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TARIFF REFORM. Most Important National Istua Says Hon. John Gary Evans. HE GIVES HIS VIEWS On th# Olher More Important Issues of tho Campaign?Favors Immigration to Meet Htnte Problems? IV? Print Below His FormuI Announcement of His Candidacy for the United States Senate. S'>metime ago Kx-Gov. John Gary Etius foruiully declared his Intention to be a candidate for the United States Senate in the primary this Summer in a letter, which we publish below: Enui's Announcement: The following is the announcement Governor Evans gave out: It has not been deemed necessary heretofore for a candidate for the nomination of United States Senator In a Democratic primary to write a platform, especially before the assembling of the State and National conventions of the party. 1 would thei efore, simply state thut I am a candidate for the nomination of United States Senutor by the Democratic party of South Carolina, but as others have published what they stand for, a word from me may not be inappropriate. I believe the most important issue to be pressed before the people is, that of tariff. I have in former campaigns endeavored to show the in- J iqult.v and injustice of the Republican policy so fur as the South is J concerned and I shall continue to ( do so. We are still an agricultural peo- J pic, cotton raising and cotton manufacturing are our principal industries ( and will ever be. These industries J furnished the United States las', year ( a balance in trades without which our country would huve been a debtor to ' the rest of the world instead of a creditor. Since the war between the ; j United States, the South from lta cot- {j con crops alone has brought into the States approximately fourteen ' million of dollars of foreign Rold. j1 TblH sum represents enouRh money ' to purchase at their assessed valuations for taxation today the States of Maine, New Hampshirq. Vermont, ; Connecticut. Rhode Island, Pennsyl- 1 vunia, New Jersey, Delawnre, and i Ohio and a surplus sufficient to add i 100 per cent. w? the taxable property c of South Curolina. If this money could have been kept at home the | South would be the richest country < In the world. Where hns it gone? i The answer is easy, to fatten the pro- i tected interest^ of the States enuni- i erated. Our farmers who manufuc- i ture nothing have been forced to ' ( soli their cotton in Europe, compelled i to brinR back gold only to be robbed i< at thg custom house and forced to < purchase their ploughs, boots, shoes, i buttons, coats and supplies from home manufacturers at prices from . fifty to three hundred per cent, high- ! er than they could huve been gotteu I In the markets where tbe.v sold their cotton, and yet we are told thut the | Southern farmer is luzy and indol-p ent. The time hns come for the truth to be- preached and demand made for* fair treatment. The Republican party is fast be- i coming divided into two hostile camps on the tariff. New England is thoroughly developed, her manufacturers no longer monopolize the hbmo market, they are dependent now for dividends upon the surplus product which they are forced to sell in foreign markets where the Soufn sells her cotton. The Western jiuiniiMK'uii hum uccunic inc CXITIMUP high protectionist and Massachusetts Is now for free trade In the raw material, which she manufactures. Th? shoes we formerly bought In Massachusetts now come from Missouri. The factories hnve gone to the hides JuHt as they are coming to the cotton, and the Kast can no longer compete in the home market with the West. You cannot protect cotton so long as the home market consumes but one-third of the raw material. It Is our duty, therefore, to combine with the free traders of New Kngland and thus secure fair treatment for our farmers. Our cotton crop for the past year is estimated to bring into this country in foreign gold seven hundred mlllon of dollars, while our cotton manufacturers bring in only thirty two million. This condition should not he allowed to exist. We must manufacture at home every pound of cotton we raise and instead of exporting raw cotton cloth. Our prosperity will never be permanent until this is done. We should stand i l?y our cotton inanufacturers and demand for them fair treatment It is nn anomalous fact that England last year built more new cotton mills in three counties than were constructs in the entire outside world. Cotton , machinery can be purchased in Kncland fifty per cent, cheaper than the mills can buy in New England and yet we are forced by the iniquitous tariff policy to pay the price. The Southern cotton farmer and the Southern cotton manufacturer should no hand in hand into this fight for their interests are of the same. Tho ; Ramblers In cotton futures who attempt to fix the price of our crop be- , fore it is even planted, should be j outlawed and trented the same as , other criminals. Cotton is still kin,*. ( but he Is taxed to death and enslaved ( by a party intent upon making him pay the expenses of the government | and to fatten their insatiable tinea , cial cormorants. 