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v The Press and Banaer Co. Telephone No. 10. Entered as secopd-class mail matter at post office m Abbeville, S. C. . .. Term* of Subscription: One year $1.50 Six months .75 Three months .60 Payable invariably in advance. 1 \ All checks, money orders, drafts, etc., should be drawn in favor of The Press and Banner Co. r t j , Obituaries, cards of thanks, and other announcements of a purely personal character will be charged for. Wednesday, July 5, 1916. ' S ' . TO THE STATE. . The Press and Banner is always glad to liave its conclusions reviewed by those who are willing to concede to it a purpose to serve the best in.. terests of the state. That others do not agree with us, is no reason why we do not respect their judgment, as we expect them to do :* ours, even when disagreeing. The State believes that the reasons assigned by us for opiwsing the re-election of Governor Manning are "allegations indefinite, vague , and illusory." Perhaps so.' But wben the Columbia.State undertakes to tell us why. the Governor should be re-elected, "We find nothing, op which the black ink of emph^is ii placed except the ' second term argument. iff the State admits the right of Mr^'Ca$p$r to offer for governor at this time,'and the fight, if' not, the propriety, of Mr. Blease to offer for a third iermj thenitshould admit that^the sole question before ue voters of /this state JsCtfa to the best man for the office'* That a man must msfte atdpg'iafid .expensive campa$nij i$T, tW office of. governor is; nothing jof, which Governor Manning has..any right to complain. ,He has not'idvocated, as we have, the adoption i>f' sdme other system of nominating^ officers which wOuld do ' away nnfK ilia an^ nvnanaa A# AO?M TTA.WM. yuv ?VU5?U aiiu vAyvuot VA VftUI" paigns. Conceding ih? right of all candidates n<^r running io offer for the office, the sole consideration for the voters as before stated, would appear to be the fitness' in point . of character, training . and patriotism, of the respective candidates, and the selection of the one who will best serve the interests 0& the state, the one most representative of all the people of the state, .the one most respectful of the rights of every person in the state, the one farthest removed from factionalism, the one most likely to heal the breaches of the past, to get the people vtogether, so that they ;may, enter upon a constructive era, the one most representative of a democracy. ' We presume that the State and the Press and Banner may meet on common ground in thus stating the case. Our respective solutions may not be the same. The one may be wrong and the other, therefore, right. But we assert that when the second term argument is brought in ?.t ,n >uo uiovuxuuii, we {jet away irom 'T- the real question. We get away from an argument as to principles and get back to individuals. Governor Manning should hot allow his friends to seek his re-election on this ground. He should demand that the people vote for him solely on his nerits or not at all: _ We must get Sway from personal considerations, if a better man is in the race. And we assert, that in this emergency there is a better man in the race. He may Ife as mucn the representative of what the State terms "good government" as is Governor Manning. We believe that he is. But he is not the representative of a faction. He has never waved the factional banner. The State wrill not deny that Mr. Blease is the representative of an extreme element in cne faction. Will it deny that the re-clection of Governor Manning would be taken as the triumph of the extreme element of another faction? Will the State deny that the reelection of Governor Manning will mean a continuance of Bleaseism 1 J* Til * ? TYTM1 'i. A. M ana anii-Dieaseism: win it no* ian afresh the flame of factional strife in South Carolina? Will the State not admit that the election of Mr. Cooper will be a rebuke to factionalism? Will the State not admit that if he is elected Governor he will be the representative of no .