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THE UNION TIMEsf PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY ?by thk ? UNION TIMES COMPANY Sboono Flook Times Building ovbu Tostoikauk, Bell I'uu.nk No. I. L. (i. Young, Manager. registered at the i'ostotlice in Union, S. O., as second-class mail matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year ------- $1.00 Six months ------ 50 cents Three months ----- 35 cents. ADVERTISEMENTS One sq -iare, first Insertion - - $1.00. Erery ibsequentinsertion - 50cents. Con acts for three months or longer will be nade at reduced rates. T /tnrtln InaArfll/l .? Ql POnt O ? llTTP A i*Ayd Iv> IUOVIVOU ?u v;j v* **v?? m *>iiv? Rejf?cted manuscript will not be returned. Obituaries and tributes of respect will be charged for at half rates. UNION, S. C., NOVEMBER 18, 1904. A WORD TO THE NEGROES. "Just a word of advice to the ne? groes of South. Carolina. There is some evidence of jubilation over the election of Roosevelt. There is no objection to the negroes being dc* lighted but it would be exceedingly unfortunate if they should conceive the notion that they have captured South Carolina and acted according ly. We have in the past given them good advice and always earnestly advocate justice for them and we now advise them to keep at their callings und not deceive themselves with false hopes. It would be well for them to realize that if trouble is provoked, the negroes will be the chief sufferers and a dozen lloosevelts cannot help them."?The State. v Before reading the foregoing piece of timely and good advice volunteered by the State, we intended to stay a word to the negroes along the same line. We have not forgotten the fidelity of the negroes to their masters and their families during the four years of war between the North and South and which war the negroes were given to understand was for their freedom from bondage if the North succeeded and fur their continued slavery if the South should be successful. The peculiar relations existing between master and ? Jftpu.sop 'to? protector of the women and children, while the white men were in the army. This we have not forgotten, if we had, we would feel that we were ungrateful; but those old "darkies," marny and dady, to whom we owe this debt of gratitude are funf noouini* oti'n it ?? rwl f U/.im /-. IT ^ lasu jjaooillf^ annj, UIIM IIIVI1 Ul^|)l lllg the second and third generation feel not those ties of affection which bound master and servant so closely together, neither can or do the whites of this generation know or appreciate such a relationship. We do and have over folt a sympathy for this mislead and misguided race. Wc are not among the strenuous advocates of getting rid of the negro, by supplanting them by foreign immigrant laborers, for we are not fully persuaded of the wisdom of such a move and are rather disposed to suffer the ills we have than to lly to others we know not of. We are sorry to admit to that as a general condition of affairs, with reference to the labor supply, the present generation of negroes is not half so good as their ancestors, that the desertion of the farms by the negroes and the flocking to the towns and public works alone has made the im migration move necessary. Our ad? vice to negroes is to return to the farms, as the farm products are yearly increasing in value and so is the price of land. We do not censure the negroes for rejoicing over the success of the Republican party, but they can be jubilant without being offensive.. They should take the advice of their white and colored friends, to be polite and respectful. There is no such thing as equality among the races. The churches teach that there is inequality even among the angels in heaven. Our attention ha?becn called to but one thing on the part of the negroes since the election which looks as if they felt a new importance and had better rights, that jq the way they staM (MfwM Mi jftj&fdSftfe. They are really impolite, and even Hftcr they have been served at the delivery, they Btaod in the way of others. They should recollect that a government institution does tot belong to the political party in power, but to the whole people. THE DISPENSARY AND THE LEGISLATURE. We have never advocated the dispensary nor have we fought the institution by word or deed; but have simply submitted since we like the majority of the people of South Carolina arc not responsible for the establishment of the dispensary, never having been consulted, nor allowed to say whether we wanted such an institution or not* The dispensary law was enacted at the instance, dictation and command of the far seeing Hon. B. II. Tillman, at which time a majority of the voters accepted what he said as law and gospel, as they regarded him a perfect man, a friend to the masses and like the King could do no wrong. In 1895 the constitutional convention I (of which bodv Senator Tillman war a member anil still held considerable sway) made the dispensary a part of the constitution and only subject to amendments by the legislature, thus perpetrating the system at least until this clause should be amended by a vote of the people. This was the status of the dispensary law until the session of 1903 of the legislature at which time Senator Brice from York County introduced his bill providing for local option, giving the right to the people of the different counties the right to vote out or in the dispensary in the county. The original Brice bill was so amenned before its fiuul passage that it hardly resembled itself, retaining only the right to vote with