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?ljr iLaunuitrr 3mu (SEMI-WEEKLY.) JUAN IT A WYLIH Bdlior W. 8. HOUGH. . .Business Mgr. S PUBLISHERS' ANNOUNCEMENT Published Tuesdays and Fridays at Lancaster. S. C., by The Lancaster Publishing Compuuy, successors to The Ledger, established 1852; The Review, established 1878: The Enter prise, established 18511. and enStered as second-class matter Oct. 7, 1905, at the postofilce at Lancaster, S. C., under Act of Congress <>f March 8. 1879. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: (In Advance.) One Year $l.f Wi Months 7. !to subscribers. Your subscription must be paid up tc and including year marked on your label. If paper is stopped look at your date and you will probably find you are behind one year. vve can not senu earn suuscriber a statement. Look at Your Label. If you do not receive your I paper promptly we would appreciate it If you will notify us .and we will correct tlie mistake. In the hurry of mailir?? out the papers names of subscribers are 8ometi' s left off inadvertently. TI KSI>.\ Y. \ I (.1 S I IS. |?M -- Weather forecast for Soul Carolina: Local thunder shower Tuesday and Wednesday. One week from toda> and tin- \< ers w ill tell t lie >ior\. Has Cansler of Tirzah divulged ill sacred secret of Richards ol Libert Hill? Upon concentration depend^ Hi hope of the anti-administratioi forces. If the Bleaseites can In- fooled b; John G. Richards, whom Candidal Simms terms "a four weeks' ol< baby,'' then indeed are they guillihle The Spartanburg Herald says, i has a hunch thdt "this is a bad yea for the guy who claims to carry tin vote of any class of folks in his ves pocket." 3 No European conflict, howev stupendous, can rival in interest ti South Carolinians the "Battle of th Raljots," which will be fought in tlii state one week from today. tj If the voters of South Carolin want the blind tigers, gamblers am | man-slayers to continue to Houris like a "green bay tree," then the should vote for the continuation o Bleaseism. 11 i Maj. John (I. Richards "canno ser\ tv o masters." Tillman. t whose coat-tail he has clung durin, all the long years, has spoken. Now Major, you must choose "Whom wil you serve," Blease or Tillman? 1 Mr. lrby said at Newberry tha he thought an honest confessioi from John G. Richards as to how li v/iin< 1 fnr i?nui?rnnr ? iva vnu ru ? cri ' VVCU IW? IIWI v J would be "good for bis soul." Hu John may think it might not bo goo? for his chances of getting the gover norshlp. . Old Joe Foraker, the inveterat* hater of the South, who waved th? bloody shirt so vigorously and s< long in the United States senate, was ingloriously defeated in Ohio foi election to that august body. Thi will likely l?e the last of "Fin Alarm Foraker " One week from today the voters will t'i : lilt'.' will as to whethoi Hleaseism 1 to have a new lease o life We appeal to all who favoi law . to) oriii r and the wiping out o factionalism. t<? vote against lileus< for the senate, as well as the Miens* candidates for governor. The State suggests that W. 1' Pollock should let up in his attack on Governor lllease, w ho will not re main to face the gentleman fron Cheraw, when he begins to flay hi record. Well, our novice is to le lllease and Pollock scrap It out a they please and vote for Senator K f\ <3 m i f h f ho fo rnioru' to If Wade Hampton, the ldo! of th white people in 1876, the man wh freed us from negro rule, coul speak from the grave there can b no doubt but that he would join hi voice with that of Tillman, the gres leader of the reform movement c 1890, in his appeal to the votei tow to free the state once and foi ever from the blight of Bleaselsm. There have been several so-calle "accidental'' killings of negro w< men by their husbands in this count during the past year. Apparent! they have all been accidental, but w have our serious doubts about thi Such accidents are not happonin among the white people. This just a tip to those who admlnlst< tho law. i { the la: TIIK NKWS .