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I .*r77*r, T *-< WE GUARANTEE The Reliability of Every Adver tiser Who Uses the Col umns of This Paper. Ledger. F. O. Stacy, ■erealdent. J. o. Ward law. VlcePreMldeut THE MTIOHSL BASK OF OAFFBET. Capital $50,000.00. Will bey county claim*, receive tteptwlls and mMke Tll<< rul loens on approved paper. I). C. Kosa. t 'aslUer. 1 A Newspaper in all that the Word Implies and Devoted to the Best Interests of the People of Cherokee County. ESTABLISHED FED. 1C, 1801 GAFFNEY CITY, S. C.. THURSDAY. AUGUST 18, 1898. ei.oo A y'ear. CANVASSING IN CHEROKEE. THE CONGRESSIONAL DATES SPEAK. CANDI- Messrs. Pollock, Barber, Finley, Strait, Kennedy and Henry Address Cherokeeans on the Is sues of the Day. Con- Therc wr.s an audience of about three or four hundred people to greet the candidates for Congress at the court house last Friday. The day was inclement and a largo number were kept away. The audience was attentive and each candidate re ceived a liberal amount of applause. The Hou. W. P. Pollock, of Oheraw, was the first speaker. He said in part: I am the youngest man in this race, this is the youngest county in the district, and it occurs to me that there should be a bond of sympathy existing and that it is nothing but proper that the youngest county should stand by the youngest candi date. I stand upon the National Democratic platform, When I an nounced myself a candidate for Con gress I gave to the newspapers the following declaration of principles for publication: To the Democracy of the Fifth gressionai District: Relieving rotation in office, not only in respect to men, but also in respect to the different sections which are represented by an officer, and believing that Chesterfield county, which has never had a native- born Representative in Congress, is entitled to some consideration at the hands of the other counties of this district, 1 hereby announce myself a candidate for Congress from the Fifth Congressional District^ subject to the democratic primary. I shall stand upon ray record made in the General Assembly of South Carolina during the past four sessions of that body, and hereby declare my allegiance to the principles set forth in the democratic platform as adopted at Chicago in 1S96. I favor the free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold at the ratio of 1G to 1; the repeal of the prohi bitive tax of ten per cent on the issue of State Banks; and amendment to the Constitution of the United States permitting the assessment and col lection of an income tax; the restric tion of the Tariff so that it will only provide sufficient revenue for the economic administration of the Government; the curtailment of the extravagant and outrageous appro priations for pensions and for rivers and harbors; and the destruction of the shameful and ruinous system of gambling in futures by which the effect of the law of supply and de mand on the price of cotton and other agricultural products has been destroyed, and by which the gamblers of Wall Street have been enabled to fix the price which the toiling mil lions receive as compensation for their labor to a large extent. I have canvassed several counties in the district and no man has dared attack my platform. The great issue of the day is the financial policy and not the tariff. Some people will tell you that the cause of the low price of farm products was over production. I do not agree with that theory. There can never be an overproduction of cotton so long as there is a ragged, half naked child in the world. There can never be an overproduction of wheat so long as there are hungry mouths to be filled. There can never bo an overproduction of leather so long as there are barefooted boys and girls in this country to be shod. The tariff enriches the manufacturer but not the taxpayer. The extra tariff goes Into the pockets of the manu facturers and not to the government. The tariff law is the child of the lute war. An objection has been raised to me on account of my age. I am as old as the constitution requires. If I am not old enough when will I be old enough? I do not want to wait until my hair is frosted with many years and my body palsied with age and my intellect dulled. I want to go to congress while I am young and vigorous and am able to do some thing for my country. I promise, If elected, that I will not be a do-noth ing congressman. The Hod. W. A. Barber said in part: I am pleased to greet the people of Cherokee county. I beg your indul gence for a personal reference. It is In regard to the Newbold case. I have been misrepresented in the matter. When the case was being prepared for trial I was In my office attending to my official duties. An officer came and arrested me and put me under bond to appear at the trial. Just as he would one of the good citizens of this county. As a law- abiding citizen I went to perform my Tduty. The question was put to me this way: “What has been New- ! bold’s reputation as a peaceful law- I abiding citizen since he has resided | in Chester.” I only done as any ; other honest man could have done. | Simply stated facts, that was all. Newbold had been a quiet peaceful man since his residence in Chester and I simply stated so. I did it without any feeling. I have no feel ing in the matter now. I simply make this statement that an erro neous impression might be corrected. I deem it a privilege to be abe to talk to you today. I am not going into any howling about this govern ment being wrong. It is the easiest thing in the world to find faults and Haws. It is easy enough to say that there is something wrong with the government but it is a difficult thing to locate