Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, September 04, 1906, Image 2

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Straps and Jarts. ? The new Interstate Commerce commission, is holding its first session in Washington, and judging from the number of complaints being filed under the new rate law it is evident that the commission will have a busy time of it for the next few months. Numerous cities, corporations and individuals from all parts of the country have hied complaints against railroads and express companies, charging excessive rates and discriminations. Among the railroads against which complaints have been filed are the Northern Pacific, Great Northern, Union Pacific, Oregon Kanroaa ana ivaviKsuun cumjw ny, Texas and Pacific, Alabama and Vicksburg, Alabama Great Southern, Missouri, Kansas and Texas, the Southern railway and also the WellsFargo Express company. ? Washington special of September 1, to the News and Courier: Senator Tillman will not review the naval manoeuvres from the Mayflower with the president on Labor Day. He has declined the invitation extended by the president along with other members of the naval committee of the senate and the house of representatives. The note declining was received at the navy department today. It had been generally predicted here that he would decline. Senator Tillman said fn friends, followine the action of the president In recalling the White House Invitation to Senator Tillman to meet Prince Henry, because of the Tlllman-McLaurin fight, that he would never accept another Invitation from the president until he had apologised to him for withdrawing the former. Invitation. ? Some of the great packing houses of the west are in a serious predicament because of the meat inspection law passed by the recent congress. The law requires that all packed meats intended for interstate shipment must be inspected and labeled with a label setting forth the fact that the contents of the package had been inspected, etc. The law goes into effect October 1. Some of the packers having been slow about providing proper labels and complying with other requirements of the law have applied to the secretary of agriculture to set aside the October requirement as to labels, that they might have more time to prepare themselves. Secretary Wilson has refused to comply with the request and the packers will be unable to dispose of their goods unless properly stamped. except in their own states, as the inspection law applies only to interstate shipments. ? New York Journal of Commerce, September 1: Our September cotton report, based on 1,527 replies, August 22 being their average date, shows a decline in condition of 4.1 points compared with a decline of three points In the same month 1905 and 7 points in 1904; in 1903 it increased 2.9 points but in 1902 and 1901 it again declined 8.6 points respectively. Condition is reported at 77.6 against 72.4 Sept. 1. 1905; 77.4 in 1904; 79.6 in 1903, and 71 in 1902. The crop had been doing very well to the date of these reports; but since then reports of deterioration have been very general. All the leading producing states show declines with the exception of South Carolina and Georgia, which showed the slight gain of 1.7 points and 0.9 points respectively. Prominent states show the following declines: North Carolina. 3.4 points; Alabama, 3.6 points; Mississippi, t.9 points; Louisiana, 6.6 points; Texas, 7.8 points, and Arkansas, 0.8 points. Reports would indicate that the somewhat serious loss in Texas was due exclusively to the boll weevil and boll worm. ? The feature of last Thursday's session of the American Bar association. In session at St. Paul, Minn., was an address by Judge Alton B. Parker of New York, on the "Congestion of Law." Judge Parker said In part: "Few questions have been more discussed than the increasing tendency of legislative bodies to propose and to enact new laws. And yet every man who has had occasion to study the question has been forced to conclude that but a small percentage of proposed new enactments Involves a new principle, or even a new policy. It has long been recognized that, if leg 11 - -a isituors were eunipeueu iu muuj auu know the old and settled principles of Jurisprudence, there would be fewer opportunities for mediocre men to make for themselves reputations upon laws which have nothing in them that mankind has not tried. In such a period the recurring session of a legislature In its due course, or an ambitious or systematic governor calls an extra session. Thus dozens of useless laws are placed upon the statute books, every one of which chokes the channels of justice. Another fruitful source of legislation is the neglect or failure to enforce existing laws. In many cases the misdirected or ignorant zeal of an executive officer is responsible for many new and useless l?"?o on o 1 It a a hitnn r?n r ried into office, after an hysterical canvass, under the promise to prosecute certain kinds of accused persons. Once elected, he takes up his work in his electoral campaign. The duty of the lawyer in the premises is imperative, for he understands the dangers better than anyone else. Therefore, he ought to take up the task and carry it on with energy, until current legislation shall simply properly supplement such part of the present law as has justified its existence." ? The failure of the Heal Estate Trust company of Philadelphia, last week, is proving to be not only one of the largest on record in the United States, but also one of the most sensational. President Frank Hippie previous to his death, was one of the most highly respected citizens of Pennsylvania. He wos considered the Very highest type of an honest business man, enjoying the respect and confidence of all classes. Since the failure it develops that Hippie was nothing more than a very skillful thief and defaulter. His death, which occurred on Friday preceding the failure on Tuesday, was generally believed to have been due to natural causes; but on Thnrsdav it develoned that Hiu pie had committed suicide by shooting out his brains while sitting in a bath tub. The coroner withheld this information in the hope that the delay would enable the directors of the trust company to save the institution. The task proved too large tor the directors. Hippie deceived the directors of the trust company for years. As president he'would have the bank's accountants make up a sworn statement of the assets and liabilities of the bank, and then he would juggle the figures of this statement to