The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, August 08, 1901, Image 3
FREE SILVER PARTY
"The Progressive Democratic Party"
The Name Selected.
nominate a fill ticket in OHIO
The Platform Adopted Calls For the
Destruction of *41 he floney Trust,
The Parent of All Trusts. "
Columbus. O.. Special.?"The Pro^
gressive Democratic party" was or
ganized here Wednesday. The attendance
was so small that many
doubted at first whether an attempt
would he made to hold a State convention,
less than a dozen men being in
attendance. Features cf. the platform
were the following: Laudation ot
Bryan and the reaffirmation of the
Kansas City platform. Planks were
also inserted calling for the public
ownership of all public utilities; that
all money of whatever kind shall bt
issued by the government without the
intervention of tanks; that the
"money trust, the parent of all trusts'
snail ne uesiroyea, iur muuui a
money aristocracy there can be n <>
imperialism." The destruction of all
trusts is demanded. Such Democrats
as approve a gold stanuard anil ?vho
supported McKinley for President, are
Invited henceforth to affiliate with the
Republican party. The following
ticket was nominated:
Governor, Dr. Rudolph Reemling;
Lieutenant Governor, Menry C. Cordoy;
Supreme Court Judge, Rial M.
Smith: State Treasurer. J. C. Shepard;
Attorney General. S. L. Clark; Cierk
of Supreme Court, Charles Ronsall;
member of the beard of public works,
R. B. Connell.
It was decided to call the new organization
"The Progressive Demo- |
cratic party."
A State executive committee of nine
members was selected with George A.
Groot as chairman and Bernard ilu.
bert as secretary and this committee
spent the evening in arranging for
campaign work.
Groot acted as temporary chairman
of the convention when it was called
to order in the parlors cf one of the
hotels. Abner L. Davis acted as temporary
secretary. Chairman Groot
reviewed the conditions that brougnt
about the movement. He insisted
that it was not brought about solely
by "Bryan Democrats." but by all
those who advocate tree silver and are
opposed to both the old parties as at
present organized and controlled.
At a meeting held during the morning,
attended by George A. Groot, Abner
Davis. J. W. Lindsay. Bernhard
Hubert. Richard lnglis and others, it
was decided that a full State ticket
shall be nominated at the evening
session ol the convention. A State
committee will be named and plans
made lor an active campaign on bei
half of the independent movement.
The platform adopted at the Cleveland
conference of July 17. and which
has been circulated by mail, was endorsed.
This document re-alurmea
the Kansas city piaaorm, CilUUi ijca I
Win. J. Bryan and declares particularly
for the free coinage of silver.
It also includes the following plank:
"We demand that all money that is
manufactured to be used in this country
as a medium of exchange, whether
it be gold, silver or paper, shail be
coined by the government and distributed
among the people without the in
tervention of banks, and that every
dollar of it shall be a legal tender for
all debts, public and private."
It is customary for the conventions
always in Ohio to authorize the!/
State committee to fill vacancies but
this was not done. After Chairman
Groot and others left l>r. Beemelin
positively declined the nomination for
Governor and it was reported that
others would not accept.
Fast Hall Held Up.
Chi.ago, Special.?The Baltimore &
Ohio passenger train from the East,
which was due to arrive In the Grar.d
Central depot, Chicago, at 9 o'clock
Wednesday night, was held up by five
masked men at $ o'clock between
Edf'r.1. r and Grand Calumet
Heights, Indiana, 21 miles cut frc.n
Chicago. One of the mail cars whien
contained no money, was dynamite I
and wrecked. The attempt at robbery
was made after the two mail cars
had been detached from the train and 1
run a quarter cf a mile ahead. The
failure of the robbers to make a rich
haul was due to the fact that the ex
press car, which contained th? train s
treasure, was in an unusual place. It
I was the third car in the train. Aft r
I wrecking the mail car and obaining ,
& no booty the robbers disappeared in
A. the darkmss without attempting m
* rectify their ni:3t2ke.
I Adopts Suffrage Report.
A Montgomery, Ala.. Special.?The
B constitutional convention adopted the
Hp entire report of the committee on suf?
trage. The special order for the day
i was the reconsideration of the Bedr
dow amendment to the articles, extending
the privilege of suff:age to a'.l
foreigners who have declarod their intention
c.' becoming citizens of the
United States. The convention refused
to re or.sider. Delegate Sanford.of
Montgomery, offered an amendment to
record the name of voters and number
of ballots. but it was lost.
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IIIKUEGKOIT IKE CWMRY.
