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The San Francisco call., 1910-07-14

NEW BANK OFFICIAL Redwood City. July Is.
At q meeting of the directors OF the Redwood
City commercial bank and the Savings and
Trust company of San Mateo county held here
today John p Weller of San Mateo was ap-
II. McKie, who has resigned. Weller has
been assistant postmaster at San Mateo for is
years and is pioneer resident Of the county.
The San Francisco call., 1910-07-14
AN oLD-TIME PRESCRIPTION

In a modern product. From time imme-
mortal sage and sulphur have been used
for the hair and scalp. Almost every
one knows OF the value Of such COM
bination for darkening the hair and max
ing it grow In olden times the only way
to get a hair tonic of this sort was to
brew it in the home fireplace, a method
which was troublesome and not always
satisfactory. Nowadays almost every up
to-date druggist can supply his patrons
with ready TO use product, skillfully
Compounded in perfectly equipped labora-
tories Such a preparation is Wyeth's
Sage and Sulphur, which is sold by all
leading druggists for SOC. and S1.OO
bottle. or which is sent direct by the
Wyerh Chemical Company, "a Cortlandt
ST., New York City, upon receipt of prics.
For sale and recommended by The
Owl Drug Company.
The San Francisco call., 1910-07-14
CHECK CHARGES PILE
UP AGAINST DAVIDSON

The preliminary hearing of H. NJ.
Davidson, drayman. charged with pass
ing a fictitious check for S654.50, was
commenced before Police Judge Deasy
yesterday and was continued till to-
morrow.
The case in which L. Lagamarsino
is the complaining witness involving a
check for $49S.35 was continued till the
same time.
w. H. Ashman of the Southern Pa
cific company yesterday swore to two
warrants for Davidson's arrest on
charges of passing fictitious checks on
the company.
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NEW YORK. July 13.-The second engage
ment OF gold in London for importation TO this
country was announced today by Lazard- Freres,
who have taken 81 .000. 600 in gold bars to be
Shinped here on SatnrdaT
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-08-27
MIR. Lever ana the Platform.

If the Democratic party or any
other party is ito do business it
must move in a straight line. Some
authority must point it's course. That
authority is the national convention
and the platform is the chart it p .'e-
pares.
If Congressman Lever is justified in
Kicking out Of traces in respect to
the lumber schedule, Doe, Roe Dick,
Tom and Harry, from this, that and
the other district and State, are
equally justified In voting against the
party programme according as whim
or interest may dictate.
To vote against free lumber would
be undemocratic irrespective of plat
forms because 1t would be out of
harmony with the traditional Demo-
cratic tariff position To vote against
1t In defiance of specific platform
declaration Is an overt act Of down.
right treason against the Democra-
tic party.
If the Democrats of the district are
prepared to grant Mr.. Lever an IN
dulgence to vote with the party or
against it as suits his humor, they
must be prepared to pardon any ana
all violations Of platform pledges and
to hold themselves responsible for
consequent party defeat.
The contention that the party plat
form may be ignored at pleasure in
suits intelligence. A political party
must have something to steer by
when its platform is abandoned, there
Is nothing left.-The State.
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uniform system, and the per cent
tare seems TO be the only one that
can be agreed upon.
The letter which I sent the Amer
lean Textile Manufacturer. and
which they did not even publish.
may make our position even clearer
and is appended herewith:
\ Letter the Manufacturers wou;dn.,
Print.
ITO the Editor: l have real vou1
editorial in this weeks Textile Manu-
facturer, and 1 think that you en-
tirely misunderstood the spirit of the
Progressive Farmer and the Southern
farmer. We do not wish to have
single piece of bagging sold at cotton
prices. In fact, so far from the sys-
tenn of selling by net weight being
Objectionable, the farmers know very
Well that the mills do not really buy
oagging and ties but always made
thelr price with view to buying only
the net weight. The point I make
ls' that long custom and the uniform
practlce among European buyers is
10 assume that net weight is G per
cent. less than the gross v eight. and
that prices for cotton are fixed upon
thls bas1s-as it is reasonable I'D as
sumo since the larger part OF our
cotton crop is bought by Europe
in which the per cent tare is the
rule.
"As matter of fact, then, it is not
the case that where the farmer puts
on full per cent, he is selling bae-
olng and ties at cotton prices. but
the real situation is, that where less
than per cent is put on, cotton fs
sold at bagging prices
"As for buying at net weight that
is what the cotton world is aiming
at now, for the price is lowered suf6-'
GENTLY to allow for the bagging and
Ties. The need is for uniformity, so
that one class (the buyers and manu-
facturers) will not get the advantage
which another class (the farmers) is
entitled to.
our position in the matter is mere
clearly set forth in the enclosed edi-
torial which we should like to have
you publish. We are only seeking
the truth in the matter and a square
oeal' which we believe can only
come about by having a uniform sys-
tenn instead of the present double
standard.-Progressiv Farmer"
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can do in a case like this is to tell
what is right. With all the informa-
ton before US, we said, and still say,

