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The Fort Mill Times.
DEMOCRATIC.
Published Thursday Morninjra.
B. W. 4 W. R. Bradford Publishers
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FORT MILL. S. C.. DECEMBER 1. 1910.
Reason Reigns.
There will be no conference of
Democratic leaders in Baltimore
for the purpose of trying to map
out a plan of campaign for 1912.
The effort to enunciate a new
set of principles for the party to
supercede the Denver platform
has been sidetracked, thanks to
the good sense of such men as
Mr. Bryan and Champ Clark,
who frowned upon the proposition
of the Maryland Democrats
who were foolish enough to think
that a handful of self-appointed
delegates to such a conference
could commit the Democracy of
the nation to any policy which
might meet with their approval.
The proposition was little less
than absurd and we were surDrised
to see it indorsed hv such
a paper as The News and Courier,
which went so far in its approval
as to name the men who
should take the lead in organizing
the conference. The whole
thing was ill-advised and appeared
to have the ulterior motive
of being a slap at Mr. Bryan,
who was to be ignored as a
party leader, as if any kind of
Democratic conference purporting
to be of national significance
could be more than a farce without
Mr. Bryan sitting at the head
of the table. Instead of the conference
there is to be a great
jollification meeting in Baltimore
over the recent victories of the
party and to this meeting no objection
can be urged. On the
other hand, It ought to inspire
the party to redoubled energy
for the presidential campaign of
1912.
An Analyti* That Didn't Analyze.
The next time Col. Walker
Taylor, of Wilmington, attempts
to analyze the political situation,
as he did in Sunday's Charlotte
Observer, it is to be hoped that
he will ask some one to aid him
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in ins iwm iuniuus uiiu 10 lurinsii
him with his facts. Col. Taylor
does not think that the recent
Democratic victory was due to
the activity of Roosevelt. Rather
does he incline to the opinion that
if Roosevelt had not entered the
campaign the Republican rout
would have been greater. "It
was predicted that Governor-elect
Dix would carry New York by
200,000 majority. Mr. Roosevelt
entered the campaign and reduced
this to 60,000." Predicted!
Reduced! Fine reasoning indeed.
Who did the predicting? Who
told Col. Taylor that Roosevelt
reduced Dix's plurality to 60,000?
How does Col. Taylor know that
the election would have shown
a greater Democratic victory but
for Roosevelt?
Roosevelt drove thousands ol
voters away from the Republican
party by the disgusting
exhibition he made of himself b>
his irresponsible statements anc
wild harangues against the Dem
ocratic nominees; but the defeat
of the Republican party was not
a**?r /I i i t r\ L> /\/vo /%tr/\l f
ciiuxci.y uuc tu hwncvcit n icliv
lessness. The matter of the pi
ratical tariff passed by the pres
ent Republican Congress hac
great influence in determining
the result of the election.
But Col. Taylor thinks bette
days are in store for us unde
Republican administration, fo
"it will doubtless be the polic;
of Mr. Taft to have Congres
convene in December" to fulfil
the tariff promises of his party
Here, particularly, is where Col
Taylor should have called fo
help. The president of the Unit
ed States does not "have Cor
gress convene" except in specij
session, and there is abroad in the
land the popular suspic:on that
when Congress meets next Monday
the meeting will be due to
the Federal constitution and not
to the policy of the president
There is no thought of tariff
legislation before the Democratic
Congress convenes next year.
The Newberry Lynching.
What is there to be said of the
lynching of the negro Henry
Clark in Newberry county a few
days ago? -Certainly there is
little to be said in condemnation
of the men who put the negro to
death. Clark's crime was peculiarly
atrocious. After attempting
to criminally assault the
14-year-old daughter of his employer
and failing in his purpose,
he almost decapitated the child
with his pocket knife. Afterwards
he pretended to assist the
searchers in finding the murderer.
Suspicion pointed to Clark and
he confessed the crime. The
lynching followed the confession
as a matter of course. The
negro deserved to be summarily
executed and in disposing of him
the men of Lexington and Newberry
counties did just what
would have been done in York
or any other South Carolina
county.
