The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, May 23, 1907, Image 5
MANY FLAGS
Followed by Major-General Henry
Ronald Douglas Mclver.
A ROMANTIC CAREER.
A Soldier of Fortune Who Fought
For Kightccn Countries Died I>a?t
Week in New York.. He uniii
.Adventures, One of Which Was
tho Killing of Major Tonilin, of
Vicksburg.
Maj. Gen. Henry Ronald Douglas
Maclver, of the Servian army, major j
in the Confederate States army, and 1
with rank varying from the highest (
to the lowest under eighteen l*igs,
who died in a lodging house in New
York last week; was facing grim poverty
when he went to his rest. His
battle-scarred body was found by his
landlady, Mrs. Mabel Campbell, who
forced the door open after raping on
it in vain, K
The general had been heard moving
about his room in the early morning.
The night before he had complained
of feeling cold and Mrs.
CarJf>bell had sent him a drink of
whiskey, and later a cup of tea. A
fellow-lodger went to his room at
midnight, and asked him if he needed
anything.
"I thank you, sir," the general replied.
"I need nothing." The police
of the Twentieth street station, taking
an inventory of his belongings,
wrote it down that the soldier of fortune,
the warrior who had fought
under eighteen flags for the mere
love of fighting, had 46 cents in cash
and his clothing. If the general hastened
his end, it was done so carefully
that no one suspected it. "Apparently
natural death" was recorded
on the blotter at the station.
Mrs. Campbell said that her lodger
was ready to start for Washington
several days before his death, but received
a letter which kept him in
New York. Gen. Maclver was sixtyone
years old, but showed few signs
of his age.
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nt* was waiting ior mcnaru naming
Davis, who has written so much
about his fighting career," said Mrs.
Campbell. He was expecting Mr.
Davis in a few days, and told me
about it. We all know that the old
gentleman was a great soldier. He
looked it."
Gen. Maclver's scant belongings
consisted of uniforms, his well-car ed-for
street clothes and a trunk full
of papers telling of his life of adventure.
The general was born on Christmas
day. 1864, in Hampton Roads,
Va., aboard a ship seeking a harbor.
His father was Ronald Maclver, a
Scotchman. The son went to Italy
and fought under Garibaldi. He served
in the Ten Years' war in Cuba, in
Crete, in Greece; twice in theCarlist
revolutions in Spain, in Bosnia. He
returned to Virginia, when war on a
gigantic scale was framing. His
sword was offered to Gen. Robert E.
Lee and was accepted. He fought
with Stuart and Stonewall Jackson,
and was four times wounded during
the great conflict.
At the close of the war there was
much dueling between the officers of
the two armies. Maclver was in one
of these affairs outside of Vicksburg.
His combatant was Maj. Tomlin, of
the Vermont United States artillery
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vuiuniema. xuukul wiui
swords, Maclver running his opponent
through the body and cleaning
his blade with his handkerchief.
"He is dead; we must go." called
one of Maclver's seconds.
A negro brought up the horses of
Maclver^nd his seconds.
"My friends are in haste." said
Maclver, turning to the seconds of
the man he had slain. "Is there anything
I can do? I hope that you consider
this matter settled honorably."
Then he mounted and rode away.
After the civil war Maclver, with
other Southern officers, went to Mexco.
He fought under Maximilian
there. When the fighting was over
he went to Egypt and then to France;
everywhere that cannon were hot
and the caravans of war were plowing
up the roads Maclver was to be
found.
Maclver was appointed United
States consul at Dania,. Spain. The
man he was to succeed declined to
get out, and the soldier of fortune
immediately suggested that they go
to the outskirts of the city and settle
the matter with pistols or swords.
Stephen Bonsai, the present corresSondent
of the New York Times in
t. Petersburg, who was then the
charge d'affairs at Madrid, was sent
to adjust matters. He adjusted the
matter and Mclver was installed
without bloodshed,
The daring of Maclver was best
exemplified, perhaps, when he took
part in the Cretan struggle against
the Turks. He was received more
than gladly by the Cretans, who gave
him "full power ty make war on
land and sea against the enemies of
Crete, and particulary against the
Si !tan of Turkey and the Turkish
forces, and to burn, destroy or capture
any vessal bearing the Turkish
flag." After getting through this
proposition aliie he went to Athens,
add later put jfi a few. months trying
to exterminate the Grecian brigands,
fighting in the mountains and doing
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WILL BE HIGH.