\M> MAJOK RICH- SMITH ? Aims. Who will th The News and Courier's report of county vote Major John G. Richard's speech at (jutted States Greenwood says he "began by read- BI ease? The i rr. iiik complimentary references about wm help detei hini from certain newspapers written election. If I several years ago, among them The f,ve and a hall Pee Dee Advocate, The I.ancaster (jg overwhelm! Vntt ? ?lc " \V?> lnki> nriHp In anvlntr .1 ..... -~ * ^ ~ *" ? ?'?o iiueii. nui sin that the present editor of this paper been injected has not. like many other good papers nf Bleaseisin and individuals, been so far deceived jbat issue, in the statesman from Liberty Hill vehemently ur as to make "complimentary refer- W|U) pU^ gniitli ? ences," of any kind to him. It is senate. to reti true that when he was appointed ' Vate him to tt railroad commissioner by Governor they do it? $c Ansel in November, 1 i* 10, a former from every stn _ editor of The News did refer to him j,ow they can. in very complimentary terms, but at Thp farmers that time, he gave no evidence of be- neyer gu|Uy q| coming the political weather-cock he js Qne mau jn is toda\. than any othe Major ltichards commenced his , . . ten years, in s political career by catching hold ol , . , ' son. has fough Hen Tillman's coat-tail witli one ., . a living price. hand while holding aloft the prohi- p ^ bitlon banner in the other, when the ' .. ... * sympathy witli people voted for prohibition, but .. . , v * 1 reason that fa when lien gave them the iniquitous , only occupatlo dispensary instead, he swallowed that dose. Later on he played hide About a det and seek with Tillman and Gonzales ^'Lir\e\ J< for a season until Mlease, to use the 111 ' lament of Tillman, "stole the love uon* and affection of the one-gallus, wool- vv" ("""" u \ hat boys" from Senator Tillman. ,n' N .... . . ...... farmers to wnV i lion. tuougn uncertain oi tne out. . , , ilitions. Mi* in lOMir ot tiii- ran- 1>< iwn'ii Join's aiol Hlease two years ago, ho took A,l-X ' ? chances hv casting liis ballot for Jones, as by ltitn after the i,ml bv llo,,,in> i election. Now .however, w hen "uhl hi inn ? \ ltleaseism is the only issue in the campaign, and the mantle of Mease m>< ,rv Is about to fall 011 him. called upon other classes ? e hv his rival Hlease competitors, to w ith.standing tl 11 tell how he voted two years ago, he he pltcl dodges the direct tjuest'on, by say- '1'K'u>r prices 1 inn that that was a sacred matter ('urre(1 llie <lisl y and that no power could make him ,)U>ers and cot 3 tell. Hut Sintms and Irby have at t,l<> farm 1 last run him aground. Not with- mon?Pol> in oc !. standing his checkered political ca- own fau'1 >f 1 reer. he still insists that he is "the ra,s,nK a,1(1 sal t same John (I. Richards." On the ,)rm'Kht the L>oi r contrary he appears to us as the po- P'an urged 1 e litlcal Dr. Jakyll and Mr. Hyde. Th<> ro8U,t ? t . , , , ,, an awakening 1 .so with this we now bid adieu to ? . cotton growers toe inglorious record ot Major John .. . , . , . , . uation and (j. Richards, leaving him to the . , . what was n< tendei mercies of the "dear peepul, .. . , ? , ? , , . . . , . thereby reducit a whose tickle fancy he has sought bv . . . ,. ,, , staple planted ; ' many wiles to win. . .. , s cotton only wl "A in woitll \\l? A HISSlXtl." '*,rr>1''K Smith, cotton I We publish in this issue of The T a .* , . . In appreciat News Senator Iillinans letter to the . 1 . o .1 ,, . 1 . . . (l?a? f?r them tioomo ot South :i rii 11111 111 w 1111 11 I, " further relief ho announces that at the end ol his . .. v in tho uationa present term, if ho lives so long. ho ,, , f ' , ers railed on will retire to private lite, and urges .. .. .. 