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Ai tEezbEtC jRttII tuC. E'STXA TrSn7' 3!S. NEWB3ERRY. S. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 10,_1902 __TWICE A WEER. fl.50 A YEAR DEIOCATIC PARTY MUST STAND FiRM. SON. W. J BRY&'4 ?P ICECH AT THE BANQUEr. Money Power Not Omni potent- A Service is Readered Man:Ind So Long as Ihe 'Party Jeprefents Constitutional Government. Wooster, 0., Jan. 6.-The Hon. William J, Bryan spoke here tonight at the Jackson Day Banquet, which was held this evening, at his sug gestion, in order that he might keep engagements at Boston and New Haven later in the week. His sob est was "Steadfastness," and he said in part: "Among the traits -of character which distinguished Andrew - Jack aon,, no trait was more prominent or more helpful to his country than aeaastne When he believed a thing, he believed it. Where duty led, he followed without questioning. 'When he decided that anything ought to be done, he did it, and no power could overawe him. He did not have in his veins a single drop of 'anything to win' blood. When Nich olas Biddle declared that through %ie national bank he conld make and unmake corigresses, Jackson repEed that that was more power than any - e _1 man ought to have in this coun try, and he then began his war against Biddle and his bank, which resulted in the overthrow of that great fnancier and the institution which be so autocratically controlled. Otleis were afraid that Biddle's in An hence, if antagonized, would defeat the Democratic party, but Jackson saw in it a menace to his country and Is did not stop to consider what ef '-feet an attack on the bank would J.have on himself or on his party: He won, and we revere his name and celebrate his day. "Benton,--in reviewing Jackson's work, said that, as Cicero overthrew Sthe conspiracy of Cataline and saved Rome, so Jackson overthrew the bat and saved America. We shall observe this day in vain if we do not gather from the life of Jackson in Sspiration and encouragement for the work which lies before us. Today Sthe Democratic party needs to earn ~ fran the hero of New Orleans the Slesson of edfastness; it needs to Searm fro hm not only that to be ightai more important than to be suceessful, but that to be right is the S best way to,insure success. i"A party must have principles or at an aveno claim upon public con Mdence; and how can it commend its. priniciples-better than by standing *by4them. Who will have faith in the cfted of a party if the party stands ready to barter awas its creed in ex change for the promise of patronage? ? TA hatling, vacillating course not only fails-to invite recruits, but it alien ates and drives away veterans. * "Another reason for steadfastness is found in the fact that no one can tell untill the attempt is made what .obstacles courage can overcome. The bold and fearless triumph where the timid fail. The victories which live -and light us on to the noble deeds are the victories snatched from tbe jaws of defeat by intrepid spirits who * preferred death to retreat. "There is a profound pbilosopby, as well as a religious truth in the words: "He that saLvethl bis life~ shallt lose it." The party that has no high-i or purpose than to save its own lhfe will die because it deserve s to1 die, if need be, for the sake of a great cause will live because it de- e se1rves to live. Who says that the money powers is omnipotent and that the Denio t eratic party must compromise with it or surrender to it,? Not until hu man nature is entirely changed can< the financiers be mntrusted with the guard'ianship of the oroducers of wealth; not until greed becomes just: can the money changers constuct a( system for themselves which will be fair to anyone else. A top ean be l balanced upon the point only whefi < it is in rapid motion, andi so the great( financial structure designed by Wall 4 street for the benefit of WVall street ( will stand upright only so long as it 1 can keep whirling; the collapse will cme when the speed is sleined.a "Who says that we cannot afford :o measure strength with the great nonopolies which now arrogantly issume to control the donrain of pol ties as well as the field of industry? qot until we can gather good fruit rom an evil tree, and figs from this les,.can we expect a private monop y to bring forth public blessings. rhe wate, Lhat has been- poured in. o the stocks of our great corpora ions has for the most part been Irawn from the agricultural regions, Lnd the drought that is sure to fol ow will teach the farmer the mean ng of the trust system. "Must we abaudon the self evident rath that governments derive their ust powers from the consent of the roverned ? Must we accept imperial sm as an accomplished fact and join a the shout for blood and conquest? )ur republic rests upon solid rock ind while its principles are revered t cannot be overthrown within or vithout, but if all parties joined to ether to erect an impire from Amer can soil, they would build upon the and and the edifice could not endure. It is a law divine in its origin, irre istable in its force and eternal in ts duration, that wrong doing ulti nately destroys the