Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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IS STANDARD OIL BEGGING MERCY ? SIGNS THAT GREATEST OF TRUSTS IS GETTING WEAK. Much Speculation Concerning Its Purpose-General Belief That President Indulged in Some Very Plain Talk. Washington, March 19.-Renewed efforts to penetrate the secrets of the retent mysterious night conference at the White House in which the Presi dente talked for more than an hour with H. H. Rogers, vice president of the Standard Oil trust, and J. D. Arehbold, the treasurer of the same institution, have not succeeded in se e!uring anything that bears official earmarks. It is a fine subject to spec ulate on, and the favorite theory is that the Standard Oil people have been so freely pressed in the last few months and have gotten so many frightened glimpses of the storm ahead, that they wanted to ask the president if he could not do something to assuage the uneasiness that is ap pearing in financial circles (not Standard Oil circle). By trying to make it appear that the agitation for legislation directed against railroads and certain other corporations is making capital timid and may sooner or later bring to a halt the great boom that swept over the country. The Standard Oil people, according to the latest report, hope to be able to in duee the president to put a pedal on the fast moving machinery that is seemingly destined to make great and important corrections in the existing laws dealing, with corporations. "These Standard Oil people may have had the nerve to come all the way over here to ask to an interview with the president to suggest that he alleviate the uneasiness that is al leged to be felt," said a bright and prominent official of the administra tion, "but I can hardly believe it. And I should have given much to have been present when such a representa tion was made to the president. I will bet anything that he told them they had better go back home and attend to their own business and to remember that if they will cease &odging process serviers, cease the unfair and low methods of driving competition ou't of the country and not conceal proper facts as "to their affairs there would be far less of rad ical tendency than at present. The Standard Oil trust is more responsible today for the growing feeling of rad icalism in this country than any oth er corporations, including big rail r4. aU. it has cold-bloodedly, foully and corruptly stifled and killed comn petition, -driven men insane by de priving them of their properties, with losses of their fortunes- and their homes, and when the full history is written of its doings, will itself be driven out of existence or so thor oughly curbed that it will never be a menace to the United States if l'aw makers have the brains to enact laws to do so. "I do not believe that any honest man of capital will fear the mutter ings of the Standard OI and the de pression that seems to be stealing ,ever the <officials of that eoncern. There sill be no laws made in this country that will ever rob capital of a fair and legitimate return for its money, but in the end the laws that will be put on the books will im mensely strengthen legal and proper methods of business and prevent rob bery, corruption, trickery and the ac eumuistion of great sums by illegal and indecent methods. This country 'will continue to prosper if crops re main good and there will be no serious fall in the prices of legitimate stocks and bonds simply because the Stand ard Oil trust is beginning to feel the gaff, On the contrary, it ought to, and probably will, create a buoyant feeling on the part of honest men with money if they find that the greatest and most corrupt concern of all is getting weak knees. "I again repeat that I suspect that the President knew what to tell those fellows and did so.'' THE SOUTH'S CHANCE IS HERE Judge Parker Makes A Ringing Declaration At Charlotte. In his speech at Charlotte Friday zight, Judge Parker has aroused the democracy of the south to a sense of its importance and responsibility, and so important were these remarks that we herewith give them in full. A Significant Speech. \In the beginning the speaker said: ,"Mr. Tompkins and Fellow Dem oyrats: It gives me pleasure to be wihyou at this time. I have been asked .to say something of the future demoeratie party. I will gladly do so. I have prepared what I will say, and N very Sentence has ,een- we e,i (tare fully. It is not long and I shall read it. Ifere Jud-e Parker took out his mianuscript and read the followinz in teresting deliverance: "f am pleased to aeeept your in vitation to halt. even for a moment, in one of the most interesting and his toric