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MR. CROMER TO MB. TILLMAN. A RINGING APPEAL AGAINS BASE FACTIONALISM. Ex-president of Newberry Colleg Summons the Father of the South Carolina Whiskey Selling Law to Leave Out of the Dispensary Discussion Factional Politics. The Moral Issue Alone Involved. The Hon. George B. Cromer, forme president of Newberry College, ha addressed the following open lette to Senator B. R. Tillman: The Hon. B. R. Tillman.-Dea Sir: I protest against the introduc tfon of the tom-tom and the spirit c faction into the movement by whic * the merits of the dispensary are to b tested. The tom-tom is the instru ment of one juggler and factionalisr is the resort of the politician. Th people "of this State have the righ to expect something higher and bet ter from you. Tour recent latter t Mr. Higgins was a calm, sane an? judicial statement of your attitude oi the dispensary question, but for thi very reason it was distasteful in cer tain quarters, and you were accuse of straddling. Tou gave that lette v out as an expresi?n of your viewl? and, my name having been kindl: suggested by you, I was asked t answer it in the New Voice. I dedin ed to do so-for the simple reaso1 that in this county we wish to tes the dispensary question on its merits and, therefore, desire to exclude ev ^ ery possible phase of "Tillmanism.' In the Higgins letter you recog nized the widespread and well-found? ed beliJ? that the dispensary is cor? rupt in its administration, and thai the present agitation is an expressior of popular dissatifaction. But ir j your Edgefield speech you shiftec . your ground, and took the position that the movement is, political ir significance and is a covert attack upon you. In the Higgins letter you said that . the remedy for the corruption rests /With the legislature; that in the last legislature the friends and enemies o? the dispensary got together and did nothing hut appoint a committee; that ever since you were governor you have given advice and made suggestions, but that your opinion has had no weight with the legisla? ture; and that if the next legislature does not apply the remedy, you will help to kill the dispensary. By Implication. In your ridgefield speech you said that ix the next legislature does not adopt certain suggestions that you intend to make, you will help to elect a leggislature that will. And you said, by implication at least, that you will :go to the Reformers for that legislature. I appeal from Philip" drunk to r Philip sober-from the temper of tha Edgefield speech to the tone of the Higgins letter. In Newberry there is no disposition to make an attack upon you under cover of a movement against the dispensary. It is not a political movement. It was begun in an off year in order that it might he a test of a great moral question, : unclouded by personal and political considerations. It is not a movement of the politicians, but a movement of the people. You have doubtless no? ticed that the counties that were strongly "Conservative" are not in the movement. I do not question your right to take part in the discussion. Independent? ly* of the fact that you are the author of the system in this State, it would be strange if you were to remain silent. Ey virtue of your high office and of your great influence it is your duty to speak-but to speak sanely and temperately as you did in the Higgins letter. You owe a great deal to the youth of this State; you owe them the best that you have to give. When the dispensary was first put on trial there may have been good reason for an appeal to a faction, but that reason no longer exists. The system ! has been on trial more than twelve years. It will soon be voted on by thousands of men who were only eight or nine years old when it was adopted. When you speak now, we are entitled to have you speak from the point of view of statesmanship and not of partisan politics. No Danger to Tillman. ? Besides, you have too much saga? city to fear that this movement against the dispensary can endanger your political future. You occupy a large place in the history of South Carolina for the last fifteen years, and for a number of years no rival has challenged your primacy among the political leaders of the State. Ben Tillman, the Senator representing