1 believe, it is time , for the young Sonihernor to demand , a voice in the government of this na- ( tlon. The men who now control , the politics of our country wero not < in the Civil War and it is nonsense gad cowardly for the press of the . r IlLs . .-T* South to continue to print the fear of a so called rebel control as a Bcare crow to Southern brains and ambition. The most loyal Americans today live In the South and the fight now being made by the president of the United States against bis own party for honesty in business and governmental affairs and against predatory weulth and the cupidity of our mil lionaires and trust magnates finds its ablest champions in one section. Another Iquity that I shall endeavor to blot out. Is the pension policy of the Republican party. The ease with which every free booter and camp follower now gets hi* name upon the pension rolls is appulling. We have paid to Northern soldiers since the war ended $3,551,025,651.17 or enough to buy the States of Maryland. Virginia. North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia. Plorldfl Alnhomo 1 * - ?.? i>nDoisni|i|ji, ami Louisiana at their assessed value? for taxation. The South pays the major portion of this tax and gets nothing in return. We were not aggressors in the Civil War, the refusal of the North to acept the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States upon a constitutional question in the Dred Scott case was practically a nullification of that instrument and therefore, according to their construction, a declaration of war. The South fought in defense of the constitution. This is now accepted as ti ue by all writers of history and has practically been sustained by tho Supreme Court of the United States. The President who lies spent most of his life writing articles and books deflamatory of Southern statesmen and heroes, in his last message to Congress, he thus speaks of this conflict, "There is grave need of those stern qualities shown alike by ihe men of the North and men of the South in the dark days when each valiantly battled for the light -is il was given each to see the light. their spirit should be our spirit as we strive to bring nearer the day when greed and trickery and cunning shall be trampled under foot by those who light for righteousness that exBleth it nation." The Confederate soldier Liattled -for the light as given by the jnly source from whence it could come, the sun of the constitution the Supreme Court of the United States. Such being the case I shall iemand that the Confederate soldier tie treated as tho equal of the Federal soldiers and 'granted an equal pendon in his old age as a brother who Fought for the light as be saw It and is he was in duty bound to accept it Troni its only source the highest 3ourt in the Union. Finance*. Under our Constitution Congre.w ilnnn baa ? ..?u ? nv |/v/nci iu l.Ul 11 IllDUVy . I shall advocate an elastic currency, issued by the government and inlorsed by the entire resources of >ur country. The great trouble with this ques'.ion is the tendency on the part of jur financiers and statesmen to treat money as a commodity and n otas a medium of exchange. The idea of money being sold in the open market to the highest bidder like real estate ir mules and horses is something unique to the student of political economy and yet this is the spectacle we witness when a scare is produced in our financial centres. The volume of money cannot be arbitrarily fixed, its only regulator should be the volume of produce it Is snuposed to represent the amount of cotton, corn and manufactured products it is supposed to exchange and stand as a pledge for. The idea that money should have an Intrinsic value is unsound and absolutely antagonistic to the object and function of money. What we need is to go hack to first principles, to Adam Smith, instead of relying upon men. who never see anything but a dollar. to make the financial policy of this government men who look upon money as the only product of the country, we should consult men who manage the farms, the mills and the mines, which produce the real source of our wealth and who believe that monew is stamped by the government for the purpose of aiding them in exchanging their products. Then and not until then will we have a sound financial policy. Turn the money changers out of the temple and place therein honest men who produce something and the country will be safe. I Hill MMI.ll...--. 