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l**t Just loo He Pone. Ij t Near Greer, in Spart nburg Coun- i ty a negro named Fowler shot and in- j' stantly killed a young white man of . unsavory reputation by the name of j < Boyce Stone, who was attempting to ' o ?>rago Fowler's wile Fowler .->aid i that he hastened to his home in re- < sponse to his wife's calls for aid and found three white men assailing her. 11 Stone knocked him down, but he recovered himself, seized his gun ami killed the would-be-ravisher. The i other men, Hammett and Duncan, ran away. They were later chased by officers and arrested. Immediately after the shooting Fowler surrendered himself to the sheriff. Stone, who was a vicious young desperado, seemed to have met a deserved death at the hands of a ne gro who was justified in protecting his home. Strange to relate Magistrate Wood, who acted as coroner, permitted the two men arrested as accessories to criminal assault to appear in the role of principal witnesses, and that as the result of their testimony their intended victim is held as an accomplice to the killing, by her husband, of the ringleader in the assault! Fortunately such travesty on justice was not allowed to stand. The people of Greer were indignant when they heard that Fowler's wife and a number of other witnesses had not been examined and because the testimony of Hammett and Duncan at the hearing was at complete variance with statements they made in the hearing of a number of rflsnnnwinlo r?if i'/onu t\ir?* Omif m. VIVIUVIIU X'* ?' "I't" ??rest. Because of these facts, which convinced them that there had been a miscarriage of justice, a number of prominent citizens headed by Mayor Burgiss, made representation to Deputy Sheriff Becknell sufficiently strong to cause another hearing before the coroner. At this hearing the verdict was practically die same as the first one, but the charge of being an accomplice against Fowler's wife was dismissed. The evidence was sulliciently string against llammett and Duncan to justify their being held on the previous charge. Stone was a bad fellow. Sometime ago he shot and killed the chief of police of Greer and later he shot and killed another man out in the West. From what we can hear Fowler did me proper thing in ridding the eanh of such a monster. When killed de was attempting to commit a most hienoun crime and we are glad to know that the good white people of Greer are determined to see that Fowler gets justice. Expecting Orient. A stafT correspondent of the Baltimore Sun writing from Washing ion says tne consensus or opinion at thecapitol, if it could be accurately ascertained, would disclose a belief on the part of the Republicans that their party is confronted with a prospect of defeat in the next election both as to the Presidency and as to the control of the House of Representatives.^Moreover, some of them are reconciled to defeat in anticipation, believing that through it alone can the country escape the consequences of Mr. Roosevelt's usurpation of power and their own weakness to resist him. To some extent their nonresistance is due to their belief that defeat is bound to follow at the polls and their desire to escape the responsibility for this defeat being placed upon them through their having made a breech in the party orginizatiou by open resistance of the executive." It will be seen from the above that the Republicans don't think Bryan is such an easy candidate to beat as some of our Southern papers would have us believe. New York Fights IJryaii. 'It begins to look as if Mr. Bryan, in case he were nominated at Denver, would not have a single newspaper of consequence in New York city supporting his candidacy," says the Springfield Republican. "The Hearst papers will have their own sideshow this year. The World has worked itself into such a fury of opposition to the nomination that support in the campaign is evidently out of the question. The Times and Brooklyn Eagle would pass a years dividends rather than to have anything to do with the unspeakable one. The Sun is clearly preparing to support Mr. Taft on the ground that he would prove conservative in the presidency. Wall street and The Sun will not be far apart in this matter. Mr. Bryan, therefore, is likely to enjoy less newspaper favor in the big city than in 1896 even, for in that year the Hearst papers fought single-handed for his cause, rhe effect of such a total absence of journalistic support in New York lity can only be surmised. In the Km pi re State, New .Jersey and Connecticut the solid opposition of toe my pr ess that is most read might, be very disastrous to Mr. Bryan, but in the Middle West and transMississippi region it is possible that the spectacle would do him more good than harm. The West. bcfore it votes, will ask, perhaps, howWall street feels, and if it should appear that Mr. Taft was the only candidate that the New York press tolerated, the outcome might not be easy to predict. Those who most earnestly desire Mr. Bryan's defeat would be better pleased by far if one or two of the New York papers, for the sake of the moral effect upon the entire country, would support him." All the so-called Democratic papers in New York, are trust ridden, and their opposition to the people's candidate should bring the balance of the country to his support. Bryan's tremendous hold on the people is the result of the war made on him by papers in all the cities of the country owned and controlled by men who are the beneficiaries of the special privileges granted them by the Republican party to tleece the people out of their hard earned dollars. Some of these papers that are published in the South claim to be Democratic because the Republican party is not strong enough in their localities to support them, but they are really Republican in all but name. Happily such papers have no influence, as the people have found them out. ltryan litis Great Lead The Charleston Post has been doing some figuring on the Democratic nomination for President, and finds that "of 1(>H delegates elected last week to the Democratic national convention, 154 were instructed for Bryan and two are favorable to his nomination. Twelve uninstructdelegates were elected, who are believed to be favorable to Judge Gray. Johnson, of Minnesota, got none and indeed, he has not added a single delegate to his string of 22, given by his own State of Minnesota in the instruction placed by the Democratic convention of that State upon its delegates to Denver. "Wednesday the Democrats of New Hamshire held their convention and elected delegates without in structions. The four men choosen to represent the State at large, however, are all for Br van, so they will swell the Nebraskan's score. New Hampshire has been counted against Bryan hertofore, in the impartial essimatesof the Denver convention line-up. so Bryan's capture of four of the votes of the State in the national convention is a marked gain, which, while scarcely needed to in sure his nomination, is still interesting as indicating the trend of partysentiment. ''The count now shows 487 delegates elected and instructed for Bryan and forty uuinstructed but practically assured to him. That is a total of 527 already in hand, a total exceeding the majority of the convention's membership by exactly the total number of votes in sight for Johnson, of Minnesota. There are to be elected 224 delegates who will probably be for Bryan; and if these materialize he will have 747 votes certain on the first ballot, 75 more than the two thirds needed to nominate. That is without counting the New York delegation, which, according to well informed political observers, will cast its solid strength of 78 votes for the Nebraskan. Thn nnm. ination of Bryan has been a practical certainty for many weeks and it will soon be written upon the record in actual figures." France has imposed an income tax on government securities, and as more taxation will be neccessary here to meet Republican extravagance and loss 6f revenues by rea wjii ui viuiuua puucius, we may nave to eventually, like France, tax incomes on government bonds. All the talk about the negroes voting the Democratic ticket on account of the Brownsville affair is nonsense. The darkey leaders are just smart enough to know that unless they register a kick there will be "nothing doing," and the price for workers will be cut to an unprofitable basis. Even the four delegates elected last week to Denver from Florida turns out to be for Bryan. Looks like the Great Commoner will capture all the "doubtful" States. \ Another Mo Set Adrift. As soon as one campaign lie on Bryan is run down and choked off" i another is started. Sometime ago it was asserted that Rryan called on : Senator Tillman while he was in, Washington and bogged the Senator' to ..undraw rns ohjev ton to ilu- in struction of the deleg ites from this ; State. This was such a clumsy and barefaced lie that only one or two papers attempted to use it against Mr. Bryan, but they soon abandoned it as they M)on found that no one