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THE UN fON TIMEP PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY ?by thf? UNION TIMES COMPANY Koo.mb I, H, 5 and 7, Bank Building. J.VO. MATH'S, Editor. L. G. Young, Manager. ithkisteivd hi ctie i* in Union S C.. a* 8eon?i?l-?d?v? ui ul matter. subscription rates < >n? year ------- $1.0< S?x mom hs ------ 50 cent Thrf - months ----- 25 cents. ADVERTISEME' TS One si) aire, liist iiiMjrti >n - - $1.00. Every '> (sequent '<se: ion - 50cents. Ci\ acts mi three m< iths or longer wi.S Ik* nade at ret ice^ noes. Itejicted niani :ript f vim not be returned. Obituary s ana tributes of respect will'be charged for at half rates. UNION, S. C., AUG. 2, 1901. Our subscribers will see a date on the luble on their paper, which bears their name. When this date is older than the date of your paper, then you owe for the paper, from the date upon your lable. You can now find out by a glance at the lable whether or not your subscription has expired. If it has this is to be considered a gentle reminder to come forward and renew LET THE PEOPLE SPEAK. The action of the State Executive Committee in trying to rend Senator McLaurin out of the party is untimely. The committee is not "fresh from the people" and consequently cannot fully represent the voice of the people but only the opinion of a few politicians. Senator Tillman's proposed policy and that of part 01 liis followers in organizing the March convention in 1H90 was as much contrary to the existing order of things at that time as those of Senator McLaurin now; yet the State Executive Committee did not read them out of the party but adopted the broad principle that this is a white man's government and all questions are to be decided by a white man's primary. Col. Hoyt Inst year ran in the primary after receiving a nomination from a separate party, from the regular organized Democratic party, yet he and his followers were not read out but the people were allowed to say what course and policy thej wanted. Has the time come when the executive committee shall say who are or who are not Democrats? Every man has a right to his own opinion and the only means now existing in the State of expressing it is through the Primary, and if Senator McLau rin takes that pledge he should bo allowed to run and the executive committee be made to understand I that they are t lie servants of t he poo- J pie and not their bosses. No harm could have come to the white people .of the State if they were allowed to .decide the question between Senators Tillman and MeLaurin and how can they decide it unless allowed by thenbosses to hear the question discussed. The Spanish war has suddenly transformed the United States into o jvorld power and new policies have nrisen and must be met. We have our representatives at Washington to represent us. the State and the United States. One set comes home with one construction on their duty to the people the}' represent and n not he? with a different idea?t he people want to hoar both sides?both sides are ^ ready and willing to report and willing to abide the decision of the white people of the State, yet tlie bosses as.tfume to think they can institute a system of gag law that will shut out. their opponents. The people of Union county are iJUt'tUi iui iiiuir iiccuuiu in uj^pvii, thought nnd action and Thk Tim Kb. voicing their sentiment, will demand n fair fight inside the Democratic party and abide the result us expressed by a majority of the white men wf the State. Senator McLaurin should hold his seat and demand the right to be heard. They are having a hig time out in Oaklahoma this week with the Government lottery. A drawing of deeds for lots of 1<>(.) acres each is taking place. There will be 10,000 successful in the drawing and the others will get blank. The names of nil applicants are put into envelopes, the first drawn has choice of selecting, in some instances t he choice is worth $80,000 to $ 10,000. One young woman who | drow a choice was debarred because ' she had married one day before the ^ drawing. See page 8th for for further . particulars. .1 PRESS COMMENTS. The action of the Democratic executive committee last night is noth ing more than tho official perform ance bjF the Tillman political machinery of what Tillman and his colleagues have been doing ?ver sincp McLaurin came out in his fight for a return to conservative Democratic principles?the attempt to force him out of the party. The long expected efforts to mak? candidates take an oath to support the Bryan