for the nomination to a State pro-
hibition convention.
Now, Mr.. Editor, I am to write the
painful part OF this article. loved
Bristow like a Younger brother. Who
persuaded him into that Jerome ho-
tel caucus? He wrote and advocated
the resolutions calling a State con-
ventioI. as adopted by the prohibi-
ton conference. Not long after he
was nominated for lieutenant COVER
nor there began to drop from his
pen, little pieces complimentary of
FeatherstOne. Was it Featherstores
hand that rendered the crown--or
counseled his nomination, that fasci-
mated the boy? I don't know.
Mr.. BristOw says I was wrongly
informed" as to the Jerome hotel
meeting. and lit is very gratifying to
see that The States editorial COM
ment upon Mr.. Brunson's card does
not indOrse nor sustain the state
ment concerning the Hotel Jerome
conference" Et tu Brute!
l now take a few words from Mr..
Bristow's letter written to me a few
days after the Jerome hotel meeting,
in which he tells me what occurred
there. After saying they all thought
the prohibitionists should put out a
ticket for the next year, and the cam
didate was to be not "Featherstone
or man like him 80. I told him.
referring to Featherstone, plainly
before all present that he could not
be nominated, and that L and
others had utterly lost confidence in
him." In the matter of nominations
he says: "There was a decided move
toward Mccullough :. :. >. am
inclined to favor him"
A few days later Mr.. McCullough's
nomination appeared in print. Was
it the product of that Jerome hotel
conference?
If Mr.. Brstow still thinks I was
wrongly informed" or that l have
twisted to suit my purpose any
clause of his letter and demand its
publication, it shall go to the press
though it make momcntal ass of
him.
If Mr.. FcathcrstOne, or Mr.. Ever
EFT, or Mr.. Grist, claims that I have
not quoted correctly from the min
utcs of the prohibition committee
meeting of October 26, 1905, that pa
per also properly signed by Mr.
JayncS can go to the press.
Now. Mr.. Editor, | have "made
good from the testimony of Mr..
Feathorstouo, his friends and the
records without calling a single wit
ness on my side.
/ thank Cod for a fine MEMORY
ana for carefully preserved records
i'm this controversy.
Joel T.. Brunson.
Sumter, August 20, 1910.
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SCHOLARSHIPS AWARDED
foung Men and Women Who Will
receive College Educations on
State Scholarships.

It the meeting Of the State Board
Of education held IL Columbia Wed
nesday scholarships =, tho S+4+a. ool-
'eges were awarded The following
were the awards for Sumter county.
Clemson College-Bush M. Jack
son, Clarence c. DesChamps and one
vacancy yet to be filled.
University of South Carolina
Thomas NJ Moore.
For Lee county the awards were:
winthrop College-Sarah Bates
James.
For Clarendon county:
University Of South Carolina-Fur-
man Bradham.
Clemson College-Enison Capers.
Jr.' r. Henry Ridgin. w. T. Sprett.
Jr.
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LEVERS LUMBER VOTE.
What Senator Tillman Has to Say
About 1t.

