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THE UNION TIMES' Published Every Friday. ?by the? UNION TIMES COMPANY Rooms 1, a, 5 and 7, Bank Building. L. G. Young, Manager. Registered at the Postofflce in Union, 8. C., as second-class mail matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year ------- $1.00 81*month* ------ RO cents Three months ----- 25 cents. ADVERTISEMENTS One square, first insertion - - $1.00. Every subsequent insertion - 50 cents. Contracts for three months or longer will h* made at reduced rates. Rejected manuscript will not lie returned. Obituaries and tributes of respect will "be charged for at half rates. UNION. S. C.. JULY 13, 1000. The Union Times declared a dividend of 10 per cent, to its stockholders Tuesday of this week. "The man with the hoe" has got. business to attend to just now if he is to conquer Gen'l. Green. mmmmmmmmmmmammmmmmm?mmmar* Wintlirop failed to get her usual quota of 20 convicts from the penitentiary l^.st week. So many are at. work on the chain gangs this year that there is a scarcity of convicts at the pen. We hope this will mean letter roads. In (lie contest for the W? st Point * cadet ship, at Mr. Tillman's disposal, held at Columbia last Saturday, Mr. Wm. S. (Chaplin, of ltock Hill, whs the success ful applicant, with Mr. W. W. Harris Jr., of Spartanburg as alternate. The Board of Directors of the Penitentiary have selected the site 011 the Lexington farm for the establishment ol the Juvenile reformatory, which was authorized at the last session of the Leg islature. It is said to be ?juite a desirable and convenient location. With the solid Democracy the Populists and the free silver Republicans supporting the Democratic nominees, it looks very much like Bryan and Stevenson will land in the white house, Ilanna and his barrels of money to the contrary notwithstanding. Senator Clark, of Montana, is determined to get even with the Republicans lie will give one million dollars to the Democratic campaign futd. This will come about as near making Mark Ilanna sweat as anything he could do. Senator B. R. Tillman had the honor of being the one chosen to read the platform of the Democratic party at Kansas City before the convention, lie emphasized the different planks as he went along in his usual forceful manner, which brought forth storms of applause und endorsement. "If Barney Evans or any other of the candidates could give a justified bond t< make the railroads build a pussengei depot and train shed in keeping with the importance of thiscitvasu r??iwwMi <??? ?' we can safely promise the full vote of Sumter to that candidate.?Sumter Watchman. Try Barney Evans. We don't know abnit the bond business but he can come about as near to getting it for you as anyone. That was a record-breaking d.iy at Kansas City, the d ly of the nomination of our standard bearer William Jennings Bryan. Taken us a whole it was a demonstration the like of which has never liefore liecn known in any oilier convcn n sw.nt~.of II. . IT Kivii* vv uav a u/uiunu Iaj ill : llcllllliib>s.?ed convention of the Republic in pirty of only a few days before. Money can buy vote* but it cannot buy feeling, such as was evidenced by the applauding thousands at the convention at Kansas City. Webster Davis sprung a sensation in Kansas City at the convention when he, in a strong ppeecb stated that he was for W. J. Bryan. It will be remembered that Mr. Davis, after returning fiom South Africa, sent there by McKinley, resigned his i>osition in McKinley's Cal>inet to take the lecture platform in the cause of the Boers. Ilis s|)eech was the outpouring of the sentiments of a noble soul. In speaking of the McKinley Policy he says: "I love liberty, I love equality of rights and I love justice, and when the party that I lielong to is too cowardly to take a stand for liberty, to represent this government against British aristocracy and monarchy, I leave it, and leave it fer good." In speaking of the action of the con vention in extending sympathy to the Boers he said: "I am glad that you have taken this action today. At the polls in November follow it up. I*t American principles ever live. J>et I hem ever go on down for years to come as an aspiration to generations yet unborn. Jalxuty, love of country, one Hag, one cmntry, one splendid destiny alone. I stand upon this platform to support William Jeuuings Bryan." HOW THE VOTE STOOD. \ a t>i._ r..u ,,i ,1 i fTo. ntit JL lie li/liutv IIIK mmno ii\svt viiv* umvivuv I I T States voted upon the 10 to 1 plank at Kansas City last week in committee ^ meeting: 4 Y cas- Alabama. Arkansas, Colorado, w Delaware, Idaho. Iowa, Kansas. Ken- t< tuck)*, Mtine. Massachusetts. Missouri, cj Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Dacota, Oregon. South Carolina. 