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CANDIDATES AT KERSHAW. Maj. RIchards Well Received In His - Home County-How the Other Office Seekeri Fare. William Banks ir. Ta- St%tC. Camden, June 28.--Tri candidates for State office ve:e tcday In the home county of a eindidate popular with his fellows- inz. G. Richards, Jr. And if the people o; this couaty could name the next go-ternor, Rich ards would be the rian. The attendance today was fairly good, largely as i tribute to .sij. Richards, as the grass is i:1 the fields and the farmers are fi!hting hard. It so happened that Maj. Richards' name was first on the list of speakers .today. He made no r:fgular si.eech, but thanked his friends fc: the.r sup port in the past. Careful attention was given every speaker and all were applauded but there was no mistaking the fact that Kershaw wants to have the next gov ernor. The audience was composed largely of Camden people and was above the usual in intelligence. Hyatt Makes Impression. Mr. Hyatt today delivered a vigor ous speech, which made an impres sion. Blease and Featherstone tried to play sweethearts with Richards at home. Blease and Featherstone call ed. att4ntion to trivial mistakes in the State in their zeal to show their de votion to Maj. Richardsa Feather stone says it was not he but some -friend who exclaimed "the vilest sin ier may return," etc., when Rich - ards came into the prohibition fold. At Chesterfield Mr. Featherstone re peated it with so much gusto that he appeared to indorse it. The correc tion is made for what it is worth. One of Blease's objections was that he had been referred to as critic ising "tricky" lawyers who keep cas es in the courts and criminals out of the pen. His word really was "shrewd" lawyers, but the force and effect of his argument was applica ble. Seek to Make Good., These are some of the ways can didates seek to make good with the people. Some of them declare: "I think the issues in -this campaigii ought to 'be so-and-so, but 'certain newspapers' make licker the issue." In the meantime they carefully omit to state that each one has a perfect ly beautiful platform in which liquor is the most conspicuous plank, and that the newspapers have nothing to do with making platforms and issues. These appeals find a few who are taken in, but those who read the newspapers know full well the spe ciousness and cheapness of the "ar guments." Meeting Opens. The meeting was opened with prayer by Rev. Air. Rowan. This was the third meeting at which prayer had been offered. The first speaker was Jno. G. Rich ards. Jr., who was at home and was given a great send-off. He said that he would not make a speech, and complimented his opponents. He does not need to plead to these peo .ple. .He was .born and had b,een reared on Kershaw county soil. He stands for economy, educational ad vancement, sobriety and the upbuild ing of the citizenship of the State. He had been well treated by the~ peo *pie of Kershaw. .The history and tradition of Kershaw county are dear to him, and if necessary, he would lay down his life to serve the people * of this county. If entrusted with the office of governor he would never do anything that would reflect dishonor upon the State. The news that is go ing out from the country through which they had traveled is that the man who is governor would have to beat Richards. -Thanks for Support. He tha,nked the people for sup porting him in the past and for their unanimous indorsement in the recent county convention. Maj. Richards closed amid a genuine ovation. The next speaker was Cole - L. Blease, who in opening, said Maj. Richards, had been making a strong, earnest plea throughout the country through which they had passed, and bad been making a fine impression, and yet. he declared, the ri. spapers were trying to freeze out of this race the other candidates and to make it appear that there are but two can didates-McLeod for local option and Featherstone for prohibition. . Regular Speech. He continued his regular speech against compulsory education. He would not injure the schools in any way, but he thinks there is some ex travagance. All are sagreed on some of the issues. The newspapers are keeping the people befuddled on the real issues. On the liquor question be declared for local option. Laws against murder, arson, theft, do not prohibit, but when they are violated the offenders are hunted down. Vio lators of prohibition can go around with the stuff in their hip pockets. 