Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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i^o ? ? *"^^SyBSS^?S^ amcss ."br y "y"^% "w" y "w y yjr y?Hv'y w- w- -y=r -w?y /?y union and suburbs has 2 "X? ., B ~*B * -? I j * I Lji^*! % f I m B 23|3^ | I i I / j 1 fy | Plvv Largo Cotton Mills, Knitting Ti" "sTh rfi'^i.-iK* wlotiJSStwP^p'^ * 'B ' V BflsSB '''. 'Jr*B-. m l j I ' B 9 1 m / I B B 2 Spinning Mill gau? capital of ittO.wOr W6Wli"71 B - :'B *f. s S f* r - * B * B ' I B I m/ fl I 1 _ i I, Furniture Manufacturing m i<?\ 7 ctreota, 18,<**>. V J * 1 * Eg? jYQlyLV.. NO.' 4 ~ , UNION.-SOUTH CAROLINA,' OCTOBER 27, 1905? #1.00 A YEAR: BR^?- ^w o, ? * ,-: 1 r M,i,.i .uWIIJE( - Wm. A. Nicholson Onion, Sou Bp' PAY INTE ^ TimeCertificat Roosevelt Lauds the Lost Cause. During his recent tour through the southland, President Roosevelt has spoken in the highest and warmest terms of the Confederate soldier and the cause for which he so bravely fought. At Raleight, N. C., he said: "The position of honor in your parade today is held by the Confederate veterans. They, by LliCll uccuo, ICUCCt UCUll upuii * their descendants and upon all *> Americans, both because they did their duty in war and because they did their duty in peace. Now, if the young men, their sons, will not only prove that they possess the same power of fealty to an ideal but will also show the efficiency in the ranks of industrial life that their fathers, the Confederate veterans, showed that they possessed in the ranks of war, the industrial future of this great and typical ^ taerican commonwealth is assured." Tf^ next day at Atlanta hfe spoke as follows of1'the boys in fc-ey: . Great though the meed of praise is due the south for the ^^;.;^4ierIy^vaJor her sons displayed think that even greater praise is due to her for what her people have accomplished in the forty years of peace which followed. For forty years the south has made not merely a courageous, but at times a desperate struggle, as she has striven for moral and material well-being. Her success has been extraordinary, anc all citizens of our common coun try should feel joy and pride ir it; for any great deed done, oi any fine qualities shown, by on< group of Americans, of necessity reflects credit upon all Ameri cans. Only a heroic people coul< have battled successfully agains the conditions with which th people of the south found them selves face to face at the end o the civil war. There had bee utter destruction and disastei and wholly new business an social problems had to be face with the scantiest means. Th economic and political fabric ha to be readjusted in the midst < dire want, of grinding povert: The future of the broken, wa swept south seemed beyond hop and if her sons and daughte had been of weaker fiber thei would in very truth have be< no hope. But the men and tl sons of the men who had fac< with unfaltering front every s ternation of good and evil f< tune from Manassas to Appom; tox, and the women, their wiv and mothers, whose courage a endurance had reached an ev higher heroic level?these m and these women set themseh .m/loiint v fn thp OTeat ts Uliuauilkvui,) vv 0 before them. For twenty ye; the struggle was hard and times doubtful. Then the spl did qualities of your manh< and womanhood told, as tl were bound to tell, and wealth of your extraordin; natural resources began to shown. Now the teeming ric of mine and held and factory test the prosperity of those \ are all the stronger because the trials and strnggles throi which this prosperity has co You stand by ally to your tr tions and memories; you i stand loyally for our great c mon country of today and our common flag, which sym izes all that is brightest and r hopeful for the future of n kind; you face the new ag< the spirit of age. Alike in j material and in your spin & Son, Bankers, . th Carolina, I REST ON El . j nni t, buut . _ . oss like t (ll(, ^vat,,r. ] rsuien bcfoij 4 . t ! and int.pllppt.iml dpv4*lnr?*r?or?+ ??" - MVf Vtvpaiivuv JVU I stand abreast of the foremost in the worid's progress. t . v George, the Ex-Convict, e A. L. George, the ex-convict, t who, according to his story has r lectured in 17 states and sold j over 47,000 copies of his book, { spoke here Saturday afternoon c and night. He is a man of ordi- I nary appearance, smooth-shaven { and of middle \ ge. i His lecture which was delivered I from the top of a dry goods box, attracted many hearers and after * he had begun he had a good 1 audience. s He prefers to speak in this c way because what he says and ^ the lesson he seeks to teach can be heard by the poorest men in t the town and county. He makes a hie expenses by selling little a books, telling of his prison life, t and he usually manages to dis- | pose of a great many of them. ? His story is a dramatic and interesting one. Innocent of the I crime of which he was charged r and of which he was found guilty t and sentenced to the penitentiary, t herserved there five years and * more. At one time*&e was with- J 1 tcteJte!G?'