Cotton May Go to Twonty Cents
Per Pound. 1
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The Spinner** in America A^e Short
And a Cotton Famine Starts Them
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In the Face. v
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Cotton seems to be getting very
scarce and hard to get in the South.
The Florence Times says the cotton
men all tell the farmers to refrain
from selling their cotton, all admit
fifteen cents cotton and some expect
to see the staple bring as high as
twenty cents. There is no cotton in
the country and a famine faces the
American mills. The English mills
got the best of the American mills
this season to pay them for having
trick< d tli on two or three times in
the past and they did their American
cousins up to a brown finish.
The European spinners sent a committee
over here and that committee
went over the country in company
with the officers of the Southern
Cotton association, made a tour of
inspection of the cotton belt. The
American spinners took the reports
of the government and the estimate
of Mr. Hester of New Orleans and
others and they looked wise and let
the European have the cotton.
Liverpool quotations stuck steadily
above New York in spite of the
utiiiiiuui iuK <>i me American Dears
and the cotton >rent in a steady
stream to Europe. Now the cotton
is gone from the fields, gone from the
warehouses, gone from everywhere
and the spinners of this country are
crying for cotton and it is not to be
had.
The planters of Louisiana have
planted four times and they say they
have no crop yeC Frost and flood
have played havoc with them. The
Mississippi men have planted three
times and no crop yet, and the country
under flood. Cotton seed is running
short. In Texas the farmers
are paying any price for planting
seed.
Cotton seed is soiling in open market
for $(>5 a ton and it is mighty
scarce. The farmers all over the
country have run out of seed and the
crushers have not the seed to sell
them back. They bought all they
could, sweeping the farmer's floors
and are still thirty percent behind
last year. In Texas the boll weevil
coming earlier than ever is destroying
the young plants.
Cotton, if it is good staple, can be
sold today at the owner's own price.
Evpti had will Krini*
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prices, the spinners want anything
and they confess it. They let the
cotton go in their efforts to beat the
price down below that fixed by the
association and they have lost.
The association is stronger today
than it has ever been and its future
was never so bright. There is every
reason today why the farmer, every
farmer, should stand by the association
and win his independence in this
one year of grace. It will most likely
be done. The farmer controls the
situation and if he does not throw
away his opportunity he just cannot
help winning.
A lot of cotton was sold by the
very wise ones, who know better than
the united wisdom of the whole association
for nine and a fraction, future
delivery this fall, and every effort
is going to be made to force
these sellers to deliver that cotton.
It is going to be a most interesting
situation. This, considered in connection
with the recent fight on
bucket shops and gambling in cotton
is going to make a pretty state of affairs
when the buyers of the contracts
begin to squeeze.
so well at it that he was given the
highest decoration that the king of
Greece could confer upon him.
It was in Servia that Maclver attained
his highest rank as an officer.
He received a commission from the
prince of Servia to organize an independent
cavalry brigade. He left
Fleet street, London, for Belgrade,
and got busy gathering men who loved
fighting. He got the right men
and trained them well, commanding
a legion of a thousand cavalrymen
of Russo-Servians against the Turks.
He received the cross of the Takovo
order for gallant service, and was
made major general in command of
all of the cavalry of the Servians.
The decoration was given him on the
eve of battle.
If Maclver was nothing else, he
was picturesque?always. He lent a
color to his surroundings, whether
they were the coridors and vestibule
of the Hoffman house, where he had
been a character for years, or whether
they were the table d'hote holesin-the-wall
on the lower West Side,
where all the patrons affect to be
persons with mysterious missions or
with pasts.
Maclver had fought as an officer
"under eighteen flags." In 1884 he
got a newspaper man to write a book
of his tales, entitled "Under fourteen
Flags." It didn't get into the
ranks of the ten best soldier of that
day, but Mrs. Campbell's lodging
house folk said that Richard Harding
Davis had had the general in tow and
the two of them had planned to publish
another book some time next
fall. They said also that Davis got
most of his material for his "Capt.
Macklin," from the experiences of
the general.
WHO WILL IT BE?
The Political Pot Basins to Simmer
Over the Country
SOME BOOMS HEARD
And Favorite Son? Figuri? in Several
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Minor Skirmishes. The Peerless
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Bryan In Acknowledged to be the
Stnmlurd Bearer of the Jeffersonian
Democrats aud Will Win the
llace.
