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Straps and ;farts. ? New York. September 9: The revision committee of the New York Cotton Exchange at its meeting1 today m ide the following changes in grade differences: Strict good ordinary, 162 points off middling instead of 150 points off: good ordinary. 250 points off Instead of 200: low middling, tinged, 225 points off instead of 150: middling, stained. 100 points off instead of 125. The differences will remain in force until the next meeting of the committee on November 21. ? Memphis. September 9: A special from Oxford. Miss., quotes United States Senator W. V. Sullivan, as fol lows, with reference to the lynching last night: "I led the mob which lynched Xelse Patton. and I'm proud of it; I did everything I could to see that he was lynched. He cut a white woman's throat, and of course. I wanted him lynched. When I heard of his horrible crime. I started immediately to get a mob. I did all I could to raise one. I was at the jail last night and heard Judge Roane advise against lynching. I got up and urged the mob to lynch Patton. I aroused the mob and directed them to storm the jail. I had my revolver, but did not use it. I gave it to the deputy sheriff and told him to shoot Patton. I don't care what investigation is made, or, what are its consequences, I am willing to stand them. I will lead a mob in such case any time." ? Washington. September 8: A total of 397.924 bales of cotton ginned rrom the growth of 1908 to September 1st and 6,613 active ginneries are announced in the census report on cotton ginning issued today. This is against 200,278 bales at the corresponding date of 1907, 4,080 active ginneries; 407,551 bales and 6,628 ginneries in 1906 and 476,655 bales and 8,629 ginneries in 1905..! These figures count round as half bales. The report includes 20,514 round bales for 1908; 11.503 for 1907; 21,855 for 1906, and 22,231 for 1905. The report also embraces 1.324 sea island bales for 1908; 85 for 1907: 63 for 1906, and 1,165 for 1905. Counting round as half bales the report gives the following by states for number of bales and active ginneries respectively: Alabama. 26,096 and 966; Arkansas, 319 and 110; Florida, 2.291 and 82; Georgia. 62,940 and 1,419: Louisiana, 4,219 and 385: Mississippi. 4,261 and 546; North Carolina. 98 and 28; Oklahoma, " " ~ ' A AAA J /?OT. 8 and <; soutn Carolina, v.tov <uiu ?oi, Tennessee, 6 and 3; Texas, 288,347 and 2.432. ? On October 19, the Rosebud Indian lands, a considerable territory on the south line of South Dakota, are to be opened to settlement. The lands are described as very desirable for farming and stock raising. When the other Rosebud lands in Gregory county were opened, four years ago, 106,000 registered for the lottery drawing by which the government determines the order of choice. A much larger "territory is to be opened this fall than then, and, taking into account the financial depression in the east, a tremendous number of registrations is expected. People may send in their applications by mail or otherwise to the superintendent after they have been sworn to in Dallas, Chamberlain, Gregory, or Presho, South Dakota, or at Valentine, Nebraska. Persons who are successful in the drawing will be permitted to take up 160 acres or less, at some date after March 1, 1909, and may obtain title by making the required residence and cultivation and the payment of $6 an acre for all lands entered prior to June 1, 1909, or $4.50 an acre for lands entered under the president's procla-J matlon after that date. ? Waxhaw, X. C.. Enterprise: The Seaboard Air Line, now in receivers' hands, will in all probability be put up and sold by the United States court the latter part of February or the first of March. It is understood that a number of improvements of the property will be made before the sale of the roaa. Anticipating a saie, u is reported that a quiet but steady fight for future control is being waged by two rival factions?the one headed by John Skelton Williams, and the other by Thomas F. Ryan, who is leader of the interests who were in charge of the road when it was placed in the hands of the receivers. No definite information can be secured as to the intentions of the Williams faction, which is said to be working quietly, waiting for a move by the Ryan interests. The latter are said to be equally as silent, awaiting some announcement of the plans of the Williams forces. In this connection it is reported that plans are belntr made bv E. H. Harriman to se cure the Atlanta and Birmingham division of the line, which will give him a direct outlet to Atlanta for the Illinois Central. While Harriman owns the Central of Georgia from Birmingham to Savannah, the Atlanta and Birmingham division of the Seaboard would give him direct entrance into Atlanta. ? Chicago, September 10: John W. Kern, Democratic vice presidential nominee, will make a speaking 'trip in the south in October and the national committee is now arranging the itinerary. He will deliver one or two speeches in Maryland and will speak in all probability in West Virginia and Delaware the first week in October, Mr. Kern will speak in Winston-Salem, N. C., October 7, when the state fair will be In progress. The vice presidential candidate is also being urged to make speeches in Georgia and Tennessee. Senator Gore of Oklahoma and George Fred Williams of Massachusetts are to stump the northwestern states. Col. Moses C. Wetmore of the finance bureau announced tonight that 1.500 Democratic newspapers had joined in the movement to raise a popular subscription fund with which to run the Democratic campaign. He says in his opinion every Democratic newspaper in the country will join in this movemertt. "The Democratic press is doing a great work," said Col. Wetmore. "and if all the papers that favor the election of Bryan and Kern would go to work in earnest in this matter of collecting funds I believe we would get the biggest part of the money necessary to successfully conduct our fitrht. This is a real contest and all nur resources will be taxed to combat the Republican party, which will secure the money it needs through its rich agencies that have received legislative protection from it." ? Atlantic City. N. J.. September 8: Congressman Overstreet, a member of) the monetary commission appointed to study the banking and monetary systems of Europe, has just returned to this country. Discussing the work of the commission, he said: "The banks of France and England are more conservatively and safely managed than the banking institutions of this country. A great deal of our financial trouble grows out of bad management and the accepting of bad paper. The banks of England and France." he