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IPs °- o^hf tanh) .r^s j^PoT~XlX. KINGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA, JUNE 15,1905. NO. 24. |"A NEGRO WORSHIPPER

PORE AND SIMPLE."MR. THOMAS DIXON JR., REITI RATES ANDSUBSTANTIATES HIS CHARGES AGAINST

MR. OGDEN.The NcWb and Courier has receivedthe following:Thanks for your kind offer of your

columns for a reply. I am sorry niv

letter to the News and Courier was

i(rt11iii rim r;Lw It was verv

7 hurriedly written and very clumsilyexpressed. The truth of my state"meats,however, cannot be questioned.The quotation of the State's editorial

from Mr Ogden's private letter,as follows, is very vague:"The statements contained in the

article have no foundation in fact, in- general aud in particular.

"I have never uttered a word inthe introduction of Booker TWashington to a public meeting thatyou and all my reasonable friends inthe South would not coidially ap4ProI*: .

>~ "The allegation concerning my relationswith colored persons in my

place of business are too contemptiblefor notice and so absolutely absurdas (o make a denial or explanationpurely ridiculous."These lines were evidently not

writteu for publication, and I fearMr Ogden will be far more distressedover their appearance than I am.

He simply declares that hid "reasonable"friends will cordially approveana that my allegations are "too

contemptible,for uotice." I do not

understand him to deny them. Hewill not deny them over his signature,for Mr Ogdeu, apart from his crazynotions about the negro, is a truth-fill and lovable old gentleman, a veryestimable citizen.

B I repeat my allegations with renewedemphasis aud challenge Mr

Ogden or auy other man to denythem.

I know that his introduction of' Booker T Washington to Cooper

ysT1 Union audience was a loathsome and

disgusting performance, because Iwas present and witnessed it. Thelady with whom I went was anythingbut an enemy to the negro or to Mr

Ogden, a woman of well poised mindand sound common sense. When

Mf Ogden finished his remarkablespeech of introduction she uirned to

me, with a look of contempt and

1 "Well, I have heard of suchtUinnrJ l.llf not'OP lit 111V lifp hffnrPWUUgB VMK n».v» ... ..j ...»

did I see a white man get down inf. the dirt and kiss a negro's feet! I've

enough.lei's go !"I said: "No, it isn't the negro's

fault. He can't help it. He wouldcrawl under the table if lie could,but he can't escape. The negro is

good, let's*hear] him." We stayedand she liked the negro much better.

Amoug the things he said in thatintroduction I recall one sentence in

a

substance: "Men tell me sometimesthat I have made a success in life.Ladies and gentlemen, I count allmy achievements and all my honorsas trash compared to the gloriousprivilege of standing hen tonightand tiutbfully saying to you that Iam the personal friend of the illus

' trious man whom I have the honorof introducing to vou."

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This is only a sample.I repeat the allegation -hat Mr

Ogdeu walked through the Wanamakerstore in New York, with hisarm aroond this negro, because I sawhim do it How long he kept itthere on that occasiou I can't say.He may have done it unconsciously.if so, all the worse-, as a revelationof his character.

1 might prolong this controversyat great length and have much funwith the venerable President of the'Southern" Educational Board, but

to have no time at present, being undercontract to furnish three articlesto great Northern periodicals ou thistheme and its allied ones in the near

future, "

» I allow myself a single statement,-*l however, "to make the tale simple

and unvarnished; "straight to thepoint; "without tatters of passionor "thunder of invective,'' followingthe admonition of the State. I thinkjt will be sufficient to convince theeditor and all his Southern readers.I repeat with emphasis rav assertion

that "Mr Ogden is a negro worshipper,pare and simple," beiause heteaches a school six days in the week

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on* Broadway, where negro equalityis taught in the moot direct anu

powerful manner possible bv peisonalexample.Mr Ogden is th* head of the John

Wauamaker store in New York, andhe conducts there the only first-classrestaurant in the metropolis where a

big buck negro is allowed to euterand seat himself at the same tablewith a white man's wife and daughful»uo T L'lWWl* this 13 thatCl« uv iai uo x auvh i/inu 10 vnv

only restaurant where such a disgust-1ing spectacle can be seen in NewYork, and, so far as I know, Mr Ogdeuis the originator of the idea inthis town.

