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cwi,> > "V- ?.. ? V-"' m . RTPUBL1CAN CREED-TOIL AND SPOILS A copy of the Democratic Campaign Book for 1910 has been received at The Times office and in it is printed a speech made in the house of representatives some weeks ago by Congressman Jack Beall, of Texas. In the speech Mr. Beall scores the Republican party for its broken promises. The following extracts from the speech are interesting and worth reading: As a result of the betrayal of the people in so many ways the Republican party has been dismembered. Like Gaul of old, it is now divided into three partsregular Republicans, insurgent Republicans, chameleon Republicans. The regular Republicans ride the elephant all the time; the insurgent Republicans ride some and walk some occasionally giving the poor old beast a savage kick, but always taking care to hold on to the tail as an evidence of their allegiance. The chameleon Republicans walk with the insurgents when it is popular and ride with the regulars when it is profitable. The regulars have audacity, the insurgents sincerity, and the chameleons prudence. The regulars believe that it is always better to be regular than right. The insurgents think it is sometimes better to be right than regular. The regulars always love their party best, the insurgents sometimes love their country best. The regulars say that the insurgents have betrayed their party. .The insurgents say that the regulars have betrayed the people. I am disposed to believe most that they say about each other, because they know each other far better than I know either. I must say, though, that my sympathies are largely with the insurgents. They are in a predicament. They are entirely too good to be Republicans and a. * I? ^ - 1 1 i._ l - ri vntireiy loo oau lo dc uemocrats. I look upon them as convicted Republicans?I do not mean legally convicted but religiously convicted ?and they need only an old-fashioned conversion to make Democrats out of them. But neither regular nor insurgent can claim that there has been a redemption of the platform pledges of their party up to this time. The most they can now show is a bureau of mines which a few opposed and a tariff bill which nobody defends. The trouble with the Republican party is that it frequently pretends, but rarely intends. If it could conduct a business with its pretentions as its assets and its intentions as its liabilities, its dividends would put the steel trust to shame? The country has had an opportunity to learn anew the lesson that the Republican party can promise like spendthrifts, but that they perform like misers. But the president said at Winona?what a mellow sound that word has, Winona, W-i-n-on-a, Winona; that was the first frost line on the arctic trip the president took through the insurgent territory last year dea ?:ir l:ii > . icuuiuK me tcii in urn, wncn tne warmth of his reception was measured by the length of the icicles ?the president said at Winona, just before he poured on the head of the chairman of the appropriations committee the anointing oil, that, "On the whole, however, I am bound to say that I think that the Payne tariff bill is the best tariff bill that the Republican party ever passed." In answer the consumer can well say: "In the hole, however, I am bound to say that the Payne tariff bill is the worst tariff bill any party ever passed." When I think about the Payne bill it seems to me that the only way for you to justify your disappointment and betrayal of the American people is to commit the sacrilege of blaming the Almdghty by saying that while the ; Ceople made you able to lift their | urdens, God did not makp von - willing to do it. The citizen regards the tariff as an evil because it takes money from his pocket, while the manufacturer looks upon it as a blessing because it puts money in his pocket. The citizen submits to it because of his patriotism, while the manufacturer advocates it because of his greed. The citizen would measure it by the necessities of the government, while the manufacturer measures it by his own avarice. The Democratic idea is that whenever imposed it should yield i > revenue, though it may or may not protect. The Republican idea is that it should protect, though it A FLY CATECHISM. 1. Where is the fly born. In manure and filth. 2. Where does the dy live? In every kind of filth. 3. Is there anything too filthy for a fly to eat? No. 4. Where does lie go when he leaves the vault and the manure ! pile and the spittoon? Into the kitchen and dining room, (b) I Whnf rlnoc Via jVn fViawa? II" 1. V .iv*v vtwu IIV V4VT V.UC1U lie walks on the bread, fruit and i vegetables; he sticks in the but! ter and bathes in the milk. : 5. Does the fly visit the pa! tient sick with consumption, tyI phoid fever and cholera infantum? He does, and may call on i you next. ' 6. Is the fly dangerous? He is man's worst pest, and more dangerous than wild beasts. 7. What diseases does the fly carry ? He carries typhoid fever, tuberculosis, and summer complaint. How? On his hairy feet. What is his correct name? ; Typhoid fly. 8. Did he ever kill anyone? He killed more American soldiers in the Spanish-American war than the bullets of the Spaniards. 