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JL- Vttl The Pressand Banner. ! ABBEVILLE, S. C. ???????????? Published Every Wednesday Dy The Press and Banner Co. WM. P. GREENE, Editor. WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1916. V THE STATE! CIRCUIT. 1 r'-- i iv In a majority of the county con- 1 ,y ventions of the democratic party, i which expressed themselves on the subject, the vote was against discon- ' ? tinuing the county-to-county farce, 1 and it is likely that the state conven tion in Columbia next week will favor 1 a continuance of it, though some regulations may be proposed to cure some ot its ills. It takes a long time for the people / who manipulate the politics of a I party to learn, and they are loath to 1 make changes even though they seem 1 desirable. But they will learn in the 1 long run that these joint meetings ! have served their day, and it is a ^ matter of time until they go. It 1 will be a waste of time to undertake to regulate an institution which can- ' not be regulated. It would be a 1 ' hardship on a bona fide candidate for a state office to require him to file a ' petition with five thousand names ( endorsing his candidacy, and one who } was not a bona fide candidate could 1 as easily secure the endorsement as ' one who was. We cannot conceive ' how it will be determined who are 1 in fact the bona fide candidates for 1 an office, except by asking them, and * in every case the result will be the 1 same. ( '. , Neither can rules of debate be 1 ?L?v ?1,1 fViA conduct ^ y maae wmcii wau n.guiu?. ? of candidates and keep down the personal tilts, and the mud-slinging and personal abuse which always go along with these debates. Any effort to discipline a candidate will be met with the claim that an attempt is being made to suppress free speech, and instead of marring the chances of such a candidate, his chances of election will be thereby increased. The judges of what is personal abuse and what is legitimate argument will be partisans of the one side or the other, and their decrees will, therefore, amount to nothing. If the circus is to bept up we had ' as well have a wide open show, and 1 let the people become disgusted with j it, as they surely will be before many 1 more are inflicted on the state. ( The claims that these joint debates are educational institutions, how- 1 ever, have met a flat denial in the * request of the recent convention of state warehousemen, that \Hon. John * * L. McLaurin, who has announced as a candidate for Lieutenant Governor 1 on the warehouse Dlatform, be given one hour in which to discuss the plans and purposes of this institution. Mr. ^ McLaurin announces that he once ? cared nothing for the office, and in 1 reality does not desire election, but ] he wishes to get the matter before 1 the people of the state, and thereby ' * further the movement Heretofore, candidates for this of- ( fice have been given about ten min- 1 utes to present their claims for the r*Q fnr fJAVAf- ( VUiVVl A UV VHUW4MMWV *V* wnor have been given usually about twenty to thirty minutes. If it takes one hour for Mr. McLaurin to discuss the warehouse system intelligently, as it will, it becomes evident that he does not believe that a meeting which allows a candidate a much shorter time is educational in its get up. And the request that the warehousemen in convention have made, but emphasizes the point which we have been making heretofore, that 1 no man can properly discuss the is- < sues in an important matter in the time allotted, and for that reason every candidate should be allowed to make his own canvass and address the voters according to his own wishes, and njake known his views on the issues which he wishes to discuss The people should be fully informed on the warehouse movement. They are entitled to a full and fair discussion of its merits and demerits. But they will not be informed unless time is given to its advocates, and those opposed to it, to discuss it intelligently. A meeting in each congressional district, or a few speeches delivered in the state by Mr. McLaurin, favoring the system and an equal number delivered by the opponents of the measure would give the people the arguments for and against the system. But a campaign in which a candidate is given twenty minutes will have the effect of entirely cuttine off intelligent discussion on this and every other issue in which the people may be interested, or what they might wish discussed. In the races for President of the United States, a speech of acceptance from the one nominee of one of the great parties is usually deemed sufficient to get his views before the people of the country. If it is not deemed sufficient, a few speeches on different subjects serve to advertise 1 the views of the candidate. And so it might be in this state. The people of the state should be more interested in the matters advocated by the candidates and less interested in the candiadtes themselves and they would be except for the mud-slinging campaigns of every two years. But we will never make progress if we are to legislate in the councils ] of the party for this or the other man, nor will we if the convention , * ? ? Morniini, nr a Rlpnap. or a i lb tu uc a uiotiutu5 v* ? 