1 the rare for tl them not to send Coventor Mease to . ate. (lliedlelit ilie I niled States senate. . .. t ed the rare, ai Whatever the faults of Senator . .. . ,, iiniphantlv elei i illinan, and like all nu n lie has " tlu in, how niuehsoever lie may have Now is there rontrihiited to factionalism in the S<1 ' slate, he has, to use his own lan- rs shoul guage, many nionunients in South rP,'r' . Carolina, Clemson and Winthrop in u11 'l K''' an educational way, the ronstitu- lust a tional convention which relieved the ' n',0(' ^ ^ people of the state of the menace of <(>mhlish*d so . negro domination by the organic law ?' lpRtsl. . under which we live; the primary w',Pn> reas?i system of choosing candidates, etc." 's a P08'*'0" Now that B. It. Tillman is to re- to them ,han " tire from public life, no selfish mo- ' rnor ust '' , tive can he imputed to him. With ,)',,rp Senator ,, , , ,,, . . reason whv he j the sands ot life nearly run, and , looking eternity in the face, he ,or ^ v , . . a ,, ton growers o .. urges his people not to send Gover. .. ., by Senator Smi . nor Mease to the I .niled Mates son, , . , , , tho somite whei . ate. In closing lus a|>|>eal. lie says: ... ?... . . .1 good work he In Cod s name, let those who were formerly T'llniaiiites, hut now lor tlieni Illease slioiiters, show what Mense has done <>i a similar character. They *? ? ff> nnnl ?i?. if i. i >. I f I .. \ aivo it .? * S.\r K themselv?> to pans.- and analyze Vote against tilings and recover their mason it' role record tho\ rail They can undo some of \ otc again-t 1 the wrongs ii.ey a.i.e perpetrated lawful wluskev at d restore the state's pood name. Vote against > which It lease lias made a byword and gang , a hissing The Jfith of August will Vote agaMist tell the storv. and 1 watrh the result )<>te against with confidence." The above' cently in The We call upon all followers of amend by add * Blease in this county, who were at T.'ltto trby. one time as clamorous in their sup- . ' port of Tillman, but who are now The appeal i disposed not to heed the advlco of the voters of 1 poor old dying man, having forsaken njeaseism at tl S him for Blease, to stop and consider js very touehic " this fact. If you were mistaken in lt rjnR8 with following Tillman, and we do not reaged to be ? e charge here that you were, may you doubtless prept 0 not be as much mistaken in following w|)irh cannot d Blease? At any rate, read Tillman's hlm j|P says 0 communication published In this grave to tell i n issue. 1 thp Ini'llnntln it nothing to gal >f We rail eapecial attention to theI there If no se 3 communication of "Citizen" in re- ances. But I r. gard to the momentous issue of has honored m Bleaseism. The writer is a plain, a marked de unostentatious farmor.who ha^ never warn our pe< <1 had any other calling, and lives, as listen to me? ? ',he has always done, on his farm in * Then y Flat Creek township. We unite from a mount ly with him in the wish, expressed in upon my fello1 'e the closing lines of his article: must followed s. "Let us hope that on August 25th, all ever a man's >g worthy sons of South Carolina will cause the peoj is rise up in their manhood and with- i think mine i >r out fear or favor, wipe out Blease- tial purposes ism and all that it implies." dead." HHP! m NTCASTER NEWS. Ai'llUST 18. I on m.KASK? ml e farmers of Lancaster J^jL' ' for iu the race for j$jjn9 i seuator, Smith or' mP* , answer to this question Bgj \ EL~ rmine the result of the i iney voie as tney aia i HMIV J A 1 f years ago, Smith will ISM ngly elected, as he was lljfl ce that time there has Lggft ^ IP into politics the issue ' WSj: and the exponent of Kk& i Governor Bleaso, is Miff / ^iim the same farmers Hbk|/ W into the United States |wguJy.