The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, March 29, 1905, Page 2, Image 2
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A POWERLESS COMMISSION.
The anti-dispensary agitation
is continuing in a number of
counties in the State, with the
outlook for a general fight. The
Commission to investigate the
dispensary is holding -its meet
ings in various towns, and keep
ing their findings from the pub
lic until they are ready to make
their final report. Upon this
report much will depend we be
lieve, if it shows a clean admin
istration of dispensary affairs it
might have the effect of quieting
the people whose suspicions
have been aroused by t h e
charges of corruption, and then.
it might have a contrary effect,
as many will believe that white
wash was used to cover the rot
ton places. But in our opinion,
the Coinmission is not empower
ed with authority to make a
thorough 'and searching investi
gation, and its moving about
from town to town will amount
to a lot of expense with nothing
done more than to be able to re
recite the general workngs of
the mstitution. The Commission
isnot empowered to bring a suit
for an accounting against the
concerns the dispensary officials
have been doing business with,
nor has it been provided with
the necessary funds to employ
counsel, and if need be, detec
tives.
If there was an institution in
any northern or western State
under the cl6od of suspicion our
dispensary has been ever since
its first purchase of liquor, steps
would have been taken to turn
on the light, and the corruption-,
ists-sent to prison. See what
Folk did in Missouri and Jerome
has accomplished in New York,
-but these prosecuting attorneys
had the legislature to give them
the law and the money to do
justice by the people, they were
not bampered with the powerless
condition our dispensary Com
mission is. Folk could have
~sent to Europe to bring a party
charged .to trial. He was im
-powered to force corporations to
showup their books, and with this
power he succeeded in breaking
no ashameless gang of grafters.
- The dispensary Commission is
made up of good men, but if they
bave no power they can do noth
ing, and as we see it, they are
utterly helpless to force an in
quiry into that important part
part of ths dispensary scandal
which charged our officials with
robbing the State of re bates.
If the State was entitled to
rebates during Governor Till
man's administration, and there
does not appear any such credits
on the books, the Commission
should have been empowered to
force, if need be, in the United
* tates'courts, an exhibit of every
transaction the whiskey trust
and the Mill Creek Distilling
Company had with the State,
and if $150,000 in rebates should
appear ,upon the dispensary
books, and they do not, the com
mission should learn why, even
if indictments have to be brought
against those who transacted
the business.
*It has been charged time and
again that the dispensary is a
hive of corruption, and up to the
present'time the Legislature has
only provided investigations
which were as farcial as they
were expensive and powerless.
TWO PARTIES IN OUR PRIMARIES.
The Spartanburg Journal's
seroceacy of a Repyiblican party
in South Carolina does not, as
we understand it, mention of
which we made last week,
mean that it proposes - to
join the Republican ranks,
but that it -wishes to have
a respectable white Republican
organization, so that if there are
respectable white Republicans
in the State they will have a
party they can affiliate with.
The Journal thinks a Republi
can party made up of respectable
men will act as a sort of balanlce
wheel to the Democratic party,
'but we do not think so; if a Re
-publican party is organized in
this State and its membership is
composed of many who now
agree with sdme of the Republi
can measures, it will grow and it
will not be long before it will be
making trades with the negroes,
and as soon as that begins, the
appeal to the negro will be made
by both sides and thus make
him the balance of power, and of
course an influential nolitical
factor. We should not as yet,
ike to see a Republican party
here for the reason, as long as
there is a possibility of the negro
having a voice we cannot afford
to entertain the thought of a di
vision in our general election,
but there is good room for two
white parties in our primaries,
and this we favor. The Demo
cratic party can adopt such rules
as will permit a free andt an open
discussion upon all questions,
the only requirements being
necessary that a pledge shall be
exacted to abide the result and
The object of this is, to give
every white man an opportunity
to present his views regardless
of what the leaders may pre
scribe, and if he can succeed in
convincing the masses of the
correctness of his position he
should be entitled to recognition.
Our present system, if contin
ued in its corruption, will do
more towards creating a Repub
lican party in South Carolina
than anything else, as the people
will not submit to fraud always.
