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PROHIBITION
MEETINGS
WALTERBORO. S. C, APRIL 15. 1908.
NO. 36
Dr. Hmw and Rev. Harley
are Eloquent Speakers.
Thi aeries of prohibition meetings
being held ViUhe county are doing
much good and are proving very in
teresting. The first was held at
Cottageville Monday night and these
speakers addressed a large audience
at the Mothodist church. Tuesday
night a good sized audience heard
them at the Methodist church here.
To-night Dr. Hare will address the
Sec. 3. Any faimre to pay said
road tax shall be afriedameanor and
on conviction shall be punished by
fine not leas than five dollars or more
than fifty dollars, or by imprison
ment of not leas than ten days nor
more than thirty days.
Sec. 4. All acts and parts of acts
inconsistent with this act are hereby
repealed.
Sec. 5, That this act shall go into ef
fect immediatelely upon its approval.
Approved the 26th day of February
A. D. 1908.
Now it is up to the towmship as
sessors to act first, then the super
visor, and then the overseer, and
CHIEF JACKSON, C. k BCKAREO
people of Hendersonville and Rev.: the sooner the work begins the better
Harley will go to Lodge to speak Yours truly,
Thursday night, and to Smoaks Roun^, April 13. J. B. Dodd
Friday night.
The prohibition movement seems
to be well launched in this county
and these meetings will do much ^
good for the cause. No more able!
or eloquent speakers could be|
obtained than these gentlemen, and v [jj"
every ^ one should hear t' em if
poanb!e.
THE ROAD LAW.
Editor-Press and Standard:—your
*‘Black Creek" correspondent strikes
the right key when he asks for the
Road Law to be published and be
gins to agitate road working, for
one days work on the roads in the
apring is worth more than a week
in the fall. The work done at this
time of the year has the benefit of
the summer sun to dry and harden
it and then through the summer
there is not so much travel over the
fresh work to cut it up. Now is
the time of year to do. work that
will last.
The Road Law as amended reads
m follows: That from and after the
passage ot this ret, all those persons
who are liable to road duty between
the ages of twenty-one and fiifty in
the eounty of Colleton in lieu of
performing or causing to be per
formed labor upon the public high
ways shall be required to pay to the
Treasurer of Colleton County, an
annual commutation tax of two
dollars per head which shall be ex
pended upon the public highways of
the county end in the township from
which it is collected. That the
County Auditor te required to make
returns of the same and the County
Treasurer shall collect at the same
time and in the same manner as
other taxes are collected-
There shall also be made a levy of
one mill on the dollar on all taxable
property in Colleton county to sup
plement the commutation tax for
wbrk on the public roads.
Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the
County Supervisor upon the recom
mendation of the several towship
boards of assessors to appoint one
overseer in each township whose
duty it shah be to employ a force of
aot lew than ten able bodied men to
work on the public roads for which
service the said overseer shall receive
not more than two dollars per day
and the laborers not more than one
dollar per nay. Provided that th
overseer shall have the right alien
ever it becomes necessary to appoint
a second overseer for his township
who shall do the work and provide
for the pay of his men in ihe manner
hereafter provided.
The overseer shall at the end of
each week give to each hand in his
Cadets Break Camp
Last Thursday morning after an
ei riy breakfast camp was broken
and the line of rtiarch was taken up
by the Citadel Cadets for Cotage-
The boys were in good trim,
after their encampment in Waiter-
boro, and started out at a good pace,
arriving at Cottageville without
mishap at 11:45 o’clock. They
reached there in good shape and a
picnic dinner composed of the best
Cottageville can afford and that ii
mighty gc od was served at 1 o’clock.
After dinner the tents were pitched.
They camped in front of Mr. C. K.
Ackerman's residence, which is an
ideal place for a camp.
They were accompanied on the
march back to the Citadel by Com
mandant, Capt. W. H. Simons,
Quartermaster. Capt. H. EL Raines,
and Dr. W. C. O' Driscoll.
