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YOL XLY NO. 53 NEWBERRY. S. 0.. FRIDAY. JULY 3 1908. TWICE A WEEK. $1.50 A YEAR SALUDA STRONG FOR BLEASE. The Senator Has Many Friends in 1 That County?Good Meeting? Ansel Absent. Saluda, S. C., July 1.?While tlio fanners in this scctiuii ai'e very busy, " a goodly crowd attended the State s campaign meeting here today. The v meeting was held, in the county court i; house. The building was well filled, ?> some seventy-live ladies and three or J four hundred voters Doing present. Ji The county chairman. Eugene \Y ' Able, presided and bespoke for each e candidate an attentive and respectful <' hearing. This each speaker received. s The crowd was in a good humor. 1 Gov. Ansel, Adj. Clou. Boyd, State > Treasure Jennings, Atty. Gen. Lyon, Lieut. Gov. McLeoit, Comptroller v Jones, Mr. lirooker atnf Secretary ' McCown were absent from the meet ing for various reasons. 1 All of the candidates for railroad commissioner were |?^cseni, each one *' receiving undivided attention and j some applause. Major Richardson 1 discussed his war record. Mr. Fish- t burne gave his views on railroad ques- s lions. Mr. Summerset I argued that s he was the most experienced candidate for the position. Jimmy Can- 1 sler told his jokes to the amusement 1 of the crowd and Commissioner ' Caughman reviewed his record for the ' past six years. Saluda is Caughman's I old home and he was received well 1 by his old friends. Tt was evident everywhere that the people were interested in the race for the governor. There was much disappointment because of Gov. Ansel's absence. The governor has ? friends in Saluda who are very much -1 worried that he did not sec fit to attend the mooting. Chairman Able read his letter and there was not even I a handclap or ripple of applause t<> I / greet it. 1 Hon. Cole. L. Blense was in good ' form and spoke about thirty minutes to the voters. ITe referred to the. fact that his mother was a native of Saluda county, that he had a number of relatives among t!-r people present. 1 and knew hundreds of Saluda county county voters personally. He was glad to be among people two had lenown him from his boyhood and ^ people who had known his parents in the years gone by. Mr. Rlease discussed mainly the question of extravagant appropriations, useless of- v fices, and high taxes. Tie stated his views on the whiskey question. His accm?-.r of how legislation was o/trn secured by five or six men even in the face of opposition of a majority of the members of ( the creneral assembly, was very inter- ( ostin<_'. Many cheers greeted his | statement that he was opposed to the | money of the white tax-payers beiner ( expended for the education of negro ] children. ( Si?n;?ior t'lease related how he had ( at Lexington demanded that Clover- c nor Ansel inform the people of South, s Carolina where he was and what he was doinu in the days of the Civil s War and where he was and what he ( was doing in 187(i when the people i of South Carolina were making a I very desperate effort to redeem the ; State from the rule oT the negro and : carpetbagger. He slated that he yet t hoped to have his rxcellencv give 1 this information to fTie voters during ; the campaign. I Mr. lilease was loudly cheered at ' v the conclusion of his speech and it 1 v was apparent that he had made many / friends in the audience. All those who * expressed themselves were strong for ( the senator's candidacy and it was 1 conceded by almost everyone present * that he will get a big majority in I his ' county. s> i Favors For a Fourth of July Dinner. Candy boxes made of white watered paper emblazoned with flags and the portrait of Washington will comprise the favors. These arc filled ^ with that most patriotic of all sweets, | candied cherries. The ices will be j red and white cherries eaten with a sliver hatchet. ( Some women would like to find se- I crets out for themselves than be told. 1 GOVERNOR JOHNSON. Vill Not Attend Democratic Convention But Will be Represented by His Friends. l)es Moines, la., June 21).?"I am 10I going to Denver," said Gov Jolinon in an interview today. "The story k'as out that I would be (hero, but it ! s not true, 1 propose to 'tend to my \vn knitting and run the State of ilinnosota in the best possible wav, n<l do a little chautauqua work on he side. However, 1 will be represented at Denver. Mr. Day, Mr. Mcyrs and other good political aiti) peronal friends of mine will bo there. Tliey will attend to my interests, if 