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v SENATORIAL MEET HAS A SENSATION Hemphill and Lattimer Strike Each Other. QUIET MEET OTHERWISE The SeiiHturial an'l ConureMitioiial Candi dates AtUlrenHed the Yeomanry of Chero kee Yesterday. Each one StrlvinK to Con vince the Voter of His Fitness. We don’t know that there are any peculiar atmospheric conditions sur rounding Gaffney, or whether its our excellent artesian water, or our close i proximity to the distilleries of North ; •Carolina, bnt certain it is that we i can’t have a political meeting with- j out its accompanying sensation. The calamity howler was in our midst yesterday and for hours the dear voter sweltered in the heat un til a refreshing downpour of rain came in the afternoon to give new life and animation to man and beast j and vegetation. The rainfall in the afternoon was accompanied by a small tornado and heavy thunder while the forenoon storm of words came to a melo-dramatic denouement by a passage at arms between Messrs. Hemphill and Lattimer. It all re sulted through a misunderstanding and ended with honors even and Mr. Lattimer apologizing to Mr. Hemp hill and the latter accepting, and consequently they will continue to gether in the race until next Tuesday week. A crowded court house greeted the senatorial and congressional candi dates. The audience was a represen tative one, there being quite a num ber of ladies present. County Chair man T. B. Butler presided, making a cordial address of welcome, Bey, W. H. Hodges opened the meeting with an earnest invocation, praying that we might be holy in our thoughts, and to vote as we pray, and honor God and ourselves. The first speaker introduced was tne Hon. John Gary Evans, who was greeted with some applause. He said in part, he felt that in coming before this people that he was coming before his own people, as this county was composed of part of Spartanburg county which was now his home. The interest of the people of Spartanburg was the interest of the people of Chero kee. All the issues that he had fought for in 1890 were now on the statute books. In his political fight he cherished animosity toward no man. If the people fought him honestly he had no animosity in his heart for them. Referred to his for mer canvass five years ago. He did not make the race against the present senator whose seat he now seeks be cause of bis own volition, but to sus tain pure democracy and to guard against republicanism. We now have the spectacle of South Carolina having no senator because the two senators now in the senate were dia metrically opposite, and one voted against the other, and thus the State had no representative in the senate. While he was defeated he did not consider the fight lost. It was the duty of the statesman to point out what was right and what was wrong and have the people fight for it rather than to follow the popular clamor. Our people are an agricultural people and will never be anything else, ex cept to manufacture what we grow. The money of this section came from the growing and manufacture of cot ton and it was but right to encourage the county industry, and the cotton farmer and the cotton manufacturer must go hand in hand and it was the duty of the statesman to look out for the interest of the cotton farmer and cotton manufacturer. The manufac ture of cotton would never be over done because the South as a manu facturing community would never be overdone until we manufacture every pound of cotton raised. A majority of the cotton now raised in the South was shipped abroad, fto other crop raised in the Lnited States brings so much money to the United States as the Southern cotton crop and yet the Southern farmers do not get enough of that money to buy chewing gum for their teeth cutting babies! Lh*- policy of the republican party was to force the Southern farmer to pur chase averything he uses from the Northern manufacturer. This the speaker illustrated by an imaginary Southern farmer who went abroad to sell his cotton and bought his sup plies and was forced by the repub lican tariff officer to disgorge enough to pay the tariff to raise the price to what he would have to pay for it in this country. The only victory we have ever won was on tariff reform, and this was the only remedy now. The light in the west was aJack-o- lantern, because the western farthers were largely foreigners and purchas able by northern manufacturers. Our opportunity was to join bands with the statesman of the east and reform the tariff. Hon. George Johnson, of New berry, wasjthe next speaker. He was greeted with a ripple of applause. Was glad of the opportunity to speak fac« to face with the people of Cher okee. He was proud that he had contributed In a slight