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, FOR HONES % (T ? How to Get in The News will publish a few articles under the abo\e caption written by a member of the South Carolina legislature. They are strictly nonpartisan and point out the changes necessary to eliminate fraud without taking away the ballot from any South Carolina Democrat. The articles are In no way inspired by any candidate for office and none know of their preparation. They are designed solely to assist the mass of Democratic primary voters to clean house. Bills to this end will be acted on in the next legislature and our readers are of course Interested in the subject at this particular time. IM> rilUll OWN THINKING. Few are found to oppose all prima ry reform. Those against change cloak their purpose. They do not defend present conditions that is a hopeless task. They stand bock and object to each change suggestion saying it will take the ballot away from the poor man or the man who cannot write. These objections give no reasons for their charges nor do they offer other measures. Men are expected to follow them blindly. Every man should do his own think lng about these primary changes. The troubles are before us are known to all men who care to look. The remedies proposed are easv to understand. THE REMIDIES. Permit the voter to enroll on only one club list, and only in the precinct ^ where lie lives or vworks. Record the poll lists at the courthouse before and after voting. Identify the voter at the ballot box. Where Important requirements are violated, hold another election. These safeguards are those advocated by experienced party workers from all sections of the state. They have been gathered from discussions on many occasions during many years. Leaders In the legislative who oppose extreme measures came to a pretty general agreement at the last session to support a hill embodying these points. Let us examine them, taking the last one first. THE PENALTY. Penalties are seldom enforced. Why? Because they seek to minlsh but not to remedy?not directly. The law says the manager who does not carry out the rules shall be punished. Hut the defeated candidate doesn't care to prosecute him, the public Is not interested enough to. Neither Is out for revenge nor seeking the unpleasent tnsk of preventing further frauds by present punishment The candidates are interested In the Immediate outcome, though. They and their friends will go to a lot of trouble to locate fraud if it will do them any good. Give them the right to a new election whenever the law is violated in the imporatnt particulars, w and they will watch for lrrgularities like hawks. Then violations of rules will immediatly defeat their purpose and become useless. Mind you, new elections would be held only when imporatnt specified infraction of the law could be shown not for trivial Irregularities. This would necessitate making each step In enrollment and voting plain, and open and record where all men may examine what has been done. Today everything is so obscure that even where much fraud is proved and more believed it la about impossible to upset an election. This power to weapon more dreaded than any punishment of managers set down in the law books. PROTECING THE LISTS. It Is absolutely necessary at any kind of an election to have a correct list of those entitled to vote. The club rolls hould be made up some weeks before the election and aent to the county clerk of court. Shortly before the. election the clerk should send a copy of each llat to the election managers of each club. After the election the oovnty executive committee should send the rolls back to ^he clerk. ?,'{<> 4 This system allows the list to be examined by all. t? teres ted parties, and opportunity to have names put oh or taken oflLpn, proper showing, before the election. After the electlon anyone may compare the voting list used with the copy. kept by the dlerk, and the failure to use the prop^ er list becomes a matter of record. At present even where the rules are carried out, and a poll list is used It Is about Impossible In the Ave days allowed to check It up. How can candidates In populous sections tell In Ave days before the election whether the names put on at the last minute are fraudulent or not? The candidate is helpless. INDENTIFY THE VOTER AT THE BALLOT BOX. Managers In big voting precincts seldom know all the voters In them. When a man presents hlmslf to cast his ballot and gives a name found on the poll list he Is allowed to vote unless the managers know he is not the person he represents himself to he. The burden of the proof is on the manager. His task la douhlv dlfll cult because the rule* allow a man to enroll his name up to five days bofore the primary In a precinct where he doea not live, and In aa many precincts as he likea. He may move into the town on the twenty-fourth, and have his name put on the Rock Hill poll list by a third party and vote in 1 the latter iown on the twenty-ninth. J The law should be to enroll in per- i son in only one precinct and that the ' one in which the man resides or I Fop Frost Rites and Chapped Skin. J For frost bitten earn, Angers and toes; chapped hand and lipa, chll-. blains, old sores, red and rough aa.. aklna, there la nothing to equal Bucklen'a Arnica Salve. 