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Scraps and .facto. ? Spartanburg. September 14: Decoyed to a lonely spot near Glendale, six miles from this city by a call for his professional services. Dr. William G. Sexton of this city, was waylaid this morning by two white men who overpowered him. rendered him unconscious with chloroform and robbed him of $500. According to his statement he had intended to give the money to a building contractor in payment for repairs to his house which was almost destroyed by fire three months ago. Dr. Sexton had a narrow escape from losing his life on that occasion. Dr. Sexton lay unconscious for nine hours. When he recovered consciousness he called to a passing negro for assistance. He was brought to Spartanburg and taken home. He was still dazed, but managed to tell a connected story and to give a fairly good description of one of his assailants. Deputy Sheriff J. Edward Vernon and a posse at once started in pursuit. ? Beverly, Mass.. Sept. 14: President Taft has taken his tirst important step toward cutting loose from the old Republican custom of dispensing patronage in the southern states ax-cording to the recommendations of referees, who. being given control of the patronage, generally deliver the delegates of their states to the administration at the national convention for the nomination of a president. This is taken to mean the ultimate disappearance of the nogro as a factor in southern Republicanism. The new arrangement has been started with North Carolina, according to information received today. Mr. Taft and his advisers believe they have a chance to carry North Carolina in the coming elections, and they are busy building up a business men's party. They desire to make Republicanism respectable in North Carolina and other southern states. Norm Carolina's committee on patronage will control the Federal jobs, absolutely. If the committee can not find good Republicans it will pick out good Democrats. it is said. The intent is to make an end of the old cry in the south that the Republican party is dominated by an objectionable element of the population, whether that element be black or white. ? Portland. Maine, September 14: Two Republicans and two Democratic representatives will constitute the next Maine delegation in the national house. Doubt as to the make-up of the delegation was cleared up when belated returns from remote towns of the Fourth district showed the re-election of Frank E. Guernsey (Republican) of Dover by a small plurality. Mr. Guernsey's election was conceded tonight by his opponent, George M. Hanson of Calais. The election of Asher C. Hinds (Republican.) in the Frist district is shown on the face of . unofficial returns but there may be a recount. In the Second and Third dis- ' tricts the Democratic candidates, Dan- 1 iel J. McGilllcuddy and Samuel \V. Gould, won decisively, vnanca i-. Johnson, a prominent Democrat of Waterville, is to be a candidate for the United States senate at the coming session of the legislature. That will be Democratic by a vote of 113 to 61 in joint convention, thereby assuring the election of a senator of that political faith to succeed Eugene Hale. Notice has been served o nthe town and city clerks of the entire First district that a request will be made for an examination of the bellots in each voting district in behalf of William M. Pennell, the Democratic candidate for congress against Asher C. Hinds (Republican.) The inspection of the ballots is to be made with a view of a possible contest of Mr. Hinds' election in the house should sufficient evidence be found to warrant it. Unofficial returns give Mr. Hinds a plurality of 703. ? Tampa. Fla., September 14: J. F. Easterling, bookkeeper and office manager for Bustillo Brothers & Diaz, was shot and fatally wounded by a striker this afternoon as he stepped from a street car in front of the factory at West Tampa. The shot which entered * Easterling's left side, ranged upward ( and it is said, entered the vital organs, i was tired, it is alleged, from a group of 1 cigar makers across the street. Following the shooting of Easterling and the demonstration at the evening trains ' where strikers tried to prevent cigar ' workers leaving the city for other towns where branch factories have been established, Mayor McKay issued ' a proclamation calling on all peace loving union men to assist in preserving order, and declaring he will call J upon the governor to order out the militia if necessary to preserve order. ' With each succeeding act of violence on the part of the strikers, the situation grows more tense. I-iasterling was the first American who has been as- ' saulted, and this has thoroughly ' aroused the community. Following 1 I the shooting every effort possible was made to locate the guilty party, but ' without avail. Conditions among the ' Cubans and Italians are becoming desperate, especially among those who are not receiving assistance from the International union. Hundreds are in < actual want and this is believed to be < the cause of the acts of lawlessness during the last few days. All of the | factories are being carefully guarded i against incendiarism. I ? Baden-Baden. September 14: The < latest type of Count Zeppelin's inventive genius met with disaster today when the dirigible balloon Zeppelin VI : took fire after explosion while warp- i ed into her shed. A score or more 1 men were engaged in the task of hous- | ing the airship when a benzine tank i in the rear gondola, exploded, selling i tire to an adjacent gas compartment. The explosion of this compartment was followed by the explosion of lt> others. There was a gush of Haines, developing intense heat and the whole 1 structure was destroyed in a few minutes. Nothing remained of Count Zeppelin's latest model except a tangled mass of aluminum. The Humes were extinguished in the shed without se- < rious damage. Sevetal workmen were i burned, but none fatally. The ignition of the benzine occurred while workmen were engaged in cleaning the machin- 1 ery. during which the benzine holders were ignited. The Zeppelin VI, in the past ten days has made 24 pas- i senger trips, covering about 2,0??n miles and carrying more than font passengers. The trips were made regularly, often in bad weather. This is the third accident which has befallen the Zeppelin dirigibles, the histories : of which have been brilliant but brief and usually ending in disaster. The 1 Zeppelin VI was under charter of the Passenger Air company, having replaced in the passenger service the recently wrecked ship, Zeppelin V. She made a trial August 1t?. She proved the steadiest of her type and it was ] announced that she maintained a speed of 3f? miles an hour. The dirigible I was reconstructed to carry ten passengers and in the last few days had made trips t<> various interesting places. Many Americans