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southernmost point of Africa, with the Modlt< nlshlng railway and up tho Congo to Its the Nile lo Its mouth, try full of wonderful should be tho desire of the continent of But with a irranoan Sea. fur- which was lal steam boat Unee istration and source and down by all Demo opens up a coun- uptll It Is ape possibilities. It in the wSrid. the United States our cltlaenB 1 strong bajip of \ id by a Democratic admin- ol which has been supported und crats and pushed forward At of the most splendid aavies had "|re liold oiifr'own, protect k'^U In every pajt of the world vly?t tU, of this p?n?fty l5?? the Southern Railroad lea operated certain .-)uds. 'te$ leasing these roads much mo tre^n sp at in Improving them < >ff tJic public better au<l safer ? But n. twitiislandine thin I act bring tie viliol# mutter to I sed of (he general Itusembly lu it poll to llie general uaaei i'cy btM>iun of lym. it ww, tin una itie attorney general,',' und i>i, sseU It In that report, tfc .he attention he Imposed upon hie annual which would huvu nbly at the just and unfair, a opinion of Mr. Willie me alec I he so cx- because he says sou tat the main told him that the the road for dolus, been manifestly un> ilnda fault witli me nu merchant In Aiken U&aaaae of Uie Aler to cultivate friendly these people and to < merce until we are th< fields us we are now fields. Our manufacti poclnliy of cotton good markets of all of th there lies beyond this Asia with Its sum amctng the greatest of neso empire with Its relations with all so that the expand #our com- h^fraVito li i masters bf those in tnd-' of the American will to all n ired products, es- of the Popub s, should hold the protecting hti la country. Then country ne n i the continent of would have t t-civillsed people. our coun which is tho Chi- "Eten six to eight bun-, liberty," and I 1.1. rr-, tfllS llhcltY rrtfp lately <v* the Gospel a* tjJne r>. the ptIyormano*s of "his ajp ii mission dr peactfSlntf^bod' w?a nen, haa the Invisible flag day lio flouting around him and thus n from wropg In, whatever poal lay chtfoM xtcr- tmWi Who grui hese men who are citizens allel try unprotected and lnse- and tal vigilance is 'the price of or tl 'with the matntehancfe or nine rnmps frnma ' mut It 'I* ftr si'ltg, wore brought by individt nsl live Southern clAltnlng that llublt? fftr the one hundred dollu penalty for leasing and uperal e roads. 'i'iie Southuni took tlon that it was not liable on u?d that the roads wore neither- i or competing lines within this si that It wus not acting In violui he penalty act of 18?7. Flvo or tl suits have booh disposed of by tl I hfl fwlr?ll moil f fi.i/4 nr.* tl , IVI mi, uiu (.uuauil jala Hie Hiciycr act or laOli, c it aciued lit a suit brought by r ? OnltfUaJ, uucctiug a parti road, lio also took the pos the report uiai in view o t Hit the Uke. mergur uy luu leglsiui >ar'* fide tefcf authorized to laKu tute iv&i ua couaUtuUouaiity wit lion ,,y irom tuc legislature, 1 leso , ,le ttvl ,liwl aulnorjzcd thu i ru* iii? attorney luimral k rap auouamy cu ger ^Vci, against w ould not be- aitwcU ilia freight i any uoe to- snipped from fUiia eular leased nesa man knows tl ltlon in tliat ciiant a freight wai i passage o; of goods shipped fi lure, iie did the Aiorger Act had uny step to to do with it, for hout autuor- shipped iroin poin inasmuch us to points within ti consolidation. oy interstate comu ort had not aterger Act. and t Uich 1 voted. oM iiirut? on a biii ot pood? Uelphia. iiiVery )in?llat if the Aiken iberi increased on a biii rotn Vbiladelphia tbat I nothing in tbo world all freights on goods is without the state le state are governed luroe and nou by thf uinnot Avttn lui Ul CU U1II1IU1IB Ul 111, people are active and only need the kindly civilization and Chris develop them as Jape About fifty (50) years known as the Herral wrt^iped In ignorance They fought with bow and spear, but tlio vi can fleets revealed tc hilit Its of dovelopmen UttUllttUiB. iUOHl 1 Industrious and da'1"?