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Established 1844. THE PRESS AND BANNER ABBEVILLE, S. C. j The Press and Banner Company Published Tri-Weekly Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Telephone No. 10. Entered as second- ?jass matter at post office in Aobeville, S. C. . Teno? of Subscription: One year $2.00 Six months 1.00 Three months .50 MONDAY, JULY 12, 1920 HIOTTS AND THE PROGRESS The Easley Progress under the management of D. W. Hiott, Jr., and with Gary Hiott as editor is one of the best county papers now published in the Piedmont section. This week the Progress is issuing two papers, and though the announcement is not made in so many words, and no promises are made in that behalf, we are expecting the paper in the near future to become a semi-weekly publication. The Progress is liberally supported by the advertisers in its territory, and everything about it bears the stamp of progress and hard newspaper work. We wish for the Brothers Hiott continued success and prosperity and unless all signs fail they are coming into their own. I CHANGED HIS NAME. We can see it all re-enacted now. He came to town thirty years ago with plenty of wind, to be true, but little money. He opened a little furniture store, and he sat in it day after day, waiting for customers. The lawyers were his friends then, and he stood them off as best he could, sometimes by flattery, sometimes by hiding, and then when nothing else worked by paying a little and telling them to come again, wnicn maae inem hopeful. But two good pieces of luck came his way. One was Uncle Jim. What it took to make the lawyers happy Uncle Jim furnished, and then the store got fuller of goods, and the customers began to come in more frequently. The other piece of luck was The Press and Banner wnich introduced him to the public ant? gave him more notoriety than if the had cut a watermeoln at his house every night. It is true that he fluctuatec some between sticking and not sticking to the paper which made the Buy-nowPay-later King, of North Main, but when business would begin to get' poor or some other dealer began to sell the goods he always came back. And thus we made him, and thus he is?or was?but not now. i Kvprv larp Vine n prnnlf in it pvprv grape a seed, and every sweet its bitter. And the Buy-now Pay-later King could not stand the pressure. ( He wanted a house like his rich brother-in-law's over in Greenwood. So he got mixed up with Huke Prince in the building business and Billie O'Bryant in the hauling business and Gus Lee in the lumber business, and with architects, carpenters, bricklayers and what not. And you see where he is now, anc what is going to happen to him..He is sweating great big drops of blood, and he is not out of the ground well yet. And the days are getting long and not. The Alps are between him and Italy and there is no silver lining for the clouds. And then?we hate to say it?thev have auit calHne- Mm thft' Buy-now-Pay-later King. It is now Good-bye-I-pay-you-later-Kerr who is building the house. We are looking for him to call on Uncle Jim again soon. ; ABOUT THE NOMINEE Believing that our readers would be interested to know just how the nomination of- Governor Cox for president is striking the people over the country, The Press and Banner is, commencing today, reproducing editorials from some of the leading papers of the country. A good idea of how people in different sections, and with different viewpoints, regard the nomination will be acqurred from reading these editorials: The New York Tribune (Rep.) has the following to say of the nomination: "The nomination of James MiddleI ton Cox is due to the circumstance I that he was the "wettest" candidate' in sight; to the desire zo get as far away from Wilsonism as possi-' 1 ble, and to the fact that the nominee I I I is from Ohio. Governor Cox, althougn the San i Francisco platform is silent on the I prohibition question and the conj vention voted down the Cockran I plank to permit the making of Uvines and beer for home purchases, j is know to be an open opponent of ' the Eighteenth Amendment. He was strenuously opposed by William J. Bryan and the Anti-Saloon League. This gave Mr. Cox the support of large delegations, particularly from * ?? ?j?J" pfofoo tfiG Jsasxern miu vjcuuiai obawpj where the Democratic organization I has long been locally under the con! trol of the saloon interest. J I The Democratic party, disregarding the sentiment of the "West and counting the South as certain in any event, is to make its main struggle in New York, Connecticut and New Jersey and in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. The party returns to its old campaign strategy?to working for a combination of Solid South and Northern cities. 1 Wilsonism is identified as a body /Pf 1 of death, and, !as far as possible con! nections with it are cut. The repre1 sentatives of the President were dutifully allowed to write, in the main, a White House platform. The delegates politely cheered the name of Wilson, but the great majority ui them then tried to forget the horrors of the last four years. At Washington it was unconcealed that the Administration preferred any one to Mr. Cox. | I The President maneuvered for his own selection. He showec himself publicly and summoned a photogra-j pher whose pictures snowed how' complete had been the Presidential physical recovery. The Administration lieutenants at San rrancisco schemed to prolong tne deadlock. Mr. McAdoo's own behavior toward his candidacy no less than tne attrltude of the President is most plausibly explicable on the theory that a choice was to be prevented in the hope of arousing a demand for the President to sacrifice himse:f again. If no demand came, then Mr. McAdoo was to be the heir. Such ke was during the late ballotings. The Administration emissaries, abandoning hope of landing their cfclef, became earnest for Son-in-Law. But it was too late, and the double plan came to naught. i Ohio is a state of strong local pride and likes to add to the number of Ohio Presidents. Governor Cox it was claimed was strong at home, and it was said that to reject him meant concession of a pivotal state to Senator Harding. The argument that Ohio must be carried was1 steadily hammered on anc at last se^ cured converts. So the convention named a man it had little thought of a week ago. But the alleged Cox strength in Ohio is largely