the proviso that if voted out, the couuty would be subjected to an additional tax to meet the expenses of maintaining the State constabulary and also be deprived of any of the dispensary profits. In the face of these amendments under the law as it stands. Cherokee County at the general election, vo'.ed out the dispensary by ? large ma^ iority. It is now up to the leiriala-C-W imnre-mnrftic?HUiruil uftni If repeal the Brice bill as it now is, and puss the bill as it was originally, or to let it remain as it is. In either case of action by the general assembly it remains for the other counties in the State to follow the lead of Cherokee County and thus practi cally put out of business the wholesale dispensary in Columbia by not having any dispensary in the several c 'unties of the State to supply. In any event it is our opinion that the dispensary will he an issue in 19(M> TOM WATSON'S STATEMENT. Result of the Election ConsideredSouth Has Been Made a Tool of By Wall Street Politicians for 30 Years. Thomas E. Watson, iu a statement, issued in New York yesterday, said in part: Mr. ltoosevell's overwhelming infinity was not so much due to the fact that our ]>eople believe in class legislation and the reign of social privileges. It was not by any means an endorsement of corporation tyranny, the greed of the trusts or the methods of combined capital. Mr Roosevelt's majority over Mr I'arkei was due mainly to two tilings; one was the immense personal popularity of Mr. Roosevelt himself and the other was the immense unpopularity of Mr < 'leveland's second administration. Unfortunately for Mr. J'aiker, he became so completely identified with the marauders who plundered the government luring Mr. Cleveland's second administration that he had to I e ir all the odium which they had incurred. The p:>ople nnvr ucvoi iirtu it ClinilCH lOSflOW JilSL I Ml they thought of that second administration. Mr. Bryan's two campaigns did not give them tlie opportunity; it was only when the old Cleveland combination secured the defeat of Bryan and Hearst, and dictated the nomination of Mr. Barker that the masses 1 ad the opportunity to vent upon a national candidate ihe intense hatred which they had been nursing for years against such men as Olney and Belinont and Carlisle and Cleveland himself. They knew that I could not be elected and they were so eager to make the best of the op ortunity to safeguard the country against a repetition of that saturnalia of class legislation which marked Cleveland's second administration that they rushed to Roosevelt and gave him a majority which does not under ordinary circumstances belong to the Republican party. In other words the personality of Mr Roosevelt and the unpopularity of Mr. Patker's environment carried Into the Republican column vast multitudes n! knen who under mdinary eircmnsfcoicesi Wu.YTrftff tie ftJudd t'tttfrg. l> ^ TIIE 80UTH'B REASONS. In I lie South there are peculiar reasons why the present policy <>! the Democratic leaders shou'd be defeated and abet'er hue adopted. For the past. 2JS or 30 years the democratic machine politici ms hive made th?t great section a uieie ton] In the hands of Wall street and a handful of eastern Democrats who have no pin pass in common wiih us and who me the electoral vote of the solid South for their own selft-h purposes. Jo this manner our southern country, which in an empire itself, has been made a province for a few gieat financial magnates who exploit for their private gaiu without the slightest reference to the we.fare of the southern people. The situation Is pitiable. The degradation of it llnds expression in the phrase: uThe solid South would vote for a yellow dog on the democratic ticket." As a southern man I am ashamed of such a state of affairs and resent it profoundly. If I oan do anything toward accomplishing the political independence of my own people from this slavish servitude to a handful of Wall street politicians I consider it a duty to do so. If the People's party had i o other mission than to relax the grasp which the great railroad corporations have u|>on the throat of the southern states, a grasp which is maintained by the alliance bjtween democratic bosses and Wall sheet financial kings, then it would have sufli dent-*mission to warrant iis continued existence. My own state of Georgia is as completely under the thumb of Morgan and Belmont, one of whom controls the Southern Railroad combine, the other of whom controls the Louisville So Nashville combine, as the state of Pennsylvania is under the oonfrol; of the Pennsylvania railroad or the state of Wisconsin is under the control of which LaF??llet.te has won national fame in couibiting. The situation is simple, appalling, and would not. be believed by anybody who was not conversant with the facts. I ?xpect to return home and open a campaign on the lines ot Jeffersonian democracy to take our state government out of the control of Morgan and Belmont and to put it in the Control of the Georgia people where it belo- gs. In nearly every southern state there is a similar contest to be waged against corporation tyranny. By the time the nex' presidential election comes around there is eveiy t as ?n to believe, that there will be siilli dent sentiment irT favor of tinreforra piinciples embodied In the national platform of the people's party to win success at the polls It all depends upon the work which is done in^the years between now and then. f*expect to do my share of it, that is all I can say at x will iiuwcvci, irprai uint i have not purchased or rente;! a home