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»*He LARGEST CIRCULATION af Ar.y Newspaper In the Fifth Congressional District of 8. C. ihe Ledger ft. QUARANTCI THB RBLlARlLlT f of Every Advertiser Who Uses the Column# of Thlo Paper. EVERY ONE PAID IN ADVANCE SEMI-WEEKLY-PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. DE8T ADVERTISING MEDIUM. -• A Newepaper in All that the Word Implies and Devoted to tho Beat Interest of the People of Cherokee County. ESTABLISHED FEB. 16, 1894. GAFFNEY, 8. C- FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1907. •1.00 A YEAI^ NEWS FROM THE NATIONS’ CAPITAL THE ROOSEVELT-HARRIMAN CON TROVERSY. The President Defends His Course in the Heywood-Moyer Murder Case in Utah. WTashineton, D. C.. May 8.—All po litical conversation in tho national capital, these .lays, are confined chiefly to the muddle in tho Republi can. nertv anent the Taft boom and the president’s attitude hereto, a third term for Teddy and the row he has kicked up over tho Hatriman matter and the accusation aftainst the imprisoned miners out in Utah. The correspondence between Roose velt and Harriman was the sensation of a day or two here, but when it got uncomfortably warm for Teddy and people began to ask qustions and point out that the president had de liberately cut out some parts of the letters he had written to Harriman or vice versa, and that Harriman had evidently told all the truth and that Roosevelt had not. the latter side stepped quicker than a wink. He sent for a whole bunch of newspaper correspondents here and told them a huge cock-and-hull story about a five million dollar conspiracy to defeat him and his policies and had it sent broadcast over the country. Of course, that stopped all talk about the Harriman correspondence and everybody went to talking about the great alleged conspiracy to defeat the great “I AM,” and it was intend ed to have .lust exactly that effect. As I have frequently remarked pre viously. Mr. Roosevelt is a good poli tician and knows how and when to get to the public with something he wants the public to talk about. Ho did exactly the same thing a vear ago last winter. When he got into that tangle with Tillman, Bailey, and Chandler concerning the railrohd rate hill and came out of it with some of his tail feathers plucked, he immediately switched the talk to the beef barons and the meat packers of the country bv showing up the report of his special commissioners, who said that the packing houses were filthy and needed reforming a wiiole lot. and hence the cry for the clean ing bill passed by the Congress. The packers mav have needed the legisla tion given to them, all right, but the hue and cry about it stopped all talk about the Tillman-Bailey-Chandler controversy, and that’s what Roose velt wanted and got. This conspiracy business has had ^ the same effect on the Harriman con troversy and yet no evidence of any conspiracy has been presented to the dear public. No names have been called and every man who has been suggested as belonging to it. either has denied it openly and without con tradiction, or has proved an alibi. The truth probably Is that no such conspiracy exisits only in the migi- nation of the fecund brain of the president, who knows that the cap tains of finance of the eountrv have no reason to love him. for his crazy policies have caused values in this country to shrink over one billion dollars since 1901. How can such a thing occur without the common peo nle. whom he professes to love so much, losing monev as well as the magnates, for thousands of them have thoir money invested in railroad securities. If such a conspiracy does exist, then the president has got him self between the devil of the money power and the deep sea of trades unionism. His latest brelak has made the working people madder than a wet hen. His open condemna tion of Moyer and Heywood before they have had a chance to be tried before an impartial tribunal has set tongues awagging and heads athink- ing everywhere in this country, and people are beginning to ask them selves the question: has the presi dent of the United States the right to condemn a man before he has had a chance to be tried upon the facts and the evidence? Mr. Roosevelt is the chief magis trate of the United States. If he were a private citizen he might with propriety express his opinion of other individuals, subject only to the penalties which the law attaches to slander and libel. His opinion, then as to the guilt or innocence of an ac cused person, would be presumed to have no effect upon the trial of that person.