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??I nmir w V / -m B^^BjHrr^ERCilANTS BANK' M /-v ^ YOUR ACCOUNTS 9QLICITEP. , J IPs ?- o^hf tanh) .r^s j ^PoT~XlX? KINGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA, JUNE 15,1905. NO. 24. | "A NEGRO WORSHIPPER PORE AND SIMPLE." MR. THOMAS DIXON JR., REITI RATES AND SUBSTANTIATES HIS CHARGES AGAINST MR. OGDEN. The NcWb and Courier has received the following: Thanks for your kind offer of your columns for a reply. I am sorry niv letter to the News and Courier was i(rt 11iii rim r;Lw It was verv 7 hurriedly written and very clumsily expressed. The truth of my state"meats, however, cannot be questioned. The quotation of the State's editorial from Mr Ogden's private letter, as follows, is very vague: "The statements contained in the article have no foundation in fact, in - general aud in particular. "I have never uttered a word in the introduction of Booker T Washington to a public meeting that you and all my reasonable friends in the South would not coidially ap4 ProI*: ? > ~ "The allegation concerning my relations with colored persons in my place of business are too contemptible for notice and so absolutely absurd as (o make a denial or explanation purely ridiculous." These lines were evidently not writteu for publication, and I fear Mr Ogden will be far more distressed over their appearance than I am. He simply declares that hid "reasonable" friends will cordially approve ana that my allegations are "too contemptible,for uotice." I do not understand him to deny them. He will not deny them over his signature, for Mr Ogdeu, apart from his crazy notions about the negro, is a truth fill and lovable old gentleman, a very estimable citizen. B I repeat my allegations with renewed emphasis aud challenge Mr Ogden or auy other man to deny them. I know that his introduction of ' Booker T Washington to Cooper ysT1 Union audience was a loathsome and disgusting performance, because I was present and witnessed it. The lady with whom I went was anything but an enemy to the negro or to Mr Ogden, a woman of well poised mind and sound common sense. When Mf Ogden finished his remarkable speech of introduction she uirned to me, with a look of contempt and 1 "Well, I have heard of such tUinnrJ l.llf not'OP lit 111V lifp hffnrP WUUgB VMK n?.v? ... ?.j ...? did I see a white man get down in f. the dirt and kiss a negro's feet! I've enough?lei's go !" I said: "No, it isn't the negro's fault. He can't help it. He would crawl under the table if lie could, but he can't escape. The negro is good, let's*hear] him." We stayed and she liked the negro much better. Amoug the things he said in that introduction I recall one sentence in 1 a substance: "Men tell me sometimes that I have made a success in life. Ladies and gentlemen, I count all my achievements and all my honors as trash compared to the glorious privilege of standing hen tonight and tiutbfully saying to you that I am the personal friend of the illus ' trious man whom I have the honor of introducing to vou." r * This is only a sample. I repeat the allegation -hat Mr Ogdeu walked through the Wanamaker store in New York, with his arm aroond this negro, because I saw him do it How long he kept it there on that occasiou I can't say. He may have done it unconsciously ?if so, all the worse-, as a revelation of his character. 1 might prolong this controversy at great length and have much fun with the venerable President of the 'Southern" Educational Board, but to have no time at present, being under contract to furnish three articles to great Northern periodicals ou this theme and its allied ones in the near future, " ? I allow myself a single statement, -*l however, "to make the tale simple and unvarnished; "straight to the point; "without tatters of passion or "thunder of invective,'' following the admonition of the State. I think jt will be sufficient to convince the editor and all his Southern readers. I repeat with emphasis rav assertion that "Mr Ogden is a negro worshipper, pare and simple," beiause he teaches a school six days in the week * on* Broadway, where negro equality is taught in the moot direct anu powerful