The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, June 19, 1902, Image 9
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\fully and judiciously under such circumstances.
' The dispensary law has been the ;ssit^
for years, but it has been settle.!.
He \flid not know whether or not the
dispensary would be an issue, but ho
favored the law as the best solution
of theSiquor problem, and skcul 1 it be
his good.fortune to be elected governor
he would seek to do his duty and enforce
the law.
The main question confronting the
people now is education. A republic
like ours must look for its welfare to
the enlightenment of its people. The
Krhnnl 's t.odav the best factory
for producing true citizenship. It Is
mandatory upon the general assembly
to provide for the common schools,
while it is left to the law makers' discretion
what to do with the colleges.
He favors the State colleges, out the
conditions there seem satisfactory now
and the conditions in the common
schools are not satisfactory. He
wants to see the people thoroughly
aroused on the subject cf the common
schools. He spoke in opposition to the
trusts. We all favor capital, but we
want to see capital come among us and
be used in a legitimate way. Should he
he elected governor of South Carolina
ne wouia ao nis uuuusi iu set uiy .ucgitimate
combinations of capital properly
handled, and he would confer with
the legislature on that subject in order
that the best interests of fhe State
might be conserved.
CapL Keyward had many friends
here, and they were gratified at the
way in which he deported himself.
DR. TIMMERMAN.
Th? text speaker was Dr. W. H.
Timmerman, who said today that like
the lean dog he is good for a long race.
Dr. "~,immerman said he had not expected
to make a speech today, as he
thought the time would be taken up
by the candidates for the senate all
long-winded fellows. He is not a
stranger in South Carolina. He challenges
the closest scrutiny into his
private life and public career. He would
make the campaign dealing in a most
kindly way with his opponents.
He thought that taxation would not
soon be lowered. He has been reliably
informed that there is very littie
money in the coffers in the State treasury
and the governor and treasurer
will be obliged to borrow money with
which to conduct the expenses of the*
government. The interest on the public
debt must be paid promptly in order to
maintain the credit of the State. For
that reason he would advise economy
in legislation.
The policy of the State is settled on
the question of education. The colleges
deserve and will receive the support
which has been given them.
SAVE THE COUNTRY.
The rural districts are in need of
good roads. He views with alarm the ,
exodus of the people from the farms, |
and believes that good roads and good
schools would help to reclaim the !
white citizenship for the country dis
tricts.
He called attention to the danger of
negroes having the controlling influence
in politics on account of our registration
laws. The white children
ought to get an education, or as much
as they can. For it is possible that
with a division among the whites the
negroes might be used as the balance
of power.
He stated that he wants the office of
governor for one term and one terra
only. He claimed an experience which
none of his competitors had enjoyed, in
uum uraui-nes ui uie gtueiai asscuiuij,
as State treasurer, member of the sinking
fund commission, etc. He concluded
by saying with deep feeling that he
loves his native State and would be
. rejoiced to be its chief executive.
A FAVORITE HERE.
The several candidates for governor
will receive a flattering vote here, although
the favorite seems to be Mr.
M. F. Ansel, the former solicitor of
this circuit. He spoke with much vigor
today and was in the home of old
I friends. Mr. Ansel said he was no
stranger here. These people had looked
into his face many times, even
when they did not want to. He thanked
the people of this judicial district
for the honors they had in the past
bestowed upon him. The office of governor
has its duties and its responsi
Dinties as wen as its nonors.
He declared that he had not been
fortunate enough to get all of the education
he wanted, and he is an advocate
of education, education of the
hearts and of the hands. A great tidal
wave of education is passing over
this country, and we must get in the
swim or get left. The old field schoo.l
has left its influences upon the country,
and these influences could be enlarged
if more time and more interest
l should be given the common schools
today. He would in the campaign appeal
for the education of the children
to make better citizens.
He said that he is in the race to the
finish notwithstanding the fact that it
had been rumored that he had with
drawn.
Good roads is a hobby with him and
he advocated good roads for the State.
"We have railroads and street cars, but
we want something for the people at
large. He said that he had often wondered
what would be the value of the
wagons and vehicles ruined by running
over rocKS ana roois ana ruis.