{-*** '?? in the State, byt the representative of people who are tired * of factional politics in the state, and wnu afB roau/ iaj * fre? froUv"tK0'-'bittfitfaa of^fbrmer ] v. t" t- ' :* ,. .. \ . ''v"'s ' V * / EN8OWDEM0C --van ?as ,eqow<?; a.w ,,u tu&s, it-i^neOeSatfpy that every Jtwill-be worth nothing fat tii In order to enroll it is ne of the State for two years, of for six months, and of the to? sixty days. Enroll today. The books c primary. Do not wait. . ' political differences? If so, why may we not support him? If the State believes that the fight is one between good government and misgovemment, surely the State, more so this year than two years ago, should seek the most available candidate. If the situation .two years ago was so much fraught with danger that the State believed it to be the duty of that paper to accept "the most available candidate" representing "the better aims of government" and the state is still of the same opinion with regard to the cause espoused by Mr. Richards, it should egain name Mr. Cooper as its . first choice. If Richards was the representative of misgovemment surely his chief Mr. Blease is more so. If it was necessary in 1914, in the opinion of the State, to beat Mr. Richards, it must be necessary to beat Mr. Blease this year. We do not think there is any danger of a second race between Manning and Blease, but Blease will be in the second race unless all signs: ;faiL We have become convinced of this since the campaign began 1 We did not think & ,before. If Blease is in the secondracewith Cooper,-he will be defend.'- If he is in a second race with Manning, the State hath as well get ready; for. two more years of Bleaae^as governor. The people in the 1723^ sections of the Piedmont, as .the t slightest investigation will prove, will not accept Manning unless there is a big change of- heart, which there will not be. . They are now. almost solidly for Cooper. Those who believe, that the election of Mr. . Blease would mean two more yean of calamity to the State should vote to avoid it,. To. the Press and Banner. , The Abbeville Press and Banner,, a self-respecting and highly respectable newspaper, opposes the re-election of Governor Manning for a SECOND term, but his opposition, is grounded-on allegations indefinite, vague and illusory. Nothing that The Press and Banner, says of the Governor touches hid integrity, his honesty, or hiB patriotism. It is without sympathy with the wild and silly charges designed to arouse the passions of the ignorant against him so that their votes shall be gained for vicious government. ' Familiar as The State is with The Press and1 Banner, it would risk the assertion that that newspaper would with pleasure: say that Governor Manning is a man of worth, sincere, honorable, democratic, resolute to do his duty in public and private station. In a word, The Press and Banner is enthusiastically pro-Cooper rather than anti-Manning. In its regard for Mr. Cooper The State shares and The State has lost none of the confidence in him that caused it when availability of candidates representing the better aims of government was the main question, to point to Mr. Cooper as first choice in 1914. The State DOES NOT SHARE in sympathy with any suggestion that Mr. Cooper is guilty of impropriety or unfaithfulness in entering ' the present contest. The law makes the term of governor two years. No man has a RIGHT to a second term? much the less of a third. Since. 1876 unbroken custom of the people of South Carolina has given to every elected governor a second term. Is it not fair to assume that the custom is rooted in the wisdom of the people? The people have a way of getting at truths that the politicians . don't' tell them. Before 1861 governors were not usually re' * * x*. J i.L elected, DUl in woae any a uie guvw norship was not what it is now. The legislatures elected the governors. After election they were not even required to'live in Columbia. Their duties, relatively, were small. Now a governor, before Section, must make a long campaign $nd his campaign for a second term must begin after he has served about one year ?half his first term. Does The Press and Banner regard Mr Manning a vicious, bad, rascally; and dangerous governor? -We are i 3ure that it does not. . - * <. Is not even The Press and Banner j willing to concede that, on the whole, he measures as an executive to Tillman, Evans, Ellerbe, McSwecney, Ansel and Hey ward? *., Does not The Press and Banner know that the cost of the State government of South Carolina is very low as compared with that of the average of the other 47 American States and that, therefore,- the cry of extravagance is hollow and hypocritical? The Press and Banner does not [ want a governor who will unlock the doors of jails and penitentiaries. It does not want a governor who uses I the veto power with such freedom and recklessness as to threaten the legislative branch of the government. Nor does it want a governor who is unable to live without friction and collision with the supreme court. The Press and Banner would have for South Carolina about the same kind of governor that The State wojpldhave. We do not think that it wsxjjt Advocate as "a principle thai V \ . SfliJiwv r- ' cmffliH .8 .1 . ? j K' i|U| s-oi^O .?M & >{* | a ^3 -1? ml.