* But as chief magistrate of the United States his publicly ex pressed denunciation carries with it the weight of Ms great office. The injury resulting from such recklessness of utterance on the part of the president of the United States, serious as it may be to the individual against Whom it Is directed. Is chiefly to the community at large and to the • office which Mr. Roosevelt holds. Comparatively few persons are In terested in what mav befall Moyer. Heywood or Harriman. but the whole country is concerned in the preserva tion off the dignity and character of the presidental office, and the obeserv- ance of proprieties bv any man holding that office. Mr. Roosevelt defends his course In publicly denouncing these accused men by declaring/that the persons who have protested to him against his action are guilty them' selves of trying to Interfere with 1us tlce. and he condemns this action. If It be true it should be condemned. lA but can it bo cited as justification for similar action on the part of tho Pre sident of the United States? What Is impror^r for a private citizen is infinitely more so for the president of tho United* States. If this recklessness and ruthless ness of procedure on the part of a private individual renders him an un desirable citizen, may not radicalism, recklessness and a ruthless disregard of proprieties render a man an unde- '•irahlo President? The qualities which Mr. Roosevelt attributes to these men are not desirable in a citi zen. Neither are they desirable in a President. They are less excusable in a President. Mr. Roosevelt says that it Is absurd to suppose that be cause a man is on trial for a given offense he is therefore to be freed from all" criticism upon bis general conduct and manner of life. But is it a fuctlon of the Chief Executive to rroLounce upon the desirability of American citizens, whether on trial or not? Is it for him to determine and de clare who are and who are not desir able citizens? His judgement may sometimes be right, as to this, but it may be wrong in as many instances, and whatever his opinion might he as a private citi zen. he as President of the United States has no right to pass his indi vidual judgment to the prejudice of ither the most powerful or the hum blest American citizen. Mr. Roosevelt declares it to be as foolish to assert that his denuncia tion was designed to influence the trial of Moyer and Heywood as it would he to assert that is was design ed to influence the snit that have been brought against Mr. Harriman. Whether so designed or not, his de nunciation of these men is calculated to influence the trials of both Moyer and Heywood. and the suits that have been brought against Harriman. If it is not the accusation of mur der brought against Moyer and Hey wood and the action of which Mr. Harriman is accused as the basis of the suits brought against him. what then is it that has caused Mr. Roose velt to conclude that these men are not desirable citizens? If kip con clusion is based on these accusations, then his denunciation is an assumn- t.ion that the accusations are true. If it is not based on these accusations, when did he acquire the information upon which he concluded that Moyer. Heywood and Harriman were unde sirable citizens and why did he not denounce them before these jn.itct- ments and suits were brought. He was well acquainted with Mr. Harri man prior to the charges that e p eon made against him. Was he also acquainted with Moy er and Heywood, and familiar witn their reputations, prior to their hav ing been indicted for murder? Did bis discovery that these three men are undesirable citizens coincide in time with their being accused of vio lations of the law? Did be know Mr. Harriman to be an undesirable citi zen when be was a guest at the mar riage of the president’s daughter? Did he know him to be an undesir able citizen when he was invited to the White House on other occasions and when correspondence was pass ing between himself and Mr. Harri man with reference to the "residen tial campaign and New York politics. Did he know Mr. Harriman to be an undesirable citizen when Mr. Harm- man was collecting campaign funds. If not. then is not the president’s judg ment based solely upon the accusa tions w'hich are being tried in the courts, and the truth of whicq has not vet been judicially determined? The complaint against Mr. Rouse- vent, is not made in defens ® of Mover. Mr. Heywood. nor Mr. Har- riman. but is in defense of official propriety, involving what is very close to every good, patriotic citizen. Mr. Roosevelt is not less subject, holding the high office he does, to criticism for recklessness apd radi calism. than is the ignorant agitator occunving a less responsible position. He dec 1 ares that a “square deal means ? treating all offenders alike. He cannot, therefore, object to being criticized for that recklessness of ex pression which he criticises in tnose of humble position. As to tho cour age displayed in bis thus repeating, with greater emphasis, his denuncia tion of men as undesirable citizens, it might have required greater cour- ag - for him to have