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SENATOR B. R. TILLMAN! WILL NOT TAKE STUMP r ( CANDIDATE FOR RE-ELECTION", BI T CAN NOT MAKE SPEECHES. Iu ail Open Letter to the People of South Carolina the Senator Reviews His Record. To the People of South Carolina: Twenty-two years ago I asked you to elect me to the office of governor. You did it, after a very hot campaign in which I spoke in every county of the State. Two years later I asked for reflection. You gave me the office the second time by an overwhelming vote. After four years of service in the governor's office I asked you to send me to the senate; and again, after a heat ed canvass, you placed me in the office I now hold. I have held this office for nearly 18 years', and I am asking you to re-elect xie to it, although my health is brok en and I am no longer the strong and vigorous man I once was, I have a ripe experience and thorough knowledge of the workings of the government, and have many warm personal friends in the departments, and in both branches of congress. I came to the senate in a cloud of obloquy on account of newspaper abuse at home. I have fought my way in spite of it and have lived to see most -of the newspaper men in the press gallery my friends. By long service and hard work I have won an enviable position in Washington, and the State is entitled to whatever benefit I have in places On the committees which can only be obtained by such service. I have flattered no man and feared no man in debate, and I have a strong desire to "die in harness" for sentimental reasons only. I have no words that can express my appreciation and gratitude for the # confidence and love you have given me in all these years. If I did not feel that my experience and intimate acquaintance with public affairs will -enable me to give acceptable service in the future, I would not ask re-election at your hands, but conteut myself "with the full measure of the honors you have given me already. When I first came into public life I Diet a storm of opposition, which was "very bitter and intense. It required Intense and aggressive action to overcome it; and being combative by na.ttlre, I fought with all my might for thrice thin<r<s T thnnp-ht were risht: and I won because you approved my policies, my utterances, and my actions. Amid this exciting contest many things were said and done on both ^i(fes that, perhaps, had better been ;left unsaid and undone. Men are but "iiuman, and when fired by strong conviction, they speak and do things which they afterwards regret. As God 5-. -r.-.ir iti^oro T ndVPr flTlVthhlfr but *0 U1J J WUQV/J -4. iiv W* v w truth, or did anything as governor or -as senator I did not believe to be for the public welfare. As I look back over my career, I can see mistakes and blunders, plenty of them, but they were honest blunders, and I have never permitted selfish ambition, or petty revenge to control my actions. I have tried to be senator of all the people, -as I was governor of the whole State, -ir,H mv amhition ihas been, in the sen Mil VA , ate, to give the people the best service .>of which I was capable. ''Owing to my poor health and in accordance with the advice of my phy. siciaa, I shall not make any speeches during the canvass this summer. All of the old men in the State have al~ready heard me speak, and if there are ..any young ones who have not and de sairo it t chall takp nleasnre in mailing such pamphlet copies of some of my best speeches which I have yet on hand. Nothing would delight me more than to be able once again to see my old friends face to face, and it saddens ine to think that I shall never have .this pleasure again. 'lisfcall hope that the people of South 'Carolina will not displace me by vot ing me out, but that in some way you will indicate a wish for me to retire from this position because of your belief that I am no longer physically capable of performing the duties of the office. The senatorship has always .'i>een regarded by me as a sacred trust, : aria if I knew you wanted me to surrender it, I would gladly lay it down, conscious that I have done my duty -always to the best of my ability. B. R. Tillman. A Beggar's Luggage. When Bridget Flanigan, who described herself as "a poor lone Irish ?>> ? 