The times and democrat. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, February 25, 1908, Page 2, Image 2
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THE Legislature has adjourned
a- dgone home. It worked hard, but
accomplished nothing.
Gov. Ansel has lost ground in this
county, and we believe Feathsrstone
will beat him in t>e primary.
rFormer Secretary of the Treasury
Shaw is running about the country
like a politician out of a job, but
anxiens to get one.
The Ohio Republicans are so bit
ter against each other that they
are appealing to the Courts to
decide which owns the "machine."
The Anderson Mail thinks that
Southern states that send Foiaker
delegates to the Chicago convention
should require them to leave their
razors at home. Not a bad idea.
As the Legislature hardly ever
goes put of its ranks for candidates,
it is dollars to doughnuts tnat Sen
ator Latimer's successor will be
taken from either the Senate or the
house.
Congressman Haugen, of Iowa,
has just discovered after serving ov
er eight years in Congress, that the
Wire Trust.is plundering.the farmers
It takes a long time for Republicans
to find out that the tariff protects
the Trusty_
The passing of the sentence of
death upon Lieut. Gen. Stoessel is a
harsh and tragic ending to the ca
reer of this Russian commander,
who three years ago, was acclaimed
around the world as the "hero of
Port Arthur."_
The indications now are that Ex
Governor Heyward will be in the
race for United States Senator.
He is one of the most popular men
that has ever held office in South
Carolina, and if he does enter the
race, he will make a fine run.
? All the Republican Presidential
candidates pretend to have it in for
the ''malefactor of great wealth,"
hut when the candidate is choser.
the M. O. G. W. will be invited as
usual by the Campaign manager to
help fill the campaign "barrel."
The "Grand Old Party" has evi
dently seen its best days, for the
factional fights and the breakdown
of prosperity has made the Republi
can elephant look lean and worried,
quite different from its former ap
pearance of complacent prosperity.
The Hon. Cole L. Blease says the
Governor an i some other folks are
conspiring to prevent his election
as Governor. We think he is mis
taken about that, but had he cnarg
ed the people with such a conspira
cy we would be disposed to agree
with him.
The Bishops of the African M. E.
Church have declared for Senator
Foraker for President, and intimate
that certaian elements of the ne
groes may bolt if he is no nominated,
And this occurs under the very shad
ow of the White House. Whither
are we drifting?
When Bryan is ejected President
next November we hope he will
heap coals of fire on the News and
Courier by appointing its genial Ed
itor, Major J. C. Hemphill, as our
Ambassador to the Court of St.
James or some other equally impor
tant post of honor.
Word comes from Washington
that J. Piermont Morgan, the Wall
Street finencicr has joined the Taft
boomers but of course all the Wall
Street financieis will be for whoever
the Republicans nominato. though
in the meantime they may cuss Ted
dy as a bungler of prosperity.
The Anderson baily Mail says
"Anderson has a man who reads all
the editorial page of the News and
Courier every day." There is no
telling what trials and tribulations
some folks have to encounter while
passing through this vale of tears,
The Anderson man has our sympa
Hard Fight Before Him.
The Sumter Item thinks with
Senator Cole L. Blease in the race
for governor the campaign will be
lively and that Gov. Ansel is con
front* d with a more >erious propo.
sition than Mr. Martin's threat to
meet him at Philippi. The Item
goes on to say that "Mr. Blease is a
strong stump speaker, quick, re
sourceful and aggressive, adroit to
take advantage of every weakness
or mistake of his opponent and re
lentless in pressing any advantage
he may gain. Gov. Ansel may win
a second term, but he will find the
race he has to run far different from
the leisurely stroll to a second term
that he anticii ated. Precedent is a
strong bridge, but at best it will be
severely strained if it carries Gov.
Ansel safely to reelection. Mr.