In the county of Greenville this
was demonstrated, and so it has
been -wherever an appeal was
taken from a fradulent primary.
Darlington's municipal primary
was repudiated in the general
election, and so it was in Berk
eley county a few years ago.
But if we had two parties to par
ticipate in )ur primaries these
frauds would not be permitted,
and there would be no necessity
for any division in our general
elections.
JUSTICE IS ASKED.
In a news item in the News
andCourier Monday,the Manning
correspondent told of the effort
being made to commute the sen
tence of Ned Mack. Editorially
that newspaper made an argu
ment against the commutation,
and in yesterday's issue Rev. J.
M. Holladay, pastor of the Man
ning Presbyterian church has
a letter commending 'the News
and Courier for its position,
which is as follows:
To the Editor of the News and Cour
ier: I have just read your editorial
commenting upon the effort to have
the sentence of Ned Mack commuted
to life imprisonment, and want to thank
you for it.
Several times I have visited this
negro in the jail here, and fro'm his'
conversation with me 1 can see no rea
son for the exercise of any clemency in
his zase. The crime was brutal murder
without provocation. (The negro pro
fessed to me his readiness to die, as he
claims to have made his peace with his
Maker. It was in the interest of his
spiritual welfare I have visited him in
the jail.) When I saw the news item
you refer to in the News and Courier
I at once clipped it out and sent it to
Governor Heyward, and wrote asking
to be allowed to express my hope that
he would allow the sentence to stand,
and stated to the Governor that I could
not agree with the ida advanced that
Ned Mack was lacking so radically in
the sense of responsibility. I am, of
course, sorry for the negro-who would
not be? Justice to the dead and to the
living demands that he shall die for
bis crime. J. M. HOLLADY.
We yield to none a greater
esteem for the Rev. J. M. Hol
laday than we have, but we must
say that his protest against the
Governor taking action in the
case of the unfortunate prisoner
now standing in the shadow of
death, is not the mercy which
might be expected from him,
but which is manifested by
a large numbe of laymen,
who feel the Governor ought
to review the testimony in
the case, and if there is
any doubt as to the sanity of
the poor creature that justice as
the law requires be given - him.
None doubt that the murder was
unprovoked, but the evidence
did not disclose any premedita
tion, or malice, neither was any
motive for the killing "shown,
and these facts alone make a
number of conscientious men
ponder over the full responsi
bility of Ned Mack for his crime.
As a matter of law, mercy and
justice, we believe Governor
Heyward should grantn reprieve
and have this case fuily investi
gated.
$100 Reward, $100.
The readers of this paper will be pleased to
earn that there is at least one dreaded disease
that science has been able to care in all its
stages, and that lscatarrh. Hail's catarrh Cure
s the only positive cure known to the medical
fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional dis
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Catarrh Cure Is taken internally, acting directly
upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the sys
tem, thereby destroying the foundation of the
diseaseand giving the patient strength by build
ing up the constitution and assisting nature in
doing its work. The proprietors have so much
faith in its curative powers, that they offer One
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cure- Send for list of testimonials.
Addrs F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo. 0.
ar Falv Pil are the best.
The controversy b e t w e e n
Judge W. C. Benet, of Columbia,
and Bishop Potter, of New York.
is very interesting, almost as
much so as the way Oyama shot
the straps off from Kuropatkin's
commanding shoulder's: O n e
more shot from Benet's artillery
will drive the prelate into his
subway tavern to get a nerve
steadier.
What the Japanese are not
doing to the Russians in Man
churia, the bomb-throwers in St.
Petrsburg and Moscow, Russia,
and Warsaw, Poland are. The
poor Czar is catching it on all
sides. If he fights he gets slaugh
tered, and if he does not fight
he is liable to take a bomb ex
cursion at any moment. Surely
this is one'head which wears a
crown that lies uneasy.
