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CANDIDATES AT KERSHAW. Maj. RIchards Well Received In His - Home County-How the Other Offiee See&er; Fare. William Banks ir. Th- Stat. Camden, June 28.--Trs candidates for State office ve:e tcday in the home county of a .-ndidate popular with his fellows- il. G. Richar:s, Jr. And if the peopie ol this couaty could name the next go, ernor, Rich ards would be the man. The attendance today was fairly good, largely as - tri)ute to .daj. Richards, as the grass is i: zhe fields and the farmers are fighting hard. It so happened that Maj. Richards' name was first on the list of speakers .today. He made no regular si.eech, but thanked his friends for 1-heir 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 deliveted 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 attdntion to trivial mistakes in the State in their zeal to show their de vbtion to Maj. Richardsl 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 6f the pen. His word really was "shrewd" lawyers, but the force and efEect 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 campaign 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 iss-ues. These appeals find a few who are taken in, but those who read the newspapers know full well the spe ciousness arnd cheapness of the "ar guments." Meeting Opens. The meeting was opened with prayer by Rev. Nir. Rowan. This was tethird meeting at which prayer hdbeen offered. Tefirst 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 .pla.. 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 ple of Kershaw. The history and tradition of Kershaw county are dear tohim, 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 thaaiked the people for sup porting him in the past,and for their unanimous inidorsement 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 newspapers 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 optiou 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 'agreed 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. The proper way is to let public sen other questions which are of impor- a tance. One is the effort to disfran- t chise thousands of white voters. This is b.-ng pushed by certain newspa- e pars and he opposes it. Against Restriction. He argued against the proposition n to be brought up in the "next legis lature to require registration certifi cates in primary elections. He de- t clared that the rights of the voters g are abridge enough now. He spoke g of the vote for governor two years a ago. He carried Newberry, Laurens. il Saluda and that part of Lexington contiguous. He did not use the word "free nigger" in his speech today. F John T. Duncan was the next speaker. He received greaL applause when he declared that he would be t elected governor on the first ballot. Mr. Featherstone found a number of friends in Camden. He and Maj. Richards, who have been trying to ia read each other out of the prohibition ranks, seemed to have agreed to let t] quarreling alone, for no references b of that kind were made. Use'd His Jokes.. tj Mr. Featherstone got off four ofs his fine jokes well and had the crowd c Ic enjoying them. The application of his jokes is always apropos and fixes d a point in the minds of the hearers. Mr. Featherstone struck a keynote with these &people when he declared n for an educated citizenshirnd for law and order. He declare in favor of good foads, good schools, biennial sessions of the legislature and elect ing State and county officers every four years. Mr. Hyatt spoke very earnestly to- I day. - He comes into tha race not asP a politician but as a business man. n aer things are as important to be e discussed as prohibition, but some of these fellows wouldn't know what to talk about and couldn't run for gov c arnor if it wasn't for prohibition. "No ratches." "I am the only man in the race j who has no.windshakas and patches s in a prohibition platform,' he said. E "I neyer supported the State dispen- i sary; I never supported local option. I learned prohibtion at my mother's r knee and have practiced it all niy j life. Twenty years ago I put myIc hand in my pocket to assist Capt. L. p D. Childs into his fight for prohibi tion." Then getting down to other mat ters, Mr. Hyatt asked: "When cottonie dropped to 6 cents a pound a~ few Ic years ago' and this country was threatened with the greatest panic in all her history, who gave his time t and money