The South.
Tt is thought the Seaboard Air T,:n*
ftil! extend its lines to Charleston,
S. C.
Simon Williams, ti condemned mar
derer, l?rrxko jail at Monticello. rla.,
shot an officer and was himself killed.
The Czar has made a p:crem!o:y demand
on the Sultan for the release of
the Russians arrest"d in Allrania.
Drawing of lots for sections of land
in the Kiowa. Cemache and Apaehe
region of Oklahoma b<\gan at K1 Reno.
Thirty new cadets were admitted to
West Point.
One man was killed and two wers
wounded as a result of a family feud
in Memphis, Tennessee.
It is expected that the Democrats
in the Senate will pass on the Democracy
of Senator J. L. McLaurtn, of
South Carolina, at the next session.
Recommendations are made for the
improvement of Baltimore harbor.
The Geological Survey makes a re
port on the Texas oil field.
The jury in the Ellis Glenn forgery
case, at Parkersburg.'W. Va.. was still
out at midnight after 48 hours' deliberation.
A boiler In the Winyah Lumber
Company's plant, at Georgetown, a.
C? exploded, killing three and injuring
seven colored men.
The North.
The annual session of the Young
People's Christian Union of the United
Associate Reformed Presbyterian
Churches ended at Winona Lake, lad.
Dr. Adam Miller, said to have been
the oldest minister of tho Methodis'
Episcopal church, and who was a native
of Maryland, is dead in Chicago
aged 01 years.
The wage conference between the
Green Glass Blowers' Association and
the manufacturers is being held in At
lantic City.
Grip is said to be incapacitating
many horses in Chicago.
Secretary Gage bought $31.50G
^ /-?/* nkrtrUfopm hnnHc T'hnrp.fiA.V
\> 1.1 III Ul ouv/l 1-bVi UI Work
has been started on Dewey
Hail, at Norwich University, Nor- j
v,*ich Conn.
The Netherlands Insurance Com
pany has quit Massachusetts on account
of its losses.
Eighteen iron foundries out of 65 in
Chicago. 111., have yielded to the
striking moulders.
'Longshoremen at Ogdensburg, N.
Y., are on strike for 35 cents an hour
overtime.
New York's State building at the
Pan-American Exposition will be dedi
cated August 6.
Commander B. F. Tilly, Governoi
of Jutuila. is visiting his aged mother
in New Hampshire.
The strike at the Pressed Steel Cai
Works. Joliet. 111., has been settled
after two weeks' duration.
Union meat handlers in the wholesale
houses of Boston, Mass., refuse
to work non-union men.
A national convention of Socialists
is in session at Indianapolis ,Ind.. with
Professor George D. Herron presiding.
Lightning nearly demolished the
Old Dutch Reformed Church belfry at
Kishkill Landing. N. Y., a famous Re
volutionary structure.
Foreign.
The proposed new German tarifl
bill, it i3 expected, will fail of passage.
Berlin newspapers comment bitterij
upon recent swindling opeiations discovered
in German financial concerns
Dorrs have forced the British tc
evacuate Bremersdorp, Swaziland.
British trcops in East Africa inflict
ed a severe defeat on the forces of thf
Mad Mullah.
Bishop Brcoke F. Westcott, of Durham.
a noted prelate cf the English
Church, i3 dead.
3aron Mount Stephen has giver
$200,000 to aid ministers of the Scotch
Presbyterian Church.
Crn.-4i orge W. Davis, provost mar
siial of .\fhhlla. ha3 aroused much enmity
by declaring that cockfight;
must be controlled bv leg'sDtlon.
It is said in Bei.in thai the new
German tariff "bill will not shut out
American trade.
King Edward sent a message to the
House of Lords proposing that LordRoberts
be granted 100.000 pounds
i $500,000.)
Lord Stanley stated in the House
of Commons that the number of Boe:s
raptured or surrendered since the
'h African War began was 33.000.
unsanitary bakehouses in London
are declared to be a great menace to
the city's health.Thc
Lyons-Mediterranean Railroad
Company is ^ perirqenting with
American locomotives.
The first anniversary of King Humbert's
assassination was observed with
religious services throughout Italy.
The Chinese indemnity will be payable
to a committee of foreign bankers
at Shanghai representing the powers.
Hiscellaneous.
Colombian insurgents are reported
to be near Panama in large numbers.
Plans of new and larger armored
cruisers are being prepared at the
Navy Department.
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SOUTHERN INDUSTRIAL
Cotton Factories in the South.
