Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, July 08, 1909, Image 2
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FORT MILL. S. C.. JULY 8.
Senator Tillman's Course.
"From time to time things do
come to pass." And these things
a. -1 l - a 1j
are not always wnai we wouiu
have them. For instance, this
good year 1909 finds Senator B.
R. Tillman standing at his seat
in the senate of the United States
boldly advocating a protective
duty of 10 cents the pound on
tea, which means that he would
force every tea drinker in America
to contribute this amount on ,
every pound of tea consumed in
the country primarily for the
benefit of a measly little industry
located in Charleston county. It
matters little that when the
vote was taken on Senator Till- 1
man's amendment to the tariff
bill he was able to secure the
support of only one alleged Democrat
and just sixteen Republicans
of the ninety-odd members
of the senate. This was an igno- !
minions defeat, to be sure, but j
worse than that is the fact that
Senator Tillman has put behind
him the principles of the party 1
and the interests of the people. ]
He of all men was the last we ]
expected to see embrace the :
Republican doctrine that puts 1
money in one man's pocket at
the expense of another with- i
out offering anything in return ]
therefor. He has so long claimed ;
to be the champion of the peo- '
pie's interests that not only prac- J
f 11 IF oil nf
vivuuj an Vi. HID LUIIOUlUClHd UUl ' j
hundreds of thousands of his
friends and admirers throughout i
the country generally have
thought of him as the one man 1
v7ho could be depended upon al- ,
ways to stant} up for the right- ]
What a rude awakening this last i
performance of Senator Tillman's '
has produced! He can no longer 1
claim to be either a strict party J
man or the representative of the <
people's cause. His advocacy of
a protective duty on tea and his j]
votes on the iron ore and lumber 1
schedules will continually bob up ,
to create confusion and doubt in 1 (
the minds of those who other- S
wise would have accepted readily j1
his long record as a people's man
without further assurance of his
sincerety. _ j
About Old and New Roads. i,
"All the talk we heard some j \
weeks ago of a great automobile |
highway to traverse York county ,
seems to have been so much hot j
air and the proposition has about |
been relegated to the limbo of I ]
things that are not," said a pro- j <
gressive citizen a day or two ago. IJ
"So far as the interests of the ; j
people of this section are con- f
cerned in highway improvement, j
what we need is a passable public I ?
road from Fort Mill to Pineville 1
and the improvement of the road |
to Harrison neighborhood, with, !
of course, the restoration of Bar- j
ber's bridge over Sugar creek. |
It is a singular thing that the
business interests of Fort Mil! do ;
not make a concerted move in be-1
half of these two important high-1
ways. Hundreds of dollars are I
being diverted from our town by I
reason of the inability of the j
people of Harrison and Barbersville
to come here and trans-!
act their business as they did
before the destruction of Bar- j
ber's bridge. To them. Fort,1
Mill is now all but inaccessi-1
ble, and will be until our peo- !
pie make an 4all-together' move
to have the bridge restored and i
the road repaired. This is not an i
undertaking in which the people
A f T QnAOofA* * --
?? uam-ooici tuumy are as greatly
interested as are the people of [
this section of York county, and 11,
the initiative must be taken by t
the citizens of this community. I y
Here we are sitting with our ! v
hands folded and our legs crossed r
waiting for something to turn up t
that will eventuate in the im- c
provement of this avenue of the j r
town's prosperity. What we c
should do is to press heavily upon
the^Coupty commissioners and \
supGnwr the fact that Fort Mill J
is an important part of York J!
county which has not in the past ?
received her proportionate part
of the chaingang's work and that!
now is the time to square accounts
by rebuilding the roadtand
furnishing naif the money to re- ,
store the bridge. It is said that
the Lancaster county authorities (
are ready to cooperate with the
York officials in restoring the
bridge.
"The road to Pineville! It is
the worst ever and a man takes
his life in his own hands when
he attempts to negotiate it.
There is an unbroken succession
of rocks, hills, gullies, time-worn
ruts, etc., in the road from the
time you leave the old Springs
bridge road until vou get to the
practicably impassable Sugar
creek ford. This is not,-strictly
speaking, a public road, and to j
this is probably due the fact that j
it shows no evidence of ever liav- ,
ing been worked. It traverses j
such a rough section of the township
that it would be impracticable
to put it in even fair condition,
even could the expense of
building a bridge over Sugar
creek be eliminated. Several
propositions to open a new public
rpad to Pineville have been advanced,
either of which would
be a great relief. But it is certain
that this generation will
have to continue using the old j
roaa or go nve or six miles out
of the way to reach Pineville un- j
less money is furnished to open
a new road. Where is this money i
to come from? Well, there is a
superstition that if it is forthcoming
at all it must be from
the pockets of the people. Leastwise
that's where the mone3r to
improve old roads and build new
ones in most communities comes
from. Is a new road to Pineville
needed? Drive over the old one,
and then if you say it isn't, I'll
try to get you a job on the next
Biggers jury."