retracted to the extent of expressing regret for hav ing made public his private opinion of men whose characters are under going the test of judicial examina tion. His letter is adroit rather than courageous, and is calculated to obscure the real issue—that of the nronrietv of his action—and on ex amination the letter seems to dis close either an obtuseness on, this point which is extraordinary for a man in his position or else a deliber ate. demagogical disingenuousness. Chas. A. Edwards. OLD SOLDIERS IN THE CAPITAL CITY THE CITY FILLED WITH VISIT ORS. Wonderful Eczema Cure. “Our little bor had eczma for five years.” writes N. A. Adams, Henriet ta. Pa. “Two of our home doctors said the case was hopeless, his lungs being affected. Wle then employd cither doctors but no benefit resulted. By chance we read about Electric Bit ters: bought a bottle and soon noticed improvement. We continued this me dicine until several bottles were used, when our bov was completely cured.” Best of all blood medicines and body building health tonic. Guaranteed at Cherokee Drug Co. 30c. —J. W. Abbott for the beet line of organg In Cherokee county. Prlooo right, term* what you aok for. The Ledger’s Correspondent Writes Entertainingly of the Confederate Reunion. (Columbia. May 8.—This city Is now filled.with veterans and their friends from all parts of the State and still they come. A grand entertainment is in store for all. Your correspond ent. reached the city via Yorkville and Chester at 3 p. m. Monday and was met by his host and beautiful hostess, Mr. and Mrs. Farmer, at the Blanding street, car line where each of them extended to him a hearty hand shake and a cordial welcome to their home where ho has been treated in the most, hospitable man ner. We have visited many of the interesting places in the city and feel proud of South Carolina’s capital and more particularly its people. Colum bia is doing its best to give all a grand time—one never to be forgot ten this side of tho grave, and to be remembered beyond. Our readers will please be patient until we have more time and oppor tunity to speak fully of this reunion and the people of Columbia. On every train reinforcements are com ing and this grand old city that has survived the horrors of war is reach ing out its strong arms to embrace them and hug them to its bosom. Those (if any) who are not enjoy ing the occasion have no one but themselves to blame for it. Old ac quaintances—those who have been separated for more than two score years, meet and recognize each other —recount their trials and in general open the flood-gates of recollection. The grey hairs, the faltering step and the furrowed cheek have taken the place of verdent youth and useful manhood. Everything has changed but that brotherly love which bound them together in a time that tried men’s souls. We have never seen or heard of an incident in this vast assembly of people gathered from all parts of the State, and sister States calculated to mar the pleasure of the occasion. Its a perfect love feast. Yesterday the spacious dining hall was thrown open and hundreds, yea. thousands of old veterans crowded around the long tables and eat to the full. .The best ladies of the city and their daughters were the waitresses. Manv of these dear ladies were among those who had bid their hus bands. fathers, brothers, sons and sweethearts good bye in the sixties and told the last named in particular to Go to the field where honor calls And win vour lover there. Upon the walls of the dinimr hail to the right and left, as well as in front of your correspondent as he sat at the table were: Fort Sumter. Chickamauga. Second Manassas. Wil liamsburg, Sharpsburg. Fredericks burg. The Wilderness. Cold Harbor. Seven Pines. Petersburg and many other places made memorable by the m n who were now to charge the breastworks of good viands set be fore them. We" have visited the asylum. Ep- worth Orphanage, and other places of interest to those who sympathize with the inmates of thes institu tions. Among the State officials none seem to he more at home than Gov. M. F. Ansel, who greeted every one with a smile and hearty hand shake. We had the pleasure of meeting among others from Union, our good friend I. Frank Peake. Esq., clerk of the court and with him took in the city. 