Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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IF*,Tort Mill Timcii I'HIV ilSH F.D WKT3NEUDAYS. Win- R. BR AOF-OWl*. ioription j?rice $1 jx r year -- lrrespouclenco on current subjects ii t?>?1 imt wo flck nnr n<r**tuk t n itiihllul Ideations contaimu^r more thai ds, and no reHpoiiHibility is as or the views of correspondents advertising mediniu for Char InoVillo, Fort Mill, and Find iness honses The Timks is unsur Rates made known on upplicu Ihe publisher. Telephone No. 26. MARCH 21, l'.KX). IO THE PUBLIC, jvitig that Fort Mill is n of sufficient proportions jtually, numerically, and ally, to support t? newspape] decided to again undertake iblication of The Times at this pl.ice. [During the early part [%^ a small paper in Mill, The Oatawban, which r a life of a few months, was ctij|g^d and itH name changed to Ieb. After running The r n year 1 accepted a positside of the State. Since e the paper has been d by several persons imea has been run very nt^y, my purpose in ndto which is only to ask jmwhom the support of r must come not to make us sacrifice of my underor the shortcomings of I shall make an honest publish a representative } far as my limited ability it, and if 1 fail of success idertaking 1 shall return y collected in advance for etc. RADFORD. 's^^r <K^H ?M?U elsewhere, there a small number on Democrats believe, err a'fiect to believe, success will no alight upon ^fg**leff??rts of the party in the next || sidrntial election. Thoae who IP^'wr *? ^',ze retrospectively on the ^^^Btiorial campaign of 1896 will retin* doubt and glooDft^hioh ( Brvadod the ininda of even the pat jsar^gaine Democrats for .a v':^? months immediately prior tc Hv Chicago Convention. Thert Jtjre few, precious few, o\^ opinion I ml the nominee, whoever lie night he, stood the least chance ol Inaction. That they reckoned kit bout a host is a matter of weltknown history, and the tninnlia thereof need not here be considered farther than to any that Mr. Hrynn received very nearly seven millions of votes?a greater number than hud hitherto been cu-t any American for any officeand this, too, notwithstanding the fact that practically every banker, capitalist, corporation magnate, and Federal officeholder in the country, and especially in tin North, was ai rayed against hi in, the latter classification including ex-President Cleveland, who employed every influence within lib grasp to encompass the defeat ol ** __ r> rr\i a a* ? * nv lur. myan. iuai iney succeeded V in defeating the Democratic nominee only alter the expenditure ol more than eighteen millions ol dollars and by the adoption of coercion, bribery, duress, fraud, ant | every other species of corruptioi is likewise a matter of history which it wore unnecessary to dwel upon at this lime. During tin past year, however, a vast majority of those who relused to suppor the candidates nominated at Chi cago be< ause of the financial plan! in the platform have returned t< H the party, and instead of a discord ant, disunited Democracy we nov have a harmonions, compact organ Klizntiou?one which will enter tlx nataffimpniun this year in a bette Hinnncial condition than in a lonj Hime nnd determined to win. Orde Hi as taken the place of cfiaos al ^ Hlong tin? -liii<\- and those who an ?V;Mfete h repetition of the earn results attended the firs " E&* 8^ru,(K^e right agaius will have arr^jiporluuity o King their opinion wli^u nex develops a l)eui<tarfcli< : lllil HaU women Ian f v* ; ' * j i he e)>t the financial question ant! linn: lute not been r. political issue during t hpresent p;ouerat on which has ujjjitaud the public in ml to Much an extent as is the ^ 'rust question. Pick i p any scei uini newspaper of recent date, no 1 matter from what section of the . country it may I ave been pub lr-lird, and ir: its eolaiars nrr suit' - 'o be f?iuin 1 more or loss space devoted to this all-important subject. Week in and week out, aiticle after article is put to print iu d< nuneiatit n of this Colossuslike iniquity, whiv. li, not dissini1 ilnr to the mighty octopus. is cer' taiuly and rnpidlyentwining itself ' around ovety American industry. The ] rotcsts of the people, how', ever, seem to avail nothing?Iheir righ.s are daily spat upon and the statu es of the United States are being violated and defied from one end of the country to the other. 