The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, July 18, 1902, Image 1
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OPENING MEETING OF
COUNTY CAMPAIGNS
CANDIDATES POR COUNTY OFFICES
'HOLD FORTH AT POM AKCIA.
A Quiet Meeting Attended by About Three
Rundred Persons-Legislatora Discuss
Tazation, Educat2on, Child Labor, BI
estoial Sessions-Dspensary Only
In eidentally MenUioned-A
Nnmber of Ladle* in At
tendanee-The Speeches
and the Slory in
Detail.
Pomaris, Newberry County, July
1..-The opening meeting in
the county campaign was held in the
beautiful and shady grove here to
day. The meeting was without spe
eial incident. The speeches were
pitched upon a high plane, none of
the speakers indulging in any per
sonahties, but all giving, in a clear
manner, their views upon the various
eions now demanding the con
sideration of the people of their
eounty' and State.
A conservative estimate places the
sdience, including a large number
ladies, at about three hundred.
2ay gave all the speakers close at
. ion, but there was no applause.
ppeared that there was no special
nte, and that the people had
to hear the speeches, to look
the candidates, and to judge
themselves the fitness of each
tie office to which he aspires.
usual in these county cam
only the candidates for the
and for the office of
r mty Superintendent of Education
the program for speeches,
f~- others who wished to do so
= s given the opportunity. Hon.
E. Prince, of Anderson, candi
fr Congress, was present, and
a good, strong speech.
The principal questions discussed
p - the candidates for the Legislature
ax ation, education, appropria
for State institutions, child la
ad iennial sessions. All were
~ weedthat taxes should be as low
e tsible, but that there was no
-6Ano for a reduction for some years
~ tiogne. The dispensary was only
JCdntll mentioned.
-CVunty Chairman Goggans was
~ssentand was in charge of the
~ ~.tm. It would be a hard mat
- o ' Sa.O id a better county chairman.
Ia is fair to all the candidates, and
a hy know it, and under his dire'etion
4.rybody moved along smoothly and
without a hitch anywhere in the pro
SFollowing is the -
STORY IN DETAIL:
The crowd was a little slow in
gathering, and it was exactly 10.35
when the meeting was called to or
der.
Ool. G3oggans, in a few well chosen
words, expressed the hqpe that thbe
campaign would be condneted upon
a high plaLne, and that the gentlemen
in the race would strive to show
themselves worthy, and not to show
their opponents unworthy. He be4
spoke for all the candidates the earn
est attentioIr of the audience, and
intriod~uced first the candidates for the
Legislature.
COL. E. H. AULL
said that he was glad to be here on
this occasion. He was born only a
few miles from this place, and knew
these people and they knew him.
-He was in a new role here today,
having never before offered himself
for public office. The office which
he sought was one of importance and
responsibility, and the people should
go abont the selection of their legis
lators in the same manner as a pro
h. dent business man would go about
the selection of an agent to whom he
- ould entrust his business.
His views were well known. He
had been editor of one of the county
papers for fifteen years, and his
record and position on all public
*questions was an open book.
There were practically no issuef
in this campaign, but there were vi
t.al questions wbich might be dis
eussed with protit to the candidates
and instruction to the pe'ople.-' On
of the most important of these was
the questiot. of taxation. The privi
legs to pay taxes is the price~ of gouC
government. No use to talk abou
* th lev. Itmaks nodiffrel
whether the levy is one mill or ten
mills. The question which concerns
you is the question of an equitable
assessment of property, so that the
burden will be equally upon all prop
erty. To reduce taxation appropria
tions must be reduced. He did not
say they were too high, but although
the last Legislature increased them,
the State is even now having to bor
row money. He gave figures show
ing the amount of these appropria
tions by the last legislature. This
amount could not be reduced for
seven years. The only item it was
possible to reduce was the pension
appropriation, and he did not believe
anybody in this county desired to re
duce the amount of this small pit
tance.
Favored good roads, and increased
common school education, but al
though important, did not have time
to discuss these questions at any
length.
Was opposed to the reduction of
the commutation tax to $1.00, be.
cause if tax had remained at $3.00,
negroes would have worked their six
days, while now a great many pay
their $1.00, which the county must
take instead of six days' work.
