Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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PUBLISHED TWICE-A-WEES Tuesday ?*d Friday. ToL 40.No. 57. '.Entered as second-class matter fan. 1, 1908, at the yostoffice at Or ngabvgf S. 0., under the Act o2 Dtrngresa of March S. 187?. L, Sims, Editor and Proprietor. 9as. lalar Sims, - Associate Jditor. Subscription Bates. Vao Tear.. ..... c.; c. . * i. .$1.50 Us Months.. .. t.:.' t.. . ? -.75 rteee Months.. .. . .. -..40 Advertising Rates. I T?'"t?wt advertiswcents (loo per inch for ftrrt insertion and 50 eants for each subsequent bsHrtion BsMssss Notices 10 oeata per lias for first tasextloo- tad 5 cents per lite for subsequent kwrtioos. Obituariso, Tributes of Respect, Notics of Ttankz, sad all noticea of a personal orpoliti 8*1 nature axe charged for aa reguJar advertise Sperfal Notices, entitled Wanted, Lost, Voted, Far Boat, not exceeding twenty-five words, one tine, 85 cents; two tunes 50 cents; Ihne times, 75 cents and four times $1.00. Liberal contract with merchants sad Others who wish to run advertisements for three months or longer. For rates on contract advertising apply at the office, and they will Sa carefully furnished. Remittances should be made by checlra Voaoy orders, registcred-letters, or express or Osrs, payable to The Times and Democrat, Oraneeburg, S. C. Speaker Cannon says he is just as good as his party. We believe him. We will wager something hand some that no letter will be found on Archbold 's file from honest old Ben, Till man. When Ex-Senator McLaurin was seeking re-election to the Senate he [pretended to be the true exponent of ?democracy, but it seems that he was ?an enemy of the people. The Augusta Chronicle says "that j Dove of Peace, which the Washing ton Herald saw strutting in Ohio so lately seems to have dropped it's strut and stretched its wings in sud den flight." ? ???? Taft in one of his speeches says: "By their fruits ye shall know them." The Republican candidate ought not to quote from one he ?does not believe in. We will wager something hand some that there is not a Republican or Democrat who is trying to make capital for his party out of the dis closures brougt to light by Hearst who would trust the yellow rene gadeiout ofhis sight. DuPont, the powder trust mag nate, who Teddy is how pretending | to prosecute for violating the law, has been fired from the Republican | National Executive committee on account of the criticism his member ship created., Hearst classes Ex-Senator Mc Laurin as a Democrat, but he is not. Just about the time he wad monkey ing with the Standard Oil people the Democracy of Sou^h Carolina re pudiated the gentleman, and he has ieen flocking by himself ever since. Fjoraker is not the only oil poli tician supporting the Republican candidate by long odds, but he has committed the unpardonable sin of being "found out" and, he has to be sacrificed for the good of the party. So walk the plank aud look pleasant, Mr. Foraker. So it turns out that President Roosevelt was the man that forced Standard Oil on Oklahoma and not Gov. Haskell as Roosevelt charges, At least, that is what the official, record shows in Washington. Is it not about time that Teddy was made j general manager of all the Ananias clubs? No one but a man of Hearst's tastes would disturb the political grave of the one time Senator Mc Laurin. It is real ghoulish, as the gentleman was long ago made a po litical corpse by the people of South Carolina at the suggestion of Sena tor Tillman. So why not let him rest j in peace? Mr. Roosevelt says Mr. Woddruff thinks the alleged finding of $300.000 in the Democratic treasury "queer." "But" says the New York Evening Post, "the good E. H. Harriman's gift of $260,000 to the Republican campaign fund four years ago looked to the same eyes perfectly straight and normal." The letter of Ex-Senator Mc Laurin to John D. Archbold, the Standard Oil magnate, throws some light on the so-called commercial democracy campaign led by Mc Laurin in this State some years j azo. The campaign was really in the interest of Standard Oil and other trusts. According to Mr. Foraker, who may be considered good authority, Mr. Taft, the Republican candidate for President, likes the company of trust masrrates himself. Foraker says only a month ago Taft was ac cepting the hospitality of several of | the "malefactors of great wealth," as Teddy would ssy.'But Taft won't j <lo so any more, until after election. That Taft Letter. The Richmond Dispatch says "the Republican campaign appears to be resolving itself into Theoeore Roose velt. Mr. Taft is silent or ineffec tive. Mr. Hitchcock is mysterious and engrossed with card indexes. Only-the Sagamore of -Opster Bay is hysterically at work. It can not be said that his work is efficacious or happy. The two-months-bid letter of Mr. Taft which he gave to the pressen Mondny was made public, Mr. Roosevelt explains, in view of Mr. Hearst's disclosures about Sen ator Foraker." This is a singular reason for giving out such a docu ment. The Taft letter indicates that an association with Foraker was a surrender he would not make even to secure the presidency. This j was noble but it was in July. Later on. 