Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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PUBLISHED TWICE-A-WBEK . Tuesday and Friday.' V I i Vol. 40..No. 42. c "Erter ed as second-class matter .Jan. 1, 1908* at the postoffice at Or ?ngebarg, S. C, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. ffaa. L. Sims, Editor and Proprietor. 9km. Izlar Sims, - Associate Editor; Subscription Rates. One Year.. .. .... . .$1.50 Six Months.. .. .. ... ?. .75 STfcree Months.. .. . > .. .. ..40 v Advertising Rates. Transient advertisements $1.00 per inch for Erst iusextion and 50 cents for each subsequent luaer Lion Business Notices 10 cents per line for first < l Insertion and 5 cents per line for subsequent insertions Obituaries, Tributes of Beapect, Notice of Thanks, and all notioea of a personal or politi 6*1 nature are charged for as regular advertise 5p?dal Notioen,- entitled Wanted, Lost, Vooad, Ear Rent, not exceeding twenty-five trorda, one time, 35 cents; two times 50 cents; tfcree times, 75 cents and four times $1.00. - . Mheofl contract made with merchants and ?thanr who wish to run advertijementa for , ? t&nse mo iths or longer. For rates on contract advertising apply at the office, and they will - ^oatefnllyftDinabed. J . _ Jtaadttasoes ^ahonld be made by chocks ? - ?aoaey orders, registered letters, or express or - deflf, payable to . 'IhbTimes.and Democrat, Orarieeburg, S. C. . - * :The present Congress has done ; nothing for the people of real value. tl It stood pat ' and squandered over one'billion dollars. Don't discourage the boy when he comes to you with his cares or trou bles:'' Sympathize" with .him, and thank God he confides ih you.. .., The sweetest, purest ornament that a woman can wear, and of which she should feel proudest, is the ?dinging necklace of her baby's arms. There is a good deal of talk about idle.taoney5; bat it is air nonsense. It is just about as hard to get a dol lar now as it was when the panic was in full blast. - . Tbe negrrj can" now' see how much the '^great' Republican party cares for vhinC' Every. Congressman of that party has voted to abandon the negro to his political fate in the South. The so-called currency bill as pas sed By v Congress- was fixed up by the -conference committee to suit Wall Street-and the frenzied finan ciers. So these enemies of the pub lic .have, things jn their- own hands. We would^ rather lose one-half of our Congressmen and,, half of our representation?n the Electoral Col lege than to see the return of the days of "good stealing" that held away in the days of the carget-bag - ger and scallawag. The Republicans say they will re vise the tariff after the election. " They want to wait and see how. lib erally the trusts will 'contribute to the campaign fund so as they can be ' rewarded according to their liberal 1 ity in furnishing money to defeat Bryan at the polls in November. - It is about fixed that Taft will be nominated for President on the first ballot by the Republicans. He may lack a few votes now, but he will tap a fresh barrel at the con vention and the colored delegates from the South will fall over one another in an effort to get to the pie counter. Senator ..Tinman's contention that the solution of the race prob lem is the disfranchisement of the negro has been endosed by every Republican Congressman by voting to reduce the South's representa : tion in Congress iand the Electoral ? College because of the property and educational qualification for voters in this section. Gov.- Johnson is being made a cat's paw of by the so-called Demo crats who buncoed the real Demo crats, with Judge Parker in 1904. The bunco steerers fear that Bryan will be elected if he is nominated, and they are trying to side track him, but the people have caught on to their trick and will not let it be worked on them this year. "Instruct your delegates to the National Convention is the slogan of Bryan, and the Minnesota Demo c rats Dromp tly instructed for John sen," says a Johnson bureau. That is true. But how about South Car olina, Missouri, Michigan, Alabama and one or two ether States that i n structed for Bryan last week. The bureau knows nothing about them, of course. The Johnson bureau at Washing ton sends out the statement that the Albany Journal, a strong Republi can paper, says "New York is now Democratic by fifty or one hundred thousand and will cast its electoral vote for the Democratic nominee for President, unless Bryan is nom inated." Of course, the Journal wants the Democrats to win, and that i? why it warns the party against Bryan. At least that is wnat rbi Johnson bureau would have usbetieve. Warring on the South. The passage by the House of Rep resentatives on Friday of an amend ment to the publicity bill providing for a reduction in Congress and in the^Eleckoral College of the repre sentatives ; of those States which abridge the suffrage in violation of the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution.]