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VOL. V. NO. 9. CAMDEN, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1908. S1.0O Por Year . Yalmetto Affair* The News of Sotttfi Carolina in Condensed Form 1 23r Faatberstone on Prohibition. | Greenwood, Special. ? Hon. C. C. Featherstone of Laurens passed through here laat week and while here was questioned as to his attitude on the matter of prohibition in the com ing campaign. Mr. Featharstone stated that he was for prohibition without anv provisions or conditions to it. In this connection, he stated that he had made his position clear about a month ago in which he stat ed that ho was for straightout pro hibtiion. , 4 . Mr. Fcatherstone stated that four or flvo months ago he gave an in terview on the subject advocating for the present the ennetment of a law making the entire State dry, but per mitting counties where prohibition sen'iment was weak to vote in the sale of whiskey. Continuing lie ?aid: ** A great majoritv of my prohibition friends in the State endorsed my views. . . aX . "I stntcd in that interview that, of course, what we ultimately sought was iron-clad. State-wide prohibition, and further that in my judgement the time was not far off when the Sate would he rea.lv for it; and further, t lint when there was sufficient public sentiment behind it, I would then ho in favor of State-wide prohibi tion. . . . . ? T "Since giving out that interview, I l ave been in close touch with prohi bitionists throughout the State, en deavoring to ascertain the present strength of the sentiment and making diligent inquiry as to the enforcement <?f the law in dry counties. 1 have also been studving the reports ot the dispensarv auditor, and to my amaze m?Mit, I find that the county dispen saries are selling almost as much li quor as did the old dispesarv when it was in full blast. Thev sold in the last vear three million dollars wort h of liquor. In addition to this, 1 find that the dispensary counties are sell ing tremendous quantities of whiskey to contiguous dry territory. "In this state of affairs I have de termined to stump the State this \ ear, advocating straiirhtout prohibition. The otilv wav to find out the strength of the prohibition sentiment is to sub mit the question squarely to the peo ple. If a majority of the people are in favQr of State prohibition, then we will srivo it an honest, fair trial. The prohibitionists of the State are no fanatics, but on the contrary are sen sible. practical men. "If the practical workimrs ot a State prohibition law should demon strate that it was impossible to en force certain counties where the sen timent is weak, then it will be a very easv matter to tack on a local option feature, permittine those counties, under the most rigid restrictions, to vote in the sale of whiskey Suffi cient ?nto the day is the evil thereof. "What we want." said Mr. Feath erstone. "is to give a jrenerRl prohi bition 'aw an honest, fair trial. Mr Feat herst one said in repaid to the present low: "We have a substi t,,te for the old dispensary law that }-: nothing but a reproduction of the o'd svstem on n smaller scale. In time he thinks this substitute will de velop all the bad features of the ohl " lie n??o said that so far as he was peivonr.'lv concerned he would prefer J,ot t,, run this year, but his prohibi tion friends insist that the time is ripe, (and he agrees with them asTo conditions) and that he feels he must respond to what lie regards as a great mo'-al ahlisation. lie ,-tated that lie hoped the ques tion of prohibition ov no prohibition should bo submitted to the people in the primary and he hoped the State Democratic executive committee would have this done. He Mid: 4 4 The people have a right to vote up on this question and settle it at the ballot box, and that he knows of no other practical way of presenting the cause to the people other than from the stump, during the campaign. 