Political activitives are engaging
the attention of millions of peo] le'
througout the United States at l lej
present time. The question rf who
v ill be the candidates for the Pr>s-!
iuenjy pat forth by the two great j
political parties is most engrossing.
In several states hot battles are being
waged by the adherents of "fav- i
orite sons." In Ohio, the modern i
"center of President making," a
battle royal has been fought recently
by the Foraker and Taft interests
and the backers of the Secretary of
War have come out victorious.
In other words, when the National
Republican convention meets, there
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i win uc u suuu wuiu ueiegauon in
favor of nominating Secretary Taft
for the Presidency. He is the "favorite
son?'of the Buckeye state to
all intents and purposes at the present
time. While Secretary Taft has
not announced his candidacy absolutely,
it is undersood that he will
do so early in June in a speech he is
about to make supporting the policies
of goverment of Theodore Roosevelt
and favoring their continuance
for four years more.
In making that speech Secretary
Taft will outline the platform
the Republican party will adopt,
doubtless, at the convention. It
must not be thought, however,
that Ohio will rule the convention,
simply because it has come out in
support for Taft, instead of indorsing
Foraker.are-actionary, for there
are many other candidates in the
field for Presidential honors.
There are Fairbanks, who has already
been assured the support of
Indiana in the convention; Hughes,
of New York, whose little boom
started by former Gov. Odell, was
not heard far: Elihu Root, who
would like to be President, but who
will have to work hard to get the
backing of New York state, and Senator
Knox whose Presidential boom
has not been heard of since it was
launched by Pennslyvanians in Wash,
ingtona couple of months ago. All
] these men are possibilities, and
1 stroner ones. too. for thov ?ro nil mnn
of marked ability in Executive work.
BOOMS SOMEWHAT RESTRICTED.
The well defined political movements
in favor of certain possible
candidates are not general. The
Taft boom has no root in New York
state: the Root movement has no
J tendril in Ohio: the Fairbanks boom
has ventured into several states, but
it has had the effect of lowering the
political temperature considerably;
| the Hughes stir had a short gasp in
New York state, although (iov.
Hughes has gained great popularity
and respect in many states on
account of his individual work for
good government; the Knox boom,
just a tiny little noise, has not been
, heard outside of Pennslvania pand
the Foraker boom is dead and buried
i under the massive predonderance of
Secretary Taft. Therefore, it is
seen there has been no definite campaign
operations launched by any of
the "favorite sons."
The Roosevelt movement is the
strongest Republican current in the
political sea at the present time.
There are millions of the admirers
of the President who are anxious
i for him to run again for the office
he has graced so well. For many
months, in spite of the President's
' statements that he will not be a candidate
to succeed himself, there will
j be a popular movement throughout
, the country, the object of which
! \irill Ko fA fnv>on fVia naminntinn a?
I tt 111 'v- WW i\/i V/\> 1/1 iv^ HUlillliatlUll uu
j the President in spite of his own dei
sires. To-day that movement is
i the very greatest in the political life
j of the country, and it is gaining
strength week by week, such great
! strength that the adherents or the
i "favorite sons" are beginning to
become worried over the probable
outcome of the agitation.
IN THE DEMOCRATIC CAMP.
All roads lead to Bryan in the
Democratic territory. Without a
doubt, according to the leading
spirits in the party of Jefferson,
Bryan will be the standard bearer
in the coming Presidential campaign.
The South would like to
nave one of its Democratic statesmen
President. There are those
in the South, however, who are of
the opinion the time is not ripe for
booming a Southerner as a Presidential
candidate.
They think that a smouldering
animosity exists between the old
men of the North and the South.
That is doubtless so, but it does not
deter the Southerners from desiring
to have one of their statesmen on
the ticket with Bryan. There are
many able Democrats in the South
who would fill with ability the office
of Vice President. Senator Culberson,
of Texas, an able political gen'
eral, has been spoken of as a prob
KAGLK HKl/iKS CHILI>.
Father Pnllw Down Hird iukI Its IVey
With a Kake.
A little child belonging to D. M.
Rigee, a merchant of Braxton county.
W. Va., was nearly carried away
by a large bald eagle. The child
was playing in the doorway of its
home, when the immense bird swooped
down, catching the child about
the shoulder und waist with its
claws.