were among the excursionists. During the efforts to extinguish the flames ten men were injured. two of them seriously. ?ltr ilorkvillc tfnqttivrr. Entered at the Postoffice in Yorkville as Mail Matter of the Second Class. YORKVILLE. S. C.: FRIDAY. SEPTEMBFR l(i. 1910. Now let us set down to business. What is the use in quarreling about it. TllE lesson of the race teaches the value of organization. "The Result in Maine"?looks like Mr. Bryan quit too soon. The people of York county know what fair play is, and they believe in it. It is about time for Dr. Crippen's attorneys to spring the "brain storm" defense. Is Governor Patterson one of the exhibits at the Appalaehian exposition at Knoxville? THE Republican party has good cause to "Remember the Maine" election of Monday. It is in order to appoint a committee to investigate the "high cost of campaign expenses" in Georgia. charleston and Richland did it. If they had given their majorities the other way, the result would have been different. And now our friend Carpenter or the Daily Mail, finds himself in a position where he cannot say, "I voted for Rlease." It was about the cleanest gubernatorial race that South Carolina has lad for a good many years and that is ivorth a great deal. It is certain that there will be nothing Swift about the trial of the Chicago meat packers. They have too much Armour for that. "Mrs. Harriman worn out, handling rreat fortune." says a newspaper headine. Well, there are lots of us who would be pleased to take the job. Those people who insist upon blamng the voters at the cotton mills nay do so if they like; but to our way >f thinking there is no question of the fact that the result was clinched by the votes of Charleston and Richland, it was these two counties that settled the matter this time. Mr. Cole L. Blease has given the tieople of South Carolina a practical lemonstration of what organization -.or. a,-, Tt la nnt tr? lie understood hat there was absolutely no attempt it organization in behalf of Mr. Feath rstone; but Mr. Rlease started first, .vorked harder and more effectively and won out. It is for the people to earn that if they would have what hey want in politics, they must go af:er it. It would l?e interesting if the Rlease supporters in Rock Hill would divulge A'ho put up the money for the con:inuous hack service here between the mill settlement and the polls. Somebody paid for this service sut ?. Now. i\ho was it??Rock Hill Record. Hacks were also run at Yorkville as tsual, and at Clover for the first time 11 the history of the town and at other towns throughout the state. As to whether this is lawful there is more >r less doubt. The only way to determine whether it is lawful or not is >y a test. If it is lawful then the peo?le who feel that their cause is injured v hacks should meet hack with hack. \n election is like war. All is fair in war, and all is fair in an election that is lawful. It is not good form to aqueal over the result of a battle, and it is not good form to squeal over the result of an election. There is much nore credit to the man who shows that tie is able to properly take a defeat lhan there is to the man who is unable to make proper use of a victory. Mr. Blease. As to how it may have come about and all that, is of very little conseluence. for the important fact is that Mr. Cole I*. HI ease is the em nee ol a majority of the white people as between the candidates who have offered, and he is to he the next governor of South Carolina. It is very well understood that The Enquirer is not an admirer of Mr. HI ease, and readers of this paper know the reason. His record as a public man lias not been such as to invite our approval. He lias upheld things that we think should be condemned, and his attitude to many questions has been what we consider decidedly demagogic. We have never said anything about Mr. HIease either in criticism of his public acts and utterances, or as a candidate for office, that we did not believe to be absolutely true and warranted by the facts, and we have always felt and still feel that if he continues to pursue the career that is indicated in his past record, lie is pretty sure to bring about conditions that are likely to prove embarrassing. That Mr. ltlease is a man of very considerable ability there is no question. We have taken occasion to make this statement more than once before, and the truth of it is well borne out I... ,1,.. ,-......,.1 'I'll.. ic -ic ?.> whether he will employ these abilities iii the direction his past utterances have indicated, or rather more iu line with the prevailing sentiment of the state. If he has a really laudable ambition to rise higher, lie will keep closer in touch with the healthiest sentiment. and he may make a much better chief executive than many of us have heretofore had reason to believe. This The Kinpiirer sincerely hopes. It is not our purpose to uae: at Mr. I {lease or his administration. We know that even if lie is as bad as he has been painted by his worst enemies, he is as Rood as many other public men who enjoy the confidence and esteem of the public, and we know also that even if he conies up to the highest standard of even the best of his fellows, he is still liable to make honest mistakes. As the choice of the majority of his fellow citizens, therefore, he is entitled to fair and impartial consideration and so far as The Enquirer is concerned, this he shall have. U 1M JaS/alai M j4 CnfAC Inkl The Yorkville Enquirer says that Featherstone received several thousand votes he would not have gotten had the newspapers kept quiet. Will The Enquirer tell us how many votes Blease would have received had the newspapers kept quiet??Anderson Daily Mail. No, we did not say that neighbor, nor anything like it. What we did say was this: What the result will be, we do not know and will not know until tonight; but we desire to testify that the Columbia State and the News and Courier have rendered heroic and effective service in the tight. These papers have given Mr. Featherstone several thousand votes that he would not have gotten had they kept quiet. And in saying this, we did not say quite all that we should have said. Both the State and the News and Courier played the mischief with Mr. Featherstone before the first primary. If after the first primary they had kept on in the same direction they were going, the majority of Mr. Blease would have been several thousand greater. Their facing about held back that majority some. That is about all the credit to which either paper is entitled. The things that both papers sa'd before the second primary went to prove that both knew enough to pursue a different course previous to the first primary. If they had acted differently, Mr. Featherstone would have been elected. Yes, we understand how people will say that it is easy enough to see it all after it is over?"hindsight