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U. R. Brooks, clerk of the
supreme court, has accepted an
invitation to deliver an address
at a gathering of the veterans
of Lancaster county, August 6.
Governor Bleasehas commended
the action of the Columbia
Record in starting a campaign
to raise by popular subscription
$50,000 for an exhibit from this
State to the Panama Exposition
at San Francisco, Cal.
Claridge W. Norr.vce, aged 30,
city editor of The Anderson
Daily Mail for the past six years,
died early Monday after being
ill with Bright's disease for five
months. He leaves a wife and
one little dnna-hter
Announcement was made at
the office of the railroad commission
Monday that the hearing
on the order to provide separate
Pullman cars for negroes had
been postponed from June 11 to
July 1. The hearing was postponed
upon request of the Pullman
Car company.
James Parker, of Chesterfield
county, shot and killed Will
Stack, of Lancaster county,
about midnight Friday night at
Parker's home. Stack, it is
said was attempting to break in
a window at Parker's house when
Parker opened the door and
emptied the full contents of a
double-barreled shotgun in his
stomach. Stack died in about
12 hours.
There was a conference Saturday
in Gov. Blease's office in
Columbia relative to the encampment
of the State militia, those
participating in the conference
being the Governor, Gen. Wilie
Jones, and Cols. Legare, Lewis
and Cogswell. A telegram to
Secretary of War Garrison for
more information about the en^campment
was referred to
Adjutant General Simpson, and
until a reply is received from
General Simpson no announcement
will be made as to site for
encampment. . .
Corner Stone Was Laid.
The corner stone of York
county's new $7f?,(KX) court house
was laid in Yorkville last Wednesday
afternoon, with impressive
ceremonies by the officers
of the Masonic Grand Lodge of
South Carolina. The exercises
commenced at 3:30 o'clock when I
a parade of Masons formed at
local lodge under the direction of
Grand Marshal I. W. .Johnson
and marched up Congress street
one block and returned, passing
through the triumphal arch at
the entrance to a stand that had
been erected at the corner of the
new building. After the singing
of a song by a choir. Rev. T.
Tracy Walsh offered the invocation.
and after another song, the
ceremonies of laying the corner
stone took place. Grand Master
Geo. T. Bryan, of Greenville,
wielding a golden trowel, and
being assisted by other officers
of the Grand Lodge.
A number of Fort Mill people
were in Yorkville for the ceremonies.
Upper Road is Selected.
The squabble which has been
going on for several weeks between
citizens of different sections
of the county as to which,
the north or south, road hptu-ppn
Hock Hill and Yorkville should
he chosen as the route for the
east and west county road was
settled Thursday afternoon in a
meeting of the county board of
commissioners attended by several
hundred residents of the
county. The north road from
Hock Hill, leading* by way of
Ebenezer and out by Tirzah
church was the route decided
upon.
Rock Hill sent a large delegation
to the meeting and there
^ were a score or more residents
of Fort Mill on hand. Practically
all of those present from Eastern
York were in favor of the north
road, and the announcement received
here just before night
that the commissioners had
named this route, was a source
of pleasure to our people.
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THE DRIFT OF OUR NATIONAL
GOVERNMENT.
By Gary T. Winded.
It seems strange to us when
we think and realize that so many
of our great and wise men are
continually kicking and howling
against the big corporations.
They seem to fail to realize that
the enormous business that the
National government carries on
cannot possibly be managed by
small concerns.
There is very good reason to
believe that Europe is conducting
? publicity bureau in America
This bureau is operated for
the purpose of creating sentiment
against our large corporations.
If the people of this country
can be made to believe that the
high cost of living is owing to
the operations of big business,
then this superstition will find
concrete form in government
prosecutions. For let it be understood
that the government
can do nothing, right or wrong,
save as it is backed up by public
opinion.
The United States is moving
toward free trade; and free trade
is not to be feared, provided
American manufacturers have a
fair field. We can meet the
world in the open, but we cannot
fight if our government insists
on having our hands tied behind
us, for reasons of "politics."
American dissolution and European
co-operation will surely put
the skids under our prosperity.
