The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, September 09, 1904, Image 4
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UNION, S. C., SEPTEMBER 9, 1904.
"THE PENNY LINER."
We cheerfully give space in this issue
of The Times (regretting that we
could not do so last week) to an article
signed "The Penny Liner,"
which is intended by the writer to be
a reply to an editorial which appeared
in The Times, August 2(>, under
this head, "Postoffice Location Misrepresented."
In the first paragraph of the Penny
Liner's article the assertion that. The
Times is an organ of the postmaster
is ns false as it is unjust. The Penny
Liner further says: "If Iv remember
correctly, (we are satisfied he had
The Times on his desk when he
wrote this) not one word of denial
was made; but most of it was taken
up with the abuse of the writer of
said article." Of course Tub 'Iimks
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Uiu nut urn/ mo opvi v* w
which the postofflce building is to be
erected, but the incorrect description
by The State's correspondent; of the
surroundings which rendered the location
so objectionable to "some."
This being the case, the young hopeful
Penny Liner consoles himself with
the assertion that, as no denial was
made 'tis useless in this effusion to
allude to it further, but relieves his
pent up feelings in giving utterance
to the assertion that The Times indulged
in abuse of the writer. Thf.
Times disclaims any intention
abuse, as'belng beneath the dignity of
this journal to indulge in the abuse
of any individual, be he ever so humble,
do not, will not deny them every
right to which they are entitled, reserving
the right to correct mistakes
as it sees them, without abusing its
right to do so.
The Penny Liner so far forgets himself
by displaying a petty spiteful
spirit as to attempt to indulge in
what he accuses The Times of doine.
abusing the writer of the offending
editorial. As to the Penny Liner's
wish to consign The Union Times to
oblivion, he, in this, no doubt, expresses
the wishes of some others, ns
he more frequently gives expression
to the opinions and desires of others,
than his own, (if he has any). The
Union Times has stood the test for
fifty years, and still stands an honored
landmark, a monument to the people's
patronage as a herald of principle,
truth and honesty.
Now, as to the remaining slings,
The Times is disposed to draw the
veil of charity over this brilliant, effort
of The Penny Liner and in the
words of a Union wag, "when we
hear nothing, we say nothing."
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NO POLITICAL LEADER.
Twenty five years ago, and down to
Jess than ten years ago, South Carolina
had her political leader. In
those days the people, the masses,
like sheep followed their leader.
% Whenever and wherever the leader
jumped, the unreasoning masses
jumped, regardless of consequences.
No matter what their leader said or
did, they were ready and willing to
do also, blindly and without question.
Today the would b? leader ex
pects the people who have before
been like Bhoep, to follow as before;
but he la disappointed, since the
people have become more independent.
Men think for themselves and
so do newspapers. The independent
man is taking sometime the
place of the partisan man and the
independent paper is taking the
plaoe of the partisan paper. The independent
paper jumps as it pleases,
but it never takes a fence unlets it
thinks it ifl in the right. The day
has count when even the father's vote
does not influence the son's vote in
every instance. Today the people
will not jump the political fence just
beeause someothers do. We take it
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as the reason for this state of affairs in
the political arena, that the people
have become better educated to theirpolitical
rights and less dependent
upon a leader, having learned to
think and act for themselves. In
former days the giant minds of the
leaders swayed the masses, like a
general iu command of an army.
Such men with such minds no longer
exist. Consequently men must rely
upon their own judgment. Their education
in the absence of such a lead:
er has taught them self reliance and
they exercise it indepently. The
newspapers recognizing the independence
of the people, can only urge
people to be careful in the use of
.their sufTerages to make a wise
ohoice, Having o?ly fitness aud ability
for a jefuide in casting their ballots;
laying aside every other consideration
which mi'g&t otherwise move
or control them, in the choice of a
candidate. SENATOR
TILLMAN AND
THE DISPENSARY.
About a we^ek ago Senator B R.