I am inclined to think that our

people of the South were a little unfairto President Roosevelt about his

famous lunch with Booker T Washington.It was purely an accidentof the President's busy life. Bookerhappeued to be there at the lunchhour.the President wished to talkwith him and accordingly lunch was

served in an informal manner. MrRoosevelt did not mean to preachsocial equality with negroes.hedoes not believe in it. In the heatof politics we of the South didn'ttote fair wich our dashing youngPresident.

But in Mr Ogden's case we havethe real thing: an honest, earnest,well-meaning Yankee fanatic whodoes believe in it with all his soul.He not only believes in it, he preachesit. He not only preaches it, hepractices it. 1 hare nothing to sayabout what he may choose to do at

his own table in his own home. ButI have the right as a citizen and a

patron of his store to object to hisattempt to force my family to eat atthe same table with uegroes.The State declared, before learning

my identity, that "the author's intimacywith things Southern is not

the point, his knowledge of Mr Ogden'smode of association with personsof color is the question at issue."

The point is well taken. I havevoted in New York continuouslysince 1889. My knowledge on thisissue is ample and first-handed. MrOgden's store is the only one where1 keep an open account from year to

year. I have had this account thereabout ten years. My wife (anddaughters now, also), are afflictedwith the "Wauamaker habit" (adisease for which Keeley never inventedany cure). They go thereand stay all day.stand ou theirfeet, looking at his tempting wares,as the tippler bangs around a saloon,until they come home at nightiu a condition of collapse. I can'tblame them. They are made thatway. Mr Ogden keeps a tine store.a tempting store.one of the best inAmerica. In all my dealings withhim he has never showed me a shoddypiece of goods.I have alwaysgot my money's worth. As a merchanthe is a man of the highestorder of genius. But as a teacheron the race problem, he ;s a man ofprofound and pathetic ignorance,where money and position make hinia fanatic of dangerous and far-reaching power.

If Mr Ogdeu ran a restauraut forwhites and negioes apart from hisstore it would be a matter of littleimportance. It would become a ne-

gro joint in a few weeks. But MrOgdeu's dining room is not run to

make money. It is there for theaccommodation of his women 'shop-pers, that they may not leave as

long as their money lasts. Hencethe atrocity of his use of it for the

purpose of preaching social equality.If you ask me why I continue to

patronize his store I say to youfrankly that I am a married man.

I don't patronize his restauraut, nor

do my wife and daughters. I have

begged and pleaded with my wifefor years trying to rescue her fromthe slavery of the " Wanamaker!habit." As well talk to an opium-eater or an old toper! She hassworn to me again and again thatshe will reform, but the minute shestrikes New York straight to MrOgden's stoi e she goes! I don't oh?ject to her going there on his ac

oount.'far from it. She is a goodGeorgia girl, who graduated on therace problem long ago. I confessmy reasons are financial. I

I am r.ow consumed with a

hope that when Mr Ogden Wthis he will find it so "cont«^)tibid,"so "absolutely absurd,Ms to i

make "a denial or explanation pureIly ridiculous," and that he will or|der the head of his book depart:ment to throw "The Leopard'sSpots" aud "The Clansman" outand make my name taboo in hisshop foiever more. Then, Oh Lord,will I give thanks, for my wife » illnever go there any more, and Ishall be saved! At least, I'll save

from $500 to $1,000 annually!If the editor of the State wishes

to test the question of Mr Ogden'spitiful negro obsession, let himchallenge the president of the"Southern" Educational Conferenceto give up his ne-ro propagandarestaurant, or resign his presidency!I'll guarantee that negroes will continueto eat with white ludies in hisstor., and that the Conference willfind a new presiding officer! I maybe mistaken; it is barely possiblethat Mr Ogden's innovation of thepast few years in associating withSouthern white people may havebroadened his mind.but I will not

believe it until I see it.The State asks why I have delayedmy attack on the efforts of a

group of good-hearted, weak-mindedYankee philanthiopists to pauperizethe educational system of the Southin the interests of negro equality.

