Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE LEDGER. Tuesday and Friday, *1 H. DeCamp, Editor and Publisher, J. Brian Bstl, News Editor. The I^edrer Is not responsible for •he views of correspondent*. All correspondence should be ao- •Jesse<* to Ed. H. DeCamp. Manager We Invariably ciscontlnue sending r he Ledger when a subscription runt he Is making It very readable. Mr. Darlington la a good newspaper man as well as a good fellow. • • » We publish the press comments on bhe Hasty trial simply because we be lieve that renders of The Ledger are interested in knowing what other oeople think of us. • • • We note quite an improvement in the Columbia Record. They have in stalled a new press and are getting ut, for we have no way of knowing out s most creditable paper. If The that a person wants it except by re- Record would only change its i3tti- ceiving his or her renewal. We ur-, taide toward the dispensary it would gently solicit a prompt renewal, on * be an ideal paper, but how it can the ground that the paper is worth consciemtiously advocate such a rot- the money. We are trying month ten institution is beyond us. by menth to make It better and bet* ter There is talk of ex-Senator John L. — i McLaurin being given a cabinet po sition. Well, the South has no re presentative in the cabinet and Mr. McLaurin being a commercial Demo- IT’S WRONG. 0 We have been requested si editorial opposing crat we don't care if Mr. Roosevelt does take him into.bis official family, although we should think the presi dent had better select a man from Mr. Pritchard, for in- « • • • the appropria tion for the purchase of seed for free (iwdribution by the United States De- pariment of Agriculture. We do '* cheerfully. The government has no| hig own party more business distributing free see ^ stance <han it has to distribute free flour, froe meat, free clothes, free liquor. | An indugtrial of The ♦me silver, or free newspapers. s w jjj issued in about three weeks. *r imposition on the ma T ” ^ ax P a y ers \i 0 st of the matter has been ’'repar se appropriate $290,000 of their money i ^ We wil , Drint a ]arger num ber •»«h year to buy seed from a few , ^ c f ^bis edition than has ever vw*ed seedsmen, thus enriching t ese panted 0 f a single edition of any newspaper ever issued in this county. It will lie scattered broad- seedymen at the expend of their less fertwnat© competitors and those tax payers who do not receive an/ bene- oVer ^n^ Every family In flts from the seeds distributed. ^ ie ; the county will be supplied ' with a government might jus#t' as well sa> it co p y aa ^ hundreds will be sent out would purchase a million couies of <i | )Bn jy Merchants depirin* The Ledger .and distribute them free d j S p] ay advertising space will please to the hurt and exclusion of all other no jjfy us j n advance so we can make powers in the county. It s not right, pj-eparatjpjjg handle the business. A Congressman or a Senator will re- ^ y OU . wa nt cowies of this edition ceive his quota of these seed, paid gent to a f r i en d PRESS COMMENTS. What Our Contemporarleg Say of the Hasty Trial. We suppose that Geo. Hasty now realizes that he acted rather hasty when he shot the actors at Gaffney.— St. Mathews Commercial Advance. The Cherokee ‘ Indians” have set the l»lance of South Carolina a very good example in the Hasty trial aud verdict reached.—Yorkville New Era. The conviction of George Hasty at Gaffney is a warning to the man with the ready jnstol and the thirst for blood. The verdict of the jury will find an endorsement in the mind* of law-abiding pejrsons everywhere and will tend to make human life of more value.—Newberry Observer. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. Several instances of late indicate a more wholesome regard for law and order. Especially does it) seem that there is a growing regard for human life. The tide is turning, and the plea of “self-evidence” is not as strong a fort as formerly. The conviction of j Gaffney.—Spartanburg Herald, several white men for ligh crimes will have a wholesome effect.