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THE LARGEST Circulation of Any Newspaper in the Fifth Congressional District of S. C. r Fhe Ledger SEMI-WEEKLY—PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. WE GUARANTEE The Reliability of Every Adver tiser Who Uses the Col umns of This Paper. A Newspaper in all that the Word Implies and Devoted to the Best Interests of the People of Cherokee County. ESTABLISHED FEB. 16, 1894 GAFFNEY. S. C., FRIDAY, JULY 34, 1903. $1.00 A YEAR. SENATOR TILLMAN AT BISHOPVILLE ■lured to be. He retired amid loud applause. State Senator T. G. McLeod then introduced Senator Tillman. SENATOR TILLMAN. Senator Tillman met the people of Lee county (or the first time. He said Burning Issues to Excite he had tried to come over when the •tx’ nr 4-1. county was in the throes of birth, but HlS Wrath.- the people did not seem to want him. He was pretty well up on the geogra phy of South Carolina; bad traveled over every county but Lee several times. He thanked the people for Mr. T illman Thinka the selection of it Dem- their handsome vote at the last Sena- ocratlc Prealdenthtl Nominee » Diffcult torlai election and ffiit that he de88TV- Mittter and that the “Remocnttrt are Sick.” ed it. He found it hard to saj anything CLEVELAND AND BRYAN MUGHOUT THE NEWS OF THE WEEK P1LMETT0 STATE.! IN LOWER CHEROKEE ■ HM...... I I. .,1 " I I. Items of Interest of Passing From Our Correspondent at Events. Etta Jane. ALL OVER THE STATE. PERSONALS AND LOCALS. The Silver OneHtion. Bishopvillk July 18 —Senator Till man arrived here cu Thursday even ing and was escorted by the reception committee to the Bishopville Hotel, which was his headquarters during his visit to this town. After supper be was called upon in an informal way by many citizens, with whom he chatted upon every subject hut politics. After a quiet night’s rest on Triday morning he was driven around B-shop- ville and vicinity and shown tbe im provements me.de in this live 1 '/ and progressive iittie town, and expressed himself as highly pleased with the ■ovidences of energy and enterprise. At 11 o’clock he was escorted to the Woodworth grove, the "central park” of the town, where he was io address our people on i-he questions of the day. The turnout of the citizens at first seemed disappointing, as the assem blage was much smaller than was ex pected, but it must be remembered that this is the busiest time io the year for the farmers and that several important meetings are to be held about the next Presidential election; everything is in doubt. Farter, of New York, and Johnson., of Ohio, are spoken of as banner bearers, but, in fact, no one seems to be premineut. Cleveland is a bag of beef, only fit for pitchforking. Bryan does not want the nomination and could not get it if he did; die is talking too much. The method must be to adopt some par ticular policy, or perhaps to wart un til the JU publicans show their hand and then formulate a platform which will appeal to the people. iCvents that Have Taken Place from One End of the State to the Other CuUed from Exchange* for Quick Reading by Score* of Rosy People. Twenty-one contractors in Colum bia Monday signed an agreement not to employ any union man connected with the Building Trades Council. The county commissioners of Union have awarded to George H. Crafts, of Atlanta, Ga., contract for rebuilding bridges « Gueit’s and Cedar Bluff, in Union county, at $4,724. Super structures will be of steel. At an entertainment in the colored Second Baptist church in Greenville Monday night, a sneak thief stole Interesting Paragraph* and Recent Hap pening* In Lower Section of the County Gathered Up by Onr Regular Correspon dent for llenetlt of Ledger Reader*. ff’orrespoRdence of The I.edger.) Etta Jank, July 22.~If there is anything in the world we admire, it is a truly mat 'y man—one who will acknowledge his faults, and in a gentlemanly way ask the pardon of those he may have unjustly or un wittingly offended. Smh a one we find in Mr. Ed. H. DeCamp, the that it might be worse, and nothing so bad but that there is some good in it. The chaingang is still at Sarratts. We hope the time will soon come when our public roads will be put in passable order at least. The spring and early summer rains have ruined them in many places. From Howell’s ferry to the Tolleson place, on the Limestone road, to W. C. Kirbj’s on the Union road and to Owens’ ford on ' the Spartanburg road, they are simply ridiculous—the worst roads we have had to contend with, at this season of the year,since long before the organi- zationjof the present county of Chero kee; and any just reason for it we fail to see. The mail line from this place to Union has been re-established and the mails are running regularly. We understand that there is several cases of fever over on Pea Ridge and some deaths are reported from that section, among them Mrs.