The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, July 10, 1908, Image 1
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The Gaffney ledger.
^STABL'SHED FEB. 16, 18H.
A NEWBPAPKPI in all that thb word implizb. and dzvoted to thz beat interest op the PEOPLE OP CHEROKEE county.
GAFPNEY, B. C-, FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1908.
91.50 A YEAR.
ORATION BY SENA
TORIAL CANDIDATES
1HE< SPOKE TO CHEROKEEANS
YESTERDAY.
So”-e Excellent Speeches and Some
Not So Good-.-No Senatorial De-
•. e opments.
^,-i.atorinl < fiinpaiin party ar-
i .-•! \V<dijc>(la> nitl.'t. The meeting
a *;.» * . ,i t li*■ v. ti.-> < all* <1 to order
yesTerday ,it lorljO by Jlon. J. C. Otta,
( ■.(;!' < bairman. who < ailed on Uev.
Harper- io open he meeting
v. p;i p; (•)•. ]i;iin commenced to fall
a - fei. • h'<ur and as a consequence
ti.e a -cndano small, only about
1 .vo tiundjcd and lifty people beina
prr-scrn.
Mr. Ithett, of Charleston, was the
firs' speaker who said in part that
L*- earn* not as a llatterer hut as a
T isini ss man. Tliat lie believed that
the people would he best represented
I- a business man. He spoke for-
tiolv and fcr-lingly uf the sufferings
*hich we- went tlirough prior to re-
coiistruetion when w<- were forced to
resoi-t ui tin- K. K. K. in order to re
deem our grand old State from tne
rule of the carpet bagger and scala
wag He spoke of the infamous finan-
c:al power of the gigantic trusts
which rob the people and who in turn
rob each ^her. That the- great sys
tems of raiways are in the hands of
a few people in New York; that, they
are ’he great highways and that they
should give everybody fair play but
the. are not doing it. That the bonds
tesued by the government are gob-
bled up by the financiers of the
North, and that the government would
net send any money to the South
curing the recent panic but sent 60,-
PPO.OOO to New York. That in com-
Erion with many other Democrats he
had not voted in 1806 either for Bry
an Palmer or McKinley. That in
C&bO he voted for Bryan and in 1004
for Parker the regular nominee of
tL<- party. That he went to the last.
State Democratic convention as a
delegate from Charleston, a support
er of Mr. Bryan, although opposed to
instructions, and that he is now a
supporter of Mr. Bryan.
Mr Rhett’s speech was a strong
one and he was liberally applauded
when he closed.
John P. Grace, Esq., of Charleston,
was the next speaker. He said In
part that Mr. Rhett had accused him
of following him around in order to
defeat him for the United States sen-
a’.e. but he denied this. He is run
ning on his own merits and that he
hoped to get the nomination. That
his friend from Charleston is not a
Democrat because in 1896 he bolted
the party and refused to’ vote for
Bryan for president. That Mr. Rhett
said in f’hesterfield tha' the reason
he did not vote for Bryan in 1896 was
because the platform was dishonest.
That if he belonged to a party that
bad a dishonest platform he would
quit the party and stay quit. That
Mr. Rhett said in his speech that he
received a message the day before he
Grace) filed his pledge as a candi
date for the United States senate
that if he would support a certain
local candidate in charleston that he
would not file his pledge as a candi
date. That if Mr. Rhett said that ho
tGrace > had sent him any such mes
sage that he stated what was not so.
Mr. Grace’s entire twenty-five minu-
'es was devoted to Mr Rhett and the
only time touched upon na
tional issues was when he referred to
Mr Rhett's predilection for ship-sub
sidy and a protective tariff. He was
applauded liberally a’ the close of his
speech.