wrong doer and to nation or combination of nations ; strong enou h to evade or resist etributive juistice. "But suppose-what no one should ssume and what no one can prove hAt steadfast adherence to Demo-' iratic principles would result in re )eated defeat, is there any reason rhy we should abandon these prin iples and adopt others, or have none t all? Those who prefer prison fare, ir a survile subject's lot to the dan ers of the battlefield, may condemn he Boers for continuing what some lescribe as a hopeless struggle for ndependence,* but these who can neasure the mighty influence of reat deeds know that the sturdy )utchman of South Africa have al eady confer red upon the world a enefit that cannot be measured by noney. Their valor has brought ~reter security to all republics of he earth; the bodies of their dead Lave built a bulwark behind which he friends of liberty will fight for enturies. The fact that England has >en compelled to employ more thjn 00,000 soldiers to subjugate less an 25,000 thousand men in arms ho fact that England has expended ore than $1,000 per Bor-the p -r apita wcalth of the United States nd has neither been able to purchase hem nor kill them-these facts are mmeasurably valuable to people rho want free government for them elves and are content that others hould enjoy it also.' "So -the Democratic party, whether a power or out of power, is serving akind when it stands steadfastly or constitutional government and usists that the government shall be ,dministered according to Jefferson an maxim, 'equal rights to all, and pecial privileges to none. "~ 000 Rt aD * CONVENTION. h., Next to ba Held in Augusta-D)iRtin gt.hed Mlen to be Pre s-,t. From January 20 to tbe 25, inclu ive, a Good Road Congress will be eld in Augusta, Ga., and earnest fforts are being made to influence he attendance en masse of the peo >de in the numerous counties sur ounding Augusta. The railroads ~ill put en special rates, and speak irs of national reputation will in truct the people upon the economic alue of good roads, the roads of the vorld, best methods of construction, he legal necessities of this section, te. Addresses will be made by Hon. iartin Dodge, director of the road livision of the U. S. Department of .gricult.ure; by M. 0. Eldridge, as istant director of the division; WV. H. loore, president of the National i od Roads Society; Superintendent dachn of the U. S. Free Rurai Do ivery System; by Governors Candler >f Georgia, and McSweeney of South >rolinia, anid the State geologists of ieorgia, South Carolina and North Jarolina. Several of thes~e lectures y experts will be illustrated. Sec etary of Agriculture Wilson has erimtn from Washin<gton that he will also endeavor to be present. Efforts are being made to secure the attend ance of the South Carolina legisla ture, which will be sitting at that time. An invitation has been ex tended to Admiral Schley, who will be in Georgia at that time, to be present, and his attendance will be secured if possible. Admiral Dewey has also been invited. It is desired to get a great outpouring of the peo ple to consider the important matter of public road improvement. A train of ten to twelve cars of the t latest roaf machinery will be on I hand, in charge of the National Good t Roads Society, and road making and working will be carried on for the i five days under the direction of that I society for the instruction of the pub- 1 lic. With this machinery the most a rapid, economical and modern meth- t ods of road improvement will be c shown. The public excises and ad. e dresses will occur on the 23rd and I 24th. Tht greatest need of this section of : the South is good public roads. In t this particular we are far behind the c age. To illustrate: On most of the ordinary roads only two and "three r bales of cotton can be drawn by two I horses; in the most improved road u sections of the United States from 8 ten to twelve bales of cotton, or their c equivalent, are regularly drawn by c two horses. It costs the people in much of the territory surrounding Augusta from three to five times what it should to haul their products; t from three to five times the invest- - ment in stock is required in this ter- 1 ritory as in good road sections to do 0 the same amount of hauling. I It is impossible to expect proper c profits or much developement under I such a condition. It is a question of c transportation; transportation being i at the basis of modern dcvelopement. 0 People will not emigrate to the sec tion having poor transportation fa- c cilities; nor can the youth reared in I such a region be retained. Under ~ the poor condition of our public E roads, lands have deteriorated in ~ value in competion with the superior 1 facilities of transportation of other ~ sections. The only way to reclaim. these values and bring permanent ~ :evelopment is to provide public C ighways equal to the best in the ~ ountry. The awakening of the pub- f lic conscience upon this grave matter e laims the best efforts of the most ~ patriotic men of the section. TROOPS ORDERED BOME. U The Entire Garrison at Fuerto Principe withdrawn. Washington, January 6.