Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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|l)e Jerold and Jcros. ?.?' .? < ? ? . Sfcria . in lattrld at the Po?toffic? at New? Sny, S. C*? m 2nd daw matter. E. H. AULL, EDITOR. ?? Friday, November 9, 1920. ' * > - pv-r"/ A REPUBLICAN LANDSLIDE. The result of the election on Tuesf day was really a surprise to us. For the reason may be that we had too much faith In the patriotism and same good horse sense of the great American people. We had 'no idea that partisan politics and money could wield so much influence in a matter of such vital moment. And -?* :i ?Vrtta Kaon TrnrQP TVtPV IV haw wwu .. v.. might have elected Debs and then we would have had the spectacle of the president elect of the United States being in a penitentiary. But jfe then when he was inaugurated he could have issued a pardon to himrx; self and been released from prison. This election only convinces us of the truth of what we have sometimes felt to be the case even in our little county and state primaries, and yet we hated to believe it could be true even there. And that is, as a rule the average voter never stops to v>. XV consider tne niness 01 LUC iliCLLl XVI < X the job as the ruling passion when > ho comes to exercise the great privilege of citizenship and casting his vote for men for the various ofikes. Fitness and ability for the proper discharge of the great responsibilities of official position are generally the last consideration of the 2- average voter. The main question ii that he is a nice little fellow and needs the job, or he shook hands "with me at the barbecue and the .other fellow did not, and the public service may suffer so far as I am >4 ' i concerned. That sort of argument, ??? e. say, is too often indulged. And &en sometimes we do not vote for tke-.roan so much as we imagine we voting against the other fellow forjsome real or imaginary wrong. And that was the case we are constrained to believe largely controlling i?the selection of president on Tuesday, and in this ease not against the candidate^ but as they imagined ^inst some one else who was a supporter of the candidate. Pity it fcrthat it is true. The vote Tuesday vfias not against that great and true ifcin Jimmie Cox, but it was intended to-, be a vote against Woodrow Wilwho will live in history as one of tfre great Americans long after mil||js; Sons of' those who imagined they were getting even with him by voting against Cox are dead and forgotten. We believe that a great many ^ and honest and patriotic men and are against the league of te|- nations because they do not underlet* sfand it. And then there was that desire for a change and the money power seemed to be with the Republicans and money counts as a powerful in?uence..in determining election results. : But the country is safe, and Sena; tor Harding is an honest and good ; ' } man, if he is not a man of any re. markable ability, and no doubt when the great responsibility of the high ISElS AfflfA to -which he has been chosen comes upon him and he realizes it hs will not be so easily led by tho3e who aaay imagine that he will do their bidding, and that he will assert his ; own manhood and independence and the country will move on just the same. We heard some one say the other day that part of- the propaganda of L';v the Republican campaign was that the Democrats had put down the price of cotton and the election of the Re-! publican ticket meant an increase in :v the p ; -e of cotton and other farm products. If that be true the farmer will rejoice. It becomes the duty now of all good citizens to uphold . the hands of the officers chosen and ;?. o^Tviinict-ro+irin of W IlOXp lilCUi 1X1 uic; ouuiiuwv*v* their offices to make this a better . country in which to live, and that v> alter all should be the aim of all of us . i \-A < . , I The election was a great Republiv ean victory and that party now will have not only the president but also the Benate and the house and can not put upon the Democrats any blame for the failure of the passage of any laws that are for the welfare of the people