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COTTON MARKET CAL e. Corrected by Nat Gist. Good Middling. . . . 14% Butter..............2 Strict Middlin'g. . . 14% Hams,. (co) .. ..17 to 20 Middling. ..... .14% Flour.......5.75 to By Robt. McC. Holmes. Corn..............9 Good Middling. . . 14% Meal..............9 Strict Middling. . . .14%/ SuaE.r....%ta MJiddling . . . . . . - 14%Bao....1%t15 Cotton seed 30 cents. - SVOLUXE XLmIII. sUoBEE 39. ~ NEWBEEEY, SOUTH CABOLIXA, FAIDAY, MAY 20, 1910. T MWERRY INAUGURATES BIG FORWARD MOVEMENT ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING FOR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. Many Visitors From Neighboring Cities-Addresses by John Wood And Others. With prominent. visitors from the commercial bodies of neighboriig ci ties participating, and with a large and enthusiastic attendance of the members of the Newberry chamber of commerce and of the people of the city generally, the meeting in the chamber of commerce rooms on Mon day evening, having for its object the bringing of all the business men of the'community into the organization, for the purpose of building up New berry, and to bring the Newberry chamber of commerce into closer touch with similar organizations of surrounding cities, was entirely suc cessful from every point of view, and its results for the good of Newberry are expected to be lasting and far-, reaching. The principal address of the occas ion was delivered by John Wood, sec retary of the Spartanburg chamber of commerce. It was a stirring address, in which was emphasized the truth thkt cooperation is the life-blood of anything undertaken nowadays, and that it takes persistent effort and pull ing together for the general good to upbud a town. President I. H. Hunt, of the New berry chamber of commerce, to whose persistent efforts much of the success of the meeting is due, presided. Presi dent Hunt introduced the speakers. in appy manner. r Cole. L. Blease delivered the of welcome on behalf of the ewberry. Mayor Blease paid to John Wood and wanted ell Newberry how to get the at has characterized the citids Mr. Wood has been :at the of the chambers of commerce/ esident W. G. Mayes, of the Busi Men's Credit association of New , warmly welcomed the visitors, d was followed by President J. enry Harms, of Newberry college, ho delivered a' characteristically trong address in whicri he offered a e1co.me on behalf of the educational institutions of Newberry. In the beginning of his remarks, Mr. ood emphasized the need for a park Newberry. On the automobile 'ye around the'city he had been tak en,'with the other visitors, to Willow rook on Monday afternoon, and he poke of the beauties of Willowbrook, saying that it should be an object lesson to the east side of town, as it was to all visitors to Newberry who saw it. The great trouble with most chambers of commerce,. he said, was that many people were afraid thatI others would get more benefit from ~ an they themselves. The trouble here was gqtting together. To . her and to merge personal nsL. into work for the comuu as a nyhole, upbuilding the com ty and. at the same !time helping -interest ~in the community, ant effort. It was better not to .. a stran er come to a town at all *than to hav4ne come and go away disappointed. To be able to deliver thie goods was required in this age of *the world's commercial advancement. streets and roads ca~me in for a .large share of his' attention, Mr. Wood show ing the advantages of and the neces sity for permanent roads and the great burden of the mud tax. The co operation of the farmers should be ecured, he said. by the chamber cf commerce. It was to the interest of the farmers and to the interest of the city. Every farmer should be a mem ber of the chamber of commerce, and *he outlined the plan by which the farmers of Spartanburg were being taken into the Spartanburg- chamnber of comerce at two dollars per year. He pleaded for home-raised supplies, and for making country life more at tractive. A chamber of commerce, he said, needed a paid secretary, whose duty it should be to see the people who came to town and put them next to the people they ought to meet. If peo ple foming into a town were worthy tbp' confidence of the people in that the way to meet them and to next to them ought to be made and it was just as important to against those coming in who were un worthy. There ought to be a freight committee to receive complaints, and to take up the complaints which were just with the propet- authorities. Bet ter market facilities should be kep! constantly in view. "Get together; lay aside personal prejudice and likes and dislikes; unite on one thing; adopt some slogan of your own and keep it constantly be fore the people," he concluded. Mr. Wood's address was practical and to the