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THE UNION TIMES PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY ?BY TH1? UNION TIMES COMPANY Second Floor Times IUhldinu Bell Phone No. 1. L. Q. Young, Manager. Registered at the l'ostotflce in Union, 5. O., as second-clash luail matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year ------- $1.00 Si* months ------ 50 cents Three months ----- 25 cents. ADVERTISEMENTS One sq tare, Qrst insertion - - $1.00. Every ibsequenl insertion - 50cents. Con . acts for three months or longei wiH be nade at reduced rates. Tx)cals inserted at 8J cents a line. Rejected manuscript will not be returned. Obituaries and tributes of resoect will be charged for at half rates. UNION, S. C., DECEMBER 0, 1904. TO REPOBLICANIZE THE SOOTH. Senator Bacon of Georgia has in a reply to a letter written to him by Congressman T. W. Ilardwick also of Georgia, asking the senator's views upon the political situation of the south present and future, mainly with reference to the overwhelming defeat of the Democratic party by the national Republican party in the presidential election, and as to the recent overtures of the Republican administration. Senator Bacon in his reply has in our humble judg~ ment struck the key note to the situation, that is with reference to the much and variously discussed negro question, when he said that although it would be a great loss and a great sacrifice of the south, yet she would be willing to have her representation in the national congress lessened, provided the Republi can party would unite in and have the 15th amendment to the constitution of the United States repealed. This amendment we all know or should know is the universal suffrage clause, giving to every male citizen the right to vote, without regard to race or color or previous condition of servitude, the amopdment which placed the negro upon a political ^ equality with the white. The south's representation has ever been based upon her population, which population has always included the negro. The Republican party and the antislavery advocates of the north have ever been active in devising means by which the south's representation in the national congress could and would be lessened, while at the .-same time the Democrats, the representatives of the south have been equally active, alert and vigdant to maintain and preserve her representation as far as in their power lay. Now in view of the fact that the southern states by amendments to their constitutions have practically eliminated the negro from politics, the Republican party are trying to devise means to lessen the south's representation in the national congress by basing her representation upon the voting population. This is why we urged the Democrats to cast a full vote at the general election, for the reason that the vote cast at the general election was the only vote that reached national headquarters, -j" since in this election the president, vice president and members of congress are voted for, and this the only election recognized by the national government. In view of the fact that the amendment to the constitution in the states of the south requires an educational as well as a property qualification to entitle a citizen to vote, the Ugden and other educational movements have been made by the Republican party, whose aim and object is to enfranchiselthe negro; but this now appears to them rather a slow process by which to republicanise the south and thus get absolute control of the government, therefore more speedy mothods become necessary, at the flood tide of Republican political success, being thus flush, naturally want more, and seek for the means to secure it. Senator Bacon says, will the people of the south be so ununwise as to be mislead by these overtures of President Roosevelt, and cringe aud crawl, and like the i ' chastised dog, lick the hand of the i one who dealt the blow. Senator i Bacon urges the Democratic party to remain firm and steadfast, with unbroken ranks as the only s?fe and sure means of retaining, maintaining and preserving white supremacy. The north has ever been jealous of the wealth and prosperity of the south, and has never lost an opportunity of burdening her people with unjust laws and taxation. Fr.nn the time the New England and Dutch s'ave traders were forced to abandon tho trade, the negro has been an irritating thorn in the flesh of the body politic, a bone of contention, and as the negro constituted a large portion of the wealth of the south, a plan to deprive the south of this much of her wealth, never ceased to agitate and engage the attention of the norUj, not for any real love of the negro or their abhorrence of slavery. Dut to deprive the south of them as property, and ever since the emancipation of the slave the Republican party has endeavored to get full control of the negro as a political factor for the purpose of getting absolute control of the government. Senator Bacon in summing up the situation asks: "Does the Republican party believe in and advocate white supremacy, and is it opposed to negro rule and to negro office holding in the south? If yes, then the Democratic party in the south will ground its arms eo far as concerns that issue. But if no, then the argument with us is closed, because if .the Republican party is opposed to white supremacy in the south and does favor negro rule and negro office holding there are no considerations which should be sufficient to induce the white men of the south to support that party." We feel that we must judge the future by the past when we come to consider the attitude of the Republican party upon the question of white supremacy in the south. We most heartily endoise the views enter- j tuincd and so forcibly expressed by ' Senator Bacon and feel that the repeal of the 15th amendment would I remove one of the great causes of i contention between the two great ' political parties of the United States, and the Republican party would get what i3 much desired; a reduction of the south's representation in congress, and the south the establishment of white supremacy. WOMEN'S CLUBS ARRAIGNED. It seems to be at least a part of the programme, by laws, rules and regulations of the women's clubs to meet somewhere, sometime every week and entertain, either in a social, literary or business transaction, connected with the affairs of the club so meeting. That progressive tucbre or some other progressive game with cards is played and prizes given to the winners, we presume is not dc nied by any member of the said clubs. The Times has never felt called upon as exponent of good morals, good examples or correct conduct and propriety, to criticise the clubs and thus administer censure or rebuke; but, on the contrary, we have tried to make public the many good works, social and civic, the clubs have done, and are still trying to do. It has been left to one eminently qualified to judge of the evil tendencies, or rather the evils which must inevitably grow out of certain practices of the women's