University of South Carolina Libraries
THE UNION TIMES PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY ?BY THF.? UNION TIMES COMPANY Second Floor Times Builihm VEK POSTOH-ICE, BELL PlIONK No. 1 L. G. Young, Manager. Registered at the Postoflice in Unior S. C., as second-class mail matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year ------- $1.( Six mouths ------ 50 cen Three months ----- 25 cent ADVERTISEMENTS One square, first insertion - - $1.0 Every .ibeequent insertion - 50 cent Coni. acts for three months or long will be nade at reduced rates. Locals inserted at 8$ cents a line. Rejected manuscript will not be r turned. Obituaries and tributes of r spect will be charged for at half rates. UNION, 8. C., OCTOBER 23, 1903. According to the experts it tnki ten pounds of milk to make a pouc of cheese and twenty-three pounds milk to make a pound of butter. Beware of blood-guiltiness. It is crimo that never goes unpunished, f though men may fail to do their Go given duty, yet the avenging voice conscience gives no peace, and t troubled heart crlos out in its anguis "My punishment is greater than can bear." The failure of so many Trusl some of them capitalized at enormo figures, is a prominent feature of t financial news of the days. Perhaps, as has been predicted, is the beginning of the end of th< huge monopolies. The general pi is not shedding any tears over th misfortunes. The eyes of the whole country w< fS G/Mitli riurnlina in f. ii Ann upv/U kjvuwii v/w? * " Tillman trial with intense intere The (act that the victim of his G man magazine pistol was the edil of one of the leading papers of t State, whose otlenso was his vig A11AG ilorts to prevent the election gift or tlie peopie, crime and the trial to be publish in every corner of the land. The verdict of a jury made up fr a list of men selected under the jt law as being persons fitted for responsible a position as juryn will bo given equal publicity. The damage done to the good nni and material welfare of the State incalculable. The attorneys for the defence the trial of James IT. Tillman, w are responsible for the introducti of witnesses whose evidence is 1 Iieved to be false by ull intellige citizens, and who appealed to the f litical prejudices of the jury to i duce them to violate their oath < render a verdict according to t la* and evidence, rest under the ju condemnation of every law-abidi citizen. The venom and perversit of truth with which they assuil . the conduct and character of tl Silent victim of their client, went f beyond the' duty required in tnt profession, and we think should 1 publicly repudiated by the lawyers the State. We remember hearing the la Jucgo Wallace say that he alwa; told his clients in criminal case that if he was guilty he must n< tell him so, for he could not then d< fend him. THE TILLMAN TRIAL. r The verdict in the Tillman tria though not unexpected, has greati increased the feeling of contempt fc a jury system that makes such a( quittals possible. In fact, no one expects a verdic of murder where the accused is man of means or prominence, Bu it did seem that no jury of self-re specting men could be brought to th? polnt'of exonerating a man who had shot down on the street a fellow-be ing, who was unarmed, and who had made no attempt to do him bodily harm. The only thing that can he said in Tillman'* behalf is that Gonzales was often somewhat intemperate in hi* criticisms, but all claim that the deed was done in the heat of passion was lost when he waited five months after the cause for anger had been given, Bnt though acquitted by a jury of his peers, (?) he stands convicted by the law-rospeetir.g people of the State ci amost brutal and cowardly murder. 