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. Mrs. T. S. Harman, which was held a j u : o f1
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200 peopLe. A bounteous barbecue Tinda) \?;? pntV. ir1! -J?"!!?st
; - dinner was served in the grove in front jr h tu*? Kneece with Mr.
of the house, and wtil late in ^n-?S^J^S SZ? n?
4 the evening the crowd remained, L t T
L mfnaliniy with eachofcher and talkintr w-^*1 ."le man of her choice. The im>
of the many pleasures of the long ago. ?h^h\vas re^h ?r
J Last year Mr. and Mrs. Harnfan ? ft '
*% ^fa?f Maf;SooT3a ve ? The bride- b>' "? "?* personality,
Zlto mile mZ? their ha9 Wf" 3 tosl ?&?*** who *iU
j fa only connections and friends at these 'bf^
$ annual reunions. gratulated upon winning so lovely a
1 ' * bride. They received many presents.
^ An ordinary case of diarrhoea can, Those who attended the wedding
as a rule, be cured by a single dose of from Pelion were: Misses Rnth
Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diar- Kneece, May Rish, Viola Shumpert,
rhoea Remedy. This remedy has no Mrs. J. C. Fort and children, and Mr.
superior for bowel complaints. For Dan Kneece. A. B. C.
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. marriage of their daughter, Leila, to mer is over. This remedy has no suL
Mr Cleveland Fogle* To the strains perior. For sale by All Dealers.
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mighty throng. "You people have
heard time and time again," said the
speaker, "by candidates 'send me to i
the legislature and I'll do so and so,' J
and when you send them there they .
sit like knots on a log, immovable.
I haye no promises to make
except that if you send me to the legislature
I will not sit quiet when im
J- a l - 1 - a. 3 T :n <
COUNTY CAMPAIGN
OPENED AT IRMO.
Small Crowd Heard the Candidates at
:Initial Meeting and Little Interest
Displayed?Annexation and
Free Bridges of touch
Interest in Fork.
BY D. R. HAl ..WANiJER.
Tke Lexington county campaign is
now'in full swing. The'first meeting
vras"held at Irmo, in the famous Dutch
j Forfr, onx Wednesday last, where
About 250 of the sturdy yeomanry
; came out to hear the candidates fire
| their initial guns.
; 5?he meeting was entirely featurei
Hess, save now and then the explosion
1 of a boom of "hot air7' by some of the
! speakers. Eut this was the opening
of the 1910 campaign and it was but
ectural "that the candidates should
. make an occasional "brake." It
; most always takes the "boys" two or
; three .days to find out the sentiment
J of the people, and the careful politii
^ian usually guards his words and
! stays on the "defaasiye." But this
i was not the case w&h all of the aspir1
ants at Irmo. Some of them began to
-$rip and tare" at?tfce very beginning
; <ft their speeches, with the result that
MSie andienoe gave them a "call
[j :iown.
County CMman EHrd.
| fThe meeting was presided over
County Ohalrmaa D. *F. Bflrd, who,
-after a brief invocation by the Ber.
JI. -S. Riddle, made a wringing address,
fa which he thanked the people of
: bezington coimtyforahe many honi':
ora they had throat upon him in the
past. "Fellow cfcJastia," said he,
! *Solj-days of political f*peech-making
jh? over for the present, but I oousa
i before , you today, as your. county
\ ch&irevan, to; formally ^pen the campaign
of; 1910, and<I trust that from
thia-very. meeting: there will be the
wannest feeling between all of the
candidates, and I hope that all of the
candidates will be accorded a respectr
! fol aad attentive bearing Qn every
! stuas^p in the county- .This, I know,
fcfeey will receive, beeause it is a characteristic
of the southern gentleman,
! Sooth (Carolinians and Lexicgtonians.
Eaeh man is entitled to his opinion
and, raraember after all, m-7 fellow
citizens, that when the race is over,
no matter what the result, we will all
1 join hands and work for the common
! srood of ??rand old .Lexington."
Mr. E&rd then announced that all
of the candidates ;for the Houae had
signed the pledge in regards to the
proposition for freeing the Congaree
and Broad rarer bridges, which was
published in rthese columns last week.
Allowed ZO,Minutes Each.
* The candidates for legislative hon;
ors were allowed )?0 minutes each,,
'! while the candidates for minor offices
j; .were given 10 misyifces each.
The first speaker was Joseph h.
\ Amick, candidate for reelection to
<t&e House. Mr. Amick thanked the
i people for their suffrage two years
: agou when he was elected on the first
] ballot. Mr. Amick told of his first experiences
as a legislator. He said
that (the boys were teilicg it for a joke
that he did not know where to put his
? hat when he first entered the State
rr nmi i _ 11: i-U _ or
House. Aiiey are teuing tuau ?.? .*
joke/' be .said, "but I want to tell
you it is the God's truth." Ho said
; that the new men always experience
embarrassment, but that liis embar;
rassment was above the average, be'
cause his name began with the first
. letter of the alphabet, which made it
- incumbent upon him to cast the first
' ballot on any measure coming before
the House. He favors good roads
and better schools, but is unalterably
opposed to giving the higher institutions
of learning so much money; is
opposed to so many scholarships and
fought with might and main the bill
which purported to establish 124 scholaiships
in the University of South
Carolina.