—John- ston News-Monitor. J. B. Bell was a professional visi tor to Jonesville yesterday. B. L. Haines was a Spartanburg visitor yesterday. Sam J. Mercer returned yesterday from a trip to Charlotte. N. C. Mayor John Q. Little left the city yesterday for a business visit to Jonesville. J. C. Creech, a prominent druggist! of Barnwell, was a business visitor to the city Wednes lay. Eugene Godshell. a young business man of Union, spent Tuesday in the city. Miss Lila Bird, of Limestone Col lege, spent Wj^lnesday in Spartan burg with her father. Elliott Estes, a prominent insurance man of Spartanburg, was a business visitor to the city Tuesday. Stobo J. Simpson. Esq., a prominent a'torney of Spartanburg, was a pro fessional visitor to the city Wednes day. Mrs. J. W. Shell and Miss Kve Ma com son left yesterday for a visit to for by the government that is, >ou aQ( j address aud we forward the name The jury in the sensational Hasty case concluded in Gaffnev this week is to be commended for the righteous verdict rendered. The era is evident ly dawning when white murderers in South Carolina will get their just de serts. Some value is going to be attached to human life hereafter, whether it be that of a white man or a black man. a Northerner and a Southerner.—Lancaster News. Tne conviction of Hasty in Gaffney was a triumph for law aad order and decency in South Carolina and a de cided rebuke to the methods used by George Johnstone, of Newberry, an attorney for wie defense. His at tempts to besmirch the character of the two theatrical women did no good and we regret that aav man born and reared in South Carolina should con duct his case in such a manner.— Bamberg Herald. To Be Frank you have really never eaten a true soda cracker until you have eaten Uneeda Biscuit The only soda cracker which is all good and always good, protected from strange hands by a dust tight, moisture (Z& proof package. & NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY will send bbA I and every other man, whether w ithout cost t© you. h© be farmer, merchant, blacksmith. • * • Barpenter or what not, help »av for ^ wag w j t jj ,. an g B G f r e^-et we these seed*—and ti.©y ar« given t<J j reai j yesterday of the death of M. C. rh* political friends of the Senator \\r a jj ace foreman of the job Jepart- <n Congressman. You may get some ment Qf ^ ColumWa Sta(te for are given to of the Senator You may get some and I may get some, but where one |i ug was a nan He knew n«(hing M*n gets them Utn do not, for a i x>ut making money and i* that ri?- sfar.ple reason that they do not ne<< ^ spect was a failure, hut he had a greh# «i«tm or want them, end yet the ten big hear ^ a gpiendid mind, apd a Wh« do nqt get them will pa> more: j ovft jjj 0 disposition. We -riaed him toward the purchase of the seed than ag amo {jg our and an/ visit tMhRe who do get them. In other words ^ Columbia wajs iuaomploue unleup * > government force* thos* who do we up#n him Hlg teuga> receive the beneit from this seed tbe cunning smile that flittered aero** distribution to contribute to the «** hig face and the familiar “Hello! ol© wise in order that Senators and Socpg ” &9 we vrould make our ap- 0©Bgr«smcn i*»> th ® m jjearance, are now incidents of the anong their pe . and p© t 'i’vast. Mev he receire the se^ard of W© have been among the favored ^ but that doe© not make it right: Wil ouoper. Judge Meruminger leaves u> this Another thing which we are op- Basel to is the printing of envelopes weeK - * hv the government. It works to the> away known and beloved by i.jurv of the local printer. The Few men c©uld have won th«S gavernmentf will acWally furnish dearie of the ©eople as tie nas won stamped envelops printed at less them. No mow impartial or upright than actual cost. You help pay the is there difference and the only one benefit- whole State. t»! is the firm or individual who letting the chip* fall where thev may. »ake, the purchase. I may never 8ee the ^ asain But to revert to the seed question.! He may never hold court nere again. Th. re are some interesting and start- Ulfe is uncertain, and there is no ac- liug figures in relation to this matter. Ft is sail that the n,av before it become* time for his h,*t year wa* $899,900, twstMfag