platform developed early in the meeting. Thie in itself would have been sufficient, if carried out, to have kept McLaurir out of the primaries, for he is fighting everything that savors of Bryan, just as many other conservative Dem ocrats are doing toduy But evei this radical political scheme did noi seem sufficient for Senator Tillman and the members of the committee, for they proceeded, as we are told in this morning's dispatch, to denounce McLnurin and all of his actions and votes in the Senate, read him out of the party and demand his resignation We hope that the senator will decline to resign, decline to be read out of the party, and continue his fight, whether it means the certain loss of another term in the Senate, for the simple reason that the movement he has started in South Carolina ha? long ceased to be a MeLaurin movement and is a fight between the old line Democrat, and the Democrats of the Bryan-Altgeld-Tillman stamp.? Greenville News. When Ben Tillman set out to reform the Democratic party in South Carolina he directed a large part of his energms toward the abolishment of the convention system of nominating candidates. He thought ther?was too much opportunity for juggling in a limited body and that al. candidates couldn't get a fair show before it. He insisted that the mass of the party should name the candidates. He had his way and the primary system was instituted and proved generally acceptable. But Tillman did fnot. charge against the old regime that a ministerial section of the party, a creatioji of the convention, had ever attempted to dictate to the Democracy concerning its choice of candidates. There was no opportunity for this or, we may be sure, it would have been thoroughly employed. It remained for Tillman himself to advocate and secure such an extreme and startling assumption of power to which there is no shadow of claim. The executive committee of the State Democracy, at the mandate of Tillman, had passed a resolution of censure upon Senator MrLaurin for his coarse of action in Congress and has demanded that he resign his commission as a senator at once and without qualification. McLaurin was nominated by the Democratic party at a primary and is responsible to that body upon the hustings and at the party ballot box and to none other for his political course. He will give an account of his stewardship in due season and receive the people's judgment at the proper time. The State executive committee has no jurisdiction over him, and its action in calling him to account is an unwarranted and dangerous assumption of a power belonging to the masses of the party, and is taken merely to prejudice his cause before the Democratic primary, which the committee is pledged to onndnet impartial! v. At the corn The Columbia State and tho Charlotte Observer are showing down as to the growth and industrial progress of their towns, ff they want, to see some real evidence of growth thej ought to come to Union and look around a bit. August Hth and Oth would be a good time to come. We extend a cordial invitation to each, , THE TIIG UNION MEETING. ( ii Much interest exists throughout. v the Stute in the big political meeting w to be held in Union. Senator Till- s man and Senator MoLaurin have " both been invited. The former has j accepted and will be present. Son- ^ ator MoLaurin, so far as has been j known here, has not said he would ^ be present. The probabilities are a that he will be among the speakers a and Tillman and himself may liavo v it all over again. The people of f Union county will have politics to J burn ou the day of the speaking, n Besides the "star" attractions, the two senators, the following woll- l known men have accepted invitations ^ to be present: Col. Wilie Jones, of d Columbia; ex-Governor John Gary ^ Kvans, of Spartanburg; ex-Congress- j? mau Stanyarno Wilson, of Spartan- s burg; Congressman Latimer, Mr. J. () A. Mooney, of Greenville, and others. 