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' i i = j f Five Minute Chats on Our Presidents fL By JAMES MORGAN > .f. (Copyright, 1320, by James Morgan.) WAITED HIS TURN ? " ' 1843?January 29, William Mc- j Kiniev born at Niles. O. , ' 1861-65?in the Civil war. 1867?Became a lawyer in Can, ton, O. 1869-71?Prc?*cuting attorney of his county. 1871?Married Ida Saxton. 1877-91?Member of congress. * 1892-96?Governor of Ohio, v 1896?June, McKinley nominated for president by the Vv Republican national convention at St. Louis. November, elected. II ll *=: =* % WILLIAM McKINLEY challenged and disproved the old saying that the presidency casts its shadow A on no man but once ang that if the chance be missed then it will never come again. Twice the Republican < -* nomination seemed to be within MeKinley's reach?in the national conventions of 1SSS and 1S92. Each time he put it away, content to wait his proper turn, when he did not have to shake the tree to bring down the ] ripened fruit of his patience. Mckinlev was beaten for the speak - ership by Thomas B. Reed in 1880. and he left Washington a defeated* eon- , gressman only six years before lie returned as president-elect. Had he been speaker, and, instead of Heed. in: j curred the title of "Qzar," or had he not been turned cut of congress ... had he won those smaller honors he well might never have won the highest honor. A disappointment manfully ?borne enlists the popular sympathy, and the author of the McKinley bill j . entered the contest for the presiden* tial nomination in 1S96 as one who had suffered martyrdom in the cause of j the protective tariff. i After teaching school a term or so, < McKinley was called in the Civil war, i that hard university which graduated ] the men who were to lead the nation ' i uMVSfMVh-m '.-avI-'VA . Mm' X ffl .. r"/ Mrs. William McKinley. through four decades. Having gone k into the army as a private in the ] & regiment of another president -to-be? 1 W Rutherford B. Hayes?he came out at twenty-two a captain, with the brevet title of major. ' ? ( Becoming a lawyer at Canton, O., again he found himself in the midst of ' , . industries in their struggling infancy. And for 14 years lie was the spokesman in congress of that industrial district. ' > The young major, when he came to * r*n i\*nn ti-o c o n r?-C fr f? n fl ! n tr ( vaillUll^ h?o a viviarvuw, uj/ figure, genial in his nature, but with a sober dignity. His readiness of speech, when on his feet, came from his practice of the art*in the debating societies 1 of his school days. His habits also had been properly formed in his boy- ] hood when lie joined the Methodist , church at ten and grew up a youth ] who was as careful to keep his tongue as his collar clean. All doors in the little town natural- ly swung open with a welcome to i "such a nice* young man," and a ma- 1 B jor to boot. Although he was yet poor, when Ida Saxton, the banker's v daughter, who had been to school in j New York city and who had .ius?t come back from Europe, smiled yes to him, ' while they were "taking a buggy ride" 1 the banker smiled, too, and made them ^ a wedding gift of one of the I?est houses in Canton. It was from :he front porch of that honeymoon dwell- \ ing that McKinley made his campaign for the presidency in 1S96. McKinley's is one of the best?and ] one of the mos' patheric?love stories in the domestic records of the presi dency. With the birth of her second 1 child, the wife was left an invalid. J The death of both of her children with- 1 in five year? of her wedding day ntter- ' iy overwneiuieu ner nervous organization, and lier shattered health remain- 5 ed" thenceforth the constant object of ! her husband's tender care. 4 Although he never could know^rom 1 minute to minute when sho would J pass into a swoon, he madu her his * companion on his travels. Once when 1 he hurried hone from congress, and J > the physicians had given up hope of ' * saving her, his own ministrations and < his prayers through a long night at 1 her bedside recalled her to life. i . ^ ........ ?-?-? Five Minute Chats j on Our Presidents J By JAMES MORGAN *? ?v (Copyright, 1320, by Jazr.es WILLIAM McKINLEY ?~? ~ ?% II I! 189/?March 4, William McK;nley inaugurated 24th President, aged fifty-four. 189S? Feb. 15, the battleship Maine blown up in Havana Harbor. April 21, War declared j against Spain. July 7, Hawaii annexed. ! * Aug. 14, City of Manila captured. Dec. 10, treaty of peace signed in Paris. 1899?Feb. 4, the Philippine War began. 1900?Aug. 15, the Allied Expedition to Pek-n. 1901?Sept. 6, McKinley shot by Leon Czolgosz. Sept. 14, died, aged fift^eight. ? i ???????. . * I II I EVENTS make sport of the schemes of mice and men. McKinley entered the race for ttie presidency en the tariff issue, was elected on the money issue . . . and the greatest problems that confronted him in tho White House w^re the fate of a.chain of islands off me coast of Asia and the destiny of China! Spain had been engaged for two years in a desolating struggle to hold in subjection the revolting island of Cuba, and two happenings pushed McKinley into the conflict in spite of himself. In a private letter, the Spanish minister at Washington scoffed at the president as a "politicastro"? in plain American, "a .peanut politician"?and plainly intimated that the fair promises which the Spaniards were giving * ;m were only a trick to 'ool the administration and the American oeonle. Within a week of that exposure, the battleship Maine was blown up in Havana harbor, with the loss of 266 American lives. After withstanding for nearly two 11 t T Wiliiam McKinfey. ! months the popular outcry of "Remember the Maine," ' the president fielded, and war was declared. In ten (lays Dewey had smashed the inemy squadron in Manila bay; in ton iveeks a/iother squadron was sunk [>r captured off Santiago: in three nonths and a half poor old Spain threw up the sponge. It took twice as lonrr to make peace is to make war. The Philippines paused all the trouble. As we had not aptured ih& islands in the war, many l>elievec that we should let them alone. But Mc-Kinley decided to demand from Spain the surrender of the Philippines. IT-;*! . *: \\ ituuui wiuuus iciiiiivjuiiuii, president dispatched a military expedition to take over the Philippines, proclaiming ro the revolting Filipinos the policy of "benevolent assimilation." The resulting war dragged its unpleasant length tor two years before the inhabitants unwillingly bowed to their new master. It was the strange fortune of a president whose entire public life h id Ix-en giv^n exclusively to domestic questions to plant the flag in the distant Philippines and to send it to the pink walls of the Forbidden City < ( Jiiina. In the march on Peking Sc the rescue of the forgein legations from he siege of the Boxers, or Chinese revolutionists, the United States joined [>ther po\vrs for the first time in a military expedition. Under ih<' high statesmanship of r<?hn Hay. the secretary of state, the L'nited States had already, before the Boxer rebellion, laid a restraining hand :it)(.n the nations that were looting i^ilnese territory and had drawn from them pledges to keep an "open door" ;o trade in the ports they were seizin?: at the point of ihe gun. The 'open door" has remained ever siine [he chart of our course in the Ea>t. [f we will only continue *to follow *t tnd should succeed in inducing others to follow ir a while longer, until the riant of the Orient awakens from his long slumoer and shakes on his for5igi: -dosf-oilers, an emancipated China trill he tthe imposing monument of William McKinley's presidency. j Five Minnie Cbais ! I on Our Presidents | i II By JAMES MORGAN | 11 (Copyright, by James Morgan.I THE STRENUOUS LIFE C- : P !? 