manner possible bv peisonal example. Mr Ogden is th* head of the John Wauamaker store in New York, and he conducts there the only first-class restaurant in the metropolis where a big buck negro is allowed to euter and seat himself at the same table with a white man's wife and daughful? uo T L'lWWl* this 13 tha tCl? uv iai uo x auvh i/inu 10 vnv | only restaurant where such a disgust-1 ing spectacle can be seen in New York, and, so far as I know, Mr Ogdeu is the originator of the idea in this town. I am inclined to think that our people of the South were a little unfair to President Roosevelt about his famous lunch with Booker T Washington. It was purely an accident of the President's busy life. Booker happeued to be there at the lunch hour?the President wished to talk with him and accordingly lunch was served in an informal manner. Mr Roosevelt did not mean to preach social equality with negroes?he does not believe in it. In the heat of politics we of the South didn't tote fair wich our dashing young President. But in Mr Ogden's case we have the real thing: an honest, earnest, well-meaning Yankee fanatic who does believe in it with all his soul. He not only believes in it, he preaches it. He not only preaches it, he practices it. 1 hare nothing to say about what he may choose to do at his own table in his own home. But I have the right as a citizen and a patron of his store to object to his attempt to force my family to eat at the same table with uegroes. The State declared, before learning my identity, that "the author's intimacy with things Southern is not the point, his knowledge of Mr Ogden's mode of association with persons of color is the question at issue." The point is well taken. I have voted in New York continuously since 1889. My knowledge on this issue is ample and first-handed. Mr Ogden's store is the only one where 1 keep an open account from year to year. I have had this account there about ten years. My wife (and daughters now, also), are afflicted with the "Wauamaker habit" (a disease for which Keeley never invented any cure). They go there and stay all day?stand ou their feet, looking at his tempting wares, as the tippler bangs around a saloon, until they come home at night iu a condition of collapse. I can't blame them. They are made that way. Mr Ogden keeps a tine store? 1 a tempting store?one of the best in America. In all my dealings with him he has never showed me a shoddy piece of goods?I have always 1 got my money's worth. As a merchant he is a man of the highest order of genius. But as a teacher 1 on the race problem, he ;s a man of 1 profound and pathetic ignorance, where money and position make hini i a fanatic of dangerous and far- 1 reaching power. If Mr Ogdeu ran a restauraut for whites and negioes apart from his store it would be a matter of little importance. It would become a ne- i gro joint in a few weeks. But Mr < Ogdeu's dining room is not run to make money. It is there for the accommodation of his women 'shop- < pers, that they may not leave as long as their money lasts. Hence the atrocity of his use of it for the purpose of preaching social equality. If you ask me why I continue to patronize his store I say to you frankly that I am a married man. I don't patronize his restauraut, nor do my wife and daughters. I have begged and pleaded with my wife < for years trying to rescue her from i the slavery of the " Wanamaker! habit." As well talk to an opium- i eater or an old toper! She has sworn to me again and again that she will reform, but the minute she strikes New York straight to Mr Ogden's stoi e she goes! I don't oh? ject to her going there on his ac oount?'far from it. She is a good Georgia girl, who graduated on the race problem long ago. I confess my reasons are financial. I I am r.ow consumed with a hope that when Mr Ogden W this he will find it so "cont?