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PUBLISHED TWICE-A-WEEK Tue?day and Friday. Vol. 40.No. 57. ?'Entered as second-class, matter fan. 1, 1908, at the postofflce at Or aagaburg, S. C, under the Act of Do'ngraag of March 3, 187?._ fas. l; Sims, Editor and Proprietor. Baa. Isla? Sims, - Associate Editor. Subscription Rate?. fine Tear. . .81.50 Hx Months. .75 rhzee Months...40 Advertising Bate*. Transient advertisements $1.00 per lach for ret insertion and 50 o-nts for eacbsnbsoqnent rt?rtiwQ Business Notices 10 cents per line for first ooertion and 5 cents per line for subsequent ?actiona Obituaries, Tributes of Seapect, Notk? of hanks, sod all notices of a pe sonal or politi a! nature are charged.for as regular advertise ectzib ' Special Notices, entitled Wanted, Lost, found, Far Bent, not exceeding twenty-five rords, one rime, 85 cents; two tames 50 cents; three times, 75 cents and four times $1.00. Liberal contract made with merchants and ithens. who wish to ixn advertisements for three months or longer. For rates on contract idvortising apply at the office, and they will ?? carefully furnished. Remittances should be made by checks oosey orders, registered letters, or express or ?sre, payable to The Times and Democrat, OraneebuTK, S. C. Hearst's man Friday has not been heard from since the election. When, oh when will the Taft pros perity move be along? Echo answers. The man that thinks the Demo cratic party is dead ought to have his thinking apparatus repaired. No objection to any one voting for Taft if he felt call that way and did it in open, manly manner. James J. Hill, the great railroad magnate, says he has no fault to find ?with the result of the election. Why ftfiould he have when he will be al lowed to go on plundering the public? Bryan polled about seven million votes in the late Presidential elec tion. The only trouble was the trusts managed to get out a larger vote and put Taft in. The great trouble about the formation of a white man's Repub lican party in South Carolina would be that every member of the party would want an office. \ Charleston is depending on Taft to bounce Crum from the Custom House, but he won't do it. The Republican party is not quite ready to cut lose from the negro yet. In a letter to The S'atc Col. J. J. I Dargan slobbered all over Teddy Roosevelt. When the Colonel vis ited the White House some time ago Teddy evidently got his rabbit foot on him. The Harvester Tr?st has organized a benefit relief association" among Its employees, but as the employee"! foots the greater part of the bills there is no special credit due the cor poration. "Now that the excitement has died out, does anyone suspect that Mr. John D. Rockefeller nas been deceiv ed in his estimate of the man who will best represent the interests most dear to John D. Rockefeller?" asks the Commoner. The South and the West should cut lose from the East, form an al liance and run this government in the interest of the people who cre ate its wealth, the farmers. It is now being run in the interest of the trusts and big corporations. Mr. John Johnson is "shooting off his mouth" trying to disparage Bry an. Johnson and other so-called Democrats may as well be told right now that no Democrat can be elect ed President of the United States if he is not supported by Bryan. Bryan, even in defeat, is still the greatest man in America. Like Cal houn. Clay and Webster, he may not have his ambition to be Presi dent gratified, but he will be re membered long after all the little Jackdaw editors are dead and forgot ten. I Why don't the ladies of the Civic League start a movement to have all the telephone, electric light and tel egraph wires put under ground" The removal of the poles on which these wires are strung from the streets would add much to the beau ty of (lie city. The New Orleans Cotton Exchange has issue;! a resolution requesting the Republican party to reduce or remove the tariff on jute bagging, which is a direct tax on the cotton planters of the South. It's dollars to doughnuts that the resolution will have no effect. The farmers of Orangeburg have been told that their prosperity was wrapped up in the success of the Republican party in the late election. The farmers are not so easily fooled as some people think they are. They know that the Republican party is now taxing tnem heavily for the benefit of the jute trust. No, Maria, this Editor would not have been an applicant for the Cy angeburg postmastership had Mr. Bryan been elected. He could not afford to lay down his present re munerative job to act as postmaster at the salary Uncle Sam allows this hard worked official. As a matter of fact, this Editor has never been an aspirant for public office in his life and never will be. A Poor Guarantee. Mr. W. R. Meredith, president of the Virginia Bar Association, who, although heretofore a Democrat, gave open support to Judge Taft's candidacy at the recent election, is exhibiting ancy exploiting a letter from President Roosevelt