a myth. He has run behind his ticket; in 1916 hp had hut 5.000 nluralitv. whereas Wilson had 85,000 and Pomerene 35,000. | The Cox nomination, following the inclusion in the platform of the Walsh plank indorsing the reservation principle, makes impossible a referendum concerning the Wilson league. No one appears to uphold the affirmative. Twenty-three Democratic Senators voted for the Lodge reservation, and if there Is another roll call the number will be increase d.A two-thirds majority being nec-i essary to ratify, what conceivable chance is there of getting two-thirds cd ike ne*tiie?aie. to accept the President's plan? The Cox managers disregarding the treaty issue, hope to capture the wet vote. But how? Governor Cox can scarcely be silent ror four months, even though his piatiorm is. To say nothing and to try to whisper a way. into the White House means the loss of all political character. On the other hand, if he speaks, he knows there's death upon the lower road and Injuns upon the upper. The campaign promises to be a distressing one to those who like politics explicit. The verbal indorsement of the Wilson Administration, coupled with its practical abandonment, makes it a matter of extreme doubt what votes for Cox will mean."| "ARISTOCRACY" REARS ITS HAUGHTY HEAD "We have tried to keep quiet the reasons which actuated the city fathers in building the street just as it is built. It is a fact that some of the older aristocrats on the street actu-' ally appealed to the city fathers ask-! ing that the street be made just the 1 width which it now is." | The quotation is from The Press ( and Banner of Abbeville, and the ( street referred to is called "Greenjville," the presumption being that it leads into the highway by which the , city of Greenville would be reached after a journey of three hours, j For the first time in a quarter of | a century, the newspaper organ of a j progressive city in oomn Carolina boldly and unblushingly confesses, or | boasts, that the city is Inhabited by "aristocrats" and what makes this self-exposure the more amazing is that it comes in election year. Without knowing as we write the names of any of the residents in i Greenville street and sp6aKlng for the i plain people and the common people ! from Charleston to Oconee and from Beaufort to Bennettsville, we warn the voters of South Carolina against 1 "Greepville street" and against i whomsoever infects and infests it 1 with the bacteria and the misguided j and hopelessly imprudent Press and I Banner proclaims. | Until now the impression had preI vailed that not in 30 years had an | aristocrat lived in this stale, that one | and all had been ruthlessly extermi! nated or sent into exile. If the city 1 of Abbeville have a whole street full of patricians, it seems certain that the germs will be scattered throughout 'old Abbeville" county and, if that should be the event, the conclusion would follow that all Abbevilians will necessarily be retired from 1 political activities and office holdings, except as they appertain to Abbeville county. i While we have no objection to the aristocratic brand of statesmanship that has distinguished Abbeville in I the past and would cheerfully suci cumb to the domination of Abbevil1 lians, as such, again, the people can i not be expected to submit to them un I less they be content to count themi selves as common as are the rest of us. i1 Let the people rule.?The State. j TRAVELERS REST. The quartette of prominent citizens of the city, W. A. Calvert, J. A. Gilliam, Albert Henry and D. H. Hill, who have been Fording it through Wester North Carolina ane Eastern Tennessee spent the day yesterday 1 resting after the long circuit made in Col. Calvert's Ford. The party left here a week ago today ancr traveled through Greenville and Hendersonville to Asheville where they rested a few hours. They took the Hot Springs route from there to Knoxville, on to Chattanooga and through Chicamaug park to Atlanta. Leaving Atlanta' Saturday morning they arrived here' late that evening. Mr. Hill speaking for tiie party states that aside from being worn out in spite of the careful "chauffering"i of the big colonel, the trip was a de-! lightful one. They visited many o^ the larger cattle farms in Tenn^sse and were particularly pleased with a herd of Black Angus cattle, headed by a $50,000 bull imported from1 Scotland, which they saw in Tenncs-' see. i Mr. Hill also states that the best cotton they saw on the wnole trip was in Abbeville County with the exception of a few acres just beyond the Savannah river in Georgia. He states that the cotton on the Atlanta-Chat-1 tanooga road is very small ana grassy i WITHERSPOON HEADS CLINTON SCHOOLS ?_ i Prof. J. Harvey Witherspoon who recently moved to Clinton from Gaffney where he has been superintendent of the city schools for the past seven years has been elected superin-' tendent of the Clinton public schools for the next session. Mr. Witherspoon fills the vacancy made by the resignation of Supt. W. J. McGarity of Aiken, who was elected several months ago and recently declined. Prof. Witherspoon has already entered upon his duties as nead of the Clinton schools and the trustees feel that they have made a wise selection fnv tV>f? nlnfp ENTERTAINING THE ORPHANS j Circle No. 1 of the Ladies Aid Society of the Presbyterian church is entertaining for the next two weeks two little girls from the 1|hornwell Orphanage, Cornelia Gregory and Lula Trammell, ten and twelve years old. The little girls will spend Tuesday and Wed nm I It is often h from your i] A solution i ta An r* tS va an \J I m sary. Deposit in ? ments and i the 5 per ce We will hel Set a Goal i I" Count SOUND nesday with Mrs. W. H. White and are today visiting Sarah Cowan at Mrs. P. A. Cheatham's. ' AMERICAN LEGION STATE HEADvUARTERS MOVED I Greenville July 10?State head' quarters of the South Carolina department of the American Legion have been moved from Columbia to i Greenville, G. Heyward Mahon, of 1 th:s city, having been elected state I commander at the last convention. Commander Mahon today announced j the appointment of W. Boyden Watkins, also of Greenville, as state adjutant of the Legion. % \ V SEE JACK DEMPSEY V V IN THE FIRST EPISODE OF V V "DAREDEVIL JACK" V. 'X AT OPERA HOUSE V \ THURSDAY V VVVVVVWVVW' VVH i ' BSiMMUmil [wise Hou S m ic v virovi f molro gig XI M. 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