*1 bV 01 band of American ma,ntenance tlan Influence to I?denJr. am* ?n was developed. claims tt ago these lslande f?r th? purp0 It Kingdom, were ,,on ?1flforel< and superstition. a pos,Uon ? and arrow, shield pr?v??r [sit of the Amerl- 3 ' .. _ , and to your ' them the po*d* t<J it. and under the . .. le of my opponents that tho had Of a navy is un-democratlc. com challenge him to his proof, ail t lat tho navy Is maintained ise of conquest and acqutslm lands. This, likowlso, is ihclv Is hot and cannot l>o A' dl. teU. you, my $elJow-citl- ' in unfrlondy hand to you best lnU-reqts that would <x* 1 aU. the navy of those United VkcrI gone hgalhst the railroad, but itlus wore put to the trial expei rhe aarne. Merger Act. t. the suasion of J'JCU Senutor Hydi ^partunburjf Introduced a bUl all the C. C. & C. on the eastern i the state, which wus pructlcallj Uiluaa road, not paying operal in-fcii priuma ut tno time u " convened, but he luiU mu 1 isue t ccouljafcl|jjfca unj uskeU tup iiuiiter up, ue l hua oppot ?ngc ol tat* merger act, una inn wriui u yypewtl rick Uri' portion 01 hie report ow. Hue mutter, which he dia. Ida general hlmucli auya. r a leniaiumre couvenud 1 apok ling *M-aJheld about a bill with le luKidluluri luted by our ruilro. Abut be hud you see ibis coin pi 10 Uiko tills dution. und Mr. VV >ed lUo pus- uo with lite sbipmt i promised to into tiio suite ough 5+ea. copy ol! tbe Merger Act bad referring los|to do witb increa. The uttor-BLhaul's freight. I "When UiuHAikeu from points e to HenatorlincreaseU after the reference lolger Act the perao, ad commission. Thus aint is without founiiiiums having, had to int of so much liquor t to have known that I nothing in the world sing the Aiken merf the freight rates to within the state were passage of the Merits affected hn.i their kiiully Influence of tl sons hiiv-o become ed lation yielded to the li tlnnity and now alio Is lng one of the atronj powers. The transfor sixty (CO) millions of ] her In touch with all zatlon and she is one muncrs of American gi has been done in Jap: his republic their ^ ucated. the popu- auctg ^ nfluoncua of Chria- but wlth }t succesafully tight- before ^ sest of the world the worU3 w, mation of Japana banda manUf people haa brought to bw \y0rl?1. that makes civ ill- cliroia througl of the large con- remember th rown cotton. ^Vb&t Bt&tcs ^jrow in wlU be done In of the cotto; ? uiw. , iwiruy uiav nuv/ 1 lmetpa Is ruined, the pro- the ir plantations are unsold: nort (he trade of the world lies the I It Is our privilege to clothe *i?u th pur staple and with our wbh adoro the goods which are orn, by every people lu eveVy iner liout this world. You will pair at the cotton producing bout more than eighty por tent frpn n consumed by tho entire Liter vimiuigi in oau conuit Spur tan bury arid Aahevllle In hern purt of tho state, which fon connecting link between Colun .tho . west; tho Carolina Mldlt ;:b extended from Allendale to Mi u distance of forty (40) miles, i ly owned by tho Waynera, out of and generally In bad Bhapo; the Lb Carolina road, which exten x Charleston to Augusta, which i owned by the Parson* and lOD ' v-vrviv; i-u ?fl l Ug tb? JLuul uuti also about Una u nej wimlur hud opposed Hie uc lbU u,v louaoa." 1 told the ath: tnJ. that t would tuKo Uie mm Bjy. 1 Introduced la tu? session for. your, whut la known an t ro. aaU uaaututt all reaponalb old This act requires thu alto dud lo '?rUiwith bring a eult In hUii thu a tutu tq teat thu conai it? inerter uc of 1*02, whlc ah cat an iji emody by applying lutter us tru Wntisaioiiers of our i authorizing 1 uou of the wroaj irnuy goneru.1 jneurd of no such tl Her up. iiuuj 1; they- wore lac of 1!J01, tlnajpoiunie. J voted uj -tie tout act. lie uuya lacreasad illty for it. introduced two yei racy general itM. couotitutioaultt; the name of touyo