The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, June 13, 1901, Image 2
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THE CmiMTY RECORD.
Published Eyory Thursday
? AT?
tINGSTREE. SOUTH CAROLINA.
?BY ?
G. W. WOLFE .
Editor and Proprietor.
Tho (nrniat-p of the Great Eastern
"Was 10,300 below that of the Celtic,
which has just been launched at Belfast.
It will be recalled that the
Groat Eastern failed as a moneymaker
and was retired as being unwieldy.
It was power that the former
ship lacked. The latter has it in superabundance.
and it is predicted she
will be a success.
S The
work of removing the little
"white sehooJhouses from the Iowa
hilltops is attracting more attention
just now than any other educational
movement of the new century, states
the New England Farmer. Advanced
?iliif>9tnrc nf Tnw.'l hnvp pome to the
realization that the theory of a schoolhouse
every two or three miles along
the country roads is all wrong. The
last legislature recognized the fact
that some provision should be made
for lesseniug the cost of maintaining
eo many schoolhouses, and passed
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Jaws making it possible to consolidate
schools and to engage in the practice
of transporting children from long disP
tances to school at public expense.
i
Writing in Cassier's Magazine. -.1lon
1). Adams shows-that the tin: i
ripe for the advent of a new sy: :i
of urban and interurbaa transpc."
tioa. The object sought in each
change thus far appears to have been
a reduction in operating expenses as
Avcll as an improvement in service.
In the opinion of Mr. Adams electric
vehicles embrace the necessary e!>>i
mr-nts of the next in: pro verm nt in
street traction. There is no comparison.
of course, in the matter of flexibility
of operation and freedom from
the street structures. It is only a
question of comparative cost. Mr.
Adams shows that for a given daily
rxOrv.lf ntlifirv t >1 It Ut.ltinTl tf> < 'lUCCR
storage batteries for electric vehicles
need only have one-fourth the < npacitv
in generating machinery that is
noccssarv for the operation ot a tram
car system, an 1 would require no battery
plant whatever. After computing
the comparative cost of maintenance
and operation Mr. Adams finds an unbalanced
advantage of transportation
with elrctromobihs. a saving about
one-half of the entire first <o... ar..i
also.o? one-half of the annual in t eve.,
charges of present street car systems.
The increasing number of farms
operated by tenants has been pointed
out as a sign that the former owners
were rapidly sinking into a state of
tenancy through the foreclosure of
mortgages. This has. however, been
shown not to be the case by Mr. I,. (J.
Powers, the chief statistician of the
division of agriculture of the census
bureau. According to the new census
figures, the total number of farms in
the United States has increased from
4.500.000 in 1800 to 5.700.000 in 1900,
and those operated by tenants have increased
between 40 and 45 percent,
while those tilled by their owners
have increased between 15 and IS parent.
Ilotli classes have increased
more rapidly thar. the agricultural population.
which fait disproves the assertion
that tne owners arc being degrade
I into tenants. Mr. Powers
states that it d:>< s not indicate the
degradation of the rural population,
but an uplifting that has raised not
less than 100,0o0 families from the
position of wage-earners to that of
lessees of small or large tracts of
tillable land. When a wage-earner,
he states, in a rural community gets a
little capital ahead he often begins to
. look for a farm to rent and operate.
. Those owners of farms who have laid
l.v o v.?i>7r>,l "npst-.Ajr?" nr?? rift oil
<i?J ? bvvwV - ora ? - ?
willing to lease their lands and retire
to the city to Jive on their income.
The result is an increase in tenant
farms, but i' is in an economic improvement
for all concerned. If the
tenant be successful he may be able
? to buy the farm in a few years.
Mr. K< ckcfcllcr appears to have collided
with the "Id query as to whether
n genuine bu?incs- man can become a
* ' ; v *t c,: :.ig to be a
V
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M'LAURIN ON_H
Claims Himself a Discif
houn and
GIVES (IIS VIEWS ON QUESTIONS,!
In Repiy to a Request That He Show
Wherein He is Not a Republican? j
His Democracy Defended.
