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Es?abitshrb 1S35. J.L.MIMS,._...Editor Published every Wednesday in The Advertiser Building at 51.50 per year in advance. Entered as second class matter at he postoffice at Edgefield, S. C. No communications will be published unless accompanied by the writer's name. Cards of Thanks. Obituaries, Resolu tions and Political Notices published at advertising rates. Wednesday, Aug. 23 The more bread goes up the less ^oes down. Greenwood has an Edgefield avenue. "Wonder if McCormick will honor her ^old mother in like manner? Many persons may be glad the :am paign is nearing the end but nobody is glad the watermelon season is over. As a rule, rapid early opening of cotton presages a short crop. But let as hope that 1916 will be an exception .to the rule. Don't be a bootlick. Nobody has any Tespect for a bootlick. Even the man -whose boots you would lick would hold ~you in contempt. Will the farmers of South Carolina -vote to keep a farmer as governor, or .will thev vote for one of the two law- \ jyers who are candidates? Do not allow anybody to'put a col lar around your neck next Tuesday and irote you. Do your own thinking; cast j jrour own ballot. We are not losing any sleep over the price of gasoline. It's the steadily advancing price of foodstuffs that jnakes us restless. D'd you ever stop to think that Cupid has one great advantage: It is never too hot or too cold for him to do "business. Do not absent yourself from the [State next Tuesday. On that day all good citizens should cast their ballots ?i vc the BEST MEN. Avoid political controversies. There is but one thing that should be shunned more and that is a religious contro versy. . If it were not so patent that some siOf these election prognosticators were partisans, greater weight would be given their figures in the papers. To vote against Governor Manning i<jwill be voting with those "furriners" ! ;Jn Charleston who do not want to see the State properly governed. .Follow your conscience and delibe rate judgment in voting next Tuesday and ;,ou will have nothing to regret, ."let the result be what it may. The first hale of the 11*10 cotton crop -was brought to Edgefield Saturday, and if Old Sol continues with u:uii jminislvd fury, it will not bc long be fore the last bale will be on the market. Tho two governors who preceded ^Governor Manning were lawyers and .they were ?iven four years, two terms, f acl V Why not give a farmer who has : ,-madt good an equal show with the law yers? Let's bc just and fair to Gover ;.nor 31 anning. j With which side will you ally your- I ^elf n"xt Tuesday? With those who | erstand for jrood government, law. and -*>rder, or with the blind tigers and /lawbreakers generally? It is safe to say that not a blind tiger will vote to Iceep Governor Manning in o?ice. 'Will you vote with the blind tigers of {Charleston next Tuesday, by voting to defeat Governor Manning, or will you -vote to endorse his overthrowing of these same blind tigers in Charleston? It appears to us that there is but one course for every good citizen to pursue. t When Senator Tillman recently de clared that he is ready to bury the hatchet and henceforth stand for a united country-no North, no South, no East, no West-he reflected the senti ment of a large and constantly increas ing nura bar of Southern people. Columbia is like most other cities sand towns. It has among its citizen ship all classes of men-good, bad and indifferent. Monday a Columbia man extended his hand to receive some money which was owing to him and in stead of the cash, a lighted match was dropped into his palm. Had that oc curred in Edgefield, some of the coun ty's old-time history might ha^e been epeated. One Dr. Adams of war-like proclivi ties who is a candidate for lieutenant governor will receive what he deserves next Tuesday. Something like four fifths of the voters will give him a good scratch. _ It appears tnat the Germans were j prepared for only a two years war. For the past few months they have been on the losing side and the indica tions are that their losses and reverses will grow greater and greater. Hot Times in Anderson. The mercury has been steadily ad vancing, politically, in Edgefield coun ty, but we are yet in the arctic regions as compaired to some counties, Ander son, for example. In the goodly town of Anderson there have been four street fights, a la fisticuff, since last Saturday, and there is no telling what the six days before .the primary will bring forth. There are a good many brands of fools, but the biggest fool in the world is the man who falls out with his friend or neighbor over politics and provokes a fight. There was never a more un fitable business than arguing and fight ing over politics. We shall be glad when tha first and second primaries are over and the peo ple have returned to the even tenor of their ways. Shoes and "Booze." The constables who are at work in Charleston suppressing blind tigers have a difficult