is better than foresight." eto., i>ut tnis uoes noi apply to The Enquirer, in testimony whereof, we desire to offer in evidence this paragraph from our issue of August 2: "While we do not desire to get on the side of the Columbia State in this campaign, and have no intention of doing so, we have no objection to the State's coming over to our side, and this we think is a strong probability. Yes, the State is for local option as a means to insuring the sale of dispensary liquor in counties that have enough votes to beat the Prohibitionists; but there are some things that appeal to the State more than local option, and we don't blame it either. One of these things is opposition to Mr. Blease. Mr. Blease is a local option dispensaryite, avowedly in favor of, rather than opposed to the liquor traffic. Mr. McLeod is a local optionist. who declares that he does not favor the liquor traffic particularly; but who used to stand by the state dispensary. The Columbia State is for McLeod now, and will be for hint in the second primary if he gets there. But if Mr. Blease is in the second primary with Mr. Featherstone instead of Mr. McLeod. the Columbia State is going to be. not for Mr. Featherstone; but against Mr. Blease. Just watch all that please and after the facts have developed, make a note as to the extent to which The Enquirer may have been guessing or talking from sound judgment." SKETCH OF COLE L. BLEASE. Some Facts About the Next Governor of South Carolina. Coleman Livingston Blease was born forty-two years ago on a farm in Xewberry county. His father. Henry H. Blease. and his father's three brothers saw service in the Confederate army, Basil Blease one of these brothers because of his daring bravery was steadily promoted from the position of private to the rank of captain. Henry H. Blease, the father of the subject of this sketch, married Mary Livingston of what is now Saluda county, formerly Edgefield. The Livingstons were all farming people. Cole L. Rlease was admitted to the bar twenty-five years ago. He soon became one of the leaders in his profession. and he has continuously enjoyed an excellent practice. For the past fifteen years he has been connected with many of the important cases tried in Newberry county. He has also been associated in important cases in Saluda. Laurens. Greenwood. Union, Lexington, Richland, Kershaw and Dorchester counties. For two years he served as city attorney of Newberry. Mayor Blease was married several years ago to Miss Lillie Summers whose father, a farmer, resides in Anderson county. Mrs. Blease's father was a Confederate soldier, her grandfather was in the Mexican war, and her great grandfather was Capt. Philemon Waters, a soldier of the Revolution. Being a descendant from him. Mrs. Blease is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. When Cole L. Blease was a very young man lie was chosen to represent Newberry county in the house of representatives. Twice he was reelected. each time heading the legislative ticket by a handsome majority. In tiie house lie was recognized as a leader; and because of his ability as a parlimentarian he was twice selected as speaker pro tern. In 1904 Mayor Blease was elected to the state senate from Newberry county by a handsome majority, and was chosen by the members of the senate as president pro tem of that body in 1907. serving in this capacity for two years. He voluntarily retired from the senate with the close of his term in 190S. He is now mayor of his home town Newberry, having been elected to that position in December. 1909. For two years lie was county chair man of the Democratic executive committee. Several times in succession lie was elected by the county convention as a delegate to the state convention. For the past twelve years he has represented his county on the state executive committee. In politics Mayor Itlease has always been a straight Democrat. Roth in 1 S!tC and l'.nis he was one of the presidential electors for William J. Bryan, the Democratic nominee for the presidency. Mr. Blease for many years has been prominent in fraternal circles. He is an odd Fellow. Knight of Pythias. Red Man. Klk. and Woodman of the World. He is a past chancellor of the Knights of Pythias, and has been grand master and grand representative of the odd Fellows. He has been a great sachem and is now great representative of the lied Men. "Interim" Expense Account. In accordance with the law as to campaign expenses in the races for state and congressional oliices supplementary expense accounts have been filed with the secretary of state as follows: Featherstone $"<0S i:t C. I.. Blease iitir. 4:? James t'ansler -- Nil W. W. Mo.?re L'la ?!? J. 11. Patterson JI s 4a J. F. Byrnes 14a 00 P. A. Hodges lor, fla J. M. Richardson os <1. Met). Hampton P.is fl*.. I.i>iiiin m- f 1 1 I'.lidltip sim 111 $?;m; siii?l ('. < \ l ln-rstoiHThe total spout li.v all candidates in Itotli primaries is al'oiit $ls,nn.1. > Chester special to The News ami Courier: "Solicitor .1. K. Henry, of Chester, who also ran. has declared to friends, that he. too, will he a candidate for eoinrress. so that the voters of the old F>tli district can he ready two years hence, with the same list of entries to choose from." LOCAL AFFAIRS, NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. I. G. Murray?Has a variety of household goods (hat ho wants to soil at once Torms cash. H. E. Noil. Treasurer?Gives notice of opening of tax books and the times and places at which ho will meet the tax payers. W. A. Carroll, Filbert?On September 24. will offer his house and lot for sale at auction. One-half cash. I. I'. Boyd, Yorkville No. 7?Wants to sell improved Appier seed oats. William Darby Glenn?Will pay reward for return of a watch, lost on streets of Yorkville Thursday. W. R. Bell, Sharon No. 2?Has lost a hound dog named Brooks, and will pay rt-uaril for nis recovery. Amuse-IJ Theatre?Announces an especially attractive programme for this evening's moving pictures. Walter Rose?Will have choice beef and fresh fish tomorrow. Phono your orders early. First National Bank. Sharon?Will give your account the most painstaking attention whether it he large or small. York Supply Co.?Can furnish you with building materials. Has all kinds of bog feed and Sunshine feed for horses and mules. Herndon & Gordon?Remark that the world moves on. the election is over and they are ready to serve you with the best of everything in gro. eeries, hardware, etc. J. J. Keller & Co.?Explain that the knowing where and how to buy building supplies gives them every advantage and the customer gets the benefits. Yorkville Hardware Co.?Carries a full line of builders' supplies, including everyhing in the needed hardware of house building. J. C. Wilborn?Offers the W. W. Auten place. 