believed it. Then another yarn was started that Mr. Rryan had quit the Presbyterian Church and joined the Methodist Church, of which Mrs. Rryan is a member. This lie will have to run its course like dozens of others started about Mr. Rryan as he can't afford to notice the little campaign lies that are set drift by those who are working in the interest of the Republican party and the Trusts. The latest lie started by the agents of the Republican party and the Trusts on Mr, Bryan is that if he is nominated he will not run because he is so infatuated with the idea of his money value.as a platform lecturer, due to his political prominence, that before he will risk losing this opportunity of making money by a possible defeat at the polls, he will withdraw from the race. This lie which is the most absurd yet started on Mr. Bryan, is creditto one Koohlsaat, who was at one time a Republican editor of Chicago. He says "Mr. Bryan must appreciate that his value as a lecturer and writer will be gone if he is nominated and defeated for the third time. On the other hand if he sacrifices his political prospects by urging the nomination of another man, he will be hailed as a great patriot, and his worth as a lecturer and publisher will go upward with a great bound. He will be a bigger drawing card than ever on the lecture stage." This is about what Koohlsaat would do if he was in Mr. Bryan's place and had his brains to make a successful lecturer. It is impossible for Republican money grabbers to appreciate Mr. Bryan's devotion to the interest of the people and his own high ideals. The Federal Pension List. The Virginian Bilot says: "Fortythree years have passed since the fall of the Confederacy. Yet there are still more than a million names on the federal pension list, or 400,000 more than were enrolled from first to last in the armies of the South. The appropriation for support of these ' pensioners aggregates for the coming year $100,000,000, or nearly six times greater than they were 30 years ago. The bounty has been extended to collateral objects from time to time, until now the bulk of it goes to persons other than the veterans. In a New England village of today a survivor of the Civil war who is unmarried is sought after by the young girls of the vicinity as though he were a youthful Adonis; for when he totters to the grave already yawning before him the widow will fall heir to his annuity and can then seek a union with her real sweetheart. We are told that in that section a superannuated soldier stands no more chance of escaping the clutch of one of these rapacious Hebes than a Junebug would of escape when thrown into a coop of turkeys. No one objects to supporting the men who actually fought the battles of the Union; but it is pretty hard to be taxed for the benelit ol an army of substitutes, bummers and lately made wives and widows and fictictious descendants." A Johnson Bureau sends out the following: "The Chicago Tribune is authority for the statement that William Jennings Bryan could afford to pay $150,000 or more for the Democratic nomination to the Presidency, even if he knew positively that he would be defeated." The Chicago Tribune is a Republican paper, which are the kind usually quoted by the Johnson Bureaus against Mr. Bryan. The Johnson Bureau sends out the following: "The whole Scandinavian vote, which is Republican, will help Governor Johnson if he is nominated, is the opinion of H. C, Stebbins, a Minneapolis flour manufacturer, who is a Republican." Why don't the Johnson bureaus quote a Democrat occasionally. According to Mr. Taft, the advisability of revising the tariff should 1 be thoroughly considered. Evident: ly, he has not yet considered it at i all. J XVgro Kcpulilics Failures. The eppeal of Liberia for aid to the United States confirms the editorial that apiK-ared in The State a few days ago <m the decay of the B'aek Republics. The State says th ? "(?,(' of 'h?? thinking men of li.e world hav? u?vn on Liberia lor a lorix lime as lie most perfect experiment of a negro republic and as a test of the negro to rule himself under the most favorablecdnditions, and the result is proof that the race is and vvi'l always be, the infant in the races of men on earth." The views expressed by The State in the article we copy below is held by many of the best friends the negroes had at the North. Take Charles Francis Adams as an example. He has become convinced that the negro is incapable of self-government and tli at se per a ted from the white man he has no