44 1 am for straightout prohibi tion," said Mr. Featherstone in con clusion. College Journalists to Meot in Spar tanburg. Spartanburg, Special. ? The first annual convention of the State Col lege Press Association convened here Friday morning at" Wofford chapel. The afternoon meeting was held at Converse college. An elaborate pro gram, including many social features had been arranged. The officers of the association are: President, J. A. Willis, Wofford; first vice president, IE. V. Babb, Furmnn; second vice | president, John C. . Sheppard, Jr., ! University of South Carolina; corres | ponding secretary. Miss Sallie Mc i (ice, Greenville Female college; rc | cording secretary. Miss Corlinue Bar field, College for Women; treasurer, Miss Nellie Wat kins, Winthrop. Among the delegates who have arriv ed in the city are: C. A. McLindon, : W. O. Pratt and Messrs. ('rider and J Twiggs of Clemson ; R. E. Gonzales j and .). C. Sheppard, Jr., of the I'ni : versify of South Carolina, j Saturday afternoon the association | met for a short session at Converse college. The medals for prize artic les were distributed to the colleges i winning them. Saturday evening, in the dining room of tiie Spartan Inu, the annual banquet of the association was held. The following is the list of toasts as arranged bv the executive committee: "The Visiting Delegates," Miss Anne Chreitzberg, Converse; 4 4 The Association," F. W. Capplemann, | Newberry college; 44T1m College Girl 1 of South Carolina." W. O. Prat!, ? Clemson ; 4 4 The College Boy of South (Carolina," Miss Sara V. Furman, ? Winthrop; 440ur Successors," J. C. J Sheppard, Jr., University of South | Carolina; 4 4 Spartanburg," Miss Sal | lie McOee, Greenville Female collcire; i44Tlie Officers," Miss Corinne Bar field, College for Women; 44 What We I Have Accomplished," Karl V. Babb, i Furman; 4 4 After it is Over," I). \Y. i Neville, Presbyterian College of [South Carolina: "We're Glad Yo.. i ! Came." I,. C. Hardin, Wofford. .1.1 j A. Willis of Wofford acted as toast ? master. May Rendezvous in Charleston Har bor. Charleston, Special. ? Preliminary ito the coming of the torpedo flotilla ] to Charleston, making the Charleston navy yard the base for the^boats, '(apt. Hugh Rodman of the Sixth lighthouse district has received a re quest from Washington for informa tion' nbout the depth of water in I lie j canals and inland passages along the : coast. Cnpt. Rodman has prepared a i statement, furnishing the informa tion, at least so much of it as he 'could supply, coming within the sec tion of the coast under his jurisdic tion, from Cape Fear, N. ('., to Jupi ter. The inquiry asked about the route that the "flotilla would take in ! proceding from Norfolk south. The ! information about the section of the j coast north of Cape Fear will be had ; from other sources. Mr. Charles Roach Dead. Kershaw, Special. ? Mr. Charles Hunch of K??r*l< Hill, who cnnic down n few days mr<? to he of service wait- 1 inif on his father-in-law, Mr. .Tamos ? I lowers, who was recently partf lyr.ed, died suddenly Thumday. lie was , si bout 00 years of nee ami leaves a i ?wife and several children. The re mains were carried t<? Hock Hill for interment. I Good Old Nogro Dead. Rock Hill, Special, ? In the past 12 j months there have passed away in I this Slate cpntc a number of those! good old negro men and women of the ante-bellum typo whose mpny vir tnes are only in exceptional cnscs imitated hv those of tho present gen eration. Such an on? was Edwin Moore ? later and better known as ! Kdwin Raven ? who died at his home in Edtrcmore last week. He was all i his life an honest, faithful man, high ly rorprcted by all with whom he J cn*ir in con! net whether black or while. I Contract Tor Paving. Hlacksburg, Specinl. ? The contract for paving the sidewnlks of our town has been awnrded by the town conn oil to Mr. Julian C. Ross, who is n ? resident of tho town and nn experi enced and successful railroad contrae- j tor. Mr. Ross has also tho contract { for grading a rond from Spnrtnnhurg county from tho city line of Spartan burg, which will be an extension of : oast Main street. Farnura Surrenders. Columbia, Special. ? James S. Far num, agent for the Anheuser-Tbiseh brewing company. and eharired with eonspirncy to defraud the Stnto of South Carolina, onmc to Columbia last week and voluntarily appeared before Magistrate Fowles to give bond for $10,000 for his appearanee before the Hichlnd rriminal court when the case is called. Petitions For Pardon Boforo the Gov ernor. Columbia. Special. ? Oov. Ansel re fuesd a number of petitions f ?? rpar dons presented during the past few weeks. One of the most remarkable case.? wn sthat of Ned ( riss of Char leston, a negro, who is now serving a life sentence in the penitenti^rv. afier being sentenced to bang in io<50. Criss and a negro named Cn*?ar Frn ? t entered the store of K. II. Older berg, on Wall street }?