permitted thei UtulonaUy of i uubnut to the tl I hud op- Lhat Lli..r^ iu .... [ to the railroad commate for the correoK done, and 1 have blag being done. JUut rcased 1 am not to gainat the bill which them and the bill 1 ire later waa to teal y of the very bill' he m. , voters of the district i~iutiu, uiiu wiui ncr about to bo awnkcnet tlanized and clothed mad? from products c of the South, we pe< will have a market foi which we are growing, tion which will confr Can alio keep puce 1 manufncturo with the consumers. To do so next fifty (50) years. ifi-minB minions. world, and, \ 1. civilized, Chris- largely, the ? In tho garments sumo must I if tho fleecy fields Recall, '-if yo\ jplo of the South South with i tho raw material worth billion! The great qucs- plantations, ont the South is, not a navy t in prod action and upon I he higl > demands of the lying unused she must in the pennyless. ur be making forty- wealth of tl vhlle wo uro manufacturing budl ;oods which do not con- capl be sent to foreign shores, oer j Will, the condition of the (jux< millions of bales of cotton wuy 5 of dollars lying upon her |iut not & ship to more thm. ni0u :o protect the merchantmen jt w ? seas and all of this wealth and the South poor and able to raise money, yet HIli ) greatest kind lying all y ruu down, to consoUdntA tJ lul block, leases and franchises one charter and to bo known as J Una division of the Southern r . 1 opposed the pussugo of thla tlio senato by a practically unt ? viva voco vole passed the bill as sent to the house. By & votf r- (60) to thirty-nine (Sl>) thi^ ed a second reading In the he was amended on third reading Uelr (***"!> und In ouu *uit eolU unThe ttctlun authorized to all- b' the elate hue already I bill. hT IU" attorney general, on tnl- l'l? aUil?. will thu whole ma and when Uiut casu 001 ) of When It hs eettlud the road bill l*'- wU1 know where they luao When 1 Introduced thla Tt by were pending only four (4) a that whole jj, u single one of t by Air. W llUuxoa, a bo brought to aay who is right, jeen brought the part of itter la to ha Jim Cronea to trial. Jn mjJ Mr an d the poo- ifJ lhu boui;e tQ aland. coaches for the rai ist Bill there tiie house and cam< suits to re- Knuwn as the Pod tvuiiuaiiVU ur J Ub L1C v heso complaints mad? nd J lwayo it to thetu i Mr. William* or my m Car .Bill. ock Introduced a bill provide tor separate ccs. This bill passed 3 to the senate and la ock bill. two million bales of i slio mukds but eleven the possibilities of proi of manufacturing. In ^ leaders, sind we have i which Is unlimited, costs much money to gneat enterprises comm money. Wo look wit position taken by tt South early in the hist cotton where now Around her; millions. Add to na^ ' neec iuctlon the wealth mnlntaln tre which we are now BolJth to bo c i source of wealth extend he? t It Is true that It worlddo thla work, but innd largo sumi of f h surprise at the Our natlonc le lenders of the addition of n ory of this repub- acquisition of so you pm that a strong asary to protect trade, to ?U1] aty rights and for tha llou. :ommorclally prosperous and rade to all parts of tha 1)f ' i 1 Cote National Poiloy. Uan Isum il policy should be, not the Held ddltlonal territory, not tha luda millions of undesirable tn- linn ,m,wua vviiocm, euiu ajs amen d the third rending in the ho tout opposition. The members of hi from this district who voted passage of this blU were Mr. Boat Liambcrg; Mr. Eoclcwood and ?ck., of Beaufort; Mr. Thomas, upton; Mr. PattlHon, J. O. and L. of Barnwell; Mr. Mason, of Ed ... and Mr. Eugene 8. Blouse, of Mr. BeBoach, who now lives iptun county, whs at that tlm. ded cover penalties, which had I ius* prior to the passage of the the of lJuJ, as follows: for one by isuue Kil wards i Ick, county. One by W. JL>. M. llarmoi ton county. , * One by W. A. Edwards In *Z auU One by It. B. Anderson n county, a a ?een brought Mr. Williams la Merger Act of the meeting at