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LEST WE FORGET . , | i. Senator Bacon Tells Why the South Will Remain TRUE TO DEMOCRACY Ho Calls Attention to the Fact That tho KfforU of tho Republican Party to Convert the South Into Anotlier Hnyti Was Defeated by tho l>etnocratic Party. Senator A. O. Bacoti, of Georgia. In a letter to ttie Savannah Press, makes striking answers to the invitation of the Republican Coders for the Southern people to join the Republican party. We present lielow some extracts from Senator Bacon's letter. He says: We have of late been advertised by Republicans high and Republicans low, that it is their purpose to seduce the South from its allegiance to the Democratic party, which has kent faithful watch and ward over its dearest 'interests through forty years, and to convert it to the party of governmental spoils for the favored few, the party of absolutism and of centralization of power, the party of profligate extravagance and of oppressive taxation. And this is to he accomplished through the superior wisdom of these high and low Republicans in pointing out to the people of the South how they will he blessed by being taken into the loving arms of a political party which, so long as there was a possibility of success in their efforts, strove desperately to destroy everything that was worth living for in the South. The pro-sumpHious claim that Republican policies and Republican rule are necessary for the development of the South is the veriest rot. Where \a all time lias there ever been such development of the wealth and resources of a country as there has been in the South during the last forty years of uninterrupted Democratic rule. Who that turns the pages that tell of this wondrous Democratic rule? Who that turns the pages that tell of this wondrous wealth of many thousands of millions of dollars, who that passes through our fruitful land and views our cities and town, our broad fields umUi lit /iir u'm i n a iwl rrnlHnn lul ruoaf si n i via n it i v*. i?iiu hv"UVi< uui > vwvw, our warehouses nnd barns bursting will) the garnered cotton and grain, our stores of merchandise and myriad industries, cnn fully realize that this scene of present marvolous development and abounding wealth was forty years ago but a bed of desolate ashes. The Republicans and the South. The prime fnctor in the creation of all this wealth has been the great agricultural production of the South which has overflowed into the promotion and creation of all other industries?and agricultural production of many hundreds of millions of dollars each year, which while it has entered most largely into the preservation of the balance of trade for the whole country, has had no assistance from the Republican party or its policies, but has depended for its gigantic success upon the rule of the Democratic party in the Southern States, preserving social order, insuring honest and economical local government, and protecting all in the rights of property. When the ueniocranr pariv in u.s rule in the Southern sit atos falls in these particulars, it will ho time enough to listen to the presumptuous offer of the Republican party to undertake through its policies and guidance, the material development of the South. The alluring contention that the protective policy of the Republican party is necessary of the development of the enterprises of the South is plausible but fallacious. At the outset the proposition is met by the fact that the largest and most important part of the productive business of the South is that of agiculture, in which, with a very small exception, tl/ero can he no aid from the operation of a protective tariff On the contrary, under that system the agriculturists of the South, while compelled by reason of the tariff to pay two prices for all they consume and use other than food supplies, must of necessity sell Iheir products of cotjton, etc., 'In nnnroteoted markets and at mi pro t.ected prices. And again, as to all other enterprises which could be effected by the tariff, the simple reply is this: Those who advocate the benefits to be derived from the protective tariff base their arguments upon the assumption that the alternative is between a high protective tariff on the one hand, and no tariff at all on the other hand. The enormous amount of revenue which is neoeasary to support this government will always require a higher tariff titan we could wish, in order to supply the revenue. No one recognizes that actual free trade is a possibility. The