Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, September 29, 1910, Image 1
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^BbTIN OS9PPPF AN OBSERVER
d of truO in the story sent
I '*6m York fill# Saairday to a daily
paper that the people of York county
are opposed to the Absent Democratic
! primary. Neither is there any truth
fa in the statement chatthrre is a growsentiment
among ''the people of the
BH^Kounty that only those qualified to vote
||gSHin the general elections be allowed to
^^BpaxUciDati in the primary elections,
^^mlnptorkville, as in many otoe* iaoulii
arolina tqwns, there is to be found a
j?^fTTlyiidfui of iconoclasts and a few ecala
rwip wh<* would pri|
marv plant of nominating county and
| State officers with the old convention
system. In nine arases out of ten if
you stick a pin in ore of these men who
art; insisting upon u change you will
see jump ajdisappointed office-seeker or
a chronic fault-finder who. while he
would give his 9*#> be chosen by the
people in a ^representative capacity,
recognizes his unfitness for public trust
and knows that he can never hope to he
preferred for any office. Here you
have a mental picture of the average
opponent of the primary. This is not
1 saying that some good men do not
j oppose our present plan. Good men
are often wrong. Nobody claims that
^-tbe primary is perfect, but it is now
almost universally recognized as the
fairest way of nominating public officers.
Not only the Democratic party has
adopted the primary in nearly every
State of the Union, but in most of the
States even the Republican party,
which believes in giving the people as
little voice in the government as pos- i
sible, has seen the wisdom of the j
primary. Paradoxical, isn't it? that
these objectors to the primary claim to
be members of the party which in
national convention at Denver two
years ago demanded the election of
United States senators by direct vote
of the people, thereby redwing ita
faiUiia the wisdom of the people to
i & i&kSct their own officials. Of course
casea of abuses creep' into the
v' -^rimary from time tb time, hut where
now hear once of irregularities in
^ our primary we would hear a dozen
F V times of convention delegates logrolling,
wire-pulling and otherwise betraying
the wishes of those they were
elected to represent. Where one dollar
is now spent illegally at the polls ten
dollars would be spent in buying up
convention delegates, with the result
that too often the man with the fattest
wallet would got the party nomination
over worthier but poor opponents. Of
course this last phase of the convention
system would please those who measure
man's success by the dollar mark those
who would single out for political honors
V the 'elevated man on the elevated
plan, who keeps all he gets and gets
all he can' meanwhile telling Unpeople
to go to. Hut I opine that the
people will have something to say about
changing from the primary to the convention,
and it is the veriest nonsense
for anyone to assert that but for tinpoliticians
the change would be made."
Too Many School Books.
There is no end to the making of
books, especially school books, and the
school children are overburdened with
books and confused by the multiplication
of the subjects which they are supposed
to study, says the Sumter Item.
Education as practiced today is on the
extensive, rather than the intensive,
plan, and the result is, as a rule, a
smattering of a wide range of subjects,
instead of a thorough knowledge of elemental
and essential facts. It seems
to be the aim and purpose of the public
school course of instruction, with its
many books and divers subjects, to give
encyclopaedic knowledge, instead of
laying a firm foundation of elementals
upon which the matured mind may
build as natural ability, time and op
puriumiy may permit. ioo mucn instruction,
too much education, between
the apes of six and sixteen is as undesirable
as too little.
Used Knife on His Wife.
Arrested on a warrant charpinp
assault and battery with intent to kill
and unable to pive bond in the sum of
$300, Robt. McCrum, nepro, was committed
to jail Monday morninp by
Mapistrate J. W. McElhaney. McCrum
worked at the plant of the Charlotte
Brick company and lived in "Paradise."
9 Saturday morninp he went home in a
half drunken condition and slashed his
i wife, Bessie McCrum, with a pocket
knife, inflictinp a number of serious
wounds. Less than six months apo,
McCrum completed a six month's
sentence on the county chainpanp for
. a similar offense.
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CLEMSON DEPARTMENT ADVISES
AGAINST "CREAMERY SHARKS"
According to this week's bulletin of
the Clemson college extension work,
there is no field in tfouth Carolina for
cooperative creameries. "The creamery
promoter sharks have invaded sections
of the Piedmont belt of this
State," says the bulletin, "and we understand
have succeeded in organizing
at least one creamery company and are
now at work in other communities. In
the sections in which they are working
it is safe to say that there are not
enough cows to supply the local demand
for milk, cream and butter, and
yet thoAeople are led to believe that a
plant copending upon a good milk supfor
Success can be profitably operated.