problem on their hands, j but they are discharging their duty j fearlessly and faithfully, which is more than any liquor constables have ever done in Charleston in the past. In ad dition to watching shipments by rail, the officers have to keep a close watch on the merchandise shipments by wa ter. Tuesday seven large boxes reach ed Charleston bj' Clyde line steamship : from New York marked shoes. The unusual appearance of the boxes arous ; ed the suspicion of the officers and after they were loaded on trucks to be i delivered to the consignee they were seized and carried to police headquar ters. On being opened it was found that the boxes contained about one thousand pairs of shoes that were packed around 25 gallons of whiskey. In due season the shoes will be sold at public outcry and the whiskey poured in the gutter. Yes, it is something new under the sun to see whiskey poured in the street in Charleston, but under the .Manning administration it is being frequently done. People Should Say "Well Done." While it is impossible to forecast the result of next Tuesday's election with j absolute certainty, it is conceded that there will be a second race, and every thing points to Governor Manning as being one of the two leading candi dates. He has given the people of ; South Carolina a successful, business like administration and they should say ' Well Done" by endorsing him at the polls. Probably not since the days of Re construction has a governor entered upon the duties of the office under more i unfavorable conditions than Governor I Manning. For four years prior to his I inauguration the lawless element in I j every section of the State were in j : power, in that tivy had the ear of the chief executive and generally had their ; requests granted. In the campaign < two years ago he pledged himself to an [ ! improvement of conditions by a strict and impartial enforcement of the law. j Relying upon this pledge, a majority of the people of South Carolina elected Mr. Manning governor. Xo un prejudiced man who is informed as to ; conditions now existing will s:iy that ; ha has not made good his campaign | pledge. Will the people repudiate him j next Tuesday by electing another to ! this important office or will they reward j him by re-election? Mt. Zion Church. The ?rood people who compose | the membership of .Mt. Zion church! came together some time ago and j completed plain by which they were to have a new and commodious lionne of worship. Under the leader- ! ship of .Mr. VY. A. Purdue, assisted hy other members of the church, i the work on the building has pro- ! gressed rapidly and it will be reati.v for the annual protracted meeting which will commence .Sunday next. It is probable that a large number of people will gat her at Mt. Zion on that day especially. Rev. I'. B. Lanham, the pastor, will be assisted by Kev. T. Ii. Posey of Ward. The corner stone ot the. new church will be laid with Masonic ceremonies Saturday afternoon at five o'clock. It is hoped th it a large number of person will also attend this service. Fresh Turnip Seed. Let us supply you willi turnip seed. We have just received our fir-it shipment of ruta baga and all the popular varieties of turnip seed di rect from the celebrated Buist farm. They are the kind that always ger minute and give entire satisfaction, Penn &. Holstein. (Political Adveitisement.) Solicitor Geo. Bell Timmerman is Asking Re-eleetion ! Is Making a Clean Camoaign. Promises an Honorable and Eliicient Admin istration. Record and Is sues Discussed. Warns Against Eleventh-Hour Campaign Reports. Running on His Official Record My Fellow Citizens: Owing to sickness in my family, my official duties and the size of the circuit, it has been quite impossible for me to make a house to house campaign, or even address the voters in all the communities of the circuit. I am, therefore, taking this opportunity to repeat largely what I have said in the speeehes made by rae. A CLEAN CAMPAIGN. I started my campaign upon a high plane; I propose to end it that way. I have made no assault up*oh the character of any competitor, nor have I any secret agent doing work of that kind. And I am frank to say there is no office in the gift of the people that I would have if I had to get it by a resort to dirty politics, by a resort to disreputable method-;. And any man who gains an office by corruption will bo cor rupt in it. As I run my campaign so will I run the office. OFFICIAL RWOKD. I am makin*: this race squarely upon my official record. At the lire of twenty-three I was elected Solicitor. I appreciated thc honor and a white negro lawyer. I refer to the last one as a negro lawyer! because he must have had a black! heart to brina' the slanderous charges j he dio against my people and my State. I could mention other im portant legal matters that I have handled outside of my regular terri tory, without extra compensation, but space will not permit. I sim ply want you to know that I have been on the job, aud that I