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THE UN ION TIMES ITBLISltED EVERY FRIDAY ?by th? ? UNION TIMES COMPANY ? Rooms 1, 8, 5 unci 7, Bank Building. J NO. R. MATH IS, Editor. L. (>. Young, Manager. Registered ai tue Pos?i office in Union, S 0., as second-<"law nail matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES O'p vear ------- $1.00 8 < months ------ 50 cent*Three mouths ----- 25 cents. ADVERTISEMENTS One jwj are, first insertion - - $1.00. Every ihseqnent insertion - 50centi-. Con acts tor three months or longer will be mule at re<1.iced rates. Rented manuscript will not be returned. Obituat ies and tributes of respect will~be charged for at half rates. UNION, R. C.t M'U. !>, 1001. Our subscribers will see a date on the label 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 label You can now find out by a glance at the label whether or not your subscription has expired. If it has this is to be considered a gentle reminder to come forward and renew We give up considerable of our space this week to Senator MeLanrin's reply to the Democratic Executive Committee's action. Feeling that our people are very much interested in this matter, we publish it in full. It almost makes one shiver even this hot weather to contemplate the cost of keeping warm next winter, the price of coal has been advanced four times during the Inst four months, and another rise is in prospect. This , is the result of the great coal combine known as the Ooal Trust. There is no excuse offered, it is simply an evidence of the trusts ability and willingness to squeeze the people, i This increase in the price of coal will mean the putting into their coffers an extra $2"),000,000. The ten per [ cent, increase in wages granted to the miners, deducted will leave them about $20,000,000 clear protit on account of the strike. It is an inex- ( cusable outrage. Ten cents a ton , rise would have met the increased wages, and they purpose raising ten i cents a ton every month, to September or a total raise of fifty cents per , ton, that leaves for their pockets K) cents a ton clear protit. Is this a _i - i_ i.1 I_ 1 _ ? siap at uio puimc ior sympathizing with strikers? "The yard crew and engine were taken off the Union yard by the Southern railroad authorities this week, for the reason that the traffic in the freight line at this season does not justify keeping a crew and shifter at Union."?Union Times, July 2">th. "Union claims 2,l)(X> more population than Darlington, and has three cotton mills, still the A. C. L. finds it necessary to keep a shifting engine and yard crew here through the summer months. Darlington doesn't do a great deal of 'blowing,' but the town is progressing and an immense olurae of business is transacted here annually."?Darlington County Messenger. The Darlington Messenger is possibly not aware of the fact that the Union Cotton Mills, on account of ! the immense amount of business | they do, have an engine of their own I which handles their freight, the yard ! shifter was employed here in addition j to this. Yes, we "blow" the horn | for Union, and we are able to back up every blow. Union is doing her i 1 share of business, but we think fill j ( will acknowledge that there is rarely ; . ever as much shipping durin'g th* j months of July and August, as these are always considered the ofT months in the year's business. However, we are glad to hear of Darlington's prosperity. We have enough of our own to keep us from envying Darlington a share. Mayor Macbeth Young delivered the address of welcome to the speakers and visitors. We regret that our limited space will not allow a reproduction of the speech in full. In substance he declared that the words of welcome sprang from his heart, and voiced a similar welcome from the citizens of his town. Ho thanked t he distinguished gentlemen, the speakers who had coine to talk to our people. He called attention to | the rapid growth of our city in eleven years from 1,527 to 0,800 or more at present. He earnestly requested the speakers to avoid all vituperation or personal abuse of men but to give us all the light they could upon the national issues now agitating the mind of the public. Our people thought this off year before the heat, of passion was aroused by a political campaign, would be the most appropriate time to hear a ( aim and intelligent discussion of | I ^ f . r i *. We have a big crowd and a J0II7 one in Union. They came to hear the speakers, and Up to this.time they have listened attentatively to 1 he words of the speakers. The speakers are holding themselves aloof from personalities or any language unbecoming. They seemingly have entered into the spirit of the request of the Mayor in his welcome address, that the speakers