In fact, the skids are under us
now, or there would not be a
capable man out of work in all
America, Germany's motto is,
"Unite ami Conquer," whereas,
ours seems to be "Dissolve and
Retreat."
What America should sell is
not raw material?we should sell
our genius, our talent, our skill,
our efficiency, our organizing
ability. In agricultural implements
America leads the world,
simply because we have the machinery
that can produce a thousand
plows while the average factory
of Europe is making a hundred.
The American wage-earner
is the best paid worker in the
world. American inventive genius
and American organization
ability are behind him.
Big business has shortened
hours, increased pay, eliminated
sweat-shops, done away with
child labor, adopted old-age pensions,
profit-sharing in a hundred
forms, and has given cleanliness,
order, system, safety, hygiene
and beauty, where little business
never did or could.
Public opinion in America concerning
industrial organization
is largely the work of foreign
publicity bureaus that are operating
here in America.
An armed force you can repel,
but a newspaper suggestion?ah,
you can not locate its lair. An
example of a most persistent lie
is found in the oft-repeated state-1
ment that Ampriran-ma/lo furm
machinery is sold cheaper in Europe,
Asia and Africa than in
America. This statement has
been disproved by government
investigations and reports, by
unimpeachable facts, figures and
testimony. But yet the lie still
goes forth, spread broadcast by i
European publicity bureaus, with |
the one intent of turning the
American voter against Ameri-1
can industrial institutions.
What we want in this country I
is increased wages, steady work
and sure pay?that is, increased
buying-power. Our learned men
should be up and doing and educate
the American people to the
truth that organization means
civilization, and thus stop, if1
possible, this insane war on enterprise
and industry. The forces
of dissolution are at work in any
nation that begins to make war
on invention, initiative, enterprise
and organization.
This country has ju9t passed
through a cyclone of defamation,
vituperation and exposure much
of it indecent. The national condition
has been pathologic, but
we are glad to say that we are j
now recovering.
Business means homes, gardens,
books. Darks, music cood
roads, schools, safety, happiness,
peace and prosperity, and for
these things the world has not
vet seen a plethora.
This is a time to build., a time i
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Mr. VV. P. Stevenson is running
for Congress in the Fifth District.
Most newspaper readers
know something about him, but
he has been a busy man and his
contact with the district has not
given the people of the district
1 the intimate knowledge of him
that they should have. We propose
in a few articles to do this.
He was raised on a farm and
I worked in the field each year until
he entered college at the age
of eighteen. He read law and
, taught school at the same time
1 and became an active lawyer in
May. 1887. He was elected to
the legislature in 1896. 1898 and
1900. He was elected Speaker
i of the House in January, 1901,
and served until he quit the
; House for that time. On bis
election, one of the leading daily
: papers made the following comj
ment:
"In the election of Mr. W.
F. Stevenson, of Chesterfield
county, to the speakership of
the house yesterday the expected
has happened. The
pected by us at least, although
the result of vote
| seems to have afforded suri
prise in other quarters. On
the 18th of last May we said,
'We have before referred to
Mr. Stevenson of Chesterfield
county as one of the
rising men in South Carolina
politics. He has all the essentials
for success as his
career in the the House of
Representatives has shown.
For the last two terms he
has been easily the leader of
| that body. * * * He has
! never been defeated in any I
candidacy. He is a quick
debater with an incisive manner,
and a peculiarly attractive,
although awkward delivery."
The statement that he has never
been defeated has to be now
qualified, since he ran for attorney
general in 1902 and was beaten
by a small majority. The
Yorkville Yeoman said then that
he was being urged to run for!
i McLaurin's place and added:
"There is no doubt that
candidates for Congress from j
this the fifth congressional
district would feel greatly |
relieved to see him in the
S6flBt6 *'
The Fort Mill Times of .January
80, 1901, after a visit of its editor
to the legislature, said of him:
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xuii, sieiiuer ana loosely
made, with a thin crop of
sandy hair, a stubby moustache
of the same hue and a
head that appears none too
large, one is not apt to guess
the ability of this remarkable
man. In all South
Carolina he is perhaps the
most forceful speaker and
debator. 'with perhaps one
exception, and his elevation
to the speakership was due
solely to the recognition of
his ability."