201 acres, for sale at $12 per acre: .1 miles of Newport. Riddle Auto Co.?Has the agency for the Hupmobile and invites parties interested to see him for further details and prices. Thomson Co.?Ts showing extensive lines of underwear for ladies and children and a large variety of other goods especially for ladles. Klrkpatrlck-Belk Co.?Announces the opening of a special department for the ladies, for showing suits, coats, skirts, furs. etc. First National Bank. Yorkville?Advises you to save a part of your earnings now while you can?don't wait too long to start. It offers its best service to you. National Union Bank. Rock Hill?Emphasizes the importance to you of having a hank account. It will enable you to take advantage of opportunities when they come. There has been something said about a suggested contest of the seat of Dr. J. H. Save on the ground of the doctor's alleged failure to file his pledge with the county chairman within the time prescribed by the rules of the party. The matter is of no importance, one way or the other, if for no other reason because the suggested protest was not filed within the time prescribed by the rules; but at the same time it is very well to make a statement of the facts so as to prevent any misunderstanding in the hereafter. In the case of Dr. Saye, the rules were really complied with as literally as could be reasonably expected. There is no disnute of the fact that Dr. Saye's pledge was mailed to the county chairman before the time limit had expired, and this itself would probably have been sufficient: but Dr. Saye himself happens to be secretary and treasurer of the Democratic executive committee and as the filing of the oledcre with the secretary must neces sarily be construed as filing it with the whole committee, it is difficult to see how there would have been any actual violation of the rule even if the doctor had failed to mail the paper to the chairman of the executive committee at all. But on top of that, the executive committee considered the matter before the campaign opened, and declared it to be regular. This action on the part of the committee left no ground for subsequent question?certainly no ground for a question to he raised after the election. If Dr. Saye or any one else had failed to file a pledge with the clerk of the court within the time prescribed by law, that would have ended the matter, because here would have been involved a question of compliance with the statute law instead of a mere matter of the technical construction of a party rule. There was really no irregularity about the filing of Dr. Save's pledge, and nothing from which any other candidate could have profited even if they had seen proper to try. WITHIN THE TOWN. ? The town council is doing some first-class, and badly needed work on West Liberty street, and out the Rutherford road in the direction of the residence of Mr. C. M. Inman. This is a move in the right direction, and one that will do the town a lot of good. OUR EXTRA. Most of the subscribers of The Enquirer were no doubt well pleased with the extra edition of the paper that was issued from this office last Wednesday morning, and to know that they are pleased is a source of satisfaction to the publishers. This matter of collecting and publishing election returns immediately after an election involves a great deal of labor and very often, not a little expense, and the pay is almost, if not entirely in appreciation, which however. is not unacceptable coin. Heretofore we have been accustomed to noin me paper nai-h uom m?lar time of issue and send it out a day late in order to carry the election news: hut that plan has always been unsatisfactory, and this time we abandoned it and sent out an extra edition instead. The extra edition involves still more lahor and expense on the publishers; but for obvious reasons, is more satisfactory to the subscribers. ABOUT PEOPLE. Miss Louise Guy of Lowryvllle is visiting in Yorkville. Mrs. \V. L. Jackson and children of Hock Hill are visiting near Yorkville. Mr. T. C. O'Farrell of Spartanburg, is spending a few days at his home in Yorkville. Misses Annie Ashe. Alee Starr and Mary Land of Yorkville, left this week for Chicora college. Greenville. Mrs. Dora Gladden of Yorkville was called to Richmond, Va., Wednesday on account of the illness of her brother. Mr. L. Joyner. Messrs. F. C. Kiddle. Meek Harnett. K. M. Stanton. C. W. Adickes and S. C. Wood of Yorkville, went over to Charlotte, yesterday afternoon in Mr. Riddle's automobile. Mr. M. M. Johnsey of the Caper's Chapel neighborhood of Chester county. spent yesterday with friends in Yorkville. This was Mr. Johnsey's tirst visit to Yorkville in sixty years. THE PRIMARY. < >ne result of the election just held is that the dissatisfaction with the pri niary i? ?n as now conducted is growing more pronounced. There are sonic people who hold to the idea that every white man. no matter whether he pays other than poll taxes or not and 110 matter whether he can read and w rite should 1 11t it led to vote, and they uphold the present system. At Clover on Tuesday, a citizen declined to vote 011 the ground that he had no registration certificate, and when it was urged that this made 110 difference, as many others, including even those who had been hut a short time in the county were voting, replied: "To vote in the primary 1 am required to swear that I will support the nominee in the general election. Having no registration certificate, I cannot support the nominee and therefore I am unable to take that oath. Under the circumstances, I cannot conscientiously vote." There are a good many people who hold to the view expressed; but not a great many who carry it to the logical result of refusing to vote unless they have registration certificates. A Yorkville man, under the belief that hundreds of unregistered voters participated in the recent primaries declared: "I shall not again vote in a primary election until the rules have been changed so as to make the pos- it session of a registration eertifirate a ^ prerequisite to sueh a vote." tl That there is a strong sentiment on a this subject not only in York; but in it other counties there is no question. As a to whether this sentiment will become c strong enough to compel recognition c time alone ran tell. ti . ji THE OFFICIAL VOTE. ][ The Democratic executive committee f( met in the court house at Yorkville a yesterday, canvassed the returns from ti the recent primary and declared the ,j result. There were only a few changes in the figures as published in The En- a quirer last Wednesday morning, and no '\ change in any of the results. a The official figures are as follows: v For Governor. u Cole L. lflease 1,670 .1 . I,1 71U II Adjutant General. \V. W. Moore 2.T.13 p J. M. Richardson 906 tl Railroad Commissioner. James Cansler 2,500 G. Mel). Hamilton 910 Total for state ticket 3.43s For Supervisor. Thos. W. Boyd 1.90f> <Clem F. Gordon 1,518 For Auditor. fi John J. Hunter 1,598 fi B. M. Love 1,840 Total for county ticket 3.446 c Magistrate in York Township. J. C. Comer 357 h R. L. de Loach 250 > Total 607 o n THE C. & N.