'Misses Belle and Jeanette Vaugnn are in the city as sponsor and maid of honor of Camp Jefferies U. C. vet erans. We have had some fun with the beer hunters. One old gentleman— a Confederate soldier who had run up on something to drink and want ed to reinforce It with some beer said to your oorreanondenfl: “My friend, can you tell me where they keen the beer at?” We told him we hadn’t seen any. He gave us to un derstand he had smelled some and would like to try it. Continuing he said: “The State has appropriated the beer for the old soldiers gpd I am going to have my nart or know why I couldn’t get it.” We finally told him he had better apply at pro hibition headquarters and maybe they could take care of him. One old fellow from one of our adjoining counties who was muchly under the influence of the critter and a bottle in his pocket, said to us: “Jlain’t we having a big time?” “Yes.” we said, “and still its growing.” He said “We old Confeds know how to manage it. and we can play h—1 in three days.” Our answer was we could if we all had as good an instru ment as he had to make the music. After remonstrating with him a little and telling him that the people of Columbia expected better thing of the ex-Confederate soldier than to have them raving round like mad men and be had better put that bot tle and its contents In the gutter and get straight or he might find some trouble for himself, be finally conclud ed we were about right and said he was going to take our advice. When we saw him again he was all right. We had the pleasure of meeting Col. A. C. Haskell and shaking his hand and chatting with him for a con siderable length of time. The colo nel is in fine health. Apparently time has dealt most kindly with him. Before the reunion festivities come to a close we expert to have a reun ion of the 7th S. C. cavalry, Gary’s brigade, of wibrh we hope to have something to sav in our next letter, as well as other matters in which our readers may feel more or less in terest Before leaving home we didn’t have time to write anything of the meeting at Abingdon Creek last Sab bath in which the congregation was highly entertained by Rev. W. E. Crocker in his talk on foreign mis sion and the work he has been en gaged in for the last thirteen years in the far off field of China. Of this we expect to speak more fully to a subsequent letter. Our trip from home to Columbia was a very pleasant one. All along the route we were constantly receiv ing additions to our body of reunion visitors, which are here enipying themselves. The Presbyterians of the A. R. Presbyterian church met in Chester this week and we had several of the delegates and ministers on board coming down to attend it. J. L. S. SHORT NEWS ITEMS OF LOCAL INTEREST, EVENTS IN GAFFNEY AND CHER OKEE. A CORRECTION. Congressman J. Overstreet. (J. R. Bell in Spartanburg Herald.) Col. T. B. Butler informed your correspondent that on his return from Jamestown he met on the train a gentleman named Thoms who re sides at China Grove. N. C. That Mr. Thoms informed him that alnuit two y-'ars ago the good ladies of his neighborhood decided to clear off an old unused graveyard, that during the progress of the work they un covered an old marble slab which disolosed the fact that it had been erected to the memory of Congress man J. Overstreet, of York District. S. C. Mr. Overstreet was a memeber of the Seventeenth Congress and had died while on his wav from tho capi tal of the nation to his home in York District, S. C. Wlhile your corres pondent is a native of York county, he never heard of this congressman before, and the Seventeenth Congress must have held its session about eighty years ago. Tho ladies of the China Grove section are anxious to communicate with some of the rel atives of the dead congressman, and should this be Been by any of the aforesaid relatives they can get full information by writing to Mr. XJ? oms . railroad agent, at China Grove. "N. C. To be Unveiled May 17th. The Confederate monument which has been erected to the memory of the Confederate soldiers of Union District by the John Hames Chapter U. D. C.. will be unveiled at Jones- ville Friday, May 17, 1907. The ex ercises will begin at l5 o’clock m. Col. W. W. Lumpkin, of Columbia, will bo the spealr-er for the occasion. The public is cordially invited to at tend. especially the veterans. After the exercises the chapter, assisted by the ladies of the town, will serve dinner to tho veterans. Those desir ing to attend from a distance will find a schedule of trains convenient to come and return the same day. An invitation is extended to Camp Jefferies and also to the edito’- of The Ledger. Mrs. Hattie McWhirter, Prest. John Hamies Chapter. Mrs. F. M. Eilerbe. Secretary. .Splendid Isolation. (Philadelphia Ledger.) A number of military men in a Washington hotel were giving an ac count of an incident of the civil war. A quiet man who stood by at last said: “Gentlemen. I happened to be there, and might be able to refresh your memory as to what took place in reference to the event just narrated.” The hotel keeper said to him: “Sir. what might have been your rank?” “I was a private.” Next day the quiet man. as he was about to depart, asked for his bill. “Not a cent, sir; not a cent.” an swered the proprietor. “You are the very first private I ever met.” Cause Supplied. (Tit-Bits.) The valet one morning was brushing his master’s clothes. He