1858?Oct. 27, Theodore Rocse- fj ve!t born in New York j] city. j! 1830?Graduated from Harvard, jj 1882-4?Member of New York legislature. 1884-5?A ranchman at Medora, N. D. 1889-95?Merhber of national civil service commission. 1855-7?Member of New York police commission. 1897-8?Assistant Secretary of the navy. 1898-Colonel cf the Rough Riders in Cuba. 1899-1900 ? Governor of New York. 1900?Elected Vice President. 1901?Sept. 14 took the osth in Buffalo as the twenty-fifth president, aged forty-two. 1904?November, elected president. a ^ Theodore roqsevelt wos the most popular of ail our presidents. With the exception of Lincoln, his was the raciest, t lie most interesting character that we have had in the presidency. I Yet he was horn apart from the mtil titude whom he-led and he might have, lived and died a stranger to the masses of his countrymen but for one thing: He had not the health to enjoy the life of ense which opened to him at his birth. Roosevelt had to fight for his very breath in his gasping, asthmatic' childhood. Finally, ho took a post-graduate course in physical culture in the wild West, where the "four-eyed tenderfoot" had to light the battle of his youth all ( m m M Roosevelt as a Young Man. ' over again, in a strange world, witt entirely different standards for mens uring men. Roosevelt cut his eye teeth in polit ical leadership in the corrupt machine-run legislature of New York. He could not have chosen a more thorough school for instruction in the hidden, muddy springs of parties and polities. His experience at Albany put realism into his idealism and made the academic reformer over into the most intensely practical politician we have had in the presidency. lie decided at the outset to apt in each office as if it was to be the last that ne ever would got, and for nearly 15 years after he left the legislature, Iioosevelt could . not have been elected* to anything in the boss-ridden state of New York. For a long time V>/-> u*.ic "eVmli-n/'!" nr? tlm pivil Service I1C CUVI ? V.\| v/u vnv VI ' . commission at Washington, until a reform mayor of Now ork appointed him on the four-headed police commission; but it was soon single-headed -so far as the public could see, and that head vras full of teeth for police grafters and lawbreakers. At thirty-eight the most he could a?K of the Republican politicians, with any hope of getting it, was the assistant secretaryship of the navy. The entire administration sighed with relief when at last he went oft to lead his Rough Ride.-* Tn five months lie. was baclr from Cuba in the l'ar more troublesome role of a popular hero. The New York machine was in such sore need of a ;rood nr.me to pill! it through the pending election that it met him at the wharf and Humbly laid at his feet the Ilep ihlican nomination for governor. Km; in the jrov?Tnor^lii]>- he realized tlio worst fears of Boss I'latt that h^ harbored, as the boss naively wrote him. "various aitrnistie ideas." and that he was "a little loose on the n ialions of rapital and labor, on trusts and combinations and . . 'the ri.ciil of a man u> run Ins own busings in ins own way." The only thing to do with this wild (tf.'iiine was to turn the switch and shunt it on to the s:de track of the vico presidency. Iloo>evelt loudiy protested tliat ho wanted t<> hr- re-ele? -ted governor. And while rhttr w;c; trying to push Iiim on to the national ticker. McKinley and Hanna .jus, us earnestly tried to push Iiim hack on to Piatt. Th* Republican national convention rose- .r> and roared his nomination, flinging him, in spite of himself, upon the tide that led to fortune. i I IT" TV q* e r I t ive Miniite Cfts-'cs^ on Oiir Presidents By JAMES' MORGAN *====J (Copyright, !'j-0, by James r-'crpran.) THE BIS STICK <*x ? ? "-C? H too'??r^cosovCtt in- i j JVUV 1 duccd Great Britain and J Germany to arbitrate with | Venezuela. November, the j Panama revolution. 