01 Tennesste. Vermont, Washington, Wy- e' oming, Arizona, Oklahoma, Indian Ter- r( ritory, New Mexico, Hawaii?20 Nays-California, Connecticut, Flori la, ?n: Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Iz Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missis- jj sippi. New Jersev, New York, North , Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania. Khodelsland. South Dakota, Texas, Utah, A'ir- rt ginia. West Verginea, Wiuconsin, ig Alaska?24. tl Greater temptation was never brought to bear upon any one, to swerve from a C( lixed principle than faced the noble ,g leader of the Democratic party, W. J* n Bryan. But like a true nobleman, he jr stood lirm to the end, never deviating an inch from the position which he has oc- ^ copied from the beginning. While we y thcught that the adoption of the Chicago platform as a whole, without making the silver question obtiusvely prominent by inserting tho specific 10 to 1 ^ - - A- 1 CX plank, would nave ueen suiiu-ivur, mm would l^u'c covered tlie c;use, he thought 'l' differently, and after reading his state- ^ ment, which we append, we tlfnk he ^ was right. lie is a level headed, noble man, and one who is willing to go down st to defeat rather than recede one jot or tittle from his principle, or sanction any ^ evasion, even though it might bo the means of avoiding disastrous r? suits. ^ Bryan has stood every crucical test and has come out as pure and undetllcd as S( virgin gold. Such a man is the man to n pin your everlasting faith to. lie has u been faithful ever, hor.est, upright and P , untlinehing. Ilis ability to rule and govern the nation has been demonstrated in a manner without precedent. a When Bryan was notiiied of his nomi- Sl , nation lie saiJ: 1,1 "I am very gratified to learn of the ^ ' adoption of a platform which is clear t and explicit on everv question. The I . controversy over the silver plank was not v a controversy lietween men who differed in principle, hut rather a dillerence of a opinion as to the best method of stating P the question. If we only had Demo- l crats to deal with, a simple reaftlrma tion would have lieen sullicient, but we ' have to deal with Republicans as well as Democrats, and some of the Republicans would misconstrue a reallirmation and endeavor to twist it into an evasion or abandonment of the silver question." r T# io Peron on/1 CtnvonCAll Atllui P. (lay, at Kansas City, by a heavy vote on the first round, as the running mate of W. J. Bryan. IIill declined in a manly speech There is a great difference between Ilill and Roosevelt, Hill's idea of d declining is to decline. a We Clip the following short biographical sketch from the Greenville News: Bryan is a native of Illinois, a grad uate of the Illinois college and of the Chicago Law school. He has lived in Lincoln, Nebraska, since 1887, and has been successful in his profession. He , was elected to the 52nd conpre s as a > Democrat by a majority of 0,715 in a ' diistric that in the previous election had [ 6ent a republican l>y ? majority <?r 3,-ioti: His campaign for the presidency four years ago proved liim to be a most remarkable man mentally and physically. He is known as a straight-forward, honest ' man, even his political opponents being the j udges. t Adlai E. Stevenson is a native of Kentucky, but has lived for the greater part of his life at Bloomington, Illinois. He is sixty-five years old. is a lawyer, and has always lieen a Democrat of the strict esi sect, ne was Yice-l'resident during Cleveland's socoiul administration, from J1 1803 to 1807. * Whatever may be said of the political 8 opinions of either, they brth have the confidence of the country for personal ^ and politicial integrity. r The powers are rus'ning troops to ' China. The allies at Taku and at Tien Ttin now number 18,000 men. There- I1 inforcements under orders consist of 10,000 Japanese troops, 1.7,000 Germans, ^ 13.000 Russians, 11,0<K? Americans, 10,- w 000 llritish, 8,000 French and 3,000 e Italians. a Reports fiom l'tkin say that Prince t( Clung is heading a counter revolution in China, and is protecting the foreign- o ers against the usurper, l'rince Tuar. b This puts a little more hopeful asjtfct a upon the situation. If the powers can ei find allies in China the task of subduing P the Boxers will be made much easier. e' It has been agreed to allow .Japan to xv take the initiative in attempting to quell P the disturbance in China, the powers to render necessary assistance. Consul General IIo Vow, at San Francisco, sajs the powers will need 200,CKK) men in ^ China to subdue this one Northern province by force, and should there Ik; a ^ general uprising, it would Ik; necessary 8j to have 1,000,000 soldiers in this great v territory to jk>lice or subdue its 400,000,- n, 000 people, and millions of dollars arid ri] millions of lives would Ik; sacrificed be- i\ fore it could be accomplished. ? u We believe there is a good chance of ti paying investment