suit his requirements, attach the accountant's certificate and then read his report to the directors. The accountants supposing that the true report was being read to the directors and that they thus knew the state of affairs, said nothing, and as the report read by Hippie showed up everything to the good, the directors said nothing. But a short time before Hippie's death some of the bank's directors began to grow suspicious and demanded a full and complete statement of conditions up to Sep1 tember 1. Hippie, realizing that such a statement left only two doors open?death and disgrace?chose the former and ended the matter so far as he was concerned. The failure was brought about by Hippie loaning vast sums of money without proper security, in one instance making oi??w>oolliia ahnnr S3 000 000 on collateral that did not exceed $500,000 In value. It is now believed that Hippie had accomplices in his work, or at least that other high officials were cognizant of his shady business transactions and arrests will probably be made. Among the largest losers by the failure Is the Presbyterian General Assembly of Pennsylvania of which Hippie was treasurer. Its loss is now given at about $400,000. $hf IJorkvillr (fnquirrr. YORKVILLE, S. C.i TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, I90ti. Why can't South Carolina have a big meat packing establishment? It will pay the people a thousand times better than the state dispensary. Although York county voted for Walker against Jones, we are of opinion that Jones is the better man for comptroller general. The fight on which he is engaged, equalization on a par value assessment, is really a righteous one; but as to whether he will win out remains to be seen. Walker was trading on the opposition to Jones's plans. Jones seeks to make every tax payer bear an equitable proportion of the burdens of government. wr nrp nnnosed to the continuance nf the state dispensary because we do not believe It can be honestly conducted. Even if It should be placed In charge of men like Mr. Ansel, Mr. Manning and Mr. Lyon. It will finally come under the control of others who will use it as a source of graft for their own enrichment and for the maintenance of a political machine for the control of the voters who are now being asked to keep it on Its feet. County dispensaries are open to the same objections, but they will be still closer to the voters, the grand juries, the solicitors and the petit juries. Southern political leaders generally seem to endorse practically all of Mr. Bryan's home-coming speech except his advocacy of government ownership of railroads. Senator Bailey, Congressman John Sharp Williams and Congressman L. F. Livingston say that government ownership of railroads will never do. Their objection Is purely sectional. They look forward to the time when, under government ownership we might have throughout the south negro conductors, station agents, traffic managers, etc., and to this the southern people will never consent. If Mr. Bryan Insists on this government ownership proposition he will have to look elsewhere than In the south for the votes that are to elect him to the presidency. The Raysor-Manning Bill. One of the most intolerable oblec tions to the dispensary law as enforced for years and the objection which finally brought it under the severest condemnation, was its failure to provide a means by which the people of a community could get rid of a dispensary in case it should prove obnoxious and ruinous. Had the original dispensary law been drawn so as to leave the people of a town, a township or a county the privilege of abolishing dispensaries, should they so desire, after a trial, it is quite probable that there would have never been such a revulsion of feeling as has been created on account of this institution. The management of the wholesale establishment would have recognized from the beginning that the people were masters, and would have been careful enough to avoid arousing the condemnation of the people. We think this view of the situation is fully sustained by the events of the past two years. As soon as the law was amended so as to permit the people a say-so as to abolishing dispensaries, the dispensaries were run out of county after county, until nearly half of the state was free from them. And all this, notwithstanding the fact that the law said that the people who would have no dispensaries must not only give up the revenue but must actually pay an additional tax for the purpose of enforcing the law. The Ravsor-Manning bill for which Mr. Manning stands, is open to virtually the same objection. We quote this paragraph from a summarized copy of the bill furnished by Mr. Manning himself: "County boards of control are given authority to establish dispensaries and to designate their location, of which twenty days' notice shall be given. T)i?> fst.ihlishment of a dlsnensarv mav he prevented by a majority of the voters of the township in which it is to be located signing a petition to the county board, requesting that the proposed dispensary be not established." Now, here is authority to establish, provided the people don't object as indicated; but after a dispensary is established in a township, there is the same old trouble of the original bill. There is no way by which it can be legally removed. Even the county board , cannot move it. There is no provision for a further say-so by the people. Hut that is not all. Read again Mr. Manning's summary of this provision of his bill and imagine something like this. Say the county board lias determined to establish a dispensary in York township. It gives notice that within twenty days such action will be taken. The people go to work and get up a petition of a majority of the voters to the contrary. As soon as the petition Is perfected the board designates Filbert as the place. Then the people have to get another petition. Say this one is secured and the board next shifts to Delphos. or to some spot out on the cross-roads. The process can be continued indefinitely until the opposition having worn Itself out in getting up petitions, will have to surrender In despair. Of course, there are those who will hold that the majority of the voters of a township having spoken as to one proposed location, the matter will be settled. But we do not so believe. As a matter of fact there is nothing to prevent the compelling of the raising of petition after petition on account of any one specified location. Then again, objection has been made against the present law