it. I believe that the best platform ever adopted by any politi cal party for the interest of the peo ple was that adopted at Chicago. The principals laid down in that platform, if enacted into law, would be of great benefit to the entire American people. I believe that the financial plank in the Democratic platform, if evaded into law, would give some relief, but I do not believe that it would give the relief which some of its advocates claim. I favor the bill advocating the repeal of the 10 per cent, taxon State banks in troduced in the Senate by Senator John L. McLaurin. I do not be lieve in any wild cat banking schemes and would bo the last man in the world to advocate such a thing. I believe in a national banking law that will operate equally upon all sections of the country. I am opposed to the policy of pro- j tecti m, r.nJ especially to the ialqui- * tous Diugley bill which imposes such an unequal tax on the South. I fail to see why the line white cotton goods manufactured at the north should be protected while the coarse goods manufactured at the South should go unprotected. In reference to the future foreign policy of the United States the speaker said: At the outset I opposed the war. I sympathized with the president in his efforts to avert the war, but since the war had been inaugurated I have advocated a vigorous campaign and a speedy conclusion. (Here the speaker indulged in a little levity, telling a joke about ox-tail soup that put the house in an uproar.) I be lieve now that the war will be a great benefit to the South, ft has practi cally blotted out sectionalism. This is the first time in the history of the world that the nations of the world recognize our power. The United States has pi Iged her support to Cuba and I, for one, will never con sent for that pledge to be broken. I want to see America take her stand among the commercial countries of the world and her white winged ves sels sail into every port of the world. Hon. D. E. Finley spoke in sub stance as follows: Fellow-citizens: It is a pleasure for me to be with you today. This is not my first visit to Cherokee county and I trust it will not be ray last. I beg your indulgence for a personal reference. I have been mis represented in this county as to my habits and views in reference to liquor. Several years ago I was elected from York county to the State senate. I went there as a pro hibition representative. I worked faithfully and earnestly to carry out my instructions. Furthermore, I have always been a temperate man. I was never under the influence of intoxicating liquors in all my life. This is all I have to say in regard to this matter. I cannot lay claim, like my distinguished friend from Ches terfield. to be the father, big or little, of Cherokee county. I sympathized with you people over here in your effort and congratulate you on your success. I have been in public office six years. I think I have some right to say that 1 know something about legislation. I have served o^ two of the most important committees of the House and Senate during my a embership in these two branches of ir legislature I worked and la bored, in season and out, to keep down taxes. I was the servant of the people of the whole State and not alone of the people of York county. Your taxes were reduced. I do not claim the honor alone of reducing them but I do say that it was due as much to my efforts while on those committees as to anyone else. I stand upon the Democratic plat form. W. J. Bryan went down on that platform, but the principles of that platform still live and will live forever. You have been told that this was one country. Id law it Is true. But is it true in fact, in sen timent and in taxation? I say that it is not. This section of the country has been legislated against in taxa tion until we of the South pay more than our share of the taxes. I am favor of the financial plank in the Democratic platform. I be lieve that there should be sufficient capital to enable the producer to re ceive an eqitable and just compensa tion for hie product. I believe in the expansion of the currency. This Is one of the richest and heat sections in the country, True we have not the millionaree of fcew England but then wo have not as many paupers as they have. I do not favor wildcat money, but I do belive that bi-metal- ism will bring prosperity to this country. I do not favor the paper money wo have to lay, but I do be lieve there should go along with bi- metalism a national banking system that would circulate sufficient paper money to meet the demands of the country. France has such a banking system. I probably would not favor the law France had but one similar. In that country it was impossible for a few men to corner the money mar ket. The tariff taxes have been sectional and the benefits derived therefrom sectional. The South has been un justly taxed. The law should be changed so that each section will hear its equal burdens aud derive its equal benefits. It is no wonder we are not more prosperous than we are. We are too extravagant. No people who are governed by a government that has been as extravagent as the United States has been in the past few years could be prosperous. I believe that economy should be practiced in the national government as well as in the State, county or town government. These, in brief, are my views on a few of the great national questions. I want to represent you in Congress and if you see fit to cast your votes for naa and I am elected to that high and honorable position I promise you that I will do all In my power to give you all the relief possible. The audience then took a recess until 2 o’clock. On reassembling