9. Where are the greatest I number of cases of typhoid fever, ' consumption and summer comI plaint? Where there are the 1 most flies. 10. Where are there the most ! flies? Where there is the most | filth. 11. Why should we kill the fly? Because he may kill us. 12. How should we kill the fly? (a) Destroy all the filth about the house and yard; (b) pour lime into the vault and on the manure; (c) kill the fly with a wire screen . i v v/i onvii j paper, or kerosene oil. THE PISTOL TOTING EVIL .Judge John T. Pendleton, one of Georgia's calmest, most conservative jurists, in his charge I to the Fulton county grand jury told the members that pistol! toting was the most indefensible crime on the calendar. It was often the first step, he said, to moral and financial ruin. He demanded the enforcement, of the law against it. The other day, in Anniston, Ala., Judge Thomas YV. Coleman, of the city court, charged a grand jury in substantially the same scathing terms. "The old law | against carrying concealed weapons," he declared, "is practically antiquated in this State." He also urged its revival and en! forcement in emphatic language. ! The Atlanta Constitution cites these two almost simultaneous instances of denunciation of pistol-toting from the bench as an indication that the crime is one of universal prevalence. If pistol-toting, and the crimes ; irrnvi'inir rmf if J...: ? UUK VI lb, \> CIC UWII1dling, there would be a gleam of I hope. But the exact reverse is the true status. Month in and out. year by year, it increases at a sinister ratio. Pistol-toting is the parent of most crime. In most transgressions of the code it figures in one way or another. Unless he be an authorized officer of the law. every man carrying a concealed weapon is a possible murderer. He needs only the provocation to become an actual murderer, a destroyer of homes, a maker of widows and orphans?always a fattener of the cemeteries. The class of men typifying these outrages against society should be branded as pariahs. That is their only accurate designation. may or may not yield revenue. The Republican idea is that the interests will be potent to save a party that has served them, while the Democratic idea is that the people will be omnipotent to J A * * * * uestroy a party which has betrayed them. The Republican creed is toil and spoils?toil for the masses and spoils for the classes. The Payne tariff bill has shown that the Republicans are expert mathematicians; that they can add, subtract, multiply, and divide, in one operation. They can add to the wealth of the rich, subtract from the substance of the poor, multiply millionaires, and divide themselves?all in one bill. The Saviour must have had Republicans in mind when He said, "Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?" Who Hit the Coon? j (Contributed.) ! Who hit the coon on the head? I J. K. Henry, of Chester. Dong, dong, dong, dong! W. I THE SOUTHERN SOLDIER. i ? H. C. Bradford in Unci* Remus' Masrazine. | The army of the Southern Confederacy was probably the most remarkable assemblage of its kind in the annals of the world. Those naturally expected to be the first to volunteer were the property-holders and their sons?the I m/.n /xf 1 J a-? . I .t.c vi wcm tu iinu raucauon. 1 nese , j had much, very much, to urge them on to sacrifice and devotion, for there was not only the principle involved, butti:?ir beautiful, happy homes and the means i ! whereby they were to be maintained ! were to" be protected. To them defeat meant a return to burnt homes, fence) less farms, poverty and ashes. These we are accustomed to refer ' to as the flower of Southern manhood. | And the South was not slow to give of | such men to her armies. She withheld not her very best from the sacrificial 1 altar. In a paper read before the Milij tary Historical Society of Massachui setts, Gen. Chas. A Whittier, of the ! Union army, speaking of the Army of Northern Virginia, says: "This army will deservedly rank as ! the best which has existed on this coni tinent. Suffering privations unknown I to its opponents, it fought well from the early Peninsular days to the sur- | render of that small remnant at Appo| mattox. Without doubt it was composed of the best men of the South, ; rushing to what they considered a defense of their country against a bitter invader; and they took the places as| signed them, officer or private, and fought until beaten by superiority of numbers. The North sent no such army to the field, and its patriotism was of easier character." Proceeding, General Whittier says: I "As a matter of comparison we have lately read that from William and Mary college, Virginia, thirty-two out of thirty-five professors and instructors j abandoned tne college work and joined the army in the field. Harvard college sent one professor from its large corps of professors and instructors." A second element, and many hold that ' j by far the greater part of the Southern army, were men who owned no houses, 1 ! nor lands, nor slaves, but who occupied 1 the land as tenants ?men who, the war ! over, even