The corps encamped Friday night
atGivhans, Saturday morning left
for Summerville, where they spent
Sunday. They arrived at the Citadel
Tuesday feeling none the worse
after their long march.
South Carolina can justly be
proud of her State Miitary Academy.
No more manly and gentlemanly
behavior could be had out of any
body of young men than that
which characterized the Citadel
Cadets during their encampment at
Walterboro. One hears oh all sides
only words of commendation.
iey,e ot spirting.—The State.
Former Strikes the Latter—But
N eftherTarty Seriously Hurt
Saturday morning, C. A. Eckardt,
proprietor of the Walterboro Hotel
and Chief Marshal J.j S. Jackson
became involved in a personal en
counter at the depot. It appears
that they got into a dispute concern
ing passengers for the hath line.
Mr Jackson claims that Mr. Eckardt
had used undue' influence to take a
passenger away from his hack the
night before. Mr. Eckardt denies
this and claims 'hit the passenger
in question had gone down with him
Fii iay morning, telling him he
1 would be back in the evening and he
therefore felt that be had a right to
tra!.si*ort this passenger.
It appears that Policeman Jack&or.
had asked the mtendant to be excused
from duty for the purpose of going
to the depot to remonstrate with
Mr. Eckardt about this matter,
which resulted in Jackson strikeihg
Eckardt while driving his hack.
Eckardt indicted Jackaon before
Magistrate Bryan for assault and
battery to wliich he pleaded guilty
and was fined $10.00. Eckardt has
also addressed town council, asking
that Jackson be discharged. This
matter was taken up at a special
meetingof council Monday night,
but it was decided to postpone action
till both parties and their witnesses
could be heard Friday night.
This matter has caused consider
able comment on the streets and
the outcome is awaited with inUrest.
^ SENATOR GRIFFIN
Explains
the
Died in Coloumbia.
Mr. Robert Padgett; a highly re-1
spected citizen of this county, died 1
at the State hospital for the Insane
in Columbia last Saturday, after a i
short illness of malarial fever. The i
Lecture By Dr J L Dftwaon
Dr J. L. Dawson of Charleston
delivered a very able and interesting
lecture at the Court House Friday
evening, on the subject: Tuber
culosis, its Prevention and Cure.
Tins was a very* able and timely
lecture, and it was unfortunate that
heard by only about forty
Dr. Dawson is an authori
ty on this disease and his lecture
was one of encouragement and hope
for those who are under the shadow
of the "Great white plague"
He said that consumption was not
hpn^iitaryy 'That children of con
sumplive parents as a rule were not
strong and th t they are thus more
1 easily susceptible to the disease than
are children of strong parents.
More people have the disease and
’ recover from it without knowing it
than h generally imagined. If so
many therefore recover without
care, why ciumot more lecover with
body was brought to Bamberg Sun- ^ Wb P^'P'e dK every year
- > . . . . m the United btates of this disease,
or 400 a day, 2000 die in South
Carolina. 1-7 of all the deaths is
day morning and interred the same
afternoon in the Smoak burying*
ground, a few miles below town,,}
near Spring Branch church. Rev.
T. G. Herbert, pastor of Trinity |
Methodist church, of which Mr. |
Padgett had been a member for a
number of years, conducted the
services.
Mr. Padg'tt was fity-four years
old, and is survived by a widow and j
several daughters. He had been in
bad health for some time, and his
due O to this disease. Physicians
should make very thorough examina
tions cf patients and begin in its
early stages to combat the disease.