3 - VICTQW woman, was arresceu iur Lagging at Wells she had the following articles distributed about her person: Tea, sugar, fresh cut beefsteak, piece of bacon, two bloaters, bread and cieese, four buns, bag of biscuits, cooked fagot, two apples, onions, two ^clay pipes, tobacco, cigarettes and ?London Evening Standard. * e PROCLAMATION BY 3IAYOR. I'rging Newberry People to Aid in Home Coming of South Carolinians. By the simultaneous action of the j mayors of South Carolina's cities and j ! towns, issued May l, tnere nas uetm j ; proclaimed a great home coming of j | South Carolinians residing in other! ! States, to take place during National Com exposition, which will be held in the capital of the Stat? next January. The Mayor of Newberry has joined with other mayors of the State in issuing a proclamation, which is published herewith. It is Dr0D0sed that every person of South Carolina birth and parentage, j now residing in some other State, shall be invited by personal letter to return j to this State -during the National Corn i exposition, and their relatives and! friends remaining in this State are requested to send the names and addresses of these native South Carolinians to the National Corn Exposition association, Columbia, S. C., in order) that the exposition officials may keep j them informed as to the movement j The railroads have already granted rerinreri rates for the exposition, cover-! ! ing the territory east of the Mississippi and South of the Ohio river, and it is believed that this is an opportune time for a genuine reunion of South Carolinians living in other parts of the country. The National Corn exposition is a great national agricultural show, and it is already attracting attention from the leaders in agricultural develop! rnpnt throughout the nation. The leg 'islature at its last session made an j appropriation to assist in this exposition, and the federal government will make an extensive and important exhibit. Practically all the State agricultural colleges and experiment stations will also be represented. Proclamation. Whereas, there is to be held in Columbia, the capital of South Carolina, from .Tannarv 27 to Februarv 8. 1913. a great national agricultural exposition, under the auspices of the National Corn association, and whereas at that time there will be visitors to South Carolina from all sections of the country, men and women who are concerned as to the adoption of advanced methods in agricuture and as to the general development of the; country along all lines, and W.hereas, it is the general desire of j the people of South Carolina that those of our kindred and friends who have left this State to make their homes in other portions of the country should j be invited and urged to return for a {trip on the occasion of this great na- j | tional agricultural exposition. | Therefore do I, mayor of the city of Newberry, S. C., hereby call upon all our people to write their relatives and friends of South Carolina birth and j parentage, now residing in other States, and direct fcheir attention to this home coming evenr, and further do I by this proclamation request that those of our people having relatives and friends of South Carolina birth and parentage living in other States do send the names and addresses of their relatives and friends to the Nai tional Corn Association, Columbia, S. C., in order that they may be kept duly informed as to the plans and scope of the said exposition and as to the railroad rates and other arrangements for that occasion. Given under my hand and seal this 1st day of May, 1912. J. J. Langford, Mayor. MOKE ABOUT A. T. DWYER. (Said to Have Joined 3Iormou Church J The Man Who Created Quite a Stir in This Section. Anderson Mail. Many of the people of this section will recall the Rev. A. T. Dwyer, who ; operated in this section for more than; a year, and who left the Flat Rock; section last summer. , Information comes from an Ander- | son gentleman, who states that a Salt j Lake paper is on file in the public li- j brary at Fountain Inn in Greenville j county, and that the paper contains an account of Dwyer joining the Mormon church. This is not surprising to many people, as Dwyer had changed his chuch affiliations quite a number of times previously. He claimed originally to have been a Catholic! nriftsf. Cthonsrh the Catholics denv i this), and in sermons, lectures, etc., | he bitterly denounced that church.! The Catholics came back at him, and printed a whole lot of things, with af-1 fidavits attached, about Dwyer which were anything but complimentary. Most of this controversy was printed I in the columns of the Daily Mail. For some months before leaving this section Dwyer operated mostly in the southern section of this county, in Abbeville and other counties. He lec I tured and showed moving pictures to both whites and blacks. He had many friends who strongly believed in him and many more who looked upon him i as an adventurer. Dwyer had joined the Baptist church! before coming to Anderson, and just j before he left he made application to i Cross Roads church at Starr to grant! him a license to oreach. The officials i i of