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ESTABLISHES) FEB. 16, 1894.
GAFFNEY CITY, S. C.. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBERS, 1898.
$1.00 A YEAR.
D, E, FINLEY FOR CONGRESS.
A PATRIOT AND CHRISTIAN
GENTLEMAN.
Message to the Voters of the Fifth—
Here is a Record that Consti
tutes the Best Possible
Guarantee.
Result of the Primary Election in Cherokee County, Held on Tuesday, August 30th, 1898.
COIJIS'l'Y OF'P'ICKRS.
Editor of the Yorkville Enquirer:
In common with the vast majority
of the people of York county, I am
intensely pleased with the result of
the first congressional primary on the
30th ultimo, and in common with
them, I am more than ever interested
in the outcome of the second election.
York county wants Mr. Finley to go
to congress. This is .evidenced by
the fact that out of 2,885 votes cast
Mr. Finley lost only 003 with five
other candidates in the field.
The peculiar significance of this
situation can be best appreciated
when it is understood that of the
other candidates—all estimable men
no doubt—at least three are well and
favorably known throughout the
countv as gentlemen of high charac
ter. and who are held in close regard
by our people.
I believe that Mr.* Finley is going
to be selected as the Democratic
nominee. If *t were possible for the
voters of the Fifth district generally
to know him as we of 5 ork county,
who have known him nearly all his
life know him. I am sure that he
would be selected. Of course fhe
people of the district, cannot bring
themselves to appreciate, in a few
months, that which has been grow
ing on York county for about 10
years; but if you will permit me. I
believe I can sum up some facts
which will tell a part of the story,
and I feel safe in saying that all of
York county will appreciate the
kindness if the other newspapers
throughout the district will repro
duce this commnuication. Other
wise, of course, what I have to say
will count for little. Wherever the
Yorkville papers go, Mr. Finley is
already known, and this can make
new acquaintances for him on.y in
portions of the district where the
people get their information of men
and things through other newspa
pers.
I do not propose to enter into an
extended biographical sketch. 1* rank
ly, I confess, that the material is at
hand, and it is well worth compiling.
Bui, for tne present, I desire to
briefly review some of the things
that Mr. Finley has done, and, as
well as I can. give a correct idea of
the kind of man he is.
Mr. Finley was left an orphan at an
early age. He has no recollection of
his parents. An aged aunt, who
lived on the outskirts of Rock Hill,
had charge of his ‘bringing up. She
was a severely religious old lady, and
her teachings were along that line.
She was not wealthy , and, of course,
her charge was raised to work. First,
it was all manner of chores about the
ia^m ; next it was farm work gener
ally ; and then it was the manage
ment of the farm. More or less
common school advantages were
allurded along, and good use was
made of them. Then followed a
course in college, in which the ex
pense was paid entirely by the stu
dent. Some of the necessary means
rerpesented the frugality of a poor
farmer boy, and for the balance he
pledged an integrity that has ever
since been a satisfactory guarantee
for the fulfillment of whatever prom
ise he sees lit to make.
It was about 15 years ago when
Mr. Finley first located in Yorkville.
He was just from college with a
certificate of admission to the bar.
He had but few acquaintances here
then. But he was ambitious, and he
believed that this was the place to
locate. From the first he began to
win the esteem of his fellow citizens
and built up a good practice, and
until the present time his practice
has continued to grow, and there is
no question of the fact that the es*
teem in wli’ch the people of York
county holds him, is stronger and
more widespread than ever. No
single citizen among us stands high
er, and not one enjoy s to a greater ex
tent the confidence of his fellow citi
zens.
Mr. Finley has been interested in
•politics since lie was 15 years of age.
He was a member of the Rock Hill
Democratic club in 187(1, and he has
taken an active part in each succeed
ing campaign. In 181K) he offered as
a candidate for the house of represen
tatives, and although confined to his
bed by illness during a partlon of the
canvass of the county, lie was nomi
nated atthe bend of the ticket. Two
years later he become a candidate for
t lie state senate and was elected
without opposition. During bis two
years’ service in the house he was a
member of the commit.eo on privi
leges and elections, and also a mem
ber of the committee on ways and
moans. During the last session of
iiis service he was chairman of the
latter committee, and when he went
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to the senate he was placed on the
judiciary and finance committee.
Of this last named committee he
was also chairman. His whole record
in both branches of the general as
sembly was highly* satisfactory to bis
constituents at home, and it wrouid
not be difficult to show that his labors
were beneficial to the state. He
made for himself the reputation of
being a careful and wise economist,
and at the same time developed the
breadth which has since so strongly
entrenched him in the estimation of
those by whom he is best known.
