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THE GAFFNEY LEDGER. TuMday an# FrMay. H. oaCamp. Editor MM PvMMwr CITY DIRECTORY. W. H- Roto .. .. W. O. Jobmaoa .. .. Mayor PtoTom Goo. ■. Hood Ctty T. H. Llttlojoka T H. Loekhart OkM A. L. Hallmaa .. ..Mooltk Da tier 4 Oobormo .. .. CDr AttjG Board iff Pottle worts* A. N- Wood .. .. 1 J. N. Lipaoomb .. B. G. Clary Beaitf of T«Mo. / W. C. Hamrlok . •J*®****®* j. c. Otto.. .. •• .. ..BoMOtoqr CAUSE AND EFFECT. Now that the election is over and we have had time to recover our breath from the knock-out administer ed by the Republicans, let us speculate a little as to the cause of the terrible drubbing given the Democratic party. In the first place, it was a foregone conclusion to any man who stopped long enough to think, that we stood little or no show to win in this con test with Mr. Bryan as the leader. That Mr. Bryan is truly a great and good man, worthy of any position within the gift of the American peo ple, no one, who is not biased by pre judice will deny. But, to our mind, there is the whole trouble. Aside from the opposition he encounters in the Republican party he has to con tend with the prejudice against him self in his own party and that of the independent voter. The Democrats ■can never hope to win without the vote of every man who claims to be a Democrat and a large per cent of the independent vote as well. We have no way of proving it, but we believe that there are at least a mil lion American voters who are Demo crats, or have Democratic leanings, who would never vote for Mr. Bryan under any circumstances whatever. Why? Because the man has stood upon every Populistic platform nam- able within the pasi sixteen years. He has advocated the subtreasury, free silver, government ownership of railways and such things as are wholly antagonistic to Democratic principles and doctrines until the ma jority of the American voters have come to distrust him. There was nothing wrong with the last Demo- cratc platform and Mr. Bryan stood squarely upon it, but it was his previous advocacy of insane govern mental ideas that contibuted to the distrust and prejudice against him this year. No party can hope to win when it puts a candidate forward who is handicapped by the opposition of twenty per cent of its own members. Mr. Bryan is a wonderful campaigner and it may be true, as some assert, that he made a better race than any other, man could have made, but we refuse to believe it. it is true that he cut Republican'pluralities wonder fully, but the Republicans got the majority just the same, and they got more votes in the electoral college than ever before. We believe also that Mr. Bryan made them spend more money than they ever spent in a single campaign heretofore, but they might have spent just as much or more with a different candidate opposing them. If the Democrats ever expect to win a presidential contest they must put forward a man in whom the busi ness interests of the country have sufficient faith to support him. You may talk about your laboring man’s candidate and your people's candi date all you please, but it remains tuat the laboring man and the people will only vote for a man who, they believe, will administer the affairs of the government in such a manner as will bring the greatest amount of prosperity to the country. We boast of our solid South, but the South is not going to remain solid a great while longer, if one may judge from the greatly reduced majorities of the Democrats in some Southern States, notably North Carolina and Georgia. And after all it does not surprise us. We cuss the Republic ans for their protective tariff planks and abuse them because they give the trusts the privilege of robbing “the people,” and yet every man of us is a protectionist at heart. The cotton growers of the South join the Cotton Association or the Farmers’ Union to protect the price of cotton; the oil mill men form their organiza tions to protect themselves; as do al so the bankers, the ice makers, the cotton manufacturers, etc., etc. The merchants, the meat market men and conductors of every industry, almost, have a private understanding that they protect each other. It’s a day of trusts and protective ideas and it prevails in the South as well as the North, the East and the West, and if the Democrats ever hope to be honest with themselves they must adopt the principles advocated by that great Pennsylvania protectionist Democrat, Samuel Randall. We can not hope to win, unless we first be honest with oursehes, and it’s use less to advocate one principle and practice another and expect to win converts to our cause. In 1912 let us nominate John John son, of Minnesota, and