The County Record of Kings
tree has been enlarged to seven
column. eight pages, and the
efects of its new type and ma
chinery is plainly visible. The
Record is one of the newsiest
county papers in this section of
the State, and gives all but one
indication of prospering-the
editor is still unmarried, and
Williamsburg too, is noted for
its excellent, accomplished, and
beautiful women.
The communication of John
C-ill in this issue is in reply to
an editorial from us of last week,
said editorial was based upon
imformation and circumstantial
evidence, and also with a view
to directing attention to the care
lessly signing of recommenda
tions and petitions. We would
not do Gill or any other man the
injustice of excluding his or
their reply to any editorial ex
pression which may appear in
Hon. E. Mitchell Seabrook, a
member of the Charleston dele
gation in the House of Represen
tatives is a candidate for Lieu
tenant Governor. Mr. Seabrook
has been in the Legislature a
number of years, and is popular
with his colleagues. He is now
chairman of the agricultural
committee, and is a farmer by
vocation. There will be a num
ber of candidates for this posi
tion, but none that we have so
far heard mentioned, is as much
entitled to our support as is Mr.
Seabrook, who married in this
town, and who, by his genial
manners has made many friends
in the county.
The public prints liave recent
ly exposed an unfortunate condi
tion among our Representatives
at Washington. It seems that
Senator Latimer and Represen
tative Lever are both trying to
claim the credit for certain legis
lation effecting the rice interests,
and both have given out inter
views, which in our opinion was
unnecessary, as there was plenty
of glory in the legislation for
both Latimer and Lever, and
there is no necessity for one be
ing jealous of the other. To be
quarrelling over such things is
not calculated to help either of
them at home, nor does it tend
to add anything to their dignity
as statesmen. Both Latimer
and Lever are doing their best
for the State's interests, and
that should be sufficient to sat
isfy the most exacting of their
constituents.
Letter to HuggiUs & McIntosh.
Dear Sir: Porterhouse, so much: neck.
so much; all the way between.
Just so with paint. Devoe lead-and
zinc is the porterhouse. Nobody wants
the neck; the between, some say, is
good enough for them.
But Devoe costs less, not more, than
between. Lead-and-oil is between; it is
the old fashion paint. But zinc has
come in. Zinc toughens white lead. De
voe lead-and-zinc is the paint that
wears twice as long as lead-and-oil.
Mr. John N. Deitel, Fair Haven N.
Y., writes:
"Mr. Charles Hollenbeck, of this
place, painted his house tlgree aga with
Devoe lead-and-zinc; his father painted
at the same time with lead-and-oil. To
day the son's house looks as well as the
day it was painted, while the father's
house has all chalked off and needs
painting very badly. The father says
he will paint Devoe next time."
Yours truly,
F. W. DEVOE & CO.
P. S. Manning Hardware Co. sells
our paint.
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
BY H. W. FINLAYSON.
The fight in the Equitable In
surance Co. is still on. There is
little probability of a permament
settlement of the disputes until
legislative action is taken. Ef
forts of every kind have been
made to mutualize matters, one
day promising adjustment, the
next some new differences aris
ing. James H. Hyde holds a ma
jority of the stock and he is go
ing to control until ousted by1
legislation.
The Equitable- is one of the
giant companies with its $400,
000,000 capital and $1,500,000.
000 insurance. I't is financially
the equal of many great govern
ments. .Hyde's father died and
James H. Hyde succeeded to the
virtual management of 'the cor
poration, only 28 years of age,
an - up-to-now young man, hc
spends lavishly and does notI
care who knows it, the monrey
being his own. Hyde's recent
great ball, caused the present
commotion. Rejane, the Fr'enchi
Actress, was one of the guests,
and it was said mounted a table
and danced the "can-can;" then1
followed the report in the papers
that Hyde was going to build her
a Theatre in New York. The
staid old lifeads of the company
concluded these things would.
weaken confidence in a corpora
tion having at its head a man
doing as Hyde was reported to
be doing. These and other stories
Hyde is doino were of course ex
aggerated, Vhe papers paying
for matter not per column, but
proportion to the sensational
features, regardless of facts.