South Carolina, can well afford to discard the methods of Ben Tillman the partisan political leader. I do not . mean to be offensive. You know of my appreciation of the distinguished sei vices that you have rendered this State in a number of directions. But I earnestly protest that you have no right to befog this question by lower? ing it to the plane of partisan politics. That the administration of the dis pensary system is corrupt any fool can sees as he runs. But I go farther j than that, even at the risk of having you charge me with cant and hypo- j crisy. No matter how high your pur? pose may have been in adopting the system, in its origin it seems to have been a cunningly-devised scheme to chloroform the public conscience. Xe Jesuitical attempt to debauch morals by using the end to justify the means could have been more successful if the system had been honestly admin? istered. The corrupt administration will save us from the system itself. Governor Hoch, of Kansas, tells us "We are rearing a new civilization here. I believe there are more than a quarter of a mill?n young people who have never seen' a saloon. Pro? hibition is the only logical attitude of law toward the liquor trame, ??ni the whole countiy will some day recog? nize the fact. What sort of civiliza? tion are we rearing in South Carolina Our Supreme Court in its famous de? cision upholding the Constitutionality .of the dispensary law, laid down the following as a fundamental proposi? tion and said that if this proposition is not true the law is unconstitutional : "That liquor, in its nature, is danger? ous to the morals, good order, health and safety of the people, and is not to be placed on the same footing with the ordinary commodities of life, such as corn, wheat, cotton, tobacco, pota? toes, etc." Kansas says to her chil? dren: "The liquor trame is dangerous and ought to be prohibited." South Carolina says' to her thousands of school children: "The liquor traffic is dangerous to the morals, good or? der, health and safety of the people, and therefore we will sell liquor and get all the money we can for the schools." You may call it cant if you will, but in effect here is an insidious at? tempt to wed public education to the liquor traffic. It is an unholy alliance and God will put them asunder. We cannot afford to lower the ideals of our schools. We must not poison the fountain that nourishes the heart and brain of our people. Was Becoming Disreputable. The business of the saloon-keeper was becoming disreputable in this SJtate, and saloon, keepers were be? ginning to find it difficult to justify the business in the eyes of their chil? dren. The dispensary system attempts to make the traffic respectable and reputable. How can the children in our schools answer the sophistry of the argument that whatever contri? butes to the support of the school is good and wise? I lay it down as little short of an axiom that any restrictive scheme that takes control of a traffic that is dangerous to the morals of the people, and controls it in such a way as to make it reputable, is a vicious and dangerous scheme. Let me suggest an historical paral? lel. A great leader was commanded to go down against the Amalakites, standing for immorality, and destroy them and theirs utterly. When he was called to account by the old pro? phet and asked what meant the lowing of catie and the bleating of sheep, his lame excuse was that the people had kept the best of the sheep and oxen to sacrifice to the Lord. The prophet's answer was as swift and withering as lighting: "Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice." Sacri? fice is good, but there are better things than mere sacrifice. The Gov? ernment of a great State was com? manded by the moral sense of the people, expressed at the ballot box, to go down and destroy the liquor traffic. And when called to account it makes the pitiful plea that while it has not destroyed the traffic it has managed it so as to get money for the taxpay? ers. Money for the schools is good, but there are better things than money for the schools. The blight of God's curse falls upon the people that re? sort to methods that dull the public conscience and lower the tone of pub? lic morals. It Cannot Help You. Senator Tillman, the