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6 NEW COUNTY ARGUMENT. READ AND BE CONVINCED ON THE SUBJECT. Large Counties Make it Necessary for the People to Take the Law into Their Own Hand, Lynch ing the Result. Even so late as 1800 the Charles ton delegation in the 'house defeated the bill which had passed the senate to establish the new county of Aiken, assigning as a reason that Charles ton would never vote to create another new county in the up coun try until the provision of the consti tution of 186;'), which restricted rep resentation of any county to a inaxi- mum, should have been abolished. I have thus’given only a skeleton outline of the prime cause why a deficiency of seats of justice for ad ministering law beset South Caro lina for one hundred and ninety-five years. During more than the first half of that period the back country people were driven either to Regulator’s law or have no law at all. Captain John Lynch, of Pendleton, was so noted and just a leader in the business that his name has been given to “regulating” all over the world. By having to extemporize and enforce law on sudden occasions in times past, many of the best citizens of the interior not only lost their lives by assassins, but much valuable prop erty by incendiaries and thieves. It was thus that the famous Thomas Woodward, of Fairfield, (the ancestor (if I hu present Senator Tom Wood ward, of the same county,) perished by the hands of assassins whom he liwd been compelled to “regulate,” but had not hanged, as he doubtless ought to have done. Charleston’s arrogant spirit of monopoly at home while eloquently advocating liberty and free trade abroad, would probably still be domi neering the state as regards counties and many other things, but for the fact that Don. 11. F. Perry, while acting us provisional governor by ap pointment of President Johnson in ]P(>f>. called a convention to frame a pew constitution with only 124 mem bers—the number of representativi s in the house instead ot having 170 members—the number in both hous« and senate. The up country had considerably more members in that convention than the six parish com - tn a, yet so potent was Charleston’s overshadowing influence, and so ac customed to her domination had the leading men in the up country I e- come'that the tyrannical parish sys tem of senatorial representation was abolished, as I remember, by only two majority. If Lhui constitutional convention of 1<S6.) bud consisted of J70 members as prescribed by tie old constitution of the state, Char leston presumably would still be “queen of the state” as well as “the queen city by the sea' and the five new representative and judicial coun ties of Oconee, Aiken. Hampton, Jierkley and Florence, which have |>een created since the war, would not now be in existence. But let. i:s lie thankful that the odious sectional parisli system has been abolished forever, and that the long pretended natural antagonism between the up and low country is a thingofthc past likewise so that hereafter the little state can properly be divided into legislative and judicial counties as other sta f es are. However it must be remembered that although Char leston was to hhime for the fact that only one additional representative amt judicial county was created in Bouth Curolirft during more than half a century, yet there is another formidable enemy always on the ulert to prevent the formation of counties. Still he can readily he overcome by prudent, determined and concerted action as has been de monstrated in the establishment of five new counties since the war. That formidable enemy is the vested interests at hand near old es tablished court house. True, ex ceptions may be found, yet it may he assumed as a fact that every land owner at one of t hese old court houses opposes any reduction of the tribu tary territory. 'He thinks if the county be diminished his real estate would . depreciate, might even be come nearly valueless, as it generally docs if the existing court house be removed, which never ought- to bo done. Every hotel keeper thinks he would lose some big hills, and Ite would, especially from those who re side at a distance. Every shoemaker, tinner, blacksmith, merchant, etc., at the old court house fears that he would lose some customers. Every holder of a county office of profit ap prehends that his fat fees would he diminished, and every candidate in training for one of the comfortable offices will oppose any curtailment of domain. The freeholders out of the corporate limits of the county town, but near by, will