'on call it interests. ' "If Bryan is the choice of the condition will you seek recognition from ho national party b,y agreeing to ac opt the vice presidential nominaton?" "No, no," he said nurriedly. "I am candidate for the presidential noinnation of my party. If 1 do not get t I am not a candidate for anything lsc. My friends s'rictly under-1 land that point. They know coneluively that I do not >ccl< other than he nomination for the first place, li s up to the parly. Tf they think 1 an add strength to the ticket as iresidenlial nominee, then I am ready 0 exert the best leadership that 1 mssibly can to put the party into naional power.'' Mr. Johnson addressed the chauauqua assembly here tonight. Advertised Letters. Letters remaining in postoffice at dewberry, S. C., for week ending rune 27, 1908. Mrs. Annie Adams. Miss Steve Bcaciuuu, Miss Ethel Srvson (.'{). Miss Carrie Christa, Mrs. Lula dolman, Mrs. Sula Gibson, Mr. Moben filasco, Mrs. P. C. Graddick. Mr. John Home. Mrs. Bculah Jones. Wm. Lee. Mrs. L. C. Morgan, Miss Marric da reus. Mrs. Agassi Null. Mrs. Sallie'Palmer. Mr. R. S. Rede, Mrs. Hannah Releord. Primastor Russell. Miss Adamav Shamon. Prank Wilson. Persons calling for these letters vill please say that they were adverised. Chas. J. Purcoll, P. M. Quebec's Battlefields. Canadians of English or Prench >rigin are embracing with equal cnImsiasm the proposal to consecrate lie baltlelields of the Plains of Abralam and Ste Pov next year, when the Jiicbec tercentenary is celebrated. In HID the British soldiers serving in 'anada, under Sir Benjamin d 'Urban, ontribuled a day's pay to erect a olnmn in memory of Wolfe on the spot where made this country British. I'he amount of money thus raised was small and the moiwment insignifi anl. But the meaning of that final rrnpple between the British and the 'rencl' grows yearly in significance, md there is now taking definite form 1 plan to give permanent expression o the honor in which Canadians hold kVolfe and Montcalm alike. Today is I lie immigrant comes up the river o Quebec the first object he sees is he jail on the promotory. It is proposed now to remove the prison md the Ross Rifle Padory. and to set up 1 hero overlooking the river, a olossal angel of welcome; to buy and enough to make certain the preservation of the batllefiehls as a naional parlc, to build a fire-proof museum, in which to store records' and elics of historic value, and to construct a magnificent driveway from he citadel along the edge of the lift', overhanging the St. Lawrence, t:? he place where Wolfe's forlorn hope limbed the height, along the road >ver which Wolfe marched his men efore they deployed to take up their ine of two deep on the Plains of \hrahani. on through the batllelield >f Ste Pov, where Montcalm was vicorions, and back to Quebec along I In* teiglils overlooking the beaulifnl valey of t lie St. Cliai les. ARE REPUBLICANS UNITING? Some of the Expert Politival Pulse Feelers for Eastern Papers Say So?LaFollette Again in the Fold. A Washington dispatch to the Columbia State says: The expert political pulse feelers who have gone for Kasterii newspapers out into Wisconsin, Town, and other States of the Tdiddle West are j doing what they were sent out there to do. finding that differences in the ranks of the (J. 0. P. are being healed and that there is no chance for the Democratic ticket. Angus McSween has just written to the Philadelphia Record that Taft will carry Wisconsin easily and safely owing to the fact that La Kid let te and the LaKolelle men have quit knocking the ReI publican machine and, while they do not like Sunny Jim Sherman on the ticket and are disappointed with the platform, they will nevertheless do all they can for the election of the Republican ticket. Democratic leaders have been expecting assistance from the LaKollette followers in Wisconsin and other Middle West Slates, but in the opinion ??1* McSween they will be disappointed. Another pulse leeler lor the Washington Star signing himself "X. (). M."