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STABLISHED 18G5 NEWBERRY. S. O.. FRIDAY. JANUARY 8. 1904. TWICE A WEEK. #1.50 A YEAR frrviT ? ? ?? 1 MM1UK LATHAM'S GOOD ROADS BI! IT CALLS TOR AN EXPENDITURE 1 TWENTY-FOUR MILLIONS. An Outline of the Provisions of t Important Measure Just Introduced in the Senate. Washington, Jan. 6.?Twei four million dollars lor good ro to be expended at the rate of 000,000 a year during the 1 three years! That is the anic of appropriation carried in the g roads bill which Senator L,ati of South Carolina has just in duced. His bill sets forth an rial ate scheme for federal aid of good roads movement, for ivl purpose he proposes to establisl the department of agricultur< bureau to be known as the but of public highways. The object of this bureau, acc< ing to the terms of the bill, slial to co-operate with the vari States in the improvement and < struction of permanent public rc in accordance with the scheme forth in detail in the bill. 'J bureau is to consist of three c missioners to be known as conn sioners of highways; two of tl shall be appointed by the presid one from each ot the two leac parties; these to be men who 1: had practical knowledge of i engineering and construction. 1 third member is to be an office the engineer corps of the arm) rank not below captain. Each to receive compensation at the of .$5,000 per year for their servi These commissioners shall be ui the general supervision of the retaryof agriculture. After the expiration of six 11101 110111 the time of the passage of act, any State, through the pr< officers having jurisdiction of pu roads, may apply for aid in the provement or construction of pu roads, under general rules t< made by the commissioners. State shall be*"entitled to receivc benefits of this act until it shall 1 established to the satisfaction of commissioners of highways! First. fhat the highway or tion thereof sought to be imprc or coiisti ucted is of sufficient pu use to come within the purvie* this act, taking into account the location and value of such high for the purpose of common tr and travel, and for the deliver the mails. Second, That the requisite r of way shall have been secured Third. That the highway wil improved or constructed in acc ance with the regulations of bureau, and when so improved be maintained and kept in rc without recourse upon the Ui States. Fourth. That the State has vided for the payment of its poi of the total cost. One half the expense is to borne by the federal governni the other half being borne b\ Mate, but it is provided that States may distribute their poi of the expense among the com directly benefited. It is further vided that 110 money shall bi vanced by the United States in wit oi its proportion of the pense except as the work of ac construction progresses, and in no case shall the payment or payments LL* made prior to the completion of the work Le in excess of 80 per cent, of 0F the work actually performed. To carry out the provisions of the bill an appropriation ol $24,000,000 jjC is provided, $8,000,000 for 1904, $8,000,000 for 1905, and $8,000,000 for 1906. If any part oi this is not expended in the year named it shall uty- be available for the succeeding" year, ads, 'And it is further, provided that no $8,- State shall receive in ativ one year lext a larger proportion of the sum apuint propriated than its population bears ;ood to the total population of the S'ates mer ?f the United States. tro- i - ??? bor- | PREACHER SCORES TILLMAN. the J licli A ScnatIonal Attack Prom An Atlanta Pulpit Upon South Carolina's Senior 111 Senator. 2 a eau At the tabernacle in Atlanta 011 Sunday night to an audience of three 3rd- thousand people, Dr. L. G. Broughton took occasion to reply to the lecious ; lure Qf Senator Tillman, delivered -on" in that city last week. Tilli? an's >ads , lecture was 011 the race question. set Dr. Broughton's theme was the N"sj "Sensitive Fool." lie handled the oin" South Carolina senator without mis- j gloves and used some very forcible lem words in speaking of the senator's ent, views 011 the negro in the South. Dr. Broughton said: lave "Much of this talk of the race ^oad j problem is also the result of morbid The j sensitiveness. I heard Senator Till :r of j man Friday night give his lecture r of on 'The Negro.' I tried to be fair ' is in my estimate of it. For reckless rate I frankness it was a model; for sences. j siblc argument it was a mess. I like ider, frankness; I like to see a man who sec- j believes something and then is not afraid to say it. In Hi is respect and iths in this "espect alone, is Senator Tillthis, inn-- c.