in return to Cherokee, but we say it «,tnl,uHng «*er fifty mlllloo pack-1 »'‘t b »» *‘“ erit » ‘‘“ ,1 " ol w1 ' b of This affacw not only »<> bbl »<>; o' ““W- “ v '*> “ we U- a^men-a huslnou vary serious ‘■-»'* blb <* lh *' ? °“ lh < ‘" > w but also the business of all local llrl * m “ re 11 k ' hlnl Ma> ' anantry ■fcab-r, who handle aeods.;' 1 * h” lrlb « ° e,er ^ les ’ 1 - Fa fact, it really affects most serious walks the streets of our towns today wh© is just as guilty as others of less prominence who have been paying the penalty for th(|a’ crime lo tTnese many years. In recent months there has seemed to be a change come over our people. There is a demand for the ounish- ment of the guilty no matter what his station in life, or his color. Hasty s lawyers at Gaffney. •. C. j the last term of court in Green- gave notice of an anneal when a life; v jj| e county, a white youth was con-1 sentence in the penitentiary w? Putjvicted of the murder of a negro and upon their client last Tuesday by the j s now S crving a life sentence. G6org<* judge who presided during the niur- j^ ias ^ v w j)i serve the remainder of his der trial. hat s the tse of the jjf e j n prison unless a new trial shall State and county going through thej| )e granted and an acquittal result expense of another trial, when it has therefrom. We see no reason for an-! been shown that he is guilty beyond ; ( ^ her trial. None is needed. The a shadow of a doubt? In our mind Inan j s guilty. The crime the jurr should not have Asked for mercy in his cane and therefore let the prisoner be lunged, as he should do. This tiling of a jury convicting a man and then asking the court to show mwey ig getting to be a farce on justice.—Durham Sun. Nq Reason for Another Trial. (Greenville Mountainti&r.) The trial of George Hasty is over. The great majority of our people will rejoice to know that an acquittal did not result, though such a verdict was | not entirely unexpected. It is really so difficult a matter to convict a white man in most of our courts that we feel relieved when justice triumphs. But the good people of Cherokee county do not seem to favor this all tpo oopular thing of letting the guilt/ white man walk tne streets as proudly —■ 1 .. 1 "'■■■ thing. This is not an unheard of thing in this State. !|(Iany a man < >IT1* Comforts Are fat We Make Them rwisfriB M c ELROY - SHANNON SPRING- RTCRS to be foHU'l in th* He hews w the line. The newspapers of South Carolina appear to be of one opinion regarding the result of the Hasty trial, towit: hat the idayer off the two actors de* serve* the life sentence he received and was fortunate in not being sent to the scaffold. The Charleston News and Conner gives as i«h opinion that George Hasty will find life imprison ment iu the penitentiary a fearful penalfar for his brutal crime but it was mur der. Such a crime deserved the ex treme penalty, but most of us are glad that the verdict was not one of acquittal, bejnee we’ll not kick on this. We desire to extend our con gratulations to the good periple of Cherokee, and to have the assonance that this double murder will not go ‘ unpunished. Sum aroiBui^ CROWN ! WILL. NhiVKK BAJO, A Hopeful Sign. (Kershaw Era.) George Hasty, the young white, man who killed two members of a theatrical troupe, who were stopping at the Piedmont Inn, in Gaffney, of | which Hasty was one of the proprie* tors, in December last, was ,tried inj*| will, be none too long for the affea«ei :lhe C^ttrokee countv court Last week, which he k*» committed against so* An ' , fo>nd K uil( A murder with a recommendation to mercy. He was) given a life sentence. It is 0 hopeful sign «f returning reason and a I letter sentiment for 1 as a gnowin- ;| of Then why not make them the best by investing in a Crown or Victor Spring, absolutely guaranteed, from $2.50 to $5.00 and a good Matress^any where from $2.60 up to the genuine Ostemoor Felt for $15.00? Call aud see them for yoars«lf. 