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t e41 on t. VOL XIII. NO.7T. NEWBERRY, S. C. TV'ESDXY, JANL'ART 28. 190 1. TWICE A WEEK. $1.50 A YEAR COLUMBIA LETTER. All Elections Except The Dispensary [Eli tions To Be Held Today-- Dispen sary Agitation Continues. Colu'mbia, January 22.-The le islature of 1906 will start tomorrc on the third week of this sessic Up to this time the main work h been in getting new measures pr pared and introduced. The ma questions to come before, this s( sion have not vet been consider, by either house. There was sor little discussion on the dog law, b the dispensary and the tax quc tion and the appropriations ha not yet been reached. Only about five bills have be orlered enrolled for ratificatii and these are not of general intE est. * * * Thursday of last week was tak, up largely in paying tribute to t] Hon. Altamont Moses, who was member of the house and who dii since the last session. Both hous then adjourned until noon today. Tomorrow is set for the electio with the exception of those co nected with the dispensary. It w decided to postpone these until was seen what would be done wi the dispensary. It is not at all probable th Chief Justice Pope will have ai opposition. No one has been me tioned in that connection as yet. The circuit judges whose su cessors have to be elected at til time will most likely all succe themselves. Judge Klugh of t] -lii=t is vpposed by Sefat T.TP. McGowanof Laurens but t] o6thers have no opposition. - Pbe -wo places to be filled on tl iar doF1vte s Df the peniten1 ryrVvmise to w*e rather. live races. It is a -place in-chIsog safter, especially by metmiers of t1 Tgisature who have decid x .o in ome back to the legislature. The dispensary debate will like -start this week. The Morgaxi I cal option bill has been made a sp cial order for tomorrow butjt w scarcely be reached inasnmc9gt .elections will take up the entifrda 'The bill which seems to havie tl -endorsement of the dispensary a vocates proposing to amend ti state dispensary law has been i trodIucedI in both houses. It embo ies the idea of Senator Tillman at other friends of the state dispe sarv who still believe that the la can be so patched up as to remo' the objectionable features in the al ministration of the system. Tb~ bill provides for the appointment I the governor of a comnuittee open the bids which must be doi in public and this committee ct serve only once. The contracts a to be awarded to the lowest respo: sible bidder who is to give bor and the contract is to be award< -for one year and whiskey to be a *dered only from a bonded war house. The committee . is not know who the bidders are and a to receive a per diem and mileas for their services. The wvhiskey to be ordered out by the commis joner and is to be blended and bc tled at the state dispensary, i case goods to be bought. T1 board of directors are to be pa $ i-500 a year and are to meet on a month to look over and supervi the business but are not to be pe mitted to do any purchasing. The T\frgan 1bill is a measvi giving to each coutyt the rijl:t manage the whiskey business as each county it may seem best.] .wher words the three options e lowed under the constitution-pr hibition. license un(ler dispensa: C- regulations. or (ispensary und Coun1tv Control and1( abolishinlg tl state institution. TIher-C are a number of other bi] wi proposed to amendl and to aboli the disppnsary but the main fio as will centre arotn( these two inea e- ures and the battle will line up th im week. d Senator Illease of Newberrv h, :1e a bill practically abolishing tI SUt Brice law. but there is little, if an s prospect of its passage. The question is what will be tl result anil everybody is askir what will be done with the dispel r sary -Any statement is simply r- opinion and the opinion of one in on the result is worth about as mu, as another and it is about as ea. to tell who will be elected in a pr le mary. At this stage of the game, hov es ever, it seems to be pretty gene ally conceded that the hofise is against the state institution by very safe majority and that it w: as not agree to any amendments whi< it have for their purpose the contini -h ance of the state dispensary. C .the other hand it is claimed that tl at senate has a majority in favor < V amending the dispensary law at continuipg the state dispensary at will pass the bill as indicated abov C It takes a concurrence of boi s houses to pass a proposed measui d so as to become law. If this dial nosis is correct and both hous r stand pat there will be nothing dot and no changes wilt be made ar the law will stand as it is. It is claimed that there are son coservative men ir the senate wi :i- belong to neither extreme and wi are anxious to serve their state the best interests of all concern< teand