Tuberculosis is curable, 50 per cent
of the cases recover under proper
treatment. Patients should ha\e
fresh air And proper
climate. Thy shouM live in the open
and and sleep in the open, as pure
mind beam, rfected by Ms illnM., fr “ h " r “ ““ ““ “IL
and he wu carried to Colombia '!“'** of ? bm ^ * ood - b '? n0
nearly two months ago. He was
always a good friend of this news-
climate is hopeless is you have
proper nutrition. If possible every
paper and ita editor, and Portly! f‘‘ ent J>>o«M be »ent »*> » ““-
later he was tent to Columbia he ; t ‘ rlum ’ for “ le “ t • mon ‘ h - lf,or
wrote us to forward his paper there,
which we did until Ids death. - He
was a quiet, unobtrusive man, who
minded his own business, and he
employ a claim against the County wa9 liked and respected by all who
properly’ signed by himse.f for the kne w him—Bamberg Herald
! no other reason than to learn them
| th? proper rules of health and how
to take tare of youi self. ,
This lecture was given under the
auspices of the County Medical
whole amount due the said hand,
but In no case shall the overseer
draw money for his hands.
The Supervisor shall have the
right at all times to borrow money
NbTICE * *
The various Democratic Precinct
Clubs .of Colleton county are hereby
His Position on
Stock Law Quktion.
Editor Press and Standard:—
Through thq, medium of your paper*
and indulgence, I hope to reply to
some recent communications which
endeavor to reflect on me. I am
not ovtr anxious to reach news
papers notoriety, but I am exceed
ingly anxious to retain my good
reputation for truth and principK
and when one becomes so infatuated
with falsity, that he has no inclina
tion to give the whole facts in
justice to others, I cannot let the
moment pass and my resentful pen
stand still, and remain rilent. If
the party to whom. 1 refer had
stated facts as they were in whole 1
would have had no inclination to
reply, for 1 know I have acted fair
and honorably with all parties con
cerned. I do not know of whom I
am speaking, nor do 1 care, for
tr^th is truth, it makespodifference
when, or how intended, or who is
concerned. I have reference to
stock law" a communication pub
lished in your paper April 1st 1907
which article purports to have been
agned by sixteen good men from
the upper portion of the county, in
which the writer says "the Senator
for Colleton county promised to sup
port the stock law bill, but oh when
he votes” Now I know these gentle
men and they have truth and honor
too much to have given their assent
to such slanderous aspersions as a
whole. I venture the assertion that
the writer of his volition, without
warrant or authority had the au
dacity to make this statement over
the signature of these gentlemen,
who violated every feature of confl-
deoce and principle to the extent cf
giving their names. A wonderful
Condition of things, a trusty fellow
indeed. He surely does hot have
that feature of purity and truth as
ha ought, or he would not have
made the statement without giving
the whole facts pro and con. If this
statement is the whole truth then I
am a liar, and one given to mislead
ing and false promises. Let me say
here and now that the writer when
he made this statement, knew it
was misleading and said it with a
wilful and deliberate purpose to
mislead the public and voice their
prejudice against me, and he knows
it. The following are the facts:
When I was in the rush of busi-
new to get ready to go away to the
Senate, I piet up with Mr J D Miley
near the Court House when he told
me that section between the Little
Salkehatchie River and Little Swamp
wanted the stock law, that they are
all in favor of it. I said all right, 1
think you ought to have it, and will
help you look after it, or words to
that end. When I reached the
Senate I repeated about the same
language to Mr Goodwin, who was
pushing the bill for all it was worth.
Notice the words, help you to look
after it, that is see if it is proper-
and ought to be done. I then
thought possibly it was the thing to
do. I had not examined into the
conditions and surroundings to
determine what I waa going to do.
I knew about six votes had been cast
for it to remain as it was, but I was
willing and even anxious for them
to have stock law if it did not injure
others, but I was not willing for
them to have stock law at the down
fall and injury of more people than
it would help. The sacrifice for
•then was too great. 1 did not
no plan of settlement and said that
stock law for this section would
never do, in which I concurred
after his explana ion. Now I ask
any fair minded man. how could I
have done more. 1 could not get
Mr Goodwin who was pushing this
bill to make a single concession. It
was stock law for his section or noth
ing. I changed my mind knowing I
had not taken advantage of Mr J D
Miley, that 1 ha 1 not placed him in
worse condition than he was
already in, and knowing I had not
wronged him nor any one else by my
statement to him, I sat down and
wrote him before the bill reached
the Senate or before it came up in
the Senate, if I was under any
obligation to him or he thought so
to excuse me I wanted to act free
and independent. Mind you I had
n t acted falsely, unjustly o- im
properly with Mr Miley and surely
thought I would be excused, but
when I saw nothing could be done
with Mr Goodwin the bill was killed
in the Senate without sign or cere
monies, I have no regrets and would
do it again. Where is the wrong
when I sat down like a gentleman,
before acting, and wrote the only
man I had talked to about it to
excuse me if I was under any obliga
tion to him. Could 1 have done
more? Have 1 not acted the honora
ble man? But "stock law" in his
article did have enough truth and*
honor in his bones to state this he
said "oh my when he voted," and 1
wonder if it wont be "oh my" for
him sometime later. We know God
rights all wrongs.
