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PUBLISHED TWIC5E-A-WEEK Tuesday and Friday. VoL 40.? N6. 57. "Entered as second-class matter fan. 1, 1903, at the postofflce at Or ?ngaborg, S. C, under the Act of Pongrees of March 3, 1879. _ 9mm, Ii. Sims, Editor and Proprietor. Pa*. Islar Sfana. ? Associate Editor. Snbscription Bates. One Tear. ..$1.50 Months.. .. .. .. ?? '75 Months..-40 .Advertising Bates. Tmudcat advertisement*! $1X0 per Inch for Sort inaertion and 50 cents for each subsequent faMttion . Bsaiaett Notices 10 oeatB per line for first Insertion and 5 cents per lias for subsequent Cbitaaries, Tribute* of Rotp**, Notice of Thanks, and all notiosa of a petaoual or pohti arfaarnm ore charged for as regahu- adverbae "^ftScial Notice?, entitled Wanted, Lcat, Pood, Ear Rent, not exceeding t*renty-frre ?croda^one time,S5 centa; iwojfoee^ cents; tkxee timce, 75 cents and fqur times S1.00. liberal contract made with merchants ana ?Che? who wish to run advertisements for tfecea months orjonger*- Foi sates on contract ?dmtising apply at the. office, and they will (a carefully furnished. BeeaittanoeB should be made by checks atomy orders, registered letters, or express or fsrt, payabl e to / The Ttmes and Democrat, Oraneeburg. S. C. Nearly the whole press of the State was against Evans, trat he made a good run in spite of it.... ? . The Labor unions of Chicago gave Bryan a rousing welcome on Mon day. He made them several speeches. Hearst has joined Watson in put ting in circulation campaign lies on Bryan, but they can't fool the peo ple. The closing day's of the campaign witnessed much , mud slinging and misrepresentation on the part of some candidates. This ought not to be. The election is over and may be we all got our favoaites elected, but we will fiud that now, after all the excitement most, of us will have to plow on, ; ?? If the Farmers Union can induce the farmers to pack their cotton more carefully for 'shipping than they now do it would be means of saving them millions of "dollars. The primary is now over, and we hope all bitterness and hard feelings engendered by it will be forgotten, Let us an pull now for the up-build ing of our town, county and State. Taft says, be .was. arlad that the Republicaninaiori^r.ln Vermont was no larger as it would<have made the IJeoublicana over confident. Toft is <inly whaekiiag'/tb ikeep. his cot lap to.the sticking point. ? In speaking of Mr. Taft 's fear of civereonfidence on the part of the Republicans Mr: Bryan saysT he can ?show Mr. Taft several sections of the country where the Republicans tire not afflicted with the disease of overconfidence. The Times and Democrat manag ed to pass through this campaign without once having the hysterics over . this or that candidate. We found out long ago. that the people have sense enough to select the best man without the use of newspaper assistance. At least such is the case in Orangeburg. Judge Robert Aldrich, who.-'is presiding at a court for the first time in Orangeburg County since his election, is one of the best judges on the Bench. He does not mince matters when charging grand juries as to their duties and well would it be for the State if his sug gestions were carried out. When it was announced that Bry an would make several speeches dur ing the campaign, the Republican papers held up their hands in holy horror. They said it was undigni fied and that no man who did it should be trusted with the presiden cy. They will now change their tune as Taft has announced his in tention of taking the stump in his ?wn behalf. The Southern Cotton Association did a great work not only for the fanner but for all the people of the South. It is a grand in stitution, but for some reason it did not grow as it should in the State. The Association and the Union should join forces and bring about those reforms that we all know would benefit the South won derfully by saving millions to the farmers. If we are to judge by a letter re* centiy published, which was written by Grover Cleveland just before his death, we are bound to conclude that he tried to stab the Democratic ticket in the back. Cleveland was given the opportunity by Morgan *nd other Republican trust' mag nates between his first and second terms as President to make a large sum of money and after that he be came a dangerous tool of the Re publican party. J The Fanner's Union. There are many who think that the farmers should not organize for their mutual protection, but we are not of that number. On the con trary, we believe that the farmers should organize and make themsel ves felt along industrial lines as well as political lines, by voting only for such candidates for the