^ a direct blow at the South. The- measure will not be come a law at this session, but if the Republicans carry the elections this fall with decisive majorities they will no doubt pass this measure as a punishment to the South for not voting the Republican ticket and helping that party uphold the Trusts and other diabolical schemes for rob bing the people. This is the first defi inite step taken to enforce the alter native provision of the fourteenth amendment since the failure of the main provision of that amendment in the killing of the force bill several years ago. The adoption of this amendment s a concession to the. sentiment of the Soulh on the race question and agrees with Senator Tillman's con tention that the negroes should be disfranchised. Its adoption by the Republicans would be an acknow ledgment on their part of their abandonment^ the negro, as well as the abandonment by the Federal government of the undertaking to enforce negro suffrage in the South ern States. This solution of the race question has no terrors for the South. As it has been said frequent ly this section is prepared and is willing to pay the price of maintain ing white supremacy in politics, to the extent of conceding a reduction of its representation in the national government. This abandonment of the negro in the South by the Re publican party means his ultimate disf r?nchisement and loss of all poli tical rights by the enactment of new laws on the subject. "If the worst comes to the South in a choice between negro suffrage and reduction * of representation, there will be no hesitation on its part in choosing to be shorn of a part of its political power in the na tipn rather than to share that and its home government as well with the black man," says the Charleston Evening Post. But, we agree with the Post, that no such choice should be offered in this day of civilization and progress to such a people as those who have redeemed the South ern States and have made them to flourish and grow rich in the face of terrific odds. ' But the Trusts are badly frightened and it is no telling what they may do to perpetuate their power in the government. If they order the Republican party to make a political raid on the South or have their campaign contribu tions shut off they will make the raid. So werneed not be surprised at any thing the Republican party does to please its lords and masters, the iniquitous and theiving Trusts. Bogus Reform. v, One of the chief clauses of the railroad rate law^assed by the last Congress was "trje commodity , clause" which went into effect on ' May 1 of this year. There has evidently been collusion be tween President Roosevelt, his^ Attorney-General, and the Interstate' Commerce Commission to nullify the clause by refusing to prosecute those railroads which are openly dis obeying the law. The provision that railroads after May 1 could not, without being iaw-breakers own or sell commodities which they controlled, was intended especially to cover the mining and selling of coal by the so-called coal roads. That provision was added to the law in defference to the united pub lic opinion that for the railroads to own and also transport coal was a monopoly that was undesirable and added greatly to the cost of coal to the people. When the law was un der consideration by Congress, Pres ident Roosevelt and a majority of the Republicans in Congress were insistent that the commodity clause should be added to the law. But the law is a dead letter, and has been nullified by the Executive of ficers of the government refusing to enforce it. Yet the Republicans claim to be reformers. We Shall See. The Charleston Evening Post says it does not believe that a serious ef fort will be made to pass the bill reducing the representation of the South in Congress and the Electoral College because the more liberal minded people of the North, though they do not altogether understand our problem, have an instinctive sym pathy with us in our efforts to solve it and do not wish to make it more difficult than it is by nature, and public sentiment will not support i an undertaking to punish the South for maintaining the harriers of race integrity. The Post thinks the Crumpacker amendment was passed at this time for campaign purposes and it would not be surprised if it auted as a boomerang upon the Republican party by arraying against it intelli gent men who do not approve of playing with solemn thingsand who do. not favor ? oppression of the South for its refusal to yield an in stinct that is common to all white men of right mind in