3 WILLIAM Ti CVMS1SH SHERMAN. An equestrian statue of "The Great Incendiary," and author of tlie * famous sayiDg, "War is Hell," was 1 unveiled in Washington on the lfith ( inst. i 5 President Roosevelt delivered the > address oi the day, luuding his char- 1 aeter and career, but not mentioning the vindictive cruelty with which he ^ scourged the helpless people living in the path of his raid through Georgia - and this State. Only those who saw the devastation left behind him, the H) naked chimueys and smoking ruins, and listened to the tales of sorrow told s. by the afllicted women and children, can fully comprehend the truth, that 0 war as he made it, is hell, 8 Henry urady, in nis uroomyn er speech, said that "down South ho was considered a little careless with e- fire*" e_ In his memoirs ho states that he burned Columbia, and then laid it on General Hampton, so as to discredit him with the people. But a new generation has arisen, ^ and in the absorbing fight for the things that are now most sought after, no thought Is given to the horrors of "the war." or The Tillmau trial has brought one thing, observes the Charleston Post, that is very disgraceful, and that is ne .the common practice of State officials h carrying pistols and indulging in j excessive whiskey drinking. THE PRESS AND THE VERDICT. tS' VARIOUS COMMENTS UPON U9 ACQUITTAL OF TILLMAN. he Views of the Slaying ot Mr. Con.. zales which do not Always Ac" cord With the Findings of >80 the Lexington Jury. lb e,r "BEFORE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE." (From the Louisville Courier-Journal) Tillman has been acquitted in ere South Carolina, but before the Amerlie ican people he stands as foul a murderer as ever escaped the gallows aud every member of the jury that er- 1 _ ? . ? ,1 ?l n. u <-AV-ui|Juvcu nil" aiioioo wiu"""" P""' tor iic condemnation and contempt. '10 A STIGMA ON THE COURT RECORDS. ?r] (From the Clinton Chronicle.) Ol T u -lul The jury In the trial of James H cuuunil nf Editor l(?d South Carolina. South Caroliua has been weighed in the balances and om found wanting as a law-abiding State. The evidence brought out at the trial Ir5 was sufficiently too strong to hnve 90 permitted him to go free of punishicn ment. The verdict is unquestionably a political, instead of a penal one, e and as such it will remain a stigma upon the Court records of the State I 18 DARK FOR SOUTH CAROLINA. (From the Meriden Conn. Repulican. j10 The public expected a 'verdict of acquittal and yet there was a forlorn (jn hope that manhood might develop so )e" that this new shame need not be mt added to the burden which the State )0. has been compelled to bear for just such deviltry as that for which Tillman has been tried. South Carolina to had the opportunity to establish a he precedent which would make for law ist and order. She disregarded it, and np her reputation has been made darker. D n A MOST SHAMEFUL OCCURHKRCE. ed (From the Boston Tost.) he ar The acquittal of James H. Tilltnan of all crimo in the murder of N. G :ir Gonzales, editor of the Columbia be State, ranges South Carolina alongof side of Russia and Turkey, as regards the freedom of the press PL!- ? - " " i mis iniscurriage of justice will have c no eiTect outsido of South Caroiina. But in thnt State it is a warning thai s, the freedon of the press can only be at enjoyed at the pleasure of the , bully and the bravo. The acquittal of Tillman is the most shameful occurrence in the recent history of the South. SOUTH CAROLINA ANI> ASSASSINATION. ' (From the Philadelphia Inquirer ) y The Inquirer has been careful not to join in with those newspapers that are condemning South Carolina as a State because of a miserable failure t of justice in the Tillman case. There u must be somo honest men in South Carolina to speak up in defence of the Commonwealth. It is not right * to condemn a whole community una heard. But if the acquittal of ExI Lieutenant Governor lillmon does not arouso public indignation to a < high pitch, then the barbaric senti- , ' ment which seems to have pervaded | * - ...? juijuicii in us ii lie taxen as repre- j sentative of the State at large, and ] South (Carolina will richly deserve t the contempt that honest men aje , heaping upon the heads of the ig- t noble twelve. Is it possible that j i South Carolina's notion of chivalry ? embraces cold-blooded assassination? r There was a time when South Caro- x lina believed in fair fighting. Is it. n possible that a man can be permitted t to walk the streets with a revolver in t his pocket ready for instant U9e when a he sights a political enemy, can he 0 shoot that unarmed enemy down and j, be received Into society as a hero? f We shall see. ^ ???L EM??? SHOT