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m a M-'-iSk. <?ort tu i UEhlSHKD WEDNESDAYS. VV?r. W. BRADFORD. {Muis.Tii?iv>ii ;r:ici: ?1 per y*ur. ' z~~\ Com.. m?i'.i.*i;w ou current subjects is > itivitfl, l>>it \vo do not nj{rt.H? to publish ' i Murouoicutious contaiiiiujr mmv ti^an ! : r.;i v,*i> a;:<l no msin.isibility is as ?.'tiiicwl for the views of <*orrospoudeytH. 1 a nit advert iaiiitr medium for L'UnrTiuovillo, Fort Mill, and Rock I ill !>u-iii' ss It >as"s Tun Touts in uasur- . jiassi'd. llntcs 1 tut<ln known on upplica- ' iio l to tlio pnbljslier. I.oivil Teloylioue No. 2(5. J U N E 20, i 000. Th Couuuercitil Club of Ilock Ilfll is j ii credited wit h the desire tobeooiyetbe i Tuniiuuny lfall of York county politics. j No intimation bus jet vouched u* an to ' who is to ho the Richard Urokoj- .of the elub.?Fort Mill Times. ii \ i? w of t ho fact, which myst by , J his tisnn bn \v? 11 known, that the peo- ' pie of Hock Hill have no disposition V. It'.i !i?\ nv t.i luiin ? 11 \* t liiitir tn tt'ifli "*V H ,v " "" I u c>k county politics, the above from \ the org,\u of oar sister town is very un- j fair ami unkind. The good opinion eulortaimsi bore of Fort 1-1 ill's worthy candidates marks the above publication ;.s mjwjse and without provocation. 'Ihe Commercial Club of Hock Hill is a I local in.-; it at ion, organized aloug opm;neiviul lijtcs, with no purixiso to dfs- : turh the bantam on her nest or the rooster on his roost. *?** The club has as well a social feature, but in 11 i wise is it expected or iutondud to be a ]Hilitieal organization. * # * IVe repeat therefore that The Times' Auditorial is luijust and unwise, and we would admonish the clever young editor that wh'ii lie is sumo years older iu j mrnalism he will agree with us that it is not, u wise thing to publish every I tdic rumor that may come to him, ohi*v ' piully when an uuotroudiiiK, on com* plaining neighbor is tlu? subject.?Rock Ilill Ilcrald. Our esteemed contemporary has unwill ingly misconstrued the spirit in which the article in Inst week's Times was written. It was not the purpose of the editor of this j paper to do our sister city an in- j justice. The wee bit of information, if information it was, regard- i >ng the political designs of the Commercial Club came tp us from a citizen of Rock Hill, a gentleman who should have known whereof he spoke. However, the disclaim er of T!i? Herald is sufficient to I warrant the belief that there was jio foundation in fact for the state- j jnent. In the future we shall profit by1 the admonition of The Herald, re- ' nieinbering, as William Cobbett' hns eaid. that "when yon write benr j constantly in mind that some one I is to read and understand what you j ^vrite." David B. Hill, of New Yorjc, is ' being considered as Bryan's running mate for the vice-Presidency. J i Hill is unquestionably one of the ; I lirninioaf 111/111 in r-?iil\li/-? l?fa In- i I day and his name on the ticket \ M would give it more force and magS -tisin than tluit of any other )nan who could be nominated. Ah B a statesman he standi* jioad and A phoulders above the othsr gentleB man who have been talked of in . connection with the nomination, aft lie iH the only man who ever bested B Tillman in the United States SenA jite. If the Democracy displays 81 enough judgment to nominate him H we will (airy New York, without ISa which defeat awaits us. rTlic pi ogress which tho South has boon making in cotton manu- ' factoring nugnrs well for tho future prosperity and advancement of tho Southern section. While there wore 7,1(50,000 cotton spiufllcH in Massachusetts at tho beginning of 1805, there was no Stnto pouth of Mason and Dixon's liue with a million. Now there are two, North and South Carolina, I L with over that number, thus | exceeding all tho New England j States excepting Massachusetts, I jElbode Island, nod Neyr Hamp| shire I , Tho vnluo of tho cottpn goods manufactured in the eight Southe ern States in ISSO was $1Q,173,222 and iu 1800 the returns showed n B^flj^saluc of cotton manufactures Breaching $10,1(55,071, or a gain of Bicnrly 250 per cept.. H B This splendid growth is hiring. Bug the South into prominence, ^^through the enhancement thus ..iiM.n I.. ..oli.iti.il I 2? i in urn K/iirii ai|iriii^u lliuqutries. Its promos# in nlso bringing it into cloder relation and 4 fearer uaicrstamKng pf the de* vclopiuent of the manufacturing interests which comprise so large a portion of the life ami piopperity of the