Ex-Governor John Gary Evans, of
Spartanburg, was next introduced
and was received with applause. He
said in part: That the government
is controlled by the millionaires and
trust magnets of the North, and that
they are Republicans, and are^non-
producers. That we of the # Seuth
are Democrats and that we are the
producers. That the farmers of the
South produce three-fourth of the en
tire exports of the United States, and
that all the vast amount of money
which arises from these exports goes
into the hands of the manufactors of
the North who make everything we
wear except our cotton shirts.
Taut this wearing apparel costa
Juat one-half as much Id Europe
as it costs here, hut when we buy
these things over there and bring
them here tbe duty wblcl we have to
pay or them makes it cost us more
than we could buy them for here.
That New England is almost ready
hi .oil, ’he South in her demand for
our trade. That the great shoe fact
ories of that section have been put
out of business by the tariff on hides
and that they have elected a Repub-
lican governor on a free trade plat
form. Governor Evans’ speech was
a discussion of national issues and
was very liberally applauded at its
close.
f'o). George Johnstone, of Newber
ry was next introduced and said in
part: That the Press of the State
for some reason, he knew not what,
were not publishing anything of the
discussion of the vital questions in
which the people are interested and
that the only way to get the issues
before the people would be for the
candidates to organize a press bureau
and then put the people in possession
of the views of the candidates. That
it is no use for him to say that he is
a Democrat for everybody knows that
fact. That one of the candidates
prides himself upon the fact that he
is a business man, the most business
man of the campaign party, which the
speaker thinks is Pharisaical a "holier
than thou" doctrine. What the farm
er needs more than anything else is
a renurneiatjve price for cotton. The
fanner desires to he in a position to
hold his cotton until he can get a
tair price for same am! he thanked
God that the farmer had partially
won tne fight We need an enlarged
circulation ami an elastic currency.
When we went to the hanks for mon
ey during the recent panic that the
hanks would reply “we are sorry, hut
the financial condition of the country
will not warrant our lending any
money. We are'forced to keep our
money to protect our interests.”
That’s a fact gentlemen. Everything
the hanker does he does it to protect
his interest. Col Johnston asked
’-very person in the audience, includ
ing the ladies, who had $5.00 in his
pocket to rise. It is needless to say
that no one arose. Turning to Mr.
Rhett, he said; "Now. rny friend, you
see how many votes you will get here.
I will, ’ continued the speaker ‘ get all
of the five cents men.”
Col. Johnston, as usual, made a
.strong speech and was applauded at.
the close.
The next speaker was Hon. E. D.
Smith, who said In part:
In Union 1 made the second ad
dress afier the birth of the cotton
holding movement at Shreevesport,
this movement culminating largely
in the present fair price for cotton.”
He said that he thought that the de
velopment of the natural resources of
the South and the removal of some
legislation serving to limit the world’s
markets for cotton, was at this time,
of far more importance to the pro
ducers and the laboroers of all class
es, than the tinkering with tte tariff
or currency law. He is in favor of a
revision of the tariff along democrat
ic lines and in favor of currency leg
islation, but points out that little
could be done by the South in this
matter, because this section has such
a minority in Congress. Said his
idea is to so enlarge and to so in
crease the cotton markets of the Old
World, by legislation, and to so aid
the Southern States by water power
surveys and other legislations tend
ing to build up tfija section as a man
ufacturing section, so that finally if
we are to have a tariff it will fall alike
on both North and South, thus giving
the southern producer an equal
'•fiance. He stands for the producers
ol wealth and the laboring men, not
that he wants special legislation in
ih'-ir behalf, but that no unjust leg
islation shall prevail against them.
He suggested that neither Bankers.
Lawyers, Physicians, nor any of the
professional classes add a dollar to
the wealth of this land, but are mere-
1> distributors of wealth. Railways
charge th^ sSme freight, banks the
same interest and lawyers the same
fees, no matter what the price of our
Krea J # sl ^fl le product. He said that a
man of the great producing class
could best serve that class in the
Senate and reiterated that his wp
ptfrt was his Farm in Lee County.
