The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, December 09, 1904, Image 4
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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of the United States repealed.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
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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
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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
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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.
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