Again I will be frank. This"Southern" educational Society is

composed of many of my warm personalfriends, among them Mr Page,my publisher. They are in deadearnest and their aim is high, and,in the main, good. I had hopedthat they might shake off tne influenceof such men as- Ogden andthe editors of the Northern negroorgans like the Outlook. But itseems a vain hope. The truth is,these negro propagandists are themen who secure the funds whichmake the "Southern" educationalboard a power to be reckoned with.

As a Southerner who loves theSouth and the North, and who believesthat the South has performeda mighty seivice for this Republicin preserving our racial integrity in

spite of the efforts of such men as

Mr Ogden to corrupt it, I view with

suspicion the Greeks who bear gifts.:And I venture mildly to suggest]that a "Southern'' educational;board, with its headquarters in a lie-

gro equality restaurant on Broad-.way, New York, is a legitimate sub-'ject of discussion.The State has been deceived, at'

least, about Mr Ogden, whose realinterests have always been with thenegro during h's entire life. He isthe president of the board of trus

tees of the negro school at Hampton,and on the board at Tuskegee. Ifhe were to deny over his signaturehis negro loving obsession, it wouldraise a laugh among his friends thatcould be heard to Philadelphia. Thissoft spot in his brain is so wellknown here that it is a joke, and is

excused by his more robust asso-

ciates as a mild form of insanity.It is a good time for the State to

gracefully withdraw as an Ogdenitechampion. You are not bounu to

keep it up.Many subtle forces are at work in

America to undermine the barrierswhich separate our 9,300,000 Africansfrom the white race. There isenough negro blood here, if allowedto mix with ours, to drown the na!- .i-i x.J. i.i j..nonai cnanwier at least in a writer jof negroid mongreliam. Neithertoleration,education nor religion can

make a negro a white man, nor justifythe pollution of our blood withhis.

In my humble judgment themost insidious, daugerous movementagainst Southern sentimentsince the war is concealed be .indthe war front of the"Southern" educationalboard, with its millionairebackers, of which Mr Robert COg.len, of the Hampton negroschool, proprietor of the Broadwaynegio equality restaurant, is chuirman.

Thomas Dixon, Jr.

Nntine nf nn-napfnfir.shin.The undersigned have this

day formed a co-partnership forthe practice of law, under theiirm name of Kelley & Fairey,

their office at Kingstree,

John A. Kelley,F. W. Fairey,

Kingstree, S. C., June 6, 1905.

ALL THE NEWS !,j AROUND LAKE CITY.,I THINGS THAT ARE SEEN AND HEARD BY

OUR UBIQUITOUS REPORTER.i

Lake City, June ID: Messrs s

iR K Wallace and E C Epps of tKin^stree were noted on our e

streets Wednesday of last week, tA select party had a picnic k

at the Lee homestead on Lynch triver last Wednesday. They preturned about five o'clock and t<

reported a pleasant time andplenty of fish. p

i Mrs Cuthbert, who ha* been r* » .1 i f n i

visiting at ner orotner s, wir n r>

\V Yates's, returned to berime Fin Charleston Thursday. She s

was accompanied by Mr Yates's c

little daughter, Laura, who will t<

spend some time in the city. t

Mr Paul Jones of Timmons- s

ville came down here Thursday bto lo »k into the tobacco situa- btion. He is thinking of leasing bthe Planters' Ware house. It is t;understood that Mr W S Moore, biwho has operated this ware ishouse several seasons, will not t;do so this year, but will buy tobaccoinstead. tl

Miss L E Barton, who attend- c<

ed our school the term ju*t b<« - c h

ciosea, reiurneu iiome 10 01

iMatthews Friday last.MrW D Shaw, who in days

'" one bv was editor of the Lake"" Hi

City paper which became '

famous (?) as the "DeweyEagle," is in Sumter wearing a

uniform and a metal plate on b<his cap. (The plate, not theuif- teform is on his cap.) M

