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ESTABLISHED 1865. NEWBERRY, S. C., TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1902. TWICE A WEEK.$1.50 A YEA H COUNTY CAIPAIGN AT LONGSHORE TSS CANDIDATES BOLD FORTH 12 NO. 6 TOWNSHIP. A Good Meeting Attended by About 15l Veter sad Semie Ladlee-Tax for Buid lng Good Boads Receives Much Attention, and That Q nes tion and Child Labor the Main Issues Dtscassed. Longshore, Newberry County, Au gust 15.-The candidates for county officeQ held forth at this place, in No. 6 Towrship, today. The meeting, though attended by only about 200 persons, including about 150 voters, was one of the best so far held. Close attention prevailed throughout, and there was some applause. Besides the candidates for the leg islature and for superintendent of education, those seeking the officee of probate judge and treasurer, and two candidates for sub supervi sor spoke. The legislative candidates devoted most of their time today to a discus sion-of the questions of taxation for the purpose of building good roads, and child labor in the mills. The ean,didates for the legislature were first on the program and CAPT. J. 11. TAYLOR as first speaker. He said he was advocating what he advocated two ye'ars ago. First, good roads. His plan for building them was to have a reasonable commutation tax; then after that levy a one-half, three quarter or one mill tax on all prop erty. The result would be that the country would be developed, ar. the country would be brought in touch with the town and the town with the country. Next in refirence to appropriations to State colleges. They were too high and v ere extravagantly ex - pended. If a child is given a com mon school education, if he has any thing in him, he will get a collegiate training without State help. Mr Taylor then went into his dis cussion of the Child Labor Bill, ex plaining that it did not affeet in the least any people except the mill peo pie thoeelves. There were chil dren in the Newberry mills today with bright minds who would be an honor to any community, but who, beosuss they had no education, were at competent ever to rise in their pa,fisionor to meet the duties and responsibilities of life. The work could not but dwarf both body and asind. He made about the same ar gument as at previous meetings, fa yoring legislation prohibiting chil dren under twelve years of age from working in the mills. - OL. E. H. AULL Iwent first into a discussion of the question of taxation, which he thought of most importance. There was no chance at the present time to reduce taxation, because the appropriations were already larger than the State's income,-giving figures. The only re form that we can get. just now is equalization of assessment of prop erty for purposes of taxation. The sremedy he proposed was that returns should be made in each township in the presence of the auditor and the township board of essessors. Favored a. one-mill levy on all Sproperty for building good roads. He favored this tax because the men who had most property should bear the most of the burden, and in order to reach the corporations, who would be benefitted as much as individuals in the country. He favored the Child Labor Bill. He did not agree with his friend, Mr. Taylor, that this question affected only the mill people. It affected all the people of the county who were interested in the future citizenship of their State. When he first began to study the question he did not n derstand why the mill people askec for a. law requiring them to keep their children out of the mill, -and at first he opposed legislation. But he had investigated it and be had learned and knew that if the mills needed the children the parents would either be required to put theit children in the mill or to give up thei: houses .a leave te mill, whicl most of them were not in a position a to do. Child labor being injurious, y *even the mill men themselves admit- c< ting it to be injurious, the State, in o; order to protect its future citizens, has a right to stop it. He wanted a c< Bill that would be just to the mills li and just to the operatives. HON. JNO. F. BANKS s( al gave his record in the legislature, a having introduced a Bill providing for biennial sessions and having g' wo!ked for all measures introduced to increase punishment for violation P of labor contracts, givmng magistrates n a greater jurisdiction in tiis matter, both of which had failed through no hi fault of his; and went immediately th into a discussion of the Child Labor kE Bill. bl If the State has the right to say to O its parents that they shall not work fu their children in the mill, where in m the name of goodness will such leg. B islation stop? We all want to see in the children educated, but we still wi believe the parent is the most com- cO petent judge for what is best for his th child. The time. is coming~ in the sti near future when the mill population at will outnumber the rural population. cli Create friction between these people he and the mill owners, and between ml both and the country people, and get ro the white people divided, one part ro against the'other, and what will be the result? Twenty years from now