the land. . The Republicans have no serious notion of enacting this amend ment into law at this time, It was passed by the Republican Congress men as a feeler, and if they win the fall elections by der'dve majorities, they will accept that as aa endorse ment of their war on the South and proceed to enact the amendment in to law. The trusts recognize the fact that if the Democrats fiver get in power they will be made to toe the mark, and therefore they have instructed their iactive agents, the Republican party, to rob the Demo cratic South of one third of its rep- j resentation in Congress and the j Electoral College and thereby ma terially lessen the chance of the government falling into the hands of the people. But as the Post says it will prove a boomerang. Scared to Death. Some of the Republican members of Congress from close, and doubtful districts are almost scared to death at their political prospects because of the do-nothing record of Congress. Some of the Western members were so frustrated that they pre sented an ultimatum to Speaker Cannon, the dictator of the Republi can party, that they would join the Democrats in voting not to adjourn unless an anti-injunction bill was re ported from the Committee on the Judiciacy and an opportunity given to vote upon it. They also demanded that they be allowed to make an ef fort to save their political scalps by being allowed to vote for the pas sage of the campaign publicity bill which was before the House on a favorable report. The Republican leaders immediately got together and agreed to let the last bill come to a vote but so loaded down with absurd amendments that it would have no chance to pass even if the Senate would stop to consider it at this late stage of the session. So this biil was allowed to come to a vote on Friday with an amendment that the vote of the South be cut down because of the disfran chisement of the negro vote in this section. Cannon and the other conspirators knew that the Senate would have the excuse of not having sufficient time to consider such a measure at this time, so the bill will have to go over as Cannon knew it would when he allowed it to come to a vote in the House. Wall Street Supports, Taft. There may be some doubt about how great the revolt of labor will be against Secretary Taft, but that Wall Street interests will warmly support him with its money and votes seem certain. That represen tative Wall Street banker, Jacob H. Schiff, the partner of that "male factor of great wealth," Mr. Harri man, has accepted the Vice-Presi dency of the Taft organization of the State of New York. He declares, "that with a rigid insistance for due and proper regard of the law, all classes of our citizens will, with Mr, Taft as President, become readily convinced that every legitimate in terest will be safe in the hands of their chief executive." From this we may assume that Mr. Taft will receive the united support of the Wall Street influence, and thai; bankers and railroad managers wil vie with each other in filling tht: "dough-bags" of the Republican party. The malefactors of great wealth have evidently as Mr. Sccifi: says: "Become readily convinced that they 'will be safe' in the hands of Taft." A Reformer Quizzed. A very pertinent question was asked Medill McCormick, of the Chicago Tribune by Representative Ryan, a Democratic member of the Committee investigating the Pape:. Trust. "If similar couditions should be shown to exist in other industries should the tariff affecting them not be revised also?" Mr. McCormick declined to express an opinion other than through the editorial columns of the Tribune. As the Tribune has been noted for exploiting (tariff reform in "off years" and then sup porting standpatters for election, it really hinders tariff revision more than helping it. The Spurious Congress. The Sixtieth Congress will pass in to history as the Spurious Congress. It has done nothing worthy of a great representative body. In its appropriations, it has been more ex travagant than any of its predeces sors, and will leave the government $00.000,000 ;n arrears on the first day of Julv next, and $100,000,000 ! in arrears on July 1,1909, solths.t money will ha^ e to be borrowed i even for running expenses. It has refused to modify the tariff even on wood pulp and print paper. It has enacted currency legislation of the worst possible type, legislation not in favor of the interests of the peo pie at large but of Wall Street. It hra upheld the President in his wild and dangerous assertion of the su premacy of the military over the civil power. Its sins of commission and its sins of ommission are equal ly flagrant, because both are as bad as possible. Its early adjourn ment should be welcomed by the American people. The only defect