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VOL. XLII. NO. 1'2( NEWBERRY. S. 0.. FRIDAY NOVEMBER 3, 1905. TWIE A WEEK. S1 50 YEAR CITY PRIMARY. Fixed For 28th November-Rules and i Regulations Governing Same Executive Committee. I The citizens meeting was fairly well attended in council chambers on Tues day evening. Dr. 0. B. Mayer presid ed and Mr. I. H. Hunt acted as sec- I retary. There was very little to do except *o fix the dates and adopt the rules and appoint an executive com- I mittee. The selection of a committee provoked a little discussion and forced a ballot between two men. The point i was made that no -man should be elec ted to any position who did not *ake sufficient interest in thie town to at tend a meeting it matters not what I the reason for his absence was. The following report of the meeting in dietail is furnished by the secretary: c The meeting of the democratic par- < ty of the Town of Newberry was call- c ed to order in the Council Chamber at c 7:30 p. m., Tuesday, October 31st.( Dr. 0. B. 'Mayer was elected chair- 2 man, and I. H. Hunt secretary. It was moved .and carried That the I primary system be adopted for the e --municipal election for the year 1905; I that the primary election be held on e Tuesday, November 28th; the polls to be opened at eight o'clock a. m., and to be closed at four o'clock p. m.,4ne t voting precinct to be in each wa d; e and That the Executte Committee r shall have charge of locating same. t An Executive Comrnmittee consisting e of seven members, two from the 1 town at large, and one from each r ward, was elected as follows: . From tthe Town at large: 0. B. r Mayer and W. H. Hardeman. e Ward i: P. F. Baxter. d Ward 2:1. H. Hunt. rV'3:-W. G. Mayes.* V-rd 4: .E. H. Aull. Ward 5: J. 'M. Davis. - f It was moved and carried that the c Executive Committee be authorized to 1 assess Abe candidates for Mayor and j c Aldermen in order to defray the ex- I peuses of the primary election, if in t their judgment it wag advisable to do ' so. t *The following rules and regulations c of the democratic party of the Town of New!berry were adopted: Section i. An election within ther demoeratic party shall be held in the ; Town of Newberry on Tuesdcay, Ng vember 28, 1905, to select candidates p for Mayor and Aldermen for the en- s suing term for said Town; the polls to be opened at eight o'clock a. mn., and to be closed at four o'clock p. mn.; one voting precinct to be in each ward, and the executive committee serall have charge lo'f locating same. Section 2. All democrats who have duly registered for the municipal elec *tion of 1903 snall be allowted to vo:e. In case the right to vote is challenged,r the person challenged shall be requir ed to est.ablish his right to vote be fore :'6e managers by the vouching of three democrats. Provided, that in the na2mination of aldermen from t.he respective wards only the qualified electors from each ward shall be per mitted $o vote for alderman from that ward. Section 3. The candidates re.ceiving the majority of all The votes cast for the said offices of Mayor and Alder men respectively at said election. shall be declared t:he nominees of tihe demo-2 cratic party of said Town, priovided, that on or before twelve o'clock nooni on Friday, the 17th day of Noebr 1905, each of such candidates shall have left a written statement with .the1 chaiman of the executive committeei that he is a candidate and that he will ihide the result of such election. Noi vote shall be counted for any candi date, who has not so pledged himself, and provided further, that if no candi date, either for the office of Mayor or for Alderman, in a ward shall have re ceived a majority of votes at sudh election a second election for the nom ination of a Mayor and for an Alder nan, as the case may be, shall be held >n Friday, December 1, 1905, under these rules, at which second election )nly the two candidates who received he highest vote at the former election or tihe respective offices shall be vo: !d for; and provided further in the vent there should be a tie at the see )nd primary for Mayor and Alderman, -hen a third primary shall be held on ruesday, December 5, 1905. Section 4. When the vote shall iave been duly counted thie managers ;hall immediately certify tne same to ,he executive committee, which com nittee shall constitute a board of can rassers, declaring the result of the ,lection and hearing all contests