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jilt Heroin 8E0 ||S5&. I1 Entered at the Postoflice at Sevu fcerry, S. C., as ilnd class matter. E. H. AULl, EDITOR. - i $ Friday, Juue 28, 1918. I | COMING IN DROVES. i i Troubles come in groups, they say. It seems to us that they have been coming in droves recently, and we' have not gone down the road looking! for them. j On Tuesday morning our motor to' the linotype machine burned out and, the wheels refused to go round. Mr. Jno. C. Goggans, Jr., our phy-! sician for all such ailments, imme-l diately took the case in hand and has sent the motor off to be rewound, we j believe it is, and he hopes to get itj back in a few days. In the meantime we will have to doj 11? v ?1 " ? Anr V?nve ?n PfV-1 lilt; UCbl WC Vdi-l. vui UWJU w? . lumbia, Jas. L. Aull and Ira M. Sligh. j are operating a'type producing fae-j tory and they promise to get us some j type, but they are rushed with work j. and can only do so much and we can J . only do the best we can, and with this', statement our readers "will understand , why the paper appears as it doe? i, It is bad, but it could have, been,, ? - - ? ' * i ! worse. The machine mignt nave ouriijj ed out on Monday "instead of Tues L day. _ All the copy we are using for this . paper today had to be prepared on; Wednesday. j' We hope to have our motor baclvij pretty soon and in the meantime we ' are trying to get the shop cleaned up and maybe will work better from now j! J ; I "if tbe people are dissatisfied wlihj, the tax levy, they can get relief only;, through the legislature.?The State, j. Then The State spoke the truth. All;, the talk of the candidates for gover-( nor and on down will not amount to , much so far as taxation is concerned,:. except that the governor should 1 have some influence with the legisla- . ture, and then he has the veto pow- j ( er, but if the people want relief, and relief can be had, they should be care-! ful in the selection of the men theyj send to the legislature, because it is : the legislature that makes the appro- j. priations and places the levy and! creates new offices or repeals laws i' creating these offices, and not the gov- i eriior. The governor has no power to reduce taxes or to abolish useless offices, but that power rests with the legislature. The fact is the office of legislator is one of the most important in the State. -As a rule the people are not careful enough in the selection of the lawmakers, ItmT we mean by this that there are a great many good men who are not fitted by experience and the information as tu the tax laws and4 other knowledge of government, tomake the best legislators, and not b6 j ? ni+iffone onrl i cause axe ixvt gwu UUAWO anu. good men, and it is no reflection upon; them to say this. * ! i If it is true that Senator Tillman is; not impaired in health either mental-, *y or physically we agree with the Co-i lumbia Record that "It has been about the most contemptible assault ever1 made in the annals of our politics."; We do not know of our own knowledge anything as to his condition, and we have not said anything about it. We have heard that some citizens of ^ r? rr Mi? T l\t? W uei IV wuu WC1C Ulgiug Ml. to run had said that Mr. Tillman was both physically and mentally unfit. We do not say so, because we have not seen the senator in some time. We would judge from his reply to Gov. Manning, which was the cause of the withdrawal of Mr. Lever, that his mental condition is still unimpaired. That was a pretty racy letter and he sure smoked 'em out and then they: went in again. If his health of mind hnr?v is: pnnrJ it is verv lOW DOlitlCS to be attacking it. Candidate Dial has 1 more to say about his mental condi-!, tion and his physical condition than; any of the candidates, that is that was true the day we heard them speak.1 Mr. Rice said something about it but very little. Mr. Blease did not refer to it as we recall, but did say that he would challenge him to debate and that if he came he would say some things that had not yet been said, and that if he failed to appear he would say them any way. Senator Tillman <r? a li^rtAr \t-Mrh hp is sPTiriire- out to his friends speaks of Mr. Blease as "My principal and most dangerous opponent." Yv'e believe in dealing fairly even in politics and giving every one a sqaare deal. ; Why make th^P&oys within ihe draft work or fight and let so many above the draft age loaf and idle? Get after the idlers above 31. Any man in good ahrnil.S ha Hnino- com At bin p JU^?r4.VU 0 worth while even if he is seventy-; five years old. None are too old to produce something is our motto. Put all the idlers to work regardless of age, Gen. Crowder, and you will be doing something. . We notice that the farmers of Anderson county held a meeting on Saturday to protest against the great raise in the assessment of real estate as ordered by the State tax commis sion. The auditor states that the commission has ordered that real estate be increased from $7.13 per acre to $12.75 which is an increase of 79 per cent. Over $5.00 per acre with the increase in the levy of 3 1-2 mills is a pretty big jump. , The Herald and News stated when the tax commission was first created and when it went after the corporations that the ultimate purpose of the creation of the commission was to reach real estate and then the man with visible property would find out what it all meant. Auditor Smith and his board refused to make the increase, having already made a substantial increase over the assessment of four years ago, and now the auditor states that he is threatened with removal from office by the authorities in Columbia if he persists in his position. There is no doubt there is need for equalization in the assessments, but an increase of 100 per cent, and that with an increase of 50 per cent, in the levy is pretty heavy. And to n ? ~ 1 ^-0 4-V ~ un eaten luuuuvfti xiuiii umuc ut cue Dlfi.cial refusing- to do what the authorities in Columbia command is, :t seems to us, rather autocratic. The meeting uocided to fight the matter to a