</j^' Cl 1 re the senator and H< - Mtf 11| tyjjj lat position. Now will Mruf/ .wtvfc ?jl' Viewing the matter *) ndpolnt. we fall to see ^ , as a general rule, are ImK y T ingratitude. If there South Carolina, more ______ r. who, for the past season and out of sea-'l t to make cotton bring | that man is Senator He is in whole hearted ' i the farmers for the rining Is his one and 1 And H ade ago, in company ?un rail tens In >r<ian, president of the on Growers' Associa- ]V ill over the Southland, as down to something per pound, urging the S(Mk <1 te up and change con int' d .mi to them the IM1 (Ml 1 ll<? j( uId he done, by coIversilying their crops : their cotton until it Kt'sideilCC 1*1 fair price. He made appeals to them: he array them against ""1? )f citizens. But not- ^ he liigli plane upon led his campaign for r> /\m.L for the staple, he in- ifO/ll \jtfl T iieuurt; 01 me conon I ton mill interests. He \ot Even tllp y ers that they had a The Kngliah sufTn )tton and it was their even volunteered as n hey so regulated the son ^hil. e of it that it hardly I jest" Ye Fo st of production. The Aml R. A. uichey kvas to Ret out of debt, that $5,000 bond for as that there was ~ '>Pe ^ee Advocate. ; on the part of the indeed. TlTey I to the alarming sit- There is one consol they began to raise do not hold the baian ieded on the farm, South Carolina. Gre< ir the amount of the na'" _ and then market their <>?r \ee<! len the price justified Respect for law an ut the advice of K. I). ?>?? office, consti lORun to rise in price. 1 tlon, a"d ,ess ' is what we need in thl ion of what he had ter News. and realizing that could be Riven them .... . Made It an 1 Clinkscales is the 1 Congress, the tann- t|,(, "pull" in compuls K. I> Smith to enter the only man ever In ie I'nlted States sen? South Carolina who lis to their will, he enter- ?ue more than a mildMude Newberrv Obs ad as stated, was tri n,,'d. Georgia Behind t anv good reason why We learn I rom at nth Carolinla cotton :our.7 "?"e .of lor the United States i Id humiliate Senator arP carrying arm* ng him to private life, around on their campa nerally conceded that This shows how mu posted man on cotton tini'0s *Georgia < . . ?Spartanburg Journa tates, when he has ac much for them in the should he Made 1 itlon. and at a time How do our legisli ti of his experience, he tlve?stand on the ra to give better service agitating our whole . ism and anti-Bleaseisn my other man? Gov- come out ,lkp ,|tt,e n] n his campaign to dis- cinor .m nr>? n/>? ? *.?.? v..v,... ?p ?* / r'" Smith. gives no vaiid Edgefield Chronicle. should replace Senae urge upon the cot- Vote For Ii?w ni , . . . . , Let the people wnt f Lancaster to stand npfW and ,0ye order itli and return hiin to. safety for themselves re he can complete the ilies determine to cas lias already under- 0,'ly ,or those candid<1 themselves to enforci stamp out crime.- F \\ K V TO VOTE." n,,s Hi* . . In his Winnshoro the pardon and pa- (.a|npaicil ,,, , ? Mr cisetl the operation of let.lone, towards un- )Jr> rolinl,Vs l|(. pr tV i > force the law.*' the ( harleston racing ,laH ,hat proniisP ,() "Bleu seism " Are th'' who measolsm. tigers closed support! oimms. * . which appeared re- ' State, we wish to Thp ?Mrn(Ilkriain F ing, Ditto Richards, Some common polli tor has told around Judge Ira B. Johes ' Governor Blease for of Senator Tillman to Judge Jones inforn the state to defeat ? fabrication pure a '?? >" - ?. iSM*.ss ,g Every sentence cf technically known a pathos. He has now tocossum, mendaclum in office-seeker and is and. mendaclom pert lring to enter eternity, beloni* to tt . . . ' York News, be very far ahead of : "1 am too near lha Heavea Fo iny He, even If I had An Oklahoma towi n to do so. I