also protest against ceding any territory to a new county lest their several landed estates might shrink in value. But the most fussy, indomitable and professedly disinterested enemy •gainst lopping off u slice of his county is the editor of the county paper. He cannot see that, if hu were of any account and his paper worth taking the existence of several •wall adjacent counties would in* THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., NOVEMBER 12, 1896. crease his circulation and advertise- ments rather than diminish them. Some of the best and most prosper ous journals in other states are issued from obscure county seats In small counties. Still the strongest oppon ents of reducing a county are its ■ lazy local lawyers. The inert mem bers of the bar wish for their clients to come to them instead of having to ; go to their clients, as if one man can not easier go to half a dozen, but , convenient, court,houses to meet, say ten neighboring clients tit each, than the sixty clients can go to him at one distant 30urt house, retti- fo tr ing lawyers also want people to dwell as far*away from a court house hs possible, for fear if they dwelt close at hand they would become more intelligent, especially in legal knowledge, and often be enabled to dispense with having to pay hogs, chickens, corn, fodder, water melons. wood hih! all such stuff ns that will be worth more. That’s | wherein the value of your land will increase, and should you ever want to sell it you can get something like a decent price for it,” I said, i “Well, Flaw, supposin’ I’m a The Argument Takes Place Down m the rcn ( or ; I’ll have to pay higher rents FROM THE COALING GROUND FLAW TALKS NEW COUNTY TO HIS NEIGHBOR. Coaling Ground and He Leaves His Victim Converted to the Cause. How about that? ” he (CoiTOHpondenco of The Ledger.) I)UAYTON\TI.I.K, S. C., XoV. 2,’96. Editok Lkikiek—Dear Sir : ’Tother day 1 chanced to meet a follow from ’way down below the coalin’ ground, and after I greeted him with the ■Mr. i everyday password, he said: LOSS OF VOICE After Acute Bronchitis CUBED BY USING Cherry Pectorai ! I AYER’S IVtifogger a good fee for trivial ad vice. It is but human for the inhabi tants of a county town to strenu ously resist any encrouchment upon what they regard as their tributary. 1 hey never once stop to reflect that “Flawpickcr, this new county ques tion is somethin' that bothers me. They keep me onr the fence all the time. Now, Flaw, my vote is as good to me as anybody else’s is to them, and I want to spend it to my a court house is built for the public own personal interest—that’s what good—not for the private benefit of ’ those who locate at it, nor for the j I ^ ^ for - Now > 1 use of those who fill the county of- i views on the matter, flees of profit. Whatever drawback, obstacle, inconvenience, injury, or expense the distant population of a large county may suffer, gives the average court houseman no concern, and he can endure it all with Chris tian resignation, because, perchance, tie may he able to turn a penny. It is so much easier and pleasanter to live by the sweat of somebody else s brow than by one’s own, that it is the true business of life with some men never to try to live except at anotn- er’s expense. Many a county seat l resident who professes the purest re- ! ligion. boasts the widest public spirit, | me puy it I wuldn t pay “I’m goin' to vote for the now county,” I said. “Well, that may be to your inter est and not mine. The papers, all but Thk I.kdcku, say it will heap a burden of taxes on me and my neigh bors, and I ain’t willin’ to have my taxi s raised,” he said. “Neither am I. A dollar in my pocket is worth 100 cents more to me than one in the county treasury, if there wasn’t a way to make 'em narry prates of Ben Adhem love for his fel- j red cent for taxes from the taxes in all the I saw a report low men. will throw all such sent!