should endeavor to enlighten the audience, as a tutor would his pupils. No man's name has been called by a speaker yet, hut each one endeavors to show in the best light possible his way of viewing the situation and the probable effect of the new issues that have been raised. Most of the speaking was in opposition to imperialism, and to the ship subsidy bill and Commercial democracy. Hon. Jno. B. Cleveland spoke in favor of the Commercial Democracy, and the arguments as advanced by Senator McLaurin and made a tine speech. Senator McLaurin telegraphed that he could not be present, on account of the illness of his child. A telegram was received from Senator Tillman by the Chairman during the speaking saying he would be at Union on the early morming train. The order of the speaking for the first day was as follows: Hon. D S. Henderson opening, by his rpquest as he had to leave on an early truin. He was followed by Hon. Jos. T. Johnson, J. J. Hemphill, J. B. Cleveland, A. C. Latimer and Robt. Aldrich. The three first named speaking before dinner, the others in the afternoon. We have not space to give even a synopsis of the speeches, but suffice it to say that all that have so far spoken have made good speeches and such that will tend t-o enlighten the minds of the hearers who gave such a quiet and earnest attention, there was no appluuse or disturbance of any kind, the people had come to hear and leafn somethiug. The speakers recopniiintr this, seemed to exert themselves to give the best instruction that lay in their power. There was no levity about it until Mr. Hemphill began to tell some funny jokes, presumably to break the solemne88 of the crowd. In doing so he got a man in the crowd who had a little too much bug juice aboard to talking, and while he agreed with the speaker he interrupted too frequently and he was hustled away by the police. All of the speakers who did not come in Wednesday night arrived on 1 the morning train except Senator Tillman, who telegraphed as stated nbove. The first day of the speaking has been a big success, and we hope \o make a record in this meeting that will deserve being copied after by ?ther places in the State. In conversation with several of the speakers , we have heard them say that they horoughly agree with us In having his a clean meeting free from personalities and viturperation. We are j ?lad to have these eminent gentle- 1 nen with us, we are sorry that the ( jusiness engagements of some of , hem were such that they could not i stay for us to show them around our J hriving little city, but we hoDe to lave an opportunity of doing so later \mong the prominent gentleman , present outside of the speakers we , ?ee Messrs. J. C. Wllburn and C. W. I juris, Railroad Commissioners; U. K. Gunter, Ass't Attorney General; Mr. VV. I). Mayfield, August Kohn. | ->f the News and Courier; E J. Wat- ' ton, of'I he State; Mr. J. C. Abernathy if the (Charlotte Observer; Mr. Smith, i if the Spartanburg Journal, also Edi tor Henry, of the Journal; Mr. C. P. ' IJgon, of the Spartanburg Herald ?nd Mr. C. M. Graham, of the Char < ieston Post. Free carriages are a the service of these gentlemen in go ng to and from the grounds to th> i hotel. The Imperial Cornet Band if Union, Is furnishing music for th? , iccnsion the first day. Two other lands of mu?ic are expected, am leople continue to arrive. Then | vill probably be twice as many peo ile here today (Kriduv) as were heryesterday. A great barbecue for ?ach day la served at the spring ii ear of the speaker's stand, while an ither is to be found In a store build ng on Main street. There has beer rery little evidence of drinking sr far, as we go to press at I p. m. AI r-hough the dispensary and beer priv ilege are both open. The visitors , will be shown around town this p.' m hese important questions. We woulo ' ook upon the speakers au pupils up in tutors for light, and he guaranteed i respectful hearing of each speakei ly our people. He took occasion t< jommend the grand efforts Charles ton is making to pull through to sue ess the exposition at that place which opens this fall, and promised i good exhibit and a big crowd from < Union. * , MchAURIN REPLIES. Senator Replies to the Action of the Democratic Committee?Responsible (Inly to the Peom pie for Uis Actions, Paris mountain. S. C! . August 5th, 1901; To the Democratic Executive Committee, State of South Carolina : Gentlemen?The cflioial notice of the action of a majority of your committee <>t July 25th was received by me on Aug. 1st, five days after it had been announced in the newspapers This published announcement was the fiist notice I had that any action affecting me was to be taken by your committee. I am now oflicially informed that the majority of