(j ;i place among those )1XM* ving to shape the destinies l')" <>11 His whole talk, from i'N- start 1 iiiisli, was that of the cheap tolic politician, playing upon the most 0 be subtile prejudices of ignorant peoNo pic. Never once in his solution ot J the this great question did he get out lave of the realm of the rankest pagthe anism. I he Christian lcligion was never hinted at as having anything sec to do with overcoming bad conwed , ditions or uplifting the race. One iblic j of the most prominent Christian w of educators in the South said to me use, just as he finished his harangue, way 'His position is nothing short of the aflic vilest paganism.' Senator Tillman y of is a papan arguing from the standpoint of pagan philosophy. ight "That there are wrongs with rej gard to the negro that must be rightlibel ed nobody doubts. It was a blunord Ider to put the ballot in their hands the j when they were freed. The North will ' sees this. Senator Tillman's effort ;pair to fire Southern hearts with hate lited ; for the North because they forced this iniquity 011 us is unjust. I have pro- traveled North as much as he has. tion I have circulated with abetter clas* of people where I have gone, and 1 1 tell you the best people of the Nortli lent, | are perfectly willing that we should ' the j take the negro out of politics, II( the ought to be taken out and we arc tion going to do iv, not for our good only, ntiesjbut for his good as well. I said ii pro- j Boston to an audience as large a? 2 ad- Senator Tillman had Friday night, pay- 'The negro must be eliminated fron ; ex- politics and white iolks' society.1 :tual The remark was cheered, though ) made in church. The negro needs j moral and religious evolution. He j needs to find his place and settle. ' This he will do out of politics, but I in it he is an ignorant tool of mean j politicians. Socially the negro is ' j not a problem to us in this country ; i and never will be Senator Tillman's ' [sarcastic comparison of the love of j his old faithful negro servant and a Newfoundland dog, to be cheered by an Atlanta audience, was, to way the least of it, pitiable. '?et cheap politicians and denia gogues sneer as much as they will I at the Christian philanthropy, it is nevertheless the only hope for the j j salvation and civilization of this! world. Paganism, with its hell of : oppression, is not the policy of our people. If now and then anexcep- j | tion is tolerated it is only for the j lack of time for the triumph of the ! law of Christian equity." SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. Items of More or Less Interest Condensed In the State. Anderson has completed her street paving at a cost of nearly! #30,000. Ji/Stel 1 broneberger, a young | negro, was shot and killed in Yorkj ville county last week by a young white man, Wesley Bolin, with whom he was out hunting. I 21 blind tigers were convicted in | the city court ol Charleston on I Monday. Those who pleaded guilI ty were fined $25 and those who were proved guilty were fined $50 i each. j Mi. P. I. Welles, the superintendent of this division of the Southern railway, has been elected general manager of the Columbia street car line and will leave the railway service. Tuesday was the coldest day in two years, 111 <.- thermometer registering 23. Three inches of snow covered the ground in Florence, and there was snow in Georgetown and at other points in the lower 1 part of the Stale. Mr. II. I,. Par roll, of Cades, . while attempting to board a train at j Kingsu-ee on Monday afternoon, the train having just started, missed , his footirg and fell between the i cars, the wheels passing over his body and inflicting injuries from I which he died in a few moments. YOUNG FARMER KILLS Hi#SELF. He Swallowed Carbolic Acid, in Spite of Efforts to Prevent Him-Result of Drink Habit. , I I The State. Dillon, Jan. 4._~Alex McClellan, .la farmer living about three miles j from Dillon, across the Pee Dee, committed suicide this morning by : I swallowing about two ounces of 1 j caibolic acid. It appears that he ; made an attempt at suicide very I early this morning but did not suei ceed An effort was made by phone to procure a physician from 1 Dillon when it was discovered that 1 lie was trying to lake the poison. : but eluding the vigilance of his at : tendants he finally succeeded 1-1 , swallowing enough to produce i. 1 stant death. I fe was about 35 years > j of age, clever and industrious but , j addicted to occasional sprees, and 1 j it was while on one that he took his own life. He leaves a wife and 1 several children. CITIZENS DISCUSS ? LICENSE ORDINANCE, v S LARGEST MEETING OF CITIZENS IN A V NUMBER OF YEARS. IV IV Committee Appointed to Report to an j Adjourned Meeting-?Discussion with ! ii Several Lively Passages. | C 11 Pursuant to a call issued by a j I; number of the leading business men, | ' the largest citizens' meeting held j*J in Newberry in recent years as 'i' sembled in the' opera house on '1' 1 uesday afternoon to consider the ; license ordinance recently passed ; by city council, The attendance j c numbered 1 10. The discussion I ^ lasted lor more than an hour and I several plans were suggested lor J requesting of council either the re- \ / peal of the ordinance or its amend- I ^ ment in a number of instances. \ The debate was interspersed with a j number of lively passages between j those present. It was finally