continued, "accept only gilt-edge paper, and in none of them did we find any conditions like those shown recently in this country. The banks of those countries will not assist in promoting schemes or business ventures. A man must have the money to start an enterprise. He cannot go to a bank and get his note discounted even should the indorser be considered amply able to meet the obligation. In other words the banks abroad follow trade and do not try to increase their revenue by assisting in development. The reverse is true in this country. The banks, both state and national, have helped make progress by lending money to now enterprises. The result is that we are a hundred years ahead of Europe in business and commerce, but the time has 'come when we must make a change in our system. The commission gave especial attention to the workings of the postal savings banks of England and France. The bankers of Paris gave us a bit of information which surprised us. They said that at least *400.000,000 in gold was hoarded by the people of France outside of banks. The Credit Lyonnaise is richer than the Bank of France. It has 1400 branches and deposits of $60,000,000, with a capitalization of $30,000,000." (The \lorhnllf (inquirer. Entered at the Postofflce in Yorkville as Mail Matter of the Second Class. YORKVILLE. S. C.j FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 11. 1908. Now then, let us get down to business ! It is time to make the possession of a registration certificate a prerequisite to voting in the primary. Tiik Democratic executive committee met in Yorkville yesterday and canvassed the returns from Tuesday's primary election. The official tabulation shows no material change from the result as published, in the last issue of The Enquirer. It is published however, as a matter of record. SMITH received 1,834 votes in York's second primary against 648 in the first and Evans 1,427 against 1,196 in the first. Smith gained 1,186 and Evans only 231. Smith's gain in the second primary was only 10 votes less than Evans received altogether in the first. while it Is a fact that Mr. Swearingen's blindness gave him the advantage of a striking distinction as compared with the other candidates, still it is not to be assumed that his election is due to sympathy. He gave the voters to understand that he desired their support solely on the ground of the sen-ice he was able to give. We desire to acknowledge the courtesy of -the Columbia State and the News and Courier in supplying The Enquirer with bulletins giving the result of the election throughout the state ' ' m j ? 4. tr? nk.uif last Tuesday nigui. nr Iti.cn ru auvuv i dozen bulletins during: the night and although we found It desirable to go to press rather early, by 10 o'clock, we had satisfactory information as to the general result. There is no question of the fact that the Columbia State and the News and Courier did most excellent work in the senatorial campaign. Except for their efforts the result would have been different. They not only contributed lots of valuable material themselves: but they helped to give additional circulation to the best material that was contributed by the county papers. Some of the county papers did exceptionally good work. Or a readers are invited to make a careful study of the election tables of the first and second primary for the purpose of learning the present pro portionate power of the termer, mm and town vote. The votes given to An?el, Blease, Saye an<' Stewart in the first pririary, will serve as a very sa*.isfaetorv basis of such a study. It will be noted that as a rule the boxes that gave Blease the heaviest vote also voted strongest for Stewart and those 'hat voted strongest for Ansel, as a rule voted strongest for Saye. It will be seen also that in the second primary the Smith vote over Evans was strongest at the precincts where- the farmers constitute the largest proportion of the voters. A careful study of the tables from these viewpoints wiP be well worth the trouble. Tiikkk was considerable stir Saturday and Monday, on account of some tickets that were sent out by Mr. John Clary Evans and which were declared by State Chairman Jones to be illegal. The tickets contained all the names that belonged on the state ticket as is required by the rules of the party; but the name of Mr. Evans was in large, overshadowing tvne. Under the rule of the party all tickets must be furnished by the state and county executive committees and must be alike. Mr. Evans sent his special tickets to most i>f the counties, and Chairman Jones promptly ruled that such of them as might be voted should not be counted. Mr. Evans insisted that the ruling was unfair and in making it. Chairman Jones did him a great injustice. A few were voted at Union and thrown out. Mr. E. D. Smith. Mr. E. D. Smith owes his nomination to the United States senate principally to the fact that he has stood so energetically, ably and persistently for the proposition that the price of cotton should be more directly regulated by the laws of supply and demand. Although it is not to be claimed that Mr. Smith is the originator of this idea, there can be no question of the fact that he has raised it to higher prominence than it has ever occupied before. and he will have the honor of being the first man to carry the issue direct from the people into the highest tribunal of the world, the United States senate. Ten years ago or even five years ago, ninety per cent of the cotton dealers and three ordinary business men out of five, would scoff at the suggestion that there was anything wrong or questionable about the operation of the New York Cotton Exchange. They would claim that the exchange was nothing more than an absolutely accurate barometer as to the ju ice of cotton. reflecting with almost instantaneous precision, each and every change of value, and that all transactions through it were as legitimate and proper as the ordinary transactions daily current in the dry goods stores. But now that the general public understands the subject better, there are few people who have the hardihood to claim that the cotton exchanges are anything else than big gambling hells, whose principal purpose is to fleece the cotton producer of his fair and just profit. < )f course, it is not difficult to fabricate a web of sophistry by which it can he shown to the average uninitiated that the exchanges serve a useful and lawful purpose. Theoretically, it is easy enough to show that for every seller there is necessarily a buyer, and that it is impossible that the legitimate transactions of tellers and buyers could violate the laws of supply and lemnnd, whether those transactions be in real or imaginary