Tillman was in the city of Spartanburg
and in an interview on the subject
of the Brice bill, whfbh bill, as
most people know, was to give the
people of the Stats the right in each
piuut? wiicre i/iitj uivpviisury WHO HIready
in operation and in places
where it was sought to establish a
dispensary to*-Vote for or against its
establishment. The bill as it was
originally framed was defeated by the
many amendments hitched on to it,
before its final passage that the original
object of the bill was practically
defeated.
This bill as it was originally introduced
by Senator Brice of York was
made an issue in the primary election
in quite a number of counties in this
State. The Times published two
weeks ago what Senator Brice said
was the object of the bill as originally
introduced by him. It wus about
this bill as we say in the beginning
that Senator Tillman was interviewed.
In reply to the question, "What
do you think of the movement," he
replied, "I'll tell you what I think of
it. I think it is like an underhanded
attempt at assassination I believe,
no, I will say it straight, no honest
man could support such a measure
as far as I can figure it out; I am the
father of the dispensary law, I believe,
and have had a little acquaintance
with it and its origin." It has
ever been the practice of Senator Tillman
to characterize the legislature
and all who oppose any measure he
advocates as "driftwood" and "fools."
Now in connection with what Senator
Tillman says about his being the father
of the dispensary and his con
necTion ana acquaintance with the
pispensary we here publish what the
Yorkville Knquirer says about Senator
Tillman in connection with the
dispensary and the Brice bill, which
in our opinion gives good reason for
Senator Tillman's opposition and his
views on the Brice bill :
Dr. J. L. Stoke's arraignment of B.
R. Tillman as one of the causes of
the prevailing disregard for law and
order will strike many as only a survival
of an old prejudice; but in our
opinion the charge is well founded.
The career of B. R. Tillman from the
day he entered politics t<> the present
day is that of the most unscrupulous
demagogue who has ever figured in
South Carolina politics. He has stood
for all that was opposed to the best
and highest aspirations of the people
of the State. How he made charges
he could not prove against people who
were then in power is well remembered
by everybody. That was slander,
the crime of the basest of cowards.
He charged nil holders of free passes
with having been bamboozled and debauched
by the railroads, showing
that he thought if he thought anything,
that no honest man could accept
a free pass. When he got into
office he accepted the first pass that
was issued by the Southern railrond
it lg an esiaDiisnea principle of law
that the confession of an uccused defendant
is evidence against himself;
but not against his co-defendants,
and in accepting hisfree pftss Senator
j Tillman practically acknowledged
himself to be guilty of all the things
of which he had 'accused the people
he had been fighting. A majority of
the people Who expressed themselves
op the liquor question In the election
held Sor-the purpose declared for prohibition.
Instead of trying to establish
prohibition the State embarked
into the liquor business itself. Tillman
has time and again claimed
credit and assumed responsibility for
this violation of the expressed instructions
of the people. Upon the
establishment of the dispensary Governor
Tillman had a say-so in the
purchase of hundreds of thousands of
dollars worth of whiskey. In the
course of time it became a matter of
common knowledge that the sellers
of this whiskey had allowed rebates
on all of it. Tillman was asked the
question, "If you did not get these
rebates for the State, why didn't jou,
and as there is no entry of them on
the books what became of them?"
At the time the question was asked
there trfcg reason to suapeot that
somebody had gotten aocess to the
hooks of the whisky trust, and was
in a position to publish undisputable
facts Senator Tillm&n kept quiet for
years. There was time for bim to assure
himself that no evidence could
be presented. Then, when- the matter
came up again, he claimed that
he had given the rebates bsok. to the
whiskey people in return for the
credit they had extended to the Sthte.
It is quito possible that there are
some good people who believe thia,
and there are others who Urfnk otherwise.
