Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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SiliWVJ:OR TILLTvIATT TALKS. 1 Discusses tlio Attitude of the Party and tlio Forthcoming Session of Congress. San Francisco, Sept. 20.?Senator Benjamin R. Tillman, after visiting thirty states since the adjournment of ' congress, and meeting thousands of i people, gives the Hearst News Service his observations on the vital questions of the hour and issues that will predominate in the coining presidential campaign. He does not discuss candidates or politicians, hecause he says he does not know anything about what they arc doing in the way of political combinations and tickets. By Benjiman R. Tillman, United States Senator From South /Carolina. The one significant transaction or fact that has come to the front ;^nce the adjournment of congress last March is the apparent clash, or threatened clash, hetwep.n st.ntn and national authority, in the effort to control corporations and railroads. Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, Nebraska, New York, Pennsylvania, North Carolina annd Alabama have passed two-cent fare bills and taken other | prominent action in the direction of regulating charges for freight and passenger transportation. Governor W Hughes vetoed the New York bill. L The Pennsylvania railroad, which nt owns the state, set about annulling the two-cent fare bill. People of oth<?er states felt grateful except in JiNorth Carolina and Alabama. Unitized States Circuit Judge Jones issued \Msweeping injunctions restraining the Rpfltate officials from enforcing the ^JrTaws. The constitutionality of the law H was not attacked. It could not be H attacked, except upon the plea of I ^^confiscation. ft The Plutocratic Press. While the matter was in the public Bnind, the plutocratic press teemed ^with editorials and cartoons, all in tonded to direct the attention of the Iiople to the ghost of state rights, hich we were told was shot to death '61 and 'Go. The country was led suppose that North Carolina and Dvernor Glenn were attempting a vival of the old ante-bellum docine. In truth, these organs of Morin, Ilarriman, Rioekefeller, et ail., ive attempted to mislead the peoe and bolster up the Root idea of ktional authority upon absolutely Ise grounds. When Judges Pritchd and Jones stand up and proclaim thundering tones "we are the na511; we have the power and authory to protect vested interests and the ate shall not destroy the property the railroads," they wave their ms frantically and the ghost of Cal>un is conjurcd from under the bed. icy bid it be gone. People who have es and who examined this affair osely, saw, looking over these judg' shoulders, the grinning faces of e railroad magnates?and the judgare mere mannikins, obeying the ders of their former employers. T* 1 - 3 9 i. !jrropie xuucpeuuout. lie American people will never be tboozled and driven by fake apis to the national spirit, invoked protect the Harriman, Morgan, kefeller gang in their efforts to ipel producers of the country to tribute to them and dividends on ered stock. he usurpations of power by the aral judiciary and the absolute sreignty by many federal judges he interests of the trusts and the Bssity for congressional action in rly defining and laying down the sdiction and power of federal rts, will atract more attention than great question of regulating its themselves. Co-Relative Questions. udicial usurpation and trust ses and co-relative questions?tlve are interlocked and one hinges the other, as President Roosevelt intly recognized when he made the e in 1004 and .1005, that the railcl rate fixed by the commission uld go into effect immediately and k there till reversed by the courts, course, we all know he surrenderon this imnort.nnt nninh nnrl t.Vinl. came off victor. This hit of f^^H^laitves history turns the light on 'J^^Mlstriking fact that in North Carthe attempt was made to do just Ht the president declared all railought to he compelled to do. [j^^H the federal court butted in and they could not do it, but they Root idea of centralization will Hhe vital issue in the next presi,^H|tiftl campaign. The Root idea '.SB be pressed by the Republicans Roosevelt; the Democrats will, !