To mislead people into such an
enterprise is nothing but deceit and
Kraft, and the people in every community
of the State should be on guard
aKainst such dealers in gold bricks.
"The establishing of creameries in
sections where there is practically no
| dairy interest and where local markets
pay more for dairy products than a
[ creamery can possibly pay is absolute
folly, as is witnessed by the experience
of Georgia, Kentucky and other States.
Yet the people are being misled and deceived
by smooth tou^uc^ sellers of
machinery who charge about 50 per
cent, more for their machinery than it
can be purchased for elsewhere.
"If any'section of the State is interj
ested in a creamery it should carefully
investigate the milk supply first and
then form a company of interested
men, buy the machinery necessary to
equip it at a reasonable price and begin
operations on a practical business basis
and not be rushed into an enterprise
pushed forward by a set of men who
have no interest in its success further
than the sale of the machinery at
exorbitant prices. Hanks and other
I business undertakings first investigate
the possibilities of success before offices
are erected, but the doctrine of the
M^amory promoter is to get the building
and equipment first regardless*of
richer conditions.
BWThe extension department of Clemson
college will be glad to visit any
! community interested in creameries
and advise them as to the requirements
j for successful operation and assist them
| in every way in establishing such an
i enterprise should the outlook for sue
I woo a|i|K ai lavuiauic,
Oscar L. Potts in Federal Court.
Oscar L. Potts, a former citizen of
Fort Mill, who moved from here to
Rock Hill some years ago, is in trouble
in Charlotte. Friday night Potts was
standing on "the square" and became
angered because he thought A. .1.
Rlandis, a mail carrier, drove his wagon
j too close to him. Potts attacked the
mail carrier with a knife and made a
number of cuts across his clothing.
Fortunately none of them penetrated
the flesh to any depth, but the shirt of
Mr. Blandis was literally slit into shreds.
Potts was locked up on the charge of
assault with a deadly weapon.
Saturday morning Potts was tried in
the recorder's court for the assault
upon Brandis and was fined $1T> and the
costs. Upon the conclusion of the
trial in the city court. Potts was ar;
rested upon a warrant charging assault
! upon a government employee, while the
latter was in the discharge of his duties.
' He was sent up to the Federal court
under a $250 l>ond by United States
Commissions Cobb. At the hearing
j before the commissioner. Potts was
represented by counsel, who contended
I mm wnne ine onense charged was a
; violation of the Federal law, his client
had already been tried for the same
i offense in a State court, which barred
any further trial. The contention of
counsel embodies a point of law which
will be watched with interest in its
progress through the Federal court.
Theodore McGraw Essays Suicide.
Theodore McGraw, some years ago a
weaver in a Fort Mill cotton mill, attempted
to commit suicide in Charlotte
Saturday afternoon by cutting his
throat with a pocket knife. He was
walking on west Trade street and pulling
the knife from his pocket, slashed
his thioat three or four times. He fell
' on the street within u fatmr
^ . m ?* ?? reel \n
where he had tried to end his life and a
bystander ran up and wrapped a butcher's
apron around the wounds. McGraw
i was then taken to a hospital. His condition
is said to be serious.
McCIraw's home is in Hock Hill. He
has had a rather checkered career.
Some years ago he was convicted in the
court at Yorkville of breaking into a
freight car of the Southern railway at
Rock Hill and served a term in the penitentiary
for the offense. He is also
said to have been in other trouble.
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ADVOCATE OF EXCLUSIVENESS
SHOULD MARCH AT THE HEAD
"What art' you talking about man?"
asked the grocery store habitue who
spends most of his time sitting on an
empty soap hox whittling a white pine ;
stick. "This is already a good town, '
and 1, for one, am opposed to inviting
strangers to come here to live. We I
have enough people. 1 am for letting
well enough alone. People who move j
from one town to another will bear !
watching. We don't need 'ctn, and 1
am opposed to sending literature, as j
you suggest, advertising this town as a !
good place to live in. About all you
could say in your circulars is that Fort
Mill has a presidential postoflice, a new
school house, half a dozen or so stores, |
a li ttle newspaper whose editor I was
minded to wallop for opposing Pansier,
and a few other advantages. All this
talk about building up the town makes '
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me sure way uown 10 iny neeis. rts
things are now we know who our neigh- j
bora are, and don't have to sit up all !
night with shot Runs guarding our
premises. You get a lot of strangers
here and we'll have to put time-locks
on our hen houses and invest our sav;
ings in watch dogs.