There are a great many convicts ia
this county, why not use them to make
good roads? Build a little bit at a time
and eventually all of the highways will
be macadamized. If this kind of work
had been begun 40 years ago we would
have had good roads now. After concluding
his speech, Mr. Ansel went out
among his friends and showed the
other candidates a few things in the
art of handshaking.
It had been reported that Col. J. H.
Tillman would be on the defensive today,
but he started out by twitting his
opponents for not discussing the dispensary
law.
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Dr. Timmeraian replied that it is
not an issue and everybody knows
where he stands; Col. Talbert declared
himself in favor of the law and said
his time for speaking had been limited
and Mr. Hey ward stated that he had
always favored the law. Col. Ansel
stated that he is in faVor of the law
properly enforced.
Mr. Tillman then took'Tmathot-ktric'
and said that Talbert is asking for
office on the .ground that he has been
in office for 22 years; Dr. Timmerman
has had one for 12 years, Mr. Ansel
for 10 or 12 years, and Capt. Heyward
had never had one. but wants
this one mighty bad. He discussed
the antiquity of some of Col. Talbert's
jokes.
The rest of his time was devoted to
the charges made against him by the
editor of The State, who, he saich was
so biased that he attacked the whole
Methodist conference and stigmatized
the Rev. E. O. Watson with having
told a falsehood becauce there had
been some talk of moving a college t
from Columbia. It could then be understood
how the editor of The State
could attack him (Tillman) in an article
of three and one-half columns,
supplemented by an editorial, merely
because his name is Tillman.
He charged the editor of The State
with having deliberately suppressed a i
part of the senate journal in publishing
the exposure. That part of the
senate journal to which he referred
was a question of personal privilege
on Feb. 14, after the question had been
passed upon by the committee on
rules. The following is what Col.
Tillman spread on the journal on Feb.
12th:
"The chair respectfully cites the
committee to Jefferson's Manual and
heartily commends it to the committee
on rules for diligenf study. Since
making the ruling the chair has taken
occasion to inquire of the two highest
parliamentarians of this country as to
the correctness of the same and is
much gratified to learn that It Is sustained
by them. Of course the interpretation
placed on the rule by the
committee on rules will be henceforth
observed, however much at variance it
may be with parliamentary law."
And the matter which he said the
editor of The State withheld reads as
follows:
"A QUESTION OF PERSONAL
PRIVILEGE."
"The chair addresses itself to the
senate upon a question of personal
privilege. There appears in the Journal
of today a signed report from
the committee on rules giving Its resu
sons for construing as it has Rule
XIV of the senate. The chair deplores
that it for a time is at variance
with the committee on rules, a
committee composed of the most distinguished
members of this body. The
report as it appears in the Journal
does a manifest injustice to the chair.
Ther eport is clothed in splendid parliamentary
language, which is most :
surprising to tiie cnair. me cnairmau
of the committee has cited, but not
quoted, Jefferson's Manual of Parliamentary
Law to sustain his position.
The asertion is also made in the report
that "subsequent to the adoption
of the amendment at the last session,
the present presiding officer of the
senate ruled the motion in question to
be debatable. (See Senate Journal
1901, pages 189 and 385.)"
"This is a statement not borne out
by the record, and the chair denies the ;
same without fear of contradiction and
appeals tc the record to be judged. It
often indulges the senate by unanimous
consent, but it never suspected
that such proceedings would be cited
as a precedent.
"That there is considerable doubt
about the matter is manifest, as the
chair, being in doubt, has telegraphed
some of the most eminent parliamen
tarians fn this country and finds a
wide difference among them."
He did not make any denial of the
charge that he had led people to believe
that he had made reference to
Senator Frye and Speaker Henderson,
nor did he give the names of the two
eminent parliamentarians who sustained
him as he alleged in his statement
in the senate journal. Not
knowing the charges against him,
some of the people here might have
been persuaded that Tillman had of- j
fered a good and sufficient excuse, but
the thinking people were ot satisfied
and many of them said so after the
meeting.
