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Send model, photo or sketch, and we send 9lSSHED!ATE FREE REPORT ON PAT 9?MTAB!LITY. 20years'practice. Regis . Btered Patent Lawyers. Write or come to j Sss at 505-507, 7th St. WASHINGTON, 0. C. Ililli DIXON TO GONZALES. Would Submit Dispute W ith Newspa? per to Committee. Thomas Dixon, Jr., has addressed the following to The State: Eidtor Columbia State: In your ed j itorial of Monday you continue the as I sertions thai my play "is full of in j consistencies and historical inaccura {cies." You say: I "If Mr. Dixon w ould consent to the j appointment of an impartial commit j tee to weigh the evidence I I hasten to notify you that I consent to the suggestion. I will refer the is? sue of historical accuracy between us to a jury of 12 to be appointed by the American Historical Society. If they decide that you are right, I will not only agree to pay $1,000 for the er? rors established, but I will agree to take immedate steps to withdraw the play from the boards-on condition j that if you accept my challenge and the verdict goes against you, you for? feit $1,000 and resign as editor of The State. If you accept this offer and these terms, wire me to that effect and I will personally bear all the expenses of the committee of 12 the American Histor? ical Society may appoint. I will go still further and make you another challenge. Your correspondent says the public should be warned that "The Clansman" is indecent. I will submti that issue to the Co? lumbia Chap'ter of the Daughters of the Confederacy, to a jury of 12 ?mothers among them, who witnessed ?the play. If these good Southern wo? men decide that my play is indecent or harmful to their daughttrs or their sons, I will withdraw it from the boards, if you will agree to withdraw as an editor of public opinion in case they decide against you. Now, Mr. Editor, it is up to you. You have raised the issue-I chal? lenge you to face it. You must, of course, know that the Ku Klux Klan was an order which overspread every Southern State with more or less efficiency, and that my use of South Carolina soil "for the scene of my play was simply for the purpose of localizing the action. My play is an epic of the South. My characters are all fictitious. As their creator I was bound by the history of the whole South. My only obligation to the local history of South Carolina is that I bring my action within facts. This I have done. The facts are more horrible than ? dared to paint. Every scene is softened and idealized to be more credible. Where you break down completely in your contention is in the following strange sentence in your editorial: " 'The Clansman' may in the North realizejthe mission Mr. Dixon says it has. There they may need this blow? of the bludgeon to awaken them to the South's past distress and present prob? lems." What, Tommyrot! Does the editor of The State dare to say that the North should be deceived by a play which is a tissue of lies? Surely not! Why do you agree that the North ought to see it? Because you know it is founded on the solid rock of truth. I hold that the truth is its own vin? dication-North, South, East and West. If my play is true the young South should know it. If it is false it should be suppressed. If it is good for one section it is good for all. I seek na? tional unity through knowledge of the truth. '. I repeat the motif of my play: "A Lighthouse of Historic. Truth Built on .the 'Sands of R?construction." Thomas Dixon, Jr. Savannah, Ga., October 17. ANOTHER CHANCE FOR MURRAY. Supreme Court "Will Consider the Granting of a New Trial. Columbia, October 18.-Justice Woods has signed an ovder staying the remittiur in the casv? of George .Washington Murray, colored, convict? ed of forgery, until the court can de? cide wrhether it wil grant him a re? hearing. The ground for rehearing .is that the records do not prove inten? tional wrrong, and the petitioner pleads that he "has committed no moral wrong against the laws of God or man." THE FIRST DOLLAR SAVED !S .THE BEST. The Sumter Ranking and Mercan tile Company, of Sumter, S. C.. will open a saving department and receive deposits of one dollar and over on which 3 per cent, per annum will be allowed, payabler/marterly. The w$y to have a bank account is to start, and you will find it easj enough to keep it growing. Save your pennies