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THE STATE AM) I:EXTHEMI%T0'NE. LaptIsi A.ssociatio oif Iibeville Co ty Says The State is Unfair and The State Replies. The following -resolutions were adopted by the Abbeville Baptist as sociaTiOn. in session in Greenwood.. and sent out by the secretary: "Disapproves of the unfair fight of the Columbia State on C. C. Feather stone and its advocacy of drinking.. "The following resolutions offered by H. A. Graham were unanimously, adopteld by the Abbeville Baptist as sociation in its session in the First Baptist church of Greenwood, on last Wednesday. just after the report on tomperice had been adopted. This body is comp,)oserd of twenty-five churches in Greenwood and Abbeville counties. "Resolved. 1' That we as an asso ciation put ourselves on record as disapproving of the unfair and unjust fight made on C. C. Featherstone. pro hibition candidate for governor, by the: Columbia State. and especially do we condemn tbe editorials in that news paper. advo 'ating the use of intoxi-: cants. and pretending to prove, from God's Word, that the Holy Bible ap proves of drinking and that our Bless ed Savior indorsed it. "Resolved. 2. That these resolutions be sent to the following newspapers, by the clerk of the body, with the re-: quest that they publish them: The Columbia State, the Charleston News and Courier, the Baptist Courier, the Columbia Evening Record, the Green-:' wood Journal, the Greenwood Index. and that we request all papers in the State that stand for fairness, justice, and temperance to reproduce them." The Columbia State, in its issue of August 11, said editorially: "We present these proceedings of the Abbeville Baptist Association, in viting especial attention to the head lines and the charges in the body of;, the circular: "To the Editor of the State: The en closed circular explains itself. I am sending you this as instructed by the Baptist association of Abbeville coun ty. "B. B. Cheatham, Clerk. "Donalds, S. C., Augucst 11, 1910." (Here appear in the State's editor-' lal the resolutions as set out above.) "Attempts have been made upon various occasions to intimidate the State-the earliest we recall was by lynchers in mass meeting assembled; the latest o,f con.;equence p- ecedili this year, by dispensary grafters. ] "We have no objection to this de nunciation of the State being placet in the homes of every Christian in South Carolina if that which is de nounced goes along with it. The' State courts the light of truth. "This resolution assj.mes to defend the Holy Bible and our Blessed Sar' iour yet breaks one of the Ten Corn mandments in the hieaGing of the cir cular. The statement that the Stat' appears in "advocacy of drinking" i&' false. "None of these men supporting j this resolution has pointed out where in the State is unjust to Featherstone or attempted to meet the State on' common ground.K "None of them assuming to stand for "fairness, justice, temperance," truth. and religion, has appealed to the Bible to disprove the State's quotations fromt the Bible. . t -"They attempt not only to muzzle I the press, but to muzzle the Word of God itself. They, decreeing the tern- I -perate use of wine immoraL -vould 1 pillory the State for supporting itt, 'conviction to the contrary by quoting I .Jesus! * . "The State was challenged to provet by the Bible that the temperate use of intoxicants was legitimate in the r ihistory of the Bible. There was noth ing about "approves"~ or "indorse" as P those resolutions alleged, but the proof of legitimacy stands. It can not il be met. r: i "That which can not be answered.' they condemn. Ft is an easy but cow-' ardly mann.er of "settling" the ques tion. "It will be a sad time for South Carolina when honest men may not -express their convictions and when the press may not temperately criti cise a candidate for public office. "It will be a sad day for South a Carolina when the appeal is not to: n argument and reason, but to the brute h force of the bludgeon-in whatever b~ form applied." :t4 The State said editorially on August t] 13: "A body of unnamed men, acting as :a the Baptist Association of Abbeville county, has published an attack upon t the State. and has asked all news- a papers in South Carolina -that stand ,c for fairness, justice, and temperance' c to reproduce its ex parte assertion s that the State is making an 'unfair c fight' on C. C. Featherstone, that it s is an advocate 'of drinking.' tha+' i t :xuts,' and that it pretends to prove )y the Word of od that the Bible 'ap roves of drinking and that our Bless- 1 )d Savior indorses it.' "In the name of 'fairness, justice, ind temperance.' These men, conceal ?d behind a religious association's'( iame. attempt to place their con lemnation of the State in the homes 1 >f tens of thousands of men and wo-i nen of South Carolina who have not I he privilege of judging the State for :hemselves. and whom the State's re- z ply can not reach. "These men, speaking through a t :hurch body, and for 'fairness, jus- I Lice and temperance' would 'con lemn' this newspaper in every housed hold of South Carolina for an 'unfair ess 'that they have not dared attempt n es%'blish by appeal to the State's readers. They would 'condemn' this' newspaper to every voter in South i Carolina for 'its advocacy of drink ing' and for implied sacrilege wnen not one has attempted to show to the readers of the State that which he al leged is true. "A more unfair, unjust, and intem erate effort to create an unfounded 1 entiment has not before emanated rrom a reputable source in South Car alia. "It has come to a pretty pass when hose agencies supposed to stand at .he very front in advocacy of light ind truth and morals attempt to hrottle free speech and muzzle the;; press by arraying against it the pre ludices of the multitude aroused by in untruthful indictment tWy which no inswer can be made to the jury. "A handful of men, sinners, and inning have enacted a 'moral law.' rhey pronounce the temperate use f intoxicants a sin, and would close :he Bible to the people, and condemn hose that would open it. "That is not the spirit of Liberty or )f Democracy. What is it?" f Statement From Joel E. Brnnson. t C ro the Editor of The State: I regret to see in today's issue of rour paper that our Abbeville associa ion has "rushed into print" in de- I ense of Mr. Featherstone as the pro ibition candidate for governor. Espe- t ially so as there are two other. pro ibition candidates without blemish in I he field. I have read car'fully eve'y edito ial of yours commcas.ng on Ihr. Fe'.