introduced into the procedure a startling Inno vation. He made a careful search of all the pockets. In the pocket of a new waistcoat the valet found a sovereign. Thereupon he took out his pen knife. sighed, and said: “For the waistcoat’s sake it’s a thousands pities but there’s nothing else to he done. I must make a hole in this nock-et large enough for che sovereign to slip through.” Of all the fruits there are in the land. That grow on bush or tree. I would give up the choicest ones For Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea. Gaffney Drug Co. Ask your grocer for Argo Red Sal mon. and do not accept any substi tute. There Is no finer Salmon pack ed. May 6-10. —J. W. Abbott when vou want a Now Homo Sowing Machine. The most reliable tewing machine manu facture. Recent Happenings | n »nd Around thfl City and Other Evente Gather ed by the Local New> Editor. “My Wife’s Family” at the Star Theatre next Thursday night. Go out to the meeting of the board of trade at the citv hall tonight at 7:30. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Carson have gone to housekeeping. They are oc cupying the cottage lately occupied bv H. M. Johnson and family. Little Charley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. M. Pritchard, has been quite sick for several days. It is hoped that he will soon be on the road to recovery. Ex-Comptroller General J. P. Der- ham arrived in the city yesterdiav morning to assist Messrs. Spears, Hardin and Austell in checking up the books of the county officers. H. M. Johnson has moved into his handsome new home, corner Lime stone and Montgomery streets. Mr. Johnson has one of the prettiest and most up-to-date homes in Gaffney. Clyde Peeler is now installed with the Merchants and Planters Bank as l>ookkeeper. Clyde is one of Gaff ney’s promising young men and wiU make the M. and P. a most valuable assistant. The board of trade meets at the city hall tonight at 7:30. All mem bers are urged to be present, and every business man or propert v own er in the city is urged to become a member if he is not already one. All subscribers for stock of the Cotton Stalk Fiber Machine company stock are requested to meet at the city hall Friday night. Meeting will take place immediately after adjourn ment of board of trade meeting. The town council of Gaffney is pre paring to turn over to the recenly elected Board of Public Works the electric light and waterworks plants. The members of the council are glad to shift tills burden to other should ers. 'Mr. N. S. Burgess brought to this office yesterday a diminitive hen’s egg. It is hardlv as large as a part ridge egg. but was laid by a full grown hen which has been laving eggs of ordinary size up to the time that this one was laid. The commencement exercises of the Gaffnev graded schools will take place in tho Star Theatre on Monday evening. May 20th. Prof. Clinkscales, of Wofford college, will deliver the address to the graduating class. There will be an attractive program arranged and it will be pubished in a subsequent issue of The Ledger. There will he two services at Draytonville Sunday. First service at 11 o’clock a. m.; second service at 2 p. m. Rev. W. E. Crocker will con duct bo^h services. Sun.lav school at 10 a. m. Everybody invited to at tend and bring well filled baskets, as dinner will be served o- the ground. Also bring an offering for foreign missions. Solicitor Sease Denies Statement Made in Mills Case. (Spartanburg Herald.) Mr. Busbee wishes it stated that he is Mills’ step-father and not his father-in-law. as was stated in The Herald Sunday morning in the fol lowing paragraph from the article under the heading. “Swears to her shame to save her husband." There was no one present outside of the lawyers, except Mr. Busbee. MUllfl’ father-in-law, and the representative of The Herald. According to the very best legal authority. Mills is not in such a bad plight. Judge Hydrick, In announc ing his judgment declining to let Mills out on baH. stated that no man had ever been convicted in this State under such circumstances, and that h-' did not suppose one would ever be. Judge Hydrick’s Statement. To The Spartanburg Daily Herald: You published in today’s paper under the heading “Mills’ Stepfather.” the following sentence. “Judge Hydricb in announcing his Judgment declin ing to let Mills out on bail, stated that no man had ever been convicted in this State under such circumstanc es. and that he did not suppose one would ever be.” This is a mistake. Judge Hydrick never nsed the language here attri buted to him concerning the Mills case and in justice to him I ask that vou make the correction. The judge did say something like the above, with reference to another case, a sup posed case. A case in which he said he would have granted hail. The “such circumstances” did not refer to the Mills case. No circuit