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Established 1844. xn The Press and Banner p: Abbeville, S. C. J ? ir The Press and Banner Company t< Published Tri-Weekly n Monday, Wednesday and Friday. tl Telephone No. 10. p ti ? 1 Entered as second-class matter at ? post office in Abbeville, S. C. Term* of Subscription: A One year $2.00 Six months 1.00 J* Three months .50 11 I v a Friday, April 23, 1920. ^ ?? a REQUIREMENTS FOR VOTING c S i McCormick County will not have P money with which to finish the work | tl on the roads in that county, not for o a little while at least. It is true p that an election was held in that g w county some few days ago, and that a majority of the voters were in fav-j or of issuing bonds for this pur-| ^ pose, but the election is likely to be ^ C( declared illegal. It seems that the w managers of the election failed to re-( o'quire the electors offering to vote k to produce their registration certl-1 c4 ficates, with proof of the payment of all taxes, as required by law. } And this reminds us that, where- ^ as we try to conform in a general ^ way to the legal requirements, and j01 people up this way do not pay so (111 much attention to the legal intrica- ai cies about voting, that it is well that & people should do so. Most of these si requirements were made a part of H the law to keep certain classes of tfr voters from going to the polls and ei carrying the elections. There is not ??( much danger now that these voters . will disturb matters, and, therefore, the people grow careless about the legal requirements,* and are ^.clined ^ to pay little attention to these re-'al quirements. But it is by the failure to observe the law that roads are w opened for fraudulent voting. Be- e< cause we have not had it in the past w is no reason whv we shall not have u -- - " - 11 it in the future. 1 ri Of the wisdom of some of the re- n quirements of the present law there may be ground for dispute, but that there should be sjctme safeguards thrown around the ' billot box most ^ men will agree. These safegurads should be reasonable and when, made should be carefully enforced, b If it be. nothing except the produc- c ton of a tax receipt t showing the j, payment of taxes at the proper t!m?, 0 the law should be observed. I s THE GEORGIA PRIMARY. If I k Georgia held a presidential pref- t< erence primary Tuesday. Hoke c Smith, who had' supported most of u the reservations to the League of w Nations covenant, ran, asking for a c vindication of his position. Attorney Q General Palmer was the candidate of the Wilson administration, being for the League, "without the dotting ^ ?? '! '/" +Viq <<r/iuin(7 -of n *t.' AS the saying is. Tom Watson was op- a' posed to the whole League idea. I S The result of the election was that e: Palmer secured a few more votes in S the convention to be held in May x than Watson, while Watson . has a plurality of the popular vote. Hoke Smith received almost one third of the popular vote and only a score less convention votes than Watson, who is within twelve votes of Pal- ei mer in the convention. C( The Georgia papers are drawing rt all manner of conclusions from the e< result. The wish is father to the d< thought in roost cases. Some of the papers, the papers which supported Palmer, say that having received a n) plurality of the votes in the conven- ^ tion, the Palmer people will be en- ^ titled to name the delegation to the National Convention, or at least r( that administration delegates will be w sent. On the other hand the Watson and Smith people claim that the com- rc bined vote of the two shows that the people of Georgia are opposed to' the idea of a League ?4 Nations as a, V?v WilcAn ' ~ WU WUWVM ...VJ A 1 wOlUviiV Tl liOViti y | We doubt whether \his issue, bii -kj much to <^'wittjkQXesiilt^l>wJlil^ election. The supporters of Palmer ^ were in fact the enemies o?^ IJq|ke Smith. Had Smitll ibteeX f or\th^ Lea!- * gue of Nations without reservations the newspapers which oppose him ^ would have been the other way. The tl vote which Smith received was of his st political followers largely, and was y< -n.. j v.. v;? ...i.. 4.1. ? c uiiiuxiuciivcu vy iixo vuica in tuc ocii- h ate. Watson would likely have re- p( ceived the same number of votes and Q) carried the same counties had he made the race on any; other issue. His following in Georgia is peculiar- _ ly a personal following. If, however, the League of Na- ir tions had anything to do with the ^ result there is one conclusion which tc ay be drawn from the Georgia rimary, and that is that the demo_ rats of the country are hopelesly diided?that one man government i the United States has not helped > hold democrats together, and that hatever may be the result of the ational convention, the nominees of le party will not have the solid sup_ ort of the democrats of the coun. ry. r ?NE MAN KILLED WHEN BOAT SWEPT OVER DAM inderson Daily Mail. Mr. W. L. Conwell, aged 40, was illed this morning when a flat boat i which he and Mr. E. C. Partain .'ere riding, was swept over the dam t Gregg Shoals. Mr. Partain escaped eath by nothing less than a nuracie nd when the Daily Mail got into ommunication with the Gregg hoals plant, Mr. Partain was comaratively safe, being perched upon tie top of a small rock in the middle f the riverj the attendants at the ower station making vain efforts to et a rope to him. The accident was a terrible one, le boat being wrenched from the Dntrol of the two men while they ere crossing the pond, and swept yer the dam into a maelstrom beiw| The fact that Mr. Partain esiped death is miraculous. grossed to Vote The men, both of whom were emloyed by the power company had ossed the river, Mr. Conwell crossig to vote in the preferential primry election held yesterday in Georia. Mr. Conwfell lived on the Georgia de of the river and was a bachelor, e