'Mr. Taft appears to have thought better of it. In August he and Foraker shook hands before 5,000 people at a G. A.' R. review. The old enmity was patched, Fora-j ker's great ability as a speech ma- J ker were to be utilized in the cam paign. What had become of the | "matter of principle" then? How is it creditable to Mr. Taft, holding J the opinions expressed in this letter j to have made peace with him and | accepted his aid?'.' Graves and the Soath. Little. John Temple Graves in his Atlanta acceptance speech lauded the courage of the Hearst "depend ence" party for being "the first of ! the great national parties to give the South a place upon its Presiden tial ticket." The Macon Telegraph thinks the "dependance" party cer tainly showed nerve in placing a < man on its ticket of such amazing ignorance as this statement would indicate. Out of twelve Presidents during the first half of our life as a constitutional democratic republic beginning with George Wash ington in 1789 and coming down to | Taylor in 1850, eight were South erners. The eight Southern Presi-1 dents in all presided over the desti nies of the country in this its for mative period for forty-nine years, half of them being given second terms, while four Northern Presi dents served a little over twelve years in all, being granted one term of four years each, and one of them, William Henry Harrison, dying in office before he had enjoyed a year of his term. During the same period there were | five Southern Vice-Presidents. Be sides there were Southern candidates galore for President and Vice Pres ident on the tickets of the great national parties who failed of elec tion. There is also an impression among the unlearned that Andrew {Johnson, born in North Carolina, and elected from Tennessee, was tfice President m 1865, and became the seventeenth President of the United States on the death by assas sination of Abraham Lincoln. These of course, are all historical particu lars with which the up-to-date school boy is familiar, but which it appears to be necessary to recall If or j the information of such aspiring candidates for Presidential honors as deem a familiarity with their country's history as no part of, the equipment necessary for that office. "But there is Thomas E. Watson, of Georgia, who twelve years ago ran for Vice President on the Pop ulist ticket, and was four years ago and is today the nominee of that party for President, How could Col. Graves have possibly overlook ed his fellow Georgian and some time greatly admired friend and political co-worker and co-chaser in the bogs and morasses of radical politics after the ignuus fatuui of public office and popularity? But perhaps, Col. Graves will raise the point that the Populist party is not a 'great national party' such as Hearst's 'Dependence party,' the present Democratic and Republican parties, and the old Democratic and Whig parties. It it true that the Populist party is not incorporated as Hearst's 'Dependence' party is and it is true that it consists at pres sant chiefly of Thomas E. Watson, but il has been through the fire of several national elections and has cut no mean figure as a disturbing element in the national field. "But Hearst's 'Dependent party consists chiefly of William R. Hearst and his payroll and it still has to prove that it is equal to the other in raising a disturbance in the nat ional field, which appears to be its | all-absorbing ambition for the pres ent. In the meantime if the South could possibly be stirred to anything but laughter at the antics of Col. John Temple Graves it surely would re sent his absurd attempt to wipe out her entire political history and give it a beginning in the selection of himself by Willie Hearst to be the tail of his ticketlput outiwith a view knifing the Democratic party." Hitting at Hearst. While Mr. Hearst is throwing bombs into the enemies' camps, de serters from his own squad?and there are a good many such?are j popping firecrackers along his way. Among those who have recently dron ed out of the Independence party is John T. Cronin. of New York, secretary to Attorney General Jack son, of that State. In quitting the Hearst organization Cronin ad dresses a long letter to the founder and proprietor, in which he declares that fair play was not accorded to him and asserts that "this-movement conceived in a large spirit of Dem ocratic sympathy with the masses, has degenerated under the selfish ' manipulation of yourself and; your so-called advisers, until it has finally ended in this howling farce of a Presidential ticket." Cronin then, charges Hearst with waging a subsi dized campaign on money furnished by the Republicans, and he describes Ian alleged conference between a representative of Hearst and an agent of Charles P. Taft, in which a proposition for the Republican