The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, August 09, 1912, Page PAGE 4, Image 4
THE UNION TIMES
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FRIDAY ATTP.TTCT O loio
WANTED: 200 FRIENDS.
Now that the smoke of the Times
burning has cleared away, and I am
able to take a careful look at the enterprise
as 1 have reconstructed it, I
find that I am going to need more
money to carry it to a successful issue.
I have not spared myself in the
efforts to get /he enterprise in shape
to be a good producer. The plant is
one of the best in the State. Everything
is new and up-to-date. Every
available dollar that I could save
from the wreck of the former plant
has been put into the new. I now see
a future for the enterprise that is encouraging.
But to get the best re
suits, I need more money. To get
this money I want to sell $2,000
worth of the stock which I hold in
the enterprise. That will put it
thoroughly on its feet and make it
' g'.lt edged investment. I purpose
selling 200 of my friends one share
each of the capital stock in the concern..
The stock is in certificates of
$10 per share, par value. With the
200 single certificates sold, and the
sum of $2,000 received therefrom,
paid on the present plant, the stock
will he worth considerably above par.
The money will be as safe as it is in
any enterprise in Union, and it will
pay a reasonable dividend?of the latter
I now feel confident, for I know
just what the plant will do.
I believe I have 200 friends in Union
county, to each one of whom I
can sell one share of this stock. There
is nothing "watered" about it; it is
bona tide, gilt edged, and will pay a
reasonable return.. In the mean
time. I will have reached a secure
footing with the undertaking. The
fact that the friends of the Times, I
many of w hom I count as mv own !
personal friends, have so nobly shown
that friendship in the past, and have
so often expressed in word and deed
the good will and confidence which
they have in me, leads me to feel
confident that this call for help will
not go unheeded. I believe you will
help me and in doing so, 1 promise
that you will not hurt yourself. I
will guard as a sacred trust the money
thus entrusted to my care and will
pay a reasonable premium for its use
in the business. One or two years
hence, if you desire to take the money
out of the enterprise, I will buy back
tho Kini'k navSnor t Ka f ? ' ? valim ?
all accrued interest, should you desire
to sell.
I could possibly find four or five individuals
who would take m<ve than
one share; indeed there might be
found a few who would take the
whole load of $2,000; but I prefer to
have it otherwise.- I want 20( friends
to help rne over a rough place, and
promise that the kindly aid will he
appreciated by me to the fullest extent.
I am, (iod being my helper, going
to conduct a newspaper that stands
for clean manhood, pure womanhood,
civic righteousness, purity in politics
and in all matters of public concern.
I believe that "righteousness exalted
a nation"; that truth will triumph;
that a man is of "more value than
a sneep ; mm ine iuture is nrighter
and that God is the ruler of nations.
I shall, so long as strength js jn mt.,
stand for moral values first, believing
that moral values are necessary
if we are to have any real values in
material affairs. I will count it a
great joy to have 200 men and women
in Union county stand with me in
these principles and to show in a tangible
way that they do so stand.
With best wishes, and with an abid
ing faith in the future, especially the
future of Union County,
I am sincerely,
LEWIS M. RICE.
The howling down of Mayor Grace
in Spartanburg was a poor display
of citizenship, no matter whether he
is trustworthy or untrustworthy. Personally
we do not admire him, nor do
we endorse his methods, but he had
been invited to Spartanburg by those
who wished to hear him speak. Those
who did the howling down were not
the ones who invited him there. It
vvn c nn <?nirit nf fjiirnoRs that mani.
fested itself in opposition to the
meeting. It was the breaking out of
mob spirit, the worst enemy democracy
ever had. There is the gravest
danger to our people in this direction.
Freedom run to seed is license,
and license is anarchy. Anarchy is
destructive to the institutions of Democracy.
The exercise of restraint,
self-control, is one of the most prominent
qualities in good citizenship.
We could not, therefore, endorse the
action of those who disrupted the
Spartanburg meeting. It was a case
of "but-in", for it was the "other fellows"
meeting. It was a disregard of
the right of the many by the few, if
the reports be true; one or two hundred
interfering with the desires of
perhaps a thousand. The few, when
acting for themselves and in their
own meeting, might, with propriety
do their will with the meeting called
by them; but they had no right to interfere
with the meeting called by
others. No doubt it was exasperating
to Governor Blease's supporters to
have Grace speak in Spartanburg.
But suppose the case had been reversed.
Suppose Governor Blease
had been invited to speak at Spartanburg.