commodities: but the increasing number of initiated is realizing that it is not the legitimate so much as the illegitimate transactions of the exchanges that bring ruin to he cotton producer. The exchanges are everlastingly at it. and when they are not robbing the general public for the benefit of their pockets, they are robbing the cotton producers to justify, with the spinners, their right of existence. By this we nean that when the general public, moved by the bane of the gambler, the 1 esire to get something for nothing, is biting well, the sharps on the exchange -ean a fat harvest, plucking lambs and 1- Ortonoinnol Aitfcirlor Ic I'MCS. VMll.V <111 nvtoan'iini uuinuv! .. < Mowed to win, and these are allowed to win onlv as a bait to the greed of thcr gamblers. The fleecing of the nmbs and doves is invariably followed by a lull, necessary for the creation >f more of the same kind and this lull is used by the gamblers at bogus trading imong themselves to shape up prices !n preparation for a new onslaught >f suckers. Though not necessarily so, hese lulls are usually followed by declines. and these declines are used by the exchange manipulator to prove to 'he spinners their usefulness in putting rices to a basis of actual values. Also the declines represent the setting f the traps to catch more suckers. The cotton exchanges are little else than gambling institutions and the most part of it is, they are not even honest gambling institutions. There is <uch a thing as honest gambling. Where the chances are even and every'hing is fair, the thing is honest, to <ay the least of it. But in the case of the cotton exchanges the chances against the outsider are at least ten to one and probably more. Everything is in favor of those on the inside. Just what will be the result in case the gambling exchanges can be suppressed, we do not know. It is possible that the situation may be more or less demoralized for a time; but we are doubtful even as to that. We think that the benefit will redound to the producer at once, and that this benefit will _I<1. increase rarner tnan aiminisn wim time. Anyhow, there is no question of the fact that straightforward, honest dealing is always best for honest men. and as it is certain that the exchanges are permeated with dishonesty, there can be no harm in their abolition. But can Mr. Smith accomplish the abolition of the exchanges? It must be frankly confessed that this is a serious question. The exchanges have tremendous power in Washington, and a single senator cannot make much headway against them. But let us take hope from the fact that we know Mr. Smith to be well equipped for this work. Although he is being sent by South Carolina, he is really and truly the acknowledged and accepted representative of the entire south on this question. The probability is that even* southern senator will voluntarily work with him: but should any of them show a disposition to balk, he will have it in his power to spur them up with the help of the thousands and thousands of cotton producing constituents in their home state. You have a big job on your hands Mr. Smith; but if you do not win out, it will be your own fault. If you are content to keep quiet and have a time of ease and inaction, you will accomplish nothing. If you are willing to fight like you fought for the Southern Cotton association, and like you fought for the nomination you have just won, you will not do a great deal for your own material welfare, but you will accomplish great things for South Carolina and the south. Fuqm talks that the editor of The Enquirer had with numerous editors iver at Gaffney this week, we feel warranted in stating that the concensus of newspaper opinion is that the senatorial race is between Evans, Rhett and Smith. Some are inclined to think the chances are in favor of one and some the others. All are agreed that Mr. Smith is strong bv reason of the reputation he has established as a cyclone orator, and that he is going to get a good vote. It is calculated that Mr. Evans still has many friends throughout the state: but that if he is not nominated on the first ballot his chances are slim for being nominated at all. Practically all who expressed themselves, however, were of opinion that he would be in the second primary with somebody. Mr. Rhett is conceded to be unusually well equipped for the position of senator, and it is conceded also that he is developing great strength throughout the state. Friends >f all of the other candidates are fighting him harder than they are fighting any other candidate, and notwithstanding this he is still growing. But with all. there has been very little excitement in connection with the whole matter. Up to this time, but few of the editors have shown any inclination to tear their shirts over the claims of any of the candidates.?Yorkville Enquirer. July 3. The foregoing1 paragraph was published in The Enquirer immediately after the return of the editor from the annual meeting of the State Press association at Gaffney. We are reproducing it now as a pretty good specimen of reasonably accurate political forecast. Put in the past tense, it would now serve as a very satisfactory review of what has really occurred. RESULT OF THE ELECTION. Smith, Swearingen and Caughman Are the Winners. With practically all the returns in this morning, it developed that the vote cast in the second primary last Tuesday was in round numbers, 110,000, the largest ever known. The total vote for E. D. Smith was 69,318 and the total vote for John Gary Evans was 39,655, giving Smith a majority close around 30,000. In the race for superintendent of education. Styles R. Mellichamp received 48.291 votes, and J. E. Swearingen received 61,288. The race for railroad commissioner was the closest and most interesting. The first fifty or sixty thousand votes reported, showed James Cansler In the lead. Later Banks L. Caughman caught up and afterward first one and then the other was ahead. According to almost complete returns this morning, Cansler had 54,612 and Caughman 55,409?a majority of 797. The probability is that the figures as reported are practically correct: but the official count may show the majority the other way. If Caughman should win. the most notable circumstance in connection with his victory will be that it is the first time a railroad commisloner has succeeded himself, except that Mr. J. C. Wilborn who started in the office on i two year term was afterward elected to a six year term. ? Anderson Daily Mail: Duo or the two bales of new cotton on the market yesterday was bid in by J. W. Maynard at t? cents. It was of the middling grade. This bale was brought to the city by John Bentley, colored, who farms on shares on the