I
A Bennettsville Special to the Coin. .
bia State makes public the following
correspondence:
Florence, S. t\, June 3. 191)1.
Hon. John L. McLaurin, Bennettsville.
S. C.
Dear Sir:?I have taken great inter- 1
est in the political outlook ami as a :
I matter of instruction ask that you i
differentiate between your views, and
the views held by leading Republicans.
Most of us sc-e no difference, but perhaps
you can show some difference.
If so please do it. as I am not inclined i
to condemn you without a hearing. i
Yours trn1}'.
W. F. CLAYTON. ;
Bennettsville, S. C.. June 4. 1901.
Mr. W. F. Clayton. Florence. S. C.
Dear Sir:?In your letter of June ;
3rd you ask me "to differentiate be- )
tween my views and the views of leadintr
mft?f r>f lie: cop no
difference.-' I am very busy at this ]
time, but will dictate a few thoughts j
as they occur to me in reply to your
question. 1 do this with the more
pleasure because you have been opposed
to me politically, but show a desire
to seek the truth.
At the time of the adoption of the
United States constitution there were1
several distinct plans of government
proposed. Of these plans the fight;
was made upon two; the Hamiltunian
idea and the Jeffersonian idea. Alex
ander Hamilton 'openly maintained
j that the British constitution was the;
; most perfect instrument of its kind
i ever in existence. He wanted ail laws
, for the government of the States to Le
I passed by the congress of the United
1 States. He wanted the president cf
i the United States and the senators to'
; hold office during good behavior. He
, wanted the governors of the States ap1
pointed by the president of the United
i States and he wanted the Federal gov- '
I - ? ? * oocin,/-. ilol>!o nf tllf*
j CI UUiCiJl IU aoouiuv uiv \iv./iu v*. v..w
i statutes. He wanted a strong sena'e
and a weak house of representatives
ami openly proclaimed himself that
that the people were incapable of se'fgovernuient.
John Jay was sent as mia- j
ister to England in order to malto a
commercial treaty which would have.
placed our commerce under the con!
trol of Great Britain. The Hamilton ,
idea was so far carried out that he j
: succeeded in preventing the incorpora'
tion of a bill of right in the Federal
j constitution. Under his leadership the
! congress imposed the excise tax which !
' made the rich escape the burdens of:
i taxation and placed those burdens;
upon the poor. This brought about the,
revolution in Pennsylvania and came ;
very near disrupting the new republic.
Thomas Jefferson forced the bill of
i rights into the constitution as an
amendment. As minister to France he
succeeded in defeating the purpose of
the Jay Treaty with England. Hamilton
favored and Jefferson opposed the
granting of monopolies, the establish
ins of a United states nana. an i me
assumption of the State debts by th?
federal government. Associated with
Jefferson were Madison. Monroe. Samuel
Adams. Albert Gallatin. George
Clinton, and Benjamin ("Franklin. As-;
sociated with Hamilton were John
Marshall. John Jay. John Adams and
Pinckney. The Democratic party has
been in continuous existence ever since
ti;e adoption of the constitution while
the Federal party o? which the Re- J
publicans are the successors have passed
through a number of changes. The
Federal party, at first successful, finally
committed suicide by carrying
their doctrine of a centralized gav- |
eminent so far as to pass the alien and
sedition laws. Under this law the p:esident
was authorized upon his own
volition to expel frr.n the country any
alien whom he might suspect as dan
gerous to the peace an;i uoeriy oi mc
I country, etc., this radical measure!
created a powerful reaction.
'lite Democrats then remained In i
power, almost without interruption tin- j
til 1S60. During this time all the territory
acquired by the I'nited States
up to ISitS was secured except the ter-1
ritory of Alaska, and every foot of it:
was encountered by the vigorous denunciation
of the Republicans.