future, He has reached this conclusion after studying the negro for nearly fifty years. Here is what The State says: The fate of the black republic* is one of the most striking, and at the same time one of the most depressing, facts in modern history. There were no negro nations in ancient times, at least none that could properly be so called; and it is only in very recent times that the experiment of a genuinely black nation has been assayed. There are now hut three of these independent black republics?Liberia, Haiti, and San Domingo. The causual classification of Abyssinia among negro nationalities is, of course, due to carelessness or ignorance. The true Abyssinians are of the Harnitic tyne, a people very much more advanced and very much more richly endowed than the negro. Leaving out of consideration the petty and mongrel principalities and so called States of Darkest Africa, the only real negro governments of the world are the three we have mentioned? Liberia, which we founded; Santo Domingo, which we control; and Haiti, which we govern. All are manifestly doomed to early extinction. "Liberia seems confronted by at least two dangers, either of which may soon erase her from the map. One peril is the imperialistic ambitions of France, which may deem it expedient or desirable some day to throw round the turbid black dominion the widening boundaries of the imperial reoubiic. The other is, of course, the inherent decay of all black governments. The race in its unmixed strains, has yet shown no trace of political ability. Whatever capacity it has had here and there in politic01 affairs has come through an infusion of Caucasion blood. Liberia, therefore, is about as good as done for. It has utterly failed to provide a rallying point for negro progress and civilization, a nucleus of the future negro power. Even now its submergencies into Darkest Africa?commingling its own blood with that of the parent stock? would, if anything, add a little darker pigmentation to the darkes region of the world. "As to the other black republics, whose case may be treated almost as if they constituted but a single petty domain, as they make up but a single island, the peril that lowers over them is partly political, partly commercial, partly of the warp and woof of that modern fever of the nations?imperialism. They also are beset by the danger of decay from within, and would soon perish of that malady, were it not that a surer and swifter fate awaits them. The first visions that France and America had of a canal through the Isthmus of Panama marked the doom of both these black republics? as it very likely marked the doom of of other petty dominions and loosely moored islands of the seas in which arc "the still-vexed Bermoothes," though no longer remote or unespied or undesired. When the Panam i canal became a necessity in the further development of commerce along lines that would continue to favor this country, the doom of these little black splotches on the map became as certain and as unchangeable as a decree of the Medes and Persians." David B. Hill is going abroad and will be absent during the Presidential campaign. It is a pity he did not go abroad in 189G instead of helping to carry New York against the Democracy. All such men as Hill ought to come out openly for the Republicans. The Republican "let us alone" platform won't do. We want tariff and currency reform; we want some real trust busting; we want the railroads properly curbed. The party that lets things alone should be put out of business. As the capacity of Republicar Congressmen diminishes their trick iness increases. A texas woman commuted sui cide because her husband did ncl kiss her good-bye. West Virginia went whooping for Bryan on Thursday, the delegates being instructed to vote for him rirst, last and all the time. This is another "doubtful" State that has been captured by the Great Commoner. % , Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup ihe cough yrnp tha' : ist?'? nearly a> good as in <ple sv ?ar and which chil uren like to take wep. Unlike nearly all other i -medles, it does not cons'te. bin oil the other hand 1; acts prctni fly yet ger.tly on the liotvels, through which the cold is forced, nut of the system, and at the same time it allays inll mati >11. Always use Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup. Sold by Conwa y Drug Co. War is being made on stray dogs all over the country in an effort to stamp out hydrophobia. The time has come when all dogs must be muzzled or killed if found at large. This is right. It is better that a thousand worthless curs should be killed than that one human being should die from rabies. This county should join the procession. Kodol lor Dyspepsia has helped thousands of people who have had stomach trouble. This is what ono man says of it: "B. C. DeWitt & Co., Chicago, 111, Cent lemon: In 1807 I had a disease of the stomach and bowels. 