The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, December 15, 1905, Image 4
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UNION, S. f!., DECEMBER 15, 19<
Calendars for 1000 sent out 1
the Kice Drug Company are perfc
gems of artistic beauty.
The carnival is so amusing, e
verting and confusing that it fail*
to prove a very good investment f
the city.
The Christmas goods in the stui
of the city this year arc unusual
pr< tt\. antique and varied in shap
and assortments. The Rice l>ri
ft ?rc. Palmetto and I Hike dri
8t >res and the Wonder Stor< ha
...... .I.rtw.i.mt in unit hi
til" IIV-O OUIMVI'IIV V'
gr tify ttaste of any and over
body.
The several justices of the Sta
Supreme Court have uniformly d
clinc 1 to disturb the status quo <
the different dispensaries whic
have been voted out in the sever
counties'. That is where applies
tion was made to reopen a close
dispensary or to close one that w.'
still being kept open after an ele<
tion. The 8th of January will n
doubt settle the constitutionality <
11
The 8th of January is the da
agreed upon by the attorneys an
the supreme omirt for the hcarin
ot the arguments in the dispcnsni
eaees. This is the day before tl
convening of tin: General Ansombl;
hut it is not probable that the eon
will decide the question in a burr;
yet there is no doubt the decisk
will be rendered in ample time f
the legislature, if the decisk
of the court is what is going to go
em the actions of the General A
scmbly in handling and dealii
with tin- rliHiwii-nrv lnw -isi w/->n
r-eein to think. Tin' members
the legislature arc the represent
tivos of the people and should 1
governed hv the wishes of the pe<
p'e in matters of this kind,
would he easy enough, in the ev? i
the Ilriee. act is declared by tl
court unconstitutional, to enact
law upon the whiskey quest ic
which would settle the matter an
satisfy a majority of the peoph
The General Assembly will have
in their hands to make the State
prohibition?or a high license undt
the provisions of the dispensur
law, as contained in the Constiti
lion, that is under the provisions c
the Constitution a license to se
liquor can be provided for by a
act of the legislature w ithout viola
ting any of those provisions.
We have and do advocate a loea
option, that is if a city or town say
give us a dispensary managed am
controlled by private individual
licensed by the municipal am
county authorities, lot them hav<
it; unci if a place fays by a vote, \v<
do not want liquor cold, then noiu
can be sold. We have always beei
opposed to the State selling liquor
Tho State has uo right to a monopoly
any more than an individual,
operated to the detriment of otherc
and the crushing out of competition.
Let tho legislature act wisely in
this matter regardless of what the
Jtrpmae court decide*.
*
^ N
> TILLMAN'S TURN TO BE ?RANTANKtROUS'
Like Our "Priend Up the
{ River" He "Wants to Know"
About Contributions.
G
MY Jl'LIAN IIAWT1IOHNK.
R Washington, Dec. 7.?Today in
tl*?" pretty little theatre of the senate
,n chainl>er the public favorite, Mr.
Tillman, was announced to do a
turn on the theme of the investigation
by congress of the alleged peuy
euniary considerations offered to
X) the attention of members by the
great corporations and financial in
Htitutions of the country.
I'pon entering the press gallery
, the square-shouldered and squarer,o
faced presence of the senator coni>r
fronted me from his Beat on tin
centre aisle, near the back. Hi
was flanked by immense scrap l?ooki
?f on his right, and his desk was pilcc
tlf with documents and books. llo sa
moody, grim and solitary, with hii
- hands boforo him, like a monarcl
5. of the wilderness waiting to drinl
? blood, lie looked straight befon
?y him, oblivious, seemingly, alike o
friend and foe. The Islimaelit<
character of the man was cxpresse<
in his attitude.
|. ri.ATI J.IKK A W HAITI I OF NIOHT.