nati/m. Furthermore, this grasp of conditions is shown liy the growing realization in the South of the need of trained craftsmen and educated workmen to conduct ita colossal maim factoring interests. Like textile manufacturers in foreign countries, manufacturers in the South nre recognizing that the systen of training workmen in the mill is ineffective, for the textile mill is on establishment who9e chief purpose is production and not instruction. Consequently they have been awake to the necessity of establishing textile schools, from which are to come trained workmen and educated engineers for the carrying on of their large and growing textile industrial enterprises. The lirst cotton trade school in ]?/> Ssnlli ll U*DL! licfnKliellOjl I r% 1 VldQ > mv ?^/u? ii ?? i?n v.o^Ui/1 iOUVU ill 1L'?'U iu connection with the Cloorgia School of Technology. Clemson College has also recontly opened a textile department in a building erected especially for that purpose. The rotten beef contracts which made fortunes for certain of Banna's monopolistic friends, but were directly responsible for the murder of unnumbered American soldiers in Cuba, M*ere finally fastened upon Alger. But it. is no secret that this indiscreet secretary was only a tool of Hanua and bis clique. To llnnnu and his friends were due the almost superhuman efforts to cover up this scandal and palliate the offense iu the eyes of the Americuu people. It was part of liannu's scheme for the re-eleotion of himself in the person of McKinley that no officer of the army or navy should be permitted to coii)6 out of the war with enough glory to pose as ?f i 1. - l- m H nu ui uie people. no wjis uot able to prevent the brilliant success of Dewey at Manila, but he did succeed in sacrificing Schley and promoting without the $hudo\v of justice the fortunes of Sump, son and the umvieldly Sbufter. Al the Netloeel Capital. Regular correspondence. Washington, June 18, I9rt0.? The Republican pretense that there is uncertainly about who will fill the second placo on tho McIviuley ticket is amusing. Boss liannii and Mr. McKinley have long ago pelleted the man, hut. the secrot has been well kept, as they wish the delegates to tho convention to be deluded into the belief that the nomination is theirs. The platform thftt will be adopted by the Philadelphia convention lma also been written, although the convention will go through the farce of appointing a platform committee to orennre it. The rJat. * * *-7" form wnH written by Postmnstor(ieneral Smith, who whs chosen for the task because he was a uewspapor man, but its authors are Boss Hanna and Mr. McKinley. They dictated it in the rough to Mr. Hirpth, who polished it up. In fact, the work of the Philadelphia convention could easily be done in three hours, but Hannt\ promised in return for that $100,000 contribution that the convention should sit three days, and the pyograni has been arranged on a three-days basis, not only to give the Philadelphians a chance to even up, but to try to work up a little enthusiasm among the delegates. Senator Chandler, who has a way of naggiug bin party and its leaders whgn the spirit moves hint, lms been throwing cold water on the Hunna.Mckinley crowd by pointing out in a publiahed interview the danger of Republican defeat this year, following ure aorno of Mr. Chandler's reasons: "We will be huft the most by the charges of extravagance and corruption. The next danger point is the oharge that the party is bound in chaius by the money power aud that its reins are held by millionaires, and the third thing to fear is groat loaaeH in the Philippines." He pointed ont exactly where defeat might meet the Re. publicans when ho sftid: "Suppose the war pows ne*t fail ia not jjooti or thai there ore labor troubles or that prosperity is threatened. What then'/ Illinois, Indiana, and even hiew York would slip away from us. It isabnrelv possi-, ljle that we may lose those tStntes oven without any succession of untoward events. In thai event, we j would lose the election.'' Mr. j Chandler is being roundly abused by the party bosses for saying u'hni i lutir Vmiii. cm. t.t.irt ......... ? *??