Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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The: -L,fdl>oe:i*. PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. BY Ed. H. DeOamp. The Ledger is not responsible for tse views of correspordents. Correspondents who do not contri- bote regular news letters must fur nish their name, not for publication, but for identification. Write short letters and to the point to insure publication; also endeavor to get them to the office by Monday and Thursday mornings. All correspondence should be ad dressed to Ed. H. DeCamp. Manager. A MKKK INCIDENT. The events of Wednesday have passed to into history and we doubt not that the excitement has abated and the people are beginning to think seriously on the episode that has caused a great deal of comment. Let us say in the beginning that this newspaper has never been guilty of misrepresenting any man wilfully and maliciously, and if we ever make a mistake we will make all honorable amends within our power. When we wrote the article saying that Jim Tillman was credited with being a liar, a gambler, and a druna- ark, we knew it to be true. That is his reputation, and he is the archi tect of his own reputation. We have no ill will against Jim Tillman. The man never did us any harm. But we believe it to be the duty of every newspaper that has the welfare of the people at heart to tell them of the reputation and character of men who offer themselves as candidates for political positions. We have the right to expect the people to take our word when we make a statement so broad. We could not afford to make charges so grave without the slightest foundation and we would hesitate to do so unless the proof was positive. Those who do not care to take our word for the gambling and drinking part are referred (this time by permission) to Mayor J. y. Little, of Gaffney. As to his lying proclivi ties, we have in our possession all the proof necessary to convince any reasonable man. Jim Tillman is an aper. He is no stranger to the art of speech and is pastmaster in ridicule. But aping his illustrious uncle Ben aud ridi culing the statements of those who have made it their business took into his character is not disproving charges Jim Tillman did not desire us to throw the searchlight of truth on his record even in that audience with its half hundred howling partisans who would not listen to truth. We are sorry for those poor fellows. They are doubless honest in their belief and they think our action was in spired through personal malice. We would not attempt to pursuade them otherwise, for it would be use less. We regret to see men so blinded by prejudice and so passion ate that they will not listen to reason and common sense instead of a demagogue. The incident wouid never have taken place but for the fact that Jim . Tillman’s consort in Columbia thought it a golden opportunity to even up matters with this news paper. But he threw a boomerang and it came back. Tillman never dreamed that the '‘guttersnipe” editor of a ' guttersnipe” sheet would have the hardihood to reply to him He thought he could take advantage of the occasion and the author would silently submit. He knows better DOW. We regret the incident. We regret the necessity which brought it about, but while indecent men, men who are unworthy to be honored with the votes of a confiding con- stituaucy, continue to put them selves in position to be shot at just so long will true patriots, men who love humanity and despise the dema gogue, continue to blaze away at the target. Men of Cherokee, we ask you in all seriousness to make diligent search into the character of this man and then after you have satisfied your selves as to his character and repu tation, if you come to the conclu sion that we are wrong we are willing to be condemned, but if you find that we have spoken the truth concerning him we ask you in all fairness to come out like men and brethren and say so. We only ask that you sus pend judgment until you investigate for yourselves. One gentleman who thought we were wrong came in and stopped bis Ledger. He received the balance due him, lb cents. Seven thought we were right and added their names to our list, paying for from six months to a year each. Don’t get alarmed over unfounded rumors. Our book4 are open to all and 01 .