land of Karle Harris in the Dark Corner section. The other bale, produced by John Uucker. a colored farmer of Centreville, was hauled back to the plantation. Uucker having refused to accept the prevailing price for the cotton. LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. J. C. Wilborn?Offers for sale the J. Q. Howe lands, 116A acres, near Newport, and the W. H. Stewart lands at Ebenezer. York Supply Co.?Calls attention to a lot of seasonable goods now in its stock. Fall and winter shoes are now arriving. Jno. E. Carroll?Says that $20 an acre will buy a well improved farm of 100 acres, if trade is closed during next two weeks. Thomson Co.?Is showing a line of yard-wide satin for linings in assorted colors: linen for drawn work, Amoskeag outings at 10c yard, and shoes for the whole family. First National Bank?Quotes a well known axiom, but says that a little money laid aside will prove a I good thing in the future. Strauss-Smith Co.?Tells about the fall and winter stock it is now showing and what you may expect of it this fall, and invites you to make its store a visit. Herndon & Gordon?Have sole, harness and whang leathers. Governor Ansel has refused to pardon Lee Gardner, sentenced to the penitentiary from York for violation of the dispensary law. The Boiling Springs High school near Shelby, opened on September 1, with eight teachers and 110 boarding students. Mr. W. W. Jackson of Shelby. who was formerly a student, says he expects the total enrollment to aggregate something like 200. Mr. W. S. Wilkerson of Hickory Grove, was a heavy sufferer from the [ recent flood. He lost a corn crop that was expected to yield a thousand bushels. It will be remembered that much of his cotton and upland corn were destroyed some time ago by hail. Who is the champion campaign lia'r 'n York county? By campaign liar, we mean the fellow who originates all those contemptible little inventions intended to serve the purpose of the moment in working on the prejudice of ignorant voters. Of course, campaign lying is not a very commendable virtue, and the champion is not a hero of the kind decent people are likely to emulate. But. still it is worth while to identify the champion along with 'hose who have been most active in helping him circulate his output. Yes, -pot him. It will be worth something is a c mtribution to the future welfare of the country. FINLEY AND BUTLER. Ketmmo hot'O Kf?on rAAOltXifl from all the counties in the Fifth congressional district, except four small boxes in Kershaw county, and the f gures at hand give Hon. D. E. Finley a majority of 2,772 over Hon. T. B. Butler. The figures by counties are as follows: Butler. Finley, Cherokee 1694 6S6 Chester, official 1168 776 Chesterfield 603 1649 Fairfield 458 995 Kershaw. 29 out of 33 .. 841 732 Lancaster, official 1106 1303 York, official 404 2905 Totals 6274 9046 NEXT DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION. According to the rules of the Democratic party, the precinct clubs have representatives in the county convention on a basis of one delegate for each twenty-five votes, or majority fraction thereof, cast in the last preceding first primary election: Bethel 2 Bethany 6 Blairsville 3 Bullock's Creek 2 Clover 9 C'oates's Tavern 3 Ebenezer 2 Fort Mill 10 Forest Hill 2 Hickory Grove 8 McConnellsville 6 Newport 2 Ogden 3 Piedmont 1 Rock Hill No. 1 20 Rock Hill No. 2 15 Sharon 3 Smvrna 3 Yorkville No. 1 14 Yorkville No. 2 11 WITHiN THE TOWN. ? The trustees of the Yorkville school district have just issued the "Twentieth Annual Report of the City Schools." The report is included in a neat pamphlet of 32 pages and a cover, gotten out by the Ixmdon Printery, at Rock Hill. ? There will be an important change j of schedule on the Carolina and Northwestern railway next Sunday. The southboud train will leave Lenoir at 2 p. m., and Yorkville at 5.49 p. m., and arrive at Chester at 6.35 p. m., connecting there with the Southern's No. 27, which is due in Columbia at 8.45 p. m. ABOUT PEOPLE. Mr. R. Glenn Allison is visiting friends on Hickory Grove R. F. D. So. 2. Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Kirkland of Camden, are guests of the family of Mr. Robt. J. Lindsay. Mr. L. W. Jenkins leaves this afternoon for Spartanburg, to resume his work in the graded schools of that city. Master James D. Grist of Yorkville, went to Bethany Wednesday to matriculate in the Presbyterial High school. Prof. James B. Kennedy left today for a few days in Washington and Baltimore, before resuming his work at Aurora, N. Y. Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Lowrance and children, of Hernando, Fla., are spending a few days in Yorkville, the guests of Mrs. Alonzo Rose. The statement that Mrs. R. L. DeVinney and daughter, had returned from the White Diamond Lithia springswas an error. They expect to remain at the springs for about two weeks yet. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Jackson of Shelby. have been spending a few days with Mr. Jackson's parents, Mr. and Mrs. David E. Jackson, near Union church. Mr. W. W. Jackson is conducting a general merchandise business at Shelby. DEFEATED BY THE FLOOD. A great many people have expressed the opinion that except for the torrential rains just before and during the lirst primary election, the result would have been very different, and since the election there has developed more than sufficient evidence to justify the opinion. Most of the watercourses are in western York, which was overwhelmingly for Sa.ve, for instance, and it was there that the interference with the voting was greatest. Actual count has showed that twenty or thirty Sa.ve men were kept away from each of the precincts of Blairsville, Sharon and Bullock's Creek, and a fair estimate puts iho number tliiit was kept away from Hickory Grove at not less than fifty. Kven the small box at Piedmont was unable by 20 votes to come up to what it did in the second primary. And it was not because the voters did not try to get there. One man who lives on the east side of Turkey creek, but who votes at Sharon waded into the creek up to his neck, but fearing that he could not make the trip, turned back and went up to the Southern trestle, hitched his horse, and a Iked on to Sharon, about three miles n the rain. He voted. Some others rossed bridges that had eighteen or wentv feet of water underneath, and several feet of water above. Many thers were simply stopped by the reeks. It was an absolutely impossi>ility to get across. It is a fact that quite a number of oters, mostly Saye voters, were prevented from reaching Yorkville on iccount of the high water, and similar -eports come from other places. Of course it is not fair to assume that ail of the