South Carolina leads all the States
in the increase cf cotton spindles during
the year ended June 30. 1901. Georgia
also made a very fine showing, as
did North Carolina and Alabama.
The latter State was slow in taking
advantage of her opportunities lor
cotton mamna' turing. but she has at
last gone into the business with a vim
and during the past two years has
made remarkable strides toward greatness
in textile production. Alabama
now has mills which turn out as high
class cotton goods as any that are
made anywhere in the South, and the
number of her spindles is increasing
very fast. More than 61 per cent, of
all the new spindles in the United
States?that is, ipindles which have
been put in since July 1, 1900?arc to
he found in the South.
South Carolina has not only led in j
recent cotton mill enlargement, but
in the extent of her cotton manufactures
is excelled by only one State?
Massachusetts.
In 1900 Rhode Island stood second,
but South Carolina has passed her.
South Carolina's 1,794,657 spindles '
in 1900 have increased in one year to
2.185,020, a rate cf growth which the
textile industry of no other State has
ever shown.?Atlanta Journal.
Sugar Cane in Georgia.
There has been a marked increase
in the acreage planted in sugar cane
in Georgia within the past few years.
This increase has about doubled within
the past year, which indicates that
many Georgia farmers have adopted ;
this as one of their regular crops. That
there is money in raising sugar tane
hn? ViPAn demonstrated bevond doubt. '
and those farmers who desire to creato
another source of income do not hesi- !
tate to engage in growing this crop. ]
A market for Georgia sugar cane has '
already been established, and it is no
longer a risk on the part of the farm- I
er to raise a good crop of cane. The !
market for cane is almost as much a j
certainty in Georgia as the market for
cotton. The cane always sells at a
good price, which gives the grower a
fair return for his labor. The very
best of syrup is made from the Georgia
sugar cane, and this syrup sells
readily from 25 to 35 cents per gallon.
In this connection it is interesting
to note that there is a strong probability
of sugar refineries being built
in this State, and these would no
doubt yield handsome profits.?Columbus
(Ga.) Enquirer Sun.
North Carolina Melons.
Robeson county is to become one
of the greatest melon-raising regions
of the world. Around the town of
Maxton 2,000 acres are planted in
melons and there are also large farms
near Red Springs and in other parts
of the county. This is not a very good
season for melons, but they are being
shipped North from Robeson by the
carload. In a few years this new industry
ought to make that section of
the State rich. Nothing has brought
more fame to Georgia than its peaches
and melons. Southern Pines raises
as fine peaches as are seen in Georgia.
and now Robeson bids fair to
eclipse that State in melon-raising. If
they are not so early as the Georgia
melon, they are of finer flavor.?Raleigh
Times.
Big Water Power Development.
As recently announced in the Manufacturers'
Record, the Whitney Reduction
Co.. of which Mr. E. C. D.
Hambley of Gold Hill. N. C., is president,
has purchased the power of Yadkin
river from Milledgeville to the
celebrated Yadkin Falls. Mr. Hambley
informs the Manufacturers' Record
that active development of this
power will be commenced in the near
future, and that a total of 46,0)0 horse
power will be developed for local use,
as well as for transmission through
electrical power to the surrounding
country. If developed cn the scrl"
proposed, this will be one of the largest
waterpower electrical develop
ments in the country.
Another fllssissippl Project.
A dispatch from Vicksburg, Miss.,
states that a company of well-known
business men cf Vicksburg have become
interested in the plan to build a
road between Vicksburg and Hattiesburg,
an estimated distance of 110
miles, and have organized the Vicksburg
and Southeastern Railroad Co.,
W T Walla and W
IU1 lUlO JSU1 J/UOV. ?? . TV vow ? ? . - .
H. Fltzhugh are among those interested.
Industrial Miscellany.
Newnan (Ga.) Cotton Mills has
abdut completed and is to put in operation
its No. 2 mill of 10.000 ring
spindles for manufacturing Nos. 26
to 0 ply yarns. The No. 1 mill ha*
9,560 ring spindles running on yarns,
twines, etc. About $150,000 has been
Invested in the second mill.
The large smelting plant which has
been under construction at Ducktown.
Tenn., for about two years by the Ten
nessee Copper Co. has been completed
at a cost, it is reported of about $1,000,000.
This company, organized by
leading capitalists in New York, promises
to become a very important copper
producer and to greatly increase
the development of the copper interests
in the Ducktown district
IIuW TO OBTAIN FREE DELIVERY.