The screams of the little ono attracted
its father who came out of
his store just as the bird was rising
with the child. Mr. Kigee immediately
seized one of the rakes which
he had on display in front of his
store, and with it literally raked the
bird and child down.
The child was injured but little,
while the parent managed to deal
the bird several telling blows with
the rake. Despite this it managed
to fly to some tall trees nearby,
whore, while nursing its injuries, it
was killed bv a rifle bull. The eagle
Is one of the la gest ever seen there.
CueqTiulIy Distributed.
Th< re is considerable complaint
about the distribution of the pension
fund. It is claimed that some counties
get a great deal more than they
are entitled to, while others are
shared out. Recently the Florence
Times called attention to the correspondence
from Spartanburg to The
News and Courier about the pensions
given out in that county. The correspondent
thought that the pension
roll in Spartanburg County was larger
than it ought to be. He seems to
think that there are names on the
list which ought not to be there.
Spartanburg County was given $20,000
of the pension money. Just
about four times as much as Orangeburg
County was given. We think
there must be something wrong about
this distribution, but just how to
remedy it is the question.
Of course Spartanburg has grown
in population a great deal since the
close of the war, and many cotton
mills have been built, and no doubt
confederate soldiers have moved in
from other counties and from North
Carolina, but it hardly seems creditable
that they should have increased
the pension roll as much as it now
appears to be. Spartanburg County
has about eight hundred names on
her pension rolls. The roll should
be purged, as we are satisfied that
there are names on it that should
not be there.
The Abbeville Medium, which is
edited by a gallant old veteran,
makes a suggestion that each county
take charge of its own pensioners,
and provide a fund for them. We do
not know how this would work. Unless
t.ho Hiffprnrif nnnnfiou iuauM
agree to pay their pensioners about
the same, such a charge would cause
a great deal of dissatisfaction. Then
again in some of the counties that
are heavily burdened with taxation,
the needy old veteran might be neglected
and given nothing hardly. On
the whole we think it best for the
State to manage the matter. Then
the strong, rich counties can help
the weaker counties and pay the
neady old veterans a uniform sum.
Hut the roll should be thoroughly
purged in every county, and the money
given only to those who are entitled
to it. We are satisfied that
many get it now who are not entitled
to it.
Tliolr Pay Raised.
An increase of 10 per cent in the
pay of conductors over the entire
system of the Atlantic Coast Line has
been granted by the officials, effective
May 1, in response to a request
made by the general adjustment
committee.
The raise will apply to freight as
well as passenger conductors, and
will practically meet the request
made by the conductors, who had
prepared a schedule of salaries for
the conductors, computed on the
number of miles traveled by them.
The argument used by the committee
in sustaining their claims for an
increase of pay was that the price of
living has greatly increased and they
are requested to do a great deal more
work than formerly over the same
amount of mileage, the railroads
getting the benefit of more work for
the same amount of pay a mile.
An order has been issued granting
the increase, computing the salaries
that will be paid to conductors according
to mileage and time. This
schedule bears a uniform increase of
10 per cent, and totals really more
than was asked for by the conductors.
The management of the road
seemed perfectly willing to come to
an agreement with the conductors,
and after being shown schedules of
prices paid in other sections of the
county readily agreed to the advance.
able running mate of Bryan. Hoke
Smith, of Georgia, a seasoned political
warrior of the strenous type,
has also been mentioned as a man
fit to travel in double harness with
the Nebraska statesman. Senator
Daniels, of Virginia, one of the
deepest tnmKers in tne Senate, has
been singled out among Democrats
as a man worthy of being on the political
banners with Bryan.
It is the desire of the Democratic
party to stick to statesmen for
their leaders and not attach faith to
millionaires such as Sewall, who ran
with Bryan the first time, or Henry
Gassaway Davis, w.ho was a weak
running mate to Parker. Many of
the Democrats do not sympathize
with Bryan's government ownership
ideas. The Nebraska man.
however, has lately made it a point
to state he would not insist upon his
theories in that regard being embodied
in the Democratic platform.
DEVOIR EVERYTHING,
The Kriffhtful I'liiKue of in
Mouth Africa.