decided that a committee be appointed by the chairman to report j11 to an adjourned meeting of citizens |C whether a license tax is desired ami c desirable, and il a license is desired, , what is deemed a fair and equitable! basis lor such taxation. | There were those present who j1 were free to pronounce the gather- ' ing an "indignation" meeting and a gathering of "kickers.'' Others 1 denied that the meeting was actuated * j by any feeling of indignation or ill- 1 ; will towards council. There were 1 s those present who held that it was j a wrong principle to electa city ] i council and then seek to annul its 1 , ordinances and to dictate what laws j' should be passed. OtheVs denied r that such was the intention of the 1 meeting, holding that the citizens ! had met .simply to consider the or- | dinance, to state whatever grievances they had and to frame a re- , spcctful petition to council, and thai council sli;>uld he read\ :tn<l willing to consider a memorial from a citi zens' meeting of such respecla- i ble proportions. There was not a member of city I council present, the only representative of council being City Attorney 13 lease. TlIK CAJ.I.. i The call for the meeting was the ; following, circulated among the j business men and signed by those | j whose names appear below: Newberry, S. C., Jan. i, 1904. !' To the Citizens at Ivarge of the Town (. f Newberr>: We, the undersigned citizens of the Town of Newberry, having seen in the Observer and The Herald and News of this date the notice of : a "Incense Ordinance" providing ( for the licensing of all "callings, ' trades, businesses, occupations and 1 professions' therein contemplated, ji within the corporate limits of said {i town during the year 1904, do 1 heartily ask and urge a meeting o."! lik: citizens ol tlic Town of Newberry in the opera house on the afternoon ol Jauu'. v 5tii, a; ,| o'clock p- m., to eojihuiri Lisai I 01dinance. I*>(1 Iv Sl'. Villi.;r I - A (b iliia A ( .) . ,1 1,7 , . _ ,V, (;() J..' .1 .Iniin.uoue T 'i n'T. " ' ti,J A'.. ^ ' 1 S MowerCo ^ 1'aniol.s ; , 11 ''' I i'ulhaju & Soil j j , '; ' vV;it' I'll or (Jo I lJav< i; Jones L. lb'i/nea&McFall | Cop i.. ,| Aull J Wooten Gildor & Weeks iivingston- w A Jamieson Loimnick Co D L Copeland ir o ll,0,mnHon Black wolder & Melton Davenport ample & JW Kibler & <5o ? r Lominick R D Smith i Jj0,nun,ck G B Summer p ^Jlu,ctt Shelly, Dean & lis E C Sonnen- Summer i n >r 11 "ur? J M Swindler I j? ?o(W Purcell & Scott < G Williams J A Mimnaugh >romer & McGraw W CI Mayes ; L Havjrd Havird Bros A, Williams Gus Dennis iOUis Morris Kibler, Dennis icorgo I C & Co McWhirter Arthur Kibler os Mann w t Tarrair i U- i'n,s >'os Lines Vigodsky O Klettner he toiiHth Co Casey & Lee i Solomon ,J |i West lounts & Dickcrt L C Pitts W Miller AlanJohn' Viu llnWh;d Htone & J McWhirter .1 W White uVnil!Ur ' A Scnn v 1 1 arrant & H H Lcitzsey ... Son, Agts L M Spoors Q Black M a Carlisle n? J?, K;"1laid B Y Leavell ; I' Wright J A Burton / Wilson J n Bass ames Mcintosh T C Pool K Sligh ,j M Counts MKKT1NC. CAI.I.Kl) TO OKDliR. 1 lie meeting was called to order y Mr. R. I). Smith, upon whose notion Dr. George B. Cromer was lected chairman. John K. Anil was hosen secretary. Mr. Smith stated the object of he meeting to be to j>ct the citizens ogethet to consider the license law ecently promulgated in the town >apers. Dr. \V. K. Pel ham thought if the nayor or any of the aldermen were present it might be well to get a statement from one of them as to :he object of the law. I here was no member of council present and Dr. Pelham made a motion, which was carried, that the -ity attorney, who was present, state the reasons actuating council in this matter. TIIH CITY ATTOKXJCY. Mr. lilease stated that the ordinance was drawn by his predecessor, thai painstaking and honorable lawyer, the lion. 1<\ l,. Byninn, and was passed ln-fore he was chosen ittoniey. Ilc wa>, in no way responsible for it but lie stood ready to defend ii at any lime in any court., lie thought it would have been very improper for any member of city council to attend an indignation meeting called to criticise their own acts Dr. Cromer stated that he did not understand this as an indignation meeting. Dr. Pelham said that he certainly was not actuated by any feeling of indignation By request, the call for the me^.">K, which appears above, was read. MK. AI.AN JOHNSTONH said he came to counsel with council, and in no bad spirit. He moved that the ordinance be read and as each item was called that such amendments as were deemed necessary be recorded and suggested to council. C(),<- o. I.. SCIIUM I'KUT saiii tint this seemed to him a very irregular proceeding. The license oidinaiK-e was a law. What are we '* 1 ? repeal this ordinance? We can't do thai. We are here as Kickers. Whether the ordinance was a bad law or a good law he didn't know he hadn't read it. But it must be abided by. The people were here as kickers and nothing else. Mr. Alan Johnstone, interrupting, said it was his idea to frame a re