-Acting c in accordance with a recommenda- I tion made by Gov. Gen. Wood, mili- t ary governor of Cuba, Secretary a Root has directed that|the third squad- C ron of the Eighth cavalry, compris- I ing the entire garrison at Puerto a Pricipe, be brought to the United I States. At the first favorable op portunity G*en. WVood reported that i the garrison could be abandoned I without detriment to public interest e and that the troops in question were t not needed elsewhere in Cuba. Al- - though it is said at the war depart- r ment that there is no other sugges tion to this movement it is admitted t that it is practically the beginning I >f tbe general withdrawal of United C States troops in Cuba preparatory t to the transfer of the control of af. I fairs to the civil goveanment to .be E installed during the coming summer. 6 So far as known there will be no ( further withdrawal of troops until final arrangements are made for the ' formal transfer of the government to 1 the newly elected officials of Cuba. t WIDOW WINS $7,000,000. Mrba. Henry H. Plant Sustains Her Suit That t hs wil1 of Her HIusban<t Shnutti - be Established in New ;York-t New York, Jan. 4.-The widow of Henry B. Plant won seven milhions 1 t oday by the decision of the Supreme 1 court, Justice Leventrit, that the will of the magnate should be established 1 in this jurisdiction on the ground that although he died in Connecticut< e wais a resident of New York. Un der the New York laws the widow etsproperty valnurd at seven millinsa. rHE MATTER OF THE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOLS UPT. McMAHAN PRIKSENTP PRACrI. CAL SUGGESTIONS. leneral Act is Not Yet Needed--But lounti Boards Should be Given Power to Meet the Demand for High Schools. (The State, 8th.) State Superintendent of Educa ion McMahan in his annual report tas the following to say in the mat er of county high schools: "In many counties the town school 3 attended in its higher grades by )upils from country districts, whc a some cases (as in Orangeburg nd Union) are admitted free of tui ion by the generous action of the ity board, but generally are requir d to pay tuition. In either case the imit of capacity to admit pupils ie ieing reached or has been reached a many towns-especially in those hat have granted the privilege with ut the barrier of tuition charg s. Vhat is to be done to supply the de. and for high school educationi 1oreover, many smaller towns have ever yet been able to provide a higb chool department for their own hildren, and consequently in some ounties there is not even this begin ing of a high school accessible tc be children of the country. If the aw provided machinery by which own and country-county, in short -could unite in establishing and upporting such a school, it would at nee become attainable in many laces where now the need of it hae ome to be sorely felt. Indeed, we ave reached the time when some ounties have developed a sentiment a favor of providing high school ed cation for all children from town oz ountry, who will attend. The ounty board of Anderson, for exam le, in the person of County Super' nAtendent R. E. Nicholson and City luperintendent T. C. Walton, have seen agitating for a year the estab shment of a county high school, tc erve the city as well as the country, hey have called meetings of the chool trustees of the county and se ured cooperation looking to com ied oontribution of public funds or this end. But mere voluntary ooperation of boards liable to con tant change of membership will not flice. A simple enactment that the ounty board may reserve and apply a its discretion 10 per cent. of the chool fund would suffice. It would ive in Anderson more than $3, 000. Vhile that board would use the fund f a high school, a board in a county t yet ready for a high school might ise a small sum to assist in supplying rood teachers4 to specially backward r poor communities, or might think~ rest not to exercise its power to sel side and expend part of the school und. "It would be best to attempt nc istint legislation on the subject ol gh schools. An elaborate systen: reated by law for all counties at his time would be postively hurtful -a aste of money which is sadly eeded in the countrys.school dis ricts. In any definite legislatior here would be danger of forcing >rematurely a high school upon som< ounty not yet prepared for it. Al: at is needed is to strengthen the iands of the county boards, by the everal safeguards and powers sug rested above, and these boards wil stablish the necessary high schooli 5 soon as local conditions can be de eloped to warrant theni. The counta oard would thus be, as it should be he governing board of the couut: lgh school. The county suiperin endent, employed by the count2 oard, would have general oversighi f the county high school, as of al he other schools in the county. "In some counties these schooli vond serve for the better prepara .ion of local school teachers, unti hat distant day when the college md the normal schools shall suffica .o supply trained teachers for all th< chools of the country. In somi ~ounties these high schools woul< ake the form ot industrial school or boys and