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consent, for Brunson will not perihit Jones to interrupt him. This intro duces a little ginger into the oTher wise very dry speech of Brunson. Jones charges him with having done nothing to get prohibition in his own county of Sumter, declaring that there is more gambling going on in Sumter than in any other town in the State except Charleston. Brunson says if there is gambling in Sumter he knows nothing about it, lie expres ses the wonder how Jones .knows about it, and lie intimates that he is not responsible for it if there is gam bling there. But lie does not waste much time on such unprofitable talk as this. He must hurry on in an im passioned, vibrant and really sonor ous voice to talk'about the "ruin and damnation upon the home of the poor drunkard,'' and to tell a very pathetic tale which illustrates this. Once upon a time two fellows went to town in a buggy together. One of them bought the liquor ''divvied'' up with his liquor, and they started home. He does not say whether the fellow who bought the liquor divvid up with his compainion or not, but as they were about half way home, the quart-o-lick er fellow cut the other fellow across the face with his knife. He died in a few minutes and they carried his body home in a wagon to his wife and four little children who all cried. Now the other fellow, who had Wought the quart o' licker and done the cutting had a wife and six little children, two more -than the other fellow. And *hey took him and put him in jail, 'luch to the chagrin and mortification pf the wife and six little children. They tried him, convicted him, and sentenced him to death. And Mr. Brunson pictures quite graphically and touchingly how the poor fellow kissed his fond wife and six children and went off to be hanged. It takes him about 10 minutes, or half of his time, to tell this tale. Then he begs the men on election day to take their little boys on their knees just before 4 going to the polls and, whenl they vote, vote for those little boys. H1e repres ented the little boys. Then he quietly and softly sits down amidst the tears. Up bobs Jones. ''Mr..Brunson, are you in favor of the Brice law?'' 'Yes, sir,'' answers Brunson in a tone of disgust at. the effort to spoil the effect of his pathetic tale. 'Then you are a loculopehnist, '' re torts Jones in triumph. W. A Edwards. Picture to yourself a man of small stature, very stooped-shouldered, dres sed carelessly, as they dress away out on the farm on Sunday, with a long keen nose, a loan, clean-cut, *lean-shaved face, deep-set eyes, and on gray hair. Picture him standing efore a curious audience with his nds behind his hack, crying out at t e top of a high. whiningvoice, ''You re sustaining a State government Which is uplholding corporations which ar'e sucking the life-blood out of the Peolhe of South Carolina.'' That's Edwards, wvho is also asking the peo lpto make him governor of South -rolina. He is against trusts. ''I ~ve attackted the trusts,'' he says. : ~A few years ago Edward had an ex ~rienee in thle courts. He brought it against the Southern railroad for '\~overcharge or for damages of sonme d. Judge Benet had beeni appoint judge to p)reside at that term of urt. E~dwardcs called attention to fact that Judge Benet was an at rney for the Southern railroad and ked that the case be tried before thrJudge. Judge Benet sus jnded the case over night and next yannounced that he would sustain Cobjection and rule himself incom nt to sit in the case. This. is the qien of Edwards' song. ''Pretty eof affairs!'' he declaims; ''the tare corrupt. There is other or'ption besides the dispensary.'' p:~~~~Vays lie thinks South Carolina S)t to be divorced from the dis ry tatat first lhe had hoped ~ 4~of it, but lie is now convinced proved a failure. Yet lie de .~ that other departments of the m #~ient also need cleaning; we ~ clean men in office, who will ~Xe all thlie laws. ''Even the rot Mspensary,'' lie declares, ''would 6 etter if you had officers who S ~1~lenforce the law.'' He is a very at~ man, is Edwards, and he has ok of sincerity about him. He ie is but a jarmer, unaccustomed king speeches and that he is run hi this race only from a sense of S It is his painful duty, lie an s,to tell the people that there y corruption besides that in the (sary. The people .are a down 4e lot, and he feels it his bound to come to their relief and de tiemn for their oppressors. '4t$~:~ ?f my associates jocularly sug ,whenthssreof'gid' LQo. Sloan, I should not get any t,but devote all of the space * to him. This is not the rea son the colonel comes last. The can didates are taken i) itlphabetically and as nearly as possible the sam< amount of space is given to each. A. 0. Jones. There are three things in the work that are certain, and probably onl: three: that