which Mr. Meredith thinks "answers definitely and for all time the most forceful stock arguments used to , keep reluc tant Democrats in line for a weak candidate;" that is to say the ar gument of possible negro domination in the South, for it is to conditions in the South that Mr. Meredith re fers, of course, and to which the President's letter refers. The letter reads as follows: "My Dear Mr. Meredith: I have your letter. I do not be lieve there Is a single individual of any consequence who seriously dreams of cutting down Southern representation, and I should have no hesitation in stating anywhere and at any time that as, long as the election laws are constitu tionally enforced without discrim ination *as to color, the fear that Southern representation in Con gress will be cut down is both idle and absurd. "Faithfully yours, "THEODORE ROOSEVELT." "Just why this expression of President Roosevelt settles this mat ter 'definitely and for all time* i3 far from clear," says the Charleston Evening Post. "What guarantee can Mr. Roosevelt give that the Congress will not reduce the representation of the Southern States at the coming session?" It is a fact, as The Charlotte Ob server's intelligent Washington cor respondent, Zach McGheej points out. that "there is at the present time on the calendar of the Senate what is known as the Crumpacker bill, calling for a counting of the voting population, white and black, for the purpose of cutting down Southern representation," and this bill has al ready passed the House of Repre sentatives "with the vote of every Republican from the Western aHd New England States." Mr. Meredith argues that the rep resentatives from the New England States, "with their strict laws pro tecting the electorate from ignorance and incapacity, could be counted' on to kill any attempt at reducing Southern representation in Congress without the vote of the Southern rep resentatives," but such a disposition on the part of the Representatives of New England has never manifested itself. "Moreover, it should be noted, President Roosevek stipulates that the election laws of the ^uth must be "constitutionally . enforced with out discrimination as to color" if the South is to be made immune against effort to cut down its repre sentation. Is Mr. Meredith or any other Southern white man prepared to promise that there will be no dis crimination against . the negroe's right of suffrage in the South should such discrimination be necessary to exclude him from political partici pation with the whites?" Tillman's View Will Prevail. One of (the signs of the times is that the right to vote will be taken from the negro in the next few years. This statement will not meet with favor at this time, but it will be an accomplished fact before many more Presidential elections are held. A resident of Brooklyn writing of the result of the late Presidential election says: "Beyond a, doubt, the example of the South, in its laudable effort to raise the average of the suff rage, will, and must, some day become general in the whole coun try. The lofty right to vote, the supremest act of a private citizen, should never again be conferred upon tnose who fail to possess a just degree of character and intel ligence. "It is sad 'that we must tol erate the voting of too many of the ignorant and vicious now hav ing suffrage. Unless, before long, wise and just qualifications be de manded of every new voter, we shall deliberately court the fate of Greece and Rome. When the dominant races that developed those nations to real greatness became 'sentimentalists,' and soft, and over-luxurious, they sold or gave suffrage to slaves and aliens of a weaker mental and physical fibre. Decadence and ruin were the swift and sure result. "The South, through long-suf fering and truly great endurance, has declared in favor of a higher qualification for suffrage, a high er quality of 'man' to decide who shall be the representatives of their people. That the whole united and common country may see ithe necessity that suffrage shall be exercised, not by mere physical male-ness, but by a 'man hood' of character and intellect, is the best wish I can make for .America." Those are the sentiments of a man who says he voted for Taft in the late Presidential election and not those of a Democrat. No man who loves his country will question the correc/n^ss of what ho says, and from now on these sentiments will he discoursed more and more among the Republicans of the North, until finally they will arrive at the same conclusion reached by Senator Tillman, which is that the negroes should be deprived of the ballot as an act of justice to the negro as well as it he white man. When Senator Tillman first took this po sition he was denounced as a stirer up of strife between the races, but gradually his position is being under stood and appreciated. Will Come Again. Those simole minded fo'k who think that the Democratic party is dead should give th? ir heads a good soaking in warm water, and give what