revenue must be raised and the tariff cannot lie reduced below the point necessary to raise it. llopublicAn Contention. The contention is urged by Republicans, both high and low that ? ? the dangers to the South growing out of tho reconstruction measures having passed, there Is no longer reason why Southern men should not become Republicans. In otherwords, tho effort of the Republican party to convert the South into another Hayti having been defeated by th* Democratic party, there Is no reason now, the danger being thus removed. why tho South should not abandon the Democratic party and join tlie Republican party. Indeed a curious logic this! Especially is it Jin interesting proposition when it is recalled that the last Republican national convention said in Its plat form. "We declare once more and without reservation for the enforcement of the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the constitution." The present complete enforcement of tiie fifteenth amendment, as originally designed by the fratners of it, would still convert the South Into another Hayti. I repeat what 1 have said upon a former occasion that there was never in all history a blacker or more infamous crime attempted against civilization than 'lie effort which the Republican party mad" in the years succeeding th civil war to overthrow the rule and power of tiie Intelligence and virtue of th" South, and to place them nil dor the enforced domItiation of the utt? rlv Ignorant and debased in their midst. It was a crime against sosioty and civilization, unsurpassed, unequaled and unprecedented In all the HRfR to endeavor by legislative enactment to take millions of black men, the most Inferior in blood and development of the human race, utterly wanting in the equipment for governing themselves or others, and to plaoe them in governmental p??wer and control over the white people of the South?a people of education, culture and refinement?a j>eop|e who. not only by their own character. attainments and achievements, but by the character, attainments and achievements of an ancestry of a thousand years, justly ranked is a not inferior part of the foremo it and most illustrious race of all the earth. What the South Fscapeil. T repeat that if the South is not today another Hayti, It is because he Republican party failed in a desperate effort to make it so. And the Republican party in its latest utterance says that it is in favor of the present enforcement of the fifteenth amendment, the chief agency by which that degredation and de struction of the South was attempted. Let those forget it who will, hut the men who in that darkest dav of heroic effort and unstinted sacrifice thus saved the civilization of the South, nevr will forget it; and their sons to whom has been bequeathed that civilization thus preserved never shuld forget it. I take no pleasure in recalling the horrors and animosities of that frightful period in our history. I would prefer that that dead past should remain dead, but when with the promises of the reward of political favor and power, the people of the South are conjured to ally themselves with the party that thus sought to destroy them, there is presented again the tim > for plain speaking. When the time comes for a change of political parties in the South, her people may well say to the Republican party. "Take any shape but that!" The political solidarity of the South does not bring to it politica' isolation, as litis been suggested. The Democratic party is not a sectional party. The Southern Democrats are in political association with the Democrats of the North, who constitute a majority in some of the Northern States, and nearly half of the vot < rs in most of the other States if the North. The Republican party is the isolated. sectional party, which exists only at the North, and which practically has no membership at the South except to hold federal offices and furnish delegates to the national Republican conventions. With some Republicans there does not seem to lie a realization of the fact that the Southern people, in their long and painful vigil of forty years .have been influenced and susi tain (1 bv a higher purpose than that which animates the spoilsman. For the Republican, either at. the North or South, who believes in the principles and policies of the Republican party. I have no criticism further than for what I conceive to he the error of his political judgment; but to the suggestion, now so freely made, that those men of the South who believe in the principles of tin Democratic party and who revere its great past, should for political power and spoils of oflloo, abandon those principles and dishonor the selfsacrificing record of forty years. 