1.1- II... - * *' * J u|'|/vn. n >\i INV establishment of a central bank in Washington to handle the currency r>f our government. This Is Republican doctrine pure nnd simple and means ultimate monarchy and the centralization of government. Our experience with n central bank has been disastrous. It was corrupted to defeat Andrew Jackson for president. Thrice has it been tried, corrupted and reputiated and I do not believe there is a Republican in congress who has the temerity to propose It. to say nothing of its advocacy by a South Carolina Democrat. The Panama Canal will soon be completed and with if will return the Importance and commercial advantages of our ports. Charleston, Port Royal nnd Georgetown. I shall stand for their opening and improvement. for 1 believe that our exports of cotton and manufactured products should go through our own ports. The day is not far distant when we should manufacture all the cotton we produce. When if does come those man 11 fact 11 reft nrnHnots ?hnnli! be warehoused, sold and exported from Charleston and our other ports. To this end the manufacturers of our State and financiers of our port cities should co-operate to make our mills independent of outside capitalists. We must hasten the day when the agents of the outside world will rome to our rorts to buy and ship rotton goods instead of raw cotton. To bring about this result we must have an increase in Industrial workers of character. We cannot build mills to stand idle for want of operatives. Already our labor supply is selow the demand We cannot stagnate. we must go forward as other 3tates will take our place. The negro has been tried and j nroved a failure as an artisan, lie , DODGED THE ISSUE. 1 STATE SUPREME COURT ON CALHOUN COUNTY ELECTION. i A Decision Thnl Decides Nothing Except Thai Disfranchised Voters Have No Redress in tlio Courts. The formal opinion of the State Supreme Court in the Calhoun County election has been filed and we are sorry to say that it is an opinion that does not do much credit to that socalled higher court- The case is that of Parler and others against State Treasurer Jennings and others as members of the State board of election canvassers. i 111? i-uun hi ilie opinion written by Justice Gary, holds tliut the questions of fact in these cases are left to the State board of canvassers to decide. The hoard has found that If all the electors residing in the territory of the new county, but whose polling precincts were outside had voted at the new county election the result would not have been changed. The court declares that It is not necessary to pass on the constitutionality of the statute in question in order to protect the right of the electors to take part in the election, as the Court follows the well settled rule not to take into consideration the constitutionality of an Act of the General Assembly unless it is necessary to do so. The action of tlie j State Hoard of canvassers is tliereI fore upheld. It will be recalled that there is a ) conflict between the provisions of the j Constitution and the Act of the Genleral Assembly in regard to the right I to vote in new county elections. The j Const itution declares that all qualitlI ed electors residing within the proposed new county shall vote while the status provide for the opening of the polling places at only these precincts within the territory, whereas. as in this case of Calhoun County, the polling places of certain qualified electors who reside in the terril tory are outside of the territory. The | Court does not undertake to settle this conflict. It will he seen that the Court completely dodges the issue and leaves the decision of a most important ques tion to a lot of men who knows no more about it than n lot of catfish does about Sunday. When the question was before the State Hoard of Canvassers, and after the question had been argued pro and con for , several hours by the learned counsel on both aids, one of the bonrd grave- , ly enquired if all the people in Or- , anjreburg County had not heen a I- ( loved to vote on the question of forming the County of Calhoun. This ] shows how competent at least one . member of the board was to pass on | the important question. I It would have been much better j j for the Court to have taken a manly I stand and decided the question one , ' way or the other', even if they had ( gone against, the disfranchised voters, , than to shift their responsibility off on an ignorant board of State Can- J vassers. The question involved was not a question of fact at all, but a ; question of law and justice, involving the right of many legal voters to exercise a privilege guaranteed them by the State and Federal Constitution. The action of the Court in this case is not creditable to it as the.sup| posed custodian of the rights of all the people in the State.?The Orange; burg Times and Democrat. cannot lie used in manufacturing, the white man must take his nlare Vnnn 1 hut