J it Courier, ae May; if l^ezlngtou "lo Pollock bill, at the morning Beat . , . voted to lay the t i In L?xlng- Ul<J Jlm CroW Car then at the night i Aiken coun- Ulo flna, puaaajf0 ( The record of tl 111 Kdgctlold ut p<lgtJ 232, Waa Hut considered quoted In the report Jeaufort, in the News Lug. having reference , "That Mr. May held lion of the senate hud infavorable report on Bill on the table, and session voted 'nay' on >f the bUL" tie Senate Journal of shows that this bill 1) t tha ninmlmr lie. J nomas <ierrersoi manufacturing In the I Monroe, likewise John John Randolph of Roa Bo... '? a speech disco ufneturing of cotton ai *"Tf there were no ot climate was ngnlnst i were to build up ma: KngHsh system wc v ^ not only In August. I January and from J: i was opposed to habitants upo South, so was Mr. the purchase i C. Calhoun and fcrlor races, noke. Mr. Jeffer- ing and strl lurn'ging the man- portions of * a business, said: policy should her obstacles, the con.pact terrl t, and that If wo mate until It nufactures on the Terltablo Edt rould have fever, Httio Belgian but from' June to lice, acre for anuary to Juno." public; so th >n the Phllllplno Islands, not men by trade or treaty of in- atul not by conquest the tak- knoi pplng of other nations or uifch their territory, but our vote bo the building up of a L)eL Itory in a temperate cli- uus t is a garden spot-?as the ate n among nations?so that the i wiB not be more proauc- ,\ct acre, than this great Rc- j,iot at our territory can main iber of the liouso frotn York cou hu also voted for the bill. Thli rtn us the Merger Act. So, we h t members from this district i U for the bill, nino. Including oach, while only live members fi district voted against It. The ucccptod the houso umcndincnt bill became a luw. Th|a Mer did not deprive uny person who ight suit before Its passuge of |n- a ho rights of the parties t< B whatever they may be, we B in tliis Teat Act, and they who complaint against mo. Hut there were ten (10) roni ,iad been brougiit since tin Uio Merger Act of 1U02 thai and rc'red with- They are as fc ? One by W. A. Kd wards in ha~d tJrOne by H. F. HoUy In A J ( )n?t lit V> W A o these suits, aioii ut ail. It als r? preserved not considered at t can huve no u lute hour. It a the L>nl was callei casus which the committee's u a passage of the table, uud my L were Inter- also shows thut 01 >hows: to pass the bill I Aiken ontin- must In* ?n *rror ! fcood .reason was at lken county. >ole (.1 do not ret to shows that tt was he night session until lso shows that when i up I moved to lay nfavorable report on motion prevailed It 1 the call of the roll voted 'nay,' but this In the vutry, v* ouuio Iowa, why X. should so uember the vot?) for rTho state of Mai^lnr manufacturing, Rnd 1 "better to buy of Eui than to manufacture c But notwithstanding have made such progr United States as to n ing country in the cotton goods, so that ton will soon bo fixed not by Liverpool. id opposed cotton tHln mora pst leld that tt ?m any coantry rope and of India "tilling enten >n American soil." "? numerous theso views, we admiration of ess through theso develop that lake us tho lead- an Am? manufacturing oi everything th the price of cot- wUh our *UI by America and world own demand* (lilt t?v ovnn >ple to the square mile thnu |lin on tbls globo; bo that our vvill jrlseB shall be bo vast and tbni tbat It will command the the world. We should ao we produced everything Uon', >rlcan consumes and make Il(iuj at an American wears; then h[tl| rplua feed and clothe the ()f , in addition to meeting our t . l Now, this can be done, . limn umi no naa or rrom presi null to <i final conclusion. Yet, lams would make the lmpresi 1 ought not to go to congress i* 1 did not defeat this bill I shows that 1 would favor corpt s- 1 opposed the bill and v< nut It in a viva voce vote and authority us the Attorney Gen< he stale has wild In a published lew that he knows 