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VOL XLIII. NO. 98- NEWBERRY. S. 0. TUi'S DAY. NO'V EM-1 2RP7. 19013. TIEAWE.S.0AYK . TILLMAN rOR PRESIDENT. Unreserved Praise for South Carolina Senator From Discrimina ting Correspondent. "Savoyard" in Charlotte Observer. Ben Tillman is bluff, blunt, honest, intensely Southern and intensely American. He can get more votes in Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana and Minnesota than W. J. Bryan or W. R. Hearst; and I make no doubt - that against the man the republicans are likely to nominate he can get a batch of electoral votes out of that squad. And why not? His only fault is lie speaks the truth. Can you find other in him? I have tried and failed. Will some gentleman put me on track of one? There he is, standing up before the American people, his heart on his sleeve, and all can see that he would not flatter Neptune for his trident nor Jove for his prayer to thunder. He too, would carry a big stick and a deck of cards. Not as able a man as Bailey, perhaps; not as cultured a man as Williams, certainly, not as self-poised as Culberson, manifestly; lie has more of the human in him than any of them, and with him Christ would have sat at meat. If every voter of the United States knew Ben Tillman by hand grasp, had rubbed up against him, felt his splendid per sonality, realized his wonderful indi viduality, he would be the next Pres dent of the United States as sure as the American people put character above place. As I said at the outset, the demo eratic party is invincible when it is united and impotent when it's divided It bag been demonstrated that Mr. Bryan cannot unite it. It was.4hown that Judge Parker could not unite it. It is clear that Mr. Hearst cannot unite it. Any man at the North who would vote for any of these thre would vote for Ben Tillman-that is to say. unl less Mr. Hearst should run as an In dependence League candidate, as he probably will. And if he does he will poll as many republicans as lie will democrats. - Certain it is, tile country is tired, the times are out of joint. For the republiepn party the returns are om inous. The selection was not a vote of confidence in even the Roosevelt administration-certainly not in the G. 0. P. It is also here that tihe re turns say to the democrats inl every laniuage and1 inl every dialect of lang uage: "You are too big a )I to be given place and power at thii' ime.'' Put Ben Tilhman on a sf%fe an( sane platform and let him tour the North spitting out the truth, as only lie can do it, and we would see a good many things in the returns you Wot not of. Truth is mighty. Let, us democrats try it. if not only for a chlang.e. Told of Prof. Lounsbury. The iecent unolnicial opinion of the JUited States supreme courit in the matter of, simplified spelling lends especial point to the following anmc dote Of Prof. Lounsbury, thme noted grammarian of Yale, who, as is well known, has democratie and liberal v ~iews of the subnject of thme English l\ angulage. Prof. Lomnsul)try, accord ing to Hlarper's Weekly, o)poses t hose who would subhst itte for simlel t)Iems pedanitie ones-fhose who would claim, Ifor instance, t hatI. the phriase LTomnoirow is S11uday '' is inliorrect, ,', and would write instead : ''Tomorrow wilbe Sunidajy.'' Prof. Lounsbury, discussing thle question of simple English, said at Yale onie afternoon: There was a little boy who began to keep a diary. HI-s entry was 'Got imp this morning at 7 o'clock.' lie showed the entry to his mothier, and she, horror-stricken, said: ''Have you never been to school? Got up, indeed I such an expression I Does thme sun get up? No, it rises'.' "And she scratched out 'Got up at 7, amnd wrote 'Rose at 7' in its place. "That night the boy, before retir ing, ended the entry for the (lay with the sentence, 'Set at 9 o'clock.'' Thle young~ man who thinks his boss can 'It et along without him may have Sto get along without his boss later in the game.