Capt. L. W. Redd.
Capt. L. W. Redd, made bis maidriTklifinnl
or>nAnV? O f Trmo if
Cll ^UXIUlViai 0|XCCV/U t?u XIUIU) <v
was a good one. He said at the
outset that he had no promises to
make, because there are 124 members
of the house and that if he was elected
i he would be but one man among that
portant legislation is on, aim x win c
guarantee you that it will not take
me two years to find out where to
hang my hat.^' Capt. Redd stated
that he was born in Aiken county,
but had been a resident of Lexington j j
county for 20 years. Favors good
roads and more of them, free bridges
i
and everything that has a tendency to '
advance the material progress of the
county and that will redown to the i
good of of all the people of Lexington
county and South Carolina. '
Co!. J. Brooks Wingard.
Col. J. Brooks Wingard, the next
speaker, "began by saying that he
hardly knew what to talk about, when
someone in the audience shouted,
"Talk about free bridges; that's what
we want." Col. Wingard stated, in 1
reply, that the free bridge question (
was now up to the people; that it was
in the shape of a referendum and the
matter, he thought, would be settled
at the coming primary. He said, how- 1
ever, that he was in hearty accord
with the present plan to free the
bridges and that he would cast his
vote for the $25,000 to make them
free. Taxation and good roads are
issaes, he said, but unless we are willing
to pay for good roads we will
never have them, because it is impos1
alble for the chainmne to do all the
work. He Is in facer of creating a
road fund, and believes in an honest
and economical administration. Col.
. Wj^gard waxed-qoste -eloquent in disousekig
education, as ho pleaded for
a livelier interest in our schools. He
asserted that parents should visit the
schools in which their children are being
taught. "We, as parents of South
Carolina," said he, "are not doing
our duty in the home. In the schools
you can make a good citizen, but not
a good man. This can only be accomplished
in the home."
Hon. Isaac Edwards.
The Hon. Isaac Edwards began with
a catchy joke, after which he stated
that he had only come to Irmo to have
a heart-to-heart talk with his friends,
and to extend the right hand of fellowship
from the sand hills to the good
people of Dutch Fork. He paid a
glowing tribute to this section and to
Lexington county, as a whole. "In
the bloody sixties Lexington was
t.ViPrA '' "Tn T,o-vincrfrvn nrmrif.xr
1 ' was there, and in the 'SCs, when the
great reform movement was brought
about, Lexington county was there;
and in all of these fights the people
of Dutch Fork had helped to carry the
, banner on to victory.'' Mr. Edwards
I then entered into a discussion of the
] annextatiou question, by reading fig,
j nres from the comptroller general's
i { report, in which it was shown that the
; tax valuations of Richland county are
; more than the tax valuations of Lexngton
county on, an average. At this
. juncture the speaker was interrupted
by a few seemingly strong advocates of
annexation to Richland, and the presiding
officer, Dr. J. L. Shuler, pleaded
with the crowd to give the speaker
a respectful hearing, whether they
were in accord with his views or not.
Leaving the annexation question, Mr.
Edwards stated that he was in favor
of good roads, good schools, and local
option As to the liquor question he
always had believed that every man i
had a right to drink it, and that every ,
man should have a right to sell it. ,
Mr. W. R. Lowe.
Mr. W. R. Lowe, of New Brook1
laud, was the next speaker. He began ,
| by thanking the people for their votes ]
two years ago, and declared that the (
encouragement he had already re- j
ceived, led him to believe that he was (
going to be elected on the 30tb of August.
If elected he promised tc be in
his seat all the time looking after the
interests of all the people of Lexington J
county. Said he would not make any f
promises for the purpose of riding into 1
office, neither would he use money or a
whiskey to buy the vote of any man. I
Favors better rural schools, free bridg- t
s and good roads. As to the liquor fc
ME WE JUSTIFIED?
Perhaps we ought to be satisfied with present
ichievement. But, you know uthe more a man gets the
more he wants." This being true, we are then justified
:n soliciting new business; and especially so, since we
are so well equipped to handle it.
Citizen's Bank of Batesburg,
Batesburg, S. C.
1892. *1910.
Lexington Sayings Bank,
LEXINGTON, S. d
Capital, Surplus and Undivided Profits $35,000.00.
5 per cent interest paid on savings deports, interest
* ? 11 T* 1X_ -A / A J
bein computed semi-annually. i/epouu ui #i.w auu gvw
received
Commercial accounts also riven special attention.
Ample facilities for handling your, business, and your
account will be appreciated.
Safety deposits bones for rent, $1.00 per year.