'Ihe proper way is to let public sen +inen retian thc law. Th're are other questions which are of impor tance. One is the effort to disfran chise thousands of white voters. This is b-.ng pushed by certain newspa pars and he opposes it. Against Restriction. He argued against the proposition to be brought up in the "next legis lature to require registration certifi c.ttes in primary elections. He de clared that the rights of the voters are abridge enough now. He spoke of the vote for governor two years ago. He carried Newberry, Laurens. Saluda and that part of Lexington contiguous. He did not use the word "free nigger" in his speech today. John T. Duncan was the next speaker. He received great applause when he declared that he would be elected governor on the first ballot. Mr. Featherstone found a number of friands in Camden. He and Maj. Richards, who have been trying to read each other out of the prohibition ranks, seemed to have agreed to let quarreling alone, for no references of that kind were made. Useil His Jokes. Mr. Featherstone got off four of his fine jokes well and had the crowd enjoying them. The application of his jokes is always apropos and fixes a point in the minds of the hearers. Mr. Featherstone struck a keynote with these &people when he declared for an educated citizenshi nd for law and order. He declareX in favor of good roads, good schools, biennial sessions of the legislature and elect ing State and county officers every four years. Mr. Hyatt spoke very earnestly to day. - He comes into tha race not as a politician but as a business man. :aer things are as important to be discussed as prohibition, but some of these fellows wouldn't know what to talk about and couldn't run for gov arnor if it wasn't for prohibition. "No ratches." "I am the only man in the race who has no.windshakas and patches in a prohibition platform," he said. "I never supported the State dispen sary; I never supported local option. I learned prohibtion at my mother's knee and have practiced it all niy life. Twenty years ago I put, my hand in my pocket to assist Capt. L. D. Childs into his fight for prohibi tion." Then getting down to other mat ters, Mr. Hyatt asked: "When cotton dropped to 6 cents a pound a few years ago' and this country was threatened with the greatest -panic in all her history, who gave his time and inoney to the effort to.organize to stem the tide. Was it some of these fellows running for office? Nay ver ily. Why they called Hyatt and E. D. Smith cranks when we went to New Orleans and assisted in forming the .association which has. helped the farmers." A Grateful Voter. He told.of a man who cam'a up to him in Sumter and told him that he had sold his cotton for 15 cents and had put money in the bank after get ting rid of his debts. "And he said 'to me, 'Hyatt, I'am going to vote for you for I know your work in this figh.t has helped me an-d my family.'" As to finances, the State is now ac tually mortgaging its Income a year in advance to rua the government. He thinks this is wrong. Soinething should be done to check 'the extrava gance..* He thir.ks that an adminis tratio.1 can i.e con'Tucted to put the State on a but iness basis, and he WoW'. like to z:y it. F .tle years r.go, when i.s a coun ty cm.missiore- in Ric~iland he Lad sta .e '. A M )m nenent for good roads, he was cil~ed a crank. Efforts were ma te to irape c'a him andl the legis lative dele{ation passed a special act wiO1 that and ia view. .He went to Go'v. Ellerbe and. e::lained 'the whole situation. The governor agreed that Hyatt was xight and the bill was vetoed. From Small Acorns. And from that beginning Richland has worked on until she has in har sand and clay roads .the greatest highways in the country. Orie of the