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Wm. V. Mar. J. Stokes Salle?. Fire Insurance. IZLAR & SALLEY We represent the The Home Insurance Co. Liverpool and London and Globe German American Continental ?. Northern Assurance Phoenix and Georgia Home. The Strongest Combination In the State. DONE FOB SPITE. Continued from page 1.) business, was sent in a franking en velope, of which I attach photo graphic copy, marked ^Exhibit D 5.' "I call your attention to the let ter of Mr. Dorr to the Postmaster General under date of November 22, 1908, ('Exhibit E.') in which ho asks for relief from the cases which Senator Tillman had brought against him, saying that he had no knowl edge that Senator Tillman desired his operations to be kept hidden and secret from general public knowl edge. The report of the inspectors seems to indicate that this young mar, Mr. Dorr, acted in good faich. but that he used Senator Tillman's application for land as an advertise ment." ? * Notice. The undenHgned petitioners will after one day's pubMeation of this notice, apply to the Secretary of this State for a Charter for the South Carolina Mntual and Benefit Asso ciation, with a capital stock of $500. for the purpose of doing a life and health insurance/lusiness with head quarters at Orangeburg, S. C. J. J. BOWKS, H. '?. DANIELS, 1-12-1* Petitioners. Wanted. Clay and Clay Mixed Peas. W will be in the market u:.til April 1st, and are paying full market prices. Address, The H. G. Leidiug Co., Charleston, S. C. The little boy was on his knees in his little night dress saying his pray ers, and his little sister couldn't re- j sist the temptation to tickle the soles of his feet. He stood it as loo; as he could and then said, "Please God, excuse me, while I knock the stuffing out of Nellie." Excavations in the old catacombs at Guanajaito, Mexico, has revealed hundreds of mummies of persons who must have lived many years I before the first Spanish invasion. Emperor William, long a studen: of technical science, has invented a hub brake for locomotives, railroad cars, and automobiles, which is said to be the most effective yet devised. 8 The Edisto Savings Bank, ORANGEBURG, S. O. Capital.8100,000.00. Surplus. ?30.000.00. B. H. Moss, President. J. M. Oliver, Vice-President, F. S. Dibble, Vice-President. Wm. L. Glover, Cashier. DIRECTORS M. 0. Dantzler, J. M. Oliver, W. R. Lowman, W. F. Fairey, B. H. Moss, T.C.Doyle, Sol. Kohn, J. W. Smoak. Money saved is money made, and the way to save is to deposit your Eoney in the savings department and draw interest on the first days January, April, July and October at the rate of four per cent per annum. This bank's absolute safety is best attested by its capital stock, its surplus and by the character and standing of its officers j.and board of directors. Money loaned on good security. CMMtOMl THE MONITOR SELF-HEATING SAD IRON. The Monitor is a perfect Self-Heat ing Sad Iron. .Generates its own heat in the body of the iron. Always hot and you can regulate it to any tem perature desired. No firing up the range ?you heat the house. No walking from the ironing table to the hot range to change irons and back i.gain, therefore saving labor, work that is most disagereable on a hot summer day. 1 iu can do an iron ing for the cost of about one cent for fuel, saving many dollars in a year; I can take your ironing t * any room in the house or out on the porch if you choose?that which every woman has sighed for many times. . Can iron a'l day without the least uncomfor tablcness from the heat of the iron. Can put it in your suit case or trunk and take it along when traveling to press the muss and wrinkles out of clothing, ribbons, etc. Oraflgeburg Hardware & FOREMAN-RICKEN BAKER CO. "The Store of Low Prices." Our Fall and Winter goods are arriving daily and it will pay you to drop in when out shopping and examine our stock and get prices. We carry everything in the line of dry goods, notions, shoes, etc., etc., and at prices that wiU defy legitimate competition. Now is the best time to buy your winter supplies before the goods are picked over, and if you will call at our store you will find us in line with the goods you want. Come and let us show you what we have to offer. FOREMAN RICKENBAKER CO. See Zesgler Office Over George Zeigler's Sto TILLMAX ANSWERS ROOSEVELT. (Contiuued from page 2.) & Watkins, of Marshfield. On Oc tober 5 I wrote to Reeder & Wat kins, asking for information, tell ing them of my desire to purchase some of the land if possible. De siring to find out if the conditions of the grant to the State of Oregon made it possible (or "purchasers"* and not "actual settlers" to buy at $2.50 per acre, I wired the librarian of the Senate for a copy of the act. Finding that that part, of the state ment received from f! gentleman in Spokane was correct, i notified Reed er & Watkins on October 20 that Mr. Lee, whom I had seen at Mos