The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, August 29, 1906, Image 1
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ESTABLISHED FEB. 16, 1894.
GAFFNEY, 8. C.. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29. 1906.
J1J0 A YEAR
The Battle of the Ballots
In the County of Cherokee
MANY SURPRISES AND MANY DISAPPOINTMENTS THE RESULT
OF THE BALLOT.
Full Returns for th e County Officers and Nineteen Boxes Out of Twenty-
One for the State Giv e the Results As Tabulated Below—An Immense
Crowd Around The Ledger’s Bulletin Board Tin After Midnight. Anx
iously Awaiting the Final Results.
The election in Cheroboe county
yesterday pass d off quietly.
So far as we have been able to
learn there was not the least disturb
ance in the entire county.
That there were many surprises in
store for a large number of people
cannot be denied. Of course the in
terest centered in the race for county
offices.
All day long The Ledger was mak
ing preparations to receive the re
turns. A spacious bulletin board was
pr pared, and Mayor Little tendered
tlie use of two electric lights.
It was proposed to have the bulle
tin board on Bornie street, but the
inclement weather just after the
close of the [tolls necessitated going
indoors, and Mr. Brian Bell, the local
manager of the Star Theatre, kindly
tendered the use of the theatre. Wil
ling hands assisted in transferring
the bulletin board to the stage of the
theatre, and the doors were thrown
open.
It was about six o'clock when the
first box — Antioch — reported over
the ’phone to The Ledger.
From that time the reports came
in at irregular intervals till at mid
night all the precincts had been hoard
from so far as the county candidates
were concerned except five. Those
missing were: Littlejohn’s, Ravenna,
Surratts, Timber Ridge and Thickety.
These five precincts reported this
morning. These precincts poll about j
three hundred votes, so there was no
material change in the result as
shown on the bulletin board last
night.
Nineteen boxes out of twenty-six |
have reported for State offices, so an j
idea can be given as to the total re
sult. Ansel is far in the lead for gov
ernor, with Blease second. .1. Fraser
Lyon, for comptroller general, far
outstrips his competitors. Jas W. I
Ragsdale is second man.
Nineteen boxes out of twenty-six
give the following vote for State
officers:
Fop United States Senator:
B. R. Tillman 1541
For Governor:
M. F. Ansel 1091
Cole L. Blease 4<!5
I. K. Brunson 313
W A. Edwards/ 12
A. C. .Tones 12
R. I. Manning > Ct»
J. J. McMahan 67
John T. Sloan 29
For Lieutenant Governor:
Thomas G. McLeod 1907
Fo r Secretary of State:
R. M. McCown 1502
J. B. Morrison 12X
L. M. Ragin 218
M. P. Tribble 120
For Comptroller General:
A. W. Jones , 880
G. L. Walker 1040
Fo r State Treasurer:
R. U. Jennings 1904-
For Adjutant and Inspector General:
J. (\ Boyd 105.7
L. W. Haskell 420
For State Superintendent Education:
O. B. Martin 1890
For Attorney General:
J. Fraser Lyon ....1975
Jas. W. Ragsdale 390
L. F. Youmans 189
House of Representatives: I Joe Reynolds 40
William Anderson 743 J. O. Tate 593
W. G. Austell 731 I J. S. Vinesett 1158
Chas. A. S. Campbell 474 J, T. White 71
E. J. Clary 887 j The final count of votes for county
N. W. Hardin 581 [officers results as follows:
K. (). Huskey 437 I ,j. C. Otts is nominated for the sen-
Oaston Littlejohn 113 ate.
W. F. McArthur 994 I W. F. McArthur. E. J. Clary, Wil-
Johi. V. Price 239 Ham Anderson and W. G. Austell are
Clerk of Court: in th? second race for the house.
J. C. Hollis 125 j. Eh. Jefferies is nominated for
1401 clerk of court.
NEWS ITEMS
OF LOCAL INTEREST.
EVENTS IN GAFFNEY AND CHER-
OK E
GOO
15G
J. Kb. Jefferies
V‘. A. Robertson
M. A. (Non) Sarratt
Probate Judge:
G. W. Speer
Will I). Thomas
J. E. Webster
County Supervisor:
E. Felix Lipscomb
Wm. Phillips 749
J. V. Whelchel 814
County Superintendent Education:
J. V. L. MeCraw 1307
J. L Walker
T reasureri
988
857
82
Fo r Railroad Commissioner: J \y. W. Gaffney 1G01
James Causler 029 I W. Harry Gooding 1058
John C. Sellers....
J. M. Sullivan....
J. A. Summersett.
74
504
G40
John H. Wharton 114
So far 099 Cherokee voters have
scraty-hed Senator Tillman.