Bleasr will probably not win the
nomination himself but the fight he
will make on Gov. Ansel, the cut
ting and slashing exposure he will
make of the fundamental weakness
of a phlegmatic administration,
will redound to the benefit of the
strongest and most popular of the
other candidates. The campaign
for governor pron ises from present
I indications to over-shadow in inter
est the senatorial contest, and with
Ansel, Feathc-rstone, Richards and
Blease in the race the^e is the pos
sibility tha} the second term as a
matter of course nrecedent will re
broken." We *hir,k the Item has
sized up the situation about right.
We have no idea that Gov, Ansel will
have a walkover, in this neck of
the woods he is about'as unpopular
as Heyward was popular. Some one
has said the Governor is as cold as
a frozen oyster.
Another Supreme Court Needed.
The Dorchester Eagle says:
"Thereis complaint now that tie
county is put to unneccesary ex
pense to care for one J. M. Walker,
who has been confined in the county
Jail for more than a vear. The
case was tried nearly a year ago
and Walker was sentenced to 15
years in the state penitentiary, but
has remained in jail here nending a
decision from the Supreme court.
The county is paying $9 per month
board for Walker and the board is
getting tired of it. An investiga
tion into the matter has been order
by the supervisor." The Legisla
ture has just established two more
circuits to relieve the congestion of
cases that accumulates in the cir
cuit courts, and may be at the next
session it can be induced to establish
another supreme court to work off
the congestion of cases that has ac
cumulated on the hands of the old
one.
An Object Lesson.
In the hold of one lake steamer, 4
21,000 bushels of wheat were carried
recently from Superior to Buffalo.
Think of the pretty baking and
loaves of bread involved in that sin
gle boatload of grain. It weighed
about 25,260,0^0 pounds and will mill
into 18,945,000 pounds of flour, con
vertible into more than 20,000.000
j pound loaves of bread?three loaves
a day for each man in Admiral Evan's
fleet during the whole cruise of a
year and a half. Assuming that
this wheat was harvested from lands
which give an average yield, the
crops from 33,680 acres were pour
ed into the ship. It took 12,000
farm wagon loads to carry
the wheat to the railway
stations and 300 cars of for
ty tons capacity were hauled to Su
perior to make that one cargo. Here
we have an object lesson of the val
ue to farmers of water transporta
tion and what the canaling of our
waterways will mean,
Morgan and Rockefeller.
The "interests" that inspired the
Aldrich Currency bill will hardly
know it when the Senate gets
through with it. "Whatever the
minor eccentricities of it's varigated
texture" remarks the New York
Journal of Commerce, "one vicious
pattern will run all through it. It
will provide for an emergency addi
tion to the regular volume of cur
rency, secured by a deposit of mis
cellaneous bonds and heavily taxed, j
This will be a mere exaggeration of
the radical defect of the existing
system, gathering the- corrupt hum
or, with which it is infected into a
morbid excrescence." This severe
criticism from the leading business
and financial newspaper of the
country, should cause a Republican
Congress to pause before it fnrther
complicates our cumbersome finan
cial structure by makeshifts.
Controlled by the Few.
Senator La Follette says that sev
enty six men, holding 1600 director
ships in the great business ennccrns
of the country, control the business
of the nation and that the railroads
are controlled by eight men. No
wonder the last Republican National
Convention refused Senator La Fol
lette a seat in that convention, and
that there is an evident conspiracy
to keep him out of the coming con
vention. The Reoublican machine
does not allow such home thrusts to
be made by those labeled Republi
cans.
Can Vote it Out.
A bill has passed the Legislature
allowing any incorporated town
where a dispensary is located to re
quest an election upon a petition of
01 e-f< ur.h of the qwMfwvi v-.;. r? in
such election to be ordered after
twenty days notice. Under its terms
any town can secure an election up
on removing the dispensary, in which
election only the voters inside the
incorporate limits of those towns
can vote. It dees not apply to
county seats, and several of the
counties are exempted from the pro
visions of the bill. This is a good
law, but it should have been made
applicable to the entire State.
Setting Eggs for Sale.