your committee Condemns mv i/'iuior in bug {K?iiair1 uriiiaiiuo mj nation and undertakes to expel m? from the democratic party. Twentj-one men have attempted to usurp the powers of the 90.000 democratic voters of South Carolina and as an incident in a meeting called for another purjose have hastilj endeavored to do what can only lie doue by solemn proceedings of impeachment, xpressly provided for in the constitution of the United States. RESPONSIBLE ONLY TO THE PEOPLE. I hold my commission from the democratic voters of South Carolina, I recognize no authority but theirs, take no orders from any sourse but them, and shall in due course appeal to them for judgment on my course as a senator and my character as a man and a democrat.' Personally I am indifferent to youi action because nobody has made you m> master or censor, and I regard what you have done as merely expressing the malice and the fears of one individual. Senator B. R. Tillman. But for this always evil and indecent influence ordinary inspect for the proprieties, would probably have prevented the four of you who army declared comiietitors for the seat. I now have the honor to occupy, from attempting to use the power. entrusD-d to you by your party to remove a rival from your path ACTION UNFAIR,. ABSURD AND DEMOCRATIC. As a citizen and Democrat of South , Carolina I am mortilinl by your action because it has brought upon the State the condemnation nud tlie ridicule of the press and the public throughout the country Unhannilv. those who are 1101 , intimately acquainted with our couth- i ttous accept, tue action of >oui majority as representing the intelligence and democracy of our State and Wh am made objects of derisioip Against this I wish ( to enter my solemn protest. I sha.l demonstrate how unfair, alwurd and undemocratic your action i.-; and Lshall trust to the Demociats of South Oaro- i lina to repudiate it when the ppportnn- | ity is given ilieth Your purpose is to i deny that opi>di4ifnity v . i STAR CHAMBER PR CBRDINGS. 1 It is in strong contrast with the bla- < tant boast ofdSenutor Tillman at < to put me OR^tnaftjbpfoie the party <m , the hustings with lkfcaself as prosecutoi i As ypu know^I soSfcht tl)at test by ac cepting a proposal of appeal to the peo , pie, but the governor saw fit to forbid it. 1 Now Senator Tillman appears as pun i ecutor against, me in my alienee and b\ ( proceedings like those of the star clia: ? lier, which was the most infamous trib- t unal of English history, and the most i abliorrent to Anglo-Saxon uiat iinc.r< seeks to.exclude me from the party ami its debates and public assemblages ! , is your duty, as custodians of Ihe part interests, to seek recruits and to strain;- l then the thirty. To save Senator TM- i man from staking his record, strength \ and fortunes airallisf, mine, von iinHt- . . Lake to exclude ran and niv friends from 1 ihe iwtrty. Whatever your individual i motives may have been, the purp ?rt of i your action is to facilitate the sena'o l in dodging me and to deny the penpl? ( Lhe opportunity of pissing on my pot-i t tions and conduct. It seems to me. th*- t riemocratic masses of Sout.h Carolina are t competent to say at the polls whether m <. not I have b**n a faithful senator and a t consistent I democrat Why should you attempt to prevent them? t POLITICAL ASSASSINS ' It is no cause for wonder that. Senator Tillman should seek to make political assassins of you to avoid oi?en and fa<r f light. lie lias climbed to power by 11 venomous abuse of many of the purest ^ men in the State who opposed him. for ' which he has always carefully shirk- d ' personal responsibility, onto the p -lit- * ical lives and fortunes of thrvse wh.? tie- f i.eLiiid l.iai while he needed friends ( Norris, Tindal and Donaldson, men rei>- ? resenting earnest purpose and tlie in- v eresta of the farmers of the State and f therefore strong, were used by him to r promote his own interests and then | 'hru?t. aside. I by.. Shell and Farley a lad disposing him lie cause of his treachery f o tliem and to the people. I am now in t us way and because he has failed to c Irike me down he incites vou to attemnt. 