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E H AULL, EDITOR. Entered at the Postoffice at New berry, S. C., as second class matt-er. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21. To Our Subscribers. We trust our subscribers will real ize the necessity and the importance of paying the small amounts they owe us. We must have money t6 meet our obligations and the only way we have of raising it is from those who owe us. The amount each one owes is small but in the ag gregate is a considerable sum to us. Suppose of the 2,ooo papers we send out i,5oo of them would pay us only one dollar each in the next ten days, you can readily see what a small matter it would be to each one and yet what it would mean for us. Will* not each one who is in arrears pay at least one year by the first of No vember. Good crops and fair prices make it easy for you to do so. As soon as you read this arrange to send or bring us' all or a part of what you owe. We have been lenient and have not worried you about this little mat ter but we need it now and need it bad. Come along and relieve the situation. The whole case rested on the iden tity of the writer of the note and the State failed absolutely to prove that Hoyt did write or that the unfortu nate woman did not write it. It was a reniarkable case, and as we ha* already said, the verdict was not the least remarkable feature. We hope our contemporaries will insist that in all cases justice should be done what ever the cousequences; that no vi carious sacrifices be demanded; that the jurors be urged to do their duty with honest purpose and that the mob spirit receive no encouragement from opponents of mob rule.-The State. No one should desire to see an innocent man ?unished, either by death or confinement. Justice is all that any good citizen could ask. If the whole case rested on the note was not thatquestion fully ar gued by the lawyers before the jury with all the witnesses before them. 'According to -the 'State :in this case the jury faiked in its* duty in finding a verdict as it did. 'A certan John Smith of the regular army has been united in marriage to a negress and his comrades in arms have asked that he be dismissed from the service. The matter is up to President Roosevelt. What will he do. He set the .example of social equality in the Booker Washington case. Will he stand to his friend Smith. The State executive committee of the Democratic party has ruled, in the Speegle-Walker contest from * Greenville county, that it has no jurisdiction in. an apbeal from the 'decision of the county committee. That may be a correct interpretation of the party's rules, but it is not a wholesome condition of affairs. There should be some final tribunal of appeal upon -local -differences and the tribunal sho.uld.. be2yooe removed from the influences, of .the contention as far as possible. This incident is but one of many w.hich show the un effectiveness of t.egrty constitution and rules. The whole fabric of the par * ty law should be. . rec.onstructed by some authority 3establislied for the purpose. And 'thei' the party rules ought to be put 'under the statute * 'law of the state.-Charleston Post. It does not strike us as a carrect * interpretation of the constitution of -the party but we agree with the Post that the party rules should be put under the statute law of the state and that the whole fibric should be re constructed. No one questions the honesty or the motive of the governor in his action in the Hoyt Hayes case. We are satisfied that he did what he con scientiously believed to be his duty. But if so much depended on the note in question the attorneys for Hayes, it seems to us, were derelict in their dut in not having the expert to testify before the jury. There is where this evidence should have been presented. Walker-Speegle Contest. The State executive committee of the democratic party holds in the Walker-Speegle contest case from Grenville that it has no juris diction. and the case stands where it was fixed by the Greenville com mittee which first declared Walker the nominee for supervisor and after wards reversed its decision and said Speegle had won by seven votes. The returns as they came in from the precinct managers gave Walker a small majority. Speegle contested the result and the committee threw out certain votes and by a strictly partisan vote the county commit tee, we are told, said Speegle had a majority of seven. The Walker side of the contest claims the com mittee refused to take up other pre cincts where Speegle had majorities so that they might show that more votes were cast than were on the club rolls. We do not know anything of the merits or demerits of this particular case but it does seem in keeping with our form and system of govern ment that there should be some ap pellate court to hear and review such cases. It seems from the decision of the state committee that it is based on rules of its own making rather than on the constititiOn of the party itself. It leaves the case in bad shape in Greenville county from all that we can hear. In fact we would not be surpri'ed to see the contest carried to the gin eral election which would be very unfortunate. ' If the committee had taken juris diction in the beginning of the case it could at least have thrown the mat ter back on the people by ordering an-.ther primary between these two opponents. The committee should change its rules so as to have appellate juris diction. Otherwise what has the committee to do at all with the coun ty primaries. The following is the constitution of the party on this question: The