of the country. j % ' J There was a pretty good bunch at! and News on Tuesday night to hear the news from the elec- j tion but not near the usual crowd, i Not the interest that is generally! taken on such occasions. "ELUCIDATES THE SITUATION." | According to the Abbeville Press' and Banner Mr. Walter Wilson of Level Land, an important and historic place in the grand old county of Abbeiville, came to town the other; day and explained to the president j j of the local club that he had read al the books he could' h#ar of from th( nnci*nt Greeks do^ii to the presem day on the illuminating game of se back, and he wanted to see if there j had been anything else written oi 1 - u? it ? .1 u. | cue juujciu ixc w<t? iiiivi ;ncu u.> j Col. Roche of the Abbeville Hillbil | lies that Nero had written a book or the subject, but unfortunately it was burned in the big fire which destroy ed Rome while Nero fiddled. And h< would not stop fiddling long enougl even to save this valuable book. But the point of the story is thai | Mr. Wilson had also brought alon;2 ! another very interesting argument ! and it is to this that we wish to dl jrect the attention of the reader. Ht | says tnat irom a general invesugauui i of his country everybody is about ir his fix as follows: "I am pretty wel off now, I have plenty of cotton [plenty of credit and plenty of debts If I sell my cotton, both the cottar I and my credit will be gone, and nothing but debts will be left, so whs cell?" I And that is about the same j that a lot of us are in. With the cotton and the debts and the credit but if we sell the cotton there will .still abide the debts, but both oui cotton and our credit will be gone The cotton will not pay the debts anc ' then sure enough why sell? } Does this elucidate the situation to your satisfaction? Or do y:x. need further arugment to be satisi Tied. If you do we will ask the : Press and Banner to get Mr. Wilson of Level Land to come further and j -till more elucidate. GOVERNOR TAKES OFTIMISTIC VIE"W f f 3elieves People Capable of Caring i for Themselves. ! _ | The State. "The national election is over nov\ and we know that the Republicar j will be in power for the next foui I years," said Governor Cooper yesterday. "The tension is relieved and j the sensible thing for us to do is tc | accept the situation in good fai'.h, i take counsel together and, above all I j things, have faith in ourselves. ""Our people should look the situation in the face an dcease to Uilfc , of calamity. We should let the world ; understand that we have too much I intelligence to continue to cultivate ; a crop that sells below the cost oi production. j "Our people have the intelligence , and the industry to care for themselves. We know what we are called , upon to face and there is no occasion to lose heart and engage in nfts&imistic oredictions. A kind prcv . r A ; idence has blessed us with a won^ derful climate and a productive soil and we will be able to come through the present stringency just as vre ( have come through others. Our pco; pie will have faith in themselves and in their ability to face conditions." Governor Cooper in his various ad, dresses at gatherings of farmers has been a consistent advocate of optim j ism, having said time and again that calamity talk is a mistake and that the people of South Carolina ; will be able to take care of themselves. 1 ENTERTAINMENT AT PEAK FOR BENEFIT CHURCH ! ______ The ladies of Peak will give an entertainment at the school house Saturday night, November 6, 1920. The proceeds to go for the beneSi , of the church. Tfco rmHlir is cordiallv invited. Mr3. J. 0. Chapman. MILLER IS ELECTED i NEW YORK GOVERNOR i i Jmith Defeated By Approximately , Seveety Thousand Vote? in Late Returns. New York, Nov. 3 (By the Associated Press).?Election of Nathan L. Miller of Syracuse as governor by an estimated plurality slightly in excess of 70,000 as shown in revised ogure3 tabulated tonight as-sured the and Frances Houseal; the groomsterday's election. With but 187 districts missing at 10:30 tonight, Miller was leading Smith by 58,047 votes. The actual returns