During the entire time the Demo- j
crats were the progressive men. They
held to the p. in. iple that the people '
should rule but that the general gov- j
ernment while keeping taxation at the i
lowest rate consistent with good gov- ;
ernment could expend the fund thu~ i
derived for the good of the whole peo-j
pic. In lSr.6 they favore 1 subsidizing
the Pacific railroad. About the same
time they started the subsidy to the j
J Collins line of steamsmps neiwfni u:t-;
1 United States and England. Based
J upon the prniple of ihe Jeffersonian '
commercial treaty with Franc?, they
had concluded treaties with all the
principal nations and those treaties a o
still in for.". They had built up our
foreign commerce rntil it excited the
wonder and admiration of the entire
world. They had under Ger.eial Jackson
stopped imprisonment for debt.
T: ey had fonc'-t * w.> sv e??f-:l vtirs
I villi foreign nations. They tad
1S_ DEMOCRACY."
)Ie of Jefferson, Ca!-|
Lowndes.
lichojl fi f]-.rnutrhoiit thf? World
second to no nation on earth. They
were fighting for principles of the lib- j
ertv of thought and action and the 1
freedom of American citizenship. Ma:- ,
ters of internal concern, the leaders of I
the party differed abo. t. Gen. Jack- I
son was the first to make a reciprocity
treaty. The next reciprocity
treaty was made by Presid nt Pierce.
John Randolph acting against thr 1 jailers
of this party voted against the embargo
act and was finally stressful in
defeating that legislation. Clay, Cahoun.
Oheves and Lowndes actively opposed
President Jefferson in the matter
o? decreasing the army. The first proposition
of a protective tariff for the !
purposes of protection came f'.omj
James Madison and Calhoun and
Lowndes joined with Madison in its
favor. The Federalists opposed prntec-1
tion. Clay and Calhoun favored inter-1
nal improvement and'Madison ve o d 1
them. Our great distinctive foreign i
policy known as the Monroe doctrine
was a Democratic policy. The Demo-1
<rats defeated the scheme of the Republicans
to turn over Oregon and I
Washington to Great Britain.
The Democratic party has never yet,
denied to any man within its lines th?
privilege of free thought ann free
speech. It has never yet failed to correct
mistakes when it has made them, j
It has lost no opportunity to build up >
the merchant marine and op.it .ip our j
trade with foreign port?. It opened up
the Japanese ports when a'l of th
nations of the earth had failed.
The party has never been inconsistent.
and yet it has never stultided itself
by adhering to previous plufurms
when the condition? which demanded
them had changed, Until lSoG the Den
ccrats had denied the power in the
federal government to make internal
improvements, and yet it was the first
to advocate the great improvement of,
the Pacific railroads and the \i<:aia-j
cnian canal.
in the matter of tariff it was a pro '
toction party under the lead?:.ship of
James Madison: declared for fr e trade
in 184S; for ' incidental protection" in
1SG8: a tariff for revenue only in i.SS'J
and in 1SS4 the convention said.
"Moreover many industries have
come to rely upon the legislation for
successful continuance, so that any
change of law must he at every step
regardful of the labor and capital thus
involved. The necessary reduction a:; I
taxation can and must he effect?'.
without depriving Atnericln labor of
the ability to compete sue C3sfitli/
with foreign labor and without imposing
lower rates of duty than will
he ample to cover any increas u cos;
of production which may exist in consequence
of the higher rate of uaqet
prevailing in this country."
In 1SS8 the platform still reogniz 1
that other things beetles revenue w. r.
to be taken into account in flaming
tariff legislation. It said: "Dur <stablished
industries and enterpiisos
should not he endangered.
For more than half a century Democratic
conventions condemnc 1 a national
bank and finally support/id a
metallic currency. In 18S0, 1884, and
ixxx the Democratic oartv declared i.i
favor of gold and silver and nape:*
convertible into coin on 'demand. In
189U it favored the coinage of both |
metals under an international agro>,!
merit. In 1SS8 the Republican platform
read : j
"The Republican party js in favor of
the use of both gold and silver as j
money and condemns the policy of cat- j
Democratic administration in its ef
forts to demonetize silver."
In 189- the Republican platform was
identical in principle upon this question
with the Democratic platform of,
l^O. 18S4 and 1SS8.