the Hon. J. T. Strait spoke first. Mr. Kennedy was to be the first speaker hut the audience was small and Mr. Stra'.t, tl ough courtesy to Mr. K:-n- nedy, agreed to speak first and give a little more timo for a better au dience for Mr. Kennedy, the later being among strangers. Mr. Strait said In part: It always gives mo pleasure to meet the people of what wo formerly called Spartanburg, Union and York but now call Cherekee. I am glad you have succeeded in accomplishing your aims. We have been called to tills point by invitation to discuss questions of national importance, but it is almost impossible to do so in the short lime allotted us. I may be one of these howlers my young friend alluded to this morning. I do s.y we have cause for complaint. What called forth that organization called the alliance? What calls forth the different labor organizations? We have in Congress three hun dred and sixty members, three hun dred of whom are lawyers, and two hundred of thes^ are corporation lawyers. The corporations have a right to send lawyers to Congress to represent them if they can do it. That is their business. It is your business to organize and send mem bers to Congress in opposition to those two hundred, corporation law yers * I stand upon the democratic plat form in reference to the tariff. I will vote for the repeal of the 10 per cent, tax on state banks. My friend this morning referred to the tax on State banks and wants a stable state bank law. That would be impossible. There are several States already which have laws against state banks and it would then be necessary to onuct a law that would fit all states. We have heard much about the foreign policy ot this country. We have heard beautiful descriptions of a tropical country. Where is the man who would say that a tropical country is equal to a country like ours? I opposed the resolution call ing for war. We are inconsistent when we say we will go to Cuba and relieve the Cubans for humanity’s sake when for years we have helped Spain to guard the coast and keep the Cubans from getting the desired ammunition and means of warfare. We are engaged in war, aud I do say, right or wrong, America must win. Under the circumstances I do think that the young ratn of America have displayed great courage to go to war on such a trivial cause. If the war is over why are not the troops dis missed. The tariff is said to be to protect American labor and yet they import thousands of the paupers of Europe to compete with American labor and they sell foreigners American made goods at from 40 to 100 per cent, cheaper than they sell Americans. The reapers made in America are shipped to Brazil and sold at from 40 to 100 per cent, cheaper than they are in America. .The Canadian woman sits at her window on the Canada side and the American woman on her side, looking into each others faces, sewing on machines of Ameri can make, yet the Canadian woman buys her machine for $25 loss tnan does her American cousin. The Hon. E. J. Kennedy, of Ches terfield, said in part: I have had the pleasure of visiting about every other section of South Carolina except this Immediate sec tion. 1 rauit congratulate you u your beautiful country. Your tory has been made. Youra atd my forefathers, more than a hundred years ago, laid down their Uvea and spilt their blood upon the battle fields of Cowpens and Kings Moun tain. This li a great country and the man who comes here asking you to send him as your representative to a scat in the United States Congress asks a great favor for that is the greatest legislative body in the world. This is the greatest country in the world. We have seen a mairoccupy the chair of the presidency of this country who was born in a losr cabin the end of the logs of which were not sawed. We have seen a man occupy that chair who was born in obscurity, reared to manhood and married be fore he learned how to read and write. These are some of the things which make this country great. My ideal of a government as one that will allow equal right to the son of a man born in a log cabin with the son of a man born in a palace. The way to make this country great is to give each man equal chances, educa tional and otherwise. I would be the last man to depreciate a collegiate education but our ancestors made a mistake when they appropriated $50,- 000 for the South Carolina College, and for ten years after never appro priated one single cent to the com mon schools. I am not in favor of protection as I understand it. I do not want the Vanderbilts, the Gould’s or any other millionaires to send their money here to build manufaoturies, but I want your boys educated and let them grow up and build their own manu- facturies. I have no objection to any millionaire coming here to live but I do not want them to send their money here and work your boys like horses and mules. I have always been against whiskey. I have not touched it for a ATTEMPTED BURGLARY. AN UNWELCOME VISITOR AT MR. WEBBER’S. The Sage of Lower Cherokee Keeps Ledger Readers Posted as to the Movements of His Neighborhood. beverage in thirty years. I was a member Oi the constitutional convention and am proud of it. I believe as long as whiskey must be sold in this coun try for revenue it is best that the state have the bentfits of that profit. I do not deem it necessary to dis cuss the tariff. We are all agreed on that. I stand on the democratic platform. I do not believe in a pro tective tariff but if wo must have it I want my section protected along with the rest of the country. Mr. Kennedy then enterred into a somewhat lengthy discussion of the financial question, advocating the financial plank in the Democratic platform. He