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*PROHIBITIONISSTS PROTEST.I Representatives of Citizens' Club of Union Allege Many Irregular ities-4Count of Vote Defer red. Union, Ihec. 31.--On account of al- i leged numerous irregularities: at the majority of precincts in this county in the election held last week as to whether prohibition should coi tinue 1 or a county dispensary should be es tablished, the prohibitionists today filed a protest against the declaring of the election by the -board. of can vassers. wiidh had met for.the pur pose of talbulating th}e official vote. Aecording to the rdturns as gather ed by local newspapers, the dispen sary had a mapority of 11 votes out of 1,217 cast. It is currently report ed that in a large number of pro. cinets registration certificates and tax receipts were not required to he produced as the statute lays down, f that vo ?rs cast their ballots in -other precincts than that named on their reeistration certificate,- that one or more of the precincts did not open promptly at the hour specified andl therefore several voters were depriv ed of the privilege of voting. The protest. which was made in the name of 28 or more members of the Citizens' club, was filed by Attor neys J. A. Sawyer and Jno. K. Ham blin for the prohibitionists after. the board of canvassers had organized, t but before they lad begun the offi cial" tabulation of the vote.- After presenting their - arguments Messrs. B. F. Townsend and J Gordon Hugh es representing. interested parties whose names have not yet been made public, contended that the vote should be counted and the election deelared. However, the board of canvassers af ter.hearing both sides agreed to defer the count until next Monday at 10 a. m., when the board will meet and receive statements from both sides as to any irregularities that might have prevailed. It is understood that there is a strong probability that in the event the prohibitionists suceed in throw- J ing out the vote at the precincts t which are named in their protest and .1 which went strongly for the dispen- i sary, the advocates of the 'establish- .t ment of the dispensary 'here will con test the legality of the vote as cast at Jonesville and Cross Keys, both , of which went by a large majornty for prohibition. In such event, if it * is narrowed down strictly, it seems that Union .precinct is really the only one where the law was fully complieda. with, and under the vote as first counted this would give prohibition a a majority of eight votes, but the likelihood is that the whole election ; will be declared void, and if this is done, a num!ber of persons who have lookied into the law are of the opin- - ion that as the special provision for holding an election specified that it should be held in 1907, and as anoth er election can not be ordered andt held in 1907. this precluies an elec tion being held prior to August, 1909, whiebh would be the end of four years from the date when,prohibi-j tion was voted in and which was originally provided for in the Brice act, the law under which the :elec tion was first held. The protest filed is as follows: t "The State of South Carolina- < County of Union. "To Messrs. John W. Gregory, Levi W. Smith and J. Ben Tinsley, Corn-< missioners of election for st.ate of-i fleers, etc., and by virtue thereof, .5 constituting the board of county t canvassers for Union county, m n said state. "On behalf of S. M. Rice, Jr., E. UI., George H. Oetzel, H. B. O',Shields,1 W. F. Walker, George S. Kirby, L. L. -1 Wagnon, and 27 othrer residents, citi-i zens and taxpayers of Union, in the county and state aforesaid, most of< whom~ are real estate owners and are the heads -of families of small chil dren residing in said town, county and state, the undersigned hereby en ter a protest for the purpose of con testing the legality of the election held in the county and state afore said, on the 27th day of December, 1907, upon the question wvhether hi-t quors and beverages mnay be sold in said county or not. The grounds of said contest being as follows:. "1. That th'ere was not provided at each, or any voting precinct in '3 said county two ballot boxes in which 1 the ballots must be east. 4 "2. That tihe voting at 'the follow ing namned precin'ets was illegally1 conduted and the ballots east there at hereinafter set forth, Gibbs, Buf- 'i falo Mills, Excelsior