Was giving his position upon edu
cation, biennial sessions and good
roads-all of which he favored, when
time was called.
COL. JOHN F. BANKS
was next introduced. He thanked
the people for their very compli
mentary vote two years ago, and
said he was going to conddet his
campaign upon a high plane, and
the people would know where he
I stood. The editor of the Observer
is an-advocate of a high plane, but
he criticizes everything from the cut
of a coat to the building of a temple.
And then he comes out and says
don't overdo it. But no ideal can be
too high.
The most important questions
were child labor and compulsory
education. With his conscience as
a guide, he had voted in the legisla
ture against the child labor bill,
giving an exposition of his position
and the reasons for his vote. The
parent is the best judge of what is
right for his child. If this bill passed
it would have the effect of saying
that the parents of this county are
incapable of taking care of their own
children. We are now just getting
to be a manufacturing section. We
are leaving the North in the compe
tition in the cotton mill business,
and we want no friction. Let other
States than South Carolina do the
quarrelling.
Was opposed to compulsory edu
cation, because the negroes would
also receive the benefits, and the
people knew where that would lead.
As to the question of education it
would be much better to spend on
the common schools some of the
money that is now being given to the
favored institutions. He was not in
favor of longer terms for the comn
ron schools, but in giving them
libraries and good teachers, etc.
Favored good roads, bnt didn't
know of any plan by which they
could be got without money, and
didn't know where the money could
be got. The State would have to be
bonded, but that should be left to
the citizens of the State.
HON. FRED H. DOMINICK
had taken the liberity of offering
himself for the legislature two years
ago, and he wanted to thank these
people for their former support, to
give account of his stewardship, and
to ask for re-election. It was for
them to judge by his record how he
had performed his legislative duties.
He was so proud of his record, of his
votes, that if he had them to go over
he would not change one iota. He
showed " here he had been consist
ent. As he bad promised, he had
advocated bieunnial sessions and a
bill increasing the penualty for viola
tion of labor contracts, and both
these bills passed the house and now
lie in the senatorial burying ground.
It was not his fault these bills hadn't
passed the senate.
As formerly, he favored the dis
pensary law. He didn't propose to
discuss this, but he did't want the
penpl to get into the not ion that the
Corner in Corn Ends Abrupt
JOHN W. GAfES' GIGANTIC GAMBI
MADE HIM A MILLION.
The Farmers Held Out and for That RE
s son, It Is Said, the Profits Were
Not Heavicr.
* Chicago, July 15.-The famoi
? corner in July corn came to an al
rupt termination' today when it bE
came known that shorts to the extei
s of a good many million bushels ha
1 effected private settlements wil
t Harris, Gates & Co., that the de
was at an end so far as the ste
magnate was concerned. The Jul
t price responded to the settlement b
a quick drop of 12} cents to 65
Later it recovered a f:raction an
closed at 651, substantially the pri<
t of the cash article.
1 Just how many bushels were sul
1 ject to private settlement will probt
B bly never be known nor is there muc
chance that the identity of the "bi
fellows" in the trade who doubtlei
contributed liberally to the fortunE
of Mr. Gates and the friends ass(
ciated with him in the deal, will ev<
be positively known.
No special excitement attended tI
premature puncturing of the bubb
by the men whose property it w;
The trade has all along admitted M
Gates was right and also his abilit
to do what he pleased with cor:
Pit trade during the day was n<
much over 500,000 bushels.
Manager Scotton would not di
cuss the settlement price. The coi
census of opinion among the ou
siders was that Mr. Gates had d
manded either 80 or 81 cents fro
the people who were foolish enoug
to sell him corn all the way from (
cents up.