because it gives "the negroes" the right to vote. That, of course, is nothing but demagogy. The law does not give the negroes the right to vote. Negroes?registered negroes only, get the right to vote from the constitution. There Is no way of preventing those who are able to get registration certificates from voting. The legislature cannot provide for any kind of election that will exclude negroes. Mr. Manning's bill does not provide such exclusion. The signature of a registered negro on the petition referred to will be Just as good as the signature of a registered white man. As the law cannot contemplate other than qualified voters, it necessarily follows that none but registered voters can be counted on this proposed petition. Mr. Bryan and the Faith. On first page of today's paper, we publish in full Mr. Bryan's home-coming speech as delivered in New York last Thursday night. The speech may be taken as embodying practically all the Issues that are to figure in the next national campaign, and it should be read by all who care to keep themselves informed on the subject. The speech is epitomized In the following: Income Tax.?The United States must sooner or later adopt Income tax Burdens of government should be diT-Olorl nrnnnrHnnatplv nmnnr the COUn try's people. Injunction.?Government by injunction is an attack upon the jury system and should be opposed. The injunction should be supplanted by arbitration. Congress.?National legislative body should meet immediately after elections?not thirteen months later as at present. United States senators should be chosen by popular vote. Labor.?The workingman's life, liberty and pursuit of happiness should be preserved. It is unjust to give employers absolute control over employees. Differences should be settled by arbitration. Arbitration.?Mr. Bryan urges that the United States, in common with all other nations, should, before declaring tvar, submit all international differences to impartial arbitration. Money.?Mr. Bryan declares that the unlooked for and unprecedented increase in the production of gold has enabled the Democratic party to present a united front on the money question. Tariff.?Protective tariff has been fruitful source of public corruption. Free trade, optional in its details with the president, could be made the most effective weapon, with which to fight the trusts. Anti-Imperialism.?Mr. Bryan declares United States experiment in colonialism has exposed to ridicule the declaration of independence. He urges home rule for the Filipinos. Trusts.?Merciless war on trusts is recommended to the Democrats. Corruption in insurance companies and other corporations is dwelt upon. The Democrats should refuse campaign contributions from corporations. Federal License.?That plank in the Democratic platform of 1900 requiring corporations engaging in interstate commerce to secure Federal license, should become part of nation's laws. Railroads.?Railroads should be made the property of the government. The Federal government should control the trunk lines and the various states the local lines. Securing immediate uniformity of rates is favored as temporary relief. Eight Hour Day.?In the interest of humanity, the development of the home life and love of family, and the progress of the human race, the eight hour working day should be universally adopted. Socialism.?Socialism presents a consistent theory, but does not take human nature into account. It would substitute a new disease for the disease from which we suffer. Socialism must be answered with argument, not abuse. Next Issue.?Paramount issue In next presidential campaign will concern trusts and their control. Democrats motto must be; "A private monopoly is indefensible and intolerable." Provisions must be made to imprison, not merely fine law breaking capitalists. OVER $400,000,000. Exports of Cotton For Past Year Breaks All Records. "Cotton Is king in the export record of the United States for the fiscal year just ended." This is the introductory sentence of a statement just issued by the department of commerce" and labor. Continuing, the statements says: "Total value of raw cotton exported for the first time crossed the $400,000,000 line and exceeded by far the value of any other article of merchandise sent out of the country. The exports of breadstuffs of all kinds aggregated but $186,000,000, those of provisions but $211,000,000, and those of iron and steel manufactures but $161,000,000. "The value of cotton exported has increased very rapiaiy during tne last five years. It was not until 1901 that It crossed the $300,000,000 line, and in a short five-year period it has grown to more than $400,000,000, or an increase of about thirty-three per cent. This growth is due in part to an increase in the quantity exported, but in part also to the advance in price, since the quantity exported in 1906 was about 700,000,000 pounds less than in 1905, while the value was $21,000,000 more than in 1905. "The exportation of manifractured cotton was also larger in 1906 than in any earlier year, aggregating practically $53,000,000 against $50,000,000 in 1905 and $22,500,000 in 1904. The growth in exports of manufactured cotton has been quite as striking as that of the raw material. "Europe is, of course, our principal customer for raw cotton. The United Kingdom took last year $177,000,000 worth, Germany $101,000,000, France $45.000.0000, Italy about $27,000,000, while the other countries of Europe took about $32,000,000 worth. Japan is also a customer for our raw cotton, but very irregular in the quantity bought, since she only buys largely of American cotton when prices are low, relying upon India and China in years when American prices are high. The value of cotton exported to Japan in the fiscal year 1906 was, in round terms, $8,000,000; In 1905, $17,000,000. and in 1904, less than $3,000,000. "In manufactured cottons China is by far our largest customer. The total value of all cotton manufactures exnnrfoH In thf? Hqpfil VPfi r IQOfi WAS. ftS above indicated, $53,000,000, in round terms; of which about $30,000,000 went to China. Practically all of the cotton goods sent to China was in the form of cloth, the total value of cotton cloths exported to China in the year being $29,641,188, and of other cotton goods $172,887. The exports of cotton cloths to China In the fiscal year 1906 exceeded both in quantity and value those of any other earlier year, the value in 1906 being about $2,000,000 greater than in 1905 and the number of yards about 24,000,000 greater than in 