here by the es- R iblishment of a canning factory, o here are some lands around Union b lat could be developed Into good ? uck farms, and there is no reason V by we could net sell car.u?u goods ) surrounding towns. There are hun- ^ reds of thousands of canned goods 8 rdered from the northern markets ? rery year by towns that we could C >adily sell to, at prices that would ' lake it to their advantage to patron- " e the home enterprise. We would ke to hear from Laurens regarding er canning factory. She has been ^ inning-one long enough to see if it ^ a paying investment, and we under- 8 :and that its product stands high in ii le markets of the North. ?i While the bnilding'of mammoth b itton mills throughout the county is * i going ahead at a 2?40 gate, let us ' ot forget that there is good money ? 1 minor industries, and very often r ley pay better than the large estab- 1 aliments, considering the capital in- ^ osted. * Bryan, Stevenson and Towne, tlie D opulist, have h id a conference at Lin- ^ >ln, Neb. Towne in a speech pledged g is best efforts to secure the election of ryan, lie said: t ' I propose from now on to give all 3 io power I jiossess to the advoca-y of le principles our grand leader repre- \ snts." " "I shall personally take the s'.ump for h ryan and Stevenson and I think the IcKinley administration is doomed." t Mr. Stevenson in the course of a short t dk said: G "At some future time I will do my-' a >lf tlie honor to Address the Bryan 1 ?n, which means the Democrats, Pop lists and silver Republicans, all in oposition to the Repiblicm pirty." 8 t Did you know that it was the vote of , representative of one of our new puessions that carried the 1(5 to 1 plank lirough the platform at the Kansas City Ion volition? The vote was 24 against ^ lie plank and 2 > for it. Prince David { vawanako, tlie delegate from the I larniian Island, who had not expressed t n opinion, listenel to tlie discussion, ( ro and c >n, tlren cist his vote for HI to [ . His vote on tlie other side would i avo made a tie and it would have lost f lie plank, and maybe we would not li ive r ad Bryan as our standard bearer. 1 ________ ( REMINISCENCES ! OF GETTYSBURG. ' I j^apcnciicta \ji liltf c?x\<r- ' wishes Told By One Who Was 1 Wounded on the Line. 1 i Oar old friend, Mr. G. C. Greer, ropped in to see us a few days ago, nd having seen accounts at various imcs in the Times of relics of the a to war which are in poesessi m ol he old veterans, he said he thought ib would bring in one and show us hat he had brought from the battle- ' ijld at Gettysburg. Oar curiosity vas at once excited, and we were all ittention as he unfolded a package iud opened a box that it contained. 'n this box was a bone 2^ inches iu ength, one end of which win a socket, md with it a minnio ball with a naahed point. He explained that . his piece of bore once connected the tone iu his right arm to his shoulder, j nit that it had beon shattered near j Gettysburg and had to be taken out. < The ball was the one that bad done he work. This is about all he cared j o s?y, but we had no idea of letting liin oil with this much and wo urged ( dm to tell us something more about | he fight, and how it cxme about, mowing that there is a deal of un rritten history connected with the { ate war, which is allowing many ( rave deeds of our heroes to gradually ink into oblivion, we are anxious to acord B)mo of them that may be ore- ( ul to the future historian. Mr. Greer jluctantly nciunted the ciroum- j tanccs leading up to his wound, say- ? tig that he was not seeking such noiriety. But we put him on the wit teas stand and finally got the follow- [ ng interesting story: It was afier the terrible battle of j. 'rederieksburg, in which McGowau y as k'lled, and Maxcy Gregg was levated to the ctmm&nd cf McGow- (] n's Brigaie, that the Yankees began ) retreat g Orders were is'ucd that a bat!a'i>n f sharp shoe ters shoul 1 be organized r > protect the army as advrnce guard t nd on either Dink ns it pursued the r aemy. This being a very daugerous c osition, two to three men were select- ^ 1 from each company. Two moo t] ere selected from Mr. Greer's comany, which was Co. A, and the hat- -j ilion was drawn up for instruction, 'he duty of these sharp shooters was ? " > act as Hank and vanguard to the a rmy until the euorny made a stand, len they were to be throvra into a lirmiah line, locate the enemy and ^ ring on tho tight. This being a polion of terrible exposure, tho al- r ance guard being liable at any mo- t| ient lr> run into an ambush, the two 0 isn drawn f.om Co. A, realizing this ^ leir h arts failed, and there was eoaie ilk oi drafting Co. A for two meu to ike their places. It was then that fr. G C. Greer, of Union, stepped ut from ranks and said, ' Old Co. A as never yetbeeu drafted, and it shall ot be now if there is another man in he company who will follow me, I rill go, no matter where I am cent nd no matter what I e the dangers." Another brave patriot, Wm. Lewis topped out of rauks and joine 1 him a)ing he would go, and the honor of 3o. A was saved by these two heroes, dr. Greer says he thinks Mr. Lewis ras killed on the skirmish line, as he as nc\ er heard of him since he fell nth his shattered arm Oi July 1st, 1863, the enemy made heir stand at Gettysburg, and se:.t iack their line <f skirmishers. Our harp sh< ot< rs were thrown forward lto a skirmish line, and the prelimnary work of the great battle was egun. The two tkirmish lines were rithin 200 ) ards of each other and hey were constantly popping away t every man who showed himself. 