in New York or anywhere else, and do not expect to do so, My home is in Thomson, Ga., in a region which my ancestorsettled 150 years ago and it is there that my home will be to the end. Am I discouraged? By no means. I began with nothing, worked three mouths and got half a million votes. The men who followed me are men of conviction, earnest, enthusiastic, united. I'arker started out with 7,0*0 000 vot s and last two million in t,tie campaign. Those who follow*d him aredemoral /. ?l and disheartened *;{* Discouragement 1 Ttafc^Democratic iVUnajS the place to be (Signed) atso i. SQUIRES IN THE SOUTH. The Title, Once Acquired by a Citizen, Is Carried to the Grave. ' Toe title of fquiie, which is rarely he.rd in the North, is at ill in vogue in the South. Wnen a man is elected justic* of the p*ace in D xie he is a equne, and although he m ?y have sub eqm-nt titles his old fii?nds and neighbois alwa>s refer to him as squire," s-airt a Southern lawver who is Mttxtiriino *l.~ fittings of a New York Court for the tirei time. He had been introduced to 8?ve;al attorney as Sjuire Blank, of Alabamt. and he was naked by one what the tit 1Mgmtied in his case. He said he was electtd justice of the peace in his town in A '.ibam i at ttie close of the civil wa \ and, although he has been a S ate Senator from his distnct M-veial times, and is a major in a militaiy organ!nation, he is still tquire. Our people," he continued, "are given to tacking a title to any citizen who is at all active in politics, but they have a sort of reveience for the old English enquire, which they abbreviate by eliminating the t'.rst letter. "T knew a man who refused to bj a candidate for the ollice of justice of tlr? peace simply because he would have lnd to give up his prote.^sional title if he had been elected. He was a retired physician. lie was solicited to bpcome a candidate by every voter in the town and was about to accept it when iL occurred to him that he would be ealled tquie, and lie declined for that reason alone. He said he preferred to live and die as a doctor. ' hi some of the old srraveyaids in the South one may Gnd the title tquire carved on the headstones which uiark the resting place of the man who in life was a justice of the peace. 4 Wnile we are quite free in the lestowal of titles in the S>uth, tquire is never applied in an honorary sease. To be a squire the man must have been elected to the office, which, accoiding to the cuvtom bestows the old English title 4,I< becomes second nature to the man who has the title to introduce himeelf. where it becomes necessaiy, as Squire S?-atid-so. A man with any other title except that ot doctor, would not do so; hut to Ray lam Squire II auk' is not considered had form in the beat society." --New York Sun. The Christmas "Pellneator." Th December "Delineator," with its message of good cheer and helpfulness, will be welcomed in every home. The fashion pages are unusually attractive, illustrating and describing the very latest modes in a way to make their construction during the busy festive season a pleasure Vnrtftfd Of la trwvW, gird ftt$ I m I A Blind I I - Till 1 But his fi H tell him 1 comfortabli I PRICES I MUTUAL BSfiffipSwpail^ and pictorial features are of rare ex-1 _n 1 - M *?l I -4kU A HOOSS, from the Wagner Operas, rendered into English by Richard de Qallienne and beautifully illustrated in colors by J. O. Leyendecker, occupies a prominent place, and a chapter in the Composer's Series, relating the Romance ofjWagner and Cosiina, is an an interest supplement to the lyrics. ' A very clever paper entitled "The Court Circles of the Republic," describes some unique phases of Washington social life is from an unnamed contributor, who is said to write from the inner circles of society. There are short stories from the pena of F. Hopkinson Smith, Robert Grant, Alice Brown, Mary Stewart Gutting and Elmore Elliot Peake, and such Interesting writers as Julia Magruder, L. Frank Baum and Grace McGowan Cooke hold the attention of the children. Mauy Christmas suggestions mo givuu iu iieeuittworK una me Cookery pages are redolent of the Christmas feast. In addition, there are the regular departments of the magazine, with many special articles on topics relating to woman's interests within and without the home. Booker Washington's Appeal to his Race. Birmingham, Nov. 14th.?In an address to negroes delivered here tonight Booker Washington said in part: "'Not a few have asserted that on account of the election many members of our race would lose their heads and become unduly pompous self-assertive and generally offensive. With all tho earnestness I command, I want to urge our people in every part of the counrry to disappoint those who have made such predictions by leading lives of increased usefulness, soberness and simplicity. It is to these things and to the cultivator of friendly relations with our neigh bors of all races that we must look for our ultimate success. Masses of our people are to dwell for all time here in the South, and here it is that our destiny must be worked out, and we oan only succeed when we have the confidence and co-operation of those abont us."?By Associated Press. The Metropolitan Magazine is $1.80 a year, but we are offering it end*Till TigjM for the price of the , ipi m onrjiTw 11 H H * ?11 . uiluLu i ? fflBI ' , - ' ' ' ' 1 Vlan Cannot See The IL ieauty of the ?-^ g t Shoes-I t set will very quickly | they hawe found a | 9 home at Last. 1 1, $3, $3.50, $4-. I DRV GOODS CO, 1 R. P. HARRY, Manager. 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