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UN CASTER BNTBftPRISK. Published fcvery Wednesday and baturda BY Tie Bntwprtse. Publishing Compan A. J. CLARK Kdltor, i i .i . i One Year $1.00 Six Months, 50 ct Throe Months 25 ct In Advance. Saturday, July 28, 1900. "It is funny to see" Gonzales, an open and avowed license man, now the organ of the pro liibition party."?Ben Tillmar at Chester. Governor McSweeney in his speech Wednesday strenously denied the charge that he had the State constable going round with him and said that if there was any present it was not by his consent and that they would not receive pay fer the day's work. lie further stated that if he found any constable working for him or any other candidate instead of attending to his duties he would discharge him as soon as he had proof sufficient to do so. A DEMAGOGIC SPEECH. Of all cheap, demagogic appeals for votes ever heard on the stump we cannot recall a cheaper and more demagogic one than the language of Ellison Capers, Jr., candidate for State superintendent of Education, McMahan's was a clear,thought ful address on the cause of ed ucation; but Capers appealed to prejudice and to prejudice only. What if Mc Mali an die employ a northerner to teacl the teachers' art? The best thai could be had was what wai wanted ; and the best could noi be found here. In all Soutl Carolina we'll venture to s?.j there could not be found one competent instructor in thai branch of study. Then where could there be any harm in going north for him? and when that instructor suggested that the stars and stripes should float over Winthrop and offered to make a contribution to that end, why should McMahan be criticised for endorsing the sug gestion? Rather, he should be praised for it, for the stars and stripes ought already have been floating there. It is no "Yankee flag," as Capers called it. It is the American flag, as much ours as any Yankee's. The yankeest state in the Union has only one star there ; South Carolina has the same, and it is as much ours as anybody's. Capers' other criticisms were apace with these and deserve the same consideration?to be contemptuously dismissed, with the determination to vote for McMahan whether you wanted to do it at first or not. THE CAM PA KIN MEETING. The Cftizena of Lancaster and Surrounding Country Give Each Speaker Close At* tention. The state campaign meeting held here Wednesday whs one ol the quietest we have ever seen Every speaker was accorded the closest attention, and everybody seemed only too willing to lei each candidate speak without interruption. It was a sober crowd; not one jingle man was ween dur ing the day that appeared to be under the influence of whiskey. The following account of the meeting is taken from the News and Courier, written by Mr. August Kohn: "When the meeting was called to order Chairman Porter stated that if every candidate spoke ac cording to schedule the meeting would continue from 10:30 until 5:30. Mr. J. P. Derham wasnotpres ent and sent excuses. He wi absent on account of sickness an ~ announced his platform au showed the work of his office, j Mr. Brooker began by say in J j he had already saved the stat $50,000, and was in position t save that much more. The prei ent administration of the tax is absolutely faulty and wronj He charged nothing criminal, bu gross irregularities andincompel ency in the present office. H . complimented Clyburn. II charged that Derham was nc | prepared to say the books wen well kept, because he did no know, Mr. Clyburn said he mad the Chesterfield settlement i 1897 and it was entirely satisfac tory. He agreed that in 1898 th 1 papers were sent to Columbia. f Neither Mr. McMahan nor Mi [ Capers was present when thei ^ names were called. Gen. Floyd made a patriot! sDeech. He came to show how h had restored the prestige of th 1 adjutant general's office. Th i militia organization was now, h ; unied, the best the state has ha in twenty-five years. lie w.i always prepared to defend hi administration, which he though ' successful as far as the mone, ! went. Mr. Rouse was absent. Snpt. McMahan came in la? frotn Rock Hill. He outlined hi experience as a teacher, legislate and student, which lie though qualified him for his work, ar.i then showed how he had worku 1 and was still working for th ' common schools and how b i wanted industrial and busine* j departments in town schooh The town graded schools are not doing the work formerly done b; colleges. He is now principall working for good teachers am I good common schools. He begge ) that the best trained men b [ selected. t RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS. t J. G. Etheredge was ahsen s | Mr. J. H. Wharton "aid iner t were towns discriminated agaim v in rates. Then he took up th matter of overcharge and waute agents authorized to pay ovei 5 charges and make allowances fc k lost articles. He said there wa ) no sense in the argument of Ion ( and short hauls when the rate o ; lumber is less from Augusta t Camden than from Lucknow Major Barnard B. Evans sai ' freight rates were higher her i than in any other southern stat except Florida. He said ther was something rotten in Denmar and it was the railroad commit sion. The commissioners wer liable to arrest when riding ove the state on free passes. Th commission