Knitting Mills,1 Adamsburg, Kelt~on, Black Rock, Coeraine, Lockhart Mills and San tue; the reasons being (a) that at the Gibbs box the managers of election were never sworn, neither were any of the voters sworn. "(b) That at tieither of the box -s .bov mentioned were all the vo eri regC!.ir.l to prone(e a '0gistra 1n c':ni'at( o!.'i tax rceip: Show ng the payment of all taxes assessel 1.rainlst them for the previous year. (c) That in the case of Excel ior Knitting Mills preeinet none of ;he voters exhibited or held a regis ration certificate for said precinet. " (d) That' in a num!ber of said pre ilnets men were allowed to vote who ,ere not.registered at said precincts, )ut held registration certificates for omne other precinet; especially was his true as to Adams burg, Buffalo 'ills and Excelsior Knitting Mills ) >re.ciaets. " That at some of the precincts he. polls .were not opened as requir !d by law, -especially as to time, 'es )ecially was this the case at Santuc ud Black Rock precincts. "In view of the fact that the elee ion was held on Friday last, and al- 1 o that Monday was so very incle ent, a hard rain failing during the ncrning hours, we have been unable o coileet the proof of all the illegali- E ies and irregularities charged: and herefore respectfuily ask your board o receive this protest and adjourn he hearing to some future day, thus tllowing us as well as any contes ees to prepare and submit proof of he above charges. "Wherefore, the contestants here n ask that your board declare said i leetion illegal, null and. void; and n any event that you-r board will row out and disregard the returns Lnd ballots of any and all preeineas It whieh you may find the election to i iave 'been illegally and imlproperly onducted. "J. A. Sawyer, "John K. Hamblin, "Attorneys for Contestants." FINAICIAL CRISIS PASSED lomptroller Ridley Reviews Condi tions for the Year Just Closing, Saying That the World Has Been Overtrading and Expending. Washington, Dec. 31.-W. B. idgley, comptroller of the currency, oday gave out a statement dealing argely with financial conditions dur ng the year 1907, in which he says 1 hat the conditions which made this risis possible are the accumulated 'omposite results of many years of usiness. The whole-world has been ( vertrading and expandling and no rhere has it been more rampant than C : the United States. The reaction i ra.s inevitable and, though it mightt tt have taken the form of a bank 1 anie, had we 'been better prepared t pith such a banking and currenicy I vstem as we should have, the time ; Las come wheni some or all must pay or our overindulgence. C "It is the duty of the banks,'' says< he comptroller, "to restore busi tess to normal conditions by resum ng their functions as promptly and I ms fully as possible. Fortunately here is not only the strongest desire mnd disposition on the part of th 1 )anks to do this but conditions are] uh as to marke it comparatively I asy, and to lead us to expect a much] nore prompt recovery than has fol- I owed other similar financial crises.< "IThe reports of the comptroller i how that the reserves in the een-< ral reserve cities were but 22.2 per v ent. against the legal requirement i >f 25 per cent. The 40 reserve cities how 24.72:per cent. of legal reserve, r almost the full lega'l minimum, chile their total cash means are !6.55 per cent. of their deposits. Of he 40 cities, 21 show legal .reserves Ibove 25 per cent., while 10 of them how over 30 per cent. of legal re erve and all but eight of them show nore than 25 per cent. of total cash neans.' T-he largest reserves are n the Texas cities; Galveston and san Antonio showing over 38 per cent >f legal .reserve and Galveston over k per cent- of total cash m'eans. 'There is not one state which jes not show an excess of reserve bove legal requiremenlt of 15 per ent and an increase in legal reserve ind total cash means on Dee. 3, mbove those held on Aug. 22. "Although the central reserve ci ies have received through imports of* old and otherlwise. certainly as nuch as $150,000,000. probably con iderably more, it has been paid out nd their reserves paid down to 22.2 ar cent with the failure of a single ank in one of the central reserve From Oct. 20 to Dec. 30, 1.907, here have been but 16 suspenSions >r failures of national banks. Of ;hes'e, two have resumed, and several nore should do so in the very near 'utue. "Contrast this with the panic of 93. when 160 nat:ional banks fail ad and of these 54 were never re pen'ed. The total number of ntion 1 bank' failures for 1907 is 21 and1 his number has been exceedel~ many ime n yers when we have had 1tiiiil,. Wvlijll eUUld U c alic(J p l: e. Thle b-m.iks are in better Co11di .i on Jn111. 