1905. China's rank as a purchaser of American cottons is indicated by the fact that of the 711,000.000 yards of cotton cloths exported in 1906, 4 98,000,000 went to China, while about 133.000,000 yards went to the American countries south of the United States, and 25,000,000 to Asia other than China and Oceania." LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. W. A. Aycock. No. 2, Sharon?Has a good milch cow for sale. R. T. Castles, Smyrna?Wants a buyer for eighteen fine Shropshire sheep. J. S. Brlce, County Chairman?Gives notice of a second primary election to be held, Sept. 11th. M. W. White?Says It has been his good fortune to strike streaks of luck In Wall street stocks. He has also made money in home stocks. Foushee Cash Store?Asks that you watch its show windows. A bargain ribbon sale will be its feature for Monday, the 10th. York Supply Co.?Says the Sanders' disc plow is better than moldboard plows?that it will do more and better work. Also talk about flour, mill feed, bran, shingles, etc. Thomson Co.?Has full line of Eclipse shirts for men at $1 and $1.50, and claim that it is best obtainable. New line neckwear, ladies' belts, swell line handbags, etc. First National Bank?Solicits your banking business on a basis of mutual benefit. Your money will be safe. Sam M. Grist, Special Agent?Tells you that aside from the fact that the Mutual Benefit writes the most liberal policies, it also pays annual dividends. Yorkvllle Harkware Co.?Reminds you that the haying season is on and wants you to see the Johnston mowers and rakes before buying. York Drug Store?Has a stock of toilet articles that is complete in all details. It includes every requisite for the ladies' dressing table. The New York Cotton Exchange's estimate of the commercial cotton crop for the year ending Sept. 1, 1906 is li,225.000 bales. The total vota for attorney general was 96,457. Of these Mr. Lyon received 45,272, lacking 2,947 of a majority. Mr. Ragsdale received 28,210, lacking 20,005 of a majority. Of the votes cast for Youmans, It Is reasonable to assume that Lyon will have less trouble getting 2,947 than Ragsdale will have getting 20,005. On the fourth page of today's paper will be found the result of last Tuesday's primary as officially tabulated by the Democratic executive committee. Those Interested will do well to keep this tabulation for future reference, as it is hardly probable that It will hereafter be accessible from any other source In such convenient form. Work on the power dam In Broad river in Cherokee county has demoralized the price of labor In every direction for miles. The farmers of Broad River, Cherokee and King's Mountain townships are having the same trouble that was experienced by Bethel, Fort Mill, Catawba and Ebenezer during the building of the dam of the Catawba Power company. The total vote cast for governor was 96,719. A majority of this Is 48,359. Mr. Ansel received 39,156 votes, lacking 7,103 of a majority. If In the second race he gets two-thirds of the votes cast for Brunson he will be elected even with all the balance of the votes cast for Manning. Mr. Manning needs 25,200 votes to secure his election. and will require all the votes cast for all the other candidates save his opponent and at least one-third of the votes cast for Brunson. A little negro boy was brought before Mayor Roddey of Rock Hill a few days ago on charge of violating the city ordinance against gambling within the Incorporate limits. Mayor Roddey refused to try the case; but told the boy to appear before the entire council. The mayor's refusal was based on the proposition that it was wrong to punish the little negro and let the bucket shops conduct their gambling business without let or hindrance. RIGHT you are, Mr. Roddey. The returns from last Tuesday's election illustrate in a most strikingmanner the value of a single vote. During the count it developed that Mr. Epps, through a feeling of modesty voted for Dr. Saye instead of himself* and that act came very nearly costing him his election. This vote, however, was offset by a vote cast for Mr. Epps by Mr. Thomas F. McDow, the latter feeling under obligation to the Fort Mill man on account of past political favors. These two votes came very near to making the result of the election read differently. The state executive committee at its j meeting in Columbia last Friday to canvass the returns from Tuesday's primary, took occasion to pass a rule providing that hereafter there shall be no more counting of state votes In" county boxes or county votes In state boxes. There was quite a large number of county votes In the state boxes and vice versa at the election In this county last Tuesday. The reason for using two boxes, of course, Is merely a matter of convenience, not to confuse the voter. But it is also a fact that if votes belonging In one box are to be counted when cast In another, there Is nothing to prevent a voter who may be more interested in one ticket than the other from voting two tickets of ho aame kinrl one in each box. In counting votes in this county the executive committee assumed that all were innocent mistakes, and allowed them to figure in the result. CROP CONDITIONS. People who were in Yorkville from different parts of the county yesterday had more or less gloomy reports to make as to the cotton situation on account of so much rain. In several localities newly opened cotton is sprouting in the pods, and the crop generally Is short. But very little fodder has been saved and there Is not much probability of a great deal more being gotten out of the fields in a condition fit for use. The condition of corn, except where it has been overflowed in the river bottoms and along some of the smaller water courses, Is generally very good. McCON NELLS VILLE. A municipal election was held in McConnellsville today, and as soon as the duly elected fathers qualify for their respective pQsitions, the town will begin its corporate existence. Thp ntfiwrs elected todav are: J. T. Crawford, mayor; S. H. Love, J. F. Ashe, J. M. Williams and J. O. Moore, aldermen. '< McConnell8Ville does a mercantile business of probably 135,000 or $40,000 a year. The people have always Insisted on having a good school, in charge of a first-class teacher, and the moral influences of the community have always been of the very best. The merchants of the place are L. R. Smith & Co., O. L. Sanders and J T. Crawford, and also a negro merchant, Tim Sadler, who gets along nicely with quite a large negro trade "and enjoys the respect of all of his white