There have been protectl >n Demo- ^
erats ever since Madison and Calhoun
favored the protection doctr.ne. T.tere j
have been free trade Republicans troin
the foundation of the government
Such men as Samuel .J. Randall.John
Randolph and John C. Calhoun always
spoke freely and clearly whether or i
not they were in accord wit.li the phi forms
of their parties. The Deniocr.r.i.party
lias always favored freediii of
speech and action. The R 'publican (
party has always sought to to ' entral-1
ize the government as to carry out the j
idea of Alexander Hamilton. The ])e:n- j
ocratic party has been a party that j
has had for its policy the greatest goo!
to the greatest number while the R publican
party as a party has believe.I'
wjth Hamilton, its founder, it: b stowing
benefits upon the few and only
burdens upon the many. "I'ntil these I
latter day saints." have lead the part;,
into socialism, while as to expansion'
and subsidies, the Republicans ha\ ,
taken advantage of the situation and'
baldly got upon the Democratic platform.
They are now' upon the currency
question practically where the Demo-'
cratfc party stood up to is3They
are now advocating the reeiprocitv
of Jackson and Pierce. Thoy are n nv
advo-ating- the Democratic princip'et
which is announced in the Democrat> !
convention of lSr>G in the matter of i
building the Pacific railroad. They
want to aplily that principle to osr
foreign commerce. Whenever the Republicans
are forced to abandon their
own policy they take up Demoa ?ti pr>:i-!?r.
and th? Denircrnts nr.* ns!;?"d
to opp ge t.c.s.- Dcnccra p.11 -i.a !.<?
Jt '
i nilse lhey have been adopted ly the t
Republicans. | c
The Democrats of this country mu.-t1 \
stand together and restore their par'? ! i
to the power which was thirs. They (
cannot do it by condemning that which * ]
is good because the Republicans en- ' i
dorse it nor can they do it by going off t
after strange and unsound pdic.es in <
order to secure some votes which ;
might otherwise be Republican. Tne <
fight of Hamilton and Jefferson :s still t
on in This country and will be until it J
j is fought to a finish. Either wa will 1
have an aristocracy or we will have a
republic. If the Democrats are to dis- !
card their fundamental idea of the lib- 1
erty of the individual and freedom ef 1
thought and action by refusing to !
recognize as members of their party (
those men who have always fousht its ! !
battles in the p. st. but who in th-5 ! ]
present believe tEat some of its por- |
vies are not the policies of ibc true : j
Democracy. The true Democracy is a j
progressive party. It progress. > as no ]
other party ever has done and thr na
tion prospered by reason of its wisdom I
and Rs administration of public af- 1
ralrs. in cannot pro per if it is *o op. ;
pose the extension of our forc'gn '
trade, the creation of new markets, 1
the upholding of our commercial and j
industrial interests, and the freedom j
of the individual. If the Republican
party, the record of which shows it to
have been a party forbidding the free
exercise of speech, concentrating the ,
wealth of the country in the hands of ,
a few, burdening the people by ercc?- |
r.ive taxation, and conducting public 1 .
affairs for the. benefit of private < iti- ,
zens; if that party is to be allowed to
turn its back upon its re.-osd and by
adopting the progressive features oi'
the Democracy, become the party of I
progress, then the Democratic party
having allowed its opponent to appro-,
priate its principles can no longer l.ve ]
I believe that the Democratic party
does not exist for the mere purpose of
opposing whatever the Republican
party may suggest. I believe th ,t i:
lives as it has lived in times pas* f r
the purpose of adopting that v.khvi i>
right aiul discarding that whhh iwrong
and conducting the affairs of
State so as to make ail men equal under
the law.
(Senator McLaurin dwells at l'-ngth
upon the money question and it; nur1
est does not warrant giving full space
in these columns.) He s.:"i ;n nan:
There is not a iine i:i any Dem >
cratic platform fixing the ratio of silver
and go! i prior to UOt!. There is I '
not a line in any Republican platform : 1
advocating or opposing the ratio of.