Suppose twelve hundred
people had gathered to the speaking.
Suppose two hundred of the twelve
hundred should then set out to howl
down the speaker, throw rotten eggs
at him and undertake to do him personal
violence? Would there be any
excuse for such unwarranted interference?
It was an ugly thing, and
one unworthy of good citizenship.
But the worst feature in the matter
was the utter impotency of the
mayor and the police. No matter
what their political preferences may
he, they are sworn officers of the
j peace. The men who engaged to hold
that meeting are the men who pay
taxes for protection to property and
life. The officers of the law pet their
living from the money levied upon
the property of those who willed to
hold the meeting. But they were depending
upon a broken reed. Half ?
dozen determined men, sworn to uphold
the law and to keep theT^keace
could have preventd the whole disgraceful
affair. The mayor of Spartanburg
and the police authorities of
that city are worthy of condemnation,
and the just judgment of an
enlightened public will not fail to
condemn them. *
The high plane upon which the
county campaign meetings are being
conducted is a fact for which every
citizen who loves the dignity and honor
of his community may well be
thankful. It is no time for mudslinging,
personal abuse and vituperation.
One of the distinguishing
marks of a good citizen is self-control,
and a citizen unable to exercise
that virtue is an unsafe member of
the body politic, whether he be a mere
voter or an office-seeker.
Dire prediction of calamity and
blood-shed filed the air just prior to
the opening of the campaign. Instead
! of these predictions coming to pass,
the campaign has, so far, been more
like a love-feast. In fact, one frequently
hears opposing candidates expressing
in the speeches made the
kindliest regard for his opponents.
This is good, and we sincerely trust
ii win i-oniinue 10 me end ot tne
campaign. It is a helpful sign when
those seeking public office can act
upon this high plane.
After all, is it a matter that calls
for bitterness, for abuse and for violent
display of opposition? The man
who gets the majority of the votes
cast will get the office, and if he gets
the majority of the votes he is entitled
to the office. The sovereignty
rests with the people. The sovereign
may, according to our ideas, be woefully
mistaken in the choice made, but
it is, nevertheless, the choice that
should and must prevail. It is a
good thing that it is so. No doubt
there is frequently some irritating
circumstance, some message from an
over-zealous friend and supporter,
that makes it hard for a candidate
to hold his peace. But, even so, it is
best that he hold his peace. There
will be less to regret after the smoke
of battle has cleared away. There
will be less of old sores to give
trouble in the future.
The committees working in the interest
of the hospital are continuing
to meet with encouragement. Many
of the out-of-town committees have
sent in good reports. The good work
goes on and the hospital is an assured
thing.
Miss Mauldin Graham returned to
her home in Columbia after a visit
to her grandmother, Mrs. Lizzie
Hames.
* SNAPSHOTS *
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That display at Spartanburg Saturday
night was disgraceful and disgusting.
It certainly did not represent
the Spartan spirit.?Gaffney
Ledger.
*
The Spartanburg Journal referring
to Saturday night's disgraceful scenes
in Spartanburg says: "If that's
Bleaseism, then pass us the Jonesism."?Greenville
Daily Piedmont.
+ * * *
A friend of Blease said today that
if the police had arrested any of the
crowd creating a disturbance in the
theatre Saturday night, there would
have been a dozen or more men killed.
He seemed to know what he was
talking about.?Spartanburg Journal.
* + * *
Grace says Blease has got to deny
the charges he makes against him
"just, as he denied long ago that he
stole that essay, for plagiarizing
which he was kicked out of the South
Carolina U ni versity."?Orangeburg
Times and Democrat.
* *
In Greenville yesterday Mayor
Grace held a hand primary. He said,
"All of you, who wish your boys
to grow up and be men like Blease,
hold up your hands." Not a hand
went up. He would find hands going
up by the score in Spartanburg.?
Spartanburg Journal.
* * *
The newspapers are the best
I~ a I l rr%i
menus cue poor man lias. iney
fight for all that is for his good.
They fight for clean government,
low taxes, good roads, free schools,
for good prices for his produce, for
protection from the greed of corporations,
and in fact everything that is
for the good of the poor man. It is
all nonsense to say that the newspapers
are enemies to anybody except
crooks.?Orangeburg Times and
1 )cmocrat.
* * * * v
The same cry of "counting out"
was raised by Mr. Blease just two
years ago?just before the primary
election. The only complaints of
cheating in that election that we have
heard came from the city of Charleston,
where Mr. Blease's own vote increased
from 829 in the first primary
to 3,565 in the second; and where the
poll lists for the approaching primary
by the way, are said to have 2,'500
more names on them than there are
voters in the city.?Newberry Observer.