Mr. Finley first became a candidate
for congress in 1894. His opponent
was Dr. Strait. York county gave
him a handsome majority, but he
was beaten in the district. In 1891)
he was again a candidate. His op
ponents this time were Dr. Strait and
Mr. W. D. Tranthom. York county
increased her majority, and as the
result of the vote in the balance of
the district, there was a second race
between Dr. Strait, and Mr. Finley.
In the second race Dr. Strait won
again ; but by a much smaller ma
jority. In the recent election, York
still further increased her vote, and
with the balance of the district Mr.
Finley leads. Another notable
circumstance in connection with
these three races is the fact that Mr.
Finley and Dr. Strait went into the
first as personal friends and came out
of it as such. The same condition of
allairs prevailed throughout the
second race, and as a significant out
come of the campaign just closed, so
fur us Dr. Strait is concerned, it may
be stated as a fact that the two gen
tlemen are still personal friends. Mr.
Finley went to school to Dr. Strait in
1877, and the friendship that com
menced between the two men then,
has lasted ever since. Mr. Finley
never has been a mud thrower, and lie
is one of those men who will not
permit other men to openly throw
mud at him. In a fair, honorable
way, however, he cun give aim take
the hprdest of licks.
As a lawyer also, Mr. Finley has
a record of whicli his friends are
proud. It would not be much ex
aggeration to say that since his ad
mission to the bar, large and small,
he has handled nearly 1,000 cases.
It is the universal opinion that there
is no abler lawyer at the York bar.
He is usually on one side or the other
of all the most important cases liti
gated in this county. Ho is a fair
fighter. Though always vigorous in
me prosecution of the interests of his
clients and absolutely fearless, he
scorns a questionable advantage.
But the idea I would convey here is
best illustrated in a peculiar fact.
A large percentage of his clientage
today is composed of men whom, at
one time or another, he has defeated
in lawsuits. And still another, sig
nificant fact along this line, indi
cating the soundness of Mr. Finley’s
legal judgment, is that in not more
than a half a dozen cases has he ever
been defoated after having, us the
representative of the plaintiff, ad
vised the institution of proceedings.
In all that pertains to the educa
tional, moral and religious welfare of
his people. Mr. Finley also stands
high. He is a ruling elder in church,
works in his Hunduy School, and
takes a prominent part in church
councils. He is a trustee of the
South Carolina college and of Erskine
college, and one of the founders, a
trustee and a liberal supporter of the
orphanage at Hickory Grove. His
prominence in matters of this kind is
scarcely less than it is in the politi
cal interests of his county and dis
trict.
But it is not t l ’ese things, probably,
alone, which makes Mr. Finley so
dear to the peop’e of York county.
There are certain personal character
istics that bring men close . to him.
He is us true as steel to im'- friends.
He has a sincere love for his fellow-
man. He lias been known to cham
pion the cause of a poor, decrepit old
pauper in which no one vm inter
ested, and work as earnestly'without
the hope of pay as for a princely re
ward. Men in high station and in
low station in life alike call him their
friend. Men who dlsagre with him
In politics—prominent citizens wlto
fur one reason or another are ordi-
inrily not Interested in an election
to vote—always go to the polls when
I Mi. Finley is a candidate. It is a
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well-known fact that on the day of
the recent election, one well-known
citizen of Yorkville v/ho was in an
other part of the state on business,
came all the way to Yorkvil’e—a dis
tance of 60 or 70 miles—for no other
purpose than to vote for Mr. Finley,
and this gentleman had to go back
next day to the very point from
which he had come.
These are some of the reasons why
the people of York want Mr. Finley
elected. I know too, that as he is to
the people of York, so also will he be
to the people of the rest of the dis
trict. To know him is to become his
friend. If he goes to congress, the
Fifth congressional district will be
ably represented as a whole, and
every citizen in it will feel that ho
lias in Washington a personal repre
sentative who will try to secure for
him whatever is right. I only wish
the Fifth congressional district knew
Mr. Finley as York county knows
him. A Fkiknd.
n’orkville, S. C.. September 2, 1898.
— «»» ——
Death of Mrs. A. Q. Jones.
On August Kith., at ten o’clock a.
m., Mrs. Lbcrecia .Jones, wife of A.
(2- Jones, departed this life to take up
her abode in the skies. Mrs. Jones hud
she lived four days longer would
have been seventy five years of age.
She was a good woman and loved by
all who know her. In her early life
she became u Christian and has been
a consistant member cf Trovidence
church for many years. She leaves
an aged husband and a large family
of children to morn her loss. The
sympathy of Thk Leikjkk goes out to
the sorrowing ones and may they be
able te say ‘•The Lord giveth and the
Lord taketh away, blessed be the
name of the Lord.”
UNCLE JOHNNIE’S ADVICE.