* bock- keeper, or any other employee of the office, has instructions to answer all questions truthfully and without evasion. After reflection we have decided to make an effort to continue in business, not at the old stand, but in newer, handsomer and more com modious quarters. When we get moved come to see us. A QUESTION. We have no desire to appear in the role of a persecutor, but merely in order to keep the records straight, we desire to asK Mr. T. B. Butler the following question, and we would like for him to answer it through the col umns of this newspaper over his own signature: “Do you deny that in conversation with Mayor J. Q Little and others you related the episodes of Jim Tillman in Columbia, and that you said be was at times so drunk he hardly knew what be was doing?” We ask this question for the purpose of vindicating ourselves and we would like it to be answered without equiv ocation or evasion. REMOVAL In order that we may get moved into our new quarters we will not is sue a paper next Tuesday. We find that we cannot move and get out the paper at the same time, therefore we | will have to ask our friends to bear with us. The paper will appear in the usual eight-page form next Fri day. After we get moved we will ex tend everybody an invitation to visit us. Butler Said Tillman M as Drunk. To the Editor of The Ledger:—I write a few lines in regards to the occurrence that took place in the court house Thursday, July 23rd. Should you wish to give me space in your columns for it you may do so. It has been my understanding ever since the candidates for State offices started out that everything was har monious and every man was running on his own merit, and that there was no mud-slinging at the meetings, and the speakers no the State campaign had gotton on a plane once more that ladies could go out to hear them. This I have seen from the papers. The meetings ought to be so ladies could hear the different candidates speak and to know who the executive offi cers of the the State are as they haven’t the right to vote. I think that all difficulties like that brought up here during the speaking, while so many of our good ladies were pres ent to hear the speeches, was a sad affair for Gaffney. I have wished my self that I bad not been there. I feel as the ladies did. like it was time to leave and go to no more campaign speakings. The piece which Coi. Till man read from The Ledger wnile making his speech was shown to have been written by Mr. DeOamp. Had it not been for these lines Col. Till man read from The Ledger I don’t think anyone could of said anything else but that the meeting was a quiet and orderly one. The attacks made on Col. Tillman, from the evidence shown, 1 did not think was wanton. The editor said in his article he could substantiate the charges by Senator Sarratt, Rep resentatives Butler and McCraw. Sarrarr nor McCraw were not present when called for. Mr. Butler being chairman of the meeting was called on as to Mr. Tillman's drinking by Mr. DeCamp. Mr Butler said he bad drank as much with Mr. DeCamp as he had with Mr. Tillman. I n«jver heard either of these gen tleman say anything to Mr. DeCamp about Mr. Tillman’s drinking. I can only say Both Butitr. in a conversa tion with me since Christmas, told me that he saw JimTidman so drunk in the senate while the senate was in session that when called on in regard to some question he would get off on something else; also he spoke of him buying, or trying to buy, cub lions and telling where to ship them to. Both Butler said Jim Tillman was a hell of a fellow. I never was in Col. Tillman’s com pany but one time and then found bim very clever and suitable to the occasion. Give me me a sober man to attend to business for me all the time. I see lots being said by our smart men about now being a critical time as to the negro question. I suppose it is in regards to the registration law. I have feared for some time that some of our tyrannical politi cians would get tne state back where she was in seventy-six. Col Tillman spoke of hie Uncle B^n, the sword and Booker Washing ton. I agree with him as to the so cial equality with the negro. I have but little use for any person in the South who will equalize himself with the negro and think it best to let *he north solve this question for them selves Col. Tillman made a mistake when he tried to interfere with the presi- \ dent presenting the sword to Micah Jenkins. Too much liquor some times is lik-ly to make men do things they wouldn’t do if they were sobur. J LiUJ.K. | Beware of ointment* for i'at.trrli tli.tt Contain* Mercury. ! as tiit r *ury will s ircl* th-Mj-oy the «<-nseof ( srr.