manner to do something whereby we might have smaller counties. He claimed, im modestly, that he was one of the champions of smaller counties, having worked in the constituiional convention wifh that champion of smaller counties who has passed from the scenes of earth—Hon. Geo. D. Tillman, lie now appeared asking a seat in the national congress Full well he understood the magni tude of the task of one who sought such a position. Few men could accomp- ligh it. But he felt that the gr*at Jehovah never placed upon the shoul ders of a man a task that he was unable to bear and with His guidance and help he felt that tie could measure up to the standard. Turn your attention thirty-seven years, to your wasted homes and broken families when the Confederate sol dier returned to his devested home, and look at the accomplishments of the Southern farmer, for no other people have come among us to help us do it. An average of nine million bales of cotton had been raised in the past thirty-seveu years, or 383,- 000,000 bales of cotton had been raised, and this amounted to $9,990 000,000 which had been con tributed by the Confederate farmer to the weatb of these United States, and no other people had approached it in magnitude. The American citi zen was the greatest citizen in the universe and he felt that he could talk to a mixed audience on the sub ject. Were you to attempt to bring that money into the South today you could not do it. Suck the en tire universe dry and bring it into the South and you could only get half enough money to pay the debt, and have to oiedit the world for the balance. He illustrated by a tale of two country merenants. He believed that, the people of one section of this country were as patriotic as those of another, and if they were shown their error would unite in a remedy. The democratic party contained between 6,000,000 and 7,000,000 human voters—a majority of the white voters of \merica, and the democratic party is only defeated by the bickerings of the democratic leaders and the negroes who hold the balance of power and vote with the tepublom party. The republicans give the South the dregs; they take the mighty mUliQoe and give us the petty thousands. He was sorry indeed that the exigencies of the canvass prevented a complete discus sion of the great tariff question, but with all these honorable gentlemen to be heard it was impossible to do the subject justice in thirty minutes. He closed with a striking illustration ot the great tariff barons of the North and a magnificent peroration amid applause. The next speaker was Hon. D. S. Henderson, of Aiken He was a stranger, and yet no stranger for when you knocked at the door of county- hood be was pleased to do what he could for you. You have more to do next Tuesday week than ever before, for you have more offices to fill, and I believe you will do it fearlessly, honestly and dispassionately. There was no time in American politics when there were more vital questions to discuss than today. There was no need to discuss the war with all its glories, but it was time to discuss the industrial war. We not only raise enough corn, wheat and cotton and manufacture enough to supply the 80,000,000 people of America, but enough to supply the world. The republicans wanted expansion to make a market for this surplus by war and plonder but the democratic party wanteda peaceful expansion without war and bloodshed. It is all right to prosper, extend trade, build more cotton mills, more homes for the people, but in the name of God let us not be bought by this sirene tongue of prosperity. I say stop the Philippine war. Stop it as soon as possible. Let the Philippines pay us back the expense we have been put too and show themselves that you are capable of self-government and let us give them back their country. He related an anecdote to illustrate the Eastern manufacturer and the Southerner. This is an outrageous foreign policy tne republicans are trying to urge us to. Any one who te la \ou that you ao not pay the tariff—that it is a tax on imports and that you do not pa> it—tu ks foolishly. No mar stand; more fur the protection of honest money and corporations than he, but when corporations combine to rob the people it is time to put a stop to it. He then entered into his per sonal history, lelling who he was and wnat he had dons while a member of the State senat and of the constitu tional convention. He did nor oe iieve in great t>ig promises on the stump and had none to make, but if elected he prom Med to he his own master and do liis own thinking. The next speaker was the Hon. John J. Hemphill. He congraiUia*ed the other gentlemen and the people of Cherokee that they had an oppor tunity to meet, and he felt at home because he had represented these people in the United States congress while the other gentiemon were doing what they could to crea**< Cherokee He related the votes In' hud received from the people of this section in former oampaignM «■ d raid if the people would only d,» -n welt bv him this time he would h .