th the negro generally will be voting. an If the white people work in harmony they will outnumber and can ontvote th them. Would any within the hearing of an moy voice this morning be willing to gc smit, I am not doing for my child what I ought to do. If you favor Hi this legislation ou put yourself in th the predicament of asking the State or to make you take care of your chil- he dren, and if you need this, God pity we you! w He favored good roads and educa- on tion and aL * be secured without impoverishing the his people. wI HON. F. H. DOMINICK was proud that two years ago he had op headed the ticket at this place and tic was proud of his record made in the service of the people of Newberry se County. roa Two years ago he made a fight on ti,. this stump in favor of increasing pun- otl ishment for violation of labor con- rol tracts, and only the other day he.*had n beard that one of his kinsmen in this community was against him because bri he had done nothing in this direc no tion.- That was a slander that was rei being circulated throughout the ch county. He and his friends had fought for this measure and sueceed- hij ed in getting it through the lower to house and it was not their fault that it now lay dead in the senatorial wi burying ground. D Had fought for biennial sessions, but. this measure, which had also passed n the lower .house, met the same fate. Stood to his good roads position, t favoring putting ten year prisoners on permanent chain gangs. Give usa mi our ten year prisoners, and in a year or two we will have a large enough a chain gang to work every road in the t county. Newberry County is today t between $8,000 and $10,000 in debt. Why not go to work and pay off this l debt and get rid of the interest be-O fore levying additional taxes? at Was against the Child Labor Bill s and had been against it all along.m He kne~w of children right no~w on factory hill who were not in the milld and had never been in the mill. Why re do they have schools there if the R children are forced into the mill? ar MAJ. F. W. HIGGINs opposed the Child Labor Bill intro- r duced in the last legislature which prohibited the mills from hiring anya child under twelve years of age. t Divide the thing. Let the children go to school a while and then let U N them work. One of the causes of the county'sT indebtedness was that the people of is Newberry County were considered so tl1 generous that every action against the Southern railway, whether the s' cause occurred in North Carolina, t Tennessee or Georgia, or somewhere else was dumped into the Newberry corts and the people were continu fly being taxed for extra terms. : Vanted to see every case tried in the b >urts of the county where the cause it F the action occurs. c Attacked extravagance of State p )lleges, and wanted penalty for vio- ( lion of labor contracts increased. C Paid his tribute to the Confederate ii )ldier. Give him all that we are sl )le te give. t1 Favored one-mill tax for building ci od roads, taking same position as v [r. Aull, supplemented by ten year ti risoners, position take by Mr. Domi- n ek. b HON. ARTHUR KIBLER tl d invariably, during his service in si e legislature, voted in favor of s ping taxes just as low as possi- ft y. Was opposed, as he had said ti i every stump in this county, to irther taxation, and opposed a one- P ill tax for building good roads. 01 asides, $4,500, which it would bring al , if raised every year for a century h >uld not put our roads in good ti ndition. And if one mill was levied tt ere was no telling where it would in :p. It would result in nothing P1 d in a few years there would be a di 3mor for more taxes, and you will i] ve a two, or three or four or five fr ill tax, and that will not work the jt ads. We would like to have good th ads but the people are too poor. it Mr. Kibler was asked to say some- fo ing about the roads of Greenville w d Anderbon. S Replied he had not traveled over t em for ten years. tb Voice: They have the one-mill tax vi d communtation tax and they have m od roads. P Opposed the Child Labor Bill. qi is South Carolina the right to tell dE a parent that he shall not do this Ci that with his children, so long as wl does not not maltreat them? That cr as was the broad question. It of uld lead to the children loafing ta the streets or to compulsory edu- St A- k- A.-i - rights, and there is no telling tr ere it will end. te In conclusion gave his record in position to increase of appropria- i ns to State colleges. ca MR. WM. H. SANDERSti m ted his position in favor of good ids, but not to be built by taxa-a n if they could be secured in any ar way. One.mill tax for good t ds would accomplish something ~ five or ten years. Opposed Child Labor Bill on the e ad principle that the State did t have the right to say to its pa its what they should do with their ildren. Favored education, but the State's ther institueions were being run > extrr vagan~tly. MR. TAYLOR inted a moment to reply to Mr. >minick. In his remarks Mr. Domi- ' sk left 'the impression that he P' aylor)was going around the coun attacking the Newberry mill. He bted to say that he had never said M ything derogatory to the Newberry fo .11. As he had