Way in Which Rural flail Routes Hay
Be Secured.
The following instructions which
embody department orders and regulations
up to date, are issued for gen
eral information:
Present a petition, addressed to
the First Assistant Postmaster General,
signed by those who desire the
service. This petition should bo
signed only by heads of families, and |
should mention the number in each
family over 16 years of age. It should
sot forth the nature of the country
where the delivery is desired, whether
densely or sparsely populated, the
character of the roads and the distances
which, under existing conditions,
each person has to travel to receive
his mail, and should be accompanied
by map or plot indicating the
routes proposed.
The petition should read something
like this:
To the First Assistant Postmaster
General. Washington, D. C.:
The undersigned heads of families
residing in county, State of..
respectfully ask that the rural
delivery service be extended to them,
the delivery to start from postofflcp,
county State, or
such other points as the officers of the
department may deem best adapted
for the service. A map or rough
sketch of the proposed route is herewith
inclosed. Your petitioners are
mostly (here state avocations, such as
farmers, truck gardeners, dairymen,
cattle raisers or what ever the chief
occupation of the people may be).
i ne roaas over ine prupuseu toucan;
(state whether pike, gravelled or
other wise).
There are no unbrldgert creeks and
the roads are passable at all seasons
of the year.
Following should be three columns
headed respectively: Name of head of
family, number over 1G years of age;
distance in miles from nearest postoffice.
This petition, when properly signed,
should be sent to the Representative
in Congress, or to one of the Senators,
with a request that he endorse there-1
on his recommendation of the service
asked, and forward the petition to the
department.
When a rural free delivery route
has been uniformly equipped with
boxes of any one of the above named
description the department will consider
these boxes as entitled to the
protection of the United States, which
provide severe penalties for wilful or
iniiirv tr, t.ipm or inter
iiianv,ivu?> iujut j w
ference with their contests. j
Rural carriers are not required to
deliver mail to houses standing back
from the man road, except in the case
of registered mail,special delivery and
pension letters. The patrons are expected
to meet the department halt
way by affording the carriers every
facility for the performance of their
duties, by keeping the roads clear arter
heavy snow falls, and using their
influence to maintain the condition
of the roads in all weather up to th;
standard required by the department.
Rural carriers are permitted to deliver
non mailable packages provide i
their, doing so does not interfere with
the prompt handling of the mails
which must be made the flist consideration.
Rural carriers are required to take
with th?m on their trips for the accommodation
of their patrons a sufficient
supply of stamps, stamped envelopes
and postal cards. Postmasters
may, if they chose, give credit to the
carrier for stamp supplies to the extent
of $5. to be accounted for eac:i
day, and the carrier's bond being responsible
therefor. If the carrier.?
find an unstamped letter in a collection
box, and the requisite amount 01
money also deposited, they are in
siruciea 10 am a mc .
They are empowered to register letters
or packages and to deliver th.? I
same giving and taking receipts ia
forms provided.
They are also authorized to accept
money orders, giving their * receipi
therefor, and, if the patrons of the delivery
desire to make the carrier their
agent for this purpose, the carrier
may enclose theorders, when issue !
in addressed envelopes confided to hicharge
and mail them without retaining
the orders to the sender.
To 5hfp Texas Oil.
A dispatch from Beaumont. Texas,
states that ell producers in that vicinity
have decided to have two
steamships built to earry oil in bulk
to domestic and foreign ports, and
tbat a contract has been given the
Neafle and I.evy Shipbuilding Co. of
Philadelphia. In a letter to the
Manufacturers' Record Mr. Sommcrs
X. Smith, vice-persident of the company,
informs the Manufacturers' Record
that negotiations are in progress
with this end in view, but no contracts
have been let as yet. The vessels
It Is proposed to build are to have
a carrying capacity of 800,000 gallons
tw," /...mruinv ft ia annnunroil
t'ttUIl. XI1U V-Utu {/auj , a w iw
has already secured one steamship,
being built by the New York Shipbuilding
Co. of Camden, N. J
Telegraphic Briefs.
M. Santos-Dumont made another
successful trial ascent in Paris with
his steerable balloon.
A draft of the new Cuban Electoral
law was submitted to the Constitutional
Convention at Havana.
The issues of the American Bible
Association last year amounted to lt- J
554.128.
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NEED Of 1EXIILE StliUuLN.
Argument Showing fhe Necessity of
Them In Our Section.