>?. * VIM j V */CVI4 nnJ Ul*5 llUIUli^ themselves for weeks. The court of claims lias taken the Sampson side of the battle of' Santiago with a vengeance. It rle, cided that Snmpson comma tided the fleet during the battle and that the New York was engaged therein. Under that decision Sampson, who had no more to do with destroying I the Spunish fleet than the reader of this, will get $8,3d5 as his share I of priy.e money, while Schley, the man who really commanded the fleet, will get only about $.'1,000. The Republicans are so much alarmed over the outlook for the : Congressional elections that they will maintain campaign committee ' headquarters in both Washington and Chicago. Duplicating head*1 quarters will do thcni no good, as ' i they can not destroy the record made by tho Republican ad minis-i t ration. A sensational statement was ; made before the Industrial Com- j mi.-sion, now hearing testimony on matters relating to labor, by Mr. ! M. F. Thompson, secretary of the Southern Industrial Convention of 1 t J iiuntaville, Ala., ami a bitter opponent of labor unions, who said: ! "Labor organizations are to-day the greatest menace to this government that exists inside or outside the pale of our national domaiu. j Their influence for disruption and disorganization of society is far more dangerous to the perpetua-! tion of our government in its pur- ; ; ity nnd power than would be the , hostile urray on our borders of the 1 armies cf the eutire world combined." That is probably the most, extreme opinion of its kind ever i publicly uttered in this country, i it was listened to by some of the! labor loaders, who Id tend to answer ; it in their testimony before the commission. Col. George C. Gorham, a life1 long Republican ami for years sec- : rotary of the Senate, expresses the 1 opinion that Mr. McKinley will be defeated if every Democrat in the United States refrains from voting : next November. Speaking of the political outlook, he said: "Mv cor respoudence is extensive, representative, and frequent with nil sections of the country and I .believe 1 aui telling you the truth i when I say that if the election | were held to-morrow Mr. McKinley would not carry half a dozen States. 1 have been watching national campaigns for a good many years and if the Democrats can't sweep the country this year they ! i had better go out of business nnd turn the job of fighting the Re' publicans over to somebody else." | View* of the Candidates. In order that tho readers of The Times may know how the different gubernatorial candidates stand pn the liquor question, the following extracts nre taken from speeches made by them at Orangeburg la6t Thursday. Air. Gary's attitude on the question of pensioning exi Confederate soldiers we have also thought worthy of reproduction: Governor McSweeney. The liquor question in this cam- | i paign perhaps overshadows all others. For three successive elections ! the people have indorsed tho l)is- ! pensary. It is giving bettor satisfaction now thau it has ever done. , The charge that Dispensary con-! stables go around armed and ready , to shoot dowp people is not now j true, as those tpen are not now so objectiouuble. Prohibition can not apd will not he enforced. Prohibition was tried in the iiiterret/niimi when the Dispensary was closed by the courts, and the State was floodod with blipd tiger whiskey. A gentleman in Portland, Me., wrote uie n few days ago asking for 1 information about the Dispensary, as they wanted a better thing than | Prohibition. Ii has proved a fail , 111 v nuvn * vi Pfivt nucuvici bl ICll* Wo had Prohibition whon the Dispensary was declared unconslitui tionql and everyone remembers [ how wliiskoy was openly sold. Bm U.-i j I ry c 'CK , t ay ] and whiskey couiil be easily U>- J taiiicd. AVii.li a prohibitory ?vv i yon would not only have friv w.'s- 1 key, but you \v uul have eucolraueuient. ; ; Cot. J is. A Hoyt. No?mnn linn yet 1 rcn found Vargue that lite morals <>i: the pec; A' i uve intrinsically benefitted by til sale of liquor. It was mwrHrgui j , in the clays of the salooin that th* ^ improved the morals or pi\ molt the righteousness of any romnni nitv.nnd the mere chaigv ? [' moth od in the tale does not and can no alter the situation in ti is i npeci. The State engaging in tli s unholy traffic does not transmute the X brand of "chemically pur *" in o an agency for ihe j im;.; !ii>:i *.?f virtue and morality among the sons of South Carolina. The elevation and improvement of society are not involved in the increased consumption of liquor by the ci.iv. us of the blate, nor uoea it U na to D. in^ peace ami happiness to the homes of the humble or the rich. The sale of liquor is admitted 011 nil sides to be an evil ami only an evil, and it is not diminished in any respect because the sovereignty of the State is