Chas. B. Ay- cock, of North Carolina, and place them on a platform that will call for an honest revision of the tariff as suggested by Mr. H. E. Miles, and we will win in a walk, because then we will not only present a solid Demo cratic phalanx, but we will win the confidence of the great independent vote and a large per cent of the honest Republican vote. NOTES AND COMMENTS. Mr. Taft was billed as the advance agent of prosperity in the late cam paign. Now that the election is over we anxiously await the prosperity wave, and may it engulf the South land as well as Yankeedom. • • • A Cherokee farmer who did not raise a stalk of cotton this year says there is but one way for the farmers o hold up the price, and that is to have the land owners agree to buy the cot ton of the tenant and hold it off the market. That is a good idea, but the trouble is to get the land otvners to do tula. Moit of them have plenty to live on and they depend upon their part of the tenant's crop for their money and are just as anxious to sell as the tenant. The better plan is for every man to raise his own supplies and adopt corn or cowpeas or hay as a money crop. The Court of General Sessions. In the case of Creech vs. Garland the jury, after remaining out all night, returned a verdcit Friday morning in favor of Dr. Creech for the full amount of the note—$426.79. The case of the Lockhart Mills vs. W. Sam Lipscomb, in a suit to recover for some damaged cotton sold the mill by Mr. Lipscomb was taken up Friday. The taking of evidence consumed the whole of the day and part of Saturday. The jury brought in a verdcit in favor of the mill. Yesterday morning the case of C. N. Roberts vs. the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co., and John Byars was taken up. In this action the plaintiff sues the defendants for $10,000 be cause of injuries sustained by the plaintiff while in/the employ of the company. No verdict had been reach ed at the time of going to press. Mr. E. F. Rea, advance agent of “Was She to Blame,” was in the city yesterday billing his show. First Baptist Church. Dr. Simms preached to two full houses last Sabbath. There were two additions by letter at the morning service. At night his subject was a special one, and he not only had a full house, but marked attention throughout his discourse. Miss Evelyn Sarratt pre ceded the sermon with “Building, we are building,” and Mrs. George Gar rett Byers followed the sermon with “Where is my wandering boy to night?” Both solos were excellently render ed in spite of the fact that the ladles had throat trouble. An interesting I feature .and a new one in connection 1 with the Sunday school, w-as a whist ling accompaniment by 0 number of boys and girls. It was a surprise to the school and pleased all who heard i it. VOTE OUT WHISKEY. Laurens, Chester and Clarendon Favor Prohibition. Laurens. No. 3.—Indications are that prohibition wins by an over whelming majority. Eleven precincts out of 2"> heard from at this hour give the dispensary 324 votes, and 1.089 against sale. This includes most of the larger boxes. The re mainder 14 are small, and will poll barely 600, making a total vote of 2,000 cast in the election. The dispensary Is defeated, it be ing an impossibility to overcome th“ present majority. Every precinct so far has given prohibition the majority. Ghester, Nov. 2.—Returns from the dispensary election indicate tin* over whelming defeat of the liquor shop. Fourteen boxes out of 18 vote as fol lows: For sale, 287; against sale, 949; a majority of 662 against the dispensary. Returns from the four missing precincts are expected to in crease this majority. Manning, Nov. 3.—Seven boxes out of 18 give prohibition 628, dispensary 168. Among the Cotton Mills. CMtll News.) A. M. Fairley, who is now super intendent of the Ashby Cotton Mills Co., and the Emporia Cotton Mills at Emporia, Va., will have general su pervision of the plants of the Belle vue Mills Co., at Moorehead, Miss., and Burlington, N. C. t in connection with his present duties at Emporia. Mr. Fairely was formerly superinten dent of the Washington Mills at Fries, Va., and is said to be a com petent man. The plant of the Belle vue Mills Co.r at Burlington, N. C., will be doubled in capacity, and for this purpose extensive building operations may be undertaken. W. H. Harris, formerly of Rock Hill, S. C., is mentioned as one of the incorporators of the Slater Manufact uring Co., Pawtucket, R. I., which is a practical reorganization of the Slater Cotton Co. The other incor porators are Frank A. Sayles, Ste phen A. Jenks, Edward S. Browen, George E. Martin and James R. Mac- Coll. As mentioned in these columns before, Mr. Harris has been selected