The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, April 01, 1913, Page 4, Image 4
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CHA8. T. CONNORS. . . .Editor Mr C
R. E. WYLIE. . . Acting Editor ,
L. C. BOYEK Manager in? ni
The I
PUBLISHERS' ANNOUNCEMENT: ,
Published Tuesdays and 1,1
Fridays at Lancaster, S. C.. confin
by The Lancaster Publishing .. . s
Company, successors to The na!"
LnriERr. PRtahlUlipri t8S2' Th? J J
, (IIIU Vi1
Review, established 1878; The ,,
Enterprise, established 1891, as the
and entered as second-class Gf thi;
matter Oct. 7, 1905, at the .
postofflce at Lancaster, S. C., rest, I
under Act of Congress of health
March 3, 1879 . . ,
. ? his du
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: willed
(In Advance.) ith
One Year $1.50 *
six Months 75c realize
ing ur
TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 1013.
"We need more mails."?
Anderson Mail. Not so; you are
quite enough for vour town,
fore tl
The Piedmont Daily of Green- ^ears
ville does not want to be forced 01 ^n
to go to China to enjoy prohi- til 18
bition. was
caster
The pardon mill of Governor ter E
Blease up to date has ground chosen
out over (>00 pardons since his The L;
induction into the office of chief more t
magistrate. tury, li
chronic
The latest effusion from the our co
%u?*ernor is to the effect that if dings,
the blind tigers can't be made went t
to <*top violating the law they a peopl
must be forced to get their erate t
liquor from the dispensaries. ma
The upholders of law and or- !^r "
II IS Illcll
der were doubtless glad that the ^or ^
governor of Virginia came back (jor
hurriedly to prevent a miscar- pCOp|e'
riage of justice. The same kind .^j ^
of people in South Carolina J)r-n
would rejoice if her governor
would absent himself occasion- convjc^
ally, leaving the execution of
the laws to the lieutenant gov- ,
R his reai
ernor. , , .
best in
A primary election is being cou y
held in the first congressional e
district today to select a con- ' {icile I
gressman to fill the seat of the P-v ovel
late George S. Legare. Messrs. no^ces
George F. Von Kolnitz, E. W. 1110,1 * al
Hughes and R. S. Whaley of ^e ''
Charleston and Solicitor John (M* an
H. Peurifoy and J. H. Padgett onnorc
of Colleton county are in the *Mlit?>riii
race. ' PaP01'- 1
restoraf
One Mr. Huntington Wilson, he may
a hold-over assistant secretarv and fri<
of state from the Taft adminis- In his <
tration, got in a huff about carries
President Wilson's stand in and be>
reference to the Chinese loan, friends.
He not only sent in his resig- Leigh
nation but undertook, at the priately
same time, to administer a lec- editor:
ture to the President. His "Abo? n
resignation, of course, was ac- 1,1
cepted and he has doubtless NwoU" ^
found out after time for reflec- Vll(1
tion that this great government hi
can get along without him and Making
his lectures. 1,1
\n angel
.H'STK FJ SITRE.ME.
The majesty of the law was Am, to ,
upheld in Virginia Friday, when
Floyd Allen and his son, Claude 'What \\
Swanson Allen, met death in the
. . , ...... \m! witl
electric chair. \ irginia has an
unbroken record for the en- Xll A,
forcement of law, evidenced in | i<
the cases of Claverius, Mc.Cue, 1 '
Beattie and the Aliens. The
setting aside of the death pen- ''
alty for sentimental reasons
does not go in Virginia. In that ti
state the majority is in favor Writ.- m
of punishment for crime. Virginia's
example might well be
followed elsewhere. it , imo
The State of yesterday closes ii
its well-considered editorial on V! 1 ,u
"The Mighty Arm of Law"
with these significant words: t
"Governor Mann knew that in I
different degrees only there are (ONI
a thousand Floyd Aliens in Yir- The
ginia and her nearby sisters, United
each setting similar example to will tal
his sons, and that it is impera- 27th, '2
tive for the vindication of our Chatt.a
government, that law be A. Por
throned and realization of its Camp,
terrible might be forced upon literati
the public mind." sent t<
THE LANCASTER
IARLES T. CONNORS. big preparations are
re appears elsewhere in made for the entertainmi
ssue a communication of the old soldiers. The ci1
harles T. Connors, tender- Chattanooga has decide
is resignation as editor of raise from $50,000 to $
Lancaster News. During for the entertainment (
fteen months he has been veterans. Tents and co
ed to his home by illness the number of 1,400 and
i been the earnest hope 000 respectively, from th<
esire of his heart, as well ted States war depar
1 wish of the management have been given for
s paper, that by complete camp. The mayor of
he would be restored to tanooga is Hon. T. C. T
and be able to resume .son, son of the late Gov.