. Other senators were in their seats
and especially noticeable was tin
or lean figure of Mr. Piatt, isolated
with folded hands, or sometime
plucking at the gray beard bcneatl
vi? his under lip. All that is left o
jv this personage is a dry, brown skin
* tightly drawn over a very charac
^ teristic skeleton. As Mr. Tillman*
l,t? argument was pretty sure to inchul
.ig some reference to the senator fron
Vl. Now York his presence was interest
j ing; but it turned out that his onl;
K business this morning was to han<
v* in a bill; and he disappeared, lib
a wraith in the night, before tin
Man with One Eye had begun hi:
to address.
u. Hale, Allison and Frye sat 01
- the satno side of the room and nea
l' one another. Spooner was on tin
aisle. Power, which these gentle
al men are supposed to wield, has no
affected any visible gaiety in theii
,(j spirits. The desks in the 8enat<
are separated, unlike those in tlx
ls house, and the arrangement seem:
suited to the solitary humor of theii
10 occupants. They abide, eacl
jf wrapt in the garment of his owr
thoughts: they converse with eacl
-w?viF.n
A OLFM I.OT IS T1IE SENATE.
y The compact figure and knottet
forehead of Hale spoke of the cor
redness and composure of N?v
ig England; he will weigh hie words
v speak little, and to the point. Al
lison's shoulders are bowed, ant
his big head, with its high crowi
y, and powerful features, has beer
softened by the weight of age into ;
certain mildness. Frye appear
y, much younger than his brethren
yet age is doing its work upon him
too; his body is shrunken nnt
or feeble, and lie has the look of ,
in dyspeptic; but the intellect ant
efficiency of his oddly formed fea
tures art: obvious,
s- Frye is furrowed and haggard
with deep lines graved in his check:
and horizontal wrinkles across hii
10 brow. These men doubtless hav<
()f their private avocations and diver
sions; yet the main happiness o
:l* their lives must lie in this C'ham
:><: her; and a more dejeetcd-lookinj
o ; group could not he found in Wash
j ington.
It1
I Atii: STALKS I.IKE A SENTINEL THKHE
H !
j On the Democratic side are othei
famous personages; .Morgan, mort
;L than fourscore, and lookint? his full
age, liis cheeks greatly worn and
,M his (lcah reduced; Pettus, the patri(I
arch of the senate, with a grey tufl
on his chin, and the quiet, philo'
cophic aspect of a Confucians age;
Culberson, of Texas, ft grey-haired
a young man, with a square forehead
;V and a winning, high-bred countc,
nance; Bailey, of the same State,
sitting next Tillman, smiling and
!* fresh-colored, a boy of genius?but
d there is far more of age. than of
11 youth in this chamber.
n Lesser men came in and took
( their seats before Kdward Everett
Hale, from the desk of the President,
had summoned the Almighty
l' to preside over their councils. Dos
pew had withdrawn himself, but
1 there was the grey-haired, smoothcornered
Forakor; Scott, of West
' Virginia, with Peabody Wetmoro
beside him, par mobile fratrum,
L' with perhaps something less than
e the amount of an ordinary intellect
. between them; Callinger, from
whose cranium Alopecia and the j
' A4+-t it.~ I-II
itwxwMio ui mu loDoy nave re
moved every hirsute adornment;
Smoot, the Mormon in the back
, row, the type of the able Uoors
walker; Lodge, of MaHyaehuHCtts,
narrow-bodied, neat and whiteblooded,
wearing the diplomatio
1 brnirk; and others, smaller and not
1 so small.
TIk-v foTujcd a c^uiet and uudcui
onstrative collection, to whom were
left no illusions, and whose proceedings
had the air of having been
settled and arranged beforehand.
They were here to go through with
forms and to utter formulas merely,
and to abide in peace, secluded
from the "Ardor Civceum Jubentium."
^
For what concern with the people
has the senate? But I am losing
track of Mr. Tillman.
A BoLl> PICTURE OF HEN TILLMAN.
He is so unlike the rest of them,
that his address to them gained
thereby greatly in picturesque coni
trust. He iH the natural man,
> planted strangely in the pleached
. garden of ultra propriety and fastidious
culture. His roots are
- rugged, rank of the soil; his foliage
. rude as the branchings of the cnctus
and upon occasion not less
;' prickly. His speech is unstudied,
jj homely and plain, so denuded of
i every rhetorical artifice as to remind
I one, in that presence, of some naked,
t hairy man of the woods breaking
i into a satin-lined boudoir.
i n...i ?? *u,r.