Said bis four years' service in the
Southern Cotton Association was well
known to many in Gaffney and that
his aspirations to serve his State as
: a Senator' was not merely personal
, hut a desire to be better equipped to
j < a rry on the cotton fight because of
his official position. He retailed that
he was sneered at when he began this
i fight, but now that a living price for
cotton had been brought about and
the whole South was feeling his heal-'
fleent effect, lo, the politicians were I
beginning to seek support as the
producer and the laborer, when four
years ago they lifted not a finger to
assiet in the fight. He thanked the
citizens of Gaffney for the loyal wa>
in which they had "stuck” and hoped
they would "stick” at the primary
election, the twenty-fifth of August.
He was liberally applauded at the
close of his speech.
Mr. W. W. Lumpkin, of Richland,
was the next speaker. The speaker
paid his respects to each of the can
didates in turn and said they should
all get out of the race except timself,
Rhett and Grace. That -he wan'tetl
Grace to stay in to continue to jump
on Rhett. The Democratic party has
since the war fought the national
bank system and Andrew Jackson
fought it while he was president of
the Unted States. The party fights
ihe system because it puts money in
the hands of individuals and corpora
tions. That the Democratic party is
opposed to trusts. The speaker said
he was opposed to the manufacture
and sale of whiskey. The first ques
tion which is asked by the business
man an applicant for a position is
"do you drink?” and if the answer is
in the affirmative he replies, “I do not
need you.” That whiskey is the most
potent agent for evil that exists to
day. ft robs home of peace and hap-
piness and makes thieves and mur
derers. Mr. Lumpkin closed by in-
'iting everybody to Washington when
ho is elected to the Senate and prom
ised to entertain them handsomely.
He was liberally applauded.
The last speaker was Hon. O. B.
Martin, who said in part: The whole
trouble in Hie price of cotton is the
Wall street gamblers, who sells thous
ands of bales of cotton that do not
exist and thus keeps the price de-
iwessed. and that if elected to the
senate he would do all in his power
to suppress the operations of these
gamblers. He referred to a state
ment made by Mr. Smith some time
ago when he said that the Farmers’
Association should hang the first
measly scaly officer of the associa
tion who enters politics. He is op
posed to allowing indiscriminate emi
gration. He spoke of his services to
the Stan- in the office which tie now
occupies, and concluded with a very
funny joke and closed amid applause.
After recess the speaking was re
sumed. Messrs. Butler, Finley and
Bollock, candidates for Congress from
this, the Fifth District, spoke In the
order named.
Colonel Butler was introduced by
(’apt. J. B. Bell, who was acting
chairman. He began by recounting
his advent into this section; how he
had become interested in the people
and the active part he took in the for
mation of Cherokee county. He was
grateful to the people of the county
for the honors shown him and the
kindness shown him by the people.
He had ever been faithful to tne
trusts imposed in him and if elected
to Congress would exhibit the same
careful attention to their welfare
and would exert his best endeavors
to make them a live, active represent
ative who would be ever mindful of
their interests. He twitted Mr. Find
ley for having waited until near the
campaign before securing a public
building for Gaffney, and declared
that while he had done something lor
his district that any other man with
equal ability could have accomplish
as mach in the same length of time,
and that if he were elected he would
certainly endeavor to prove to the
voters of the district that they had
made no mistake in changing their
representative.
Mr. Butler was liberally applauded
before beginning his speech and also
at its chose, and was also interupted
several times during his remarks
with enthusiastic applause, showing
’hat he was well thought of in his
borne county.
Mr. Finley was then introduced.
He. too. was liberally applauded. He
defended his course and gave an ac
count of his stewardship during the
time he has been in Congress. He
recited the appropriations by Con
gress to improve the Pee Dee river
at Cheraw and the Wateree river at
Camden, the appropriations to build
public buildings at Chester, Rook
Hill and Gaffney and claimed credit
for tbe same. He said tha only reason
why he bad not secured a public
building at Gaffney earlier waa be*
cause it was necessary to wait until
a post office had become a second-
class office before an appropriation
for a public building could be secur
ed. There were five hundred town*
in the United States that were larger
than Gaffney which had no public
building He had been honored by
bis colleagues in Congress and had
been made a number of some of the
moat Important oommftteea, and
much of his time had been spent In
committee room and that was tha
WITH THE EDITORS
AT LIMESTONE.