-H. 8 Por ter, wife of our esteemed friend and comrade, ‘‘Vaney and his family our warmest sympathy. Mrs Porter was THROUGHOUT THE TAR HEEL STATE. From the Mountains to The Sea. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ” Porter, to whom heart goes out in The Northern people are highly | through one of the rear windows and progressive—in industry^ money-mak ing and dishonesty. The Republican party is built on that basis and all legislation is in the direction of fraud. He instanced the pension swindle as an ex ample. Ail must play into the hands of the G. O. P. , and by degrees all the money in the country will be diverted in that direction. He then told in his graphic way how he had gained for South Caroline the large claim the State had against the Government by playing Allison against Joe Cannon. The Democratic party is sick. The silver question must be put ssioe for the present. He personally is as in ! sound a free siiverite as ever, hut it is the next ten days, and they could not best for financial reasons to avoid the at this juncture be spared frem their 1 issue just now. He does not see much farms It is estimated that from five to eight hundred people were present, including a goodly number ot ladies, and that among those present lines had been entirely obliterated, Re formers and Antis, according tc the ’fold demarcation, intermingling to do honor to a man who had faithfully hope for Democratic success in the Presidential election. Hentiment en ters largely into politics. It was sen timent that brought on the civil war. Mrs. Stowe’s book, ”T ncle Tom’s Cabin,” and Wendell Phillips’s elo quent speeches being largely respon sible, and the feeling must be consid ered. Theodore Roosevelt knows how secured a purse containing $21. A reward of $10 was offered fer the cap ture of the thief. Monday night in Spartanburg Hcod Flax, colored, brutally assaulted Dock Jones, also colored, and beat him so severely that Jones died of his injuries next day. Jones was about 17 years of age and was with two women at the time of the assault. Flax made good his escape. Assistant Chief Constable Hewie has resigned his position form the force, but it is cot known yet who hie successor will be. Howie, it will be remembered, |was chief constable in Charleston but wee afterwards transferred to Beaufort, from which point he resigned and went to Ches ter. editor of this paper, in his course tward Mr. N. H. Littlejohn, of Gaff- a Gallman and belonged to one of the ney. What mere could a gentleman olde9t ar ‘ d b ' st known families A n >> u u Union county. May she rest do? What mere should a gentleman peace. J. L 8. To acknowledge our faults is one of the hardest things in the world for many of us to do, and it's the last thing the Devil wants us to do. We ail have faults—some of one kind and some of another, but we all have them, nevertheless. In what Mr. DeCamp says about the matter between himeelf and Mr Littlejohn and the way in which he says it, he raises himself in our al ready good opinion of him, five hun dred per cons. “It’s human to err; it’s divine io forgive.” When once a young man asked Dr. Talmage, “Don’t you think its manlike in me to resent an insult?” “Oh, yes,” said that great divine, •'‘but it’s God- TO CONSTRUE SPRINGS WILL and strenuously eerved his State un- : to appeal to this; he is a straddler der the most adverse circ urns tun-cos. The meeting wte called to order by Mr. Ralph W. McLendon, wh) re quested the Rev. T. W. Phillips to open the proceedings with prayer. CONURK68M4.N LEVER. Mr. J. B McLaughlin then intro duced Congressman Lever as the first speaker of the day. Mr Lever commenced by throwing the usual bouquets at the people of the baby county—appreciated the handsome support he had received from Lee couoty and promised to con tinue tc do hie duty as he had done it, without fear or iavor. He pitched into the National House of Repreeenflktives. It was controlled by a small ring, that rules the over whelming Republican majority. The minocity have no chance—must cringe and beg to be allowed to say or do