13y the formation of these power1 t'al corporations thousands of men, women, and children have been and are being thrown out of employment and denied the inherent right to earn an honest living; 1 stockholders are constantly evading taxes which they should be forced to pay; and the people are compelled to submit to an exorbitant increase iu price of wellnigb all of the necessaries of life. One can not qn 11 to tflind half a dozen articles of food, etc., which are not higher intrinsically than six _ 1A .V . r uiuiuiiM ago. L?unnguie pasi lour years a greater number of trusts have been organized and operated than in the whole former existence of our Government. In the year 18tU) the trusts wengreatly on the increase, and on March 20 of that year a list of the trusts wns published in a New York newspaper. It included 1(52, with the enormous capitalization of $2,083,lbl,407. Had the Anieriiau people followed the wholesome advice of the immortal Jefferson by "lighting corruption and tyranny before they have got hold of us," instead of sleeping at a time ! when all should have been up and doing, they would not. now be face to face with a condition in which ': they are being bound hand and foolflU bondage akin to that of Snnpsoifc-v As to the remedy, even , our lenders ae 4*V to k^ow not what to do, since the powers that i be n*e averse to 44 killing the goose that laid the golden egg in campaign time.'* It would appear, therefore, that the only hope for the future lies in the election of a Democratic Prtsident on the Gth day of next November. Perhaps j it ia true, as someone has said, tmu " trysts have neither bodies lo ' ho kic ked nor souls to be dimmed," hut with a Democratic Executive in the White House, which would mean an Attorney-General of the United States with a backbone not made of a cotton string, the stockholders of every trust doing business in this country would be * ... . prosecuted for violation of the I anti-trust law. p "(rod Rave me this crown, lot him lieware who would take it from 1110."? Napoloon Bonoparte, 181X); William Mo Kinley, 1900. ' 1 History repeats itself, but on re1 verse lines. Napoleon built a uh> tion out of the fragments of tin ' empire; McKinley ih building an empire on the ruins of n republic. '' Napoleon was an imperial demo1 orat; McKinley aims to bo a re publican emperor. The former is ; logical, the latter an absurdity. > An ocean of blood was expended to settle the proposition that the 7 sovereign States could not secede " from the Federal Union, but tak?' ing advantage of a lack of prece1 dent prohibiting the Federal power * from seceding from the union of r States, William McKinley has cut ' loose from the irrent contract of " the Constitution and. is establish0 intf n sovereignty separate nn<l ' distinct from tie const il lit ion and ' indepoi (1 -lit of the union of sov' ereigu Suites. Tins iH to create * an empire, an autocracy, and main'' tain it at the expense of a tree people, who cnu have no share in k tte government. It is a restoration v of the burden of taxation without \ f v e.s ;t?r -\v overboard with the tea in 1'o.ston hnrboi. It < 1 ill not reijuiro the pen of Henry Looinis Nelson to touch 11 it* impeiinistic policy of Mr. MeKiiney and the Republican paity on the quick. All the words and arts of the Pr? sident and his mouthpiece. Gro.-venor of Ohio, on tlit" floor of Congress demonstrate it. Hut if is alleged by Mr. Kelson that "tin; President looks forward to benefiting the people of our new possessions by expanding the blessings of Protestant Christianity and civilization by means of commerce. He is a thorough believer in the moral and in lei- . lecfual value of commerce." It in J that combination of God and Matiir inon denounced by the Kedeeitier. And says the Milwaukee News: "The canting hypocrisy of 'benevolent assimilation' deceives n<> one but those who deceive themselves. It is greed that ptompts the shedding of blood in the Philippines. It is greed that, is engineering the great financial and industrial combinations, by which the masses will be held up by the throat and reduced to a condition but little removed from chattel slavery. It. is giced that whispers we are slaying our fellowman in the Philippines to save i his soul, while greed is prepaiing to steal his lauds. It is greed that talks lightly of manifest destiny and the mission of civilization,"' "Who said, 'Hunt down oar flag?' No man wnose warm bloorl is American! But if they say it waves o'er lands Where liiun in arms as conqueror stands, 'Tis but a false, pretentious rag? 