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F A4 RES( Loans and discoui Furniture and fixt Overdrafts . Cash on hand ar Banks 0D 40 C JNO. M. KINARD, Presidei HISTORIC DA One of the Most Novel and Exciti: History of Politics in South demption of South (In the Edgefield Alvertiser of . count of a political meet.ing in Ei chapter in the redemption of Soi pet-baggei. The late lamented ;C tor of the Advertiser. In honor of that day he printed the Advertise iser were later burned, and there this edition of the Advertiser in < copy, which was borrowed by Mr. ) and Banner, and this account of tl old Edgefield Advertiser of Augusi and Banner on September 8 of this tion of the Advertiser, is still kepi sister-in-law of Gen. Mart. W. Gat ley, of the Perss and Banner, The the story.--J. K. A.) On Saturday last the Radicals o Edgefield again essayed to open a: election campaign, a campaign, whic 'they hope, is to give them a ne' lease of power over the lives. libe1 ties and pockets of white men. 0: that day their triumph was to bul again-to bloom gorgeously in Nc 'rember next. Their magnates cam( and aill were ready. Cham1berlain Mackey. Smalls. Hayne, .Jillson. Th local magnates bow~ed low btefor h grea: visitors. Thew arrival was a de:nurm ()lympus. Belanger dror Chamberlain. Bouey diove Mackey Jesse Jones drove Smalls. Harri drove Jillsoni. Cain drove Hayne And thle duped anid benighte. negroe poured ~in from every poin t of thi oompass. Before thre sun wvas fou hours inl the heavens, not less thai ene thousand were upon our -streets. Bu-t hark? What means t.hat yell It is the arrival of one hundre< mounted white men from the bank: af Saluda. They come with no evi intent but simply to watch their lib erties. Eight rears bitter experienea has taught them that they must s watch, or be eternally ruined. Am now they come from every Townshii in our broad County. We have thir ey Democratic Clubs, and the deman< of our executive Committee was tha each Club should be represented 01 this day by 25 members, mounted And noble was the response. Man: clubs canie entire, and none were lag ga.rd. Seven hundred men are soor amongr us. cool and peaceful. but de termined. All our business plaes of whatever character, are closed, a: is also -ihe case at Pine House and a Johnston, and our entire populatiot gives itself up to conscientious Dem oeratie work. Our (County must i)e re deemed and no4 man any longer think: of himself alone. Meanwhile the Radical host i: steadily swelling, and by noon tw< thousand souls and a thousand horses swarm the streets and environs o: Edgefield. The meeting is to be heli in the Academy grove, and the prep. erations are upon an imposing scale The negroes have a band from Aiken and their procession is huge anc showy. They form a half mile out of town, on the Pine House road, and march ostentatiously through our ,ieesc1 . And not <mlyv theyv marh ene+atd But as we have already 1896-19( EPORT OF THE C sOMMEF OF NEWBE] t the Close of Business, Gondensed from Report to r )U RCES. its. . $395,980.38 4 ures . 3,116.93 5,625.40 ;d with . . 67,173.65 ( $471,896.36 dd on avi I. Y. McFAL Cac Y IN EDGEFIELD. key ig Scenes That Ever Occurred in the the Carolina.-A Chapter in the Re- tflat Carolina from Negro Rule. meen ___rl ( ugust 17. 1876. was published an ac- lite Igefield which formed an important Cham Lth Carolina from the negro and the ear- es sh 1. James T. Bacon was at that time ed- Demc the victory achieved by the Democrats shall e in red ink. The files of the Adver- is ae< are to-day only two or three copies of An xistence. Senaor B. R. Tillman had a begin V. W. Bradley. of the Abbeville Press iows e day in Edgefield, as it appeared in the to thl 17, 1876, was reprinted in the Press fills1 year. Another copy of the "red'' edi- words by Mrs. Carrie Gar'y, of Abbeville, a dividi y. Through the courtesy of Mr. Brad- finger Herald and News herewith reproduces bly n ~into i G-ov. f said, the white men of the soil are of i, a determined that no such dangerous in- his~ p b sult shall ever again be perpetrated. fie. SAs the Radical cavalcade is about Iis p to leave the streets and turn into the Ithat road that leads, by the Baptist zens Church, to the Academy grove, they h im - are met by seven hundred mounted w oulb ,fwhite men. headed by Generals Gary cour -and Butler. who cabll order them co me I to halt and let the white men pass 1on I irst. They halt. Andl the (lu'bs tile rins. 3TV tnfot ec h rv irst, dis-. e 3 (of thle speaker5' plat form. ha:vinigcam -i irst amhxed certain of their banners i).ead( a to thfe same. The Radical procession a. th -and the Radical host follow, and lin i Stake their places on the remiaining edy a two sides. General Gary. as Chajir- m r man of .:he (County Club. is marshal ni 1 of the Democratic forces. He orders ebnte: ertain oif his y-otog men in fr'not to cen ( Stry the platform and see whether it w~hen Iwill hold representatives of both