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E. H. ACLL, EDITOR. Wn,-red at the Postoffice at New berry, S. C., as second class matter. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1905. Our Mayor. Gee whiz! Our mayor is mad! He seems not to like the appellation "distinguished." We thought he woke up one morning titer writing some letters and found himself fa mous. We said in our editorial that we were willing to admit for the -sake of the argument that he vas a great and good man and that our questions were asked in the dust of humility and we implored the right to come unto his presence. We did this re membering that on a former occasion he denied us the right to be heard in his council-[he right which we thought belonged to every citizen. But we beg pardon for calling- him "distinguished." Maybe he is not. It is very kind of him to give us a "belated item of news." We are de lighted that he thinks 'we were "courteous." We intended to be. But our "feelings".are not "hurt" nor did we have an "injured tone" and his haste to exonerate us by saying we were not there is purely voluntary and we assure him that -we did not nor will we call on him for a clean bill of health. We asked some plain questions which he fails utterly to answer and shows an ignorance -of the law, which surprises us. He is more innocent and pure than we ever dreamed, He has "never been in a bucket shop" and does "not know the nature of the business." And yet as the ch'ef executive of this city he sat in council on the 4th day of January of this year, put his name as mayor to an ordinance which reads in part. "exchange, bucket shop (firm, individual or corporation) car rying on the business of dealing in options or futures in cotton, grain, p;ovisions or supplies, on margins or otherwise, $30." And he didn't know what he was doing! And he asked the citv attorney if it could be revok ed! And the matter is undcr con ideration! And the bucket shop is doing business at 'the same stand under a license from our good d great mayor! And he wants s *point o.t the law! I he will read the civil code at page -874 'he will see that " ~gambling contracts and contracts oif sale for future delivery" are treated under the same chapter. If he will take the trouble to read some of the de cisions of our suprem'e court he will find that 'bucket shops" such as call -ed for in his license, ordifiance are dealt wi'th as "gambling." And yet he says "dhe law makes it a crime to play cards for money" and "treats the 'bucket show as a legitimate busi ness." Such innocence is refreshing. Maybe he means his towg law. That can't be, for he says vou must go to the legislature for a remedy. And vet he says it will never be li censed again. If it is a legitimate business how are you going to with hold the liernse. In one breath he holds it legitimate as an excuse tor the license and in the next says he will not do it again. We will leave him to explain the consistency of that position and to say if he does not convict himself of permitting, whether winking at or rot, one spec ies of gambling, while he is trying to break up another. The Herald and News is against both, and we do not claim even to approach in great . ness and goodness our distinguished mayor. His answer to our question is tame and self-convicting. As to betting on baseball he does not know anything .about it and wants us to furnish the evidence to his chief of police. If he and all of his officers will testify that they never saw any betring on 'baseball and have no knowledge of it, then we will be willing to say there was none. It got so open that one of' the preachers made it the subject of his Sunday morning discourse. And yet the mayor and his policemen never heard of it and want some one to act inform er. See what b'ackbone he imputes to himself. "It will make no differ ence to me, who gets hurt." But no one has got 'hurt" because no one has acted informer. Surely the mayor San oicmen muer have been deaf stated that he had licensed it in one place and pulled it in another. Know ing his acute ability and acumen to draw fine moral distinctiofns we asked hin if one was right and the other wrong and if he would be kind enough to explai.n the differences. He gei mad and tries to slur the edi tor. That doesn't answer the que! tion. We shall be very sorry to place our good mayor in the attitude of a dodger on great moral questions and to have our faith in his purity shaken. The papers seem greaEly concerned ab,ut the recent election in Newberry county on the dispensary. Some of tie papers seem determired to make it: a protest or contest of the elec tion. hcre has been no doubt at any time since the election was ordered as to what the result would be. The were tired of the way the state Institution was run and many persons who believe :he system prop erly managed is alright voted against the dispensary. and many who are opposed to prohibition also voted against the dispensary because they believe that is the shortest road to a license system. The Herald and News has been against the statedis pensary but believes that if the mat ter were left fo county control that, the dispensary system is the lesser of the evils. We would let each coun tv sav wha: it wanted under the con stitution-dispensary, prohibition or license. But we started out to say for the benefit of th6se so much interested that we have heard no intimation of a contest and we do not believe there will be any con'test or protest in this county and there shou?d be none. The people, have spoken against the dispensary in very decided tones and their verdict should stand until reversed in the same manner it was written in the recent election by a ballot of the people and it will stand. All good citizens should as sist in the enforcement of the law. Let us have prohibition and give it a fair trial. If it reduces the evils of the abuse