From earliest Biblical times the locuse
has been regarded as a nest and
a destroyer of inanimate life. Swarms
of them swooped down upon the
green valleys of Egypt and made life
miserable for agriculturists thousands
of years ago. When the locusts ,
came, famine followed. In this country
they occasionally do considerable
damage to growing crops, but the
plague has never been anything like
that in South Africa this spring.
A year ago Pennsylvania and parts
of adjoining states were visited by i
locusts but they stuck mostly to the
woodland, and the grain crops were
not much molested. In the early
morning and at sundown the woods 11
was turned into a bedlam of noise by i,
the chirning of hundreds of thous-1,
ands of them. They fed on the young , j
trees, and acres of them turned
brown as in autumn from the bites
of the insert*?.
Not very long a ro great warms of
locusts passed overt hi? Rai.d in South
Africa. The whole country, lovely <
in t' e growth of splendid crops, and
made greener and more beautiful by
timely rams than it had been in many ,
years, was in a brief few days turned
into a bare, brown and withered
desert. The swarm literally ate its (
way through the country, and made
a clean job of it. They consumed
whole fields of grain, and the loss to
the farmers is incalculable.
The country is at a loss to know
how to deal with the scourage. The
ordinary methods which have been
used in the past in combatting the
pest have utterly failed. Cyprus
screen has been of no use. So immense
was the swarm that the fields
and forests were not large enough to i
hold the myriads, and they swarmed 1
into the towns and cities.
Streets of the city of Johonnesburg
have been made hideous by the
ceaseless, dreary chirping. A locust
can make more noise for its size than
any other insect, and its chirp is a
weird, unpleasant sound that is particularly
trying to the nerves. A half
dozen of them can make enough
noise to annoy a whole square. Fancy
tne stale or things where countless
thousands of them are holding their
daily concert.
In Johannesburg the streets are
litterally a brown mass of crushed
locusts. They have tied up the street
car traffic by settling on the rails,
their crushed bodies making the rails
so slippery that the car wheels revolve
without moving the car.
Men are obliged to go over the
line and sweep clear the track for
the approaching cars, and in 15 minutes
they have the job to do over
again. Already this state of afTairs
has caused several bad accidents. A
motor car has been smashed, and
two tram cars have been telescoped.
The motormen have great difficulty
in controlling the cars on the greasy
tracks, Steam cars are having the
same trouble.
In some of the smaller towns where
no particular effort has been made
to keep the streets clear of the dead
bodies, pedestrians slide about in the
squirmy mass in a most disgusting
manner. All are obliged to remove
shoes on entering their homes after
having been on the streets.
A Wise Law.
One of the wisest things aver done
by the Legislature was the passage
of the law giving the County Commissioners
the right to levy a tax of
one mill to build good roads. The
law wisely provides that the tax so
collected shall be spent in the township
in which it is collected. We are
glad that the County Commissioners
of this county has levied this tax and
we hope that they will continue to
levy it until every road in the county
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ir? |)ia 111 guuu eunuiuon. 1T11S1S a
luxury that new counties like Lee,
Dorchester, Greenwood, and others,
cannot afford as they are heavily taxed
for ordinary county purpose and
other necessary expenses, such as
building courthouses, jails, and so
on. Good roads are necessary if we
want to keep up with the times. The
postoftice Department requires the
rural mail carriers to travel only
those roads that we keep in good
condition. So it will be seen how
important it is for our roads to be
kept up. Then, too, under our road
law, there is no danger of the money
being collected in one part of the
county being spent on the roads of
another part, as it requires that the
money collected shall be spent in the
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Thk St. Matthews correspondent
of The State says more agitation on
the subject of a new county has been
conducted by the various county papers
and their corresponded-, than
by people who are most mi crested.
We came to this same conclusion a
short time ago, and cone, uded so far
as The Times and Democrat is concerned
to suspend discussion of the
matter unti! something definite is
known about the proposed scheme.
After the survey is made and the
lines are established will be time
enough for all the discussion needed.
We < an find more readable stuff for '
our columns just at this time.
Thk Durham Herald says "we
would like for the Democrats to put
up a conservative man, but we are (
not among those who believe that a
conservative Democrat could win. li
is our belief that the more radical
the candidate the more votes he will
receive." The Herald is more than
half right. If the Democrats win
they can 6nly do it with a man that
stands for something.
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NEGROES Ii?> .1) UP NEGROES
Highwaymen \iTv*(fd ami Iiocked
l'p in Um> Jail.
