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Established 1844. THE PRESS AND BANNER ABBEVILLE,VS. C. The Press and Banner Company Published Tri-Weekly Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Telephone No. 10. Entered as second-class matter at post office in Abbeville, S. C. Terms of Subscription: One year $2.001 ^ Six months 1.001 i Three months .50 j i MONDAY, JUNE 21,192 0!>$ ARE YOU ENROLLED? , } Our attention is called to the factj that a good many people who want to j vcte in the democratic primaries are ( enrolling in districts other than their', own. They are making a mistake as no one can be allowed to vote in any . district except the one in which he j resides. The law is plain on this. Even though a person is enrolled in , the wrong district he is stiii not en- . t.tled to vote there, and should he be , cllnwpH to vote in the wrone district j ^ he could only do so by swearing that ; he is entitled to vote there, which be- : r irsg untrue, would make him liable to j inditment for perjury. There are some hardships in all : lews, and there are some reasons why , people sometimes find it inconvenient 1 to abide by the spirit of the law, but ( all these restrictions are Tor the j common good. The represeniatives j of the democratic party have found ] them necessary in order to preserve , the primary, and all of us should be j willing to suffffer the necessary in- j conveniences in order to see that the j elections are fairly and properly con- , ducted. ' !, We,'therefore, advise those people j who have registered in the wrong \ districts to correct the mtstaite made \ i>y registering in their own districts j and by having their names erased ] from the rolls of the other districts, j The matter should be attended to at j once. ) The enrollment eommittees in the , several districts should at the same i time take note of the law to the end < i that no ^person 4>e allowed to enroll < 'j his flame in a district where, he does j not reside, and where he is not en- < f i , 1 1 titled to vote. These committees, we i know, have no desire to violate the ^ primary election laws, but if. they t ' should allow a voter to enroll in a j district where he should not be en- > rolled they will not only violate the t law but they jeopardize the rigbt of , the voter to cast his ballot on elec- c I ,4 tion day, as he cannot legally be al- f * ^ 1 J ? lowed to voie in me wrong uu*, auu s if he actually votes there his vote e may he challenged and thrown out, v r the election may be declared so irregular as to make another race l; necessary, should the votes for can- v didates for a particular office be s close. j n There is nothing better to do than t to obey the law. That is the oniy safe p course in anfthing. n , ^ ' SPEAKING OF PANEGYRICS p \ y ?? . "Of the thousands of panegyrics written about Wilson" said an Abbe\ e ville man yesterday, "here's one in the New Orleans paper that flows like a river of light on to a great effulgence that j,t is not given to man y to define." This is it. j? "^'To the Editor of the Times-Pica- 1 I y yun*: ! "From the quiver of the cruel and ... . e r.cornful are unsheathed the poisoned ai: ows of invective and reproach and i'rom whose putrid lips drips the lep-' rosy of slander used maliciously against the President cf our country, b\* some cockatrice in human form" whose fetid breath would pollute the c maw of hell. It causes our olood to t boil with rebellion and the purple 11 passion of patriotism revolts with an r imperial disdain. Speech cannot con- t tain our sovereign hate for these hu- v man misfits who should be '"sent back to nature's mint and reissued v as a counterfeit on humanity of na- t ture's baser metal." H? wno proved t the mighitest intellect that ever swayed the destinies of man or grac- ( ed the mighty tide of time. Who bade i the American eagle to plume his s wings and wing his flight beyond far r seas and match his talons with the j strength of the beast. Who crushed < Prussian autocracy and established t the sacred tenets of -democracy. Who < lifted up the oriflame of sorrowful ] Belgium?the gonfalon of halfstarv\ 4 ' . * v ' . \ ? .w f .?... jd England?planted "Old Glory" on p French soil to rescue Her altars from h he profane touch of the tyrant. iE Whose fame will brook no bandage ii