15 to 1 or any ratio. There were' i
strong men in the Democratic party j
in favor of the free coinage of silver; ; ]
there wore strong men in the Republi-' ,
ran j arty in favor of the fr c coinage ' ,
of silver. lh- Republican party'
adopted the lirst free coina ;? plat- j '
form. Although silver was bomonitizod
by Republican legislation in'1
l.xTo. the onlv objection to ;'nat act ;
made prior to earne from the; '
Republicans who had " parse I the j
mintage act under whit 1: silver was
domonifizeJ.
What did these m< n find when they
reached Kansas City? They fouu I '
western delegations in which not a 1
single man had been a Democrat in 1
Those iron demanded a reiteration
-of tiie 1G to 1 plank of the Chi-! (
rago -platform. The proposition was .
made to them that they could have
!>o:h cnu ii lates, and they could have ?
any planks they wanted which a'e
not socialistic or anarchistic ami all
the Democrats asked was that their j
party be preserved by maintaining f
its reputation as a safe and conscrva- tive
organization. John W. Daniel of
Virginia, as thorough a believer in the
free coinage of silver as any man in \
his party and one of the grandest ]
characters in the United States Senate.
worked like a beaver day and (
night to try to convince these western 1
delegates that their policy was sui< i-:
dal. Governor Smith of Maryland' (
told them that the Democrats, could
carry Maryland without that plank
and could not carry Maryland with j 1
it. ; t
The old line Democrats declined to ?
be driven from their party by a man ;
who during ten years of political life I
had been a Democrat, a Populist, and | |
a socialist. The only office which' (
William J. Bryan ever held he was ;
elected to by the Populists, it being j
impossible for the Democrats to j
secure an election in that district. He 1
acted with the Democrats in Con-1 z
gr^ss. hut distinctly stated that he was ;
not bound by a Democratic platform. 1 f
Senator McLanrin quotes me con- i
gresslonal directory to shw that
Charles A. Towne advocated by Bryan <
for vic? president, never ran for office t
until elected to the Fifty-fourth con
gress as a Republican, against Melvln ,
R. Baldwin, Democrat, and Kirtel Hal- ^
r. 1I.? , "
vursun, rupuusi.
When a party of men are willing to
see their party go down in defeat it:
order that one issue may he maintain - i)
ed they either believe that this i^sue : '
lies at the very foundation of all gov- l'
ernment. or else they have some nits-,
rior motive. ? * ? j
The south produces no bullion. It fv
would have no need for maintaining '
a reserve iu the* east such as woul! '
he created lor the benefit of the west i
by the bullion.
All of its contracts would be gold ; v
contracts. Kor all of its money it jj
would I e dependent upon the east and j
be com pell, d to pay whatever rati s ,
the eastern I anks saw lit to charge. "J
Then a part of the same scheme was ; f
to prevent the Democratic policy cl';
the repeal of the tax upon State ;
banks, in order to prevent the south- a
ern States from having any circula- f
ticn medium whatever for local pur-,
po-;e.~. The west -would.'have its sil
\c- c- ;r liaafs tnf o:?tain!n*r iho v.. ' !?
aa! lie ...:t wiuld conii ! tte ^ . 1
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be Kouth woultl be prevent? I from
vm having paper, anu woum ue iin
!er the absolute and complete and
perfect control of the cast ami west.
iYhen I made a fight in the house for
he repeal of the in per cent. tax. Mr.
Bryan voted against it. and I invite
. our attention to his utterance at this
imp, which fully confirms what 1 say.
Congressman Bailey, or' Texas. < ne of
he ablest men in the United States,
ailed my attention to this sinister atlitnde
of Mr. Bryan at the time.
The trouble with the south has always
been its clinging to traditions
ind its lack of practical wisdom, in
preventing the- other sections from
imposing upon them by underhand
means. The couth is solidly Democratic.
for nowhere in the world is
there a greater iove for freedom of
speech, liberty of thought ar.l action ^
in! absolut" justice. whiclt are tne
foundation stcn- s of the Democratic *
party. But thee were asleep in 1?H<>
und 190') and totally ignorant of the
reasons fur this new issue Loing
forced upon them. It was in the
Democratic platform and they therefore
voted for it# Now it behooves
them to consider why it was m that
platform, and they will learn, that
instead of being Democratic it was a
counterfeit to be spurned and cast
aside. The south should now take
advantage of the fact that it controls ?
the Democratic party and see to if.
that tho e principles of justice and
?quality which lie at the foundation
of Democracy are not again departed
from and that no scheme for the enrichment
of anv section, for the benefit
of any other section, shall ever
again be incorporated into - Democratic,
platform. * **<'
Yours respectfully.