?".lack" Messenger is his name?has been writing from Iowa, lie tells id1 how the disappointed Cummins and the disappointed friends of the Iowa governor are taking oft1 their coats and working for Taft and Sherman. Towa is safely Republican, in the opinion of "N. O. M." Both of these writers say that these States will not give such large Republican majorities as they are accustomed to pile up. The estimate by Republican leaders is that Town will go Republican by ")0.000. That itself is significant, for Roosevelt. carried it by lf>0,000. A similar prospective dropping off is reported from Wisconsin. These and the various other indications of the proverbial getting together after the party fight in the convention, which has given the Republican party such a wonderful vitality and has caused that party to triumph over the Democrats, are particularly interesting in the light of the efforts the Republican leaders have been making to get up the Repub beans' fighting blood. They seem to be succeeding to a small degree at least. Near the close of the recent session of congress, one of the Republican members of the lower house, from Kansas in discussing the filibuster id the Democratic said Id me that l lie Republican lenders might have appeared to be annoyed, and (hat indeed I hey were on the surface iintl lor the moment, but that in reality deep down I he,? were rejoicing greatly because the tactics of the Democrats were making r?ie Republicans mad so that they would fight. Kor one thing, and so far as 1 can see for only one thing, the country has to thank Theodore Roosevelt; that is for causing people. Democrats and Republicans both, to begin to think that after all party lines are not so absolutely unbreakable and that Human is to be considered above party. N'ol thai Roosevelt himself hits ignored party lines or party considerations, for he has been one of the strictest o| partizans, but he has made Republicans think. The benefit to the connfry will come if it is seen this yeai ' hat he has made them think to that extent, which Roose\cll himself never intended, that they will conclude that if Roosevelt is bigger than parfv, there might be another, even a Democrat. It lias been noted here for the | past few years thai in some stall's. I especially New ork, Massachusetts, J Minnesota and other States of the Middle West, the people are ignoring parly lines. This fact has really been I he source ol more -rixlous concern to Republican leaders than the factional animosities e.gendered in the ranks of the (J. O. 1'. by such rows as the Koraker-Taft one in Ohio, the . Cummins-Dolli ver differences in I Iowa, the bucking of the machine l?v j Hughes in New York, and the dissen) lions created by LnKolJctle, or with j ^al'ollelte. in \\ iscons?n, The fear oj. II he part of Cannon, Sercno Payne, ANSEL AT LEXINGTON. But He Fails to Answer Blcasc's Question. \Y e take llio following from 11 if report of I he Columbia Kword's special correspondent of the campaign meeting at Lexington: Mr. Hlease had the opening speech. As to his personal character lie referred to his repealed endorsements hv his home people in Newberry. Ho renewed his attaeUs upon the present administration and scored (lovernor Ansel for not vetoing extravagant appropriation ?>ills. 4 The more you give them the more they will waste,'' lie said, amid applause. Further applause greeted Mr. lUcase% suggest ion that if (lovernor Ansel does not liUp his present salary ami mansion, he might be retired by i\ Uiud-hearted people. Still further applause was produced by the suggeslion that evidently (lovernor Ansel had been associating with high financiers rather than with the people al large. 11 is strictures on the departments of immigration and of insurance also struck responsive chords llis criticism of (.lovernor Ansel's li qnor platform was that it was elaj trap intended to catch prohibitionist? and gets the votes coming and going 11 e said (.lovernor Ansel could nol claim protection of any alleged se<* ond term precedent, because (lover nor Ansel refused to vole for a sec ond term for Jno. C. Sheppard. Mr. Hlease said Ansel was beginning to believe August would mear Hlease, governor, else he would still be having that "important business in his olliee." This was applauded The most general and hearty cheers of the day came after Mr. Hlease had said that he, if elected governor would not send armed constables U attend elections nor soldiers to guan trial in Lexington county. Mr. Bleast retired amid applau-o from all por tions of the hall. (lovernor Ausel came forward eonfidcntly in tin* face of dead silence lie launched vigorously into a defense of liis ollicial record, devotiiiL most of his time to explaining wh\ he had recommended a two per cenl additional tax levy. As to other mat lei s, nr said he ljao done his duly as he saw it, hewiiu to the line and letting the chips l'al wher they might, lie declared thai ou the immigration question lie am his friend Hlease was as one, both fa voring the coming of honicsccker: and home builders and of no othei classes. (lovernor Ansel urged tin people to see to it mat all qualilioi are registered to vole oil '.lie genera elect ions. I !