\ H no r >om to complain. He felt rh.r h en'Mild apologize to the other g.-nri, men f<>r appearing in this race hh it was mo unusual thing fur a man from the up- country to offer himself for the sen ate. He then explained in detail the duties of a senator. The time was when the Southern States occupied the proudest position in the demo cratic party. In those days the peo ple of the Southern States were the best educated and wealthiest people the dem >cimUc party divided in I860 and the republican party came in and increased the tariff until the increase in prop* rty decreased to nine per cent. When the republicans are in power they wast your money They paid $20,000,000 for the Philippines and we have spent six times that much trying to get what we have paid Spain for. Notwithstanding the fact that we are an agricultural peo ple and that the New Kng'aud farmer has to shoot his seed into the ground with a shot gun in order to get soil enough to grow their seed, the repub lican tariff has made the Yankee farmer rich and the Southern farmer poor. He got off a good joke in com paring the Yankee baby and the Southern baby, which created a good deal of merriment. Referring to the Philippines he said they would not buy woolen and cotton goods because it was so hot there that it was neces sary to feed the bens cracked ice in order to keep them from laying boiled eggs. His idea about the Philippine Islands is that we have got a hot po tato and we should drop it. We had a precedent for pulling down the flag and he was not ashamed to haul down the flag when we were wrong. He had heard of a man who had made a fortune by attending to his own business and that is what be thought we ought to do in regard to the Philippines. This country is big enough. Here he used Sunset Cox's descriptive boundry of the United States and created much merriment. The only way for the democratic party to win was to revert to the policy of the party which was suc cessful when Tilden and Cleveland won. The next speaker was the Hon. Wm. Elliott, of Beaufort. A good por tion of the audience having had their hunger for speechmaking appeased and their appetite for dinner whetted, left the house. Mr. Elliott put a little salt into the speaking by jump ing on Mr. Hemphill for trying to fool (as he put it) the people about the cotton business of this country with foreign countries. He did not believe in preaching funeral sermons in the United States senate. He did not believe in telling the people were despondent. Never were the pros pecta of the democratic party more brilliant than they are today. The democrats have beat the republicans so often that it has ceased to be in teresting—the most recent measure being the Cuba reciprocity bill. He did not have time to go into details The democratic party believes in borne rule and self government. The republicans would not admit the territories because they thought if made states they would be demo cratic, but the poor down trodden democrats, although a minority, com bining with some of the republicans of the West, held a caucus and sent in a bill and bad these territorities admitted as states. I don’t believe in a hopeless policy I believe in the policy you have displayed by your splendid energy in demonstrating that you can beat them at their own game by manufacturing cotton cheaper than they can. Why they will have to abandon their mills in the North and move them South if they expect to keep in the race. He referred to bis race for congress and the confidence his people bad placed in him by selecting him in 1884 to lead the fight against negro domina tion, and he had since been engaged in this fight, and while be had been elected seven times his seat bad been contested each time, and five times he had retained his seat,and for that' reason he was not known to the peo ple of this section. Now he wanted to. come up and associate with the white folks. He was the first man to fight the jute bagging trust. He did not have time to go over bis fourteen years’ record in congress, but he had brought into this ‘State no less than $5,000,000 for the improvement of our rivers and harbors. He did not take any driblets from the repub- licam*. There was no politics in the river at d harbor committee and he simply presented the matter-’in their proper light and the committee granted his requests. He made a plea for the preservation of the forest and closed hy eavng that a bill