Legislature and Congress as will vote for meas ures that wilkbenefit the agricultu ral interests of the country. The farmers, along with the balance of us. are robbed of millions of dollars each year by the operations of the thriving tariff put in force by the Republican party for the benefit of the trusts. This is only one of 'the ways that the farmers are robbed, but it is one of the greatest, and if they can organize and break it up they will benefit nine-tenths of the people of this country. Feeling this way we welcome the Farmers Union to Orangeburg County and wish it God speed. h The Union has a membership of nearly two million farmers accord ing to the latest figures made public by its officers. This membership is distributed among all the agricultu ral States of the West and South. It is an oath bound orginization? that is, the meetings of its local Unions are secret, and its pledges, such as agreeing not to sell cotton or grain below a certain fixed price, are taken under oath. That part of the Union which has to do with cot ton is strongest in Texas, Arkansas. Mississippi and Alabanga, although it has a fairly large membership throughout Georgia and ti>e Caro linas. Not only is the Union strong in numbers, but it has developed id or ginization from the State association down to the district, county and lo cal bodies, each having its charter to do business in the name of the Un ion. Every State has a business, agent, whose duties, are as well de fined as the duties of a State audi tor. The idea underlying the whole orginization is elimination of the middleman and a saving to the far mers of the commissions usually se cured by him. If the Union can succeed in perfecting its plan to sell directly to the consumer as it hopes to do, it will save millions of dollars to the farmers of the South and West. We hope they will sueeed in this noble work. The Union also seeks to regulate speculation and establishi more uni form prices for. commqdies from, year to year. It is also desired to prevent the violent fluctuations that occur in the Autumn and Spring. The Autumn movement usually is a decline caused by the laet that so many farmers are forced to sell their crop the minute it is harvest ed in order to pay off bills that have accumulated during. tlie growing period. The Spring, fluctuation is usually an advance due to ths cor nering of the product during the period when the farmers are sold put or are too busy with their new .crop to haul their'surplus to mar ket. t v In order to accomplish these ob jects the Union plans to distribute the products more evenly through out the year, and with that object in view it is establishing warehouses in all parts of the country. About three years ago it began to .build these warehouses for cotton and there are now from 600 to 800 of them in actual, use. They have ca pacity of from 500 to 3,500 bales of cotton each. Farmers depositing in these warehous can raise money on j warehouse receipts and have their cotton sold at any time they desire. But they are pledged not to accept less than the minimum price estab lished at a convention of the Union, It is now admitted that the Union is accomplishing great good for the farmer? and is securing them mil lions of dollars more than they for merly got for their crops. The sys tem employed by the Union has worked well in the past, and there is no reason why. it should not be more successful in. the future if the farmers will all join the Union and stick to its rules. The Union is growing rapidly, and with it gigan tic organisation it will make itself felt in the marketing of this year's crop as well as retiring to private life some of the men whd nave been serving the trusts in Congress, Again we welcome the Union to Orangeburg County, and wish it success in the accomplishment of all the reforms it has in view. Easily Pleased. Taft, the Republican candidate for President, says he is entirely satisfied with the election results in Vermont, but he isn't so sure that Maine will do the right thing and he will be obliged to all good Republi cans if they will keep the Vermont figures in mind and take not too "much stock in the returns from the Pine State. "The vote in Vermont," says Taft, "is much more significant as one cast under normal conditions than will be the vote in Maine this week, because it is understood that the peculiar local situation there this year prevents a reduced Repub i-?Jl* I I /VI Pjf> a-r jl^.ujl,.., lican majority there, having a nat ional bearing.'