The weekly ledger. (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1894-1896, December 17, 1896, Image 4
THE LEDOER: OAEPKEY, 8. 0., DECEMBER 11, 1896.
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CHEROKEE COUNTY.
Cherokee is its name. Our citizens
at the polls on Dec. 8th emphatically
declared that they wanted a now
county. What could’count plainer?
1.432 for, to 422 against creating a
new county.
They appreciated their opportunity
and embraced it to a brilliant success.
It was indeed the opportunity of a
lifetime. Had we failed on the 8th
ever afterwards would we have looked
back, repeating with saddened
hearts, “It might have been.”
Never did men work harder for any
good cause. Personal feelings were
cast aside, other business was tem
porarily suspended that with a steady,
earnest pull, and a pull all together
wo might bring the uliip into the
port.
Our action means responsibilities
today and for all time. Rut we need
not fear to entrust the interests of
Cherokee county to the men who
won such a victory. The county is
to be organized and put in good shape
for that career of progress that we
can confidently predict awaits her.
We would be derelict to our duty
did we not commend the unselfish
spirit of those citizens from York
and Union counties who worked and
voted with such unanimity for the
new county, and were willing for the
county seat to be located at Gaffney.
Strange as it may seem, the per
centage in favor of creating the new
county was greater in York than in
Spartanburg or Union.
In Gaffney the vote was almost
unanimous in favor of Cherokee
county as it stood 1)12 for, to 8
against.
How much we are indebted to the
Town Council of Gaffney and their
faithful coadjutors none of us will
know, hence we cannot fully appre
ciate. In our hearts let us give three
cheers to them all.
cultivation of the beet and and its
subsequent conversion into sugar.
This will bo something new to
Carolinians, but if the venture
proves a success it will open to our
people a new outlet for the product
of their industry. We hod thought
our climate not moist enough for suc
cessfully growing the sugar beet, and
that our summers were too long and
too hot for developing the saccharian
juices in a percentage high enough
to make the industry profitable.
Mr. Hartman states that long and
hot summers are just what the beet
needs. That being the case, we can
supply the need in South Carolina.
Five hundred families are expected
to bo brought over the first year.
1897, preparatory to planting the
first crop in 1898. Not many sec
tions of the state can furnish 18,000
acres of land in one body, fit for colo-
mizing, but many counties have lands
in tracts lying idle, which would
blossom ns the rose under proper fer
tilizing and cultivation by skilled
labor.
In Nebraska the beet has been
successfully raised and the sugar
beet runs higher than the beet in
Germany by two or three per cent.
Rut the snminers fire too short in
Nebraska, so Mr. Hartman seeks
South Carolina for his colony.
We wish it all success.
GENERAL MACEO.
On the 7th of December, the very
day that President Cleveland’s mes
sage was rea l in Congress it is re
ported that General Maceo, the brave
and intrepid Cuban loader was as
sassinated. A mystery still hangs over
the manner of his death, but the re
ports received lead us to believe that
it was murder most foul.
Although second in command, the
world looked at Maceo and not at
Gomez as the true leader in the gal
lant fight for Cuba’s freedom from
Spanish misrule. What Spain can
not accomplish by superior force and
intelligence in open field she tries to
d > by encouraging the traitor and
piling the assassin’s dagger.
Whether Maceo met his fate in this
way or not. it so agrees with Spain’s
barbarous modes of warfare as to
make us believe it is true. Maceo
made a manly heroic fight for the
freedom of his native island. The
rejoicing in Spain over his death
shows how high a price they placed
on his head. Rut the death of Maceo
does M*t mean the death of the
cause he maintained against such
fearful odds.
The Cuban expects not mercy from
I he Spaniards, and the fate of their
leader tells them all the more plainly
wbut they may expect from the de
generate sons of Castille and Aragon.
Sympathy is stronger now than ever
bet*, o for the Cubans in their un
even struggle for freedom. The
slightest eucourageinont and thous
ands would Hock to her shores and
take the needed aid.