The total vote cast for county offi
cers is as follows:
For Congress, 5th District:
l). E. Finley 2072
T. J. Strait 201
State Senate:
W. S. Hall 1117
J. C. Otts 1602
.1142
. 642
. 601
Auditor:
W. D* Gamp
Green B. Daniel
D. Both Hughes
George D. Scruggs 304
Sheriff:
R. O. Ballenger 396
R. J. Foster’. 63
A. L. Hallman 511
G. W. Speer and J. E. Webster art
in the second race for probate judge.
E. Felix Lipscomb and J. X. Whel
chel are in the second race for su-
pervisor.
J. L. Walker is nominated for su
perintendent of education.
W. W. Gaffney is nominated for
t /easur r.
I
W. 1). Camp and Green B. Daniel j
a in the second race for auditor.
W. W. Thomas is nominated for j
1406 sheriff.
I . I
| J. S. \ inesett and J. O. Tate are in |
the second race for coroner.
A totr.l of 2,711 votes was cast ini
I
tr-' county.
After having been up til! after mid
night last night, the crowd assembled
early around the bulletin board this
morning and crowded The Ledger
office, anxiously awaiting the final re-
zsults of the votes. The crowd was
orderly and not a single thing occur
red to mar the occasion.
W. W. Thomas 1771 I
Coroner:
J. M. Allison 442
Hamlet Goudelock 125
Dr. M. W. Smith 278
The accompanying tabulated table
giveg the full vote for county officers
and the tabulated results of the State
returns will appear in Friday’s issue:
Recent Happenings In and Around
tho City and Other Events Gather
ed by the Local News Editor.
Marvin Shuford, of Shelby. N C.,
an attacbee of The Cleveland Star,
was in the city several days this
week, the guest of his brother. Prof.
F. E. Shuford.
The Baracca and Philathea classes
at Old Midway will give a picnic at
that place next Saturday. The pub
lic is cordially invited. Everyone
go and carry well-filled baskets, and
have a good time.
I he streets were crowded all day
yesterday, but everything was quiet
and orderly. Quite a number of peo
ple from the country voted in Gaff
ney. thus giving them an opportunity
to be present when the returns came
The announcement is made that a
picnic will be given at the furnace a
tew miles west of the city on Satur
day. All are cordially invited to at
tend with a quantity of that which
makes picnics a success—well filled
baskets.
First Baptist Church Notes.
Dr. Simms filled his pulpit as usual
last Sabbath morning and night. His
morning theme was "Making Tracks,”
and at night he spoke on “Peter and
the Waves.”
Bad weather kept a number from
each service, hut there were two ad
ditions by letter in the morning.
Dr. Simnis expects to fill his milpit
as usual next Sabbath and would be
glad to see the entire congregation
present at each service. All night
services now begin at 8 o'clock.
Sunday school at 9.45 and all mem
bers are ur"-pd to be present.
Visitors and strangers and new
comers are cordially invited to all the
services.
PUKCINOTS
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AGED MAN KILLED BY RUBBERS
j Mr. George M. Fj^vey, 0 f Bluffton.
Murdated at Son’s Home.
, Beaufort, Aug. 27.—Mr. George M.
Harvey, an aged white man who
I at Bln. if ton., wr* hVnruered here last
1 night at the home of his son on La
dies Island. The old man was bru-
tally murdered and the community
is much stirred up over the occur-
1 rence. There has not yet been any
direct evidence discovered which
points to the perpetrator of the dee,],
| but one negro is in the countv jail
here under suspicion.
Mr. Harvey was seventy-two years
of age and had been a respected cit
izen of this county for many years.
| Hp resided at Bluffton but was on a
visit to his son on Ladies' Island.
■ Last night the son and his family
went out to spend the evening leav
ing the old gentleman alone on the
pla^e. Upon their return thev found
him lying on the porch, he having
■ been shot to death. Robbery is
thought to have been the motive for
\ the deed.
1 ubscrlbe for Tho Lodgor; fl « year.
ON WHISKEY
AND TOBACCO
MAKING THE REAL ARTICLES IS
AN ART.
“Savoyard” Discusses the Flagrant
and Outrageous Adulteration of the
Present Day.
(Savoyard in Charlotte Observer.)
Give strong drink unto him that is
ready to perish and wine unto those
that be of heavy hearts.
Let him drink and forget his poverty
and remember his misery no more.—
Solomon.
This king, the grandest and most
mangiflcent of monarchs. dwelt in a
palace of cedar, sat ui>on a throne of
ivory, wore a jeweled crown, and was
the most universally wise man of all
th- sons of Adam. His oninions were
as versatile as his sagacity was peren
nial. On another occasion Solomon
said this:
Who hath woe? Who hath sgrrow?
Who hath contentions? Who hath
babblings? Who hath wounds with
out cause? Who hath redness of
eyes?