Hyde is only what others are
here, no more, and much less
than many, he is open, does
nothing under cover. The char
ter-gives the directors authority
to empower the policy holders
to vote, this had not been done
and it was thought a good way*
to get Hyde out. Chauncy Depew,
John D. Crimmins and otherwise
heads attended the meeting, but
it was found Hyde controlled the
meeting. It was agreed that the
policy holders should be enfran
hised by gradual process, Hyde
naming 26, the policy holders
28, and Hyde continuing in office,
but it will take 4 years to ac
complish this transition, as Hyde
insists that only a fourth of the
board is to be named each year
for four years. -Another split is
aused by the insistance that
personal instead of proxy votes
must be cast. Of course while
infranchised the thousands of
policy holders could never
gather in person. The Company
is safe, Hyde, cannot injure it
would not if he would, could not
if he 'would, for the New York
State laws throw so many safe
guards around insurance com
panies, that no one man nor set
of men can safely do wrong.
Rejane has gone back to
Europe, policy holders here are
not alarmed, they are accustom
e to these excitements. If those
away would take with a good de
gree of salt the sensational news
paper news, as New Yorkers
do, they would not get nervous
so easily.
Hyde will spend his money as
he pleases, let him do it. it only
hanges hands and does the
world more good after it passes
out than remaining in his clutch
When a cool L$12500 is ounred
out for an affair by one of these
fellows, it does not follow that
it is wasted, for the waste is only
to the extent of the consumption.
Possibly $50,000 is consumed,
the other $75,000 merely passes
to others and is distributed, go
ing into palms needing it and
who will use it more wisely.
Hyde holds the whip in hand
and will contin-ue in the saddle,
it is private funds he spends and
not company money. Hyde's ex
travagance is so, common here
among the immensely rich that
little attention is paid to each.
The company will go on, solid
and sound as ever, Hyde will
not change his ways to please
the over particular, little by lit
tle the excitement will die out
and soon we will hear no more
about it, until perhaps Hyde
gives another big banquet, which
he will do when it suits him to
do so. He is a good head for
the company, and so long a. he
pays for his pleasures, the best
thing, the only thing to do, is
submit. It is too late to legislate
at this session of the assembly,
so that no change can be expect
ed for a year or more, plan all
they please, the legislature is
the only power that can reduce
Hyde so long as he holds a ma
jority of the stock, this he does.
this he will continue to do.
Tom Lawson wired offering
millions for Hyde's holdings, the
offer of course was disregarded.
It should be said in justice to
Hyde that Rejane and her man
agers weie emphatic in -their
denials of the stories referred
to, but the same publicity was
not given to these denials that
was to the original stories.
No Gloss Carriage Paint Made
will wear as long as Dene's. No others
are as heavy bodied, because Devo's
weigh 3 to 8 ounces more to. the pint
Sold by the Manning Hardware Co.
A Burglar Enters the House ot W. N. Hrook
at Alcolu.
'Aicolu, S. C., March 2.-Special: At
soue time last night an attempt was
made by a burglar to enter the resi
dence of Mr. W. N. Hook, foreman of
the shops of D. W. Alderman & Sons'
Company of this place. Mr. Hook was
awakened 'by his wife, who called his
attention to a noise, she supposed to
have been made by a dog, in the room.
Her remark frightened the intruder,
who hastily lowered the sash and ran.
Mr. Hook sprang from the bed and
seizing his gun, hurriedly inserted a
shell in each barrel and fired through
the wndow sash at the retreating fig
ure.
The thief seems to have had a nar
row escape, as an investigation showed
that the ground was torn up by the
shot in a direct line with the tracks
made by the fellow as he ran off Some
time ago a similar attempt was made to
enter the residence of Mr. F. L. Wolf.
bookkeeper for D. W. Alderman &
Sons' Comuany, which, however, was
frustrated. It was early in the night
and the family had not retired, The
depredations-are supposed to hav'e been
made by negroes. In the large num
ber of negro employees here it is likely
that there are some bad characters. A
few weeks ago "Boss" Ward, a shift
less negro, entered several rooms of
the hotel here, and took from each one
cloting, watches and other things of
more or less value, which were after
wards fund in his possession. ,At his
trial, wvhich tookt place soon after, he
was convicted and sentenced to the
chaingang.