8 ?Columbia correspondence News and f Courier. I, Our thriving neighbor, Union, is '' to have a public speaking on August * 8th and 9th, to which quite a number *' of loading South Carolinians have * signified their intention to be present. ^ The object of such a meeting is ^ that public expression from men ^ prominent in political life may be heard by persons interested in euch ii matters. No personalities are to be t indulged in and nothing but facts e and figures are desired. d The results to bo attained from c such a meeting go far toward edueating the people ou the issuos of the '' lay. w <v>uite a number from this city ex- " pect to attend.?Spartanburg Herald. ( If any considerable number of the s men who have been invited to speak t at I'nion the 8th and 9?h of August 1 should he present there would be u needed five or six days instead of two ; to enable all to have any sort of a " hearing Already eight have accept - " ed, three have declined and nine more ( are to be heard from. Union ought to give a whole week to the occasion 'j and call it Enlightenment Week.? f Newberry Observer. ' Union is expecting a great time on * August S-9. Ten of the eighteen 81 speakers invited have accepted. Spec- ? ial rates have been given on all raitmads for this occasion.?Laurens ^ Co. News. ? There's going to be a hot time in j the old town next Thursday and Fri- d day. Come everybody and get your '' share of what's in sight. The Klondike is simply not' in it ^ beside our sister State Georgia. It j is reported that a vein of gold has ^ oeen iounu in w tiaes county, tui., ? the like of which h>is never been seen in the mines of California or in the v Ivloudsk**. From a single ton of eart h t. taken from this new mine known as v the Latimer mine, gold of the purest n variety to the amount, of $22,010 was t taken recently. This far exceeds the v richest yield ever known. The richest 15 yield ever reported before was a yield 'J of $10,000 to the ton from the famous N Cowstoek mine of Colorado. These figures are vouched- for by affidavits. , You can't yet ahead of the South. , Reminiscences of the War. s ______ i (Continued from page 1.) iiient of the fidelity, courage and eu- I (turance of the Southern people, in the i most important e|>och iri American his- c toiy ji Turning over to faithful liost'era our t iiorses. sad-lies and bridles, we (the bag- ti page detail) re!timed to police our. camp t and gather up everything. The crack a of :h- diivt-r's whip, and anathemas tha > >nly unties could understand and appre ,, eiate became monotonous. lly 12 m a out bagg 'ge watt loaded ost cars at Adam's j Itun station, and by 2 p. nt. a train b front Savannah was ready to take us to s, < hariestoii. Soon we weie oft and flying d -j I t ?..f -l inl-n -1 ..limit.. At'ii... Illst station we met our old friend Jim i] Aske\y, who had been Ikuiip on a fur- i< lough and was letunung to liiseornmand ? He got on the train with us. lie. opened b his provisiau box and asked us to help (?( ourselves which we did. lie was not ; ,, inemtier of tlie "MeKiss'ck 1{ .ngers." ij but we will stop here to notice him. He o belonged to Company B , and wa-? u from Union. He and Lieut. I'aluiet \, were unfiiendly?an old fend existed t.-ulweeu them. WbenCapt. Mi-Ivissick, o at Williamsburg, Va., 011 the 'J Mi of ? - pt., 1S<>2, by order of Col. Shiugler. l} 'hrew bis command against the Federal < Une and broke it, dun Askew wa* in the ; barge. After the enemy were driven n tf tlie field Lieut, l'almer grasped him ' y the hand and said: "Jim Askew, I c can't hold enmity against as brave a r: man as you are," and these two lions in .1 human form shed hitter tears over the folly of their former estrangement. Lieut, l'almer may or may not have found in Jim A-drew a foernan worthy of his Steel, but he found in him a soldier worthy of his admiration. From that time they were friends. We vreie on the train and flying at a '' frightful speed towards Charleston. 11 Ijong trestles darted from under us. " houses appeared and disappeared almost " at the same instant. We were soon at the Savannah depot and disembarked. . Nothing would be done until next morn- " mg, but the men must meet Lieut. * Melton nt thp Charleston Hotel that ,v evening. We went on board of a steamer lfi and crossed the Ashley river. As the s1 vessel reached its tnoorings what a "Babel of tongues." Sumo called for 0 mi in nouse ano some 101 mar, some ror this hack and sane for that. Everv ^ nationality on the #lobe wan represented in that mot.ly crowd. We worked oni " wav llirontrh th.* !>na'!injr crowd and fl< ihron h the fpiie We started ofT walk* tng and were soon hat od bv the p ovosf " utiard who must .??e ?