-t herstone's course, anal there is not an ~xpression unsupocried by the factq 1 '. this case-not . line than ca - be t r. med ucijust '.'.e ; y Fteather-~ I ;tone first became a candtidat a his i: )rohibition views were s- closely akin I o license as to win a large part of the I iquor vote of Charleston. If the pro- i: tibitionists of the State had voted fora Pm, as did the ]iaquor element of~ sharleston, he would haive b :en elect- I 'd. Ever since 1898 he has been >rinting his views and interviews so! hat every intelligent man in the State :nows he did not reach a clear-cut pro tbition platform until a majority of he voters had expressed tha'mselves n favor of it. Quite a number of prominentpo ibitionists met-in Columbia, June 15,2 905, and adopted a resoluton in fa- r -or of calling a State convention and, c ~ppointed a committee to arrange for r and call the convention. When the ommittee met (Oct. 26) during fair, o eek, Mr. Featherstone was present .nd moved, "That it would be unwise8 o put in the field a State prohibition t: icket," and it was adopted. Finding, C e had a majority of the few presentA oting with him he then moved, "That ereafter all of the work of the pro- nI ibitionists be done through the Law: nd Order league." What looks so P ad about the matter is not the pur- t ose to disband the prohibitionists, it ut the fact that Mr. Featherstone si ad, just a few weeks before, joined d - a meeting to put in the field a u~ tate ticket on a prohibition-license P latform. ft If he participated in that meeting a Sthe Jerome hotel. he had no moral t ght in the prohibition committee. al JIoel E. Brunson. Sumter, Aug. 12, 1910. al ci NEGRO LTNCHED IN GEORGLA. a ad Entered Room of Sleeping Girls. d< Shot to Death. Helena. G-a.. August 11.-Jim Toler, a negro, was lynched at 1 o'clock this ci torning at Almo, seven miles froma ere by a mob of over 100 men for t aving entered the room of two daugh-d rs of a prominent planter of Mont omery county. Tuesday night, while a ie girls were in bed asleep. I1 Tt is stated that one of the girls was wakened by Toler when he raised the losquito netting over the bed, and' dat her screams freightened him g way. Search for the negro began at" rce and yesterday afternoon a posse h f men came upon Toler working in corn field arid accused him of the a rime. He confessed his guilt and at s n early hour this morning was tied i~ Q a tree and shot to death. The mob b (OR1N ONTEST IN SALUDA. 1armiiers Will (row More Corn Tha Ever Before and Take More In terest in It. ,olumbia State. Saluda, Aug. 12.-Interest in wh vill likely be the winner of the pri: n the county corn contest is now ts height. Several who entered, while their p tcres are very fine, realize that thE ;tand no chance of winning. The cu ivation was inperfect, owing to tl ong continued rains. But of the barmers who did enter there are ;core or more whose production wi iave to be measured before the resul tre known. Scores of people are vi ting the homes of those whose acr ire among the finest and the guessit s going on at a lively rate. It is quite evident that more tho me in this contest will gather ovo [00 bushels from his prize acre. Tb xill be the breaking of all record n this county from an acre of lan sever have more than 50 to 60 bushe >een grown before. Numbers who are in the contest th ear say they have learned mo ibout corn culture in the past s nonths than they ever knew befo Lnd it is already an assured fact th it least a hundred farmers in .tl .ounty will be in the contest ne rear. TWENTY-NINTH YEAR. Itlanta Man Dies at Age at Whlk Father and Eight Uncles Succumbed. Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 12.-Frederi< V. Cooper died here today, his dea1 )eing remarkable because it occurre n his 29th year. That was the age at which. h ather and eight of his father's br( hers all died. .Illness and not acc lent was the cause of all of ther leaths. Recently Cooper became uneasy 9 tis 29th year approached its half wa nark. He said speaking of his 301 irthday next January: "If I can on: ive until then, Why I will live to b ,000." i A short time ago Cooper was take ick with typhoid, and brooding ovi he fate of his father and his uncli tastened the progress of the diseas le died while his near relatives wel oo far away to be summoned. H nother, Mrs. M. J. Cooper, is returi ng from Europe on the steamer S 'aul due in New York tomorrow, an is sister, Miss Katherine Cooper, n Paris. Cooper was prominent her member of the Capital City club an onnected with a large cotton firn le was born in New York. HEAD TORN FROM BODY. loy Balloonist Falls 2,000 Feet 1 Horrible Death at Asbury Park New York, Aug. 12.-"Benny" Prin 2 years old, a balloonist, met a hol ibje death this afternoon at the clos f the aviation meet at Asbury Par: . J., in making a' double parachui rop. The second parachute failed i pen and he fell more than 2,000 fee As the swaying body neared th round, it struck the limb of an app] ree and the boy's head was transfixe n the limb like an apple in a spli -s it struck the ground, the headles ody was crushed into an unrecog izable mass. With Samuel Hartland, of Newari rinz went up in a hot air balloon. A 1e height of 1,000 feet Hartland cu >ose with one parachute and made accessful landing. Lightened by th rop) of Hartland, thet craft shot u nrtil it reached about 4,000 feet. The: rinz cut loose. He fell 500 feet be >re his first parachute opened. H died slowly earthward for anothe tousand feet and then cut loos There was another terrific fall o >out 500 feet, when the second para mute opened. It checked his fall fo second, then the ropes snapped ani te body of the man shot straigh wn. There was another terrific fall o Out 500 feet, when the second para mute opened. 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