* An investigation of the returns will convince anyone that Taft is whistling to keep his courage up. Compared with the presidential elec tion of 1904 the returns of the Ver mont state election shows a Repub lican gain of about 5,000 votes and a democratic gain of of over 6,000. When it is remembered that the Republicans sent speakers from other States "into" Vermont toitry and increase their majority, while the Democrats relied on local speak ers, the above, figures are signifi cant. None knows this better than Taft. As a matter of fact the Democrats have reason to feel most highly en couraged by the result of the Ver mont election. The. Democrats have always constituted a hopeless minority in that State. Yet the' re cent election, compared with the last presidential election, they made a gain of over 60 per cent, while the Republicans gain was less than 15 per cent. When this happens in a rock ribbed Republican state, where there is every inducement to rote the Republican ticket in a state elec tion and none to vote the Democratic ticket, it is a most encouraging' sign for the Democrats. If the Democrats can make the same ratio of gains' jn> all the States the Republicans will' be disastrously defeated and Bryan and Kern will be triumphantly elected. The Dem ocrats expect to do better in the Maine election, which comes off. to day. Mr. Taft anticipated the re sult in'Maine by advising the Re publicans before hand that they might expect a slump in their vote there. If the result in Vermont and the prospect in Maine pleases .Mr. Taft he is certainly easily pleased. But he is not pleased. He is simply making . the best of a bad situation, but it will do him no good. The facts are against him. Some Hot Shot. Mr. Bryan is firing some hot shot into the Republican leaders. In dis cussing the question of reforms at a Democratic rally at Sioux City on Wednesday night he declared that the republican party was not in a position to reform anything. "Why?" he asked. "Because its conspicious members are connected with the very things that need re form, and the Republican party cannot prosecute the guilty without disgracing its most prominent mem ocrs,. As an illustration to the above charge Mr. Bryan said if yon read the names of the Republican Execu tive Committee, appointed by Mr, Hitchcock, the Republican National Chairman, to conduct the campaign for the Republican party, you will find that a majority of them are conspicious for their connection with the very corporations that need reg ulation. One of them, Mr. Dupont of Delaware, is to-day the defendant in a suit for conspiracy in violation of the anti-trust law brought by the United States Government and which is still pending. Mr. Dupont is defendant in the action, and yet he is on the executive committee to carry on the Republican campaign and the chairman of the speakers' bureau of that committee. , Now, continued Mr. Bryan, do you think that M<*. Dupont is in a good position to pick out speakers and train them as to what they shall say? Do you expect any speaker to. mention the Government suit against the Powder trust if the speaker iB picked out and instructed by Mr.,Dupont, who is president of the Powder Trust, and one of the defendants in the case brought by the Government against his- com pany. This is a charge that the Republi cans cannot deny and they have not attempted to do so. The fact that the Republican leaders have put Dupontr Who is head of Oiie of the most grinding trusts in the country, at the head of an important com mittee, is proof positive that Taft is the tool of the trusts and will do their bidding should he be elected. In addition to Dupont there is Pen rose of Pennslyvania, who has an in terest in all the big trusts in his State, on the same committee. Is anyone so simple as to believe that Penrose will do anything to hurt the trusts, When they own him body and soul. More Trusts than Brer. In a recent speech Mr. Bryan as serted, that there were more trusts now in the United States than there were twelve years ago. "Not only this," he said, "but with the most strenous Republican you ever had in the White House he has not succeed ed in putting one trust magnate in the penitentiary." The so-called International Har vester Trust was scored by the Dem ocratic candidate, who charged that the Republican party had not yet attempted to free the ' ountry from its alleged extortions. "Why have not these trusts been crushed out?" he inquired. "Why? What pros pect is there that they will be crush ed under Republican rule? If Mr. A BUSINESS PROPOSITION. It will not cost you anything to learn whaf LILES & LILES, rep resenting the Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company, have to offer in the way of Life Insurance. Before buying it might be to your advantage to see them, You can find them in Orangeburg. The Jefferson