1 i iiVTir in IIU uuu \Af tnu niiiiii?'0
;! which he suggests; so I will merely
l? ' add that his speech recalled the
f evolutions of some grizzled Spanish
i: hull in the arena, who is inoffensive
1 while let alone; but, does any lightj
heeled matador presume to bait
j him, he lowers his formidable front,
' paws up the turf, and bellows, and
' shakes menacingly the sharpness of
3 his horns. He uses the first word,
' the readiest phrase, that comes to
his lips; and it is apt to be a frank
I one.
He had not gone far, when Sena'
tor (J al linger, the hairless, stepped
in his place, and remarked that he
* had no intention whatever of obL
jection to what the gentleman from
1 South Carolina was going to say.
" Tillman smiled, and was gratified
I to learn that the senator was "willing
to fall in behind an investigation
of some sort."
Anon, he took up a copy of Mr.
" Roosevelt's recent treatise on politics
on their relation to common
morality, and read extracts illus\
trating what ho seemed to regard as
a its inconsistencies and homilctic
" cxpansiveness, to which, Frye,
Hale, Allison and Co., listened with
smiles, which mean either that they
^ thought such animadversions unJ
worthy of their august notice, or
' that they were rather pleased than
otherwise to hoar this rude 'person
| applying his rudeness to the Executive.
Ti?> t.lipir nt.t.it.ndp. favnrnhh nr
i ifjui\ c*"i*rrr.v.j?. I
WANTS To GO AFTER "sC'OUNDUELS.'1 ' '
I "Lot us hope," quoth ho, "that j
1 our drag-net will be strong enough a
- to catch any scoundrel?as I might r
f say; though perhaps the terra seems f
, a harsh one. But what I want to
- know," he adned, "is whether this ^
I senate is going to go after the facts ^
i in a determined, business-like man- s
i nor, meaning really to find out a
i something; or whether they are (
s going to do it in a lame, white- c
; livered, inconclusive way, as those ^
, do whose object is how not to do
1 things?that is, how not to do ^
i things which the corporations would a
1 not like to have done. s
"The President," he went on, j
. "gives us excellent advice in rather a
, a voluminous style, and tells us \
s that when we get information, we (]
* should net promptly and strenuously j}
upon it; but it seems to me that: ^
- the President should have had, and G
f must have had access to such in- t
- formation himself; and that his v
; recommendations therefore simply s
- amount to using fine phrases rather j
, than be doing anything?which ?
may be desirable in some resnneiH *
f IJ
but which will not, I should supr
pose, add very much to the Execu;
tive's moral and mental stature."
' At this juncture arose Mr. Hale,
' requesting leave to interrupt, and, b
' standing facing Tillman, and em- el
' phasing his remarks with the h
gentle impact of his left hand on fi
the edge of his desk, expressed him- r<
self in carefully selected words to u
the effect that he fully agreed with d
the general trend of the (Senator's
remarks, but that so far as they ei
might reflect upon any Senatorial ir
action in which he himself (Mr. tl
I,Iale) might have participated, he st
would point out that when the bill
was first presented to his ccnsidera- "
tion the clause which might justify ni
the Senator's criticism had not yet
been incorporated in it. " Si
THOSE C AM PA ION tONTKIIJUTIONS. Y.(
III
Tillman turned his horned front m
on him, "But tho clause is there, cj,
just the same," lie called out, with fr,
defiance in his eye. Then young jn
Mr. Bailey, who had been chortling
to himself over his brother Demo- flc
crat's attack, rose to inquire wheth- ;n
?lw - *.?1- ? * *
mi vuv iii'mh wuiuii ima ocen coil- j-(.
trihuted by corporations to the Re- Cft
publican campaign fund had been wj
returned by its unwilling recipients, pt
which was, of course, an additional w]
sting planted in the Excccutive t,v
tlank.
Tillman then l>ecamc saturninely
humorous; he couldn't say whether
the money had been handed back
of l\it tow wd that ho
?
