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y - - . We Are After You With the Biggest, Best and Cheapest line of FURNITURE in the city of Union. We have just received f-*I* FI^ /-X A r\ w A rive. UAK LUAUb of new, up-to-date FurW niture, bought in the right markets . . . AT THE RIGHT PRICES Our purchasing power enables us to get values which cannot be excelled in Union county . . I WE WANT YOUR BUSINESS. Remember we now have the greatest line ^ I of Furniture that has I ever in all our business I life been on our floors. For the finest suit of Furniture ever shown by any house in the city of Union, call and J ? I see ir. 1 Yours For Business, 1 n. W. Bobo. | - ' < .Vj ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES Miss Blnnclio Thomson has gom to Clifton for a few days visit to th Of the Double Daily Passenger Trains, family of her Uncle Andrew Thorn Union, S. C. son. Train going North 9:00 a.m. Miss Annie Rodger cntcrtainct 44 44 South 11:85 a. m. Monday night in honor of he 44 North 2:35 p. m. guests Misses Pelham, Bettis an< 4-4 44 South 8:53 p. m. pox ? Tliese trains only make a few minutes stop at Union, so that the hours Mr. L. Ubclc has moved his stool of arrival are nracticallv the hours of of croo<l? tn ! >? . , v O^vx-M vw viiv ovuii; 1WU1I1 U1I luail departure. Any change 111 tins ached- street formerly occupied by Mr. J ule will be published in Tim Timks for T the benefit of the public generally. A* ' Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Caudle, afto I nrfll spending several weeks in the nioun LUta 1 A^2_T 1W1,W tains of North Carolina, rcturnct Points Personal and Otherwise 10 tho city T,,08day' Picked up and Paragraphed I)r- w. N- Glymph is now con hw Our Pencil-Pusher valescent, was able to go to his Dy uur rencil rusner. home at Glymphvillp, S. C., when he will remain until fully recover Miss Ixiuisc Ixmg is visiting rcla- ed. tives and friends in Chester. ,r w xr o . u t Mr. \V. H. Pate, who for somi Miss Bess Long spent Sunday time has been bookkeeper for tin with her parents in the city. Mutual Dry Goods Co., has resign .. _ ,. . .. , ed his position and will accept s Miss Aurelia Gallnian visited 8j,ujjar onc a^ Savannah, Ga. friends in Spartanburg \\ ednesday. - _ tit ... * Mrs. M. A. Gwynn, of Chester Mrs. L. J. Hames is visiting her W]1Q jia8 |)cen visiting at the hom< sister, Miss Inez Sarratt in Gaffney. 0f Ex-Sheriff .T. (i hmo 1 Mr. C. It. Bryant, of Joncsvillc, Mountain street, returned to hei is now with the Mutual Dry Goods home Tuesday. ^?* Mrd. S. M. Itice, Jr.*, attended tin Mr. M. M. Boyd, of Spartanburg, burial of her cousin, Mrs. Horac< was in the city Monday on busi- Bomar at Spartanburg, last Thurs ness. day afternoon. Mrs. Bomar wa ' Miss Lucile Montgomery. Rev. Dr. A. G.. Wardlaw and family have returned from Ardcn, Mr. Wilson, chief clerk in tin N..C. oflice of the comptroller general ? T r x> , . eamo up last Thursday aftcrnooi Mrs. I.. J. Browning went to aBd settled with the county trcas Spartanburg lost Friday to visit Urcr, Mr. J. H. Barttles, in abou relatives. two hours and went hack on tin Mr. J. W. Vincent, of the Union 5) o'clock train that night. Hardware Co., is off on a week's ... . . . . We have lieen informed that Mr recreation. . { r peak(j and J)r R R gmit] iOA \fnWViii4ni* nf Vnw. I liavn n 1 uiiif d., h. ATAio v?w. A?AV ?? mi wi ( vi nvii" *?"?v p;invw;u it lliiui; u berry, is visiting the family of Mr. which Dr. Smith will lease th J. E. Col ton. * mineral spring for a term of years ^ .1 rr.i . Dr. Smith proposes to develop th Miss Catherine Thomson is at 8pring and put the water on th Fletcher, N. C., lor the remainder market, of the summer. r? v 4 ifii * rn T,1? new Mercantile Company Mr. Robort Miller, now of Ten- known as the Union Mercantile ncssee, was in the city tins week Company with the following ofli ' among his many friends. cere: It. N. Sprouse, President ' ta *>- us n i . t r i W. S. McLure, Vice'President: J . Robinson, ofJwW p ? , Treasurer; J. I.. law ville, Fla visitedI relative and Hnsj^Jccretnry. Thin Arm is com friends in the city this week. posed of young energetic busing Mr. J. T. Sexton has moved his mcn? nnc^ we liespcak for then f family to the house on Dawkins av- ?ro<l ^ bUCCCttS ^10 mercantil cnuc belonging to Mr. O. Millor. ? world. , OPEN LETTER TC FROM Gf