-Chicago Daily News. IMMIGRANT SITUATION. t Trouble at Anderson Not Yet Adjust- I ed, But About Thirty Have Gone 1 Back to Work-Dissatisfac tion the Direct Result of Agitation of Socia lists. Anderson Intelligencer. The immigrant situation in this city is still muddled, and there are slim prospects of an adjustment that will keep the foreigners here and cause them to return to work. It ap pears to be characteristic of these peo ple that once they become dissatisfied they cannot be reconciled. They are slow to listen to argument. They ap pear to close their minds to reason. In our last issue we gave the facts as the dissatisfaction manifested by fifty or sixty of these immigrants at the Anderson Cotton Mils Monday. Because of the difficulty of communi cating with these people (none of them speak En,lish) it has been a considerable task to ascertain the true cause of their dissatisfaction; and it is doubtful now whether the true cause has been learned, as the immi grants claim to reason, while facts point to a third and natural cause. It is claimed first by the immi grants that the circular issued by the Columbia Immigration Bureau is mis leading, some of them going so far as to say-that it misrepresents fact's. But this a altogether untrue. Mr. 0. Geisberg, of this city, a German schol ar, carefully read and interpreted the circular to the writer and no intelli gent percon can find a misleading statement. It is claimed, second, by the immigrants that when they called at the mills for an explanation they were told that they must at once va cate the houses they occupied and find employment elsewhere. This claim is not true. The mill authorities did oder two or three of the leaders in the late rebellion to vacate, but nothing of the kind was said to the others. To the contrary, indications point to the fact that the mill people were anxious for a reconciliation, and it is learned that. they were successful to ( tie exLent hat nlearly if nlot quite half of the immigralnt, families return ed to work Tuesday morning. The true cause as poiited to by cer tain facts is that thIee are tlrec or more socialists, of the German school, among the immigrants and they are responsible for the unrest that is be ing manifested. The circular issued by the Columbia Immigration Bureau, above referred to, furnishes, in tle hands of these agitators, a Imeanls to create dissatisfaction. It is easy for them to read it, especially where it refers to the opportunity to own small farms, and when it gives aver- 1 ages of wages paid, and interpret, put a construction on the statements made entirely different from that intended, and in this way cause trouble. It was to these agitatoirs the order to leave was given. In intelligence they are above the it is learned that there is an emissary, an agent emiployed to advance ini a covert manner, the interests of ecr tain farmers, and that helias been ac ively at work among I hese immi gvrants trying to indiuce them by mosy humed tales and promises of ri hnd1 immuediate rewards, to quit their pres cnt p)osit ions and go to the farms. The name of this emissary cold not bo learned, buit it is said that lie is an Anudlerson County man. When these last facts aire taken in counetion withm thle furt her fact that these immigrants knowv absolutely not hing of the customs and condlition of this country, it can be undlerstood howv easily t.hey can he effected and inifluenced to just such conduct as was manifested at thme cotton mills Mon day. This bunch of .immigrants se cured by Anderson firom the Witte kiiid is made up of Bohemians, Hun garians, Gahatians and Kroatians, arc under thme Anderson government. n intelligence they are above the average of the immigrants coming to this country, and if they wore free from the influence of socialistic agita tors, especially in their own ranks, and from the blighting effect of a paid emissary whio, under cover of night, visits their homes and makes promises of reward for labor that are never. in ended to be fulfilled, they would rove a highly desirable class of Ia iovers oil the farms, in the mills or I Inywhere else. It is learned that of the fifty or ixty who manifested so much dissat sfaction Monday, only twenty-nine or hirty signify their intention of leav ng. The others have either returned o work at the mills or say they will emain in the county and secure work. Plsewhere, Commissioner lins tele 'raphed to ascertain the number who vant to return to Columbia, which voild indicate that the Immigration 3ureau of the State is prompt to look ifter the interests and general wel are of the immigrants. It is hoped the entire buneh, except Ahe socialists and agitators will de ide to remain here. Tuesday afternoon a Dr. Goldsburg irrived in the city as the interpreter Ind agent of Commissionir Watson. Wednesday morning Dr. Goldsburg, iccompanied hy Mr. 0. (eisburg of lis city, started out to ascertain the rouble and if possible pacify the im nigrants and effect a recoiciliation. Little headway was made during the norning. Ini the afternoon eight or :en of the immigrants claimed to have )ecii apointed a committee by the >thers