The only reply he advanced was that
the editor of The State had deliberatelyf
ailed to publish the record as
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round in me seuine juuium ^ v^v.
two days after he had made tho
"break." He dismissed this matter by
saying of the editor of The State:
"His venal personalities I will not descend
to the level of."
He then took up the sword incident.
The charge made against him in this
issue was that he had misrepresented
the facts in saying that he had, in insulting
Roosevelt, been prompted by
subscribers to the sword fund. He did
not give the names of these subscribers
and did not say why he had signed
bis name as lieutenant governor. But
he iid appeal to the grosser passions
of the crowd by denouncing Roosevelt.
He said among other things: "I have
no apologies to make. He insulted my
State, my own blood, and even though
he had been a king I would have acted
as I did." When he concluded,
| some friends in the crowd cheered
him.
IN LATIMER'S TERRITORY.
Mr. Latimer was the first of the candidates
for the senate. His first speech,
an Alliance speech, hnd been made in
Donnolds, he said. He had been sent
to Congress to represent the principles
advocated by the Alliancemen, and he
is now aspiring for higher honors on
his record in congress.
He said that he had no attack to
make upon any one, but he had heard
that fhere were candidates who would
assail him. In regard to national poll
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tics, he declared his opposition to the
ship subsidy. He thought the marine,
laws of this country ought to be
amended, but he stigmatized the ship
subsidy as a steal.
In reference to the free delivery, he
cited the results of his efforts to the
end that no congressional district iu
the South has more free delivery carTiers.
He denied that he had been partial
to Anderson county. When he
went to congress he got but 3.000 packages
of seen, and row through his own
efforts ho is getting 14,000 packages
for his district, or jOO.OOO additional for
the whole State. He had also gotten
more agricultural bulletins for his constituents.
His record in congress had
net been that of a constitutional law- |
yer on the floor, but that of a business
man.
DRAWING FACTIONAL LINES.
He said that men who went into the
primary in 1S92 under solemn oath to
abide the results of the primary, and
after he had been elected they had
gone to Washington and had called
him a Populist and had kept him from
nominating postmasters, etc. Some of
the number left the State and are just
now slipping back. He spoke vigorously
and had friends in the crowd.
CONGRESSMAN ELLIOTT.
Col. Elliott thanked those present for
the invitation to him. He said it was
a healthy sign to see the people taklns;
an interest in public matters, as their
presence proved. Light voting and
indefference produced rings. The voters
in this State are the only ones who
tote directly on the candidates for
senator. The constitution requires
that the election should be by its legislature
but under party government,
the primary nomination meant the
election. This was as it should be, and
Col. Elliott said he had always favored
the election of senators directly by
the people. He had voters for it in the
house, where it was almost unanimously
favored.
T* V,o inmnocihlo ho Raid at a I
11 n<JUlU UO iUipvwwiwv, - ?
meeting like this, to discuss public issues
now pending. That was for the
campaign, and the platform of the
party especially framed in the State
convention with a viev/ to this election:
all the candidates were pledged
to sustain it, and there could, therefore,
be no difference between them.
For himself, Col. Elliott said, he endorsed
each and every plank in it
He thought it proper he should tell
something of himself and he then reviewed
his war record, his services on
Gov. PPicken's staff, in the attack on
Sumter, in the battle of Manassas,
campaign on the peninsula, Seven Days
fight. Second Manassas. Sharpsburg and
in Vicksburg r.s adjutant general to
Gen. Stephen D. Lee, and in Vickiibury;
battle of Baker's Creek, Harris;burg.
28th July, and Jonesboro, Franklin,
Nashville, Kinston and Bentonville, besides
many other of the smaller fights.
The speaker made reference to his
record in
FIGHTING THE NEGRO.
From 1876 to 1884 Col Elliott was
county chairman of Beaufort county.
In 18S4 it became necessary to make a
fight in the Seventh Congressional district
against the negroes. The Democratic
candidate had to be popular,
fearless and a constant fighter. William
Elliott was chosen, made a most
aggressive campaign, but was defeated.
In 1SS6 he was again opposed in the
election to Robert Smalls, and Col.