to the effort to ,organize to stem the tide. Was it some of these fellows running for office? Nay ver-e ily. Why they called Hyatt and E. h D. Smith cranks when we went to 0 New Orleans and assisted in forming the .association which has. helped the farer."A Grateful Toter. [ He told of a man who cam'o up to him in Sumter and told him that he~ 1had sold his cotton for 15 cents and had put money in the bank after get- t ting rid of his debts. "And he said. to me, 'Hyatt, I- am going to vote for C you for I know your work in this figh.t has helped me andi my family.'" As to finances, the State is now ac tually mortgaging its income a yeart in advance to run the government. He thinks this is wrong. Somnething e should be done to check 'the extrava- t gance..* He thir.ks that an adminis tratio.1 can i.e c nducted to put the 'Stab on a but iness basis, and he' 'wot .I like to z:7 it. .C FE':teea years :.go, when a.s a con-e ty era.missio.re: in Ricaland he Ladd sta.te T .1 m neme~nnt for good roads, he was cil'ed a cre'nk. Efforts were ma 'e to irape c'.i himn and the legis-. lative deleLation passed a special act wiO1 that and ia view. .He went toj Go':. Ellerbe and, e:tplained 'theU whoLe situation. The governor agreed tha eHyatt was r ight and the bill was* From Small Acorns. And from that beginning Richland has worked on until she has in har sand and clay roads .the greatest a highways in the country. One of the* candidates had twitted him ,by say ing "Any old blind mule would like good roads." To that candidate he would say, "What have you evar done for good roads?' Have you ever gone among the people at your own ex- I pense and preached good roads? Have you aver put your hand into your pocket to build good roads?" Some of the candidates who come Ihere empty-handed and ask for some- a thing of the people remind him of the c' fallow who knocked for admission at e: the gate of heaven. When asked for! o his credentials he stammered around d awhile and finally said, "I gave an n old woman a dime one day." "Is that e: all?" "Yes, that's all." "Well,"- con- f< cluded St. Peter to his clerk, "give di the fellow back his dime and send 'ci him back to another place." Mr., q Hyatt said that some of 'these other: B candidates should be sent back home. u As to education, he referred the e people to Maj. Richards, who could a tell the:n that Hyd had gone down e: college for girls. H- had given his ime, his money, his every credit in. romoting the cause of education. If lected governor he would keap on rorking for the public good, but he 'ould have a wider scope as gover or. Complinients People. Lieut. Gov. McLeod complimented te pebple of Kershaw in one of his raceful periods. He spoke of her reat past, of her men of renown, nd he is proud to live in an adjoin ig county. The people must not be deceived in Dme of these candidates' speeches. emindad him of the old woman who i speaking of her love for ner pas >r, said: "He don't take no better. ,xt; he don't preach no better ser ions; but he has such a heaven-ly hine." He, too, is in favor of good roads nd good schools. As to the liquor question, he said iat the germ of lawlessness would e implanted by State-wide- prohibi on and it would permeate the whole dy politic, destroying not alone the entiment against liquor selling, but ausing other disorders as well. Some of these prohibition candi ates 'in thei- fervid advocacy re iinded him of the story of the man ho offered a 'possum to the little egro who best described his poli cal party. One said, "Ise a "Pub can, sah, fer dem's de ones what ot'me free." There were other an wers of equally forceful nature un 1 the last boy ,was reached. "Ise Demmycrat, sir." "Why?" "'Case want's dat 'possum." Some of the! rohibitionists seem to wish for, othing so badly as the office of gov rnoi. Mr. McLeod's local option senti i.nts were applaudea and when he oncluded it was seen that he is not ithout a following in Kershaw. The other candidates who spoke )day were Walker Duvall and. C. A. mith for lieutenant. governor; B. B. |vans for attorney general; G. I. [ahon, James - Cansler, McDuffie 'ampton and 0. C. Scarborough for ailroad commissioner; D. -E. Finley, K. Henry and T. B. Butler for ongress; Charles Newnham, J. M. .ichardson and W. W. Moore for ad itant general. B. B. Evans, who is opposing Mr. yon for attorney general, complain-: d that he had substantiated his b.arges of extravagar.ce