have not failed to answer when duty called me. ANSWERS CRITICISMS. So much for my record. I now desire to take up and answer such criticisms of my record as have been made in the open, either di rectly or indirectly. I cannot hope to answer all the evil reports that may have been circulated behind my back. YVe all know that the re sponsible authors of evil reports are hard to locate; and, also, that ill rumors spread much further and ? a great deal faster than good. Have I had the office long enough? j That is for the people to say, not j my opponents. I received this of-i then. I appreciate it now. I made nCB aL tllt; hauds ol' the people, and but one promise then. I make but if 1 receive it again it will be at the one now. It is: "An honorable ' hands of the people. I have nothing campaign and a faithful and fear- ! to ?^6T ^,eni in return, except] less discharge of the duties of Solio- faithful, honorable, efficient ser-j ?tor." j vice. And it strikes me that ?sj li is with embarrassment that [ what thc people are interested in. j speak of myself, but in politics uh'0'1 :ir(-' not looking to pension seems to be necessary. My official jsome one- This ollie.! is a working record is an open book, and the office, and you need in it, as in all book has not been kept b\ me, but other offices, men who .have the ea by the clerks of court, in the several paeity and disposition to render effi-j counties of this circuit. It speaks j cieut service. I cannot believe that j for itself, and I invite all good cit?-1 there is any force in the argument* zens to inspect it. Do not take th?.phat, because I have served youl word of some political enemy work- j faithfully for a number of years ing behind my back. Look for jai,(i l,ave proven my ability to at yourself and back your own judg- j-tend to your business asit oneht to ment. Mr. Cox has been kind j be attended to, I should, therefore, enough t<> say -f my record that I-be discredited and turriell out just to; am as good a solicitor as there is in j8t,t? faow some one ?'se vvi|1 do. I j the State or the United States, but{repeat, what you want is eliicient' that he wants a chance to set a new .[public service. Il' I have not1 standard. I do not claim quite sojP'Oven, by my official record, that I j much for myself as he ?rives me,tcan and will give you that kind ol'; andi greatly fear he i? covering I service it is your right and duty to most too much territory for both of |Pllt s',lm' ,JI!t-' Llu-'r"' who will, us. . That is where I stand on the ques ln this connection, I desire to call j Hon. attention to the fact that all of the! Mr. Asbill has made the su^ges dnties of a solicitor are not per- \ lion that I think tho office belongs formed in the local court houses. [ lo me, and that I aiu the only man He has a wider field of usefulness, jj who can fill it. I have never made and he should have the capacity toi any such contention and he knows measure up to the requirements. Mt. I have stated repeatedly on the During the present term I have not slump that it was the people's office, only been called out of my own cir-'and that they should place it in the emt to represent my Slate, but I j hands of the man best capacitated to' have been called into other States to fill it. I have ?ro?e further and fight her battles. I need only to .'said, I believe that every officer call your attention to the long, te-, should have opposition after he has I dious and successful fight I made loi been in office for awhile in order to bring .loe Grant from the Slate of 'give the people on opportunity to Pennsylvania back to South Caro-ilook into his record and measure lina for trial. I made that fight' bis fitness by that of other men. I without any paid k-tral assistance in hav#> also said repeatedly that I a distant Stale. I was opposed by thought there were plenty of law three lawyers. Some people have* .vers in ibis Slate and circuit just as asked me-what kind of lawyers theyjgood as I and better, but I was nut were, and I have told them thatj talking about him. Maybe that is ?hey were negro lawyers, a black {the reason lie continues to harp on negro lawyer, a yellow negro lawyer; it after he kuows my position to be, opposite to that he represents it to be. I have been referred to by Mr. Asbill as King George, and he has intimated that I belong to the silk stocking crowd, to the aristocrats. I hate to take up time answering anything so silly. I am surprised that a man who claims to think himself srood timber for the solici tor's office should resort to such stuff. The people of this circuit know my people. They know my father, the late Dr. W. H. Timmer man, and I am proud to say that he was one of the best men that ever served his country and his God. They know the Timmermans, the Padgetts, the Dorns, the Wil liams, the Geigers, the Ouzts, the Bells, the Edwards, and others too numerous to mentiou, who are re lated to me either by blood or mar riage. Who ever heard of their being aristocrats? It