1 opposed ling " * 4,1 ^ One by J. C. Herrin In Si |lon One by A. A. McMunua ^ oounty. One by John Cash In ira- county)ted One by J. H. Skinner M county. eral Three by A. li. Guinea In- countXSome of these suits are 1 cuuso and cover the same tl kiivvii uuuiuy. u Mtiuuie: iluda county, Hon the unfavorabi In Kershaw Hie table. If I hat bill 1 would have a Orangeburg tho committee* which would havo In Uarnwell w,la on lhc ??cont proof to show that In Cherokee lo U<3 found ln 1 page 256, when the for the same for lUe third readl1 tne. although lo 8lriku out u'? s uoiore ou my mole report was laid on 1 been opposed to the loved for the adopt 1j:i s unfavorable rvp? tt killed tbe bill. This V 1 reading. Additional V 1 favored the bill is 1 he same Journal at 1 i bhl wus brought up ag. Mr. Sloan moved enacting words and In the year 1850 Sc oti.500 spindles, and coi of cotton; in 1902 we consumed 587,126. Th: manufactured 3 3-10 crop produced as affair And yet the cotton m in its infancy. In lift; Carolina crop has bet about 800.000 to over recent years. By this be seen that the cot ??ionc\ , education of ! l',c Indlvidua had 2.479.621 and bulld, ? at la. in 1850. we u.m Qf ^ per cent, of the h ist 63 4-10 In 1902 ' . . ... . . . w ? roads In whl 111 business Is but churche3 and ir years our boutb mlch ma? fa? :n Increased from , m 1.000,000 bales In fl ? cation to tho same ratio It will de?vtr t|wIp ton cron mriv In . . ui iciiuuiy, (JUL uy tho musses, by considering 17 1 needs of our people, oy Tc,e i the country a better sys- WM1 i so that tho agriculturist er in tho country shall have rci.d ch to travel to schools. l< rs< to market, and by having *?dlltles, rural free deliveries, tho great mediums of edumasses of our people an>l letters, magazines and pa- ,'' record shown that Mr. Patter it for the bill. Why does not iama complain of Mr. Pattern If my voting against the wra mo unlit for congress Mr. F jn a voting for it renders him m Effect of ths Merger Act. ils act authorizing the consolidal brought by different persoi The legislature has author: validation and the roads U * what the legislature said I > and the legislature In thi a would not allow suits brougi loro to be proceeded with. The authorized the leases to b the penalty ln the act of "operating ln violation of Hon very Plain that the South* 1 am ecorded as ized the con- lhat bU1 . now doing bU,1 8l^" d ^ It might do. , ,f" Ut?H? fr" Cui 3 Test Act 1" 1,1 lh" hOUa? W h, and como to tho ae act"of lJu** U'? Cuu?hmaa blU. act or i9iu UInenU thu pollock t a,"d cd lWO ylars *??" 1897 la for The Sunat(J Jou|1 law. It la 357( on a inQtion jrn waa not t0 strike out the e voting 'nay," which ? should not he killed, ighman introduced a hloh parsed the house uate and is known ts This was u hill to hill, which bad p ??* ?e. nal of 1UOO, at page made by Mr. Mo^vcr nAL'titlir wnrHo anowo the next fifty years, i Which I have given, c thus the problem is me to our opportunities t ing portions of the ? wealthiest spot on the Already the cotton p country in money valu Is far ahead of any otl upon the market by . ' " pors at their vgU,rCS to ?hes. thin, if 42.000.000 bales ask QUr ; If we rise equal ^ aa Rn ."?,r mTT fr?m U8' th*' louth will be the (he arIJ ,andj face of this globe. draln, tho roduced In this Soulh and , e as raw material MUa Qf ^ >er product placed of tho re American people. KroMlonaI dls tho developm doora dally. In addition ffa we of tho South should bul,i rnment as a part compen- M:ltl offset Cpr tho millions taken t,lu I while they are lrrigatlnK 11 u" 9 of tho West to aid us 1*? bo*c rich alluvia lands of the a J to help preserve the rich am' middle country The mind mtatlve of tho Second Con- bet'n itrlct should be turned to ent of our splendid oort. londi .iicou iu.iu3 nua nad the effect Xing up the eld *h Carolina n X understand also the C. C. & Spartanburg & AshevlXle la no* k line, the Carolina Midland