they use as a substitute for brains a chanco to expand a little if such a thing is possible. We have heard this kind of chat after every defeat for the last thirty years, bu'. the Democratic party is still doing business at the olcj stand. Tim Philadelphia Public Ledger, a Taft organ, says it is easy to predic. that the Democratic party will ap pear in a weakened form in 1912, but "the safer prediction is that the Democratic party will have approx imately half of the country votes, say, 7,000,000, in 1912. It has this year elected governors In some strong Taft States, and, on the whole, has shown potentiality of yictorv about equal to that of the party of Taft and Roosevelt. If the Democratic party is to have about the same strength in 1912 as in 1908 it is equally true that the polttPcal instinct of suc cessful living will impel it to seeK. a strengthening of its contentions; a new issue, a re-vitalizatioi of is sues or a means of exposing the weakness of its adversary. The question of 1912 threatens the Re publican party as positively as it threatens the organization lately de feated under Bryan. If the Demo crats must build up their voting strength the Republicans must avoid blunders. The ancient controversy over the tariff obtrudes itself before the electors meet to choose a new president., On both sides the leaders are timid about the tariff, but the pressure of forces compels a strug gle on that ground, as similar forc es compelled parties to fight the slavery battle to a conclusion in spite of the dodging and compromises of the leaders." This wjt the opinion of a Dem ocratic enthusiast, but the sober opinion of a Republican paper that supported Mr. Taft in the late elec tion. It evidently does not indulge in rainbow chasjing, preferring to look at things as they are. The Public Ledger concludes by saying "It is interesting speculation?thi'i looking forward to 1912. The only thing certain about it is that four years will bring the two grea*: par ties together with nearly equal strength and with issues which will be, if not the same, derivatives and developments of those made familiar in recent years." A Waste of Money. It is reported that some of the trust magnates of the North contem plate establishing a Republican newspaper at Atlanta for the pur pose of teaching the doctrines of that party to the Southern people at close range. It seems to us that this would be a useless waste of money as well as an unkind act towards such newspapers as the Atlanta Con stitution, the Savannah News, the Charleston News and Courier, the Charlotte Observer and several lit tle "me, too" daily and weekly news papers published in Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina. These papers are really Republican in senti ment, but have not the courage to come out openly and declare them selves! for fear of losing business. If the magnates who contemplate establishing this .republican news paper, will excuse us for butting in. we would suggest that they raise a fund for the purpose of stiffening the backbones of these galvanized Republican papers and encourage them to sail under their true flag. The fund could be used to suppli ment any loss they might sustain by the lack of Democratic support. We are sure this would be the best plan for all. It would relieve the Demo cratic party of a great load and give the Republicans an opportunity t.j test their scheme with many in stead of one newspaper. Cotton Not Included. The New York American says, "Since the Presidential election the market value of stock and bonds quoted in Wall street has been ad vanced more than two billion dollar.'. The enormous Increase in value has been accomplished in ten days of trading. This calculation is based upon actual quotations made on the New York Stock Exchange." This is the kind of prosperity the election of Mr. Taft has brought to the country. How much does it help the farmer, the man who is the producer of all wealth? Will those who claim that Republican success spells pros perity for the cotton farmer tell us how an advance in price of the stock of the Steel Trust eleven dol lars per share helps the price of cotton and other thingsg our farmers have to sell? Wall street gambling in cotton, bonds and stocks has no more to do with the general prosperi ty of the people of this country than the many stud poker games that are played by some people from time to time. Will they tell us why cot ton is lower in price now than it was when Taft was elected? We care nothing about what the stocks and bonds sell for on Wall street. Any trust can force up the price of its stocks and bonds when it sees fit. We are interested in the price of cotton. It is now selling below the cost of production, and the fact thai it has declined in price steadily sine the election of Taft, prove S very conclusively that his election was a positive injury to this section of the country. Will Remain Solid. The Bamberg Herald says "If sov.j: of these fellows who say the solid South is broken will c-.me down here and attempt to spread Repub lican sentiments, they will find out how badly mistaken they are. The South is still, solid, and will remain ,o, for th ? *erj g >od reason that this section has absolutely nothing to 'hope for from the Republican party." From Its very birth to th . present day the Republican party has made war on the South and plunder ed us whenever they got a chance. They are plundering thtt people of the South right now through the thieving tariff for the benefit of the trusts that supply their campaign funds. Lesson VIII.?