pro- vklinix flint $10,000,000 ho appropri ated for th - purpose was pending. The n x< sp-i k- r was Hon. A. G. Larimn. of Ai hereon. He was glad ro lie here to p-sent his case. He hid five coir, petit ore, all of whom were honorable men aeiit into a resnirie of flM farmers’ allit i:ce. -ieiec ed ropresMi of the pie ro measure that e ected on the same platform had voted for tii»r was not in sympathy with s.griouliural interests. Mv com petitors t Wit me for not talking about tariff r-fortn to a South Carolina au- diei.c; What I have said was that it was useless to talk such stuff to a South CaroMra audience because we are all tariff reformers. I have been awuised of advocating a morphine pnl'cy. I do not advocate a morphine pulley. One of the candidates this morning discussed in platitudes tbe immense figures the cotton crops of this country has brought since the war. Its useless to talk such stuff. I come before tbe people and tell them what I have done in congress and t hey say it is petty politics—that we need a Calhoun, a Hayne or a Me- Duffe in the senate, aud there is not one of these in this race. They also twitted him about bis seeds. What was a congressman for but to get what be can for his people. He touched upon free rural delivery ard supported the measure because he thought It was right for tbe people Id well hs the people of the city. The iiatiuaal government is supported by inteionl revenue sod tariff taxation, while the state government is sup ported by direct taxation. The rursl delivery is supported by the national government and if you did not have I a rural free delivtry or your congress man did nit send you seeds you would pay just as much tax as you do now, ana you might as well have these thingn us not, for it cost you no more. I make no pledges but to do my whole duty provided you elect me to the senate. Col. J. W. Floyd, of Kershaw, ca.i- didate for congress from the Fifth Congressional District, was the next speaker. He would paint no utopian scenes or castles in the air. He be lieved in the democracy of Thomas Jefferson. The greatest peril that confronts this country is the wasteful expi nditure of the people’s money. Three million dollars had been wasted on the Wateree river that had never b-Miefitted the people one iota. Hon. W. B Wilson, of York, was the n* xt spenker. It was a pleasure for him to meet so many people of Cherokee. In the tnirty minutes given him he would try to discuss the question of finding a market for the surplus cotton crop of the Southern farmers. He thought this a most practical question. He stood on the democratic party so far as the Philip pines were concerned He was in favor of the post roads appropriation and believed it was far better to ap propriate $80,000,000 a year for post roads than to appropriate a like sum for rivers and harbors, as the post roads would benefit ten persons where river and harbor appropriations would benefit one. The next speaker was Dr. T. J. Strait, of Lancaster county. The crowd had dwindled percep ably, in fact so much so that the speaker re ferred to it at the beginning of his speech. Mr Strait talked about the appropriations of congnss, stigma tizing them as malicious. Congress had stole a hog and given South Car olina two inches of the tail. We have no right to appeal to congress when we sustain a personal loss aud why should a corporation appeal to congress for aid. Referred to the Cahrleeton appropriation matter, made a slap at the commercial ad vantage cry, the Ph'ilippine Islands, Cuba, etc. The Hon. D. E. Finley, present con gressman from this district, was the last speaker He took it as a com pliment that so many had remained through the storm to hear him. He confined himself to a resume of the work of congress since he hud been a member of that body. Tbe republi cans had been In control of both branches of congress and had the president, and yet the democratic minority had succeeded in blocking much vicious republican legislation in spite of the republican mejority. The democratic party was the nest friend of the laborer the mauutact- urer, the merchant and the masses of the people. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. ! SUGGESTIONS TO RECRUITS You Knour nu<l Feoule You l>ou't Know Zealy Corry and his sister, Miss Blanche, hft yesterday for Marion, N C . where they go to visit their sister, Mrs White. M. M Tate, of Webster, made a business visit to the city Wednesday. Coleman Kirby, a prominent firm er and citizen of Etta .lane, came up to the city Tuesday. Mis* Minnie Goforth went to her mountain homo in Marion, N. C. Telling A’Iioh*' Ulin .loin the Army How to lio uinl What to Say. To all recruits wn^ j on the army: Wh‘*o you first join m n’t he afraid to assert yourself. The fh-o thing to do is to tell all the boys .hat you didn’t enlist because you were hun gry. but because your pami was cruel to you; or it was an unfortunate love affair, or something of that sort. Any old thing will do, and everyone will believe you. Wear your cup at They •mouii- The speaker the hisiory of He hud been ♦ run H* rhird district to i: ip icuturil inleresis .