Prof. J. H. Beaty, director of .the
Clemson, S. C., text'le schools, has returned
frdm the Ncrth, where he hai
been to study textile conditions. Tc
i reporter, who inquired about whal
aews he found relating to textile education
and other subjects, Prof. Beaty
said:
"Kor the past two weeks I have hern
visiting some of the mill centres of tha
North, studying textile conditions aa
Lhey are at present, and the outlook
for the future. In some lines of textile
manufacture the outlook at present la'
not as bright as it might be, yet there
are indications which point to bet:er
times for the manufacturers of textiles.
A. commission firm in New York
showed quite a number of orders which
they had booked for the Chinese markets.
These orders, in themselves, are
not important, as they are not of such
magnitude as to bring about any in-j
crease of operation in the mills at
pttsent. yet they indicate that confidence
is being restored in China and a
restoration of the trade in cotton gnodj ,,
between that country and the United
States may be expected. The firm
called my attention particularly to the
fact that all these orders were for a
slightly finer cloth than we have heretofore
exported to China.
AThe people of the North are wonderfully
alive on the subject of textile
education. They believe that to manufacture
finer and more elaborate fabrics
one must be espeoiahy trained for
the work, and they are seeing to It
that their young men have the opportunity
afforded them for getting the
necessary training. There one find? five
first-class textile schools, one of these
bavin* hf>f>n in ooeration about 16
rears. These schools have had ar.d are
still having a tremendous effect on the
manufacturing Interests of that ?ection.
"'Within tile la3t four years there
have been established in the South fcui
schools similar to those in toe North.
It is not supposed that young men c*n
after having completed the course oi
study in textile school, step out into
j a responsible lucrative position, but
j they can and will-be important factors
I in bringing about a much needed diversity
of cotton manufacture in the *
South.
"I noticed in a New England machine
works quite a lot of combing
machinery ready to be shipped out to a
Southern cotton mill. It requires more
skill and judgment to manufacture
combed yarns than to manufacture ordinary
corded yams, but the finer the
quality of production from our mills,
the more profit there is for the mills.
Combed yarns have been selling well
i all through the present depression ol
trade. With a little time, patience and
education, our own people can bs
taught to do this class of work as weU
as any other people in the world,"
News Notes.
Th? Orr Cotton Mills of Anderson,
S. C., will fill its building with machinery,
this requiring 1,500 more ring
spindles and 100 looms, together with
the necessary preparatory machinery.
This i3 one of the new plants Its completed
equipment will be 23,030 ring
spindles and 700 looms. 100 of them
being narrow and the others broad.
Add Indus Trial News
The saw mill plant of the Kresse
City Lumber Co., near New Lewiaville,
Ark., was burned on the 20th
inst. The loss is estimated at $20,000,
with insurance $15,000.
William Farrell, known as the lumber
king of Arkansas, died-on the 18th
inst. He was president of the William
Karrell Lumber Co.. whose holdings
are valued at $500,000.
Receipts of lumber at New Orleans,
La., for the week ending the lata insi.
amounted to 3,190,000 feet, and for the
eeason to 131,092,139 feet, against 97,624,115
feet last season.
The Cates Chair Co, ol Thomasrille
,N. C? has been chartered, with
a capital stock of $25,000. The incorporators
are E. W. Cates, J. W. Lambeth,
J. L. Armfleld and F. S. Lamteth.
The shipments of timber and lumber
last week from Pensacola, Fla.,
amounted to 5,639,000 feet ,oak staves
19,722 pieces, shingles 3,000, shuttleblocks
200,585 pound3, and ash logs
136- I .
Cost of The Boer War.
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London, By Cable.?In the House ol
Commons today. Lord Stanley, the
Financial Secretary cf the War Office,
replying to a question, said the cost
tf the war in South Africa, from April
I 1 to July SI, was 35,750.000 pounds.
I partly chargeable against me UCUVU
(f last year. The actual cost In July
was 1,250,00!) pounds weekly. The
j statement was greeted with Irish
j ironical cheers.
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J Two Women and One M^n Hrnged.
Carrollton, Mi3s., Special.?The murCvr
of Mr. and Mrs. Taliaferro culminated
Thursday in the lynching of
Betsie McCray, her son, Belfleld MeCray,
and daughter, Ida McCray, all
colored. The mob was composed of
about 500 white citizens of Carro.l
county, who marched to the Ja 1, demanded
the key3 of Jailer Duke, proceeded
to the cells of the unfortunate
negroes, bound them by the neck ami
hands and carried thorn to the woods,
where they hung them to a tree by the
road and riddled their bodies wiih
bullets.
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