So now having left the incum- j
bent quietly in office for sixteen
years he asks for the opportunity
to serve his State and the Nation
as a loyal lieutenant of Woodrow
Wilson.
Having in four years reached
the top in the House of Representatives
and having also developed
and shown increased
ability in the subsequent years,
both legal and legislative, we
ask why he should not be given
an opportunity to do the same in
the House of Representatives at
Washington? As a man says,
who has been present at every
session of t.*ery legislature since
1900 and knows Mr. Stevenson
and the other public men of the
State from personal acquaintance
and observation, "He will put
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Look out for a continuance of
this story next week.
(Political Advertisement.)
to unite, a time for faith and a
time for brotherhood. Let us be
glad we are Americans and stand
together for American institu-'
tions.
Would you have your name!
smell sweet with myrrh of re- j
membrance and chime melodiously
in the ear of future days,
then cultivate faith, not doubt,
and give every man credit for
the good he does, never seeking
to attribute base motives to beautiful
acts. 1
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UaSDAY. JUNE 11. 1034.
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WERE OPENED TUESDAY
Mr. S. W. Parks, the secretary
of the Fort Mill Democratic club,
several days ago received a
copy of the new Democratic club
roll book, provided for in the revised
rules of the party, and on
Tuesday the book was opened*at
the store of the Parks Drug company
for the enrollment of the
voters of Fort Mill and the tovvni
ship. Already many of our DemI
ocrats have called on Secretary ;
Parks and placed their names on i
the roll. There are upwards of i
450 voters in Fort Mill and it is
expected that a large majority
of these will have enrolled before
the books close on the last
Tuesday in duly, the 28th.
This year, according to the
new party rules, every voter has
to go to the enrollment place in!
person and inscribe his name on
the enrollment book, instead of
having the secretary to do so.
Heretofore, a person could phone
in to have his name enrolled, or
PAlllfl rro f *--- A
i^vrt, dciuiiu puny 10 see t
i that his name was placed on the!
roll. This year, however, the
enrollment must he in person
and the full name of the voter
must be inscribed. In case the
prospective voter cannot write, j
lie must make his mark, similar
to the endorsement on a check.
It should also be remembered
that the full name and not the
initials are required. For in-!
I stance, if a voter enrolls with
his initials the same will not he 1
| according to the rules and he
will be marked off by the committee
when the rolls are purged.
The enrollment hooks for the 1
entire State are similar, except;
those used in the city of Charleston.
special provision heinjr made 1
in the rules for forms to be used
in that city. The total number)
of enrollment books in the State
is 1,376.
"\V. R. Bradford, of Fort Mill, ;
who is employed on The State in J
Columbia, denies the truthfulness
of the rumor that he proposes to
be a candidate for Secretary of'
State of South Carolina. It certainly
would be a pity to spoil a;
pood newspaper man by trans- j
forminp him into a South Caro- j
lina politician, but if Bradford)
can be induced to olfer for the
office, The Herald is for him."
Rock Hill Herald, Monday. '
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3 Beautiful Cotton Crep
3 strictly 50c the yard, sj
jjj Beautiful Plain Silk (
Ci only SI.38 per yard.
3 Pretty Brocaded Silk
3 week, only $1.39 per ya
Cj Dainty 36-incli Wash
week only, 58c the yarc
!Few pretty pieces 27Muslins?All
regular
Splendid value Voiles
Few Children's Dress<
| Ladii
jjj The very best $1.00 and
[2 navy blue, tan and white,
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Who is To Blame?