the most narrow minded, short visioned demagogue can fail to realize the problem that ronfronts us. It is cowardice to leave it to our posterity. The white man's ranks must he tilled, we cannot wait for reinforcements .after the battle is on. The only hope of the negro is in segvagution. h einust he placed in a hopeless .minority wherever he may he. otherwise a race war is inevitable. There are only two flags, white and black, under which will you enlist? I 'stand for the white. Drainage. The coast section of our State is one of the richest in the world. Our forefathers appreciated it and by a system of canals, endeavored to drain the swamps and claim the abundant fruits of the soil. 1 pledge my best - efforts to get for our State what the West is getting for irrigation. We are entitled to it and with proper representation it can he had. Water Powers. Our chief hope, to he able to manufacture our produce cheaper than elsewhere in the world, lies in the I development of our abundant natural water powers. These are now being harnessed and brought to our doors in the form of electricity. To preserve them it is absolutely necessary to protect the forest upon our mountains from the ravages of the axemen. If the trees are cut down we shall soon have hare rocks incapable of retaining the water and our hopes for cheap power will he blasted. The vppniachian rark should he estnn> ished and I plodoge my efforts in its behalf. Inter-State Commerce. Congress alone has the power to i regulate inter-state commerce.* I believe the laws now on the statute books amply sufficient to protect the 'people against oppression on the part of corporation interest Their strict enforcement is all that Is necessary and this will be insured by the appointment of an honest commission, j I have not endeavored in this paper to do more than direct attention to 'the most important questions as I j see them, i shall in my speeches before the people let them know my ' position in every question affecting their interests. Irrespective of the 'consequences If I am elected I shall devote my whole time to the people's cause, if 1 am defeated I will not sulk ' in the camps, but will continue, as I 1 have always done, to work for the < upbuilding of the State and the en- j lightment of our people. ^ . # IILAMES ORANGEBURG For the Closing of the Dispensarin* in Calhonn County. The Orangeburg correspondent of The News and Courier says " a rumor has gained circulation that the city of Orangeburg is responsible for the dlspensury tangle in Calhoun. This was based on a portion of an article from the St. Matthew's correspondent of The News and Couriet as follows: 'There are said to be sonm quiet forces at work in the city of Orangebburg with a view of injuring this community and attracting trade IU lilt? IUI I lit" I tTIljr. " This correspondent has made diligent search and Inquiry, but is unable to locate any sign or trace of the said 'quiet forces,' except, perhaps. the prohibition forces, which, naturally, would like to see Calhoun and every other county in the State for that matter, dry. Even the prohibition people, so far as is kuown. have not been active iu this matter, and if they were, their efTorta would not be exerted towards forming any prejudice against St. Mutthew's in favor of Orangeburg." PIiAN'K OF INTELLIGENCE. The favorable reception with which Governor Evan's announcement of his candidacy for the United States senate hns met is no doubt gratifying to him and his friends. Many papers have commented upon his letter setting forth his views upon national issues, but few of them are more interesting or complimentary than this from the Charleston News and Courier. The Charleston paper says: Friends and opponents alike of ExGovernor John Gary Evans must acknowledge that his announcement printed yesterday in The News and Courier pitches the cmpaign for United States senator on a plan of iutelligeuce and puts his contestants on notice that they must be prepared not anl.v to discuss national issues, but to discuss them lnformingly. Mr. Evans places in the foreground the issue that belongs there, the reform i>f the tariff, the one issue on which l)e niocracy has won a victory since the war between the states, and he urges It. with the iuspiring confidence of a man who has studied the subject, lias watched economic movements in the I nltcd states and considered tliej principles underlying them. A de-) duration for tariff reform is not now in South Carolina, but a tariff reform declaration that, is neither par-ot-like nor platitudinous has a novel ring in a state which has neglected for years the political issue most nearly affecting t.ha prosperity of the people. Wo do not like Mr. Evans' endorsement of Congressman Hobson's idea that congress be asked to pension Confederate veterans, we think that