HE TELLS THE YOUNG DOCTOR
WHAT TO DO.
The Wonderful Transformation That
Has Taken Place in Old Spar
tanburg County in a
Few Years
The Soldier Vote.
Columbia, August 31.—The follow
ing is the soldier vote of the 2nd S.
C. V. I., for Cherokee county:
Butler 1, Sarratt 2. Hardin 6,
Hamrick 6. Whlsonant 8, Kirby 1,
Littlejohn 1, Lipscomb 2, Thomas 2,
Ross 1, Webster 9. Jefferies 1, G .11-
ney 8, Wood 3, Richardson 6. Virie-
sette 9, Strain 7, McArthur 2, Jones
9, Camp 7. Austell 2, McKown 6.
Yours very truly,
* Wit.ky Jones.
Colonel 2nd 8. C. V. I.
The average man earns much less
than iiis wife thinks him capable of
earning.
Some people have weak eyes simply
because they are located in a weak
place.
Beats the Klondike.
Mr. A. C. Thomas, of Marysville,
Tex., has found a more valuable dis
covery than has yet been made in the
Klondike. For y«ar* be suffered un
told agony/ from consumption, ac-
compauled by hemorrhages; and
was absolutely cured by Dr. King’s
New Discovery for Consumption,
Coughs and Colds. He declares
that gold is of llttie value in compar-
ison with this marvelous cure;
would have it, even if it cost a hun
dred dollars a bottle. Asthma, Bron
chitis and all tiiroat and lung affec
tions are positively cured by Dr.
King’e New Discovery for Consump
tion. Trial bottles free at Du l*re
Drug Co. Regular sizes 50cts. and
[ fl.UO. Guaranteed to cure or price
'• k refunded.
(Correspondence of The Ledger.)
Fountain Inn, S. C. Aug 30.—
Though born in six miles of the
Laurens and Spartanburg line. I was
seldom in the latter county before I
attained my majority. I had just
graduated from Atlanta medical col
lege and returned to Soutli Carolina
to spend a few days before looking for
a location to hang out my shingle-
1 spent a night with my father’s life
long friend, John Lonford, still
living at the advanced age of ninety
three. Uncle Johnnie had made his
preparations to visit Spartanburg
court house where an agricultural
fair was tote opened, and he invited
me|to accompany him, saying: “You
may find a good vacancy to begin
your killing of folks, and there’s as
many that need killing in Spartan
burg as anywhre you cJWKgo; besides
you may find a good wife which is the
next thing, after a diploma, that a
doctor needs.” Without any cere
mony, I too/C the vacant seat in the
kind old gentleman’s buggy and in u
few hours we were whirling into the
village behind a pair of smoking
mules. In live minutes I heard a
pistol and saw a tremendous throng
rushing in the direction of the tiring,
and I followed up the crowd to learn
that Bill W had shot Wash J
not fatally. A few hours of
looking about convinced me that I
had come too far to rind work in my
line, unless more shooting and better
shooting were encouraged; for as well
as I remember at this end of a forty
year peirod no harm was done to the
intended victim, and the ruddy cheeks
and stalA’art forms of the Spartan-
hurger^ afforded very little hope to u
young and aspiring doctor who had
yet to receive ins first call.
That night Uncle Johnnie and I,
and the faithful mules, were hospita
bly entertained at the house and on
the premises of General Joel W.
Miller, that day elected senator of
Spartanburg District. This was Oct.
A. D. iShh.
“There is u destiny who shapes itc.”
for before I had taken breakfast there
came, on an errand, end apparently
in great haste, Uncle Ham Switzer,
who informed me that there wss a
“good opening” in the vicinity and
he urged me to take it and go to work ;
or in tiie language of Uncle John
Lanford, go to killing. I engaged
board with Mr. Bwltzer. and in a few
months I married his step-daughter,
and after a few years I bought a
home elsewhere. This Incidental
and temporary citizenship in Spartan
burg tor a few years gave tne an op
portunity to form the acquaintance
of a number of the most .loyal, faith-
i ful, substantial, and in all rwipets.
i| valuable friends I have ever possessed.
But few, very sadly few, of the older
moo 1 then met are living now; but
thoir sou’s and daughter’s, are still
alive and many occupy the old home
steads, and cultivate the same farms.
The old churches stand on the sites
of yore; some of them modernized,
and others in a state of decadence;
while here aod there have sprang up
new houses of worship where formerly
there was none. But, wonderful to
tell of the changes, and all for the
better, that have come in the farms
and the resident houses. I called to
mind, us 1 write, one section of the
country,lying between Guptuin Chas.