'ft The ‘Dexter’ Mattress ciety,’ and continues. “There ought to! be no sympathy for him in the — — fate 1 has overtaken him and he be inquired to serve oat his Law and order, as well which should term to the last minute of hi» ii/e It is only in this way that he can re ^ ard for t ‘ ht> *ae red boss of human make any atonem«*n for hi» bloody! !lfe - when a white man cm be found work.” fa'hat tends to make Hasty’s 8 uilt >' of murder, even e^’er having fate seem harder tfain it would other- 1 taken ,wo !ives “ ind a wise appear is that .so manr men in mentation to mercy, without exten- South Carolina, just as guilty as he uaMn? creiusmtanees appearing in J»v e gone unwhippud of justice. How ““ ‘ “ ever, there is little room for in ore y in a case of this kind.—Charlotte di- aerver. * The verdict of the jury at Gaffney, 8. C., ia the Hasty trial was evident ly a righteous one, and while the Sen tence of Jife Imprisonment is quite severe, yet it is none ttoo bars whon > < 15.00. [lie Rex' Mattress lO.OO. i he Regal' Mattress the trial a r(Bison therefor. Vr the most profitable part of the seed kaeines*. The government, to# has* no busi- n*** furnishing free needs, and the «*!ls arising from this practice/ are «*rlf evidqjit to any one wise gives the .nattier any thought and attention. It is estimated that if the departmont •f agriculture were required to pay ©•stage on the seeds it sends out; at fa© same rates as other people, the sevenue to the postoffice department waul 1 be increased at least $3<K),000, aad the incidental expenses of labor, printing, etc, in naniling the seed kssineb*, really make the cost, con sidering the postage as above indicat ed. at over three-quarters of a million dollars. The enormous quantities of seed sent through the mail by this fne© distribution are also very large ly responsible for the deficit, in the ’'•stoffice department. The government was not astablisb- ad to favor toy particular class of per pie. It is for all the 'eople and it should not become paternal to an^ ©articular class. Let each tub stand an its own bottom, then, in the lan guage of Uncle Billy Cap Lipscomb, "we will sink, swim, survive or ©erisb; live a thousand years and then turn to a live oak on the hillside ©f immortality.” A Little Jealous, That’s All. (Yorkville New Era.) Gaffney’s latest sensation is a pet rifted woman. Next! SEfED |HT LIFE" —That’s what a prominent said of Scott’s 7.5o. Ask for Them, Yours to please. SHUFORD & LeMASTER, Furniture, Stoves and Undertaking. > /.BTf #/>?#/>/# /*}* /*J*/**}* /*?* />■ NEW ARRIVALS NOI ES AND COMMENTS. The Greenville Dally News is show ing marked imptovement Hu^.e days • • • The Hpirtanburg Herald is as nprighu’y as * kitten in the spring time. Mr. Herron .ind his assistants are doing good wo A. • # • Mr. J. C Gariington is now engag ed on the Spartanburg Journal, and A Pitchfork, You Mq©r>. (Greenville Herald.) In The Columbia State’s editorial. "The New Board’s Broom,” on© would like to supply “sweeps cleaa” but for the fact that in the kind of business where this sweeping is done it re quire* a shovel and a rake. Very Unkind and Misleading. The Brice law has boomed the ad vertising business of the papers pub lished in counties that have discarded the dispensary. They are carrying a profitable appearing iine *>f advertise ments for mail order whiskey house* located in Augusta, Atlanta and other places—Sumter Item. N«>w r , please don’t/ contemporary. York is one of those counties, und the newspapers manage to get alone very nicelv without having lo stooo ♦- tty patronage of th© liquor houses.— Yorkville Enquirer. [Cherokee is without the dispensary and a careful perusal of the columns of three papers published in the county does rot reveri a single whi - key advertisement.—Ed.) Are you as active in paying a bill you owe as you are collecting a bill due you? ('Himol be Cured hy tocu’ itppIteTtloti*, as they ©aim'd n-’wh th< di»© j-< d p'irt'oii of tin- ••ttr. Th' i 1 - ts onlvone way rur© deaf-iess, is by roii4tiliuioti.il ri-tn'sbt;*.. l>e^fu«-ss is rau (*d ny Infiaiaed conditUJiMtf tlx' tmi<v>us l , ntuK of *ti«- Eiistar'ilan When thi> tutu nets iuflamod you have a ruinr.UnK •outii. or‘iiiperfe-i-t lx a ring, anti alien U I- entirely ©to^vd tleafne.