<'i. anti I'ODipItt.t .y n. i the whole, sys- ti*in wlter. • i terli,.’ .? ihrou.-h the iml- | surf !<•••*.. Such arth-.es sh-.u!ii never t„. i used ex.-ept on prescription* fi »!t reputable physician*, as the dnriniKe.t i.t y wliltm !« ten to.il to the you •nn p.i**r.:y derive , froin theiu. Hiiii's < atarrli < ire. wiinufue- tured i,y K J. Cheney & Co.. Toledo ' tain* no mer-.try. ai.d Is taken Internally. I Ha*11 ntr directly -ipofj the ;iud rnurunu* ' surfi.ee* of the In t,ayi„ K Hull** 1 Catarrh cur* ne Mire t<> set th« irenuln*. It J* taken Internally, and heuie in Tu,. oo. o.. by I. .1. Cheney At Co. Te-.Mn.onl i.s free. Sold by jir szlst*. prlee 7'i eer.ts per ooitle. i afiiiiy Pi..* are ih«* FLAW ARGUES FOR THE RAILROADS. They Are of More Benefit than Cotton Mills. SAYS HE IS SURPRISED At the Recent Decision of the .lu.lge* In the Dchating Society at Etta .lane.—The Cotton .Mill* are RiilnInK the Children Who Ought to he In School. Coalin’ Ground, July 25—I was pluoerfectly surprised when I read the decision of the judges in the debate at Etta Jane—railroads vs. cotton mills—the cotton mills winning I am on the railroads’ side from start to finish. If you go from one end of the Southern’s tracks to the other you will find that their monthly payroll will equal that of any fifty cotton mills of the South combined. Lo k where the money goes! A railroad company will not employ a man that drinks whisky. These sober em- p’oyes get fairly good wages and use it in educating their childreu and making their homes happy—as any sober man will do. Fancy the job of moving cotton mill machinery from the New Eng land states to the South on wagons Fancy sending the order for the machinery by hand or stage. Hc^w many cotton mills were in the South before a railroad? Now, “Kernel,” I’m a cornin’ on down the l.ne to the boys’ stand point—that which gives employ ment to the largest number of people. I agree that the cotton mills do, but one average railroad employe can take his wages for a month and pay off any five average cotton mills hands for the same length of time. Common labor in a cotton mill runs from five to seventy-five tents a day. Take the entire force out of any one cotton mill, send all the little children between the ages of five and fourteen, who are now slaving their little tender lives away, to school and put the older ones on the farm to raising salable fruits, berries, etc., and in twelve months' time the whole push will be a hun dred per cent, better off—with the railroads to carry their produce to the northern markets. While standing at the Southern depot in Charlotte one Sunday morning in the early spring I was surprised to see the thousands of crates of cucumbers transferred from one car to another—going by express to northern market that’s the good railroads do the farmer who takes advantage of them. I was reading iu a farm journal the other day where a lady realized over $1,000 this year off of one acre in tame strawberries. A farmer in this country would open his eyes and mouth in wonder to see juct two acres set out in onions, yet there is generally a ready market for them at $2.00 a bushel and a near by railway to take them to that market. Early raised Irish potatoes gener ally sell for ten to twenty cents a quart, and I’ll bet my head there wasn’t a farmer iu Cherokee county this spring that planted an acre in Irish potatoes. You farmers have a good thing and don’t know it. or at least don’t use it—a railroad to carry your produce to market. Now, let us look at a great evil that is gradually but surely growing on the coming generation: The negro cannot work his babes of five to ten years old in the cotton mills. Watch bim! He is sending them to school. At the age of ten years you wii) find about eight out of every ten negroes can read and write. At the age of ten years you will find about eight out of every teo cotton mill operatives that cannot read and write. This is a shame on the cotton mill industry of the south and a shame on our legislators. In a newspaper the other day 1 read ot a minister advocating com pulsory education from the pulpit. 