ities again. But God has S. Thompson, which is a
it otherwise and it is antee that South Carol
jreat regret that we now will be looked after. The
the necessity of his giv- famous battlefields of the
i *.. l:/- i T /"ii- i
p 111m 111WOTK ijuuimhit inuiiiitciiiiy V_>HICK<
rlie Connors is unusually &a an^ Missionary Ridge
and inherits a talent for are near the city. It was
aper work, his father, the pleasures a few weeks a
r. M. Connors, having ed- spend a day in Chattanoog
tie Lancaster Ledger be- Hie view of the surrou
le civil war. For eighteen country from the top of
the son was editor out mountain is alone wort
e Lancaster Review, un- trip. So we urge upon n
95, when that paper veterans who can conven
merged with the Lan- do so make preparatio
Ledger and Lancas- attend the reunion in
nterprise, when he was tunooga.
editor of the new paper, ,.EuNICIOl S ,\< TtVll
mcaster News. So, ?lor ,P, ,. . r ,, ,
I he retirement of lion,
han a quarter of a cen- * T 4U . , e ,,
. ? , , , JMoore, the head ot the we
,e has faithfully and ably d tment of the rn:
iled the happenings in shou,d be ,esson tQ tho3(
unty, the births, wed- , , , , , , ir.
' , ,, , would like to hold office,
deaths and all that'** i v
? Moore, having been appo
o make up the lite of . 4l ... , , ,,
_, ' 1 to the position he holds
e. It is needless to enum-1 , . , n
. eighteen years ago by a R<
o those who know him, ,. , . . . ..
? ? , ' bean administration, tollc
ny line raits of charac- cusfa> tendered his res
luiet and unassuming in U()n t(> th(j President
nners. with generous love doubt)e8s with mt)e jdea tl
fellow men, it is no won- . . , , . * , . ..
. , ,. , , would be accepted. Rut it s
it he is idolized by the 4 e
that alter the election of
ot our county, let, with , . ur1 ,
ident Wilson there bega
gentleness, when matters, , r *,
. . . , , campaign by Professor Mo
ciple were involved, he L- , . . .
. , . friends to have him appo
remained true to his ? ...
. , secretary of agriculture n
mnc Hie mlii/MMoh,
lrtl" ,evei ! cabinet and it is supposed
to the moral uplift ofi4. . .
1 , , , the professor was not wit
dors and advanced the1, , , e .
, . | knowledge, even if not a j
terests of his town, to the c j himse|f
and state. Mis warm . any ratfi, President wjlson
specially prompted h.s him at hig wor(, n()t as t<
,en when recording hap-1 scerotH1.y!ihip of agricul
its. while his obituary ag to his resiKnation ol
were replete with senti-,post he hel(, and s0 the
nd good taste. i fess..r goes by the board,
eel that we have sustain- )hHSC who a,.e hankering .
irreparable loss in Mr. I., K0V(.,.nIncnt job, whi|c r
is retirement from the (U.nt Wi,son is in evidence>
1 management of the ,)ctter not be too pernici(
rut we still hope for his nct,ve at)out R
:ion to health and that
he spared to his family STILL STICKING TO II
ends for years to come, i Some time ago, The 1
enforced retirement he berry Observer, seeking t<
with him the sympathy | culcate "Obedience to L
;t wishes of hosts of which is so very necessary
The following lines of South Carolina, especially
Hunt may be appro- this time, very aptly
applied to the retiring "Preach it, talk it, think it,
by it. It is no hardship t
tfii Ailhent ( iiih> his tribe onire anv nmn nnil mmi-v m.
< I obey the law."
one niBhi fro,,, ? doop Th,, Au usta chronicle <
roam of poaro, , . ,, i ?
, within tin- moonlight in above added pie
is room. ably apropos of certain aut
it rirh ami like a lily in bile regulations."
loon)- i The Yorkville Enquirer
writing in a hook of gold; . , . .. ..