Elliott was elected. Rioting occurred
constantly in the elections and the
precinct managers at Hilton Head and
St. Helena were mobbed by the negroes
who had become most insolent. Smalls
contested the election.
From then to the present time he
has had the following fights with negro
candidates, in each instance a contested
election following the election:
In 1888 and 1890 with Tom Miller, in
the latter case Miller was seated by
Reed's congress; in 189*. 1896 and 1898
with George W. Murray, in the first of
which contests Murray, and in 1900
with Beckett, a negro preacher.
HIS WORK IN CONGRESS.
He had passed the amendment to the
direct tax refunding act, appropriating
$500,000 to reimburse the people of
Beaufort for a part of their losses under
the direct tax act of congress passed
during the war. He procured an appropriation
of $500,000 to build a dry
dock at Port Royal, and has assisted
in procuring hundreds of thousands of
dollars in improving the place.
He obtained appropriations of about
$2,500,000 to deepen the bar of Winyah
bay. In Charleston a new light house
depot a; a cost of $35,000; had the first
garrison ordered to Charleston; was
most active in getting the appropriation
for building fine quarters on Sul
livan's island: procured $40,000 for a
public building at Georgetown, and secured
from a hostile house $90,000 for
the Charleston exposition, and at various
times he has procured over $300,000
of appropriations for Charleston
harbor, and after years of work, $30.000
to improve inland navigation between
Beaufort and Charleston-, and
helped to obtain $50,000 to improve the
inland route north of Charleston.
The total sum reaches nearly five
millions of dollars, and all for beneficial
purposes.
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VV DCD 116 ilciu (~UlViCU tuugtvoo iu
1886, the district having been represented
by negroes, there was a total neglect
of the interests of the people. His
first work was to make a personal examination
of the navigable rivers,
with a view to have them improved by
tie government. River and harbor
improvements are of great benefit to
farmers, as it enables them to get their
produce to market quickly and cheaply
as river transportation is cheaper than,
railroad. Winyah bay was soon opened
up. and the benefit was felt over
half the State. The improvement has
extended higher and higher, and the
sood work is being felt everywhere. II
he was sent to the senate he would devote
especial attention to river improvements,
of which he had made a
special study and to which he had given
years of work, and give it his best
efforts towards doing for the State
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what he had been doing *for
irlct.
The forest reserve bill ii^ the houg<
of representatives he had ^ supported
because he thought it would 0j vjtai
benefit to the people in Preventing
freshets, regulating rainfall kand prevent
the cutting and washing\away 0j
land. Much of the most valuab,le jaa(j
in the State was not planted b\ecause
the freshets rendered it impossible, an(j
the freshets had increased to an ala^j^.
ing extent since the mountain fores.ts
had been cut away. He said this was
the most important measure and
should be strongly taken up.
MR. J. J. HEMPHILL.
the next speaker, said he liked a promising
man?of some kind. But the candidates
who had preceded him had
promised everything and had claimed
to have accomplished all the rest, and
it left him nothing to do. He devoted
himself to the topic of expansion. The
Democrats are expansionists, but the
Republicans go too far in that direction.
The Democrats believe in expansion
of commerce and manufactures.
Kc told a number of bright jokes to
ijlur.trate Yankee ingenuity and inventive
genius and declared that all they
want the Philippines for Is to make
money of them. Is it to Christianize
these people that Gen. Jacob Smith la
sending to their death all males over
ten years of age in one of the provinces?
We have country enough now;
we have far more land than we can
comfortably take care of, and yet they
want us to murder people in order that
we may get their territory.
The reason why Germany and other
nations must expand is because the
population there is so dense. They
have 400 persons to the square mile
while we have but 21.
In regard to the ship subsidy he ex*
pressed himself very unequivocally. Hi
denounced this system of giving money
to Tom Jop.es and prefacing the bill
with a "whereas the farmers are poor,"
etc. Where does it benefit the farmer?
How are we going to remedy these
matters? By a more general untiring
out of the voters on election day. He
has always been a member of the precinct
club at Chester, he attends his
precinct meetings and attends the
meetings of the convention when he is
sent there. The people ought to take
the time to go to the polls. Go to the
polls and vote for the man you think
best fitted to represen you. Mr. Hemphill
made a decided impression.