in our Constitution is that it re quires this Congress to meet again before its dissolution. / Actaeon s *sogs Again. The Socialists of the Eighth Con gressional district, of Ohio, are jub ilant over the news that two English duchesses have agreed to stump that district in the interest of their can didate for Congress. These duch esses have plenty of money and flu ent tongues, and will appeal espec ially to the negro voters. There ad vent bodes no good for the Republi cans of Ohio. The negroes are among the most susceptible people in the world to the influence of mon ey, fine clothes, and fine phrases. They may yet be drawn into the :ranks of the Socialist party, which wasborn of the protective policy of the Republicans. And, in that case, we shall have another instance of Ac teon devoured by his own dogs. SENT BACK HOME. The Times Says Florence Police Aid in Rescue Work. The Florence Times says a very sad case was brought to the attention of the town authorities there Sunday morning when two young girls, Mag gie Smith and Lillie Campbell, ages about 16 and 18 years appealed to the police to help them get back to their home in Columbia. Lillie Campbell told the story to Officer Cain of how she and her friend had been pursuaded to come to Florence by a woman who lived there. Saying that everything had been misrepresented to them. They were told that this was a fine place to live and that they could easily obtain employing i and would get along well. Lillie accepted her story and came down here with this woman Friday. When they arrived at this womau s house they at once realized that they could not be satisfied at such a plac^. They became dissatisfied and wanted to leave and were ill treated by this woman who tried to force them to stay. They said that they were de termined to leave that place and go back to their people in Columbia if possible. They went, to the residence of a citizen about 10 o'clock Saturday night and were allowed to spend the night. The next morning their case ? was reported to the police and the ; result of the whole thing was that j the woman who had pursuaded them to come down here was made to pay their way back to Columbia. * JOHNSON'S PLATFORM. Please Wall Street and the Thieving Trusts. The Springfield Republican says the platform adopted by the Minne sota Democrats in placing Gov. John son before the country as a Presiden tial candidate, is manifestly keyed to suit the Eastern and Southern con servative wing of the party, while containing compliments and conces sions calculated to concilate the fol lowing of Mr. Bryan. No one who was ignorant of Gov. Johnson's re cord in Minnesota would know from this platform how much of & radical he had been in his present office, for the platform contains no hint of some of the policies which, as- Gov ernor, he has advocated.. This appeal to the conservative wing of the national Democracy is, however, the-kind of politics which r,ov. Johnson's Presidential candidacv now forces upon bini. He must win the nomination, if that be possible, not by competing with Mr. Bryan in his own line, but by setting himself up as a contrast. Gov. Johnson's Presidential candidacy had its origin in the growing desperation of those Democrats who could not endure the thought of another Bryan candidacy or the thought of Bryan in the White House, and its chief dynamic force is derived from the bitterness felt for Bryan by the elements, represented most conspicuously by the New York World. The Johnson platform will not displease those elements. They are making a stubborn contest in' the hope of taking advantage of the two thirds rule, and it is upon that alone that, practically speaking, Gov. John son's hopes now rest. v FOUGHT MANIAC HIGH IN AIR. Policeman Won on Throe-Foot Plat form, 85 Feet Above Ground. Battling for life on a three-foot platform. 85 feet above ground, and maintained only by a slender, sway ing flagpole with one band, Patrol man James H. Omohundro subdued and capture:l George Gall, a lunatic who escaped from the observation ward in the St. Louis, Mo., hospital and climbed to the top of the dome. When the man began bis ascent he carried n on i">il and with this o/erp"" -:?< ?' she guards. When Po liceman Oniohundro appeared the same iron rod was much in evidence but ihr fllcer used his club. Breath >.ss crowds watched the struggle >etwe< man ind maniac. When both ?/ere . early exhausted the officer's helmet fell from the platform. Gall looked over the platform to see the descent. In an instant the officer dealt him a blow that ended thn fight Gail was lowered to the gro iid with rpes. Omotmdro was badly bruised and cut up. * HEARST WILL GO IT ALONE. CiPxCu S ?Davenport in New York Mail. 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