girls-satisfying~ some wat the cravingr that Clemnon ani Winthrop have served to awak,n in the breasts of thousands who caLnot reach these splendid institutions. Any one of our counties i. as Ir.rge as a State of the old world, and is amply able to provide within its borders a high school for the prac tical education of its children, rich and poor." NEWS ITEMS. News Put into Short Form for the Fl rried Reader--Called from Excharigep. The old Liberty Bell has arrived in Charleston. The Schley court of inquiry is bobbing up occasionally in Congress. Work will be commenced in a few days on Columbia's twelve story building. Gen. Wade Hampton has been quite sick, but has improved some in the past few days. Secretary Gage has sent in his resignation to the President and it has been accepted. The emigration of negroes to the turpentine farms of Georgia and Florida have begun. A negro fell from a steeple fifty feet high in Florence a few days ago and came out unhurt. Admiral Schley has appealed to the President from the majority re port of the Court of Inquiry. The supreme court has decided that a State has the power to compel a railroad company to pay back taixes. A bank cashier at Taunton, Miss., has been speculating in cotton fu tures and is short in his accounts $33,000. Six white men have I-een sentenced to hang in North Carolina on Febru ary 25th, charged with assassination and burglary. Messages were sent Saturday by the wireless telegraph system from Cape. Henry to Mantee, N. C., a dis tance of nearly 200 miles. The Board of County Commis sioners of Richland County are mak ing an ef!ort to get the Good Roads train to come to Columbia. Isaac M. Bryan, Esq , of Green ville, has announced himself as a candidate for the United States Sen ate to succeed Senator McLaurin. Two white men in Oraogebuzg County had a shooting scrape about a cow a few days ago. One was se riously wounded, the other unhurt. The Anderson dam which was de stroyed by water a few days ago is to be rebuilt at once. The damage done amounted to $75,000 or $100, 000. The State Agricultural and Me chanical Society will hold its annual spring meeting in Charleston this year, on the first Wednesday in Feb ruary. Chief Justice McIver is detained at his home by sickness and is not in his seat in the Supreme Court. This is the first time his seat has been va cant during his entire service, for 25 years. Secretary Long defends the navy against criticisms relative to the dis tribution of prize money. He says his department has no control over the matter; the bounty is determined by the court of claims. The supreme court has handed dwn a decision. in which it is held theL a bank cannot hold a guarantee company responsible on a bond of an officeer who speculates and the bank fails to notify the company of the fact. A resolution has been introduced in Congress providing fr r an appro priation of $12,000 for bronze tablets commemorating six great naval vic tories, beginning with those of John IPaul Jones in 1797 and closing with the battle of Santiaga bay, "Commno Sdore Winfield Scott Schley command -ing," in 1898. The Governor has named dele Sgates to attend the Augusta Good Roads Convention from Edgefieldi, Barnwell, Abbeville, Greenwood, 3Aiken, Hampton and Saluda, and if Iany persons from other counties wish 3to attend, all they have to do is to -write Judge Eve at Augusta, and I tt will be suffiint credentials. A bil of much interest to ex Con federate soldiers has been falorably acted upon by the house committee on war claims. It provides for pay ing former Confederate soldiers for horses, saddles, bridles and side arms taken -rom them in violation of the terms of surrnder made by Gens. Lee and Johnson with Gens. Grant and Sherman. The bill was intro duced b) Representative Padgett of Tennessee. HOBSON WILL BESIGN And Enter Politice..-andieate for Congress. Birmingham, Ala., Jan. 5.-A spe cial from Montg ,mery, Ala., says Capt. Richard P. Hobson will soon resign from the navy and enter poli tics. It is said he will oppose Hon. John H. Bankhead as congressman from the Sixth district. 'illnan's opinion of Theodore Roosevelt. Memphis, January 4.-Senator Tillmau, of South Carolina, who lec tured here last night,. thus sizes up President Roosevelt in an interview today: "Personally I like Mr. Roosevelt. I think he is an honest man, striving to do right. But I must admit the conviction that he is u'terly incapa ble of performing the duties of the Presideqs of the United States as they should be performed. He is too mnch of a stormy petrel. He cannot fly when the wind is not high. Many of his acts are not only radical, they are rash." From a Ichelor's Vi(-w. The best way to avoid marital misunderstandings is to avoid the whole marital business. - To sympathize with those who are down in the world it is necessary for yon to get down there yourself. A woman who will ask another women to show her how to do tatting almost thinks enough of her to be her friend. Versatility is not a woman's strong point. -Before marriage she sighs to think how she is going to be, and afterward she sigbs to think how happy she thought she was going to