'Tis not our ling, 'tis not our lln^! Our Jlng must wave, where'er it bo. For Justice, Right, and Liberty." ?Selected. There is not an industrious mnn. however poor he may he, who can not afford to subscribe for at least two newspapers. But grant that there are men whose circumstances tire such that it is incompatible with their interests to hike more than oue paper. The thought naturally arises, What paper should * that be? lias he more to gain by the welfare of his immediate neighborhood or that of a community in which at most he has no more than a cursory interest? If' the former, it ip his bouudou duty to support the local paper. Every man should consider himself primarily obligated to build up and sustain the i nterprises which contribute to the growth of the community of which he is n part, and of all enterprises the local newspaper is the best. It does more for a town and its people than any other agency. No town can enjoy satisfactory prosperity without a representative paper loyally sustained by appreciative citizens, and thoughtful citizens will stand by their editor in his efforts to enlarge the influence of his paper. Let us see to it that our home paper has the united support of our home people. In helping the editor, you help yourself. l)r. T. J. Strait, of Lancaster, sent word to the editor of this paper a few days ago that he will be a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Congress in this district this year. As yet it can not ho foretold with any degree of certainty who will receive the namI ination, but there are those who claim that on account of tin- Doctor's arraignment of McLaurin two years ago he lost a great many votos in the Inst Congressional primary which he will be able to command this year, for the reason that McLaurin's recent anti-Democratic proclivities have entirely vindicated every charge made by the Doctor. En pnssnnt it might bo observed that shooting stars is 110 more stupid employment than that of certain newspapers in this State which are making etVort to explain away the mistakes of our junior Senator. Fort Miil is a representative South Carolina town of 1,800 population, and there are not in this place a dozen electors who will ever again vote for "curly-haired Johnnie." A good thing?The Times %du?jU Hi jjWQv&w ^ >r>V> s fiS, \ 1 1 >'io^fcs."? <>i Die you'll. Thirty voars ago the SfontU was cripplod ami poverty stricken, says the Manufacturer's Record. Its natural resources of wealth were unsurpassed. Hat it was without strength, opportuuity, or implements to develop them. Iini>erfect menus of transportation arid | communication, a disorganized labor system, the ranks of the most vigorous element of the population depleted, practically no ready money, and the absence of the oat side of the helping hand were enough to appall a more sturdy people. 'Hut from wreck and - t rain th South lias emerged. energetic, progressive, sanguine. To-day it has one bihion dollars invested in maunfact uriujj. ?. it^h nil annual out put vuluod at oil' and a ilialf billion dollars, and paying three lAjumlrcd audjifty millions of dollars in usages. Its cotton mills, jilh ti\o milliojn spindles, representing |K:i investment 1 of one hundred and twenty-live million dollars already coafrttw yearly one million four hundred thousand 1$VlctMf jetton. It is producing about two and a lhftf million tons of pig iron a year, forty million tons of coal, from ten to eleven million bales of cotton, probably ten billion feet of lumber, and seven hundred and fifty million bushels of grain, and its railroads, steadily improving and increasing in length, have already lifty thousand mileage. The South has accomplished much. It has much to do before its full growth shall have been attained. That it will be equal to its mighty task is proved by its present lustiness. An " Hello*' Ulrl's Suggestions. If you have a telephone in your ofilco or store, call up "Central" and then go wait on a customer. Take your time in answering your bell, or what is hotter, ?lo not answer it at all, but in about half an hour ring up nu?l ask who called you, and got mad if "Central" has forfait ten who it was. bhe has nothing to do but remember. Hung the receiver big end up, as in this way it gets full of dustBung ou tne transmitter with a load , pencil as though you intend to knock it through the wall. This invariably makes it talk better. When through talking, drop the re- i ceiver or throw it down. This allows the batteries to run out and breaks the strands in the receiver cord. . Talk out of the door or window, anywhere but in the telephone; better turn your back to the 'phone, as your voieo is apt to got to the transmitter. King in "Central's" ear every timo you call; so pleasant, you know. Ojh'u the generator box with a knife ?