anything. Senator.Tillman has a great advan tage by being in a -“free house.” Tne Senators are courteous and gracious to each other and the rules give him an opportunity to talk, as he does pointedly and fearlessly, boldly de nouncing upon every occasion the deviltry of the Republicans. But the Democrats are thinking aud watching The Republicans, drunk with success, are apt to make some issue of which the Democrats can take advantage and appeal to the people. They must acquire the con fidence of the business men o' the nation and thus win victory. BRYAN AND CLEVELAND DOOJJ POOH ED. Bryan and Cleveland are back num bers. The mouth of the former should be padlocked and the adherents of the latter placed in lunatic asylums. The party must he united—(the speaker did not see that he was tak ing a strange way of doing this)— must get together on some platform which every Democrat could endorse. As to Roosevelt, he with his Rough Riders took a fort in Cuba and won r some gltry thereby. He was then oiected governor of New York, and then was nominated to the undesir able place of Vice President. Then by accident he became President, and now he thinks that be is a bigger ^man than the people, and expects to pleasant one. and a shrewd one; witness his action in the trust case and ir. the matter ut the appointment of Crum as collector at Charleston. The only straw which shows the current is the plank in the platform endorsing the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments and declaring that they must be maintained This meant the inauguration of a campaign to cut down Southern representation. This would mean a loss to 6outh Caro lina of three or four Congressmen. If the idea prevails the fight may be made upon this issue and the speaker would gladly welcome it On that is-me the Democrats could carry the North us well as the South. But unless tha f or some simWiar mistake is made by them there is little chance for the Dem .oratic party. in answer to an inquiry he said he did not care about talking about the frauds in the postoffice department. A committee would be appointed ut the next session of Congress which would give the matter a thorough in vestigation. The Senator then warned the peo ple that the negro question was by no means settled. The Constitutional Convention trad arranged things for a time, but the trouble was by no means over. NEGRO QUESTION WILL NOT DOWN. The negroes were educating their children and the rising generation James Hammond, a former ployee of the Arcade Cotton Mill, of Yorkville, was tried in the Yorkville court last week. He was convicted of carrying a concealed weapon and of assault of a high and aggravated nature on Superintendent G. A. Buchanan, andJudg-e Klc,gb fixed his fine a£ $f)00. In Columbia Tuesday morning Judge Gary rendered a decision in the case oNBrookshiro vs. the Farm- ere Alliance Exchange, ordering that a receiver be appointed for the' fund now on hand, about $1.7>000, or that bond be furnished for twice the amount involved until this fund is distributed. 3 ^ like to feegive it.” When General George E. Pickett returned from his famous though fruitless charge upon Cemetery Rirign, at Gettyeburg, where seven-eighrh-< of ms command went down, tears filleo his eyes as he glanced over the field covered with the corpses of his sol diets, while his soul in its great ago.Y gave cxDre«sior. to his grief that he was allowed to survive the brave command he had led in that terrible charge. Then it was that that grandest of all great Americans, Robt. E. Lee, came to the rescue and said, “I did it. It’s my fault and not yours.” In that one word Robt. E. Lee took upon his own broaci shoulders the grief of a nation. History, sacred and profane, finds no Conffm-’.Minitii UoukiiiK After Heir* to Spring* K*tHte. lOfiurWilt* News.J Congressman E. Yates Webb was in Charlotte visitor today. He came down from Shelby this morning to at tend to some legal business. Mr. We* b represents five of the heirs to the estate of the late H. G. Springs. These are: Misses Alice, Sarah, Ella and Maggie Little and Airs. Mary Furle. The matter at issue is as to how the courts will decide as to the portion of the (at*' Mr. Bud Linde in the •estate of Mr Springs. Mr. Little ■died before the will was written and now the executors wish the courts to construe the will as to the deceased portion of the estate. Whether his portion will be divided among his four sistere, Misses Alice, Sarah and Ella Little and Mrs. Earieor whether