that church were making an investi- ! i gation of the matter when Dwyer left this section. Dwyer had been preaching and lecturing a good deal to the negroes, and many of the whites resented this. Just before leaving Dwyer had announced that he would address the negroes at Mt. Moriah church, five miles below the city, and on the night in question a number of whites gathered at a point along the route with home hickory switches in their hands. Dwyer got wind of this, and did not show up at the colored church. He left a few days afterwards. While in that section Dwyer made I his home at Mrs. Jas. Long's and a considerable amount of his belongings are still there. JOS. T. JOHNSON PLEADS IS TAIS. Cutting Off Clerks' Pay, House Gobbles Big Slice. Washington, May 3.?After cutting I the salaries of clerks and minor officials in the various departments of the government, the house today, 53 to 48, voted $216,000 additional . funds to itself for individual clerical assist | ance. In doing so the Democrats re-1 ! fused to listen to the warnings and pleas of Representative Johnson, of South Carolina, in charge of the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill, and turned an equally deaf ear to Representative Fitzgerald, chairman of the appropriations committee. Mr. Johnson is chairman. (Tf the sub-committee. Another amendment by Representative Bartlett, of Georgia, Democrat, making it compulsory to place the TIOmAP Ap oil nl Arlrr A? o AAt*Af a a* ri -v i j uauiuo wjl a.ii iyo VI OCUi cLCLi 1C^> &U employed on a special roll of the house, was adopted, 76 to 20. This, he said, would answer the accusation that members were putting the clerk hire- in their own pockets. The house also declined, by an overwhelming majority, to cutvdown the mileage alI lowance to members. During a debate on the economy program Representa[ tive Page, of North Carolina, introduci ed an amendment to the pending legislative bill to reduce the mileage from j 20 cents a mile to 5 cents. For Economy. This measure was framorl ctriVtlv ! along the lines of the "economy policy/' which has been adopted by the majority party in the house of representatives?except in the case of pen- j sions. There are many items which j will attract attention and some which I may occasion surprise. Of the economies effected, some are i of a broad character, as in the aboli-! tion of the commerce court, and some! will be attacked as narrow, as in thej lopping off of "two charwomen" in i I the office of the auditor of the post- j office department. Between these two i extremes the bill provides for many! changes of greater or less interest, j Reviewing the features of the bill as a j whole thev are found to be as follows: l Compared with the appropriations' fol the legislative, executive and judi- | ul' departments for th.- current fiscal i-.no ? n <4 i ~ ~ T OA mm it ? ciiuiiig, .juiie oy, ?vi?, m6 Dili SUD- j mitted today totals $2,638,015 less. It j cuts the estimate submitted by the j heads of the respective departments to J the extent of $2,165,153. The reduction is chiefly accounted for by the | fact that in the present bill appro-1 priation is made for 406 fewer than 1 the 15,283 specific salaries provided. for by existing law. Altogether the I present bill appropriates $33,519,194. j Rich, He Died Poor. Atlanta Journal. ! It was the aspiration of Dr. Daniel; Kimball Pearsons, a frugal and hardworking millionaire, to die poor. He. has achieved his ideal. At the age of 92 he has passed out of the world,! leaving scarcely a fragment of the large fortune he had accumulated but in its stead a memory rich in good 1 1 TT _ 1_ _ 1_ _ J J* l 1 I aeeas. lears ago ne nau uisiriDutea tiie greater portion of his wealth: among American colleges' and he! seems to have favored especially those ; institutions that were lean of endow-; ment and were struggling for head way. There was an old mixture of gray realism and luminous fancy in the doctor's make-up. He delighted in making money; indeed it appears to have been his keenest enjoyment; yet he cared little for its possession. He was ; accustomed to speak rather proudly of, the fact that in all his life he never j1 spent twenty dollars foolishly. "I j went to the theatre only once," he de-: clared, "and then I was ashamed of! \ aamBBan?BaamgiiifMiiiii ? IIIIIIH That B^| ot Yours! It seems like yesterday that mother mourned the transi tion from skirts to trousers? his rocking horse will soon give way to the baseball and the pigskin. He's developing, changing every day, and you havn't had his picture taken in more 'than a year?yes, it's two years last Christmas. "There's a Photographer in Your Town" 0. & T. E. SALTER'S I T\7T A m A A miTl\ * A ruuiu siuuiu East Main Street Telephone No. 358 I ?