"I haven't any use for strangers,
j Even if they don't steal anything that
isn't nailed down, they are pretty sure
! to sell you mining stock, or lightning |
rixls, or some fool thing you haven't <
any use for. Does a sensible man invite
every Tom, Dick and Harry into
his house, just to have a lot of compa- |
ny? You bet he doesn't. He shuts his
j door against the cheap skates, and the
! man who wants to get into the house to |
propose to the youngest daughter has to I
have his shoes blacked and a clean set !
of teeth. A town should he just as ex- j
' elusive as a private family. Instead of
I inviting all the four-flushers in the j
| country to come here and settle down, 1
: we should get a spiked club and chase [
out a lot of undesirable citizens."
"You would be at the head of the pa- j
rade if 1 did the chasing," declared the I
grocer, savagelv.
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Conductor and Flagman Left.
Passengers who went to the depot in
Fort Mill Friday morning to board
I southbound train No. which is due
here at <5:47, had a wait of half an hour
before the arrival of the train, due to a
rather unusual cause. The conductor 1
and flagman of the train were left in
Charlotte and the train had to be held
in Pineville until a swith engine could
take this \cry important part of the
crew trom Charlotte to Pineville to
overtake the train. Friday morning a
w ti-.,j .u.< -.i ---
........ i i .in in ij; ll< <11 LI 11' passenger
station in < harlotte and the conductor!
and Hantaan wore standing on the
ground near their train watching the
work. Someone signalled the engineer
of No. X."> ahead and he thought the
signal came from the conductor. Hut
it did not, and as neither the conductor
nor the dayman saw the train pull out
hoth were left behind. Telephone
communication with Pineville was secured,
however, and the train was held
! there until the conductor and flagman
reached it.
Offense to Teach Slaves to Read.
In 18X4 the General Assembly of 1
South Carolina paSsed an act providing I
that "if any person shall hereafter
teach any slave to read or write, or
shall aid or assist in teaching any slave
! to read or write, or cause or procure !
any slave to be taught to read or write, ;
such person, if a free white person, |
upon conviction thereof, shall, for each j
and every offense, against this act, be
fined not exceeding $100, and imprisoned
not more than six months; or if a
j iree person 01 color, shall be whipped
I not exceeding 50 lashes, and fined not
exceeding $50, at the discretion of the
court of magistrates and freeholders
before which such free person of color
is tried; and if a slave, to be whipped
not exceeding 50 lashes, the informer
to be entitled to one half of the fine,
and to be a competent witness. And
if any free person of color or slave
shall keep any school, or other place of
instruction, for teaching any slave or
free person of color to read or write, ;
such free person of color or slave shall >
be liable to the same fine, imprisonment!
anil cornoral nunishmont ?a o.... K.. ?u:..
r r?..^ XV, ? .? mr wj VIIIO
act imposed and indicted on free persona
of color and slaves for teaching
slaves to read or write."
Orphans Infected With Hookworm.
The examination of the 131 children
in the North Carolina Methodist orphanage
has just been completed and
, it is found that 61 per cent, of the children
are infected with hookworm, 75 |
per cent, of the hoys and 53 per cent,
i of the girls. There an 36 of the 43
boys and 48 of the 83 giri. infected.
HITS FROM CHARLOTTE SPEECH
OF OKLAHOMA'S BLIND SENATOR
One of the most convincing ruinating
political speeches ever delivered
rti this section was that of United
States Senator Thus. P. (lore, of Oklahoma,
at the Academy of Music in
Charlotte last Wednesday evening.
Senator Gore's speech bristled with ,
pungent arguments against the Republican
party and did much to stimulate the
cause of Democracy in North Carolina.
The following extracts from the speech
are timely and worth reading:
Inequality of fortune has resulted
from special privileges. Democracy '
believes that a man should get what he
earns, no more, no less. The Republi
can party favors legislation which will
enable one man to get something for
nothing by forcing millions of people
to get nothing for something.
I wish it could be arranged so that
every Democrat could buy articles less i
the tariff and all Republicans had to
pay the price plus the tariff, just to see
how unanimously Democratic the country
would go.