judge in refusing or granting ball in any case would give his opinion as to’the outcome of the case before the jury. Respectfully. T. S., Sease. The Congretional Services. Rev. T. T. Martin is preaching twice a day to great congregations who listen with interest to his manly presentation of Bible truth. His great aim is to get people to under stand the simplicity and the certain ty of the Plan of salvation through Jesus Christ. He strips the Plan of all that men have thrown around it and holds it up in its simple power. Services each day at 4 p. m. and 8 p. m. Next Saturday night his subject will be “Where the lights go out on the road to hell.” Sunday services will be at 10:10 and 11 a. m. and at 3:30 and 8 p. m. At 3:30 Sunday afternoon his subject will be “Hell as taught by reason, as taught by infidels, as represented by Bob Ingersal and as taught by the Bible.” Sunday night “Salvation as taught bv the Catholic Bible.” The Race Problem. Mr. Editor:—There is a great deal said about the white and colored races living here together in peace. I want to show by this article that the colored people receive equal rights in more things than thev are aware of. I want to show that the r>oor colored man has an equal chance with the poor white man. When an industrious colored man goes to rent a farm he is not turned off on ac count of his color, but he is accepted as quick as any man on earth. So we can get that equal chance from all the farmers in the South. I call that “equal rights.” This is true in employing a lawyer or doctor. When we go to a merchant to buy goods the colored man can buy goods as cheap as if he was as white as snow. I call that “equal rights" again. So the far TT ' giv^s us our food and. the store gives us our raiment. So our food and raiment constitute the greatest battle of life. So you see that the colored man has an equal chance with the white man. There are not many, if anv colored neoule, that have not received good advice from white people. Our enemies don’t give us good advice. Mr. Thos. Spencer, of Lawn, has given me as good advice as a. father. T think that I have made friends with about all the white people that T ever had any dealings with. I think a great deal of Mr. E. P. Maeomson. of Mercer, and Mr. I. M. Peeler and Mr. R. O. Ballengf'r, of Gaffney. I used to live with and near them and now I have made new white friends that will befriend me in the time of need. I can’t give their names as there are too manv. but it seems that I am more indebted to Mr. R. B. LeMaster than all. I lived with him longer, and he taught me how to work, and how to count, and how to live a true Christian life. W: G. P. Clifton No. 1. May 7. 1907. Hambright-Patrick. At tho residence of Mr. Goforth at Limestone Mills. Mr. J. C. Hambright and Miss Annie Patrick were united in wedlock. Rev. E. G. Ross officiat ing. The ceremony was witnessed b’’ a number of friends of ih^ con tracting parties. The groom halls from Anderson. The couple will leave Saturday for that city. The best wishes of a large circle of friends and acquaintances are extend ed the young couple. —,—— Bennettsville Has Them All Beat. (Peo Dee Advocate.) The shortest street in Rockingham Is Long; the biggest man In Gaffney is Little: the oldest man in Jackson ville is Young, and the slowest man in Chesterfield is Quick. But Ben nettsville has them all b«-at- The blackest woman in this town Is Lily White. And He Wag Perfectly Sober. “Uncle Jake” Montgomery, color ed. was in The Ledger office Tuesday and subscribed. While in the office he said. “Boss. I is sixty-five years old and I seed somin’ yesterday I never seed before and I wants vou to nut it In de paper.” This is his story: "As me an’ guy wife wuiz ridin’ ’long, my wife said. ‘Look dar Jake, at dem rats,’ an’ I looked an’ fo’ grashus dsr wuz twirty-two rats In ore bed. I wuz just cornin’ frum soeln’ the sick, and I declare boss, I hand’t had a drop of mountain dew.” BEWARE OF “DIGESTIVES." The ordinary "didpepefo” tablets has ruined more stomachs than all other causes combined. Giving temp orary relief, it leaves the digestive system weaker than ever, and the tablets must be continued with In creasing frequency. Mi-o-na excites the secretion of gastlc lulco. and when the food Is swallowed, tho stomach Is readv to digest It. Mi-o-na stomach tablets are never sold In bulk, but in a neat box con venient for the nurse or wst pocket, at 60c. A gimratee is given by the Gaffney Drug Co. with every lx>x of Mi-o-na, that money will he refunded if the remedy falls to give satisfaction. This shows their faith in the merits of the remedy^ It’s too bad to see people who TO from day to day suffering from phy sical weakness when Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea would make them well. The greatest tonle known. S3 oents. Ton or Tablets. Gaffney Drug Oo.