The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, July 13, 1900, Image 4
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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.
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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.
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t>i._ r..u ,,i ,1 i fTo. ntit
JL lie li/liutv IIIK mmno ii\svt viiv* umvivuv I
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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.
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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
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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.
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