That was a very tine rain we ''

had Monday afternoon. While H

crops were not actually suffer- ^

ing up to that time, there being J

plenty of moisture a few inches ^

below the surface, only cotton ^rp

was doing much in the way of[growing;but the shower laid ^

the dust, gave an impetus to to- Fbacco, corn and kitchen garden ^

nn/1 froeiianj/l un (V l»ci UJ tOj uim ii vonvuvvi w

things generally.T

Rev J B Traywick returnedFriday night from a very pleasanttrip to Orangeburg.

wW L Bass, Esq., spent Friday ^

in Sumter on professional busi- ^ness before Judge Purdy. jMrs J C McElveen is visiting j

her mother, Mrs Dennis, on ^Pudding Swamp. jDr J L Bass of Kingstree ^

spent Saturday night in town, jMr L 0 Holloway is back from H

Sullivan's Island,where he went Rabout two weeks ago. He says Jhe spent three or four hours Beach day in the surf and came Hhome feeling" good and clean. JThe Atlantic is a great washer- pwoman. She uses salt, soda, Diodine and several other chem- Jical to cleanse her subjects. BMiss Bertha Morris returned J

home Saturday morning. SDr M D Nesmith left Monday ni<

for Chipley, Ga, where by theaid of an obliging parsor^ he Tfowill transmute a "miss" into a

"inadam" Wednesday, and willbuv two tickets instead of one

' vawhen he starts home. If wishes ^have any part in bringing peace ^and joy and happiness, the doctorwill reap all these, for he ^has the best and heartiest wish- ^es of us all.

miMiss Mantie (Joker of Kings- j-a

tree is visiting in town. A par- acty was given in her honor at m(Mrs J M Sturgeon's Monday eanight. ne

Mrs Ethel Epps is spending cosome time with her sister, Mrs |eW F Stack, at Pinewood. thMr P D Cockiield is getting C(

ready to build an eight roomAn L'trnuf 111

l Coiuvi»v. v. wii v aut^v oit i.a

Miss Pauline,* Claudine or ^GasoHne Phomfreight was in ?frtown Sunday afternoon andwhen seen on the streets was

holding her skirt so .

beMisses Dora and Sallie Hinnantare at home from school.Dr Hemingway passed through 01

town Sunday night onJhis way **

Little Miss Beulah HiY&iant is c;

lome from a visit to Flornce.Mr Ed^ar DuEant of Lambert

vas noted here Sunday.Monday afternoon we had a

ittle wreck in town. The localrei^ht, while drilling on thetation siding, ran a box car offiie track at the cattle pen. Sevralfeet of track were torn up,he incline of the cattle pennocked down and the forwardrucks of the car thrown out ofdace. This was about the ex-

ent of the injury.Mr B L Singletary and Miss

jttie May McWhite were mariedat the residence of thtjfride's mother near SavageJ'lorence county, on the 7th intant,at '2 p m. Soon after theeremony the young couple came:> their home, which is the pretylittle cottage on lower maintreet. just built by the happyenedict for his fair young"ride. The groom, who is knowny his friends as "Bub" Singleiry,is no stranger to anybody <

1 this section. Mrs Singletary ]a daughter of the late Cap- <

lin B B McWhite, who repre- |;nted Florence county in both <

le House and the Senate. Our lingratulations to "Bub" andest wishes for the health and j

appiness of both. xWLB <

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JUNE JURORS. ^

iiood Men and True" Who Will Serve

at Ensuing Term of Court. tThe following- jurors have t?en drawn to serve at the 1rm of court which convenes t

Monday, June 26. jF. Tharpe, King-stree. r

C Fuhnore, Lake City, cr J Holleman, Greelyville. a

C Altman, Lambert, tR Cooper, Rhems.1) Bayloi, Benson, jB Gourdin. Heinemann. aB Browder, Greelyville. vA T Moore, Lake City.C Johnson, Lake City.B Cantley, King-stree.V Taylor, Greelyville.W L Cox, Scranton.C Nelson, Church. JD Gamble, Indiantown.C Gordon, Lenud. r

alter Poston, Jay.Foxworth, Cades. 0

T Lake Citv. ^

M Foxworth, Lambert. I vE Blakeley, Suttons. a

J McCollough, Trio. a

L Altman, Vox. c

C Bell, Indiantown. t

L Whitlock, Lake City. £

C McElveen. Spring Hank. dA Tisdale, Benson.W Baker, Lake City, hVan Epps, Lake City. ID Cooper, ' Taft. v

