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The Fort Mill Times.; DEMOCRATIC. Published Thursday Mornings. B. W. & W. R. Bradford Publishers W. R. Bradford Editor . B. W. Bradford Manager i I immtyV\y QIlil yfc Subscription Rates: One Year tl.25 j Six Months . .66 FORT MI1.L. S. C.. APRIL. 14. 1910. Rock Hill. Hail Rock Hill!?hustling town. One must needs be permeated _ with the spirit of "an antei diluvian man renewed" and fit fellow for antiquarian pursuits who can visit Rock Hill and fail to be impressed with the hundred and one evidences of progress which greet his eye and ear. Rock Hill is coming, and 1 coming by leaps and bounds. Already it is one of the best towns in upper Carolina, but the men who do things down there 1 are not satisnea. i ney are uent < upon making Rock Hill a city, a 1 real city, not a town whose only < claim to the distinction is to be found in the "city" charter . granted by the laws of the State. And it is worth the while of the outside York county citizen, how- j ] ever remote his home may be j from Rock Hill, to visit the town 1 and breathe the irresistible air j' of push and progress that o'er- < spreads the entire place. i One does not get beyond the encouraging sound of hammer and j 1 saw or the industrious whir of 1 many wheels in Rock Hill. They < are building homes, many of them, down there, and scarcely a 1 week passes which does not 1 record a new enterprise or the j extension of an old one. They are enlarging the waterworks [1 plant and installing a sewerage I system. They are grading and otherwise improving the streets. The efficiency of the public , school system is to be vastly improved at once, now that the unfortunate differences incident to the sale of the high school | property to winr.nrop college have been settled and there is available the money necessary to make the contemplated improvements. The electric light plant is one of the best in the State and with the new and modern telephone system which i1 is being installed, Rock Hill will have further reason to lay claim to being the best town in South Carolina. But above and beyond these visible evidences of enterprise ; which are so abundant in Rock Hill is the degree of goodfellowship and hospitality which ! mark the town as inviting to the outsider. What boots it if a town is wide-awake and progressive if its citizenship lacks "the emotions of the flowing ( soul?" It is well for Rock Hill that her people are blessed with the spirit of comradery for the worthy outsider; it blends well with the effort to write large the * name of the town as one of South Carolina's principal cities. The Race for Governor. * One of the valued corres)>ondents of The Times is Frank P. McCain, of Columbia. This week Mr. McCain sends an interesting news letter about the candidates for governor, in which he expressed the opinion that the race will be between Messrs. Featherstone and Manning. So far as the former is concerned, it is generally conceded that he will get a large vote, but there is no doubt that the candidacy of John G. T>;~1 1~ ? :n ? ? Aviv,iimuS wm lessen nis chances of success. Both are advocating State-wide prohibition and each will receive the support of many who think that the authorized sale of liquor should not be permitted in any part of the State. Mr. Richards has been a member of the Legislature for years and in the capacity of legislator has made friends who will see to it that his interests do not lag in their respective communities. So lir is to be reckoned with as a factor in the race. It is certain that he will get many votes which would have gone to Mr. Featherstone but for his candidacy. We are at a loss to under-; stand the reasons upon which Mr. McCain bases the opinion that Mr. Manning will prove a formidable candidate. Four years ago Mr. Manning sought the nomination against Governor Ansel and succeeded in getting in the second primary with the governor, but was badly beaten. Then Mr. Manning was an advocate of the State dispensary. The dispensary law has since been repealed and is not now an issue. Mr. Manning's support came largely from the adherents of that law. No one can claim that he is a magnetic man. He cannot draw the voters to him. We would not give a dime for his chances of election. . Of course, no one can tell with any degree of certainty who will be ! the next governor, but we shall be surprised if Lieutenant Governor McLeod does not upset the calculations of those who do not agree that he has any show of election. The Negro-killing Industry. Truly we are progressing. Some days ago a white man was 1 convicted of killing a negro in Chester. Now we read that another negro-killer, one R. M. Bar wick, white, is in the Sumter jail, convicted of manslaughter. Barwick was a police officer at Pinewood and killed a negro, , probably without cause; otherwise he certainly would not have been convicted. Which leads up to the thought that the conviction of Barwick should have a salutary effect in South Carolina. ioo many ponce orncers in this State, especially in the small cities and towns, imagine they are licensed to use their guns and clubs on the slightest provocation, their victims in nine cases out of ten being negroes ? negroes because in nearly every instance this kind of officer is too cowardly to vent his degenerate instincts upon a white man hut plies the "angry essence of his deadly will" to a black man, doubtless thinking at the time, "Oh, he's a negro; no white jury will convict me." Sometimes, however, white jurors rise above race prejudice and mete out justice. as in the case of Barvvick, whose punishment doubtless is richly deserved. We hope that many other such officers who are awaiting a favorable opnortunity to kill their negro will be convicted. The pity is that so few of these negro-killing officers have been punished in the past. Waiting Money on Junk. The American navy does not need any more battleships. There was every reason why Congress should not have appropriated the money for the two new ships which are to cost the people many millions of dollars. rP o/"ltrr*nnf rtn ^ f ? 