plea useless and, therefore, inexpelient, but It is to be said ufcain that Mr. Evans has a reason for the faith that is in him and his ground that Lho North was the aggressor in bringing on war is logically supported. In advocating an elastic currency, Mr. Evans is at one with everybody. Dpposiug a central United States bank ho occupies historic Democratic ground, but this opposition will require to be defended with other arguments than those of tradition and sentiment. While we incline to agree with the Spartanburg candidute, the Greenvy le onudldate. Mr. McCuliough, will deserve a considerate hearing for his cause, the argument of 1835 not. necessary being peri Incut to the conditions of 1908. Mr. Evans' position as to immigration is at least as sound as The News and Courier's and Senator Tillman's views on the same subjectviews to which another candidate. Col. George Johnstone, gave vigorous public, utterance at a time when Qnn ntnr Tillmqu'ti niiiiH WP hpl Ipv ? was engrossed with the consideration of the negro oh the best and Indissable laborer for the Southern fields. Other parts of Mr. Kvans' announcement will arouse future discussion and criticism, but the truest comment, that we can make on it as a whole is that its author shows clearly that he conceives that the duties of a senator in congress require careful study and some understanding of economic questions affecting the whole country, and it is refreshing to have an occasional contribution from a candidate touching larger propositions than free rural delivery routes, highly important as the later are sometimes. All Trust* Oppose Bryan. The Times, of Buffalo, N. Y., savs in its opposition to Mr. Bryan the New York World is in the company of the Standard Oil trust, the railroad trust, the sugar trust, the leather trust, the insurance trust, the paper trust, the tobacco trust, and all other trusts which are preying upon the people through their pull with legislatures. It is in the company of the frenzied financiers and stock gamblers of Wall Street. It is in the company of all the predatory corporations which infest the country. All of these interests are opposed to Mr. Bryan. They are doing all they can to eliminate him as a candidate and accomplish the nomination of somn man uuhn a-nnld 1 he their willing tool. The plunderers of the people know that with Mr. Bryan in the preisdency they would receive no quarter. Their hope is ; that with a 'conservative* in the chair they would be allowed to p'y their traffic at will. It is very congenial company for the World to lx? in as it is claimed that its owner has a great deal ol stock in the various trusts.| Thos. Taggart, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, declares that William J. Bryan would be the choice of the Demo:ratic national convention for president, and that he will make a great race for the pre jidency. mm WILL BE SOLD. DISPENSARIES WILL BE RUN IN CALHOUN COUNTY. Chief Just ire Pope Sets Aside Governor Ansel's Order Closing Them und Throws Them Wide Open. By the craco of fhipf who is generally on the side of the dispensary in his decisions, the Calhoun County dispensaries will be kept open and the new county will enjoy the revenue therefrom. It will be remembered that Governor Ansel ordered the dispensaries at St. Muttliews and Fort Motte closed, but later ou Chief Justice Pope issued an order restraining the dispensaries at those places from closing their places of business as ordered by the Governor. The county dispensary board of Orangeburg County was not mentioned in this order, uud the question arose as to whether or not the board could continue to ship liquors into Calhoun county under the provision in the Act creating the new county that the dispensaries were to be run as formerly, before the new county was formed. The whole question was to have come up before Chief Justice Pope on Tuesday but it was postponed, but Mr. Welch representing the dispensaryites of Calhoun secured another order from the Chief Justice directing the Orangeburg County board to continue to supply liquors, etc., to the Calhoun dispensaries until the further order of the Court. As will be seen from the order, which Is J published in full below, the board ; Is granted "leave to make such return herein as it may be advised." Mr. Welch was In the city Wednes- , day aud had a conference with the county board relative to the situa- J tion. the result being satisfactory to | all parties. The board has been will- j ing all along to continue shipping | whiskey to the Calhoun dispensaries, j and the places at St. Matthew s and | Fort Motte were ordered closed sole Iv upon Governor Ansel's opinion j that Calhoun was dry territory and | his order to that effect to the board. No resistance will be made to Jus- j tiro Popes order on the part of the! board of this