who believe that the dispensa1 t system under state control is ti best solution of the whiskey que Ition if properly managed and the as'believe that 'the law can be: 1Y amended as to accomplish this pu Spose. They do not believe that ti e- institution is run at present as lshould be. They will support ti e bill to amend the law, but if th< Y- should find, as it is claimed, that ti house will not agree to any patcl e ing then the question is what w: ~ they do. It is claimed that in th: e event. rather than let matters .ro< Salong, they will go to the hout 1position, and holding the balance< d poxwer in the senate, if they do. ti -Ilocal option measure will be passe< "This is merely an opinion but fro e the best information obtainable th; seems to be about the situation; s this writing. It is that or nothini 10 As it looks now there seems e bright prospect for the passage of n local option measure making ti e county- the unit instead of the sta ~' and for the abolition of the sta d dispensary. .Comptroller General Jones h~ Smade a good deal of noise about ti e assessment of property at its actu. e~ value and so on. but no new mea s ure is likely to be passed. If a sessments are increased and mol .money is raised with a small lev othan is raised now with a hig elevy the tendency will be to extra' d agance. WVhat is needed more tha e an increase in assessments is a e cqualizing of existing valuatior .as among the counties. Te bill to give the d1ispensary 11 e vestigatinug commnittee imre p)owV in C<>1)pelling tlle attvli' lanCe of W o nesses has passedl bo(th hout5(S.A nsoon as the house agrees to the Sei ate aendments the bill wvill beC 01 d-~(eredl enrolled1 for ratificatin. 1 -v will likely be done today anl thc r iIl ratified tollorrow. Ile C11 e mittee vill then resume the taking () t-St ili(M Wi ad miake addi1 tiona' repwrt ti) this session of the legis is laturc. It is said they have son h startling disclosures. Tust what it the nature of these disclosures i s- has not been intinated. Tihe bill amen(ing the Newberry graded school act has passed the is senate and is among second reading ie bills o1 the house calendar. It will 0,0 through some time this week. T,here was quite a delegation of coton mill men and cotton mill op eratives here last week to argue tor I and against the proposed ten hoUr law for cotton mills. A joint ses sion K-the senate and house con mittees was held to hear the ar i guments. The report of the house committee is divided. It is not probable that any legislation will be had at this session but as some one remarked before the committtes if not at this session the question a would continue to be presented un 11 til something was done. Assistant Adjutant General J. M. Patrick has not been in good health for several months. On Tuesday .night of last week he suffered a d second attack of paralysis and was d taken to his home in Anderson on e. Wednesday. He is now critically :h ill. He has many friends through out the state who will regret tc learn of his illness. Attorney General U. X. Guntel d has been improvinifor the past few days and has been moved from the hospital to the. home of his fathet ie at at sS rg The state bar association wil o meet in Columbia this week. The state industrial nd com imercial association will meet here tomorrow. Newberry should be Swell represented at this meeting by -some of her most progressive citi ezens. t *** e Referring again to the legisla 'y ture it is quite probable that the bill eto abolish bucket shops will gc Ithrough at this. session. There is also a bill proposed to eprohibit those who are at the head of large industrial corporations efrom speculating in futures. tWashington. Lmncoln and St. t\Valentine all have their proper -space in the February number ot the WVoman's Home Companion, a which contains plenty of material a for the celebration of their festi e vals. The fiction list of the maga e zine includes "Adam and Eve," by e Owen Oliver; "The Making ol Alderman Droghani4" by Ellis Park er Butler; "The Trail of the Billy? Doo," by Will.iamn Wallace Cook, and "Unknown Territory," by Otho e B. Senga. Charlotte Perkins Gil man contributes a strong and origi nal essav entitled "Good Tidings of Women." and several illustrated e articles. "Wild Animals of the Stage." "The Carnival Queens of hthe South." "Dog Heroes of St. Benard." add variety to the pages. M1INrs. Richardson sensibly discusses trainedl nursing. Helen Marvin talks of "Afghans." Miss Farmer's cooking articles and Miss Gould's fashion notes will b)e found as in teresting and valulale. and Sam r oxyd' p uzzles as delight fully puz -zling as ever. Published by The ( Cow~ell Pishin Company. - prmg6~teld. C'hio : ne d'llar a year, ten cent.s at cpy. STIRS THE CONVENTION. Notable Address of the Hon. E. D. Sm at New Orleans Convention. 