1, 190S, tiai they evel era after .:ucl a crisis. The report: ,t condition of the national banks ;how that from Aug. 22 to Dec. 'l individusl deposits decreased but 142,000,000 or about 3 1-4 per cent; vhile the decrease in cash on haJ vas but .940,000.000 and the increasc n bills payable and rediscounts wa. bout $42,000,000. "'Since Dec. 3, the central rese: res have steadily increased and the lisappearance of any premium on urrency in the last few days shows hat the strain is relieved. Most of ,he reserve cities are up to their 1a ;a1 requirements, many of them fai LOVe it, and the country banks as a vihule are in the damc xiito. "We have had a very severe bank >anic. It might, however, have been vorse and wonud have been much vorse, but for the aid given by the rcasury department and some of he leading financial men of the ountry. It would seem but a fair conclu ion that the acute bank trouble is )ast; that payments may be and in act are being resumed so rapidly hat normal conditions of payment ind remittances may be now assured. "The panic is over and the worst s past, but we have a long period of eadjustment .and recuperation be ore us. "Values of all kinds will have to e rearranged. We shall have more ndustrial and commercial failures, nd probably some more bank fail ires. We shall have to go through period of retrenchment and liquida .ion, but there is reason to believe it vill not be so long or trying as- it ias been at' other times. We have tad a money panic as bad as 1893, ut the fundamental strength of con litions has ena'bled us to stand the urtailment of credits, and disar -angement of domestic exchanges vith far less disastrous results than n 1893. "After we have paid our debts and educed our expenses, the great re ources of the land will revive our usiness, let us hope, on a more ound and enduring basis than ever iefore." - Grandfather Ansel. Well, who'no living in South Car lina has 'ever heard of a grandchild n the governor's mansions. Not since he War of Secession has thi been :nown. But there is happiness at he mansion no'w, for the news comes 'rom Florida that Gov. Ansel is a rand fathgr. Abd no grandchild erhaps ever had grandfather more f the type. Kindly, t'houghtful and -onsiderate, the governor of South arolna is the very kind of mar v'hom children would love. It has een remarked frequently since G'ov. nsel came into office that he was uh a considerate host whenever he tad gone any-where with an official >arty and that he is albvays "as asy as an old shot''in gny company It would be a pretty question for he lerk of the state historical 'so iety or some other deliver into his or to find out if there were many f the governors of the state 'whc vere grandfathers at the time that hev were chief executives. O'Neall Union. There will be a rrneting of O'Neal1 armers' union, at 0O'Nieall school iose, on Friday, January 3, 1908, it 3 o'clock p. m. All memrbers are reques'ted to be present without fail. John L. Hunter, IPres. Utopia Farmers Union. The Ut-opia Farmer's Union will neet at :the Utopia school house or F'riday afternoon at three o'clock anuary 3, 1908.. A full attendanc( >f the members is desired as busines 'f i:portance is to be transacted and !eeates to the county union to be ked. Beth Eden Union. The members of Beth Eden Far ner's Union are requested to meet at hong Lane school house at three >'lock-, Friday afternoon, January C. S. Suber, Pres. Chris Folk, Sec. Attention Pensioners. I will be in the auditor's office each sturday in Jainuary, 1908, to pre fre pension app11ieations, tihe ap >licants can ceall at the office now and get the blanks. Old pensioners dc 1o have to apply except where they ire entitled to a raise to a higher -!alSS. Thje lat Saturday iln January s the last day to prepare applica PnsiGi Commisioner. FOR AL'. CREATIQN Flor a/I Aches and Pains in / . , Man and 8eodf(/SE {/ tRADE MARK and deaer,2c. Money rended i tfasiitodo aU claimed. NoarREMEDYCO..Boton,Mas.,U.S.A. 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