dispensary system cannot help you, and you can help it only temporarily. It is wrong in principle and corrupt in practice, and its doom has been writ? ten. By throwing your powerful in fiuence against the present agitation you may save the dispensary for a while, but it is tottering and must fall. It is fortunate for you that your reputation rests upon achieve? ments that will endure. You recall, do you not, the desire of Jefferson that his epitaph should remind pos? terity that he was author of the Dec? laration of Independence, and the bill of religious liberty, and the fa? ther of the University of Virginia. And so his name is handed down, riveted to civil liberty, and religious liberty and higher education, three things that can never depart from the earth or from the love of men. And you, what would you be remem? bered by? There is Winthrop and there is Clemson; well may your heart swell with honorable pride. And there is-I will not name the third thing. What true friend would link your name with the dispensary? What bitter enemy could desire a worse fate for you than to have you raised to that bad eminence? A wise solution of the liquor problem is one thing; the dispensary is an? other. I have very little political ambi? tion, and no taste for public contro? versy. You need not remind me that it is none of my business to take care of your reputation. I know that. But in a quiet way I have for many years been doing my best, little as it may have been, to develop strong, clean, brave manhood in this State, and it saddens me to feel that you are about to let pride of opinion and the fervor of debate stand in the way of a fair and open test of a great moral question. The people do not need advice, they need free oppor? tunity to vote. Respectfully. George B. Cromer. Newberry, August ll, 1905. Nothing on the Market Equal to Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. This fact is well known to druggists everywhere, and nine out of ten will give their customers this preparation when the best is asked for. Mr. Obe Witmer, a prominent druggist of Jop? lin, Mo., in a circular to his custom? ers, says:."There is nothing on the market in the way of patent medi? cine which equals Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for bowel complaints. We sell and recommend this preparation." For sale by all druggists. A Touching Story * Is the saving from death, o* -he ba? by girl of Geo. A. Eyler, Cumberland, Md. He writes: At the age of ll months, our little girl was in declin? ing health, with serious throat trou? ble, and two physicians gave her up. We were almost in despair, when we resolved to try Dr. King's New Dis overy for consumption, coughs and colds. The first bottle gave relief; after taking four bottles she was cured, and is now in perfect health." Never fails to relieve and cure a cough or cold. At all druggists; 50c. and $1, guaranteed. Trial bottles free. RECOGNITION OF JEWS. Russian Ministers Decide to Permit Certain Classes to Be Candidates for National Assembly. St. Petersburg, August 16.-It has been decided by the ministerial coun? cil to permit certain classes of Jews to stand for election for the pro? posed national assembly. This is one of the results of the pressure being brought to bear by rich Jews in America to secure reforms which will better the condition of their co? religionists in Russia. The relation? ship between the representative as? sembly and the state council will be similar to that which exists between the house of representatives and the senate in the United States Congress. Tlie Only Way. *There is no way to maintain the health an^strength of mind and body except by nourishment. There is no way to nourish except through the stomach. The stomach must be kept healthy, pure and sweet or the strength will let down and disease will set up. No appetite, loss of strength, nervousness, headache, constipation, bad breath, sour risings, rifting, indigestion, dyspepsia and ali stomach troubles that are curable are quickly cured by the use of Kodol Dyspepsia Cure. Kodol digests what you eat and strengthens the whole digestive apparatus. Sold by all druggists. They Appeal to Our Sympathies?" The bilious and dyspeptic are con? stant sufferers and appeal to our sympathies. .There is not one