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B / .*- f * ? ,*i- .... _ ^ Y4/><jiri . ? * * L THE UNION TIMES. 1 ^Vl Ne 35, UNION. SO^TW <^9?-}N^1FRIDAY. AUGUST 31, 1906. $100 A YEAR. T WE PAY I ON TIME D . Wm. A. NICHO P BANK DEATH Of J. LESTER McWHIRTER. Prominent Jonesvllle Man Passes I Away?Buried Wednesday. Jonesville, Aug. 28.?Mr. J. . Lester McWhirter died suddenly j ] at 6 o'clock , this morning with | acute gastritis. Mr. McWhirter I ] was unwell yesterday but he re- j J iiiaiiicu aU iilO OWIC UUllU^ Lilt? day and looked after his business. 1 Last night he suffered considerably at times, but he expressed ( himself that he thought he would J a^be up and able to look after his 1 business today, but about six . o'clock he quietly breathed his 1 last. ? Mr. McWhirter was 52 years ft of age and had been a member ( ? of the Methodist church about 1 twenty-five years. His life in- . surance amounted to $35,000, be- ; m sides he has considerable prop- j erty consisting of real estate, 1 ft. merchandise, bank stock, factory 1 i and building and loan stock, and . | Jonesville live stock company, J ana tne McWhirter ginnery. 1 He came to Jonesville when a 1 young man and clerked for Gen'l . B. B. Foster and about the year J 1877 he engaged in the mcrcan- < tile business with the late T. L. 3 Hames, under the firm name of ? J. L. McWhirter & Co. About twelve years since Mr. Hames ? withdrew from the firm and Mr. 1 McWhirter continued in his own x name, in which business he was very successful. He was build- 1 ing a large brick store with full i glass front which would have ( been completed in a few days. Mr. McWhirter held several \ important offices and places of J f trust; he was director of the , Jonesville bank and of the Jones- 1 ville Manufacturing Co., was ( president of the R. W. Scott Co. :ll~ T Oi.?i. ( auu uuiicoviuc jjivc olucli vu., Trustee of Jonesville graded ( school, Director of J. F. Alraan Lumber Co., Steward and trustee J of church property of the Meth- 1 odist church. He was a Mason, . K. of P., K. of H., and Wood- 1 man of the World. Mr. McWhirter was faithful in J _ his church and Sunday School 1 ^ work, was liberal and charitable and will be much missed in his 1 town and community. * He leaves a wife and si* chileren, three sons and three daughters, and three sisters, besides many relatives and friends. He will be buried Thursday, the funeral services will be held in the Methodist church here conducted by his paster, Rev. D. E. Camak, and Presiding Elder Rev. _T W Vilnrn fnllrturarl hv Mocnuin ' r- v? Vf AkiigV) xv??vr?? vv* WT AVAUOVniV I burial. W. H. S. Harris. J School Trustees Elected. i On Tuesday at the regular ; primary, three school trustees , were elected for the Goshen Hill i district. The Superintendent of Education has the power to ap- \ point these, but upon the sug- < gestion of Mr. Fant, the people < of this district elected their trus- ! tees. The result was: W. W. Bishop, 41; C. W.T. Willard, 41; < Joe Kirkpatrick, 41. Death of A Little Child. Last Saturday, Rev. R. N. Pratt and wife passed through Union on their way to Columbia, taking the remains of their little daughter, Francis Gertrude, home for burial. The child died > at West Springs where her parents had gone several weeks before in hope that the water jk might help the child. She had V vfor some time been at death's door, and was eighteen months old. ' a* NtERBSi^ I EPOSITS. LSON & SON, ERS. I SOME LEGISLATORS ELECTED. Majority Seem to Be Anti-Dispensary Representatives, From the returns at present, t seems that the majority of egislators elected are against :he dispensary. Union is one of ;he few counties which elected aoth senator and all legislators jvho favor thp Hianonoiru Spartanburg elected its full I lelegation in the first primary, choosing six men who oppose ;he dispensary. , Anderson'8 Senator and five egislators oppose the dispensary. In York county, the only electjd legislator, Dr. J. H. Saye, opposes the system. Cherokee sends a Senator; Mr. Dtts, opposing the dispensary, ind all the candidates for the egislator who run again are lati-dispensaryites. Lancaster elected TV Y. Wiliams for the senate, an anti, vhile the two legislators are >ros. In Chester, A. J. Brice and Paul Hemphill oppose the state lispensary, and S. F. McKdwn 'avors it. P. L. Hardin, the itate senator was re-elected. Florence elects a disnensarv lenator, Mr. Wells, and makes in even break in the legisla;ors. In Newberry one anti and one jro-dispenstry candidate were ilected, while the two who run >ver are both antis. Greenville elected three antilispensary men for the house, ina one anti senator. Two of Laurens' delegation :avor the dispensary and one )pposes it. Oconee county sends a solid lelegation of three against the lispensary. Darlington sends an anti senitor and two anti representatives. Dorchester elects an anti for ler one representative. In