?ntas* sentence" T was ordered by the governor of J Texas, the state in which George t was incarcerated. * i He was finally pardoned and * he declares that when he received 1 his pardon he swore that he 1 1 would devote his life to an en- * deavor to keep young men from I leading the life which leads to - the penalty of prison bars. He l does this by lecturing in the ( r manner mentioned. b lie tells his story well. It gave ? many a man food for reflection, - for the lecture was impressive. 1 Justice often miscarries. An t instance was furnished here in e South Carolina scarce a month - ago when two men had been imf prisoned for two years were n found to be guiltless and they r, were released by order of Goverd nor Heyward. Is that justice? d The strong arm of the law ie grasps in its almost merciless id clutch the innocent man, takes >f away his good name and reputa-1 /' tion, eternally brands him, and r- then after years of durance e, vile releases him without restirs tution. re The dav is coming when the 3n injustices of justice will have to be atoned for and then there will ed be ready restitution for the man *1- who has been unjustly punished. >r- 1 , ? eg Death of Mrs. Blanton. nd ? en Mrs. James R. Blanton, one of en Cherokee's oldest ladies, died res Monday, the 16th inst., at th isk home of her son-in-law, Mr. arg James Pettit, having passed be at yond the three score and ter en- mark, and was buried at Corintl x)d church Tuesday in the presence iey of her numerous relatives an( the friends. She was the widow o: ary the late James Riley Blanton be and the mother of Mr. Robt Kirby, Mrs^ Hamlet Crocker at-1 Mrs. James Pettit, Mrs. i>ena t vho Blanton, Mrs. Joseph Phillip of and Mrs. C. J. Wall, all of whor ugh are of our most worthy and high me. ly respected people and have th adi- sympathy of all in their bereav< also' ment.?Cherokee News, om-1 Mrs. Blanton is very pleasant! for remembered in Union, havin bol-! lived here several years whi nost her husband Mr. James Rik ian- Blanton was auditor of th 3 in county, he having succeeded M /our j N. B. Morgan who has hpid tl itual office several terms. DISPENSARY FORCES BltfCE LAW CONTESTED I Of Uh federal Judge Pritchard Control to Show Cau! Here Should Noi / 7, fc _____ The battle has begun again. < :t. died ^way ofcce, buttfn the in- i ;erYal of' peac the dispensary < forces have planned an^TCWfk* < hat startled the people of the 1.1 ;ounty with its suddenness last c Friday. Seeking temporary rem- < ?dy in the courts of the State the t onsary was defeated; but its j mdaunted adherents have renew- t ;d the fight in a higher court. s Judge Jeter C. Pritchard, of i he United States Circuit Court i it Asheville, issued on Friday an t >rder directing the Union County Joard of Control to appdar be- i 'ore him on October 31st to show \ ;ause why mandamus should not < )e issued, requiring the Board of t " teopen the dispensary t n Union and to reinstate J. G. 1 Jowell in the office of dispenser, i Mr. Howell, the petioner, was ^ epresented by United States i District Attorney John G. Capers, 1 md Mr. R. S. Welch, of the firm 11 >f Bellenger & Welch, of Colum- c >ia. j The question involves not only 1 he reinstatement of Mr. Howell c ind the reopening of the dispen- i arp, but also the validity of c he Brice Bill passed at the last ;ession of the legislature of this i >tate. i The ultimate decision of Judge i Jritchard will hardly close the 1 natter. It is understood that at { he next session of our legisla- t ure in January a hard and final t ight will.be xenta advocates of i dgigrarron then be enacted r vhich will do much toward set- 1 ling the legality of the Brice 3ill and the status of the dispen- r jary. The final decision will . nost probably be by the whole aeople at the ballot box next 1 summer. < If this decision of Judge Pritchard is rendered at this " time in favor of Dispenser Howell, the effect might possibly be his reinstatement and the probable restitution of the dispensary to all those counties in which it has been voted out. The result will be awaited with interest not only by the people of Union County, but also by the people of the entire State. The two attorneys employed by Dispenser Howell are both well known in South Carolina. Mr. R. S. Welch is a Newberry man originally, and was former-! ly of the firm of Abney, Welch & Thompson, but is now associated with former atttorney-general G. Duncan Bellinger, who is also employed as counsel in the case. The other attorney is United States District Attorney John G. Capers, who rarely appears as counsel in cases of this kind. The gist of the case and the gist of the arguments advanced in the hearing before Judge Pritchard are given in the following interview which we reprint from the Greenville News "This action," said Mr. Capere i to a reporter for The Greenville J News, "is of vital import, be . cause its purpose is to test the - Brice law. Its favorable out 1 come would render null and voi( 11 the elections already held ii 2 Union, Cherokee, Pickens, New