Cheap blankets are taxed 161 per
cent. The poor man pays for $1 of
blanket and $1.61 for protection against
the foreign laborer. The price paid by ,
him who has no money appears only in
the vital statistics.
In 189.'f under Cleveland about 60
banks closed and they called it a panic.
In 1907 under Roosevelt they closed all
the banks and called it a holiday.
The tariff was reduced from 195 to
190 on sugar. Eat a hundred pounds
and you'll save a nickel. Eat a ton
and you will save $1.
There is no legeriermain by which I
the farmer may profit by the tariff, lbhas
to compete in work! markets with
other nations. He can never profit by
it, so long as he has to buy in a closed
market and sell in an open market.
Four times the Republican party has
promised taritf revision downward and
four times the American people have1
been betrayed. Why should the promise ;
have been believed at the last election? 1
Rut the people are not going to be
fooled any. more.
Democracy regards trade as a blessing.
We should realize that we cannot
close our doors to keep imports out
without closing our doors to keep ex- ,
nort< in C.U1/.M num .\f ?K..
should realize that they cannot sell to
the man across the seas unless we in
turn buy abroad.
A recent Congress appropriated ,
UOO.o<Ml to open rivers and harbors
for the stimulation of trade. The
same Congress raised the tariff to discourage
trade.
The ship subsidy proposition is the
most brazen and unblushing graft ever
attempted against the American people
anil for that reason has never been
enacted.
President Taft for H months has been
busy carrying out Roosevelt's policies
on a stretcher.
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Benton Goes to Chattanooga.
Rube Benton, the Lancaster county
baseball player who created a sensation j
in the cities of the South Atlantic
league early in the season which closed
a few weeks ago by his phenomenal j
pitching, has been sold to the Chattanooga
team of the Southern league
by the t incinnati Nationals. Benton
was bought from Macon three months
ago by Cincinnati, the consideration for
the Georgia city in the deal being
$7,(MX), which was said to be the high- J
est price ever paid for a player from a
Class I) team. But Rube has been a
frost ill th*? N,' i*tnnl i*
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is said in his behalf that with a year
or two of seasoning in the Southern
league he will show up with sufficient
class to get back in the ranks of the
majors. He is young and has plenty of
time yet to develop.
Babb Succeeds Brock.
Capt. Oscar Babb, of Laurens, has
been appointed assistant adjutant general
to succeed Col. W. T. Brock when
the latter's resignation goes into effect
November 1st. It is understood that
Capt. Babb is the selection of Col. W.
W. Moore, who was nominated for
nujuiam general in me recent primary,
and the Laurens man will, therefore,
he likely to continue in office after
January 1st.
Textile Department Making Flags.
In accordance with a law passed by
the last General Assembly, the textile
department of Clemson college is now
manufacturing the State flag, to be
furnished, at approximate cost, to the
schools of the State. Schools desiring
the flags can get them by sending their
orders to the textile department, Clemson
college. All checks should be made
payable to P. H. E. Sloan, treasurer.
NEW TEXTILE c^HOOL TO OPEN i
FOR CARINA MILL WORKERS
A matter of considerable interest to
the cotton mill operatives of South I
Carolina is the announcement of the .
opening of the textile school for operatives
at Monaghan mill, in Greenville. <
on the .'tOth inst. The work is under
the auspices of the V. M. C. A. of the
Monaghan mill and an able corps of
teachers will give instruction during
the evening hours on the fundamentals
of education, mill calculations, textile
designing and mechanical drawning.
The movement has been worked up
to for some mnnlVic t>uo? ;# ia
V. .V ID U..I..-Istood,
and the authorities of tin- mills
are giving it support and encouragement.
While the beginning is small,
there appears to he in the minds of
those who are hack of the movement
a purpose of enlarging the school, if it
is sufficiently patronized, and possibly
giving it a building of its own, with
proper facilities to give mill operatives
courses which will prepare them as
experts in the textile branches. A
number of pamphlets have been printed
for distribution, and will be placed in
the hands of all interested in the next
few days.
While the school is located at
Monaghan mills, it will be open to any
operative from any other cotton mill
who wishes to take these lessons.
Deas Ousted From Chairmanship.