THE SAGE OF ETTA JANE TELLS
ABOUT IT.
made us hHie\f- we <<mld command Beaverdam creek and one acrosl the
under such trying circumstances, drain at Mr. Thomas Wilkerson s gin
However, during these few moments house on the Howell’s ferry road,
ot suspense (which seemed almost a few farmers have grass in their
like hours) our mind was busy pictur- cotton but it is not so bad as one
ing a scene wnich might possibly end might think from the amount of rain
in the widowhood of Mrs, “J, L. S.” we have had. Last week the plow*
and a profusion of flowers (which were practically idle In this section
ha\e been carefully kept out of our on account of me rain,
life’s pathway) being placed on our Mr. L. M. Hartford has worked out
last resting place. It was not long, the road on the ferry hill this side of
A Trip to HicKory Grove and What ,low< ‘ V( ' r - ’>oiil the situation changed, the river and put it in passable order.
Mr. Decamp, who all this time had Mrs. Mattie Blackwell and child
been actively engaged in seeing that spent Wednesday night with us.
everybody was seated comfortably, i n a il our life we have never seen
announced that all were now ready a better general prospect for a corn
and the procession moved off—the crop than we now have. Much of It
au’os m front. is too large to give another plowing,
When tin- big automobile iwhich owing largely to its being tangled by
had been loaded as long us an Inch of the wind.
room could he tound on or in it) The large oak tree standing at the
He Saw—Locals and Personal Para
graphs.
W’ilkinsville. July — We spent
a
short time with the editors at Lime
stone college last Tuesday. They
are a representative body of men—
far above the average in intelligence reacho
if not in style and beauty. We have
often heard it said that literary men
were generally poor and always ugly.
We don’t know that that holds good
with the South Carolina Press Asso
ciation as we see it. At least we
were not impressed with that idea
while among them. Perhaps Bro. De
camp had a picked crowd with him.
We can’t say about that. They were
a genial set of men, however—repre
senting nearly every section of th<-
State as well as some from other
States.
Manj of them had their wives or
daughters with them. We were sort'
we had no longer time to spend with
thorn, but we made good use of what
time we had. We were sorrx to miss
seeing Gen. R. R. Hemphill—he had
the college it began to "buck” as if it
didn't mre whether it went any Fur
ther or not. However, it was per-
the grade coming up from corner of the piazza at the Sam
Mitchell place was struck by light
ning recently.
A crowd of the Sharonites came
swaded 'o make a second and then a over last Wednesday to fish at the
third pul! which took it to the top of Thomson mill. Mr. Garner drew the
tlie grade and then it sped on like a water off and they made a fine catch,
thing of life leaving a blinding dust \v e asked one of the citizens of
behind it which amounted to suffioca Gaffney the other day of what kind
limi to those in the rear. The engin- of looking men he thought the Press
ei i seeing the dust he was raising Association was made up? His reply
pulled aside and let the carriages was; “They will do very well. I
l )ass - reckon, but If I don’t believe Ed.
i p to this time our driver had held DeCamp Is the best looking man In
his horses in ' heck somewhat, but the crowd."
when he passed the auto he “let his, We don’t know what the ladies
grays out and to use a homely ex- think, but from what our friend said
pression, they fairly burnt the wind, no one can make it appear that any
1 urning first into one street then in- nf the members were ugly.
to another and so on. It was but a
few moments until we reached Mr.