candidates had twitted him aby say ing "Any old blind mule would like good roads.'' To that candidate he ~would say, "What have you ever done for good roads? Have you ever gone among the people at your own ex pense and preached good roads? Have you ever put your hand into your pocket to build good roads?" Some of the candidates who come here empty-handed and ask for some thing of the people remind him of the fellow who knocked for admission at the gate of heaven. When asked for his credentials he stammered around awhile and fin4ly said, "I gave an old woman a df> one day." "Is that all?" "Yes, the all." "Well,"- con cluded St. Peter to his clerk, "give the fellow back his dime and send him back to another place." Mr. Hyatt said that some of these other candidates should be sent back home. As to education, he referred the people to Maj. Richards, who could tr.1 Thcne that T-Trn't had grnne dnon a college for girls. He had given his time, his money, his every credit in promoting the cause of education. If elected governor he would keep on working for the public good, but he would have a wider scope as gover nor. Compliments People. Lieut. Gov. McLeod complimented the p&ple of Kershaw in one of his graceful periods. He spoke of her great past, of her men of renown, and he is proud to live in an adjoin ing county. The people must not be deceived in some of these candidates' speeches. Reminded him of the old woman who in speaking of her love for her pas tor, said: "He don't take no better text; he don't preach no better ser mons; but he has such a heaven-ly whiue." He, too, is in favor of good roads and good schools. As to the liquor question, he said that the germ of lawlessness would be implanted by State-wide~ prohibi tion and it would permeate the whole tbody politic, destroying not alone the sentiment against liquor selling, but causing other disorders as well. Some of these prohibition candi dates 'in their fervid advocacy re minded him of the story of the man who offered a 'possum to the little negro who best described his poli tical party. One said, "Ise a "Pub lican, sah, fer dam's de ones what sot'me free." There were other an swers of equally forceful nature un til the last boy ,was reached. "Isa a Demmycrat, sir." "Why?" "'Case I want's dat 'possum." Some of the prohibitionists seem to wish for nothing so badly as the office of gov ernoi. Mr. McLeod's local option senti ments were applaudea and when he concluded it was sean that he > not without a following in Kershaw. The other candidates who spoke today were Walker Duvall and.C. A. Smith for lieutenant. governor; B. B. Evans for attorney general; G. 'H. Mahon, James - Cansler, McDuffie Tampton and 0. C. Scarborough for railroad commissioner; D. -E. Finley, J. K. Henry and T. B. Butler for congress; Charles Newnham, J. M. Richardson and W. W. Moore for ad jutant general. B. B. Evans, who is opposing Mr. Lyon for attorney general, complain ed that he had substantiated his charges of extravagance against Mr. Lyon and that the newspa.pers would not print what he said. A new fea ture today was his allegation that ha would never have let Farnum ofi with a $5,000 fmne 'when Evans "call ed himn (Prince) to taw and showed him that Farnum was worth '$50, 000." The campaigners left in the after noon for Lancaster. Yester'day Cel F.ielder wired thei State: "I did not state to B. B. Evans in the Jero'me hotel or else where that I was paid $100,000 by~ the State of South Carolina for help ing Attorney General Lyon in prose cuting dispensary cases. Such state muent if made is not only ~false but absurd." Mr. Lyon explained- at Bishopville that Col. Felder's firm had been giv en 10 per cent. of all hard accounts collected and 50 rer cent.~'of all resti tution money on accounts long since marked nulla bona, and that instead of South Ca-olina payir.g Col. Feld ar, he was virtually giving South Carolina money that had been bib den a long farewell. i. Delicate Attention. " Brooklyn aunt has put rme dowr in her will for $30.000. It pr.ys to honor t' e old folks." "What did you do?" "I we it into' thalf-morrr,r.g the - he- pet rubbbr plant died." Louisvil~e Courier-Joui'nal. Whose? . "With 20,000 pounds,'- said a young man of e'p'ensive ideas, "I could make a fortune on the stock exchange." "Yes," rejoined a pal, "but whose fortune would you make?"