DOWN AV UNARMKD MAN.' | (From the New York Tribune ) l)o the people of South Carolina jonestly believe that Northern capi-1 al In large quantities will be attrnetsd to the State for the development >f her resources, and that desirable immigration in troops while such a reproach upon her good name as the acquittal of Tillmau, her former Lieutenant Gevernor, who shot down an unarmed man in cold blood closo | to the doors of the State House, is fresh in men's minds? (From the Philadelphia R&Sbrd.) The Tillman Gonzales murder trial in South Carolina was removed from the county where the murder occurred into another county where the Tillman iniluenco was persuasive. This was ominous of the result. Even in Kentucky such a course would hardly have been possible. The Breathitt murderers were taken for trial out of a jurisdiction where a fair trial would have been impossible. Tlllmnn wns sont, to hn tried in the camp of his friends. This is a stain on the escutcheon of South Carolina that will remain. It has been made a matter of record, "A BARBAROUS COMMONWEALTH." (From the New York World.) It was John Seldo'n, the great English law writer, who said that "equity is according to the conscience of him that is chancellor, and and as that is larger or narrower, so is equity." The final standard by which every community must be measured is the attitude of its juries towards the laws and toward human life. Judged by that aimpl^T^\.the acquittal of Tillman is th ,' conviction of South Carolina as a barborous commonwealth, a disgrace to American civilization." __ ^ 80UTH CAROLINA'S PI/^ftACE, (From the P^|^ence (R. I.) Journal.) The ver^ito of acquittal for former Li mtenant Governor Tillman is *J verdict of conviction for South Cag c Una. It convigts the State of onjypL the most serious offences again^tjJ; T and order of which"organized society" can be guilty?inability to secure to its members that protection of life which is lost when the deliberate slayer of his fellow man, under whatever irritation of temper or to vent, however reasonable, a personal hatred, is allowed to go unpunished, save for the expense and inconvenience of submitting to a formal trial. It convicts the State of that outrage on civilization, the maintenance of a Court system which can be diverted from the administration of justice to the promotion to the ends of injustice personal influence (From the Macon Telegraph.) The acquittal of Jim Tillman for the assassination of Editor Gonzales is another one of those cases that mock justice, jar our institutions and beget lynch law. Law-abiding people stand aghast in the faco of Km.I, verdicts. According to this finding, Tillman was not even guilty of an assault and battery, to say nothing of involuntary homicide, or voluntary homicide?or murder, which it was! The jury couM have found him guilty of any of these lesser of fences, if it was not clear to the jurors tha&itt was a case -of murder. But they have declared that *-?jb"nan was justified in coolly bho<5^ V^wn an i^oajK\ed. man without catioir (f an immediate alTro^^ i-rMout the Impulse of suddenly aroused passion, I "A FA KOI A1, VEKDMT." (From the Philadelphia Press.) Trial by jury bus proved a wretched farce in South Carolina, J. H. Tillman, on a public strfeo-, in the city of Columbia, In broad daylight, in the presence of many witnesses shot and killed N. G. Gor.zales, who was unarmed and able to make no resistance. Tillman was prepared and his opponent wos unprepared for host ilities. No words wero exchanged. The men were bitter politicul encI mica, and Tillman selected his time and killed his opponent when he could do so with no personal risk to himself. In the face of theso facts a sympathetic jury sets Tillman freo by pronouncing a verdict of "not guilt ie '' : "j ano jurymen nad no doubtful evidence before them. They simply did not propose to punish Tillman for killing a political opponent, and so they agreed to a verdict which, though directly opposed to the facts, would roleaso the Ex-Lieutenant. Governor of the State from the penalty which tho law prescribes for the crime of murder. aftothku wjot on houtii oauouna. (From the Brooklyn Standard-Union.) ( The crime for which Tillman was ] tried was a most cowardly act. He { ahot down an unarmed roan in cold blood, even whilo that man was trying to avoid him. Tillman admits limself that ho is a coward, for he mid he drew his .pistol because he <] vhh afraid of Gonzales, and, although t, die latter was unarmed and was try- y ng to evade his slayer, Tillman, in jreat trepidation, perhaps, fired, ' iiucii ?h a woman thrown a atone, c rith no certainty of hitting what ahe iim? at. Probably the jury took hat into coneideration and deemed ( he fatal result of the shooting an ccident, due to the trembling hand * f a frightened man. That, at least, ^ i the most charitable explanation of he strange verdict. Put the thought rhich will occur to overy one, out- jj "HAVE Our line - JACKETS, MONTI ill you another assort m low pri< a hurr} Come While Our Dr * is full o mings, > mtr- 1 th? rea rvoa. k r the FA! Ill ITI I H I I IV1UIUAL I R I side of South Carolina, is that i(T~ lynching is ever justifiable, it is in a case like this, where justice is mocked at and there is no punishment for crime at the hands of the law. As for South Carolina, it means that the same ruffianism that existed in the time of "Bully Brooks" exists today, and is vented against free speech and a free press. "a standing invitation to thk mukDEHKIt." (From tho Norfolk Virginian-Pilot.) Despite tho law and the evidence, the acquittul of James II. Tillman*, who is charged with tho murder of N. (J. Gonzales, will cause little surprise among-those who have followed tho course that "justice" takes in the trial r?f ^ U....biut'a in ooutn Caro- 4 Knu. That tho acquittal was secured i on trumped up evidence goes without tho sayiug. Skilful counsel and J equally skillful witnesses manufao- ? tured a theory that Tillman lived in 1 dread of his life and fired on Gon zales in what he believed to be self- J defence. This theory was apparent ly driven home in the minds of the jury and the abortion of justice re- 2 suiting in Tillman's acquittal was tho result. The crime with which 3 Tillman was charged was not merely deliberate and brutal, it was coward l^y as well. Tillman knew Gonzales, J and knew that he was game to the * core. He knew that Gonzales would not (ire on him when he. Tillman, g was in company with others. And * knowing this he gave Gonzales no q show for his life, and shot him down like a dog. His acquittal under 2 such circumstances is a standing in vitation to tho murderer to ply his 0 trade in South Carolina. We would by no means he understood as imply- J ing that Tillman had no provocation. * Many men have been- killed for say- 2 ing less bitter things than Gonzales J said of Tillman. Hut it is seldom { that they have been shot, firm"* ? tively and when they were (inarmed. ? rhat is the crime that James H. Fillman committed, and that is the a irime that South Carolina, through ler courts, has said should go uopun- " shed. better to W. 1). A rthur, % Union, S. C. m Dear Sii: The cheap paint to buy is the n? that covers more than you think; 2 I e cheap one to wear is the one llr.'t is * ouiig when oid. 2 lira, Moore, of Kei??v m v ? " j , . M. ii'iiiKlil ^ i? callous I )e voe to paint lifr house two i?at?-; li.^r punters said it would take J lit. Ilad (> gallons left, ? Mr. James Acklev's house in Cairo I.'atskill Mountains, 1 N. Y., was painted ? *evoe. 1' woie 14 years, and tlie paint as in g hkI condition then. He was go- J >g to paint, the last we knew, though. hat's the way to preserve a house; re lint when there's no occasion. u Yours truly, S F. W. Dkvok & (Jo. 2 | r % YOU'SE : of Ladies and Miss< EGARLOS, TAILOR SU haven't, don't wa day. Our splend lent, smart styles at :es are movinc them i c_* r. ,-fcTT = You Con Get Y? ess Goods Departme f the new weaves, trii etc. When you wa 1 new things come 5HION CENTRE. DRY GOOD >. HARRY, fflgr Milk, * We are Proud ol Baby Shoes .25 to $1 Children Shoes .75 *4 S Misses Shoes $1.00 M 2 I Ladies Shoes 1.25 14 2 j Mens Shoes 1.50 4< rt i i i Visit Union's Big SI Union ShG Main Street, ~~ T59 1? 1 m + 5S UTS, ETC. tit id id in mr Size. * V , nt Tint to i S CO* f Our Shoes | i-2s\ I > AA ' - 5 t.OO ALL LEATHERS i.OOl : '.OO) i ioe Store, * f ^0 Co.. Union,"5. C. t p I ' > * i t, w'i