thrown around the t rathe. Mr. A. Howard Patterson. Colonel Hoyt, the nominee of the Prohibition convention, in tinplat form which ho wrote and which was adopted by the convention last month stated that Neil Dow, the preat Prohibition leader of the State of Maine, said that tin* people of Maine saved by Prohibition over $21,000,000 a year, and that at that time, after they had had Prohibition for almost halt a century, they sold clandestinely about one million dollars. Whorens under the Dispensary law ouly $1,788,425.80 was sold lawfully last year ! l'? a i /^i I! fill. 1_ r r j i 111 ooutii v aronua. xuiuk. ol 11: A Prohibition State for forty years selling $1,000,000 worth of liquor a yenr. Therefore we have more Prohibition in South Carolina, uu- i tier the Dispensary law, than they have in Maine, with a law against j the sale of liquor. The attorney-general's report shows that during the year 1SU8 there wore over 1,000 indictments' for the violation of the law in Maine. If there were over 1,000 iudietinouts, how many \iolutiot.u of the law wore there that never came to light? Colonel Iloyt says in effect: "Let us all, all opponents of the Dispell- j sury, go together as far as we can, and when we have gone far enough iu * ..... u? ucoti wy int- uuichine, which is the chief imped iinent to Prohibition, then lot. us agree, as wo can, upon a plan which will give Prohibition a major part ??f the territory wasted from the common enemy." Now what do you think of tins, you who nre Prohibitionists from principle? Hero is the candidate of the Prohibition paity favoring a return to the adorn system in some counties and Prohibition in others. What is it. alt for? The man who does it simply wants office. Charleston, Columbia, (J reonville, and Spartanburg may wish the license system, and that would be a winning card to play. Mr. Frank 11. (jary. What does Colonel lloyt advo- j cate? A bastard Dispensary plan, j lie advocates maintaining the dis- 1 pensaries with all their expensive machinery, with all their salaried officers with nil the oiniort unit ies ^ ? ; t i for rottenness which he so elo- i quently portrays. And for what? To sell for sacramental, medicinal, and scientific purposes. Is this what the people of SSuulh Carolina want? Is this what you want V Co you want to go deep down in your pockets to maintain the i.ispoinaries for the purposes named? Thiis what must be done,or else blind timers will run riot over the land. This Is the moaning of such Prohibition as Colonel Iloyt advocates. i was a member of the Legislature that enacted tho Dispensary law. 1 have been a member of: each succeeding Legislature. lily j honest desire has been to r* move the objectionable features and to enforce it in the inter* sts of the morals of the country. It seems to mo to be an unwise and shortsighted policy to so reduce the i constabulary force as to make it oossible for blind tirrersto flourish I ? ? . . na they do; and when this is attempted to be excused on the ground that it saves money, il i seems to me that the intention ?>f t li o 111 (if iki out i p..lir Aj I n t\. I uu; 11 I'liuu i) | n uni uini it it* used as a menus of making money. I am told, my friends, that in some of the counties since the constables are removed the blind timers hnve sprung up ho thickly m actually to starve out one another. Another matter which in mv judguieut demands gv^r cu:n';-:t and jest attentions is the pension to iisai'le*.! hcilti^ci'8. The constitu.ion requires that a liberal appio[iriM'.ion bIihII each year be made lor pensioning indigent Coiifederite soldiers and their indigent widows. The Confederate army was made up largely of poor peo- i |jle, men who lett tliedr wives and ! L'hiuiren without bread and without protection, but commending ' .> . . a... i. ,.f .. r?i ' lUUIU Ml I ll'J I\?? 'I'lUK "* ?