then closed by asking for their votes if they thought he was competent to represent them and if he was not competent he did not want their votes. The Hon. J. K. Henry said in part: I feel sorry for you all. You have hud the nic-nacs of this occasion dished out to you before dinner and now you have to como down to the bones. But bones are good. Don’t you use them in making your guano? Then again, after the meat has all been pickad off isn’t the bones the sweetest of all? I do not care to worry you. You have been patient and given good attention, but I want to talk to you a while in a plain, business-like manner. I have been to Gaffney before. You all know mo. When I came here first I came in the interest of a railroad that was to link you to Chester with two ribs of steel. When I came here last I came in the discharge of ray duty. Others have told you ol their lives. I am not here to tell you that I plowed out my education or that I pounded it out in a blacksmith shop or that I got it by peddling on the streets of Chester. I did all these things but I am not here to tell you about them. I am almost induced to go back and speak of the past. But I am, not here to speak of that. I am hero to talk to you of your and my interest. The majority of this nation holds that all men are born free and equal. Our government was built upon that prin ciple. We of the South hold that all men are born free and equal provided they are of the Anglo-Saxon race, and our friends are beginning to be lieve with us. The corporations in this country have bought from the representatives in Congress the rights of the people. I do not care to attack corporations. They are a necessity. Every time you want to raise a little money for the missionaries or the church you get up your “Little Sunbeams,” “Willing Helpers,” or “Helping Hand” societies. They co-operate in concert by contributing their mil j. All organizations or corporations. It is useless to talk against corporations so long as our children are taught it from the cradle. » The power of the courts is' the power of the people. T believe in legislation by injunction. You cut off the power of the courts and it Is like a man without arms—helpless. They speak of the demonitization of silver as the crime of ’78. It was a crime. Fresideut Grant himself did not know what he waa signing when he signed the bill. The green back heresy is the greatest humbug in the world. By the consUtution of the United States and by God him- self nothing is recognized as money but gold and silver. lam in favor of the repeal of the 10 per cent, tax on state banks. The present national banking system is a heresy. Mr. Henry devoted a few minutes to the tariff question during which he took occasion to say that he be lieved in protection for the South if the North was to have it. Cowpens were the grand piviots upon which the fate of war turned in favor of American Independence and that New England is now ready to fuznish the granite to build monuments upon each of them. endorse wbat Rev. B. said last Saturday at on the subject of pro speaker who occupied got a more re- be did. Not- We heartily Robertson Mabry's Mill bibition. No the stand that day epectful hearing than (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Etta Jane, Aug., 15.—One night last week while Mr . F. S. Webber was attending church at Abingdon creek some scoundrel attempted to break into his house and was deter red only by his wife and daughter running up stairs and raising the alarm. As soon as help came the demons left without accomplishing anything. We have been inclined to boast that we had as law-abiding a people as any community in the State but this action don’t verify the conclusion. There is one thing very certain, that if such marauders are caught up with and identified, with out the shadow of a doubt a first-class lynching will be in order, it matters not who they are, whether white or black. Our people arc a law-abiding and a forgiving people when justice, merit or Christianity demands it, but when they arc aroused there is no telling where they will stop. We have too many indolent tramp vaga bonds anyway who ought to be re ported and have quarters furnished them where they will be put to work. The political meetings h.*ld in this section so far have passed off without any special results. The candidates appear to want to “tote” fair with each other. Our Congressional can didates attended the meeting at Ma bry’s mill last Saturday. The time was occupied by the county candi dates and only a sufficient timo was allowed each of them to merely announce their candidacy. The edi tor of The Ledger was present at these meetings and I trust we will get a full report from him. I regret to find my old friend Capt. John O Tate confined to his bed with carbuncles on different parts of his body. He is suffering greatly from them. Messrs. Jesse J. Mubry and Joshua Hames, two of our oldest citizens were out at Mabry's mill last Satur day. These are the two oldest white men in our community that I know of. Both of these have reached their eighties, yet they are in extraordi nary good health and strength for men of that age. Prof. A. G. Davis will close his singing school at Grassy Pond on Friday the 20th inst. The public and especially the candidates are invited to attend. Miss Maggie Estes is visiting Miss Jessie Strain. The C. E. Society met at S. F. Estes yesterday evening. The protracted meeting closed at Abingdon cieek last night. I regret to learn that Mrs. William L. Goudelock is in very bad health at this time. Some people along Thickety and Gilkey’s croek have chills. By some unknown means J. L. Strain bad a mule