and )rotests that may arise, whose ac :ion in canvassing The returns sihall >e final; provided, that no member of he executive committee shall be a :andidate at such election, and provid d further, that the said executive ommittee shall meet in. the Mayor's >ffice at -ten o'clock a. m., on Wednes lay, the 29th day of November, 1905; .nd in the event of a second election mn Saturday, ihe 2nd day of Decem >er, 1905; and in the event of a third lection Wednesday, on the 6th .day of )ecember, 1905, to: declare the said lection and to hear any contests or orotests in regard to same. Sectibn 5. The citizens' meeting hat shall adopt rules for the priamary lection shall elect an executive com nittee of seven memb.ers, two from he town at large and one from ach ward, and this committee sthall iave power to fill vacancies in its nembership. Immediately after the adjourn aent of the citizens' meeting the Ex cutive Committee was called to or er and organized by electing Dr. 0.. 3. Mayer. Chairman and I. H. Hunt ;e:retary and Treasurer. Under authority of the resolution assed at the mee7ing of the demo ratic party of the Town of Newberry, Ln assessment was levied on eacl andidate as follows: for Mayor Five )ollars; for Alderman Two Dollars, he assessment to be paid to the reasurer of the Executive Commit ee on or before Friday, the 17th day f November, 1905. Thie Committee located a voting recinct in each ward and selected nanagers of election. The wvoting recincts and managers of election -e announced in the notice of the rimary election published in this is ue. LAURENS COTTON MILLS. fillikens Restrained From Holding An Election Yesterday-Next Move Not Made Public. 0. B. Simmons. R. B. Bell and John L. Madden, stockholders of ::he Lau ens Cotton mills, have obtained ant >rder, signed by Judge J. C. Klugh, estraining N. B. Dial, J. 0. C. Flemn ng, the Millikens and .others fr6nm olAding th=e stockholders' meeting on [hursday and electing a board of di ectors, or in any manner interfering vith the present management of the .anrens cotton mills. A copy of the >apers was served upon N. B. Dial Lnd J. 0. C. Fleming and copies were sent to Spartanburg, to ibe served ipon the Millikens and Clevelands mnd others. What will be the next nove has not been made known. Mr. Oscar B. Si.mmons is the pres ,dent of the Bank of Laurens and is .lso the proprietor of a large dry ;oods establishment there. He is in :erested in other corporations, includ ng banks and factories. Messrs. -Mad len and Bell are promninentc and well :o-do farmers, .who live in the coun ty. These gentlemen have all been stockholders in the mill for years, probably since the mill was incorpora ted. Scissors are mightier than the sword in the !hiands of the literary PRESIDENT'S TRIP ENDED. He Reached Washington On Tuesda: Morning After His Southern Tour. -President Roosevelt reached Wash ington from the Dolphin at the Wash ington navy yard at 11:15 o'clocl Tuesday forenoon and five minute later he had left the yard for th, White House in a carriage with Mrs Roosevelt, and the trip was at ai end which rounded out his tour o the entire United States during hi presidency. Tien minutes before the landing iwa: made a salute of 21 guns was fire< from the yard battery and iminediate ly answered by the Dolphin. It tool but ten minutes to make fast unde: the orders from Capt. Gibbons. Dur ing this tjme the president, Secretar] Loeb and Surgeon General Rixei stood on the upper deck at the stern The president was much interested il thie morning ,papers which had jus 'been put aboard the police boat Vil igant, which acted as escort -to th< Dolphin on :her way to the wharf Wihen he looked up he caught sigh of Mrs. Roosevelt and exc!hranged sa lutes. The crowd took up the greet ing and the president smilingly ac knowledged many signals of welcome ;As soon as the gangplank was ir place Capt. E. H. C. Leutze, com mandant of the yard, went aboard an. paid his official call on 'the president This over, the "jackies" mounted th4 gun rail on the shore side. and th< presideit came as'hore. During thi mark -of honor his -flag came dowi from the masthead. As he steppe( ashore the bugles sounded and th< Marine-band&played the "Star Spng led Banner." fThe president stood un covered and the officials and marine, stood at "attention." At tie conclu sion of the 'tribute to thef flag, Mrs Roosevelt drove up from 'behind th< guard, the president entered