finish in the courts. We have not heard what was done in this county, br.t we do not suppose my such increase was made in the assessment of real estate. It may be that the commission takes the view that real estate was too low in Anderson. It would be all right to increase the assessments if by so doing the levy could go down also, but experience shows that the reverse is true, assessments eo no the lew also ?oes up. The legislature will generally find some way to spend the money so long as it is not necessary to increase the levy, but it seems that in recent legislatures they have not hesitated to increase the levy as well as the assessments. What the people need is to be careful in the selection of their members of the legislature, because they are the ones who spend the money and lay the levies. We notice that Dr. Mahaffey takes up the challenge thrown down by Mr. ! a 7i Corkin Wesl rr>1 this Roy Si "Wolves of (Regular Thursday, Bill "The Col (Special Friday, Jt Don't Mi aMMMMHBMHHBMHnHHMMMBMMnNUUni Hail In, We insure growing $2.50 per acre, and Corn ; damage by Hail. Prot< loss by taking a policy in THE HOME S Largest Fire and Hail Assets Forty-fou Security Loan $ NEWBEF mmmmtmmmmmammmmmmmmBKammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmrn j ! Please.at Yorkville to the authorities j at Washington to discuss the whys and wherefores of this country enter-; i ing the war. j That is not a live issue now. What ! we want at this time is the hearty. : and wholesouled cooperation of all j our people in a united effort to win j I the war. No good can come of dis- j ! cussing why we are in it at this time. j i We have made up our mind to leave j any meeting at which any speaker, undertakes to argue about the reasons for or against this country entering the war. There is too much to do , that is worth while in helping to win , the war to waste time listening to any ! windjammers talking about why we are in it We are in it now to win it,! and that i3 reason enough at this time. We should be interested in! helping our boys over there, if we can't go. ANNOUNCEMENT S CANDIDATES CARDS. On account of the very high cost of printing a newspaper, The Herald and ; News is compelled to make a slight increase in its charge for the nomi nation of candidates: Nomination $5, except that the nom-1 ination for magistrates in Newberry,! Prosperity and Whitmire will be $3, and in other townships $1.50. ] Articles advocating the caufce of \ i candidates, under the head of "Politi-! cal Advertisement," will be charged, for at the rate of 25 cents per inch. . For rlie Legislature. T. A. Dominick is hereby announced | as a candidate for reelection to the | legislature and will abide the rules j | of the democratic party. ; GeorgeS. Mower is hereby an-, ; nonnceb as a,candiate for nominai tion for the House of Representa j 1 tives in the approaching Demo-j cratic Primary, and will abide tl e ^ a r 4 i. - ' , r-;suit or tnat primary. J For Probate Judge. Walter Richardson is hereby an. i nounced as a candidate for Probate ; Judge and will abide the rules of the ! Democratic party. ! j W. F. Ewart is hereby announced j as a candidate for reelection to the office of Probate Judge and will abide the result of the Democratic primary. ! i i BBKBBBHESBBnBHBBHBHB I < vo gGood I cerns Week ? tewart N thp Rnrrfpr" Program) June 27th Hart I Id Deck" | Feature) .me 23th iss Them - I I surance crops of Cotton, .50c to j and Wain against loss ana | ict yourself against such \ * i ^cvE NEW YORK Company in America ir Million Dollars f ? - - n i investment to. IRY, S. C. . t For Magistrate, Nos. 1 and S. f hereby announce myself as a ! candidate for reelection as Magistrate for Xos. 1 and 8 Townships and pledge myself to abide by the rules of the Democratic primary. Chas. TV. Douglas. For Magistrate, >'os. 1 and 8. I hereby announce myself as a South Can floating V In Get these facts ir c**J in lite r\DOr*Vl saiu All 111^ too, that lie coulc duction in taxes. says that he can i with useless offic ment, and using understanding th; lina the state wai Get Your i , I I HAL! I Special Sa I t>? o? Iucgimimg \j<x at reduced pi Gage and other Gage and other 1 ^ AA -M rv TX 7 (tp 1 U.UU, I1U W Trimmed and 1 $6.50, now Ready to wear 1 $10.00, now (Received this and Voile Dress* and checks, $16. ginning Saturday | il Throughout o of new goods an prices. Come 5 You will not be I Halt I 1216 to 122Q1V IjMaiiiMw?? ? candidate foi; the office of Magistrate for Townships 1 and S and will abids a the r'.:]ps of the Democratic primary t h. M. P?ayer. a For Magistrate No. 11 H. H. Kafi is hereby announced as j a candidate for reelect5on as magis-! a tr?te for Xo. 11 township and will 2 abide the democratic primary. j o )lina Taxes. Debt, Havel AOV live i cat i your mind and kei t at Barnwell, and ai 1 not and would not ILto and will reduce taxes es and useless niacin* the same broad-g at inspired him to gv ehouse system. Name on the IWANi le Milliner} Lturday we will rir>ps all of this se Hats that sold for $ 3ats that sold for $L ."ailored Hats that ! # Q V ? iats/ hat sold for S Q ? O C ft week a lot of Beau ss, in white, solid 50 values. We wil y at special price, ea $12.50 ur entire store you d many items on Saturday or any da disappointed. :iwang lain Street J T. B. Richardson is announced a^^H candidate for election as magisrate for Xo. 11 township and wilt V .bids the dsmocrtaic primary. | For Magistrate No. 2 Township. W. P. Harris is hereby announce*! s a candidate for rrasrisTate for No. township and will abide the result if the democratic primary. i , V 1 It , Including doubled ! s. i : I sp them there: >er . U jain at Hamp promise a re- 41 ? I ill ill I by doing away jSBa lery of governauged business ve South Caro- Bn Club Roll [1 SER'S II ^ % Dresses | ^ I put on sale I j jason's Hats. I Mi 10, now $6.50 I 2.50 and . . . $8.00 I sold for 'I ... $3-50 f^ >5.00 to 1 . . . $1.50 ; f tiful Orsfandie i i C Bft-. ? colors, stripes I J 1 sell them be- |fl will find lots I 1 sale at special j| y | ier's Newberry, S. C. j <