< disclaimed having anv ropoiisi bilily whatever for the mileage bool rule, saying thai was up to the rail road commissioners. (lovernor Ansel said that in al things lie had done what lie ilcemet to be for the best interests of tlx Slate and if reeled en would couliniu to do the same, lie did not reply t< Mr. Hlease's strictures upon him foi sending armed constables to l.exing Ion to attend a trial, (lovernor An sel received a good round of applausi a-- lie retired. Never judge a man hv the talk hi lets out in his own behalf. (letting rich quick is as difficult ai it is dangerous and exciting. Crane, b'oosevell and the oilier Up publican bosses has been not that (hi Republicans would light one anothei but that they might not be in a fighting humor al all. They were no 'mail enough. The Williams filibuster thought this congressman from Kan ! sas, was arousing the parti/.an spirit ; it was lining up the Democrats, am j nothing can unite lire Republicans si | well as for the Democrats to unite, j So, after all, the bright prosped ol a reunited Democracy, which ha: J been the hope of the Democratic lead ers, may be such an unmixed blessing Whenlho Democrats gel together, tin (I. O. I'. leaders get seared, they gel the trusts and plutocrats scared am j make them shell out the cash, and tin rank and f ile of the (!. (>. I'. ar? |'hen haranged and bullied and bought Jlill all go to the polls and Vote ,/]" l Republican ticket. B. F. MAY OF GREENWOOD TAKES HIS OWN LIFE Highly Respected Citizen Shoots Himself in the He jut-?Bad Health Though to be the Cause. The Slate. Greenwood, July 1.?Greenwood was shocked this morning when the sad news was made known that Mr. 11. 1'. May, one of the most highly respected citizens, had committed suicide by sending a hullet through his brain. While Mr. May had been a resident of Greenwood only two years, lie having moved hero from Saluda, lie had many friends here, who were deeply pained to hear of the aw lid tragedy. No possible reason can he niveii lor the deed other than the I:i?-t that Mr. May has been itt very bad health for some time. The trayedy occurred this morning about' .>..10 o clock at his residence on south Main si reel, and I he deed was done with a ..'iS-ealihre pistol, the ball entering the left temple. Mr. May. on arising this morning, seemed in his usual health?at least lie made no complarnl to Mrs. May, who was in the room wrtli him. After lie had been up a few minutes and had dressed lie told Mrs. Mav that he would wake the children, and while he was <m this mission Mrs. M;iv left the room and went into the kitchen and Mr. May returned lo his bed room and locked the door behind him. In a minute or so the report of the pistol was heard. When Mrs. May leached him, which she did through a rear door, he was dead, having died instantly. Mr. May was 1'J yc.-rs old. He was a member of the Uaplisl church. I hough a <|iiiet man and rather of a retiring disposition, he had made many Iriends here during the past two years. In Mr. May (!reep\ oil has lost a good citizen, one she , an ill afford lo lose. Mr. May leaves a wife, who was Miss Me|lie ('Iegg, and four Noung ^children, three bovs. Unfits, lliran and I'ierce, and one litt!,- uirl, Sndie. 1,'iifus. who is Iti, is (he oldest. The inlcrmcnl will take place tomorrow at the public ccmclerv at 11 0 'clock. FOES OF THE LEVEES. Sources of Danger to the Artificial Banks of the Mississippi. Mallimore American "People who know liltle about our system of levees, the artificial banks '"'ill I" confine the flood Nvaters l,i:" I"""- into the Mississippi. I),, doubt imavine that the beavv rains are the only enemy with which tin; levees have to contend," said I >. .1. Gerry, of Malon |{..u?e, La. "On i he contrary, i lie levees, both duriny Mines <d l'|o>.d and low water, are subject |<> 11incessant attacks ol living foes, | he destructive work of which costs millions of dollars. These foes are alligators, turtles, miiskrals, field rats, fresh water terrapin and crawfish. Of all these burI lowers thai prey on fiie levees, excavating n\ il bin them tiooilly chambers or tunnels, the craNvfish do the most damage, with the t miles and terra| pins a ?ood second. The harm clone b> I he alligators is eomparat ivclv small. j "In repairing the banks crawfish j ll"'*'s "Men found ol immense size. It is these lioliow spaces that Mine o| Ircshcts cause a caving in l>'?ak of the levees, which, of course, brings on an inundation of" all 'adjacent country. The worst, '' *'r' Mu> business fs thai, no way <d' ' vlerminatinu these pests has vet. and the onh thing lo'bo done is to try to keep ihem awa.v from Ihe banks as much as possible." Best Limericks. 