1 ro strangle me, and at the same time to v lestroy a white primary, to his advocacy 1 if which he owned much of the bpst of ' 'tis eaily following. l'arly principles <J ire lixi-d and to the principles of the J. Democratic party I have been uniformly ? raithful. Paity policies are determined j from time to time by paity elections and /inventions, and no man nor body of ? nen has the pnw er to f.iy between those lections what policies shall be the tests ') >f party loyalty. Senator Tillman is as- ft nming the prerogative of supreme boss " Hid dictator to say who shall or shall t tot lie legal (led as a jMnocrat next year. <1 I do nut concede any such power to him {' ior w> you, lie, nor all ol your com- .1 nittee together, has not the power to ex- 1' lude from canUifiacy nor the ik>11m at the | Demoeratic primary thn humblest citizen <1 if South Carolina who declares himself J,1 ,0 be aDemocrat and pledgee hjmaelf to n ?upport the party nominees. Suppose in ^ L890 .Hip executive committee of the state had ruled out of the jwirty all who *< ngaged in tlie "FartPPi'a Movemepty Jl( "hipixiae two years later it had excluded rr ill who favored the Sub Treasury idea? ? Such actions would have leenunjint, a' yianniral and insulting h? thousands .of ? rood dozens and Item* erats. but not 'i nore so than this proceeding or youra. if IVIIBRK DIDTIM.MAN OKT TllK MONEY. | " lu his double character as prosecuting witness and attorney ai^lnsl. ran. Senator 1 Tillman is reputed as saying befo??*you? I committee that I have voiwl 'with,the I Republicans "in important, matters" hi d I that he lias seen uie conferring with ue- j pub'lean senators.' As 1 will show by J the records ho himself voted with the Republicans "in important matters" as I all other Democratic tenasois have done ! from time to time. It isfoquently uee- I essary, projier and courteous to confer with members of the opposite party, as | he knows and as every man of practical sense knows. These expressions of his are attempts to take advantage of credu- ( lity and ignorance. I do not tliink there is a man in South Carolina so ignorant, as to be really deceived by them He j can not put me under suspicion as he has put himself bvtrs own acts. I have not c in public otliee retrograded from a. w perhaps, honorable bankruptcy to dishonorable and unexplained wealth. He and I have drawn the same salaries but - I have found it impossible to save a dollar from mine. I have never, however, n truckled to conioraltous with the fawn- ' iug of a tamed spaniel made speeches against them, then voted for them, and n accepted favors as he has done. L have never been the sole boss and buying a agent of a newly created whiskey trupf * with its rebates of $<'>0,000 to $70,000 a year, none of which ever reached the n state treasury. 1 have never had the handling of a State bond refunding sch?me with $28,000 of commissions 1 never yet accounted for or explained A year ago Senator Tillman went in o N? rt.h Dakota and made speeches advu* J eating the re-election of a Republican Senator?Mr. Pettigrew. Senator Tillman and this Senator were prominent in \ preventing by fiilibustering tactics a vote on the subsidy bill. The newspapers said t hat Mr. Hill, head of the Noi them Pacific lobby against the sulaidy bill, E gave Senator Tillman's friend and assoeiate a "trip'' which paid him $4 >0,000 in the stock market. Birds of a g feather, gentlemen of the committee, ?. always H >ck together. TILLMAN NOT A DEMOCUAT. Has Senator Tillman; prosecuting at'oiney against my democracy, ever failed to abuse Democrats and deinocracj ? Do you know that in the last two C Democratic national couveiitians he has ' supjmrted the nomination of Repub'iia:!>V In 1X0(1 h? favnicit Scnut/ip PolLr 41 f ir President-, an old liue Republican and ^ one of the bitteiest foes of the South in reconstruction da>s He'had lulnself . &i p -ar before ' the convention as a * eoin|>etitor of W. .1 Bryan and was ipnomiuiously snowed under. It. 1900 he _ was for Towue, also a Republican, for * vice president.- Is he the man to be oipreme arbitrator and j ldpe of what is * lemocraey in -South CutroliuaV OIVK THE YOUNQ MEN A. CHANCE. c In the Senate I have labored, as the records will show, to broaden the pr<*)(iemy of the country, to promote tlie interests of iny own people, to spread civil- m ration, to enlarge and increase opportunity for our younp men and to stiinilate enterprise. Ilia, whole political ? mrse and method has been to tear, lown, to abuseand oppose, toWIgVt and restrain, to bile w here he daicd aud tQ " fawn where he feared or sought f^vor., a [ shall a^-k the pe-pie to con trust the f records and shall, claim my ripht as a I free man, a boru and reared Democrat anri a Senator from Smith Carolina, to io it re Hull ess of thf* order? of twentymo members of tf-v executive committee 1 shall ask the people to decide brweeu the man w ho has tried to help- oitoo factories, ojien hipluvays of com- "J neiceand tosocommand the IdemccVatic aityas to comniai d for it the conliUltrl roctujof . w ....v. vi me uiiiimr'n nun (tUiiiiiar elements north and south; a d lta: of the man whose conduct and record has been to sink tbe party to dis epute and im|>otence. I shall asR them t 0 say whether they prefer the Senator a'ho has tried to retain for South Chi oina the honor and dignity von by a-loug ; ine of illnst rous sons and glorious deeds. >r the Senator who has postured as hufv?nn and bully and who proclaimed On he (loor of the Senate that, he represented a constituency of ballot box duffers and murderers who wanted A heir share of the stealage. 