A SPLENDID ORATORICAL,
exhibition was the speech of Col. Geo.
Johnstone of Newberry who had been
saved to the last in order to hold the
crowd. He told how the government
had bought from the effete kingdom of
Spain the Philippine islands, 7,000 of
whose people worship our God. They
3ay we are trying to Christianize them.
Can a corpse be Christianized? Herod
gave orders for all under two years of
age to be killed, and Gen. Jacob Smith
issued orders for all over 10 years to
be killed. With biting sarcasm Col.
Johnstone denounced this kind of method
for spreading Christianity. He denounced
the proposed ship subsidy as
an effort to direct attention from the
proposed Isthmian canal. He declared
that if a ship subsidy is granted it will
not help a single south Atlantic port,
while the Isthmian canal would build
up all ports from New Orleans to Norfolk.
He deplored the fact that the trend
of affairs is toward a monarchy and
away from a government of the people.
as shown by Roosevelt's inauguration
as compared with Jefferson's
Democratic procedure.
He rainted a glowing picture of the
progress of the south in the past 25
years and called this the future seat of
power in the United States.
He closed amid cheers and thus
closed a peaceful and pleasant meeting.
There were many candidates for
various State offices here today.
Confederate Soldiers' Relief Association
of South Carolina.
Within thfc past few weeks there has
beenor ganized at Columbia. S. C., a
Confederate Soldiers Relief Association.
the purposes being to provide
relief for destitute Confederate veterans
in. that State. This has been accomplished
thtrough the instrumentality
of Mr. N. W. Brooke*-, a Confederate
veteran, who has succeeded in
forming a very strong organization.
The association is chartered, having a
president, secretary and treasurer,
uri+h o hnorH nf monachrc nf thp loarl
ing business men of the city of Columbia.
To complete the association for
the State, it is designed that counry
boards be formed to aid the associi.
tion in its general work of relief and
a Judicious distribution of funds providid
for the said purpose. The following
announcement has been published:
"In accordance with a resolution
of the Confederate Soldiers Relief
Association of South Carolina at its
meeting June 5th inst., I hereby respectfully
invite all Confederate soldiers
in ths State who are destitute
and unable to earn a support and who
are not sufficiently provided for by the
law* of the State to put themselves
fflto communication with this associfc
tion. It will be understood that th?
object of this association is to provide
means of relief for the destitute veterans
and it is desired by us that we
be informed as soon as possible how
many of this class are in the State,
so that the proper steps may be taken
lor meir renei. we ian.e me nuc.
of asking the commanders of all the
camps in this State to aid us in speedily
getting up this information and
furnishing it within the next few
weeks.
At the said meeting, the association
also directed the president to select
three persons at each of the county
seats in the State to constitute a board
for each county, who will aid the association
in their respective counties.
Accordingly I have concluded to select
the chairman of the pension board in
each county to be chairman of the Bai{
btord, the additional members of th'
said board to be selected later by &
inference with the chairman as I pas?
through the State. These gentlemen
will greatly oblige us if they will proceed
to confer with the commanders
of the camps of their counties and aid
them in getting the above information. *
It is of the highest importance that
the Association be fully informed of
the needs of the veterans over the
State. Very respectfully, ,
N. W. Brooker, President.
E. J. Watson, Secretary. ,
A MODERN RAILWAY.
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The Li..xmy of Travel on the Ever*
Progressive Seaboard System.
The Seacard ^ir Line Railway la
t pre-eminenr.iv i>he road for the tourist
or traveler.
It is a direct liVe "as straight
as the crow flies" between Northern
j and Southern points. Skating,' as it
does, the Atlantic Coast, ctie gentle
zephyrs fan the traveleni?check
bringing fresh breaths from lather
Neptune. The cars are marvels yjf
beauty and convenience and are kefmperfect!
?I had almost said, spotless- yly?c'ean.