point, and it will prove an inspiration to all who heard him, and of lasting benefit not only to his aud ience but to the others who will be reached through those who heard him, Mr. Wood was followed by. Mr. E B. Adams, secretary of the Greenville chamber of commerce, who succeed ed Mr. Wood as -secretary of that or ganization when Mr. Wood resigned tc accept a simlar position with the Spartanburg chamber of comerce. He gave an outline of the work in Green ville, where everybody had pushed, he said, and no spokes in the wheel had been broken. Cooperation he urged as a prerequisite to spccess. Secretary C. Wardlaw Moorman, of the Columbia chamber of commerce, extended- a cordial invitation to the good roads pa,rty to be the guests of the Columbia chamber of commerpe and of the automobile association 'in Columbia on the occasion of their visit to Columbia on Tuesday. He was followed by Mr. P. W. McClure, sec retary of the Merchants' Credit asso ciation of Greenwood, who delivered an interesting .and valuable address outlining the plan which had been followed in Greenwood in building up the commercial organizations of that city. Dr. Geo. Y. Hunter, president of the chamber of commerce of Prosperity said that he had come to Newberry to hear rather than to talk. The meeting, he "said, had been an inpiration to him. He u,rged that we get rid of the knockers-the greatest obstruction we have. Newberry was as good town as there is in the State, and the county as prosperous, but possibly it was not developed as much as it ought to .be. A prosperous rural community made a-prosperous town. He made a strong good rbads talk, and pledged the hearty cooperation of the people of Prosperity and the surrounding com munity in building up the roads, and in helping along the forward move ment inaugurated by Newberryg In addition to Dr. Hunter, Messrs. H. J. Rawl and J. D. Quatlebaum were in attendance from Prosperity, com ing with Dr. Hunter in his automobile, driven by Mr. Jerome Harmon. The visitors to Newberry on Mon day were entertained with genuine Newberry hospitality. Following the drive around the city on Monday aft ernoon, at ,which time Newberry col lege, Willowbrook park, and other points were visited, the president of the Newberry chamber of commerce, and the representatives from the com mercial bodies of the neighboring ci ties who had reached Newberry at that time were entertained at dinner by Mr. E. H. Aull. The visitors left New berry pleased with their trip here and with the success of the meeting. * * * * * * * * * * * * SCINTILATIONS. * By Squibs. * * * * * * * * * .* * One man who went to Chappe11s or business Wednesday wouldn't stay all night because he said if the come1 struck anywhere at all it would be a1 Chappells, as there is where cyclones and other such things hit. A citizen dreamed that he had th4 comet wrapped up in a piece of paper They stood on the bridge at mid. night, the watch was ticking the hour but no comet rose over the city fron oehind a dark church tower. Grandma's' View. "The engineers find Gatun Dan safe," read Mr. Jones from his news paper headlines to grandma, knittin at the other side of the table. "Well, she said, looking up over her glasse in pained surprise, "I don't knov anything about the safety of Gatuu btI think a family newspape: oughtn't to use such language i] p-int"-Emnoria Gazette. NEWBERRYS PART OF ROAD WILL BE BUILT LEXINGTON'S BAD ROADS GREAT EST OBSTACLE. Cooperation of Lexington and More Columbia Enthusiasm Needed For Highway. With splendid weather conditions! for motoring, and with ideal running, the four Ford touring cars, which left Newberry on Tuesday morning for Co lumbia in the interest of the Colum bia-Newberry-Spartanburg highway, made the journey in excellent time and established the fact to the entire satisfaction of everybody in)the party that Newberry county is enthusiasti cally in favor of a good highway, and is ready to go ahead and build her part of the road,- which can be done with very little effort, and that the most serious obstacle in the way of the highway is the bad stretch of road in Lexington county. The cars came back via Batesburg, the lower steel bridge across Saluda river, and Prosperity. Fine roads were found along the greater part of this route, and in fact, while the dis tance is some 15 miles more, the trip can be made in pradtically the same time as via Little Mountain and Chap in, the Lexington road lengthening the running time along this latter route. And the trip via Batesburg is d great deal more comfortable. The trip to Columbia on Tuesday morning followed the enthusiastic meeting in the chamber of commerce rooms on Monday night, a full account of which is given in ahother column of this issue of The Herald and News. The party was composed of the fol lowing: Capt. W. S. Langford's Ford touring car, with Capt. Langford at the wheel, carrying John Wood, secretary of the Spartanburg chamber of commerce: E. H. Aull, of The Herald and News, and a member of the board of gover-. nors of the Newberry chamber of com merce, and Fred H. Dominick. Robert Norris' Ford touring car, with Mr. Norris at the wheel, and carrying Messrs. JAo. B. Mayes, of the board of governors of the Newberry chamber of commerce, and Messrs. Jno. K. Aull and James L. Aull. Sec retary E. B. Adams, of the Greenville chamber of commerce, accompanied the party in this car to Prosperity. Dr. E. H. Kibler's car, 'driven by Mr. W. C. Waldrop, and carrying Dr. Kibler, Secretary Moorman of the Co - lumbia chamber of commerce) and President I.-H. Hunt, of the Newberry chamber of commerce, who .left the party at Prosperity and raiturned to Newberry. Mr. Forrest Summer's Ford touring car, driven by Mr. Summer, and car rying Mr. C. E. Summer, Mr. E. M. Evans, president of Post J., T. P. A., of Newberry, and Mr. Marshall, of Co lumbia. The actual running time to Colum bia, a distance of 43 miles, was 164 minutes, exclusive of stops, which is an average of a little more than 15 miles an hour. The speed on the Newberry part Qf the road was con siderably more than this, the slow speed necessitated by the Lexington road cuttir g down the average of the ~running time per hour.I The run to Prosperity was made~ in 22 minutes, an average of forty miles an hour being maintained on the mile of government road between Newber ry and Prosperity, which is by far the best mile of road between New berry and Columbia with the possible exception of the road for a, mile or two leading into Columbia. At Prosperity all business was sus pendid and an enthusiastic meeting was held in thie city hall, at which time, with President G. Y. Hunter, of the Prosperity chamber of commerce, presiding, addresses were delivered by Dr. C. T. Wyche, who welcomed the visitors on behalf of Prosperity; by John Wood, of Spartanburg, E. .B. Adams, of Greenville, I. H. Hunt, of Newberry, and E. H. Aull, of Newber ry. 1It was the generally expressed sen timnent of the people of Prosperity Sthat every assistance in their power will be given the supervisor in build Sing the road in the neighborhood of rProsperity, and that he will be prom ised as many teams as he needs fre Sof charge.. jShort stops were also made at Lit mal addresses were delivered at these points. Columbia was reached at 3 o'clock. The party attended the baseball game as the guests of the Columbia cham ber of commerce and a delightful re ception was tendered at Ridgewood club in the afternoon by the cham ber of commerce and the automobile asso.ciation. A fine run was made by the cars on the homeward journey via Batesburg. Supervisor Langford, of Lexington, was seen along the route, and he said that very shortly he is going to move his force and build the Lexington road from the Newberry line to Richland. The thanks of the Newberry party are due Secretary C. Wardlaw Moor man for his untirng efforts in their behalf. If he can get some of his en thusiasm and his readiness for hard work into the people of Lexington, and a little more interest in the people of Columbia generally, it would not be a big pob to build the highway. New berry's part of the highway is going to be built, but it can never be a cap ital-to-county highway via Chapin un til some work is done on the Lexing ton roads. It would not take a great deal of work to put the Lexington roads in good shape, but at present they are bad, to say the least. The foundations for good roads are there, however, and the cost would not be great. If Lexington does not get busy, N6wberry can tap the Augusta- Co lumbia highway at Batesburg, giv ing a fine road to Augusta and Aiken and southern points, and also a fine road to Columbia. But Newberry wants the assistance of Lexington in biulding the highway straight to Co lumbia, and Newberry wants Colum bia -follow the lead of her energetic secretary of the chamber of commerce and put more -enthusiasm into the ef fort.. iia& help' Newberry irge Lex ington to pull together with Newber The worst part of the Lexington road is a stretch . of several miles about 15 miles this side of Columbia. The road is bad principally along this stretch' for the reason that instead of providing ditches for adequate drain age, brakes 'are thrown up across the road. There is a good bed, and with a little- permanent' W'ork and some adeqate drainage, the roads could be put in fine shape. The only thing needed Dow is a concert of. action. Laurens is build ing her part of the highway, and has a good portion of it completed. The Newberry supervisor is at work, and Newberry's part of the highway is be ing built. What's the matter with Lexington? And let's have a little more Columbia enthusiasm. L News of Excelsior. Excelsior, May 19.