Orangeburg, Beaufort, Bamberg, Chesterfield, and Lexngton the dispensary is ahead. It appears now that the house vill be an anti-dispensary ir^wd, and the senate divided. Death of Miss Martha Jeter. -mr m I. - miss maixna in. Jeter, one or three sisters who lived together in Santuc township, lied at her home Monday afternoon at 5 o'clock. Miss Jeter has been almost blind for a year nr more, and in fc declining health for several years. She was 75 years of age, and general iebility was the cause of death, rhe body was interred Tuesday afternoon ir the old Jeter graveyard, 12 miles south of Union, Rev. T. B. Owen conducting the services. Miss Jeter was a faithful member of Beulah Baptist Church, whi^hhad been her church home To^hnany years. She was a cousin of Mrs. J. T. rirtiifrlaaci /vf ITniAn an/1 an a,in* vx viiiviiy nuu an aunt of Miss W. Fowler Bobo, who lived with her at the time of her death. Miss Jeter leaves the following immediate relatives; Mr. H. Jeter, a brother, and Mrs. Sallie Thomas, of Union, Misses Mary, Ann and Sue Jeter of Santuc, all sisters, Miss Jeter was a sister of Squire Gilliam Jeter, well known throughout the county. State Election. Friday morning Ansel was 39,850 votes, and Manning 23,008, and Blease 16,801. Lyon and Ragsdale run over. About 16,000 people scratched Tillman. Whether Hoke Smith wiaajfe loses in the battle of the owftp the race question will live dL and in its varying emergencies It must be met until it is ftnallySkhswered in the only and inevafaThe Georgian struck a key note on yesterday which is still vibrating in the hearts of thif people today. We have learned the greal truth that lynching does not sto| the crime against our women We have reached by eliminatio/l the conclusion that other experiments must be tried to intimidate the criminals of the negrc race. One of the most hopeful of these experiments seems to be a statute authorizing the mutilation of the criminal and the branding of him on the forehead with the letter "R," significant of his crime and making him an vi ouopiv^iuii lur tuc rest of time. i The other experiment is to devise some new and mysterious form of punishment wrapped in darkness and in mystery which will appeal to the terror and tc the superstition of the crimina1 negro. But beyond these and above these and more potential thar all others, is the stern and insistent demand of our white civilization that the leaders of the negro race shall give us from this time forth that co-operation which they have heretofore refused. The South is growing indignantly tired of negro tirades in central cities against the lawlessness of lynching. We arc tired of negro platitudes and res olutions against the injustice oi the South toward the negro. And we have utterly lost patience with those pacific preachments which cry out for law and order on the part of the white man, while they spend no time nor breath nor effort in thunder mg 10 tneir own people tne earnest and passionate denunciation of these criminals who make the chief tension and the deadly friction between the races. Now see here: The South has for 25 years befriended the negroes in every practical way. We have helped to build theii churches, we have helped to sustain their schools, we have buriec their dead and helped to maintain their living sometimes in idleness and sometimes in want. But now as one unit in the mass of Southern sentiment, The Georgian lifts its voice and protests that henceforward it will give no dollar and lend no aic and no co-operation to any negrc institution until its officers, its preachers, its teachers and its editors shall join with us in thundering into the ears of the negr< race the warning and denuncia tion of this horrible crime. Without passion, or at least without passion which is not richly due and justified, we asp our brethren of the Southerr press and our Caucasian friends and brethren evervwhere to tak# this firm and unalterable standthat they will help no negrc church, newspaper or school until they know that its preachers, its teachers and its editors ir those instituions are thundering the doctrine of hell and damna tion to the assailants of whit< women. Now this is fair. It is just and it is right. The South is living under i shadow which no man can esti mate. Men whose public duties call them to public meetings an held at home because they an afraid to leave their families alone even in the shelter anc sanctity of their own homes aftei nightfall. Men cannot go t< church for the same reason And this, please God, is th< South. Wo are a free peopli and a great country. Are we U live forever under this shadov and under this terror? Are w< to sit still and help to build u] these negro institutions whei they are silent and apathetii toward the peril in which thei criminals put the beet element o our race? Are we to co-operat S KNITTING MILL REMOVED >, Branch at Newberry Glosed and IV ^Machinery Brouqht Back sv