Wheat's cornel when your corres
pondent thinking Ids time was fully
up to start for home, bid his com-
J. L. 3.
not arrived and we were told tliat it panions good bye and asked the driver
was doubtful whether he would be to let him off which he did and thus
able to attend. However, we met our brief but pleasant visit to the
some with whom we wen acquainted State Press Association ended.
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and many more we had never seen
before, several of whom would say;
1 have often read your letters.”
It's always inspiring for one who
lias a respect for great men and great
minds to be associated with them
We couldn’t convince ourself that even if it be for only a short time.
we were among strangers altogether,
for we were not.
A New Law Firm.
1 Spartanburg Herald.)
Hon. Stanyarne Wilson iia-s form-
a co-partnership with Attorney
H. K. Osborne, of Gaffney, who will
in the future move with his family to
’his city. The firms name will be
"Wilson &, Osborne.” and the offices
will lie over ’he First National bank,
’he same as are at present occupied
by Mr. Wilson. Mr. Osborne is re
garded as one of the ablest lawyers
in ’he Ftare. Mr. Wilson has one of
'he largest practices of any lawyer in
South Carolina. The new firm will
doubtless prove one of the strongest
legal teams in Carolina. Mr. Osborne
is at present a member of ’he law
firm of Osborne, Butler & Brown.
Celebration of the Fourth.
The Fourth of July was celebrated
So, gentlemen of the Press Associa-
’ion, our best, wishes attend each and
As we left the car and walked every one of you and we hope your
toward the college building the yard, meeting in our city and county will
door steps and porticos were so be long and pleasantly remembered
crowded that one would otherwise by oach and every one of you and
have thought, that the college girls also of your families which have
had returned from their vacation and honored us by their presence,
brought their friends wifh them. We We reached our home about 9 p. m.
were met by Mr. DeCamp and escort- where we found another ordeal await
ed to the dining-room where a sump- ing us—a good sound scolding from
tuous dinner was waiting for us. To our better half for going among tnose
this we sat dbwn and did ample Jus- strangers with no better clothes on. Saturday by both city and country
tice. It consisted of anything and She was rather plain on the subject, people. No part of the proposed pro-
everything calculated to please the We got cut of It by promising to let g ra m was carried out on account of
fancy or tickle the taste of either a the editors and their families—wives ra i n except a game of ball in the
laboring man or a confirmed epicure, and children—know that we had bet- morning between Pacolet and ’he
ter clothes at home. This she object- Gaffney Manufacturing Company. The
ed to again and we may get another base ball game, balloon ascension,
sound scolding when she sees this in races, etc., were all arranged for ’he
print. But we will try and be absent a fternoon. About 12 o’clock it com-
when the paper comes In giving an menced to rain and continued to do
account of our days’ experience, so for several hours. There were
She says if we had told her that hundreds of people at Limestone in
morning for certain that we were go- the morning and when it commenced
somewhat of a Confederate reunion ing to Limestone she would have to rain there was hurrying from all
in which everybody knew somebody made us dress up better. She’s a sources for shelter.
else. The cordial hand-shake maae right “fixy” old lady and don’t like
one feel that the heart behind it was any of her people to appear to a dis-
one full of fraternal fellow feeling advantage, especially among strang-
and that the owner had a grasp as ers.
well adapted to the wielding of a We made a hurried trip to Hickory
It was splendid as well as abundant
and wound up with a dessert of Ice
cream cold enough to freeze a Nor
wegian out of his winter quarters.
Dinner over we set about our work
of getting acquainted with the “pen
cil pushers’’ as much as our limited
time would allow. It reminded us
occasion was
thi- Gaffney brass
Miss Mary T. Nance Speaks.