^)tibid," so "absolutely absurd,Ms to i j make "a denial or explanation pureI ly ridiculous," and that he will or| der the head of his book depart: ment to throw "The Leopard's I Spots" aud "The Clansman" out 1 and make my name taboo in his shop foiever more. Then, Oh Lord, will I give thanks, for my wife ? ill never go there any more, and I shall be saved! At least, I'll save from $500 to $1,000 annually! If the editor of the State wishes to test the question of Mr Ogden's pitiful negro obsession, let him challenge the president of the "Southern" Educational Conference to give up his ne-ro propaganda restaurant, or resign his presidency! I'll guarantee that negroes will continue to eat with white ludies in his stor., and that the Conference will find a new presiding officer! I may be mistaken; it is barely possible that Mr Ogden's innovation of the past few years in associating with Southern white people may have broadened his mind?but I will not believe it until I see it. The State asks why I have delayed my attack on the efforts of a group of good-hearted, weak-minded Yankee philanthiopists to pauperize the educational system of the South in the interests of negro equality. Again I will be frank. This "Southern" educational Society is composed of many of my warm personal friends, among them Mr Page, my publisher. They are in dead earnest and their aim is high, and, in the main, good. I had hoped that they might shake off tne influence of such men as- Ogden and the editors of the Northern negro organs like the Outlook. But it seems a vain hope. The truth is, these negro propagandists are the men who secure the funds which make the "Southern" educational board a power to be reckoned with. As a Southerner who loves the South and the North, and who believes that the South has performed ; a mighty seivice for this Republic in preserving our racial integrity in spite of the efforts of such men as Mr Ogden to corrupt it, I view with : suspicion the Greeks who bear gifts.: And I venture mildly to suggest] that a "Southern'' educational; board, with its headquarters in a lie- j gro equality restaurant on Broad-. way, New York, is a legitimate sub-' ject of discussion. The State has been deceived, at' least, about Mr Ogden, whose real interests have always been with the negro during h's entire life. He is the president of the board of trus tees of the negro school at Hampton, and on the board at Tuskegee. If he were to deny over his signature his negro loving obsession, it would raise a laugh among his friends that could be heard to Philadelphia. This soft spot in his brain is so well ] known here that it is a joke, and is j excused by his more robust asso- i ciates as a mild form of insanity. I It is a good time for the State to gracefully withdraw as an Ogdenite champion. You are not bounu to keep it up. Many subtle forces are at work in America to undermine the barriers which separate our 9,300,000 Africans from the white race. There is enough negro blood here, if allowed to mix with ours, to drown the na!- ?i -i x?J. i?i j.. . nonai cnanwier at least in a writer j of negroid mongreliam. Neither toleration,education nor religion can make a negro a white man, nor justify the pollution of our blood with his. In my humble judgment the most insidious, daugerous movement against Southern sentiment since the war is concealed be .ind the war front of the"Southern" educational board, with its millionaire backers, of which Mr Robert C Og.len, of the Hampton negro school, proprietor of the Broadway negio equality restaurant, is chuirman. Thomas Dixon, Jr. Nntine nf nn-napfnfir.shin. The undersigned have this day formed a co-partnership for the practice of law, under the iirm name of Kelley & Fairey, their office at Kingstree, John A. Kelley, F. W. Fairey, Kingstree, S. C., June 6, 1905. ALL THE NEWS ! ,j AROUND LAKE CITY., I THINGS THAT ARE SEEN AND HEARD BY OUR UBIQUITOUS REPORTER. j i Lake City, June ID: Messrs s iR K Wallace and E C Epps of t ' Kin^stree were noted on our e ; streets Wednesday of last week, t A select party had a picnic k at the Lee homestead on Lynch t river last Wednesday. They p returned about five o'clock and t< ; reported a pleasant time and plenty of fish. p i Mrs Cuthbert, who ha* been r * ? .1 i f ? n i visiting at ner orotner s, wir n r> \V Yates's, returned to berime F in Charleston Thursday. She s was accompanied by Mr Yates's c little daughter, Laura, who will t< spend some time