^Burally and inevitably, take the othnjjnudc. his nation must speak through Bress and define the powers of I ctrr; lha! arc cluk'hin;; I -italv's" and everything else by tlie ! hroals. The real and proper method oL' govornment control and regulation of trusts is the other important question which must be determined in the next campaign. Whenever the people give up local self-government, we shall lose the substance of liberty and nothing but the shadow will be left. When states are hampered by federal interference, when the people are harassed and plundered by corporations, wo must look ahead and steer away from disaster. Japanese Question. I do not think there is any likelihood of war with Japan. Japan is too busy heading off bankruptcy to think about fighting us. It might be difficult if we were persecuting Japan like Russia did, when Japanese national pride would immediately put I them to fight if they were on their knees when the scrap began. Occurrences in British Columbia ; and Dominion of Canada and the deI mand for exclusion will help out in settling the question. Japan is not going to rear up and tear around with her ally, England, and when she gets through pleading with England they won't try to bluff old Uncle Sam. The Japanese diplomats are acute and alive men, and, of course, they are not going to be disadvantaged by us if they can help it. S. AND W. HAS TERMINAL. Officials Spent Friday in Charleston Looking Oyer the Valuable Property on the Water Front. The State. Charleston, Sept. 19.?Mr. Jno. W. Potter, chairman of the board of directors of the South and Western railroad, and Mr. George Carter, president of the company, came into Charleston last night on the private car Clinchfield, and, this morning early, in company with Mr. Henry Buist, counsel for their interests at Charleston, made a close inspection of the extensive terminal properties of the company on the Cooper river which were acquired about a year ago, in expectation of the line they are constructing coming into this city. Mr. Potter and Mr. Carter, it is understood, are making a tour of the section through which their road is projeeted to run, and it is significant that Charleston, the prospective terminus of the line and its port should have been one of the main points for them to visit. The two railroad officials came in last night, and early this morning. They were met by Mr. Bnist, who took them in an automobile to the terminal properties, which consist of 350 acres of fine water front, just south of the Standard Oil company's properly on the Cooper river. They returned to their car before noon and left at once for Augusta, where it is expected they will look over the interests of their line. Mr. Buist was seen this afternoon by The Slate's correspondent and was asked about the visit of Mr. Potter and Mr. Carter, but beyond admitting that be bad been with them to inspect the terminal property which he purchased in their behalf he would make no statement concernins: the matter. The South & Western road, it is well understood, is projected to run from the coal fields of Tennessee across the Virginia and Kentucky mountains to Rutherfordton, thence into South Carolina, probably through Spartanburg, and to Charleston, it has generally been stated, by way of Lugoff, on the Seaboard Air Line, near Columbia. The construction of the road through the mountains to Kutherfordton is being pushed rapidly and the time seems to have come for undertaking the rest of the work. It has been said recently that the stringency of the money market and the uncertainty of railroad investments, in the face of the governmen tal and popular agitations that have been so rife of late, have been the only causes of delay in completing the line. Whether or not there has been sufficient relief of the situation to justify proceeding at this time is not known, but it is evident that the projectors of the undertaking are giving renewed attention to the scheme. The coming of the road into Charleston will make this a great coal port and will also develop an entirely new and independent line of railroad to the West from Charleston. It is the general understanding that Thomas F. Ryan of New York is the controlling influence in the South & Western pi'oject, and it is believed that there is intimate association between the new road and the Seaboard ' Air Line. > V . i >> iv',\ ... TIGER HEAVILY PINED. Ono Year on Cliaingang or Fine of $800?R. Leo Hunter Convicted on Four Counts of Violating Dispensary Law. The Stat? Laurens, Sept. 20.?Judge Gary today heard argument* on motion for new trials on a number of cases, including that of the State against R. opie read wrote, "A ACCIDENT!AL, Bl S\GN OF PoVERT" So ARE CLEANED UP < CLoTHE-5 AND YoV W1 GET RICHER. WE CAP COATS THAT ARE E*SPE< SCHLoSS 5RO-5 AND Co, BEHIND EVERY GARME1 .something tor nothii COME TO THE RIGHT MAY GIVE UP YOUR GOO WHAT 1*5 COMING To Y< WE WILL GIVE YOU WHA FOR $ 1 0.00 A GOOD FOR $1 5.00 A&ETTE FOR $22.00 THE FoR $ i o.oo A Good FOR $12.50 A 5ETT FOR $16.50 THE BECOME TO *SEE THE UP-TC OFTEN WE CAN PLEAJE RE-5PEC USTo. The People's Prosper Paid Up Capital Surplus and Individual Stockholders' Liability For protection of depo H. C. Moseley, President. W. W. Wheeler, Cashier. Better a conservative inter return when wanted, than a hi$ about the principal. A National Bank is a safe D( makes it so. Likewise our Be of prudent conservative manag DIREC G. W. Bowers. J. A. C. Kibler. R. L. Luther. 