the rooster's crowing ii the tw,ilight of the morning causes th, sun to rise; that a high protectiv4 tariff causes pr9sperity; and that A C. Jones caused the passage of th< Brice law, and the voting out. of dis pensaries in 15 counties of South Car olina. ''These are my je-%els,' lie de claims with the perspiration sputter ing. from his face as the strikes thl table with his fist. The jewels ar< the 15 prohibition counties, which h< hould out in his arms and dramatical ly yet tenderly lays at the feet of th< audience. But before lie gets to thi! part he has made such a tremendou speech about other things and ha worked himself up to such a pitch o: excitment and got himself so boarsi you can scarcely understand what h< is saying. Yet you can tell lie is mak ing a big speech and that he is ver; earnest by watching him. He start out by saying impressively, ''I stoo, in '76 with Hampton and Gary and (Here insert some local hero of '76 to overthrow negro Iule in South Cal olina.'' There is a slight pause to giv opportunity for applause. Then h tells of how he is in favor of immi gration, of a State board of arbitra tion, of raising the salaries of Stat officials, of denying lobbyists the pri vilege of the floors of t:he legislature particularly lie declaims how that h stands for education-for State col leges, denominational colleges and th common schools. ''Let it be the ain bilion of every mother in this Stat that her boy shall be as good as ever; other boy," is one of the sentence with which lie strikes the table an, jars the prespiration off of his fae< This is the way lie leads up to Brini son and ''licker,'' which seem to b his two pet abominatious in this cani paigIn. Brunson, lie says, is no prohi bitionist. Here it is lie has cause prohibition in 15 counties and Brur son has ''lain down like Jonah unde the ioird' and not even circulate a petition to vote out the dispensar in his own county of Sumter. Besidc he says, there are gambling places i Sumter and lie can go and point thei out to Brunson. But lie also assail some of the other candidates, when i has tinie. He says Blease is the moE consistent dispensary mian in the k and tells the people if they are in favc of the dispensary to vote for Bleas, But he wound up his speech on at lea. one day with this: ''If you vot against. me you vote to carry dow every man who stands for the hom( in South Carolina.'' And with this hi came iear jarring two water pitchei and glasses off the sland, cansin those sittin near the stand to dod and (lie people, in the audience ti loo in silent wonderment as lhe took hi seat. Jonh J. McMahan. McMahian says lie would not bi running for governor at all but fo. the fact that he feels very earnestl the need of better educational advar tages in the State, especially in th rural districts. He varies his speee: slightly from day to day, but thier arc not evidences that lie plans astute ly to catch the particular crowv Sometimes he takes up fully half o his speech on education, leaving onl; ten minutes for the discussion o ''licker,'' though at other times hi talks ''licker'' most of the time, a the others do. He says the solutioi of all questions, the ''licker'' ques tion included, lies in education, an< lie calls attention .to the fact that a superintendent of education lie advo cated thie' improvement of schools cs p)ecially along industrail and agricul tural lines, and put into operatioi certain forces which now' are workinj good. He tells the People that no one jot or one title of his interest it those things has abated, but that rath er his zeal is increased and lie want: opportunity to do something fol them. McMahian speaks vecry rapidly, at i: lie would comp)ress many mighty thoughts into the 20 minutes allottet to him. And as he sings out th< sometimes ra ther' labyrinth ian1 sen tences, in his tenor voice, shaking hi! big head from side to side and raising up and down his outstretched arms -palms of the hands upward, those whc watch him are impressed with th( great earnestness of the man, anil they are made to feel that the piercing brown eyes which flash from right tc left are looking far into the heights and depths of things and that theli direction is toward the star of hope, ''Licker'' is a matter of comparative. ly small importance to him. ''I be lieve in temperance in all things,' ho says, ''and tobacco and gluttony are evils as well as whiskey. I be hoeve in the dispensary as it was orig inally designed to be, a step toward nrQhibition."' He decanres he is an - advocate of true temperance anda trui advocate of temperance, and holdi that there never would be prohibitior now in nearly half of the countie, of the state if it had not been foi i the dispensary law, which, by abolish. r ing barrooms and otherwise restrict. Ving the evils of whiskey, prepared th people for prohibition. And he car 3 see no reason why the other countieE in the State should not have the dis 3 pensary if they want it till they ar( - conveinced that the time has come foi - them to vote, under the Brice law - which he favors-to abolish it. '' - want the people' to run the dispen 3 sary and not the dispensary to rut the people,'' he says. ''I deplore th< commercial spirit of the age, whicl - has led men through greed into graft.' 