in the city. t Mr Paul Jones of Timmons- s ville came down here Thursday b to lo ?k into the tobacco situa- b tion. He is thinking of leasing b ! the Planters' Ware house. It is t; ! understood that Mr W S Moore, b iwho has operated this ware is I house several seasons, will not t; do so this year, but will buy tobacco instead. tl Miss L E Barton, who attend- c< ed our school the term ju*t b< - ? - c h ciosea, reiurneu iiome 10 01 i Matthews Friday last. MrW D Shaw, who in days '" one bv was editor of the Lake ' "" Hi City paper which became ' ! famous (?) as the "Dewey Eagle," is in Sumter wearing a uniform and a metal plate on b< his cap. (The plate, not theuif- te form is on his cap.) M That was a very tine rain we '' had Monday afternoon. While H , crops were not actually suffer- ^ I ing up to that time, there being J j plenty of moisture a few inches ^ S below the surface, only cotton ^ rp J was doing much in the way of [growing; but the shower laid ^ the dust, gave an impetus to to- F bacco, corn and kitchen garden ^ nn/1 froeiianj/l un ! ( j V l?ci UJ tOj uim ii vonvuvvi w j things generally. T Rev J B Tray wick returned Friday night from a very pleasant trip to Orangeburg. w W L Bass, Esq., spent Friday ^ in Sumter on professional busi- ^ ness before Judge Purdy. j Mrs J C McElveen is visiting j her mother, Mrs Dennis, on ^ Pudding Swamp. j Dr J L Bass of Kingstree ^ spent Saturday night in town, j Mr L 0 Holloway is back from H Sullivan's Island,where he went R about two weeks ago. He says J he spent three or four hours B each day in the surf and came H home feeling" good and clean. J The Atlantic is a great washer- p woman. She uses salt, soda, D iodine and several other chem- J ical to cleanse her subjects. B Miss Bertha Morris returned J home Saturday morning. S Dr M D Nesmith left Monday | ni< for Chipley, Ga, where by the aid of an obliging parsor^ he Tfo will transmute a "miss" into a "inadam" Wednesday, and will buv two tickets instead of one ' va when he starts home. If wishes ^ have any part in bringing peace ^ and joy and happiness, the doctor will reap all these, for he ^ has the best and heartiest wish- ^ es of us all. mi Miss Mantie (Joker of Kings- j-a tree is visiting in town. A par- ac ty was given in her honor at m( Mrs J M Sturgeon's Monday ea night. ne Mrs Ethel Epps is spending co some time with her sister, Mrs |e W F Stack, at Pine wood. th Mr P D Cockiield is getting C( ready to build an eight room An L'trnuf 111 | l Coiuvi?v. v. wii v aut^v oit i. a Miss Pauline,* Claudine or ^ GasoHne Phomfreight was in ? f r town Sunday afternoon and when seen on the streets was holding her skirt so . be Misses Dora and Sallie Hinnant are at home from school. Dr Hemingway passed through 01 town Sunday night onJhis way ** Little Miss Beulah HiY&iant is c; lome from a visit to Flornce. Mr Ed^ar DuEant of Lambert vas noted here Sunday. Monday afternoon we had a ittle wreck in town. The local rei^ht, while drilling on the tation siding, ran a box car off iie track at the cattle pen. Sevral feet of track were torn up, he incline of the cattle pen nocked down and the forward rucks of the car thrown out of dace. This was about the ex ent of the injury. Mr B L Singletary and Miss jttie May McWhite were maried at the residence of thtjf ride's mother near SavageJ 'lorence county, on the 7th intant, at '2 p m. Soon after the eremony the young couple came :> their home, which is the prety little cottage on lower main treet. just built by the happy enedict for his fair young" ride. The groom, who is known | y his friends as "Bub" Singleiry, is no stranger to anybody < 1 this section. Mrs Singletary ] ; a daughter of the late Cap- < lin B B McWhite, who repre- | ;nted Florence county in both < le House and the Senate. Our l ingratulations to "Bub" and est wishes for the health and j appiness of both. x WLB < k JUNE JURORS. ^ i iood Men and True" Who Will Serve at Ensuing Term of Court. t The following- jurors have t ?en drawn to serve at the 1 rm of court which convenes t Monday, June 26. j F. Tharpe, King-stree. r C Fuhnore, Lake City, c r J Holleman, Greelyville. a C Altman, Lambert, t R Cooper, Rhems. 