extended from Perrys to Colum Islance of nearly forty (40) ml from Allendale tc liardeevllle, atj y (30) miles. These extensions U i u clear gain to the state In t property. The extension from l?le through liamutnn pnnntv a/f of operating In violation of 1902, but was operating acco C? an(}. therefore, no Individual r a lo R penalty since the pju has Merger Act of 1902. bla. This Test Bill Introduced lea, ao manifestly Just In Its iout thirty-one (31) senators vot< ave only one (1) against It, thlr ax- tors only being present. E Al- present from this district i law, since that I voted ujguins riling to law, the same page, or had a right Aiower to iudeflniti sago of the 1 again am r> cordc tion, and on pug by me wafl shows that 1 am ti terms that 'ng 'n favor of am d for It and wbleh passed; and ty-two sena- shows that 1 offert very senator u^? Passed* rotcd tor It. 1,1 tho face of it the motion, and on i the motion of fc'.r. sly postpone the blU, d us ugainst the rr cite 366 this Joainul wlco recorded us votendmentB to the bill. the Journal furiter d amendments which i - ?I t I lis record how can it ?i mj dim To enforce tho Mo keep away from our ( cil forms of governm able, upon tho open i nnet) tj> any power v t* tread under foot th: of our national life, ixbioiu'c an army, slate militia, within thertifon* <l#?v nnl iipoH y% th? drainage nroo doctrine, to <he farms, the b country monarch!- develop th? ent, wo must be life of our a seas, to bid detl- tabllshment ol irhlch should see* textile traJnlr Is sacred principle and girls of We can call Into women In the by utilizing the ind able to ? sixty days, and compensation of the rich: alluvial lands. thre' n of the once splendid Hon l?rs ulldlng of roaas so as to >' t Industrial and commerolai the Ktlcultural people, the es- far r places for agricultural and ly 1 iK so as to have the boys aeve the future expert men and 000), ilr respective linen of work Its J ?arn more than double the Han their fathers have earned, atloi e hundred and sixty thousand < (}J6d,000.00) to tho taxable propt bat county alone. The Increase valuation of the Carolina Mldli taxable purposes In Uarnwell co s something over a hundred i nty-seven thousand dollars (|1' , tho entire road from Columbia intersection with the Coast L.lne leevllle has been rulsed to the v? ? of a first-class road and ta^ed *? uuumo ieveruj per < lol- cent) of the members prese irtjr It?alxty-elght to thirty. 1 In of the house from this t and voted for It are: Mr. Bla< un- hers; Mr. Colcock and Mi and Beaufort; Mr. Mlddleton. c 77.- Mr. Pnitiaon, J. O., and Mr to Barnwell; Mr. Holman. of at Balnsford, of Edgefield, nnc du- anfl Mr. Peurlfoy of Saluda on five members of thi? hi. cent (70 per ,u *" Bt nt voted for 1 was "> t ho member* J1,n Crow ?ar ?" llstrlct who ? :k. of Bam- real ESTATE D r. Bailey, of >f Hamptor^ . Walker, of Hephzlbali. Ga.. Aiken; Mr. Hon. Jno. M. C. Mi 1 Mr. Reedy the house and lot while only Mr> p> R Q mae or lamiotM that he Separate Coach or ? EAL IT AT HEPHZIBAH. Au?. 1J._ (Bpaclai.)? urphejr haa purchaaed recently occupied by n N. W. Broad, and army. But to build ? lakes many years, an< gency has arisen the g has not a navy la left t ne mercy of any desp Japan. ihit for her n now he master of the the little Japs shut up hiaud possessions; but navy they have held inn! send their troopa md equip a navy would ask yoi i when an emer- ed by yon as reat nation which present and u : stranded and at er and seal b ot hand. l?ok at United States avy Russia wouid log In a dlstrl t Yellow Sea and development I securely In their should wish i , having a strong nee'ly strive Russia In check fight for It un to tho shores of est In South C o-iD iuo iiiiru on wnicn 1 trie ur consideration., If select- W)0> your representative, I will .the rge them With all my pow- crtai ofore the congress of these jr p; . With such a people liv- lrn;.S| ct with such possibilities for ?W,K s there any wonder that 1 flo. to represent you and earto present your cause and til this district Is the great'arollnn? A ? UubIs of ten thousand dollars (J per mile. The taocablo property South Carolina road has been Bed in every county through wh im>es. In addition to this every!