Plymouth Rock Eggs for sale at
$1.00 per setting of 15 eggs.
Mrs. Isaac Bennett,
2-25. Jamison, S. C.
P.'iUljps Improved Cotton Seed.
Hay the; ie.iuK.j Phillips Im
proved Cotton Seed and make more
cotton this year. Write for pamph
let and prices or see J. L. Phillips,
Orangeburg, S. C. l-10-3m.
The State does not think we are
exactly fair in asking "if the attor
ney-general can tote a pistol around
and challenge mortal combat, why
j can't other folks do the same?" We
would not do the attorney-general
1 an injustice, as our sympathies are
[entirely with him in his efforts to
bring to justice every man who took
I graft, but we cannot endorse his ac
I tion in the Koester matter. If we
have done him an injustice we hum
|bly apologize. But will the attor
ney-general say he was not toting a
pistol that memorable day?
Mr, Featherstone is a good, clean
man and would make a good, clean
governor, and will be much harder
to head off tnan some people think.
Notice to the PubUc.
Having purchased the entire bus
iness of "The Co-operative Store," I
will continue in my own name.
Thanking my patrons for past fa
vors, I respectively solicit a contin
ance of the same and promise my
best efforts to serve the public with
honest dealing and the best prices
consistent with sound business.
Respectively,
Lewis G. Funderburk.
Notice of Dissolution.
The copartnership heretofore ex
isting between the undersigned, un
der the name and style and "The Co
operative Store," is this day dis
solved by mutual consent, Lewis G.
Funderburk having purchased the
entire business will continue the
same in his own name.
All persons holding claims
against the said company and part
nership will present the same to
Lewis G. Funderburk, and all per
sons indebted to the safe must make
payment to him.
Lewis G. Funderburk,
T. M. Richards. l-2tl
Scene First from Murray and Muck, is "The Sunny Side of Broadway,'
Which is at the Academy of Music Thursday Evening.
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SEEDS
1908
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CLARK'S SEED STORE
Just received my Spring Stock of Field, Garden and Flower Seeds, from
the best growers in the U. S.
IRISH POTATOES.
7, of the leading varieties, grown by T. W, WOOD, & SONS.
BIRDS?Hart's Mountain Canaries, (TRAINED SINGERS), South
American Purots talkers, Bird supplies of all kinds. Cages for breeding
and for song birds, Fish food, Aquariums etc.
Prepare your ground und plant now.
Yours Truly,
S. H. CLARK.
55 RUSSELL STREET.
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TO THE MAN WHOSE LIFE IS i<OT INSURED.
WHAT YOU NEED MORE THAN
ANYTHING ELSE IS A
Standard Equitable Policy.
DO YOU DOUBT THIS. THEN FILL
UP THE FOLLOWING?
Coupon.
Phone 1972. Orangeburg, S. C.
Please send me a complimentary copy of your booklet
telling about your STANDARD Po?,CY. Also rate charg
ed per $1,000 of insurance at age.
Name.
Address.
Date.190S.
FIRE, LIFE.
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ALSO
SURETY
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H. C. Wannamaker,
I represent companies tha know to be goo.
Give me some of your business.
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FIRE SALVAGE SALE!
WE HAVE ABOUT
$3,000 DOLLARS worth
of DAMAGED Goods
SAVED FROM OUR RECENT FIRE, WHICH
WIE "WILL IPTJT
MONDAY FEB. 24TH
COMMENCING at 9 o'clock.
WE HAVE SECURED THE STORE RECENTLY
OCCUPIED BY MRS. DECHIAVETTE. THESE
GOODS MUST BE DISPOSED OF IN TEN DAY'S
WHICH CONSISTS OF DRESS GOODS, RIBBONS,
LACES AND NOTIONS.
CASH AND VALUE WILL NOT BE CONSIDER
ED THIS STOCK MUST POSITIVELY GO IN
TEN DAYS.
Remember the date of Sale.
Monday Fell. 24th At 9 O'clock.