Yet the advance ms
standard. Improve
features, and actual
market,? these are
It is b
NV believe w:
ifjv)) We cordially invit<
1/fA i assortment. It is
V'iuA are *nclu<*ed
rfJr plied or fitted
mdn't got his, and he needed it,
md thought he ought to have it,
ather than let the McCurdys get
at on it, doing nothing.
"But all the Tnrveydrops anil
he Pecksniffs aren't dead yet,"
vas his next astounding assertion;
md that there might he no mistake
ibout his intention, he added that,
>f course, he would make no refernee
to the strenuous occupant of
he White House.
Mr. Lodge sat gazing up at the
astsful decoration of the ceiling,
md cultivated his diplomatic
mirk to its most perfect form.
Iale sat with his chin on his breast
md Allison smiled with a gleam of
eal amusement. Meanwhile, this
listurber of the convenieces was
lunting up a passage in a newspa>er?not
in the Congressional Ree>rd
"When we want to sidetrack
hings where they'll never he found,
ve put 'em in the Record," he oherved
genially, "nobody'11 find 'em
here hut the hookworms, and 1
nean not the two-legged hookworm,
ut the other kind."
'ICS up plait's testimony to
HUGHES.
What he was after turned out to
e the testimony of Mr. Piatt, as
lieited by Mr. Hughes, regarding
is receipt of campaign contribution*
on) insurance companies, and he
sad it out at some length, lounging
ncouthly with his elbows on his
esk.
"Well, and so it goes on,""lie
ided, "and I will say this regard ig
the Senator, that I fully believe
iat not a dollar of that money ever
uck to his fingers."
The emphasis which ho laid upon
that" was not without suggestiveess.
During the latter few minutes
jnator Knox came in and sat con;rsing
earnestly with Hale, who
stoned to him with attention. A
ore harmonious, well-balanced,
ose-knit figure than the Senator
om Pennsylvania I have not seen
Washington. Like other fine
ructure, he is built on a small
ale; as he sat with his legs crossed
his clpiir his littlo feet did not
ach the tloor. One arm rested
sily over the back of tho seat;
th the forefinger of the other he
inctuated his incisiuc remarks.
latever they may have been.
;uu om; titLUT at Cleveland.
Presently, having got through
th Halo, he inovea over to Allison
d Spooner, but their conference
Continued on next peyes
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3J is in the li
Jf / characteri
jjr / The merit
jjlrf Clhocs hs
for years
^? by far th(
women's
tde during the past season has set \
:d shoemaking, greater variety and
ly better shoes in the face of a s
the wonder of the day in the sho
ecause we recognize in "Queen Quality" i
? purchasable within their range of prices;
such a wide variety of distinctive styles,?st
ill appeal most strongly to discriminating
ecured the agency for these famous shoes.
e a visit to our store to inspect oui
a complete style exhibit in itsel
: every taste, every need, every f
1, both with satisfaction and econoi
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COMPANY.
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S OETZEL HAI
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El ererererergrgrgr
i Santa
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I OUR S
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r It doesn't matter
may be in the eatin
^ able to supply the
^ from our immense
J things. We are |
g special prices on lar
Jj have the goods, we
J the money and we
J interest to see us o
J Money ot be saved
5 from us by the bov
J box, Apples by the
? the hundred pounds
? ers of all shape* am
? in any quanty.
? Claus' headquarters
^ to eat.
^Jhe^niori ^ Gro<
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>a'ress 1
adoption of the
SEN QUALITY
for our leading
men's footwear, at |
a $3.50 4(7
ne of progress ever
stic of this store.
3 of"Queen Quality'* r
i.ve been such that
they have enjoyed ]
5 largest sale of all
shoes in the world.
a new and still higher
beauty of styles, new
sharply rising leather . //
e trade. jjl
absolutely the flT
and because
yles which we a t
women,?that
r "Queen Quality' _ jtfi
f. All leathers .
oot can be sup- |/[
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what your wants ': 4
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same abundantly 4
reservoir of good 1#
prepared to make .r
ge quantities. We #
need the room and J#
t mnt/o I* *
> . luiw ii io your , f^
n your purchases. 1#
by buying Raisins ' ' J#
, Oranges by the * J#
barrel, Candy by,> J#
, Cakes and Crack-' . * ^
J kinds, and Nuts j#
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