John Lowndes McI.au: in.
Railroad Formally Transferred.
Rome. Ga.. Special?Deeds w.up filed
here conveying the Chattano iga. Rome
fr Southern read to the Central of Georgia.
The Central also recorded a
mortgage to the Standard Tr.t.-tt Company
for 82.100,000. covering the Co
??,i r,ii_
I jij.'i - ami .-wu.ii.iu, a...?
ng due in 11T.1. AH the offie'-rs of the
r Id road will retain places
Fhrough trains wiil (;;? r.itr-d beore
long between Chat'.anoo x and Sa?
rannah.
One On Or. Watson.
The Ilev. Dr. Jolin Watson i' Ian
Mac'.aren 't and others, ai.e.rd!ng to
:he Congregational is:.- recently dined
with W. S. Caine. M. R ilr. Cain? o:'ered
to give C?0 to a hospital faml
hrough the man v. *. should make the
jost pun on his name within five r.iinites.
Brains cogitated for a while, and f
:hen. just as the time was about to expire
and Mr. Caine thought he was to
- 1 * V
.T ape, .lulin v. ais ?n sum: uru l u<n
such a hurry, Oaine." Even this
idntlllating gem seems to have Leo a
ather dear at $250.
Newsy Notes.
Seven hundred Boers attacked Wil- owmore.
Cape Colony, an !. according \
o British report.:. v.ev beaten off aier
nr::o hours' fighting.
It is feared iu London lha' the rerut
fight at Vlanfontein, in the
I'ransvaal. was much more disastrous
. iti-i;'iti.Mi the War O.iico
a ill admit.
A French soh'.'o " was killed and 13
"rench. Pritish. Japanese and German
oldiers were wounded m an affray at
Tientsin.
The President has signed the commissions
of a number of re ently-procoted
naval officers.
The exports from the United States
o Spain are increasing rapidly.
Viscount Katsura has formed a new
Cabinet in Japan.
In the French Chamber of Deputies
H. des Tournelles do Constant alluded
0 the "American peril" as a nearer
1 C*?...?r.A <bon I V? o "VP! lfVW
lUUfcei lo fjiuui/c i..
jeril."
Sir Alfred Hickman, teplyirg to
-onl George Hamilton, severely < riti ises
American locomotives ami
iridges.
English capitalists are r.po t ?d to
ie about to get control ot' the Missouri
:ine and lead fields.
United States Senator Albert J.
teveridge. of Indiana, arrived in St?
'eterslnirg.
Over 70 persons are reported to have
leen burned to death in a forest fite on
lie Isthmus or' Tehuantepee.
The trial of .Mrs. Josp hine Woodniry's
suit for $170,000 damages from ,
lies. Mary Ka!<er G. Eddy was tesumed
n Huston.
Marsall P. Ewell, LL. 0.. of Chicago,
ias called as a handwriting expfrt in
be denfen.se of I)r. S. J. Kennedy,
Iiarged YVItn [lie run rue; u. tuiuuf. hub
teynolds in New York.
The Evangelical Lutheran Synod
oted that the Foreign Mission Board
ictP'l in good faith in declining ro rev
urn Rev. X. E. Yeiser as a missionary
o India.
The National Woman's Suffrage C:>nention
took a firm stand against the
uvmncition tn spEreeato vice in el ties.
It is reported that a $20,000,000 cominatlon
of wholesale shirt and <. liar
Inns is to be effected.
William II. Newman, president of
lie. Lake Shore Railroad, was. t-1 *. ted
iso president of the New York Co t:al
tail road.
The Internationa! Associati 11 o' Ma' inisrs
in annua! sesih.n in
'j. cn.o.