Editor The York News:
In a published list of the
articles which were deposited in
the cornerstone of the new York
county court house, I notice the
collection contained only two of
the county's newspapers. .lust
why there should have been such
a display of favoritism in this
connection I am at a loss to
understand, especially since it is
a fact that one of the papers
which was considered worthy a
place in the cornerstone was not
in existence when the campaign
for the building was being fought
out and the other paper displayed
little or no enthusiasm in
behalf of the undertaking. The
uninformed outsider read in."; the
article to which 1 have referred
could reasonably inter that there
are only two newspapers published
in the county, or that, if
there are others, they were not
considered of suflicient importance
to warrant a place in the
cornerstone. It looks as it those
who selected the articles for the
vvi Iiticiunc <IS?HI 11 itMl I.IlilL lilt'
building was. more or less, to be
an institution local to Yorkville
only. It so happens that I have
the honor be it little or much
of being the" first. York county
newspaper man to begin the
agitation for the new building,
of which. I am sure, even those
who opposed its construction will
be proud. Why should the Fort
Mill Times, of which 1 was then
editor, ami which has since been
consistently friendly to the new
court house proposition, have
been denied a place in the cornerstone?
This is not a serious
matter, but it illustrates how
quickly favors are forgotten.
1 use the word favors advisedly,
for it certainly was more of a
favor to Yorkville to work for
the new building than it wat to
the section of the county whose
people I particularly tried to
interest in the undertaking.
W. R. Bradford.
Fort Mill, June 4.
We owe it to Hio
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in which we live to do everything
in every way possible that will
be to its advantage. Our neighbor's
prosperity means a great
deal more to us than someone's
who lives elsewhere. We should
bear this in mind in buying our
Roods.
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splendidly. Come look these
>c de Chene, in pink, blue an
fecial offering for this week o
2repe de Chene. in blue and w
Crepe de Chene in blue and
rd.
Silks, regular prices 75c. 1
1.
inch Wash Silks. 50c value. 1
12 1-2/c Muslins this week on
. dainty shades, flowered patt
us, 2 to 6 yrs? regular prices !
bs' Buster Brown H<
l 50c Silk Hose made. New
all sizes, $1 the pair. 50c oi
ove to you that this is the vc
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HUERTA REVOKES ORDER
TO BLOCKADE TAMPICO
General Huerta's action Monday
suspending the order to
blockade Tampico against tindelivery
of ammunition by the
steamer Antilla to the Constitutionalists,
served to dispel apprehension.
over a new crisis
between the Cnited States and
| the Huerta Government which
j had threatened mediation of
Mexican all'airs.
I rm i ?*? ? ?
i noiurn u asnmeton ottieials
?x pressed satisfaction over
Huerta's action, it was persistently
suggested uuoilie:nl!\ that
the blockade had been sir ponded
only conditionally as a result of
conferences between the South
American mediators and the
Mexican and American delegates
at Niagara Falls. It also was
said the Antiila might he K
divil'ted in her course through
an agreement with olliciais of
the Ward Line, her owners, and
an American corporation.
President Wilson and Secretaries
1 try an and Daniels gave
evidence of great relief over the
| late developments, which temi
porarily at least, have averted
another clash at arms. From
no otlicial source was there confirmation
of reports that Iluerta
! had no understanding with the
i mediators or the I'nited States
which tvould assure him that the
I Antilla's cargo would not he
delivered. Meanwhile nothing
i has been heard from t ho Antiila
which was due to arrive ofT
Tampico Wednesda> morning.
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cms, only 10c and 25c fj
25ceach, now only 19c nl
a
jse. a
shipment just in. Black, )j
ties in black, light blue, }j
ry best hose made at the gj
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i tvenuiun iv;i111 run nereaoouts.
Partial relief fivm t ho dist ressin.U'
drought conditions which
I have prevailed over Port Mill
and vicinity, as well as the entire
county. for the past four or
five weeks, came Monday afternoon
when this section was
visited by an electrical storm
accompanied by a downpour of
rain which bejjan about six
o'clock. The rain meant much
to the farmers of this section,
| for crops and j?ai;dens have
suffered considerably from the
' Ionspell of dry weather.
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| to oiu-ourayo uoiii . Naturo." Uul
jwliv ai-i/.c uigrettos ami tlis-aiuiinulu
against Duino Kuan ion?"
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$ WEEK. I
; to offer you this week. 3
excellent values over. Cj
tl gray, regular price jfl
illy 39c. jjj
hite, price reduced to In
white, price for this n)
bargain price for this Li
this week only 37c. j(j
ly at 10c the yard. 3