as treasurer of this company. J. C. Finley, who has been for some time with the firm of Herring & Den ton of Charlotte, has accepted the po sition of overseer in the new Draper room at Fountain Inn, S. C. J. V. Thompson, who was for several years overseer of weaving in the Glen-Lowry Cotton Mill, at Whitmire, S. C., has taken a position as travel ing representative for the Skipper Sizing Co., of Chester, S. C. J. H. ' Marshburn, from Roanoke Rapids, has accepted the position of second hand in spinning at Wadse- boro, N. C. Geo. F. Shipp, from Gainesville, is now superintendent of the mill at Tifton, Ga. • E. L. Bridges succeeds J. C. Cole, as overseer of the slasher room in the Hartsville Cotton Mill, and Mr. Cole has returned to Whitmire, S. C. C. J. Gault, from the Loray, Mill, Gastonia, is now overseer of spinning in Highland Park Mill No. 1, Char lotte, N. C. J. F. Knight has accepted the posi tion of overseer of carding at the Fi delity Mills, Charlotte. N. C. A. D. Steadman has been promoted from overseer of weaving to super intendent at Lockhart, S. C. John E. Shaw has returned once more to take charge of weaving in Steele’s Mill, Cardova. N. C. Daniel Schofield, recently from New Orleans, La., is now overseer of card ing for the Jackson Fiber Co., of Bemis, Tenn. S. L. McClure, who has been for the past two years overseer carding and spinning in the Magnolia Mills, of Charlotte, has resigned to accept a position at Landis, N. C. Jesse Jones has accepted the posi tion of engineer at the Randolph Mfg. Co., of Franklinville, N. C. Clifford Beasley, second hand in the spinning room at Bibb Mfg. Co., Porterdale, Ga., has been promoted to overseer of twisting and winding. J. W. Kirkland, from Steele's Mill, at Cordova, has taken charge of the weaving at the Great Fails Mill, Rockingham, N. C. D. F. Harwell, from the Delburg Mill at Davidson, N. C., has accepted a position as overseer carding in the Whitaker Mill at Blacksburg, S. C. Ben T. Cromer, formerly foreman of the Southern erecting force for Lowell Machine Works, is now super intendent of the mill at Blacksburg, S. C. Hines Williams has returned to Hartsville, S. C., where he has taken a section. The loom-fixers in the above mill are Hugh McLaurin, K. C Bain, Eugene Bocat, R. R. Bain, Jeff Robinson, B. W. Brown, Mack Shaw and M. F. Davis. C. D. Hardin, from the Darlington fS. C.) Cotton Mills, has accepted a position as second hand in weaving in Clifton Mill No. 2. near Spartan burg. S. C. Dave McIntosh, of Langley, has moved to Clearwater. S. C., to ac cept a position as slasher man with the Seminole Mfg. Co. Cecil J. Joyner arrived in Walhalla from Des Moines, Iowa, last week to accept a position with the Oconee Knitting Mill, lie is a young man of experience in the manufacture of hosiery and comes highly recom mended. J. H. Huh, formerly overseer spin ning in the Monarch Mills, of Union, S. ('.. and more recently from Eno ree, is now overseer of spinning in the Springstein Mills, at Chester, S. C. F B. Rolliuson l as resigned as su- nerintendeni and manager of the Knoxville (Tenn.) woolen mills, and has been succeeded by Walter D. West, who recently took the position of assistant superintendent of these mills. Robert Thrift, from Augusta, has accepted the position as second hand in the card room at the Seminole Mill at /’learwater, S. C. He held the same position a few months ago with the Bibb Mfg. Co., in Porter- dale, Ga. W. J. Reynolds, from the Globe Mills at Augusta, has accepted the position of overseer of weaving in the Sibley Mills at same place, suc ceeding J. M. Carroll, who returns to Abbeville, S. C. A. S. Fletcher, aged 75 years, vice- president of the Huntsville Cotton Mills and an officer of the First Na tional Bank of Huntsville, is dead. C. K. Taylor, formerly seceretary and treasurer of the Kusciusko (Miss.) Cotton Mills, has been elect ed to the position of designer at the Mississippi Textile School. G. W. Garrow, of Valdese. N. C., is the new superintendent of the Statesville Knitting Mill. Mr. Gar- row has been employed by the Mayo Machine & Needle Co., of Franklin Falls, N. H., and is an experienced mill man. E. E. Bishop, who has been for the past year superintendent of the Watts Mill at Laurens, has accepted the po sition as overseer of weaving in the Monaghan Mills at Greenville, S. C. J. P. Carter, from the Clifton (S. C.) Cotton Mill is now overseer weav ing at .he Woodside Mill at Green ville, S. C. W. L. Stallings. w r ho has been over seer of winding at the Aldora Mills, Barnesville, Ga., has accepted a similar position with the Elizabeth Mills, Egan, Ga. W. S. Porter, formerly overseer of weaving at the Fulton Bag Mills, At lanta, has