The state passed a lawmaking
it unlawful for public officers to accept
free passes. Last yeajfit developed
that in defiance of this law Senator
Tillman had a whole bunch of
them. He had always held that no
man could accept free passes without
being bamboozled and debauched. It
was Senator Brice who said that the
dispensary law was a produ<?| of "Ben
Tillman and the Devil," : and instances
where these two peonages
have worked together against Christianity
and morality, without which
there can be no "law or order," could
be multiplied indefinite^-. Dr. Stokes
therefore was speaking from facts
rather than prejudice or politics when
he laid responsibility at the .door of
B. R. Tiltnan, and so long as the people
of South Carolina continuo to
recognize this man as a representative
exponent of their ideals they crfn
hope for but little improvement in
existing conditions, temporal or spiritual.
Latest War News.
Japs capture and occupy Liao
Vang. Russians retreat in great, confusion,
leaving vast amount of army
stores and one hundred cannon Russians
in full retreat, Japs in pursuit
and trying to reach Mukden, before |
the Russians do. The Russians have
the greater pare of their provisions
and munitions of war at Mukden,
which is a railroad station. The fight
before the capture of Liao Vang was
th^ bloodiest of the war; the losses
on both sides were heavy.
KUROPATKIN CUT OFF.
London, Sept. 6?The Daily Mail
this morning prints a dispatch from
Sinmintin, dated September 5, giving
a report that Gen. Kuropatkin's retreat
has been cut off.
The dispatch goes on to say that
the Russian troops had advanced in
strong force to the southeast of Mukden
as far as Japin Hill, to oppose
any possible attack in the direction
of their advance. A Chinese official,
who arrived from Mukden on Sunday
says that the Russian troops are
leaving for the north, that there are
18,000 men ten miles to the east of
the city, that the officers and men
have become despairing and that
much sickness prevails.
A STARTLING REPORT.
St. Petersburg, Septembers.?It is
reported at a late hour that Gen. Kuropatkin's
rear guard has been almost
annihilated, and that the main Russian
army is in imminent danger of
being surrounded.
MUKDEN TO RE EVACUATED.
Mukden Kentemher f? ?Prennrn
tlons for the evacuation of Mukden
ure proceeding The Japanese advance
is within thirty miles
EVALUATING MUKDEN.
St. Petersburg, Sept. (>.?The Mukden
correspondent of the newspaper
Russ wires that the Russians evacuation
of Mukden has already been begun.
Commissary wagons passed
through the city en route for Harbin
and interruption of telegraph lines is
feared.
St. Petersburg, Sept. (5.?According
to a telegram from Mukden, the
Japanese forces are now but fourteen
miles from Mukden and the booming
of their cannon is distinctly heard in
the stronghold. The dispatch adds:
Kuropatkin is encountering great
difficulty in the retreat owing to the
had roads from Yen Tai. The retreat
is said to have resolved itself into a
race for Mukden. Both Kuropatkin
and Marshal Oyama are straining
every effort to be the first to reach
the city, one to find safety and the
other to cut off the Russians retreat
London, Sept. <> ?The Harbin correspondent
of Central news wires that
Viceroy Alexiff and his staff have arrived
at Harbin, having transferred
their headquarters from Vladivostok.
SANTUC NEWS.
"Hey Denver" Attends the Baptist
Association at Padgett's Creek.
Other News.
Let garlands ever bright lie spread,
For these, the good," the pretty girls.
Oh. I saw some eyes, not goo-goo eyes
you Jl>'t, but that charms and thrills, and
I haven't got over it yet
Miss Ktlia Jeter, who lias been on an
extended visit of son e weets, Teturm d
home last week
Miss Fannie Randolph, of Landruui,
Is here now on a visit to the family of
her uncle, Mr. J W. Gregory.
Mi?-s?s Lottie and Mary (iiegdVy, who
have lieen visiting relatives at Landtuin,
returned home last, week .,
Mir*e-> Mary and Funi\ie Tlifltnaa, of
Union, are visiting here and will a vend
an '-at home" Tuesday evening, k'i*en
by their cousin, Miss Julia Thomas
I have an invitation from some girl
friends to attend a pi 'iiic near Duck
Pond Wpdntfiday, bur. this is one lime (
can't possibly attend, but I appreciate
(heir thoughtful kindness, and thai.I
them very much.
