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1^^ | VOL XLV NO 57 NEWBERRY. S. O., ERTDAY. JULY 17 1908 TWICE A WEEK. $1.50 A YEAR SENATORIAL CAMPAIGN MEETING IN NEWBERR1 MEETING PASSED OFF QUIETLY AND PLEASANTLY. Ool. Johnstone at Home?All the Candidates Well Received and Given Close Attention. ; The candidates for the United Slates senate and for the lower house of congress addressed about five hundred Newberry people, including a I number of Indies, in the new court house on Wednesday. Col. George Johnstone was at home, and he was liberally and heartily applauded by his home people. Col. t Johnstone spoke for only a few min| utes, thanking the people of Newberry for their generous support and kindness to him in the past, and yielding his time to the other candidates-, who were Newberry's guests. ^ The principal issue discussed was the curronev system, the other candidates jumping with both tect. upon Mr. Rhett's national bank currency system, which he presented in detail and with earnestness. Mr. Grace h< i -g the ! ><i weaker. ^ Mr. Rhett to.-x occasion to reply beIforc Mr. Grate's speech to certain charges which lie said Mr. Grace had made on other stumps, and which lie (supposed would bo repeated at Newberry, Mr. Rhett saying that Mr. Grace seemed to be imbued with the idea that it was his mission to canvas the State to defeat him (Rhett). Mr. Grace did attack Mr. Rhett's T)emoIcracy when he was introduced, bringing the charges to which Mr. Rhett had replied, and characterizing Mr. Rhett as a Republican. In fact, Mr. Grace devoted the principal part of his address to an attack upon Mr. ' Rhett's Democracy. L Aside from this, the candidates dcf voted themselves to a iTfscussion of is* sues. Eacli of the candidates was well received, and each wns liberally applauded and heard with close and rcsf pectful attention. ' County Chairman r red. TT. Dominic k presided and introduced the ? speakers. The candidates were met at the train with carriages and were entertained at the hotel while here as the guests of the people of Newberry. Most of the candidates left on Wednesday afternoon for Greenwood, where yesterday's meeting was held. The Meeting in Detail. County Chairman Doininick. in calling the meeting to order, said lie knew he voiced the sentiments of the people of Newberry county when he said they were glad to have with them such a distinguished company of genbest man. "God give us clean men in South Carolina, who had come to dis4 cuss national issues. He bespoke for each earnest attention. "Cheer your favorites," he said, "but. give each a respectful hearing." Tie introduced the Rev. Kdw. Fulenwider, pastor of the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, who offered an earnest prayer, beseeching that the campaign should be clean and wholesome and that the people when they went to the polls should vote for the man they believed to be the ' * best man. "God give us clean men, in !^"lce. upright men, men who fear no e but God and who hate nothing t sin, and who are determined to nothing but the right, no matter lat il costs," he said. Col. George Johnstone is the first speaker introduced, and was receivel with hearty and enusiastic applause. Newberry being < home, Col. Johnstone spoke for ly a few moments, giving his time the.other candidates. Col. Johnstone said it was not his tention to say more than a few mis. ]Ie would yield his time to o other candidates,, who were the csts of Newberry today, lie said e people of Newberry knew his nits and knew his virtues. "They ive been generous?you have been nerous, my fellow-citizens, with my ults, and you have been kind, very nd, perhaps, to my virtues. Certain is that you have been to my faults little blind, and you have been to my virtues very kind. In regard to the other members of the party, I c will state that never in my life time, t on any occasion, anywhere, have I i met with gentlemen whose company \ I more keenly enjoy. This campaign ? has been to me a source of unmixed t happiness. Not an unkind word has c been spoken to any one by any other one. We have lived and froliced v with each other almost like children. We have criticized each other's poli- j cies and thoughts and opinions, I hope c in an unsparing way, but certainly in a courteous and dignified way. There have been no personalities mixed up in it, none whatever, and wo have enjoyed ourselves, and I wish now (hat my fellow-citizens en; joy I hem as 1 have done. When any one of them makes a remark that strikes you as worthy of attention and of note, I earnestly trust that you will give to them those cheers that carry a man 011 in the current of thought, and enable him most pleas- j antly to submit that which he has to 1 say. Be as generous to them in your 1: applause