>nr permits to paSs. f A aimip c-ddipiy of bitter words ended as the omnibos came up with J<ieut. j1 Melton on board. tie relieved usand[" we boarded it with him and rode to thj mand of Tillman and for his political ends, the executive committo has invaded the rights and broken the safeguards of the Democratic masses. Of course Senator McLaurin will not resign at this demand. He will quite certainly scolT at. the impertinence of it and bring out in strong light, before the people its menace to their Interests. If the executive committee is to have authority to say who shall not be t he nominees of the party and to call for resignations at will, why should it not have the power of direct selection given to it, since by the process of elimination its present assumed authority may be led to exact choice? Why not abolish the party primary altogether and allow the executive committee to name all candidates? And the executive com jpittee might carry out the system by delegating full authority in the matter to the Hon. B. R. Tillman If that is the way the Democratic party in South Carolina is to he run. there is small wonder that the cry for reform of it is growing daily more loud.?Charleston Post. The State Democrat executive committee met in Columbia Thursday and passed resolutions condemning Senator McLaurin and asking him by a yote of 2J to f> to resign his seat in the United States senate. Senator Tillman was there and spoke in favor of the resolutions, geverley handing junior senator and his friends "and swept things by storm, the opposition being but mere chad in the whirlwind" says The State The Union Times wurits to know what is meant by "tho other day" n? founxl in the various exchances. .It is as indehnito a (late in locals as Monday or Tuesday in general items. In sueh Items the day of the month, instead of the week, should be used. It would contribute to an easier use of the scissors ?News and Herald. Iharlestou Hotel where he gave us perlits to "knock about" iu town, which re did that evening. We visited the , barf and went on board an Engli-h learner, (blockage runner) and amused uraelvea iu this way until sundown, klitn we returned to the Charleston lotel. Here we separated for the night, bnie went one way and some another, iilliam Thomas. II. C. K?uner and myelf went to the Pavilion Hotel and were | feigned a room on the top door. From window in our room we had a fine iew of the harbor and the different orts, as well as of the ill-fated city. Jext morning was the tlrst time I reaendier seeing Col. Jos. F. Gist. Our duty next day (Monday) wtjs to lansfer our baggage from the Savannah o the South Carolina depot which we lid, and were ready by 4 p m. to start o Sumnierville. At that hour the "Con;aroe" with its ponderous traiu backed ack and our boxes hitched on. With ilent majesty it moved along the plexus f tracks and after a while she gave a hout from her iron throat, bounded orward like a champion of the turf, and eft the city, that seven months befoie iad witnessed our advent, in the dis ance. On she sped, while telegraph oles and other objects dashed back like 0 many meteors. For three quarters of ii hour we went like a bird living. The tain halted at Smnmerville. Not more ban half the men who left Adam's linn he morning ts-fore could he found, and art of them boarded that train for Counibia that evening. In two dajs from hat tiuie we hadn't a dozen men in the oojpany beside the cooks. These two ays we stayed there to allow the other ompanies to gettvansp irtatiou foi their ion??t lo Columbia. Wednesday even1 g 231 .July, '02, we I mai ded the train I'irh our horses and followed the e >mriand. i'art of the baggage had never ieen taken off the train. The company iad 102 horses and filled 10 ears with nick, one with baggage and one carried e men. Thus 'hit evening a train of 2 cars well loaflt-d moved out from Surnnerville at -1 p. m. As we passed ilie esidences of the planters, home with all ts ei j iviiiMits was plainly jiictured to is Whi'e handerchiefs waving from lie wi'.dmvs of stately mansions were aland with a '*ieb;*l yell" that almost lownel the wlur of the living wlieeis. jong stretches of road appeared and di ?iqieared alternately, llailroad platforms rere crowded with beautiful women and kind word was in store for every nldier. Tints we passed the time Most t the irteu hid got permission to go ome before we left J$u:nrnerville, and a eueral rmh hid been nude for "leave f absence" when the oomniand arrived here Sunday evening, and of course, nuiebody had to Ik* disappoiuted. Lieut, 'aimer, in command of the company, row the line, "those who have not been iome may go first " This ruling called ip the ire of some, and sh irp w ?rds euuel, in wbich the assertion is mule tint 1' Li-ut. Palmer did not have on his tripes something would lie done The ,ieut. politely agreed to take them off if hey were in the way, and thus things loon quieted down. About 2 a. m., on the 24th of July M12 re arrived at the Graenvthe D tp it, iu Columbia S. C., and inadc search for vater, but failed to find any until we. nounted the tender against the protest aion of the engineer and tin man; who, vitti the poiice found remonstrance nr.iccessarv. The morning after daylight air h r.