state executive committee shall meet on the Friday after each primary, or such other time as may be designated by the chairman to can vass the vote and declare the result as to all state officers, congressmen and United States senators. All contests for all nominations at pri mary elections shall be heard first by the county executive committee of the county in which such irregu larities may have occurred, and may be reviewed by the state executive committee, whose action shall be final. This it seems to us plain and gives authority to review the action *of a county committee and if the state committee has adopted any rule to the contrary it is in contravention of the law of the party. At the next session of the legisla ture, besides a chief justice, two circuit judges are to be chosen. One to succeed Judge D. A. T.ownsend of the seventh and one to succeed Judge Ernest Gary. We have long been of the opinion that judges should be as far removed from the political arena as possible and for that reason have been inclihed to the opinion that they should be chosen for life or during good behavior. That was our position before the revolution of 189o at which time the supreme court and circuit court judges were elected largely for factional and par tisan reasons. We thought and said then it was wrong. We still hold that opinion. Judge Townsend, it will be recalled, defeated that true patriot, scholarly judge, and noble and big hearted gentleman, Judge William H. Wallace, than whom no truer son of his state ever lived. Judge Townsend could not complain if he were replaced by some other gentleman of the bar of this circuit We do not say he should be. In fact it is not known that he will care to succeed himself. It will also be recalled that Ernest Gary declined to be a candidate in case that other golden hearted son of South Carolina, Judge Joseph B. Kershaw, desired to succeed himself. When he declined to be a candidate for reelection then Mr. Gary entered the race and was elected. He will stand for reelection at this term, though it is reported he will have wo or poesibly three nnnonent, Judge Gary has given entire satis faction to the bar of the state and is rarely reversed by the superior court. H.. will in all probability succeed himself. as he should. Even if in this life --ou can't set the river on fire. )erhaps you'll suc ceed in "burning the woods" when the vigilance committee gets after vou. Never mind the dark days. If the silver dollars rise and shine for us, what do we care for the sun? Keep Us Busy!. We have a great line of new fall goods to show you, and we want you to keep us busy waiting on you from now until Christmas. No such stock of Shoes, Hats, Pants, Underwear, Hosiery, Gloves, Neckwear, Urn brellas and Furnishing Goods, will be found at any place that ycu can find at our store. We have the newest and best things that are manu factured or imported, as soon as they are shown. Our Business Methods. Our aim in business is to deal hon estly with the trade and to sell them reliable merchandise at the lowest cash priWe do not care to do a credit business or to mark our goods on a credit basis, therefore, you will find in visiting our store that we ask you all one price, and that price you will find just as low, if not a little lower, than you can buy the same class of goods anywhere. It has been claimed by some that you cannot have one price in Newberry, that the people have en educated in late years to expect you to take less than you ask them at first; in other words, if you can afford to sell a shoe, or a hat, or a pair of pants at $2.00 cash, mark them $2.50, then if your customer asks you to charge them get $2.50, but if you can't get $2.50 or $2.25, take $2.00. This is not our way, and looking at it from our standpoint it would not be right, as we believe we owe it to our customers and to the trade to mark all our goods just as low as we can sell them and treat all alike. Let the change of a price be an excep tion rather than a rule, and by getting the volume of business, making a small profit on each one, win the confidence of the trade and hold it for years. We believe that the more you investigate our methods. the better you will like to trade with us, especially so, when you have orders to fill and haven't the time to look all around,. when you are so busy this fall, you can always feel sure that you are getting the right prices on everything you buy from us. SPECIAL. In order to induce you to concentrate your business with us, until further notice, we will allow you on all pur chases of ten dollars and over, made at one time, a cash discount of five per cent. Come and see us often. A. C. JONES, Proprietor. Win. F. EWART, Manager. Newberry, S. C., Sept. 29, '04 IT A WAI TO 1iAL~E The Union WAREHOUSE COMPANY OF Columbia, S. C., 1s Prepared to STORE COTTON IN Standard Ware houses and -to arrange Proper Cash Advances if you desire to hold your cott on details will be gladly supplied if you address Columbia, St C. S& S Now ready iness with 0 seasonable 5 dise of goo reasonable two big sto 0 Store nui D contains th 0 as well as t tial things S peals to t] heart, eVE here that 0 need Dress linery, S: mings, Nec derwear, L D mestics Ou * number tw goodshoes D Give us promise g ties, low p erable dea service. YourA & SI, Samnmn S I IS ONE T . QUALITY FIR! U .One that will not< cal in order to put a lower price than it c One that does; I thoroughly reliable i I One that keeps a tire stock, so that it want One that prepares I with the approval of I scribes it. 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