cow, Idaho, in the meantime and talked with on the subject, would go to Marshfield and investigate in person. I authorized Lee to draw on me if he found, that the lande were what they were represented to be. Lee's authority as my agent never went beyond an examination of the land and, if the application was filed, to see that I got good timber lands instead of rocks and marshes. He wired me not to be in a hurry, as there were obstacles in the way. In the meantime I had talked with lawyers who were fa miliar with the military > road land grants, and they informed me that under a decision of the circuit coun private parties were not permitted to sue for these lands. Still doubt ing whether I could purchase the lands With any hope of successful litigation, I wrote to Senator George Turner, of Washington, to get his opinion and incidentally to make inquiry about lands on the Colum bia river, in that State. He gave tho same opinion that I had already re ceived from the other lawyer. Realizing after I got to Washing ton, D. C, in December that it was a very doubtful proposition, I let the matter drop until Mr. Lee showed me a letter from Reeder & Watkins, which has been stolen from my desk in my committee room along with other papers in this case, prob ably by some of the Secret Service sleuths, and when they indicated their desire that I should exert my influence, in the Senate, I wrote the letter of February lo, of which the Presdent obtained a photographic copy. In the meantime and before that letter was written, from my investigations and after a confer ence with the Attorney-General, I introduced the two resolutions of January 31, one calling on the At torney-General for information, and the other (the joiut resolution), which became a law, instructing him to institute suits. My official activity then is shown to have taken form in the Senate be fore I knew anything about Reeder & Watkins' attitude or expectations and I was in no way influenced by them. I was still anxious to obtain some of the land If it could be done le gally, and wrote Reeder & Watkins to that effect, but my faith in them and in the whole scheme died when I received the circular of Dorr, which came to me on February 17 and IS from three different directions, show ling the widespread distribution made of them. Also Mr. Lee's re port to me had led me to believe that Reeder & Watkins were not of the caliber and character to be em ployed in a matter of such magni tude, except probaoiy as to their familiarity with the local conditions and their ability to locate quarter sections which were well timbered, as they were in the possesion of a cruiser's map. Dorr of whom I had never heard before, was evidently pushing his scheme of getting suck ers to invest and using my nome, a.4 I have indicated, without authority because I had not paid any fees to him or written to him or filed any applications. I therefore felt it in cumbent on me to expose the swindle in the Senate, which I did on the 19th of February, and asked the pof toffice authorities to issue a fraud order. I pressed the passage of the joint resolution in the Senate, and on April 30 it became a law. March 13 I was taken ill, and on May 10, after a partial recuperation I sailed for Europe, returning October 21. The President's sleuths, set to do the dirty work of spying on a Sena tor when that Senator had exposed a fraud which was being perpetrated on the public, reported to him on July 27. I had nothing whatever to do with the chanee in the law of which the President complains in regard to the Secret Service. So the President's animus is not against me on the same ground for which he has attacked Messrs. Taw ney. Smith and others in the House but one of personal malice engender ed by hatred because of my course in the Senate during the l?st seven years. I have not attempted to deeeiv-: anybody; I have not told any false hoods; I have not broken any law. I have not been guilty of any im moral conduct. I had the right to purchase tin- land if I could, bu my judgment told m 1 it was unsafe as an investment. I would like to got some of it yet. and if the At torney-General 'and his successors shall not die of old age before any thing is done it may lie possible thai I will have the opportunity to pur chase some of those timber lands of which he made men ion in bis re port. (S Doc. No. 27!), 60th Cong., ist sess.) Through my action at tention has been directed in a com pelling way to the need of prompt action by the Depanment of Jus tice. Whether I ever get any of the land or not does not mater if Har rirnan and others of that ilk are made to disgorge the large holdings which they have stolen and are at tempting to hold. The President say1?: On October 20, 1307, Senator Till man wrote a letter to Messrs. Reeder & Watkins. of Marshfield, Oregon, who were attorneys repre senting people who were appli cants for the purchase of certain