the car riage, warmly grasped' the hand o his wife and his carriage proceede( out of the yard. The crowd voice( its sentiment of welcome, and a. m-any huge shops were passed th workmen rushed out and cheered. "Glad to see you," shouted the pres ident as'.he drove on, "glad to see yot back," came the voices from the shops An Austrian Custom. - The Outlook. One of the oddest of the Austriar customs is the result .of legislation According to dhe law, every housi must be cl.osed from 1o o'clock a night until 6 o'clock the follo.winl morning. During that time eacl hom:e is in charge of .an attendan known as the "hausbesorger," o caretaker. In large apartment build ings this hausbesorger is usually uniformed porter. Every person en tering the 'house be-tween to at nigh and 6 in the morning must pay to th% hausbesorger 20 hellers, (4~ cents.) This gives rise to a curious condi tion. Naturally the man who come home at early -hours need not necess arily pay anything, .while the man wh< habitually gets in at 2 or 3 in th morning is a frequent con-tributor t< the hausbesorger's bank account. In quiry of the hausbesorger concernini Mr. A. may result in the most start ling information that he is a nmost dis reputable, mean sort of a man, whil the nighthawk, Mr. B., will undou.bt edly be lauded as a splendid felloi of ex,cellent reputation. As a conserv ator of the public morals, t'herefor< the hausbesorger can hardly be call ed a success. The Truth. Yonkers Statesman. She-Some say you married me f my money, and some say you marrie me fcdr my looks. Now, tell me trutla fully, what did you marry me for? H-e-.T'll be blest if I kenow! UNION DISPENSARY CASE. Petition Dismissed, But It Will Come Up In Another Form Before Judge Pritchard. The argument in Asheville of the - South Carolina dispensary case, in - which J. G. Howell, of Union, S. C.. C seeks to compel the board of control 5 of Union county to allow him to re open the dispensary in Union by clai-min.g that the Brice bill, under which the election which resulted in f the dispensary being closed, is un consitutional, came to an abrupt end on ITuesday 1before the merits of the 5 case were reached. Judge Pritchard, 1 in Asheville, on his own motion, rais - ed the point that the relief demanded -a mandamus-would be improper in any event, that -writ being used -only - to enfrorce the decrees of the court, and after a brief argument he dismiss ed the petition without prejudice. Immediately thereafter, on motion i of Howells a-torneys, the court issued t a rule to show cause why a mandatory injunction should not be granted di rected against the same defendants and in favor of the same complainant. The hearing was set for November 20 before Judge Pritchard, at Richmond. Ex-Attorney General Bellinger and - R. H. Welch, of Columbia, and Dis trict Attorney J. G. Capers, of Green L ville, representing the relator; P. V. - Barron, of Union, representing the I board of ' control; Ex-Congressman Stanyarne Wilson and Judge-elect D. E. Hydrick, iof Spartanburg, and B. F. Townsend, V. E. DePass and J. A. !Sawyer, of Uninn. astoci-ated with Mr. Barron and :presenti:g the anti-dis I pensary intc-csts, a-e :articipating in the case. Another Account. Judge Pr'Lchard dismi.sed the man damu-, proceedings brought by J. G. Howe', who desires to be restored to offize as dispenser at Union. S. C., against the board of control ->f Union county, on te gro:nd that a writ of m-%,damus could only be issued as an aneiEary remedy, and that the court did no have power to afford the rem edy prayed for by such a writ. The merits of the matter were not con sidered by the court, and the status of the case is prac-i.cally unchanged by today's action. The case was argued at some lengthI Tuesday morning. Messrs. Bellinger & Welch, of. Columbia, and John G. Capers, of Greenville, represented the relator, and ExJCongressman J. Stan yarne Wilson led the .argument for the defence. Howell's attorneys ar gued the unconstitutionality of the Brice bill, alleging that it was con trary to the Eoinrteenth Amendment, and necessitate.d unequal taxation. The defendants advanced the points~ -that the court did not have jurisdic i. tion and contended that it was pure - ly a s':ate matter. iThey said the affair t is either a political or a police matter. Sand that a simliar case is now pending in the South Carolina supreme court. The point upon which the case .was Sreally decided