and nickles and you will soon lave dollars Call and get particulars as to In erest, deposits, etc. Deposits, subject to check solicited. BUM TER BANKING AND 3IERCAN TILE COMPANY, Sumter, S. C. Mar 21-tf BONZALE mm. The Reply of r of the State to Th( an, Jr. lu defending t il correct? ness of "The - Thomas Dixon, Jr., recen " 3d to Col? lier's Weekly a sj le, which was published over ^ture. In it there appeared ; : ! .ve asser? tions : " At this mome-. Carolina there were 80,COG . iro troops answerable to n*. save the savage instincts lack offi? cers. ' ' "The Ku Klux klan 3ret oath bound brotherhcrose ii anight disarmed every iiogw a?u restored civilization." I "And so a lawless band of night riders became the sole guardains of ! society, brought order out of chaos, j law out Of lawlessness, and preserved our race in America from extinction at last in negroid mongrelism. Had the south in that crisis become mulatto, the nation would inevitably have sunk ; to its level/" . ' Tom Dixon rested his play on that defense. We challenged the historic correctness of his assertions. We proved his misstatements so completely that he has not touched upon these points. We showed by history that the Ku Klux Klan, asan organization, was extinct before the electiou of Moses as governor ; before the election of a negro lieutenant governor. We as? sarted that the 80,0C0 armed negroes were about 10,000 armed negroes. Tom Dixon has not attemped to meet this clear question of fact. He has not attempted to explain what is really the most horrible insult ever offered the southern people-the. de? claration that any power of earth or bell could reduce them to a state of "negroid mcngrelism," and the asser? tion that but for the Ku Klux Klan absolutely unknown it many sections -the south would have become mulat? to. " He was silent on those points, but in Columbia offered Si,000 to any man who would prove one inaccuracy in his play. The specific points had been challenged and the evidence offered, but on getting to Savannah he suggests a commission or 12 to be appointed by the American Historical association, a society formed in Phil? adelphia about a dozen years after the extinction of the Ku Klux Klan. He makes the condition, however that all characters must be considerd as purely fictitious and his "only obliga? tion to the local history of South Carolina is that I bring my action within its facts"-in other r?ords, that South Carolina supplied an at? mosphere where such incidents as he depicted fromhis imagination were pos sible. His position is that if the at? mosphere is trne, if such things could have happened at that period, he is sustained. And for that inquiry he proposes a commission, to sit fer weeks perhaps, and tc give "The Clansman," north and south invalu? able publicity. A splendid advertising scheme, quite worthy of the author's keen? ness! But even then Dixon repudiates his Coumbia proposition. Hisjnew plan is to waper 81,000and the lite of "The Clansman" on the road against 81,000 and the editorship of The State. If bis exceptions in case of "The Clans? man" had not already made historical inquiry absurd, we could not accept this flattering challenge. The editor? ship of The State did not come to one seeking greater ease, financial ad? vancement or personal aggrandise? ment. To the versatile Thomas, who so readily exchanged a Blackstone for a pulpit, a Bible for uovel ano a novel for the play, it may appear singular that others cannot shed their callings so readily as their coats. There are some offices that cannot be wagered. As to that complete breakdown dis? covered by Mr. Dixon in our criti? cism. "The Clansman" in the north may awaken some people there who have never realized the enormity per? petrated upon the soutii by the be? stowal of the ballot on newly-freed slaves. Its exaggerations are an off? set to the exaggerations of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," and it.may make those people cease to encourage the negro to seek a political position which he cannot attain* and in the seeking of which he injures himself. "The Clansman" is imaginary in incident, but its pictures "might have been;" so in is brutal way, with its "blud? geon," it may enable the north to un? derstand that which no reasoning, no true picture has been able to impress. The same story in the south, because of that "atmosphere" of thirty odd. years ago, can reveal to us nothing. It caa open old wounds, rekindle old .hatreds, make more difficult the work of those laboring for the law's observ? ance, but it can strengthen our hands in not one particular. It is foolish to assert that that which is good for one section must, of necessity, be good for another. Mr. Dixon's play is no more needed in South Carolina than his politicl speech-making under the auspices of the national Democratic committee. And the former is not only useless-to all but Mr. Dixon but may be very harmful.