'C:'X*
?
j Speaking in Camden yesterday
Governor Bleaae'iaald M Ue- wraa/jh1 <
I jr a. l 1 ij 1-- il * ?'?
icavcu xie wuuiu muKu me ?iones
forces "sweat" the remainder of his
term. We don't know about the
other counties of the state buv we
do know that threats won't & in
Greenville county. The citizens of
this county cannot be cowed into
voting for any man, if they believe
the principles advocated by him to
, be vrong.?Greenville Daily Piedr
mont.
* * * *
The first vivid and practical illustration
of Bleasism that the people of
Spartanburg have seen was at the
, threatre on Saturday night. Hundreds
and hundreds of persons in this and
other counties have read of Bleasism
but never before had this pi evading
rule of anarchy been brought so close
home, never before has the stage fur
i hn pnantmnnf nf Rlnoor.
been set at their very door. It was
a Blease crowd that caused the disgrace.
They were following the example
of their ambitious and anarchical
leader, who was elected governor
of South Caraolina on a fluke two
years ago. Cole L. Blease is to blame
for the proceedings. His teachings,
his utterances, his utter disregard for
law and order, his wholesale pardoning
of convicts, his defiance of the
courts of the state, his dirty and obscene
statements on the stump appeal
to this class of voters and they fairly
worship their idol, just as some
Chinese and other barbarians worship
their clay gods and brazen images.
If you were at the theatre Saturday
night, you had a good dose of
Bleaseism in its true ad original
form. How did you like it? Did it
appeal to your higher sense of duty
to your state? Are you one of the
men who shout out for Blease? Or
did you become sicj< and disgusted
with the hoodlums? Are you going
to the polls on the 27th and cast your
ballot for the same man that these
hoodlums vote for? Are you going
to follow their ambitious leader??
Spartanburg Journal.
Politics and Whiskey.
Lockhart, S. C., August 5, 1912.
Editor Union Times:
Dear Sir: Will you allow me
space in your valuable columns to
write a few lines in regard to politics
and whiskey. As this is the
month to elect officers to serve the
public for the next two years and
some for four, both county and State,
I would ask the reader's careful attenution
and thought.
ine nrst iact to which I ask your
attention, is that crime is rapidly on
the increase in this county; but few*
persons would he disposed to question
A BIG
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Big Reducti
John B. Stel
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this statement, even in the absence of
actual figures "to prove it. Observation
will soon convince us that jails
and prisons are multiplying, that
courts are busier than they used to
be, and revolting crimes are becoming
more and more numerous every
day. The increase in crime does not
grow out of the fact that our population
is increasing,, but are leaving
the rural districts and centering in
the large cities; but the solution of
the crime problem is not the increase
of the population. No intelligent
man or woman will question for a
moment.
The f * : fact to which I ask
your attention is that the whiskey
traffic is responsible for the increase
of crime. A detective who nail Succeeded
in landing 2G4 criminals in the
Ohio penitentiary and sending 18
others to the gallows, said in answer
to a question about what per cent of
these men were made criminals by
drink: "About 90 per cent, sir, as
near as I can judge." Without an explanation,
continuing, he said: "Whiskey
is mixed up in some way with
every crime that is committed in the
United States, whether the higher or
the lower estimation he nearer the.
truth, it matters but little; the lower
is 75 per cent and is amply sufficient
to alarm the whole United States."
The third fact to which I ask your
attention is that some or a great
many of the politicians of our land
are controlled by the whiskey traffic,
and by supporting these politicians
you are supporting the whiskey traffice
to a great extent.
Fourth, I believe that nine out of
every ten church members who are
voters and deliberately supporting a
political party which they know is
controlled by the whiskey traffic, and
by supporting these parties the
churches are supporting the whiskey
traffic. How long shall it be before
the good men of our state will rise
up and say by their vote: We will not
allow men whose life is predominated
by evil to set in public offices? How
long before the church members of
our land will get off the fence and let
the people know which side they are
on?
So mote it be.
Respectfully,
W. D. Lawson.
Mrs. W. W. Johnson and children
left Saturday to spend the remainder
of the summer in Hendersonville, N.
C.
Miss Lucy Cureton left Friday
morning for a visit to relatives at
Greenville. She was accompanied by
her^jiieceSjIMteses Fannie and Ruth
dreene, who have been her guests.
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