and, upon suggestion, went in ;o meeting in the Court House. Mr. [t. E. Ligon being present by request mnd Dr. Goldsburg and Mr. Geisburg icting as interpreters and advisers. Everything possible was done to ef leet a reconciliation but without sue iess. Later in the afternoon there appear ,d some hope of straightening matters )ut.. By the efforts of Dr. Goldsburg and Mr. Geisburg, 'places of work were found for twenty-eight of the thirty. Nine who had determined to leave. Mayor MeCully offered to work Lwenty on the streets at $1.00 per day intil they could do better. Eight were offered to be provided for by wivate families. This left cleven of Ate dissatisfied and it, was decided lhat these should leave. This was the way matters stood Wednesday night. Yesterday the situation changed l>aek to the original status. Durin'g W'ednesday night a change had been Mrou1ghit about, and it is Said that one. 'Irisler, one of the immigrants, is re ;ponsible for the change ; that lie is lie principal disturbing element. When Dr. Goldsburg andl Mr. Geis mrg talked with the thirty-nine yes erday they were told that all wanted o leave, and as they could not be dis maded a telegram was sent to Con nissioner Watson asking that trans )ortation be sent. The departure of 1his crowd will leave about twenty ive at work in the mills and else vhere and apparently perfectly satis 'ied. Immigrants Who Left Anderson. Columbia, Nov'. 24.-F~ifteen of the mmigrants wvho started to walk from \nderson to Columbia yest erday werec rurnished railroad t ranisport at ion Priom~ Belton to Coluiaiii by Comimisi a(iner EL.1J. Watson. TheIiy have ar irived1 in C'oluimbia , anid C'ol Wa tson P'ereint. parts of thle State(. A te'legr'am fromn Anmdersoni this afC ern'Iooni says that thle imigirants who remained there are all satisfied and iverythlingi is running along smoothlly. Laying For Him. 'There 's a newv youngw maon calliig m Miss Maud this evening,'' said the Cox terrier, ''and lie seems real nice.'' ''Yes, I heard hemr say he was nice mnoigh to cat,'' replied the bulldog m the lawvn. ''That's what I'mn wait .ng for. ''-Philadelphia Ledger. Women always consider it an unfair i(dvanitage for a pretty widow to have murly hair. When a millionaire runs over you wvith his automobile lhe thlinks lhe is nighity consderate of you to pay for 'ouri funeral. A woman begins to sit up and~ take mt ice whenh other womeni say n'ee hijoiam nhnont l' husbnalno. MISTRIAL FRANKLIN CASE. First Verdict Was for $25,000-Cod. Johnstone Wilil Move Another Trial This Week. Col. Oeorge Jonlistonle retirn-led from G reenville on Priday afternoon, where he had been engaged in tihe trial of tle Franklin case. It will be remembered that Mrs. H1. H. Franklin sued tlie Southern rail way for 50,000.00 damages, and the ease was tried in Greeinville and a verdict of $25,000.00 was reidered in favor of Mrs. Fianlklinl. Tie case was taken to the Sulpreme Court an(] that cour't granted a new trial, wlich took place last week. It will be seen from the Greenville News of Saturday that there wils a mistrial in the ease at this time. The News says: "A fter being out. sixteen hours, the jury in the Franklin ease returned to the court room yesterday morniiin and aiiouiced that they had beeni in able to a ore oil a verdict. Ti jole's cha rge was coniclluded or Tinrsday aflenio0in at 5.30 o'cloeli anld tile juiry repoited 1 9.40 o'eloek ''It is said fliat the .jurors stood 1( to 2 inl favor of a verdiet, wifle ti( eleveti i man was willing tliat thc plaintiff receive money eiionigh to cov er tHe ex)penses of her sickiiess. Ti twelfth mainii held out altoget.hei against giving a verdict for the plain. tiff. From what could be learned it -seems that. the ten jurymen, wil were in favor of giving a verdict foi the plaintiff, wished to give a verdiel inl the neighborhood of $10,000. ''As soon as the announcement of i mistridl was made, Col. George John stone, leading counsel for the plain tiff, gave notice that endeavors woul< )e made to bring the case up for tria again next week. ''it is rather unusual for a case < he tried twice during the same lerm 01 eoulrt, bt when sufficieint reasoiis an given showing tliat. the ease shou< be tried, the presiding judge allow. te case to come up for re-trial. ''The Fraikliin case hias excitei imicli intri(e, it beiiig one of tle larg est civil suits Iried inl 11his State. 'Th amount iiivolved is $50,000. 