Last Saturday night at Gaston
Shoals, wh??.e the Drave company is
wotkng <>n the big d..ni across IIroad
river a negro name.. Will Byarn
"held up" another negro named Davis
Petty, and relieved him of $20.
OyurH used a .38 calibre revolver
as a persuader. llyars was carried
to Gaffney and lodged in jail. He also
was bound over to court on the
charge of selling whiskey. llyars
has a brother who is also in Jail for
selling whiskey at the dam.
A negro named John Henderson
was also held up at the point of a
pistol by another negro at the Southtun
power plant at the Ninety-Nine
islands and compelled to disgorge
three "slmolaons." This negro was
committed to Jail by Magistrate Ligon
of lilaeksburg.
fudge With a ltackl>ouc.
We have Ion# been of the opinion
that most of our judges allowed hail
in many cases when it should not lie
allowed. In fact it was a rare thing
for bail to be refused in any est \
it is therefore with pleasure thaiv e
commend Judge D. H. Hydriek, ut:o
is now holding court here, for refusing
bail to W. H. Mills, who murdered
Frank Deal at Hlacksburg soinetime
ago. Mills claimed justification
under the much abused "unwritten
law" for his crime, submitting a
most horrible affidavit from his wife,
which told all about her relations
with Deal. This very properly had
no effect on Judge Hydriek, and he
promptly turned the application for
bail down.
We cordially agree with the Spar
tanburg Journal that "this fiction of
the 'unwritten law' has been grc atly
overworked of late and, if we understand
sentiment correctly, it will
hereafter be applied more strictly
than has been the custom in recent
cases. The avenger of the spoliation
of his home will still be held guiltless,
but the circumstances must
more closely tit the rule than has
sometimes been allowed. We are not
trying Mills, not pronouncing him
guilty or not guilty. That is for the
jury to do. His case is not bailable,
however, according to the constitution
and he is not entitled to have a
circuit judge, by admission to bail,
deny his guilt 'the proof is evident
or the presumption great' and enjoy
the benefit with the jury of this pronouncement.
Neither should his case
be prejudiced by this decision."
As we said above the granting of
bail in homicide cases has been too
live iuiu eaay in nit' past ill tins
State, and we are glad ? halt has
been called. The Journal goes on to
say that 'the writ of habeas corpus
is a sacred one, but it should not l>e
abused. Many men have been admitted
to bail who did not deserve
this benefit, and such acts on the
part of the judges has led to miscarriages
of justice. Judge Hydrick has
taken a stand that might well be imitated
by other circuit and also supreme
court judges in South fCarolina.
It should take a better showing
than Mills makes to secure admission
to bail in any amount.
They Advertise More.
One of the most notable facts connected
with a country newspaper of
today is the large increase in the
amount of advertising of local business
houses. The change has taken
place gradually, and has been marked
especially during (he past year or
two. It is highly significant, and an
inquiry as to the cause of it is of
great profit, not only to those in the
newspaper business, but to every
business man and citizen of our
town as well.
The change, in brief, means that
local merchants have found it necessary
to call attention to their
goods because of the immense competition
they face the most deadly
element of which is that from the
great stores of the large cities.
These great establishments advertise
their wares most lavishly and
the metropolitan newspapers which
contain their advertisements are distributed
over the country, some one
paper of which enters nearly every
home. The result is that these me
iropontan establishments have built
up an immense mail trade.
In our town, and indeed in most
of the towns of the state there it*
no occasion for this out-of-town buying.
The duty of citizens in the
matter is plain, and where other
things are equal support should be
given local dealers. Our merchants
have invested their capital, have
erected buildings, which are the
pride of the city, and have established
concerns which are almost metropolitan
in character. They have
built up our little city, and it is only
a fair return that they nave the
city's trade*, to turn trade otherwise,
even in the line of small purchases
which are great jn the aggregate,
is to invite the decline of property
values in our town.
Mr. Cortelyou may as well come
to the front with the facts about the
contributions to the republican campaign
fund. The public is getting
them one by one. There was the
$50,000 Mr. Perkins took from the
insurance money, the $50,000 that
Mr. Harriman gave, and the $200,300
that Mr. Harriman raised among
his friends. That accounts for about
ve per cent of the total slush fund.
The Washington Post thinks that
Michigan man who is accused of having
seventeen wives must have been
determined to have his buttons sewed
on if he went to jail for it.