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W$t pamtierg Heraib | ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. Thursday, July 4, 1918. I Every citizen who expects to vote j ill the primaries this summer will; have to enroll his name on the club i I books, which are now open. The j books close on the third Tuesday in; July. See to it that your name is j properly enrolled on your club book j before that date. Better attend to j it today before you forget it. The entire State sympathizes with j Senator Tillman in his serious ill- j ness. Senator Tillman was stricken with a cerebral hemmorrhage last Thursdav while he was at his post in the capitol at Washington. He has gradually grown worse each day. and practically no hope is held out for his recovery. The South Carolina senior senator has been serving in the senate continuously for about 25 years. While there is life there J is hope, and that the aged senator | may yet survive is the earnest de-1 sire of his many thousands of friends all over America. South Carolina is getting some very undesirable advertising. In the current number of the Pictorial Review, in a page advertisement, it is stated that he percentage of illiteracy in South Carolina is 25, the percentage in this State being the highest in the six States mentioned as being the highest in percentage of illiteracy in - the United States. Our nearest competitor seems to be Mississippi, with a percentage of 22. In this connection it is to be borne in mind that the amount of money spent on the public schools of South 1 Carolina is the least of any State in the union. Yet some candidates for governor are preaching a reduction of taxes. And the painful part of it is that some people are going to lend an appreciative ear to this sort of talk. ^ < > ? Major Richards and Mr. McLaurin are trying to be elected on a platform to reduce taxes. Both of these gentlemen, however, tell the voters that they want to pay the Confederate veterans more pensions; want better schools, better roads, etc. They don't tell you how it can be done, except they say there are too many offices. By cutting out even half of the State offices there would be a saving probably of a few thousand dollars. Not a drop in the bucket. It ycan't be done. The oldest voter i-n'tho prmntv will tell vou that he has been hearing candidates promise to reduce taxes since he was a boy. They have doubled and treb\ led in the meantime. And, besides, the governor does not make the ap(ropriations. He can do nothing ut recommend and veto. The general assembly can accept his recommendations or not, as it sees fit. And it can pass any appropriation over his veto. There's no use listening to a siren's song. Taxes won't be reduced. Not this year?nor the / next. ^ nm* There has been an effort on the part of some one in this section to discredit the loyalty to the administration of Congressman Byrnes. We do not know who this party is, but he is evidently laboring under a misconception of the facts. The basis of this attempt to discredit Mr. Byrnes is evidently Mr. Byrnes's opposition to the first propos% ed draft measure. As a matter "of fact this bill was never presented to the house, being killed in committee. It provided that the draft ages should be fixed from 19 to 25 years, and provided for no exemptions whatever. Not one man in a thousand scarcely would advocate such a measure now. Further than this, Mr. Byrnes has been absolutely loyal ' to the presideiit and to the administration throughout. He is a close fricmd nf thp nrpsident and as is well known by readers of the daily newspapers, the president frequently confers1 with him on matters of a confidential nature. The Herald hereby offers a reward of one hundred dollars to any one who will secure from the president or any South Carolina member of congress or South Carolina senator a statement that Congressman Byrnes has not been absolutely loyal to the president and to the administration, previous to and since the declaration of war. To any of those who are inclined to lend an ear to the opposition to Mr. Byrnes on this point, we offer the suggestion that they wait until they hear him on the stump. * John L. McLaurin in a statement printed in the Sunday State, charges that the ex-governor, who is now a candidate for the U. S. senate, attempted to bolt the Democratic party in 1916. He says that the former governor told him a number of times (that he would enter the general election as an independent candidate, and that later on he asked McLaurin to run, which he refused to do. He alleges further that the former govI [ ernor tried to induce him to finance 1 an independent ticket. It was then ; that McLaurin says he laid a trap | to catch the ex-governor, by dictati ing phoney letters to John G. Capers, who stands high in the ranks of the Republican party. These letters, he says, were dictated to John K. Anil, campaign manager of the former gov- i ernor. The originals were never mailed, but it served, so he alleges, to trap the disgruntled and defeated candidate. The whole course of the, former governor, says McLaurin, was j dictated by his belief that Hughes j would be elected president, and the i ex-governor was in hopes of being ; able to control the patronage in South i Carolina. When the Republican State convention was held, says the statement, the former governor told j \V. P. Beard to go to the Republican j State chairman and put the names' of himself and McLaurin on the Re-1 publican ticket. McLaurin says he caught up with Beard and forbade the use of his name. He says further; that he has in his possession a letter. from W. P. Beard in which it is! I stated that the former governor put! out and even named the Bull Moose ticket of 1912 and that he encouraged him to put out the ticket at the 1916 general election. "He then got cold feet and left me in the lurch. Now he has deserted me," McLaurin quotes Beard as writing ; him. In a statement published Mon- 1 day the ex-governor denies all the | charges, as does also John K. Aull, : who says he never took any dicta- j tion of letters to John G. Capers; from McLaurin. \ ^ < > ? The Music Lovers. i Our friend the pianist dropped in j on us yesterday. "Did you go to the symphony con- ! cert?" we asked. "Yes." "Enjoy it?" "No." "Why, I heard it was very good." j "It may have been the best ever, j for all I know." "What was the matter?" "Two women who sat behind me j kept up a constant line of chatter j during the whole affair." "What did they talk about?the war?" "No?they were telling each other; how they loved music."?Cleveland j Plain Dealer. 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