1 am told bv (he conductor of the largest Limerick competitions that tin- bcsl Limericks come from Scotland, Ireland and Wales in thai order. The Scotch, he said, have a peculiar bent for neat and apl rvlimes, j J1"1 vvi" v ; I lie Iri-li. but posse-.-i" 11 '' 'I'l'ier turn or phrase. And '' v ;l' Mi:il a la portion ol Ihe 'prizes have gone north of the Tweed. SET EXCELLENT EXAMPLE. Archbishop Ireland's Civic and Patriotic Courage Commended. New York Herald. The protests made hv a few Human Cat holies against Archbishop Ireland's net ion in congratulating Mr. Tal'l upon his nomination are ridiculous. As a?i American citizen, the arehbishop has an undoubted right to send his greetings lo Mr. Tal'l and express his opinion of the nomination. Those who object to his doing ' so furnish an example of a narrow! minded spirit that does more harm to religion and religions bodies than ; all the efforts of anti-religious deruaI gogues. 1 There is nothing rn the action to 1 offend other Roman Catholics whose political views differ from those of the distinguished prelate. The mis' lake that bigots make is in contusing political and religions <|ucslions. ' They should remember that their first duty is to the country of their birth or adoption?that is to say, lo the United States?no matter what their religious convictions may be; 1 whether they are Woman Catholics or " Kpiscopalians, Baptist or Methodist, Congregat ionalists. t'nitarians or Jews, Mormons, Shakers <tr Christian Scientists, Buddhists, Mussulmans or Shintoists. In this country all religions enjoy equal liberty. They are not legislated against or deprived of their niater. ial possessions as in France. The Federal constitution Tn Article VI declares that " no religions test shall ' ever he required as a qualification lo . any office or public trust under tin* t'nited State." and the first amend' men! provides that "congress shall I make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." The constitution affords to any native-born American the opportunity of becoming president, whether he he .lew or ({entile, Kotnan Ca!holi?, or Protestant. In return for Ibis priceless liberty . il is the duty of all citizens lo place L their allegiance to their country before I heir allegiance to any parlieuI lar church. As Mr. James P?ryce has r tersely said: "llalf the wars of Euj rope, half the internal troubles thai ! have vexed (European Slales, from the I Monophysite controversies in the Roman I-'mpire of the Piflh century down to the Kull urkampf in the (!cr. man empire in the nineteonlh, have arisen from theological differences I or from the rival claims of church I and Slale. Tin* whole last chapter of dchatc and shite has remained virtually unopened in Hie I'niled | SI a I es.'' The law recognizes no religions body except as a voluntary associaI lion of private citizens. As a result . of (his absolute equality and free^ dom il is admitted Dial the inJ'l11ence of religion in iliis country is greater than elsewhere, and the members of various religious bodies are broader-minded, more tolerant, and exhibit kindlier feelings toward one another as workers in a common cause. This aws strikingly illustrated in the recent Carbolic centennial ^.celebration in I his city, when miuisl-I ers of various IVolestani denomina- I lions, Jews and (lentiles, citizens of all creeds and of n<> freed joined in congr.alulalions and good wishes lo Archbishop Farley au?> his associates. Thai any Roman Catholic should j |. j he ol fended by Archbishop Ireland *s| , jaelion is, we repeal, ridiculous. The . ' members of everv religious bodv I . I must be, first of all, American ciliz. I ens, and Archbishop Ireland has sel . an excellent examp*' of civic and j j patriotic courage which his Roman! , ('athidic critics would do well to imitate. Cautious from Experience. The divorce court reporter on n , daily paper must he very linsalisfacI lory to his sweetheart when il comes I I> writing letters.?Somerville Joiir: nal. ; I I i Always speak well of yourself. ! I There are others who will attend to I I lie ol her side of it. i