Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE SOUTH AS A FORUM. Growing Disposition to Address the Nation From" This Section. The most notable change which has j taken place in the relations between | the two sections of Upcountry since the war is the increased attention giv? en by the people cf the North to the South in aH relations, social, indus? trial and political. The change came in order named, the outgrowth of the friendly relations which existed be? fore the war, the intermarriage of \ families and the annual visits of tour? ists from the respective sections. The I industrial movement came later as Northern capital was gradually at? tracted to the South by the opportu? nity offered m the establishment of cotton milds in closer proximity to the raw material, in the extension of railroads southward and in the at? traction of capital by the iron, coal and . other mineral resources there. Through this means and the enter? prise of the South, in its own devel? opment, together with its varied ag? ricultural productions in such staples as cotton, sugar and rice, the South has attained a degree of prosperity compared with its depleted condition after the war only a little short of phenomenal. Xewr Orleans has be? come a rival of New York in the ex? port of grain, and in the number of its spindles and the quantity of cotton manufactured, into yarns and cloth the South -now rivals the North with the prospect of surpassing it at an early day if it has not already done so. But the last phase of the change which seems to imply the obliteration of the old lines of demarcation and the barrier raised by the civil war . has but recently manifested, itself, it is true that President McKinley, in a brief tour through the South, spoke words at Atlanta and some other points which breathed something of i the old spirit of brotherly love which existed before the war. But there I was no similar occasion ton which the I people of the South felt moved to I break their long reserve and accept j the tender of a hearty fraternity until J President Roosevelt, in his noted tour J from Washington to New Orleans last j autumn, spoke such words of cordial j friendship and for the 'first time made the whole people of the South feel that they were thoroughly rehabili- j tated and regarded as upon a com- j mon plane with those of the North. I This, it is true, was not strictly a po- I ?t?e?? but a social occasion, but ii J v. sus . ne the less valuable in its re suits ri paving the way for a morel distinct political affiliation. The o^neer in this political move? ment has undoubtedly been Judge Taft, wh> visited the South, not as the * propagandist of radical ideas J which form the basis of organisation j for the Republican element, there I chiefly valuable for the votes it casts in national conventions, but for a face j . to face talk with the people of the I South on the broader fundamental principles such as he or some pro- J nounced candidate for the Republican nomination might wish to present for J the consideration of the Southern people. The respectful attention giv- I en him and the wide publication of his j views in the South, while not indica- J ti v*e of any special effect in the way of makikng converts, go to disprove the J existence of an intolerant % spirit j among the Southern people. This experience of Judge Taft in J North Carolina seems .to have served as an encouragement to other speak- j ers, the most notable of whom is Jus- J tice David J. Brewer, of the Supreme j Court, who last w\,ek delivered an ad? dress at Texarkana, at the joint ses? sion of the Arkansas and Texas Bar Association, which was received with enhtusiastic appreciation and ap? proval. It is true it was a political speech, but principles defining the re? lations between the Federal and State governmr.ts. Surprise was exprssed that Judge Brewer, who is a resident of Kansas and a Republican by affili? ation, should give expressin to such d Democratic views in his eriti of the proposai, for Federal regu n cf various matters advo d during the recent session of . ? gress. He rebuked the widely ex? isting idea, as shown during the last session of congress that the Federal government has power over marriage and divor-e or the contention that Congress can impose qualifications for the office of United States Senator in addition to the qualifications named in the Constitution, and the claim that because some industries make articles f r interstate commerce, the Federal government can invade the State and assume control of such industries. In short, the able address, worthy of being reproduced in full, is but an epitome of Demo? cratic principles from beginning to ad, and uttered with no view to po? litical preferment. The