'The title of the case is Soda L Vranklini and loward H. Frankih vs. tle Atlanta and Chariloftte Ail Lim railway. This is a suit for damage: by Mrs. Franklii against the Soutih ern IHailwaY for insults which she al Ieges she received at te hanis of r drn1ken m1ani on tHie train betweel reenville and Atlaiita on April 1 1903:. 'Driig tle trial just conlcludet brillianof ar.gum1ents were made by Ilh< lawyers on bothI sides. For tle de 'ense Messrs. '. P. CotIllan 3 and A. U1 I)ean made a good fighIt and Messrs (GeoI're Jolis(one, i. J. Haynsworli aid L. 0. Patterson, for tle plaintiff Ilikewise fought hard for a verdict foi their clienits.' Off to Conventions. Thle SouthIi(' Calinia con ference of he M. E. (churchel Soulth, will con vene in (Coilum ibia thIiis week in its annual Th'le t following trom Ne wberry wvill atfend: IRevs. II. MU. (ri('r. J1. ii. Kilg.re, A, 11. I test, \ as,.1J. W. II anibert , M rs, I'. S. Ilerhiert and Mr. W. I I. Wallace, Th'e SoothI C'aroliau State laptist Associat ion will meet ini Spartanurng this week. The following will afttend froim Ne wherry: Revs. (I. A. Wright, L. 11. White, . W.r MIit~hiellI, Mr. 1?. Y. Lecavell, Dr, .James MIlintoshi and Mr. lE. H. WVil buir. Will Remain this Week. D)o not forget thait. Dr. Crimm, thec well known eyesight sp)ecialist, will remain ini Newherry until Sat urday 5 p. im., the first of D)ecember, only, and no0w is the time to get prioperly fit ted glasses at. reasonable prices. D)r. Crimm 's skill is known all over the state. Doh not imiss to see him i. No chinrge for exam iniat ion. Officee over the old post office. A woman has a finrd timue convine ing herself tht hier boy would be smarter if lie had more brains. r How the Red-Shi Rode Remiuiscences of ti Lived in tt W. W. Ball, in New It. must have been late in Septem- i ber or early in October when ''11amp- 1 ton Day'' arrived in Laurens, for 1 remember that the air was crisp, the sky clear and the roads dusty. I I lad a red-sihirt, so did my cousin, who was still younger, but it was a keen disappointment to me that I 1 could not. ride inl the lprocession and, besides, my shirt was of turkey-red calico and the rown men wore red i 1lann1lel. Tle ealico was lealper and 1 the village stores had sold out of red i 1l1a1tm1el aihllow, Sol my graidiot her a vigorous wolian 1111der sixty, and 1 a Deimocra mainly because she was still ''a rebel,'' not merely unrecon striieted but militant in polities, il- I sisted that the calico would have to I answer. We 1hildrei lad a more or less iii telligent idea t' politics even then; we had been ''raise('' on it, but we I had come to have a sort of hopeless- I less of the Democrats winning. I could remember two elections and my I father coming home in the night time to say, "The Radicals have counted us out,'' and we would settle down to get along as best we could for an other two years, while the negro "hep men,'' as the other negroes called the negro militia pairaded in triumph through the streets, under the prof eet ing eye of the rfidicil colstablilliry, or' 'Yankee'' garri11. 1it some times, I reea oice in particiulalr, be fore '76, my fathier did not come home uintil late at night. and the terror that lie was in jail was a very real one to me-for lie was a leader among the county DemocraIts and tile womei of the family Iever knew wlin le would be tle ne(.Xt to) be arrested, aid tile idela ha.1d not lbevi lost oni mte. Trite, since tie ''riot'' five olr six yea rs be fore, wlenl a 11i1nuber of nle.rIoes :11 Voltiy Powell, a youn0 arpet-baig Ier Q rv m Ohio, had beetn killed, the ner 1es laid not been insolent, bult the iread of mlilore roulible every (ay anld every houi. Was presen. The Cry of the Campaign. 'llbroughot tile s1mnmieri of '76 the cry of 'f'Hurrah for Hlam1pton!'' haid constailtly gtownll more famiiiliart in L.au1rels un1til the forn and figu of Ham11uptonl, wliom we yoiln, onles had never Seen, seemed to )v ridi 11111oin .ong i. a0 tlie tiie. En yv:hore ee could see white men riding, but. tle red shirt was not familiar until ''Hamp Ion Dany'' and after. Nearly every inight th le homes oif thle leaders in thle village were filled with men who had riddenet fromi the banks oif Saluda on1 one( sidle aind Enolree oni the ot her, and many camie from the a oheri sides of thle rivers, Abibeville andl Unaion atnd Spairtanbunrg and o)1her couties; and ul Ithey caine from thle ' 'T'ri angle '' and 'Sa rd is' ' and Seu ff1letown an iPilow-1 IT's Slop andt (Cross Iilill and1 Island 1 Depot, (rra ma51il'liverv' has rob- I rode1 up to) thle house of thle lawyer or ; I le dolctor or (lie merchant in thei village and11 arouhnd to thle st able, ','puit .up'' his oiwn