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9bt &ims&mA ?tmm& Established In 1860. . Vol. 40..No. 60 Published Three Times a Week. Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Entered as second-class matter Jan. 9, 1009, at the postoffice at Or angeburg, S. C nuder the Act of Congress of March, 1870. Jas. L. Sims, Editor and Proprietor. Jas. Izlar Sims, - Associate Editor. Subscription Rates. One Tear .....$1.50 Sis Months. .75 Three Months. .40 Advertising Rates furnished on application. Remittances should be made- by check?. money order, registered let ters, or express orders, payable - to The Times and Democrat, Orange burg,- S. 0. .,. " _ ? The verdict in the Farnum case was a distinct shock to the people of South Carolina. It appears to us from this distance that While's confession has ? put Farnum in a dark, deep hole. On the very day that Peary an nounced his thirty counts against Cook's claims of discovery, the Char leston Post published a picture of the North Pole taken by Cook when he was there. .Postmaster - General' Hitchcock vouches for Secretary Ballenger's Character, which he says Is as unsul lied, as the snow. Now who will vouch for" Postmaster-General Hitch cock's character? Will some of the brethren please tell.us whether it is in good taste or not for a preacher who* is- edit ing a secular paper to prfix his name as^egltpr. at the head of the: edito* rialj.page with."Rev.?''"' .If we were asked to give a short reason for the verdict in the Far num case, we weald bay "too much Lyon and beating of the. torn toms." If, the other cases were turned over tq. the Solicitor he might secure bet ter results. We use to wonder why the job of..director of the State dispensary, which paid only $400 per annum and mileage, was so eagerly sought by so many people, but we don't wonder any more. Wylie has clear ed^ up the mystery. ' ? ..The Charleston Evening Post thinks that the "Taft Democrats constitute a very poor ass?it to the Republican party." They would be faithful just as long as they could draw the salary from a good fat office and no longer. ]lt is said that the "Taft Demo crats" of Virginia, particularly of the Richmond district, are in a state of surprise.and shock and distress over the selection by the President of a real Republican for the office of postmaster al Richmond'.' ' ? The Charleston Evening Post is dead right when it says if any Dem ocrats in the South want to follow Mr. Taft they should go over to the Republican party, where Mr. Taft lives and mo>es and ha6 his being, for he isn't coming over to them. They do things queerely down in Dorchester county. The State says when the books were opened on Ju ly 5 for registration 0. B. Lime house, a dispensor, was present and ?helped the board register voters. When things are done so loosely it is not strange that the registration books are in a muddle. Wylie testified that Farnum con tributed four hundred dollars to wards his campaign expenses when he was running for the position of director of the State Dispensary. As Wylie was elected by the Legis lature, it would be in tores ting to know what his campaign expenses amounted to and who got the boodle. Because President Taft appointed a Republican postmaster of Rich mond, Va., instead of one of them, the "Taft Democrats" have come to the conclusion that they will wait till such lime as they see some tau gible evidence of the professions of the dominant national party before they agaiu align themselves with the Republicans. To cover up his tracks Wylie made an arrangement with Farnum by which payments of bribe money were made through drafts payable to Hen ry Samuels, now mayor of Chester, who cashed the drafts and turned the proceeds over to Wylie. The good people of Chester 6hould de mand that Samuels step down and out as mayor of their towu. Henry Samuels, the mayor of Ches ter, seems to have been a very baudy man as go-between for Wylio and Farnum. but we can't understand how such a man could have been elected mayor of a town like Ches ter. Every decent man who voted for Samuels must feel like going to some out-of-way place and kicking himself good and bard. Peary seems to count his faithful negro servant who went to the North Pole with him as merely a part of his equipment. When asked why be turned back all the white men of his expedition and took only the necro. Peary said ho did not feel called upon to share the honors that might accrue with any other man. So it seems that he does not consid er his faithful negro servant who faced death with him a man. Xjet Us Have the Facts. If Mr. L. R. Glavis, chief of the Seattle field division of the land office until removed by Baliinger, has* the'ammunition he intimates, in teresting firing from his quarter may be expected. After Mr. Taft per mitted Baliinger to cut off Glavis' head the latter wrote to the Presi dent. He said in part: "As chief of field division directly concerned, and because of the tremendous values involved, I felt my personal respon sibility most keenly. The evidence indioated that a great syndicate is trying to secure a monopoly of this coal, in direct violation of the law. Ultimately I felt myself obliged to appeal to you over the beads of my superior officers. In order to bring about' the enforcement of the law, which in a mesaure would conserve these coal lands to the people at large. I deemed it my duty to sub mit the facts to you, and I can not regret my action. Since there may be ? now .even , greater danger that the title of these coal lands will he fradulently secured by the syn dicate, it is no less my duty to my country to make public the facts in my possession, concerning which I firmly believe that you have been misled. This I shall do in the near future, with a full sense of the se [;riousness of my action and with deep and abiding respect for your great office." We hope Mr. Glavis will keep his word, and tell us all about the rascalities of the interior department Of course there is no place for an honest man like Mr. Glavis in an administration like President Taft's, which was organiz ed and is being run in the interests of just such men as had been fired from his job by Taft. No public official will be tolerated by Taft whc Is not willing to serve the trusts. Record Price for