> Charles' "'i. with the intention of rohbine it. Mr. Oldcrberg discovered th" thieves and while endenvoring to give the alarm was killed. Home-Made Silver Ware on Exhibi tion in Sumter. Sumter, Special. ? There ha* been on displnv in the show window of L. W. Folsom's jewelry store, in this city for several weeks a beautiful col lection of silverware manufactured at Hartsville. The silverware factorv at Hartsville is said to be the onlv establishment of its kind in the South and the ware turned out compares favorably in finish, quality and beau ty of design with the best. SHOT COLORED MAN Congressman Heflin Uues His Pistol on Darkey AN UNFORTUNATE OCCURRENCE Alabama Representative Promptly Attacks Negro Who Resents Hit Kind Admonition to Oease Drink ing in the Presence of Ladies. Washington, D. C., Special. ? In a desperate affry on Pennsylvania aye nne car Friday night a negro and a white man were shot by Congressman Thomas J. Heflin, of Alabama. Thos. Lumby, the negro, was shot in the head and is .in a critical condition and Thomas McCreary, a New York horse trainer, is suffering from a wound in the leg. The shooting of McCreary was accidental. Mr. Hef lin was arrested and taken to the sixth police precinct station, where the charge of assault with intent to kill was placed against him. Later he was released on $5,000 bail. The shooting occurred shortly after 7 o'clock as the car reached the cor ner of Pennsylvania avenue and Sixth street, bound for Capitol Hill. Congressman Heflin, accompanied by Congressman Edwin J. EUerbe, of South Carolina, had boarded the car at Twelfth street and Pennsylvania avenue. Mr. Heflin being on his way to deliver a temperance lecture at the Metropolitan Methodist Episco pal church, Four-and-a-half street and John Marshall Place. Upon boarding the car he observed two negro passengers, one of whom was Thomas Lumby, and who was in the act of taking a drink from a bottle of whiskey. There was a number of other passengers, including several la dies. Mr. Heflin says he remonstrat ed with Lumby, and asked him to stop drinking, saying: ''Don't take that drink, there are ladies here and it is not right. Tt is against the law for you to do this thing in a street ear and I hope you will put that bottle away." The other negro, who was sober, attempted to take the bottle away from his friend, but fail ed. It is said that Lumby became of fended at Mr. Heflin's remonstrances and applied vile epithets. As the car reached Sixth street nnd Pennsylva nia avenue Mr. Heflin and Lumby wore engaged in a desperate struggle. Mr. Heflin, who is a large, powerful man, succeeded in throwing Lumby jiff the car as it came to a stop. Most of the occupants of the car hastily alighted, including Mr. and Mrs. Mc Creary. The negro fcl to tho ground on beinc: pushed off the car. He arosr> and it is said began cursing Mr. Hef lin again and made a motion for his hip pocket as if to draw a weapon, whereupon Mr. Heflin fired at him | through the car window, missing the negro and hitting Thomas McCreary, who was about 20 feet from the car. Mr. Heflin fired once or twice again, one of the shots striking Lumby in the head above the ear. Lumby ran a short distance and fell. An ambulance was called and he was taken to the Emergency Hospital. The conductor of the car disappeared und Offlvcr (Vorge N. Scrivcn took charge of the car and ran it to Third P.nd Pennsylvania avenue. There Representative Heflin was escorted l v Officer Scrivcn to the Capitol Hotel and later was taken to the police siation in a cab. Tie was not looked up. Mr. Heflin explained at the station his reason for going armed. He is author of a "Jim Crow" car law in the District of Columbia and says that -inee he introduced the measur" he has feceived many letters of a threatening character, and secured peruiivurn from the authorities to go armed. Mr. Heflin represents the fifth Ala bama district in which the Turke voo f.isiimte. of which Booker T. Wash ?: jrt on is at the head, is loca-e The Aldrich Bill Passes. Washington, Special. ? The Aldrich currency hill was passed by tho Sen ate by a vote of 42 to 10, in the main