voters who failed to vote were supporters of Dr. Saye; but ;n view of the fact that Saye had a majority of about fifty in the whole county, leaving out Rock Hill, it is not unreasonable to claim that had there been a full turnout in western York, he would have overcome Stewart's very small majority of 143. YORK BAPTIST ASSOCIATION. The fortieth annual session of the York Baptist association convened with Union Baptist church, four miles northeast of Yorkvllle yesterday at 11 ('clock. The introduction sermon was preached by Rev. Edward S. Reaves, pastor of the Flint Hill and Fort Mill churches, who based his remarks on the text found in I Timothy iii, 14-15. The sermon was one of unusual power, was delivered in a clear, forceful manner and was especially timely and appropriate to the time and place. An unusually large number of delegates were enrolled?each church except two, composing the asociation being represented. The officers who served during the year were re-eiected as follows: Rev. Edward S. Reaves, moderator; Sam M. Gnst, clerk; William F. Boyd, treasurer. The reports sent up by the various churches indicate very clearly that much progress has been made during the past yeai- along various lines, especially in the matters of growth in membership and increase in contributions to the various benevolent objects fostered by the denomination. Among the visitors attending the association are Rev. Dr. T. M. Bailey, corresponding secretary and treasurer of the State Mission board,-who has filled the position he now holds for more than twenty years and has :een during his administration the denomination almost double, both in uimerlcnl strength and financial contributions. No man in the denomination is more loved than is Dr. Bailey, ind notwithstanding the fact that as . vears go, he is now an old man, but otherwise he seems to be as young, zealous and consecrated as when he first took charge of the work along about 1886. Another visitor highly esteemed bv the Baptists of the state ind by all who know him, is Dr. A. J. S. Thomas, editor of the Baptist Courier. The association will continue in session until tomorrow at about noon. During today the principal subjects to be discussed will be foreign, home and state missions. The Woman's Missionary union of the association meets each ear at the same time and place as lie association, but the meeting is separate and distinct. It met today at 19 o'clock, and among other interesting features to the women was an address by Mrs. A. L. Crutchfield of Spartanburg, corresponding secretary of the anion in the state. The Union congregation is entertaining the asociation with its characteristic hospitalitv, which means that naeh delegate and visitor is receiving everv attention that comfort and pleasure could suggest. It Is generally conceded that for whole souled hospitality the Union congregation has few equals >nd no superiors. LOCAL LACONICS. We Will Send The Enquirer From this date to January 1st, 1909. for r?8 cents. An Ancient Subscription. Mr. I. N. Whitesides of Richburg, has sent The Enquirer a receipt that was written for a newspaper subscription in the long ago. It reads: "Received of Wm. Moffatt One Dollar and Fifty Cents in full for subscription to The Farmers Miscellany for one year commencing at No. 1, Vol. 3. "J. E. Grist, "per L. M. Grist. "February 25, 1846." Magistrate For Bethel. Mr. W. M. Bigger has been declared the nominee of Bethel township for magistrate. There was an error in the published statement to the effect that there was to be a second race in this case. It seems that Mr. Bigger received 74 votes and the total vote against him was 70. Mr. H. E. Johnson, the next highest candidate considered the idea of protesting the vote on the ground of alleged illegality of two votes cast at one of the boxes; but withdrew the protest. What's the Minimum? Charlotte Observer: While officials UL LIIC rauilCIO UlllUU, ?? uu uikv?uv.u the national convention at Fort Worth, Texas, last week, kept strictly confidential the minimum price agreed upon for cotton, it has leaked out that 12 cents was the figure fixed upon. No affirmation or denial of the rumor can be secured, but there is a distinct intimation that this is a fact. In view of the large number of warehouses which are being erected over the country by this organization, it looks as if there was a determination on the part of the farmers to get good prices for the staple this season. Cotton is now selling around 9 cents, which necessitates a jump of 3 cents, if the farmers realize their minimum price. Rock Hill Water Situation. Rock Hill, September 9: The news which came here Saturday, of the putting into the hands of a receiver of the Rock Hill Water, Light and Power company, by a motion from the eastern bondholders of the Southern Public Service corporation, a corporation controlling the power plant here and at Florence, Darlington and Marion, was not altogether a surprise. The matter (o i-lmi'ofl with rnntiv rlifferenees of opinion by the citizens of Rock Hill. It is stated by a local stockholder that the company is now in position to furnish proper service and to do anything reasonable which the city asks, and thut they will go to work immediately to do. that. Upon the other hand the city has been advised by eminent nonresident counsel that the franchise held by the Water, Light and Power company is not an exclusive one, and that there is nothing in the way of the city disregarding the company and going to work independently to better conditions. Upon the strength of this advice a petition is now being circulated which asks the city council to order an election to authorize an issue of bonds for as much as is necessary, up to ?>50.000, for the purpose of installing in independent system of water works and sewerage. To rehearse a well known matter, the Water, Light and Power company, for several years has, t is claimed by the citizens, failed to live up to its contract in that it has failed to supply an adequate amount of water and keep up the required pressure for fire purposes. As a consequence the city has been to a great extent unprotected even in case of fire. To think of sewerage when there is not enough water for fire protection is. of course, absurd on the face of it. That is what the city is clamoring for and must have. It is a well known fact hat no one can count upon what alegal decision is going to be, no matter what the facts are. or whether the decision is by a judge or a jury, either civil or coroner's. For this reason there are those who believe that it would be well for the citv to take just i little more time and have the matter ?f the relation between it and the Water. Light and Power company absolutely settled by law. 