to Union After a short term of opera>j tion in Newberry, the branch of * the Excelsior Knitting Mills ref cently established there was , shut down and all the mrchinery ; , brought back to Union. This , machinery, much of it at least, had been transferred from i; Union to Newberry, aiong with . j a number of operatives. During \ the past week it all was retrans-! ' ferred to Union and readded to t the plant here. >! The managers found the ven- \ ,! ture unsuccessful in Newberry; i \ hence, the change. Mr. Emslie . Nicholson is president of the . company and Mr. J. H. Gault, i > Treasurer and Manager. i Court Sentences. t ^Charlie Macbeth, a negro hand [ on Mr. Duncan's farm near ; Buffalo, was on Monday seni fenced to pay a $50 fim,* or serve ; dO days for carrying an unlawful k' tfttfcpon. He was released on, bona, pending ai\. appeal to the | y higher court. ' i I Heur?* f?r selling whis) &W ^as sentenced to $100 or 30 [ Ulays. He also^appealed and was Released on bond. 5h p Vmie Norman, a negro woman . was Thursday sentenced to $25 . or 20 days, for storing whiskey, r Execution of sentence was del ferred on account of the sickness i of the convicted. f l. ? : with these people to build up in\ stitutions when they are silent and apathetic toward the peril in which they do not preach the enormity of these offenses? Are we to be forever held in a state : of seige with our women, tremb- j ling in fear and terror when they are alone? Is the liberty which our fathers bougnt with their blood to be surrendered to j the foul terror of an alien and subordinate race? We tell these teachers, these j preachers and these editors that they have the most vital interest r in this affair. If the boundaries | of restraint are ever broken by t this Causasian race in a wild; spirit of retaliation for a condi- j ; tion which imprisons and terrifies i ; the noblest women of the world, i they themselves will be whelmed I in the tidal wave which follows. | And we say here and now to t Booker Washington, to Gaines, j and Turner, to Proctor and to , > Stinson, and to the rest of those | i! who are so eager to rush into , print to plead for law and order; I that if they have any regard for I the future of their race and for > themselves, they will take the i hint which is not unkindly sent } | from this aroused and indignant - race of Caucasians, and will ) stand shoulder to shoulder with - us in demanding that every every preacher in every country t pulpit and every editor of every t little 2x4 sheet and that every : teacher in the city and country i school shall devote some part of * hjs sermon or some portion of i his editorial, or some segment of his scholastic hours to preaching > hell and damnation to ?m who are guilty of this fiendish crime.1 , We assure these men that the! i Caucasian sentiment of this f country as it never was before.1 - We need not and will not coni tinue to have our women live under the shadow of this fiend, ish negro lust. We are going to free our women, no matter what i the cost may be to another race. - There is no wildness of passion 3 and radicalism in this announcej ment.' If these men know anyi thing they know that we de3 mand it, and they know that de1 3 * - /? 3 ? i man a is nrmiy stern and earnest, p But as Jong as they continue > to howl resolutions against lynch. ing, and orate against lawlessb ness while they are shamefully 3 silent toward the crimes which 3 produce the mob, then the back 7 of our hand is against them and b all that they represent. j This is the position which the i the present tragic environment c sternly demands of the Saxon r race, and we call upon Saxons f who respect themselver to ase suxne it everywhere. F. M. FARR, President. THE MERCHANTS & fU THK "OLD I Is Still Doing Busines: During the thirty-lour years of its Dividends sIhgo its organization air times its Capital Stock, and now li Account equal to more than hall it Department in which Deposits are paid on all amounts left in it for s oilers to Depositors prompt and ca treatment consistent with sale and t ? ?? RESULT OF STATE ELECTION ( IN UNION COUNTY. Tillman Scratched About 265 Times ?Ansel, McGown, Jones, Bovd, Lyon and Sullivan Carry Union County. There were about 2506 votes cast in Union county, in the state election. Space lacking, the vote by precinct cannot be given here but the totals for the county are as follows: U. S. SENATOR R. R. Tillman - - - - 2242 Governor M. F. Ansel ----- ioo\ Cole L. Blease - - - - 458 J. E. Brunson - - - - 171 W. A. Edwards - - - - 13 A. C. Jones 33 R. I. Manning - - - - 729 T. J. McMahan - - - - 44 Jno. T.iSloan - - - - 63 LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR T. G. McLecd - - - 2507 SECRETARY OF STATE R. M. McCown - - - - 1462 J. B. Morrison - - - - 586 L. M. Ragin ----- 2<>1 M. P. Tribble - - - - 189 COMPTROLLER GENERAL A W .Inrioo _ _ 1"QC if vv.ivw - - - - AUUW G. L. Walker - - - - 927 STATE