1 said “amen ! glory and honor to that preacher.” On, if I could only get the parson to preach that same sort of doctrine in the Coalin’ Ground. There ought to be a law passed to prohibit the**' cotton mills from working children under the age if fourteen years, aud an inspector snould be appointed by the State io see that the law is iuforced—just like the constables in the liquor business. Oh, my fellow textile operatives! I Lave worked with you. and by you, in the cotton mills of the .South. Your own wife or daughter is your competitor. No man ought to work for the wages of a woman, but you are doing it. Here is the way it comes about: Your poor little care-worn babes that ought to be at home or at achool are taking the places of your grown daughter at the spinning frames, and for half tiie money your grown daugh ters would command. In turn, your grown daughters (and wives sometimes) take your place on speed ers. warpers, etc , and force you—a man—to work for their wages or step down and out aud let your Utile babes and daughters support you, and that looks awful bad. don’t it? My fellow textile workers. 1 ad monish you to taks your children under fourteen out of the mills and send them to school. Don’t let tbe negro get ahead of you. If you rioj you will rue it when your family ! grows up to manhood and woman- ! ( hood. I’m talking to the better class of j i mill hands. Of course there are i i some men around cotton mills who ! are so dastardly lazy and cussed triflin’ that they drive their little babes of five to ten years old to the mill to stand ou their little feet and toil for eleven or twelve long hours a day, all week, and when pavday comes the father, who has been loaf ing the streets, will draw the little ones small earnings and spend most of it for whisky. It’s no use to ask this class of men to take their little babes out of the mills,and the quicker j a law is made to force these babes | out of the mills the better it will be for the coming generation. Flaw Picker. CROP BULLETIN. Condition of Carollnn Crop* A* Reported l>> Ot-purliiieiit or Agtlrulture. Columbia, July 22 —The temper ature was above normal during the week ending Monday, July 21st, with an average of about 84 degrees. Tbe highest was 103 degrees at Heath Springs on the 17th and at Seivern on the 18rb, tbe lowest 02 degrees at Santuc on the 14th. This, the sec ond hot wave ol the month, was of comparatively short duration, for by the end of the weik tbe temperature was again normal or below. The winds were generally light and dry, but without the wilting effect so noticeable during the previous hot wave. Showers occurred in every county, but they were partial and generally light, and at a few points only did they supply enough moisture for the need of growing crops. The rainfall was heaviest in the southeastern portions, but was not general in that section. Over the greater portion of the State crops are suffering for rain, severely in places, and in others not so much. This has caused a great diversity in the condition of crops, so that now there are places in every county where they are doing well, and other places where they are part ly ruined. This applies particularly to corn and cotton, while other crops are affected in like manner, but in vary ing degrees. Showery conditions prevailed at the close of the week. Field crops have been laid by in clean condition, except some cotton that is receiving its last plowing, and stubble corn that is yet small. Some early com has reached ma turity and is a fair crop, but hot •weather and drought cut short a large portion of early corn while late corn ! is generally promising, and in a con dition to be benefitted by timely 1 rains. Cotton improved in a number of localities, but generally it deteriora ted during tbe week depending on the rainfall di-tribution. Over by far the greater portion of the State there are reports of blooming to the top, of shedding, of the plants turning yel low, and a few reports of rust Gen erally the plants are small, but bloom ing freely, and in a few sections there are nearly full grown bolls. The crop as a whole is in a condition to he greatly benefitted by rains, should they occu- within the next two weeks. Tobacco cutting is being rushed to the neglect of other farmwoik, and the crop is curing nicely. In a num ber of localities this year’s crop is the best ever raised, while in other localities it was badly damaged by heat and drought. Rice is threatened by salt water in some districts. Cater pillars have nearly all disappeared after damaging young rice. Feas continue to look weil. The majority of reports continue to indicate an in ferior fruit crop, with much prema ture ripening and dropping, except grapes, which are fine where