. . its last issue, quoting the a
g pea re had made Hon Ad .
makes it the subject til an
ho presence in tho room ho tonal in which it says,
>i?i 1 Governor Blease's act in h;
mi i thou nifl vision hjs automobile driver run
ilsed his head, I ? i *i i_xi
, ,, those aut mobile regulations
li a look made of all sweet
not so much with a view t(
d. The nana of those who dating the law as with a vit
>vo tho Lord.' emphasizing the fact that <
aid Ahou. 'Nay. |)(,()pj(. were disregarding
law and no attention was 1
the angel Ahou spoke
I I In ? k * * * n
icirc i o v. l""vl l" ll" '
:ii\ All. ar.'I I pray arc in Columbia, as in al
iee, then, ' | every other town, people
O one who loves his m-1 consider it their especial
! rogative to be above the lav
el wrote and vanished. I li?
. t there an? town officials pi
again with a groat waken- cally everywhere who acfju
liKlo. | in the acknowledgment o
..vol the names whom love ( unlawl'ni privilege derna
f God liad blessed, i . ,, , ,
. .. , , ? 1 It is the people who assum
Urn Adhem a name led all 11
hP rost!" privilege of doing things
other people are forbidde
KDKRATE REUNION, law to do, that we conside
annual reunion of the most dangerous element c
Confederate Veterans ciety, and on the theory
<e place this year 6n the the governor was putting it
!8th and 20th of May at this kind of people, we a
nooga, Tenn. Mr. W. G. toll sympathy with his act
ter, commander of Dixie The concluding part o
has just shown us some sentence we make in large
ire anent the reunion jit will be remembered tha
> him which shows that governor's negro chaufTeui
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NEW S, APRIL 1, 1913,
being running at a break-neck speed |W>'
ent of through Main street in Co
ty of lumbia in violation of the ,city ;
id to ordinance in fall view of a po
75,000 liceman, was taken up and .fined I
>f the the pitifully small sum of $3.75. >
ts to The governor thereupon issued
I 10,- a pardon to the negro and made
i Uni- threats against the city au- >
tment thorities as to what he would v
the do if the money was not refund
Chat- ed. And now comes The York- J
homp- ville Enquirer and says "We are
Hugh in full sympathy with his act."
guar- It is true The Enquirer %d<>es
inians come around at the close of J
three the editorial and says, "We be- * *
i war, lieve in the observance of law." J
amoii- rlo j ^ -- * - ^1
MltMU- . .... itllMk UV 1 UCUCVlUJi 111 111C
all observance ot law amount to, if y
; our the act of the chief magistrate y
go to of the state in seeking to* over- Z
a and ride the law is endorsed by The y %
nding Enquirer? We do not know y
Look- (and venture to say that The y
h the Enquirer does not) that other y
11 the people are violating the speed
iently limit laws in view of the police- ;
ns to men of Columbia and even if it ; ,s
Chat- is being done, it does not justify y; "
the governor in doing so, or y
The Yorkville Enquirer in up- V
1^* holding him in it. No, we ar,e ; *
^ ill is prepared to see the governor do ;
at her a]m0st anything, but we were ?
ment. no^ prepared to see The York
who vi]je Enquirer in its admiration !
Mr. for him, uphold him in his delinfpH
^
nance 01 the law, even though Ij!
some, others may be violating it and ! !
epub- are no^ pUnished. ! ! CH
wing Yes, Brother Grist, let as all >! r
igna- advocate obedience to the law, >!
but even on the part of Governor *)? >?
...j. 1
iat it Blease.
eems
Pres- Senator John W. Kern's tirult"'
... . , , seen hi
n a whiskers will no longer feel ^ho ha
ore's lonesome. They will soon be of inse
inted joined by those of Jim Ham been k
i the Lewis, recently elected senator
. _ . Wint
that from Illinois, it is true they any m,
hout are not the same color, but both vice
larty sets are Democratic all right ahull. a
At and of the progressive kind at ('omi,,K
, ,. , has ch<
took that. tn the
ture! The News !lnd Couricr Puts puked
f the Iwe^ w^en ^ says that Gov- uve ox
ernor Mann in resisting the ap- smokes
peals of more than 100,000 'aakes
e> . maudlin sympathisers with a ?toof 1
alter j . * favoriu
'resi sb?cking crime was of such tion ,
v. i stuir as the Romans were made
h! <1 of. T"" '
Misly liai ^ea
I < it does
FROM OTHER PAPERS tnie ?