-| fl . nm Comptroller-General Norton, i is mentalism to (he dogs as soon as you ask him to let a strip of his county’s surplus area be cutoff to help others without injuring him. But even if it should injure him, the good of the individual must be sacrificed for the good of the many. “The greatest good to the greatest number, “is true De mocracy. Has it injured either Or angeburg, Barnwell, Lexington or Edgefield because a portion of their respective territories was cut off to form Aiken county? Not at all. On the contrary it lias helped all those counties by giving them smaller elec tion districts; by shortening the term of their court by lessening cost of litigation, and while It has profited them largely in other respects, who will dare say it has not been of ser vice to the people of Aiken county? And how can it possibly do Orange- purg or Lexington any harm to take some more of their broad acres to to form the proposed county, of Cal houn? Yet you wilt hear men argue almost fiantically that ruin will re sult to old Orangeburg and old Lex ington if it be done. Edgefield has nearly fogotten that the most popu lous and perhaps the most prosper ous part of Aiken county ever be longed to her. At this point let me make a prophe cy. After Calhoun county shall have been well established, as I am sure will be Hie case, and after this his toric village of St. Matthews shall have become a flourishing court house town, then when some eligible rail road depot on the South Bound or i ■ other road shall ask to appropriate a | r an ttie taxes in alt me new counties Jower than it is in the ma- jorito of the older counties My dear brother, you ain’t got a part’cle of room to fear that your taxes in the new county will he higher than you now pay in I'nion for it’s the highest taxed county in the whole state—174 mills on the dollar. You ought to be glad to jump ut the chance to relieve your self of such a heavy tax,” I said to him. “Well, this court house and jail is to he built and it all takes money to do it.” he said. “Very well, the people of Gaffney have signed a bond of $15,000 as a guarantee that they will build a court house and jail as an inducement to have the court house and jail situ ated in their town. So if you people will agree to have the court house and jail built in Gaffney the slruut- ures won’t cost you a cent,” I then remarked. “How are we to know the people of Gaffney will build them? ” he asked. “They are compelled to build them i or they forfeit the $15,<KX) and the j county commissioners can take the ; j $15,600 and lot out the contract i ! themselves,” I said. for land asked. “I’ll grant that, too; hut. the land rents will only increase as the popu lation increases and the demand for land increases. Then the demand for count!y produce comes on at the same time,” I replied. "Then it’s about as broad as it is long, is it not—low rents and slow de mand ; high rents and big demand?” he asked. “I think not. The land can only produce a certain amount, and when | the demand gels so great you can oh- | tain almost any price for your pro- 1 duce. If it pays you a little on low rent and few sales it would sure pay you more on the larger scale. If there | was no demand at all the produce | would die, rot, etc., on your hands, and you would be loser,” I said. “Well, another thing: I don’t want your . like the idea of us country people | a-buildin' up a town. How do you look at that?” he asked. “In this instance it looks to me like the town people want us to let them huil l themselves up, but let’s look at it t’other way. I believe it’s to my own interest to feed my horse well to get good work out of him. 1 believe it’s to my interest t) build up my market town so I can buy things cheaper and sell my produce for bet ter prices. If my vote will put the court house in Gaffney then I will slap her right thar. That wiU cause more trading to be done there, cause more stores to go up; cause more competition; all the merchants will he trying to buy my produce; all the merchants will be trying to sell me goods cheapest in order to get my trade. Truly it has been said : Com petition is the life of trade.’ How would you like to live in a country and no town in a hundred miles? How would you like to live in a town and no country people in a hundred miles to haul you wood, bring you in chick ens, eggs, butter and raise you cows to cat and such like? How utterly j impossible it is for a town and coun- | try to live to themselves! The most i brotherly relationship should exist i between town and country yet I have j heard town boys say of a country- ; man. ‘there goes a sager,’ and on the I other hand 1 have heard the country boys say, ‘there’s a town lackey ’ or ‘town dude.’ Brother, this sort of a feeling never does any body any good —whether a countryman or a towns man. If I expect my horse to feed me I must feed him. If I get mad i)t my horse and turn in 1o heatin’ of him an’ he runs awi)y or I kill him dead, there won’t be much good come out of eitherof us. What I’m driv ing at, we must work together in love and harmony for good,” I said. “Yes, Flaw, I’m off on your side of the fence now, hut after I git to reading the papers, all butTiiK Li;i>- (u:i:, I’m scared I’il get off on their side,” he said. A PREACHER’S EXPERIENCE. “Three months pgo, I took a vio lent cold which resulted in an attack of acute bronchitis. I put myself under medical treatment, and at the end of two months was no better. I found it very difficult to preach, and concluded to try Ayer’s Cherry ! RipansTabules; us pans Tabulcs ^*coin- t p juded from a qflmption i \\ ; Liy used by thlTbest medi- ; c.d authorities and are pre- \ sented in a form that is be- 1 ecming the fashion cvery- I where. & '■M f “i. t Ripans Tabules act gently . but promptly upon the liver, stomach and intestines; cure dyspepsia, habitual constipa tion, offensive breath and head ache. One tabulc taken at the fit t symptom of indigestion, biliousness, dizziness, distress after eating, or depression of spirits, will surely and quickly remove the whole difficulty. VV'; Pectoral. The first bottle gave me great relief; the seeond, which I am now taking, lias relieved mo almost entirely of all unpleasant symptoms, and I fool sure that one or two bot tles more will effect a permanent cure. To all ministers suffering from throat troubles, T recommend Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral.’’—E.M. Brawley, D. D., Dlst. Secretary, Am. Bapt. Publication Society, Petersburg, Va Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral GOLD MEDAL AT THE WORLD’S FAIR. AYER S LEADS ALL OTHER SARSAPARILLAS! Price, 50 cents a box. Ripans Tabules may be ob- tained of nearest druggist; or by mail on receipt of price. Sample vial, io cents. RIPANS CHEMICAL CO., IO Spruce Street, NEW YORK. < ♦»+»•»«•»♦«■»»»♦•♦ DR. J. F. GARRETT, Dentist, j Gaffney, - - - S. C. j ( 'Tun- ovor J. R. Tollcson’s new store In office from 1st to 2ith of each i muni !i; i. i* tho time to tmy warm c the man to buy it from. "I Overcoats and Ma id SI I OHS — 1 have the best stock ef men's at id Children's—at price- othing and J. N. LII’LOOMB is will dl you a suit from trd.oO to kiiuoshes from .'j'S.bO to # 15.00. in town—Men’s, W’o- uii all buyers. S11 oe GROCERIES.- Bcater.” sit that i Don’t fail money, i •When it cone' Groceries I am the “World- Id sneii tttov< 1 have 1001) ban-.'!.-, m Flour on hand and in tran- ri e and will sell accordingly, rou buy if you want to save it good old 71b Oollee on hand ■ t > sweeten it with. te lino of Staple Hardware, rv, Nails, Plows, Wash I ota. before tlie : me before 10 bags of tii of 201b Su : and a few barre HARD WARE.— 1 have a coninl I as 1’oekui and Table Out Gun “You should not listen to none of , the newspapers, but write to Comp- ' iluvv d) we know their bond is ; troller General Norton, of Columbia Pistol: as the lowest. Will 1 >ixi< Turn Plows at Lump Goal at Lt.50 pe Respectfully, and Cartridges whieh 1 will sell a- give Barbed Wirt ! am sell! ng tne iivei\ Je 1 low Boy llico small section of Calhoun to straighten lines so as to form another new county, many if not most of you here today will violently oppose it, although you ought not fo: the very reasons that Orangeburg and Lex ington should acquiesce in creating Calhoun county now. In this con nection,to my mind,one of the saddest commentaries on the selfishness and meanness of poor fallen humanity occurred in this state a few years ago when an amendment to the present state constitution was submitted to a vote of the people, proposing to strike out that provision of the constitution forbidding any now county to oe formed of less area than six hundred and twenty five square mi!.<, orany old county to be reduced below that limit. The amendment was defeated mostly by the co-opera tion of the large counties, but the worst ihingabout the whole proceed ing, if my memory is correct,was that nearly all of the counties of Anderson, I’ickens, Oconee,and Aiken, the then youngest legislative and judicial counties in the state,forgetting now long they had suffered for a court bou»e, and what hard work had been necessary to get it, voted overwhelm ingly against the proposition. The local and assumed to be invested interests at the old county seat of a large county are ever ready to offer objections to reducing its area one foot to form a now county. Fallaci ous but plausible arguments against it are industriously urged on every side. I have heard them so often and so long that I have them by heart and will now proceed to refute them in detail. Did You Ever Try Electric Bitters as a remedy for your troubles? If not, <get a bottle now and get relief. This mcdieinc has been found to be peculiarly adapted to t he relief and cure of all Female Complaints, exerting