8topa the pain at once and heala quickly. In every home there should be a box handy all the time. Beat remedy for all Wgd<!n dlseaaea. Itching eczema, tetter, 25c> drugglata or by >>^all. H. E. Bucklen Co., Philadelphia or St. Louia. I ? luiimuu nuuiu UW IIUUIO ior 1SSU- I I ing duplicates where a card is lost, ' and for transferring a vjter from one \ precinct to another when he changes his residence. ^ These cards would be issued to ev- i . ery Democratic man entitled to vote j who could show his residence in the I 1 state and county, and precinct the j 1 required length of time. IN CONCLUSION. Here are outlined changes in our present system not a now system. Only an out lineDiscussion of dentils wouh^flp^ more space than I these articles cJ^Tluim. Rut they are | designed to carry out those general ideas. No attempt Is here made to ] take the ballot from any class. Honesty is the aim of the changes not I disfranchisement. Whether wisely or foolishly. South I Carolina has long since established | the purest of Democracies. Such move , ments do not go backward. Universal white, manhood suffrage once secured will never be relinquished. Il\it it may be thwarted and crippled and cheated if it does not protect itself by strong and well-considered laws. LEGISLATOR, t _ ; ?-?7?^ ; i no nnnmo or ncnooi ^salaries. 1 The State. < The "high cost of living" has been common gossip and conversational pabulum equal to the subject of the I weather for some time but It does not seem to occur to any one that teach- j ers and the men who In one way or , another devote their time and en- ] erglos to educational advancement j ever eat. I The "high cost" apparently does not reach the Immune teachers, else 1 I why Is It that teachers salaries do ' ! not obey the rule and event If halt- < ' ingly follow on the upgrade behind < the high cost of living as It mounts \ the hill of expense? Recently the State Board of Educa- , tlon found It necessary to go into special executive session because of the resignations of the county superintendents of Abbeville and Lnurens ' counties. I Both men resigned because the pay they were receiving was utterly in- < adequate compensation for their ser- i vices. The superintendent of Abbeville , has been working for the munificent i , salary of $/00 a year. The superintendent of Laurnes <11 <1 just fifty dollars better per annum. ! Many skilled laborers, who at the ( best have but a bowing pratical ex- ' perlence with the "Rule of Three," ) more than double the financial returns which these supposedly highly educated men have been receiving i from the agencies of the State for I the use of their brains. In all the public schools In South Carolina there are just two men engaged In the public school work who receive as much as $2,500 a year for there services?these the superintendents of schools of Charleston and Columbia, respectively. Of the county superintendents, the majority receive less than $1,000 a year the highest salary paid to any of them .being that paid to the superintendent of Florence, who receive $1,800. ! The matter comes to this: That so long as we pay the men and women 1 (employed to make the theory of pop with the wages cale of unskilled labor, we are necessarily hypocritical In our protestlon of regard for pub- , He education. , There are two obvious and outsticking horns to this question: | First if the teachers and the county 1 i nprelntendents are worth no more ' than they are paid, then they are < i worth nothing whatever to the 1 schools. We are trying in that case, i I to do fine work with blunted Angers. 