7 ? ? Cooper convention. The delegates to the state convention should know nothing about candidates. But they should legislate for a discontinuance of present methods of debate between candidates, and to promote the intelligent discussion of all real issues.. KERR FOR COLONEL. We are supporting Mr. Cooper for governor in the race this summer, J and if he is elected we expect to pre- , 3ent Col. Kerr, of Greenville street, ( is a candidate for Colonel on his < staff. We shall exact no promises in 1 advance as we fully believe that an , inspection of our candidate will con- , irince a man of Mr. Cooper's dis- 1 :ernment that he would fill a colo- 1 nel's uniform to full capacity. Another point is his favor is that . >ur neighbor already has a fine sad- ' ile horse, named Sebastian Cabot. < Lately he has been driving him to his 1 nstallment furniture wagon* but ( Sebastian is no wagon-horse, as resi- \ ients of Greenville street can testify, 1 laving seen him under the saddle in i ;he early spring with our candidate 1 ioing the riding. Joe Wheeler never , rode a horse with more pomp and ] eremony than his Abbeville kinsman, j knd then if theJLatter should fall off, le would hit the ground "soft," and ] lot break anything. He is also < ictive in a fall and always manages < jo light on his side. Being a friend of the poor man he vould be a great drawing card in a \ ace for re-election, if Cooper should i *un again, and should it be necessary 1 jo take a trip off, he would ornament j lis position and uniform as few men , n like position could. 1 WHY YOUR STAND? ; 1 We are invited by our esteemed 1 tellow-sufferer, the editor of the 1 Spartanburg Journal to tell him just , vhy we are not supporting Governor , Manning for re-election, in which nvitation is the statement that when me refueses to support a candidate j for this office for a second term "he 1 isually has some good reason there- 1 tor." j We have no objection to telling the 1 jood brother our reasons, or some of 1 ;hem, which we deem sufficient for ! :he present, for not supporting the j Sovernor in his race for re-election. ( First. We have been advised by < ;he daily press of the state that one 1 should always support the best man j unning for an office. We believe ( ;hat R. A. Cooper, of Laurens, S. C., 1 s the best man offering for the office >f governor in this race, and so be- ^ ieving, we should not allow the se- j :ond term argument to supplant such t neritorious and sound advice. Second. We learned through the iaily press as far back as 1912 that ihere was nothing in the'second term j argument, and that if a man in office lad nothing to fall back on but that, 1 ie should be defeated, and a better < nan put in the office. And when we \ lear a man talking about the second j term we always feel like he is want- ] ing in real argument in favor of the '< election of his candidate. 1 And having fully answered, we would like to ask the good brother j whether he is supporting the gover- 1 nor for re-election, and if so, "Why i your stand?" 1 I POINTED PARAGRAPHS. I ] Wise infants look before they creep, i Most people who say but little talk ] too mucn. Ambition is the thing that boosts i a man up the ladder. Men who think they know it all 1 are never able to prove it. Everything comes to the man who ' advertises while he is waiting. Some men are born liars, and the rest speak the truth occasionally. It's the bill for a woman's stun- : ning gown that shocks her husband. How a pretty woman does love to 1 walk down the street with a homely one! When a man quarrels with his wife he seldom gets a chance to say any- | thing. ? 1 11 - X Xl T_ i i. isn't it a sname xnat uie mgnest praise a man ever gets comes out at his funeral? 1 When a man tells another that he 1 understands women he is then classed as an easy mark. Of course you are entitled to think what you please, but it isn't always safe to inflict your thoughts on others. After a man has posed as a cynic for a few years he begins to think too little of his neighbors and too miirh of himself. A CAREFUL LIAR. "Is he a truthful man?" "With one exception he is." "What's the exception?" "I have never know him to tell an untruth except about himself." ?i ' Mexican Bandits Raid Texas Town (Continued from Page One.) Mexican bandits forded the Rio ^ Grande at Boqufllas and swept into j the little settlement. shouting: ] "Death to the gringocs." The ban- ] dits looted the store _of J. Weemer I j and set it on fire. Deemer