1903?May 12, brought Russia I and Japan to agree *o tiis- ! cuss peace. August 29, ! the peace of Portsmouth, j 190S?Roosevelt awarded the j Nobel peace prize. 1918?January C, death of Theo- j dore Roosevelt, aged sixty, j O . 0 AT the crackling of a twig in the still depths of the Adirondack mountains Roosevelt turned to see a guide coming out of the woods with the unexpected ne\*s that McKinley's condition was worse. Although he hastened to Buffalo, the president had died 13 hours before the vice president arrived. At the outset of Iloosevelfs administration a fearful citizen lifted tlio rough rider not to permit his fighting spirit to plunge the country into an international war. "What !" I he president exclaimed. "A war, and 1 looped up here in the White House? Never!" Many forgot the first half of the old nu.'tlo that Roosevelt made his own. uSpeak softly and carry a in'g stick." No man ever l:ad a. simpler faith in the eflicacy of first "talking it over," man fashion, with an adversary, whether a senator or an ambassador. The meddlesome German kaiser was the earliest to feel the "big stick" to see if it was only staffed with straw. (Jermany ana a lory .^uvei-iiujt-jii England were on the1 point of f ?zing territory as a security for some claims vWvXwXyXvXwO;'/ : " ""V. k:lfer % \ Edith Carcw Roosevelt. against Venezuelan citizens, when Roosevelt succeeded in dissuading England from such a step, but he failed to induce Germany to arbitrate the matter. Thereupon he told the German ambassador that unless the Berlin government consented to arbitration in ten (lays, lie wot:Id send Admiral Dewey to stop the Germans from landing -in Venezuela. The ambassador protesting that the kaiser could not back down now, lioosevelt replied that ho was not arguing with him but was. simply telling him what would happen. After waiting a week without an answer from Berlin, he told the ambassador that he was going to cut the limit to nhie days and that unless Germany agreed in 48 hours to arhi-, trate, Dewey would sail. In 3G hours the ambassador came back with a message announcing.that Germany consen tod. s la good time. Roosevelt employed the influence of his unique position before the world to bring to an end the Iviisso-Japanese war. Shrewdly choosing the right moment to step in, 1 . .,1 ,.1 tir-.. I>#.T1 ii'r.vo'i' c: ll?* iljljlV'llM'll inv; HHI //*.? ?y,v . V .. w v.iih a common sense ::*ul a simple diivcine.<s that a friend would use in bringing toother r.vo (uiurrelir.g noiprlibors. Afterward he sictved the peace conference at Portsmouth against its will steadily toward a peace of reconciliation, an impatient Russian dac!ariii.g that hi - ' steel v/ri^i ' lianuwr.'d out a irmly that in::ti.< .* of tla^pov.vrs want* d at :ha1 time and that '"he I< rrible American president?I! .SUvntioso ?was capable of locking the f-onfiTecs into a room and flawing them into submission." Instead of starting a war. the 'big s'Vk" i -opitcd iho only ;;reat war lhat broke oui in ; >1 i:s sway. Wis!?:- ;::-x IJoo>v. were its tenants. .!v \V? was an example anil the center of tIssimple family i:*> of Ar.ieri-n . . . '' mi a sCV?U:'l !:;oe." ;he president said, ''hi?; 'h' lio'a'"' of a self-resptv ling American citI few months ai'tcr ^r .av at harvard. lioospvelt ' ~ I .. . I T ,.f ill;: V].? " l / i i + ii 1 nil r, iits i-v *j \n lv'.-*uu. lu> hi r h: !iis < ??!?I: This ?l-r?>i" 111.- v<?i:ih ptu'.-i.'ti i':c:u :!f?- u< hi*:* ?I:?i *.: 11;? r? Mrs. Alicr K:)0>'c-vc]t T.onrxwnrvh?outer*-i ir. Nearly three vef>v:; nflvrwan; he' ?ai]<?u from Xev ^ directly fi.Ilovv-; injr ;?a r.nsnecossfi:! f-r: ii if?:; firit f??r m:jy>r tA marry a frieinl ;tr.d n<>i^hbor i of his childhood, Miss K?illh KY-imif' Carow, who was sojourning hi Eur<\>e. J j Five Miriiite Chats j ! on Our P.residente \ I I j . 