was not advanced. Owing to the statement of attorneys this mo rning that the newspapers of South Carolina had intimated that ef forts would be made to secure snap1 judgment; and an order of Judge Pritchard, through misleading state -ments, Judge Pritchard stated from -the bench. tha: in so far as his court was concerned, there would be no -snap judgment or hasty order, and the ,court, was not being misled. Following is the order of removal: "J. G. Howell, relator, versus R. M. .Fincher, W. -D. Wilkins and Elzie Kel hey, as the county board of control of Union county, defendants. The pe tition, -the rule to show cause and.re turn thereto having been read, and it appearing to the court that it had no r .power to issue t.he writ of mandamus di to afford the relief prayed for, the -couirt having the power to issue -this form of relief only as an ancilliary remedy, it is, upon the court's own motion, ordered that this petition for mandamus be dismissed 'wif.hout prej udice." The most important clauses of the order for hearing the cause in the mandatory injunction proceeding read thus: Upon hearing verified bill of equity therein, now, upon motion of Messrs. Bellinger and Welch and John G. Capers. attorneys for the com plainant, it is ordered that the defend ants, and each of them, as the county board of control for Union county, be, and they are hereby, ordered to show cause before me and a- my chambers, at the city of Richmond, Va., on the 20th day of November, 1905, at 8 o'clock p. m., why othe in junction prayed for should not be granted. This- rule to show cause to become effective-when the complain ant shall execute a bond with good and sufficient surety, to be approved by :he clerk of thre United States Cir cuit court of the district of South Carolina, and when filed with the same, conditione' upon the payment of all properly taxable court costs, should the relief prayed for not be granted. Jones Fires Parting Shot. To the Editor of the News and Courier: I regret exceedingly that I think it* necessary to reply -to Mr. W. H. Wallace's card in your paper of the 30th. I thought I said enough in the interview wit'h( your Newberry correspondent, which was publisfhed on the 20th instant, to make myself plainly understood, but some people are fhard to satisfy. He says in his card published today: 'The letter of Mr. A. C. Jones in your issup today make& it iacumbent on nre to say that I incurred Fs en mity six years ago in the disdhrge of official duty. It is hardly necessary for me to say that I can have no re grets for doing my duty, though duty is sometimes a very unpleasant task. "Why all this mystery anyway? If Mr. Jones has any evidence that inany position, public or private, I have been unfaithful to any trust committed to me, let him produce ir. And why this sudden outbreak of 'hostility after so many years of absolute silence? The public thas already been informed that he told me years ago he wished our paths thereafter to be as far apart as the east from the west, and of my compliance with !his wish in chat re gard. Surely he will not insist that. I shall get off tihe earth, or that I shall. cease .to take part in the' discussion of public affairs. What does 'he want?" In reply, I would say that there is no mystrejy in anything I have said. I have tried to be fair in .my treatment of Mr. Wallace, and he doesn't ap p)recia-e it. and if he really is d'esirous of obeying my orders as he says he 'has done in keeping our paths as far apart as the east is fr,om the west. Al -hough I 'had to differ with :him and remind him of my request made six. years ago, but if it is his purpose to do so in the future and 'he desires to know really and truly "what further I w'ant." T would say that I have no earth." but to get a little of the vine earth," but to get a litle of. the vine gar out of him. Live in the sinshine, be faithful to his friends, keep out of caucuses and "keep off the grass" and I will let him "stay on the earth" and I will' give him credit for all tiha.t he does. This is t'he last I expect to say in ref erence to this mat-ter and I trust this will satisfy him. A. C. Jones. None But The Best. "I want some rice," she said, eye ing the trades person through 'her. lorgnette. "You have it for sale, have you not?" "Yes'm," replied 'he, " of course; 4 cents a pound or two pounds--" "0! I m'ust have the mos-t expen 'sive kind; it's for a very fashionable wedding."