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TAFT TO ELIMINATE NEGRO IS BELIEVED TO FAVOR WHITE BALLOT FOR THE SOUTH. Statement by Culloni that Elimination of Negro Vote Would Wipe Out Democratic Party. Washington, D. C., November 7.? Persons close to the administration regard the statement made here today by Senator Cullom, of Illinois, that the elimination of negro in the South would mean the immediate control of that section by the Republican party as being the real sentiment of the President on this subject. The Illinois Senator is close to Mr. Taft. In fact, he is one of the President's valued counsellors and political advisers. The fact that he rarely ever appears in print and has little to say on public matters, leads to the belief here to-night that his statement indicates the real mind of the President since the latter's tour of the country. % "Eliminate the negro from politics in the South?give that section of the country an exclusive white ballot, or a franchisement which snail mean absolute and unequivocal white supremacy in the management of its whole affairs and there is not a State below the Mason and Dixon's line which will not be found in the Re; pulican column of the electoral college," Senator Cullom said. "The whole truth of the situation," he continued, "is that the South believes in and really needs the enforcement of the Republican doctrine of a protective tariff. Therefore, the people of that section would like to vote in behalf of candidates?Congressional, national and State?who would supI port such a policy. But they are held in leash, so to speak, by the fear of negro domination; the fear of colored men in office, both of the elective class and those appointed at Washington, there can be no doubt that they are They are afraid of the race issue; constantly in a state of excitement over the prospect of a colored vote of superior numbers, and naturally they cling together against the black man - as a matter of protection, not of their industrial interests, but of their personal affairs. \ South Afraid of the Negro. "But I am satisfied," continued ** * ? ** ?xi x r iv . senator vjunom, mat u tut; negiv wejre not a factor in politics in the South, there wouldn't be a State in that section which would not be in line with our party, and which would not support our candidates and their principles. Take a State like Alabama, for instance. There is a community which possesses vast coal, iron and other industries demanding a protective tariff. With her rank States like Tennessee, Texas and others. They all want to be protected industrially, and the people are ready to join us were it not for the | negro. How can you blame communities like South Carolina and Mississippi, for instance, for voting the Democratic ticket when in some sections the proportion of colored population is ten blacks to one white? It is in communities like these that the white people are afraid. "Now, mind you," Mr. Cullom went V| on, "I do not necessarily mean that I favor the total disfranchisement of the negro. In Illinois, for instance, J we have a large negro vote, just as Ohio, Indiana, New Jersey and New Yorfc have. But up in these communities it is a diffeffrent proposition. There seems to be a distinction somewhere between the two sections in this respect, and the Northern colored man uses his ballot with wisdom and fairness. We are satisfied with him, but it is notorious, of course, that the South is not. And if it were not for this colored ballot in the South, the Mason and Dixon line ' would be wiped out of existence as far as politics is concerned. The Democratic party, or what is left of it, would then be in a sorry plight, if indeed there would remain any Demo eratic party to be in any sort of plight. * -?* President Ready to Act? "Of course the President doesn't intend to surrender any principle, but at the same time he is willing to make concessions to the Southern people commensurate with any fair sense of justice. And likewise does he intend , to eradicate the Mason and Dixon line. In my opinion, he is just the man for that task, and if he doesn't t accomplish it to a certain degree at least, I shall be sadly mistaken. That r ' line must be wiped out at some era * or another; that much is a certainty, and I can't see why there should be any logical reason why the proper action could not come right now. There are seyeral States in the South sim: \ ply ripe for falling into the Republican column. I reiterate that it is the negro vote that is holding Dixie land aloof from the Republican count in the electoral college. Erase that ob(jectionable vote and this country will be a unit politically, as it now is patriotically." Pines Foreman for Peonage. Asheville, N. C., Nov. 5.?In the United States district court this morning counsel for Robert Christian, whose trial on a charge of peonage 1 opened yesterday, announced that they would not resist a verdict of guilty; whereupon Judge James E. Boyd sentenced the defendant to pay a fine of $2,500. This fine was promptly paid. Christian, together with W. L. Smith and W. A. Perry, railroad contractors, were indicted for peonage alleged to have been committed by them in Macon county in 1906, when Christian, as foreman, was alleged to have detained negro employes who sought to escape from the construction camps and to have forcibly ' t brought bach some who had escaped. , It was the first peonage indictment !