After nil, perhaps what General
Weylcr thou'lit would bo so much
to Spain’s udv intigo—getting rid of
Maceo—will he the turning point
against tier. We await with interest
the echoes from Congress, The
present feeling cannot long bo sup
pressed.
A NEW INDUSTRY.
Mr Hurlman has found in South
Cunlii a climate and soil suitable for
the cultivation of Iho sugar boot. He
has bought eighteen thousand acres
of this land and purpose* establish
ing on it a colony of Germans for the
CORRUPT JUDGES.
So says Senator Yancy Carter in
the Georgia Legislature, and the
Senate calls on him to name the cor
rupt judges and substantiate his
charges. The Senator goes to the
core. Listen to him! These are his
words: “There are men on the bench
today who arc woise than the con
victs whom they have sentenced to
the penitentiary, and let not the
Senator call on me for names lest 1
give them.” No wonder Senators
call upon the populist Senator to ex
plain. This lie promises to do if a
committee be appointed with au
thority to summon witnesses.
Think of it—judges more corrupt
than the criminals they sentence.
Georgia is in a bad fix. If some of
her judges are not corrupt—it looks
very much as if some of her senators
have gone far astray.
A corrupt judge! Not in our day!
Certainly not in Georgia.
DISCONTENT.
White Plains is dissatisfied, and is
showing her opposition by contesting
the recent election that made the
most of that township a part of
Cherokee county. Nowhere else do
wo hear a ripple of disapproval within
the area of the new county. The vote
cast was so overwhemingly in favor
of creating Cherokee county, that,
those who remained in the old coun
ties of Spartanburg. Union and York
quietly acquiesced in what they
clearly saw was the will of the large
majority of the people interested.
White Plains secs it too, and by
her contest is simply keeping alive
tiros of her igniting.
Our interests need a united peo
ple. There is much for us to do.
The battle has been won, but we
must now press on to possess the
land that is ours to enjoy to improve
and to bequeath to our posterity.
A Suggestion.
(Correspondence of The Ledger.)
W'e suggest that we. the patriotic
citizens of Cherokee county should
set apart the first Saturlay in Jan
uary and meet together on that day
at the county scat (Gaffnej) to cele
brate the great cause, and have u
jubilant, rally.
I further suggest that all patriots
who prize t.ie cause make Mr. A. N.
WoodJ secretary and treasurer, and
contribute to him any amount we see
proper toward building a better than
$15,000 court house and jail. If every
man will do this part we can build a
nicer court house and jail than Spar
tanburg now boasts of and it will he
prized as a monument by our rising
generation.
We. as country people want to help
build it and are willing to do our
part.
We would ho glad to hear from
others along this line.
Respectfully,
E. R. Dawkins, col.
E. Littlejohn, co).
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WASHINGTON NEWS.
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Allen Explodes the Bomb That Shakes
the Senate.
(Oorrrspondonco of The Ledger )
Washington, Dec. 11, 189fi.—Sena
tor Allen exploded a bomb that
shook the Scmate from center to cir
cumference when ho moved that the
Dingley bill be taken up, and the
motion was carried by a vote of 35
to 21. The vote in favor of the mo
tion was made up of 23 republicans,
<i democrats, 5 populists and Senator
Pettigrew who is now classed as an
independent; and the vote against it
of 2 republicans, 16 democrats and 3
independents, Cannon, Dubois and
Mantle. Senator Allen said he made
the motion without consultation with
anybody and solely to show that the
populist Senators were not standing
in the way of revenue legislation. In
reply to questions from Senator Al
drich Mr. Allen said that while he
would not vote’for the Dingley bill as
it passed the House, it could easily be
put in a shape that would get his
vote and that of other Senators who
are not republicans, but ho didn’t
mention what that shape was. The
Dingley bill was before the Senate
less than 30 minutes, when the ex
piration of the “morning hour” sent
it back to the calendar, Mr. Allen
having failed to get unanimous con
sent for it to be the “unfinisheu
business” of the next day. It can
be taken up at any time by a ma
jority vote, hut as the bill is now,
owing to the action of the Senate at
the last session, a bill for the free
coinage of silver instead of a revenue
bill, its passage in that shape would
he merely duplicating the work of
the last session.