county, which will continue to have supervision over the Calhoun dispensaries. The view taken Is that this is a matter affecting only Orangeburg and Calhoun counties, ; and the matter has been adjusted to the satisfaction of both. Calhoun j will derive a revenue from the retail ; sales of liquor at her dispensaries, while Orangeburg will make a profit on the wholesale end. Orangeburg County, we suppose, will have to take out a wholesale license now that she is selling liquor by the wholesale to another county. It would be well for the commissioners to look into this matter and fix the price of their liquor accordingly. As there is no limit set in Chief Justice Pope's order, we suppose it will run indefinitely, and therefore the dispensaries at St. Matthews and Fort Motte will be kept open until the Legislature meets and the defects ; in the law remedied. The following I is the last order of Chief Justice' Pope: "1. That the county dispensary board for Orangeburg County, creat- j ed and existing under the Act of the i General Assembly, commonly 'ailed and known as 'the Care.v-Cothran Act. do' from and after the date hereof, and until further ordered, eontin no to perform and exercise its duties under said Act in the territory taken from Orangeburg County to form Oil- ' honn County, the same as if said territory taken to form Calhoun County was still a part of Orangeburg County : "2. It is further ordered that said . i> rv i- liAflf/i f ^ CO n Ol I i t MI II I > uir?|M-|ir?(ii ? <111(11 II I\it *'< ails* burg County do continue as heretofore, and until further ordered, to supply and furnish, in the manner now provided for by law. to the dispensaries in Calhoun County all the liquors and other aleholio beverages now tinder the law allowed to be sold in the Dispensaries and necessary to the continued conducting and operating of said dispensaries as heretofore. and while the same was in Orangeburg County. It is further ordered that the county dispensary hoard for Orangeburg County he made a party to tlie proceeding herein, and that a copy of the petition herein, together with the order signed by me on the 17th day of March. 10H. be served upon the said county dispensary hoard for Orangeburg County, together with a copy of this order, and that the said county board hnve leave to make such return herein as it may lie advised." How to Cure RheBmRtlsui. The cause* of Rhetiraxtisra and kindred d si f>nBos is an excess of urio acid in the blood: To euro this terribla d seas tho aoid must lx> ex pet lad and the system so regulated thai no more rcid will he formed in exceasive qnan tities. Rheumatism is an internal disease and require an internal remedv. Rubbing with oils and liuiraents will not cure, affords ouh temporary relief at best causes you to de lay the proper treatment,and alt >ws ihe mal ndy to get a firmer bold cn you. I.iniroenu may ease the pnsln.hnt they will no more cure llhematism than paint will change the flbre ot rotten wood. Science has at laxt disoovered a perfect nd oomplele cure, which Is called Rheuma i de. Tested in hundreds of oases, it has of- j acted the most ma-velou* ourea; we believe ( twill cure you, Rheumacide "gets at the oints from the inside," sweeps the poiaoos , out of the system, tones up the stomach, reg ulaUs the liver ard kidneys and makes you well all over. Rheumacide "strikes the root, of the disease end r <nioves its cause" This splendid reraedv is sold hy druggists sod dealers generally at W, and I a bottle. In tablet form at 2Jm\ and ."><)?, a package. Get j a bottle today; delays are dangerona. The political ring over in Augusta is about to be killei again. It t*nem to have as many livea a<> the t.ai Jiest old Tom cat. Stands by Tobacco Trust. The New York World, so fond of asking irrevelant questions, may be < interested in a recent issue of the \ publication called "Tobacco" and 1 published in the interest of the to- I bacco trade. The editor of "Tobac- I co" charges that the New York < World has deliberately iomoroH im portant news, the publication ol t which was not desired by the tobac- I co trust magnates. This trade pub lication then asks: "Can it be that Joseph Pulitzer is i one of the little handful of persons < who hold stock in the tobacco trust? i Does the owner of the World partic- i ipate with Duke and Ryan in the t dividends of the concern whose I methods have recently been characterized by Colonel Henry Watterson in the Louisville Courier Journal, 'Those of the pirate, the pickpocket i and the porch-climber.' " < This may account tor the New York World's trreat hostility to Mr. Bryan. It knows that if he is elected that he will so expose the doinprs of the tobacco trust that its robbery of the tobacco grower jvill have to stop and as a consequence some of the ill gotten dividends of the owner of the World will be cut short. There are many other newspapers in the same boat with the World. CLASSIFIED COLUMN. WAXTEI). \Vnnt?