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ut which would hold in continuoi k these predatory hordes -of prii e and prosecute to their great an pensable conclusion the reform I Theodore Rbosevelt has set o et us ask and answerin our ow sionight whether any man, com ew and fresh from the rank ut a senate and a house of hi 'faith behind him, untrained i tive paths, unglorified by ex( achievements, could muste n his equipment the force an following to carry to their cor ion in government the thing ch the president' has pressed .t ir promising and satisafetory statt "If Theodore Roosevelt would la wn tomorrow the rein of goveri ent which he has demonstrated be Id all cavil or question his migi ;ty power to hold, is there any man a the head of a new party unless ever branch of the governmenit was soli and united behind him, who coul give to the public the well founde hope of a triumphAnt conclusion o the essential reforms which are no) progressing to an inevitable victor Theodore Iposevelt's strenuous an tiidaunted hands. Would Startle History. "Mr. Chairman, and my fellow' De mocrats, it seems to me the time i ripe for an expression of the realit; of Democratic principles and of rea majesty of Democratic leadershi] -which will startle history and inspir the republic to a better life. Ther are opportunities which the Almighi ty sends at rage intervals -to partie and to individuals. And it seceis t, me ill hoiest and fearless franknes that such a tino has comie to us. ''We stand for theC people ler( What the peoPle want is princileF not men. What the people need i results not shihboleths. What th, party clamor for is not Party names but equal popular rights and estab lished liberty. ''If the Demnocratic party has bee1 sincere through all these years in th splendid platforms and in the sple1 did platitudes wlicih iave consecrate its faith and fortunes to the cause o the people-if we have fought ii faith and not in selfish exppetatio1 for the great things which we wish ti see embodied ini the government-i we have been consecrated to the right ing of )opuilar wrongs, to the relax ing of the grip of graft and privil ege from the throat of the people if we have beenl really honest in on professions of sUprem1e Concern fo the whole peol)lc ratlier thanl for Pit ty profit and for personal glory-w seem to have it now. There has con -to us a time when the Democrati party can illustrate an unselfish pat riotism and a surpassing' PrinciPl that will glorify every profession 0 its previous history and plant it ip on a foundation of endliring honor i1 the republic's future life. There seem ( o hlave come to us ini tile pr'ovidene .f God and inl tihe raid~ trend o vents One great and spiendid chane o prove that, in a representative go~ >rove that, in a representative gov ernent even ini thlis age reputed sel fish, patriotism can iie abov'e pam tizansip and the truie principle o re present at ive governlmien)t can b vinldienteid as it has never' been be fore. "[ speak ser'ioumsly, an T1( 1 pea wvithI a full conc(epItion of. thle r'adier position which I am now to take. have ne1 iher tihe record of' ever' hmav ing held a pub11 lTicme 0or 1the hiope expect at io. of ever wantinig onie. 4have fomrhlt -tihe'battles of m.v part for the principles it'arie andn power' to bestow. All my life I lhav realized and b)elieved that the highes and noblest opportunity that coul ever come to citizens or parties was to vindicate by personal sacrifie nd lofty conduct' their supreme an uselfish -loyalty to the~ profession uich their platforms make. The Tinding of Teday. 