i berry, York, Lancaster, Darling ton and Marion counties, and th , advocates of prohibition woul ;. have to seek some other metho of getting rid of the dispensarie.' '. "We allege that Mr. Howe s was deprived of his office wit! n out due process of law, and th? i- j furthermore the provision in tl ie Brice act for a levy to enforc 3- j prohibition in counties voting oi the dispensary is unconstitutioi ly al. We say that the closing < g the dispensary in Union, follo\ le ing an election held under tl jy Brice act is unconstitutional, is that it deprives tne taxpayers r. | Union county of their proper lie i without due process of law, t cause the act is not a valid Is ftSSEW THE EIGHT BY WSPENSER HOWELL, HON. Orders Union Board of se ^liy Dispensary fWReopened. rftfctfbtate, inasmuch as it levies i fix on all of the taxable propjrtwfin certain counties for the H^fiH^ement of a general State ,aw^5nd exempts from levy other :ounfcies placea in the same circumstances and under like condi;ionS as to the dispensary law ind Its enforcement. Therein is nolat^d the section of the conjtitutfon which says 'the General \ssembly shall provide by law 'or a uniform and equal rate of :axation. "W^ say that this act is not /alid, furthermore, because it provides that any county voting >ut the dispensarv. shall not thereafter receive any portion of the surplus funds that may renain in the dispensary school ?und, after the deficiency in the rarioeis county schools have been nade up, as provided by law, )ut leaving the said surplus funds to be - distributed among the ;ounties retaining the dispensary, n the surplus funds now in the lands of the State the taxpayers >f Union county have a property ight of which they must not be leprived. 'Still another reason for the nvalidity of the Brice act, is that t violates the constitution by beng a special law where a general aw would apply. It also denies icople in Union and other counties hat m^y vote out the dispensary ho equalr protection of the law. effective argu side, which I have 101* you SpaCe to ook for developments soon." The result of this decision is of nore than passing interest, for t will without doubt have much veight on the elections that are shortly to take place on the subject of "dispensary" or "no dispensary." There are several counties which are to vote on this question within the next three weeks and the decision will therefore be of pertinent and peculiar interest to them. We reprint the follovving editorial, a sane and clear view of the recent agitation of the questior in the higher courts, printed under the caption, "The Ballot the Last Court," in the Columbu Record: "A new and somewhat unex pected turn has been given th< dispensary situation by the at tack which has been made oi the constitutionality of the Brie law in the federal court. Argu ment is to be made before Judg Pritchard on that issue Octobe 31. The main point raise against the constitutionality c the law is in reference to its ta> | ation feature, and that questio is, aflso, to come up before th , next legislature. If the law ! upheld then these proceeding , will have no effect upon electior : alre&dy held or yet to be hel< j If the law is declared unconstiti j tional then past elections .will 1 1 of no effect and conditions w 2 be the same as if they were ne I er held. Hence, the result is 1 the very greatest importance 1 the people of South (Jarolin . Being a matter of so much pr< .. ent pressing concern all citize e will earnestly hope that the coi d or courts will quickly give soi d decision upon the question, so1 5 that we may know where |j are at.'' If the law is constil j. tional then that is all there is it, and whatever of more or 1< te strong objection there are to .e will have to be abandoned a it the terms of the law gracefi [j. submitted to until it is repeal rjf If it is unconstitional, it wo v_ have been better that we 1 ie known it long before, but if i jn it must go, and what has b< 0f done under it will have to be wi ty away just as if no such law ? \Qm existed. IW (Continued on 4th rage.) ' V ^ x ? IF. M. FARR, President. T Merchants and Pli Successfully Doing Bu Is the OLDEST Hank has a capital and sun M H is the only N ATION: B H has paid dividends If pays KOL'll per ccn p I is the only Hunk in U I I has Hurglar-Proof vti W pays raoro taxes than WE EARNESTLY SOI ????? Oh, Mr. Parmer! The following will be of inter est to all cotton planters and cot ton men generally. It is the cal iasiiPfl hv thr> Orantrehiirrr fnttm Association and it gives goor reasons why the lleecy staph should be held tight and fast til the higher prices desired come Farmers, hold your cotton foi higher prices. Because it is worth 11 cents 01 more. Because it is bound to sell ai much higher figures. Because the man who makes th< cotton should help t< make the price. Because trade is broad anc strong, and record breaking as to textiles. Because the mills are making money on basis of 1] cents and 12 cents anc 12 cents for cotton. Because the world needs