-W. tl The annual meeting of the stock- n holders of the Carolina & Northwestern Railroad was held in the olllees of the general counsel, Col. J. H. Ma- d rlon. in Chester at noon yesterday. Mr. c T. H. White presided, and Judge J. J. q McLure acted aw secretary. Most of the stock was represented. a The entire board of directors was J re-elected, Mr. C. E. Spencer of York- j, ville being elected to succeed Joseph ^ P. Wallace, deceased. The directors ' are as follows: Chester. T. H. White, ? J. H. Marion, S. H. Hardin; Yorkville, lj C. E Spencer: Hickory, J. A. Martin; _ Gastonia, J. F. Johnston; Newton. L. ' F. Long. The directors met subsequently and s re-elected the officers as follows: (( President. \V. A. Harbor of New York: general manager, L. T. Nichols of a Chester, general counsel, J. H. Marlon P of Chester: secretary, J. J. McLure of' c Chester. p The annual reports of the officers were on routine topics. Contrary to public expectation the ii matter of locating the shops was not z taken up. Col. L. T. Nichols, general j manager in conversation after the meeting, said that this matter is one C! for the management to handle, and ? will be decided as soon as Gastonia is heard from in full on the proposi- tl tion that was submitted a few weeks s ago. H , C( COUNTY POLITICS. y Although there are a great many o people in York county who are well on _ to the political game as conducted in these parts, there is in what the average voter does not know enough to ' fill volumes. And if the average voter s ?the man who has never been a can- F didate and who never expects to be a candidate only knew a great deal more, r it would be much better for all con- a cerned. ^ The knowledge of the average man v In politics is confined to the idea that a every voter makes a more or less careful survey of the field, decides upon the P men who come nearest to conforming I' to his notions a3 to character, ability. F platform, etc., and casts his ballots ae- F cordingl)'. This idea is very well war- v ranted by the surroundings in which ^ the average c'tizen finds himself, for as P <--<? i- -1 i. l? fl applicable IU ma ciass 11 10 otiiviv true; but to polities there is a great " deal more than that. There is more *' than can be told in a brief newspaper ? artiele. There is more than any one % man ran tell in any kind of an article, for no one man can get to the bottom \ of it all. o Out of the thirty-five hundred voters e in York county, there are perhaps as M many as two thousand who can be de- 0 pended upon to vote their convictions. \ By those who vote their convictions is p meant men who use all reasonable y, means to correctly inform themselves p and having arrived at a conclusion as e to what they should do, do it. Of these p possibly as many as twr -thirds un- s dertake to convince others of their way n of thinking, and exercise influence be- ;l yond their own votes. The remaining e fifteen hundred know but little of the K candidates under consideration or the e issues at stake and care less. They y have some appreciation of their priv- h ilege of voting to be sure; but they get ^ more pleasure and satisfaction out of tl putting their votes at the disposal of w others than in casting those votes to their own notion. The considerations that influence the D individual in the casting of his vote are so many and varied that to enu- A merate them all is next to impossible, o The first and highest consideration, of t< course, is the desire to discharge the 1' most important duty of a good citizen, ti But this does not always control elec- li tions. There are as many who vote d with the purpose of punishing enemies ti as who vote with the purpose of re- it warding friends, and the number of a votes that are east with various pur- ti poses more or less seltish would loom e: up large if there was any way of dis- i( closing the exact facts. a In an election like that between Mr. it Blease and Mr. Featherstone, for in- ei stance, where the contention involved A both men and issues the lines of di- e! vision were sharp. There had been d enough agitation to crystallize prefer- w ences if not opinions, and 90 per cent ci of the voters went to the polls with w their minds fully made up as to what ci they would do. But few votes were ti changed at the polls. p In an election like that between d Moore and Richardson, the general tl public knew little about either and si cared less. Moore had the benefit of C the military organization all over the a state, and with comparatively little el work it was easy for that organization to do all that was necessary to give h him an overwhelming majority. When w the railroad commission race had h narrowed down to Hampton and Can- tl sler. it was only necessary to sound e: again the once magic name of Hamp- ei ion, and while it did not work in the h home comity of Cansler, throughout ai the state thousands and thousands d voted for Hampton for no other reason. If there had heen opportunity for in- U formation and discussion, the result w may have been very different. Various considerations figured in the race for supervisor as in the race for auditor. There were hundreds who _ considered nothing hut the candidates ^ in cither race. There were other hundreds who considered many other side issues, and still many other hundreds, ;i who were induced at the last minute ai to vote for or against one or the other fi candidates on the strength of rumors gi and telephone messages that the T friends of one had combined with the p enemies of the other and vice versa. In every election there is more or oi less talk about the "cotton mill vote," ti and this vote generally cuts an itn- p portant figure. Although the common te idea of those who do not know is to bi the contrary, the cotton mill vote is tl not different from any other. The cot- y< ton mill people are human just like tl other people. There ar" intelligent a| folks among them and ignorant folks st among them. There are among them pi Win* UI v iiiiriinn* muivoivn uj and people win> tin nut fart-. TIhti* am In among them men who leatl and men C; who' follow. They are as approacha- \\ lde as any other class. They are intlnoticed l?y what they conceive to he th their own interests just as is any nth- tp er class. Their votes are not for sale iii any more than are the votes of other people. Their interest and support are et secured exactly on the same hasis as pi are the interest ami support of other er people. Sometimes they are deceived III l.y shrewd outsiders and made to vote di against their host interests just as oth- A er people are, and many a candidate n loses the cotton mill vote just because d he fails to go after it as did the other at fellow. lil It is a common