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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.
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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
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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
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GUY ROSS. Prop.
fought under (irant afford to be
less generous than that? 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
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