-The State. Columbia, October 230.-Ben Ben? nett has been caught in Macon and is to be brought back here to serve out his five years sentence for the murder of his wife. Accrington, Mass., October 20. Fire destroyed Sheiners Calico works this morning. One hundred sewiug machines were wrecked. The loss is estimated at 8500,000. Dan Slocum the white man who is under arrest in Columbia for cimiual assault has waived a preliminary. It looks as if Congressman Geo. \V. Murray's $60.000 is not going to pre? vent him going to serve a term in the chain gang just as any ordinary va? grant, and the pretty part of it is that the punishment is for imposition on men of his own race. The negro has no harder taskmaster than his own color who get where they can control those beneath them in property or brains. The negro has had no more real friend on earth than the white men of the South who know him and who puts up with all his faults as father with tho faults of an irre? sponsible child.-Florene- Times. CIVIL SERVICE UNDONE. President Roosevelt Issues Orders. That Abrogate Power of thc Commission. Washington, Oct. 18.-An amend ment to the civil service rules, sweep? ing and comprehensive in its charac? ter, was authorized yesterday by Pres? ident Roosevelt. Hereafter a cabinet officer will have the power to remove summarily and without hearing any civil service employee in his depart? ment, who, to the personal knowledge of the head of the department, has .been guilty of misconduct or who is inefficient in the performance of his duties. President Roosevelt issued the fol? lowing executive order embodying the terms of the new regulations: "When the president or head of 'an executive department is satisfied that an officer or employee in the classified service is inefficient or incapable, and that the .public service will be mate? rially improved by his removal, such removal will be made without hearing, but the cause of the removal shall bo stated in writing and filed. When mis? conduct is committed in the view and presence of the president or head of executive department removal may be made summarily and without notice." The subject was brought directly to the attention of President Roosevelt recently by the misconduct of a chauf? feur of one of the government auto .mobiles. The driver of the automobile piloted his machine directly in the way of the president's carriage and seemed to take delight in cutting him out of their road. When the president learned who the chauffeur was he said he ought to be discharged as incapa? ble of operating the machine. The amendment authorized today is one of the most important and far reaching made to the civil service rules in many years. It confers upon cabinet officers practically unlimited power as to the personnel of their de? partments. . A head of a department may discharge an employee for mis? conduct or inefficiency, with the sim? ple statement to the civil service com? mission that the misconduct or inef? ficiency is a subject of his personal ob? servation. The discharged employee will have no recourse. TO PREVENT SPECULATION. Legislation Proposed to Regulate Cot ton Mill and Bank Management. Columbia, October IS.