of them, however, who may not be brought back to health and happiness by the use of Chamber Iain's Stomach and Liver Tablets These tablets invigorate the stomach and liver annd strengthens the diges? tion. They also regulate the bowels. For sale by all druggists. The Hartsville friends of Col. J. J. Dargan want the State to send him to the world's peace congress in Lucerne. Switzerland. A Warning to Mothers. Too much care cannot be taken with small children during the hot weather of the summer months to guard against bowel troubles. As a rule it is only necessary to give a child a dose of castor oil to correct any disorder of the bowels. Do not use any substitute, but give the old fashioned castor oil, and see that it is fresh, as rancid oil nauseates and has a tendency to gripe. If this does not check the bowels give Chamber? lain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and then a dose of castor oil, and the disease may be checked in lis incipiency and all danger avoid? ed. The castor oil and this remedy should be procured at once and kept ready for instant use as soon as the first indication of any bowel trouble appears. This is the most successful treatment known and may be relied upon with implicit confidence even Jn cases of cholera infantum. For sale by all druggists. Encourage Com Production. The Observer man noticed at Utopi the other day that Mr. Walt?r ?. Her? bert had ^?o large fields near his resi? dence planted in corn and cotton -two rows of corn alternating with two rows of cotton. He says he got the idea from some letters written to the News and Courier- by Alfred P. Aldrich. Mr. Herbert tried this in one or two fields last year, and was so convinced that it is a good thing that be repeat? ed it this year on a larger scale. He says be has about two hundred bushels of corn from last year's crop that- he would not have bad but for this plan. One of its best recommendations is that it encourages the raising of more corn. The rows are planted four feet apart in both corn and cotton. The plan is of no special benefit except on rich land, where the cotton and corn have a good deal of weed and stalk. The corn, not being shaded by other corn cn either side of it, has a better ciiance to grow, and gets a good start while the cotton is small. Then the cotton has a better chance to get the sunshine, especially after tbe fodder is stripped from the corn and consequent? ly it opens better. On rich land the trouble is to get the cotton to open. This plan remedies that to a large ex? tent. It certainly adds to the quanti? ty of both corn and cotton on rich land. ! Mr. Henry's declaration that the columns of any paper in the state, with the editor's implied endorsement of the matter printed therein in the in? terest of the dispensary, could have been bought just as those of the Spar? tanburg Journal were, is an^unworthy reflection upon the press of the state. We were really surprised that the snace of the Journal was available on such terms, and therefore will not as? sert that any ether paper in South Carolina would spurn such an offer, but we are sure that many of them would. Many of them will not accept an advertisment of the liquor traffic at any price, even in their advertising colums, where the advertiser assumes responsibility and the editor disclaims it.-Chester Lantern. A little fore thought may save you no end of trouble. Anyone who makes it a rule to keep Chamber? lain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy at hand knows this to be a fact. For sale by all druggists. Bob Smith, a negro who killed a negro in York county in 1889 was cap? tured at Clover, York county, on Sat? urday. Miss Pearl Herbert has been ap? pointed postmaster at Saluda, S. C. AN OLD ADAGE SAYS-*. **A light purse is a heavy curse" Sickness makes a light purse. The LIVER is the seat of nine tenths of all disease. TNtfsP? go to the root of the whole mat? ter, thoroughly, quickly safely and restore the action of the LIVER to normal condition. Give tone to the system and solid flesh to the body. Take No Substitute* I CHtCHEbi i.t,'3 tNCLISH EN N YR OYAL PILLS -y?T"N. " ._Orinal and Only Genuine. // W\8AFE. Alwaynrr'.ibt-ie Ladle*. Mk Vtnsfirt KJS? ?? CHICHESTER'S ENGLISH tis IL..I? at. i Cold TuriaUie boxes. ,.<-?