a party vote. Previous to the tak ing of U19 vote on tho Aldrich bill, a voto was taken on the Bailey sub stitute authorizing the government, insted of the nationnl banks, to issue the emergency circulation for which the bill provides. Tihe vote on the substitute stood 40 to 13, and thi? vote was entirely partisan, even Sena tor T>aFolIotte casting his vote with the Republicans. Mine Owners Fear Trouble. Seattle, Wash., Special. ? Seriou* trouble is threatened at tho Treadwell mines on Douglass Island, where eight hundred miners arc striking. The strikers, it is charged, have stolen largo quantities of powder from th< mine stores and threaten to destroy the works if non-unionist* nre landed. Trocfis I live Inn: ordoied from Fort i Seward to preserve order. Earthnake Destroys Town. Mexico Citv, Special. ? Chilapa, a town of 1.r>.000 inhabitants in thr^ Stato of Guerrero, has been shaken by an earthquake. Friday the shook?, two in number, occurred early Fri day evening and were followed bv fires which, originating in a doaen places among the tumbling buildings, joined in a conflagration that swept the town. FLAYED THE TRUSTS ? ? \ Senator LaTcpeftte Finishes an Abb Speech CAPITAL TOO MUCH CENTERED Wiaconda Senator Concludes Three Saji* Speech Showing Up thi Ini quities of Our Financial System. Washington, Special. ? Upon the conclusion of Senator LaFollette '? ?peech on the Aid rich currency bill in the Senate a plan was decided up on by which Senator Aldrieh will ?amove to take up the bill and con tinue its consideration until it has 'been disposed of. Aldrieh also asked for unani mous consent to take up the bill at once and to dispose of it before ad journment Thursday, but > to that proposition Senator LoFolllette ob jected on the ground that he feared dctoate would be curtailed by such m procedure. The colloquy which resulted in this announcement followed the conclu sion of the third and last installment of Senator LaFollette 's speech in opposition to the Aldrieh bill. He spoke for two hours. Resuming' his speech Mr. LaFollette declared thnt his statement thnt the industries of this country were controlled by less than one hundred men had been at tacked as sensational. Declaring that such was not the ease lie said that he had been too conseVvative and that in fact a much smaller num ber of men dominate the industries. "Along with this enormous in crease in trust power has gone a steady process of centralization in tlie control of that power. Until now the entire situation is dominated by the Standard Oil-Morjran combina tion." he declared. ''The old flights between these two irreat powers have been laid aside. Mr. Morgan's pic ture adorns the wall of the inner room of the Rockefellers at No. 20 Rroadway. In combination today they are working together to srateher in the smaller powers. Mr. Hill has been taught that he must not oppose the big ones. Standard Oil trot in on the Oreat Northern ore deal. The Gould interest are 'being swallowed up by the combine. Morse and Heinze were neatly pocketed during the recent panic. The smaller trust was given a drubbing and started in the same direction. Vanderbilts can no longer retain their important con trol and themselves see the handwrit ing on the wall." Growth of Trusts. The Senator quoted John Moody to show an enormous growth in trust consolidation and capitalization in four years. In 1904 Mr. Moody placed the capitalization of the in dustrial franchises and railroad trusts at over $20,000,000,000. That r.*nount lind increased more thnn $11,000,000,000 or more than 55 per cent. The $31,000,000,000, he said, did not represent the financial com binations. banks, trust and insurance companies. Mr. LaFollette read several lists of eminent financiers to whom he ac corded various degrees of power in the control of industries. 