bis portion will revert hack to the ostate. Mr. Webb does not think the mat ter will come up at this term of the court, hut that Judge Neal will hear the matter in chambers at a time to 4e designated by him. Covered with dirt and grass, the body of an unknown negro man was found Friday not far distant from the tracks of the Southern Railway be- _ tween Ladscn and Summerville. The 8 * n9 tt wor ld weighing heavily upon body was turned over to a magistrate h.m, and in the face of his Father Interesting: Items Concerning Onr Neigh bor* Beyond the Line Which May Breve Entertaining Beading for Hundreds of Ledger Header* Warrants were issued in Charlotte Monday for Rufus E. Holder, a white man about sixty years of age, charg ing him with criminal assault on a little girl but eleven years old. Both live in Charlotte. Eight freight cars loaded with coal were derailed near Clemmonsville, in Forsyth county at noon Monday. The train was en route to Charlotte. A brakeman sustained slight injury and the tra.’k was blocked for several hours. Dr. W. S. Davidson, of Newton, who was convicted of an assault with a deadly weapon in killing a negro there in May last, and sentenced to pay a fine of $100 and costs, settled the judgment Tuesday and was dis- I charged. He has been under bond. The S;ate charters the Carolina Distilling Company at Hamlet, capi tal stock $50 000 E A. Lackey and others, stockholders, and authorizes an increase of the capital stock of the Cooleemee Cotton Mills, in Davie county, form $500,000 to $1,000,000, Engineer S. G. Bagby, who was se verely bruised by jumping in the col lision on the Salisbury yard ten days ago between a shifting engine and a freight train,the shifting engine after wards running wild nine miles, is now able to be about on crutches. He will not be able to resume active duty for several weeks, however. The Washington dispatches, which indicate that the President has de clined to intei: in the case of Laurence Pallium, charged with having emhezz tied $7,000] from the National Bank of Asheville, were in a large measure confirmed by attor neys for Mr. Pulliam Tuesday. Mr,- Pulliam’s sentence is five years. F. H. Dulin, colored, a former em ploye of the Southern Railway, was arrested in Salisbury Tuesday morn ing for raising a check issued in his favor by the railroad company. He made the amount of the check, $2.40, read $20 40; bu; the work was so clumsily done that it was immedi ately detected when the check was at Ladson, and an investigation of the case will be made. It is thought that the man was murderec, for the body bore no marks of having been struck by a train. Monday morning at 7 o’clock the dead body of Otie McMillan, colored, the night porter of the Spartan Inn, in Spartanburg, was found in the rear of the building beneath an open win dow on the second floor. His neck was broken and bis face badly muti lated. Physicians who examined the body said there were no marks to in dicate violence and that his death was evidently due to a fall. HImcJcmIhirg’* Mn-uumte. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Blacksburg, July 21.—It will be remembered that during the last ses sion of the legislature the action of parallel to such humiliation, except our delegation and the governor, rela- presented for payment, it be in that of the lowly Nazarene five to the appointment of a magis- The vigilance of the engineer Mr ascending Mount Calvary with the trata at this place, was watched by J. C. Cuibreth, Tuesday discovered a many io the immediate vicinity, ow- leak in the great dam of Hope Mills ing to the fact that Bridges, the de- No. 3, at Fayetteville, which would says, I feated candidate had preferred charges have caused a ruinous break, and against Gold, who had received a would have been disastrous to other majority of the votes. factories on Beaver and Rockfiab Gold was commissioned, but it now creeks. A force of men was put to appears that the matter is not at an work, and the lowering of the water end. Ail parties concerned are mem- will cause a brief stop of machinery, hers of the Baptist church and in r m,„..