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Knowing Mr. Tate to be an upright, honest and truthful gentleman, we are compelled to accept his statement as facts and conclude that he was not, as has been intimated, a party to the affair; that he had no intimation that the fight would occur, and that he did not show artiality to either of the combatants during the fight. As to whether the alleged causes for the affray were of a nature to justify the assault, we shall oermit those who are more familiar with the circumstances than the Times to decide. Our opinion of the matter as a whole is that it was indeed unfortunate for all parties concerned. It would have been a great deal better had the alleged statements been left unsaid and the difficulty averted. (Manning Times.) The attack upon Editor Grist of The Yorkville Enquirer by two thugs, because the editor was opposed to one of their friends, was so cowardly that the people of York county would do well did they offer inducements to the assaulting couple to leave York, and the state. There is no fairer newspaper in South Carolina than The Enquirer, it never has been extreme, it is always conservative: outspoken for that which it advocates, at the same time always moderate in language. Cowards get no sympathy from a generous public. ( Associate Reformed Presbyterian.) That was certainly an outrage perpetrated on Editor Grist, the week of election. It is not creditable to the county. ("J. L. S." in Gaffney Ledger.) We fully endorse what The Ledger says^of the brutal, cowardly attack on termor nave ijrrisi, ui me iumville Enqtiirer. We know nothing of the parties who made it and don't care to. We have been reading The Enquirer for half a century and pronounce it one of the best and most consistent newspapers in the land. MR. J. E. SWEARINGEN. Hon. John J. McMahan's Estimate of the New Superintendent. The following, published as an advertisement during the campaign, by Mr. John J. McMahan, former superintendent of education, continues worth while to those who are interested in knowing about Mr. J. E. Swearingen, the blind man who has been elected to the office of state superintendent of education: To the Editor of The State: Your publication today of a contribution from a Mr. Etchison, arguing against Mr. Swearingen that his blindness incapacitates him for the duties of state superintendent of education, justifies my recital of a few facts in refutation of this view. The full de-. tails of Mr. Swearingen's life would make a wonderful story of divine providence and human achievement surpassing romance. Accidentally shooting out his eyes when a large boy (after his mind had been stored with the facts of the visible world as they come into the life of a country boy), he was selected by his father as the beneficiary of a small life insurance policy, designed to protect him against pauperism, which might overtake one blind, and therefore supposedly helpless. Upon the early death of his father, the boy (full of confident courage and high ambition born of unusual genius) determined to invest his small patrimony in a college education. Xot content with completing the course in the school for the blfnd at Cedar Spring, he came to the South Carolina col lege, undeterred by the universal advice that he was attempting the impossible. He felt the divine call to do a man's work. He alone knew the power within him?a mind to surmount all difficulties and perform miracles. At the state college, where no provision or exception was made for his peculiar situation, he soon proved his ability to hold his own, asking no favors. Those who regarded his admission as an experiment came to comprehend that with him there was never reason to doubt his ability to do with greatest efficiency what he undertook. The faculty of the college hesitated to allow him to take up the study of physics, the professor, Maj. Sloan, saying that this subject, taught by demonstrations in the laboratory, could not be pursued by a man without eyesight. However, permitting him to try, this noble-hearted professor soon reported, ' "By George, I found he could see more < than those who had eyes." His power- . ful mental vision, with his store of childhood recollections of colors and , forms, enabled him to see in imaglna- j tion, and, seeing, he understood. In higher mathematics he was a ] marvel. He went through the longest , and most complex demonstrations of , geometry and trigonometry with easy , mastery. It taxed the professor to | keep up with him, as his mind rested , on no part, but saw the whole in one \ mental grasp. , His taste, however, ran still more to history and the science of government. J He was soon a brilliant orator, speak- j ing profoundly on the philosophy of . politics and eloquently for the rights , >f man. He was also a leader in the , Y. M. C. A. work, and an exemplar of ] Christian manhood. j Fellow students kindly served as , reader for him in the preparation of f the morrow's lessons and soon learned j to value and eagerly seek a companion- , ship in study which gave them the ( benefit of his luminous explanations, Thus he went through college, with , first honor in an able class. Men be- t tan to argue that blindness Is an ad- t vantage, promoting the concentration of thought and the development of pure mind. It can not, therefore, be feared that * >fr Swearingtn's blindness will pre- I vent his measuring up to the fullest 1 requirements of the office of state su- c i s i x I fc I rx I ta I John (iarv Kvans ' ?J.L J i 1 ?j aH K.I). Smith i ? J K ! ' fg _ j S. H. Melliebamp = cp* ! J. K. Swearingen S5 ? I I oj ^ j James Cansler j| lC/5 ? j B. L. C'aiighiiian | S I Total Vote Cast for I StateOffleeis. J | T. B. Butler I g ? ,? ??S -.i | D. K. Finley | ^ ^4 ^ I Tims. W. Boyd ? . x ' ~ 'x n r., I ('. F. (Jordnn -2 e? u-j SIJ'J "unter | 5 po w I B road us M. Love = c? g | W. A. Ay cock j o _ I M.S. Carroll 5 * I |e I [g | John C. Kiikpatrick' 1 ^0 ^ | L. J. Lumpkin ? Total Vote Cast For I County Officers perlntendent of education. This is an office, not of mechanical routine, not of physical Inspection of details of work (as is largely the office of superintendent of a school or even of a county). If reduced to this, it Is a farce. It should be an office of inspiration and leadership through moral and intellectual power, rare personality. As compared with such a force, always needed to blazon the outlines of progress, eyesight is of insignificant value. Eyes are common and cheap. Cut off from much that fritters away thought and life, John E. Swearingen will revolve in his mind ideals of educational statesmanship and will guide with rare ability the constructive work which