W. P. POOF President and Cashier'
problem, Mr. Lowe stated that he had be forecasted at this stage of the game,
always been a prohibitionists, and, Hon. C. M. Effrd.
therefore, m in fevor of the passage At the conclu9ion of the offlcial ?8t
of a State-wide prohibition law. Bat, 0f candidates, Hon. C. M. Efird, who
however, he was willing to leave the {g the father of ^ preaent plan to ^
question for all of the people of the bridges, briefly addressed the audience,
State to decide in an election for that making clear the meaning of the propopnrpoee
alone. sition. Mr. Efird opened the eyes of
Mr. R. L. Shuler. many when he declared that the Fork
Mr. R. L. Shuler, of Brookland, was has a right to representation in the
the last of the legislative candidates to management of the C. 3T. & L. RailJ
speak. He said that he was on his na- way, and that the road belongs to the
tive heath and that he would not at- different townships to the extent of
tempt to make a speech, that the peo- the amount of bonds owned by tne
pie knew him and that he knew them, people. Mr. Efird made a masterful
He thought the people were soon go- presentation of the whole situation
ing to settle the annexation question and received close attention,
satisfactorily. Mr. Shuler favors good At the conclusion cf his address, a
schools with the least possible expen- meeting was called for Friday, the
expenditure of the people's money. 19th, at 10 a. M., for the purpose of
He also favors good roads. chosing a representative to look after
OTHER CANDIDATES* the people's interest in the railroad
The candidates for County Treas- ... .
T ,, ? . j -d t t*7? The candidates spoke Thursday at
urer, J< M. Malpass and E. L. Wing- ^ '
. i u j j .. Hilton. Fndav at Chapm, Saturday
ard, spoke m the order named, the ' , . . T rr
t 4-u u- at Pine Ridge, Monday at Ioor Hayes,
former thanking the people for their , . .
. . *. , yesterday at A. Taylor .s and today at
votes two years ago and pleading for -L / , ... ,
. J . . nr TXT' A Pelion. At Chapin the candidates
their support again. Mr. Wmgard ^ A
promises to retire from the office after wef ed b^mofe thaff J*008"
another term and read a list of figures P^?P e* mos 0 ^ om ^wne to
which he compiled, showing the con- ear ongressman ever and to take
dition of the county's finances. a look at the man who is opposing
him. Dr. Ray was given a respectful
Mr, W. D. Dent. hearing, while the little Congressman
County Auditor Dent, who is running Was given the biggest ovation eyer
unopposed for re-election, spoke brief- accorded any candidate for political
ly, thanking the people for the confi- office in Lexington county.
dence repposed in him in the past and _
assuring them that he would continue Democratic ClllfjS.
to do his whole duty in the future.
, . . _ . . Representative Lever returned FriJudge
of Probate. . . , , . ,. ,
day night from the campaign by way
Mr. Iorr Hayes and Hon. George S. of automobile thoroughly drenched but
Drafts, candidates for Judge of Pro- triumphantly carrying two of the
bate, nest spoke. Mr. Hayes recited iufthi9
__ _ . , , country as a token of affection from
the fact tiiat Mr. Drafts has heid the people of Holly Hiil where he
office for 26 years, consecutively, and spoke on Thursday. The ears are
asked that he be elected in his stead 1 sixteen inches long, unusually
c ., , , ^ t-v ?* large in diameter and fully filled out.
for the next two years. Mr. Drafts After Ids speech M. C. Edwins on bethanked
his auditors and felt confi- half of the friends of the Congressman
3ent that he would again be their took the stand and in a speech compl>
ffioice on the 30th of August. mentary of the work done by Mr.
Lever for the agriculture of the State,
County Commissioner. presented these two ears of corn with
the admonition that they should bo
Messrs W. L. Addy, S. Rufus Smith, used by him as clubs with which to
fno. W. Smith, James Caughman,and beat down his enemies, and when not
D. A. Jefcoat, candidates for County used in this manner they should be for
. . ' , J him an inspiration for continued effort
Jommissioner, addressed tlie voters. jn behalf of the farmers of the State.
Mr. John G. Boozer, who is also a can- ?
jit-ate, was absent. Seemed to Give Him
For Magistrate. 3 New StOmaclr.
Wallace E Lorick, E. T. Ranch and "I suffered intensely after eating ar.d
r , TT OL , , . 4.u no medicine or treatment I tried seeinrohn
H. Shealey, who are m the race ed to do any good ? H M#
or Magistrate of the third district, Youngpeters, Editor of The Sun, Late
iresented their claims. Mr. Ranch is View, Ohio. **The first few doses cf
it present holding the position, and Chamberlain's Stomach and LiverTat,
t-i fovi 1- lets gay e me surprising relief and the
dessrs. Lorick and Shealey are seeking 8econd bottle geemed to gi ve me a new
o defeat him. This race promises to stomach and perfectly good health."
>e a spicy on3 and the winner cannot For 8 i^e Dealers,