* ll'VM IIUI , Grod they shouldered their muskets und went forth to answer duties j call. In hunger, barefooted, and ! in taps the Confederate soldier has laid v. debt anon us whk.h we can i never repay. AVill we be parsitnonious in our settlement with himV Shame upon us if we are. I favor a more liberal appropriation and a : more equitable distribution of the pension fund. . ? Sam Jones on ihe Negro. In a roeont letter to the Atlanta Journal, Sam Jones says some i jointed things about the "negro j using ground." After reviewing j the past of the negro in the South Mid saying things amusing and | sensible and harsh, he adds: "For the better element and beth t class of negroes I have always j nuil the protounuest sympniny una respect. I have more respect today for a decent negro than 1 have tor n dirty white man. # * ? The best negroes I know in Ueorgiu to-day were never in a school- i house and were born and raised to , manhood and womanhood before they had the right to vote. There is no place where an educated negro can find room to work in any > Southern State, unless it is as a ; teacher or as a preacher or in the ] chaiugang. Those are the only three places that nro open to an educated negro. * * * The negro is to blame largely for this state of things, for if thenegrohud , realized that the best white people i of the Houth were his l>est friends ' and he had quit ganging with the j liquor crowd and hail let Yankee- : Dooble alone he would have been 1 much better off to day. For the good negroes there is room in the J hearts of the best Southern people and they will be protected by law and maintained. It was really pitiful to see the negro look on the white primary a few days ago. He | stood around unemployed by the i court-house clique, undrenched by | the jug crowd, and he really looked like an orphan,*' That is all very near the mark, j Sain shoots off bund but he hits. He id for getting rid of u11 white j men who either buy of nell a vote. He sees that there is a natural race prejudice ngaiust nil social equality I and Bays: "Separate seats in street cars and separate coaches in trains i for white and black teach us that i socially they can't mix and when-' ever there is mixing of the races, at the polls or in the parlor, it's the lowest down whites and the meanest negroes doing the mixing." A STUDY IN OIL If you are not a Kerosene customer of ours wo advise you to try a gallon, and if it does net please you better than what you have been buying, you need not come back ngnin. We know it to be better, because our customers? nnd they nro good people?say so, and it costs us more money than common oil, yet wo sell it at the same price?lo cents per gallon. We can save you a lot of work, worry, i:.._ :r 141114 Vt'AtUSUU Ul BJJlilt il you w.11 let us. W. 11 AUDREY ii CO. Epratt Machine Go. Uilck, Lumber, Laths, Lime, Shinglen, Uuildlnj* Supplloi, and House Rttings ol all kinds. Contractors ard builders. Estimates on all work furnished promptly. Leon Steam Laundrj OH ART.OTT1? \T O Equipped with tho newest and heat machinery. Wo employ only skilled white people, and wo do not take nej^ro laundry. Ship* monta made troih Fort Mill Thursday morning and laundry returned Saturday morning. B, \\\ Bradporp, Agent. A I f SHOES, I I SJ'0f3, | f slok We r.ro selling thM Rhoe1^ of the town. All kindsaof Rhoes and Slippers for men, Amen and children?for old aud yA rig. We care not how tender thB f?>ot, we can give it ease?nor &r shnpe, wo can fit it. Shoes <> all the lasts, C, D, E, EE, nncaW. fc*, como where you can pot i?*but yt>u \ want, and he sure this stamp up. pears on the sole: Yours in Business for Bulnesa. ; MEACHAM & E#S. 1 P. S. Hot weather? Yes*ery, but we have the goods to (mil the weather. Did yon see those p| itty Lawns, Dimities nnd Organdi at church Sunday? Now, didu'tLey look nice and cool? Well,lwe have plenty of thorn. Come lnd see. M. H "" "CITY MAEKETj | Is where you can find nly i kind of Frosh Ment you writ I nt any time. We are nlwhij^ * there and we always have whit you want, provided you wait the choicest quality. Our prices are reasonable for FIRST-CLASS MEATS. "We won't soil you any other kind. Send uh your orders or Telephone No. 27. We guarantee prompt attention and satisfactory treatment. FR*" FISH f^er} Saturday. iR\ (J. SMYTHE & SONS. The Arlington Hotel, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Beat Lighted and Ventilated Hotell in the City. 8 1 A. A. SPRINGS, Proprietor. 1 | ! i | A \V?1! (iroouicd Man. Notl;in^ is so (list iuctive iu a gentle- ! man as his linen. lie it * broadcloth, or I homespun iu which a Mian is dressed, it 1 is his linen?his collars, cntTs, and shirts i which display his individuality to tlio ' observing?aud who am so quietly ob- . serving as women? Curtains, blankets, table linen, bed 1 ! linen, &e. Wo also clean, prosn, and' dyo suits at mo<lcrate rates. ! l''or ease of mind and comfort of body. I be sure that your "laundry goes to tho 1 Model Steaui Lauiidrv. Charlotte. N. C. t J. L. flcfcLM ANAY, A|ciit, Fort Mill, S. C. HAND BROS., \ TJYlf*n # TTT1 A?riTi MM&UMM, 1 ROCK HILL, S. 0, DEPOT STKEPT, y