TREASURER R. H. Jennings - 2468 ADJUTANT AND INSPECTOR GENERAL J. C. Boyd 1848 L. W. Haskell - - - - 659 STATE SUPT. OF EDUCATION 0. B. Martin - - - - 2441 ATTORNEY GENERAL J. Frazer Lyon - - - - 1164 J. W. Ragsdale - - 845 L. F. Youmans - 493 RAILROAD COMMISSIONER Jas. Cansler - - - : - 470 Jno. C. Sellers - - - - 138 J. M. Sullivan - - - - 898 J. A. Summersett - - - 462 Jno. H. Wharton - - - 541 The above figures are the official count made by C. H. Peakc, County Chairman, and J. W. Gregory, Secretary. September Term of Court. mi J* ii a * ? ine ian term 01 court 01 general sessions and common pleas will convene in Union on September 3rd, 1906, with Judge Dantzler presiding. PETIT JURORS?FIRST WEEK. Vernon Gault R L Nance T E Cudd J B Tracy J G Mosely Frank Clay J H Spears W C Bobo S R Garner J C Gibbs I Leonard Keisler Sam Mobley IW J Jolly J G Long, Jr W D Wilkins T fi Henry W D Parks DaviT Porter J H Thomas J R Gamer J H Parks J W Wilson V E Lawson Bailey Lawson l H E Mabry W T McGowan W A E Black D F Baldwin R H Sinclair A J Gallman G T Gault J B Hollingswortb J A Farr T L Carter H C Miller W Y Stewart SECOND WEEK. C C Gist W K Thomas K Hawkins J T Briggs J W Rochester W R Sims ; J B Tinsley W F Farr A T Charles J B Burgess W T Gregory Dave Willard A A Hames T K Palmer, W W Cooper J L Padgett J B Morgan C C Lawson H B Murphy A B Wix H W Porter J M Bobo W V Bentley P B Bobo W T Edward W R Lawson L B Fant J L Gault S G Bratton B G Wilbum W C Nix J F Carter W F Hughes J Mc J Fant B J Jenkins J F Beam MHHMBEflBHBiCEMniKSdnvm J. D. ARTHUR. Cashier. iNTERS NATIONAL BANK, KKI.IAHI.IC." s at the "Old Stand." existence. It has paid Semi-Annual lounting to $214,800, nearly four ias a Surplus and Undivided Profit s Capital Stock. It has a Savings received, and 4 per cent interest ix months. It solicits accounts and reful attention and the most liberal profitable banking. TWO LIQUOR SEIZURES. About Twenty-Three Gallons of Con traband Liquor Seized by v Constables. x Constable Whitmire with the assistance of some of the city police force siezed 3 kegs or 14 gallons of whiskey, stored in the i house of Walter Gist, a negro who lives about one and one-half miles north of town. Gist was not captured at last account but i a warrant is out for him and the 1 officers expect to get him to-day. Bum Thomas, William Bird and Baker Gist are in jail having ^been lodged there Wednesday at ; midnight, for having in hand 2 ! kegs or 9 gallons of contraband whiskey. i The Whiskey was dumped off the southbound passenger train i by two negroes, and these three vagrants were in waiting about three-fourths of a mile north of the station. Some one on the train detected the negroes throwing off the whiskev, and upon reaching Union notified the authorities, who went at once to I the scene and captured both | liquor and negroes. Their case will be tried when Mavor Younir ? I returns. Burning of Buffalo Supply Store. Early Saturday morning- the i store of the Buffalo Supply Co. was totally destroyed by fire. The origin of the fire is yet unknown, but according to Mr. S. K. Humphries, brother of Mr. W. E. G. Humphries, incendiary causes are suspected: this being borne out by the fact that one of the oil plugs was out in the tank I at the store's rear. Mr. Humphries lives about 150 yards from the store, and was awakened, first, not by the fire, but what sounded to him like hoof beats around and near his house. Thinking his, or his 1 neighbor's horses were loose on his crop, he went to the rear of his house; on seeing and hearing j nothing he returned to bed. I Later he heard the roaring of the 1 fire and went to the side of his ! , .... ... nouse next tne store, at this time the building was almost enveloped with flames. At once he secured his pistol and ran, firing, toward the store; doing so to wake Messrs. Byars and Walker, I the clerks, who roomed in the store. With the assistance of Mr. Brown, the two young men were roused, and succeeded in dragging out their trunks. Nothing could be done to save the building, since the flames had such headway, and no water works at hand. The property was partially Covered by insurance. The store will not be rebuilt at but the directors, who met a few days ago, decided to defer the . matter until the stockholders \ should meet, and they will de. fprmirtp thp matter New Agent at Santuc. Mr. 0. F. Whilden is the new agent of the Southern at Santuc station, occupying the position of Mr. F. F. Shea ley, resigned. Mr. Whilden is a young man anc( a native of Sumkr. His family will move to Santuc in the near future. Mr. Shealey will go to Hendersonville and be connected with the Crescent Bottling works, a newly organized concern in that place. A Marriage. Mr. I^mlton Kirby and Miss Mary Gilliam,IF aughter of Mr. M. B. Gilliam, w/e married Wednesday evening Lt the home of the bride's parents in South Union. Rev. L. L. Wagnon was the officiating minister. /