1 ?. ? i lit auvutmco Ul it lill gfcJI" RclVy carried their point by pretending to see danger threatening the country from a war with Japan. Chief among the advocates of the ever-larger navy is one Richmond Pearson Hobson, misrepresentative in Congress of the Sixth Alabama district. Why the Democrats of that portion of the State of Alabama are content to have their district so often made the laughing stock of the country by the senseless mouthings of this tin-horn hero of the Merrimac is a query which most people dismiss unanswered every time they see Hobson's name in print, for he never gets in the papers except in connection with some extravagant naval proi>osition or from hiding behind a lamp-post crying for Uncle Sam to keep the Japanese off the American people. There isn't a belligerent Jap within thousand? of miles of the American shores, and all this talk about war with Japan is not only harmful but silly. Leading Japanese statesmen if members of a race that is the dregs and rinsings of humanity can properly be termed statesmen ' affirm the most friendly attitude on the part of Japan toward the United States. Americans who have lived for years in Japan, and have had every opportunity to know the facts, deny the existence among the Japanese people of any desire to violate the traditions of peace and good will that have so long bound the two nations together. The honorable thing for us to do is to accept their statements and trust them as we would want our own to be trusted. We h s ?- - nave no sympathy with the spirit that has nothing but suspicion for men of other nations who talk of friendship. They are quite as likely to be honest as we are. There will be no war between Japan and the United States unless we want it. and for such a crime against civilization the American people will not be responsible. c 1 A Northern View of General Lee. The New York Commercial is a "business" newspaper. It is issued "every business morning." It devotes some space to general news, and some editorial comment to other subjects than those pertaining to business. But it is primarily a business publication, and one of the best in the country. In its issue of Friday, April 1. 1910. The Commercial devotes a g#od deal of its editorial space to a discussion of attempts made by former Union soldiers?some G. A. H. camps?to discredit Gen. Robert E. Lee. It is one of the best presentations of the question that has ever come from a Northern source. It is so true and so pertinent, and, moreover, so timely, we present it in full to the readers of The Times. It follows: "There are far too many people in this blooming country of ours who don't know that 'the war is over' ?that it terminated with Lee's surrender at Appomattox almost forty-tive years ago. Here, for instance, are forty posts in the Grand Army of the Republic in Massachusetts sending to Senator Lodge formal protests against the acceptance by Congress of the statute of Gen. Robert E. Loo. Viro-inia's proposed contribution under the law to Statuary hall in the national capitol -and the senator has duly filed' them with the United States senate as a part of his functions and duties ason^ of the two representatives in that bodv of the sovereign state of Massachusetts. It ought, to have been a source of deep humiliation for him. The lot of a United States senator or of a representative in Congress, like that of Gilbert and Sullivan's policeman, is not always a happy one. "By one of these posts of Union army veterans the great Confederate commander is referred to as 'a traitor, whose name should not be mentioned save with contempt.' Now. Great Britain was the country of one George Washington of Virginia, a colony of England, and to it he owed allegiance; but, for reasons good and sufficient to him, he rebelled against that rule and became a traitor to his country; he and his cause succeeded?but that did not change his relations to the mother country in the first instance; still, nobody of patriotism and common sense in England is today branding George Washing ion as a traitor to nis country or moving in any way to have his memory discredited; had the cause of the American colonies failed, Great Britain would not be any less broad-minded one hundred and forty years after the event. "The news reports record that another one of these protests from Massachusetts characterizes the contemplated presence of the Lee statue in the hall of the capitol as 'a studied and direct insult to every living Union soldier and sailor and doubly as to those who sacrificed their lives for the preservation of the Union.' Several of the petitions commend General Lee and laud his private character while objecting to the acceptance of the statue by Congress. The objection on the part of one Massachusetts post to the presence of the Confederate leader in Statu"ary hall is due to the fact that Lee is portrayed in a Confeder, ate uniform. l4VVhnt if oil omAiinf ? IKW liwvo IU Ull MlllWUlIt . Virginia has the right under thf law to choose her own representative in Statuary hall?and who shall say that any of her sons is more worthy of the honor from the j>oint of view of a State than Robert E. Lee? He fought for a principle and fought well? every Union general has conceded that. And Gen. Ulysees S. Grant, the victor, handed him back his sword when he proffered it at the surrender. Car any Massachusetts veteran whc h'&l . ' 4*.- ' % 9 # 3p ? 1 I WW lit. % ^Wi Wit:\ i %&rX #? <?2^ ^\'. s '/\ \ m / /////!/ 4m SPRING AND SUMMER ST^ inspec: We have the finest line of Sp ever saw. Neat, graceful model be young. 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Again, what would these Massachusetts j protestants have?a General Lee j ; garbed in a Union uniform or a farmer's blouse or a college pres meni s cap ana grown: Who re' members Lee except as a great i soldier? And who would see his statue garbed otherwise, than in i his soldier's uniform? ; "The members of the 40 posts i of the Massachusetts Grand i Army of the Republic are un questionably most worthy citizens and are clearly entitled to hold their own personal opinions, s But why try to impose them on i the nation? Why not hop out of the peck measure and take at i least a half bushel survey of | things?" I V. (54LCS) ? \ P i system! i i , ;-\ I y/-jj M |f/ >/ . j\ * ':>P /' | I ,4 | -.- -! i " \ j u i < \ ( - } > - - A ? i M Si Ite#! Irtl 1 A -} '/;!,"*! 'Wmi M\ ! ' / ?) / I nTiiii'MK\\v i rLES READY FOR YOUR riON. ring and Summer suits you s for young men who would ITEM" Clothes and when we : saw, we mean that and < ,o the last degree, but not 1 by skilled tailors and have ) them. 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