The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, September 04, 1908, Page TWO, Image 2

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SMITE AND EVANS IN SPARTANBURG Firing Lines Being Drawn Up by the Candidates-Both to Speak There on Labor Day. The State. Spartanburg. Sept. 1.-Spartan burg is to be the battle ground in the second primary campaign between the candidates for the United States sen ate, and tonight it is evident that the firing lines are being drawn up un der the personal direction of the op posing candidates. Hon. E. D. Smith of Florence, who led in the first race, arrived in Spartanburg this morning and has established himself at the Spartan Inn, where he has received many callers and held conferences with his friends. This afternoon ex-Gov. Evans, ac companied by Hon. Geo. Johnstone, one of his distinguished opponents in the first primary, reached the city and went direct to Gov. Evans' home in the eastern part of the city. The campaign here tonight is the topic of .discussion. Mr. Smith ex pects to leave for Greenville some time after midnight and put in two daws in that city. He has accepted an invitation to speak here on Labor day. An invitation has been extend ed to Gov. Evans to speak upon the same occasion, but he has not yet been heard from. Both Smith and Evans talk most confidently of success in the second primary. APPEALS TO VOTERS. E. D. Smith States His Position as to Various Publi4 Matters-Reviews Work with Southern Cot ton Association. To the Democratic Voters of South Carolina: On account of the washouts on the railroads I have not been able to reach my friends from Florence by mail or in person. I wish to thank the people of South Carolina for the magnificent vote they have given me, and to assure them ,of my heartfelt appreciation. Time will not permit me to answer personally the many telegrams and letters I am receiving; but later on I will do so. In the meantime I beg that my friends will do all in their power to organize and have a friend of mine at every voting precinct. I am very much .handicapped be cause I am a poor man, and have not the money with which to effeet as thorough an organization as I should like; I must leave my battle with the intelligent and patriotic people of the State; my hope of success rests entirely with them. I have never done the State of South Carolina, nor its people, any harm: on the contrary, I have given four of the best years of my life to helping in some degree to secure a higher price for cotton upon which all our people are dependent. In this battle for the people my efforts have iiot been confined to South Carolina, ~but I can produce testimonials from men' of the highest character, from -every cotton producing State, that -my efforts have been equally as bene ficial and fruiitful in their States as in South Carolina. Had I desired to * use-;is my political enemies have charged me-the farmers of South Carolina for a stepping-stone to of fice I would have confined my work -entirely to South Carolina, but this I have not done. My political enemies have also -eharged that J have received a large -amount of money for my services. I -assert-and I hereby append a letter *from the national treasurer of the Southern Cotton Association-which shows that I have received but little more than my travelling expenses. I have not made this fight for money or for political preferment, but I made it to try and help the poverty strick -en South. It is charged that the business men of South Carolina are opposed to me. I don't believe it. On the contrary, I have letters and telegrams assuring me of their support. Being a farmer and knowing per sonally and accutely the adverse con ditions under which the farmers of the South labored, and realizing that from them and their efforts came the support and sustenance of every other business, it was therefore -necessary that the farmers of the South be placed in a position where they could have a living chance to better their condition and thereby better the con dition of others. Every one knows, who stops to consider, that the burden of mankind is borne by the man at the bottom; no building or structure is stronger than its foundation, and I have given my time and money to the strengthening of the foundation. The question of currency, a flexible and elastic circulating medium, is of prime importance to the producers :14 lab vr- f ihis (oun1ItV. f_r the ;price of comnodities and labor is largelv dlependent upnt)11 c1e itV of currency to meet the demand. I am in full accord with the Demo cratic party to keep the compensa tion of the