The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, June 07, 1912, Page PAGE 4, Image 4
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the only concern in Union, to receiv
an invitation to a very unique gatli
ering in Nashville, Tenn., to be hel
during this month. The gathering i
unique in that it is to be compose
of representatives of various entei
prises of the South which have stoo
for fifty consecutive years or longe
The Times is the only concern in Ui
ion receiving an invitation to a
tend. The invitation has been accep
ed and one or more representativ?
will attend. We are sure that one <
the best assets The Times has toda
is the long life it has lived. For
newspaper to stand the stress of flft
years and twelve more, making six!
two years, means that it has stoc
for something; that it has led
worthy, a useful life and that it h;
walked in the path of rectitude.
"yellow journal" will flourish for
time, but, in the end perishes ;a s<
fish, sordid policy may put money i
to the coffers of a newspaper, b
leads it to its death. A newspap
like the individual human sgplia^p
its sure roa<\. J/iat fo? sixty-tw
nas* 4i he Times has held up th
V torch of truth, and stood for all thos
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esty in business, clean morals an
true manhood have received the er
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Times that such worthy matters justi
fy m)erit. The advanced ideas ii
agriculture, in education and in al
other lives of human endeavor fim
expression in the newspaper rooji
after conceived in the human mine
The newspaper gives publicity, infor
mation, inspiration to all worth;
ideas. A newspaper could not lonj
continue if it should fail in thes<
particulars. This does not mean thai
editors are always right, nor thai
they are wiser than other mortals
But the conducting of a newspaper is
the filling of a public function, as well
as the running of an enterprise. It
belongs, in a real sense, to the public.
The letter sent along with the invitation
is worthy the consideration of
everv reader. "Anv hnsinosa
has been in existence for the long period
of a half century, has necessarily
had a notable career. It has
passed through the cataclysm of civil
war; it has survived the woes of reconstruction
days; it has sustained
the shock of panics, and to do so, it
must have been conducted on the best
principles?those of fair dealing, reliability
and honor." We commend
these last three words in the communication?fair
dealing, reliability and
honor. Especially do we urge their
consideration on the part of the
\ young men who are about to launch
forth upon the commercial sea. There
is a wide-spread belief nowadays, that
to succeed in business of professional
life a man must not be two particuJ
lar; it is thought by many that the
age, with its competition and its many
temptations, is against high-class,
clean business integrity. This, we believe
to be a false view. Honesty,
rock-ribbed and steel-structured, is
the basic factor in any legitimate
business. And it is the chief asset of
each successful enterprise. The best
\ asset of the banks of Union is their
<? integrity. A crooked banker will soon
L Y ru" amuck. Every enterprise must
' u in more or less decree, come in con-1
tact with the public, in fact, owes its .
life to the public, when it comes to the
ultimate analysis of the situation. The
business must be honest and honestly
conducted, or at least ,the public must
believe that to be the case, if there is
to be any long continued success. The
sham, the shyster, the crook, may
prosper for a time, but each and every
one of thein are on the road to
the scrap pile of human defeat and
failure. Takes some of them a long
time to get there, but they are going
that way.
We believe the "square deal" is the
correct business method; that honest
weights and honest measures hold
custom; that sincerity, truth, honor
otto,,!#! ha Kacia in ouppv pntfirnrise. if
that enterprise is to stand. And there
is one other thing, not mentioned in
the invitation above, but which is one
of the fundamentals in success, in our
opinion. It is the old-fashioned, unfailing
courtesy. The crahid, pugilistic
individual has a hard proposition
when it comes to succeeding. The
knocker, the double-faced man, the
"blow-hard"?each and every one of
them will find hard going upon the
commercial and industrial sea. Pleasantness
is a very necessary asset of a
successful business. A smiling clerk
. is worth ten dollars a month more
than a morose fellow, even when all
else about them exactly matches.
West Springs News Letter.
West Springs, June 5th.?Mrs. Mazie
Bennett died here at the home of
her son-in-law, Mr. M. S. Varner, or
last Saturday afternoon at 6 o'clock
" Mrs. Bennett was probably the oldest
s inhabitant of this community, being
82 years and 28 days old at the tim<
of her death. For the past year oi
two she has been in quite feebl<
health. All the spring her conditioi
was regarded as very serious.
Mrs. Bennett was never a membe:
d of any church but was always a quie
and unassuming person Mrs. Bennet
was the widow of the late William F
Bennett, a Confederate soldier, wh<
d died at Richmond, Va., in 1862. Sh
is is survived by the following children
d Messrs. W. P. and J. M. Bennett o
r- West Springs and Cross Keys respect
d ively, and T. F. Bennett, of Camder
ni? 2? ? 1 ~~ Ktr fKn fnllfturin
]- ane is uisu survivcu uj w>%. .....