is enough to make one laugh. If all these are aristocrats so am I, and if they are not ashamed of me I certainly am not of them. It is too bad for one to have to bring up such stuff as this to try to get into office. Mr. Asbill has also stated that the solicitor's office has been in my law firm for twenty years, tacking my term of service on to that of Mr. Thurmond. What are the facts? I was born in 1881. Mr. Thurmond was first elected in 1896. I was then fifteen years old, a young country lad. He was next elected in'lOUO. I was then nineteen years old and going to school, trying to get an education. Those are facts that cannot be denied. Then what think you of Mr. Asbill's charge? He also insinuated that I have to be called at the court house door and promises to always be on time. I admit that I have been late at court a few times, but it has usually been due to circumstances that I could not foresee. It is also a fact that I have numbers of times given the period allowed for dinner to the service of my State, and gone with out anything to eat in order to ex pedite the business of the court. Mr. Asbill says be will always be on time-, but actions speak louder than words. Mr. Asbill served one term in the legislature from Lexing ton county- I guess he told the! people, when he was running for] that office, he would be on time and attend strictly to their business. Lets see how well he did it. Dur ing the session of 1897 he failed to answer to his name at 21 record vote roll calls. During the session of? 1898 he failed to answer to his name at 36 record vote roll calls. I ask you, therefore, who has shown the greater disposition to attend to! the business he has had in hand for the State, he or your humble ser vant? r Speaking of records, I will tell you something else about his legis lative record. He was elected on an issue, lt was this: lie prom ised the farmers that if they sent! him to the legislature i'<? would put ia! I ram For information .ind tickets .1. A- TOWNSEND, Ticket Azt.. Edgelk'ld. S. C. the State in the business of manu facturing fertilizers, that he would use State convicts for that purpese, claiming that the result would be to deliver the farmer from the power of the fertilizer trust, and thereby greatly reduce the cost of fertilizers. Are you surprised that the farmers voted for him and elected him? Well, what did he do? The record fails to show where be did any thing. He didn't even try. I have not only tried lo carry out my one campaign promise, but I feel that I can truthfully say I have done so. WARNING. I want it understood that what is in this article has been said in sub stance by me before this. I am springing nothing new at the last moment. I ?imply want to give all the people an opportuniiy to know where I stand. Just here I want to warn . the people, especially my friends, against any eleventh-hour campaign lies that may spring up. I have been warned to look out, and I am simply passing the warning on to you. It will be impossible for me to go everywhere on election day and answer everything that may come. I will have to leave that matter in the haads of my friends and kins people to look after. There will be nothiug of that sort coming from me. I am unalterably opposed to such methods. What I have to say, I either say from the stump or put it over ray signature. CONCLUSION. I desire to repeat that I regard this office as belonging to the peo ple, and I recognize their right and. duty to give it to whomsoever they may think best qualified to fill it. If I am elected again, it will be by the people, just as I was elected be fore. And it will be to the people that I will owe allegiance, and it will be the people whom I shall serve. If I am re-elected, I shall do as I have done: know no class or faction, know neither friend nor foe, when it comes to the discharge j of my public duty. In the dis charge of that duty I shall bring into full play all of the capacities of both ray head and ray heart. In closing 1 want to say that I expect to end this campaign as 1 commenced it-without the slight est tinge of bitterness toward any opponent and without any feeling toward any voter who may see fit to cast a ballot against me, but with a heart full of gratitude for every friend now standing by me. Andi I shall endeavor to prove my appre I ciation of their confidence by giv ing a full measure of public service, by so attending to the duties of the office that both friend and foe can truthfully say the office is being, well and honorably filled. GEO. BELL TIMMERMAN. The Best Hot Weather Tonic GROVE'S TASTELESSchill TONIC enriches the blood, builds up the whole system r-nd will won der?ully.-tren??t^v-n and fortify yoi: to withstand the deprissicg effect of the hot summer. iOc. ? Day ember 4, 1916 . COLUMBIA ntic League) 3AMPI0NSHIP RIP FROM ;, S. C. ?bl. Baily/ Will.Ieave Trenton 9:50 A M. returning leave Columbia at i 1 :?0 P. M. apply FRED, H. MCGILLAN, [??strict Passenger Agent, Augusta, Georgia.