laborer and the producer on a parity with the value of the dol lar and not allow the dollar to un equally purchase either the labor of the workingman or the product of the producer. The burden of the tar iff in its last analysis falls upon the proucer, because he is the man -that makes the wealth that meets the expense. The tariff destroys foreign competition and trusts Eleny domestic competition. I am against both. You can never break up the trusts until the tarff is revised, and articles manu factured by the trusts should be put on the free list. All burdens and in justices growing out of iniquitous legislation fall upon the producer. This unjust legislation is brought about by the filling of our national legislation with men owned and con trolled by corporate greed. Therefore the remedy of the people is the elec tion of a man from the people who will stand by and fight for the rights of the people, who, in a word, is by sympathy and interest a servant of the people and not of predatory wealth. It must be admitted by all classes of legitimate business men that the burden of the day and the menace of the future has grown out of manipulation of our laws by un principled financial pirates. We have had in the last few days a practical illustration of what is meant by cutting the timber from the water sheds in the mountainous regions of our State. The damage done cannot be calculated. Therefore, I should use all efforts ,ossiblM to have such national legislation passed as would protect us, if possible, in the future from a repetition of this disaster. There are millions of acres of valuable land in our low country which could be made available for farming purposes by a system of drainage, and which would bring a maximum result for a mini mum expenditure of money. I should use every endeavor to bring about the passage of such law as would make the drainage of our lowlands possi ble. I am in full accord and sympathy with the platform of the national Democratic party and its candidate. In a word I think that I have prov en to the people of the South that I shall stand for any and all legitimate legislation that looks to the better ment of the condition of my country. Whether elected or not, my time and services shall be at the disposal of those organizations which are striv ing to better the price of cotton. E. D. Smith. Columbia, S. C., Aug. 31, 1908. Mr. E. D. Smith, Florence, S. C. Dear Sir: My books as national treas urer show that you received from the Southern Cotton association less than two thousands dollars in all. The ter ritory covered by you reached from Virginia to the Rio Grande, including all the cotton producing States', and I would suppose that the above amount would have about paid your actual travelling expenses. I cheerfully give you this inf->rma tion, as I have received many in quiries of a similar nature. My books are open for inspection. -Yours very truly, (Signed) F. H. Hyatt. Copy. NEW PROFESSORS NAMED FOR CLEMSON COLLEGE Dr. D. N. Barrow Elected Director of the Agricultural Department. Other Selections. The State. Clemson College, Sept. 1.-The board of trustees of Clemson college met Monday night and a.ionened to day. Dr. D. N. Barrow was elected director of the agricenkural depart ment and, professor of agriculture. Prof. Guy L. Stewart was elected to the chair of horticulture and entomc logy, vice Prof. C. C. Newman, who was transferred to the Clemson ex perimental station. Dr. R. 0. Feeley was electedl a'i4t ant veterinarian, and Prof. A. G. Holmes, who has been in charge of the sub-freshman work, was elected assistant professor of history. Sir. L. 0. Watson of Greenwood, a graduate of Clemson last June, was elected assistant chemist. Dr. Barrow is a native of Louis iana, and for ten years has been with the agricultural department at Was1h ington and with the agricultural and mechanical college of Louiss.ua. He hs been assistant to Dr. S. A. Knapp in charge of the farmers' cooperative work of the United States department of agriculture. He has been super intending the work of nearly 200 spe cial agents giving instructions to far mr. Dr. Brrow is thoroughly fa the South :nul it is believe< imt he I \Vill 11meet th: l : a s1= t it e r llc S:mnd 1he State. Hie is bi; c1nik enll ed by Dr. K1app and im:en of like standing. Prof. Stewart was for a number of years industrial agent of the Soutih ern railwav and is now e nneeted with the agricultural department in Washington. IIe has made several tours of the State with the farmers institute parties from Clemon :1:o1 has made a splendid impr_ssion. COTTON CROP 11,571,966 BALES. Secretary Hester Places this Year's Crop Two Millions Under Last. New Orleans. La.. August 31.