neighbors. McConnellsville is one of the oldest railroad stations in York county, having been established in 1852 with the building of the King's Mountain railroad. It has never before been incorporated. ^ The McConnellsville neighborhood has always believed in education, and has given the outside world quite a number of bright college graduates who are making their marks In different lines of endeavor. There is plenty of money in and around McConnellsville for the erection of a big cotton mill; but the sentiment of the community is rather against this form of industry, the feeling being that if the manufacturing field is entered at all, it will be best to select some industry that calls for higher skill and good wages. WITHIN THE TOWN. ? Labor day was observed yesterday by the postofflce. ? The horse swappers were on hand yesterday and did a very good business. ? There were quite a number of politicians In Yorkvllle yesterday and they were busy during the most of the day. ? The cotton receipts of Yorkvllle from wagons for the year beginning September 1, 1905 and ending September 1, 1906 was 10,280 bales. ? Registration was pretty heavy yesterday on account of the special tax election at Hickory Grove. Thirty or forty tickets were Issued during the day. IDDIIT oenoi c nuvu rbvrkatoi Mr. Luther Davidson is now with the Victor Cotton Oil company. Misses Glenn of Tirzah, are guests of Dr. and Mrs. S. A. Weber. "Miss Annie Bludworth is at home on a short visit from Lancaster. Miss Emma Kennedy loft yesterday for a vfsit to Hot Springs, N. C. Miss Lucy Smarr has taken a position as saleslady with the Torkville B. & M. Co. Mr. and Mrs. James F. Thomson arrived in Yorkvilie this morning from New York. Miss Iva Withers i-eturned home Friday after a visit to friends at Morgan ton, N. C. Mrs. T. A. Covington and child, of Wilkesboro, N. C., are visiting Mr. A. Rose's family. Miss Nannie Youngblood of Columbia, is visiting relatives in Yorkvilie and vicinity. Mr. Walter Rose returned home on Saturday, after spending ten days with relatives in Tennessee. Master Lawrence A. McDowell of Camden, Is in Yorkvilie visiting his aunt, Mrs. S. C. Ashe. Miss Emma Roach of Rock Hill, Is in Yorkvilie, the guest of Misses Maggie and Daisy Gist. c vroH Williams of Columbia. came up Sunday on a week's visit to Mr. L. R. Williams' family. Mr. John R. Shurley has given up his place with the York Drug Store to accept a position In Rock Hill. Mrs. M. A. Barnett and Misses Marilla and Sophie Ewart are visiting relatives at Huntereville, N. C. Miss Nannie Grist left Saturday for Bennettsville to resume her work In the graded schools at that place. Miss Bessie Burwell of Washington, and Miss Jessie Milling of Lancaster, are guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Mackorell. Mr. Chas. W. Smith of the StraussSmith company, left last night for the northern markets to purchase a fall stock of goods. Mr. J. P. WJiite went over to Jonesvllie last Wednesday to attend the funeral of his uncle, Mr. J. L. McWhirter, who died on Tuesday. Messrs. J. A. W. White of Louisville, Ga., and James and Robert White of Chester, spent Saturday in Yorkvllle, the guest of their brother, Dr. W G. White. Mr. S. B. Lathan, formerly of Hickory Grove, Is now manager of the Woodmen of the World ror tne state of Virginia, with headquarters at Norfolk. Mr. W. W. Dixon and family of Winnsboro, are visiting in Yorkville. Mr. Difon has just been nominated for the house of representatives from Fairfield. Rev. E. E. Gillespie returned to Yorkville Saturday and filled his pulpit at the Presbyterian church Sunday morning. Mrs. Gillespie returned home from Blowing Rock yesterday. Capt. H. S. Ross, the popular conductor of the C. & N. W. trains Nos. 9 and 10, is off for a vacation in the mountains of North Carolina, accompanied by Mr. Laban Falls of Gastonia. THE SECOND PRIMARY. The second primary election to settle the Issues as between candidates who failed to get a majority of the votes cast last Tuesday will be held on Tuesday, September 11. The following candidates are to be on the county ticket: House of Representatives. J. W. Ardrey, J. S Glasscock, J. E. Massey, Sr., W. 1. aiaugiuci. County Supervieor. Thos. W. Boyd, John F. Gordon. County Commissioner*. J. Ed Leech, Ladd J. Lumpkin, John C. Kirkpatrick, W. J. Poag. The state ticket to be voted for is as follows: For Governor. Martin F. Ansel, Richard I. Manning. For Attorney Goners!. J. Frazer Lyon, J. W. Ragsdaie. For Railroad Commissioner. J. M. Sullivar, J. H. Wharton. Each voter will vote for two candi dates for the house of representatives. Messrs. Ardrey and Massey, are pledged, If elected to vote against the continuance of the state dispensary, the wholesale establishment, and for a bill that will leave the counties to decide as between prohibition and county dispensaries. Messrs. Slaughter and Glasscock are pledged, if elected, to vote for the continuance of the state wholesale dispensary at Columbia, and to vote also to give the people local option as between county dispensaries under state control and prohibition as now. Each voter must vote for two candidates for county commissioner and one candidate for supervisor. Mr. Martin F. Ansel stands for the , abolition of the state wholesale dispensary In Columbia and for local option in the counties as between prohibition and county dispensaries under county control. Mr. Manning stands for the continuance of the state wholesale dispensary, and practical local option as between county dispensaries under state control and prohibition as now. Mr. J. Fraser Lyon stands for the prosecution of the men who have developed the state wholesale dispensary Into a source of unlimited graft to be used for the enrichment of those in control and for the control of the politics of the state. LOCAL LACONICS. We Will Send The Enquirer From this date until January 1st, 1907, for 68 cents. The 8outh and Western Surveyors. The surveying party of the South and Western railroad, which has been | operating In the western part of the i county for some weeks, for some days past being encamped at Sutton's Spring, three miles from Yorkvllle, , broke camp yesterday and went to ' Gaffney. No positive information could ' be had as to the movements of the j party. Members of the party, however, j told visitors to the camp that there was to be a survey across York to Catawba by way of Rock Hill, and that Charleston was the objective point of the survey. Supervisor Clark Resigns. Mr. D. C. Clark has resigned his place on