We sometimes hear the statement
that it does no good to
lynch black brutes for murdering
or assaulting white women and
girls. The Times does not subscribe
to the statement. We are
confident that lynching does have
a deterring effect and that the
crime for which most blacks are
lynched would multiply ten-fold
but for the lynchings. And the
argument that we should allow
the law to take its course when
the women of the South are thus
assaulted lest this section be
injured in a commercial way is
wholly specious and too contemptible
to consider. If outside
capital can be attracted to South
Carolina only at the sacrifice of
our manhood, we are better off
without it.
Mr. Htrley'a Worlc Satiifiei, But?
The Rev. J. L. Harley is an
enthusiast. Mr. Harley is State
superintendent of the AntiSaloon
league. Evidently he
likes the work and the league
likes the quality of service he
has rendered, for Mr. Harley has
been reelected to pass the hat
and make Speeches for the organization
for another year. In
his annual report, which some
one may be unkind enough to
characterize as more or less fuls
some and optimistic to a degree
which conditions do not warrant,
Mr, Harley tells us how "the
work has taken hold of the people
of 'he State" and how it is
t "creating a new brand of politics
and politicians;" but there is a fly
I in the ointment in Mr. Harley's
i statement "that it is impossible
' fnr nnp man tri mnaciir*? lin to tHo
present demands." From which
; we infer that Mr. Harley
I is being worked overtime. He
has to make too many speeches.
We do not think it fair that Mr.
Harley should have to put in so
1 many extra hours in the work
without drawing pay for overtime.
A union scale of prices
; should be established, otherwise
: Mr. Harley should be given an
assistant. We suggest that the
, I league ask the Hon. Cole L.
Blease to help Mr. Harley out ot
the hole. Mr. Blease is the man
1 to turn to in the dilemma; he is
' the man who did such effective
.! work during the campaign last
summer to assist the league ir
' "creating a new brand of politics
' and politicians."
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One or two of The Times' ex
" changes have had a good word tc
say for Governor Ansel for grant
1 ing a pardon to Walker Allen, i
'; young white man who was serv
" i ing a life sentence in the peni
j I tentiary for killing a man \vh<
j insulted Allen's wife. Som<
* i years ago Allen escaped from th?
! penitentiary and went home t<
r ; visit a sick relative, afterward:
r | voluntarily returning to thepris
on. This incident doubtless in
' spired the governor's action
but if Allen was worthy of execu
j tive clemency, why should Gov
* ernor Ansel have waited unti
* Allen's health was destroyed b;
r tuberculosis to pardon him? W
> see nothing in the governor's ac
i- j to elicit admiration. He has
d ; Ansel-like, acted too slowly.
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Our big, recorc
a grand success,
the people of this
money during the
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patronage.
When out shop
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us; it pays.
A Christm;
Every boy and
munity under 1i
Xmas souvenir fr
send us their nam
later than Dec. (
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we snail oe glad t
one f ou.
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The steady gr
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to install a Meat .
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The One Woman, The Clansma
Nancy Stair, The Shuttle, Judith
, Port of Missing Men, The Weste
Mystery, Cowardice Court, The
i Crow, Graustark, Gordon Keith,
? Rock, Her Prairie Knight, The
Chickamauga, Abner Daniel, Wi
Shepherd of Kingdom Come, Th
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5 Vicksburg, The Young Colonis
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tes, Etc., at The Times office.
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BLACK SILK P:
Another shipment of those famou
ronder, when you see the quality.
LADIES' CC
Just in by express, 200 Collars,
ows in plain white and Persians, c
LADIES' FIN
We have 25 or 30 pairs, sizes 2 an
hat we will sell at a big reduction.
GODMAN I
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AMERICAN B
Ask all the boys about this shoe,
ng them. It has no equal.
CHILDREN'S
50 of these in all colors, 2 to 14 y<
LADIES' LOH
25 tan Kerseys and Covert Cloaks
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| Large assortment of Groceri
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SHOES
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ne of children's school shoes.
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CLOAKS.
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