peculiarly belongs to that office. Respectfully, John J. McMahan. Columbia, S. C., Sept. 7, 1908. SENATOR-ELECT SMITH. Something About the Nominee Chosen In Tuesday's Primary. E. D. Smith, who will be the next senator from South Carolina, was born about forty-five years ago at Lynchburg, In what was then Sumter county. His father was a Methodist minister. One of his brothers, the Rev. C. B. Smith, is now a presiding elder in the Methodist conference of this state. Another brother, the late Bishop Coke Smith, established for him-e.f a great reputation throughout the south. E. D. Smith attended South Carolina college, was graduated at Woftord college and took the degree of master of arts at Vanderbilt university. Several medals were won by him while a student in college. His education completed, Mr. Smith rntni'na/l tn T tmnhhitrc* nnrl fnnl/ i?r-? ? v c c* ? i?v-v* iw u/iiwiiuui^ uwu i'/un up farming as a life-work. He is still a farmer. His own experience on the farm convinced him, however, that what the farmers as a whole needed to do was not to devote all their attention to making the soil produce something, but to give some attention also to seeing that they get a fair price for their products. He began to talk this belief of his that the farmer should not merely be an agriculturist, a tiller of the ground, but that he should understand also something of business methods; that he should understand not only what fertilizers to use and when to plow and when to plant and how far apart the rows should be and such matters as these, but that he should know also when to sell and where to sell and how to sell; that he should understand not simply the cost of producing a pound of cotton but the value of that pound of cotton in the markets of the world. Singular though the statement may now seem, this doctrine sounded novel and strange in the ears of perhaps a majority of those who first heard Mr. Smith propound it Nevertheless, few who heard him failed to be Impressed. In a modest way Mr. Smith continued to preach his belief, first to one group of farmers and lawyers and business men. and then to another, and continued what seemed to him a campaign of education. It was not until 1905. however, that by a speech which he made at New Orleans before a gathering of the business men and cotton growers of the entire south, he first attracted to himself and his views general attention. The members of this New Orleans convention were among the most prominent men of the south. Mr. Smith's address electrified them and led to his appointment as organizer for the Southern Cotton association. Mr. Smith's work in this capacity is too well known in South Carolina to make it necessary to call special attention to it here. The views he sought to propagate had the endorsement of thousands of bankers, merchants. lawyers, mill men and educat-l and intelligent farmers. No other one man has done so much to awaken the farmers of the south to a knowledge of the value of cotton and to the necessity of some methods of putting 't upon the market. THE PRIMARY SYSTEM. Subject to Abuse and In Need of Revision. The primary is the only real election we have in this state. It decides who congressmen, state officers and all county officers are. With our election machinery there is no appeal from the decision of a primary. We are slaves to the party and the machine. If an ex-convict should be nominated, there is no chance to reverse the unwise vote of the people. A scoundrel that has a glib tongue and who is able by misrepresentation and fraud to fool the people, may be nominatel for a high and honorable office. The voters are so bound by oath that they have to support him at the general election. Such is the condition. There is no way to Keep unwortny ana dishonest men from running for office. But more rigid rules may be adopted for the conduct of the primary election. A registration ticket is required to vote in the general election, which is of minor importance, but Dick, Tom and Harry can vote at the primary. All that is necessary is for their names to be on a club list. Of course they have to swear that they are entitled to vote. How many men voted in the recent primary who have not been residents of the state two years and of the county one year and of the precinct four months? At the smaller precincts the managers or some responsible bystanders may know all the 1 voters. It is easy then to reject such is would vote contrary to the law. But in the towns and especially In mill villages the population is shifting all the time. An eager friend of i special candidate will cause the name of the voter to be put on the dub list regardless of his right to vote. Perhaps half the voters do not know he requirements. Some of them do , lot care. They can ease their con- ' science, if it needs any easing, by say- ' ng they did not know the law. If a 1 egistration certificate is necessary in ' he general election, it is much more ' so in the primary. We do not like this \ irimary machine any too well, but here should be a check to prevent ' unlawful votes.?Carolina Spartan. ' 5 TA?. T 1^.1,,,. tVin TTnl/tn eheulnlnn - LJl . lilimn, UIC LIIK'Il |Mlj r* I V_ I cl 11 I vho has been on trial during the past t ew days, charged with the killing' of ( ^ucy Lipsey, a negress, has been ac- t juitted. 1 SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Spartanburg special of September 1 to Columbia State: Governor Evans .vould not comment on the results tolay further than to say he regretted '.he trouble in reference to the tickets, which the young men in his office lad sent out. with his name In large, black face type. He said the tickets were perfectly lawful, but that the action of Chairman Jones had hurt him and caused an unpleasantness he Treatly regretted. He Is quoted as saying that he is satisfied that the tand the chairman of the state exec ?