the county board of supervisors of registration. The resignation was because of a notice from the postoffice department that there was objection to holding positions under both the state and Federal governments. There is no political significance to the resignation. Sale of the Thomson Land. Henry W. Thomson land on Broad river consisting of two tracts, one or 690 acres and the other of 56 acres, was sold yesterday under foreclosure in the case of S. M. McNeel, plaintiff vs. Henry W. Thomson. The property was bid off by H. E. Bomar of Spartanburg for himself and others at $8,600. It Is understood that the purchasers will probably transfer their title to a corporation to be known as the Broad River Land company. Drowned In the Catawba. Fort Mill special of September 3, to the Charlotte Observer: Joseph Vaca, a Spaniard working at the Charlotte Brick company's plant, was drowned in the Catawba river there today. He was sitting on a limb over the water fishing, when the limb broke and precipftated him into the water. He was unable to swim. Four Germans were near in a boat and tried to rescue him, but his body has not been recovered yet The King's Mountain Monument. Capt. Howell of the engineer corps, United States army, went to King's Mountain battleground recently for the purpose of getting information with reference to the location of the monument which the government proposes to locate there. He was accompanied to the battleground by a delegation of the King's Mountain Chapter of the Daughters of the Revolution and a number of gentlemen as follows: Misses Lesslie D. Wltherspoon, Mamie Hughes, Fannie Wardlaw, Daisy Gist, Frances Finley, Pearl Wallace, Annie Wallace, Annis O'Leary, Messrs. B. N. Moore, W. B. Moore, S. M. McNeel, G. H. O'Leary, W. I. Wltherspoon, Edo.-orH Finlpv. Rohert Herndon. Capt. Howell was rather Impressed with the Idea that the monument should be located on the knoll at the eastern end of the mountain, near the old soapstone memorial. His report, however, will probably not be made public for some time yet. Death of Col. R. E. Allison. Lancaster special of September 1, to News and Courier: Col. R. E. Allison, one of the oldest and most successful members of the bar of South Carolina, and ohe of Lancaster's most highly esteemed and honored citizens, died at his home here this afternoon, at a quarter past six. He had been In feeble health for several weeks, though not confined to his bed. His last appearance on the streets was Tuesday, when he rode to the polls to vote for his friend Ansel and other candidates of his choice. Col. Allison was a native of York and was born in January 1830. His father, Robert Turner Allison, was a member of the Secession convention. Col. Allison graduated with second honor from Davidson college in 1852. After teaching school for two years he came to Lancaster and entered upon the .study of the law under Major Minor Clinton. In 1866 he was married to Miss Mary A. Chambers of York, who survives him with the following children: Messrs. J. P., E. C.. R. B. and George W. Allison; Misses Mayme, Mattie and Bell Allison. He also leaves a brother. Dr. J. B. Allison of Yorkville, who was with him when he passed away. Col. Allison was devoted to his profession, but It was characteristic of him to take an active Interest In all matters pertaining to the welfare of his country. For four years he represented Lancaster county in the house of representatives, and while in that body he served on the judiciary and ways and means committees. The South Carolina reports for the past half century show that Col. Allison appeared as counsel on one side or the other of many Important cases heard by the supreme court He was a lawyer of Intense zeal, as well as ability, and always fought for the interest of his clients as long as there was the shadow of hope. CARD FROM BRUN80N. Prohibition Candidate Irravokably Against State Machine. Mr. Joel E. Brunson of Sumter, who ran In the first primary on a straight prohibition platform has sent the following to the Columbia State: Through your columns I ask the privilege of extending my sincere thanks to those prohibitionists of the state who voted for me in the primary electiou. For the good of our cause the vote should have been much larger, but it moves me deeply to know I had the support of the immortal ten thousand ?"all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him." It is not my purpose to be a candidate again for any office in the gift of our people, but I shall work even more vigorously in the future than in the past for clear-cut state prohibition. When the prohibitionists of the state organize they will carry the election for officials, easily, and until they elect officials who are prohibitionists at heart they cannot hope to see prohibition laws properly enforced in any part of the state. The Sumter Daily Item says: "Our fellow-townsman, Hon. Joel E. Brunson, has a decided preference for Manning over Ansel." .. If the Item wishes to make the impression that I am supporting Mr. Manning, it is an error. However warm my friendship for Mr. Manning may haye been, he stands as the representative of the liquor business, and, with or without his consent, as the candidate of the liquor "machine" and I cannot vote for him. It is true, I believe county dispensaries will work more evil in our midst than the state dispensary with all its corruption, but that; is no reason why I should support the dispensary. Joel E. Brukson. Sumter, S. C., Sept. 3, 1906. ? Columbia correspondence of the News and Courier: The average man in politics is as keen to see the hand writing on the wall as any one else and while the dispensary forces have been successful in some instances and are making much ado about it, it is nevertheless a fact that they forget that they have been fortunate in the personnel of the candidates. In Sumter, for instance, Mr. Frazler was elected, and yet he is vigorous in his opposition to it. So in Orangeburg, a strong dispensary county, Mr. J. A. Banks, who openly and strongly favored the Morgan bill, was elected. Senator Tillman tried to defeat him, and every effort was made to beat him, but he won. Florence elected two anti-dispensary men, Kershaw and Shipp, and it will be well for the dispensary folk to remember a lot of such results before they comment too strongly on the house delegations from Union and Lancaster being favorable to the dispensary and the counties having voted the dispensary out. Some of these dispensary advocates are going to favor county dispensaries rather than have the state dispensary in another campaign, purified or unpurifled. < THE OFFICIAL COUNT. Figures as Declared By 8tate Executive Committee. After canvassing the returns from last Tuesday's election the state executive committee on Friday gave out the totals as follows: For Governor. Ansel 39,156 Manning 23,159 Blease 16,959 Brunson 10,118 Sloan 3,368 McMahan 2,243 Jones 870 Edwards 576 For 8enator. Tillman 83,074 Comptroller General Jones 61,132 Walker 45,559 Attorney Qeneral. Lyon 45,272 Youmans 22,975 Ragsdale 28,210 Railroad Commissioner. Summersett 15,848 Wharton 24,636 Sellers 8,622 Cansler 62,661 Sullivan 24,550 Adjutant General. Boyd ~. 