a won derful direct influence in giving strength and tone to the organs. If you have Loss of Appetite, Constipa tion, Headache, Fainting Spells, or nro Nervous, Sleepless, Excitable, Melancholy or troubled with Dizzy Spells, Electric Bitters is the medi cine you need- Health and Strength are guaranteed by its pse. Largo hot ties only fifty cents ut Dul’rc Drug Co. ’s Store. good?” he asked. ••Write to Mr. N. W. Hardin, one of York county^s host lawyers and find out, 1 think is the best way,” 1 replied. How do we know tjiat a court house and jail can be built for $15,- (K>9? ” he then asked. “I saw the drawings and specifica tions of a court house that is much finer than Union’s or York’s, yea— much finer than Charlotte’s court house—up at Two Ledger office, that is guaranteed by contractors, also by the architect who drew it, to bo built for $10,Oik), and n jail can be built lor $5,000 easy. Man, $15,000 is a big pile of money, you must recollect. I would almost do what Itufo San ders said old man Luther Blanton would do— ‘walk across h—II on a rotten rail”—for $15,000. Go up to C., and got his report, then I’m sure after reading and studying it caret ally you would vote for the new county even if you had to bo taxed to build a court house and jail and surveying, all of which you get free in this instance,” I Said. I would love to have answered more questions for him but it was getting so late we had to part with the every day parting words. I will try to answer any and all questions concerning the benefits of a now county, from now till Dec. 8, providing they reach me on or before Wednesday morning of each week, and I’ll guarantee you that I’ll an swer it In a sensible, satisfactory way, too. If the new county is an injury to the majority, we don’t want it; if it’s a benefit wo want a solid, wholesoul vote for it on the rm: Ledger office and ask to see the | c ijj| )t |, 0 f December. I, you want to SU i\ S.—I .'UtR'S 1 wanting; n met* dr m niv hon.-e who will Ik glad :••- made to servo will find Mrs. Barker them. Hurrah for the New County ! CARROLL & CO., Lessees. Manufacturers of * AND * AGRICULTURAL -And Dealers In plans of the court house and est imate uf cost of building, also Comptroller Norton's report of all the different counties and their taxes; and even if you had to build the court house and jail your taxes would be be re duced because Florence county, which is now paying taxes to build courthouse and jail, has less taxes than Union by 7 mills, and even less taxes than Spartanburg by 2 mills, with all of Spartanburg’s twenty- eight cotton mills included, and the} arc surveying, too.” “Gaffney isn’t in the center of the proposed new county, either; that's atiother objection,” he said, i “Well, if it isn’t in the center, it j ; is still closer than Union, or us close, I ' anyway, and you got your taxes re- j duced, hearin mind—hound to; isn’t another county in the state so high lux.d us Union. If you don’t believe j 1 that, get a postal card and sit down 1 and write to Comptroller-General 1 Norton, Columbia, S. C., for his county tax report, and read and study it well. It is a good thing to have in the liqu.se, anyway. And if you locate the county court house and! jail outside of Gaffney’s corporate ' limits you will have to be taxed to | have it built. I would rather go a few miles further and have it in a goo 1 market town than to go to court in the country and after court is over : then hitch up and drive on to town to do my trading,” J said. “ft will increase the value of land and we willjhavcjto pay highest taxes ; on real estate,” liu said. “Very well: 1 will grunt that, hut it will increase the population of Gaff ney and cause n greater demand for your county produce. Your cows wiil bring moro money, your sheep. debate on this through The Ledger send in your querry to Flaw Dicker, an’ ef you don’t know him send it. to I’anjer Lu, an’ he will give it to me. Yours, for right or not at all, Flaw Dicker. * LIME, And Dealers In Coal, Shingles, Lathes and Plater Hair. 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Offer for Sale Building Loth In t':i:i nourishing Town, O A ir IV l-O ~\ r O I T Y. Also Farms near by and in reach of tne schools of LirnoHtone Springs and of tliiti place in lots of from 30 to iuO acres on libera! tone rutim. ° Also Agricultural Uunds to rent f r farm purposes. Dor fzll particular; nf ;Jj t: MOSES WOOD, Agent; N. B.—All trespassing on landf-01' this Company cutting and remoVltiff timber, fishing or hunting are forbidden under penalty of law. *