land-grant land. Dorr was a land agent making his filings through Reeder & Watkins. This statement is misleading and calculated to deceive. The report of the postoffice inspectors gives the actual truth. It says: Among the most active agents in this matter is the firm of Reeder <fc Watkins, of Marshfield, Oreg. Mr. Reeder is a real estate agent and Mr. Watkins an attorney. They have associated themselves togethet in locating applicants on these lands. Further, Reeder & Watkins, by circulating a shrewdly worded cir cular long before Don appeared on j the scene, sought to make money by having persons pay them '$21 in cash for filing an application with the clerk of court and tendering to the company $4 00 nor quarter sec tion, which the law originally con templated as the ptlce of land. They wer?* to receive iSiOO additional whenever fhe Southern Oregon Company should convey the title, and they knew that no one could compel this conveyance except the United States Government, because a similar case had h?en decided the United States court so declaring. (See Nichols v. Soul hern Oregon Co.. Federal Reporter, vol. 135, p. 234.) I commenced to investigate on the 5th of October, and I made direct application to Reeder & Watkins, by telegram and by letter, on the 20tli of October. Dorr nid not appear until early in 1908, as shown by the report of the postoffice inspectors, and his career as a swindler was brief, as I exposed the whole thing in the Senate on February 19. Th.i President had the papers and knew all this. Reeder & Watkins were re ceiving $21 for the insignificant work of making a tender to the hold ing company and filing a notice witn the clerk of the court. Dorr was to share in this commission, or what ever you term it, for whatever bus iness he brought, and yet the Presi dent would convey the impression that these filings were merely such as are usual in purchasing govern ment land, when he knew or could have easily found out from the At torney-General, that all such propos ed purchasers could not thus bring any suit. In the i'gh.t of the evi dence as presented to the President himself, the scheme was a swindle to obtain $21 in cash, and must b< apparent to all. But the President acquitted Dorr and convicted me. By this time I had found out the legal status, and derided I would not sign a contract, file an application, or pay any money, and my only rea son for writing to Reeder & Watkins cm February 15 was to have them understand that I.ec misconceived ray attitude in the Senate, and that I was not to be considered as a tool, but acting in the interest of the pub lic. Remember I knew nothing of Mr. Lee's letter till sent in by the President. At the same time I was willing to use them in locating de sirable quarter sections, if later on I found that the action of Congress would make it possible to restore tin land to the public domain by the cancellation of the patents. The President lays great stress on the statement of mine made the 15th of February in a letter to Reeder & Watkins. He italicizes the words "as well as myself," as though it were unlawful, immoral, or impropei for t Senator to buy any land or to act in this Chamber r.n any question affecting his personal interest. 1 fail to see any sense or reason in this position, but I must submit that to the judgment of the Senate and the country. I had not become a! party to any litigation; I was not in terested except as a private individ ual wanting to purchase, and as a Senator desiring to enable others to have the opportunity to do so. Of course, the President is sure that I have done something very discredita ble and outrageous. He hates me and would destroy me if he could. The President gloats over the fact that my letter was written "just four days before he announced in the Senate that he had cot undertaken to buy any land in the West" as clinching his contention that I have lied to the Senate. The records show that in the interim I he Dorr cir cular had been sent to me. for on February 19, when I made the ex posure of Dorr.. I said in the Senat"': In the last day or two I nave had my attention called to a scheme of swindling, etc. It is easy for those who are them selves vulnerable to convict others on the most flimsy evidence, and Hi" President seems to work on tha theory. On reading Dorr's circular tb< whole scheme and combination of swindlers?Reeder & Watkins. in Marchfleld, and Dorr, in P >??!?>!.??? ; oday For .W*.,..,?JL*. .MONTHLY STATEMENT OF THE DISPENSARIES IN ORAXGEBURG COUNTY FOR THE .MONTH OF DEC. All Stock is Given at Consumers' Prices. 1 Dispensaries at Springfield, S. C. Elloree, S. C. Branchville, S. C. Livingston, S. C. Orangeburg, S. C. Total Invoice Including stock on hand first day of month. . . .$ 4,662.08 . .-. 6,629.90 . . . 4,991.65 5,876.5") . . . 17.096.41 Total .