berlai p iarties. The test'is made, and the jteeth, i platform, like most negro work, falls Itv. th - to the earth like a structure of Ius 'to Sstraws. But stout Democratie arms ofpr >soon set is up. and simultaneously eatijoy I Governor Chamberlain. Judge Mac-pae > key. Glen. Butler anmd Gen. Gary ,to rej - mounit it. .Jillisoni. (aini and Bouey from 1 stand upon the extreme edge, but ,eal pi tthey- soon vacate their narrow foot- work, 1hold. Smalls and Hayne remain mod- Small . estly amlong the band. Chamberlaini and ( :looks as if he had been cut down from prono) - the gallows. .Judge Mackey, the Dem- Ito -:he 1i oeratie lini diSguised as a Radical lignar -sheep d,haanexpression of face Am ,that reminds one of l:he lamenCtted fro a fox i nthie pantomime of Hu~mpty and b tDumpty. The situation is ludicrous in Re the extreme, enough to make a dead the sl - man mn his coflin laugh, and the wvhi'tes each1 - withi o: * accord shriek withI irrie- ru General Butler now rises and in And admirable style, exhorts the whites :ers *t to order and decorum. General Gary the hi. states that as Chairman of the Coun- with ty Executive Committee, he had sent trees; a committee to Governor Chamber- ing, t: lain, Judge Mackey, etc., proposing flaughi that the meeting should be a joint side, 1 ,one, and that t.he .time should be And .equally divided among Radical and deafer Democradie speakers. The Comumit- Gen tee after waiting long and patient- ernor lv had been informed that the Radi- key, si Ia agae dec.lied to shar thIea :i tin ONDITION OF CIAL B) RRY, S. C. September 8, 1909. tate Bank Examiner. LIABILITIES. ,apital . . . . Jndivided profits 3ills payable . . . )ividends unpaid . ,ashier's Checks )ue to Banks . ndividual deposits . n%gs Deo D6 L, O. B. M hier. Vice. state that some misunder miz musi exist. ihat they are not At ommnitteQs of arriemient. but: they are perfectly wilin the us ) ng should ,be a joint. n(-,. of uninte ary presses them fur some defl- to be our arranzement. and (overnor r berlain proposes that the speech- tomers, a all be in turn Republican and us n1ew ei cratic. and that each speaker Iou . . .chase of - be limited to a flalf hour. This c ) at once epted as the settled plan. al c I now Governor Chamberlain His face still bears the gal- Malor expression and lie speaks more a whites than io the blacks. He ip his half hour with English________ , but says nothing, not an in ial thig that you could lay your upon. The negroes are horri-E ortified and abased. They sink oiceless gloom. The whites press To New Chamberlain for an explanation S appointment of MeDevitt. and ersistent conftinuing him in of- For the I -I seeks to evade the issue, but tNew York, essed to -the wall, and replies 11. 1909. t: f any reliable eitizen or citi. nIounces roi >f Edgetield had represe.nted to follows: McDevitt's unworthiness lie Augusta, G at once have displaced him. Of Abeville. the crowd jeer so absurd a' Aken. S.( off as. :his. And~~ now 'hanmberv-Adesn ~du!! :nl:u (h.i:'al Iatiler.hIe-Iebr-. .l ~(iii. idC~C , , Edgefield. a h:as oif Governor (ihamber - . muself. He has evidenitly pant-Gcnvle Orieenwood. r Ilhe oppor'lif no11 1w let re i l lie pours im H i is rz iteous .'' fla11ion, hs refutation. hi~ s pen ' np.* his i.nveetive in mnagiti- 'liea. S 10loquence. Anid througho~-ut. even ,~alla Iiekets u turniing face to face to Chamn- ,. . n .and hurling the lhe, in his - midmgn t he maintains thorouzh digm- gh irough gentility. It is vain for 'ok reprodues this great outburst andu de passion, invective and vindi- . i .i i -information .To attempt to put it uponSothnR ,would be as vain as to attempt roduce a flash of lightening heaven. He excoriated the Radi- .LMe rty, its spirit, its record, its' IHe arraigned Chamberlain, A.G.I ,the Union Herald, the News 'ourier, in grandest style, and Lneed C'hamberlain and Smalls Soldie r f'aces b)ase. premeditated. ma- It seeme< t liars, war veterar I now .Judge Mackey rises; and plot existed this mflomenIt to the end. mirth troub}e anc adiage rule theC hour, death. "I eatedly since the beginning of cold,'' he eeches the p)la'tform~ has fallen cough that ie laig the Radicals t te remedies,. 1 anklaving the Democrats down to 13( upj) 41 some sure loft 41r beam-I use Dr. Kin it each fall. .Judge Mackey utt- restored mv nime salient wit ticismi that cauises weigh 178 p ge and swaying crowd to shriek obstinate C< aughter and applause. Even the ma, and to I ire full of people, and the rail- rivaled. 50ec e badinage and the shouts of free. Guar er come not only from every & Sor. ut. also from above. now General Gary arises amid~~ iing cheers. Washi3 eral Gary in replying to Gov- to three doe Chamberlain and Judge Mac- five weeks. tid lhe was glad to welcome such er's bite ca uised speakers to) Edgefie hi. cover his let ENG \NK 50,0C0.00 59,469.15 20,000.00 978.00 1,612.02 883.73 338,953.46 p471,896.36 5ts. 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