64,691 Haskell 31,062 Secretary of 8tate. McCown 51,867 Morrison 20,317 Ragln 13,600 Trlbble 7.422 Lieutenant Governor. McLeod 95,320 State Treasurer. Jennings 96,343 Superintendent of Education. Martin 92,564 The candidates for congress received the following vote: First District. Legare 9,018 8econd District Patterson . J 6,370 Toole 2,845 Hare 2,821 Third District. Aiken 9.293 Boggs 6,802 Fourth District Johnson 12,732 Mahon 2,805 Irby 2,138 Fifth District. Finley . 8,703 Strait 5,158 Seventh District. Lever 13,114 AFTER THE BATTLE. Candidates Most In Columbia to Study the Situation. There were several prominent politicians In the city yesterday. Some came to attend the meeting of the state Democratic executive committee. Others were here to get the news. Among the visitors was Mr. Martin F. Ansel of Greenville, Senator R. I. Manning of Sumter, and Senator Cole L. Blease of Newberry, three candidates for governor. Senator Blease declared that he has nothing more to do with the election of governor for four years. He Ipsists that he will take no part in the race between Mr. Manning and Mr. Ansel although he asserts that his own defeat was brqpght about by Senator Tillman having thrown his support, to Mr. Manning, and he does not feel kindly over this. Mr. Ansel was just smiling?smiling pleasantly and happily. He did this four years ago when he was defeated, and he is smiling now under the brightest prospects for being governor. All that he asks is that his friends will g# to the polls. He feels sure that he his an easy victory If his friends will vote. That is all that he asks of them now. Mr. Ansel's friends held no caucuses so far as could be learned. j The friends of Mr. Richard L Manning had their heads together. While they see the almost overwhelming odds against which they labor, Mr. Manning's friends are cheerful and talk hopefully. They will make a game flght to the last. Mr. Ragsdale was here, too, yesterday. He also will flght to the last, although against such a landslide for his opponent. Mr. Manning denies that there is any combination between himself and Mr. Ragsdale, and the same may be said of. the other candidates. This is a race between Mr. Manning and Mr. Ansel alone and between Mr. Ragsdale and Xr. Lyon. Just what plan of campaign Mr. Manning's friends decided upon is their secret of course, but they are good fighters and determined men. They have an organization and will work hard. Mr. Ansel has no such organization, his vote having been more of unrestrained expression by the people, but he is not asleep and will make such a fight as entitled him to be the solicitor for so many years in the old "fighting eighth." Mr. Lyon was not here yesterday. H|s father. Judge J. Fuller Lyon, stated that Mr. Frazer Lyon is getting ready for the next primary. He has no fears as to the result, but Is tightening up the weak places and expects a sweeping victory.?Columbia State, Saturday. FEATURES OF THE VOTING. Majority of ths Counties Inclined to Ansel and Lyon. Examination of the primary election figures shows that Mr. M. F. Ansel's race was one of the most remarkable in the history of South Carolina politics. The state contains forty-one counties and eight candidates were running for governor of whom four received substantial support. Mr Ansel led the voting in twenty-three counties, receiving a majority over all in Anderson, Charleston, Greenville, Annnnn Plnlronff QnH SnflF? raaiiAf/ivrai, v/vwi?w, * ~r?tanburg. He barely missed obtaining a majority in Cherokee and Greenwood. Mr. Manning received pluralities in twelve counties, but a majority only in his home county of Sumter. Mr. Blease received pluralities in five counties, but a majority in none, and Mr. Brunson received a plurality in one county, Williamsburg. Perhaps the most striking feature of this Greenville man's vote was that In the eighteen counties in which other candidates led, he was as far behind as foyrth in only one, Horry, where the very respectable number of 258 ballots * a kl TT^ o iV.1.^ I? Were cast lur mm. nc noa umu ui five and second in thirteen. In other words, he was first choice in more than half of the counties and second choice in thirteen of the remaining eighteen. [ Geographically, too, Mr. Ansel's vote was well distributed. He carried the whole northern and northern central part of the state except Mr. Blease's county and two adjoining counties, most of the south western counties, several of the central, and Darlington in the heart of the Pee-Dee. ?lr. Manning's pluralities are in Orangeburg and Lexington counties in the same congressional district with Sumter where he lived, In the adjoining county of Clarendon and in other counties of the neighboring Pee Dee and coastal regions. Mr. Ansel set the pace In every part of the state, and had his competitors uneasy even in their supposed strongholds. Mr. J. Fraser Lyon in his contest for attorney general carried twenty-seven of the forty-one counties, his two competitors carrying fourteen. Of the latter nine went to Mr. Rags dale and five to Col. Youmans. Col. Youmans received a handsome support in his old home, Hampton, and its neighbors, Orangeburg, Barnwell, Beaufort and Bamberg, and in his present home, Richland; about 7.000 votes in this part or me siaie. nau 01 inese (,vuu wouia elect Lyon In the second primary, as would one-fifth of the remaining 16,000 votes that Col. Youmans received. No man's record has at any time been mere severely sifted than Mr. Lyon's had been. The vote for Mr. Ragsdale was largely a vote against Lyon. The fight on Lyon was vindictive. It was waged by the enemies that he made doing his duty, and the splendid host which rallied to his support at the polls renews and Inspires faith in the state's integrity and character. Many good men supported Mr. Ragsdale. He has friends and deserves them doubtless, and Col. Youmans