and whose name shall aery the "i'n-ip ;atiate darts bf the monarch of thejn iomb.' Whose masterly mind, leoninej is and dauntless courage did not bate) one jot until he had run to earth that1 si lust-maddened wolf-hound of Pots-ip dam, than Avbom a fiend more fell n has not defiled the earth since Tor-'ti quaemada. ' ! tl "He, who lifted kingdoms from,tl the depths of savagery and oppres- T sicn to freedom's cloudless heights 1< and tore with bold hands the words C that sanctified the (jruelty of man tl ?is the ?nost glorious in the annals a of our race." I a /. i pollock Enters j RACE FOR SENATE i p . , ie W. P. PolldSf(4 Cheraw yestor- j day filed his pledge and paid his as-jv sessment fee a?.a candidate for the j ^ United States senate. He is the ; n fourth entrant, E. D. Smith, present j \ incumbent; George Warren, of!e Hampton and W. C. Irby, of Lau- r rens, having previously filed their p pledges. Mr. Pollock served three jj months in the United States senate n in 1918-19, finishing out the unex- c pired term of the late Senator Tillman. In making his announcement, F Mr. Pollock said: "1 have decided to enter the race . L u I tilt: vjiiitcu loiacs acuaic umo summer and shall give expressions g to my views on the questions of the j( day at the several campaign meet- j w ings. I feel confident that the na- r tional Democratic convention which If meets this month in San Francisco' a I will adopt a platform of principles J j and policies in the interest of the 10 ?reat masses of the people, and1 that all true Democrats can stand f, upon the platform, as every candi- p iate for the senate in this state \ t] must, I feel confident that the par- r, ty will take no backward steps, but that it will advise wisrfy for the p present and will sugge&h proper measures for the. futcre gped of the p peoplte of .the country. that'" platform I shall stand.' n "I wish to express to the people! i>f South Carolina my profound p gratitude for the honor that' they w conferred upon me two years ago in g sleeting me. to fill out the .unexpired term of : the late lamented ft Senator Tillman, and I ' look for- S1 vard with nleasnre t.n mpptinir . igain this summer ' and thanking s, ;hem personally for their kindness, My term for threee months' service e] vas so short that I could not expect -o make a record commensurate vith the honor done me, but I rave the opportunity of serving or one full'term at least ii* the gi enate, where I believe, is the great- gi st field particularly for real' ser- ice to mankind. "I can not and will not spend arge sums of money in connection /ith my campaign, and for that reaon I have no headquarters nor tianager and cannot carry en a leter writing and advertising camiaign. I shall appeal in t person to ly fellow ci izens, standing upon ny chiiracti-r ana fitness for the iosition. "To my many friends throughout he state, many of whom have ask- 1 d me to make this race, I would ay I appreciate your kindness and onfidence. I can not win without our vote and assistance, so I ask very Democrat in South Carolina, f you can do so consistently with our sense Qf-jhrty,) to vote for me nd work for'me, and if I am electd my whole life shall be devoted o the betterment and upbuilding f our common country*" No Mercy for Pistol Carriers l .ft the court of sessions in this ! ounty, adjpurned last Thursday, wo men, negroes, were convicted of nurder; one of them will spend the qst of his life in prison at hard lakor and the other in a few weeks vill die in the electric chair. These men killed their victims vith pistols which, in defiance of j he law, they carried concealed on | ntsii pciauno. j The juries were evidently of j jpinion that a man carrying a pistol n cfefiance of law takes the first ;tep towards committing murder, rhe juries in future may be defended on to hold that one guilty jf thus carrying a pistol will have :o present a powerful case of selflefense to be excused for taking life. The man who is to be electrocuted j ractically committed suicide when e put the "gun" in his pocket. Ivery other man who "totes a gun" 1 these days and times thereby laces his life in a thousand times lore danger from law' than he > in from assailants. The people are aroused on this abject. The juries are from the eople. They intend to show no nercy to the pistol