hiorse- ort mile, and1 spet thle niighit anid receiv~ed1 thle best1 that was to be had ; for ' 'LIaurens ICourt House,'' as the village then Iwas known, was hieadqjuarters for' the Iridlers. For' everybody ro~de. One's mind turning back to thbat. summer and fall *of '76 is filled fiirst with the picture Iof an eightleen-year-old lboy oii a mule or' younmg Veterani, p)ossib)ly a one0 ar~medi or one-liegged Veteran, mount ''l'e-l e'." they calld hlimii ,( od, irest his gallanut soul. hut. st ronig and1 virile, a nd 'toalloping al wJys. The one sees 01 t he iiriers malt ipl y, and11 ther' e ar to and(1 fouri and1 eight and sixt een-Athere are riders, riders everywhiere'-the ads and woodsanre filled with them rts with Hampton ke Days when Men ie Saddle. and Courier. tid the 2,500 white men, including oys and gray heads, who are the mpillation of the county, are 25,000, vhlo, night by night and day by day, ,ceim to crowd the highways and cov -r the 800 or 900 square miles of the .ounty. One never loses sight of a -ider. And Yet Peaceful. Yet generally all is peaceful. Now mnd then one hears of a homicide or I shootl.g scrape, but usually it is l0t directly connlected with polities, ! Radical Can(lidilte Coies to town nd t ' ' boys'' (the saloons were 3pen in '76,) find him al his hotel uid they are not civil-they sing ri nild sonlg's um11iler. his nlose and twit imii and guty himi and perhaps aire mnpolile, but they do not. kill him. -'oeit iies, inl Imlost Cases, they are imid, these ''rads'' and sneak away it oeeasionally they are brave and I lave the picture of one before me, a Soutlh Carolina scalawag, not Carpet >agger, a bright, young fellow, often Irmiken because ashamed, who one might dared the score of young devils who hooted him as he stood by the bar counter to fight him one by one. Poor fellow1 Renegade that he was, aven in his abasement lie could not for get his breedini(r. Ile was defeated for office and soon after, in a year or two, died-drowned, in whiskey. IBut no mne aeepted the Republi en's elfllenle to tight. Wade 11famlp l('1, Ihen camiing inl Charleston or Ill Beailort. or. elsewhere, saved his life. The( lea'dership of Inipton meait a eampaign wit lhout bloodshed. That, I le one thoulllt lie 111tered m11ost 1121 ipa) Sized as essentvial to SuIC(ss Mlo f1ina1lly it brllOded over S utt1h (aroin u111 ntil every 111111 felt it to rest(rill lin ; 11i1s 1 as his passion Ir)Ose. The s (u s of the vaulse laly ill preervn-Owh pem-f- and the gre-at, (4ff41r- (d 111m11ptonl wnd his conildenl li'll l ilmtonaillts, -rten dlY Veleranl (ou1tlIldes (t lis. w'as to prexveill olit !renks tlint w rod 4w iwoville (-X(S(- for Feddrnd interference. 11-ampin w-ould nio)t have jltitiivd i le inlsilIts to tle y(1uniig "Se:1awng" I 1ave uenftlionoed, but, nlevertheless, 111 (lamlpi.-1ign was n11e of demonstration--continu1s, ex titlat, lvrrifYin- de,s,r-in Nev mr w%ere the ne roes :m114l wlite Repub !e. '. , Iohi they were inl 187(, it wohll not- do to shoot and kill, and everyhody knew it; that was Ile word Ithat went omut from thle conin l y leade rs to4 thle conuntry boys and the village boys; thiere wats 11ot the slight est initention to hurt anybody, that wras the word from IIampton and( his l'rends conlstantlIy from every stumplI -but the everlasting r'idinlg and1 lie da ' 'rebel yell'' linging and ringing Shirou'.hl I le hills and ravines had hoeir (effec. It was5i intimiidation on y ini s) far as th~ le neg ~ro voters lack d 11he couragei~ to aissert thlemselvyes, meked ais t hey were by thle Federal When Men Were in Earnest. Nor do0 I meanoi to say tiat it wats all hlbluff. '' I 1ad( th liepub)121lican been001 ig.riessive, ii p robiably would have >0011 imipossibile to) rest rain t he '"red hlirts, '' buit Ihiimpton knew that the iat tle could( be only won and should >e. w~on withoumt resort to violence. It Wvas the dleepseatedl, almost idolatrous raith in t his great. soldier' in the hearts >f the peophe that restrained them failhI wh'ib a t thIiat time nio other living man could have inspired. Maniy a man of that (lay might have led a charge through the State but none otheri leadinig it could have kept thie sabres of his meni in their sealb l)ards. That was the one wvay to win. But to '"llainpton Day'' again. It reailly (1awnied, so to speak, the even ing herIore. Our gra ndmot her took us >vr o th e thler side of' thle vil lage, to "ol. Tlomi 'rews's hioiuse, where there bvere0 boy friends of ours who liad red thjirts and a goat well broken-so that we could hae ed-s.hirt riding, tnn....