1) Bayloi, Benson, j B Gourdin. Heinemann. a B Browder, Greelyville. v A T Moore, Lake City. C Johnson, Lake City. B Cantley, King-stree. V Taylor, Greelyville. W L Cox, Scranton. C Nelson, Church. J D Gamble, Indiantown. C Gordon, Lenud. r alter Poston, Jay. Fox worth, Cades. 0 T Lake Citv. ^ M Fox worth, Lambert. I v E Blakeley, Suttons. a J McCollough, Trio. a L Altman, Vox. c C Bell, Indiantown. t L Whitlock, Lake City. ? C McElveen. Spring Hank. d A Tisdale, Benson. W Baker, Lake City, h Van Epps, Lake City. I D Cooper, ' Taft. v M Byrdic, Benson, c J Epps, Kingstree. v G Tisdale, Kingstree, c L Gist, Greelyville. c C Everett, Salters Depot. 9 HBoyd, Foreston. d SPENSARY OR NO DISPENSARY? ? e Electors of Williamsburg to Be f Called On to Decide the Question. Lake City, June 9:?It is a ?ry probable that the electors Williamsburg will soon be s .lied upon to vote upon the lestion of "dispensary or no spensary."' The matter has :en talked quietly for several onths and it seems that this lk is about to develop into n lion. At the head of the h ovement are some of the most s rnest and influential oppo- h nts of whiskey selling" in the }) luntry, and they will hardly c ave a stone unturned to put u e dispensaries out of the a unity. lo Your correspondent has it <j ion excellent authority that j e petitions askinA that an n ection be ordered being" t amed now and will b<\ in cir- t ilation at an early djim What f ie result of tile eyrction will v ! is, of course problematical, r it beyond all question there t i a strong sentiment through- j it the county against whiskey r illing. Especially is this the ase outside of those towns in 1 rhich the dispensaries ar^ 1(3- 1 ited.?News & Courier. '( ] WHAFS GOING ON IN GREELYVILLE. THE HASELDEN DRUG CO.?DEATH OF A NONOGENARIAN. Gkeelyville, June 12: Some of the farmers are complaining that it is too dry now. They are certainly hard to please. A short while ago it was too wet and now it is the reverse. If we were to have two good rains some would kick aoout 100 much water and declare the crops ruined. I sometimes wonfler what kind of weather we would have if the average farmer could have his way about it. I think the crops are doing nicely. The farmers have all taken advantage of this dry weather to kill the grass. Mr E O Taylor, who is now a "knight of the grip," having been.traveling in Georgia and Florida for the past few months selling crockery, etc., is now at home resting from his trip. He says the hotel at Greelyville <ept by Mr S J Taylor is the :heapest house lie has struck in lis travels. Dr J F Haselden left here this norning to go to Columbia, I **/! 4-r\ /i?a kofnro iho i iiiuci a iauu, l\j ^u uLik'i v iiiv, state Hoard of medical eximiners. He expects to be gone :ill the middle of the week. Our boys are not quite as en- ( husiastic ball players now as hey were before they went to { ?ingstree last Friday. I think hey will put in some time in 1 )ractice and try it again. That's 1 ight, boys, '-if at first you < lon't succeed, try, try again," ( Lnd we sincerely wish you bet- 1 er luck next time. We are glad to see Mr S W ( Iogan on our streets again, iter an absence of several ^ reeks at Glenn springs. Mr and Mrs T W Boyle are ^ lso away at the springs. ^ Several of our boys visited \ ^oreston yesterday, among j rhorn were Messrs S W and R \ 1 Hogan, W L Taylor and Hen- ( y Ferrell. s The Haselden Drug Co was r rganized here a short time ago. a lost of the company are Greely- c ille men. They are putting in j full line of drugs and other a rticles usually carried in first 1 lass pharmacies. I understand a hat Mr William 0'Bryan, Tr., of leineinann is to be clerk in the e rug store.. c Mrs Louise Davis died at the t ome of her daughter, Mrs L B s Irowder, von last Friday and I ras buried at Mt Hope Baptist I hurch on Saturday. Mrs Davis * ras the oldest person in this 4 ommunity and possibly in tne 1 ounty. She would have been I 9 years old on her next birth- 3 ay some time time next fall. 3 he was the mother of Capt T B 3 )avis, wh(*was so well known * or many years as a foreman on d >antee trestle. She leaves two 3 aughters, Mrs L B Browder