The rvent of events for 1904,
great many jxople ot Union ConntyT
uas the meeting of the Union County
Maptlst Association, in Its 29; h sedfton,
at, Padgett's Cieek church, nearjCross
Keys. I got it. into my head t?at a
grand, good time was ahead, and being
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Kg* the best line of
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I&2 colors are right,
nianship is absol
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a lover of g< od things, I fitted lip ?
outfit and myself and headed straight f<
this objective point, early Thursdr
morning, Sept. 1st, and prepared to la I
in the entire three days of the meethij
atid such a meeting it was, so many sai
lieing the best for several years of tl
existence of that august body. I w;
fully repaid for all of the trouble to g
there, if trouble one could call it.. I hi
visited l\idgett's Creek church IWur
picnicked in the beautiful grove of ta
pines, of level land, and becoming whl
yard, surrounding the old fashion!
country church of two stoiies, counti
in all the term implies, the location, tl
building, the habits of the people In tal
ing dinner on the grounds, and the be
pit able ' bands all around" welcome
everybody who attends, and having
foretaste of what was coming, called f
a little extra exertion to get there.
I would like to give the proceeds
detail, but that, would put me in too lot
a la e, so 1 will get in close to the tin
and only give a p irt.
The permanent organization for tl
next t welve months was effected by r
electing all of the old officers, to wl
Moderator, E L Clark; clerk, E. V
let-'r; treasurer, Levi W. Smith; hi
they b> ing initial!d already in the wor
busine s was can led right along. Co i
m;tWes weie nrnmnt.lv Hmuiint>?l l?.?i
to lepoit at the present session hi
tw lve months hence.
Visitors of note were Rev V. '
<*c?i?V, representing the Stile Minsk
lii a'd; Joel I Allen, representing il
Forman Universi'y E >dowmen' Fnnr
A McA Pitman, of the South Carolit
Baptist; V. I. Masters, of tho Bapii
Cornier; Miss Emma Alexander, 1*<
mmi ?nary; and Rev. \V. E, E I'zmlngr
mksonary to Brazil Services we
held tx?th Thursday and Friday night
Fi iday night ltev Mr. Entzminger le
toted. telling of Brazd, the soil, cliinat
hahi's of the people, of the governn en
which is very corrupt, the religion?II
man Catholic?the ignoronoa along wit
it, etc He also snowed the image of
saint that is worshiped, and Ch it? w'hic
when the church anu Stale were co
necU-d, was tho patron saint of the am
and drew a salary of $.'100 |>er month, r
rather the prieet who had il. in chara
i did. He talked some in Portugese lai
i guage, also sang a hymn, this being vet
, amusing
The next meeting will l>e held at M
j Lebanon, Ireglnning Thursday befoi
j 1st Sunday in September, 1905.
1 had a home assigned me, at tt
i home of my staunch friend?an evt
welcome home ?Mr I. T,. Botm'tf, an
t appreciate and enjoy it, but I wi
"privileged" to put in some of .the i:
fervenintr houra between the day an
the night beacons wherever there wei
any pretty .and interfering airls. (if
wished to rest) and I availed my-wdf <
afcne^f the opportunities.
^ iiby dknvbr.
Thla aignatn*. Ja on every bos of the genulc
Laxative Bronio*Quiiiiiie Tablet.
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want; if the articles you pi
chase here do not prove pj|j|fij gj| '*
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PARTMENT. SHOE DEPARTMENT. |(|
~n we have A -new line of nobby Queen ||
Clothing to Qua<'ty's just opened and |S
y prices; the ready for your insP?ction.
the-work- You" cannot find a better gS
utely correct, friend to yCur feet than the H
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c-7 cn The Tilt Shoe has no equal ?$
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in style, quality and comfort, Bs
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tUNK DEPARTMENT. I |
Ve carry the largest and I |
yest line of Trunks, Suit | Hf
;es, Urips and Telescopes |?
he place. Let us show P|
i this line before you
chase.
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DRY GOODS CAMPANY, I
R. P. HARRY, Manager.
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