was 40 years old and had been in le employ of the company for sev/ :al years. He was employed as an >utside" man at the Gregg Shoals ation. The two spent the night on the eorjria side at Mr. Conwell's home tid were coming back to work this lorning shortly before seven o'clock hen the boat was sunk. They crossi the river yesterday afternoon hen the water was normal, but eavy rains during the night caused a se of some 3 1-2 feet during the ight and it was this #high wfeter, oupled with the swift current which aused them to lose control Of the oat. Was Fifkt F?r Life Shortly after leaving the Georgia ank of the river, the boat was aught in the current of the river and l a few, seconds was beyond control f the men. With paddles and long weeps, they fought deperately gainst the swift current, fighting to eep their boat from coming closer o the over-flow of the dam. The men ontinued to fight against the current ntil their boat was almost at the dam 'hen it was caught by the suction aused by the overflow and swept ver the top of the dam with lighting-like speed. A Real Maelstrom Below the dam, the water dashes m?inc+ tVio rnolri wVnWi form Grecc ,v ^ hoals. These rocks are great bouldrs typical rapids or shoals of the avannah river in the up country, he dam itself is only about eight to ;n feet high and ordinarily the wa>r does not cover the rocks. The igh water, however, sweeping over le dam created a piece of treach:ous stream in which no man could >pe with such 'current and the great >cks, with their ragged points and iges made the river even a greater jath trap. Body Never Seen After the boat went over the dam, jthing was ever seen of the body of r. Conwell. It was probably swept >wn stream with the \y$iter and the :mains of the flat boat. Mr. Conwell as most likely not downed, but wias lied by being daiWted against the >cks. A Miraculous Escape Mr Partain is a middle aged man iff marfifed and "fives on the outh Carolina side of the river. .-How I ^scape^ flat/flp^W s"plunge will probably never be nown, for he doubtless had no time_ > t^ink (jflfwha^'wa^ .iappenin^ -is ie bat rushed over the edge of the am. He was found by employees at ie plant sitting on a rock out in the ream. He could speak and the men slled at him, asking him was he hurt. e replied that he was not, but his osition in the river is very dangerJS. Ropes are being floated down the ver in an attempt to get one to is rock, but at 10 o'clock this mornig that had not -been accomplished. Whether he can make his way back > the shore with the aid of a rope in 'the high water is not at all assured. Still u Rock , According to the latest reports froir the river at Gregg Shoals, Mr. Partain was still on the rock in the riv. er. This report was received al noon today and stated that while th( | work of rescue was still going on that Mr. Partain was still on the rocl at 11 o'clock this morning. THE WANT OF A HANDLE " One of the Greek high financier of Greenwood had ordered a peanu roaster, in order to roast enoug peanuts to keep the Greenwood pea nut-crackers going ^a day at a tiim On account of the loss of the handl he Was riot able to turn the roastei The following is a letter which h wrote the sellers, sending it to stenographer to be copied: Kase-McCormac Co.; Asheville, N. C., i git peenut roster whitch i b; from your man, but why god's sak you sent me no handel. you make m loss all my customer, what use ros ter when she have no handel. you man lie to me. he no treat me rite i rote ten day and my customer h< holler like hell for peenut. she go no handel so what hell i gona do with him. Doan send handel purty quid i send he back and by roster fron Myers Company. Yours truly, * * P. S. Send me 5 bu. bannay and baj peenut. sins i rite i fine g d han del in box. skuse me please. CONFEDERATE SONS NOTE EXCEPTIONS Atlanta, April 21.?in a statemeni issued here today N. B. Forrest, com mander in chief of the Sons of Con federate Veterans criticised receni utterances of Premier Lloyd Georg< of Great Britain in connection wit) the Irish question in which Lloyt George compared the Irish republit to the Southern Confederacy anc Eamon De Valera, now touring th< South, to Jefferson Davis. ; Resolutions condemning the re msrks of Lloyd George were adopte< at & meeting of the executive officer of" the Sons of Confederate Veteran in Washington last week, accordini to Mr. Forrest, who said: "In comparing the Irish republi to the Southern Confederacy and D Valer^ to Jefferson Davis, Lloy< George has offered, unconsciousl; perhaps, a gratuitous insult to th Southern states in the America: union and to the splendid sons of th Southern Confederacy who fough and distinguished themselves on th fields of France in the world war. I is remarkable that the statesman hod ing the high office of premier o Great .Britain would be so ignoran of the political history of Amerca. "Ireland has not the status of ai independant state as- was the casi with the American colonies. Irelan< has .not been a self determining re public. De Valera, without discredit ing his tatus, is not the electetd pres ident of a confederation of states called as was Jefferson Davis, to th< high office. There is no parallel ii which the status of the socalled re public of Ireland and that of it! president correspond to the Sou thern Confederacy and its chief exe cutive." gj !SEJS0EI5fSfSI3ISfSJSMaMSJEIS?SJSJ5[B I CANDIDATES COLUMN | All announcements in the can<li< dates column are published for cast ia advance. CANDIDATE FOR SHERIFF I hereby announce myself a candiate for Sheriff of Abbeville Courtj n the Democratic Primary, and J ledge myself to be governed by the ules aitf to abide the resub' of the irimarftj ' '* >."?? * l| J. N. BLUiM. f ^ j|j| CLERK ' ' - : I We ae authorized to announce R :B. 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