'We have found wheire we did nc chim a man to do the -things th le sorely need. We do not knoa ye could succeed in placing i r the nm n our par'tizani loyalt d prefer. We do not know whieth this environment our party e wvould chmange time machiner win or lose the fateful battle c economic life. In sound logi n elear comomn- sense we mus nize the 'tremendous start, ti udous prestige which time pros has made. He is eyery inch and by all the records liei estined winner in the figh e, the people's party, affor the people's vital interest b g leaders in the very cris great battle that is on? times may change and me ange as well before the ean of 1908 begins. But if th~ ns thou are as they are t< Roosevelt rides -the stori brewing in the realm of ce: cpital, then our way seen A am duty alaar. . "Speaking here deliberately for fu myself, and in, my fair judgment of the great majority of the plain and ou S honest Democrats of the Empire po a Southern State, from which I came, I believe that we should put the par- 01 a ty then below the -people, the prin ciple above the man. We should re- Sc s buke the spirit of spoils and the hun s ger of faction. We should affirm our A a principles, confess our faith, recite A tlthe necessity of the reform of cor L r porate capital as the supreme and A, I transcendent issue of the times, pay LV tribute to the great and typical Ar s American who 'has proved himsed Lv D 'the dau1tless and conqeu|ring cap- Ar tain of the people's cause, and then Ar y and there in that great conveq)tion' of Lv - our own, William J. 13ryan, the one Ar - umiatched and incomparable evangel Ar - of our faith, spehking for a pure Do- Ar t imocracy, an( speaking for the whole plain people of this republic, should I put ill nomination Theodore Roose I volt for one more undisputed term of Th l power to fi.nsh the work he has so vi f gloriously begun. Prepared for Silence. Y I "I am prepared, Mr. Chairman and pa my fellow Democrats, for silenc2 and Ot' reserve in your hearing of this pro- mi position. There could be no other tn - swer to it now. s "While you accord me the great courtesy of your patience for one moment more, may I tell you what I foresee as the 'esultant if our great 3 pa rty and its leaders could rise to 0 thi.0 super'b and! thrilling act. - "It would Vinldicate tile spii'it an(1 NC s the reality of representative govern- I S ient 11ponl thie earth. s ''it would seild a Illlse of inspira- in( tion througlh th Ow ranks of freemen 23 everywhere. Co 1 "Tt would unite tie country as it tel s has never been since Hiamilion and l, 3 Jefferson wrangiled over the opposing theories of the const it ition. "Tile nobility of the act, would put ts the partizan out of the pulses of the & president, remove the wrallgrie of op posing political theories for the time, to -nl(d free one chief executive for an. t a(dmiiinistratio,n as unselfish and as broadl ats Washington's. "It would vindicate 'and glorify Democracy in an act of patriotism and of un11selfish principle that has had, 110 parallel in -the history of par-ties inl our times. 'I.N its gnan unselfishlinss it ~ wold(i ntlrole the Demoeratic Iparty ~ in the hearts of' the people and inl its r emliprary and heroic smurreiider w%,ould 10 r11rovide beYond dohllbt or (llestionl for its trimllipliht anld ".0l1riols resurree 4 (101 tion in the nlext ealipaigIl. "It would establish our incompar- a3 e able lea(ler lIo presented that pro- 2 -aOsitii i permlent aind pnidilln'llg ohl faml) as the On1e great coinmoner of . our tiies and! would place him upon !:at a pedlestal in history above that of er Gladstone inl Eigland or of Bismarek ( lilt Sbeneath tile Germa.n throne. hu A Millennial Period' a: ' "It would give thlis great counitry of .. of our1s 01 onilleniafl 'perlod in wh'icih of .. factionls and part izans should be0 stillth .. and( tihe spirit of represenitative gov- t io ...u 11rnm1nt should bet given ai new birt I f and1( a new conlserationl to its great of e ideni s--t th le glory of the plel Mi - anld thle ad1mirationl of thle world. ea "Anhd when(~ thiiis perhiod (If' splendid 7Kf Iluitiy was over', when tihe people haid ed Iwon u their malijest ie a:( 'id nduring vie- em I I ory in the great and( t ianisenudent of .. econloiIc prlem)l1 of' thle 1times, then1, im r atl itsC concl