„^ . . ■ ■ . » eatin’, swivelled and contemptible some way the matter has been brought p P imin»| 8 t0 be an epidemic of into the church, due, it is said, to the serious charges made in papers sent to the governor. An effort has been made, so it is said, to secure these papers or certified copies, but the governor states chat he has not got them—they being in the possession of the legislative deiegation. From what a number of people said, it looks as if the matter may result in the disruption of the church—all parties and over offended God he am responsible for all these.” It takes a mao that is a man to stand up for the truth and acknowl edge his own faults and shortcom ings. It takes more than a sickly, rat ified and c moral dwarf to stand up lor tn right assume the responsibility of his own acts, and frankly acknowledge them. We glory in such h man I 1 we had more people like Paul,we would have many Cbristiaos like Christ. Messrs. J. E. Foster & Co. have moved their saw mill to Mr. Frank McCluney’s place, where they wifi Anderson is to have a first-class saw lumber for the oil mill company, business men’s club, such as exists Rev- Mr. Hammett preached a very in other cities. The need of such an plain, practicable sermon at Abing- concerned being prominent mernbers would not be prevented from voting ; orgauizatioo has been felt there for a don Creek church last Sabbath. He by the “illiteracy” clause. Being long time, and now it is believed that will begin a series of meetings there educated they would demand the bal- it can be secured. The club will have on the second Sabbath night of Au- Mr. IMcnk- at Love Spring*. Ed. H. DeCami’ :—Please lot and then—the deluge. The negro question hangs over the South like the sword of Damocles. The time must and will come when the Constitution of the United States must be amended and the entire negro vote of the nation eliminated forever. The Senator, thinking that some of be assault in Mecklenburg just at this time. In addition to the war rants issued for the arrest of Rufus E. Holder, of Charlotte, ’Squire Max well of that city has issued warrants for two negro men in Sharon town ship charged vith criminally assault ing two small colored girls, aged 9 and 10 years. So far neither of the warrants has been executed. Dr. N. C. Hunter, of Rockingham, lost his horse in a very unusual man ner Monday. While making a call the animal was hitched near a bee gum. The bees attacked the horse well furnished rooms where visitors to that city can be carried and en tertained, and where the members themselves can spend their leisure time pleasantly and to advantage. Judge Purdy refused to grant bail to E. E. Harbeson, white, who is con- gust. Mr. Hammett has lately as sumed the pastoral charge of this church and we bespeak for him the support of this and other church- going people. Mrs. Martha Sanders, of Pacolet, with us at a basket picnic to be given ttn( * com P ,etel y covered him. He was *-"* sari * o r. /-] *> *-% 4T a. i ■ at Love Borings Friday. July 24. We are expecting a grind time. Below find names of committee: Mrs. W. P. Love, Misses Mayme was at Abingdon Creea church last Stacy, ^AMe Petty. Hattie Turner, his remarks might have been thought ^ced in the Berkeley county jail in iurid and Tillmanesque. here made a handsome apology to the ladies pres- | eut if bis language had been a little loo fiery. He spoke plain, loud Anglo- Saxon English and did not try to : ornament it as his friend Lever, did. And with a little pleasant chafing at Cbraltetoo, on the charge of beating to death a woman by the name of Belle Brandon. Messrs. Dennis & Dennis, of Monck’s Corner, brought habeas corpus proceedings and Sheriff Morrison, of Berkeley, took the prisoner to (Charleston Friday. Soli citor Hildebrand went down from the latter gentleman the Senator . . . . closed amid loud aud lorg 8PPlRD8t‘. ^ 4 ra t n ^ eb p] r ^ ^ 5* , . e The meeting was a remarkably Senator Tillman was at his best. There were no‘'burning issues” to excite his wrath or induce those "Hows of vituperation” for which he seems to have acquired a reputation, but he spoke easily and State. The showing made was insuf ficient and Harbeson was remanded to the Berkeley county jail to await trial at the fall term of court. A negro boy 13 years old was roast- be elected on his record. The speaker attacked Roosevelt’s position on the negro question. He iraots the negro vote; advocates ne gro equality, political and social. The effect of his stand in this mat- j forcibly, with enough of his usual fire ed at Hanna’s brick ter is seen in the outbreak of animos ity to the negro, more potent at the North than at the Sooth, and the lynching bees held all over the United States in the last few months. We must carry the war into Africa. The negro is an inferior race and the orth is rapidly finding It out teeing the folly of