>1 an u.\r aim taKC il hhik at tilings. XI the interior does not look right pull oil a fo\V wires and leave the door open. This iinproves the service wonderfully. Throw uietal ink stands, etc.. 011 top of tho telephone, which will short circuit your instrument, and then go to sleep. No one can call you up. Never ring oft'when through talking as that wonld notify "Contra 1" you had finished. Let her guess at it. Never Bpenk kindly to the operator. She is more used to being railed names.?Unknown newspaper. Croker on Trusts. On tlio eve of his departure for Europe, Mr. Richard Croker, Tammany llall chief, published an interview in the Now York Journal in which he gave his views on trusts, from which wo make the following extracts : The trust business has gone Uh> far. Look at the country. Nobody evor saw the like of it before. McKinloy heads the biggest trust that you could conceive?the biggest that could live on earth. It's a trust for the political I exploitation of the United States. . Everything is organized to make money out of the country. The cabinet is a trust cabinet from top to bottom, i Every man iu it is a trust promoter or a trust tool. l^ook at tho Hug of this country! They are making it a cloak for stealing and a trust advertisement. The people will not stand that. Tho Army is recruited to make rich trusts richer. The Navy is managed and juggled to reward trust servants and to punish the cue- , mies of the iHilitieal trust of the United States of America. Talk of political rottenness! Talk about corruption! Nothing has ever equalled this. It was bad enough when the Republicans used their own money to tight Democrats. Rut here is a trust government robbing evory man in the. land, evory Democrat and every other man, and using the stolen money to keep those Democrats from any share in j tne .National uovernuiont. Thoro will bo tronblo for tho trust thieves, do not douht it for one minute. lxx>k at the pis trust. They make the prices what they like. They roh this Democratic city [New York] and then use the money to keep the State Republican, to bay Republicans into oil,cc, aud to reward tho private law concerns of Republican potentates. The impudence of tho trust Republicans would amaze anybody. ' Tho crops are good. First they claim credit for that. Thov claim the rain and tho sunshine that the ?ood (lixl sends it#; isu t that blasphemy' Ami its soon as thoy liuvo , pfor through claiming the crops ns tho work of MeKinioy awl his trns; cabinet, they turn in a ad steal the crops for K>V'. f-V3 ' ' - } There s n ?n!k t:*ns* to milk the farmer's cow ami rob thtTfhin babies in the city. There's a trust to poison you with cigarettes, a trust in your kerosene lamp, anotlier in your sugar bowl, ami a eoflln trust, too, which makes sure that even the last cent shall not get away. Do yon think the American l>eoplo work hard and bring up their children simply to fatten trusts? Do you thiuk tliey will lead the lives of negroes in slavery time, wliea the children were brought into the world ouly to make the slave owner richer? Mo. sir! This is no country dedicated to producing fools to enrich trust owners. The trusts will iind that out in the next election. What they always forget is that the rest of creation does not consist of fools. The time kvill soon come when peoplo will look buck in amazement and wonder that the people ever stood it. To let lou;o 10,000 licensed burglars on the country, forbidding policemen to touch them, as this Administration forbids officials to touch trust thieves, would bt not onetenth as bad as this wholesalo official robbery. It's the size of the country and the difficulty of getting concerted action that has let the thing go so far. Din tut' stopping iniii' mis come, aim this county will fnul it out in the noxt election. Political Potpourri. (). L. Sciiumport, of Newberry, was in Spartanburg attending court last Thursday. He has announced his intention of entering the race for governor again. The indications now are lluit the voters of tliat county will divide on 110 political lines, bat that they will vote for their clioico for governor011 personal grounds. It will not be asked whether a candidate is a reformor or conservative; a silverite