About 1t.
The following letters are printed by
Congressman Lever in the Orange
burg Sun:
Lexington, S. c., Aug. IS, 1910.
Senator B. r. Tillman, Trenton, S. C.
My Dear Senator Tillman:
The Times and Democrat, a news
paper Of Orangeburg County, is
making a great ado about my vote
against putting lumber on the free
list in the last Tariff Act. This paper
practically accused me, in effect, OF
being Republican because Of this
vote.
l should, therefore, appreciate it If
YOU will write me, answering the fol-
lowing questions
First: Was the vote on the lumber
schedule regarded by Democratic
leaders as a test Of party loyalty?
Second; Do you personally regard
my vote on this proposition as q
breach of party loyalty?
Third: Have I not always, as fal
as you know, given loyal support tc
the fundamental principles Of the
Democratic party?
| Will greatly appreciate your kind.
ness in giving me an immediate reply
which 1 shall use for publication In
the Tines and Democrat and the
Orangeburg papers.
Very truly,
Nolsned.) A. +. Lever.
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blind tigers has been due, as much
to the efforts and influences Of the
law abiding citizens who voted against
prohibition in the election last sum-
mer as to the efforts Of the un-
compromising prohibitionists who
voted to abolish the county dispen-
sary. Law is nothing more than
crystalized public sentiment, and
every law that has not common sense
to recommend it and public senti-
ment to enforce it, cannot be made
even nominally effective.
But for the fact that Tammany is
no better than the Republican ma
chine. the Democrats of New York
would have an opportunity to capture
that State as the result of the fight
Roosevelt Is making on the regular
organization.
If Mr.. Lever is a Republican be-
cause he voted for tariff on lumber,
what are the other forty-one mem
bers of the House, and the seventeen
Senators, who voted with him!
Champ Clark, the leader, and Sena-
tor Tillman both say Lever Is still
a Democrat in good standing, and
that his vote on lumber did not make
him traitor to the party, and
weight as the dictum Of any other
Democrat who volunteers to construe
the party rules and lay down the
law to the rank and file.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-08-27

Some time last fall, if / am not
mistaken, / saw in The Progressive
Farmer and Gazette an article, ad-
vising farmers to put 80 pounds of
bagging on their cotton, including
ties. The farmers here, following
your advice did so. The mill men
kicked on it and stopped all local
buyers from buyers, saying a farmer
had just as well put in plank to
make up, as it would be more honor
able.
Some one wrote an article in the
Charlotte Observer about it making
the same sort Of argument, and I am
surprised at your not replying to it.
You surely have not noticed it. Not
only myself, but all farmers are sur
prised at your not replying. What
1 want to know, is it law to put it
on? If it Is defend us; if not publish
the amount we can put on it. c..
Shelby, N. c.
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that the farmer is entitled to put 6
per cent. tare on his cotton bales.
This is his right, but if the farmer
is not disposed to insist on it, we
cannot help it. The farmer has a
right now to get IA to Is cents for
good cotton, but if he is willing to
be run over and let a buyer take it
for 10 cents, we have too much inn
portant work to do to go out and
fight the battles of a man who won't
stand up for himself.
The 6 per cent tare is right and
farmers from one end of the South
to the other ought to organize with
a view to enforcing this right on all
1910 markets.
All that we can do is to tell them
this and then it is up to them,
through the Farmers Unions and
other ways to do the ,'est.
But why do we say the per cent.
tare is right?
Put in a nutshell, our position is
just this: Europe buys most Of our
cotton, and buys it on a basis of 6
per cent tare-fixes prices with a
view to losing 6 per cent. to get net
weight. President j. L. Lee of the
Georgia Farmers Union publicly as
serted last fall that Wilmington, At
lanta, Augusta, and Savannah export
ers buy cotton on a basis of 22
pounds and put on the full 80 pounds
before exporting.
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Farmers Union News
Practical Thoughts for Practical Farmers


Watcbman
senlweeky publication
The
Practical Farmers nv
aim Union To that end
Also
men' Bulletins hnA
successes or failures
will be and ished.
Depart
All sent to E. W. Dabbs
S. C.
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senator TilIman's RcDly.
(Signed.

