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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.
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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.
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, 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.
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important not to permit of any delay
the moment the stomach feels
out. of order. Take something at once
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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,
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Democrats and a few honest Republicans.
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