55 lie is now in a northern State.holding C ip our people as negro 'murders and t >allot box thieves; ' TARirr St'nslDIRS and expansions. Von have undertaken to condemn and jjj >xpol and ex|M)se me., not only without 1 hearing but without evidence Upon tt vliat ground are my good faith as a h'liator and my fidelity as a Democrat issailed? Is it on the tariff? None of d 'on of the committee can prove to the m ample that the Democratic party is a ^ ree trade party. It has opposed a ariflf for protection only, but as.early ~ .sum we na<i a protective tariff and vo havo never in the one hundred and our years since known free trade. Genial Hancock, the party nominee for resident in 1NS0, regarding the tariff T H a local finest ion. Samuel J. Handall, ^ or years the party lader ami speaker of he house, was a protectionist. In every engross where the question lias been resented numbers of Democrats havo oted against and holpcd to kill free raide. I have contended that Southern roducts should he i>ut on equality with J| titers, and in 1K(.?7 I fought to have rice, fl Ine lumber and cotton protected. The ry of "Republican" was raised against ae then, hut the people, before whom he Issue was squarely put, endorsed me y an overwhelming vote. Are you iow undertakingto reverse that verdict? I have ravored ship subsidies. It is a great iiostlon and one, I submit,on which the perlp of tills State nro oompetent to noss after -wnaring full argument The su bjeet has ( ever been discussed before them although ^ t is of vast importance to the prosperity of liis state. The purpose of tho subsidy is to pvelop the buiding and operation of great pefs of American shins It touchestho Ini rest of our sea ports, of our lumber in "\J ustrles, of all our manufncturiiiK enter * rises and our great agricultural products, t Is a question 011 which some of the ablest (emocrnts of the Houso *and Senate are ivi(|cd. I most humbly submit that it Is not I order for twenty-ope members qf your ommittce to rule thnt tho Democrntlo lasses qf South Carolina shall not at tludr ampa'gn meetings hear this matter of vital <*! ?torcstto them dlseussedj and that the peole of the sea coast cities, who would like to l'( DO now tides of oommerco brought to their rbors and thp luinberinen and owners of CH irost lands who would la- glad to sell aferjals for miif? ships, aroto bo thrown J)1 u<ilt and iipels out of tho par{y because they * Ivor ship subsidies. Kens tors Carl |a|o, Ptigh nd Morgan voted'forta subsidy bUI which has eon in force ten years ami which has helped ur llrn/.lllan trade, in a measure at least. 4 t-hpy nqt Demdorats, according to the m cc|s|oq of Henator Tillman and your com m Ilttaev ^ (Oontinuod on page 8.) hi uu mil DUR COST SALE IS A COST SALE IN CHE GREATEST SENSE OF THE WORD. SHREWD CASH BUYERS ARE ACTUALLY FEASTING ON THE REALITY OF rHIS SUMMER CLOSING OUT SAuO I rHE CARPENTERS ARE UPON US. THE anxi/tvmAdUlNB AK?i UfUHI US, AKO rHE FEW ODDS AND ENDS MUST GO. PRICE IS NO OBJECT WITH US NOW. TS A CLEARANCE OF THE STORE rHAT WE ARE AFTER. . . I > cent Calicos ; cent Challies * ^ 5 cent Embroideries 8c >8 cent Straw Hats 25c &1.50 Oxfords 98c Ind so on through the summer leavings. Tou vant to be in a hurry on these. They are going ast. Disappointment will overtake tardy somers. S, v. *' 1 rhe A. H. Foster Company. 3 R E E N & BOY D,"~ HEADQUARTERS FOR t. . . r ' ; * 3uggies, Carriages, Wagons and Vehicles of all Kinds. MAKERS OF High Grade Harness. We are the People to buy your Leather from* " I l Carload of McCormick Wheat Harvesters, lorn Binders, Corn Shredders, Mowers and 3a.kA.ct in at. ronoiwoH J " - ? v/v*. A Mower and Rake will pay for themselves on a small trm in one season. Sold on easy terms. McCormick make* iem, Green & Boyd sell them. 3REEN & BOYD. JNION CARRIAGE WORKS ? We have just doubled our capacity for doing all kinds of spair work and guarantee our prices as well as our work. i Large stock of Carriage Material always ...on hand... Give us your work if you want a first class job. WE SATISFY. JNION CARRIAGE WORKS YHAT IS BETTER THAN A onnn nrro fxm wjbf WJi VJC COFFEE ON A SPRING MORNING? We have the celebrated Blanks Coffees, which has an lviwble reputation'with no superior, and we positively be>ve no equal. Get a package and have no more bad feeling* tuned trjm drinking inferior coffee. This coffee i* sold at a ice you can't help but buy. In Teas we are the people. Just come and see. 3RAHAM & ESTES * ! The Fanoy Grooer?.