Several Cuban resolutions provid
ing for recognition of independence
have been offered in both House and
Senate, but Senator Mills of Texas,
is entitled to the belt, and it ought
to be a blood-red one, lor having put
the hottest stuff into a resolution
that the oldest Capitol habitue re
members. His resolution directs the
the President to take immediate and
forcible possession of Cuba and to
protect t he Cubans until such time
us they .shall organize a government
of their own. A facetious Senator
has already suggested that Senator
Mills bo the commander of the army
of occupation.
Mr. George E. Nelson, who took
the time and trouble to travel all the
way from Indian Territory to Wash
ington with no better claim for a seat
in the House as Territorial delegate
than a certificate of election signed
by an Indian Agent and his own
statement that he received 200 out
of about 300 votes in an election
hold Nov. 3rd at several villages of
the Territory, finds that members of
the House not only fail to recognize
the legality of his claim bat are in
clined to poke fun at him.
Senator Kyle, of South Dakota,
professes astonishment at the stories
that tiie canvassing board of that
State was about to t hrow out, on ac
count of alleged fraud at the election,
enough votes to give the State and
possibly the legislature to the re
publicans. He said: “Every one
out Ibere thought the election was
conducted in the fairest kind of a
way. I did not hear it challenged
on any side. I scarcely think the
board would attempt to throw out
enough members of the legislature
to turn it over to the republicans. It
would be a high-handed outrage if it
did, and it would cause an uprising
in South Dakota. I can do nothing
but watch the course of events, but
our men are » n the ground nil the
time, and will bitterly contest any
scheme to defraud us of our rights.”
Republicans are not talking for publi
cation about this matter, hut enough
was said at their caucus of Senators
to indicate that some of them ex
pected a republican to succeed Sena
tor Kyle, whose term expires on the
3rd of next March.
Comptroller Eckels has a plan
which lie says in Ids annual report
he is certain would go far towards
curing our financial ills. The founda
tion of nhi plan is to decrease the
tax on National bank circulation and
encourage the formation of banks
wit 1j $25,000 capital in small towns
and villages and to allow them to
issue currency to the face of bonds
they have deposited with the U. S.
Treasury. Neither Senators nor
Representatives have been falling
over each other in llicir ef
forts to get the plan of Mr. Eckels
before Congress, and there isn’t the
slightest likelihood of their doing so.
Tiie House, jjas usual, is ahead of
tire .Senate is the matter of doing
business. It lias passed the regular
Pension appropriation bill and a
number of minor measures.
The bolting silver republican Sena
tors were playing for bigger stakes
than the forgiveness of their old
party associates, when they ignored
the invitations sent them to attend
tiie republican caucus. They figure
it that by maintaining an independ
ent attitude they can dictate Leg
islation in the next Senate, unless
the republicans happen to get a maj
ority, and demand control of tiie
Federal patronage of their States us
well.
The only man who has mentioned
the Prcident’s message in Congress
is Representative Grow, of Pa., who
in a few n-inarks ridiculed Mr. Cleve
land’s assertion that the present
tariff law if let alone will produce all
the revenue that tlie country needs.
It seems that Mr. Clevluml has
changed Ids opinions since he called
that tariff bill horrid names and
refused to sign it.
Chairman Hanna having completed
the work for which ho came to
Washington is about ready to return
to Ohio and discuss what he ha*
learned with Maj. McKinley. Ho
has learned lots, too.
Written from Willie.
(Correspondence of The Ledger.)
Willie, S. C., Dec. 7.—“Rud”
Gorden killed two hogs last week,
one of which weighed 530 lbs., and
the other one weighed 463 lb*, mak
ing a total for the two of of 993 lbs.,
but then 500 lbs. is getting to be a
very common weight for a hog in this
section.
There has been four new families
organized in our section during the
past two weeks by parties entering
into matrimony. Rut we are glad to
say that wo still have plenty of mat
rimonial candidates, of both sexes,
left.