thing, for instance, to hear that Mr. lileuse got the cotton \\ mill vote over the state. It is a fact, m that he got most of it; hut In- did fe not get it all. lie got most of it in c< York county; hut he did not get it all. Mr. Itlease got what lie did get hy go- w ing after it in the right way. In most lit ist a hops his friends got it for him. Ir. FVathorstone got a good deal of lis vote in York and other counties, nd he got it by going after it. either 1 person or through his friends. And I though there lie those, other than andidates who turn up their noses at otton mill votes, the common sense ruth is that cotton mill votes count ust as much as do any others. There i no question of the fact that the verage mill worker is just as anxious >r good government as anybody else, nd people who persist in trying to real him as belonging to a separate, istinct class make a serious mistake. In York as in other counties there re those who complain at conditions, 'here are those who say, "politics are dirty business?too dirty to mix-up rith." But that does not help the sitution in the bast. People who de* line to have anything to do with pol:ics, are sooner or later brought to i-ali'/f that politics have to do with hem. It* these people are clean and olitics are dirty, then they are under he control of dirty politics, and they hemselves are responsible, because hey have neglected their duty in helpig to make politics clean. LOCAL LACONICS. Intil January 1, 1911. We will send The Yorkville Enquirer rom this date till January 1. 1911. >r 58 cents. leath of Mrs. Matilda Gettys. Mrs. Matilda Gettys died at the nine of her daughter. Mrs. Mollie lunn, in Rock Hill last Wednesday veiling, after a long and tedious illess. aped 87 years. The deceased was he widow of the late Ehenezer Oettys f the Neely's Creek neighborhood, and he is survived by four sons and two aughtcrs as follows: Messrs. J. R. lettys and O. A. Oettys of Neely's Teek: W. E. Oettys ol Tirzah; nd D. T. Oettys of Florida: Mrs. . J. Edwards of Tirzah; Mrs. Jos. lunn of Rock Hill. She was a ister of Messrs. John T. and Wm. F. loyd. The funeral took place at Need's Creek yesterday, o Supervise Rural Schools. Rock Hill special to the Columbia tate: Miss T^eila A. Russell, one of the ;achers in Winthrop college, has been ssigned to the Important work of suervising the rural schools in York nunty for the coming year as an exeriment. Miss Russell will go to the hools and help the teachers in their istruction. management and organiation, just as the school supervisors o for the teachers in city schools. Ireat results are expected from the xperiment. Prof. W. K. Tate, nroissor of elementary education at Winirop, will direct this county superviion work. Both Prof. Tate and Miss lussell will give lectures at Winthrop allege on rural school problems and irect the attention of the students of Winthrop to the importance and value I sucn worK m me siuie. or the Good of the Public. The fanners living along and espelally Interested In the road from the Inyder place a mile out of Yorkville to hiladelphia church about four miles, ave instituted a co-operative good oads organization of their own, and re putting the highway indicated in rst-class condition. They have in lew only the sand and clay idea, and II are hauling sand in great quantiles. Among those taking part in this urely volunteer work are: J. W. Mc'arland, .7. \V. Betts, R. E. McFarland, t. O. Ratchford, R. R. Love, D. M. lenfield, J. L. Moss, Dr. A. Y. fartright, J. f. Burge and Butler Wallace. Ir. D. M. Benfield, who gave the reorter this information, says that the ,'ork will be continued until the road rill be something that all who are inprested will have reason to be proud f. loore-Caldwell. The home of Mr. J. Webb Moore of 'orkville R. F. D. No. 3, was the scene f a very pretty wedding on Tuesday veiling, September 11, at 8 o'clock, hen his sister Lena, became the bride f Mr. A. Lindsay Caldwell, an old 'orkville boy, now of Hudson, N. C. lev. Paul H. Moore, a brother of the ride, assisted by Rev. J. J. Harrell. astor of the bride, performed the cermoiiy. The bridal party entered the eautifully decorated parlor to the trains of Mendelssohn's wedding larch, played by Miss Florence Moore, sister of the bride, led by the offliating ministers, followed by the room, with his best man, Mr. Clarnce Caldwell: then came the bride ith her sister, Miss Sue, as maid of onor. After the ceremony Mr. and Irs. Caldwell left for a short trip to le mountains of North Carolina, after hich they will be at home in Hudson, r. C. leath of Mrs. H. Q. Alexander. Charlotte Observer, Wednesday: Irs. Annie Campbell Alexander, wife f Dr. H. Q. Alexander of Providence wnship, died yesterday morning at 0 o'clock, after a desperate illness ex nding over a week or ten days. The fe of Mrs. Alexander was practically ..o.viipnii <?f ui.mi. ilnvii nirii when the *ue nature of her sickness impressed self upon the family and physicians, nd although she underwent an opera.on for Mood poisoning, following the x tract ion of a tooth, the malady raplly gained possession of her system nd for the forty-eight hours precedig her death, it was evident that the rid was merely a matter of time. Mrs. lexandcr was the mother of eleven hildren, eight of whom survide, four aughters and four sons, all of whom ere at her bedside when the end line. Beside these and her husband, ho is one of the best known physiians of the county, serving several nies in the st.'ite legislature and at resent holding the position of presient of the North Carolina division of ie Farmers' Union, the deceased is iirvived by one brother, Mr. L. L. amphell of Clover, S. C. Mrs. Alexnder possessed a strong Christian (taracter and has been a factor in the immunity in which she has made her ome for a long number of years. She as a consistent member of the Presyterian church at Providence and in ie activities of this church she has xcrcised a strong and leading intlunce when permitted by her duties at ome. Mrs. Alexander was 45 years of ge. The funeral services will be eonucted this morning at 10 o'clock by ie pastor of Providence church, Rev. ?r. II. M. Parker, and the interment ill la* in the cemetery close by. ELECTION OF BLEASE. olumbia State Accepts the Result Philosophically. At this hour?10.30 o'clock?with 1 3,ooo votes reported to the State. | ml probably ltt.uuo more 10 uc 0111?Hlease leads Featherstone for ivernor by more than tf.OUU votes, here is no likelihood of tin- remainig votes affecting the result. Cole L?. Hlease is eleeted governor t' South Carolina. The result is parally accounted lor by the most cumlete political organization ever at- ' mpted heretofore in South Carolina. ' Lit there was something more than j nit and something which we are not ?t prepared to account for. We felt at it was there, but as there is no pparent cause for an upheaval In this 1 ate. the motive of this swelling of a apular tide in behalf of Hlease is not [ parent. There is the spirit of revo- ' it ion in hard or panicky times; South 1 arolina was never more prosperous. I 'hat is the psychology of it? < The question of liquor was, un- ( ubtedly. a strong factor, but that I .lestion was a factor four years ago < id the people went the other way. 1 The State made its light for Feath stone but knew tliat conditions? I irticularly that indefinable mental 1 ndition of the people?were against I Is election, and his defeat, greatly I sappointing as it is, is not surprising. I nd as there does exist this undercur- I nt of feeling in South Carolina, we < in accept the result with philosophy, < id hope for the best for South Caro- ' flit. Smith Carolina must go forward. 