counties in our common coun t-y. I am especially pleased to see about me some of the sturdy men who, through many years, in good report or ill, in success or defeat, have ral lied around the standard of democrat ie principles. "In an address before the lezisla tre of the state of Mississippi, a few iays ago. I had occasion to insist that never before was it less possible to iignore the growing tendency to look to the government or state for sup port, assistance, or special favor. which will relieve the recipient from that effort and those obligations hith erto deemed incumbent upon all our people. Whether it takes the form of direct subsidies-the cost of which may be estimated-or is hid away in those more costly and demoralizing systems under which some favored in dividual or class may levy a relentless toll upon the earnings or the income of all our people, the effect upon insti tutions and character is the same. If we support a dozen paupers in a poor house, we can calculate the cost, but the beneficiary of a vicious system of corruption or bossism, in country, state, county or city, not only takes I for his own purposes the earning of his neighbors, but he so breaks all the moral laws that he becomes at once a menace to society and an evil example to all our people. "During all its history, the demo cratic party has denounced the lodge ment of undue power in the govern ment, has opposed its logical outcome, the granting of special privileges in the levy of taxes, and has insisted up on economy in expenditure. Under these as guiding principles, it built upon its own organization and has only been able to maintain it by con stant devotion to them. In time they have become inalienable policies and ingrained traditions. In or out of power, in nation or state, in the de mands of its leaders, in the devotion o'f its r'ank and file, in war or peace, in its early or its later days, it has stood for these things. "While this conscientious devotion to an idea has commended itself to the democrats of the whole country anid has thus made and kept the party rational, during recent years the peo ple of the south, without variableness or shadow of turning, have been its mainstay. Shirking no responsibility, seeking no national rewards, promot ing no special interests or movements, they have neither been truculent in victory nor discouraged in defeat. Going on in their way, regulating their own a.Eairs, without hope of commanding subsidy, paying cheerful ly to carry out policies in which they could have no part, they have so im pressed their time that the one special problem coming to them from the past has been solved in such a way that the whole country has not only been forced to approve and applaud but tc imitate as the only way to deal with it. "But the time has come when new duties and responsibilities must be undertaken by the democrats of the south. It is more than two seort years since the war closed and. yom people finid themselves -upon the threshold of what promises to be thE most remarkable business develop We have know tne be and have pi them. THE C versible Disc Ne.. 'nent the world has ever known with in the.same timft and space. Some of t your men have gone forth to command the highest success, in the most honor able way, in the wreatest financial and i commercial moverents of the time; jthers have become the managers of I zreat iailway interests; you have de-H veloped -reat imanufacturing enter- i pries, and, most difficult of all. your 1 people. as a whole, have so maintain ed their own position and the domi- t nance of the country in one of the t -reatest products of the soil as to make them the wonder and the ad- I miration of the world. -InI spite of your .1evotic,n t1 ])rinl iple nid eonSistelev. In ln fdea ) a l( nueal importance that was pre POndIant, in polities onlY hf.xv Vou stepped aside. From the eaii:est days since self-government was restore yon have sent your best men I!IIo ph- t lie life. They have been ;J.t 1n ej t modest, able. devoted, patriori- and I honest. No .jail or penitentiary has I opened its hospitable doors to admi" your senators,- representatives or t rovernors, nor have , the officers of t the law, from detecti-es to attorneys- I Zeneral, been compelled to hale them C into the criminal courts. In the face E of this record you have not only per- E initted us of the north to present to you candidates for president and vice president, but you have insisted upon our doing so and have then voted for t them, and that., too, when sometimes no other states did so. S "In 1896 you tried Nebraka and t since that .day, no old democratic t northern state has accredited one of a our party to the United