1 )ur men had been supplied with 60 onnds of cartridges, which they used iberally. Oa the night of the 2 id, he enemy retreated and our line ad ranced and took their position. At daylight the enemy's line could tot be located and our skirmish line ran ordered to advauce and 6nd them, hey did so. The enemy had retroatd over a hill where they stopped and ur line was right upon them bofore hey knew it, a hot engagement enued, and our line was forced to rereat, with heavy loss, through a wheat ield until tbpy came to a stone wall, lehind which they made a stand, and rere reiufi r^ed, they then charged he enemy's advancing lino and dr.>ve hem back to the hill where they reeived reinforcements and charged igaiti. and iu some places the linep ;ot mixed up and a hand to hand :or.fl'.ct ensued, guns wjro clubbed, ind the fight was fearful. It was in his last charge that Mr. Greer was vouudcd, he noticed two of the enemy lircoily in front of him, they were oading, he saw th'at he was a little ihead < f them in loading, and could jet one of thi ni but felt that the other >ue wculd get him, he threw his gun o his shoulder and fired, one of thj nen dropped, and by the time he hit he ground the other fired and Mr. Jreer caught the ball in his arm j'i?t llio nlinnlitor Tfo foil and the >attlo raged on, our line finally being breed back. Mr. Greer had tried to Irop to tho ground as soon as he ired to escape the ball of I In other ellow; by this means ho savel h's ife, as the ball would othorviie have sntered his body. The ball passed .hrough the bone of the arm and lodged under the skiD, where it was cut oui jy nuu mi -winr- uur* uim while he did it, as a retreat was nade, he, with other prisoners not ibis to go, were left on the fiald, where tie remained three days until the Vaukees came and captured him. fie with other prisoners was sent to David'a Island, near Now York. The doctors at the prison wanted to imputate the arm but he would not jouacnt, tho doctors did nothiog for he arm except dres3 the wound, and it rem&iued in its shattered condition until he was (paroled two months lfterwurds, and sent to Richmond, where the physician cut the broken oone out, taking out 2A- inches. It was discovered a few weeas later that .he bone was affected lower and the ititchea wore opened and another inch :aken out. After a four month's 6tay in the lospital at Richmond he a as given a urlough and arrived homo January Sth, 1864. It was reported to his home that he lad been killed on the skirmish line, ind they knew no better uutil threi week's later he got a friend to write uome for him, while in orison. I * He returned and when he did he received paper* which put him on tho etired liat for light duty. lining so tsed to the din of battle, the roar of ranuou and musketry and the clash if arms, ho said he felt like a Bah out >f water, and so he visited the army ind staid with it a month or more, de has his paper yet, it ia printed on jommon wrapping paper aud is well >reaervcd. There ia an order for tho >ayment of $50.00 to Mr. Greer on it mt he says he never got a cent of it. The above ia only one of the many inndreda of unrvcon oi in tanc a of tow our hcroia fought, hied and atifered on the battle f'ulcs for the cause lear to their hearts. Union county haa many euch hero a. ihall their deeds of valor sink into blivion and be forgotton by our ising generation, ou account of tie imidity of th^sa heroic veterans to ecount them; or on acconut if the I * areiossnesd or unapprecialivencss of he newspaper man, in failing to give hem publicity ? We nopo not, we rould like to seo them all recorded, 'here are mauy who will preserve as treasure the paper that recounts the cts and dee Is of these loved ones ad friends, these heroes who served a the ranks. Let honor be given where honor is ue, and let not the honor be withheld ntil death seals the lips of the t ero 'striata more noble, brave, true and ried never faced an enemy than some f the men from Union county who Might f>r the lost cause. Subscribe fur The Time*. The Story Only in part when erate in this sin goods things we < SUMMER SHOES. 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