Appeal Prom Philip Dri Excuse for Pactionalisn Defeat Lurking in R Eight?Duty of a to His The following "open letter" to Senator Tillman from Hon. (leo. B. Cromer of Newberry has been received by The State for publication: Hon. B. R. Tillman. Dear Sir: I protest against the introduction of the tom-tom and the spirit of faction into the movement by which the merits of the dispensary are to be tested. The tom-tom is the instrument of the juggler and factionalism is the resori 01 ine politician. The people of this State have the right to expect something higher and better from you. Your recent letter to Mr. Higgins was a calm, sane and judicial statement of your attitude oil the dispensary question, hut for this very reason it was distasteful in certain quarters, and you were accused of straddling. You gave that letter out as an expression of | your views, and, my name having been kindly suggested by you, 1 was asked to answer it in The New Voice. I declined to do so for the simple reason that in this county we wish to test the dispensary question on its merits and, therefore, desire to exclude every possible phase of "Tillmanism." SHIFTING OKGROI NI). In the Higgins letter you recognized the widespread and wellfounded liclicf that the dispensary is corrupt in its administration, and that the present agitation is an expression of popular dissatisfaction. But in your Edgefield speech you shifted your ground, and took the position that the movement is political in significance and is a covert attack upon you. In the Higgins letter you said <i i I1 i ' * uuu me remedy ior me corruption rests with the legislature; that in the last legislature the friends and enemies of the dispensary got together and did nothing but appoint a committee; that ever since you were governor you have given advice and made suggestions, but that your opinion has had no weight with the legislature; and that if the next legislature does not apply the remedy, you will help to kill - the dispensary. c In you Edgefield speech you said c that if the next legislature does not . adopt certain suggestions that you intend to make, you will help to elect a legislature that will. And I you said, by implication at least, r that you will go to the "Rcform1 crs" for that legislature. I appeal from Philip drunk to Philip sol)er?from the temper of 1 the Edgefield speech to the tone of the Higgins letter. In Newberry there is no disposition to make an attack upon you under cover of a r movement against the dispensary. - it is not ft political movement. It 1 was begun in an off year in order that it might be a test of a great moral question, unclouded by pers sonal and political considerations. ^ It is not a movement of the politicians, but a movement of the people. You have doubtless noticed that the counties that were strongly 3 "Conservative'* are not in the 3 movement. " A M'TY TO SOUTH CAROLINA'S YOUTH. 1 I do not question your right to teke part in the discussion. Independently of the fact that you arc the author of the system in this j State, it would be strange if you r were to remain silent. By virtue 1 of your high office and of your great influence it is your duty to speak, e but to speak sanely and temperately 3 as you did in the Higgins letter. " You owe a great deal* to the youth s of this State; you owe them the best that you have to give. When the dispensary was first put on c trial there may have licen good ? reason for an appeal to a faction, 1 but that reason no longer exists. " The system has been on trial more ^ than 12 years. It will soon lie 15 voted on by thousands of men who were only eight or nine years old when it was adopted. When you speak now, wc are entitled to have 1 you speak from the point of view of ^ statesmanship and not of partisan e polities. Besides, you have too much e sagacity to fear that this movement " against the dispensary can endanger your political future. You occupy a large place in the history of South ^ Carolina for the last 15 years, and ?