carriers. They inend 'to'^end Wfert?,;to:therckaicswhen he opportuity offers. That is to be be rule in Richland county anyway 'hugs and ruffians will not be al>wed to go about the streets of lolumbia, with deadly weapons on heir persons,; to the peril of lawbiding citizens, white anc black, nd the conditions are such that no lemecy, we think, m&y be hoped rom the governor and the board of iarlors unless the circumstances be xtraordinary. The people who carry pistols rould better take the warning. If hey shoot and kill they pre to have lighty little chance for their lives. resterday a negro woman was find by the recorder $100 for carying a concealed pistol and the mnishment was none too heavy. Tc npose it was a kindness to lier. It lay save her from the 'electric hair.?The State. RESIDENT'S DAUGHTER BORROWS TEN CENTS New York, June 20.?Miss Mararet Wilson, daughter of the preslent, discovered she was "broke" rhile riding on a Fifth Avenue bus ecently and borrowed -ten cents rom a conductor to pay her fare, ccording to the current issue of !us Lines, the bus company's peridical. She mounted the bus at Thirtyourth street and Fifth avenue and roferred a coin to H. G. Lynch, tie conductor. He looked at it and emarked: . "I am sorry Miss, but that's a enny, not a dime." The young woman searched her urse and then embarrassed, "'said: I'm afraid I must get off that peny is all I have." "Remain where you are," relied the conductor, tyho was ' unaware of her *.identity. "I will be lad to lend you ten eents." She accepted his offer and took is name. A few days later he was arprised to receive a nofce written n White House stationery >- .and igned' 'Margaret Woodrow Wilson' inking him for the courtesy * and nclosing a dime." JURY RETURNS VERDICT Los Angeles, June ?0.?Five uilty, 14 no? guilty and a disareement as toll, was the' report Jill Both our st< I . I? 23rd in order II I 1 Mi | wliich begins I at which time II a hdrl fri A jj V-/ Y &AVAVI. AJbA * 1 Included in th j|k WATCH F J., M. $ I / I I Suit Value is 1 . men to tl; 1? x < /!?\ ? ". * * ? >1 V./ ' ' V?? ; * I PARI returned today by the jury hearing the case of 31, railroad men tried in the United ' States district , court here an charges of violation of the Lever act throagh alleged participation in the. s\yitchmen's stirke last April. , ' . 4 ?I ? - V TWENTY-TWO DEATHS * / ' FROM BU90N1C PLAGlJE Mexico City, June 19.?There I have been 32 cases of bubonic plague with 22 fatalities siiuie the first outbreak of the disease ? at ire Closed 1 Dies will be clos that we may rea d Summer Thursday mom i i ' *11 : the doors will Abbeville. Prices e Sale, Nothing \ OR BIG AD IN PRE ANDERS s of Good \ the magnet t lis store to CLOTHED i, ?I - J',; 1 Cloth of the finest of the highest grac are beyond critici Our policy of sell possible margin o lowest cost to yoi It will pay you to ' _ ?' I our prices?then what we mean bj CER and F 1V . . - * . t > i. jVera Cruz on April 14, according !to unofficial reports. During the 48 hours' ending last night no new cases of the. "plague were reported. * Highest Paid' Ruler in Europe i ? ? 4 V The King of Italy, who haa voluntarily reduced his allowance from the state, has been since the downfall of the German and Austrian empires the most highly paid ruler in Europe, his yearly salary being $3,750,000. Wednesc \ K :ed all day We irrange our Stock Nine-Day ling June 25 th a >' ? lai.t i* <3pen 'tipon the Slashed knd All Witheld. . LSS & BANNER W1 \ ON COMF sums' ralue I hat draws I buy their I I . B^fjl : quality, tailoring K. le and styles that V H sm. , y i 11 mg on the smallest -i i ' flg|| f profit means the . $ i * v v ^KmP see our Clothes and you will realize j VALUE. Ipjf lEESE I IMITATION PEARLS MADE. " Very clever imitations of pearls have /teen made by filling thin glass bulbs with a solution .of fish: scale nacrey , Among the 'unique occupations recently brought to light in-London, * is that of a man who mates a specialty of tattooing " dogs with _t their owner's names and crests. \ -> i ' It looks like it's going to take & lot of persuasion to make McAdoo do., ' . : _ ? }? ? J, > ; :' I lay ;!? . , , .? ; ' ' \ iiv 3' > dnesday* June : for the ij V?'! Sale i % ij: it 9:00 o'clock | ' biggest SALE 1 NUw Orinrls 1 JL 1 f W v?v/ <> |L I ' / < J, EDNESDAY |. . ANY ' # I