-In view of the revelations that have been made in the matter of the failure of the Independent Cotton oil concern and the Darlington bank affiliated with it, on account of the disclosures incident to the troubles of the Union cotton mills which are nearly four mil? lion dollars behind, by reason of con? fessions of speculation on the part of a well known up-country cotton mill man, who lost out some time ago af? ter he had been yanked up before his board of directors, who drove him to the admission that he had gambled in futures on the mill's credit for his own gain, and because of similar trouble at other points in the State, it is likely that the next legislature will be called upon to pass a bill mak? ing it a crime for a president or treas? urer of a cotton mill or the presi? dent or cashier of a bank to deal in. futures while holding such an office. And the idea will not proceed from an ignorant or freak source. Among those who favor such a bill is Mr. Joseph A. McCullough, of the. Green? ville bar, spoken - of for. governor on the proposed prohibition ticket, and . a man of unusual. strength and in- . fiuence. Another, suggestion along : this lin? is that a bill be passed foi- * bidding the president of an industrial v concern from also holding the office , of treasurer. ? . There is also a strong sentiment crystalizing in favor of making the directorates of banks and industrial ?; concerns more responsible both per- ; sonally and financially. . It is com? plained that at present they are too often mere figureheads, and at other times are put to sleep regarding their -i duties to others by various schemes that work to their interest when they keep their eyes closed. "Many disasters it is claimed by those tn position to know are traceable directly to the neglect of directorates. A fight may also be made for the creation of the office of State audi? tor for industrial concerns. Millions have been lost to defenseless minority stockholders through loose cotton mill management in various parts of the State. There is also talk of requiring sev? eral names to be placed on every kind of banking paper. At present South Carolina bank presidents can draw up and sign papers for loans almost as they please. And there is talk of demanding of the next legislature the appointment of a commission to thoroughly inves? tigate the manner in which cotton mills are at present being conducted in this State and to probe to the bot om of recent failures. It is felt that some big sensations would follow such an investigation. McCaw. The snit of J. A. Haseltine against the Southern Railway Company for damages on account of his detention at a Burroughs Ga., August ll be? cause of his failure to have a health certificate was tried at Lancaster Thusday. The jury gave the plaintiff $1,000. 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The Durant Hardware C WE GUARD OUR PATRONS' INTERESTS The Farmers' Bank and Trust Go. Capital Stock $60,000. -:- Undivided Profits $4.000.. C. G. Rowland. Prst. R. F. Haynsworth, V. Prst. R. L. Edmunds, Cashier. Deposits rSept. 30, end o 2d quarter after organization, $170; 436.45. Liability of stockholders, in addition to capital stock, $60,OOO. A general banking business. Solicits your patronage and guarantees every courtesy con? sistent with good business men? ods. G. R. BARRINGER, Surgeon Dentist. Office over Chiua's Drug Store. Telephone No. 350. The Very Best of Material Used. Crown and Bridge Work a Specialty Office hours, 8 a. m. to 1 p. m.; 2 p. m. to 5.30 p..m. AN ADVERTISEMENT PLACED IN THE ADVERTIS I NO COLUMNS OF THE DAILY ITEM WILL BRING RESULTS. .Miuntlc Coast infective August 6, 1905. Passenger Trains arriving and leaving Sumter. Train 35 Florence to Augusta, Arrives 5 15 ace " 54 Colnmbia to Wilmington u 8 IC ana " *77 Florence to Sumter 44 9 20 ?.*y *57 Gibson to Sumter " 9 20 ana 52 Charleston to Greenville Leaves 9 31 un 46 Orangebnrg to Charleston (Tuesday, Thursd'y^Saturd'y) " 9 35 am *78 Sumter to Lucknow Leaves 9 50 ar.: *77 Lucknow to Sumter Arrives 6 00 r>m u 53 Greenville and Columbia to Charleston 6 30 . " 32 Augusta to Florence " 6 30 pac " *56 Sumter to Gibson ?. 6 50 pu* " *7d Sumter to Florence Leaves 7 10 " 47 Charleston to Orangeburg (Tue3d,y, Thur8d,y,SatnJ.Jy) ** 8 20 on 1 55 Wilmington to Columbia ?? 9 35 " 78 Sumter to Bishopville Leaves 9 50 " 77 Bishopville to Sumter Arrives 6 00 Freight Trains carrying Passengers. Train *24 Sumter to Hartsville Leaves 8 15 " *19 Sumter to Robbins Leaves 10 00 . - " *20 Robbins to Sumter Arrives 7 30 " *25 Hartsville to Sumter Arrives 9 10 Northwestern Railway. Train *70 Camden to Sumter Arrives 9 00 - - " *71 Sumter to Camden [Leaves 9 36 " *68 Camden to Sumter " 5 45 : . ? *72 Wilson Mill to Sumter Arrives 12 30 " *73 Sumter to Wilson Mill Leaves 3 30 " *69 Sumter to Camden " 6 31 Trains marked * daily except Snnciay ; all other trains daily. For further information, apply to J. T. CHINA, Ticket Agent A. 0. h.