37 JAMES MORGAN I \ (Copyright, li'L'O, by Jan:ca Morgan.) WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT ^ 1 1857?Sept, 15.. William Howard j Taft (:om in Cincinnati. 1878?Graduated at Yaie. 1387-90?Judge cf the Superior Court. 18SC-2?Solicitor General cf the United States. 1892-1900?United States circuit judge. 1900-04?Commissioner in and governor of the Philippines. 1904-8?Secretary of war. 1909?Inaugurated twenty-sixth president, aged fifty-one. O WHEN Roosevelt and Taft rode up Pennsylvania avenue cn March 4, 1000, it was the first time & nee Jackson and Van Burcn had passed that way side by side, more than 70 years before, that a retiring president would not have preferred another seat mate and successor than the one whom the fortunes of politics had thrust upon him. Roosevelt alone selected his success or. Naturally, everyone assumed tl?at we were to have a Roosevelt' administration by another name, and it was expected in the campaign that the ex-president would not. go farther away from the White House than Oyster Bay. Instead, he plunged into the depths *>f Africa. The fate of William Howard Taft would be pathetic if he himself had not met it and borne it with a smile. He was abler, more upright, more independent Mian some far more successful presidents. But by bent and training he was a judge, and the | I J%.f.::' S William Howard Taft. White House is no place for a judge. As lawgiver and governor of Manila, Taft had won the confidence of his oriental subjects, and rather than desert his post before his task was finished, he sacrificed the dearest ambition of his life. In a year and a hrtlf Roosevelt had him in his cabinet as secretary of war?and soon had him in Jiis eye for the presidency. Roosevelt had the weakness of his sfrensth. He thought he was strong enough to make a president. But real presidents arc horn, not made. The moment Roosevelt was gone, the standpatters, the reactionary forces, emerged from their seven and one-Iialf years in the cyclone cellar. The moment the political broncho felt ihe tenderfoot on its hack, it bucked, and threw Taft from the scat of leadership. The next thin? the rank and file of Republicans knew, the party was slipping back into the old rut from which Roosevelt had jerked it when first he laid upon it his masterful hand. But the people refused to iro back. Eight months after Taft's inaugura lion, the election of sonnded a clear warning of the disaster that ovcnviielnica the party in the congressional election of 1010. ami \v!?ic!i alt Imt destroyed it in the presidential election of 1012. -According to a story that v/as told of Taft, a eirrioys si rancor asked a faitekeeper at the Union station in Washington where lie wild stand the he>t chance of sopin*-: the president in the few spare hours ih?< ho had between "trains. "Riirhi v,*h?re yon are." was the reply. "He's ;dways either tahin.sr :> i:\Jn or getting' off of 0!!0." Tafl was IV iir?i r-rc-'idont ir, draw ilift pivsont salary of ^7~.'-N?0. Con;:ivss had ai.-n ad^plvl. t v.'?> ycnr^ before lie f'fnw ir:. iho cu*;.0:*] of allmvInsr ?2~.000 ye:ir!v for the travpliny expm>o< Ci the priv-adcnl". a;vl lu* hvo;\uu> ;liO 'JVCat r-rc^itloMiia] trawler, ifin'ciiir iI vrccvd or ]~w.000 iri four y.v.rs I v.vm abou; the' <o::n{i*r app^'nuii" for a iv versa I of ilie verdict i" lii< admhiisira'.ion. In vain he strove so turn !>a?-Ic Ihe title, v.iiH-h isr.I.v sported with him. j .\fter having eioc-l; d I1I1.1 by 1.200,- j 000 plurality, people parted wftli: Taft mere* in sorrow lhan in ::ngc-r. j They did :ot question that be \vas a | rrcnx7 ")j.'2'"ident, but that is n secondary , consideration. A president must be first of all a politician and a leader. | . .i v . - . j : >. ' ' -A ! 7 rrf; c T i-J *. T'.* *7 ' r r>/.