M Byrdic, Benson, c

J Epps, Kingstree. v

G Tisdale, Kingstree, c

L Gist, Greelyville. c

C Everett, Salters Depot. 9HBoyd, Foreston. d

SPENSARY OR NO DISPENSARY? ®

e Electors of Williamsburg to Be f

Called On to Decide the Question.Lake City, June 9:.It is

a?ry probable that the electorsWilliamsburg will soon be

s.lied upon to vote upon thelestion of "dispensary or no

spensary."' The matter has:en talked quietly for severalonths and it seems that thislk is about to develop into n

lion. At the head of the hovement are some of the most s

rnest and influential oppo- hnts of whiskey selling" in the })luntry, and they will hardly c

ave a stone unturned to put u

e dispensaries out of the a

unity. loYour correspondent has it <jion excellent authority that je petitions askinA that an n

ection be ordered being" tamed now and will b<\ in cir- tilation at an early djim What fie result of tile eyrction will v

! is, of course problematical, r

it beyond all question there ta strong sentiment through- j

it the county against whiskey r

illing. Especially is this thease outside of those towns in 1

rhich the dispensaries ar^ 1(3- 1

ited..News & Courier. '( ]

WHAFS GOING ONIN GREELYVILLE.

THE HASELDEN DRUG CO..DEATH OF ANONOGENARIAN.

Gkeelyville, June 12: Someof the farmers are complainingthat it is too dry now. They are

certainly hard to please. Ashort while ago it was too wetand now it is the reverse. Ifwe were to have two good rainssome would kick aoout 100

much water and declare thecrops ruined. I sometimes wonflerwhat kind of weather we

would have if the averagefarmer could have his way aboutit. I think the crops are doingnicely. The farmers have alltaken advantage of this dryweather to kill the grass.Mr E O Taylor, who is now a

"knight of the grip," havingbeen.traveling in Georgia andFlorida for the past few monthsselling crockery, etc., is now athome resting from his trip. Hesays the hotel at Greelyville<ept by Mr S J Taylor is the:heapest house lie has struck inlis travels.Dr J F Haselden left here this

norning to go to Columbia, I**/! 4-r\ /i»a kofnro iho

iiiuci a iauu, l\j ^u uLik'i v iiiv,

state Hoard of medical eximiners.He expects to be gone:ill the middle of the week.Our boys are not quite as en-

husiastic ball players now as

hey were before they went to {

£ingstree last Friday. I thinkhey will put in some time in 1

)ractice and try it again. That's 1

ight, boys, '-if at first you <

lon't succeed, try, try again," (

Lnd we sincerely wish you bet- 1

er luck next time.We are glad to see Mr S W

(Iogan on our streets again,iter an absence of several ^reeks at Glenn springs.Mr and Mrs T W Boyle are ^lso away at the springs. ^Several of our boys visited \

^oreston yesterday, among jrhorn were Messrs S W and R \1 Hogan, W L Taylor and Hen- (

y Ferrell. s

The Haselden Drug Co was r

rganized here a short time ago. a

lost of the company are Greely- c

ille men. They are putting in jfull line of drugs and other a

rticles usually carried in first 1lass pharmacies. I understand a

hat Mr William 0'Bryan, Tr., ofleineinann is to be clerk in the e

rug store.. c

Mrs Louise Davis died at the tome of her daughter, Mrs L B s

Irowder, von last Friday and Iras buried at Mt Hope Baptist Ihurch on Saturday. Mrs Davis *

ras the oldest person in this4

ommunity and possibly in tne 1

ounty. She would have been I9 years old on her next birth- 3

ay some time time next fall. 3

he was the mother of Capt T B 3

)avis, wh(*was so well known *

or many years as a foreman on d>antee trestle. She leaves two 3

aughters, Mrs L B Browdernd Mrs Pack, both of whom are 3

uite old ladies each having e

everal grand-children. *

Vidi. 1

He Stopped His Paper. Y[San Francisco Call.] j.