nd Mrs Pack, both of whom are 3 uite old ladies each having e everal grand-children. * Vidi. 1 He Stopped His Paper. Y [San Francisco Call.] j. Once upon a time a man got lad at the editor and stopped is paper. The next week he ^ old his corn for four cents be3W the market price. Then his iroperty was sold for taxes be ause he didn't read the treasrer's sales He was arrested nd lined $8 for going hunting n Sunday simply because he idn't know it was Sunday, and t ?aid $300 for a lot of forged i iotes that had been advertised i wo weeks ami the public cau- 1 ioned not to negotiate them. 1 le then paid a big- American vith a foot like a forge hamner to kick him all the way to lie newspaper office, where he i )aid four years in advance and < nade the editor sign an agree- I nent to knock him down and i ob him if he ever ordered his ] ADVICE TO COUNTIY EDITOB. 1 What to Print?How a Newspaper Ctt'ljj Best Serve Its Patron. .1 "I want to see the scissors editor," said the visitor, as he^ picked his way through a pile of exchanges and reached for a chair. "Here he is," I replied, "in what way can I serve you?" 3 "Are you the man who cuts all these things out of the pa- * pers telling the legislature what to do and how to run the i government?" "I am." "Well, you just listen to me c; a few moments. I am the representative from Wayback, as ( \ the country editor delights in calling me, and as I have stood * his everlasting advice as long1 & as I could, I dropped in to give those little fellows that print the papers some advice myself; but country editors are like , v ^ country doctors, they never take their own medicine. How- ) ever, if you print it, I will tell Mr Three Em Space how to run a country newspaper." - j 1 ik. "v>nai uoes a mcrnuci ui ms legislature know about running 22 a country newspaper?" I ven- : tured to ask. "What do I know? Well, I ought to know something, hav- ; ing edited one for fifteen years, and as the people are still taking it, it must have been a good Dne." "Well, what must I tell \ht ; :ountry editors?" I asked. * "Tell them this," said the .'t representative, "to pay less at- /$ tention to politics and more to ieveloping the resources of the :ountry; to charge every poli- ' tician full rates for advocating lis claims for office and make lim pay his bill in advance A lefeated candidate is the poor;st pay in the world. Tell them :o pay special attention to the ? ?' ' - iS :ypography, make-up, ana sress work of their papers, so :heir subscribers can read what :hey have to say. Tell them to lote the arrival of every visitor n their midst and herald the :oming and going of their sub- ;J icribers. Births, deaths and nai riages should hare special ittention. Watch the crops :arefully .and give unstinted jraise to the farmer who lives it home, raises all he eats and las something worth writing ibout. "If a new enterprise is start:d in your community give all letails as it is far more valuable '$j ban political gossip. If a sub- -criber improves his house and grounds speak of it in your pa)er, as it will encourage others o 101 low nis example. "Never dun a subscriber hrough the columns of your $ >aper. Make your paper readible and when subscriptions ire due present your bill as iny other business man, for it s your right. If you are poor, lo not parade it to the public, is they care nothing about it. "Follow these suggestions tnd your subscription list will [row and naturally advertisers rill seek the columns of your )aper to reach thrifty buyers, f you will do this you will not lave so much time to advise he legislature to adjourn arid :ome home." Having finished his speech, he gentleman from Wayback * ? ' a t- - i 3 lapped 111s nai upon nis neaa nd withdrew.?R B Harrison n Atlanta Constitution. Lost! On Sunday, June 4, on King's ' ree-Lake City public road, a adies' chatelaine bag, containng a pair of gold-rimmed spec:acles. Reward if Underbill eave at Record office. Taken Back to Willlansbjrft. i Sheriff Graham of Kingstree j was in the city last night. He j :ame over to take to the Kings- ? tree jail Noah Williams,colored, a who was arrested by Sheriff jj Burch at Cowards Monday even?