IM. but the
\TCW- who ru
Huntington Wilson has gone, but hind tt
' the government at Washington still 0f fron
aw, lives.?Haiti more Sun. such tf
i in a muu
Willis L. Moore has resigned, but
. the Dutch weather prophet in Co- shau o
said, lutuhia is yet on the job. Ander- H.
i. .... aud ' T
, live son Mail. , .
God is
' new spa
? ?> r /A i wi vininiriT Mil til*" HPT . .
ill to ' hush is
great disasters of natures outpour- S(M>ju?
ing are more than matched by the
JUOt- indomitable courage ami powers of MPI'1
Slim- recuperation of iier people t'harOUIO
ieston Post. l'optlhtt
The Auora, 111, physician who
* 1 uc
' lived sixty days on peanuts has Just ^ j
.bove j weddeil the Ottawa lady who exedi
j i ted ninety-two days on apples. ' ,au<dSl
'that at last is tin- combination that M**- tt.
r' will beat the high cost of living,?- Hoar
^ | Columbia Record. caste
over I Dear
I was 1' that South Carolina wild* man which
> vio- r'*a?y became insane while hiding period
* ^ from officers of the law he is to he y??ar,
pitied for his ignorance, lie should pvrmati
>th(M |iaVe surrendered and then naked to do t
the for it pardon. Miami (Kloridat I long a
joiner Herald. aa 0<n,
"hero w hi<h
An institution Unit serif. bov
iv./.jt tauce i
II ivij* i tomorrow's men wit It clean,
u . M > i
wno w hob'some environment and Chris- , . .
,i i taking
in,-- ..wii in it inin 111 <111 iiiirtiru ve iiiitri
.1 < # i i along ?
1, nml wortliy of Its DlaCC 111 ItIIV ,
"nu . ... . publics
coinmunitv. Sueh an Institution in
ractl- , , ... trons r
Spartanburg is the toiing Men h
liesce christian Association. ? Spartanburg i """k "
r ?u , sonal 1
I the Herald.
. .. ? . ... .. of who
ndoi! Don t lose heart at the continu- . .
1 1 1 ! S 1 ( ' K 11 t' H
e the "lls ra'"s- " m?y be that next fall '
?ve ean see where it happens for the
a best. A bad beginning often makes
n by a good end and a small crop often |
r the means more money than a large one.
>f SO- Watch expenses and raise ail sup- "Wh
th'it i'"os at home and leave the rest to "I n
I'rovldenee. Wlnnsboro News and "We
over ?,.rn,(1. should
re in to ."""J
i A Houston girl writes us that she ji0 wa,
f the ,nat'? ^he Kabter hat matter so easy telling
; for lier father that he doesn't feel hie."
ypo. ,, ajj aIuj t|,aj 8jlf) jmg H poae.h of ,)i(l
it the ii hat. Wo haven't seen the hat and ?r
r Was Iwreforo ean not conllrm her hor- 1 Bold b;
k&btml MM
ITS A COLD
iUT A BANld
^Vv5\RWi FJ
AND A 5ECUR
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V tf /rt./
(ieor/re /*\ SJ n-] ?'/ ,.i' u <
r. - " ?" "?
rs in Chiongo, who todn
I,()<)() ti minute, fi^st tmnU
'/iyes to Itiiy one steer. li
Do YD U li 1* ante in
Ye puy 4 percent interest
rhe First Nati
OF LANCAS
'AS D JONES.
Presiden t
E IN f LIE.
Vice-Presrdent
ral classification; bnt we have ing
er daddy and can testify that prep
b not exaggerated the degree at li
usibility into which he has life's
,nocked.?The Houston Post, expr
tude
?d and toasted as much as thos<
m in the country is the new givei
President, Thomas R. Mar- news
Marshall's talk and stories are j c
to the front and his picture rlchi
alee space, for the new man each
Ol/iranri a uua U1 lUO RPHSltP Jn
popular fellow and already t|je
for a favorite. The diniinu- keep
-governor of Indiana. who wag
a cigarette with the hoys. apie
epigrams and looks like ,iutic
lafk is going to be a prime
with the new admlnstraSalisbury
Post.
daily press is as full of spiritching
of a kind as the Uible.
not preach sermons, it is
r tag on morals to its news, (
lessons are so plain that he at
ins may read. Shining bo- to ^
le tragic facts of multitudes et*
t page articles one may read <)cto1
;rrible texts as "Whatsoever men
soweth that shaLL he also cont*
"He that soweth to- the tiesh ***ws
f the Mesh reap corruption,"
he wages of sin is death." Iut'et
speaking loudly in every at 1
per in the country. The ,
aflame, yet men pass by un- New?