-A good many 6f our farmers are thinning cotton this week while the weather continues a little cool. Mr. Ira Nates, of Columbia, is vis iting,.at his father's homie here. Grain in this section has come out wonderfully since the rains, but the grain as a general thing will be short. Mrs. 5. C. Cook has been spending a few days with her son, Mr. P. S. Cook, and family, of Columbia. Mrs. Banks, of Whitmire, is spend ing some time with Mrs. J. D. Stone, who has been very sick. Mr. Jacob Singley and Miss Annie Singley have been visiting friends in Utopia section. The automobile boys are in this sec tion now on afternoons s working the public road, much to the delight of the traveling public. Prof. Aumerle Singley, who taught the Cross Road school, near Chapin, the past year has recently been re elected to teach the school another year. Mrs. Ernest Addy, of Saluda coun ty, bas been ove, on a visit to her fa+er's family, Mr. J. D. Stone. Glad to see Mr. J. M. Schumpert out agan after his long spell of sickness. Sunday school will meet Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock, and at 4 o'clock we will have preaching by the Rev. Ira S. Caldwell. Public cordially in vited to the services. Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Kinard spent Tuesday with his brother, Rev. Jas. D. Kinard, and family, of Newberry. On account of Old Folk's day in Grace church, Prosperity, Rev. J. A. Sigh will hold his service at Bachman Chapel church at 3 o'clock in the aft ernoon instead of 11 a. m.,. so he and n+n, 'n attend old folks dayv in PARTY CONSTIUION REMAINS UNCHANGED STATE DEMOCBATIC CONTENTION REJECTS RESOLUTION. Qualification For Voting Remains the Same.-State Chairman Chosen By Executive Committee. * * * * * * * * * * * * * Summary of Work Done. * A summary of the work of the. * State Convention, shows the fol- * * lowing: * 1. Voting requirements for pri- * * maries were not changed. x - * 2. Chairman executive commit- * * tee elected by commitee and not * * by convention. * 3. Party platform adopted. * 4. Party constitution practically * * unchanged, changes mostly cleri- * * cal. * 5. Pra'ctical harmony. * * * * * * * * * * * * * Columbia, May 18.-Ending a stren uous fight -before the committee on constitution and by-laws, and upon the floor of the 'convention tonight, the South Carolina Democratic con vention.by a vote of 210 to 79 refused to adopt resolutions changing the party constitution so that registration be required to vote in the primaries. By a poll of the counties represented by their delegates it was overwh1ming ly shown that no further restrictions are wanted in this State in the Dem ocratic primary. There were several resolutions pre sented but. the Ynain idea of all was that only qualified electors should- be allowed to vote in the primaries. The committee on constitution and by laws submitted an unfavorable re port upon the. resolutions, and the vote tonight was upon the adoption of this report,' resulting: Yeas, 210; nays, 79. Charleston county voted its entire delegation of 17 members for the adoption of the report; Rich land county voted its ten members against the adoption of the report, and consequently for the restriction of the primary system of voting. Nearly all the low-country% counties voted for the adoption of the unfavorable re port. Newberry also voted against any changes. The question of j'ualification of voters, upon which majority and min ority.reports were made by the dele gations, created much discussion. The' various resolutions in this matter were 'then read and taken up separate ly. TIhe minority report by Mr. Mc Mahan, recommended Ithe amending of the constitution so that only regis tered electors be allowed to vote.. The names signed to the minority re port are: R. B. Caldwell, Chester; no. J. McMahan, Richland; Jno. H. Clifton, Sumter; J. C. Elliott, Lan caster; Thos. J. Kirkland, Kershaw; W. F. Stevenson, Chesterfield; R. F. Smith, Pickens; J. G. Mobley, Fair field. Cole. L. Blease, of Newberry, claim ed the effect of the adcption of the minority report would be- to cut off white poeplo from voting. Mr. Blease said the benefit would be to the ne groes of South Carolina. There would not be sufficient time to register all the voters, and 25,000 voters would be disqualified. On the jury question Mr. Blease said some men wouldn't register, because they didn't want to serve on the jury. R. G. Rembert took issue with Mr. Blease in the mat ter. He did not think the resolution would go into effect until 1912, giving all time to prepare for the new order. R. B. Caldwell, of Chester, called attention to the danger from votes of persons who have no interests in the welfare of. the government Upon a call for the previous question debate was