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^hc Jarlinflton JRm’s. Published Evkry Thursday MORHIHe. ^iBNRT J, JhOMPSON, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. TKKMH—$1 Per Amium in Advance 50 cents (or 8 months; 35 cents (or H months. Advertising Rates: One Square Ar t insertion $1.00 One Square second insertion 60 Every subsequent insertion 60 Contract advertisements inserted Bpon the most reasonable terms. WORK OF THE CONVENTION. After holding daily sessions for nearly four weeks contin uously, the Constitutional Con vention took a recess on Friday last until Oct. 15. Sufficient ground has now been covered to afford a pretty fair idea of what the Constitution is to be like. While there has been en tirely too great a tendency on the part of individuals to “leg islate” instead of confining attention to the adoption of fundamental principles, this tendency has been kept well in check by the majority, with the result that much good work has been accomplished, and the pro niise now is that the instrument as finally adopted will consider ably surpass all expectations that were had in regard to it. Among the important sections that have been completed are those relating to the Legislative and Executive Departments. Municipal Corporations and Police Regulations, Impeach ments, and the form and man ner of hereafter making Amend ments to the Constitution. The Convention still has to wrestle with some very important mat ters, such as the suffrage pro blem, questions of finance and taxation, educational matters, the manner of dealing with cor poratious, the support of penal and charitable institutions, and the articles relating to the De claration of Rights, the Judicial Department, Eminent Domain, the Militia, andCmnty Govern ment. As will be seen, there fore, the work is by no means concluded, and when the Con- vent’on gets down to it again on the 15th there is no telling when they will be able to get through. PERPETUATINQ FRAUD. As a matter of course the most important question by far to come before the Convention is that of the suffrage. The Committee on Suffrage, of which Senator Tillman is chairman, have, it is understood, agreed unanimously to recommend the following as the qualifications for electors: The person applying (or regUtra tlou uniat be able to read and wiite any eeclion of this Constitution or must show that he owns and pays taxes on $300 worth ot property In this State: Provided, that at the tirst registrat.on under this Constitution and up to January 1, !'■»«, all male persons o( voting age who can read a clause in this Constitution or under stand and explain it when read to them by the registration officer shall be entitled to register and become electors. A separate record of all illiterate persons thus registered, sworn to by the regtstratioi officer, shall be filed, one copy with the clerk of Court and one in the ( ffl-e of the Secretary of State on or l e'ore Jan uary 1, 1HH, and snch persons shall remain during life qualified electors. (There is, of course, a clause later on in the Article in regard to certain crimes that disqual ify.) This, then, is “the Mis sissippi plan with modifications” which Senator Tillman, shortly before the assembling of the Convention, announced that he was going to put upon us. At one time (about the time of the Tillman Barnwoll conference in Columbia last spring) we in dulged the hope that the plan to he decided upon, while ensur ing white supremacy and the disfranchisement of as few white men as possible, would, at the same time, result in fair elections. When, however. Senator Tillman began after wards to talk about ensuring white supremacy by disfranch Ising no white man except for crime, and to throw out hints about the adoption of “some modified form of the Mississippi plan”, we soon began to see how vain was the hope we had been indulging in. If the section as proposed by Senator Tillman is adopted, the result will be an educational qualification with the supervis ors of registration in the several counties as the sole judges of the fact whether or not the citizens who presents themselves are properly qualified. To these officials will be left the import ant task of overcoming the ne gro majority in South Carolina, and instead of having “fair ehetions”, as Tillman said he wanted at the time of the Barn well conference, we will have for presentation to the rest of the country, and for transmis sion to our posterity, an instru ment with the word FRAUD seared across it from beginning to end as if with a red-hot iron, and in letters that are never to be effaced. STATE CONTROL OF LIQUOR. The following is the section in legard to the sale of liquor that it has been decided to in corporate in the new Constitu tion: In the exercise of the police power the (leneral Assembly shall have the right to prohibit the manufacture and sale and retail of intoxicating liquors or beverages within the State; the (General Assembly may license persons or corporations to manufac ture and sell and retail Intoxicating liquors or beverages within the State under such rules and restrictions as it deems proper; or the General Assem bly may prohibit the manufac ure and sale and retail of intoxicating li quors and beverages within the State, and may authorise and empower State and county officers, both or either, under the authority and in the name of the Mtate, to buy many mar ket and retail within the State liquors and beverages in such packages and quantities, under such rules and regu lations as t deems expedient: Provid ed. that no license shall be granted to sell alcoholic beverages in less quan tities than one-half pints, or to sell them between sundown and sunrise, or to sell them to be drunk tn the premises, and provided, further, that the General Assembly shall not dele gate the power to issue licenses to sell the same to any municipal corpora tion. This means either prohibition or the control of the sale of li quor by the State forever. The clause empowering the State to sublet the job of liquor-selling to individuals or corporations was, it is understood, put there with a view to meeting the con dition of things that will arise when the Supreme Court of the United States decides that a sovereign State cannot engage in trade. But why should all of this find a place in the Con stitution anyhow? Surely Sen ator Tillman