-m is tl»«) result, uiu nnleas tlie inHarnmation run ije taken out -,uid th I* tup© r-'stored toil* norital eondt- iU>i.. beariiig alii l»t:destrtiyed forteror; nlqe tu-e-sout of mi at-, ‘-ru * - - 1 ._i it is re*nembere«1 that tlie crime of irUi/uist Hast© w as a double murder, and - 1 viewed in the most favorable light hmUJSlOIl a ftilOrt time for him there was very little ©rovoca- As a Lille WC don’t tion for the shooting. A few similar # verdicts and sentences in cases of UaC OT refer to testimonials this kind muat nerve to place a high- er value uptin imman life.—Cleveland * :1 adQlCSSing tne ptlOllC, s, * r - put the above remark and If George Hasty had be*H the p<fa . ; tri ; j t r nrA of friends of influence, it is > 1 m 1 J a 1 oKprCfcolODo 0.1^ probable that'it© would have boon a( *' jande SO oft«n in COnnCC- quitbed, as he haj a decidely better -to , _ t . show of defense ritan many wbobave t'.Oll With Scott S EmulSlOIl escaped ptinithn ent. but this is not , ,, ^ saying that he ought to have been tiiat tlie\ are WOrtliy Ol ai!qum'.d -ri-e occasional note. From mind is that nis conviction may have been hie more to his want of Chirac infancy tO Old age Scott’s ter and friends, than to any awaken- ., , • rr i* li ing sense of justice in the country, lbnilllSlOn. Otters a reliable -t must lx; said, however. ;hat f-hero- of remedvitlQ r im- kee juries have made a pretty good -Dcaus ui xui record— Chester Lantern. proper and Weak develop- The Hasty Murder Trial. ment, restoring lost flesh A’e have just learnei of the con- ^id \ itality, and repaiiin^ viction of Georg© Hasty for the mu.- W a S te, The action of ier of two actqrs. This killing at-1 f t ncted wide a on tion all over the fecott S KmulsiOn IB no '•ountry. as it wan particularly atro- r . .i ,1 cious the two men having been niOTC Of a Secret than tlj< ■illed while remonstrating with Hasty composition of the Emiil- :or insults to a lady of their troupe. 1 The people of Gaffney are to be sion itself. What it doCS ign!,' commended for their course . ,, . i • i n this whole matter. The best pub- tt does tlllOUgll nOlirish- Mc s n iment ^ that town from ’te men [ > —the kind of IlOUrisll- Irst nas been with the murdered men md tho insylted women, and al ment that cannot he ob- thotigb Hastv secured eminent cuun- , , ■ j »©1 and a large number of witnesses, tamed in Ordinary lOOd. b© was unable to combat an out-raged ! J^ 0 system is tOO Weak Or public sentiment. It is to be hoped J _ _ ,it no legal quibble# will prevent delicate tO retain OCOtt S ; 7 Emulsion and gather good \ [||f> Gaffney City Lsiiii RRl I^ T't ment Co. from it. * In Men’s and Boys’ Spring Clothing and Furnishings. You'are cordially invited to call and see them. I* notltliivt hut mi inti ion mucous surf a©©*. We wiiUtr! vu One tluudred liotlm * for miy i-Mseof Deafaess (en-.i-d hv c.utarrti)(diat can- not he cured by Hall’s Ckiiiirrti (Jure, semi (or-circulars, fn*;. , k; J. CHENEY A CO. Toledo O. A Scientific Wonder The cures that stand to Its credit! ©take Buckleu’s Arnica Salve a scien tilic wonder. It cured E. K. MulforJ.I lecturer for the Patrons of Husban dry. Waynesboro, Pa., of a distress-. ^‘^rndnuin o/'thu! HUes It heels the worst Burns, iktres, .Boils, Ulcers, Cuts, Wounds, Chilblains and Salt Rheum. Only 2Tjc at Cherokee Drug Co. told by DrujafMU. TV Hal I'm HarnlfV Fllti h are • he Itoat S' —iiats for Men, Youths and Chii Iren at bargain ©rices at J. I. Bar ratt’s. We will tend you a sample free. Be sure that thU picture in the form of « label is on the wrspfxr ai every butt' - of Emulsion yew buy. scon & BOWNE Chemists 409 Pari St, N. T. 50c. ut SI; .11 4ru,|iito. jffers for sile H jildtmr Lot* la this flourishing town Gaffney; tsUw. turue. n»wr by ;inil In reach-U the HcoooSs of Fdmo.stone Springs ana of th.i pl v .-.la tote of M) to 100 acres u liberal time rates; aleo Agrlcalturai Lania to ren* for F .r-n pury For 1 pari u!ar. apply to J. V. SAJtRATT, Agent. <.»>—Ail perwtna are forbidden toehtor on. walk or rldetheiu/hor'ivr lha lands of the 1 : impany,cutting and removing tlndmr or flishlng hunting, un W O' lial^jl of law kinds of Job Work done at Th ® Ledge, office neatly and at prices commensuratelwith high grade work Try ut. «sis \ 4k tM