clubs. We refer to the Thanksgiving Day sermon preached by Bishop W. W. Duncan at Marietta, Georgia, during tho session of the North Georgia Conference, over which he presided. The bishop said: "Society is leading women to their ruin, and that many violations of law by the I society set are winked at. I see when I am visiting around during the year, the empty benches at the prayer meeting, the lack of attendance at the church societies, and the nun-attendance to the ordinary religious duties. What is the matter with the women? I will tell you. They are going to their clubs and societieH^^They have their Brown bg, Shakispcare and their Tennyson clubs. But why organize Browning, Shakespeare or Tennyson clubs? You never hear of a David Club or a Paul or Mark club. I defy tho combined genuises of the world to put all they have ever written together and rival with it the beauties of the poetry in the book of David. I want to say seriously that your clnbs and federations of clubs and societies for the study of things are going to be your ruin If you keep on excluding your husbands and sons and meet behind closed doors, without a male present, you need not be sui prised if the men go to their clubs and their saloons. Oh, your tete a-tetcs and your functions?functions!" xclaitned the Bishop in a burst of sarcasm The Bishop spoke of the evils of card playing and wine drinking at these functions. The Bishop illustrated his warning about cat delaying and wine-drinking by relating the story of a young man who died drunk and a gambler, who first learned to gamble in his mother's parlor, by playing for a cut glass vase, and had learned to drink at a function. We think that the Bishop is a little inconsistent in his illustration, a3 he had but a moment before warned the women against excluding their husbands and sons from these clubs, societies and functions, for we think it would have been will, ah! better had the young man of whom l.? c,on.L? 1 J ?.l C 1, 1 uc opiaro UCt'U t'AtlllUVU IIU1H Ollt'IIU* ance upon the functions at his mother's home, where it is said lie had first learned to drink and play cards. Said the Bishop, "You may call it a cut glass function if you want to, but the devil calls it gambling. Keep it up you women and you will see in your own state what I saw in Butte, Mon. I 9aw a saloon with a side door entrance to it marked, "Ladies Entrance." Think of it. An entrance to a drinking saloon for ladies." The following taken from The Youth's Companion, we think, illustrates as great, or perhaps a greater evil tendency tl^an that pointjyj out by Bishop Duncan in his sermon, and more destructive of domestic felicity and leading to divorce suits: THE EVIL OF AN OVERWORKED <1001>. "Let your moderation be known to all men" is a motto which does not lose its force in modern conditions. It is fatally easy to let the good hurry on until it becomes the evil. It is not strange that the good influence possible for women's clubs should be forced and overworked until it threatens the welfare ot the very communities which they seek to help. The author of a recent novel has taken this tendency as the motive of her plot. She tells the story of a Western country girl who marries a Chicago grocer, and begins her new life by joining a club She is soon swept into a swift current of activities, social and civic. Her name figures in the club column of every newspaper. She is a member of a dozen committees. Their meetings and the breakfasts, teas and dinners pertaining to club life fili her days and evenings. Ifusband and children are neglected or half-forgotten in the pressure of public duties. Finally the husband loses patience, packs his bag and leaves home. Fortunately he encounters a railway accident. The report of it brings the wife to a sense of her aotunl lov* for her husband. She drops everything; and hurries to the scene of the accident, to find him unhurt, and to reveal her real heart to hitn and to herself. In the hours of agonizing suspense she has learned that husband and babies are better and dearer than all the glamour of club life; and the story ends with the promise that "they shall live happy ever after." The book, like all novels witten for the avowed purpose of reform, has gross exaggerations; but it will serve its end if it calls the attention of club-women to the dangers of over devotion to their admirable organizations, and puts fresh Emphasis on the world-old truth that the great savior of society is the happy home. RAILWAY STATION CROWDED WITH LOAFERS. We have several times called the attention of the city council to the loafers in the city. At no place in the city is the loafer nuisance more in evidence and more seriously felt by the people than at the depot j inin P il ^ I S7/f. 1 An i ? is made to H foot. I A MIC I ft yufc is made 1 foot?not That's wh MUTUAL when the trains arrive. Whose business is it to keep the crowd of loafers and curious from taking up the whole space between the cars and the passenger waiting room so that the passengers can get off the train or get away from the train after they get off. The new and handsome waiting room is also' crowded with people who are there for no purpose but to see people coming or going. We notice that the floors of the new and hundsotpe waiting rooms are being very much soiled by tobacco spit, old cigar and cigarett stumps, and general abuse of a nice new room designed for decent people to wait in for a coming train. The policemen who go to the train take no notice of the crowding about the cars by those who are not looking for friends or anybody coming or accompanying anybody going away on the cars. Hack drivers, hotel porters rush in regardless and block tbe way so that ladies and children can't walk. It is time to put a stop to this, in this place, as is done in all other cities y / rni * ? or piaces 01 any size, mere should be a line drawn beyond which no one should be allowed to go, except those who are there to go on the train or to meet some one coming on the train then due, and the police! men should enforce it strictly. We I call upon the city council and police to come to the rescue of the decent people who go to the depot only when they have business and also see that the new passenger depot is not abused and rendered unfit for nice people to sit in. Notice of Election. On Account of the resignation of W. C- Nelson, Dispenser for Beer Dispensary No. 2 will l>e elected Dec. 31st to fill the unexpired term. All applications must be tiled with the undersigned on or Sin llfli !?? T. K. Fostbr, 504t Chm. Co. Bd. Control. Annual Meeting. The regular annual meeting of the stockholders of the Merchants A Plant1 era National Bank will be held in the Directors room at 12 o'clock on Toe ad ay, January 10th, 1905. | J, D. Amhvb, Cashier, w ftt/M/r/v I. I ? Ordinary Shoe | > the length and width of the l| :LN yUAUIT SHUt i ~ :o the entire outli)^ of t e W 7& simply to two dimensions. ||j ly it fits as no other shoe can. ||j DRY GOODS CO., 1 R. P. 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