The man who wrote the article
knows 1 would not wilfully tell him
an untruth or mislead him. To my
surprise whan the bill reached the
Senate it proposed to cut of three
and a half miles next to the Ediato
River and put it in stock law, and
this was one of the potent reasoni
also for my actions. If I know my
self I tried to do what was right
and just, yet I am held up by the
writer, at a falsifier and one un
worthy of trust and confidence,
making false promises because I
stuck to the mas8.*s. ‘ I am glad in
deed I have established a reputation
for truth and honesty. I am and
always have been anti stock law and
expect to die so yid my people can
understand that as long a« they vote
six to one, their interest shall never
trail in the the dust as long as 1
represent them.
1 wonder who wrote^he notorious
communication above the signatures
of these gentlemen. Is it an act of
independentism, an outlawishness,
or what is the matter? One man
has a right te act independently,
but when it is done by a crowd it is
bordering on conspiracy and may be
indictable. But that is all right so
far as I am concerned, so long as
they do not try to injure me by
falsity.
Hon. J. C. Goodwin says: In your
paper in his exposition on March
25th, 1908 speaking of the stock law
and Senafbr Griffin "the whole
delegation were conferring together
and he Senator Griffin led some
petitioners to believe that if the
house did not do something he
would" I have a very high regard
for Mr Goodwin, b^t when he goes
out of his way to jump on me he
must surely be careful with his
facts. The whole delegation never
did confer and Mr Goodwin knew it
when: he made the statement that it
was untrue and my witnesses to
prov* i are Hons. D. L. Smith and
Injure me, and because you lost year
little pet in the Senate. I
very much to reach the
that Hon. J. C. Goodwin
to injure me in his
know he is sore’ and there Is some
excuse for him, but surely he
intended to injure me without
rhyme or reeeon, or got moat
woefully m’xed up with his
facts to my knowledge except to
kill his dear little pet in the Senate.
When the truth comes and all of
it you will not find me kicking. 1
would not have said a single word
about the facts, but I have truth
and no man, be he rich or poor, high
or low, can reflect on me without
resentment with all the power of my
soul. "Wi en a man steals my purse
he steals trash, but when he steals
my good name for truth he steals
ail I have." When one endeavors to
hold me up as void of truth and full
of deception and false promises, he
is surely building on a sandy found
ation, he don't know his man. If
there is one thing in this world I
love and esteem, it ia truth. Why
did Hon. J. C. Goodwin and stock
law withhold from the public the
fact that Senator Griffin before act
ing in the Senate wrote Mr Miley
that il he even thought Senator
Griffin waa under obligations from
what was said to excuse him. Could
Senator Griffin have done more?
J S. Griffin.
ca
lled\o
meet at theiT respective
I tWnlf ***** right, nor do I yet think J. B. Dodd. Mr Smith and myself
b> other lecture, on popular .nd ^ ^ . petition. 1 never .poke more tiun . h^f dozen
but I never raw it. The thought or dozen words about it and Mr.
then te mv mind was to get them Dodd and myself did not coifer
together, and I proposed to Mr.! about it at, any time. Then why
ht-althfu! subjects.