'Tie ad Iress of ton. E. Smith. c)f Columlibia. I)resident South Carolina Division. at t mornilg session was a notable fe ture of the entire Convention. was a most eloquent appeal from Southern man for the emancip tioin of the Southern cotton plant( It stirred the convention from Ivery depths. As Mr. Smith clos men jumped to their feet by t score. rushing towards the ph form. shouting for Smith. It w an intensel\ dramatic scene in t" great hall. Mr. Smith was still on the ph form. Men piled over the tabl to grasp his hand. The conventi< had not adjourned. but no atte tion was paid to the furious ra ping of the President's gav Smith had hit the kevnote that a pealed to their hearts and inspir fresh hope. "I want the sense of this conve tion on 15-cent cotton: I want know if this body is with me," d clared Mr. Smith; as the surgih crowd about him grew larg( "Let's have a vote." "The Committee on Holding Balance of the Crop has just fi ished its labors and declared una imously for 15-cent cotton," r ported a member of the committ on the platform. "Thank God for that," and t vice president from South Carolii was satisfied. He dropped into chair, exiausted. "Having been forced to lea how to make 6-cent cotton," enum ated Mr. Smith during his eloque appeal, "we- will now teach o some-time masters to pay us cents. I am glad. they taught t Why is it that when cotton was cents vott never heard one of the say, 'Be careful, you'll ruin t poor devil who produces the c< ton?' But when cotton was forc up to-1it cents, on every hand th were shouting at us, . 'Be caref1 or yoiu'll injure the manufactur and the mill operator; he only h a few- hundred- millions: 11r-ce cottt>r will hurt him.' "When the cotton- planter comi to town with a few plucks of Cc ton fibre in his hand asking t: merchant what he- will give, he not only exhibiting a pinch of cc ton, but in those fibres are speakii the sacred lives and ambitions his wife, true and faithful, and t little ones at home." Mr. Smith wished to explain li position on cotton gambling, as had come up the night before wvi President Walter Clark, of Mi sissippi. "I do not believe in this gamblir in cotton but I want to be unde stood on this question. For thi teen years we averaged only 6 t< cents for our cotton, leaving ti south poor and beggared. Ju then the bull clique was forme cornered the product of the worl and forced cotton to 17 cents, ave aging 12 cents for us. Havir once got a taste of this delightf 1.1 and 12-cent cotton, nothing but civil war will ever put us back." Referring to South Carolina crop he declared: "If South Carolina makes a Ii tle more cotton than she thinks si will never jeopardlize the south interests byv throxwing it on ti market. "F 1ifteen-cent cottol. why.. n Countrexmen. we cannot only ho nineWtv'dlays, but three times ninet "If it were in the Nor-th, th< w\old dlemandl 30 cents. not 13. ar (et it. Look at their Ileef Trus I teiri- ron and insurance trusts Continuing. Mr. Smith said: "n()ie year ago we met to devis ilh means for averting a threatened dis aster to the south. Today we mee to record the first (listinct financia ). VICTORY FOR TIiE INDUSTRIAL SOUTI of 'Tis strange that it is so har lie to make any people realize the vast a- the vital importance of the wor It we are doing. Let some new polit a ical idea be advanced, and men be a- come frenzied and spare neithe r. time nor money to carry it throughl ts yet upon this, the very life of ou 2d country, we find iidifference an< I skepticism as to our ability to real t- ize our hopes. Possibly the expla nation is found in the fact that'o forty years we have been under cruel bondage. We have been pay t- ing a debt incurred by our loyalt: es to our southland and the terribl, )m consequences entailed by our de n. feat. When the war was over, wha P condition confronted us? Strippe 1. of all wealth. discounted in thi P eyes of the world, with no mone: A and no credit, we of the south ha< to begin a pilgrimage through . wilderness more terrible than pio to neer ever suffered in a strange land e- Fo it was a pilgrimage througl ig scenes which recalled at ever: r. step happier days-days of plenti and power. Beggars in our owi Df domain! But even in this terribl< . time cotton was the one ray o n.