11c in cluded Senator Depew, of New York, as nmong those who exercised large power and held many directorships in the form of delegated power exer cised by them in n mere representa tive capacity. Mr. Depew was in his scat and crenernl laughter followed. Mr. LaFollette named as next af ter Morgan and the Rockefellers n croup of fourteen men who he said were "bisr operators and men of lnrge power and interests in their own rights." Tlt^se m?n, he said, find their brtst interests "in working in hnrmonv with Morsrnn and Stand ard Oil." No combination which they could form among themselves of others could cope with that power, he declared. In this list of fourteen, he placed the following men: W. K. Vanderbilt. August Belmont. Frede rick Wyerhauscr. llenry f\ Friek, J. Ogdcn Armour, George .1. Gould, Ja rob Schiff. K. IT. Hnrriman, Thomas F. Hynn. Louis S. Swiff, John Jacob Astor. James Speyer, James J. Hill and W. II. Moore, The Lesser Stars. A second class of men in the list were the "stars of lesser magni tude" but men of wealth and power who work in with the combine and a few of the higher rank of attorneys and bank presidents of the system. Of the third group including the balance of the lists Senator LaFol Icltp said: "While some of them ex ercised lartte power and held many directorships, it was a delegated pow er exercised by them in a mere rep resentative capacity." Mr. LaFollctte concluded his speech with a strong appeal to the "progressive men" in the Senate to stand together ami beat the bill. He spoke of the activities of the president and Mr. Bryan in com batting with wronir doing among high financiers . "Whatever difference there may be in party poliev or personality be tween the President and Mr. Brynn they are striving, each in his own way, for certain fundamental truths. Whatever mistakes Mr. Bryan may have mnde in policy, whatever mis take:; the President mav have mnde in compromising legislation, they nre believed in by the people because they are fighiin? to preserve the principle that tho nation should be governed by the people." rt!E WORKJtf CONGRESS Mnp of Our National Law-Makers Dajr by Day. A seen? somewhat oat of the or iinary was enacted in the House of Representatives because of a charge made by Mr. Mann, of Illinois, that Mr. Sulzer, of New York had put in The Congressional Record what pur ported to be a speech delivered by him last Saturday, but which Mr. Mann charged was not the one de livered. It all had to do with Mr. Sulser's claim that he and not Mr. Mann was the author of the legisla tion which brought the Department >t Commerco and Labor into being. A resolution offered by Mr. Mann to sxpunge the printed speech from the record was adopted by a strict party vote, but not until after the House had been treated to a bitter denun ciation of Mr. Mann by Mr. Sulzor *nd several lively tilts between the latter and the Speaker. Mr. Sulzet characterized Mr. Mann as a "petti* fogging lawyer, mean and contempti hie," for which ho was called to or* ier by the Speaker with the admo nition that such language could not be used toward a member. Anticpating that his speech would he ruled out and with the view to jetting it back into the record Mr. Sulzcr resorted to a piece of Strategy by trying to have the speech read and later endeavored to read it him <clf, but the Speaker insisted that lie could only address himself to t lie. resolution to expunge. Smarting under the action of the ftcpublicans, Mr. Selzer for the rest a ft he day posed as an obstruction ist. He objected to all unanimous consent proposition, and halted the proceedings of tho House for a con siderable timo by a point of nr. pi o rum. * After passing a number of meas ures relating to tho District oL' Co lumbia, the House at 4:01 p r.i. ad journed out of respect to the memory of the late Senator William James Brvati, of Florida. The Senate for the fifth time in the present session, adjourned because death had robbed the body of one of ?ts members. The announcement that Senator William James Bryan, of Florida, died was made by Senatoi Clay of Georgia, in the absence of Senator Taliaferro, who left Wash insfto early in the day as a member !