1 would recall the example of tinMaster when ho was shown the wealth and power of all the earth, and was told that all should he his If he would how down to that which he knew to ho evil. Fatal Drunken Fight. Wrens, Oa., Dec. lf>.? John Kitchens and his son, Monroe Kitchens, who live in Jefferson county, near here, became involved in a drunken | quarrel, while here today, the row : terminating in a duel with shot 'guns. Monroe Kitchens fired a j load of shot into his father's breat just below the heart, killing him almost Instantly. CHRISl MAS AND HOME I t y WK SIIOUIj1> MAKK KACII OF < I Til MM MKMOHAHLK. I 1 And Kindle in SouIh Lights Which 1 < Will Shine llAdiant and Beautiful Forever. Tho following beautiful prose poem is from the pen o' Mr. A. B. Williams, tho accomplished editor of tho Richmond News-Lioader, and who is well-known in South Carolina It will do you good to road it: Through many souls tho reverberations of the bells of tho coming Christmas will fall in the faint and mournful tones of a distant dirge. Hearts will bo burdened by sorrow not to bo defined nor weighed but so heavy that no human strength may lift it, will be darkened by clouds which none can see, but bringing with them the blackness and chill of a Htarlcsfs winter midnight. No desert is so lonely, no wild waste of ocean waters so desolate as Christmas time for the absent from homo who have known Christmas times at home. Wanderer, outcast, stranger or exile, each sight and sound of the Reason is a new bitterness. By merciless, mysterious transmutations old pleasures of past happiness become present miseries. The more intense, the nearer perfect tho joys one known, the deeper and sorer is the lacK or thorn, the more drenrv the recollection. The laughter of bygone (lavs is dead and silent, hut the ghosts of it come in the sighs which mean more sorrow than any others because nobody hears nor heeds them, the tears which sting more than any others because they do not find vent from the eyes. Each Christmas light for these strange and lonesome hearts throws a darker shadow, the voices from festal homes are mocking reminders of privation, the exulting thrilling of the Te Deum becomes an incoherent wail for the lost and gone. Til every part of the civilized world people are at home or on their way there for Christmas. How many kinds of people, how many different circumstances and conditions they present and yet, how many of them have the same stories, hopes and expectations and will know the same experiences! There are the young men and women, who are going home after their first Independent flights into the big world. Some of them carry bad consciences, the dismally oppressive sense of wrong done, opportunity wasted, failure and disaster threatening. Others are taking home triumphs over lirtle successes, looking large now. destined to look pitiful and trival when looked back to a few years hence. Older people are returning after long absences, hearts crowded with old retrospections born of renewed thought, of once familiar places, faces and scenes. Some go back bearen and bruised from tbo groat battle, disconsolate and needing the tender touch of friendly hands, the henling balm of loving sympathy and o voce 11 tf I oen # 1% ** ' " * ? ? ? vuiv coiufs *wi< t"r?. viiins, viuiurs on large fields or small, are going to have the pleasure of the winning sweetened and hallowed by the generous affection and adulation we find nowhere else as at home, perhaps, secretly looking forward to taking some tribute of the envy and freshly developed honor of old acquaintance. They are carrying home weariness to be refreshed, sore wounds to be soothed and bound tip. mournful stories of defeats to meet consolation, boastful accounts of victories to be gloried In. Some arrogant and eager to display their success, some ashamed and seeking strength and comfort, many going because of the pure, strong yoaring of honest and clean hearts for home and home people fl n rl t hn aho ri'nnr ^ ? ...... ... v .Mill! HIS 1.1111 L 111 '111 IM IMC Christinas impulses and feelings? the many thousands from every qnnrtor of the earth are hound for homos in every part of it. Poor people who have pinched and accumulated little hy little are using their savings that they may he once more in the simple homes to which their hearts