1 Second if the State in permitting < men of big Intelligence and learn- < lng which represents a capital of ( years of study and preparation, to I sacrifice themselves for a pittance the 1 State will not only eventually lose their services, after having used up 1 the best of their powers but it Is 1 being In the highest degree unfair to l Itself and dishonest to its citizens, as It accepts services of large value without valuable return. I As a general thing, it is a pretty safe political rule, that the salary will | find the candidate ready to accept It. x Politics, as it Is known In partice. Is a sufficiently a farce to warrant the ex- , pecatlon that as a general rule, the ! man who draws the salary Is being j 1 paid double?regardless of the c amount of the salary Itself. Hut this e does not apply to the school or to t tfiftphors Ppranntillv n-o A o *%/* ? * derstand why any one should consent 1 to teach under present conditions, nut we realize the imporatnce of ( teachers, and we think that better c opinion everywhere will hold with us that it is a shameful thing to pay starvation wages to competent folk * who volunteer for a life work of sell- ' sacrifice. v I Croup and Cough Remedy. ? Croup is a terrible disease, it at- a tacks children so suddenly they are H very apt to choke unless given the proper remedy at once. There is nothing better in the world than Dr. King's New Discovery. Lewis Cham- j berlaln, of Manchester, Ohio, writes about his children: "Sometimes in severe attacks we were afraid they j would die, but since we proved what a certain remedy Dr. King's New Dlscovery is, we have no fear. We rely c on it for croup, coughts and colds." * So can you. 50c and 91.00. A bottle should be in every horns. At all druggists. H. E. Bucklen & Co.,! * Philadelphia aud St. Louis. s ;r PRIMARY I! ? i South Carolina : | work; and the voter should be glveu a card by his club officer where he ( enrolls to be shown at the polls. This | i card to have his full name and ad- . 1 dress and number to correspond ( ' with the club list. Upon voting, a ( ; corner of tLe card or a coupon at! tached to It should be torn off so that It could not be used twice. ij......i..I ? 1 * ? * TELL -uANC ASTER NEW! I BOB'S RECKLESS DRIVE | ^ By W. F. CODY. j typical mao at the west was talk log to a few friends and dtsousslni the good aid times at the overland stage and poor express, Indian fights and when the "real bad man from Bit ter Creek" was much In evidence. The westerner was Col. M. B. Rus sell of Deadwood, and ho looked Jusl what he was?a man who had "bedr there." "There was one drive over the Over land trail which 1 guess the six E?g llshmen who took it will remember tc their day of passing in their chips, II they have not already cashed in anil gone across the Great Divldo," said the colonel. "It was In Bob 8cott's coach anc run, and be it known Bob was tht best, yet the most reckless, driver or the Overland trail. "It was in the early 'GOs, and tht coach came In to Horseshoe with tht 11.111.1 ? - ?..? iiiiumiira omy, ana was loaded down with their bngg&go. "There Hob Scott was to take th* reins and drive the old hearse through to Fort I^arainie, and the driver thai brought them iu told how the bIx pas Bengers had grumbled all along th* trail against the slow rate they went "Each driver had taken his share ol abuse, and each one had passed word along to Hob about it. "Rlarst me bloody eyes, but yov don't know anything about staging ir this blarsted heathen country," sale one of the party to Hob Scott. Bob Scott Bmlled and said, simply: "I'll aeo what I can do to pleas* you." "Then Hob went to the stables aw! got the stock tenders to hitch up nil of the pony express riders' horses foi bis beam that day. and animals not al] broken to coaching. " "Well strike Laramie on time, 01 m know why not," grimly said Dot Scott, and he mounted the box as th* Englishmen came out from dinner and eyed the new team, with men holding them on the earth. Tn West if I dont belWres tWkti a fair going team of oobs,' said ooe. "'All aboard!' shouted Bob. " 'Blarst you, turn 'em loose!' and other things were said to I3ob, along with much abuse. "The trail led up a long hill, half o dozen miles in length, but then cam* a sharp and rough descent. "Then camo Hob's chance, and, wild at tho abuse heaped upon him. he gave a yell, threw the reins, three on onf side, three on the other, to drag or the ground, and began to lay the whlj upon the team. "If the Englishmen at first wert pleased. It was only for a moment, at Rob drew Ills revolver and flred all shots In the air, yelling as he flred. "His next mad act was to tear flrsl one lamp, then the other from th< sides, and hurl them full foroe at the leaders, the tingling of the broker glass startling them the more. "The Englishmen were scared hall out of their wits by this time. "They dared not Jump out, though e hasty council of war decided unanl mouBly that they wore being driven bj a madman. "To add fuel to the fire, Bob leaned back and oalmlv