1 hoover may lie the governor: we rail ' >t pause for disasters. The agencies I ir progress ami law am! justice must t uitinue to face forward. The pendulum has swung f:ir one ? ay; it will return.?The State, Wed- 1 *sday. < RESULT OF SEC Practically Complete Reti State Officers The following tabulated statemei last Tuesday is complete to less than E only six small boxes in Georgetown, fo I i I o x * = X Counties. ? ? 2 ? &. e O 1 o cJ Abbevfl le | ToiTH Aiken 1,076 2,1' Anderson 2,819 3,4! Bamberg1 453 4! Barnwell 815 1,11 Beaufort 308 3i Berkeley 339 4 Calhoun 339 3 Charleston 820 3,5< Cherokee 1,574 1,4; (Theater 947 8' Chesterfield 1,239 9 Clarendon 710 | 81 Colleton 1,063 j 1,1 Darlington 1,440 9 Dillon 995 5i Dorchester 486 8 Kdgefleld .. 912 7 Fairfield 670 6: Florence 965 7! (leorgetown 4 42 81 Oreenville 2,836 2,2 Greenwood 1.226 1,0' Hampton 825 9 Horry 1,050 1,4 Kershaw 793' 9 Lancaster 1,472 Laurens 1,592 1,8 Lee I 618 I 7 Lexington 1,301 1,9. Marion 923 a Marlboro 1,236 9 N'ewberry 964 1.5 Oconee Orangeburg i'a IMckens Bichland '*7o Saluda J-J Spartanburg 'ori i ? Sumter I 856 | I 1.100 I 1.5: 1>I1M>I1 Williamsburg 1,273 9 York | 1,748 | 1,6 Totals . ,| 51,049 | 56,1: CLOVER CULLING. Graded School Commences Work Again?Trimming Up the Trees? Prize For the First Bale. 1 -'orreMHJQ'leoce of the Yorkrille Knaulrer. Clover, September 16.?The Clover graded school resumed work on the 12th, with the following teachers in charge: J. H Spann, superintendent; Misses Mell Niell, Lilly Bell Neely, Mary Eunice Grist, Emma Currence. Annie Jackson. About 170 pupils have so far been enrolled. Owing to the fact that the new building has not been completed the old one and the opera house are being used temporarily. It is expected that the new building, which will have eight large rooms, one comparatively small one and four cloak rooms, v. 11 be ready for use by October 16. Work was delayed for about ten days because of the failure of the slate for the roof to arrive. The roof is now on and the inside work is being pushed. Sometime ago the town council had all the lower limbs on the shade trees on the principal streets of the town trimmed, cutting the limbs off to a height of from twelve to fifteen feet from the ground. The improvement is much appreciated by those who have been accustomed to dodging low hanging limbs during wet or freezing weather, and besides it adds much to the appearance of the trees. Several bales of cotton, possibly 25, have been sold on this market this week, most of them being bought by Mr. W. P. Smith. The first bale was brought in on Monday by Ernest Partlow, colored, and bought by Mr. Smith at 14 cents a pound, but Partlow really got 15 cents as he got a premium of $5 offered by the Bank of Clover for the first bale of new cotton sold on this market. Clover polled the largest vote in her history at the election on Tuesday. A good citizen of this place, who came here more than two years ago from another state, and whose name was on the club roll, refused to vote on Tuesday and at previous elections, because he was not registered. He stated that he would not take the oath that he was a qualified voter and would support the nominees, because he was not in position to deliver the goods. MERE-MENTION. In the election In Arizona on Tuesday to elect delegates to a constitutional convention, the Democrats elected twenty-eight of the tifty-two delegates and will dictate the writing of the constitution Ten of the leading beef packers of Chicago were indicted by a Federal grand jury Monday. Conviction on each count means one year In prison or $5,000 fine or both. The packers will spend millions, If necessary, for their defense. Fire destroyed a large woodworking establishment in New York Tuesday, involving a loss of $300,000. One man was killed and several were injured Miss Leona Windham aged 15 years, committed suicide at Ozark. Ala., Tuesday, by shooting herself with a pistol The homes of Mayor Fite and Marshal Steed at Statham, Ga? were dynamited early Sunday morning, following the binding over of several blind tigers to the superior court A business estaolishmer.t belonging to Enrico Casabianca, a wealthy Italian, was dynamited in New York Tuesday by blackmailers. who had demanded that Casablanca give them $10.000 John Walker was shot to death at Wilkesbarre. Pa.. Monday night as he was keeping a death watch over the remains of his daughter. Two of his brothers have been arrested charged with the killing Not less than thirty persons were bitten by a rabid wolf hound at Path Beach and Rensonhurst, X. Y., Monday....A southern conservation congress will be held in Atlanta, (la.. October 7 and 8 President Taft has refused to pardon four of the sugar weighers of the New York customs house, convicted last year and now serving terms in the Federal prison in Atlanta. Ga Two negroes were lynched at TiptonviHe. Tenn., Tuesday morning. They were charged with attempted criminal assault on two little white girls The Independent Democratic convention of Tennessee at Nashville on Wednesday, unanimously indorsed the candidacy of Capt. B. W. Hooper. Republican, for governor. Among other tilings the platform adopted demands law enforcement and condemned Governor Patterson for pardoning convicts for political purposes... .In the primary flection in New York Tuesday for delegates to the Republican state convention. the Sherman faction secured :tl6 delegates, and the progressive wing. ~ - 1 OAf Ilea (led by Mr. Kooseveti, secureu ou;?. Emmett Walker, one of the neurocs, charged with killing Motorniau Brown, several months ago near Atlanta, Ga., was on Wednesday aequitted of the charge... ,Toni Watson has formulated plans to establish a numl>er of county newspapers through>111 the Tenth congressional district of leorgia, to help him in his political work A fast train, carrying the dlicials of the Norfolk and Western ailroad, jumped the track at Delorme, tV. Va., Tuesday afternoon, crashed ino the station and killed four persons ind fatally wounded three others Pile trial of I>r. Crippen and Ethel 'lare Leneve was resumed at I.ondon Wednesday, after a recess of several lays. The trial is being attended by !OND PRIMARY. jrns From the Election of ! on Tuesday. it of the vote In the second primary of .00 votes, there being still to hear from ur in Aiken and one in Plekens: I | ; 2 i s " S c 0 ? a, i M 2 -g lis s: ? ? 