ana a i clerk named Compton were seized and bound. The bandits packed their loot on their horses and after setting one or two small frame houses ablaze galloped way northward. Heading towards Marathon, Texas, the bandits in their night ride came upon Glenn Springs, where a small detachment of nine cavalrymen under command of Sergeant Smith, of troop A, fourteenth cavalry, was stationed. Bandits Appear Suddenly. I The Mejricans appeared suddenly an the top of a hill beneath which Glenn Springs nestles. Noting their numbers, Private Birck on outpost duty emptied his revolver to rouse the zamp and then dashed back to the tent Sergeant Smyth, and Private Croskem jumped to the fly of the tent. Observing numbers of Mexicans &t hand, then ran to an adobe house where the six other cavalrymen were preparing to make their defense. The door of the house, which had jnly one window was barred and Serjeant Smyth seeing that his men were outnumbered ten to one gave ?j?? ohnnf norpfnllv and not jrucio WVf OI.WV ? waste the ammunition. 1 "We are up against it cold," said ] Smyth "but we will show them some- I thing. Let the Mexicans shoot their | Heads off and run out of ammunition s and may be by morning we will be i in a position to give them a run." j On the dash from their tent, Smith ? and Croskem had lost their revolvers, laving been forced to retreat to the \ adobe house half clothed because of 1 the rapid approach of the Mexicans. * The bandits poured a constant fusiiade of shots at the window and floor )f the adobe house. Not an Ameri:an cavalryman fell in the exchanges. Mexican* Killed. The little band took turns shoot- 1 ing from the window. Blood stains in the dry ground around the house was the only evidence that the baniits suffered in the attack, but Serjeant Smyth knew the bandits would retreat once they became good targets in the light of dawn. The Mexicans fought in skirmish formation. That was proof to Smyth's jyes that he was dealing with a military body. The attackers' horses were tethered some distance to< the rear and the brigands maintained their attack oh three sides of the house from which there was no escape except the door and the single window. Set House On Fire. ? Unable to rout the Americans from their mud-walled fort, the leader of f" the Mexican band gave orders to throw fire balls on the roof, which was thatched partly with tin and partly with candalaria weed. Flaring^ torches made of torn cloth ahd weeds were dropped upon the roof, which started to burn. There was no water :n the house to^heck the flames and the heat in the house became intense and the faces and backs of the soliiers still firing spiritedly through the window became blistered. "I can't stand it any longer," cried Private William Cohen. "I'll take anjther shot and then try to make it through the window." Cohen leaped into the window fVnmp tn make his dash for the open. \ bullet split his skull and he fell sack dead into the house. Outside the /oice of a Mexican was heard to say: 'Line up on each side of the door. They must come out." Make Dash. Smyth told his men that the time lad come to make a dash. The heat h*d burnt the tops of ;heir heads. Private Stephen J. Colsock stepped forward to the door and smashed the boards with his gunstock. The gun broke but the door jave way and Colcock dashed out. His ntoo -frmnH npvf morninc not far I ? 0 away, riddled with many bullets. He I probably ran into the main band of I Mexicans. I Smyth, leading the other cavalrymen, turned to the left and made for the corra, the Mexicans firing at them as they fled. The body of Private Lawrence K. Rogers was found not far from the burned house, but Tyree could not be accounted for when Smyth and his men, who reached the hills in safety, investigated next morning.. Tyree may have been made prisoner,'but if so the soldiers here think he has probably been killed by now. After the attack on the American troops the bandits rushed to the wax factory and destroyed it. Several houses were ransacked and burned. When morning came the American troopers crept back to the settlement and saw the main body of some 50 Mexican packing their loot upon their horses and on the nine American cavalry mounts which they had captured. Then the bandits turned towards the Rio Grande and started for Boquillas. Here, the brigands carried Deemer and Compton across the river and it is reported tonight that their throats had been cut. The Mexicans carried their dead and wounded away. tLia fact: Stylep] world at war. Si moderate price o 1 The tig flc a ThU u the only to our ] Styleplus Store ****? in town! s% Sty) Sty) PARKE I Store New I SOME SPEC IJ New Shirt Wa I Parasols. I Fans from 15( I White, Black a I Boys Hats, Cl< I . Just a few Coa I tra Special price: || We get new H; I you see ours. 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