to get its leg broken last Saturday. It was in the lot and no one can account for how the accident occurred. Mrs. Strain was at home by herself and the child ren were attending the singing school. Rev. Mr. Thomason will begin a protracted meeting at Mount Ar arat this week. That “All liars shall have their part in the lake that burns with fire and brimstono” is one of the teach ings of the Holy Writ. When men get so low down as to tell lies upon their fellow men and especially upon ministers of the gospel so as to im pair their usefulness and influence in the church it is time to come to a halt and do more missionary work at home. It has already been suggested that the people of Cherokee county make it a point to have a grand celebration ou the Cowpeu’s battleground next year and that they begin that work now. Should our loteroatioual difficul ties be settled satisfactorily in the near future we can confidently look forward to the establishment of a National Park at that place by that time. We have sufficient assurance that the enterprise will receive the endorsement of the war department and that a liberal appropriation will be voted for that purpose. Surely every Cherokeean will lend bis aid to this measure. Some one remarked at the start that such talk as that of getting Congress to notice this was all “taffy.” To those of this way of thinking we can now say disallure your minds of such a delusion friends and understand that the intelligent and patriotic people of this nation have at last realized the fact that the hattlea of Kings Mountain and withstanding our people may have their faults, tliey have the good rais- treat a servant of God with duo respect and the man or set of men who are afraid to advocate a righteous cause lest they be hissed at is one who does not fully appre ciate Ids duty or his responsibility. We have many of our best and truest friends to differ with us on this sub ject. But they all agree that if men will act as they vote prohibition will prohibit. This is the visiting season and many of our neighbors and friends are taking advantage of It. In my last letter I am made to say that Claud instead of Oleand Macorn- son is teaching the Star Farm school. Sweet potato growers should be careful to puli the vines loose from the ground and turn them back upon the row. The vine taking root all along its length spoils the potato in the hill. The Salem and Messopotamia churches are practicing for the North; Pacolet Interdenominational S. S. Convention which meets at Sa lem on the fourth Sabbath in Sep tember. Salem Sunday School ryjll .iqyit^ the Cheroke County Sunday School Convention lo meet with it this year. But it will not put in its claim if a more central place asks for it. Jimmie Strain is the first to furnish a ripe sample of the Florida water melon. It weighed twenty-one pounds. He has quite a large num ber to which this is merely a baby. We are getting plenty of beans now. We are glad to note that the pro tracted meeting at Elbethel was a success in every particular. We promised our readers last week to give them a rest this week, but finding a few minutes leisure (his morning concluded to give The Led ger a short letter anyhow. J. l. s. Lockhart Locals. (Conosprndcnce of The Led per.) Lockhart, Aug. 12—Mr. and Mrs. Charles Broom had the misfortune to lose their infant child by death this morning. Funeral services will be held tommorrow at Kelton. Dr. J. C. Brawley, who has been one of the mill physicians since its first establishment, contemplates lo cating at Jonesville. His partner, Dr. Montgomery, will continue to do the mill practice. The co-partner ship that has existed so long between them will not necessarily be broken either in their practice or in their livery business. He leaves here with the regret of the entire manage ment of the mill. Miss Slaughter, of Hickory Grove section, is now teaching a music class at this place. Miss Sallie Bailey, of this place, has returned to school at Spartan burg where she will soon finish a bus iness course. The many friends of Mr. G. W. Grant are very sorry that he has has seen fit to return to Seneca. Mr. Grant has filled a position in Lock hart store to the satisfaction of all concerned for some yme. Mr. John Morgan and Mrs. Lonie Griffin wore married last Sunday. Their many friends wish them a pleasant journey through life. The weather permitting, the Wo man’s Missionary Society wiil give an ice cream supper tomorrow evening. The proceeds will go towards the building of a Baptist church at this place. The two grandchildren of our cloth- room overseer, Mr. John Nahaffee, are now very low and are not expected to live. The list of voters at this place is being revised and we are getting ready to give a large vote at our pri mary election. Beans, cabbage and fruit are plen tiful and can be had at reasonable prices. Watermelons are so plentiful that they have ceased to be a luxury. Pasturage is fine now and most all of the stationary help have one or two good milk cows. Homo. An Enterprising Druggist. There are few men more wide awake and enterprising than DuPre Drug Go., who spare no paftas to se cure the best of everything in their line for their many customers. They now have the valuable agency for Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consump- ’lion, Coughs and Colds. This Is the wonderful remedy that la producing such a furor all over the country by its many startling cures. It abso lutely cures Asthma, Bronchitis, Hoarseness and all affections of the Throat, Chest and Lung*. Call at above drug store and get a trial bottle free or a regular size tor 50 cents and $1.00 Guaranteed to cure or price refunded.