though the South had been ! victorious, would have had nothing to return to (aside from family ties) but the poverty they left behind them when they enlisted for the fray. And yet for the sake of the principle in , which they believed these voluntarily enrolled for service and through the j four terrible years bore the hardships | ! of war with sacrifice and devotion equal i to the others. Which of the two classes deserves the highest honor? We all know which has received most honor. Still another class who went with our army were the negro cooks and body servants of the boys in gray. These had everything to lose if the South should succeed. But how did they [ stand the test? 1 have never heard of one deserting. As a class they were true and lovingly loyal to their masters, obedient^ and devoted to every duty j that fell to their lot. A representative of this type who is best known to me is Jere Perkins, the body servant of Mr. Charlie Perkins, of Brownsville, Tenn., who was slain in the battle of Atlanta. In pathetic tones Jere still tells how he went with "Marse Charlie" to the war, waited on him in the camp, buried him after he was killed, and when the war was over "went back and fotch him home." And now, with such an army as this, true in its allegiance to the Southern cause (coming no matter from what condition), "Theirs not to reason why. Theirs but to do or die," is it any wonder that it proved wellnigh invincible? And yet all the world wondered that it should hold out so long against such bitter and overwhelming odds. Let us notice for a moment the estimate put upon the valor and devotion of the Confederate army by one of high authority who fought against it ? General Buell. He says in "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War:" "It required a naval fleet and 15,000 1 troops to advance against a weak fort, manned by less than 100 men, at Fort Henry; 35,000, with naval cooperation, to overcome 12,000 at Donelson; 60,000 to secure a victory nvt-r id nno o? burg Landing (Shiloh); 120,(XX) to eni force the retreat of 65,000 intrenched, after a month's fighting and maneuver; ing at Corinth; 100,(XX) repelled by J 80,000 in the first Peninsular campaign t against Richmond; 70,000, with a 1 powerful naval force, to inspire the I campaign which lasted nine months, | against 40,000 at Vicksburg; 90,000 to i barely withstand the assault of 70,000 ; at Gettysburg; 115,000 sustaining a j frightful repulse from 60,000 at Fredi ericksburg; 100,000 attacked and defeated by 50,000 at Chancellorsville; ! 85,000 held in check two days by 40,(XX) ( at Antietam; 43,000 retaining the field uncertainly against 38,000 at Stone River (Murfreesboro); 70,000 defeated at Chickamauga, and beleaguered by 70,000 at Chattanooga; 80,000 merely to break the investing line of 45,000 at Chattanooga, and 100,000 to press back 50,000 increased at last to 70,000 from Chattanooga to Atlanta, a distance of 120 miles, and then let go an operation which is commemorated at festive reunions by the standing toast 'One hundred days under fire;' 50,- , 000 to defeat the investing line of 30,000 at Nashville; and, finally, 120,000 to overcome 60,000 with exhaustion after a struggle of a year in Virginia." In some of the battles thus enumerated by General Buell, the odds were even greater than he states them. To illuatr?imnli/*'* kL ? ? -v, VVII1IUCIIWO Willi j i which the Southern soldiers followed | their leaders, he draws the following | comparison: "At Cold Harbor the Northern ; troops, who had proven their indomitable qualities by losses nearly equal to j I the whole of their opponent, when j ordered to another sacrifice, even under such a soldier as Hancock, answered I i the demand as one man?a silent and ! solid inertia. At Gettysburg Pickett, when waiting for the signal which | Longstreet dreaded to repeat, for the hopeless but immortal charge against Cemetery Hill, saluted and said, as he | turned to his ready column: '1 shall move forward, sir.' ' Ola newspapers for sale at | The Times office. 20c per 100. II The S U \M I ? T Do not hes because you sum. 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I am not discouraged, and will be ready for the race two years hence, and I ask my friends to stand steadfast, and not to lose hope, as Mr. Finley made the race three times before he was elected, and two years ago in the first primary I received 4,207 votes, and in the race just closed I received 6,135. In my own county I received over 2,000 votes. Friends, accept my most hearty thanks for your support. Sincerely, THUS. B. BUTLER. FOR SALE? Elms property in Fort Mill. Two-story, 7-room dwelling, 1J acre lot. with good barn, orchard and well. For price and terms, write W. L. Plexico, Rock Hill, S. C. List your property with me. i " * 'count IU 't * * ' [ere. ': r ' ,V . A >ank account ^ , A^itH a large ank of Rock tall deposits, ar upwards, its grow to 'j I the depos- 5 egular addi- I _ able. This I >unded quarII income for olute safety. al Bank, I )LINA. I SECURE. 1 CJGGY secure an ordinary vehicle, hut the by high-class mechanics. 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