last exhibition of this r^nfwil of intersectional exchange of opinion is furnished in the account of the speech of William Travers Jerome in Atlanta, Ga., before the House of Representatives, followed by the adoption r,f a resolution indorsing Je? rome and Folk as the t'eket for 190$. After this there can be no question as to the cordiality with which Speakers from the North will be re? ceived in the South. And naturally . while there is a greater leaning to? ward Democratic speakers, if there is j j one in the Republican ranks who can j in plain terms define the Republican I doctrines, eliminating its principles j from the conflicting tenets held by so many different persons claiming io be . leaders of the party, he can be as? sured of the most respectful atten I tion. The fact is the South wants to [ know what are the principles upon which the Republican party bases its I claim for continuance in control of I the government, and whether they ! are broad enough to be proclaimed ! from the stump in the South as well as the North.-Lousiville Ourier I Journal. OID LYNCHING RECALLED. ? ? I A. B. Williams writes in The Rich, mond News-Leader: One episode of the lynching at Salisbury takes us lack twenty-eight years .to a famous lynching in Spartanburg county, S. C. John Moore was a white man of con? siderable property and political influ? ence, but evil repute, a distiller and neighborhood usurer and boss, turbu? lent, immoral and tyrannical. A girl who was making her way afoot through the country from one of the factory towns back to her home in the mountains, a three days' journey, sought his hospitality one Sunday. He misdirected her when she left his house, followed her to a lonely place in the woods and murdered her most barbarously after a worse crime, rob? bing the body of some poor trinkets. She was 20 years old and her good character was beyond question.^ The evidence was chiefly circumstantial, bjit very clear. When it became known that Moore had engaged two of the best lawyers in the State for ; his defense the feeling that he would find some loophole in the law-he had escaped punishment" for other of? fenses several, times-swept through the mountains, and it was like the , message of the fierv cross calling the clans. Fifteen hundred mountain? eers from three counties, led and di? rected by veteran Confederate caval? rymen, rode info Spartanburg one j night in military order, noiseless but for the confused clattering of their \ horses' hoofs, and as they swept through the town were cheered by the citizens. They found Moore, and 1 through the darkness rode back with , him 15 miles to the scene of his crime. 1 Just at daylight the gathering was formed into a great ring about ? < plateau with Moore, his wife and mother, and a clergyman kneeling in | the middle. To this group two sol? emn figures in black were led. They were the sisters of the murdered girl, mountain women, strong with the primal passin of a strong, remote and sequestered people. They were brought there according to the moun? tain idea of stern justice, .appointed by their clansmen to determine how Moore should die. The silence was profound, broken only by the first 1 chirping and whistling of the birds, and the sun was gilding the tallest tips of the forests, rising darkly on the surorunding h?ls. The two wo? men looked at the abject manacled figure groveling in the dust at their feet, concentrated hate marking deeply their white, attentive faces. It was intensely tragic, serious, dra? matic. One of them murmured pres? ently that they would be "satisfied" to have him put to death. They de- I manded no torture. Possibly a breath of feminine pity for the old mother and the wife softened the demand for vengeance for a bertayed and butch? ered sister in their breasts. .The man had been a soldier and begged hard to be shot, but those who had been his comrades ruled that he did not deserve a soldier's death, and he was hanged, the dead woman's relatives claiming the privilage of ad? justing the rope and pulling the open buggy from beneath his feet. That was one lynching to which there was no dissenting voice. As a mar; present, remarked, Moore had been a candidate for that every thing a long time, and when the time came his election was unanimous. There is more Catarrh in this sec? tion of the country than all other' diseases ~^' + together, and until the last f< . -rs was supposed to be in curab' For a great many years, doc? tors pronounced it a local disease and prescribe! local remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment prononuced it incurable. Science has proven catarrh to be a constitutional disease and therefore j requires constitute d treatment.. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. .7. ("heney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional euro on the market. lt is taken internally in doses from 3? drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on the Mood and mu- : ecus surfaces of the system. They < offer one hundred dollars for any acse ; it rails to cure. Send for circulars : and testimonials. : Address, F. J. Cheney & Co, Toledo, \ Ohio. j Sold by Druggists, 75c. i Take Hall' Fy mi ly Pills for con- ? stipation. j J Moral Qualifications for Public Office Even a tyro in knowledge knows full well that moral character counts amazingly in qualification for posi? tions in tlie most thorough-going lines of business enterprise everywhere to? day. Unless matters of State ure sec? ondary affairs and of very minor im? portance, nbere is equally urgent de? mand for it in managing these inter? ests also. Moreover, it is a recognized princi? ple of* righteousness that a person is morally accountable for the power he possesses ?-S a voter. It is therefore a crime to u-e that power in helping to place in office men that are lacking in moral character and- whose lives are thereby certain to be corrupting. As a consequence, Christian citizens are really disfranchised if no morally worthy candidate for office appeals. The battle of ballots is no sham bat? tle ! The enemy of all good is dili? gently working to secure the political strongholds of influence and power for his corrupt use. Shall he secure them? The ballots of Christians will answer unequivocally. Every Christian citizen is supposed to seek by his own vote to plac? in of? fice a man of such moral character as he approves. Otherwise the person voted for is not strictly his representa? tive. Sincerity demands that the choice o? a voter shall be without ref? erence to personal friendship, prima? rily, but rather to qualification. Be? sides capability for discharging the duties of the office in a thoroughly business-like manner it is needful that the candidate shall be a person morally worthy. This is confessedly in the interest of good government and a pure civilization. W. A. Betts. The Coming "War With Japan. Eastward the course of empire ? vVhy have we failed to heed carefully the warning vouchsafed us by The Novoe Vremya of St. Petersburg, that Japau was meditating a career of conquest in American possessions, beginning with the Philippines, Hawaii and Califor? nia? Already the prophecy buds in Hawaii, and may flower and bear its baleful fruitage so soon as the Japa? nese warships, at the bebe?t of the' Nipponese Daily Chronicle of Hono? lulu, cast anchor iu that harbor. This newspaper, according to a dis? patch to The Chicago Tribune, has been emitting fiery showers of jingo? ism like a Yeddo volcano, or the crater of Manna Loa', upon the Ameri? can citizens in Hawaii, ou the ground that the whites resent the presence of the Japanese, which would be dis? pensed with altogether could the plant itions find laborers to replace them. White ?oppression is reaching that utmost point where there must be a collision between the two races, Eays The Chronicle; the Japanese Government would do .well to send at least one war vessel to Hawaiian wa? ters, that the Americans may take counsel of prudence and display better manners to their military and naval superiors. "If we," (the Japanese,) it continues, menacingly, "ever have such misfortune as to have difficulties with Uncle Sam, Hawaiian territory will he the fuse that caused it." Of course, we are not at all sure that, under a strict construction of our exclusion laws, the Japanese have any business in Hawaii. But we sup? pose an act of injury and oppression toward a Japanese subject there resi? dent, even by sufferance, should re? ceive the attention of the Japanese Legation in Washington, who would refer the case to the State Department for redress. But barring such prelim? inary formalities, the appearance of the black muzzles c? Japan's naval war dogs before Honolulu must per? force bear out the dreadfnl prophecy of The Novoe Vremya. Thence the cloud of the Japanese Djinn of war would rise and spread above the Phil? ippines, above Alaska, the Pacific Slope, Pike's Peak, the Mississippi, the National Capitol and dash the Statue of Liberty in ruins into New Yor* Bay. Eut hold ? a sad suspicion disturbs our credulous imaginings. Do Japanese editora read Russian dis? patches?