stated, if there was gentleman in South Carolina he lieved it was T. J. McCrary, and 01 e same could be said of Geo. W. Lmmer. The children were sfe so g as the mills were in the hands te Southern men. But McCrary tk d Summer were not immortal. "I It y to you in the presence of one il president that nine.tenths of e children who go in the mills un r twelve years of age will never ad or write, because 'the prices they R< it will never allow them to quit id go to school." MR. DOMINICK plying said that he did not say hi r. Taylor had charged these things ki the Newberry mill. On the con- s ary he had stated that Mr. Taylor mitted at Little Mountion that ese conditions did not exist at the ; ewberry mill. Two years ago Mr. e ylor made the race for the legis a ture and did not mention child a bor. Why ? That was the ques- .h n he wanted Mr. Taylor to an a ver- ci Following came the candidates for r< ie office of SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION. b M. T. E. Wicker thought the c rogress of a county could be ju:ged y the condition of its roads and of ;s schools. Give us an enlightened itizenship and we will have a pros erous and progressive country. ave his position on the best curri alum for the common school, read. ig being of most importance. There iould be harmony between patrons, ustees, and superintendents of edu ition. In order to have good schools ,e must have harmony. The trus *s of every school should be recom - ended by the patrons of that school, cause they should have the men of ieir choice to represe'at: them. A iperintendent should visit the ihools of this county not in a per inctory manner, but he should give Lem a thorough inspection. Mr. E. S. Werts looked back with leasure to the time when he stood 1 this platform two years ago, and >preciated the support received re at that time. He left it with E Le people how well he had served Lem. It had been his purpose while I office to represent the whole peo e of Newberry County, and he had t scharged the duties of his office ipartially and without respect to iend or foe. He only asked to be t dged on his record. He talked of e progress of education, and though i is of a higher type than ever be c re, there are yet many ways in i iich the schools can be improved, t ch as better teachers and longer t rms. But if most importance was y e question of attendance. He had t ited the schools and he found t any children not in attendance. I rents should be aroused on this a testion, and the teachers should d vote to it much time and-thought. I )operation among all factors was t iat was most needed. He had been c iticised by some upon the matter t expenditures of amounts by cer s in teachers and read a letter from n ate Superintendent McMahan quot Q th.--Jaw---aa . aatwhrit- for the a stees aiding the teachers to at- a aid the summer school.. Mr. J. S. Wheeler appeared today g the interest of the schools. Edat- a tion was the most important ques- a n before the people, and the corn- 1, an schools was the all important bject to be considered. He favored good superintendent, good trus s, and good tenchers and when s ese were gained good schools could E >t but result. The county superin y dent is the teacher of the teach s and, therefore, this is a most im- I rtant position. The best way to t t good attendance was to awake [I interest in each community. I anted children in the common r bools prepared for college. r The candidates for the office of f PROBATE JUDGE Messrs. Amos S. Wells, John C. ilson, and W. W. Hodges brief'y ~ esented the candidacy. . t The candinates for Treasurer, essrs. John L. Epps and W. W. ~ eMorries, - also spoke, and were llowed by Messrs W. H. Wendt and t A. C. Kibler, for Sub Supervisor. c r. Wendt was liberally applauded t ia verse which he sang in German f r the benefit of his tired audience. 8 Judge W. G. Peterson called at t ntion to the matter of voting upon I e removal of the court house, giv- a g the facts and figure,s, and the I eeting adjourned. . John K. Aull t SOME DISPENsiRY CH ANGES. E gtetrtion in the BookkeepingK Depart ment and the Appointment. [Columbia Record, 15th.] t Owing to continued ill health in s family, Mr. A. Z. Stroman, book ~eper of the dispensary has re gned. He was appointed to the ace during the last legislature and 1 arformed his duties acceptably. He succeeded by Mr. D. A. Hawkins,, Newberry, who has been connectedi ith the dispensary for several years stenographer and bookkeerper, is new plan being in the nature of deserted promotion. He is sue eded as bookkeeping in the "dump om" by Mr. Tom Reasoner, who as formerly an assistant dispenser, ut who has more recently been snnted with the enpress company. STATE FARMERS' INSTITUTE. THE LIVE STOCK INDUSTRY IN THE SOUTHERN STATES. Dr Butler, State Veterinarian of North Caro lina, Tells Wherein Southern stock Rat. era are to Blame and Intimates that not Enough Attention is Given to the Study of Stock Raising at Clemson-Prof Upton ] Arouges the Intense Interest of Farm ers by his Ad dress on Milk. [News and Courier.] Clemson, August 13.