A Stranger Killed by a Train.
Mr. J. D. Fulp came up from
Winnsboro Saturday night and
brought the news of a distressing
railroad accident near the depot
in that town Saturday afternoon
which cost the life of a workman j
at the rock quarries a few miles j
south of Winnsboro. The man,
Jopp by name, was practically a
stanger in Winnsboro, having j
been in that community only a
few weeks, but the fact that he i
led an apparently upright life,
was a steady workman and was
far from his home, Aberdeen,
Scotland, earning a livelihood for
his wife and three little children
aroused an unusual feeling <jf
pity for the unfortunate man and
his dependent family.
Jonp was walking along the
traek of the Southern when
:~ vr_ /-o * .1 i
lieigne nam xnu. do went soutn
and in some way got under the '
wheels and both leg? were |1
mashed nearly off near the trunk '
of his body. A colored woman 1
saw the man fall but no one saw i
him when struck. A crowd, '
among them two physicians, i
quickly collected and opiates were !;
administered to alleviate his suf- '
fering and he was carried to a 1
nearby house where about 3
o'clock he died.
It was learned upon inquiry of
fellow-workmen that .lopp was a 11
member of the Presbyterian 11
church. The body was taken ,
charge of by members of that;
denomination who provided a
casket and arranged that the ,
man be given a Christian burial.
"PITCHFORK BEN."
Senator B. R. Tillman is often
called ' "Pitchfork Ben." but not
many people know how the term
originated.
It appears that Governor Till- j1
man first referred to the pitch- ,
fork when he was running for
Lhe senate, against the late f Jen.
M. C. Butler in 1894. On the 1
stump, he promised that if elect- (
cd he would run his pitchfork,
oguratively speaking, of course,
through Grover Cleveland.
Shortly after he got into the | j
senate, he made a crwnnH in I
, " 111 I
vhich he described the various !
ises to which the farmer put the 1
ritchfork, and in this made hos- j*
;ile reference to Cleveland and *
>ther leaders. The cartoonists )
teized on this, and one cartoon ,
iame out showing Cleveland,
Carlisle and John Sherman im-! J,
>aled on the tines of a pitchfork s
n the hands of Tillman. This c
^erved to fasten the term "Pitch- s
ork" on Tillman, and it was still -v
ui.. r~-i- 1 - ' r
uuic niui uu^ikv liuiienej 10 mm
>y the bitter nature of his trusts e
it his antagonists on the senate
loor and elsewhere. He went 1
o the Chicago convention of the ?
democratic party in 189G, and
lis admirers got up a presidential
>oom for h m
They showed their enthusiasm j
>y presenting him with a silver
htchfork. Ever since the ap- )
>ellation has clung to him, and I
t will cling as long as Tillman ,
ives. It has long since ceased .
o be the term of reproach which 1
lis enemies intended it to be c
vhen they first applied it de- f
isively, and despite his bitter u
ongue in debate, Tillman has r
ome to be one of the best-liked
nen in the senate among his 1
olleagues.
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DR. J. H. THORNWLLL. r.
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The following interesting sketch j
of this great divine was read at i
the commencement of the Lancaster
graded school by Miss i
Mildred Lindsay: i
The State honors her states- l
men, and her "captain of war ]
and finance," and her profes- i
sional men, and South Carolina J
can boast of many great ones *
in all these lines, but the sub- \ \
ject of this sketch is one who J1
was great in the truest sense of 1
the word?a theologian, scholar, 1
educator and patriot of whom I
the nation might be proud, and
yet who is comparatively un- 1
known. Not only does his gen- 1
ius appeal to us, but he lived in ;
and loved our own community, j
RT . - * * * a?LJ
ne was an mtimaie inend and ,,
contemporary of the immortal11
Sims. While the latter made !1
himself and the State great by ;
what he did for the relief of the \
physical ills of his fellow men, ]
Dr. Thormvell did the greater 1
and nobler work of educating j1
tlu3 mind and uplift ing the soul? i \
himself possessed of gigantic \
strength of mind and immucu- <
late purity of soul. j
James Henley Thornwell was ^
born on the ninth day of Decern- i <
ber, eighteen hunbred and '
twelve, in Marlboro District, !