usion1, par t ies wvhic re a..0l- eo I way's necessary anud ailways heL'gful inl fiv y' a republlie's life, mlight, s'epariate oneCs as t more illto their i'separ1ate camllps be-- thil e hlind real shilbbolethus ill which every as e line (If seet ionalism should1( be buried, t every bogie of fogeyism and of graft Pm al should be obliterated, anid iln wich en s meni w~ho hav'e followed for 20 years ass e' iln slavishl loyalty of faction behlind as a platforms whichl they did not inidorse ne s and( leaders imn whlom they did not be- pa li eve-might 'align thcm selves oince an mfore aind honestly behind thories of en t g.overnment whlich carried their sin- sei e core0 conv~ict ions land enlisted their on v intelligence and .their nloble zeal. af ai "It would meanil a inew bir'th for Pr y p)arties and( .a ne0w start for the r'e- pa .. public, in mission and in history, da s "'Mr. ChlairmanOl, I submit iln high Ju y anld r'eprlesent-ative honiesty thlis prlo f position, which seems' to 1)0 radienl, tw e bnlt which, I know to be right. I have St 't never bieein more loyal to the life and do e fortuintes of the great Nebraskan pa -who is our' hlonored guest tonlighlt. I fir a haive never been a better and a truer th s Democrat than when I suggest thlis st t. saer'ifice which will mfake ouir peaICe lui d with history and establish thle pros- mm y per'ity of thle people. Bur1y mec if .you da s rwill with partizan scorn tonight, but pr. think of m$ tomorrow with thlat hligh do n amnd patriotic conlsicince whichl lifts lon .the p)atriot above theo partizani 0and JO 0 -blends thle. immlor'tal p1-inlciple with (If a- the real we,lfar'e of the peop)le, sel n "The Democratic plarty fronts to- fo .day an- 1))0 opotunity whIich comles not fu s often in hmuman hiistory to glorify its ch principle. amnd to perpetuate its use- of Iness among men. 'May God and the better angels of r history help us to the patriot'q icy and the people's weal." [ARLESTON & WESTERN OA OLINA RY. hedule in effect January 27, 1907. . Newberry(C. N. & L.) 12:30 p. m. Laurens 1:42 p.m. . Laurens (C. & W. C.) 2:10 p. in. . Greenville 3:35 p. m. Laurens 2:07 p. in. Spartanburg 3:40 p.m. Spartanburg (So. Ry) 3:40 p. in. Hendersonville 6:25 p. in: .'Ahbeville 7:30 p. in. Laurens (C. & W. C.) 1:50 p. in. Greenwood 2:46 p. m. McCormick 3:40 p. m. Augusta 5:30 p. in. Pullman Chair Cars between Au. sta, Laurens iVid Ashevillp, tri ekly. Leave Augusta Tuesdays. ursday and Saturdays ;teave Ashe te Mondays, Wednesdays and Fri s. qote: The above arrivals and de rtures, as well as connections vitb ker companies, are given as infor tion, and are not guaranteed. Ernest Williams, Cen. Pass. Agt., Augusta, Ga. Geo. T.,Bryan, Gen. Agt., Oreen%llle, S. C. ITICE 01 FINAL SETTLEMENT qotice is hereby given that I vll ke a final settlement on the cs c of E. Lambert, Hendrix on the -d day of May, 1907, in the Piobate art and will imiediately thereaf apply for letters dismissory as ecutor of said estate. X1l perisons having1tlaims against estate will present them duly at ted to ic or my attorneys, Blease Dominick, on or before the 1st day May, 1907. All parties indebted the estate will please make p)rope tlement on or before said date. J. P. Harmon, Exor. qewberry, S. C., March 16, 1907. .ENN-LOWRY MANUFACTUR [NG COMPANY, WHITMIRE, S. 0. the Stockholders: Pursuant to a resolution of the ard of Directors of The Glenn wry Manufacturing Company, a eti-ng of the stockholders of said upany is hereby called to be held WhIiitimiire, South Carolina, on the d of April, 1907, at noon, to con er and act upon the following res lions of said Board of Directors of d company, providig for an in ase of the capital stock of said npany by the issue of fifteen adred shares of common stock of par value of one hundred dolliirs hare, and of one thousand shares preferred stock of the par value one hundred dollars a share, with .preferences, liabilities and condi us set out in said