- light in the darkness-the one hopi e- of existence. By virtue of the fac e that the south was the only placi where it could be raised and th< ie steadily increasing demand for i a by the world at large it became th< a basis of credit and enabled ou bankers to negotiate loans to star us once again "We- learned some lesson nt through this baptism of fire a< blood.; we were-taught an econon that stands us, in- good steAd nIW The world taught:us self-reliance 3 1 the world- taught us to make thi m Vonderful fibre at 6 cents a pound taught us, through necessity, t - forego all luxury, all developmeni eeducation and refinement-and not the debt is paid, the south, througl lforty yearstho o f poverty and pair e thogh sacrifice.and tears, has parn aher -debt; and, having,:learned hov a to make- cotton at 6 cents, she wil teach her some-time masters hos to pay 12 cents for it. e Just two short years of profitabi Le prices and there are $6o0,ooo,00o is to the credit of the south. Thi i crowded sThools 2nd colleges; th ifull banks. the whirr of the dynam of and the roar of awakened imdustrie ein the sol!. gladdens the heart o every true sout>crner. A ecs. it1 -s the basis of all 'ur p)roperity am it hiow is it to be made permanent tIt is not sentsible or fair to expec us to leave this great question t< sthe poor and ignorant to settle. I calls for the best brain and the cap g ital o{ the south for its solution r- ()ur destiny is at stake. We mus r not, we shall not lose. "I have stood by a coal mine an< tseen the coal dug from the earth dand I asked myself what was thal 'coal? It is the stored-up energy o' d,a thousand years-the sunshine, the rrain,~ the chtemicals of the earth thal it took to produce it are still undei aGod's great law of the conservatior aof energy still there; and when ir .combustion it gives out its energy sundler another great law-the law oIf transformation of energy. I'v< tseen these. the primal forces. th< 1 sunshi:e of a thon )san<(l years. con Vertedl jit heat. heat imol steam 1estea'm into miv.on imto the mar'el In weal\~th o)f morlern comme~'rce tthe sutile force of life were trans .. r,-,i. ;lit ih,. EhrI of our cottar -aye and more besides, the labor u teeming millions plus the hope - and aspirations of these that made t it-and. as I thought, of these two 1 great laws. the conservation and i transformation of energy. And 'as I I have seen the cotton when ready for market I knew that, locked up in its silken heart. like the sunshine - in the coal, was not only our South - ern sunlight, but the hopes and r prayers and the bright dreams of a great people, and, by the God who r has given us this monopoly and who I has established these laws, when - this cotton shall be placed on the - market it shall give back a stream r !of gold, with the soil and sunshine i of the South plus the dream of the - Southerner. "We stand to-day at a point to which all the lines of the past have - converged which must radiates t the influences that mold the future. I Each individual must realize his re : sponsibility and meet it like a man. r It is not a farmer's fight; it is a I Southern fight. We are fighting i for financial independenge now as - we fought forty years ago; and, I though the Stars and Bars went I down in defeat, yet under the ban ner of King Cotton we will regain our lost prestige and be once again I a proud and independent people." Farm Hands $carce. Farmers from different sections of the county report a great scarci-2 ty of hands-in some instances the t iumber employed being altogether out of proportion to the number r needed. It is a well known fact t that scores of negroes are to be. foundin our towns an& cities ekiag our an unsatisfctod exisVeae f6r a mere pittince. If thiese idtes could be put to wottiati on our farrims coud be greatly re lieved. The tendency of the'negroes to fTock to towns should be discour aged. IThe cottonnmaket has sognIa r decided inclination to move upward' i in the last day or two. The '5' .centers seem to be holding on with I tight grip as~but feWv bates are cont r ing on the market. V .Governor Vardamnan, of Missis sippi, sa.ys there is no hope for-the e improvement of the n~egro race. In y that respect it seems to be in about e the same condition of Governor SVardaman. - ~?Alletedo avasisis. the wonderful so called "humming bird flower" of the plains of eastern Turkey, 1 stands unique and alone among the n9any specimems of floral mimicry tthat have been classified by modern b;1otanists. It is a beautiful blossom of variegated hues, the total length -of the entire flower being about one -and three-quarter inches. As one might imagine from its name, it is an exact image of a miniatui-e hum Si ing bird. The breast is green, ,the wings deep rose -color, the :throat yellow and - the head and beak alost pure ~black. The only particular in which it is not a per fect bird is that tfie stem gives it the appearance of having but a sin gle leg and foot. WANTED-You to know that the Laurens Steam Laundry is rep resented at The Herald and News office. NOTICE. Persons having business with me dr!rin my absence at the General AXsee2bly please see Cannon G. ! base who will communicate with :rand if necessary I will come home. Cole L. Blease, Wright's Hotel, Columbia, S. C.