ever> bale, and will take il greedily at 11 cents i1 we hold firm. Because we are no longer slave* to the North, but a free people, with our bank* full of money and th< merchants and banker* at our backs. -Because we live in a record which has'TTTaccrn.'fi ?th< opened unusually early will be found to be ver: short when the world wide and unprecedente< demand for cotton good is considered. Because the farmer needs th money and deserves i more than the specula tor. Because money don't buy a much now as formerly Because everything the farme buys has gone up i price, why not cotton , Because the Southern Cotton Ai [ sociation has fixed pric for good cotton at ] ; cents, and this Associ; [ tion is fighting our ba tie and has put millioi of dollars in the pocke 3 of Southern people. 1 Because we should be true n Southern manhood ai e the Southland. Because if we show the whi e feather and sell we w r feel like kicking 01 j selves out of sight wh ' cotton is selling at cents to 12 1-2 cei n per pound. is The Negro Might Obje< JjS A man from the North who ul cently visited Washington je came possessed of the desire * tt T-? i: in visit iMt. vernon. nuanung v" electric train that runs from ?0 capital to the home of Washi a> ton, via Alexandria, the vis ?s- had comfortably esconced h ns gelf in one of the rear seats c ,rt compartment, when the cont 116 tor rapped him on the shoul< saying, "Excuse me, but compartment is for colored mc This was the northerner's experience in a "Jim Crow" "Why," said he, surprised, ' ' j seats forward are all occupii "Can't help that, sir," waf ll,y rpnlv. "vou mustn't sit he e^* | The northerner smiled. uljJ i here, conductor," said he, 1 Ja.d j from the North, and haven'l t18 i prejudice of you people in eeTl South. I don't mind sitting P0'11 with a negro.1' ever - "Maybe you don't," re the conductor, "but the ni might object.' '-Harper's We J. D. ARTHUR, Cashier. H E anlers National Bank, siness at the "Old Stand." in I'nion. >lua olUO-i.OOO, V I, liaiik ill Union, mounting to $J0CM0U, t. into rout 011 deposits, nion inspected by an ollicer, tult, an<l Safe with Time-Lock, ALL tho Ihmks in Union combined. LICIT YOUR BUSINESS. The Tiger's Train. Five hundred strong, theClem son corps of cadets came through 1 Union last Saturday on their way 1 to the fair where they are in en2 campment this week. Their 1 train of ten coaches was decorat ed beautifully with purple and gold, the Clemson colors, and on r the head of the engine was a painted picture of a tiger on a t vrreat banner of elotb The cadets were not allowed * to come out of the train but they crowded the windows and met \ with hearty cheers the warm and - enthusiastic reception accorded them by many admirers and ^ friends who had assembled at the I depot. Some of the fairest of Union's daughter's were there r with Clemson colors galore and ? the thundering cheers they received for the evidence of their ? loyalty and enthusiasm to. the > boys in grey was ample reward, s A brass band was along and it I played excellent music during the stay of the cadets in the city . which lasted al>out twenty min5 U&rfis met here I who accompanied them back to .'Columbia. } Among the Union boys on s board were Spencer Perrin, who is Sergeant-Major of the first \ batallion, Lewis Harris and SidL. ney Goss. The train pulled out of the stals tion with the boys cheering and J' waving farewells out of the 11" l ; 1^.,. t-n flm rvil'lo tVlOU loff Ko. WillUU VV IU I.IIC 51110 niv-j iviv .} hind them. ; Capt. Clay, U. S. A., the commandant, was on board, along with several Clemson professors and two ladies of the college community. ~ The Clemson correspondent of "The State"' who was on board spoke in glowing terms in that t paper of the reception given the j cadets in Union. The corps will be at the fair a week and no te doubt will have a jolly time. ill ir- The Salvation Army. en 11 The rolling of a drum anlts nounced last week the advent of the Salvation Army in Union. Meetings have been held in the j. streets during the past few days and on Sunday at which fair sized crowds have attended. The re" leader wears a uniform with the /1VAOO An AQ r*h ehrmlHar as an V^J VOO VII Vmvii ww V..X-V, to epaulette and is assisted by a the "sister" and a little boy. They .? sing and pray and preach and do so openly. ng" Several services have been itor held in the opera house and im- doubtless some good has been a effected by them. The little band , lives on the contributions which i" are made to it and fares accordthis m." first "Hooligan's" Troubles. car. 'the The famous creation of The -1 " ? v?i- t 1 iJU. INtJW 1 UI'IV iJUUlliai uii 1U3 wiiiib J the page, "Happy Hooligan" apre." peared in person last Wednesday 'See night on the local boards. He 'I'm proved a very amusing character t the and the way he constantly fell the off the water wagon was wonderhere ful to behold. 'Hooligan" was not very ably supported, but he plied himself kept the crowd laughing, gger The next snow will be Humptyekly. 1 Dumpty, on November 1. ,-a