-New York Times. The Roman Catholic Church to dis? cuss the new situation created in Prance by the recent law separating Church and State calls attention to the relative numerical importance of the principal forms of religion followed by humanity. According to the latest es? timates, the total population of the world at tha present day is 1.603,150, 000. Of this total rather more than one-third, exactly 563,000,000. profess Cn ristianity - Catholics, 350.000,000 and Protestants, 213,000,000. Muham? med h as 2*22,000,000 followers; Buddha, 107,000,000. Of the teeming popula? tion of China 283,000.000 practice the cult of ancestry. The Brahmins in the world number 225,000,000. and the Jews but 9,000.000. The Parsees, wi io play such an important role in India, are but 150,000 all told. So far as mere numbers go. the Roman Catho? lics are thus seen to be far ahead of any other denomination says the Graw Magazine. In Self Defense * Major Hamm, editor and manager of the Constitutionalist, Eminence, Ky., when he was fiercely attacked, four years ago, by piles, bought a box of Buckleh's Arnica Salve, of which he says: "It cured me in ten days and no trouble since." Quickest healer of burns, sores, cuts and wounds. 25c. at.Slbert's Drug Store. Manchuria is described by Consul General Sammons as a good farming country, tn China proper a sort of American "out West," and as fertile in its extensive agricultural areas as the garden State of Iowa, supporting millions of Chinese, who have come from the over-crowded adjoining prov? inces. Stomach Troubles and Constipation. *Xo one can reasonably hope for sr..od digestion when the bowels are constipated. Mr. Chas. Baldwin, of Edwardville, 111., says, "I suffered from chronic constipation and stom? ach troubles for several years, but :hanks to Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets am almost cured." Why not get a package of these tablets and ?et well and stay well? Price 25 cts. Por sale by all druggists. Spread the World's Table along every line of longitude from North to South; every parallel of latitude from East to West; pile thereon the foods of every clime and * Uneeda Biscuit will surpass them all in the elements which make a perfect world-food J?|? In a dust tight, \M moisture proof package* . NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY Horses and Mules All sizes and prices for cash or approved paper. Buggies, Wagons ? Harness Agent for DEERING HARVESTING MACHINERY and Repair Parts in abundance. Disc Harrows, Disc Cultivators, Stalk Cutters, Peg Tooth Harrows, Binders, Mowers, Rakes, &c. Agent for JOHNSTON HARVESTING MACHINERY and Repair Parts in abundance. S. M. PIERSON, 6, 8, and 9 South Harvin Street. Many people are not aware of the advantages of our Bank drafts over Post Office Money Orders. Post Office Money Orders are good only at one office. They can be transferred but once, and if lost or stolen your are sub? ject to tedious delay before you can get your money re? turned or another order in its place. Drafts issued by this bank are good anywhere, and can be transferred as often as desired by endorsement, and if lost or stolen, you can get your money or duplicate without any.annoyance or deiay. All of the drafts that we issue, after being paid by the New York bank, are re? turnee} to us, and are filed away where they can be seen at any time by the purchaser, showing that the money wasxeceived by the party to whom it was sent, a proof that is impossible when you send your money any other way. \ Post Office Money Orders cost 30 cents per S10O.O0. Our drafts cost 20 cents per $100.00. THE BANK OF SUMTER, SUMTER, S. C. N. G. Osteen, Jr., Dentist, -18 West liberty Street, Over Sumter Book Store. Hours : 8.30 to 1: 2 to 6. OFFICE PHONE 30. HOUSE PHONE 382 Atlantic Corni Line. Time Table No. 4-Effective June 17, 1906. Passenger Trains arriving and leaving Sumter. Train 35 Florence to Augusta " 54 Columbia to Wilmington " * 1 Lucknow to Sumter " 57 Gibson to Sumter " 52 Charleston to Greeoville " *46 Orangeburg to Charleston " 79 Elrod, N. C., to Columbia u * 2 Sumter to Lucknow " 78 Columbia to E.rod, N. C" " 53 Greenville and Columbia to Charleston " 32 Augusta to Florence " i 56 Sumter to Gibson " *47 Charleston to Orangeburg " 55 Wilmington to Columbia Leaves kt Arrives 5 35 am " 8 10 am " 5 50 pxr 9 20 am 9 81 am 9 35 am " ll 00 am " 9 50 am Leaves 6 05 pm 6 30 pm " 6 40 pm 11 6 50 pm " 8 20 pm " 9 35 pm Freight Trains carrying Passengers. Train *24 Sumter to Darlington i_ " *19 Sumter to Robbins " *20 Robbins to Sumter " *25 Darlington to Sumter Leaves Leaves Arrives Arrives 8 30 am 10 00 am 7 30 am 9 10 pm Northwestern Railway. Train *70 Camden to Sumter Arrives 9 00 ai? " *71 Sumter to Camden Leaves 9 36 am " *68 Camden io Sumter " 5 45 pm tc *72 Wilson Mill to Sumter Arrives 12 30 pm 44 *7!5 Sumter to Wilson Mill Leaves 3 30 pm " *69 Sumter to Camden " 6 31 pm Trains marked * daily ezoept Sunday ; al? other trains daily. For further information, apply to J. T. CHINA, Ticket Agent A. 0. L. 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