as you have been to me? each and every one of them. We t have been met with consideration ev- j erywhere. T hope when we reach the 0 end of this canvas we will be each as j friendly as we are at present. And j with these few words of thanks to 1 you for your kindness in the past? ( for you have never on any occasion t failed to give me a majority of the t votes of this county?1 think it t would not 1)0 indelicate in me to say ^ and to say it as modestly as I may, c that myself and my friends have no ? cause for discouragement. I think T t can say with absolute truth and with j modesty that I am in the front rank j of the runners. I know that we in- j habit a small county, comparatively. | Wo know its voting population is not. ( as great as that of other counties, but in the larger counties, T have l boon mot with the same consideration < 1 have been in tlie smaller ones. And | now, my fellow-citizens, I ask again ] the most tender consideration for 1 these gentlemen. I know they will re- ; ceive the most courteous considera- i lion, and I ask for each aid every ) one of thorn the most generous ap- 1 plause that you can give them. Let ( them leave us as happy as they came j here, and happier, if possible. And | now, Mr. Chairman and fellow-citiz- , ens, I turn my friends of the cam- | paign party over to you." ] Mr. W. W. Lumpkin. ; County Chairman Dominick intro- 1 duced Mr. W. W. Lumpkin, of Co- 1 lttmbia, as the second speaker. Mr. ' Lumpkin made a few happy remarks 1 in opening, and then paid a beautiful ' tribute to tho Confederate soldier. ITo 1 said that in coming to the court house I his morning ho had pa.ssed the building where the Daughters of the Con- ; federaov were serving refreshments, < and ho had walked under the Red Cross flag, "the one we followed ' many years ago where the cannon ' boomed and the musket rallied." Thai flag, he said, reminded him of the days when lie wore the ragged gray jacket. "Today," he said, "I bring lo you the old soar from which dripped (he blood into your soil, and ask thai il may be honored by finding a resting place among your people when my life shall have been finished. '' Mr. Lumpkin said lie was opposed to government by injunction, lie believed if the policy of government by injunction as practiced by the Republican party were carried on, that the day would come when not only the labor union, but I lie farmers' union and the doctors' union, and all others would bo controlled by injunction if the judges sec proper. If the Democratic party gels in power, it should increase I he judges on the supreme bench, if those there were not willing to stand for Democratic doctrino, ITe favored government aid in the improvement of (he roads. He was opposed lo the national banking system, and opposed to giving lo any [individual or corporation the power lo create or issue money, lie was opposed to the tariff. lie favored, if il could bo done by ; legislation, (hat history should say the Confederate soldier was not a | traitor, but a hero. r > IIo devoted a considerable portion >f his address to a plea for prohibiten, and favored a law keeping sliipnents of whiskey out of a State vhich votes it out. lie believed that south Carolina would vote prohiliiion by 30,0(4) majority if it had the pportunity. Mr. Lumpkin was liberally apilauded. Hon. O. B. Martin, >rcscnt State superintendent of education, whose home is in Greenville, vas next introduced by Chairman )omrnick, and he also was received vith applause, and with his well-told okes he soon had his audience in exiellent humor. Mr. Martin said he anie from practically every county in lie Stale, having been born in Creon ille, and having married in another ounty, taught school in another, liv'd in another, and having claims on nost of the others, and he was a iitizeu of South Carolina. Tie was n'oud of (lie growth of South Caroina. lie thanked the people of Newjerry for their support in the past. Taking up the issues, he said the a riff was important, because it was irobable that the Democrats would ontrol the next house, and that tho icerless Bryan would be the next ^resident. The mention of Bryan's lame was greeted with applause, lie liseussed the probable situation in he next senate and thought it more lian probable there would be some a rift' reform, lie felt he had t lie advantage of knowing the needs and onditions of his people, and lie had itudied and would continue to study his question, and he believed his iresence in the senate would be of ;reat benefit and value to his people when this matter came np. lie >elieved the righteousness of the lause would force some tariff relief. There was a direct and intimate real ion between the tariff and immigration. He jumped on Mr. Rlictt in [)assing. lie said J1 r. Rlictt must lave coined his expression "We need nore white people" after attending i banquet in Charleston, where it s said all the prominent Republicans )<>th white and black, were present. Where more white people were needid, he believed in allowing immigrants with the home-seeking instinct ;o come in and make a home, but lie lid not believe in making this eounry a cess-pool for the criminal population of other countries. There was i fertile section on the seaboard and \\ fertile section in the Mississippi /alley which needed immigrants, and if the advantages of these sections were properly presented, I he right !