Cotton. A new and gratifying record has been established by cotton, which has climbed to approximately thir teen and a quarter cents, which is higher than it has been, at this sea l.spn of the year, at any time since the civil, war, says the Atlanta Journal. There has been an advance of one and a quarter cents since today week, and there is a healthy tone in the activity which makes it certain that the present high prices will be main tained. Only a few days ago Hon. Harvie Jordan gave out an encouraging in terview in which he said that not less than a hundred million dollars would) be distributed among .the farmers of Georgia from the sale of cotton and cotton seed. Since his estimate was made the price of cotton has advanced three quarters of a cent, so his estimate hp.s been not only confirmed, but in all probability will have to be en-! larged. South Carolina farmers will niiike as much in proportion at the Georgia farmers. Figures such as' these are well calculated to inspire the farmers of the South with greater courage and optimism than they have had for a long time.' Indeed, it begins to seem that they are at last about to come intp their own. It is now a known fact that the crop' will be short in Texas and in many of the other cotton growing States of the West. Every channel of trade has already begun to feel the impetus of good prices for cot tou and the belief seems well found ed that this is but the beginning of one of the most prosperous sea sons in the history of the South. What a Juror Says. One of the jurors who was on the Farnum case makes this statement: "We went to the room at 10:15 o'clock this morning. All of us were deeply interested in the trial and the testimony, and it was my obser vation that every man in the room was a serious thinking man, who knew his responsibility and intended to do his duty as he saw it. When we were all In the room and had time to learn the opinion of each, as to what verdict should be render- j od. it developed that eleven were for acquittal and one for convic tion. For five long hours we argued with this man. We believed that money had been paid, and eleven of us were convinced that it was merely given as a rebate in the reg ular course of busine.-s, and then was no evidence, as we understood it, that would tend to make one believe that the money was given for cor rupt purposes. When the one juror, who was for conviction, had heard several of the jurors explain their views on the testimony offered, he came around to our side. A votL* was then taken, and all of us voted for the acquittal of Mr. Farnum. We "don't believe that the testimony of the alleged accomplices of Mr. Faruum had been corroborated by the testimony of others." How an intelligent man can make such a .statement as the above is above our comprehension. Trial of the Grafters. The testimony of Mr. Joseph B. Wylie, which was reported in full on the first page of our Saturday is.-ue, in the case against J. S. Far num. on 'trial for bribery, which the Record says was given in a very impressive and calm manner, is the most important testimony that has ever been produced in regard to the conduct of the late State dispen sary. Mr. Wylie i.-- under indict ment iu the series of cases now pending. He belongs to a promi nent family of Chester county and is a prosperous farmer who has al ways stood well. He was elected to the position of director of the dis pensary in 1906 along wtih Messrs. John Black and Jodie Rawlinson, tie three constituting the board when the dispensary was abolished in 1 907. Mr. Wylie said that in eleven months service on the board he had made over $28,000 by receiving briber. When he went on the board he was worth from $15.000 to $20,000, but could not say how much he is worth now, as he had spent a good deal of I the money made through the dis pensary. He was not worth as much a.- $40,000, he said. The State ought to make Wy!ie give up his ill gotten money, which he says nevt>r did do him any good. CARGO OF SARDINES Shipped to the H. G. Leiding Com pany of Charleston. The News and Courier says the , schooner Herbert May, Capt. Black, : loaded solidly with American canned sardines, is on her way to Charles ton, and is expected to arrive there in the course of the next two days. The schooner will have the distinc tion of bringing the first solid cargo of sardines to a South Atlantic port. The cargo ie consigned to the H. G. Leiding Company, the same company that brought out a large shipment of Salmons last winter. The matter of disposing of such an immense amount of sardines was no easy matter, but the bulk of the cargo had been placed before the schooner commenced her voyage Southward, and since the sailing of the vessel the entire cargo has been fold. The canned goods were ship ped by the North L?beck Manufac turing and Canning Company, of Eastport, Me., and the cargo con- j sists of 18,000 cases, 100 cans to the case, or 1,800,000 cans. j The Leiding Company has sold the sardines in South Carolina, North Carolina, Alabama and Georgia, and the order were received from the largest wholesale houses .'in these States.- One-fourth of the cargo has been sold in Charles:on. ff Char- j leston had a few more such hustling houses as the H. G. Leiding Company she would be a great deal better off. Mr. H. C. Murphy, of Charles ton, is the popular traveling sales man of this enterprising firm. Crushed to Death. In the cotton oil mill at Lancas ter on Friday a small colored boy wash crushed to death by />being caught in the seed conveyor, about which he and another boy were feed ing. The body was horribly mang led. Later in the afternoon John Clark, a young negro, had his hand severely cut in the machinery and may lose the member. * They Were Drowned. At New York a launch containing a woman and three or four men was run down by a tug-boat in the Hud son river opposite Ninety-second street, before daylight Friday, and it is believed that all the occupants of .the launch were drowned. * CLASSIFIED COLUMN One-half Cent a Word Found Notices Free. 2O0 Acre Farm For Sale?Situated two miles from the court house on puK'c road. For particulars call on or write Carolina Sales Agency, Orangeburg, S. C. (At Times and Democrat Office.) 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