The "length" of the line of Jul
settled for by shorts is also a matt(
of more or less conjecture. M
Scotton said it was "several millic
bushels," and that the length of tI
line had never been over estimate(
It has been called as high as 2
000,000 bushels, but more general
20,000,000 bushels. Since it b
came possible to make deliveries <
July contracts the Harris Gates pe
pie have taken in and paid for aboi
3,000,000 bushels. This would lea'
sett lements of some 17,000,000 bus]
els. It is estimated that Mr. Gate
profit will not exceed $1,500,00
This amount will be divided up b
tween ten or a dozen millionairi
who were interested in the deal. M
tGates and his friends have betwee
4,000,000 and 5,000,000 bushels
cash corn which they must dispose
before the corner can bie called abs
ltely settled. This corn represen
the "corpse" which in every corn
r ever remains the tumbling block
success. If the average price of tl
Harris Gates holding should pro'
well up to the 70 per cent. point ti
clique has on hand several millic
bushels of corn which cost its holi
ers in excess of the present mark,
price. Right here is the salier
point. Will it be necessary to ma
ket this large holding of corn at lei
than it cost ?
The corner at one time promise
many millions of profit and i
farmer whose well fil.led cribs lir
Sthe tracks of nearly every railroE
Sentering Chicago i.s held responsib
for the disappointing ending of ti
corner. There were substantial rt
serves from the bumper crop of 19(
and the large yield of 1901. Th
corn has been held for a satisfactoi
market The farmer did not beg'
to take advantage of the situatic
notil the price of July got up in ti
seventies and whet it finally reach
90 cents the Chicago market w~
deluged with essh corn. For
r wile the Hstrris-Giates people ke
the market cleained up, but steadli
increasing gnantities began comir
rand the prospect of loading up wi
a lot of 80 cents corn which thi
y might not be able to later dispose
o at over (U) ceLts became somewh
g appalling. Without warning th
e withdrew all support, settled wi
a the shorts and closed the deal.
Even the woman of few words
sS continally wvaraiung them over.
y Much of thbe milk of hamian kindni
taste like the punmo.
light against the system is dead.
He had been criticized for sticl;
ing to his friends, but he was prou
that he had stuck to his friends an
would continue to do so.
Favored putting ten year prisoner
on a permanent chaingang for build
ing good roads, and he had had th
pleasure of voting against a bill t
provide a one mill tax for buildin;
good roads.
As to the commutation tax, he wa
in favor of $2 or six days, and suel
bill had passed the house, but i
failed in the senate and a compro
mise was necessary.
There was no more importan
question than taxation. When h
went to the house he found New
berry in debt, and paying $500 an
nual interest. With the greates
difficulty he succeeded in getting
J mill tax for a sinking fund, ii
order to retire this debt, and that i
now being done.
He expected to be elected, and h
would make apology for one thinj
he was going to do. At present thi
Bar of any county can get up a peti
tion at any time and have a specia
term of court called, and tax th,
people of the county with it. H
proposed to amend the law so as ti
give authority to the supervisor an<
the members of the general assem
bly to decide upon the qnestion, an<
not the governor,-as at present.
He referred to the investigatioI
committee'appointed by the genera
assembly to look into the part he ha<
taken in trying to rush the "bee
dispensary bill" through by fre
conference report, and was prout
that he had been unequivocally ex
onerated, reading the report of th4
committee of investigation.
MR F. W. HIGGINS
brought no special promises of revo
intionizing anything, but was anxioui
to find out the evils under which wi
suffer and to strive to re.edy thes
evils.
There were no issues. The mos
important question was education
Good schools and good roads to ge
to them are what Newberry Count2
most needs at present. Educatiot
and good roads are the crying need
of the times, but we can never hav<
improvements unless the people givi
their representatives to understan<
they want them. No one was<
warmer friend to State institutions
but he thought they could be cora
ducted upon a more economical basie
He compared the amounts being use<
by these institutions with the a-noun
required by institutions that ar4
doing just as grand a work on
small fraction of what the State in
stitutions require, citing as an in
stance Newberry College.
Was not in favor of child labo
bill in its entirety, but some solutioi
just to both sides should be reached
As to compulsory education, whet
you drive one white child to schoc
you drive ten negroes, and you knov
where this will lead.
Favored good roads, going back t<
$2.00 per capita commutation ta:
and putting all prisoners upon the
roads.
No use to discuss the dispensary
Properly carri.ed out it is the t>es
solution of the liquor question.
In conclusion he referred to hi
record as county superintendent o
education for six years. In that po
sition he did the best he could an<
was proud of his record.