_ for a numljcr of years no rival has . challenged your primacy among the political leaders of the State. Ben Tillman, the senator representing South Carolina, can well afford to g discard the methods of Ben Till1 man the partisan political leader. e I do not mean to l>e offensive. You know of my appreciation of the distinguished services that you havo > TILLMAN iORGE 5. CROMER. ink to Philip Sober?No n, No Danger of Political esult of Dispensary Worthy Leader State. rendered this State in a number of directions. But I earnestly protest that you have no right to l>efog this question by lowering it to th<- plane of partisan politics. IT I>Kn.UCHKS MOltALS. That the administration of the dispensary system is corrupt any fool can sec as he runs. But I go farther than that, even at the risk of having you charge me with cant and hypocrisy. No matter how high your purpose may have been in adopting the system, in its origin it seems to have been a cunninglyrlni'icn/1 c/?l>ni\%n - mv ncv u rviivihv' iv/ v. IIIVJI SJIKJl 111 lilt! public conscience. No Jesuitical attempt to debauch morals by using the end to justify the means could have been more successful, if the system had been honestly administered. The corrupt administration will save us from the system itself. WHAT IT TKACIIKS TIIK CIULDKKN. Gov. I loch of Kansas tells me, "We are rearing a new civilization here. I believe there arc more than a quarter of million young people who have never seen a saloon. Prohibition is the only logical attitude of law toward the liquor traffic, and the whole country will some day recognize the fact." What sort of civilization are we rearing in South Carolina? Our supreme court, in its famous decision upholding the constitutionality of the dispensary law, laid down the following as a fundamental proposition and said that if this proposition is not true the law is unconstitutional: "That liquor, in its nature, is dangerous to' the morals, good order, health i and safety of the people, and is not to bo placed on the same footing with the ordinary commodities of i l!f_ 1 * mo, sucn aw corn, wneat, cotton, tobacco, potatoes, etc." Kansas says to her children, "The liquor traflic is dangerous and ought to he prohibited." South Carolina says to her thousands of school children, "The liquor trallic is dangerous to the morals, good order, health and safety of the people, and therefore will sell liquor and get all the money we can for the schools." You may call it cant if you will, but in effect here is an insidious attempt to wed public education to the liquor traflic. It is an unholly alliance and God will put them asunder. We cannot afford to lower the ideals of our schools. We must not poison the fountain that nourishes the heart and brain of our people. virions and DANUKitors sci i KM K. The busiqpss of the saloon keeper was becoming disreputable? in this State, and saloon keepers were beginning to find it difficult to justify a, -e xi bin: UUNH^ 111 tnu vyua 01 men children. The dispensary system attempts to make the traflic respectable and reputable. How can the children in our schools answer the sophistry of the argument, that whatever contributes to the support of the schools is good and wise? 1 lay it down as little short of an axiom, that any restrictive scheme that takes control of a traflic that is dangerous to the morals of the people, and controls it in such a way as to make it reputable, is a vicious and dangerous scheme. HETTKK TIIINCS THAN MONEY. Ix;t me suggest an historical parallel. A great leader was commanded to go down against the Amalakitcs, standing for immorality, and destroy them and theirs utterly. When he was called to account by the old prophet and asked what meant the lowing of cattle and the bleating of sheep, his lame excuse was that the people had kept the best of the sheep and oxen to sacrifice to the Ixml. The nroohet's answer was as swift and withering as lightning, "Behold, to ol>ey is better than sacrifice." Sacrifice is good, but there arc better things than mere sacrifice. The government of a great State was commanded by the moral sense of the people, expressed at the ballot box, to go down ami destroy the liquor traffic. And when called tq account it makes the pitiful plea that while it has not destroyed the traffic it has managed it so as to get money for tin; taxpayers. Money for the schools is good, but there arc better things than money for the schools. The blight of God's curse falls upon the people that resort to methods that dull the public conscience and lower the tone of public morals. APPEAL THAT APATHIOT MIUI1T HEEI). Senator Tillman, the dispensary system cannot help you, and you can help it only temporarily. It is wrong in principle and corrupt in I?4 SZKSt A Greal Readers of1 have savings accounts wi Knl irr\ f 1 a a?