-?r?- /?J T - - 1.- t I L.L. ?-> "iTt/HELPED MR. DEAD- L MOM V./'"tT"iT^?p-TT7 T V .ti O. \ t v: iL 1 J. t* Deanr.ion, in Ivle- | Barber Shop, I'r.ion. South ; p Carolina, ver-eiveil a frie boltle ot I'.e -'u-Ma and took :: ior a :~cneral; o I'll!!<iown <*or.f!'it!oi!. il. suffered 1 'with torpid liver, 'f.-s a? appetite f a 2:1 frequent sickening feelings,1 c which nnvle Km lose lime and sleep, j S After a half bottle Mr. Deadmon! it- ..i-?+\,.o;.w. i^r i Fay3 IJUIL. trie i;\ " n>.in: , ivi? ^ him and is now able to enjoy his ! food am! that Ivs liver if: in fine condition. He further says that he will alway keep it on hand. Re-Cu-Ma ? sells for Si.20 plus tax and can be had at W. 0. Mryes' Dvn;r Co. and | all L'io'1 drivx stores. t , ! NOTICE TO CREDITORS. j ( rf Ail persons holding claims against I [} the estate of J. Reuben Thomas, de- I : ceased, will present same duly at- j tested to the undersigned, at Blairs, j j S. C'., or to my attorneys. Hunt, | ! Hunt & Hunter, Newberry. S. C., Oil or before the 14th day of October, i |1020. Lewis S. Henderson. As Executor of the last will and test- ' ^ i anient of J. Reuben Thomas, de-' _ ; ceased. jj ! September 17, 1320. r , i t TEACHERS EXAMINATION c The regular fall examination for 11 teachers will be held 'at the court I I house Friday, October 1. I Colored teachers will reoort at the! ! imihtwnatwwij wmwimti'? D?i r !*?I^jur limu Palmetto College offers raphy, Secreterial, Typewr counting and kindred branch metto College gives you a me > >] riT-mor) +- "npnartrnflnL We XJLXV/iXV ^ w ... trained executives than all cv We furnish all the old esta: I with teachers. Individual i ment. Experienced teacher! Positions guaranteed. You c ed course of study in Palm half the time required in an dent body represents every far east as Pennsylvania-. T] lege is known everywhere. Address Eo:: GS, Vamville, S. C. Bo:: 173 Orarisel 57 Went worth Street . ramietco The school that's ki We pay your railroad fai ?frwr-^j6arafrt^c,**aLmrr Boozer?s ! The Comi The Car WitJ s E. 0.,Booz Phone 73 QiMHSD Tftl'n DUttiiriLn Ivili \r:t u ra Southern To Mountain and Sea at greatly reduced far Tickets on sale dail til September 30th, wi October 31st, 1920. allowed. For further inform? Ticket Agent, or writs S? PL W\ District Passe Columbia, . _ i jmmammmmmmTm?mammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmammmmmmm 4 . locrc school. C. M. V.'ilson, Superintendent of Education. - - REWARD OF $125.00 OFFERED S2~.00 rewai<; v. ill he paid to any or:-on or nart'v giving information ::ulir<r to the arrest of the person r pevsors who s'.o'e TWO 33 by 4 5LACKSTOXE XOX-SKII) tires rom J. Sample's Paijre automobile 'ii Suluda-Nev.'bevvy road nii*ht of ! ep t e m b e v 12th. 1C-2 0. Also $100.000 for evidence sufit lent to convict guilty parties. Cannon C. Blease, Sheriff of Xewberry County. -I07ICE CF FINAL SETTLEMENT I will make a final settlement of he estate cf Kissiah Ruff in the Pro?ate Court for Newberry County, S. on Wednesday, the 20th day of - ~ " i October, at iU cciocs in um 'orenoon and will immediately therefter ask for my discharge as AJminstrator of said estate. \ George Ruff, -2-p. Administrator. * Newberry, S. C., Sept. 9,, 1920. NOTICE. Ail persons holding claims against he estate of J. M. Foster will please resent the claim duly attested to Irs. E. U. Foster, executrix, and all icrsons indebted to above mentioned state will please mal t- settlement on >r before September 30, 1920, with he undersigned. MRS. E. U. FOSTER, Executrix. Newberty, S. C., July 19, 1920. BBSBumsmsqKMaKaraauBamEMM w wtsmmBtammmmm fchoro courses in Stenogiting, Bookkeeping, Acles. A scholarship in Palimbership in our Free Emreceive more calls for bher coilegc-s in the South. blished business colleges nstruction." New equip3. 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