$39,256.59 Total sales. $ 1,375.50 3,812.4t, 2,825.35 2,555.75 12,607.Si 23,176.86 Operating expenses of each dlspensarv $ 72.60 104.25 101.64 79.41. - 41.60 $599.50 Inv. breakage. $10.55 13.45 13.90 8.90 42.80 $89.60 Consumers Stock on band last day of month $ 3,189.15 2,804.00 2,147.20 3,311.90 4,444.05 $15,896.30 State of South Carolina, County o f Orangeburg. Personally appeared J. G. Smith, T. R. McCants, L. A. Carson, Members of the Orangeburg County Di? sary board, who being each duly and severally sworn, deposes and says that the foregoing statement is true and correct. , Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 8th day of January, 1908. J. H. Claffy, N. P.. S. C. did not know anything about Conro a^id Schaefer?flashed on my mind; and remembering Lee's somewhat dubious report as to the character and qualifications of the firm of Reeder &. Watkins, I decided at once to see to it that my name should not be used to inveigle others into their game. Hence my action in the Sen ate. The President dismisses with a wave of the baud any possibility oi my honestly by saying: It is unnecessary to comment on his proposal made in this letter to use his influence as a Senator to force the Government to insti tute a suit which would make it easy for him personally to obtain some of the land. It might be well to inquire wheth er or not the Attorney-General has been ordered not to obey tue law oi Congress passed last April?which 1 ??all the "Til I man-Bonaparte" law? ordering suit to be instituted for the recovery of these lands. My culpa bility is of such magnitude in con templating the purchase of 1,440 acres of land at $2.50 an acre in the eyes of this stickler for official rectitude in others that it may be found that he is determined to block my so-called "nefarious transac tions. The man who announces to Con gress that he, Theorore Roosevelt, assumes the right to permit the Steei trust to absorb its greatest rival con trary to law would doubtless not hesitate to help his dear friend Har riman in holding 2,000.000 acres of the public domain, because Ben Till man has contemplated and wanted to buy 1,440 acres. The President having convicted Tillman, proceeded to clear Dorr in both cases contrary to the facts and smilingly retiresi from the center of the stage, Waich it is his greatest delight to occupy, and complacently looks to have the American people and the Senate give 'their approval to his verdict. I await the verdict calmly and without fear, and will gladly abide by it. In conclusion, -Mr. President. T court the most searching invest iga ton. Nay, I demand it. I declare most, emphatically 1 have never sought to conceal my efforts to buy land: I spoke to the Attorney-Gener al about it; I explained to the agent to the secret service the whole trans action when I gave him the Dorr cir cular and the letters which had been sent, nie concerning it. The question of motive will at last control and if cannot be shown that 1 had any reason to conceal anything. I In- ? vile comparison of my private life and my public work as a man and a Senator with Theodore Roosevelt oH any other man ami feel absolutely I sure of the ground upon which I I st:? nd. ANNUAL REDUCTION SALE GENT's CLOTHING CO. Prior to the arrival of our Spring Goods (Feb. 1) we will throw our ENTIRE STOCK OF MEN'S AND BOY'S CLOTHING AND OVERCOATS ON THE MARKET AT GREATLY ?HIS .MEANS A? GREAT SAVING TO YOUR PURSE. Come and see our prices and our store will 1h? your shopping place. .Men's S-0.00 Suits and Overcoats.315.85 .Men's $17.50 Suits and Overcoats .$13.00 Men's $15.00 Suits ami Overcoats.$11.75 .Men's $12.50 Suits 2nd Overcoats .$ 0.95 Men's $10.00 Suits and Overcoats.$ 7.05 Boys' $0.00 Suits and Overcoats.$ 1.45 Boys' $5.00 Suits and Overcoats.$ 3.85 Boys' $4.00 Suits and Overcoats.$ 3.15 LET US SUPPLY YOUR WANTS IN OUR LINE. 56 ~W EUSSELL ST. GEO. R. BOWMAN AND O. L. CRUM, Managers. FERTILIZERS. See M. 0. Dantzler before you buy. M. O. Dantzler announces to his Guano friends that he will call on them in fclie interest of The Coe-Mortiiner Company soon after the Now Year. Kindly wait on me before you buy your fer tilizer materials for the coming season, as I will huvc some of tho choicest, most consentrated plant food to oiler you. NAMELY: NITRATE OF POTASH, DRIED BI/OOD, FIN LEY GROUND TANKAGE NITRATE OF SODA, MURIATE OI-' POTASH, THOMAS PHOSPHATE POWDER (which analyses, by the Wagner method, over 13 per cent of Available Phosphoric Acid and 35 to 30 per cent of Lime.) Also all of tfie Standard grades in mixed goods at right prices, if they desire to bny such. The Coe-Mortimer Company refused to handle the Peruvian Guano offered them this season for good and sufficient reasons. I thank my friends for their confidence in my Guano judg ment in the past and will certainly not offer them any material in the future that 1 think is not for their best interest. M. O. Dantzler ^^??^'jsiij??- >,?...-.,? mm M. ma Baa WBSm fe and Fire Insurance. Call or Phone.