He didn't want to bore the people
because they would have to reat
speech after speech of his when h
got to Columbia.
Immediately after Mr. HiggmnE
speech a
RECESS
of one hour and a half was taken fo
dinner. At 1.30 p. mn. the meetini
was again called to order and th
legislators proceeded with thei
speeches.
HON ARTHUR KIBLER
had served in the legislature oni
twice. He went there expecting t
do somnething, but the hardest thin
he ever struck was to convince tb
oter members that he was right i
s ms of bis uudertakings. But on
great many measures there must I
an agreement or we couldn't pa
any laws.
The main thing tl at should occur
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Le Young Women Will Try to Reform Young
-... Presiden
eThe young women of the town of
Fremont, Neb, have an organization
whicb, if lived up to rigidly, is apt Mr.
isto do a great deal of good; more'
~possibly than a great many dry and preside
Swildly sermons could accomplish. fore th
nThe purpose of the girl's club in
short is to boycott the bad yonng iaia
id men. The girls pledge themselves Atnc
Sthat they will not keep company
a with or receive attentions from any county
aman who is not a total abstainer gate, ai
>from tbe following vices: Lying, be repr
swearing, stealing, late hours or bad Reidvil
bh company, gamblhng, drinking and State a
smoking. The club has committees -Ir
ofwhose duties are to investigate the of the
atyoung men of the town and keep a see the
record of their habits, so far as itseth
th may be possible to ascertain them.
Every young man will have a rating, A m
which will be bettered or lowered as and tha
is the circumstances justify. The black
sheep are to be boycotted completely.
ss They must become good or go with- Not]
out sweethearts and wives, like be
i
'diary
Opporti
g of Wearing
men and Childr
First Cos
'Y like this to buy Fine Goo
>n only occurs once in a life
>ur selection at once befor
o Goods sent out on approb
ry Item SPOT CASH.
I Bed Spread Dei
N YORK wired me a few
I could handle
~'DRED AND YIPF
SPREADS
them an offer and taken tN
tof one of the Largest and
ers in the World.
Its, beautiful Marsailles Pat
retail store in America $1.*5i
Vlimnaugh's price as long at
Its, beautiful Marsailles Pati
worth $2.00 and $3.00,
he lot at only $1.89.
iur dollar to do doi
o the Big Cost Sal
t until your neigh
it all the snaps.
AUGH
Store in the Caralir
r B E SATE A LLIAN ;E. A Wrong
Arranging for the Annual Mebt- The gener
g ~Method ist Ep
[The State, 16th.] which met in
D. F. Efird, of Lexington, maes intht ti
at of the State farmers' alli- et htt
as here yesterday arranging should not int
annual meeting of that organ- If circuOs
Mr. Efird reports the State ence thnth n
in good condition. yearalithasi
be meeting next week each sucheaiitica
alliance is entitled to a dele- sth GeneratiC
id each sub alliance may also baed Gpneral
esented. Mr. J. W. Reid, of charaed uo ac
le, is the secretary of the cha.ereofav
liance.da.Wha
Eiird is now superintendent wil be paid
State fair, succeeding Mr. mjrt ft
ove, and he is expect'ng to pspl acte pr
fair a great success this year. rstraining rhi
-~ propriety wil
n growls, a woman smles- as to bring n
latter gains her point. church or th
ling hurts a self-made naartyr C ave it
:-i igmoaed berry steam:
Apparel
en at
)t.
iAe
ds of
time.
e the
ation
days
-
e lot.
Best
terns,
Sand
i they
terns,
your
ible
e.
I'S
View of the Circes
al Conference of the
iscopal church, South,
Dallas, included "cir
at of worldly amuse
Le church membership
lulge in."
aver were of evil infin
r has passed and for
Sagainst purity and.
been connected with
s. So this action of
'nference was certainly
1 erroneous idea of the
ircuses of the present
ano idea any attention
to this regulation by a
e Methodists. If young
operly trained1 and in
e is no need for such
iles. Their own sense of
compel them to act so
o reproach upon their
emselves.
REN pays. In order to
his way send it to New
r...nnry.