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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.
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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. '
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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
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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.
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