can didate's brother to furnish funds for Hearst's national campaign was considered. We agree with the Charleston Evening Post that it is not worth anybody's while to follow up such charges against the Hearst I party, else, no doubt, as much I might be made out of this as has been made out of Hearst's revela tions concerning Foraker and Has kell. But what boots it all? Hearst doesnt mind being muddied. They Are Scared. Bryan's popularity is proving too severe a strain for the nerves of the Republican leaders. As the Augusta Chronicle says ''Mr. Taft is scared, and Mr. Roosevelt, whose candidate Mr. Taft is. is scared and the whole Republican party, which Mr, Roose Aelt dragooned into nominating his man Friday instead of its own, is scared. And the worst scared man in the crowd seems Mr. Roosevelt himself. He is no longer the Bom bastic Furioso he once was but coos | as gently as any dove. "In his last campaign document after painting Mr. Taft in all the colors of the rainbow, he plaintively | concludes thus: "I appeal to all good citizens, all high minded men who love their country for the sake of their country, to put such a man at its head." The grammar and the rhetoric of this adjuration are so very poor that a course of reform ed composition would do its author no harm, but leaving form and coming to substance the astounding fact appears that somebody or something has got Mr. Roosevelt so scared that he has gone to praying. He is down on his knees, crying, Save my boy. "He is now emitting a campaign document in Mr. Taft's favor every day. He published one on Sept. 20 j and on Sept. 21 sends forth another. In the former he said: 'It is urgent ly necessary from the standpoint of | the public interest to elect Mr. Taft' and in the latter he makes the heart breaking 'appeal' in his fav or men tioned above. In twenty-four hours he has abandoned argument fori entreaty. Looks as if the Roosevelt j panic of 1907 had struck in, and Mr. R. has a panic of his own just now." A Daniel Come to Judgment. The true inwardness of the so called commercial democracy move ment launched some years ago in this State by John L. McLaurin, then a Senator in the United States Senate from South Carolina, has! come to light by the publication of | some letters that passed between McLaurin and John D. Archbold, vice-president and chief corruption ist of the Standard Oil Company. It will be remembered that McLaurin made a fierce attack on Senator Tillman who soon put a guietas on him. While carrying on that cam paign McLaurin seems to have been on most intimate terms with the Standard Oil Company as the fol lowing letter from Archbold will show: , 26 Broadway. Dec. 12. 1901. My dear Senator: I have your kind favor of yesterday. We have, of course, noted your disagreeable experience with T. with the utmost interest. Think you have done just right in not being goaded by him into doing a foolish thing. I am greatly interested in the suggestion of the law practice, and will see to it that it is kept in mind, with the hope that something may develop in which I can be of service to you in connection therewith. With kind regards, I am, very truly yours, John D. Archbold. 'Hon. John L. McLaurin, Senate Chamber, Washington, D. C Senator Tillman was the person referred to as T., and the reference was to the time Senator Tillman attacked Senator McLaurin in the Senate Chamber, It will be seen that Sedator McLanrin had the sympathy of Standard Oil in the encounter, as Archbold said "we have, of course noted your recent disagreeable experience with T. with the utmost interest." Arch hold's letter was written in answer to one from McLaurin in which he no doubt told all about his disagree able experience with Senator Till man. Late; on McLaurin writes as follows to Archbold: United States Senate. Bennettsville, SIC, May 291902. Dear Mr. Archbold: I have pushed my fight so vigorously that they have called on Tillman. I met him at Gaffney and beat him at his own ga'ric . I called his bluff and now the fight is for two seats in the Sen ate instead of one. I can beat Tillman if properly and gener ously supported. There is ho time to lose however; I enclose my account of both meetings for your information. With kindest regards I am yours sin cerely, John L. .McLaurin. We have every reason to believe that McLaurin was "properly and generously supported," but that he was unable to beat Tillmau is a mat ter of history. Senator Tillman so completely knocked McLaurin out or the political box that he did not even offer for re-election when his term in the Senate expired. The editor of The Times and Democrat was approached indirectly by a friend of Senator McLaurin to sup port his new party, about the time the last letter was written but of course, he declined. It would have been greatly to our financial interest to have followed the fortunes of Senator McLaurin as he was willing to pay us well for helping along the movement. Being a Democrat of the old school, we so informed the Senator's friend