is doing nothing fc the people. The people wer being annually robbed of on million six hundred thousan dollars by the indifference of th commission. The commission, h held, was either subsidized or i? norant of its duties to the peoph The commission now allows 9 per cent, on railroad bonded in debtedness. They have not don a thing except fight him ; the were fighting him because the ' knew he would not be hood winked. He predicted that with in the next two or (hree vear guano would go up three to fiv dollars a ton. There was not depot here fit for a good nogr' He will see that the vestibnl *tops tor all passengers. Mr. T. N Berry said he wa I running on his own merits am not on the demerits of anyone He was a prohibitionist and al ways advocated temperance. II wanted to be measured as a ma , and stand on his merits. He sa^ 'r nothing so bad in the present de murrage. Promises can be easil made to be broken. If electe > there would be comfortabl stations. Mr. J. K. Pettigrew always bf lieved in the value of therailron commiasionership. Railroads ar ' combining and the people muf ' combine through their commit ? sioners. He is and always ha been a aimon pure farmer, bu ( rained tobacco, cotton and truck He promiaed to be faithful to th interests of the people as he ha ' always been. W. I). Mayfield spoke of th I mill development and argued thi I the surplus cotton ought to b bought in this state and not fror ; Georgia. The rates are prohibi I tive. Furniture factories pro; pered in North Carolina becaus of better rates. Then he took u is the manufacturing of tobacco d goods and argued that the local d rates were too high, and the same applied to flour mills. Wholeg saling must remain small because! e of the rates. He believed the 0 commissioners should not be paid 1 by the railroads or provided with >s parses. 5. Mr. W. D. Evans Baid the cornt mission knew some of the rates t were too high, but changes have e to be carefully made. The Texas e commission cut all rates 50 per >t cent, and has been tied up in the 9 courts since. Then he showed t that, recently the rates have been e reduced on fertilizers, shingles, n wood, cotton, brick, wheat, live i- stock, tobacco. The only way to e work was to act jointly and cau tiously. The two Evanses de r. nounced each other. r Mr D unnrs then snokf* savinc that if elected he would not em c ploy Yankee teachers to teach in e the summer schools. McMahan e is honest, but wrong. His chief e complaint was that McMahan ige nored county superintendents d and other Carolina educators, is Capers objected to white teachers s being over colored normal schools, t McMahan wanted to explain, but v the time was up. FOR GOVERNOR. e G. Walt Whitman insisted that s from what others said the various r departments are in bad shape and f he wanted to remedy things. The j disregard of law in South Caro ^ lina was amazing and disgraceful, H nut only as to the dispensary, but e everything else. It these speak H ers are to be believed the best ( men at times he feared took just ' a little too much liquor. A little drunkenness does not effect a v man as much as telling a lie. ^ God never made a misfit and ^ there is use for liquor. The Bible does not condemn anyone for getting drunk, lie went to Charleston to make investigation, and found blind tigers on King street t. and Meeting street and the Bat e lery anu v^oopei iviver and Ash it ley Iliver, and then to the Isle of e Palms he went in bathing on d Sunday and found them selling r- beer on Sunday and bougut beer ip there on Sundav. He believed is every dispenser was violating the g laws today. The tigers sell more n liquor than the dispensary. They o were once blind, but the tigers only have cataracts on their eyes ; d the constables are stone blind, e lie would enforce any law on the e books. e Col. J. A. Hoyt said that Mr. k Whitman had stood on every i. platform that had ever been e erected. The people of Lancaster ir were already converted to prohie bitioL. The dispensary is put tor,r ward as the best solution of the e liquor problem. It is a system e adapted to a monarchy, but it is (\ not for America. The dispensary e has its pood features if they were e enforced, but they are not en j. forced. The dispensaries are the j supply depots of the tigers. The system is rotten to the core and deserves to be taken out of the e hooks. This great dispensary will v build up a great political machine v and it is best to break it up now. j He then defended prohibition. "The women of Lancaster" ,s presented Col. Hoyt with bou e quets. a Mr. Frank B. Gary thought the ( flowers apt for Col. Hoyt's political funeral. He was not here to vilify or abuse any one. lie H argued that no better plan than (j the dispensary was yet proposed. , He knew this to be a prohibition county, but he would not change p his views. lie was no apologist t for the dispensary as now run. N He said he was reliably informed there are two hundred tigers in y Columbia. If elected he said he ^ would enforce the law in Char e lesion and Columbia. Prohibition will not bring about temperance, ( as is shown by the experience of a others. e Mr. A. Howard Patterson said |t the people and not the papers $ were the jury. If Gary stood no R better chance than Bryan he was ( sorry for Gary, but he favored Bryan. He stuck to Gary and his e ? ?1" (\ WORKING NIGHT AND DAY The busiest and mightiest little e thing that ever was made is Dr. King1* New Life Pills. Every pill e is a sugar-coated globule of health, n that changes weakness into strength, listlessness into energy, 1 brain-fag into mental power. '* They're wonderful in building up * the health. Only 25e. per box p Sold by Orawford Bros. Drugist. 