the other shore. Do we not catch the ringing of her joyous welcome? Lo! she is at the river watching for us as we may cross. i Think of us dearest one, while o'er life's waters we seek the land, Missing thy voice, thy touch, and the true helping of thy pure hand, Till, through the storm and tempest, safely anchored just on the other side, z We find thy dear face looking through death's shadows, not changed, but glorified. C. S. B. Damage by Storm. . Smiday night's electric storm played havoc with the town of St. Matthews, wiping cut the priifcipal business portion of it-with fire, which started from a bolt of lightning. Cain's hotel block has been wiped out entirely, including the hotel. This block of buildings ? . ? was owned by F. C. Cain, valued at $25,000, and insured for $11,000. The business concerns burned along with , the hotel in this block were H: N. Fair's drug store, Clark & Furtick's ! and S. E. Cleckley's general stores, | the postoffice, the dispensary and the i warehouse used by the Arthur Hard! ware concern. The L. M. Able drug ! store and the Home bank, both ad| joining the hotel block. ! The total loss will aggregate about ! 850,000, about one-third covered by inj surance. | Picnic at Mathias' Spring. I There will be a picnic for the young i folks at Mathias' Mineral Springs on ' -1-1 ~? T?Ur titiII hn mnci/> tilt; *?LM U1 U U1J JL1IC1C V> 111 UV I and dancing for the young folks, and ; a pleasant day for all who may attend. "MEET MB AT^TXPP'S."' YEAR, E BAKGAINS. the cases and boxes, bundles Mill-End sales here and they lis one beginning next Satur- * ?U? * :' % y >, ^ v- '* . v i x vJ.^V j