of the whiskey habit then it is a good thing. The result would have been the saie if there had not been a speech made or a line written during the campaign. The developments before he investigating committee probably changed a few voters who were in clined to stand to the dispensary. Mr. B. G. Landrum, chairman pf the county board of liquor control for Spartanburg county, has been trying to resign but insists on send ing the resignation to the governor because .the governor signed the comn missi.on, and the governom~insists that he Nas nothing to do with the ap poitrment and therefore 'has no pow er to accept the resignation. Mr. Landrum says he will have nothing to do with the county board and if the governor does not accept the resig nation the matter must rest there. In his position we think the gov ernor is right. He has an opinion from the attorney sustaining the po sitioin he has taken. The only difference between the m 'ral perspective of our distinguish ed mayor and the editor of The Herald and News is that he licenses gamb lbng of cotton futures and permits betting on intercollegiate baseball and condemns betting on cards while 1we hold all to be morally wrong. , Nobody expects our mayor to "funk." The Herald and News has Only asked him to do his duty. We hope he will not force us to conclude that he has "flunked" as :to the bucket shop and intercollegiate base ball. We are betting on him standing to the rack like a man, fodder or no fodder. If the state dispensary should be abolished, what- would be done with all that liquor?-Pee Dee Advocate. What will you do with it if tlie institution is kept going? Many a man who is unable to do 'the things he would is too lazy to do the things he could. Whiat a pity that the truth is the most disagreeable thing one can say and blind or winked at The betting on baseball. if it did not come under their notice. e o not want Policeman Koon dscharged. \We have never intimated anyti.Ingy of :he kind. lIe is our friend. \We want 1,in to use his step ladder on some other places around town. That is the poin*c we iade in our edi torial. but our good mayor makes his reply personal. As to wlhat cons:itutes gambling is not a question. for we never endorsed gambling in any shape. We just wanted to know where the mayor drew the distinction. it might be said, however, that the gentlemen who were arrested deny that there was any money on the table and state that they were not summoned to ap pear before the mayor on the -day they were tried, nor at any other time. The Herald and News was not nag ging, but simply asked some plain questions. The mayor gets mad and attempts to be personal. He can'E answer our questions and square him self with the moral questions involv ed. So he says he is reminded of a story an'd we suppose means to apply it to the editor. We are reminded of the 23rd chapter 6f St. Matthews: "Woe unto you:, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; for ye devour widows; and for a pretense make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damna tion." "Woe unto you, Scribes and Phari sees, hypocritles,; for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the p latter, but within They are full of ex tortion and excess." "Lend a hand" yourself an-d don't license gambling places and.wink at betting on inter-coll'egiate baseball. The Rock Hill Record in a recent issue in speaking of Mr J. 3. Hull's successor who has just assumed edi rorialc.barge of the Rock Hill Herald has the following to say of the editor in general which is so true, especially of the coun'try editor, that we copy it with our endorsement of its truth fulness: He will make enemies who will not forget him and friends who will forger him as, soon as they have got ten all put of him they require. And yet-ind yet-the glamour of the newspaper holds its victims hard down to the unthankful and poorly compensated task. There are those who think we :ae compensations-a 25 cent show ticket, for instance, for $2.0o wvorth of adver:ising: an annual pass over :h ralways. which we never get a chance to use, 'because we must 'hold our noses to the grindstone if we would make enough money (and col iet it) to buy a meal or a load of wood, especially the wood.. We must, for, nothing, take up and make the fight on various things for thosel who have not the courage to do it for themselves. We must "boom" the town, and get nothing Tor it. Like the doctor, we must wait until the people pay all other bills before :hey will pay the printer. We must 't.ake the kicks of those h do not like our printed opinions .1l borrow the telescope irom the "government observatory to dis ver the 'praise of those who really do approve of us. Oh! yes, the lot of the editor is a happy one-whe,re an amount of work is done which if turned inl the chan nels of ordinary commercial pursuits would earn' a handsonge competence. But we have our "free" passes. Mr. John Wood is the successor of .r. Hull and we welcome him to the ranks and wish him an abundance of t~e good things of 'this earth and his -cwad hereafter. We had not heard of Mr. Hull's death until our return from the Paci tic coast. He was one of the m-embers o the press among our acquaintance w'en wve frst attended the meeting )f the Press"association. We knew and admired him. He was true to his friends and a worthy member of the profession he adorned. We regie: his death and exten-d our sympathies o his family in the loss they 'have sustained. The Herald and News never inti mated that our distinguished mayor was "winking" at gambling in one COST ~OF. Summei We have a smart and dainty mer Footwear, fords, Tans and that we are sellin, means a rare < persons desiring liable shoes for tI $3.50 Shoes 3.00 2.50 2.00" 1.50 When in iiee Remer c.& G.S. A THE PLACE FOR RI JNO. M. KINARD, 0. B. MA President. Vice. 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