must have chang ed his mind on this point, too? He used to be of the opinion, if we recollect right (and it was not so very long ago, either), that the question of the control of the liquor traffic was one for the Legislature to deal with, and that it should form no part Of the basic law. OUR "LIGHTNINQ EXPRESS" SCHEDULES. Talking about the frequent changes in railroad schedules with which we have been af flicted of late, one of the most serious inconveniences in that regard to which the public has been subjected is the unexpect edness with which they have come. They are usually made on a Monday morning, without any previous notice having been sent out to the newspapers, or to anyone at all except the rail road officials, the travelling public being left to find out from a sad experience, after starting on a journey, perhaps, that a change has gone into effect. For example, instances are not wanting in the past where passengers have gone down to Florence early in the morning on the Hartsville freight train expecting to go through to Charleston, only to find on reaching Florence that*, owing to an unexpected change in the schedule, the Hartsville freight connected no where with anything. The local agent at Darlington does all in his power tj inform the public of these changes, but it is not infrequently the case that he receives notice of them him self too late to enable him to disseminate the information generally. On Saturday before last the delegates to the Consti tutional Convention from this section of the State, not know ing that any change of schedule was contemplated, came home to spend Sunday with their families, expecting to get back to Columbia early Monday morning. In order to do that, finding that the passenger train j that was to run on Monday had been unexpectedly taken off, they had to travel all Sunday, the delegates from Marlboro County having to go all the way round into North Carolina, some of them as far as Wil mington, in order to get back to Co'umbia. Surely there must be some remedy for such a state of things as this! $30,000.22 THE FIGHT IS ON! War Unto Death! Every time the wheel turns Down go our prices a notch lower. OUR now STORG! Thirty Thousand Dollars within the next three months. We have the stock of goods to do it with, and more §toek coming every day. W: Wont Hon Fricss Eero, because we don’t want to give our “hands” away to other merchants. We are willing to let our customers do the talking about our prices. WELSH ALL NOT offer one or two articles away below cost as a bait, and then make it up on something else; but we say to you, if you want to buy a bill of We want every lady, man and chiid in Darlington, town and county, to visit our new store in the Hewitt Block, and see one of the best managed stores in this section of the State. We commenced business in Darlington just ten (10) months ago in one room. Our business increased so fast that we were compelled to get more space for our enor mous stock. We are now in better shape to sell goods than any house in this part of South Carolina. Why has our business grown so fast? Simply because we sell at “live and let live” prices. REID IND REFLECT: The wave of prosperity has come, and in earnest. This is universally felt in this much favored land of ours—throughout its length and breadth,—and everyone who wants to take advantage of the good times must be alive to the opportunity and buy goods where they can get the best OL-OTHING, HHTS o®. GROCERIES, come right to our store; we will make the prices right. If you prefer to post your self before buying, just get every body else to quote you prices, and give us the last “whack” at you;—nine to one you will make your bill with us. Respectfully, •« Brunson, Lunn £ Go. GROVES TASTELESS CHILL TDNIC 13 J UST A8 GOOD FOR ADULTS. WARRANTED. PRIC£ 50ct3. Parts Medicine CxJm^.LouIs.’mo^* ’ N ° V ’ 1%% ^ GontlcrL.cnWo sold lost yew, GOO bottle” of CROVE’S TALTELE88 CHILL TONIC and h vo bought three gross already this year. In r.ll ourYx- pertence of 14 yoors. In the drug business, h vo never sold i n article that gave such universal suti*. taction as your Tonic. lours truly, Abney, caiir For Sale by DR J A BOYD. for Cush p and not pay old-time, “moss-back” prices to the credit houses. Tne credit business has ruined this country, and the sooner our Southern people find out that by buying for cash they make and save money, the better it will be for them. We sell for CASH, ann sell as cheap as any house in South Carolina;—we do not except any. We buy and sell more DRY GOODS, CLOTHING than any three merchants in Darlington. Merchants who buy in large quantities can afford to sell their goods cheaper than those who buy in small lots, dive us a call, and we will convince you that we are Head am! Shoulders above anything else in Darlington. Yours for business, SLICH & RUCKER. G. I H lCkEIl & Manufacturers —or— Doors, Sash, Blmus, BAOTJLTDXKTOS —AND - Building Material. ESTABLISHED 1842. CHARLESTON, S.’ C. April, 20 1*08—v THF BANK OF DARLINGTON. DARLINGTON, S. C. A CAPITAL, — — _ — $100,000 SURPLUS, — — $50,000 Savings Department, Interent allowed at rate of 5 per cent, per annum from date of deposit —payable quarterly on tne first day of January, April, July and October. Transacts a General BankinnBusiness. DIRECTORS: W. C. Coker, J. L Coker, R. W. Boyd, J. J. Ward. E. R. Mclver, A. Nachman, Bright Williamson. BRIGHT WILLIAMSON, President. L. E. WILLIAMSON, Cashier. Docs Tils I Hit You? i < > < > I | The management of the J | ; Equitable Life Assurance ] | | ; Society in the Department of ] | ] ! the Carolinas, wishes to se- J | ! [ core a few Special Resident ] | I ; Agents. Those who are fitted J \ ] ; for this work will find this J [ liARareOpportonityi; | J It isuvrk, however, and those ] | J | who succeed best in it possess ] 1 ! character, mature judgment, JJ ! ! tact, perseverance, and the ] I J ! respect of their community. | | ; Think this matter over care- 3 3 3 ! fully. There’s an uimsual 3! ! 3 opening for somebody. If h 3 3 3 fits you, it will pay you. Fur- 3 3 3 3 ther information on request. 3 3 ' ' W. J. Roddey, Manager, 3 3 3! Rock Hill, S. C. Claude Milling, LOCAL AGE.NT FOR Muk k Broil's c tLEBRAT£ 0 Gents’ ClothinG Veritable bargains now offered. 3 LATEST STYLE, FINEST QUALITY, MOST PERFECT FIT. FULL LINE OF SAMPLES Examine them and he convinced.