accepted a similar po sition with the Aragon Mills, Aragon, Ga. R. R. Woodside, formerly overseer of weaving at the Appalachie Mills at Arlington, S. C., has accepted the po sition of overseer in the Arcadia Mills at Spartanburg, S. C. H. R. Davis, who has been for sev eral years In weave rooms at Augusta has accepted the position of over seer of weaving in the Globe Mills of that. city. J. B. Boyd, who was for some time superintendent of the Louise Mill in Charlotte, has accepted a position as superintendent of the mill at Mayes- worth. N. C. W. W. Polk, from Anniston. Ala.. has accepted a position as master mechanic in the New York Mills at Aragon, Ga. C. C. Randleman. who is well known in Southern mill circles, has accepted the position of superinten dent of the Pilot Mountain Cotton Mill at Mt. Airy, N. C. W. M. Abernathy, from the Lula Mill* at King’s Mountain, N. C., suc ceeds S. L. McClure as overseer card ing and spinning in the Magnolia Mill, of Charlotte. E. C. Johnson has resigned as sec tion hand in spinning at the Loray Mills. Gastonia, N. C., to accept a similar position at the Salisbury Cot ton Mills, Salisbury, N. C. E. D. Crocker, from Caroleen, N. C., L. C. Nelson, from Greenville, S. C., and Tom Wilson, from Salisbury, N. C., are now numbered among the loom fixers at Gastonia, N. C. M. L. Jonas has accepted the posi tion as master mechanic, recently vacated bv J. D. Melton, Yorkville, S. C. T. F. Walters has become night overseer of the Anchor Mills at Huntersville, N. C., the place vacated by H. W. White. H. O. Burns, who has been filling a position as second hand in the weave room at Warrenville, S. C., has resigned' his position and gone to Birmingham, Ala. W. B. Morgan, formerly overseer of weaving in one of the Odell Mills, at Concord, N. C., succeeds D. D. Perry as overseer of weaving in the Manetta Mills, Lando, S. C. Chas. Davis, from Bessemer City, N. C., has become overseer of card ing in Mills No. 1 and 2 Lando, S. C., in place of Jas. T. Redmon, resigned. R. K. McCuen is superintendent of the Pendleton (S. C.) Cotton Mills which started up last week. Archie Nuttall has succeeded H. L. Newman as carder and spinner at Brookford, N. C. C. B. Skipper, superintendent of the Lancaster Cotton Mills, has bought an interest in the sizing bus iness of II. S. Heyman, and the con cern will be known in the future as the Skipper Sizing Co. The plant will be enlarged and the business in creased. L. Hausell succeeds Ben Briggs as carder at the Avon Mills. Gastonia, N. C. Mr. Briggs will open a barber shop. B. C. Whittle has been promoted from overseer of weaving to assistant superintendent at the Eastman (Ga.) Cotton Mills. M. M. Spear has been promoted from loom fixer to overseer of weav ing at the Eastman (Ga.) Cotton Mills. Fred Scott, second hand in mule spinning at the Bibb Mfg. Co., Colum bus, Ga., has been promoted to over seer of same, succeeding J. W. Booth. Archie Autry has been promoted to second hand in mule spinning at the Bibb Mfg. Co., Columbus, Ga. Don’t be a Miser DON’T starve yourself and your family and boast of your bank account. DON’T wear second hand, thread bare clothes and hoard your earnings in an old tea urn. DON’T sit with chattering teeth at a cold stove in zero weather and invest your earnings in a “get rich quick” proposition. Be a Man and Not a Mouse Be particular that yourself and your family are well fed, decently clothed and comfortably housed. Then, if any balance remains from your income or salary, deposit it in The Gaffney Savings Bank where it will earn four per cent, interest com pounded four times a year. THE GAFFNEY SAVINGS BANK, Office in The National Bank of Gaffney, S. C. |NEW LOCAL' S VIEW | POST CARDS We have just received New Local View Post | Cards. | j NEW SUBJECTS, \ I § bright clear finish. The jjj E best to be had. A full Z i E in line of Art and Novelty ^ cards always on hand. Halt! i 1 1 I .. . i ! i JDrug Com'pyj L Just stop and think one moment about your printed stationery. “A firm or individual’s printed stationery is an index to his business judgement.” If you want something that you can be sure will make a good impression where- ever seen bring your job printing of every des cription to us. We guarantee satisfac tion and can do work in a “hurry.” The Ledger, Gaffney, S. C. rfJF Mnil orders receive prompt attention. y *1 1 Good Bargains I have just received a new*^ stock of Shoes that I am selling at very close prices. A good heavy Shoe for Men at $1.26 Call and see for yourself. Yours to please, il. M. Pealer. (a, ’ *’ . • New Dress Goods Silks and Satins * • All the latest ideas cheaper than you have seen them^iniyears. See us and save money. k 1& k*