ankod: ** "Gentlemen, does this style ol staging please you V "A groan in chonu was the an "The next station was ten mflw from Horseshoe, and with a ho?, sklj end Jnmp ths ooaoh went along dragged by the maddened trem "The stock tender* heard the noise nv the horses tearing along, an<] knsm that they wen running away tdd QSkklr threw the stable door* vM* ogsn. knowing the aafcnale would rush tau ~U was a does oatt lor all bat Bet) wtMwd the i ia 1S1 tiadMd iei. a fl ink team hMcfcad ?C. ?d4 qufcrfly oaBad juke m All aboard. "Bat the atx lfgtiitow had had mora than their mooey*? worth and heir OU of Bob BooCt, And refuaii to rtda farther with htm." KXvrrtcM, br Dally Ptory Pah Oa| H?M Letter Thirty Yaara Max Norman, passenger agent for A arte transatlantic steamship line, had e turned to him a letter that he mailed o Captain Larson of the Swedish bark Superior more than thirty years ago. t was addressed to t\e captain care f the Swedish and Norwegian consul it Marseille, Franco, and the envelopo ore the postmark, "New York, Octote r 3, 1883," and "Marseille, October 8, 1883." "That was written in Sweden to laptaln Larson," Mr. Norman Bald reently, "by one of our clerks when I ?aa with the firm of Benham & Boyenon, and must have lain all these years n the consul's offce in Marseille. It ras to reauoet the caDtaln to sell her rhen he arrived. He never came, and never heard what became of the Iwedleh bark Superior." The French postal authorities had tamped the letter "Return New rork."?New York World. It Cant Be Dons. "Do you believe that all things are east bier "Sure I do!" "Well, then explain this to me: Tere's the announcement of the en;agement of a popular deaf-inute ouple, after a very romantic courthip." "Welir "Tell me how the bridegroom-elect rent about whispering the old, sweet tory In the ear of the brldo-olect?" _ 3, JANUARY 16, 1914. ' "AVOID DISCORD" SPEAKER ADVISES ? i Lower House Holds Brief Open^ j ins; Session. 1 ELECTIONS ON THURSDAY; J ' Jinmorial K?'n iscs Friday?Scvrn i New MciiiIkis Enrolled?(iov crnor's is llcail. Meeting Tuesday at noon, the house of representavlves held a s< s' sion, lasting for an hour and a half ' in which it pisposed of the annual I message of the governor, elected a speaker pro tempore, Inducted the [ new members into its midst aiul , passed resolutions. Dr. C.T. Wyche . of Prosperity, for many years a member of the house from Newberry county. was unanimously chosen speaker * pro tmpore after J. T. Idles of ' Orangeburg had declined the nominal tloti, and nominated Dr.Wyclie in his stead. The house will resasemble at ? noon today. i The annual message of the govt ernor was sent to the house in pamph. let from. The message was not read in ! full but was ordered printed in the journal. The customary resolution 1 in regard to referring parts of it to various committees was passed by the house. A supplementary message from the governor was received by 1 the house in which he said that in his i annual message he had inadvertently I ommitted the name of the late Gen. W. E. James of Darlington in enumerating the members of the house j who died during the past year. The annual message of the governor is . summarized elsewhere in this issue of The State. After the roll of the house was r called Tuesday Speaker Mendel L. ! ' Smith briefly addressed the members. ADDRESS BY SPEAKER. 1 r "I urge you not to allow discord T ' to mar this session," said Speaker ' Smith. He referred in feeling terms ' to the members of the house who had t been stricken by the hand of death during the past year. Speaker Smith I said that his opening address Tues- ( day morning would be the last of the kind tin u'nnl'l o""' J"ii *" - - ?^u?^ c.vi uonvur 10 me South Carolina house of representa- ! tives. After the speaker's brief address. (. the following new members of the house presented themselves at the bar and were duly sworn in: Joseph II. Hurgess, Clarendon; X. C. Tlarrelson, Marion; Moutrie J. Clements,' Charleston; A. \V. Todd, Charleston: 11. c. Summers, Anderson; J. F. Pate Darlington, and J. L. Holt Pickens. 