- | ,,, I ....,11 . ' ^M|| - 1 HnDBBHBHR myself. I never went to a football game or a baseball game or a horse race. I am doing all I am doing on business principles." Few men would envy him such a rpnrvrri. ftVPn them eh if. Should grain them his five million dollars. Nor was his example one worthy of emulation, Perhaps his life would have been more diffusive of cheer and kindliness had he lived in more intimate touch with the common heart of his generation. But the vital fact is that he lived fcrue to his purpose and reflected the light as his soul received it. He narrowed himself to work, tc^be sure, but not to the mere gold which! the work produced. His philanthropy j was eccentric rather than spontaneous ! and hrnari hut. nhilanthrODV it was.! nevertheless. He wanted to be rich; and he was. He wanted to be poor; and he was. He wanted to do good; and he did. His life, measured by its purpose, was a success; and, after all, it is what we are rather than what we do that counts. Newberry was among the colleges which received aid from Dr. Pearson j ?$25,00f at one time and $10,000 at i anotner. The House of No Walls. Idleness is the gate of all harms. An j Idle man is like a house that hath no j walls; the devils may enter on every side.?Chaucer. EANKIilTT SALE OF KEAL ESTATE In the District Court of the United States, for the Western District of South Carolina. Ex parte, Miss Bertha Wadsley, Pe- j titioner, in the matter of Miss Nannie J. Simpson, Bankrupt. DECREE OF SALE. Ly virtue of a decree in bankruptcy in the above matter notice is hereby given that I will sell on the first Monday in June, it being the 3rd day of June, 1912, before the court house door in the town and county of New-< berry, S. C., at 11.30 o'clock a. m., the! following described real estate, to-wit: All that lot or parcel of land with, building thereon situate, lying and being in the town of Prosperity, county r\ f \* r\ xt* 1\ r\ v*\ ? ?? * r\ Ot??+rt A f ; ui UC1 I J, Cl I1U. kJ LCI Ltr V-ri UU Cil vuw lina, containing one acre, more or less, and bounded on the north by Washington street, and'on the east by other property of the said Miss Nannie J. Simpson and on the south by lands of the estate of Mrs. Rosa Duncan, and on the west by McNary street, the same being the former l|ome of Miss Nannie J. Simpson. The said prop erty will be sold for cash to the highest bidder for the purpose of paying the mortgage indebtedness as provid-1 ed for in the decree in the above matter. Terms of sale, cash, the purchaser paying for the papers. J. E. CRYMES, Trustee in Bankruptcy. Greenwood, S. C. |i / Round Trip Excui To MACO VIAn .1 i southern 1 . Premier Carrier of Account of Annu United Confedera May 7-9 On account of the above occ Railway announces very low fares to Macon, Ga., and return 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th, and for arrive Macon before noon Maj - ! ? pal _ 1 ? <N? A turning until May idtn, iyiz limit may be had by depositing of fee of fifty cents, until Jui overs permitted at many points from Macon obtained. Roun few stations in this territory as Abbeville Aiken Batesburg Donalds - Edgefield Greenwood Johnston Newberry Leesville - Proportionately reduced" fares Special train will be operatec to Macon, May 6th, on the folli Lv. Spartanburg Lv. Greenville Ar. Central j DINNERLv. Central - Ar. Atlanta Lv. Atlanta - Ar. Macon . Special coaches will leave May 6th, and be attached the s Spartanburg and one at Seneca For the accomodation* of Ve from Columbia and Charleston the Southern parts of the state, be operated, leaving Columbia I leston 8:00 a. m. May 6th, runn con via Augusta and Georgi* Macon 6:00 p. m. Extra coach will be operated on other trains For further information, pi; etc,, call on nearest ticket agen J. L MEEK, A. G. P. A, A.H. Atlanta, Ga. / rsion Fares i MBA. I ' J I I M Railway : the South. $j lal Reunion te Veterans . 1912 asion, the Southern j round trip excursion J , tickets on sale May * 4 trains scheduled to * r 9th, 1912, good re. Extension of final \ ticket and payment f .1 1 Ai r? m c> ne am, l^n.j^oiop; and side-trip fares id trip Jfares from a ^ follows. m $4.10 - - 3.10 - - 3.75 - - 4.50 - - 3.40 - - 4.10 3.40 r - , 4.65 3.85 froml other stations l|from|Spartanburg Dwingj schedule. -ITX , = 10:45 a. m. t 11:45 a. m. - ' 12:45 p. m. 1:15 p. m. C. T. 4:30 p. m. 4:45 p. m. rr .4 r- j /:4o p. m. i Columbia 7:10 a. m. pecial train,3rone] at L. iterans and visitors > i and other points in 1 M Ml I extra coaches^ will 5:30 a. m. and Charging through to] Max Railroad arriving es and sleeping cars i as may belneeded. illman reservation?, it, or ACKER, I. P. A. [Augusta, Ga. i *