States sen- t ate and in none has there been a r friendly governor. All the democrat- I ic training schools of the north-ele- 0 mentary, intermediate and higher were closed and have remained so. The party paralysis was complete and t almost fatal. In 1904, hoping to cure - C or palliate it, you advised returning again to New York for your candi- C date, only to meet the worst defeat in our party history. It is now nearly twelve years since any man professing devotion to our party has been chosen . in nation or in any northern demo cratic state to fill an important execu tive office. At the last election, per haps eight out of ten voters then un der thirty were ranged with our op ponents and today the party organiza-1 tions are lifeless, their one time leaders are dead or have abdicated, or worse, have become republicans, while in more than one state the threat hangs over them that they niay become the victims of the spoiler, the destructive, or the corruptionist. you, why should you hesitate any longer? Until the democrats of Ne-: braska and New York and other northern states have brought forth fruits meet for repentance-or at least so long as they are threateningj to give themselves and the party over to further destruction-should you not assert yourself? You have borne the heat and burden of the day. Your statesmen have demonstrated their ability not only to take care of the interests of their states and their see tion, but they have been the only dam against aggression at home and the threat of discredit abroad. Among them are men with the knowledge, ex perience, honesty and courage to rep resent their fellow partisans without the surrender of principle and their1 fellow-countrymen with safety and honor. "I, myself, p)laced at the front for a time, have every reason to be grate ful to.democrats everywhere, especial P1L een in the II t. We have ked the Cha HATTANOOGA REVEl Plow built Y to fioe of the south. I appreeiate he honor thus conferred uipon ne and MVO no regrets for the past: but no me, I think. (an know better than I. 1o% futile our effort has been in the ast and how unpromising the out ook is for the future unless we throw tside isMs and grasp the great moral ssue now so clearly perceived by the )eoplk. The time has come when the callv eteetive democrats of the coun ry should be recognized and when hey themselves should no longer hes tate. decline or refuse to seek or to iecept hose honors which are their ust due for work well done. It may )ossibly he that the party will go to lefeat again.. but sinee 1S96 it has lone nthing else under northern eadership and certainly it eannot do rorse. "T helieve firmly that it will do bet er, because it. will at once eliminate he factions whieh are inevitable, so ong aQ their leaders feel that they iave-(nly io capture a few state or anizations in the north, nominate heir candidate and then depend upon he south to support and elect him if >ossible. And certainly no faction an refuse to support a worthy south rn candidate in the light of the loy dty of the south to every party can lidate. "But, if this course would give outhern democrats the recognition hey deserve, it will also put them up n their mettle. It will make it neces ary for them to insist upon devotion o ideas and principles; to avoid, as heir character and traditions assure, streme policies; to keep themselves horoughly in touch with all the ele nents to be found in a national and )rogressive party; and to be ready mnd willing to anticipate and promote Al the needs of a great country. The :ontending ambitions of self-seekers; he claims of interests purely local, he demands that grow out of popular lamor, the shifty and shifting meth ds of the demagogue and the agita or-all these must be avoided, wheth r leadership comes from. north or outh, east or west. The ideas and endencies behind these things are ypified by the republican party of he present day and no attempt on >ur part to enter into competition ith it con hope to command success r so to restore character to our par yI thaei may again attain power. "I eare honest with ourselves, harnest and vigilant in the recognition f those popular needs which are both afe and democratic, and regardful four own ideas and traditions, we ~hall again be intrusted with power md we shall be ready for it. When :his time comes, the south ought to >e and, indeed, it must be, the one reat effective force in bringing about mueh a happy consummation -sorely needed if our institutions are to en ure inviolate." A nyway, there is more- or less rigualityv about the man who rides a hobby. Starving to Death. Beaue her stomach was ?, weak med by useless drugging that shec could n)t eat, Mrs Mary HI Walters. of St Clair, Columbus, O , was literally starving to death. She writes: "My stomach was so weak from useless drugs that I could not eat, and my rerves so wrecked that I could not seep; and not kefore I was given up to die I was induced to try Electric Bitters; with the wonderful result that im ptrovement began at once, and a corn iete cure followed.'' Best health Tonic on earth. 