15. Palmer McMaster of Richland, will he sworn in as a mebrer of the house this morning. Mr. Wyche of Spartanburg. Mr. Stevenson of Chesterfield and Mr. i Dick of Sumter were appointed on a { committee to notify the governor that the house was organized and 1 ready for business. * ; Two Country Churches that Point the Way. ,J I have in mind, as I write, a coun- try church that has erected a beauti- ' ful house, pays its pastor an ample ' salary and provides him a comforta- i ble home. He preaches to his people ' , every Sunday that comes and gives I himself wholly to the work of his pastorate. He is a kingly man his people follow him with Implicit trust. They have a fine school, of course, but the church takes precedence of everything else. The young folks are growing up in an atmosphere rodol? ent iwth the grace and beauty of a > religon that ministers to every need if , mind and body, and that save and sweetens all the community life. While they are not a rich people they j are liberal in their giving to every worthy cause but it is a remarkable fact that they have prospered in a J business way as they have grown in 1 the grace of giving. I know another country neigh1 horhood that maintains a splendid \ school and stands at the very fore| front among the progression sections of the State. The noble contry church pays the pastor 11,000 a year besides furnishing the manse and other e perquisites It is one of the finest com- i munitles in North Carolina and the j 1 young people have no desire to leave but refer to settle and estlbllah families where they were born amd bred. And many of our most substantial business men and accomplished K yuuiiK woman aaorn tnat great neighborhood. They have passed out of the provincial stage and are broad and liberal citizens. This grace of liberality is the cry- w Ing need for our country churches. When the yare run on the board 3 ganged plan and their members real- tl ize that the putting of money into h the development of the church life: is the best investment they can possibly make, the desert will blossom as the rose and a greater glory than ? that of the old ante-bellum days will o come to stay. I, Wherever the country church life runs strong and deep in a community u ' farms increase in value farmers employ the latest and best methods, and g life in every form becomes richer and h happier. Active and unselfish inter- .. est in the better ment of mankind always enriches and ennobles; and the fj altruistic spirit finds its highest ex- D pression through the world of the y< church.?Archibald Johnson, In The fl Progressive Farmer. ia An Ideal Woman's laxative. yi Who wants to take salts, or castor ?' oil, when there Is nothing better than Dr. King's New Life Pills for all si bowel troubles. They act gently and tc naturally on the stomach and liver, stimulate and regulate your bowels gl and tone up the entire system. Price 25c. At all druggists. H. E. Buck- ei len & Co., Philadelphia or St. Louis. (Is 0 Are You One Of Who Habit Investigation Shows That Ceri Are Constant.lv Prolific C What Can lie We read a lot of medical literatu struct. In this strenuous period, wh need light and facts how to prevent d Do you know that the clerk and t fessional man, confined to sedentary v that conduce to colds? Mental fatigue, worry, heavy strs store work are the easiest means for life of a clergyman is less than that o Sedentary life, especially where i often leads to over-eating; there is nc eating. When the digestive organs are v liver and kidneys and other importar is lower and there is less resistance; conditions causes no harm, results in ; To relieve a cold, a good expectoi should be conveniently ai hand to the cold. But what can be done to st< that are confined to sedentary work? Start with a cold water towel bat vote an hour of each day to outdoor li meai to tone up your system, eat mod* full of fresh air. Mr. L. A. Richardson, a substanti menting on the merits of proprietary 441 have been engaged in the ret years. During this time I have seer flourish for one or two years and the few of these remedies that possess eno Peruna has always been a good seller v to year. The change in the formula i slightly laxative properties, has mat and for colds. I take pleasure in urg it for these two ailments." Those who wish to begin the colt of the Ills of Life. Sent free by the 1 Subscribe for The News. Notice of Discharge. Notice Is heriby given that the mderslgned will as executor of the will of Mrs. MaiVaret D. Brown, dereused, on Febrv^rv 6, 1914, make lis final return to probate court >f Jjjnractor county and appaly lot otters dismissory. W. McD. BROWN, Executor Will of Margaret D. Brown Deceased. Jan. G, 1914 T >a You canU buy better cabbage r nuch care, ana^don't know of any iverage. All vartHk^. The price is luallty. Price 76 cents Tor 300; $1. :ent8 per 1,000. --Jouanuet's Early G '5c per 100; $4.00 per 1,000. Satis \LI UEI) JOUANNKT, WHENEVER YOU I A GENERALTQI The Old Standard Grove's T Valuable as a General Tonic Drives Out Malaria, Enricl the Whole System. For G You know /hat you are taking, when as the formula is printed on every label tonic properties o*. QUININE and IRO tonic and is in