<ind of settlers would come of their jwn accord, and the question would noIvc itself. Hi' elieved in throwing I he proper and rigid rest riel inns ;iround immigration, for the protection of I he State and of the nation. If elected he would do all he could lo prevent the fleecing of our people l?y the gambling on Wall street. When it came to the question of Slate's rights, he would ever stand ,ip to the rights of his State. He referred to his record in the office of superintendent of education, saying among other things, that during hi* administration more than 1,)00 school houses had been built, and hat he was instrumental in seeking lie passage of the bill providing for light schools, and the school li>rarv law. Hon. R. Goodwyn llhett. Charleston's mayor, lion. R. (Soodivyn Rhclt, who says that he is not an irator, but is running as a plain nisiness man, was well received. He vas earnest and at times eloquent in lis address, and he was frequently nterrupled by apj)lause. Mr. Rhett s a good speaker, and while he says ie lays no chums to oratory, lie is ;iu rator of no mean ability. Tie devotid much of his time to a discussion >f bis currency plan, which is one of he principal issues on which he is naking his fight for the senate. lie 'arnestly believes that his plan of! lelegating to the national fianks I lie | lower to issue the currency, convcn-1 ent sub-treasuries being establish- I id throughout the country, will lake J iway from a few in the Xorlh the lower to tie up the currency when il s needed in the South and give the south a better and more elastic eurency system. i [ Mr. Khett begun his address by congratulating the people of Newberry county upon the completion of their splendid new court house, and the county upon its industrial progress. lie said he believed the time had come when business men were needed in the halls of national legislation. 11c spoke in burning and passionate words of the War Between the States and (he dark period of lieconstruction following. Those were the days, he said, when with the tyrant 's heel upon our neck, we needed oratory. Bui in 187(1 the white man regained control of the State, "and so help us Clod, he shall keep that control until the end of time." That matter was settled. Business questions now confronted the South? business questions demanding solution. The struggle of the South was now for industrial progress, for induslrial supremacy. He said there were various national issues which might be discussed, but in the limited time allotted to i each candidate il was not possible to discuss them all, and he was going to take up the discussion of (lie currency. He said he had been pitched into because he was not a government currency man. Suppose the government issued currency; how were you going to uel it ? The onl\ way was to go to your bank and get it. Every p-aver taken uwjiy from that bank '.v;ts sii nuu'h power tak en away from the people themselves: He explained clearly and forcibly tlu national banking system. He wanted a sub-treasury of the United State? established within a night's mail ol i every bank, properly safeguarded according to the plan which he outlined His plan, he said, of delegating to the national banks the power to issue tlu currency would enable the people t<: secure the currency when it was needed by them. Mr. Khett said that inasmuch as Mr. Grace, of Charleston, would follow him, he wanted to reply to sonu charges Mr. Grace had made against him, and which he supposed would be I repeated here today. Mr. Grace seemed to think his mission was to tell the people of the Stale why he (lilted] should not be elected. Mr. libel I said that Mr. Grace had charged thai in 180(5 he did not vote the Democratic ticket. Mr. liliett said that lit had stayed away from the polls that year because he believed silver would bring disaster. He thought so keenh and he stayed away from the polls with sorrow, but he had always beer a Democrat, and with that exception had always voted the Democrat i< ticket, and lie would always be a De j inocrat. lie said that Mr. Gruct | would charge that in the Charlesloi county convention he (Khett ) hat ! opposed instructions for Bryan. Mr j Khett said this was true, because h< did not believe instructions were De mocratic, but when he saw how th< tide was setting towards Bryan ;iu< that Bryan would be nominated lit went to the State convention an en thusiastic Bryan supporter, and h< was today an enthusiastic Bryan sup porter and would do everything lit could for the success of the Democra tic ticket. Mr. Khett sadi as to fits views oi :tlie tariff question, they were exacth expressed by the tariff plank in the Democratic platform. Hon. E. D. Smith, of Florence, was received with considerable applause. Mr. Smith is j ! forceful speaker, and he made a good I speech on Wednesday. I He be.uan by saying he thanked <i<>< that lie had always been a Democrat ?not a Democrat for a time and then ' when his gold bonds were endangered j refusing to vole the Democrati( ! ticket, and then going back to tlu ; Democratic party again?but always ja Democrat. lie jumped squarely upon Mr j Khett's currency plan. He said that : he believed in the doctrine of the j South protecting its homes and firehides, and the South would never sit quietly by and allow the encroachment of the Kepublican party under | the ?pecious guise of a currency law. lie took up the tariff issue and asked why the tariff law was upon us. I We all knew the tariff was an Iniquity, lie said. Why was it upon us? 'Simply because the North, through (hi' manipulations of Iiim* shrewd business men and financiers, had placed 1 it on us, and the North had kept it sp on us by the force of her majority S? of votes, and the currency of the fe country was absorbed by geometrical in i progression and poured into the cop- si< pers of the North. le< Then came the national banking S?i law, which had created the greatest to money trust in the world, the govern- "I ment having delegated to a few the an power to issue money when it suited their pleasure. mi Mr. Smith then took up and elo- th , quently referred to the natural re- an sources of the South. While the of North had an artificial tariff wall, be in i said, tho* South had a natural tariff fe wall placed around her by the hand w< of (hid. For a long time lie had been wi puzzled to know the difference. Hut or in his study of the question he had found it. The Northern financier es owned I he mills which manufactured re I he raw product of the Southern cot- re ton fields. The plan which he had p;i been urging and which he had been th i working for was lo put up the price of the raw material, lie characterized z;i the New ^ ork Cotton Fxohango as st . a gang of thieves and liars. p, I he South could solve'its own our- in rencv problem, lie said, if the far- di '.mors of the South would stand to- ti , J Met her. The South had won its re- 111 i i cent fight against the Northern fin- ti -fancier and the gamblers of \V;ill tl i street. to Ex-Governor Jno. Gary Evans, ai I o| Spartanburg, made a good speech, ot ? He followed Mr. Smith, and was hear- in lily cheered when he was announced, in He jumped on the positions taken bv ri , both Messrs. lthett and Sinilli. sli ! He said the South depended upon ! cotton, but this country and Canada n' ' could only buy oiu'-fourlli of the dj > South's cotton crop. The other ('1 Ihree-lourtlis must lie sold in the mar> kets of I lie outside world. He spoke ot this fact in relation of the our- I'1 reiicy question. lie traced the his- A torv of the currency agitation down ki i lo the present, and severely and earn- ol - j estlv attacked Mr. Khelt's plan, seek- Hi ; ing to show that it would not work tli ' ! t<> the benefit of the South, and that >'< L j it was not good Democratic doctrine, p' tjllo characterized Mr. Tibet t on the ff - currency issue as "a new disciple, a la ' new evangelist, calling himself a plain Hi t business man." lie did not believe n? I in taking away from the people's government (he right lo make the poo- a pie's money. Mr. lthell's plan was S to delegate lo a chain of banks the ft , I only power lo issue currency, he said, 'i ' Mr. Fvans said there was no differ- * : - i once between this and in doleual in" lo '.m ' ' one great bank the sole power to is- j<i I j sue currency, and it would amount to h< 1 .nothing but the creation of a viaul oi . j money trust. is Mr. Kvnns sn'nl |k> was not run" j ning for the senate to get a job. The ?l ' | people of Newberry knew his people and luid known lliem for a hundred I" J years, lie wanted to serve his people, ?l and he wanted lo go to ihe senate because he believed he could serve li " I hem there. tl Mr. Jno. P. Gracc, 01 of Charleston, was (he lasf of Hie ^ speakers seeking senatorial honors. <, ! The burden of his address was an at^ tack upon Mr. If hot f 's I)cinocraey. W Mr, IHiell, he said, had referred to '* j him as beintf imbued with llie idea I that it was iiis mission lo go around j to show why Mr. IHiell shouTd not be ? j eh'cleil. Mr. (Iraee said he was sur- *V j prised when he saw a man he knew ! . I to be a Republican filing his pledve in i lie Democratic primary, and he 1 j felt it to lie his duty to come before J the people of the Stale and loll tliom 1,1 "'it tliov wanted to elect any one from u ' j Charleston lo elect a Democrat. . He charged Air. Ifliell with having boiled the Democratic party in 18f)ti, with having opposed Hryan instruelions in the Charleston county con- . vent ion, and with having advocated protection on one slump since the | opening of the present campaign. 