Mrs. Nancy Floyd, one of the old
est and most esteemed ladies of this
section, died last Sunday the 29th,
of pneumonia3 and was buried at
Holly Springs Monday. She leaves
a husband and three children, one
son and two daughters, together with
a host of grand children to mourn her
death.
“Jairus” has just returned from a
business trip to the mountains of
North Carolina. He enjoyed the
hospitality of the Zirconiaites very
much. But, Lord! how it snows in
that country.
We had a snow fall here last Wed
nesday to the depth of about 'eight
inches.
Mary Drummond, an old colored
woman was found dead in her house
yesterday morning, supposed to have
frozen to death.
While Tharm Staggs and John
Harris were out bird hunting a few
days ago Staggs accidently shot Har
ris, inflicting a very painful but not
dangerous wound in the head and
breast.
Mr. J. L. Spake will please accept
our congratulation for the very able
manner in which he answered the
ten questions propounded by the
Headlight upon the new county is
sue.
The other day, as’we came through
Campbollo, wo saw the most novel
thing in the way of sleigh riding that
we have ever seen. Mr. Win. Cald
well, of Gowensville, together with
two other gents had two yoke of oxen
hitched up to a very small sleigh and
were driving through the streets of
Campobello, which caused a gnat
deal of mirth on their way.
Dec. 7th Presiey Davis, one of the
oldest men in this community died
yesterday and will be buned today
at Mt. Tabanon. He was about
eighty years old.
Mr. Aleck Benson’s baby died
yesterday and will be burned at
Holly Springs today. “It is ap
pointed unto man once to die, and
after that, the judgement.”
Jaikus.
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Draytonville Dots.
(Correspondence of The Ledger.)
Draytonville, Cherokee County,
Dec. 15, 1896.—Mr. Editor: There is
not much news astir at this time. The
election for tiie new county is over
and everything passed off quietly at
this place. Everybody seems to be
very well satisfied over it. Even the
antis seem to be glad that they are
living in Cherokee county, or, atjany
rate, we haven’t heard of any of them
saying anything to tiie * contrary
since the election, and we believe
that this is just as it ought to be for
the people have spoken, and now
that we have all pulled and voted
together to get tiie new county let
us still pull and vo'-c together in
county affairs. Let no one array
town against country or country
against town for country people and
town people alike have all worked
for their own welfare. tSo united
we stand and divided we fall.
The snow is all gone and left
muddy roads in its stead.
There is very little sickness. Some
of our people have pretty severe colds
about now and that is about all.
Yours truly,
Rambler.
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The Discovery Saved His Life.
Mr. G. Gaill ouelte. Druggist, Ben-
versvillo, 111., says: “To Dr. King’s
New Discovery I owe my life. Was
taken with La Grippe, and tried all
the physicians for miles about, but of
no avail, and was given up and told
I could not live. Having Dr. King’s
New Discovery in my store l sent for
a bottle and began its use and from
the first dose began to get better,
and after using three bottles was up
aud about again. It is worth its
weight in gold. We won’t keep store
or house without it.” Get a free
trial at The DuPre Drug Co’s., Drug
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Happy Home.
(Con eppondence of The Ledger.)
Home, 8. C.. Doc. 14.—We are
now in Cherokee county. The elec
tion is over and most everybody
seems to be satisfied. We hope that
everything will get along nicely.
Christmas will soon be here and
we arc going to try to take a start
with the rest of tiie boys.
There will be a shooting match on
the Corinth baseball ground near
Alice’Boyles next Saturday the 19th of
December. There will he plenty of
turkeys to'shoot for R. L. Boyles
will furnish fifteen or twenty. Every
one that wishes to come is invited.
Rev. A. 1). Davidson filled his ap
pointment at Corinth last Saturday
and Sunday, and Rev. Mr. jMullinax
preached Sunday. The people
of Corinth are expecting a new
preacher another year.
Moving seems to be the go now. It
looks .like everybody is trying to
get around the new county seat.
Wheat and oats arc looking very
fine since the snow melted off and
the rabbits are getting some rest.
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