* I admit a groat Improvement In p er accommodation and freight ti # Test Act. tor the Merger Act of 1902 had b 10,- against It. Mr. Williams flnds fuult ,n* If I were the whole legislat l'? 'he Merger Act of 1002 t practically the whole eenato ,a*" I voting against it, and t\ the house voting for it. K fault vrM*h me as If I wcr legislature because 1 intr helped to pass the Test Act een senator present, except on? will move In. In a with me as Kml,r>r conducted ? ure, because church 'lliursday e vaa pnssed, church Thursday, t voted for It. at Betheeda close vo thirds of Is also tlnds Wer? BOC0S8lom e the whole 1,10 comunlty has 1 oduced ami Hon. C. C. Sego, when every ulur county polke 5. VOtOfl fr\T> few days. Rev. J. s. lervlcea In the M. E. venlng. The services he series of meetings <1 yesterday. There * to the church but jeen revived, the faithful and popman passed through in>> ni.iini inii. nna tner they contest. mno foi ' Rreit Russian gove this. If we do not ha our oommorco would bi that most relentless a ing of ail powers?the inont; our ships woul trade blocked, our cor driven from the sens would r?main on your without a market so fa o on equal rooting Senator Ma; r men, with the made by Mr. rnment. Besides Act of 1902, vo a strong ndvy the Jim Crow o at the mercy of Th const! tu ind uncompromls- purchase, leas Russian govern- patln* or par d be seized, our by nnother. nmerce would ha The legislat and your cotton Imposing a p< farms unsold and Jars a day on r as tho Far Kaat lna or ooerntl irfleld replies to the attacks p!,sy' Williams as to the Merger *?ad< the Test Act of 1904, and cl,i,r ' Car Act. tf>h itlon of 1896 forbids the e or operation of one com- w'tH: allel railroad In thla state wh1(" mad) ure passed an act In 1897 fnmr ?nalty of on? hundred dol- Oe nny railroad owning:, lens- nltor nir nrAlhir^ mn/l "in ..uu Mtw.r? cd, over my vote, the consolldat b and the railroad company paid ter fees to the secretary of str suits were brought against hern to recover the penalty, n standing the merger act of 1! h allowed the consolidation to some of these suits were for time and sumo cause, neral complaint was mndc to ?iey general that the Southern i Ion It. and seventy per cent (70) Its bers of the house voted for ite, Wnds fault with me because the sons who brought suit to re ot- ties after the legislature an '02. consolidations to be made w be ed by the Teat Act. from c the prosecute those Buits. Mr. I ed for the Test Act lntrodi the Tho records show It. If I i ?as fied for voting for it so is J - .. Vila go yesterd of the memIt. He also lp the ten per- Mrs. W. z. Ilank cover penal visiting Dr. S. H. t ithorlzed the ,?oat popular phyah ore prevent- , , ontlnuing to '"K f?r Au?ust" en 'attlson vot- Ala" to vlfJt anothi iced by me. Hegular prcachlnf lm diwiunll- ersvllle M. E. chu ?fr. Pattlson. _ ay on an Inspection tnson. who has been lankinson. one of our :ians, left this mornroute to Birmingham, r aon. J services In Brothrch Sunday morning ia concerned, tor whs do by diplomacy it ia i lisnat life that alio "wil it ItuHBla cannot tlon of law," i part of her na- covorod to g-o II to do by foroo. ' auil and the eno-half of the penalty ro- him to the Individual brlnprlrn plain other half to the state. ney uir.in iconcu roaas una urg trt take some action. The co Is were bo urgent that the att general deemed It expedient V ing i no legislature prevented m- tlon of those suite bemuse or- thoiftsed the railroad to d< to thing that the aulta asked i A tho prosecutt had an- Mr J D- R^'oy 0 the very '"K a course In Ins 1 penalty to sons. In In Savannah taktrunient&l music lea/' I' "" / ) \ \