have a "take It back day,' n Iv speaking; bntct success beyond all ex ... |day was designated 1 .s mens rn im utter of borrowed lawn 1 love the state which 1 butter, eggs, dollar ie so long, and In such the spirit of the occi gree; and I want to point where peopl ?.??, their neighbors "111 ople? those who will werft In8plrted to -before it Is too late. Wouldn't it be awl sfore I speak as it were South Carolina hal a ain top, looking down when the can ws who In a few years Co,umbla ReCOr? me to the grave. If At H|fi Q|(1 ^ utterance ought to Governor Blease >le to pause and listen speech Friday that *houl(f. For all essen- stale ?howed It predl r HOoa, a, on. . ho the meeting, a pro: 1914. T 15 potflN 2ypl|\#o cradlcpr^dct^ rSOSl 1 ^ v?hen a coat-cf-ai ^jFj? j me arms in tiic coax inai cc w'il' ^Hirkclspccrcuje may g'vfo us at <3|.V "* ccstorJ you had, but ^Dun!s jV ^3jl what hind of art ancestor you're apt to MTS tie at the end of journeys not at th A It doesn't matter With ho jfl? .your ^ank Account ifdioi E|P y | J THE FIRST NATIONAL BA1 Krai Lancaster, STC. UNITED STATES DEPOSITORY. Our Stock Has Ar e are ready for business. Have your house "MARK GOOD"or no charge* low Heady To Estimate Your > in' I in i1 Or~l!li and pliers ainf%^l ;i ss w ;i r ? 1 W00DWAK1) i asked us who was the reporter that ! Bleuse called a negro. Since others I Gtp YS may have received the same impression from the governor's speech, '.so w ill say that the reported for The lilltants. State is Mr. J .1. Koon, a white man ngists haven't and a good Democrat. The only urses.?Ander- thing coonish about him is his name. ?Fee Dee Democrat. rget. Kitr the Hoys and Girls, is still out on The Giiffney Ledger is for Clinkgood behavior. | scales. It says: "We are for Clinkscales for governor because he comes nearer representing our ideas than >o Not. any other man in the race. Ho wants ation, hecklers every boy and girl edcuated so they ce of power In can have an equal show in the race pnwood Jour- for life, and so do we. Therefore we are for him," For these same reasons The Herald is for Clinkscales Is. and we believe all the men and id order, good women of South Carolina who underructive legisla- ?tnin! ?v>ihoir u?n*n win tlon and abuse support the man who is fighting the J s state.?Cites- (Kittle against ignorance and illite- i racy, which means poverty, and bond, age.?Spartanburg Herald. SSUC. mail who put "Itiioiiing llim a Itaec." ory: and ho is Spartanburg Journal. public life in if reports reaching this city from is made this is- our neighboring congressional diss mannered plat- triet. the fifth, are to be believed. W. terver. K, Stevenson, sometimes known as "Seaboard Hill." is going to he right he Times. in at the final when the vot >s for i authoritative Congress in that district are counted, the candidate* Congressman Kinlev ts putting up a senate in Geor- hard tight for re-election but from ?d body guards reports his opponent seems to have ilgn with them, the lead on him. ch behind the The people of the fifth district candidates are. (seem to realize that the candidacy of I- U? . 4) Answer. % ^ itors?prospec- __ ialn laaue that > u ^rVTTrTTin|/~ I | state?Rlease- t Tj-cZSTm a? Just as well , ) ten. gentlemen, ' J jJW; OO Bible doubts.? I / > hato lawless- | T ~ ~~ 7 ? and ~ ii iiimr vuitfs y v/ i tes who pledge % Ml :S r the laws and H S. v lorenoe rimes. %# PL. BV ^ PnnnlNe? h in the aecordin^ to the time the tin Blouse 'Vriti % .. , iii prohibition lh X at the same time netfotiabl omised to on- J them. Whether you have $;>< Y of deposit. wanVtho blind STATEMENT OK TI n? him??Tho V THE FARMERS BANK i located at Lancaster, S. C., at the ernlciosam." 