Once upon a time a man gotlad at the editor and stoppedis paper. The next week he ^old his corn for four cents be3Wthe market price. Then hisiroperty was sold for taxes be-ause he didn't read the treasrer'ssales He was arrestednd lined $8 for going huntingn Sunday simply because heidn't know it was Sunday, and t

»aid $300 for a lot of forged iiotes that had been advertised i

wo weeks ami the public cau- 1

ioned not to negotiate them. 1le then paid a big- Americanvith a foot like a forge hamnerto kick him all the way tolie newspaper office, where he i

)aid four years in advance and <

nade the editor sign an agree- Inent to knock him down and i

ob him if he ever ordered his ]

ADVICE TO COUNTIY EDITOB. 1What to Print.How a Newspaper Ctt'ljj

Best Serve Its Patron. .1"I want to see the scissors

editor," said the visitor, as he^picked his way through a pileof exchanges and reached for achair."Here he is," I replied, "in

what way can I serve you?" 3"Are you the man who cuts

all these things out of the pa-*

pers telling the legislaturewhat to do and how to run the igovernment?""I am.""Well, you just listen to me c;

a few moments. I am the representativefrom Wayback, as( \

the country editor delights incalling me, and as I have stood *

his everlasting advice as long1 &as I could, I dropped in to givethose little fellows that printthe papers some advice myself;but country editors are like v

^country doctors, they nevertake their own medicine. How- )ever, if you print it, I will tellMr Three Em Space how to run

a country newspaper."- j 1 ik."v>nai uoes a mcrnuci ui ms

legislature know about running 22

a country newspaper?" I ven- :

tured to ask."What do I know? Well, I

ought to know something, hav- ;

ing edited one for fifteen years,and as the people are still takingit, it must have been a goodDne.""Well, what must I tell \ht ;

:ountry editors?" I asked. *

"Tell them this," said the .'t

representative, "to pay less at- /$tention to politics and more toieveloping the resources of the:ountry; to charge every poli-tician full rates for advocatinglis claims for office and makelim pay his bill in advance Alefeated candidate is the poor;stpay in the world. Tell them:o pay special attention to the

«»' iS:ypography, make-up, ana

sress work of their papers, so

:heir subscribers can read what:hey have to say. Tell them tolote the arrival of every visitorn their midst and herald the:oming and going of their sub- ;Jicribers. Births, deaths andnai riages should hare specialittention. Watch the crops:arefully .and give unstintedjraise to the farmer who livesit home, raises all he eats andlas something worth writingibout."If a new enterprise is start:din your community give all

letails as it is far more valuable '$jban political gossip. If a sub- -criberimproves his house andgrounds speak of it in your pa)er,as it will encourage otherso 101 low nis example."Never dun a subscriber

hrough the columns of your $>aper. Make your paper readibleand when subscriptionsire due present your bill as

iny other business man, for its your right. If you are poor,lo not parade it to the public,is they care nothing about it."Follow these suggestions

tnd your subscription list will[row and naturally advertisersrill seek the columns of your)aper to reach thrifty buyers,f you will do this you will notlave so much time to advisehe legislature to adjourn arid:ome home."Having finished his speech,

he gentleman from Wayback* « ' a t- i 3

lapped 111s nai upon nis neaa

nd withdrew..R B Harrisonn Atlanta Constitution.

Lost!On Sunday, June 4, on King's '

ree-Lake City public road, a

adies' chatelaine bag, containnga pair of gold-rimmed spec:acles.Reward if Underbilleave at Record office.

Taken Back to Willlansbjrft. iSheriff Graham of Kingstree j

was in the city last night. He j:ame over to take to the Kings- £tree jail Noah Williams,colored, a

who was arrested by Sheriff jjBurch at Cowards Monday even.