-See retary Hester, of the New Orleans cotton exchange, reports the commer cial cotton crop of the United States for the season of 1907-08. ending Au gust 31, to have been 11,571,966 bales. as compared with 13,510,982 bales in the season of 1906-07. The total port receipts were 8.579. 842, and overland movement 859,450, while Southern consumption is plac ed at 2,193,277 bales. A PSALF OF LIFE. (With Apologies to Longfellow.) By W. 3. Edmondson. Tell me not in box car numbers Life is but an empty dream Wihen your meals are green cucumbers Oh, how charming life does seem. Life is real when you are working For a railroad day or night. There you have no chance for shirking You must do your work just right Lives of railroad men remind us We can never be sublime. Btu when going, leave behind us Garnishees upon our time. Garnishees which perhaps some other Wandering o'er the railroad track, Shall behold and tell his brother That he never will come back. Let us then be up and doing, Doing every one we can. With our creditors pursuing, Let them catch us if they can. We shall work from night till morning From the time that we are hired, Till the superintendent tells us, ''See here, boys, I say you're fir ed.'' When our harvest days are over ,And our working hours are spent, With~ out shoes all torn and dusty, With our back all tired and bent, We shall near the gates of heaven, But inside we'll never get, For old Peter there will tell us, ''We've no railroad men here yet.'' The Price of Peanuts. There ought to be a peanut trust, or some other way of raising the price of the toothsome little ifruit--we be lieve a peanut is a fruit and not a veg'etable. Peanuts are entirely too cheap, and all right thinking and rightly built people would welcome a rise. Peanuts are always sold in five cent packages. The amount given for five cents varies, from a half pint to a quart, but even a half pint is en tirely too much. There is something about peanuts that makes a man keep on eating them as long as they are in sight, even long after he has gotten enough, and many a man has re frained from buying a nickel's worth of peanuts when he really wanted them simply because the vendor gave too many and the would-be purchaser was afraid of the overplus. A man doesn 't want more than about two table spoonsfull of peanuts at one time. A nickel is the smallest coinl we have in general use, and if the deal ers were to put up one-cent packages or two cent packages they would pro bably not increase their sales, be cause few people carry coppers. They would not have the copper' ready when they wanted to buy a few pea nuts, and they would not want to take coppers in change. The whole trouble is that the deal ers are selling peanuts too cheap. The nickel package will always be most popular, and at present one gets too many peanuts for a nickel. If the dealers will get together and form a trust and boost prices, and re duce the quantity of peanuts given for a nickel by one-half or three fourths, they will increase their sales, make more money, and at the same time confer a lasting benefit on man kind, most of whom like peanuts. ATTENTION VETERANS. *The township representatives of the Confederate veterans will meet in council chamber, Newberry. S. C., at 11 o'clock a. in., September 7, 1908. to elect a pension board for the year' 1909. W. G. Peterson. CD C CD rrj3 Mrs. Alice Robertsoi TEACHER OF Voice, Piano and Harmon Studio Over Mower's Store. Opens Sept. 1st. VIOLIN MUSIC: Miss Carrie Pool will give instrt tion on the Violin, beginning September the 14th. Address: 1727 Harrington Strei Phone: No. 78. LANDER COLLEG (Formerly Williamston Female College). GREENWOOD, S. C. Rev. John 0. Willson, Presider O PENS Sept. iS. 19o8. Comfortable, ste; heated, electric lighted building. in c limits. Good food. Home-like life oversight. Thorough teac hng a'id tra.ining. Fine w, in music and ar.TCost reasonable. Send for catalogue. Due West Female Colleg With the best modern convE iences and equipment, and hii standards of teaching and livir this is an ideal place for prepai tion for the great responsibilit: of womanhood. TERMS MODERATE. For attractive catalog write REV. JAMES BOYCE. Due West, S. C. University of South Caroli1 Wide range of choice in Scic tific, Literary, Graduate and Pi fessional Courses leading to deg1 of Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor Science, Licentiate of Instructio: Bachelor of Laws, Master of Ar Civil Engineer and Electrical E gineer. Well equippea Labo