-Dr. Fait Butler, State veterinarian of North , Jarolina, addressed the Farmers' In ittute at Clemson yesterday. He t irst spoke of the necessity of the I ive stock industry in the South. He t :ompared favorably the land of the r south with lands in the North and West. He said that no farming op- c tration or system is ever entirely t uccessful permanently unless the nain idea was to raise food products t and feed to stock. He drew atter.- e ion to the fact that Southern cattle y are as healthy as cattle anywhere, 6nd disease is of little considera- t ion. d He next spoke of grasses as bear- d g on stock raising and showed that c >t of four of the large had produc ii ag States Iowa was the only one hat produced more hay per acre a han South Carolina during a ten- Y ear period. He pointed out also e hat Southerners usually do not put e heir best land in hay, while in the e forth the best land is devoted to it, nd showed that while Iowa pro lced in one year five million tons of i ay South Carolina produced 192,000 6 ons. He said that the Southern ountry was one of the richest sec- d ions, otherwise it could not have a tood the drain that has so long been a Qade on it. He showed that the system of c nd the loss amounted last year to i ~50,000,000. Cotton seed meal is e 35 a ton as feed and when it is c hipped out of the country and used s a fertilizers, at present prices, great v :ss in money valae results. fi STOCK-RAISING MUsT BE TAUGHT. He also spoke of some of the ob- b tacles to raising stock in the South nd said that in order - to have stock a re must have men educated in that t irection. He criticised the fact that t Le saw no well-equipped agricultural t uilding here, while very fine build-a cgs for other sciences existed, and e te censured the trustees for their e emissness in the matter. His re carks drew forth considerable ap- ( lause. He showed that cattle were selling r igher than usual and would proba- e ily continue high, and predicted hat cotton seed meal would never c e cheap again because it was worth c 35 a ton for feed. - f He emphasized the importance of ~ he farmers getting agricultural edn ation and proceeded to show some hings specially needed. He showed C rom his own observation thxat many tock owners do not know whether ~ hey have well bred or back stock ~ ecause of lack of knowledge in these ~ ubjects. All stock must be bred for' or some special purpose. A cow red for milking uses is not expected ~ o make a good beef type and an ~nimal bred specially for beef is not good milk type. He told of the I ase steer-one Jersey and one Here. ( ord-that were tested in Ohio. The ~ ~xpense of fattening was practically he same. The Jersey, weighing ,000 pounds at 3 years old, brought i ittle' over four cents a pound, the ( lereford little over six cents a pound. I IIhe Jersey dressed 574 per cent. net he other 67}- per cent. net. Jersey nade tallow 190 pounds; Hereford ade 90 pounds tallow. Tallow be ng worth only three or four cents a( pound and beef a good deal more, ade the difference in favor of the Eereford marked on this item alone. so this test very strikingly illustrated bhe importance of Dreeding the dif erent types for the purpose for1 which one particular type is wanted. His next subject was the cattle airk which he considers the worst 1 )bstacle to stock raising in the south. More cattle die in South Carolina rom Texas fever than from all other liseases combined. An easy way to get rid of these ;icks is to separate an infected pas ure from one not infected by a very ow plank fence a few inches high. [his can be done because the tick vill not crawl or move on ground nore than a few feet and will not ,ross a plank eight or ten inches I iigh. The female tick wiil lay 1,500 to 1,000 eggs, which will hatch in varm weather in two or three weeks. I he tick does not crawl from one t ick to another. Young ticks will f Lot usually live through the winter, i ut eggs will keep and hatch out t *.t spring. North Carolina is expending $7,000 F r $8,000 a year in exterminating the icks. In September we should take cat- C le out of tick infested pastures and a leanse them thoroughly of ticks and ' at cattle into clean fields. Another plan is to grease the cat- C le once a week and ticks will be C estroyed. Grease the legs and un- i er portions of the body. Any 1 heap grease, with a little kerosene, t good. Dr. Butler is a Canadian by birth C nd has been living about sixteen 8 ears in the United States, being a mployed by the United States Gov- t rnment as meat inspector for sev- t ral years in the West. t How TO MILK AND CARE FOR COWS. Prof C. 0. Upton addressed the1 istitute today, his subject being F Milk." He had drawn on a blackboard a iagram of the udder of a cow and rith its use very soon instructed his adience as to formation, relative osition and functions of the ducts, ells and muscles of the udder. t ,ilked quick and without irritation, are being taken to milk clean, be ause milk left in the udder is liable a cause inflammation of the ducts, rhich inflammation may be perma ent. Milk, like meat, is easily af acted by bacteria and he finds that iany cows have bacteria in the milk efore it is drawn from them. He spoke of the ease with whichC ame foodstuffs affect milk and said at in the North some dairymen fed eir cows away from the