Christian Endeavor World. PcoP
the
roit CON NOItS RESIGNS. lines
corn
r Newspaper Man Give* I'p tivati
His Ijfe Work. will
following letter was recelv- the I
week from the editor of The 8c'on
Ler News:
peals
K. Wylle, Chairman of the
d of Directors of the Lan- 1 (jw.m
r Publishing Company. i t()Wn
Sir: ?Continued ill health, j
has already extended over a |
of considerably more than a and
being without hope of i
I yji
ent improvement, impels me i
hat which I should have done '"'s '
go -tender my resignation ?
:or of The Lancaster News, '' '
1 now do with great reluc- '
iDil inexpressible sorrow.
, . . . !
.' 'imm mm so long delaying j
this action is tliat I have all sll? '
arnestly desired to write for t isn 1
tion a farewell to the pa- wor'<
>f the paper, an overwhel- i no|,':
lajority of w hom are my per- j
Heads, and many hundreds <>nou
in have during niy prolonged
s in various ways shown 1
kindly feeling and sincere 1
hy in my atlliction. K?'tti
having* despaired of ever be- (a"s
Is pi
Why lie Was Late. calls
at made you so late?" an i
jet Smlthson."
I soinr
11, that is no reason why you .
he an hour late getting home
Nr." I"I ?
:now, but I asked him how In, ;
s feeling, and he Insisted on ?ure
me about his stomach trouan
a
I you tell him to take Cham- l"?h I
s Tablets?"
e, that is what he needs." .
y all dealers. ' '
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WDRLD, :
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TER. I
E M CROXTON,
Cashier a
E CURTIS MAC KEY. J
Ass't Cashier
a
mentally and physically able to
are a formal valldlctory, I am
ist constrained to lay down my
i work without Klvlnc nubile
ession to the boundless gratiwhich
I feel to one and all of
b who for so many years have
i me their loyal support In my
ipaper activities. The best that
an do is to pray that God's
>st blessings may rest upon
and every one of them,
conclusion I desire to thank
board of directors for so long
ing open my "job," when there
little or no hope of my being
to resume the discharge of its
!S.
Yours very truly,
CHAS. T. CONNORS.
ing el' Colored l air Association.
j
litor News: ?The officers of the
red Fair Association will meet
ineaster, S. C., April 3. This is
known as the Lancaster Colorair
to be held the last week in
t?er, 1913. All colored boys or
who are going to enter the
?st for raising corn, hogs,
, etc., will send in their names
i. 1). Lee, the president. We
at the colored school building
1 o'clock. The premium list
be published in The Lancaster
i. We want the good white
le of the county to encourage
colored people along these
by giving them an acre of
and instruct them how to culb
for the greatest yield. It
help you as well as strengthen
Interest of the colored man in
tific farming. The glory of
prosperity of the county apto
white and colored alike.
negroes will fight if you tell
that Lancaster is not "a good
They love It
M. D. LEE.
The Vi'M Worse Life.
ie preacher lias a hard time. If
tair is gray, ho is old. If ho Is
ung man, he hasn't had oxper- w ^
. If ho lias ton children, he has 9^
nany. If he has none, he should
, and Lu't settling a good oxo.
If his wife sing in tho choir,
s presuming. If she doesn't, she
interested in her husband's
It a preacher reads from
*, he is a bore. If ho speaks
nporancously, ho is not deep
gh. If lie stays at homo In his
i', ho doesn't mix enough with
tieonlo If ' ?
-.-ii around on
streets, Ik ought to be at home
ng up a good m rmon. If he
on some very poor family, he
aylng to tin* grandstand. If he
at the home of the rich, he ia
iristocrat. Whatever lie doea,
> one could have told him how
> better He has a fine time 11voff
donations which never come
ind promises that never ma- \
Next to being an editor, it is
.wftil life.?Seneca, Mo., Dlsiancaster
Leads. J