*<l?Every farmer and Merchant < in South Carolina write us for hook- \ let and testimonials. Muggins' Wrench less Plough Stock and Clio Sweeps. Uennett-lledgpetli Co., Clio. S. C. 1 MJSCKIjLAXKOUS. ( Kjiow Thy Fortune?Send your name, date of hirth and sex. married or single, and 10c. for a personal typewritten Horoscope of your life, your future love, business i??wi sonal affairs. Prof. Opdyke. Hox 965. Hinghamlon. N. Y Gaslight from Kt'itisrur lamps l?y usi 11K our patent burner. no chimneys nor wicks: description free. A Kent s make good income, Gaslight Mfg. ! Co.. 1! 1! Park How. New York I Faster Post Curtis?A large variety at all prices. Send 10 cents in stamps for samples. Sims' Hook Store. Orangeburg. S. C. FOR SAW:?MIKCKMiAXKOPS. For Sah*?Single Com It llrown laghorn's Fggs, stock is pure, large, and unexcelled layers. 15 for $l.ott. Watt K. Smith, ltowesville, S. C. For Sale?One twelve horse power Blakesley Gasolene Fngine. cheap. Also lot of shafting, pulleys, etc. Apply to L. K. Riley, Orangeburg, S. C. For Sale?A bottling works fixtures, consisting of one carbnnator, one crowning table, and -5 gross of s oz. bottles, also $75 worth of extracts. Price $500. Address llox G. Rlackville, S. C. For Sale Clica|t?One linger Hread Mixer, one Thompson Moulding Machine; four llread Presses; two Hread Troughs; one Cake Machine; 50 Plane Moulds; and many other tilings used in a tirst-class bakery. Apply to I.. K. Riley, Orangeburg, S. C. 8 3 West C3ervaib St U. . PAT. OFFICE. ?55?SS?=Q;5??=< pow 5 tfooj m ; ^ The Southern s lative satisfactio ified. Nature's ^ fat, for all pur] making to tish-f wholesome ness, ^ ness combined, other anywhere j|f )} THE SOVTHECN | NfiVYOKKSAVANNAHATLA SI GIBBES Guara llNCIX'dkr oasoline am) steam i aIU.k and stationary itoim fIM.KKS. 1m.ankrs, shingi.k. 1.; | CORN MILLS, COTTON <.l\s, I i makim; outfits and kinixiei H Our Klock is the most varit-d ail Southern States,.prompt shipment ty. V postal card will bring our t GIBBES MACHINERY COMPANY, \ Why Not Now? The Ohio republican platform which the Chicago Record claims was examined and approved by President Roosevelt and Mr. Taft ? favors the "reduction of representation in congress and the electoral p* college in all states of this union where w -no and colored citizens are iisfranc Msed." This is only a sop thrown to the negro by Roosevelt md Taft t ? fool them. They don't nean what they say. If they do, then why does not the republican 2 ingress, now in session,' proceed along the Droposed line? They are in full control of all the branches of the government and can pass any legislation they want to. Then why wait. A:- the Commoner says it is "tomorrow" for tariff revision: "tomorrow" for currency and banking reform; "tomorrow" for vigorous and effective prosecution of trust magnates. And to the negro '? - nun n-aii.Li iu uie proposition referred to it is "tomorrow" and it will be "tomorrow" forever and forever, because it is well understood that the republican party would not dare to reduce the representation as suggested. "The Host and Only Policy." George Harvey, editor of Harper's Weekly, reputed to be owned by John Pierpont Morgan, made an interesting anwer to the New York World's query, " What is the best principle and what is the best policy to (j ve the Democratic partv new life?" Here is Mr. Harvey's answer: To the Hditor of the World: Tlu/X best principle: The constitution. The next best: TarilT for revenue only. T! e l>est and only policy Heat Br- an. Gkor<;e Harvky. No on" is surprised that a man who edits a newspaper owned by the King of Trusts should oppose Mr. Bryan. It is a clear case of "whose bread I eat whose song I sing" with Mr. Harvey. Some time last year a little presidential boomlet was launched for Mr. Ilnrvey, but it soon petered out, and since then he has been doing all he can to head otr the nomi .ation of Bryan. As Harper's Weekly like the New York World, is only an echo of John Pierpont Morgan's wishes, its abuse helps Brvan with honest people. Thirty Two Cent Cotton. rOR KAJ-JO?Watson's c?lnbrUa4 Improved "Suminer Snow" upland Loaf' staple cotton need. Makes bale and more per acre ordinary land under fair conditions, sells for 17U to 31 centa per pound. Easily picked. dinned dry on ordinary aaw fin. staples lk U? 1H Inches. Price: 1 bushel. $3. Oft; i bushels, Jt 00; I boahels ana over aft $1.00 per bushel. W. W. Watson. Proprietor. Hummer land Farm. Bataahorb a a *lf? i>t >1.1,alls sa v ki > to oltoan CTSTO.MKHS For Ncit IP Ihiys. We will sell our excellent $80 Or- ^ Knus nt milv *?1S- <?iir ton ^ for illy #75. Special Terms: Onethird now, one-third Nov. 1908, balnnce Nov. 1909. 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