•o il, ri **’ t be defied the peo- pu. tin ir linger on a single he ami his colleagues of tbe United Bute*. Unfortunately tbe country to get their mall dally as SHORT LOCAL ITEMS. Gf-t your names on in time. the club Rev. G. Croft Williams will hold service in the Episcopal church next Sunday morning at 11 o’clock A car load of negroes left the city the first of the week, for Mr W. O. Lipscomb’s Railroad camp in Camp bell county, Teun. R. A. Hawkins brought eighteen watermelons to tne city yesterdav that averaged forty pounds. The largest one weighed fifty pounds. R. S. Lipscomb, one of the best salesman and popular men in Gaff ney, has accepted a position with the Wilkins-Bristow Clothing Co., and will be glad to have his friends call on him. The many friends of J. W. Brown, of Ravenna, were glad to see him in the city yesterday after a long ab sence occasioned by a severe attack of rheumatism. Mr. Brown is im proving fast. Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Jones and their charming daughter Miss Essie, en tertained their young friends Wed nesday evening with an ice cream supper at tbeir hospitable home on Cherokee Avenue. Kaiser, who was so badly some weeks ago by a train Robt. injured on tne Southern, has so for recovered that he was able to be carried to his home at Cherokee Falls Wednesday. When he left he was doing well. John M. Daniel Jr., has accepted a position to travel for the Troy, New York, Hteam Laundry Company. Mr. Daniel’s long experience in the laundry business will make him a most valuable man for his company. When a woman is troubled with indigestion she imagines it is a case of a broken heart Cuts may not be expert matbe- m itioiai.h but it doesn’t take them long to foot up a column. Speaking of auctions, tbe most painful thing under the hammer is your thumbnail Mom things come to those who don’t wait than to those who do. yesterday accompanied by her charm- ! ;in angle of forty-five degrees oVf-r the ing friend Miss Edna Sarratt will spend some time in tbe tains. Ben McCulloch, a successful Brosd River farmer, came up to the city Wednesday. James .Strain, one of Cherokee's wormy young farmers of Etta Jane, paid us an appreciated visit Tuesday. Miss Margarett Poag, who has been visiting relatives and friends at Rock Hill, returm-d to the city yesterday. Luther Guthery, of Goucher, one of Cherokee’s most worthy citizens, came to the city Wednesday. W. Bam Lipscomb, of Asbury, made a business trip to the city Tues day. Mr. John Spake, 88 years old, one of the oldest and most, highly respec ted men of Cleveland county, N. C., is in the city spending some time with his son Mr. J. L. Spake, on Johnson street. Rev. T. J. Campbell, a worthy old soldier of the cross and of the Con- federacj , was a city visitor Wednes day. Charles E. Smith, merchant and farmer of Goucher, came over to the city Tuesday on business. J. M Harden was in the city Tut s day on business. He favored ine Ledger witb a call. M. A. F.-rguson, of Greenville, came in to see Tbe Ledger Wednesday. E. K. Belue, tbe hustling insur ance mao ol Blacksourg, paid Tbe Ledger an appreciated visit Tuesday. Mrs. Dr. J W. Caldwell, of Blacks burg, was shopping in the city this week and spent a short time with her fri ud Mrs. J. A Cooper. John B. Brown, a prominent citi zen and farmer of Ravenna, made a business trip to the city Wednesday. Clarence Montgomery, a bright i young man of Pacolet Mills favored The Ledger witb a call Tuesday. G. W. McKown, of Mercer, came in to see The Ledger yesterday. Gadberry Wright, of Trough, a good farmer and sterling citizen, paid The Ledger an appreciated visit Wednes day aud renewed. John E. Hanaes, a prominent citi zen of Gowdysvilie, called to see us in our new quarters yesterday. Rev. W. R. Potter has gone to Cross Hill, Laurens county, and will be away about two weeks. Mr. A. D. Holler, a prominent bus iness man of Rock Hill, was in the city yesterday the guest of Mr. W. T. Poag on Smith street. Mr. Holler went to Limestone Springs to look at a bouse be built in 1859. He has not been here since and is amazed at the wonderful progress in our magic city. Allen Jefferies, of Bolinsvilie, came to the city yesterday. James Borders, of Blacksburg, was in Gaffney Tuesday. Shields Allison, one best citizens and farmers, came to the city yesterday. W. B. Dickson, of