Barry’s elegant home, and Poplar
Spring church. I had not dreamed of
ever living to see that former scope of
wilderness territory undergo the mu
tations that 1 found last week, while
visiting there. The land was sup
posed to be miserably poor and there
had not for generation after genera
tion been any attempt to do any
thing with it. All of it composing
several hundred acres, was owned by
the three men ; Col Ham Lvins, Capt.
David Anderson, and Cupt. W. T.
Miller. After the war they cut it
into scores of small farms and sold it
on five and ten year credits at a
nominal price generally about five
dollars per acre. To-day, some of
the thriftiest farmers, most progressve
farmers, and elegant farm houses are
to be seen literally strewn from Tiger
Jim Anderson’s bridge toCapt. Chas.
Barry’s; and from the South Tiger to
the Colonel Evins, now William
Moan’s place. Kvery man is at home,
aud while he boards at the same
house you’ll find him hospitable and
full of the milk of human kindness.
These people have also built them
selves two churches a Baptist, and a
Methodist. Last week the Spartan
burg Baptist Association convened by
invitation, with Poplar Springs
church. It was this circumstance
that induced me to visit this soction
again after an absence of thirty or
more years.
I arrived at 12 o’clock, sharp.—if
Association can be allowed to have
anything sharp about them.
I went directly to the house, and
found the body considering the mat
ter of the Cooper Limestoiiv* Female
Institute—long, meaningless, cum
bersome. unprofitable name, without
j euphony, which has served its term,
1 and hereafter we shall say “Lime
stone Female College”. Kverybody
was anxious to name it Montgomery
College in honor of its greatest bene
factor, John H. Montgomery, but
he forbade, and I could not keep out
of my mind the number of children
very poor people name after me and
I am mean enough to think they do
it for the calico dress I always donate
the dear child. Were I to give
material finer than calico I fear my
good friends would bankrupt me.
The first speech I heard after
entering the bouse was made by my
friend Prof. H. P. Griffith of the
Limestone college. He waa discussing
the law of diminishing returns of the
political economists and he mrde
application of the law to educational
and moral institutions. He showed
in a highly interesting and strictly
logical manner that the law, white
true in its bearing upon money
making schemes, has no applicability
when it comes to consldersng educa
tional plans. Time and space will
not permit even a bare outline of the
speech. I beard many of the ablest
men and not a few ladies compliment
live professor on the excellency of hia
address and he proved his relationship
to the human race by shown.g no
symptoms of displeasure. I wish I
could mention by name all the friends
I met at Poplar Spring whom I was
proud to see and say all the good
things about them that they richly
deserve, but it would be an almost
endless undertaking. I must make
exceptions in favor of those who sup
plies me with the needs of eating and
sleeping. Mrs. Fannie Anderson and
Mrs. James Switzer and Dr. Broadua
Stepp and his amiable wife took me
to their bountifully laden tables on
the grounds ;|and at night, in company
with Prof. H. P. Griffith, I drove to
the elegant home of Captain Chas.
Barry and spent the night. Mrs.
Barry was the beautiful and sprightly
Miss Anna Sudduth, whom I knew
when I was a student in Furman
University and she was a favorite of
both old and young. Captain Berry
and I lingere^ after ail had retired to
rest, and we talked of the times and
the people of forty years ago.
By two o'clock Thursday, I was
driving toward Fountain Inn. Prof.
Griffith bearing me company. He
left on Saturday for Gaffney, and as
he said, soon to mount the chair in
Limestone College and spend another
year D. V. in teaching the young idea
how to shoot; and I am left with
quickened pulses, foul tongues, and
aching heads to cure, or as Uncle
Johnnie says to kill. Kit Mings.
King’s Creek Chronicles.
(Correspondence of The Ledger.)
Kings Ckkkk, Aug 29.—Yesterday
was a lively day With us as several
candidates were here and made some
very good speeches I thought. The
ladies turned out to here them speak.
Heveral of them were out, notwith
standing the inclmency of the
weather. The ladies brought with
their baskets, so we had a little
picnic or social dinner for the special
benefit of the candidates. They
seem to appreiate it very much,
judgin from their actions and what
they said about it. To day is election
day with us. All seem to be busy
making out their tickets.
Miss Mildred Whisonant called on
us this morning.
I had the pleasure of attending a
singing at the residence of Mr. R. H.
Mitchells, last night. Had a very
pleasant time. I saw a certain young
lady and gentleman sitting out in the
porch having a pleasant little tetee.
Don’t know what the result will be.
Miss Pearl Bird left last Friday to
spend a while with friends and
relatives of Gaffney.
There are still some people out at
Piedmont springs recuperating.
Mrs. Mitchell has been quite ill but
I am glad to say is couvalcscent now.
But little Bessie ison the sick list.
I hope she will soon retain her place
at school again.
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