* found in this State. Smith and Perry were tried in Charlotte and acquitted and Judge Boyd referred to this in passing sentence, saying that he realized that Christian was only foreman and that his employers had esrl caped. jf Step lively, get in line with our line. We are in line with everything in the hardware line. SIMMONS HARDWARE CO. r EVARTS' STRANGE CLIENT. It is Safe to Say He Didn't Follow the Flan Great Lav/yer's Advice. William M. Evarts was the most ap- N< proachable of men while secretary of to-d? state. "I find that it pays better in the the long run," he once said, "to see a man while the impulse is still fresh raiIr< upon him and before he has had time at 1 to think up a set speech and prepare roun an argument. So when a caller asks an(J me to fix a future day and hour for an interview of five minutes?he al- t0 s ways wants just five minutes, no mat- seng ter whether his errand merely in- New volves the writing of an autograph or 000 portends the collapse of an empire? Th I answer: 'I'm ready now. Go on.' er ro Taken thus by surprise, he probably ress puts into the fewest words whatever and he has in mind, and I get off easily, motr "Once in awhile my confidence is rollii imposed upon. I was just clearing up dang my business as attorney general at the end of the Johnson administration when a man who announced himself jas a New Yorker called; as usual, Nc ; he wished to make an appointment bern and, also as usual, was admitted at ern : once. He wore a very mysterious comi look and requested that I dismiss my ries secretary, as his business was of the upon most private nature. When he was exter sure that we were alone he said; " 'Knowing that you are going back \| to private practice in New York, I , wish to avail myself promptly of your services as a legal adviser.' rv.1 "I bowed. {?>d, " 'As there should be no secrets between counsel and client,' he went on, J? 'I may as well tell you frankly that I * am a sneak thief by profession and P1 ? have devised what I believe to be a novel and ingenuious trick, but before HU?,J putting it into operation I should like 1 to consult you about the law on the g~. subject. Suppose I went into a sav- w.orB ings bank and, by pretending to be P ?y one of the employees, led a depositor if into handing me his money, using no tlof force, of course, but simply accepting cfs:\ what he voluntarily handed me. Is ff. there any statute under which I could n be punished for that?' g "I suppose a good many lawyers ,^a8. would have knocked the fellow down, JJj but I saw that he had no idea of in- : suiting me, that he considered the jfari whole thing a simple matter of busi- fen ness and that he had done me the compliment of a first choice from Jn?11 among all the members of the bar, so I answered quietly that I had never saw, studied the law on that point and was ?e? too busy to look it up. 'You had bet- a ter go to somebody else,' I added. me " 'Well would you do me the favor 6ry to recommend the lawyer who has ?om? made, in your judgment the most ^ear! exhaustive examination of the criminal law that fits a case like mine?' he persisted. " 'With pleasure,' I replied. "Try to the district attorney.'"?New York Post. f. gr tied mat! Kills Her Foe of 20 Years. Ever "The most merciless enemy I had N? for 20 years," declares Mrs. James cel^e Duncan, of Haynesville, Me., "was Par?dyspepsia. I suffered intensely after eactl eating or drinking and could scarcely men1 sleep. After many remedies had failed and several doctors gave me I im I tried Electric Bitters, which m. cured me completely. Now I can eat a ^ anything. I am 70 years old and am Mar, overjoyed to get my health and gain strength hack again." For indigestion, loss of appetite, kidney trouble, nie lame back, female complaints, its un- was equaled. Only 50c at Peoples Drug ning Co., Bamberg, S. C. ghor Engl Practice More, Preach Less. if she t A doctor signing himself N. O. C. an(j from Kansas, sets forth his view on ghor "What's the Matter with the ed tc Churches?" in a symposium in The with Delineator for December in strong words: The minister (called of God) talks ^^5 himself hoarse on Sunday about vice, I etc., but he seldom gets off Easy D street. He does not know what goes ? on in Hard street. Pshaw! He g might as well talk to himself in a ? rain barrel, if he does nothing. They \ talk about working in the Lord's vineyard. They are up in. an appletree most of the time. The Salvation Army, with all its < noise, is doing a practical Christian < work. God bless them, they are not afraid to go down among the sons of I toil and down among the outcasts Q and poor of this prosperous (?) nation. They are not afraid of getting dirt on their hands. They go slum- ? ming in earnest. I am not a pessimist. I have had some little exper- 1 ience in this life as a physician and ] have seen both the top and the bot- 1 torn. I do not speak of the little village church where people are more ] on an equality, where