ended. Senator Clifton's motion that the vote be taken by counties passed. The vote: Yeas, 210; nays, 79. The unfavorable report of the committee was therefore adopted and the resolution killed. Constitutional Requirements. The fight was upon Article 6, of the party constitution, with relatfor, to the primary elections. That portion of the article which it was proposed to change and which now remains as it was, is as follows: "At this election only Democratic white voters, who have been residents of the State twelve months and the county sixty days preceding the next geem election, and such negroes asf ind as have voted the Democratic icket continuously since, to be shown )y the certificate of ten white Demo ,ratic voters, who will jiedge them selves to support the nominees of 3uch elections may vote. "Provided, that no person shall be allowed to vote except his name be enrolled on the particular club list at which he offers to vote, at least live days before the first election, which club shall have a separate pollit place for primary elections; except In the county of Charleston, te voter's name must be on the particular club list at which he offers to vote at least sixty (60) days before the pri mary election, and the county execu tive committee is authorized to desig4 nate the number of polling places in that county. "Provided, further, that in Charles ton- county the candidates for con gress, solicitor and- county offices shall file their pledges and pay their assessments within the time fixed by the' county executive committee." The McMahan resolution, upon which the discussion was directed, in part, provided that after the words "at this election, etc" strike out ,"who have been residents Qf the State twelve months and the county sixty days preceding the next general elec tion," and to insert in lieu thereof the words "whose names shall appear on the registration books of the county' and, who, when they offer to vote shall make oath that they .are reki teied electors of ,sad .county." Mr. WcMan's resolution was the,mino Ity report of the committee. the action of the convention in nbft interfering with the constitution as relates to the election of tbe cbam of the executive committee ratifs the election last night of Gen. Wile Jones, is chairman., of the executii committee. As Mr. Whaley is n presidet~'f the convention, t o officers are thus. aeparated. - Electon.otate Charman Following the dispositon of the pri-', mary matter the unfavorablI report of the committee on the prdposo change in the coffsitution. Arecting the election of the State chalrman was taken up.. Mr. Stevenson submit 4ed- a minority sreport and urged'the passage. He thought the convention should elect the chairman of the State.. 2xecutive committee just as it elected ielgates to the National'convention, and the dounty chairman was named the same way; that the, State conven-. tion should retain control of the . chairman. It was charged that this was an at tack on the State chairman. It was a reflection on the ,Democracy of Chesterfield. Gen. Jones was not con sidered 'in 'any such, lt, -he said. The previous question was then or-, dyred, and by a large majority the substitute was voted down and the Eufavorable report-'dopted, the effect " f which leaves the election of a State chairman to the executive committeer as heretofore. Platform Adopted. The convention *onight adopted the following platform. as outlined by a special committee: "The Democrats of South /Carolina, in convention assembled, express their gratification that the signs of the times poit to general dissatisfaction with the a dministration of the govern ment by the republican -party, and congratulate the representatives' of our party in congi-ess on the approval given their course in the recent elec tions in Massachusetts, and New York at which iepublicans were defeated and Democrats sent to the congress in their place. "The people of all sections are com ing to realize that the Republican party stands, for special privileges at the cost of the mnultitude, and that through the favoritism shown to the trusts by tariff legislation, the coun- h ty is now suffering from conditions which mage the cost of living so high that even the Republican congress is compelled to institute an investigi tion. The only substantial and lasting . relief is to be found in the adoption of the historic Democratic doctrine demanding a system of tariff duties sufficient to raise revenues adequate to the economical administration of the government "Material reductions'/ should be made in the tariff upon the necessi- - tes of life. The protective tdrlff makes possible the combinations which are called trusts and only by evision of tariff duties downward can the growth of the trusts be checked. Failure of thc Republican. administra-'