1 M. A. Carlisle. J. H. Hunter. J. P. We allow 4 per cent. p< IDeoartment. interest YOUR B THE NEWBERRY Capital $50,000 No Matter How Small, The Newberry will give it careful at applies to the men and JAS. McINTOSH, President. /. ,\(i )rj.' . ' '-At ' 1 i |,<.v Hit!). . who was convicted last week of violating llie dispensary law on four oouins. All motions were overruled. This afternoon Hunter appeared in court and in addition to a strong lecture delivered bj the court, he was sentenced to pay a fine of $800 or serve one year on tho county chaingang. Notice of appeal to the supreme court was immediately served by Hunter's counsel. " RESOLVED! T YOU my CLEAN AU.THE rS FRoM^foOR OLD CLOTHES', WHO WANTS TO LOOK LIKE A BbY GENTEEL?You DONT K PROSPEROUS OR CLEArt. E, FRESH,MEW GARMENTS e us feel Confident. Butter rip or a tare may 5e /t a patch ias a *sure y." :lothe*s. wear rich ll feel richer and .ry -5uits and overci ally made for \js dy Tiinn n t i >* ? ' ^ 1 nHK,L IO A QUAhCANl'tit NT. YOU CANNOT GET ^G &UT IF YOU DO NOT CLOTHING STORE YO U p money and not get dU. come To US and T 1*5 COMING TO YOU. FANCY WORSTED -SUIT !R FANCY WORSTED .SUIT &E*ST PoS?SI&LE -SUIT OVERCOAT ER OVERCOAT ST Po,5-5I5LE OVERCOAT >-THE MINUTE DEALERS YOU. 1TFULLY, EWART-PERRY co. 6991 Dr.nl, NUIIUIIU! DUIIK ity, S, C. - $25,000 00 I Profits $6,000 00 3S . . $25,000 00 sitors. M. A. Carlisle, Vice-President Geo. Johnstone, Attorney, est on your deposit with its safe *h rate and a feeling of doubt jposit. Government supervision >ard of Directors is a guarantee ement. :tors: W. P. Pugh. Jno. B. Fellers. W. A. Moseley. Geo. Johnstone. H. C. Moseley. Bowers. 3r annum in our Savings payable semi-annually. A \TI/ITiTni rvn^i Ui SAVINGS BANK. Surplus $30,000 No Matter How Large, r Savings Bank tention. This message the women alike. J. E. NORWOOD, Cashier. " >v; ^ ?' ; v. H v; ^ ^ , ^ ^ '|'v\ ^ ^ -. TO SUPPLY YOUR NEEOS FUR BELTINGS, PACKINGS, STEAM FITTINGS, PIPE FITTINGS, LACE LEATHER, ENGINE REPAIRS r< r*r"? ,/"> ? & i drtAJAL. x A SHIPMENT OF LEATHER BELTING AND WHANG, SHIPPED US IN APRIL, HAS JUST ARRIVED, WE HAD GIVEN THIS SHIPMENT UP AS LOST AND HAD DUPLICATED ORDER, NOW WE HAVE TWICE AS MUCH AS WE EXPECTED, WE DO NOT CARE TO CARRY ANY OVER AND WE WILL GIVE YOU THE BENEFIT OF A PRICE THAT WILL MOVE IT. AS TO GANDY BELTING WE FIND MANY PEOPLE WHO CONSIDER ALL CANVAS STITCHED BELTS GANDY BELTS AND DO NOT KNOW THE DIFFERENCE ^UNTIL THEY HAVE USED IT A WHILE. ALL GANDY BELTING IS STAMPED WITH THE MARK?THE GENUINE GANDY BELT?EVERY TEN FEET, NONE GENUINE WITHOUT IT. BEWARE OF IMITATIONS. WE CARRY 4 TO 12 IN 4 PLY IN STOCK AND CAN GIVE YOU ANY OTHER SIZES MADE ON SHORT NOTICE. Summer Bros' Co n g i..i.. fit n i orunu juiy uienrunce auiei We have too many summer goods, and rather than carry them over we are going to make the price on them RED HOT. This sale commences Friday 12th, and includes all colored summer Dress Goods, Colored Parasols, Ladies' Slippers, Men's Straw Hats, Ladies' Hats and Flowers, Summer Clothing, Men's Low Quarter Shoes. We sell Domestic Sewing Machines $25.00, New Defender Drop Head Sewing Machine $ 1 793, Machine warranted 20 years. Just received our 32nd car, making 3?555 bbls. choice Tennessee Flour, and while it lasts goes for best patent $5.25, half pat. $4.80. Every barrel guaranteed to give satisfaction. Moseley Bros., PROSPERITY, S. C. I The First Cough of the Season, j $ Even though not severe, has a tendency to irritate the sensi- g ? tive membranes of the throat and delicate bronchial tubes. ^ ' Coughs then come easy all winter, every time you take the slightest cold. Cure the first cough before it has a chance to & ^ Spt nn mi iiiflamntinn in tlin ...t * ?I ... mv.h-iuv K_<ij/m?uy (ill lllllUh UI U1C ^ ^ lungs. The best remedy is QUICK RKUKK COUGH p SYRUP. It at once gets right at the scat of trouble and re* moves the cause. It is free from Morphine and is as safe lor ^ a child as for an adult. 25 cents at J MAYES' DRUG STORE. J || PREPARE FOR THE RAINY DAY, I For It will surely come, and may catch you in circumstances that will prove a great hardship to yourself and family. If you will take care of the pennies they will soon make dollars which will brighten the cloudy days of the future. Begin to-day and we'll help you put a silver lining behind each dark cloud at the rate of FOUR PER CENT. on all your rainy day money. FOUR PER CENT. ON SAVINGS DEPOSITS. The Bank o{ Prosperity, Prosperity, 8. C. I Dr. Geo. Y. Hunter, Pres't. Dr. J. S. Wheeler, V. Pres. \;:v: .il. ifr? '