not rot ting. Miner crops, such as sweet po tatoes, cane, pastures, grass for bay, aud gardens, need rain THE LIGHT FANTASTIC. Blackiihurff and Gaffney Young 1'eople Unite In Koelal Gaiety. Blacksburg, July 22 —One of the most enjoyable social events of the season was tbe informal dance given by the young society folks of Blacks burg on Tuesday evening at the Cherokee Inn. Tbe waltz divided honors with the two step until II o’clock, when the young folks paired off and indulged in the fascinating german, gracefully led by Mr. Robert Lipscomb and Miss Edna Sarratt, of Gaffney. The ger man was danced until the wee small boors of tbe morning when the orchestra struck tip the strains of “Home Sweet Home,” and then with weary frame, yet light heart, the quietude of tbe home was sought. The following were those present: Miss Helen Brohawn, of Baltimore, Md., Misses Edna Sarratt, Lillian Hopper, Myrtle Sarratt and Minnie Goforth, Gaffoey, Miss Mary Lump kin, of Charlotte. N. C., Misses Wil lie Hardin, Lucy Thomson, Alice Gaston, Zilpha Pollock, Mamie Gas ton, Ada Brandon, Dot Urquhart, Mary Pollock, Edith Gadeo and Lucy Pollock, Blacksburg. Messrs. Robert Lipscomb, Joe McArthur. Bob Swofford, John Mc Alister, Dr. Park Thompson, Harry Byars and Jno. Taylor, of Gaffney, Mr. Robinson, of Savannah, Ga , Mr. Harvey, of Charleston. Mr. Addison, of Danville, Va., Messrs. A. R Osborne, Phillip K. Freeman, Tom Turner, Frank Deal. John Pollock, M. H Morrow, Joe Campbell. Robert. Gaston and M. Brown. Blacksburg. Chaperons: Majrr and Mrs. Jno. F. Jones, Mr. and Mrs 0. A.Osborne, Mr. and Mrs B. G Gaden, Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Nutting and Mr. and Mrs. H A Tripp i-in* urnv* I'aruKrapn*, (Correspondence of The Ledger. I Pine Grove, July 19 —Farmers are most done laying by their crops. Cotton is maturing very well. Corn also looks promising at this writing Hot weather continues, which is a blessing to the crops. W’e attended the celebration at Gaffney the 4th and enjoyed our selves nicely drinking red lemonade and shaking hands with the candi dates. It was a glorious day. Mrs. Mamie Cooper and children, who have been visiting relatives in this section, has returned to her home at Cherokee Falls. Mr. J. Hamp PresLy, of Gastonia, N. 0., visited Mrs. Montgomery re cently. There were a good many young men who lost their smiles the 4tb by being side tracked. Boys don’t let them bluff you We are having some refreshing showers at this writing. We attended the convention at Antioch Sunday. There was a large crowd present and all seemed to enjoy themselves. Out of the forty- two candidates sixteen of them were present. Misses Maggie and Ethel Roberts, of Cherokee Falls, are at home on a vacation. Mrs. Isabell Cobb and children, of Cherokee Falls, who have been visi ting Mr. J. L. Roberts, have returned home. Mr. Sam Hague and family visited Mrs. M. E. Martin Sunday. Mr. Marsh Hampton and Mr. Tom Hughey, of Mercer, attended the convention Sunday. Much success to The Ledger and its readers. Farmer Boy lf*4* ■ta*d»r4 OU C*. that makes your horses glad. COCAINE *w»WiU>SW FlubiU Cured at I Se.mtur. iuzp. In SO di*i ^ Jundr. of referenoMk 2f> .enm h opeciafl/. Book on Home Treatme- '. ««nt FKKK. A. B. M. WOOLLEY. M. D . CURE ALL YOUR PAIRS WITH Pain-Killer. 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The other day a lady In Mis* sourl tent us a pa<-kuKe and it came at s most Opportune time; our babe was in a serious condition | his bowels hod been in had condition for days, and nothing that we gars did any good; the second dose of “TEETHIN'A” gar* K rfect relief and he has had no further trouble. Other members of the fann y hare used it and every dose boa so a perfect success. For sale by all druggist. Wilkins Hardware Store. You can buy from us at bottom prices, Hock Hill Buggies, Piedmont and Spach Wagons, Buggy and Wagon Harness, Disc Harrows, Buck-Eye Mowers, Hakes, (randy and Rubber Belting, Steam Pipe Fittings, Spokes, Rims, Screen Doors, Window Screens, Wire Cloth, Ice Cream Freezers, Cook Stoves as good as the market affords. Tinware of all kinds. We want your business and ask you to see us before buy ing your hardware. R. M. Wilkins & Company. Here is a Bargain. Two excelent corner building lots within five minutes walk of Carpet Mill. These lots will be sold on the Easy Payment Plan of only $3 per month. Here is an opportunity of a lifetime for working people. Apply to ICI>. H. I>eC:iVXII».