Standard is the strongest Life Insurance Company iti the South. They offer you an opportunity to keep your money at home and at the same time give yon as safe Life Insurance as any Northern Company can furnish. No Honest Man Will Say to the Contrary. It is to your interest to see LILES & LILES before buying Life Insur ance. Office over George Zeigler's store. m If it may pay you and it does not cost you ariythirig to find out whether it will or not is'nt it good business judg ment to find out. Xiles & Liles, Managers for Eastern South Carolina, Jefferson Standard Life In surance Company, Orangeburg, S. C. Roosevelt is not able to bring his party into active opposition to this trust, what hope have you that Mr. Taft will do better?" Mr. Taft ??he-said, was not as strenuous as Mr. Roosevelt. "Read his language, and compare it with the fiery denunciation made in the President's message of last Janu ary." On the trust question, said the Democratic candidate, the people have no hope of relief with Mr. I Taft as President, "for," he said, "he not only does not promise^ you relief, but criticizes me severely be-1 cause I do promise' you relief." He declared that every'private monopo ly ought to be disolved and that competition, ought to be restored in order that the people may have the benefit of that competition. Continuing Mr.' Bryan said that "Mr. Taft not only does hot say that his party will destroy, the private monopoly, but he does > say that to destroy it would destroy^and' e*th> pate business. He says' that what the country neejds is not, extermina tion of Lusts but regulation. He has tried regulation in his party for twelve years, and the result is that the trusts have regulated the Republican party, but the party has failed to regulate the trusts. Tbe Outlook Bright. The Democratic prospects bright en as the days go by, and the indi cations are that the people will win a great victory in-November by the election of Bryan and Kern. Judge Alton B. Parker is back in New York from the far West, where he did some effective campaigning for the Democratic ticket, delivering speeches and giving interviews in advocacy of the election of Bryan and Kern. Judge Parker gives en couraging report of conditions, de claring that he was agreeably sur prised at the showing of Democratic strength in the Western country. He talked with many Republicans who said they were going to vote the Democratic ticket this year, some giving one reason and some another. Mr. Herman Ridder, who is the editor of the greatest German pa per published in the United States, has also been doing some campaign work for the Democratic ticket out West. He has traveled extensively over the councry since Bryan and Kern were nominated, and he says from careful observation he is con vinced the Democratic National ticket will be elected this Fall. He says "this opinion is not based on wild hopes; neither does desire sway me in forming it, but it is the re sult of careful canvass made by my self and my friends since the Denver convention adjourned." Mr. Ridder predicts, that "there will be many surprises when the re sult of the vote is known. I have found in every section of the eoutf try bitter resentment against the Republicans among members of their own party because of the at titude of the leaders on the tariff question. The Germans of the coun try are going to support the Dem ocratic ticket almost unanimously this Fall." Mr. Ridder is of the opinion that the real issue of the present campaign is the tariff ques tion, and he thought the. party lea ders should give more time to that subject. Those Democratic papers who' were fooled into the belief that Ted dy was in earnest in his bluster about trust "busting" must feelj now that they were badly buncoed. Frederick Cooper Hewitt, whoj recently died in New York, was the wealthiest man in Tioga county. He left an estate estimated to be worth more than $5,000,000. His will be queaths more than $4,000,000 to various institutions, eharatable and otherwise. The marketing of the cotton crop is the most important matter we have now to deal with. It concerns every man, woman and child in the South, and all should do what they can to help the farmers market it at . a good price. SofttB people are adversely criticis ing' Congressman Levertfor support ing Hon. John Gary'Evans in the late primary. This is altogether wrong. Both Evans and Smith are Democrat in good standing, and any Democrat had the right to sup port either of them in the primary. EKtfNG BUSINESS FOB YOUR HEALTH. That's one of the things ire ore doing business for, t>nd of coarse incidentally, to get a living. 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