1 For the Lower House. Following Hie aspirants for sena- (o j torial honors, Messrs. Wyall Aiken, ||j of Abbeville, and .Julius F. Hoggs, of ,.j Pickens, candidates for Hie lower house of congress, were introduced and presented their claims to the Newberry voters. I, Address to Sons of Veterans. Comrades: At a meeting o? a oeial committee, appointed by the mill Carolina Division United Cotiderale Veterans, which was held Columbia, .luni: Urd., the uiuler;ned were appointed a suh-commiti? to prepare an address to those in mth Carolina who have the right join the organization known as Tnited Sons of Confederate Veters." All male persons arc eligible to imibership in this order, who arc eniselves oL good moral charticteif id who are the direct descendants men who were regularly enrolled the Army or the Navy of the C oilderate States of America, ami who re killed or died in the service, ol ore honorably discharged (hercfiom who served to the end of (lie wfill seems that it should not bo neesarv to urge upon one, whose anstors had a part in the glorious cord for courage, endurance and it riot ic devotion to duty made by, e soldiers and sailors ol. the C onderiicy. the duty to join an organiI ion designed to perpetuate the orv of their heroic deeds, and to ( serve for the future historian tlie formation upon which shall be preented a truthful history of the moves which led them to war. and of leir conduct in the prosecution ol. i;i( \vjir. The society of ( ineimiali, ie Sons of the Revolution, the Az>e Club, and similar organizations e designed to perpetuate the mem v of those who served their country the cause of freedom, and tlie aiulcuaucc of the honor and integ|y of the government. Meinberiip in these organizations has come he a badge of honor, much sought 'tor bv those entitled to it. The \v will come! Aye! it has already nne, when to be known as a son ot Confederate Veteran is a distineiin which brings the proud blood to ie cheeks of him who may claim it. s the vears go by and the world iows more and more ??f the marvelis history of the greatest armies iat ever fought under any banner, lis distinction becomes more and ore honorable. Is il not then a situe duty of I hose win. inherit the nne of the Confederate soldier I" ke all necessary steps to perpetuate iai fame, and to do honor t<> hi-< line ? It has been determined to organize central camp, to be Known as ( amp nth ( j'volina, ' u'" ' Sons of i on* derate Vetcians, so thai those who v i> ?if comment ies 11 '(* n ? l'>cal rni'- a:e slablished mi<> .j*?"m this neia! <".imii>. I udeeit. any one miiv ,io it. || is desired that there shall a grand revival <>f interest in this dor and that at the reunion which t<> be liehi in (ireeiivillo, August h.. there shall be a groat gathering f tin4 Sons of \ elerans. lo this end. e earnestly urge the organization of K-al camps, and the re-organi/.atiol! [ those which have been allowed to ill into a condition of dis-organizaon. If it be impossible to organize icse camps, then let all Sons ol Set* ans join the central camp, Camp on III Carolina; buf above all, let lore be a L'reat oiifpouring ol the i his of Veterans at (Jreenville, bet her they he members <>1 any imp or not. Comrades, shall we call in vain? hall we appeal in vain to your pride P aneestrv? T<> the veneration for inr forefathers? To your adinirami for courage, fortitude and devoon to duty?' Are you unmindful of ie wonder I ul heritage of honor and orv which is yours, and are you unindful of the sublimity of the duty hich devolves upon you to perpeate the fame of those who won tlii-> nlying honor? We do not believe it. '(s have faith that the spirit which ade your sires illustrious as patriob soldiers, as heroes, burns and lives your breasts and will manifest itlf in the determination to do the its' which lies before you. Kef us all eet at Greenville, August 8th, 1008, ( pared in spirit and in enthusiasm i put our organization upon the ghost plane of usefulness and cfl.ici icy. Sincerely yoio*. M. I>. Honham. M. L. Smith. Hugh 1{. Mureheson. 0. Hell Tiininerinan.