>A i ?' ? ^ ^iWF?f-'EJ?OiSE.&v"'a >; "T2HT Tjvrt?. ty&ioaO lewnsD TL^IM x&rv?,- n;-.' 9! bpj^g^kenroUnagBim .nSfikej Siofflyiftr that ftdtmtifMfcfr lis year *s*eTectioiill cessary that you be a resident the county in which you enroll wis hip in which you enroll for lose thirty days before the first no governor should serve more *h?" one term. It will hardly dispute that the Manning administration nas been marked by constructive progress. What is substantial in The Press and Banner's contentions? The margin between government and misgovernment in South Carolina is protected by too small a nam* ber of voters for informed and intelligent men to indulge in acrimonious controversy. The State believes that when a man of Robert Cooper's character enters public life he serves the State and it believes that it could not assail him without striking, a blow at the cause of good government. For exactly the same reason, it will not deny Buppprt, for a second term, to Richard -Manning. It will not ask that the people choose him for the first elected governor in 40 years to be rebuked at the polls. We strongly believe that the jut claims of Mr. Manning to a second term will, before the campaign cads, . so impress the p?opl* of South Caro linn that they will in the FIRST PRIMARY re-elect him. Their common sense will assert iiself. What do they care about the ambitions of politicians and their petty differences? ; > The State believes that equally with itself The Press and Banner has at heart the highest interests of South Carolina, that is why we ad-dress this article to it, but unless Richard I. Manning is a bad man, unscrupulous and dangerous to good government, or a- foolish, emptyminded weakling, The State is right in this contention and The Press and Banner, is wrong?and we well know that our contemporary is not ashamed of Governor Manning or fearful that the commonwealth will be rtfn on the rocks while he is at the h6lm. ?The State. *" \ ' ... ' SAVE THE TREES. The grove of maples in the rear of the Court House is one of the prettiest to be found anywhere. The rear yard of the Court House could be made as attractive as it is in front if grass was sown on fche laws/ and the trees cared for. As it is now, the space is used as a hitching lot for anyone who desires to hitch there. The Supervisor should not allow the grounds to be thus used. He ( should take steps to make the yard attractive and to keep the trees in ^ growing condition. Most of all he should fee that they are not destroyed by being bitten /by horses and mules. We hope the matter will have attention. I : * V. r 'wt t ttp i*niri*ru ft 1 E.LL UJ A nL A IVv A ? Will the esteemed Spartanburg Journal tell us whether it believes a friend of Mr. Cooper or a would-be friend of Governor Manning started the report that Blease would withdraw from the race, if indeed it believes that any such report has been started. If it does not believe that a friend of Mr. Cooper started the report it should not so insinuate. We suggest to the Journal that the report was possibly started by the party who is following the campaign distributing the Manning circulars, published ostensibly in the office of the Edgefield Chronicle, a Manning supporter, in which a pretended friend of Mr. Cooper (in 1918?always remember that) tells us of a line up to beat Manning. THOUGHTS ON THE SITUATION. Everything is running sweet. The people have a way of getting at truths that the politicians don't tell them.?The State. We have an abiding faith that August 29th will prove it. The party which nominated Judge Parker for president some years ago has every reason to believe that it is a great mistake to get a candidate from the bench. The negroes who attended the county-to-county circus in Laurens Friday, and who prepared the feast of mullet fish with watermelon for dessert had evidently fed a Laurens crowd before. If all the friends of Governor Manning want to vote fdr Cooper in 1918 as the Edgefield circular intimates, we want to know what will become of Dr. Clinkscales? When will the Manning men consent to al1at? liim fn Mini Will hio Croon. ivr TT UUU WV i Ull V(?M V4*vv*?- I wood friends please answer? In truth, brethren, what is the good of acknowledging the right of a candidate to run for office and in decrying "acrimonious controversy," and then saying that the people "care nothing for the ambitions of politicians and their petty differences?" To S: J. 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