8 p a * ? 1 ' cC ? ri C n OfTj 1,143 J 767 988 924 17 1,427 1.796 999 2.009 j [17 3.263 2,927 2.911 3,376 91 858 85 302 636 55 1.835 123 594 1.371 61 544 122 349 316 * 81 722 146 697 165 75 472 158 381 319 55 3,520 808 1,565 2,771 I 39 2,094 903 2,293 900 44 1,540 235 939 826 90 1,547 672 1.545 794 51 I 1,198 363 790 765 59 1,889 124 960 992 34 1,706 665 1.480 867 61 967 553 585 939 29 966 339 823 551 75 639 1.054 569 1,123 < 34 984 308 754 537 51 1.278 392 666 1.003 58 1,018 249 303 956 14 3.074 1.899 1,954 3.028 42 1,056 1,207 376 1,379 22 1,562 184 590 1,143 90 1,637 879 1,126 1.401 * 09 1,202 487 1.018 665 60 1,930 481 1.114 1,049 72 2.662 608 1,436 1,710 rn I 1 A o 4 OCQ I V Q 9 i 17 25 1,459 1,748 1,323 1,877 02 996 420 452 938 20 1,440 714 1,026 1,139 92 1.298 1.244 1,103 1,446 44 1,567 1,028 1,248 1,336 89 2,510 706 1,282 1,786 16 1,538 1,369 1,531 1.317 50 2.391 1,596 1,873 2,099 19 754 1,218 800 1,150 50 F 535 3.038 4,157 4,337 j 07 | 1,196 449 692 858 85 1,828 882 1,433 1,242 77 1,699 56 842 1,418 70 2,513 906 2.500 910 82 70,581 | 34,177 54,802 j 49,307 scores of society women. Crippen's ^ lawyer claims that Belle Elmore Is alive and in the United States The Hotel Oneco at New Haven, Conn., was destroyed by fire early Wednesday morning ar.d before the blaze was checked damages to the extei". el a half million dollars had been done. The guests of the hotel escaped In their night clothes... .Portions of a human body were picked up on the East river, N. Y., Wednesday and the police believe they have another Guldensuppe , murder mystery Ernest W. Gerbracht, former superintendent of the Brooklyn branch of the sugar trust, was given a sentence of two years It the Federal prison in Atlanta, Ga., by the Federal court at New York Wednesday. He is another victim of false . weights Pope Pius is reported as ' quite ill at Rome. He is suffering from gout, and the troubles of the Catholic church in France, Spain, Portugal, Germany and Austria, are adding to his troubles. SOUTH CAROLINA NEW8. ? A. C. Fishel was elected auditor of Chester county over I. McD. Hood? 950 to 839. ? In Cherokee Mr. Thos. M. Caldwell was elected clerk or the court, air. e. Felix Lipscomb supervisor, and Mr. W. * D. Kirby judge of probate. Mr. W. S. Hall, Jr., defeated Mr. N. W. Hardin for the senate 1,768 to 1,298. ? Columbia, September 14: C. C. Featherstone, the unsuccessful candidate for governor, left this morning ? for his home in Laurens, having come 9 down to Columbia to hear the returns. Before taking the train Mr. Featherstone wrote a note to his successful competitor, Mr. Blease, congratulating him upon the result of the election. When asked if he had anything to say for publication, Mr. Featherstone replied that he would accept the verdict of the people In good spirit and would be found doing his duty as a citizen. ^ ? Trenton. September 14: Senator B. R. Tillman, at his home at Trenton, when asked about the result of the second primary said today: "It Is a remarkable illustration of what little Influence the newspapers have. They have been so unfair and unjust that they are utterly discredited by * the people. I expect Governor Blease to disappoint his enemies and to act with such prudence and wisdom that he will justify and make happy his friends. He has a golden opportunity and I believe he will make good. No one can dispute that he has brains, and while he has faults, like the devil, he is not as black as he has been painted." ? Florence September 14: Reports ' are coming in from all sections of the county to the effect that a species of worm Is boring into and ruining the cotton crop. E. Willis, in charge of the government work here, will ask for an investigation of the pest. Those ^ who have traveled over the cotton ^ belt say that if there is a good crop of cotton anywhere in the belt, it is in this section, so that the farmers are plunged in the depths by the discovery of this new enemy. The worms are said to resemble the crop worm very much and to attack and bore into big and little bolls and eat the fibre right out of it. S. H. Saunders, one of the big farmers in the county, who expected 600 bales from his crop, says that the worms have taken at least * 100 from him and are still at work on what is left. Many other farmers are bringing in complaints of the same pest. A Feeling of Uncertainty.?The returns from yesterday's primary- indi- | cate the election of Cole L. Blease as governor of South Carolina by a majority of between four and five thousand votes over his opponent, C. C. Featherstone. The state will wake up this morning with an uncertain feeling as to the future and as the daygrows older will begin to wonder just exactly what it has done and what is to be the result. Blease, in our opin- ~ ion, will pursue one of two courses. He will either measure up under his responsibilities and make South Carolina an honest, able governor, therebydispleasing and disappointing many of those who voted for him believing they were going to be pardoned for crimes committed, and allowed to run riot * over the state without regard for law; or he will fail utterly as governor, stick to his friends and be repudiated at the end of his first term. We hope he will make a good governor. measure up to his opportunity and live down the horrible political record he has in this state. If Blease has the spark of greatness in him, which some of his friends claim he has, ^ he will make good. He will realize that much that has been said of him was probably due because of his records, and passing up the past, will look to the future to make himself respected and honored by the people of hiu Qtntp?Snart anhnrtr Herald. "' 7 , * Mr. Blease's Opportunity?Mr. Rlease has won a remarkable victory? one of the most remarkable that we have knowledge of?and it is a personal triumph pure and simple, which makes it all the more remarkable. Mr. Rlease represents nothing hut himself and his political ambitions. He was the champion of no cause and was the personification of no clear-cut issue. He had organization?a smooth work- ^ ing, efficient and energetic machine? W but it was composed of his personal followers, not the adherents of a cause or the advocates of an issue, hence his election is the triumph of the individual. He will go into office with free hands and unpledged to any policy or , programme, and he has the opportu- ^ nit.v to make a record. It rests with him to determine whether it shall be good or bad. We shall hope for the j best, for tlie state's sake.?Sumter Item.