The whites here 6elieve in "protec
tion" for their homes and all of them
are liberally provided with shotguns,
pistols and other weapons nececessary
to enforce it.-News and Courier, Mon
day. March 27.
Attacked By a Mob
and beaten in a labor riot until cdvered
with sores, a Chicago street car con
ductor applied Bucklen's Arnica Salve,
and was soon sound and well. "I use it
in my family," writes G. J. Welch, of
Tekonsha, Mich., "and find it perfect.'.
Simy great for cuts and burns. Only
25e at The R. B. Lorvea Drug store.
Militia Notice.
The Connor Mounted Rifles will meet
on Saturday, April 1st, at 2 o'clock
p. ., ~it Paxville, for the purpose of
reorganizing and paying out the bal
ance of the appropriation.
.T. D. HOYLE,
1st Lieut. Coin.
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50c. and $1.00
The Exposition of Spring Fashion
Is Now Open,
Charini, Cheery Atihoritative.
Figuratively 'saying the Great Book of Fashions
thrown wide open, witl all of its fashion sugestions
to see and reaid. So beantiftil that it charms the eye
and holds the attention of every customer. So g ;
authoritative that from it can be learned the inner
most thoughts of Fashion, the kind of Fabric,~the
Color, etc. The Color, very important. For Fash
- ion this spring plays as fine a variation as Paganini
Sdid on his single string. An exposition as full of
?z hints as a kaleidoscope- is of colors, and there will be
more new and pretty ings coming of re 11
? tell you as they arrive.
f ur raD Milur Opeulug1
of Pattern Hats and
: showing of new Spring
Dress Goods; Silks,
Trimmings, Laces, Em- i
broidery, etc.,
WILL TAKE PLACE
deal d1,h [ 4S 9 5
Remember these dates for they mean a great ~
deal to those who have goods to buy.
MUTUAL DRY GOODS COMPANY.
T HE F ASH ION CENTR E.
KEEP YOUR EYE
On this space as we will
have something inter-.
) esting. for all next week.
It gives us great pleasure to announce that we a.re
now able to offer for your inspection what we hoiiestly
0 believe to be the handsomest, most varied and carefully
4 selected line of
$ Dress Goods, Siks and Wash Fabrics
0,.,
* ever shown in Mannin. This splendid assortment would
* do credit to a much larger city than Manning. We will
* not attempt to give a hst'of the many remarkable values
we offer, but call your attention,to a few here and'there
* that are worthy of more tban a passing glance. Our rep
utation and liberal treatment in all business- matters ".
backed by the best merchandise, is a great factor in the
0 grow th of our business. Remember, if you see it in J. H.
$ Rigby's advertisement, "it's so."
New Dress Goods, New Mohairs
Mohair is a fabric in itself, as individual as silk. It
is light, lustrious and strong. It stands today a fabric of
beauty. We have a full line in rich shades and all widths.
Price per yard, 50c to $1.
Stylish Silks at Popular Prices. .
Our collection of handsome Spring -Silks for stree
and evening costumes is- somethig swell-a colletid6
that would do justibe to a much larger store in a iue$
larger city. Don't miss seeing them. Prices that please
.New Wash Goods.o
Ou-r store.is aglow and overfiowing with new novel- $
ties of the best' styles in spring materials. Call andin
0 spect the line, you will be pleased both in price and qual
0 ity.
* Sea Our-Bargain Gounter
Good Shoes 50c and 75c per pair.
$1, $1.25 and$!.50 Shirts, now 6nly 87c.
Splendid quality 'Lawn, 10 yards to .bundle, while
lasts 50 per bundle.'
Best quality Bleach, 10-yard bundle, while thsy lest
only 50c bundle.
Good quality Calicoes; only 4tc.
Other bargains too numerous to mention.
THE YOUNG RELIABLE,
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