-Fourth Quarter, For Nov. 22, 1908. THE INTERNATIONAL SERIES. Text of the Lesson, I Kings i, 32-40, 50-53?Memory Verses, 39, 40?Golden Text, I Chron. xxviii, 9?Commentary Prepared by Rev. 0. M. Stoarns. [Copyrlg-ht, 1908, by Aaurican Pre* Association.] "Whatsoever the Lord pleased, that did He In bearen and inxearth, in the seas and all deep places" (Ps. cxixv, 6). "The Most High roletb in the king dom of men and giveth it to whomso ever He will. He doeth according to His will in the army of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth" (Dan. iv, 32, 35). Even when our Lord was crucified Herod and Pilate and the people of Israel did what the hand and counsel of the Lord determined before to be done (Acts iv, 27, 28). So it is al ways, through good men and bad men, and even the devil, and through good men who often act unwisely, God Is ever working out His eternal purpose which he purposed In Christ Jesus our Lord (Eph. ill, 11). He who sees and declares the end from the beginning says, "My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure" (Isa. xlvi, 10; Ps. xxxiii, 10, 11). Men are left free to do as they choose and are guilty if they do wrong, but God Is ever work ing out His purpose in spite of every thing and every one who may be set against Him. Thus we see It In our lesson today. David being old, one of his sons, Ado nijah, whom he had never displeased by even asking him why he did any thing, exalted bimself to be the king, though he knew that the Lord had given the throne to bis brother Solo mon, and Joab, who was David's chief, and Abiathar. tho priest, whom David had so protected and made one with him, followed. Adonijah (I Kings i, 5 7;. li, 15). It does not seem so strange that spoiled boys, like Absalom and Adonijah, should be so desperately wicked, but to see a priest like Abiathar Joining him la perplexing. It seems so easy to turn from what Is right and do the wrong thing. There were some who remained faithful to David, such as Nathan, the prophet;" Zadok, the priest; Benaiah.the son of Jehoiada, one of David's mighty men who slew a lion in a pit in snow time, and also an Egyptian with the man's own spear, and did many mighty acts (II Sam. xxlli, 20-23; I Kings 1, 8). Nathan told Bathsheba, the mother of Solomon, how things were going, and she and Nathan brought word to David, whereupon David called these three faithful men and bade them cause Solomon to ride upon his own mule and have him anointed king over Israel and Judah, that he might sit upon his throne and be king In his stead (verses 32-35). This was as the Lord had purposed, for He had said to David, "Behold, a son shall be born to thee, who shall be a man of rest, * ? * and I will give peace and quietness unto Israel in his days, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel for ever" (1 Chron. xxil, 0, 10), a prom ise primarily, but only partly true of Solomon, but yet to be fully and com pletely seen in Jesus as the Son of David (Isa. lx, 6, 7; Jer. xxlfl, 5, 6; Luke L 31-33). Then sat Solomon upon the throne of David, his father, and his kingdom was established greatly (I Kings ii, 12), or as it Is writ ten m I Chron. xxlx, 23, "Then Solo mon sat on the throne of the Lord as king Instead of David, hl? father, and prospered, and all Israel obeyed him." No throne but this was ever called the throne of the Lord. The days come when the same city, Jerusa lem, Bhall be called the throne of the Lord and all the natrons shall be gath ered unto it, to the name of the Lord to Jerusalem (Jer. ill, 17). David's charge to Solomon In chapter II and In I Chron. xxviii is worthy of being laid up in the heart. Note specially these words: "Know thou the God of thy father and serve Him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind, for the Lord searcheth all hearts and under standeth all the imaginations of the thoughts" (I Chron. xxviii, 0). For over twenty yeans I have found special blessing In these. That expres sion, "the Imagination of the thoughts," Is found again in chapter xxix, IS, and again sad contrast in Gem vt 5. How deeply God searches not only the heart, but the thoughts of the heart, and somehow, liack of that, the imagination of the thoughts! How much and how continually we need the precious blood which clennsofh from all siu! In the last chapter of II Sam. we find a word from David in verse 24 which is worthy of application to all believers. "Neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the Lord my God of that which doth cost me nothing." And this whs iu connection with the pur chase of the place where the temple was afterward builded (II Chron. HI, 1). It was nlso the place where Abra ham had offered up his son Isaac, and tho great thought is redemption by a costly sacrifice. In David's abundant preparation for the temple which he was not allowed to build we see a manifestation of that Keal which be prayed that Solomon might have. He said, "1 have prepared with all my might for the bonne of my God. * * * because I have Bet my affection to the honso of my God." Yet with all the millions which he gave he wild, "All things eoine of Thee, and of Thluo own have we given Thee" (I Curoa. xxlx, 2, 3. 