the employer is not ashamed to have his employee to sit in the same church. ' There are some noble men and women in the church who are doing good and trying to live right. I <Jo 1 not condemn all the churches nor all the good people, but until the woTta un otiH to nn +Vi a work at had they will never get the I ? people o believe in them. 8 Gets Good Verdict. II I Laurens, Nov. 4.?A verdict of II $1,000 was awarded Mr. R. J. Franke II ^1 of this city, in the common pleas I J court today in a suit for damages to 8 the amount of $25,000 against the |l Southern Cotton Oil Company, this being the third trial of the case. Mr. Franke sued the oil company for the drowning of his son Luther 901 Franke in the reservoir of the com- fl pany, maintaining in his complaint m that the company was negligent in flj not having the reservoir fenced in or guarded. This case was remained to the circuit court last year by a decision of the Supreme Court. . ??] : fl? Mr. J. A. Jenkins, the model Treas- nun urer of the Barnwell Baptist Associa- y.pi tion, tells us that the past association- ?AKI al year was the most liberal in its Best history. The contributions for benev- nmr olent purposes amounted to the noble e.a8y sum of $5,281.98, an increase of $1,- size* 418.31 over last year. Since adjourn- e?3* ment he has received other contribu- s\ze? tions and expects more which will further considerably increase the ^onr gifts of the year.?Barnwell People. '** FIRE SWEEPS SHOPS. les Cause Loss of $300,000 in Newbern. gwbern. N. C., Nov. 6.?Fire arly ly almost completely destroyed plant of the Norfolk & Southern oad here. The loss is ->Rtimated >300,000. In addition to the d house, foundry, blacksmith boiler shops, the flames reduced crap two locomotives, two paser coaches and three freight cars, machinery valued at over $23,is included in the loss, i? fire started at or near the bottom and made considerable progbefore its discovery. By quick skillful work a number of locoves were fired and considerable ? X 1_ _ 11 ~ X ^ * lg siock was inus movea out 01 er. Was WTell Insured. >rfolk, Va., Nov. 6.?The Newproperty of the Norfolk & Southrailway was well insured. The >any, through its receivers, carblanket insurance, premiums which were recently paid to the it of $14,000. rTiy I Left the Woman's Club. these days of suffragist furore, Btory of a former club woman, in Woman's Home Companion November, is particularly interg. Lis woman has taken a promipart in club work. The followtory of a club election shows why resigned in disgust, lever so long as I live will I forthat election day. Precinct :ers and ward heelers may emless refined methods, but cery not less effective. The opposilost. Delegate after delegate a vote opposed to her sense of : and wrong, yes, and her own es, because she lacked the courof her convictions, because she airaia 01 a woman wno saia 11 rule at any cost.' 'he closing of the polls was ced by scenes that would have funny, if, to the earnest cluban, they had not been so pac. As one of the tellers I had benefit of all that happened. I hysterical women weep on the of our defeated candidate who herself well in hand. I heard bers accuse each other of treach-and worse. I saw husbands i and take their disheveled and !ul wives home in cabs. And T d the successful candidate sa: teeth almost locked:? I'll teach the women of terfere with my plans!" fo successful political leader of aft-cursed municipality ever setelection accounts more systeoally than did Mrs. Smith, y plum went to her supporters, member of the opposition reid the slightest recognition. The j whip snapped on the air at announcement of a new appoint, yy mplicates Woman in Crime. >peka, Kan., Nov. 7.?Following nfession that he murdered Mrs. r Short, of Topeka, in the hope of Ing his portion of her property, . Fanning to-day implicated MinEnglish in the crime and she arrested as an accomplice. Fansaid that he put poison in Mrs. t's coffee. He declared that the ish woman threatened to kill him 3 did not kill Mrs. Short, that :old him how much poison to use that he gave her $1,460 of Mrs. t's money. 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The Hampton dispensary sold Its last "booze" on last Wednesday and closed up shop. We think the other dispensaries of the county have also sold out now, and with no whiskey we believe everybody will fare better and we hope for great good in many ways.?Hampton Guardian. I J. H.DIXON I I J r I jnacninisi ana engineer General Repair Shop. We repair all kinds of machinery and carry a full line of Pipe, Pipe Fittings, Valves, Injectors, Lubricators, Oilers, etc. Bring your engine and have the cylinder bored. Make it run like new and give you more power. Bring your cotton gins and press parts and have them repaired before the busy season. A stitch in time saves nine. We repair saw mills, grist mills, cane mills; in fact we run a hospital for sick and disordered machinery. Bring it in and have it cured. Gas engines and automobile engine cylinders bored, and new pistons and I rings made that won't leak, u Gives you more power and bet j ter efficiency. We repair and J charge storage batteries. 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