!_ daughters: Mrs. J. H. Lynch, of Cros
t- Keys and Mrs. M. S. Varner. On
t- daughter, Mrs. Samuel Barner, pr<
;s ceded her to the grave several yeai
ago. The funeral of Mrs. Bennei
ty took place at Putnam on Sunda
a morning at 11 o'clock, Rev. B. i
ty Lowe conducting the funeral service
ly Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Whitehead spei
>d one day the past week with friends j
a Union.
as Miss Kate Holcombe, of Charlott
A N. C., is a guest at the hotel th
a week. >
;1- Miss May Miller of Spartanburg.
n- here on a visit to her pare
2
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j Mrs. Susan Hyatt is quite sick s
0 this writing. She is being attende
e by Dr. Herbert Smith of Pauline.
ie Mrs. Fannie Cunningham of Unio
n spent the past two weeks here wit
d her sister, Mrs. F. H. Poston, who i
quite ill.
t- Mr. Dalbert P. Bogan and Mis
d Daisy West spent last Sunday a week
i_ ago with Mrs. William Lancaster a
e Walnut Grove.
Mr. and Mrs. Judson Lancaste
n went to Spartanburg Tuesday on busi
1 ness.
el Children's Day will be observed a
! Bofransville on next Sunday. Then
|. will be an ail-day service with din
. ner on the grounds. The children']
p Day exercises will be held in th(
r morning and preachinpr in the after
? noon. Revs. L. L. Wagnon will de
t liver the address of the occasion.
t
Rest Room in Columbia.
I "Woman's Building Rest Room,
1212 Lady street. Visitors Welcome
Bundles Checked Free. Information
Given."
This sipn hung yesterday in the
union station will ftrect the eye of
arrivals in Clumbta and doubtless
will especially attract the attention of
me nunareds of college girls who will
be passing through the city within the
next week or two. Many of them will
have several hours to spend in shopping
and will be glad to drop into the
rest room to obtain any information
they may desire about places and
stores in the city; to rest and
"freshen up," to leave their traveling
bags and perhaps to have their bundles
sent there from the stores. Mothers
of the graduates of the colleges
and the university, many of whom
will come to Columbia to see degrees
and other honors conferred upon
theirs sons and daughters, will also
J Li.! r> . * a. i _ '
uuuutiess nna ine rest room a convenience
and will be impressed with
the need for a place of the kind in a
city of this size. A competent maid is
in charge of the!room.
No charges are made for the use
of the rest room. Everything offered
is absolutely free. Of course, however,
voluntary contributions of
money or articles really needed will
be gratefully received. One of the
visitors at the room this week was
anxious to know if there was not a
box somewhere to receive contributions
from visitors. She was one of
those, she said, to whom it would be
a pleasure to express gratitude in
some practical way.
JURIES ATTACKED
FOR FREEING EV*NS.
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Columbia Minister and Attorney General
Fraser Lyon Comment*
on the Case.
W I
Columbia, June 4.?Attorney
General J. Frazier Lyon, directly in
a statement, and Dr. C. E. Burta, |*istor
of the First Baptist church of (o
lumbia, by inference, in his serttion
Sunday, roasted the Richland count?
juries for their verdicts of acquits! It
the dispensary graft cases tried heK
last week.
The cases were that of Hub Evad^
chairman of the old dispensary bosW
of control, charged with accepting!*
bribe of $50 from a whiskey drumttMll
and those against John Bell Towl
and L. W. Boykin, dispensary commit
sioners, charged with conspiring t<
"graft" $22,500 from the state in a
label deal. The jury in the Ev?nj
case was out only 10 minutes befota
returning a verdict of not guilty, U
the case of W. O. Tatum, the attoa
general stated to the court thai
he did not think the .evidence wouM
justify a verdict of guilty and theifl
fore would not ask for one. I
"I expected nothing else," said tH
attorney general, commenting on tn<
trials. "Richland county juries won*'
convict in these graft trials no mat
ter how strong the evidence is, I sa;j
. this and I think I have a right to sa^|
< it from the experience 1 nave n?<
, in the graft prosecutions. The ohl
conviction I have secured has beJ
- disregarded. There are a few of
r old graft cases pending in this countj
j but the facts in them have all bae
. thrashed over in the other trials aa
, '.hey will be nylle prossed, and eftj
j if they hadn't been thrashed out whi
would be the use with the verdicts 1
r these other cases staring us in tl
t face?"
t The report taken at the graft tria
' by Dr. Burt was an indirect one, bi
0 it was a shot nevertheless. Said h
e in his sermon on the subject of civ
. righteousness: "I will not pass jud]
f ment on the jurors who sat in tl
trials and heard the evidence, yet
j shows there is a low state of morals
p the community and an unhealthy co
,s dition in the state where men a
e convicted of petty thefts and yet ot
ers of a certain social and politfc
.s prominence, charged with plunder!
the state are allowed to go free,
y should be the duty of the church
^ quicken the conscience of men so tl
s a miscarriage of justice would be i
lt possible. Any institution that c<
rupts the fountain of government a
brings shame and disgrace ion 1
e community should be destroyedJ^S
js' The label case was called laaH&
tember hut, in a nufltriaK/1
ofTdTs^nsary graft ^
i, that have kept committees investigf
aud state officers prosecuting f
10 years or more are now at an er
lt The remaining charges against Der
Weiskopf in the label case and tho
against John Black and J. M. Rawli
n son on charges of conspiracy in tl
h beer case will be nolle prossed in
|s few days. The general opinion is th
the State will breathe a sigh of reli
s at finis being written on the most n
. torious scandal of its history.
t
Jonesville News Letter.
r
Jonesville, June 4th.?The town <
Union has our sympathy in the loss <
t many of its prominent citizens in su<
B rapid succession. To every one of tl
_ bereaved families I wish to express i
s this communication my sympathy an
g would commend them to a kind ar
. gracious heavenly Father, who is ev?