enfranchising the ! loud-voiced agitator and an negro. of strife, but to do honor He closed with expressions of grati- who had worthily worn the tode to the people of Lee for their toga and who has ably and fearlessly •opport and reminded the ladles that; discharged the duties of the high ed alive in a brick kiln in Spartan- ter. Sabbath Mr. Jack Kendrick is putting up a telephone line to his home. It unites with the line to Hickory Grove, in York county. Dr. L. R. Black is kept busy ride ing—though be has no sernus cases on band, now. He can be reached by ’phone from either side of the coun ty. Mr. Wade J. Pridmore, of Sarratts who went to see his brother-in-law, Mr. J. B. T. Scott, who is very sick at his home at Little Mountain, in Newberry county, returned last Sab bath and reports Mr. Scott some bet- to give his bearers an interesting and impressive idea of the condition of things through the country. Another enjoyable feature i t the occasion was the entire obliteration of the old factional lines. “Reformers” burg last Saturday. He was employ- yard, which is situated about a mile and a half from Spartanburg. Late that night he fell asleep near a kiln, where brick were being burned. About 3 a. m. the brick kiln tumbled over and enshroud ed the sleeping boy. He was taken Mrs. Sallie Foster visited her rel atives and friends on the York side last week. Miss Ethel Strain is visiting her sister, Mrs. H. B. McDaniel, of Hick ory Grove. We are needing rain very badly just now. Gardens are burning up Mamie Wilkins, Edna Elmore, flora Swofford, Belle Humphries, Marie Turner; Messers W. H. Ross, Logan Warmoth, Jimmie Smith, Louis Waters. J. Eh Jefferies, James Prid more, Ed Stacy, Clint Smith, Giff Wood. Barnett Vassey, and Wm. McOraw. The committee has decided that the ladies would enjoy good music more than a hall game, so the string hand from Gaffney will he on hand to furnish music that can’t be beaten; and so there wifi ho no ball game. There wifi be no dancing, as every body wants to have a {genuine good, old-time picnic. Everybody is most earnestly requested to carry some means of amusement, such as games, instruments, etc Yours truly, Wm. McCraw. cue loose and an effort; made to brush the bees off, but so vigorous were tho insects in their attack that ali efforts at rescue were of no avail and the horse died in a very short time. Tuesday an immense tree at the corner of North Blount |and East Ed- enton streets in Raleigh was removed ; a tree which has been a landmark ever since Raleigh was laid off, 111 years ago. It was known as the Haywood oak and stood a block east of the capital and a block south from the Governor’s mansion. Its diameter was over nine feet and its age was estimated at between 300 aud 400 years. It was greatly decayed and was removed by the city. Mr. MacDonald Wilson, of Clear Creek, Mecklenburg county, left Charlotte about two months ago fer the West on a prospecting trip, lie went to St. Louis, Mo., aud after b% registered at a hotel be went into the saloon to get a arink. After taking the drink, he never knew anything until about two weeks ago, when he awoke in a St. Louis hospital. When be cams to himself he was a physical KmpliHNlze* It* Snperiorlty. The best test of an article is the wreck, being emaciated and having a way it sells. Bransford Mills, at broken and wounded leg. He learned and : shoulder to shoulder, not to hail a ^ time, and consequently thwe WM no I ““This*“week*Viir* practically end flo^ur" 8 ^ 0 ’ ’ K7 ‘’ “ CM,ton ” that ttfter he enter ed the bar he got and “antis” (of the nineties) stood too suddenly and was asleep at the and corn is suffering. be was still a bachelor and open to pfferi. He knew that the people bad >me to bear a bigger man than be office to which be bad been elected practically by the unanimous vote of bis State. h. d. c. ed to tbe spot, and with implements they pulled tbe fire and brick from tbe boy and extricated him from his red hot bad. Tbe boy died In an hour after being taken out. Brotfier LeRoy, of'ftough, teaches other flours are guaged, and the * an unconscious or delirious condition a philosophy which we admire and statement that "it is just as good as for three or four weeks. He has writ- wish were more generally practiced—| Clifton” only makes its superiority that of leaking on tbe light side of tbe more pronounced. things. There la nothing so bad but W. J. Wilkins <fc Co. teu to bis father for money to come home on and will return when able to travel.