Ousting E. H. Deas, negro, from the
State chairmanship, in accordance, it is
said, with the wishes of the administration
at Washington, the Republican
State convention, composed for the
most part of negroes, met in Columbia
Monday, and following a stormy session
elected .1. W. Tolbert. of Greenwood, a
white man, to head the Republican party
in this State. Although there was
not a repetition of the free-for-all light
of the last convention, there was much
confusion, the meeting ending in a
bubble when T. 1,. Grant, of Charleston,
claimed that he was defrauded out
of the vice-chairmanship. The convention
was attended by about six white
men and upwards of 100 negroes, regularly
named delegates.
Damage Suit Against 'Phone Exchange.
Zeb Darnell, a Pineville township
farmer, has entered suit in the Mecklenburg:
superior court against the Fort
Mill Telephone exchange for $1 ,0<H)damages
which he alleges to have sustained
to his person from shock during a thunderstorm
some weeks ago. Mr. Darnell
claims that the shock was due to the !
presence in his home of a telephone of |
the local exchange. He has employed j
Stewart McUae, of < 'harlot to, to i
prosecute the case. The telephone ex- i
change will he del ended by Hurwell ,
t'ansler. The case was to have been
heard at the term of court which opens
Monday, hut has been postponed.
Woman Killed With Axe.
One of the most brutal crimes in the
annals of Chester county occurred on
Mr. Joseph Lee's plantation, near l.owryville,
Saturday afternoon, Martha
Ellen Bratton, a colored woman, being
struck in the head with an axe, and
dying from the effects of the wound
some few hours later. Carl Lowry. a
nephew of the woman, is in jail charged
with the crime, though he .trenuously
denies his guilt.
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DOMESTIC TROUBLE PROMPTS
ROCK HILL PASTOR TO RESIGN
The Rev. II. R. Mills probably will
be relieved of the pastorate of St.
John's Methodist church. Rock Hill.
In a statement yiven the press Tuesday,
Presiding Elder Odell. of the
Rock Hill district, to whom Mr. Mills
tendered his resignation. srives as the
reason for Mr. Mills' action differences
between Mr. and Mrs. Mills. The statement
of Presiding Elder Odell is as follows:
"Inasmuch as the press will in all
probability send out reports concerning
the unfortunate atTair involving
the Rev. H. R. Mills of the South Carolina
conference, I deem it my duty
to the church and to Brother and Mrs.
Mills to give the facts to the public.
"On Thursday, September 22, Brother
Mills came to me and told me that
he was in trouble; that he and his wife
could not live together any longer and
asked that 1 release him from his work,
as he would feel a delicacy in appearing
before his congregation under the circumstances.
Having no authority to
release him. 1 told him that the best
and only thing to do was to have
the matter investigated in due form by
a committee. To do this he readily
consent-id anil expressed a desire that
it be done as quickly as possible. I appointed
an investigating committee,
consisting of Revs. Matthew M. Brabham.
D. Melvin McLeod and S. D.
Bailey. They very carefully investigated
the mutter and reported that a
trial was necessary. There was nothing
of a scandalizing nature charged by
either Mrs. Mills or Mr. Mills, the sole
specification in the charge being that
Mr. Mills had separated from his wife,
for other than the Scriptural reason.
The above is in brief a fair statement
of the case."
Did Self-interest Prompt Generosity?
"That was a rather peculiar argument
advanced by Mr. Fred Niins inThe
Times last week in reference to the
patriotism of Mr. i?. S. McNineh."
said a well known Fort Mill citizen
.vraii-nmy. i no not ooiiiti that Mr.
Nims' statement that Mr. McNinch
readily agreed to pay his proportionate
part of the tax necessary to erect
the new school building in Fort Mill is
true. Mr. Nims would not have made
the statement had it not been true.
Hut it is possible that Mr. McNinch is
not as patriotic as appears at lirst
blush. He is the proprietor of the
Charlotte Brick company, whose plant
is two miles south of Fort Mill. This
company manufactures brick and sells
them to the public. There was no
secret of th.- intention of tin- board of
trustees of the Fort Mill graded school
to erect the new building of brick. Likely
enough Mr. McNinch had heard of
this. Then he may have concluded that
the trustees would tind it more convenient
to secure the brick of him than
to have them shipped in from a distance.
He got the order for the brick
and it is fair to assume that he did not
.sell them to the trustees at cost. He
is generally accredited with being a
good business man. There are many
patriotic people in the world."
Governor Blease's Secretary.
Governor-elect Cole L. Mease has
appointed Mr. Alexander Rowland, of
Columbia, his private secretary and
Mr. Rowland has accepted.
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