8 I family all along and has gone down with the family. He announced himself before Gary and had a right to run. He then read them the report of Gary's Charleston speech and emphasized that Mr. Gary would not answer his questions in Charleston as to his position. He devoted time to Mr. Gary and said if you have local option it will be good bye to dispensary. (Voice: "Let her rip!") Gov. McSweeney congratulated the audience on the good feeling and prosperity of the State and wanted to stop haranguing. The dispensary law is better enforced today than ever before and he can prove it by letters from mayors. Charleston is a seaport and it is difficult to enforce the law there, but he has done as well there as any one else. He saved the State $10,000 in constables' salaries. He did this as a business matter. Some of these candidates tell you what they would do with the dispensary. The governor has nothing to do with the dispensers. He asked all to view the attitude of the people towards the constables. II had been said that constables were here howling for him. They were not here by his orders. He did not countenance their being here. They have no business here, unloR9 they have work here. He would investigate the matter, and if any constables have been at tending meetings for political purposes they would be removed, and they certainly would not bo paid for being here. He knew the constables were not here in his interests. They were free men and any constable could vote for whoever he pleased. But they must attend to their business. FOR LIEUT. OOVKRNOR. Col. Sloan said he had to sing fast, and ho sung the praises ot Blair and Jackson, and Sims and Jones. And then recounted his services and qualifications, and ho denied that there were 200 tigers in Columbia, for his people were law abiding. Mr. Cole L. Blease urged that the Prohibition platform demands the sale of liquor for mechanical, scientific and medicinal purposes. They condemn the sale and still insist on the sales. Mr. James II. Tillman said he had more kinspeople here than in any other county. He said Col. Sloan's remark about tigers in Columbia had better be salted down. He jumped on Col. Sloan for fighting the separate coach law, and as to Blease and schools, he voted to take $250,000 from the schools. He i sisted that when you strike down the dispensary you lose the best friend temperance has ever had. Mr. Knox Livingston sympa thized with the audience for its patience. He gave his certificate _ r -1 A _ - i . * i ui cuaracter, so to BpeaK, ny showing that he had never been defeated at home. Mr. Winkler spoke of his ser vices in the House. He was emphatically in favor of the dis pensary and urged that it had worked wonders. His only regret was that the good Prohibitionists and others had not helped to support and try the law. Mr. James H. Moore, for Attorney General, said that he was charged with being a former Charlotte printer He has had his experiences and he was glad ot his experience. Work waR nothing to be asahmed of. Regrets were presented from Gen. Bellinger, who was unable to be present. Capt. Jennings, for State Treasurer, made a clever speech. Messrs. McDow and Hough spoke for solicitor, and both made pood speeckes. HOW'S THIS? We offar One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarhh that cannot be cured by HALL'S CATARRH CURE. F. J. CHENEY A CO., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, hare known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business tranactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their tlrm. West A Truax. Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. Walding, Kinnan A Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken internally, aoting directly upon the blood and muoous surfaces of the systrm. Testimonials sent free. Sold by drujtfftsts. T5c. Hall's Family pills are the >>e*t For burns, injuries, piles and skin disease* use DeWltt'a VVfteh Harel Salre. It Is fh? original Cnnnter/oits mar be offered. IJsr only UeWitt's. 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It is time the shirt waist were gone, so we will give them a big drop?all our fine $1 Shirt Waist for 50c, and our 50c ^ waist slashed to 25c. Our splendid collection of Ladies Skirts must follow suit. Compare our prices and goods with any store, and you will see the wisdom of spending your cash with us. ? OUR EYES * to profit and throw on our rniintprc i mpn'c a^.1_ xw.. ?^| U * 111V/1I -J UU1" lar Straw Hats at 25c, and 600 cloth hats, bargains at 25 c, for 5 cents. u 1 t'ERE IS GOOD NEWS FOR YOU. ' They have been charging you fancy prices for furniture lately, but we will ^ stop that now. At a big sale we bought three solid ^ car loads?1,100 pieces of furniture?at a great re^ duction. Our two store Ld rooms are blled to the ceiling, and we are going to gi it~ i:r_ _r - IL.UL ui<j me oui oi prices. Come and see. ? i Bkg. & Mer. Co.