Tasteless Form. It has Weakness,, general debility and loss of Mothers and Pale, Sickly Children. Relieves nervous depression and low s] purifies the blood. A True Tonic and Si No family should be without it. Guar an ZVERY HOME nj THIS !o Homo Can Afford to be Without a Mild, Reliable Laxative* Tonic. No well-regulated home should be ithout a laxative, for there is scarcely a day in a family of several persons tiat someone doesn't complain of a eadache, of sleeplessness, or showlie first signs of a cold. A laxative then becomes a necessity r what may run into a serious cold r fever. No hiirsh romoilv le nrnidiiH ut simply a mild laxative-tonic that ill make the liver active and stir up le bowels. People who have tried a rat many things, and are themselves cads of families, who have seen the ttle ills run to big onus, will tell au that there is nothing better than r. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin, which au can obtain at any drug store for fty cents or one dollar a bottle, the itter being the family size. Among the great believers in Syrup epsin for constipation in old or aung, and as a general household tnergency remedy, is Mrs. M. P. mith, 710 N. Cherry St., San An>nlo, Tex. To use her own words, le says she will bless Dr. Caldwell ) her dying day for she believes that trough his remedy, Syrup Pepsin, le found the way to permanent aod health. Dr. Caldewll's Syrup Pepsin Is bcIltiflcally compounded and its purity i vouched for. Mothers give it to , 7 Those ually Catch Cold ? tain Occupations and Professions auses For Frequent Colds. Done About It? - I re that only entertains, but does not inen life is put to such a severe strain, we lisease more than talk that entertains, he shop girl, the merchant and the prorork, are daily creating those conditions lin, nervousness resulting from dov i cr the development of colds. The avcrago fa farmer cause, sedentary work, it means the consumption of brain tissue, > more common cause of colds than overreighed down with an excess cf foon. the it vital organs aro overworked, vitality slight exposure, which under ordinary i bad cold. rant or cough remedy such as PEP.UNA be taken at the very first attack cf jp the frequency of colds to such people h, walk to your place of business, or d.efe, take a doso of PERTJNA befc: irately, retire early and sleep in a room al druggist from Marino, Illinois, crmmedicines, writes as follows: ail drug business here for the pas Cevty i many patent medicines come into use, n gradually disa ppear. There aro very ugh real merit to insure then long iifo. /ith us, with a mark ed increase from year some years ago, by the addition of the le it a reliable remedy for coustiya.icn ing my brother druggists to reccmrrenrt 1 water towel bath should have a copy >eruna Co., Columbus, Ohio. MONEY TO LOAN. I am no<v prepared, as heretofore, ' to negotiate loans of $200 and upwards on frst mortgage on improved . cotton farmV In Lancaster county, on t long time, ^jmyable In annual Installments at TVj>er cent Interest. No commission charged. Only a small fee for furnishing abstract of . tin.. R. E. WYLIE, Attorney-at-Law. ? IPlsmts hints. There are none raised with bo which will head as well on the t most reasonable considering the 00 per 1,000; 6,000 and over 86 lant Argenteull Asparagus Roots (faction guaranteed. Box 18, Ml.Pleasant, S. C. irrn ILLU IIC TAKE GROVE'S "astelcss chill Tonic is Equally : because it Acts on the Liver, ties the Blood and Builds up rrown People and Children, you take Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic I showing that it contains the well known N. It is as strong as the strongest bitter no equal for Malaria, Chills and Fever, appetite. Gives life and vigor to Nursing Removes Biliousness without purging. pirite. Arouses the liver to action and ire Appetizer. A Complete Strengthener. teed by your Druggist. We mean it. 30c. EEDS GREAT REMERY * ' ' >.*wt " ? "> > -V MRS. M. F. SMITH. tiny babes, and grown people, taking a little larger amount, And it equally effective. It is mild and gentle, I pleasant-tasting and free from griping. It does not hide behind a high sounding name and is absolutely free from any prohibited ingredient. Families who once use Syrup Pepsin forever after avoid cathartics, salts, pills and other harsh medicines, for these only do temporary good, are nauseous and a shock to any delicate system. Such things should never be g.ven to children. Families wishing to try a free sample bottle can obtain it postpaid by addressing Dr. W. B. Caldwell, 419 Washington St., Montlcello, 111. I A postal card with your name and I addross on it will do.