against Mr.' yon and that the newspapers would ot print what he said. A new fea ire today was his allegation that he rould never have let Farnum off . ith a $5,000 fine when Evans "call d hiin (Prince) to taw and showed im that Farnum was worth ~$50, The campaigners left in the after oon for Lancaster. Yester'day Col. Felder wired the~ tate: "I did not state to B. B. vans in the Jerome hotel or else rhere that I was paid $100,000 by i State of South Carolina for help ig Attorney General Lyon in prose ting dispensary cases. Such state tent if made is not only ' false but bsurd." Mr. Lyon explained- at Bishopville at Col. Felder's firm had been giv n 10 per cent. of all hard accounts llected and 50 rer cent. -of all resti- a tion money on accounts long since tarked nulla bona, and that instead i South Ca-olina payir.g Col. Feld r, he was virtually giving South If arolina money that had been bi.- g en a bnmg farewell. - I i. Delicate Attention.q "Brooklyn aunt has put rme down i her will for $30.000. It pr.ys to Y onor t.'e old folks." S "What did you do?" "I we it into' thalf-mourrnir.g the a ,'v her pet rubber plant died." ouisvil~e Courier-Jout-nal. Whose? , "With 20,000 pounds,'' said a young tan of e-<pensive ideas, "I could -make fortune on the stock exchange."J "Yes," rejoined a pal, "but whose' rtune would you make?"-Tit-Bits. THE CITADEL, he Military College of South Caro lina-Beneficiary Scholarship I. Examination. One vacancy in beneficiary schol rships at the Citadel ?rom Newberry t unty will be filled by competitive' iamination to be held at Newberryt n Friday, August 12, 1910. Candi y ates must be not less than 16 nor t ore than 20 years of age on Octob- a r 1, 1910. They must be at least 5 et in height, physIcally qua'llnad to! o military duty, and must give a rtificate of inability to pay the re-, uired college dues as a pay cadet.. lank application forms can be had pon request by addressing the sup 'intendent, Charleston, S. C. These pplications must be filled out in ev y articular and sent to the super ram12+t by Augusnt 1, 1910. l There are lots of good ca cars, but there no cars bet MODEL" for our country roads. T in all endurance contests, pa New York run. Cars in st livered. Experts to teach them without charge. All Up-to-date Machim We are prepared to repair steam b machinery. Expert machinist; pne anteed; work first class. Te N( Newberry Motor Co. have been con Waldrop & Collins under the name Newberry Machini Friend Street. . Old Machine Shop Agents for the famous . BRUSH RU IAUTOli AGENCY PR IWe are distr for the Hiigih Class & and AMES adhave an att .proposition to 4 OK OVER tling men. -YOUR ACCOUNTS Wrt ufoI w nmany you could count ou if Wieu o fre made immediate cash a neces- ation. y. Mighty few we are sure. 'd even if yout got the money the eloss would be - yours. Better icy in a company noted for its GSAFFNE e~k anid liberal settlemients: WhyC.Wl : let it stand the loss and forxidh HARRYC.H ou the quickest 'of assets at the ane. tume. eCurity loa! & lRInteG o~ 3. N. McCauighrin, W. A. MeSwain,il f . F. Baxter & Son 'FUNERAL DIRECTORS Practical Embalmers ones - Day 117-Night 90 TICE TO TOWN~ DELINQUTENTS. ' he Hon. Cole. L. Blease, mayor of etown of Newberry, has placed in yhands executions for the folte- .Fotrm on of delinquent city takes fora theds r 1909, with instructiores to collect esame at once. This is to notify aorrg thn 1persons of the city who have not Oxordes so d such taxes that they can save Mili~ tay iee t by coming to me and paying the iour. toe. I e at once. a.rd snap to ii SheiffofM. M. Buford, C.,me iin and s Shrf fNewberry County. Y ' La Fran heriff~s office, June 20, 1910.& Newber ow is the timne to suibscribe to The - HIGH PRICED QUALY IN A LOW PRICED CAI rs and lots of high price ter at the price than the T" FORD is has been demonstrated rticularly in the 4tanta and ick $985.00 complete de purchaser how to handle auto supplies kept on hand. Shop and Garage ilers, gins, and al classes of es reasonable; satisaction gHar wherry Machine Shops and the hined and are now opetated by f the 0Sop &.Garage, Phone 60. Newherry, S. C. AB0OUT $485.00 f. o. b. factory. IOBILE. OPOSITION 'EeyM nIi ibuting agents Wie oaP oet,O MedliUmf Price ikms ftetm n "30" sfee ihbcah n ractive agency hdbe ral epdb ffer live bus- ai Ihe urther informd 4 -'aarragDe-I TheWoans.Tni.. 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