give Miller 1,300,503, Smith 1,248,456. Belated returns continued to roll up the overwhelming plurality in 'New York for Senator Harding. With 207 districts, missing, all of them up state where he led Cox by an average plurality of 239 in each district, he had a total plurality of 1,051,156. The vote tabulated gives Harding 1,829,862, Cox 778,706. If Harding's present ratio of gain is continued he will carry New York state by an unprecedented plurality of 1,200,000. New York city went Republican in " .rn-kTifoef for tVlP Sf^P me presxuenucw ? ? ond time in its history, McKinley having turned the trick on Bryan in 1896*. i 1 [NOT MUCH INTEREST i IN THE ELECTION NEWS j t ? j I j The Herald and News arranged; II with the Western Union Telegraph; i. company to take the election bulle-j * j tins as furnished by that company j -jon Tuesday. We asked voluntary j i' contributions from some of the citi- j ? zens and received very hearty re-! - j sponse though there is a deficit. Mr. i ; i Shackleford, the manager of the of- j t(fice at Newberry, was very accom-: modating and sent in the bulletins1 j J ;. as fast as they came and they camej ; i along very regularly but they were , j of a nature to arouse no enthusiasm! . I among the people who are always in-' ?!terested in hearing- the result. Soon! i; after the bulletins began it locked j i; very much like a Republican land-' [ slide and of course that was not very ,; goods news for us in this neck of the . I woods. ij By 12 o:. clock at night we had a long distance phone from The State - ii a 11 i ^ J* xL . rv i.* . < mat xne cnairman 01 xne uemocrauc j national committee had conceded : the election of Mr. Harding and we ; shut up shop and went home. ,: As stated the amounts asked from [ the citizens to pay for the bulletins were small but we feel that the . names should be published and we I give them here. jA. P. Boozer $. 1.00 i George B. Cromer 1.00 t C. R. Wise 50 . J. C. Sample 1.00 s C. G. Blease 1.00 i W. F. Ewart 1.00 I J. B. Mayes J.00 ! C. D. Weeks 1.00 : W. H. Hunt . 1.00 : F. R. Hunter 50 H. W. Dominick 1.00 I C. J. Purcell 1.00 : R. C. Boylston .50 ;F. >}. Martin 1.00 :J. A. Burton 50 i W. S. Matthews 50 * George S. Mower 1.00 i; C. C. Schumpert 1.00 *' H. W. Dominick 1.00 , i W. E. Pelham 50 j I C. A. Bowman . 25 ?. D. L. Boozer 501 , F. N. Bynum 1.00; I I. H. Hunt . .50 | j John M. Kinard 50 ^ -.Dr. H. M. Bigby 1.00 : W. G. Swafford .50 [ J. P. Moon luli ' i .50 uJ. R. Tilly ; v .50 ' ?T. B. Halfacre W. 1.00 ?. Claude Smith .'. : 501 j E. S. Blease 1.00 i T. H. Watson >... 1.00 R. M. Lominack 50! I J. W. Queen tsasi m ! .Colored People i! "*" ? j | Total $27.80 i ! Deficit' 4.64 j I i I I , I i Paid Western Union $32.50! ' * i . Shriner show Opera House, Nov. 22. ' 1 Rheumatism is completely washed out cf the system bj .' the celebruted Shivar Mineral Water. Pos i itively guaranteed by inoney-back offer ' j Tastes fine; costs a trifle. Delivered any j 1: where by our dewberry Agents, ? j [ Kibler Co. Phone th:r\ I 1 MANY LIKE THIS IN NEV/BERRY j ! I i . . ?. . | Similar Cases Being Published in Each Issue. , . . . 1 monw ri or rlailv in "MpwKpTTV. [ ;-"fc> J rfIt is an easy matter to verify it. You 1 cannot ask better proof. F. W. Higglns, civil engineer," i U30 Hunt St., Newberry, says: . "My kidneys were so weak some j time ago that I seemed to have no 1 control over them. The pains in the right side of my back were terrific. {There was a dull pain in the back of | my head. I cculd hardly walk at times, my feet were so tender. I : suffered in this way for about two I ! years before I read of Doan's Kidi now Pilla T hATio-hf. n RTjnnlv of I J. ***" ? ? r ir ~%i | Doan's at Gilder & Weeks Co.'s drug i store, and began taking them. I felt relief from the first box and : continued use brought me great re ; lief." . j (Statement given November 20, 1914.) ij On March 22, 1918, Mr. Higgins , . = said: "What I said before about1 ; Doan's Kideny Pills still holds good.; ; I was sericu3ly affected with kidney' ;!and bladder trouble and I .found i | Dean's Kidney Pills to give more re- j I lief than any kidney medicine I ever j took. I recommend them frequently . I anci know they are just as representI ed." 60c, at all dealers. Foster-Milburn ! Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y. I LMjjmui A purely vegetabUmed- 1 icine. Aside from being ' wff a wonderful regulator, it i .W is a splendid tonic for weak, nervous, irritable, - SLfcfiEX : and run-down women. Builds up the svstcm and ljFnflT^^ brings ^ back health and Get it from your druggist. ' Subscribe to The Herald and News, News, $2.00 a year. to." r ' r : =g Five Minute Chats on Our Presidents By JAMES MORGAN ? ? r. W (Copyright, 19_f>, by James Jlorffan.) LINCOLN AWAKENED O 1 =Q 1809?Feb. 12, Abraham Lincoln born to Thomas and Nancy Hanks Lincoln, near Hodgenville, La Rue County, La. 1816?Moved to Indiana. 1830?Moved to Illinois. 1835-43?In the Illinois Legislature. 1847-9?In Congress. 1858?July 24, challenged Doug- . las to the great debate. November, defeated for the Senate. 1860? May 18, nominated for President by the Republican national convention at Chicago. O ===== THE iron-throated cannon of the Washington navy yard, breaking the stilloess of a March dawn in 18r>4 with its 100 exultant roars over the repeal of the Missouri compromise, awakened Lincoln to the great mis sion for which his whole life had beec an unconscious preparation. After & single term in congress, where his criticism of the Mexican war in the midst of that conflict had left him unavfcil able for a second term, and after providentially failing to obtain the snug berth of commissioner of the general land office, he had retired to his dingy law office in Springfield. The wiping out of the dead line against the spread of slavery aroused him from his indifference to political questions and drew him from his retirement. "I know there is a God and that he hates injustice and slavery," he said simply to a friend. "I see the storm coming. I know his hand is in it. If fie has a place and work for me?and I think he has, I believe I am ready.". The cannon that called Lincoln to his duty also was the signal gun that heralded the birth of the Republican party. Joining the new party, he be Lincoln in 1850. came at once its leader in Illinois; to his own surprise, the second man in the balloting for its candidate for vice president in 1850, and its candidate for senator in 1858 against Stephen A. Douglas, the author of the repeal. While Lincoln made ready for that campaign, as always in every hour of decision, he retired within himself. He consulted no one and gave no hint of his line of attack until he called together a dozen friends and read to them his opening speech, which began with those immortal words: "A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe that this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free ... It will become all one thing or all the other." Every man in the little group warned him that if he delivered the speech it would defeat him for the senate. "If I had to draw a pen across my record and erase my whole life from sight," he quietly replied, "and I liad one poor gift or choice left as to what I should save from the wreck, I should choose that speech and leave it to the world unerased." Douglas carried a few more legislative districts and was re-elected, but Lincoln led in the aggregate popular vote. Lincoln had met his Bunker Hill. Tlie great unknown, wno nau tmr??u 10 cross swords with the foremost champion of the repeal, piqued the curiosity of the country. Accepting an invitation to speak in New York, his Cooper union address established his intellectual and moral right to lead the nation. Nevertheless, when zealous neighbors had first entered him as a candi date for president, lie protested that he was not tit for the place. Until the convention of 1860 actually met in Chicago, his name seldom was mentioned for the honor outside his own state. Two-thirds of the delegates really favored the nomination of William H. Seward, but as so often happens in politics, the very pre-eminence of the New York senator made him unavailable. la the end Lincoln was nomi- ; nated largely