milking ime as far as possible. They milk first d feed aferward. He spoke on the omposition of milk. In 100 parts f milk there are 12 1.2 parts of f solids and the balance is water. t )f the 12 1 2 p'rts of solids parts 1 re butter fat, five parts lactose or e ilk sugar, three and one-half parts I asein (curd.) t The milk first drawn from a cow is t f poorer quality than milk last i trawn sometimes varying in butter r at several per cent. Why this is so I a not exactly known. Color of milk does not indicate ( ichness,. but is due to indivduality I f the cow and to some extent to the C ed. The per cent of butter fat a hat a cow will make is not appre iably influenced by the richness of t Ler food, but is due to what is called I individuality." This per cent of I iutter fat varies in the same cow ~ rom 'various causes, but is fairly inifornr and increases with age. ( This address took well with the armers, who consumed a good deal f the alloted time by asking ques7 ions relating to cows, treatment of alves and kindred subjects. Prof. Upton is from the North nd came here last September as lairyman. This is the first meeting if the institute at which he has been >resent. -Excursion Rates. The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad is1 ifering cheap excursion rates to the eashore and mountain resorts of the aroinas and Virginia for August 20th. n addition to the special low rates, hey will operate through Pullman leepers from Jacksonville, Fla., to lorfolk, Va., leaving former point at .00 a. m. These rates and schedules vill offer excellent opportunity for arties desiring to make a business trip >r to take a vacation at a very little ost and receive benefit of all modern onveniences, which includes the very est dining- car service. GAFFNEY AT LAST WITNESSES A SCRAP. HEMPHILL AND LATIMER DO THE UNEXPECTED. Ind it Amounted to Nothing-A Couple of "Cuss" Words and a Little Gesticu lation With One or Two Blows-That's Al. [Special to The State.] Gaffney, Aug. 14.-There is some hing either in the water or the at nosphere that calls forth a difficulty >f some sort every time candidates >r officials speak here. It will be -emer ibered that it was at this place hat Senator Tillman and McLaurin ound that arguments availed noth ng and both tendered their resigna ion to Gov. McSweeney and the in ident of the "Jim" Tillman DeCamp pisode, a few weeks ago, is still resh in the minds of the people. 3ut today two would be senators ame to actual blows, and all about small matter. It happened this ray: At the senatorial and congressional andidates' meeting held here in the ourt house today, Congressman Lat ner was the first speaker for the Jnited States senate. When his urn came, the dinner hour having xrived, a majority of the 500 audi nce left. Latimer did not want to peak to the depleated crowd and sked permission of the chairman to e allowed to postpone his speech tntil after dinner, the time allotted o the congressmen. The matter was 3ft to a vote, and it was unanitnous ' ordered that the speech be post oned as requested. Latimer jumped up and said: "I rant you all to come back here and ear me, for these five lawyers have een jumping on one poor farmer, nd I am going to answer them." As they were leaving the bar of he court room, Hemphi'l said: hat, for none of us have been jump non you today, and you know it. t has always been our rule to end a meeting before we stop, and it will ot be right to infringe upon the line of the congressmen.". Hemphill-I do care for the con ressmen, and you know it. By this time they were facing each ther, and both very angry. Latimer-I know that you don't are for them. Hemphill-G-d d-m you you :now that is not true. A BLOW ON THE CHEEK. Latimer then drew back and hit emphill a severe, stunning blow on he cheek. Several men jumped in etween them and the driving blow ent by Hemphill at his antagonist efl short of its mark. Hemphill hen grabbed his umbrella and tried o hit Latimer over the head of the nterfering men, but he could not each him. Several men grabbed old of both antagonists, who were aking desperate efforts to get at ach other, and in the scuffle Hemp. il was pushed back between two hairs in the jury box, but was in tatly helped to his feet again. This ended the incident as far as his correspondent saw and heard. :t is rumored that Hemphill fol owed Latimer out of the court room ad asked him why he struck him, ~nd Latimer replied "because you ursed me." "I DID NOT CUBSE YOU" To which Hemphill rejoined: "I Lid not curse you." Latimer said: "Well, if you did ot curse me, I apologize." This latter statement is mere here ay, but the first part is testimony nd was heard and witnessed by nany. The whole affair was totally unex yeted, for during the entire cam aign there bas not been any con roversy to amount to anything be ~ween these two gentlemen, either off r on the stand. BEFORE THE MAYOR. Both Hemphill and Latimer were otified to appear before Mayor Lit ile this evening, and, pending an in restigation, both were required to put up $10 each for their appearance. At a late hour tonight Mayor Lit tie decided to allow Messrs. Hemp hill and Latimer forfeit their deposit of $10 until morning.