- ~ J* + utive committee iook was jmuyicu purposely to Injure him. ? The Columbia State: Gov. Ansel has awarded seven beneficiary scholarships for the Medical college at Charleston. The following were named: W. U. O'Bryan, Manning. First congressional district; J. H. Cannon, Ridgeland, Beaufort county, Second congressional district; E. E. Epting, Willlamston, Anderson county, Third congressional district; John M. Beardon, Enoree, Spartanburg county, Fourth congressional district; Philip W. Hunter, Yorkvllle, Fifth congressional district; Floyd D. Rogers, Lake City, Williamsburg county, Sixth congressional district, and George H. Hennies. Columbia, Seventh congressional district. ? I^aurens special of September 9, to Anderson Daily Mail: Facts of later development concerning the failure of the Harris Spring* management have proved quite interesting and somewhat sensational. The'Harris Springs company leased the'hotel to Mr. Henry Z. Rees for the /season. It cannot be learned Just where Mr. Rees is from, but it is known that he once managed large hotels in Atlanta and Richmond, and came to Harris highly recommended. Now it is current talk that he has rlpcilt Hlahnnp?tlv with lftSflnrs IPAV Ins: the place without having paid any of the rent and presumably carrying with him a large amount of the hotel -<>ceipts. ? Columbia special of Wednesday to the Charlotte Observer: As the result of an alleged attempt to bribe a voter In the Columbia mill district precinct yesterday M. F. Fisher, a mill operative, and W. G. Bamett, an electrician at the Olympia mill, were before Magistrate Fowles today on a warrant charging them with violating section 273 of the criminal code, which prohibits procuring a vote at any election "by the payment, delivery or promise of money or other article of value." The two men were accused of paying M. J. Morris, night watchman at the Granby mills, 50 cents to vote for B. L. Caughman for railroad commissioner and W. H. Cobb for solicitor. They waived preliminary and the case was sent to the upper court, which is now In session. The case was worked up by J. F. Herlorg, a member of the grand jury for this county. Bad blood had existed for some time between him and Mr. Caughman over Mr. Caughman's alleged promise and failure to nay him for working for him. Morris says he was offered the money to vote, but that he did not vote the ticket given him. although he accepted the money afterward so as to have the evidence against the two men. The 'ocal law and order league Is pushing the case against the defendants. Some time ago the league offered a reward of SI00 for evidence to convict In any case of attempted bribery at the polls. MERE-MENTION. President Roosevelt In his final annual message to congress, will probably recommend an Increase in the numerical strength of the standing army to 100,000 men, on the ground that the 60,000 mpn provided at present Is not sufficient to take proper care of forts and posts... .There were eightyfive stragglers left by the American fleet when It left Melbourne a few days ago. A large percentage of these sailors will be returned to the fleet at Its next stopping place... .Forest fires did damage to the amount of $1,000,000 In Minnesota and Wisconsin last week. The town of Chisholm, Minn., was destroyed An explosion of gasoline in a Boston garage early Sunday morning, caused the destruction of eighty automobiles, valued at nearly $200,000. The National Bottlers' Supply Co., of New York, has been forced into bankruptcy, said to be due to the spread of the prohibition movement throughout the country The proI posed strike of the 39,000 trolley car workers of New England will probably not materialize... .An anarchistic demonstration of considerable proportions was pulled off in Cooper Union hall, New York, Monday?Labor Day?and the police made a number of arrests. There were no serious disturbances. It Is probable that Candidate Taft will make a campaigning tour reaching from New York to San Francisco. Governor Hanley of Indiana, on Tuesday, gave as one of his reasons for nnlllnir nn pytra neon Inn nf the TnHlonn legislature, "to free Indiana of the accursed liquor traffic." Mrs. Thos. B. Warren, a social leader of St. Louis, committed suicide Monday night, by shooting herself with a revolver Nine lives were lost In a New York garment factory fire Tuesday. The fire is believed to have been of Incendiary origin Five men were burned to death and a dozen were seriously injured by a fire which destroyed the Hotel Belmont at Denver, Col., Tuesday morning One boy was killed and two were probably fatally Injured by an automobile at New Brighton, N. Y., Wednesday morning Congressman Lllley, of submarine boat scandal fame, has been nominated for governor by the Republican party of Connecticut The schooner Phyllis Gray went down in the English channel Wednesday and nineteen of her crew were drowned A hot wave swept / through Texas on Monday and Tuesday. At Strawn on Monday the thermometer registered 112 degrees The legislative committee of the Temperance society of the Methodist Episcopal church, is making a determined effort to defeat Speaker Cannon for re election to congress The public schools of New York city will open Monday with an approximate enrollment of 600,000 boys and girls in the 500 public schools. More than 15,000 teachers will be employed. Hester's Annl'AL Report.?In his annual report on the cotton crop of 1907-08 issued tonight, Secretary Hester, of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange, quotes some very Interesting figures In connection with the shifting of the seat of the American cotton milling industry to the states of the cotton belt. He says that these conditions have been more In evidence during the season just closed than ever before, the consumption of American cotton in the south, even under the most unfavorable condition having been in round figures 2,193,000, while the north totaled but 1,973,000 or 220,000 bales less. In the increase in the consumption of cotton, Virginia comes first. Oklahoma second and Georgia third. Mr. Hester's report of the crops of the different states is given as follows in thousands of bales, showing a decrease under 1906-07 of 1,939,016 bales and an increase of 225,978.over that of 1905-06. Alabama, 1,171 against 1,289 last year; Arkansas, 787 against 940 last ear; Florida, 60 against 65 last year; Georgia. 1,964 against 1,695 last year; Louisiana. 673 against 995 last year; Mississippi. 1696 against 1,541 last year; North Carolina, 689 against 663 last vear: South Carolina, 1,226 against 957 iast year; Tennessee, 335 against ?-72 last year; Texas, 2,221 against 4,050 last year: Oklahoma. 950 against 344 last vear: total crops 11,572 against 13.511 last year. A f r? U oof At* nut thn anlnHloQ In thP south at 10,661,308, Including' old, idle and not complete, against 10,508 395 last year and remarks that this Is the smallest increase reported in twenty rears. Bouquet Fqr Mr. Fi.nley.?The News and Courier is especially gratified, though it would not disparage the merits of his opponents, at the reflection of Mr. D. E. Finley, the dean if the delegation. We have been familiar with his political career since 1890. In spite of pressure, in spite if clamor, and In time of political tumult and passion, he has always been aire of his course. He has been outspoken, bold and honest. We know of 10 better type of the rugged, sterling ind unafraid Democrat In South Carilina, who has convictions and never lesitates to speak them, than D. E. Finey.?News and Courier.