because h' was the least j known n^an on the iist canjjtdate^ 'AGED ALF TAYLOR | ! COMES FROM FARM i ! RETIREMENT OF 0T'ARTER CEN- j TURY F JED. j I Republican Apparently Elected Governor of Tennessee Seventy- j two Years of Age. ' I ? ; I Nashville, Nov. 3.?After being in!1 ! political retirement for 25 years and | ( ; with more than a third of a century j j between his first and second races j} . for governor, Alfred Alexander Tay-1 j lor, familiarly known as "Alf Tay-! ] ; lor, after a vigorous campaign has j? . apparently been elected governor of! < Tennessee. L Mr. Taylor was past three j ccore and ten mark when he entered j j the race for the Republican nomina-j. tion in the primary of August 5 last, j izi uie uegmnmg many j. eiiiieoseans. who knew him simply as the brother 1 of "Our Bob," late Democratic governor and senator from Tennessee,' I , looked*upon his campaign as hardly a matter for serious consideration. ' This View underwent a change when Colonel Taylor took the stump and , began an active campaign. It be came evident that it was a one man; race practically all over the state.: So "Alf" Taylor woke up on his 72nd j, birthday to find himself the Repub-, .lican nominee for governor of Ten-' | nessee for the second time in his life.! Taylor's first race for governor was the most famous affair of the kind in the history of the state. On ' June 18, 1886, the Republican state convention met in Nashville, and the late Richard W. Austin, for several terms congressman from the Second 1 Tennessee district, nominated Taylor J for governor. The Democratic state convention ; met on August 11, 1885, and after considerable jockeying nominated ' Robert L. Taylor, "Our Bob," forj governor on the 15th ballot. Thus it! was tftat Tennessee's "war or Koses" was set going. The two Taylors made a to'ur of the state, speaking to immense crowds. They hammered, the opposition party and poked fun1 at one another, but wound up each, day with brotherly affection unim-! pairejl. After a tour of the Sequathi! valley in the course of the campaign the two stopped at Bridgeport, Ala., ; for .the night -'as guests of a Mrs. I Jones, who had heard them speak that afternoon at Jasper. The good woman was greatly impressed with the- consideration the ' brothers showed ^ach other, not only in de-' batfe'-fct Jasp.er, but about the hoa-^ pitafcle fireside- of her home. The. next morning she gathered from herj garden two Bouquets 01 roses, one white and the other red. Returning i she found Alf and Bob waiting to1 say good-bye. To each she present-i ed one bouquet. "I want you to ac-| cept these flowers, gentlemen," said the warm hearted hostess, "for thej sake of your mother. I know that; she must be proud of her boys, who, can be politicians and still be broth-; ers. I know that her heart is with, | you- and that her blessings follow j you." ? * Bob Taylor received the white _1 A 1^ Xl. A ?aJ AV i ros6 ana aii uic rcu. 1 u^jicoxw^i i i during the campaign Bob Taylor was! known to newspaper fame as "Knight of the White Rose" and Alf as "Knight of the Red Rose," and Robert still was known as the "Knight of the White Rose" when he defeat- j ed Edward W. Carmack for re- I nomination as United States senator ( in 106. The "War of the Roses" be- J tween the Taylor brothers ended in I x1-- nf 1 .with j I lie U V CUlUCi U(.t..ivu Robert the victor. Alf Taylor became a member of congress from the First district on March 4, 1889, and cerved for three terms, declining further nomination and taking up the practice of law in Johnson City. His home is at Milligan College,! Tenn., where he is extensively in-; ' i - terested in farming, ile :s me iainer < of several sons, ore of whom, fo!