have been turning all the months or years of absence; and the rich are returning to splendors and luxuries, moved by the same beautiful and holy spirits. < For the other thousands who can- , not go home or who have no home to look to. there is the sadness f . desolation, the vain, vague yearning for Intimacy and love and the rest- , fulness and warmth of home ami home circles and firesides. No matter. Tt may 1 >o fate and It may be fault. It may be estrangement, weakness or wickedness, casual circumstances or deliberate choice. However it may be, for all these y the Christmas must bring the sense ' of loss and lacking, of being exclud- * ed, shut out, apart and deprived. c banished from the dearest glory and ' the sweets light of the time. Most pitiful of all the homeless ' are those who are homelss at home, 1 who shut their hearts against love c and light, warmth and laughter, who environ themselves with cold and darkness, who look from behind their barriers of selfishness, anger c or pride, chilling happiness where 1 they can, refusing to share in It. I The outcast, ashamed, abandoned, s iospised, may look wilh hopeless I -v 1st fulness from the outside through! he glowing windows at the cheer I within, hut tho loneliness and mis-1 ?ry are individual. Those who, be-1 j lag part of tV home circle, spread I liscomfort and reaeutments through I It, too selflish to keep to themselves I tho consequences of their own wrong I are the worse and most wretched I j of the encnii<>H tho home can know. I Hearts go homo when bodies can-1 not. From far and near we are si-1 Icntly railing to each other, through I the darkness of tho long night,! through the hours of the day die-1 regarding distance and the obstacles 1" intervening. Old friendships are re- I J called, old affections revived, mem-11 orles rouse to gentlo life. It is In 11 the homes that the great holiday I i Is glorified and sacrificed and given I t the human association which brings I i the divine moaning so close to us. I I Homes cannot enduro and families I must scatter. Tho young mother I crooning softly in the firelight to! her baby, with its soft cheek pressed against her bosom, knows that pros-I ently, in the order of nature, it must grow up and go away from her. I1 When she Is older and looks upon her brood she hogins to realize with F sinking heart that tho time fori breaking the circle and dispersing! its members Is coming. Each gen-1 oration the hoys and girls grown! to men and women go forth, carry-1 lng with them tho toaohlngs and the memories, thoughts, principles,! standards and hopes they have gath-l on d in the home, tho thousands of reminiscences of tho Christmas! tirnos they have known there. And m'lifr.u mu aner generation the hearts of all these at this time of ho year turn hark to th" homcn ind journey swiftly along the years, reviewing tho Christmas recollection from tho earliest dim and blurred impression of tho child to the vivid picture of yesterday. The dwellings that s'heHer one family after another, and around which so many associations are gatherer In so many memories, presently d?cay and fall In or are pulled down and carried away. The families scatter over the enrth and disappear and are forgotten In the places that knew them. With the building destroyed and the family ft sheltered gone, the home vet lives; 1 for the home is more than brick, mortar and timber or the assemblage of the dwellers in It. The spirit, the teachings, the Impulses the love and memory make its realities and life and are illustrated and expressed In lives and careers through all time and succeeding genorations. Because the Christmas time Is the most noted and remembered of all tho year, because of Its meaning to all our race and to ench of us, it is chosen for planting the deepest < and the most enduring impressions, which should he the happiest, sweetest and brightest. Therefore, with patience and self-sacrlflce and love, with earnest purpose, with thought for the Christmas seasons of tho future when we will not be here and nothing will remain of us but the memories we mak? for ourselves, it is the part of each of us to make each Christmas memorable In the home. It is for us to kindle in souls lights which will shine radiant and beautiful forever; to fill them with music which will live and sing, which will swell to sweet and solemn jubl- 1 lation with every coming of the 1 groat festival: to beautify them with affections, aspirations, asso- \ clations and hopes brilliant and unfading. * FI K\ l> CAUGHT. 