They that tarry long at the wine,
thev that go to seek mixed wine;
Ixmk not thou upon the wine when
it Is red. when It glveth Its color in
the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
At last it biteth like a serpent and
stingeth like an adder.
Adulteration is perhaps never so
fraudulent, so flagrant, and so out
rageous as in the preparation of much
of the poison sold as “table whiskies.”
Many a death “of heart failure” Is
the destructive work of rectified whis
key made of neutral spirits, colored.
doctored, “blended" by means of cer
tain villanious compounds. A barrel
of neutral spirits is as “new” a cen
tury after distillation as it is the day
it comes from the worm. To make
this stuff a merchantable article, its
blenders age it with drugs, color it
with caramel, smooth it with God
kn^v-s what, bead it with poison, and
in fifteen minutes, out of forty gallons
r* neutral spirits, that a respectable
doe- would not drink, they will make
you a barrel of fine table whiskey fif
teen years old. Bourbon or rye and
any brand vou please. Over eighty
per cent, of the whiskey drunk in the
United States is this villanious stuff.
Th concern having, perhaps, the most
popular brand i» all America, and
that sells more “fine table whiskey”
than any other single establishment,
has no distillery at all. It merely doc
tors neutral spirits to look like and
to taste like fine old whiske yof any
age or brand you may fancy. That
is "'hat ails the American stomachs
and has destroyed the American
nerves.
Th- making of real whiskey is a
process and an art. The best Ken-
tuck/ article is distilled frotn a mash
composed of sixty per cent. corn, thir
ty per cent. rye. and ten per cent bar-
lev malt. When this mixture is exact
ly ripe a liquid called "singlings” is
distilled from it, and that “singlings"
is later distilled again. The product
is whiskey, double-distilled. This is
‘straight goods,” but the whiskey is
not yet made—far from it. It is im
pregnated with deleterious elements
—fusel oil Is one. verdigris is another.
These escape in the work of aging,
8tH it takes several years to perfect
the process. The rich straw color
comes from the char of the barrel,
and purity comes from the evapora
tion through the pores of the staves
of the Impurities of the new whiskey!
At least three years must pass before
it is fit to drink, but it is as good as
it can get to he in eight years. A
barrel! containing whiskey is reduced
to thirty-five gallons by the process of
evaporation at the end of ten years, if
it be • properly stored and carefully
watched. This is real whiskey,
straight goods, without headache, the
pure article.
But the Mercer county man express*
ed all about it in the admonition:
“One drink Is enoiigh; two are too
many: three are mat half enough.”
That is to say. that good whiskey is
aif excellent servant and the hardest
of task-masters, and that was what
Solomon was talking about—the ser
vant and the master—in the passages
I hive quoted. He that hath ears to
hear. let him hear.
in the pure-food law and possibly could
not be without disturbing the sys-
metry of that necessary statue.
Few of niy fellow-sinners have any
thing like a correct conception of
what 1 shall venture to call the bless
ing of the narcotic Influence that
comes from tobacco, and especially is
this true of chgwers of the w r eed.
We have arrived at a stage of pub
lic opinion that demands, and will
have, pure food and pure drink,
Whiskey that is bottled in bond is the
only safe thing to drink if a man must
drink whiskey. The green stamp of
the government on the cork and
around the'neck of the bottle is guar-
ai.tee of the article, for the penalty of
refilling of an emptied or of adding to
a partially emptied package makes
the operation exceedingly hazardous,
and it will become almost impossible
when government inspection goes in
to full effect, as it will next year.
Under the new law "blended" goods
can be sold, but they must be labeled
as blend. Then, if you prefer to drink
rotgut t.iat is vour own business but
you drink it as rotgut and not as
straight goods.
It is quite likely that before the law
shall he in force ten years ninety per
cent, of the product of the distilleries
now turning out neutral spirits will
he turned into “denatured” alcohol,
av» the whlsklo- gold over the bar of
the saloon bottled in-bond goods, and
necessarily mire. Then there will re
turn the old rivalry among the table-
whiskey men to make the best goods.
I shall close this paper by telling
you what real chewing tobacco really
is. It does not come from Virginia,
nor vet from North Carolina—cer
tainly not from Ohio or Tennessee. It
(« only grown in the upper “Penny-
rile" of Kentucky. I have grown it
myself in the fine old country of Bar
ren. as follows, viz:
First catch your ground, barren
land, rich in potash, fertile, virgin,
covered with scrub hickory, small
post oak. red dogwood, some walnut,
wild grape vines, hazel nut shrub, and
mayapple plant. Clear this when the
foliage is yet untouched by frost,
leave the brush to rot on the ground
yellow as an October hickory leaf,
tough as French calfskin, and rustles
to the touch like the richest silk of
the fine lady.
The first gentle rain of late No
vember that patters on the roof will
turn it to a splendid magohany red.