14). Now Is The Time to get a HAY RAKE at COST. I am not going to handle hay rakes any longer and will sell stock on hand at cost. A fine lot of one and two horse wagons at greatly reduced prices. CALL AT? L. E. RILEY'S Join Our Big American Colony 10 Mexico. Homes for one hundred dollar:;, ten dollars cash, balanoa monthly payments. Good land, none better, well located, "abundance of good wa ter and healthy. Good agents wann ed. R. J. Morgan, Iowa Building, Muskogee, Okla. Notice to Trespassers. We, the undersigned, land owners in Zion Township, in the county of Orangeburg, in the State of South Carolina, hereby warn all persons not to trespass upon our lands. All hunting, fishing or any other form of trespassing prohibited. Any per son caught violating this notcie will be prosecuted to the full extent of the b>w. Mrs. W. D. Autley. J. W. Mack. Mrs. T. M. Hennerlly, D. J. Hughes, A. B. Hughes, W. L. Mack, M. D., Mrs. H. A. Gibson, P. B. Sanders, E. Hughes, Mrs. J. M. Riley, A. E. Smoak, J. V. Brickie, W. T. Brickie. ll-lG-Sm* Sheriffs Sale. State of South Carolina, County of Orangeburg. In Common Pleas Savannah Woodenware Company. Plaintiff, against F. D. Darnell, Defendant. By virtue of execution to me di rected in above stated case, I wi.l sell at public auction, at Orangeburg Court House, during the legal hours for sale oh the first Monday in De cember, 19 08, being the seventh (7th) day of said month, the fol lowing describbed real estate: All that certain tract or plantation of land, situate, lying and being in Willow Township, County and State aforesaid, containing forty-three (43) acres, more or less, and boun l ed by lands of Danl. Garrick, Mrs. Emma Brown, Mosley Garrick and O. Sanford. Terms, cash. JOHN H. DUKES, Sheriff Orangeburg Co. November 11, 1908. Sheriff Sale. State of South Carolina, County of Orangeburg. In Common Pleax Salley and Gleaten, Plaintiffs, against C. E. Tyler, et al, De fendants. By virtue of execution to me di rected, in above stated case, I will sell at public auction at Orangeburg Court House during the legal horns for sales, on the first Monday in December, 190S, being the seventh day of said month, ith'e following real estate: All that certain tract or planta tion of land situate, lying and being in Goodland Township in said coun ty of Orangeburg and State aforesaid, containing two hundred and forty four (244) acres, more or less, and bounded, by -lands of Miss Alma Felder, Davis Bridge Road, O. F. Bailey, P. R. Hay and J. G. Foy. Terms, cash. JOHN H. DUKES. Sheriff Orangeburg Co. ?November 11, 1908. WANTED TO BUY. Five hundred bushels Appier Seed Oats. I. M. Pearlstine & Son, 201 and 203 East Bay St., Charleston, S. C. _ Attention. Dimness of vision, blurring of let ters, eye-strain, eyerpaln, and head ache, and also very close or arms length reading, call for the attention of the optician. M. J. D. Dantzler, M. D., Optician. 9-15-tf. Elloree, S. C. Tax Notice. Office of County Treasurer, Orangeburg, S. C. Tax duplicates will be open at the Court House for the collection of Taxes from October 15th to the 31st day of December, 1908, as follows: State tax .5% mills County tax .3 Road tax .1 " Constitutional school ....3 " Total .12% mills Special Taxes? Mills B.D District No. 10.2 District No. 11 .2 District No. 12.2 District No. 13.2 District No. IS.) . .4 2 District No 20.4 District No. 21.2 District No. 22.2 District No. 23. 2 District No. 23.2 District No. 2G.3 2 District No. 2 7.1 District No .28.3 District No. 33.3 District No. 34.3 3 District No. 36. -.I 2 District No. 3 7.2 District No. 38.2 District No. 40.2 District No. 4 1.4 District No. 4 2.2 District No. 43.3 District No. 44.3 District No. -DI.3 District No. 4 7.1 District No. 4S.4 District No. 55.3 District No. 64.3 District No. fir,.2 2 Distlcrt No. 68.4 District No. 70.4 2 Listrict No. 71.3 District No. 72.3 District No 74.4 District No. 75.2 District No. 78.3 District No. S3.3 Commutation Tax for the years 1909, payable from October 15th, '90S, to 1st March, 1 909. A. D. FAIR, Treasurer. Orangeburg Co., S. C. Oct. 1st, 190S._ FOR SALE?20,000 Paper Shell Pe can Trees. Seedlings from larg-, selected nuts and heavy bearin. trees. Pail delivery. 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