1 Who Attempted Criminal Assault on \ a Woman. ' Raleigh, X. C., Dec. l.r>.?The us- < uallv quiet county of Stanly is in a ' state of intense excitement tonight ' over the first case in the history of the county of criminal assault of a f white woman by a negro, and it is ' feared that there may be mob violence before tomorrow at Alber- ( marie, where Henry Young, colored, is in jail, having been beaten in- ( fo unconsciousness at the home of \ John R. Moss, near Whitney, lat ? today by Moss and CJeorge [.offer. svho, attracted to the homo of Mors | by the screams of Mrs. Moss, found her in the clutches of the negro, ' making desperate efforts to reach the telephone to call for help. When the negro attacked Mrs. Moss, she ran into the house and locked the doors. Young broke lown a door and entered, and set-/.- Ing the woman, a desperate struggle ensued. Upon the arrrival of \ C ~ ' r " muhjs ami i.oner, tlioy had a struggle and fist fight with the negro hefore they subdued him. Sheriff Jreen was called and took the prisoner to the jail at Albermarle. Want Editors Known. Washington, Dec. 15.?With the rlew of letting the public know what nfluences operate upon it through he press. Representative Cooper, >f Texas, today introduced a bill to 'xclude newspapers and magazines rom tho mails unless the names of he owner and editor or officers, di- ~ odors and stockholders be printed tn Its front page. Killed by Kick. Atlanta, On.?While playing and basing a mule about his father's -n ot little Kirby Eason, of College 'ark, was kicked to death in his tomach. 'V PRlZt WINNERS ! I U RAL SCHOOLS WHICH MADK (iHKATKST l'HOORKSS. vight Additional Schools Awartletl Friz#* llccuu.se of the Third Excellence of Exhibit*. The executive committee of the ?outh Carolina School Improvement Association met Friday uftorno'-n tt 3 o'clock In the oTlco of the State superintendent of edueutiou to lward prize offered by that tussocla:ion to the rural schools making the most material improvement in buildings and grounds. The following members were present: Miss Mary T. Nance, Columbia; Miss Lizzie Rogers, iOastover; Miss Theodosia Dargun, Statoburg; Miss Louisa B. Foppenheim, Charleston ; Mrs. Dora Deo Walker. Thomns; Miss Iconise Bethea, Latta: Mis. Ollie Hydrick Schoenberg, North and Mrs. J. D. Coker, llartsvil'e. The following details of the meeting we take from thy Columbia Slate: t Ninety-one schools entered the competition. The applications, d scriptions, drawings and photograi hs covered three large tables, so that the committee had not a little work to give careful consideration to all ?>f the schools. In addition to the ;?i tikjoih u great many other schools made liu /rovoiniM ts, but. did not continue in the contest until Mie finish. President Mitchell of the Uniwersity of South Civronua was very much impressed with the vonderful improvement shown lu thexhi hits. Under authority or the legislature, the State hoard of education appropriated $2.Out) to he used hy the School Improvement Association in offering prizes to the rural schools in this State making t e greatest improvement during the year. The improvements were to he made between November 1, 190 7, und December 1 0, 1908. Under "material improvements" ar.? included local taxation, consolidation, new buildings, repairing and painting old ones, libraries, reading rooms or tables, interior decorations, beautifying yards and better g< neral equipment. Fi\o prizes worth $100 each and 20 prizes worth $50 were offered. After the committee had awarded the 3r> prizes, according to the announcement, tiny were so impressed with the merits of some of the other schools that they impropriated $200 from their own treasury to give additional prizes. This nouey was contributed by members of tue various State and county as sociations and tue Federation of Women's Clubs for this puropse. The KlOO Prizes. The following >chools wore awarded prizes of $ 10< each: Scranton. Williamsburg county; Richburg Chester county; Providence, Saluda county; Sard!*', Sumter county; Pinewood, Clurondon county. The $?>0 Prizes. The followinir srhnn!? n VI v; CI >"><1 III" pel prizes of $.