Trenton, s. c., Aug. 10, 1910.
Hon. A. F.. Lever
Lexington, S. c.
Dear Lever:
Replying 10 yours of August Is I
would say my answer to your first
question would be cmphatically. no.
to the second question. no; TO the
third question, yes; all with equal
emphasis. Party lines were not drawn
I'm the Senate or House as far as 7
know on the lumber schedule.
Very truly yours.
Signcd) II. T.. TiIImap
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-08-27

Monday afternoon the Liberty
Street and Little Rocks base hall
teams played fast game of ball. re-
sulting in a victory of 9 to O in favor
Of the Little Rocks.
Batteries: Little Rocks; Hoyt and
Richardson; Liberty Street; Gallash-
er and Gallagher.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-08-27

when the digestion Is all right
the action OF the bowels regular
there Is a natural craving and relish
Tor 1000. When this is lacking YOU
may know that you need a dose Of
Chamberlain's Stomach and liver
Tablets. They strengthen the 6.ges-
tive organs. improve the appetite nd
regulate the bowels. Sold by w. "
Sibert.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-08-27

I'm buying cough medicine, don't
De afraid to get Chamberlain's Cough
Hemedy. There is no danger from II.
and relief is sure to follow. Especial
ly recommended for coughs. colds
and whooping cough. Sold by w. "
Sibert
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-08-27
Cir ddattbman ano Soutbron

The Sumter Watchman was found
Cd In 1850 and the True Southron In
1sss. The watchman and Southron
now has the combined circulation and
influence CT both OF the old papers.
and Is manifestly the best advertising
medium I'm Sumter.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-08-27

lt your liver is sluggish a
OF tone. and you feel dun. :
constipated, take dose of Ch
lain's Stomach and Liver Tab
night before retiring and you v
all right in the morning. Solo
w. Sibert.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-08-27

.Dysentery is a dangerous disease
put can be cured. Chamberlafn's
Cohc, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy
mas been successfully used in nine
eploenics Of dysentery. 1t has never
oeen known to fail. It is equally
valuable for children and adults. ana
when reduced with water and sweet
ened 1t is pleasant to take. Sold by
w. w. Sibert.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-08-27

1t is said that the magisterial "a
IN Privateer is the hottest polite
proposition in the county camp
There is also a hard fought
on the Providence district.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-08-27

A great many farmers are talking
OF planting winter cover crons eitb-
er rye, vetch or crimson clover. The
campaign for scientific farming is
beginning to tell.
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Death.

Alexander, infant son of Mrs. Mary
III. Sparks, died at her resid. nee on
sumter street, at 1 O'clock Tuesday
23rd, age months.
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Organize For Per Cent. Cotton Tars

Here is Work Which Farmers
Unions in Every Cotton State
Should Begin at Once-Farmers
Are Entitled to 6 Per Cent. Tare,
But We Cannot Help Man Who
is Willing to be Run Ovcr-PrOmpt
Action Needed for 1910 Cotton Sea-
son.
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Signcd.)