Dust and dirt are two unknowi
Quantities, thanks to the/careful
set utiny of the genial colored por- ^
ter, who in his scrupulously clean
uniform, be it of white or blue, wielda
the ever-present duster, and all, from
the dainty bride in her beautiful
traveling costume to the commercial
map in his neat, business suit,
emerge from the train at the journey's
end feeling as fresh" as at the beginning.
Travel stains have been reduced to
a minimum for which the^ railway
company deserves the unstinted praise
of the hitherto long-suffering tourist.
Ndr is the "inner man" neglected.
There is now no need of eating hurriedly
at meal stations. The usual
fifteen or twenty minutes may now
be lengthened to an hour (if need be)
in the superb dining car. These cars
are exclusively for dining purposes.
Here one can get a complete meal for
which a moderate sum is charged, or
you may patronize the cafe where you
can spend as little as ten cents and
get a cup of fine Mocha and Java coffee
as an auxilliary to the lunch
brought from home. One thing that
especially commends the dining car
service is the absence of canned
goods. Nor does "embalmed'' beef
have a position on the menu, but
everything served is as fresh and
pure as can be purchased. Fruits,
fish and game in season, tempt the
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nungry moriai, auu j uu hoc >wu
table feeling refreshed and strengthened
for the rest of the journey.
The through service from Boston,
New York, Philadelphia, Washington
to Jacksonville, Tampa and New
Orleans also should be noticed.
Pullman drawing room and sleeping
cars are operated between New
York and Tampa and New York
and Atlanta. AU coaches are
vestibuled and passing from one tQ
another is as safe and pleasant
as passing from the parlor
to the dining room in oui* own homes.
The management of such a great
system should be awarded a unanimous
vote of thanks for the splendid
way in which they care for the traveling
puhllc. LOWE R. CASE.
English and American Clubs.
A point which strikes American
visitors to London about our English
i clubs is the social aspect of tbem and
| the almost complete absence of the
business side. At the Manhattan or
the Knickerbocker, on the other hand,
the business side prevails. The majority
of members do not drop in merely
to read the papers, hear the latest
story and play billiards or bridge, as
over here. They go in most cases to
meet a man about "a deal," to talk
over the business of the day and discuss
the business of the morrow, or to
read up the finance of the papers. The
result is that when an American becomes
a member of an English club he
hardly ever uses it because its wayri
do not appeal to him. He would say
that there was nothing going on.?The
a atler.
Popular Summer Rates.
For the Northern and Eastern Seaside
Resorts, the Baltimore Steam
Packet Co. are offering the following
rates from Portsmouth, Norfolk or
Old Point Comfort, viz:
VIA PENXA. B. B.?GOOD CXTIL OCT. 31, 1902.
Asbury Park, N. J. $13.00; Long Branch,
- vr r an nn.
N. J. $13.00; Atlantic cny, ?-*. o. t.i.w,
Ocean Grove, N. J. 813.00; Cape May, N. J.
eil.25u
VIA E. & O. E. B. GOOD CXTIL OCT. 81, 1902,
Asbury Park, N. J. 813.09; Long Branch,
N. J. 813.00. Atlantic City, N. J. 811.00;
Ocean Grove, 8i3.00; Harpers Ferry, "VV. Va.
87.25.
VIA QUEER ASSE'8 B. B.
Season tickets (good to return Sept. 30th)
Cape 3Iay, N. J. 88.75; Rehoboth Beach. Del.
| 88.00. Ten days Cape May 87.75; Rehoboth
I Beach87.25.
This route offers the tourist a delightful
sail and the pleasures of
promenading on the spacious decks
of its popular steamers, Inhaling ths
balmy breezes of the Chesapeake; and
after a good night's rest in the commodious
staterooms of the "Alabama,"
"Georgia" or "Tennessee," travelers
en route to the North, East and
West are invigorated and prepared for
rail journey by the early trains out
of Baltimore for Philadelphia, New
York and Boston.
The "Bay Line" has also arranged
for special excursions to Niagara Falls
for $14.00 for the round trip.
Descriptive pamphlets, etc., at all
railroad stations.
For further particulars, address
J. W. BROWN, Jr., So. Pass. Agt
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