. ready to hear the cry for mercy ar
sympathy.
June came in warm and favorabl
for crops and vegetation.
Sunday being a beautiful day man
, people were out for pleasure an
...1 it - J 1 * -
wueii me any rounaea out there wer
i many Sunday sinners on the roll, fo
Sunday in these modern times seem
; to be appropriated more for pleasur
and amusement than any other daj
All these things will have to pass i:
review before the eternal Judge.
As this is election year and I sei
so much about the campaign in th<
papers and hear so much talk about it
.my mind runs back to the election
away back "in the good old times be
fore the warEvery man could rui
for the office then without any hin
drance. There was no entrance fee
no obligation, no assessment upon th<
candidate, no executive committee
nominating conventions, registratioi
or primary elections. There were n<
second race to it, the candidate tha1
got the most votes was elected. Ev
j man 11vm i-wcnuy-uiie years uj
was entitled to vote except paupen
in the poor house. The laws didn'1
prohibit betting or treating and very
often there was much money gpenl
treating and buying votes, while
much changed hands by the sporting
fraternity. In 1858 there was an exciting
race in this district for congress.
At first there were three candidates
in the race, John D. Ashmore
of Anderson, T. O. P. Vernon of Spartanburg
and Jones of Greenville.
Jones withdrew early in the race and
the others run it to a finish. Ashmore
was a star speaker, which made him
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X>MWj3?yKere-**8 another hot and
in this county for the
senaw. The candidates were
lt_ ^1. Robert Beaty and Col. Joseph F.
or GlWneither of these were fine oralc^
tors <r polished speakers, so they
(j8 made heir strongest pull by shrewd
se electioneering and the use of money.
n_ In this race Col. Beaty was successful.
Ths was the last big race before
a the wki. After the war conditions
at were mjtn different, as the negroes
were atyiet free and given their suf0_
frage a\ihe ballot box. The old time
election^ were eclipsed then by the
new ordei of things. During the
campaigns there was a reign of terror
all over the State, and when it came
- to the day of ballots men's lives were
^ hanging as it were, to a brittle thread
for there were many pistols, knives
' and guns in evidence and they were
n not concealed, and the popping of a
^ cap, or the report of a pistol, would
^ have caused a general fusilade and
ir shedding of blood. I have served my
^ day in all these tronblesome times.
Mr. Joseph Sanders of Union and
le Mr. J. V. Askew of Mt. Tabor, were
in Jonesville the last week.
Mr. J. N. Littlejohn spent last week
j in Gaffney. Telephone.
e Democratic County Executive Committeemen,
Attention.
s
e You will assemble in the City Hall
r. at Union, S. C., on Satlrday, June
n 15th, 11:30 a. m. for the purpose of
organizing, making assessments on
candidates entering the Democratic
e Primary election to be hold^n August
e 27th, next, enrollment of Voters in
,t the respective clubs and such other
g business as may be deemed fcecssary
for the good of the cause, ett, etc.
By order of Macbeth Young,
i Attest: County Chairman.
F. M. Ellerbe, Sec'y.
The committeemen, as handed in
' to the County Convention are: L. J.
J Hames, Ward 1, Union; J. A. S?wyer,
'? ward 2, Union; John Whitlock, ward
1 3, Union; W. H. Crosby, ward 4, Un>
ion; L. L>. Smith, Monarch; W. H.
. Howell, Buffalo; T. A. Littleiohn,
Jonesville; F. E. Gault, Kelton; L. F.
* Adams, Adamsburg; J. V. Askew,
, t i i ..a. r\? t m ? " ' u *
' i.uL-Kriun; ur. ?i. i. .Jeter, HantUCK;
j J. F. Gist, Meadors; J. D. Fleming,
t Fish Dam; C. W. T. Willard, Goshen
Hill; J. R. Whitmire, Cross Keys; "W.
J. Smith, Coleraine; J. B. Lancaster,
t West Springs: R. M. Fincher, Gibbet,
j Macbeth Young, Chair'm,
. F. M. F.llerbe, Sec'y.
Robt. C. Williams, Treasurer.
Card of Thanks.
We desire to express through The
Times our appreciation of the many
kindnesses shown by friends and
neighbors during the illness and death
of our mother, Mrs. Mazie Bennett.
Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Varner.
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present stock.
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matter whether they
or not. Come in tod
us show you. We kno^
want.
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