is generally beloved and admired in South Carolina, but the issue was too sharply drawn?Lyon . could not be defeated without rebuking that self-sacrificing and wholly patriotic young manhood which is South Carolina's hope In time of need.?News and Courier. MERE-MENTION. Pedro Montt was on Thursday proclaimed president of Chile for five years by the Chilean congress.... Lady Campbell Bannerman, wife of the British premier, Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman, died August 80. The Ice trust, which has been under investigation for several weeks by a New York grand Jury, has |>een "white washed." .Lieut., Gen. Corbin will be retired from the U. 8. army Sept. 16 and will be succeeded by MaJ. Gen. McArthur '.Another shipment of arms and ammunition was made from New York last week for the Cuban government It is probable that the locks of the Panama canal wlll.be 100 feet wide, with ?a usable length of 1,000 feet...... Judge Alton B. Parker has been nominated for the presidency of the American Bar association, which has been in session at St Paul, Minn., the past week. There are no other nominations Nineteen soldiers, found guilty of mutiny, were shot at Sveaborg fortress. In Russia, Friday...... Edward Rosewater, editor and owner of the Omaha Bee, and prominent in Nebraska political and business affairs for forty years, died Friday morning of heart disease The Pennsylvania and Baltimore and Ohio railroads put on the two cent a mile ticket rate Saturday Business failures throughout the United States last week, according to R. G. Dun 4c Co., numbered 138, against 168 the previous week The Sea Island Cotton Growers' association of Georgia and Florida, have adopted reeolutlons asking for a raising of the tariff on Egyptian cotton. ECHOES FROM THE ELECTION. i ' Florence county gave Ragsdale a majority of something over 400 for attorney general; but elected two antidlsrensAry representatives, Kershaw and Shlpp. The dispensary people have the senile; but It Is very cloee. The senate is composed of forty-one members. Of these twelve dispensary senators hold >ver and ten new ones have been elected. There are to be second races In four counties, and the result 1s doubtful; but the probability is that there will be more or less divide. The house majority against the dispensary will be anywhere from 18 to 26. The Counties Fob Governor.?The following shows how the counties lined I up in the race for governor: * Ansel?Anderson, Abbeville, Bamberg, Barnwell, Beaufort, Cherokee, . > J Chester, Col.eton, Charleston, Darlington, Dorchester, Edgefield, Fairfield I ' Greenwood, Greenville, Hampton, Oconee, ' Pickens. Richland. Spartanburg, Union, York. Blease?Aiken. Berkeley, Laurens, Newberry, Saluda. Manning?Chesterfield, Clarendon, Florence, Horry, Georgetown, Kershaw, Lee, Lexington, Marion, Orangeburg,*^ Sumter, Marlboro. Williamsburg county gave Mr. Joel E. Brunson a plurality. 80UTH CAROLINA NEWS." > ? Anderson, September 1: Col.- R. W. Simpson, president of the board of trustees of Clemson "college; stated day that he would call a special meet- ? ing of the board as early as practicable to consider the now famous cow trade and other matters involving criticism cf the college and its management. He is recovering from an illness of several weeks and Is not 5*et able to attend to any business. He referred especially to the caustic celticism by Col. Stiibllng In regard to the purchase of the nine cows for I1.90C. Communications have appeared in .cotintiy papers*.criticising the college/ , At Greepvll)e Mr. Mc- % Mahan, one of the candidates for governor, also took occasion to use some pointed language in reference to Col. Simpson and the college. ? Thomas H. Amos, president of Harbison negro college, Abbeville, has resigned his position and gotten out of the community. It is because of friction be has raised between whites and negroes. Some time ago Amos said in a speech to his graduating class that the independent action of the .negro women had brought the white women to the kitchens and he hoped that the white women would Anally be brought to the wash tups. Some time ago on the occasion of the unveiling of the Confederate mounment some negroes attacked a local white liveryman and the reason is traced to the teachings of Amos. Whites began to reach a point where they were no longer willing to put up with Amos and there was reason to believe that there would be a lynching. A committee of whites waited on Amos and laid the situation before him. He decided that the good of the community and his own wellbeing demanded his resignation and he left out. ? Commissioner of Immigration Watson has cabled from Bremen that the directors of the Nord Deutscher Lloyd line have decided to put ships between Bremen and Charleston. In explanation of the cablegram, the State has the following: Mr. E. J. Watson appears to have WCCII OUtLCOOiUI 111 II10 V1LUI U9 IU 9CUUIV a trans-Atlantic line of^steamers for Charleston. The cablegram printed above was received from him last night. This was the first thing that Mr. Watson proposed to take, up on his arrival at Bremen. Evidently he has been more successful than he had at first expected to be, for he thought it would require several weeks to persuade the North German Lloyds management to make the experiment. A Columbia business man, who heard last night of Ifr. Watson's successful effort, declared that the Immigration bureau has done enough in this one act to warrant Its continuance for at least five years. With freights to Charleston reduced to a minimum that city must grow accordingly, and when Charleston grows the whole state will naturally feel the benefit This will mean enlarged opportunities for the manufacturing Interests of South Carolina and when this steamer prepares to return to Germany it should and no doubt will find on the piers in Charleston more freight than can oe nanaiea in on? inp. inis is a matter of great concern to the business men of South Caroling, and they. no doubt, will Iflve the trans-Atlantic liner all the freight it can handle. Mr. R. Beverly Herbert, jvho Is in ... charge of the bureau' during Mr. Watson's absence, stated that he had received yesterday from Mr. Watson ? a letter stating that he had had a long talk with Mr. Von Thillls, manager of the North German Lloyds, and Mr. Watson felt sure of Mr. Von Thillis' interest and support in the enterprise. Mr. Watson win push this undertaking to a successful fruition and will then take up some other import- * ant matters on which he is engaged.