Miss Mary T. Nance, president of
the Rural School Improvement Asso-
twenty pound mule as the guiding of Grove yesterday and found our Jolly oiatioT1 ' Soufh Carolina, delivered
a delicate lead pencil. With us this old friend. Mr. Robert Westmoreland, an a<ldress before a large and a’ten-
was a trying ordeal. Having some- in one of his happiest moods. We ,ive audience ,ai ' t Tuesday n:gh' at
time ago got one our fingers hurt made him half-way promise to get up the Cherokee Avenue school,
from which the soreness hasn’t yet a budget of “dots” from that growing she s P oke entertainingl> ou he
left, we were frequently persuaded to and wide awake town. If “Uncle Possibilities of boys and girls, the
holler “ouch” when one of these- big Bob" does undertake it The Ledger nee< * an< * ' a ^ ue developing .hese
Ix-arted and strong muscled editors readers will get something rich, rare P 0B8 ibilities, the duty of a teacher,
got hold of our hand. But we thought and tacy. and the ^ of co-operation between
tliat wouldn’t do on an occasion of In the postofflee at Hockory Grove tea chers and parents,
this kind for we despise this everlast- Mr. Meek McGill succeeds Mr. John music on this
ing complaining business some folks K. Allison, who has resigned the post- we ^
are always in—never well—something mastership after a long term of the band,
always wrong. If not one thing then most efficient and acceptable service.
another they are sour about. A new bank building has been “Flag Day at Macedonia.”
Dr. Lodge, Mr. DeCamp and other erected at Hickory Grove within the There will be a ‘Flag Day" at
Gaffneyltes were on the qui vive to last year which is an ornament to the Macedonia the third Sunday, July 19.
see how they could make their guests town. Mr. Nixon McGill, Jr., is the The afternoon will be taken up by
feel happy and at home. cashier with Mr. Mason Wilkerson, the old folks singing old time songs,
When the carriages and automo- assistant. in the “Old Timbrel of Zion,” song
Idles lined up on the college ground Messrs. Will S. Jones and Watt book. Everbody is Invited to attend,
to taae the visitors and guests on a Moss, of Hickory Grove, have bought W. D. Byars,
ride through the city and to the base out the shop of Mr. Humphries and ____
ball grounds (or wherever they wish- are going to conduct tbe business at First Baptist Church Notss.
ed to go) your correspondent was as- the o'd stand where they will be; ^ g , mmg t8 t0 fl „ hlg pu , plt
signed a seat in one of the carriages pleased to serve their customers and i UB . , g . ..v
guarantee their work. We didn’t get I
behind a “snatching pair” of grays.
When a neighboring auto began puf-, to see Henry McDaniel on this trip
fing and grunting as it were going and we hope “Uncle Bob” will remem-
into a state of rebellion, the grays her him in his letters when he writes
to The Ledger.
Sabbath school at 9:45. A cordial
invitation to all to worship with us.
Rains have been general and crops
(Continued on page four.)
didn't like it and began to show signs
of unnecessary activity as we looked
upon things in our general surround
ings. We had no idea that well rais
ed town horses were afraid of such a
commor thing as an automobile. Had ; sented tbe first bloom this season.
! it beer, a pair of idiosyncrastic conn- Mr. Addie B. McKown, of Cornwell,
1 try mules attached to the carriage' spent Wednesday night with ua. He
somebody else would have been wel- is a machinest and la fixing up en-
come to our seat In ft. But It wouldn’t ginee in Western York. He Is s
do to show the white feather now and i natural born meebanic and knows all
so we kept our seat with a degree of I about as eagfae that la worth know-
stolid Indifference or assumed j ing.
bravery that no one could ever have i A bridge hat been built across
It Can’t Be Beat.
The best of all teachers is expert-
along eur line of travel—especially ence. C. M. Harden, of Silver City,
corn—is fine. Cotton in this section North Carolina, says: “I find Elec-
is late. Master Hemphill Estes pre- trie Bitters does all that’s claimed
for it. For Stomach, Liver and Kid
ney troubles it can’t be beat I hava
tried It and find it a most excellent
medicine.” Mr. Harden is right; it’a
tbe best medicine also for weakness,
lame back, and all run down condi
tions. Best too for chills and malaria.
Sold undsr guarantee at Cheroksa
Drug Co. 50 cants