Then, whatever the hour—Sabbath or
week day—seize the physoljgtcal
moment and "strike it down.” Now
“strip” it. culling unmercifully and
inexorably, ' bulk” it. treating each
"hand" as it were frailest lam* or ten-
derest babe. Leave it so all winter,
“hang” again, and permit the atmos-
I phere to dn your business, until the
[ leaf becomes as dry as Topnet’s pow-
| der-house. and crumbles to snuff to
[the instant and slightest touch of pro-
j fane man. The first gentle shower of
soft April will fetch it in case. Then
“strike it down” and "bulk,” being
j even tender and more affectionate
than before, if possible.
And so let It be until the summer
[ solstice, when it is fully in the
[ “sweat.” Now take it up and stem it.
Then slightly sprav it with real, sure-
p" winter, burn It over about St. Val
entine*h. if the season is dry enough. I enough peach brandy, ten years old.
f- it generally is. Then pqt the I distilled in the neighborhood—right
lumping coulter to It, cut It both ihe^e In Barren county
ways, slaughtering the roots and up
rooting the stumps. Then harrow it
both ways, gathering and burning,
when dry enough, the roots and
Aould Ayr whom ne'er a town surpas
ses
1 For hpuest men and bonnie lassies.
Dick VVeightman when he was out
with old Joe Shelby breaking up this
here glorious Union of ours—oft, when
he was riding by a Southern cabin,
saw a string of red peppers hanging
on the outer wall, the season whtn
glorious summer makes obeisance to
gorgeous autumn. In the tin cup of
pot-licker. as we had it in Kentucky,
there was a red pepper seed, some
times a yoke of them, in the pot-licker.
product of cabbage and “middling,”
and sugar-cured meat will not deliver
the goods, either.
Well, fill your belly with pot licker
a la Weightman. with a suspicion of
red pepper added, and if. before din
ner, you have communed with “Old
Mortality,” of "Henry Esmond,” or
‘A Tale of Two Cities.” or 'The Three
Guardsmen,” or “Les Miserables,” or
“Lucian de Rebenpre,” or "Candiie,”
or “Tom Jones,” or "Gil Bias,” or
"Roderick Random,” or Gibbon on the
Saracens—whatever you may have
read—
Take a chew of that tobacco and,
peer or peasant, saint or sinner, if
thou hast philosophy in thee thou’lt
drop into reverie
stumps. In March coulter both ways
and harrow both ways again, and
do the lik-e for the third time In April.
Repeat In May. and by the middle of
that month “set" the plants. Culti
vate with bull tongue regularly, and
hoe diligently and copiously to the ut-
Unlike whiskey, Tobacco is in no
sense a food. The one is a stimulant,
the other a sedative. Both are good
servants; both are bad masters. Both
are gifts of the same beneficent Prov
idence. and each was designed to
sfjrve a beneficent use. Tobacco is not
Impregnate the brandy with fresh,
new honey, just from the hive, until
it is a rather thin syrup. Twist the
tobacco so sprayed in bunches of
seven 1 :aves each, put it in an oak
chest, the wood of which is as dry as
the fiddle made when Julius H. was
ter discomfort and eradication of Poi, e . and the interior of which is ut-
weeds. "Prime” the last we»k in | terly without light and absolutely
July, “sucker” carefully throughout , without air. I^et It there remain un-
August. “worm” dally, and keep it up til the gentlest and sleepiest rain in
until it Is dead rine. and “cut," j the world patters on the clapboard in
“hang.” “house.” and ‘cure” between November,
the 1st and 10th of October. “Fire” ■ . .
with seasoned hickory wood in a barn My friend Dick Weightman has
tight enough to exclude the ligbt and dropped into the poetry of pot-licker
at the least seven-tier high. The and he did It deliciously. Luculius
species, if I may so call It. for that | never supped with Luculius Weight-
soil is the "Yellow Prior,” an-* when , ma n and I turned that trick in the
properlv grown and cured, it is as [ kitchen when we were boys. Surely
An Old Spanish Land Grant.
(Arkansas Gazette.)
The Toward County Real Estate
company, of Nashville, in looking up
the titles of timber lands which they
have nurchased for the new railroad
and lumber plant, discovered that one
tract of eighty acres of Land, situated
on the Saline river, in Howard coun
tv was vested in a Spaniard by the
Snanish government prior to th>- time
that portion of the country was trans
ferred to the United States as a result
of the Louisiana purchase, and prob
ably at the time or shortly after De
Soto explored that section, on which
trip he discovered the famous Hot
Snringg. which he believed to be the
springs of perpetual youth of which
he heard in the Indian legends.
—Go to the Cherokee Cafe for cold
drinks and lunches. P. C. Little,
Mgr., 114 Frederick St.