*/\ n ?-/a 4^U J ~ raj kyvnwt nicic aic llIUUSUHUS open accounts if the strengt |g of the institution were clear gj We warit every reader H a depositor, and enjoy the H substantial profit for their s; Capital $80,000 | THE PEOPL ^ The Bank That P< JKhkhuhuhnhnhrhuhm What's 1 doing without anything wl with it. If it happens to be i very likely have it, and neve the way. Have you been in make your acquaintance. L of goods we carry in stock: Oak Bedroom Suites, Oak and 1 Washstands. Sewinjr lWarhinp< Baby Go-Carts and Carriages, Extension Tables, Bed Spring* Safes and Tables, Lounges, Wii Shades, Tin and Crockery ware, Bedspreads, Reed and Oak Roc Knives and Forks, Bread Tra; Sifters, Stoves, Sideboards, Hall other things. WE MAKE SPECIAL ORDERS FOR Buy one of our 36 pound feathe now and balance in Fall. TURNER &, Tzmmmrnsmmmma I New Furniti Iwc AKC Kt NEW GOODS I Come and inspect our stoc give you prices on Furnitui interest to get our prices bel We have a good ma Summer Goods. Cj Let us do your Repair Work will try and please you in e have a nice line of Picture our prices on Picture Frame We Will Apprei Burris & Watch Us is^isisi^^fsisa practice, and its doom lias been written. Ity throwing your powerful influence against tin; present tit agitation you may save the dispen- trt sary for a while, hut it is tottering m< and must fall. It is fortunate for to you that your reputation rests upon kn achievement^ that will endure. S ou ha recall, do you not, the desire of m; 1 * n 4 I.Sc ...Ul....!. .1 11 . ?u>< IOUII lllill. 111.-. MIIMIHI l(> remind posterity that he was the in; author of the Declaration of lnde- de pendenee, and of the Dill for reli- to gious liberty, and the father of the fer University of Virginia. And so of his name is handed down, riveted m< to civil liberty, and religious liberty, ne and higher education, three things tu that can never depart from the earth or from the love of men. And you, what would you lie remembered by? There is VVinthrop, and there is Clemson; well may your heart swell with honorable pride. Ami there is, 1 will not . name the third thing. What true friend would link your name with'^j, the dispensary? What bitter enemy j could desire a worse fate for you f(l] than to have you raised to that had eminence? A wise solution of the j liquor problem is ono thing; the dispensary is another. owbbbbi rifl Many 5 rhe Times | ith this Bank, and we m of others who would K h and other advantages B ly understood by them. B of The Times to become |B ' absolute security and fa wings which we offer, gg Surplus $19,000 Mg .ES BANK,! ays 4 F er Cent. m TSS, fWifSL arjBi axtB) <BMB) asas I&JB HK! fhc Use hen you can do better a household necessity we r let the price stand in our place? We'd like to >rop in. Below is a list ron Bedsteads, Bureaus and Organs, Trunks, Clocks, Refrigerators, Center and ; and Mattresses, Kitchen idovv Curtains, Poles and Pictures and Easels, Lamps, kers, Baby Chairs, Rugs, ys, Coffee Mills, Brooms, Racks, and a great many I ANYTHING NOT IN STOCK. r bods for #10.00, pay #5.00 MAYFIELP. lire Store! 1 ECEIVINQ [ EVERY DAY. ? k, we will be glad to H *e. It will be to your H fore buying elsewhere. B my Bargains in H all and see them. H : ai d Upholstering. We B very respect. We also B Moulding on hand. Get I ciate a Call. H Mining. 1 i Grow. H instai'MfSiSi&zi wiiat Tin: pkopkk want. 1 have very little political ambi>n, and no taste, for public eon>versy. Von need not remind that it is none of my business take care of your reputation. I iow that. Hut in a quiet way 1 ve for many years been doing V best, little as it may have been, develop strong, clean, brave mhond in this State, and it sadns me to feel that you are about let pride of oniniim <irwl *i... ( * tvuii tinvor of debate stand in the way a fair ami open test of a great >ral question. The people do not ed advice, they need free oppornity to vote. Respectfully, (iKO. 15. CltOMKH. Newberry, C., Aug. 11, 100o. A Card of Thanks. The children and relatives < f rs. Mary A. Knight desire through is to extend to the many friends id neighbors, their sincere thanks r the kind attention shown to rs. Knight during her last illness. JIkk Children. Subscribe for The Times. m v"