Oconee county, is in the city visiting relatives. O .L. N. Leggs, Esq., was a Ledger visitor yesterday. Miss Ollie Scott, who has been spending some weeks in Augusta, Ga., has returned to her borne in tbe city much to tbe delight of her many friends. J. C. Thompson, a good farmer of Steen City, came up to the city Wednesday. W. W. Hawkins, of Byarsville, was in tbe city Wednesday. B. F. White, a prominent planter of Kings Creek, paid The Ledger an appreciated visit yesterday and sub scribed. Mrs. John Hollen, of Rock Hill, is in tbe city visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. W.T. Poag. on Smith street. Miss Lillian Hester, a charming your g lady of Rutherfordton, N. C., is in the city spending some time with her friends, the family of Prof. W. L. Johnson, corner Petty and Race streets. Mrs. 8. B. Crawley and her daugh ter are spending some time with friends in Greenville. Junius Sparks, a successful farmer of Home, was a city visitor Wednes day. G. M. Champion, a prominent citi zen of Ezells, was a city visitor yes terday. J. A. Cooper, who has been in Morristown, Tenn., some weeks re turned to the city Wednesday. Hon. Wm. Jefferies was in tbe city yesterday. D. 8. Lipscomb, of Cowpens, came to see us Wednesday in our new office. P. S. Webber, of Wiikinsville, called to see us yesterday aud re newed. of Cherokee’s right eye and on the southeast corner Ot your head. If the sergent sr.oulcl call you down for It show your con tempt lor him by tilting it over the other eye. It will give the rest of the company the idea that you are “some pumpkins.” If you wont to be popular just let It be known that you have money to leno, ar.d then you will soon Know how much it costs to be popular. You can a so get a reputation by being a free hearted kind o* a fellow—oy spend ing your money on >ou Bunkies, and the go over to the canteen and after drinking a couple of Dottles of soda- water, indulging in a sandwich and a gias-^ of milk ai d reading the beer sign, tip over a couple of chairs aud a table, then go hack to quarters and whoop ’em up and tell the fellows what a good time you had. After that you will be respected. When you address the first sergaut always preface your request with, “Say.” Toat way you will command atten tion. Tell the buys that your fatner was a veteran, and reel off a few chapters about ’ the way he tit.” They all liae to lisun to it and you will get the name o? in ing sociable. When anyihing goes wrong tuat doesn’t suit y<^u be sure ai d give your opinion in a loud tone of voice. Just show them that although you are m w you’re n«>t green. When dinner doesn’t suit you drop in and Itli the chief hnw your mother need to cook. You will find it works like a chirm. If the non corns, don’t Know their business, in your opinion, it is your duty to tell them so, and they wilU at once brace up. Read all the pa pers you can get but never think of subscribing for one—you might die of enlargement ot the heart and it wouni cost t..e government just as much to bury you as it would a man. Remember this is a civilized country. If you don’t know the ingredients that compose ‘ slum,” ask; you will certainly be told, as everybody knows, Show the boys your girl’s picture, road her letters to them, they will cunsider it a great treat. Also lend some of the hardest cases the little book your mother “packed among your things;” it will be sowing seeds that you will reap before your enlist ment expires. There is one thing you shouldn’t do, however, and that is to show the old-timer how to play the festive game of freezeout; he will learn rapidly and perchance in the end skin you out of your eye teeth. Be very careful in this. C. E. Hallman. 117th Coast Artillery, Moultrieville, S. C. Why? Why have a vacant house on your hands when a Ledger for rent ud. will rent it? Why let your unused rooms remain empty when a Ledger to leu ad. will fill them? Why want for more boarders when a Ledger want ad. will get them? Why do without a desirable board ing olace when a Ledger want ad. will find one? Why want a pleasant room when a Ledger want ad. will secure one? Why keep property you do not want or need when a Ledger for sale ad. will sell it? In other words, let your wants be known through The Ledger at one cett a word and they will be satisfied. Virtue doesn’t keep very well if is exposed to a hot sun. it The Threat of * Lenee is scarcely more agonizing than the recur rent pains in the abdomen which follow the eating of improper food or too free in dulgence in ioe-water. The immediate cause of cramps and colic is often the dis tention of the bowels by gas. Quick relief follows the use of Perry Davis' Painkiller. 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