resolutions, viz.: ''1. Be it resolved, by the Board D)irectors of the Glenn-Lowry~ ii:uf acturing Company that the ital stoek of the (lenn-Lowry inufa ctuing-iii Comnpaniy bec in creas so flhnt said capital stock shaill Isist or1 sevenity-five lhuntd red sharecs th - par value of mie hundred dol 's a 'share; said (:1.1it1al stock to 'isist of IW wo(la-sses. viz.: forty a hiundlred shares shall he knowni Common Stock, and,the remaining 'cc thousand shares shall bg~ known Preferred Stock. '2. Be it further' resolved, that the eferred Stock shall have a prefer se over Common Stock, both as to ;ets in case of final liquidation and to cumulat.ive dividends out of the tearnings to the extent of seven r cent, per annum, payable semi nually. The Common Stock to be titled to a like dividenul payable ni-annually, but not cumulative, t of the net earnings remaining Lcer payment of dividlends on the eferred Stock-the dates for the ymen t of dlividlends1 to be thle first y of January and the first day of ly of each year: '3. Be it further resovled, that the o thousand shares of Preferred ack already issued shall be re emable at the option of the com ny at iiny time by lot after the it day of January, 1910, and that one thousand shares of Preferred >ck to be issued under these r'eso ions shall be redeemable in like Lnner at any time a.fter the jfirst y of January, 1915. All sdrplus afits, after paying the said divi nds, shall be appropriated as fol vs: On and after the first day of nuary, 10.10, .sixty per cent'. there to the purchase of Preferred Stock (eeted b)y lot, and thle remaining ety per cent, to go to the surplus nd; the Preferred Stock so pur ased to be hold by the Treasurer the Company until all of the said Preforred Sto(ck has becn ptrehas and then issued as Common Sto Iro rata: Provided, however, that 1 -two thousand shares of Preferi Stock already issued shall be fi redeomned anid re-issued as ComU Stock to the holders of Coma Stock pro rata. ''4. Be it further resolved, that This mai out acquaint of SCHNAP qualities tha less expense SCHNAPPS has be paper so that every * opportunity to get a facts and know that to produce the cheer, the famous Piedmoni ' tobaccos, and that SCI ought to chew. Stil who accept other ar that do not give the I SACRhl SaGH Sati will A ISeTEN The entire darr CHINA, CR( TINV WILL BE S This is an opr never before o1 begin prompt13 April 20, and goods last so 1< WaWt * Main ! ad, inortgage shall be pilaccd on the plant si ok, or plants of the company until all of in Jhe the said Preferred Stock of both is ed classes shall have been retired and C< rat taken up. Cl on ''5. Be it further resolved, that the Al on foregoing resolutions be submited to the stockholders of the Glenn-Lowry no Manufacturing Company to be con a bought a supply of t ing himself with the dis PS Tobacco, which has t gratify his desire to< than cheap tobacco., -n advertised in this Some day they'll chewer has had an Schnapps-they'l cquainted wthu dhe they've missed by1i ing quality found in ln g-hnt :country flue-cured themselves. I here are chwhers SCNPSi kd cheaper tobaccos cent cuts, and 10 une pleasure, sure you get the g. - I BEGINNING" ON rn rdy,A be~ inugrae ' R*cket abght aportplnof t inghmsl wihthfi /AREbc, whichS\A t>grtuiyhsdsr to u ( fnaered in thN ebaey.1 ngaty fon inclong aohn t contyilucuredthneselves 1streeare chewe wberrPP i lered and acted on by them at a Doting of said stockholders, which horoby called to be held at the ~inl)ipan's office at WVhatiniro, South irolina, on the tventy-third day of ?ril, 1907, at noon." Respectfully, Win. Coleman, President. ~-44f obacco with tinctive taste the cheering :hew, and at [ get a taste of the real .1 realize what enjoyment ,iot getting SCHNAPPS iey'l1 feel like kicking sold everywhere in 5 and 15 cent plugs. Be inuine. SALE ii 20, :lat 3 stock, consist TARE, ATE WARE, Si OF COST.. oods at prices The sale will he morning of ten days if the v.. S C.