3 ''The man who betrays a trust in pub lie office is worse than one who i4 3 guilty of treason in time of war.' 3 Recently MeMahan has attacke< P Manning-'"attacked'' is the wa: 3 such a thing is usually put, though it 3 fact it is not an ''attack.'' He say, - Manning is supported by the dispen i sary officials, number of whom hav( a been proved corrupt and none o I whom are above suspicion. He de - elares that Manning is in a sense th' Iespecial champion of the dispensar; - ''machine'' or ''clique,'' that if elect 3 ed he will owe his election to thi D crowd, which, he says, would be un - fail both to Mr. Manning, ''who is I - high man,'' and to South Carolina 3 foir the governor would be under obli - gations to the clique. 'MeMahan believes in the State o e South Carolina; he believes in him self; and he believes that it would b 3 mutually beneficial if the two coul - get together on sonme kind of busi eness proposition that would make hir V governor. He wants to be the senio s member of the firm, though, ''I'r no as-you-like-it candidate,'' he ex claims. Tie honor of a position is i the way you ,xet it. and how you fil eit.'' Richard I. Manning. ''I suppose my friend, Mr. Brunso would tell you there is no good liquo but. only bad liquor. worse and wor. but I feel quite sure, as I look int your faces, that sonie of von take th positioni that. there is no bad lique s but good, better and best.'' so sai Maiiiinini very cleverly at Chesterfiel While he was only% in one of his littl by-pathls, uidertakini to make son: e ueieonis as to how to insure a -oo Squality of whiskey in the dispensari< it expresses the key-note to Manning whole at titude on the dispensary que tion. ''We all know that liquor is a evil,'' lie says, 'I'h t if there are pei ple enough in South Carolina to drin up three or four million dollars wort s of it annually besides that Which the get fronm the jug trade and from blin tilers, is it. reasonable to suppose thi tle )Ceople will give up their taste-? H 1e declares that since people are g< in to have ''lieker.'' those who aI raising this ''hue and cry' ' again:~ thle dispensary should offer sotmethin practical in its stead.'' Hie answei e thie chtatge that hie has not alway r been in favor of the dispensary b)y d< V elaring that while lie voted for prt - hibition in the legislature of 380 e his county had so instructed him. Thi 1 dispensary bill passed. ''We reco; e nizedl the law and saw thte b)enefits c - the dispeunsary.'' Nowv he believe 'the dispensary the very best solutio Sof the liquor problem for every cor V ty.'' HeI asks the people to give caln d (ispassiona te consideration to t hi e question. He gives a calm, dispas a sionate consideration to it. himselj Manning is red-headed and lie come - from the Gamecock county; no douh he has hot blood in his veins; bu they warm only his heart ; his brai - is cool. And however hasty may b - his imp)ulses, hasty speech is niot on - of his traits. Hi-s ever kindly, genti manners htave a fit companion in hi calm judicial type of mind. Both o these ore with him when lie speaks an, are expressed scarcely more in hi e lear and simple sentences than in hi genial face, his cleatr blue eyes, hi soft musical- voice and his easy grace ful gestures. ' Manning wastes lit tle time in pre liminaries, and none at all in empt: compliments. IHe gets rit. down t< 'lieker from the start. As a rule,i is at the end that lie tells his audiene< that the offie of governor is an ''ad ministrative one'' and that lie cai hold out no hope of immediately imn proving their lot ; that lie has no ''neu system of laws,'' no ''radical mnas uires'' to offer them, but that h< stands for the enforcement of exist ing laws and the improvement of ex. isting laws where they need improve. ment. He answers MrMahan 's charg< that lie is supported by the dispen sary ''nmachi.nie'' or ''clique'' by say. ing that Ito has said nothing and donc nothing to influence in any improper way this vote. HeI says thant lhe does ntot even know if the dispensar'y off cials are supporting him, but e hopes (Continned on 1Nifh Pae It is hard for the man who enjoys ithree square meals a day to pose as a pessimist. When je.lousy gets busy love takes a vacation. Too many people talk in one direc tion and act in another. A sensible girl draws the line at cigarette-flavored kisses. 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