-es wo e taken off the train and vateieil and fed About 12 Nl. the lin* as f.nin *1 and we marched through t.e ot'y and bivouaeed not far from the lotto d-pot. It va.s now understood hat, Sfveial days would elap-e before we v?uid ni.ive ogain--our hoi*ses must bj hod, and this would necessarily d :t.un is seine titne. ('apt. McKissick was not in camp, lol >liingler was in the city, and Lieut, 'timet was in coiiunaud of the company. Yulny morning, 2oth July, '02, 1 conhided to go licuin for o da)s. Got mv >erniii written out. and wesit in the city o get Col. Shingier to sign it, but he isiu gone across trie uongarec. itetutning a camp Lieut. Palmer told me to go head, lie said. Ity gum, I'll be reponsible for you, only me t us in Chesrr next Monday. I reached the train a it was moving off. to tell li >?v I en)} d this days leave of absence would e a digression f 10:11 the subject?ali old oldiers can imagine better than 1 can escribe it. liy 1 lie way I want to say right here tiat on our way to Shaudou during the [Hinion at Columbia last May, we ,'ent over the ground where we were ivoeaced in July, 1S02, and it is uo v live, ed with maguificeut residences and icly laid off streets with their electric ghts and electric railways. The shape f the land is the only thing recognizable ow. Then it was dotted with a few >g cabins here and there. The roads rere merely country roads and just east f out camp there was an ojkmi li Id line cattle were grazing. Tins is irgelv Hie le ioent portion of the ity of Columbia which since the iut: we speak of has gone through firy rials, but outlived them all or has risen Uivo their ash-s despite many adverse ircnmHiances which our work will uecs-aiily call upon us to mention here; tier. (To lie continued ) I.ockhurt Junction Now,s RotesMn Kimtoii:?Since mv last letter ip var has closed wi'li General Green ml we have stacked our arms and ar. ow ai rest, under our own vino and lig roe. The refresh in? showers still cotne in Ids section and the growin? crop has nproved some in its looks for the past, reek, but as the crop prospect seems to e very gloomy in the different pasta i' > hoped that, there will be enough bread :uff for man and beast for there has eon a good grain crop made in oui wn county Mr. B..J Fowler and wife, of Brighton, ,l'i , aro visiting relatives in these parts Mrs. Sue West, of West springs, has i een visiting relatives and friends in this ction. Mr. T. J Hughes wns in this neighorliood last week. Mr. Hughes was respecting. Miss Annie Little has returned to her ome from Spartanburg where she has een attending the summer school. Mo?Y. OIJR COST SflEE CONTINUES To catch Careful Cash Buyers who appreciate a good thing when they see it. The Carpenters and Brickmasons will soon be upon us to make alterations in our store and this remainiug Summer Stock must be and will be sold without reserve at r\ i r* i n uut rrices to uasn Duyers For the Month of August Cash Shoppers - will reap the Greatest Bargains ever heard of before in Union. It will pay you well to come early. Our salespeople are instructed tG clean out this Summer Stock AT COST. Enough said. The Foster Co. GREEN & BOYD, HEADQUARTERS FOR Buggies, Carriages, Wagons and Vehicles of all Kinds. MAKERS OF High Grade Harness. We are the People to buy your Leather from. A Carload of McCormick Wheat Harvesters Corn Binders, Corn Shredders, Mowers and ' Rakes just received. A Mower and Rake will pay for themselves on a small ft. ? - o i i ? ? - - ui-in in oue season. ?>oia 011 easy terras. McGormick makes thera, Green <& Boyd sell ihem. GREEN & BOYD. UNION CARRIAGE WORKS ( We have just doubled our capacity for doing all kinds of repair work and guarantee our prices as well as our work. A Large stock of Carriage Material always ...on hand... /t! 1 ~ \jnve us your work it you want a firot class jol). WE SATISFY. UNION CARRIAGE WORKS WHAT IS BETTER THAN A GOOD CUP OF COFFEE ON A SPRING MORNING? We have the celebrated Blanks Coffees, which has an enviable reputation with no superior, and we positively believe no equal. Get a package and have no more bad feelings caused Iroin drinking inferior coffee. This coffee is sold at a price you can't help but buy. In Teas we are the people. Just come and see. GRAHAM &, ESTES .. The Fanoy Grocers- < l