S. C. His name cannot be j *
traced from illustrious ancestry. ; (
To him belongs the superior ^
glory of drawing the name from |?
obscurity. He was left father- ."
less at tiie .age of eight years.
His father was of English de-!
scent, a generous, hospitable
man, living (always) up to his I
means, thus his family was left
comparatively destitute. Ilis
mother is described as a woman :
of strong character and fine in- ;
tellect, but without education. ;
She was an earnest Christian,
with great ambition for the ad- .
vaneement of her son. Dr. i
Thornwell always bore all'ectionate
testimony to her worth
and acknowledged his thanks to
a noble mother's teachings.
The elements of greatness
were born in him. F^om a child
he was thoughtful and studious.
His habits and his proficiency
attracted the attention and se- i
cured for him the patronage of
General Gillespie, a wcalty plant- j
er, and of YV. H. Robbins, a!
lawyer, of Cheraw. These gentlemen
not only furnished the!
means for his education, but ex- I
ercised a refiining influence on
the noble spirited boy. They i
desired to make him a lawyer,
but at the age of sixteen he determined
to study theology.
In 1829 he entered the sopho- t
more class of the South Carolina I
college, and in 1831, he was J
Graduated with first hnnnr inn ?
class of forty-three. He then j;
studied in the Divinity School at ?
Cambridge. A close study of ;
"The Westminster Confession of p
Faith" made him a Presbyterian. ?
and he was licensed to preach in \
1834. His first church was in *
the village of Lancaster in con- v
nection with the historic old I
Waxhaw. Here he married Miss i
Nancy Witherspoon. He owned g
a summer home a Sew miles from i \
our town which he called "Dry- S
burgh Abbey." There are some | $
living in Lancaster, possibly \
there are some in this audience, i
who remember him personally, j *
They recall "a man of medium ; I
statute, with a carriage of b?dy v
careless rather than graceful, Ti
with a deep set black eye and : J
soft black hair falling over a t
well developed forehead." One \
who has listened to him can *
never forget how that "lithe
form expanded and eye sparkled y
under mental excitement."
For fifteen years, or more, Dr. J ?
rhornwell was connected with i
the South Carolina college as ?
professor, chaplain, and presi- s!
lent. 2
One incident will give an idea _
i* ? i
>i nis eloquence. unce when j
Daniel Webster was a visitor in ;
Jolumbia, the guest of Col. '
Preston, president of the col-1
ege, he attended, through cour-;
;esy rather than interest, servi- ,
'cs in the college chapel. It is
.aid that so soon as I)r. Thornn
veil announced his text, Mr.
Nebster, who had remained list-'
ess in his seat, straightened and
lever took his eye from the
ipeaker for one hour, and at the
lose of the sermon he arc se and
aid aloud to Col. Preston, "Sir,
rou did not prepare me for the ;
nost eloquent pulpit discourse I
iver heprd. Who is he?"
Later Dr. Thornwcll was pres- J
dent of the Theological Seminary
it Columbia, for which position j
le possessed the ideal qualificaions.
Twice duriug these years he
vas forced to make a voyage to
Surope in search of health. He
vas never strong physically, but
vas always hopeful and cheerul.
His letters, descriptive of
lis travels, are very entertain
i cr on.) inolfiii'livn I-I
< jk, <? * * v* uiovi uvti > Vi 1 11/ CA"
elled as a letter writer. His
orrespondence with the learned
.nd great men of his day on
natters of grave import to church
,i.d State, and his letters of
riendship, of sympathy and
ondolence, show the different ,
ihascs of his character better,
erhaps, than any of his writngs.
:
lie returned from the second
rip in 1800 to find the country
Dn the verge of war. He espoused
the Confederate cause
with all the ardor of his nature
md wrote and worked and
praved foe success.
Of Dr. T o nveT it can be
said, "His sun went down while
it was yet day." He died August
1st, 1862, at the height of
his usefulness. His dying expressions,
"Wonderful! Beautiful!
Nothing but space! Expanse,
expanse, expanse!" deserve a
place in the record of tVw>
words of preat men. His monument
in Elmwood cemetery, Columbia,
bears no inscription save
the name:
James Henley Thornwell. No
rieed of eulogy, for his works
live after him.?Lancaster News.
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