When will work ON the Tuomcv
Hospital hc started?
Thcre IS said 10 be less cotton
blight In the vicinity Of Dalzeu and
Gaillard Cross Roads this season than
there has been for several years. This
IS due in part to the planting OF wilt
resistant cotton. and in part OF the
seasons, IL Is said
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-08-27
BRUNSON REPLIES.
Discusses the Letters of Messrs. Ever
EFT and BristOw-The jerome Con-
ference.
To the Editor of The State:

TO the Editor of The State
l regret to have to ask space to an
swer Messrs. Everett and Bristow. as
l have already taken more than my
share of your paper. However, 1 think
this is my last letter, as have said
enough to satisfy any intelligent man.
If few more of the members of that
Jerome caucus should rise in Mr..
Featherstone's behalf, 1 shall be able
to write out the minutes Of that meet
ing.
"A short horse is soon curried." and
L need say but little in reply to Mr..
Everett. / wish he had said some
thing definite, so that l could get hold
of 1t. I did not say Mr. Featherstone
was In the least weakening as a pro-
hibitionist." / have not regarded Mr..
Featherstone for years as a prohibi-
zionist with any fixed principles. But
a shor, time has elapsed since he ad-
vocated the sale Of liquor in each and
every county where a majority of the
voters were in favor of it, and I be-
lieve If a majority of the counties
were in favor of selling it he would
be singing that same song today. If
1t was matter of principle and right
In the past, it should be right today.
We do not do evil that good many
come.
Mr.. Everett says: "In that meeting
no word or act of Mr.. Featherstone,s
could have been construed as wanting
in fidelity to the cause of prohibition"
Mr.. Everett has very poor conception
OF the duties Of one who becomes a
member Of an organization-of party
fealty. Should a member Of any DO
litical party commit such an act he
would be kicked out.
Now let me convict Mr.. Feather
stone out of the mouths Of his own
witnesses.
Mr.. Featherstone acknowledged
the authority Of the regular pro-
Mbition conference held In the
Methodist church June Is 1905,
when he claimed a seat In the COM
mittee appointed by that body, ad-
dressed the chair and said "I move"
etc. And then when he moved to
adjourn the subject to the call
or the chairman, he clinched his
Acknowledgement of the right Of the
prohibition conference to form the
committee. 80 escape by thu chan
mel.
Was Mr.. Festherstone 1T The 3e.
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a: allow t per cent OF nay Z high-
er price for their lint. Ana IL Q
per cent is right, then it is not the
case that where the farmer puts on
the full 6 per cent, he is acting dis
honorably and selling bagging and
ties at cotton prices; the real truth
is, that where less than 6 per cent
is used the buyer might more rea-
sonably be accused because he gets
cotton at bagging prices. And it is not
in getting cotton at bagging prices that
the only unfair action has been go
ing on, if the information 7 have is
correct.
Last fall the American Textils,
Manufacturer jumped on me for my
fight for the per cent tare, and 1
answered them with the letter add
ed herewith. Although 1 watched
their paper carefully they have new
er yet published this reply, so far as
1 can learn, nor have they ever re-
futed my position by private corre-
spOndence. One or two leading cot
ton manufacturers also attacked my
position, but could not come back at
me when I presented these argu-
ments, although l made it plain that
l wrote with no feeling toward either
cotton buyer or cotton manufacturer
and with an earnest desire not only
to be absolutely fair, but to get any
information that might show me in
error For as L said to them in the
language of old Marcus Aurelius:
IF any man can show me that I do
not think or act Alright, l will gladly
change for l seek only the truth by
which no man was ever injured"
The fact that neither the manufac-
turers themselves nor their official
organ We're able to attack or over
turn our arguments is the best COM
mentary on their soundness.
The paramount need, as see it,
is for a uniform system. There
ought 10 be a definite understand
ing between the farmers organiza-
tions and the manufacturers organ
izations as to the amount of tare to
he allowed on each bale and the
present double standard system,
with all of its irregularities and
losses forever done away with.
If the tare were less than per
cent, but uniform and unvarying.
prices would soon be adjusted
through natural law to COMPENSATE
for the increased percentage of lint
in bale, but with the present dou-
hlo-standard system the farmer gets
caught between the upper and Meth
CT millstones and has lost thousands
of dollars as a result.
II per cent tare is to be ana con-
tinue the recognized standard bv
European manufacturcrs-and it
has been the standard so long that
manufacturers tell us it would he
almost impossible to change it-then
the American standard should be re-
Nisod to accord with il.