be. The way to get a woman to for give you is not to forgive lier. Generally you can get an idea of the enthusiasm a woman puts into a spanking by the way she jerks out her basting threads. The average man who gives advice is like a roadpost-he doesn't tell you to stay where he is, but to go where he points. A married man's tr.uble begins when he is engaged. It isn't on what income one can get married, but on what income one can live after getting married. No woman can ever account for her husband's lack of interest in her diploma and the photograph of her The way to convince a worman you love her is to sit in abstraction for a long time and then say with a start that you were thinking of the first day you ever saw her. The surest way to get rich is to quit being poor. Force of habit has a good deal to do with the way some people go on loving each other. When a lucky man gets it into his had that he is a great man, he is due to lose his luck.' It's worse to bleach your hair than to wear a wig, but you could offer a million dollars reward for a woman with hair on her head who would agree with you, and you'd never find her. The 'Old Manx" in Trouble. [From Tit-Bits.] "Mama, what would you do if that ~ig vase in the parlor should get brokeu ?" said Tommy. "I should whip whoever did it," sid Mrs Banks, gazing severely at her little son. "Well, then, you'd better begiu t get up your muscle," said Tommy, "cz papa's broke it." The man who rocks the boats it summe'r is now busily engaged it na;nu the tree with combustibles. CONCISE STATEMENT OF PROPERTY VALUES. AsSESSMENTS GIVEN BY INOBaS AND DECREASEs. A showing that Is of More than Usual In terest to the People of South tarolUns. [The State, 7th.] In the Comptroller General's office yesterday there was prepared one of the most comprehensive statements ever issued from that office showing the net increase in the valuation of all taxable property in the State for the year 1901 as compared with the year 1900. There are in the entire schedule of. taxa ble property onlythree items in which decreases are shown. The following is the statement, giving a very good idea of where the principal increases have been: Real estate outside cities and towns........... $99,355 00 Real estate outside cities and towns.......... ------ .. 710,658 00 Railroads ............. 1,684,970 00 Manufacturing, engines, tools, etc.......... 3,28,085 Banks ................918328 00 Premiums,insurance com panies . ........--...... 250,2200 Horses and mules............ 1,054,769 09 Cattle, sheep, and nogs... 138,004 00 Dogs ................. 20,077 00 Gold and silver watches and plate....... ........... 5,42 0 Pianos and organs........... 40,80700 Pleasure carriages and other vehicles........ 358,284 00 Merchants' returns......... 48,466 00 omey ............... 298,02 00 ousehold and kitchen furniture and other property ............ 1,237,908 00 Total............$10,451,652 00 DECREASES. On valueof cred its .................$115 ,03000 In value of bonds and stocks...... 718,00400 50 per cent pen- 41.00 88,075 00 alty ............... Net increase $9,618,577 00 The above figures are well worth a careful study, going to show along what lines progress has been made in S.outh Carolina during the first year of the new century. A JOKE ON BILL ARP'. says That He not the Father of the Mom ticello Paper Man. They seem to have a large juicy joke on Major Charles H. Smith, the Cartersille, Ga., philosopher, so well known as Bill Arp. He writes te The Constitution about it as follows: But, Mr. Editor, I am still per plexed. My Christmas pleasure has been marred somewhat by my pity for the poor credulous dependent women all over the land who are dupes of that Monticello man. Every day brings more letters from those who have long since sent the $25 to my son at Monticello. Fla., and get nothing back. They say they trusted him because he was my son. Many of them begged or borrowed the $25 for they could not get the subscribers and so they made up a list of names from their acquaintances and then they went to w->rk on the endless hain humbug and got other womeni to send money and be duped. Now, Mr. Editor, I beg you to piit it in large type and print it in red ink that Joel Smith, of Monticello, is no son of min~e, nor do. I know any thing of him or his paper. I .saw a late issue in which he boasts of hav ing 40,000 subscribers which I sup pose means $40,000 that these de pendent women have sent him. He promised them $20 a month to write tree~ hours at day and some of them 4Jid theic je.we.lry and other precious things to raise the $25. Mr. Editor, do please lend your-columns to stop this fraud upon our poor Southern women. And now we see that an other endless chain paper has started in Athens, Ga. These frauds are bringing discredit upon poor women. I enclose a sample circular. es stop it. Kill it. Crush it. It iorse than the cherry tree swindle. - Bill Arp. P. S.-I will give $10 to find out who started that lie that the Monti cello man was my son. I hane re ceived at least 50 letters saying, "Your son at Monticello," etc. They make me tired. I had three from Texa ths morning. B. A.