- j lowing the family bent for political | division, is a Democrat. Memphis, Nov. 3.?In the face of ir.cimplete returns from '0 out <f 95 counties in Tennessee Alf Taylor, Republican candidate for governor, is leading Gov. A. H. Roberts, his I Democratic opponent, in the race for I governor by over 13,000 votes. A number of the counties not heard from are in East Tennessee and normally Republican. These are expected to increase Taylor's lead. The leturns compiled by The Commercial-Appeal give Taylor 123,329 jand Roberts 110,241. The p reside n-' * 'ji. * ! tial race is still very ciosc wiiji Democratic leaders claiming that Cox has carried the state by from' 3,000 to 5,000 and the Republicans say the same number. Figures tabulated up to 9 o'clock from scattering returns from almost 90 counties give Cox 125,894 and Harding 118,27G'. j j East Tennessee counties are I among the principal ones missing I from this tabulation. I Shriner show Opera House, Nov. 22. J I ROBBERS ATTEMPT TO CRACK SAFE IVIephone Boil Chases Thieve* From Farmers and Merchants Bank at Little Mountain. But for the alarm given by a lady and the fact that both the cashier and the bank's phone were on the same line no doubt the Farmers and Merchants bank of Little Mountain ivould have been robbed early Tuesday morning:. The attack was made at about 2 a. 7i. The entrance into the bank build ing was made from the rear, and tue knob to the vault was knocked off. Two chisels were found along: with =ome other tools that had been taken from the tool house of the C., N. & L. Railroad company at Little Mountain. Two explosions were made in ittempting to open the vault. The sheriff was notified and went to the scene at once with his deputies. He states that he found tracks , 1 1 a 1 il /V* ? i.1_. i.. mere ana traced tnem sumcienuy 10 ?et a reasonable clue, to which he ind other officers are attempting to forret out. Not long ago the bank of Prosperity was entered and the party is now in jail awaiting trial. Another Account. The State, 3rd. Safe blowers made an unsuccessful attempt early yesterday morning ' t* 11. _ i l_ _ T 'a. co cracK uie saie in tne DanK at iyiitle Mountain. The sudden ringing of a telephone bell is supposed to have frightened the robbers immediately following the explosion. Yesterday morning a loud explosion was heard in/the little town and a citizen thought at once that the robbers had dynamited the bank afe. He called the president of the bank at his residence and it happened that a telephone in the bank building was on the duplex line and The Crismon Will Appear at the Opc This number opens th berry. Admission: Single attr Season Tickets: 4 attn > * "I 11 An r?/\ m X ? Aauns ipi.ou, ?eacneis Curtain rises at 8:30 p. FOR BENEFIT OF TH that will im 1 1 ? aaa^. EXTRA You get a two piece suit and ; only $36, or a full suit or ovei only $39.85. Select from nev You have always wanted a t because of the exorbitant cos a tailor made suit, or overco. price that is very seldom ma( This sale will be withdrawn order is NOW?not after the [ the bell chimed when the telephone ! in the residence began to ring. Ofi finals of the bank and citizens rushed to the building where the explosion occurred as soon as possible and an examination showed that the thieves had made a water haul. They I left two broad guaged chisels and a j steel center punch m their hurry to depart. Chief Richardson has .the < j tools in his office at police head| quarters. The safe door was wreck| cd by explosives. ' ?. j Shriner show Opera House, Nov. 22. Charged With Liquor Dealing. ~~Mr. Arthur B. Braswell was arrested on Wednesday night at his store I near Mollohon village by Policeman i .Inn P T.ivinfrston iind Demitv Sher i iff D. J. Taylor, charged with violat' ing the prohibition law. The officers | found a ten-gallon keg of corn whis; key buried a few feet behind his j store. A case for keeping and stor. ing whiskey ^as docketed against I him in the recorder's court for j Thursday,' but he forfeited a cash j bond of $100 and is out on bond in j $500 for appearance at the general : sessions court in December. Ghriner show Opera House, Nov. 22. ? Taylor-Hawkins. Miss Artie Taylor and Mr. C. R. j Hawkins were united in holy wedi lock on Saturday evening, October 30, at the Mayer Memorial Luther; an parsonage, the Rev. W. H. Dut| ton performing the ceremony. | The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. N. E. Taylor. Mr. Hawkins is the son of Mr. and Mrs. R. S. j Hawkins. Both are of the St. