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r- r V' : v;*^- ^%^^^--'-v. MHi^^ -:.i \<^.,i.tsaSgr THE LEXINGTON DISPATCH. ? Raprasantatixra Raurspapat* Bairars fcaxingtaa and the Bardars af the JSurroundinp Bounties kike a Blanket. VOL. XXXVI. LEXINGTON, S. C., "WEDNESDAY, JULY 4, 1906. 35 GLOBE BEY GOODS COMPANY, . AT T77\ HE. 3^02STCTCT03sT, TIES., ,G-EE, TUfa life- ]|[Ju ItfsJO MAIN STREET, - COUIMHIa, c. <J. Solicits a Share of Your Valued Patronage. Polite and Prompt Attention. \ - v j Zrtziagtoa Campaign Meeting. Well, the State campaign and its speakers, so far as Lexington is concerned, passed off quietly Saturday at this place. The speaking took place in the court house, and the sweltering heat made it quite uncomfortable though at times the seats were all filled and then as the interest of certain speakers did not interest the people the attendance dwindled down BtV -M. from about three hundred to one hundred. It is said the meeting varied a little from other places over the sharpe sprat between Ragsdale and Lyon, but these incidents amount to nothing. They meet again,like lawyers at the bar, after having abused each other, friendly and all serene. All of the candidates make interest ing speeches and are in earnest and talk seriously in giving their reasons why they should be elected to office. The urgent farm work prevented L1? ?-.+ f.Vio moofnncr from but/ Hlrtcuuauvc ov uuv ? being larger. So much grass and work backward on the farms make it more important than politics. N Following we give only a brief synopsis of the speeches as culled from the State and other papers: Chairman Efird called the meeting to order and read a letter from Col. Youmans regretting his absence on account of his official duties. He then introduced Mr. Lyon as first speaker. Mr. Lyon first announced his favoring good roads, education, etc., and then went into the dispensary situation. He said he was making this canvass for the purpose of destroying the dispensary. He knew his views would not be popular in Lexington, nevertheless he is sincere and knew he would receive proper consideration. One reason why the dispensary ought to be abolished is that people would not have to pay $3 a gallon for whiskey which other people paid only $1.75 for in Chattanooga. He felt that the people of Lexington could run a dispensary honestly and then, they would not .have to pay $3 a barrel more for Budweiser beer, besides the freight between here and Columbia. He said the claim that liquor was k chemically pure is absured, because Dr. Burney never analyzed a single bottle of case^goods. The dispensary wants a bottling plant. That would not make the liquor any better, for it would simply transfer it through a spigot to the bottle. Why are dispensaryites fighting so hard for it? They are only anxious about their political lives and power, which would be destroyed with county dispensaries. He said he knew it was worth a man's life to defy the dispensary, but he was going to do his duty and ask no favors. Mr. A. C. Jones. The first gubernatorial candidate was Mr. A. C. Jones. He said that the dispensary has been found wanting in every way and if the few good men who supported it were taken out, it would drop to pieces. As a business proposition it is absurd. Over three and a half million dollars was the business clone last year and yet the profits were' only $214,000, and of this, only $186,000 went to the school fund?meaning about $5,000 to a coun4ntr 1a ~ mi- - VJ auu IV VJCUW UU <1 SUlXUldl. lilt; | system takes ?3,000,000 from the public pocket and gives nothing in return but murder and ruin. The investigating committee shows a dark picture and yet only one-tenth has been told. Col. Sloan had made the statement on j several stumps that there were 15,000 i "MEET MB AT TATP'S." TS fiTTT.T. m JLKJ UXXim V/ J. This "Mill-End" business is ? and barrels. E\ery Departmei were popular and made Famous day will be the biggest, the moi I boys who had never seen the inside j of a barroom, but what were dispensaries but barrooms. He said that not a single feature of the dispensary law was being enforced. In Charles| ton it is like highway robbery to take money for constabulary. Alluding to Mrr Manning's view of the dispensary question. Mr. Jones said that if Governor Heyward couldn't enforce the | law, as popular as he is, how could any other man purify an institution I with such a record. Mr. Manning. | The next speaker was Mr. Manning. [ He said that the people believed evil I conditions did exist but they would i not tolerate wrong-doing. If these evils could not be corrected he beI lieved the dispensary should go. Taking up the other candidates, he | said that those wishing to abolish the i institution should show a better plan I " -"1 X> 1 l *1 J man ne ana tnose who Deueveu improvement possible had suggested. Prohibition has been proved a failure and besides, the interstate commerce law cannot be done away with and liquor will still be brought in. Mr. Manning wanted Mr. Ansel to state directly whether he desired prohibition or county dispensaries. His characterization of Mr. Ansel as urbane and unanimous met with applause. As usual, Mr., Manning explained the Raysor-Manning bill. He favored the Stats dispensary purified and safe-guarded?no graft or dishonesty, and believed it could be run honestly, and good honest men would ; undertake it; that the state dispensary plan, properly carried out, was the best plan of dealing with the liquor question. , Mr. McMahan's Scheme. Mr. McMahan heretofore has not made the dispensary a leading subject, as he consider* that there are other issues just as important. He said so today, but, at the same time, took | up the G. M. I. and proposed that the State go into the manufacturing business with light wines instead of the hotter fluids as the out put. His idea is to conduct the dispensary more towards prohibition. It is wrong to base salaries on sales because this t multiplies the facility of getting liquor when really the difficulty should be increased. Mr. McMahan wants the county boards appointed by the governor from honest business men and request books to be used with a limit to a man's purchases; thinks the use of dispensary for politics and for making money has gone too far; the blind tigers should be broken up and the liquor commissioner should be paid a 1 i.1 J- 1 J 1 T_ ?1 salary mat' wouia piace mm on a piane with a bank president or any one at the head of a large business. His idea is also to pay the board of commissioners larger salaries and have the board to check up the commissioner, rather than handle the business. Col. John T. Sloan. The first argument used by him was "Love thy neighbor as thy self" and he applied it to himself, in view of ! the adjoining counties. .Other lieutenant governors have risen and Col. Sloan argued that this was a logical method of advancement. His services for South Carolina and his love for education were two other points he dwelt on at length. Alluding to the whiskey question, he said: "If I was king of the united world, I would issue an order and there would never be another-drop distilled." But believing that people are going to have a /-vl rl yv> nn \T/\n V* L n a a , emu. uiu mail x* ucm iictu. & vine;- J l AT TAPP'S . blessed for many reasons. We 1 it will have its full share of ne^ \ fjr the Bargains given our Cus st complete and best of them all yard, and the unquinehable thurst after strong drink by the people, I believe the dispensary with proper management is the best solution of the liquor question. He was well received. Mr. M. F. Ansel. After stating briefly his platform as to education and other important features of State government, explained his position, local option, on the whiskey question, by saying that counties should decide by vote between county dispensaries and prohibition. He is opposed to the State dispensary. Had answered Mr. Manning and other's questions several times as to his position on the whiskey problem, which it seemed should be clearly understood by this time. Mr. Cole L. Elease. Senator Blea9, after giving his regular platform, including school and railroad legislation and other planks, nomfl /1r?Trm t.Vip HianPTisarv. "FTp VaJUUV UVTT AA W vuv was the only straight dispensary candidate. In scouting prohibition, he said that he thought every candidate who was at the Saluda meeting would admit that they saw more white corn whiskey there than at any other meet. ing. The mayor of Newberry is daily convicting blind tiger men. Pomaria and Prosperity have asked for constables and Dr. George B. Cromer, the prohibition giant, has noticed the law violation in Newberry. The investigation was a farce and the committee wanted only witnesses with testimony damaging to the dispensary. If there was any corruption in the dispensary it has been turned out. He believed Towill and Boykin honest. They did not offer for reelection and the only man who did was Hubert H. Evans,, whom the legislature defeated over whelmingly. He challenged his opponents to prove that Rawlinson, Wylie, Black and Tatura were conducting the business wrong and said that they world have a week to look up proof. Mr. J. E. Brunson. Mr. J. E. Brunson has been ill and was not at the Saluda meeting but said yesterday that he was in favor of the Brice bill as the best plan to get rid of the dispensary. He could not reconcile the platforms of some of his oponents. Mr. Brunson tried to dissect the Raysor-Manning bill by saying that the liquor people would have men in Columbia at the time of the purchases by the citizens. "The members of the board would each be worth $50,000, the liquor commissioner $100,000 and the governor who has the appointing power would be valued at $500,000." He is an out and out prohibitionist, and has been pouring hotshot into the dispensary and liquor business on every platform. His speeches go out with no uncertain sound, and he is regarded as the prohibition candidate. Mr. Ragsdale has not been at the Edgefield or Saluda meeting, having been in New York on business. He appeared yesterday, when the meet * ' ? t " mi mg was aDout nair over. xne governors had ceased speaking, but before the dinner hour. Mr. Ragsdale was given time for his speech. He wasted no time in preliminaries, for in a few words he came directly to the point and throughout his speech flayed Mr. Lyon with bitter personal sarcasm illustrating his speech with poses in supposed imitation of the other candidate. Throughout the speech there were cheers and calls from the Lexington audience. His speech was bit- ' TAPP'S GREATER I AND THE PEG have been preparing for this glo: v goods; "Mill-Ends" irom the b: tomers. It is no experiment wi1 . Be sure to call, see and learn i lTtapi ter in tone, and Mr. Lyon who sat in the rear of the audience (being present, said Mr. Ragsdale by notification) sat calm and dignified, rising only when necessary. Mr. Ragsdale said that at the Hampton meeting he was informed, after he had left the hall, that Mr. Lyon had said that certain statements of his were not based on facts. He had said that Mr. Lyon had 1 drawn double pay for his services in the legislature and on the investigating committee, which is illegal under the constitution. With his warmth and emphasis and looking directly at ' Mr. Lyon, the speaker asked him if he had drawn double pay. Mr. Lyon said that he ^would not answer the I question if he could not make a statement with it, but Chairman Efird ruled that he had already spoken. Mr. Lyon was anxious to make a statement. 1 With the idea that a man with a , position of trust should discharge his i duty strictly. Mr. Ragsdale said that l Mr. Lyon had been elected from Ab- ] beville on a dispensary platform, yet j was now against it, after a change of i heart. '' Should you then elect him to ] a higher office might he not have an- i other change of heart?" he asked, i "Will he punish the grafters?"^ "Why 1 don't he make out warrants for the 1 offenders, if there are any?" 1 He did not think Mr. Lyon was < making the sacrifice the newspapers j spoke of when he was getting ?4 per 1 day and mileage. The salary of the 1 office which he is seeking is $1,900, J and yet two years ago Mr. Lyon was ( glad to get a job as clerk of a senate 1 committee. i Chairman Efird announced that his I time was up. There were cries of f "Go on!" and "Let him have more i time!" and he was given a minute. ^ Mr. Ragsdale said that he had backed i down Mr. Lyon on the proposition to < withdraw and the latter had said that \ he had been brought out as a decoy duck. "But I tell you, J. Eraser 1 T ?-^ r? 4- T w? itrvf o P-noi/*l 4- r\ -mnof. 1 J-iVUil, Li-lctU X am xikju aixaiu I_w iuv.w J you face to face or man to man. You < can never charge that I am a decoy ] duck." When Mr. Ragsdale was < through, Mr. Lyon quietly rose and j said that in view of the fact that Mr. ] Ragsdale had spoken at length that ; he thought that he should be given ] time to present some records to show j that some of the(statements were not j based on fact. Mr. Efird said that he could not allow this, as it was < against precedent. Mr. Lyon having 1 already taken up his time, but when < the meeting was concluded if Mr. Lj^on ] cared to speak there would be noth- j ing to prevent him. Mr. Lyon said j that he would abide by the decision. , T\/T? MAWkn-Mlror] 4L of if TVTt* 1 iXLT. XV<Ag3U.iiiC 1uiuu.1c.tu uuuu n a.-**. . ( Lyon had anything to show in the way , of records and if this included an itemized expense account he hoped he would give it to the press, to which Mr. L\on replied that he would be ] glad to do so. 1 j After the meeting was over and the , candidates had all spoken, the people j were leaving the court house when ] Mr. Lyon was allowed to speak. Perhaps 75 or 100 remained to hear him. j He made a brief and unimpassioned statement in which he said that he < had received double pay, as was cus- j tomary through long precedent, and I j1 that he believed that there had been | . only one dissenting voice against this ! < custom in the committee. As far as i J regarded the Abbeville election, the i i one issue had been whether or not i 1 there should remain the half mill tax, ! ] i under the Bricelaw. He was for'the ! JEPAETME1TT 3X0RE. PLE ARE REJ< rious sale for months and months I trcrpqf. ani best neonle in Americ OS A A ;h us. It has j roven the greatesl something that will surely pleas< P CO., c tax and was elected. He exhibited a house journal having on page 87 a statement of the expenses presented by himself to the legislature for the committee. He said that it was unnecessary for anyone to rely on the statement of anyone?that the record was there and he, Mr. Lyon, invited full inspection of it in every particular. The house and senate, he said, had already accepted it and it could easily have been found. Mr. Lyon made a frank and manly statement. WOMEN DROWNED IN BREVARD CREEE. Bathers Wade Into Water Beyond Their Depth and Two Were Rescued After Hard Struggle. T?n^Ar?hnr?o ho v.virtnr Ti'Am JL IV V UliiUi L/UIaUIV * WUli^ V> UlUV^iij both of whom resided at the house of Amnie Harden on West Senate street, were drowned yesterday afternoon between 4 and 5 o'clock, while in bathing in Brevard creek, nine miles from the city on the Bluff road. They were in the water with two other women while another one of the party remained on the bank. In a venturesome spirit, made reckless, perhaps jy the use of intoxicants, they waded Deyond their depth and being unable x> swim, would all four have been Irowned but fo** the bravery and unselfishness of the one who was on the Dank of the stream and who, although Deing also unable to swim, went to the *escue of her friends and succeeded 3ven at the imminent risk of her own ife in saving the lives of two of the :elpless women in the water. The % Dcdics were recovered and brought to he city to the undertaking establishment of J. M. Van Metre, where they will be prepared for burial and held mtii the relatives can be communicated with and arrangements made :or the funerals. The two women who were drowned were known in this city as Julia Belmont and Irene DeLong. The names }f the two who were saved were Willie Moore and Ethel McWhorterand that Df the young woman who saved them is Marguerite Hamilton. The real tiame of Julia Belmont is Miriam Cox, ind. ner norac is in jonnscon. one was [ess than 20 years of age. She has been in this city for more than a year, having come here with an officer in the Boer war company to whom it is said she was married here and was deserted by him when the company left a few lays later. It is understood that she Lived for awhile in Augusta and later in Macon. Her father who is a prominent man in his community, is critically ill and the telegram announcing the death of the wayward daughter could not be delivered to him. Irene Delong is a Jewess from Evnoxville and she is also known as Louise Steel and Beatrice Stearns, the Last it is stated being her family name. She came to Columbia from Aslieville only four weeks ago, Marguerite Hamilton, the young girl who went to the rescue of her friends, says she will be 19 years old next Tuesday. She gives her home as St. Louis, where her pa*aoiV1a Tr io n co/1 r>rwnni. L CI11/3 1X\J YV X COlViv i u AO tv ouvi vvAiiv* iencc that this tragedy should have ccme into her Tire yesterday as she leaves, by prearrangement, today for Asheville, to meet her father in hopes of effecting a reconciliation with her Eamiiy. She said to the coroner last aight that if she were only permitted to return to her home she would gladly forsake the life she is leading. The party left the city about 3.30 sin Ml Ilk DICED AT TH] The goods are rolling in by a. We have had two of the ] ; selling event of the year. Th 5 you. olumbis o'clock in the afternoon and drove to the Brevard creek, which it seems has for some time been quite a resort for their outings. They were supplied with intoxicants and drank some but from wieir appearance arter tne accident could not have taken enough to seriously effect them, though the survivors admitted that it was rontlpcanpoa that led them to take the fatal risk. Immediately upon arriving at the stream they donned bathing suits, went into the water where it was only a few feet deep and soon began bantering each other to wade into deeper water, never realizing that the stream was swollen from the recent rains and that deep places had been washed out by the freshet. A Brave Deed. Suddenly and without warning, the four women found themselves struggling in the water beyond their depth. They were unable to swim, but for OAmn s-xl r. /J ^ ?? OWJLUL^ X V^aovyu 1AW11C U1 LIICIAI llkCLKJLC <XXL outcry or called for help in any way. They simply struggled helplessly to reach a spot where they could secure a footing. Marguerite Hamilton, seeing their great danger, called desperately for help, but realizing that none was near, and that the women were drowning, she plunged into the water to help them. Nearest to her was Ethel McWhorter. She had twice sunk from view and was almost exhausted. Marguerite, standing in water which almost covered her, was able to reach the drowning woman and grasp her clothing, and with an effort that required all of her limited strength, succeeded in dragging her to the bank in an unconscious condition. Without stopping fcr a second thought, she returned to the water for Willie Moore, who had disappeared under the surface. The young girl, without thought of self or danger, went under the water after her. It was only a step or two to where the water was not so deep and she was able to get her burden there before her own breath was exhausted and then to pull her bodily out of the water, senseless and exhausted. When the brave girl turned to go for her other two, they had disappeared and were seen no more until their bodies were recovered an hour later. Realizing that she must have help. Marguerite Hamilton, with fine fortitude, jumped in the buggy and drove until she found several men, whom she sent to the aid of the women she had left and then drove several miles along the Bluff road toward the city to call for a physician and to break f.Vio v>o-ri'c nf f.l-in fvr,a<Tcir?\7 Viat friAnrlq ?vno v.. -.v/.. " When she had done this and returned to the spot, the bodies had been taken from the water and both of those who had been saved had been resuscitated. The good people of the neighborhood who heard of what had happened at once came to the aid of the unfortunates. Buggies were secured, the bodies were placed in them and they j started for the city. In the mean! time, Corner Walker had been notified, and assuming that the bodies would not be removed from the spot until his arrival, started for the scene with the morgue wagon. He had gone rmlv about four miles when he met ' the buggies containing the remains, j They were transferred to the under| takers wagon and were brought on to | his establishment. ; Willie Moore and Ethel MeWhorter ! were able to ride back to the city and j several hours later had almost entirely i recovered. CONHNUEE TO FIFTH PAGE. "HffEET MS AT TAPP'S." B JbAxtUAIJN?. the cases and boxes, bundles yiill-End sales here and they is one beginning next Satur sb9 ?