MeU's
To the Editor of The State:—In re
ply to your invitation I make the
following comments concerning the
troubles brought ofrClemeon college
by the outbreak of a large number
of the cadets on April 1: Thedimia-
sion of these cadets by the dladpHne
committee has emphasised the im
portant fact that conspiracy oc the
tart of the college stadents against
authority, it makes no difference
how large the number may be, can
not stand against law impartially
adminiatered. The i*eue was made
at damson* "Wbe shall rule; the
i cadets or the authorities?" The
discipline committee has answered
in terms which cannot be misunder
stood in the future. The morning
after the breakoat against the regu
lations the discipline committee was
called in session by myself to calmly
and thoroughly investigate the entire
matter. The committee was in ses
sion morning, afternoon and night
from Wednesday, April I, until
Tuesday night, April 7. Kaeh boy
was given a fair and impartial ex
amination aad was allowed to state
his case as fully as he desired, all
testimony being taken down by a
stenographer. No one waa diamkaed
who did not admit his part in the
violation of the regulations and that
of his own free will and accord hp
had entered into the conspiracy to
oreak the laws of the college. Thu
students who were sent out from
Clemaon college were dimlimed for
the following offences:
1. Holding a mam meeting in
violations of the college regulations
and defying the seme by ab—nting
themselves from all coDeje duties.
2. Defiantly pending in the
presence of end again* the orders
of the eommaudant end the
officers, after having refused to re
port to morning drifiL
3. Deserting the college end
going to the neighboring townnf
Pendleton, where they spent the
day.
4. Binding themselves by a sworn
document to stand together and.
pledging that in erne any oC the
number were dismissed they “
all desert the college and go h
1 desire to extend
pithy to the parents upon
V- -
Goodwin in behalf of the stock law should Hon. J. C. Goodwin have 1 been brougnt this sad
W. N. JONES TO RUN.
Eiitor The Frees and Stadard:
for necessary work on the roads and | place of meeting on the 25th day j Weil, Mr. Editor, cards are coming and anti stock law people to come made this statement unless there} md in this message to *•»—n
pledge the next collection of this of April 1908 for the purpose of lively but hope you will have space^togetneir and build a fence up. the was a wilfal and deliberate purpose the other authorities of the
tax for the same. | electing delegates to the County: f <»r mine. 1 shall stick to the old Little Swamp to Bamberg line, but to misrepresent me. The anxious. | join. P. H. Mell,
Provided that in Collins and Democratic convention to he hold at' rule and let mine come about or
Run Township all per sens Waltertapo on May 4, 1908, a full i after the County Convention. I
aubject to ro id duty shall pay an attendance ta necessary at the Nub j haV< 2 *een thinking who wpuld
comutation tax of two dot- , meeting and each club should be support Moore, Griffin. Jaques, or
I shall stick to the old Little Swamp to Bamberg line, but to misrepresent me. The anxious. | join.
this he refused to do, saying the fleeting witness he became to testify
stock law people would not help,
that it was being done, that it was
being done for the anti stock law
Clemson College, April 8.
against me apen hearsay testimony
when he Mjrj: “H. W eome of peti- j A n anm.rriedhi^op, ineLMfc.
tioners to believe , and, brother of ^ very heavy
hurt each on or before March the fully represented at the convention. | Johnson, nod I think the best thing people. This point I failed to see. Goodwin, what do you know about; tax on bachelorai sud,*"**
Ari$ in each year or perform eight: Cluba will send one 'delegate for ts do is to make the race myrelf for ipHe had previously told me Hon J M what l reused petitioners to beti?ve? it'a worth it,” This is hi
work on. the public roods in, each 25 members re majority ftrac- Supervisor. I will treat them all i SNith favored the stock law, for You surely don.t know whether I led evidence, however.—ihe
The Republican
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‘ the said townships, subject te the j tion,,
in charge and ** iIur *
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; Nike, as friends loek out for old this station. I thet ss a last resort s>me of petitioners to believe or nor.
shall be aubjectoo th:
iter provided.
April 71908
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the Arif
fully.
N.'Jones.
to him that we leave it ,
for settlement, and
not prreaut. Then why