1V RESOURCES, tical pervarlca- O Loans and DisYorkville that J counts $165.645.43/ was supporting J Overdrafts 1,844.06 the senate. Furniture and Fixis us that this , a Qie aa nd simple, that V tur?8- 2,875.00 rter of Senator Due from Banks ne kinds of lies, ^ and Bankers . . 37,213.98 s. mendaclam % Currency 3,067.00 t ?old 1,047.50 liclosum. This % . _A. le last class i Silver and Other V Minor Coin 497.51 a* Checks and Cash rbld. % Items.. 766 09 1 has Just had t pecUUon.WThe * Totol ?212W.V/ | for the return A STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, ?U^! etc!Tbn8t R f CountJr of islon spread to & Before me came W. H. MlUen, C e who had call- % who, being duly sworn, says thai ars" and "cats" ment Is a true condition of said Lake It back." *Te K??ir rul, Mabel, if 1 8al*J bank; . ... "take It back V Sworn to and subscribed befon ipalgn ends?? A JOHN CI Correct?Attest: W. T. Gregory, ' . . 1 Dlrec rrlcks. The Columbia $ FARMERS BANK & lections for the w. T. GREGORY, President ,oon reporting ^ ? n, nRATV j. ngs. Just after . ' ^ BKATY, Jr., j mlnent citizen n eamonqa people in tnndaiitibgjt oapiitf'' ms meant a lot. ?Rox& iff I >unt. tyour name in i idea cf \he sort of anirage U more WUeU) Io AtenJ i prater "Great revtardj icir ^tartr /tr+r/fafrm, ?w little ucu start ill only .start. a-xr One ' | ^Dollar*' I tOill start it I* - " ^ rived I -1*? wired by un expert, who Plumbing e. ( all 1110 and I will Office Phone 399 '.Mr. Stevenso" affords 'hem an op- * j portunity to cond to Congress a man ~ who would become a leader. Mr. Stevenson could hold his own In any body of men. He has been regarded as one of the leaders in the legislature for years and would soon be regarded as such In Congress. The Gaffney Ledger in its issue of yesterday discussing the race in the fifth district. In which district Gaff- ... iney is located, said: "If the fifth district shows Its wisdom and sends Stevenson to Con Kress it will not bo long until this country will realize that the fifth district is on the map.'* The Chester Reporter says: "We can't forecast the vote of the fifth district in the pending race for Congress, but we do feel free to state very frankly that the tier of counties that constitute the fifth district are going to lose the opportunity of sending a marvellously able man to Washington as their representative if they fai lto elect W. F. Stevenson of Cheraw. A clear and logical thinker, a speaker of great force and lo(|iience. and a consumate worker. Mr. Stevenson has nil of the elements that go to make a statesman, and as we have just said the pcoplo of the fifth district ??re going to let an opportunitN slip ny tf they fail to ,.st a majority for the Cheraw candidate." .. The result of this election will bo awaited with interest all over the !state for Mr. Stevenson in Congress ; would reflect credit not only upon |the fifth district but upon the whole j state. % ?? ^ j? If You Have | M Money f m X '1 _l J ^ awaiting investment ?>++ there's no need to let y it lie idle. Exchange ^ it for one of our cer- if tincates of deposit, which hear interest nhv is left with us and are e. our cashier about > or >%.()(K), buv a certificate 1 ) T IK CONDITION OK & TmJST COMPANY, V clo^ff of business June 30, 1914. ^ / LIABILITIES. V rCaptal Stock Paid in $50,000.00 I Surplus Fund.. .. 1,500.00 ?f Undivided Profits. less Current Ex- JL pensee and Taxes paid 8,261.01 A Individual Deposits JL Subject to Check 64,668.71 V Time Certificates of A Deposit 33,806.34 JL Cashier's Checks... 41.61 Bills payable, in- A eluding Certlcatee for Money Borrowed 66,000.00 A Total >212,966 67 jC lashler of the above named bank, TT >, the above and foregoing state- T bank, as shown by the books of A W. H. MILLEN. A s me this 6th day of July, 1914. A tAWPORD, Notary Public. A W. P. Robinson, W. P. Bennett, jT tors. TRUST COMPANY? W. H. MIIiliBN. Cashier. A %ssistant Cashier. >