tories., Library of over 40,0o0 V umnes. Expenses moderate. Many si dents make their own expenses. Next session (1o4th) begi September 23d, 1908. For announcement write to t President, Columbia, S. C. Charleston, S. C. 124th Year Begins September 251 Entrance examinations will held at the County Court Hot on Friday, July 3, at 9 a. in. 2 candidates for admission can col pete in September for vacant Boy Scholarships which pay $100 a yes One free tuition scholarship to ea county of South Carolina. Boa and fnrnished room in dormito $r 1. Tuition $40. For catalogt address HARRISON RANDOLPH, Preside: I Piano and Organ Econom If you are interested in the purchase c PIANO or an ORGA N, we want to sell you c Don't think you must goto some mail or ~util of South Carolina to get the bes pi ~ndr allstyles, atveprices which ca3not ai nterest you. We are manufacturers' fact representatives for several of the largest most famous makers of pianos and organs we take old instruments in exchange make most liberal terms of payment to th who wish to buy on time. No house-qualit: rwenty-four years of fair dalig in Colu nd throughout South Carolina is our refere3 Wrieaus at once for catalog price and term alone's Music House, Columbia, S. PIANOS AND ORGANS. SUMMER EXCUESION EATES Via Southern Railway. Round trip summer excursi< ;iekets to seashore and mountain 1 ort points are now on sale v Bouthern Railway at greatly redu d rates. Tickets good returning u ii October 31st, 1908. Ashevill Waynesville, Hendersonville, in t: 'Land of the Sky''; Lake Toxaw; md the '"Beautiful Sapphire Cou :r'now in their glory. Apply to Southern Railway ager for rates, tickets, etc. J. C. Lusk, Division Passenger Agent. . L. Meek. Charleston, S. A.sst. Gen '1 Passenger Agt., Atlanta. Ga. The Comini NEWBEF Condensed from i Examiner at the clo 4th, 1908: RESOL Loans and Discoun Overdrafts...... Furniture and Fixti Cash .-.... LIABJi Capital . Undivided Profits n Dividends Unpaid.. c Cashiers Checks . Due to Banks-.-... Individual Deposits t. Borrowed Money.... E JNO. M. KINARD, 0. B. President. Vice 4 Per Cent. Inter( it. ings Department. ity nd ork e,NEWBERR - E Two Courses: h g, W 1 Bachelor of e- B Languages E with Ele R 2 Bachelor 01 R Mechanical Y Engineerii laC HIGH STA *; 0 GOOD SANIT SL UNUSUAL E( ~L Positive Moral I Ea OPENS SEPT G For Illustrated C E J. A. B. Scherer, he - CHICORA. Ownd.GR EE NV I Ondand controlled by the Presbytes A high grade college for women. A C Graduate courses in the Arts and Scie, h and Business. Large and able faculty, beautiful grc be niences, healthful climate. Lacation in: Lse EXPENSE~S FOR '1 UL1 A. Tuition, Board, Room and Fees m. B. All i.ncluded in proposition (A) and Next session opens September r7th F< ch S.C, it. .REPORT OF C ~TIHE EXCHJ L of NewbE ondA condensed.from report s. RESOI * Loans and discounts. ........ C Furniture and fixtures..... .... Cash on hand and in Banks... LIABIL Capital stock............... .. y Surplus, net................. e- Unpaid Divideds............. ia Cashiers Checks.... ...... ..... - Bills Payable.................. . Deois Banks.............. ne De oit'1Individual... ... ..... n- Reliable and absolutely safe. W its J. D. DAVENPORT, Presiceent. EDW. R. HIPP, Vice-President. GE.c.R~ rciaI Bank, RY, S. C. -eport to State Bank se of business June IRCES: ts.................$371.217.20 ........ 6,521.92 res....- 3,1 16.93 30,599.38 $41 1,455.43 .ITIES: ................ $ 50,000.00 et.............. 55,887.90 1,1 12.00 ...... 12.00 I063,32 303,380.21 None $41 1,455.43 MAYER, J. Y. McFALL, -Pres. Cashier. .st Paid in Our Sav ( COLLEGE Arts and Mathematics ctives Science and Electrical ig with A. B. English NDARDS A TION DONOMY rfluences ~. 23. atlo ue DDRESS THE Newberry, S. C. COLLEGE, L L E, S. C. -ies of the Synod of South Carolina. bristion home school. ices, Music, Art, Expression, Gymnastics unds, elegant buildings, modern conve Piedmont section, and mn city of 25,000. HE ENTIRE YEAR. . - - - - $183.00 Tuition in Music, Art or Expression $2o3.oo to $2130 oo r catalogue and information address BYRD, D. D., President. ONDItION OF LNGE BANK ~rry, S. C., of State Bank Exa'm: 4th, 1908. RCES: ..... ..............$199,738 76 .... ... .... ... ... 2,115-92 .... ... .... ... ... 3,696.62 .... ... .... ... ... 26,548.34 $232,o99 64 ITIES: ...................$ 50,000.09 .... ... .... ... ...12.51 ...................... 16.8 .......................65,000-o0 .........$ 1,492.74 .......... 105,99182-107,484-57 . $232,099.64 e pay 4 per cent on time deposits. M. L SPEARMAN, Cashier. W. B. WALLACE, Assistant Cashier. [ER, Attorney.*