1 could not digest anything I ate and in the spring of 1902 I bought a bottle of KODOL and the benefit I received from that bottle all the gold in Georgia could not buy. 1 still use a little occasionally as 1 find it a fine blood purifier and a good tonic. May you live long and prosper. Yours vcrv truly. C. N. Cornell, Roding. Ga, Aug. 27, 1 90G." Conway Drug Co. Was Not Sure. The opposition to Bryan in the Democratic Party has now become l^nl r\lnoa 1 ,\U?>r.rvr\ nv i|/iv:rn. vjuvci li'u u*;iiliauil i1iiiiself, addressing the American Cotton Manufacturers in Richmond, Va., Thursday humorously remarked that he came South partly to gratify what he supposed to be a cerainAiriosity on the part of this sectioiT'to see and hear him, hut since getting the returns from Alabamaand South Carolina, he was not sure that any such curiosity had ever existed? Wi<: congratulate Columbia on the saving of her boat line. The public spirited men who came forward and saved it from going out of existence appreciate the great advantage this boat line is to Columbia and are willing to make sacrifices to maintain it. The great wonder is that a place the size of Columbia has not got a great many more such public spirited cif izens. Tiik News and Courier is a politi cal dreamer. It still contends that a majority of the people of South Carolina are opposed to Bryan's nomination and that Johnson will be nominated by the Denver convention. Dreaming is a harmless amusement, and we hope The News and Courier will enjoy it. robert n. scabborough, h. President. T> A \TT7 AT juAiiJV ur Conwa < CAPITAL STOCK SURPLUS LIABILITY OF STOCKHOLDERS SECURITY TO DEPOSITORS I)1RE( Robert B. Scarborough, H. L. Buck, Oeorge J. Holiday, We continue to pay 5 per cent intere it youracdount BANK OF OON W / CAPITAL STOCK TOTAL ASSKT8 MRKO1 r>. T. McNeill, J. A. McD? R, O. Collins, M. W. Collins, A "SavinRC Bank hns recently been < qt It lit ion In nnlrn " "" J 1 - iui iui 111 nuu rmi We wish to thank the public for tl and cordially solicit their future bus! D. A SPIVEI, Kl Plcasr send me Illustrated Catalog No - I FAIRBANKS, MORSE I The Horryflerald CONWAY, s. a Thursday, 4. 1908. 1 v I'lIOKKS^h VW, ? 'AUP* i. * \V. L. Mrl'Ol.J), ^ SURGEON DEN T1ST. (ONWAV, S. O. Over Rank of Horry H. IT. WOODWARD Attorney and Councilor At Law. CONWAY, S. O. ' B. WOFFORD WAIT. Attorney at Law. CONWAY. S. C. Office in Spivey Building. if. H. BURROUGHS Physician and Surgeon. CONWAY, S. C. R. B. SCAUR ROUGH CONWAY, S. G. Attorney at Law. C. E. ST. AM AND, Attorney at Law Conway, S. C. To have perfect health we must have perfect digestion, and it is very important not to permit of any delay the moment the stomach feels out. of order. Take something at once ?/M, 1- .fill KK/tm 1,1 I ? n.wl .... failingly assist digestion. There is nothing better than Kodol for dyspepsia, indigestion, sour stomach, belching of gas and nervous headache. Kodol is a natural digestant, and will digest what you eat. Sold by Conway Drug Co. SHIP subsidy has again been killed bv the united opposition of the Democrats and a few honest Republicans. A big or a little cut, small scratch or bruises or big ones are healed quickly by DeWitt's Carbolized Witch Hazel Salve. It is especially good for piles. (lets DeWitt's. Sold by Conway Drug Co. Thk Jonnson ojoui has about petered out. In fact, it died aborning. Tired mothers, worn out by the peevish, cross baby have found ('ascnswect a boon and a blessing. Cnsj casweet is for babies and children, j and is especially good for the ills so common in cold weather. Look for the ingredients printed on the bottle. Contains no harmful drugs. Sold by Conway Drug Co. 1 l. buck, will a. pr reman) Yioe President. .Cashier. ' HORRY, y. S, C. .$ 50 000 10 000 50 000 , 110 000 -TORS tl W. R. Lewis, jR* W. A. Johnson, Will A. Freeman, ifct on yearly deposits, and we sclicconwaY VY, S. C $ 50,000.00 > $250,000.00. TORS ?inniott, Jno. C. Spircf, C. P. Qaattlehauni, I>. A. SpiTOjr, organized in connection with our in>s in this department. ieir liberal patronage in the past, ness. V. P. & Cashier. 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