and there the mat ter dropped. Senator Tillman placed South Carolina under fresh obligations to him for unmasking McLaurin. , The State thinks it is up to the President to explain to the country why Foraker, a friend of Standard Oil, is altogether undesirable be case of his oiliness and Aldrich, likewise a friend of Standard Oil, is permitted to be leader of Repub lican party in the senate without question by the chief executive?" Taft is trying to work the old gag that the election of Bryan means panics and business paralysis, but it dont seem to work as it use to. TRAGEDY IN PHILIPPINES. Private Shoots Lieutenant and Cats His Own Throat. At Manilla, P. I., a tragedy oc curred at Camp Jesseman Saturday night, resulting in the death of'Lieu tenant Edward J. Bloom, of the 4th infantry, and Private Suttles, Com pany K, of the same regiment. Suttles for some reason shot Bloom, and then cut -his own throat. Sut tles died immediately, but Bloom lingered until Saturday night. An investigation of the affair is being made by military officials. Very Low Kates via Southern Ry. The Southern Railway announces the very low rate of three cents per mile, plus twenty-five cents for the round trip to Ladson, S. C, on account of the Berkley-Colletin County Fair (Colored), which will be held at Ladson, S. C, October 3rd to 12th inclusive. Tickets will be on sale daily from October 2nd to 12th inclusive,"limited for return passage until October 13th, 1908. For further* information, rates, etc., apply to Southern Railway agents, or address J. C. LUSK. v Division Passenger Agent, Charleston, S., C. JOHN L. MEEK, Assistant General Passenger Agt., Atlanta, Ga. A SURPRISED MINISTER. ? "For many years I have been a sufferer from bronchial catarrh, and had despaired of anything like a cure. Judge of my pleasant sur prise when I first used Hyomei, which brought complete relief. Hyo mei has been a veritable godsend." ?Rev. Charles Hartley, Sardinia. Ohio. Thousands of catarrh sufferers have given up in despair. They have tried stomach dosing, snuff, sprays and douches without success, uand now believe catarrh to be incurable. But J. G. Wannamaker Mfg. Co , the druggists, holds out hope to all distressed. He sells a remedy called Hyomei which is guaranteed for catarrh, colds, coughs, bronchitis, asthma and croup. Hyomei (pronounced Higb-o-me) is medicated air, full of the healthy virtues of the mountain pines. You breathe in the delightful antiseptic air, and as It passes over the in flamed and germ ridden membrane, it allays the inflammation, kills the germs, and drives out the disease. The complete Hyomei outfit, in cluding a hard rubber inhaler, costs but $1.00. and an extra bottle of Hyomei, if afterwards needed, costs but 50 cents. See J. G. Wannamaker Mfg. Co. about it today. WANTED?TO KENT HOUSE?4 or 5 rooms, in Orangeburg. Address G. W. Cooper, care of Times and Democrat. LOST?On last Saturday week, one laprobe, between Orangeburg and Mr. A. M. Salley's place, Reward to finder. Return to J. J. Jones, care of A. M. Salley, Orangeburg. S. C. 9-28-11 LOST?One hound dog, white and black, nearly 8 months old, j answer to the name of Watson; ; last seen at Livingston station. ] Finder will notify J. W. Neese, Neeses, S. C, and receive liberal reward. 2t-* Seed Oats for Sale. Appier Rust-Proof Improved Oats. Grown and for sale by A. M. Sal-1 ley, Orangeburg, S. C. I_.?I ? - ?_ ?Porter in New Orleans Timea-Democrat. MILLINERY OPENING. OCTOBER, 12,3,1908. On the above dates we will have on display all the LATEST STYLES in LADIES, MISSES, and CHIL DREN Hats, Caps, and Bonnets. We are just Opening up here and want the ladies to see that we can please them in Style, Quality and Price. Come and see for yourself. S. E. & M. GODFREY Crum Building, Broughton Street. Orangeburg, S. C. AUTUMN EXHIBITION OF SMART HEADWEAR. There's no doubt that the key of the Autum and Winter fashions have been set by the modes of that spec tacular period when Napoleon was laying the foundation of the first empire. To be sure these modes have been adapted, modified, simplified or elaborated, the result is a delightfully mod ernized old-worldness that is distinctive and pleasing. These things are here ready for you and that you will be charmed is a foregone conclusion. On October 1st and 2nd. We extend you a golden opportunity for ultramodish Hats, Cloaks, Suits, Skirts, Waists and a]l the charming and dainty accessories to smart dressing. Subtle observa tion of style tendencies, early visitation to style centers has enabled us to supply the inevitable demand for the fashionably new and approved. While everything is bright and fresh and shining, we invite your critical inspection of the smartly woven ma terials, the truly artistic "line" effects and the beauty of the seasons combination of colors and trimmings. Come and take a leisurely stroll through, make an animated study of them, or have a regular shopping spree, just as you like. Only be sure to come October 1st and 2nd. F. R. MALPASS & CO.