>.j f with Mu*ribbon. Tukr no other. Refn?e I I>anecrou? <ab?tl< ut)on? and Imita? tion*. Eu of y?ur r>rt;eyi.t. or ?o.i -te. in ??mi* fer Particular.. Te?tfrnoni?? ?od "Kellef for I.n-IU-i , ' vr. letter, br rc turn Mu! I. 1 fr.OiMr t oiimonisi*. Si'j ij ail Druicrin.. CM-he.'rr rb--Meal Co.. H?S?OC 'bl? t??- v-.??# w ??> Indigestion Causes Catarrh of the Stomach. For many years it has been supposed that Catarrh of the Stomach caused indigestion and dyspepsia, but the truth is exactly the opposite. Indigestion causes catarrh. Re? peated attacks of Indigestion inflames the mucous membranes lining the stomach and exposes the nerves of the stomach, thus caus? ing the glands to secrete mucin instead of the juices of natural digestion. This is called Catarrh of the Stomach. Rsife! Dyspepsia Our? relieves all inflammation of the mucous membranes liring the stomach, protects th? nerves, and cures bad breath, sour risings, ?sense of fu!in=ss after eating., indigestion, dyspepsia and all stomach troubles. Kcdol Digests What You Eat Make the Stomach Sweet. Bottles only. Regular size. Si .00, holding 2Vs times the trial size, which seHs for 5 0 certs. Prepared by E. C. OeWITT & CO., Chicago, Ul. For Sale by all Druggists. Land Surveying I will give prompt attention to all calls for surveying:, platting, terracing hill side= draining bottoms, drawing Mortgages Titles, Probating, &c. BANKS H. BOYKIN. D. S., Oct 19-o Catchall, S. C. FOLtTSKlDNRCU?O Hakes Kidneys and Bl addar Right Checks That Checkered Feeling $1.00 at all druggists-or write for sample bottle, free. Do this today. Checkers Medicine Co.Winston-Si.lem,N.C I ^^^^^^^^_'|j Por Infants and Children. |^^^H?Th8 Kind You Have ?Mi.Bj Always Bought II AYcgCiabiePrcparattonfcrAs- - S simi?aiLig iheFoodandfieguia- m ^ - # |! ling theStomachs and Bowels of jj j^ggxg til8 ff I \ \ Promoles Diges?on,Cheerfur- j * J? %/ 11 ness and Pxest.Containsneilher j nf gi J? * J| .j 9pium3?orp?iine nor Mineral. [ Ul #?\ j- !NOT NARCOTIC %yl| S J?cipeafOUJjrSMtOLPnUtZa j!, Farrpfun Seed' v I ' .1 ^ | ?bcSenna * \ \*%k ? ? Rochell* Sc?S- I M , ?Ul . I Mt sla?e.Wd + \ A\ IPI* Peppermint - ) fl ft II B BiCcrbanakSoda* ? il I fl Won?SeP?- \ \ m ll &/ 1 CfaifiUAyar J?X Y 9 ff 2 Mttay/nvt Haver. } f IS it ? ?DerfecI Remedy fer Constipa- I ? I 7 Hw G ??oh, Sour Stomach,Diarrrioea i I \kf Worms,Convulsions ?Feverish- ?j 1 IT CftP ll ll Oft" ness and LOSS OF SLEER 9 y^/1 | Ul UVui Facsimile Signature or i Thirty Years _ ..,w'-;>^ ^ - - f--?-...n -C>MPINY. NEW YORK CTf. FARMS FOR SALE. List 149. Tract *3 acres 1 mile N. E. of City, 25-3o acres cleared. All easily brought under cultivation. Drainage facilities good. For a quick sale $2.000. List 148. Tract 577 acres; 300 cleared. Buildings worth $3000. Piac9 on Mayesville road 7 miles from Sumter and 3 from Mayesville. Price $30 per acreJ$17310. List 147. Tract 170 acres, 60 cleared, 4 mile3 from city on Bishopville and Brewing ton roads. Frice 820 per acre. fl $3400. List 145. Tract 265 acres on Moses road 3 miles from city, 100 cleared, good build? ings. Price $30.. $7950. List 164. Tract 256 acres within half mile of city. 160 acress in high state of culti? vation. Buildings insured for $3000. $12500? List 112. 105 acres 4 miles from city, near Bishopville and Brewington roads, 50 acres cleared, new 3 room dwelling. $2650 SEE CITY LOTS IN DAILY ITEM AND EVENING NEWS. R. B. BELSER, Attorney at Law Real Estate Broker Harby Bldg. Court Fqr. Phone 309. AN ADVERTISEMENT PLACED IN THE ADVERTISING COLUMNS OF THE DAILY ITEM WILL BRING RESULST. The Reason Why We Sell Our $6.00 Blue Flame Oil Stoves For $450 Is our business. It is your business to get a $6 Blue Flame Oil Stove for $4.50. Jap-a-lac. Works like magic, transforms old furniture into new, renews the finish which has deteriorated on all articles of wood or metal. A child can apply. Jap-a-lac stains and varnishes in one appli? cation. Kejuviates all things about a house from "cellar to garret " Easily applied, quickly dried, 4 wears like iron.'' Try it and be convinced. If you want the best paint made to put on your house let us sell you some of our celebrat? ed brands-Devoe, New Era, Hammer, guaranteed. Covering and lasting qualities unexcelled. $500,000 behind this guar? antee. The Durant Hardware Co.