>f the committee which accompanied the body to' "Jacksonville. The untimely death of Senator Bryan, who was familiarly known as the "baby" of the Senate, a title in which ho took pride, came home to tho Senators with more foree than any which had preceded it. The jcven sorrows that have come upon this branch of Congress sines ad journment a year ago were a mattei of solemn comment. The mortality record of the present session already is greater than in any previous en tire Congress. In submitting the usual resolu tions providing for adjournment out of respect to the memory of the late Senator. Mr. Clay said: Senate's Youngest Member. "He was the youngest member of this body ? had not reached his thirty-second year at the time of hi? death. His friends thought hq had before him a career of great useful ness. Had his life been spared I doubtless their most sanguine ex [ per tat ions would have been realized. | He possessed a charming personality and made friends wherever he went. He was studious, industrious and ambitious for his country's good The people of Florida loved and trusted him. and he loved them, and Florida today mourns his death. This is not the proper time tc eulogize his memory. At some future time and on an occasion nppointed for thnt purpose the senior Senatoi from Florida will join with othej friends of Senator Rrvan in payina to his memory that tribute of af fection. confidence and esteem which I know is felt by all." The Senate \was opened ^th prayer by the Rev. tllysses (*. K Pierce, of All Souls Church, who re ferred feelingly to the Senate's be reavement and to the sorrow of the family of the late Senator. Announcement of the death of Senator Rrvan was made in the House by Mr. Clark of Florida, whe offered resolutions lamenting the death <>f "this illustrious son of oui beloved Commonwealth. ' ' The resolutions were unanimously adopted, and as a further mark ol respect the House adjourned. Democrats May Obstruct. Determination to conduct a fili buster on all occasions where oppor tunity presented itself, in order tr force the Republicans to action on ar. employer's liability bill and othei measures deemed necessary of enact ment was announced bv Mr. "Wil liams. of Mississippi, in the House of Representatives Tuesday during the j consideration o fthe agricultural bill. He said he had waited until now tr see some evidences of an intention tc transact business which the people were demanding, but. finding none had reached the conclusion that the time was ripe to force the hand ol the Republican party. The Demo crats cheered the announcement. General debate on the agricultural appropriation bill continued through out the day. except for a brief time when Mr. Sulzer, of New York, b> way of retaliation for the action of the House in eliminating from .Tlx Record his speech of Saturday last, soucrht to have expunged some r? marks of Mr. Dalzell, of Pennsylva nia, regarding the rules. In that) however, he was unsuccessful. Many Democrats refrained from support ing his proposition. Currency JBU1 in Senate. The currency bill was practically given an exclusive right of way is the Senate until it is finally disposed of by an announcement by Senatov Aldrich that he would move Tues day to give it thst status in the Sen ate. A question brought out a statement by Mr. Aldrich to the effect that h< hopes to see the creation of a joint ??ommission of the Senate and th? House authorized to consider perma nent enrrenov reform before Con gress adjourns. Bryan Visits Pittsburg. Pittsburg, Special. ? Democrats from all over western Pennsylvania are arriving in Pittsburg to partici pate in a demon? trillion in honor ol Williaj- .Tendings Ilrvan, who will speak in the Kxposition building President Jer-? S. Black. of the Penn sylvania Bryan League, will presid< ovii the niecl ing. The Nebraska!) will proceed from here to Parkers burg. \V. Va., where he will delivei an address. Hair Catches in Loom. Spartanburg, S. C, Special ? While picking up a hair ornament from un der a loom in the Beaumont Cotton Mill, Mrs. Whocler, an operative, ac cidentally caught her hair in the ma chinery and the scalp 011 the top of hej- head was torn off. The injured woman was placed in an ambulance and hurried to the (Sood Samari tan Hospital, where she is iu a se rious condition. Paper Excluded From Mail. Patterson, X. .1., Special. ? Presi dent Roosevelt states in answer to au appeal from Mayor Mcllride to exclude "La Quest ione Sociale" from the mails for the purpose of Suppressing the publication, that, be sides directing that the newspaper be denied the use of the mails, he lias requested the Department of Justice to make every effort to prosecute criminally thoso responsible for tbo oublication. The Gutseh Mountain of Switzer land, 7. "(>0 feet high, was climbed last summer by a centenarian. i "Big Offer To All Our Subscriber j The Great AMERICAN FARMER Indianapolis, Ind. 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