-?0 each: Pergamos, Williamsburg county; Snyder, Colleton county; Sardinia, Clarendon county, Lees academy, Bamberg county; Ridgeville, Dorchester county; Oakville, Lexington county; Roberts, Anderson county; Prospect WNUiamsburg eounty; Hercules Barnwell county; Marlboro, Marlboro county; Indian Field, Dorchester cpunly; Wedgefleld. Sumter county Sinipsonville, Greenville county; Pauley I lorry county; Graves Staion, Georgetown co :nty; lOdgemoor, Chester county; Ola. Bamberg county; Cope, Orange'mrg county; Maul lin, Greenville county; Poplar Springs, Oconee couv.ty; Gornott, lampton county Fall view, Lexlngon cmintv; Bethel, Richland counv; St Charles, Sumter county; Him, Florence county; Smith, Marlmro counts; Fxcelslor, Newlmrry i onnty; Warn pee, llorrv county* Southern States qV (L Machinery CLS/ Plumbing pho> COLLJ M E It/ft AIRRFt GIBBES planer, matched xJ_ 9 , I'1*"" ui? to Minoh I T" C! InrhoB In thickn?sa. L'neir llf O moulding In modium and h cab-not nhopa. Capacity 5,0 Solid fortpHi Btcol cylinder r?t?action. Finest habbtttl | /*\ f \ /-J | tested before Bhlpplnjr. For \tOOC1I u ,, OinnKSMACHINI ^ VV/VA Hollora of "OlbhenOunrantoi no? ia?ci cot THE ONLY HOUSE IN carrying the "Original Genuine Ga Carrying- also Rubber and Lc (rite ub for prices on any thine: in Ma COLUMBIA SUPPLY C 823jWest GerviaaJStreet, C Chandler. Greenville county; Sunny South, Lexington county. The committee deeded to give eight additional 1 rlr.es of J2.r? each to school:! which received honorable mention for Die $">0 prizes. The Aihhtjonul Schools. The schools n#oeivlng these prizes on- Rti fellows: M.ll Creek, Richland cot nty; Brown, Williamsburg county; Tuylor, Greenville county; Yemasseo, Hampton county; Picket I Post, Oconee county; Shi'oh, Lnur! cus county; JtiMa aca :emy. O'augtV burg county; Boiling Springs, Barn well county. : The cheeks for those prizes will I *e fcent out frotn the ofllCe ?.f tlie State superintendent of education at once. The prize money Is to he used In making additional improvements, i The schools will l>o -requested to j make reports allowing how they have spent the money. The formal awards will inad ; by the governor H the meet!Us' V>f he State School Improvement Assocoation on December .5 1 AC;.\ INST MOSgI 1 T<)KS. Chicago Savant Discovers What We Know Ijong Ago. A Chicago savant has discovered what most people in these part have known almost from tlie beginning, that the eucalyptus tree is a safeguard against mosquitoes when planted nea?>(> iman habitation. The Charleston 15veiling Post says in former times the micnl vnt nsi u-.-ia grown rather extensively iu tho coast region of South Carolina, bocause it was supposed to prevent malaria and to discourage tho ravenous mosquito. It was not then known that the discouragement of the mosquito tended to tho prevention of malaria, and it is probably not now generally known that the effect of tho eucalyptus upon tho mosquito was due to its afBnity for water, resulting in a drying out of tho ground in the vicinity of its growth, when it was planted in damp soil, where tho mosquito foregathers and propagates Its kind. Will (Jot Good Sum. Washington, Dec. 15.?-It lias just been announced by the Secretary of the Interior that the State of South Carolina is entitled to receive tho sum of $35,000 from the government for the promotion of schools of agriculture and mechanical arts, under the Act of 1 862. CLASSIFIED COLUMN Plants, .garden plants, grown 1* the open air, will stand' the coldest weather. Prio*?, om\ to four thousand, $1.50; four to nine thousand, $1.25; uiuo thousand, $1 i?er thousand. Wo have special express rates Write us for our agent's ont.tit and proposition. N. H. Bitten Co., Mcggetts, S. C., the largest truck farm in the world. \Vu??te<l to Buy?Five hundred to one thousand bushels mixed clav peas; must be free from Whippoor wills snd speckled peas; will give highest. market prloe. I. M. Pearlstino & Sons, 20 1-2011 East Bay street, Charleston, S. C. WhiiUnI?Men and women who earn less than $2f> per week to become chiropodists; easy, profitable work. Booklet free. Rochester School of Chiropody, Rochester, N. Y. Vegetable Blunts?Cabbage, Lett net, Bermuda Onion, Tomato, Peppe* Fgg Plant and Sweet Potato; tho ihiest in th<# South. Catalogue free. T. K. God hey, Waldo, Fla. \ Farms For i-^le?Large list of farms for sale in different sections of the country; also owner's name. Free for the asking. T. M. Boaz, Lock Box 82, Calhoun, Ga. Supply Covip^ny 'Supplies ill fS- 4\." pssvz}!*!.^ tjri'j.^i 3IA, S C. t ? - w men t AND MOULDF.R. ^ eg In width, nnd up to fl m ^ tmlcd for twitching and JI ll * mnll pinning nilila and I HlC 00 to 10 000 fo?t per day. -t- 1J1U head. Tjno feed. Aocung. Mnralno thoroughly further particulars write CRY COMPANY, 7-\Y\Ckf*a ed Machinery," All kinds kjL/dv-/>^? .umtiA, H. 0. COLUMBI^ " ^umbl^&C. - *.? ***??? >