or a gold man, an imperialist or a non-expansionist, a friend of the dispensary man or a Prohibitionist. So far as Spartanburg is concerned it will be a go-as-you-please race, with the probability tliat a nameless old friend of candidate* will grab the hindmost. A special to the Atlanta Constitution rn.m r n.......... on... 1.. j:..? ? v in\ chiji n. xuv uiui^uui ion i'iiusetl by the jiassugc of tho Potirto Ricau tiiritV bill by the lower house of Congress is possibly greater uniou^ the Republicans in the West and Northwest than the Democrats, ami many of tho former, among them the stauchest supporters of President McKiuley, do not hesitate to say that if something is not done to remedy the great wrong done the Republicans will surely lost) Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Wisconsin, and Minnesota?in fact practically every Statein the West and Northwest? in November next. Whon snob friends of the President as H.H. Kolilsaut, editor and proprietor of tho Times-Herald, a man who has refused to uccept anything at the hands of the Administration, although he could have hud liis choice of what MeKinley had to give, come out in such unqualified condemnation as was expressed in The TimosIleraid's editorial this morning, it is apparent that the President has few supiHirters in liis course in the West. NOTICE.?There will be a meetiug of thi> Daughters of tho Confederacy on next Monday evening, March 2d, at 11 p. 111. at the Presbyterian manse. r"? "CITY MARKET " Is where you can find any kind of Fresh Meftt you want nt any time. We are always there and we always have what you want, provided you want the choicest quality. Our prices are reasonable for FIllST-CLASS MEATS. 117 ... ti ii >y o won i Hi-ii you any oiner kind. Send us your orders or Telephone No. 27. We guarantee prompt ntientiou and satisfactory treatment. FRESH FISH every Saturday. IRA V. SMYTHE K SONS. 1 S A f THE TIHES OFFICE YOU CAN SECURE FIRSTCLASS JOB PRINTING OF EVERY OESCRIP- t TlON AT REASONABLE PRICES, s \ rtsPACT ON OR NO Cll vROM. oiva us YOUR ORDERS. | 1 V # '"THE OLD RELIABLE STORE." We tliunk our friends and customers for their loyalty to us during the last few years of low-priced col ton unci con equent hurd times; | but we feel there is a better time coming to all of us in n financial way and we confidently assert that we are hero to merit a continuance of your patronage. Sensm in and season out, we carry the stock of this town. Every department of our establishment is fil.ed with new goods, and a careful inspection ^ will pay you. We allow no iinate competitor to undersell us. That's one of the principals?a material one to you?011 which our business is run; and our stock, which comprises very nearly everything necessary to the comfort of umn, is easily the largest between Char.otle and Rock Hill. This is the time of year to buy GARDEN SfcEDt-C^ L. t SEED POTATOES, /\ a TC morn ? .v/t f f-* uniO, rCMlLltC^! ClIC* Ours are sold at bottom prices. I I Besides carrying in stock ' largest line of Heady-made ing in town, we are sole ageu the celebrated Continental ; itig Company in this place. We solicit trade from those who desire to buy on installments. Ac counts to be paid in the fail are offered, if j^ood collateral can bo yiveii. T. B. BELK, Prop. " The Otd Rcliale Store.*' I * Magic Stock Food Acts llko magic upon MORSES AND CATTLE. Mag c Poultry Fo d /lakes CHICKENS Healthy, prevents disease, and is a magical EOQ PRODUCER. They are the best articles of the kind sold, ior the principal reason that they cost the merchant more than others, but are sold to the Consumer for the' saiwk fricu as cheaper goods. Brash up your promises. Wo have all kinds of PAINTS, Ready-mixed in cans, from a pint to a gallon, or the raw Ingredients for Faint to be made to order. W. B. ARDRKY & CO. Headquarter.; for fresh garden seeds. MEA.CHA.M & EPPS Have two buyers in New York Cltv at this time purchasing their spring stock of . DRY (JOODS, NOTIONS, SH ES, mats, and MILLINERY, 1 which lines have won for them such a wlds reputation. Their (IKpUv tht* season ^ will surpass anylhlii); of the kind ever before undertaken Ira t-ort ?1<II. A?fO' fllllliiBra, ^1the. are Unable tn 'Init Word* ,*&s| i.? the Eoelifh language t?ex- i9 press the be*ut v and grandeur fl oi this line of giiod* I h<v c x- 56 lend a c<?idi<l invitation to to examine tln*tr sprint: stock. Charlotte and Kock fliil caa uut eclipse It. mth riTT a n r o -n lM lttJDH.UJlili.Yl cz r^MMHBMBM ; I 41 :