-Tit-Bits. THE CITADEL, The Military College of South Caro llna--Beneficiary Scholarship Examination. One vacancy in beneficiary schol arships at the Citadel ?rom Newberry county will be filled by competitive examination to be held at Newberry on Friday, August 12, 1910. Candi dates must be not less than 16 nor more than 20 years of age on Octob er 1, 1910. They must be at least 5 feet in height, physically qua'llnad to do military duty, and must give a certificate of inability to pay the re quired college dues as a pay cadet. Blank application forms can be had upon request by addressing the sup erintendent, Charleston, S. C. These applications must be filled out in ev eyV particular and sent to the super itnident by August 1, 1910. .There are lots of good cars, but there no cars t MODEL for our country roads. in all endurance contests, New York run. Cars in livered. Experts to tea them without charge. A Up-to-date Machi We are prepared to repair stean machinery. Expert machinist; p anteed; work first class. Te Newberry Motor Co. have been < Waldrop & Collins under the oal Newberry Machi * Friend Street. .Old Machine SI Agents for the famous .BRUSH AUTC AIiNCY I PWD / MWe are di for the High ( 4. AM! and have an proposition i LOOK OVER thgmen. -YOUR ACCOUNTS Wrt- sf how mianfy you co'uld count ou if Wiea a fire made immediate cash a neces- ation. sity. Mighty few we* are sure. As d even if you got the money the fire loss would be -yours. Bettei get insured, We'll isst.e you aTh Ir policy in a company noted for its GAFF quick and liberal settlements. Why. not let it tand the loss ang! furnish. you the quickest of assets at the sam:e. time. Security loa!1& Investment Co. I~~ 3. N. McCauighrin,1 Treasurer. W. A. McSwain, ISecretary-.A l P. F. Baxter & Son FUERAL DIRECTORS Practical Embalmers, Phones - Day 117-Night 90 NOTICE TO TOWN DELINQU.ENTS. The Non. Cole. L. Blease, mayor of 'I the ton. of Newberry, has placed in f my hands executions for the collec-- I ~ tion of delinquent city takes for theFot year 1909, with instructioris to collect !alk the same at once. This Is to notify 1oig all persons of the city who have not COxome s paid such taxes that they can save I Iitmry al cost by coming to me and paying the IO ourd to ame at once. ad snap ShrifM. M. Buford,Cmea Sheriff ofNewberry County. *L La Sei's office, June 20, 1910. 6-21-St. CALDWL Newi Now is the time to subscribe to The Nose H.H IPIm QUALrrV MI WPRMCCAM cars and lots of high price etter at the price than the 'T" FORD This has been demonstrated particularly in the 4tlanta and stock $985.00 complete de ch purchaser how to handle 1 auto supplies kept on hand. ae Shop and Garage iboilers, gins, and al classes of rices reasonable; satisfaction giar Newerry Machine Shops and the ombined and are now opetated by ie of the ne Shop &.Garage, op. Phone 60. Newberry, S. C. RNAB0OUT $485.00 f. o. b. factory. ~MOBILE. ROPOSITION 'EeyM nht stributing agerits wteLoaPRbes,f lass, Medium Pricesikmsofteimad S "30" ~ iaah.MMte,h attractive agency hdbe ral epdb o offer live bus- thusofCdu,gtm r further inform:B4 oe Garage ThWoasTni NEY,S. C. -Cru sagnl oi ~fEAT, Manager. trieesadpvns rots Lona P.oerbs, ano badeafteaeffet, el s tb 'ranc intefere with tacae use of ~& woadacthe.rmyted r,who da rd yoeehngreatgopd.b Theusyo Cardui, otwl he .1 ybeen Yoell'ever selce. SHoardu JohsL Epa genty toic ore hasn ~ad nmyhds om t frtelectio o a delrevent taes the yerves0. IThe law i - poetuohe wholey. ole thsbad atone-efeTs, toe not l ds of out-ofeerh e nith thei e hWOGMea tan othe msvedicone and cangt sur toplese. f mad yuning tm rodl. a in Ptent K yoTh our dhs ear ses it.ul' sure tof plee.o ted oI a ne to i. LBuod dsee this, and the , hrf fNwer ony :rance styles, too. &, HALTIWANGER Seifsofc.Jn 0 90 perrNOTCE T OE1 L TAXD DEINUETS Ho. on . ps,cony res tae for~ th year 1909 Thca.i poe upnm4olv n ole