50c. Gnaranteed by W. E. Pelhamn & Son, druggist. OV VLEMENT handled all ttanooga aft ISIBE DISO PLOW "To Cure A Felon" says Sam. Kendall, of Phillipsourg, Kan., "just cover it over with Bucklen s Arnica Salve and the Salve will do the rest," Quickest cure for Burns, Boils, Sores Scalks, Wounds, Piles, Eczema, Salt Rheum, Chapped Hands. Sore Feet and Sore Eyes. Only 25c. at W. E. Pelham & Son's drug store The most satisfactory man to tell a joke to is the one who has already started to laugh. Well Worth Trying. W. H. Brown, the popular pension attorney, of Pittsfield, Vt., says: "Next to a pension, the best thing to get is Dr. King 's New Life Pills. "He writes: i"they keep my family in splendid healt." Q iick c eure for Headache, Constipation and Biliousness. 25c. guaranteed at W. E. Pelham & Son's drug store. Marriage is the only thing that will take the conceit out of some men. "Correct English How to Use It." A MONTHLY MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO THE USE OF ENGLISH. JOSEPHINE TURCK BAKER, EDITOR. Partial Contents for this Month. Course in English for the beginner. Course in English for the advanced pupil. How to increase one's vocabu'ary. - The art of conversetlon. Should and Would. How to use them. Pronunelations. (Century Dictionary.) Correct English in the home. Correct English in the school. What to say and what not to say. Course in letter-writing and pro 0 uncia tion. Alphabetic list of abbreviations. Business English for the business man. Compaund words. How to write them. Studies in English literature. AGENTS WANTED. $1.00 a Yerr. Send 10 cents for sample copy, CORRECT ENGLISH, Eranston, l. and WHISKEY HABITS cured at home with. outfwn. Bookoffl)r~ !IUM 'tieu.ars sent AI*Eft '0 19N 00B. M. WOOLLEY. BL.D. Atl&utNI omfce 164 N. pmyr8Street. IY GE NTI JANUARY SPECIALS. 10 lbs. A..& H. Soda, (bulk) only 25c. 4 Boxes Star Lye only 25c. 2 lbs. best Green Coffee 25c. 6 pkgsOur Own W. Powder 25c 5 lbs. Good Rice 25c. 3 boxes Oysters 25c 2 lbs. California Peaches 25c. -2 lbs. Apricots 25c. 5 yds. best Apron Ginghams25Sc. ~5 yds. Standard Prints 25c. lb. Smoking Tobacco 25c. Ii Bot., 1-2 gal., Pickles 25c ey in your pocket. TTNER. g enough to kes of Plows rs had tested uccessfu Re eCoU Wearing Stockings and ',orsets L Barbaric. "The wearing of stockings, eorsets and jewelry is barbaric." So declar ed Miss Leslie Leigh. prima donna ol B. C. Whitney's "'Jsle of Spice corm pany, and society gasps. Matrons are gazing askance at thE younger element for fear that sandal ed bare feet will become the rage. Especially among athletie young wo men, for adding zest to Miss Leigh 's contention, is her stockingless, corset less existence, and careful attention to athletic exercise. which has -devel oped her ma-znificent physique. And Miss Leigh is an extremely athletic woman, an accomplished horsewoman, a good tennis player and an expert on snowshoes. Miss Leigh explains that she thinks corsets abominable, and as to hosiery she says it does a positive injury tc the feet, in addition to being supur fluous. She takes just as much care of her feet as of her hands. Instead of shoes, she wears sandals. Miss Leigh gives a highly artistii rendition of the role of "Teresa'' ii the "Isle of Spice," which will be th4 attraction at the opera house or March 31. J. E. Norment, the governor's pri vate secretary, confirms the rumoi that he is a candidate for secretar3 of state. He who seeks temptation is either 2 fool or otherwise-with the odds ir favor of the otherwise. The Breath of Life. It's a significant fact that the strong est animal of its size, the gorilla, als< has the largest lungs. Powerful lung! means powerful creatures. How t< keep the breathing organs right shouk be man's chiefest study. Like thous ands of others, Mrs Ora A Stephens, of Port Williams, 0 , has learned how to do this. She writes: "Three bot tles of Dr. King's New Discovery stopped my cough of two years and eured me of what my friends thought consumption. 0, it's grand for throat and lung troubles." Guaranteed by W. E. Pelham & Son, druggist. PricE 50c. and $1.00 Trial bottle free. SAVE EVI Among the various R'ESO L UTION E forjthe year 190E don't forget to resolvt to Save Every Penn) that you can. 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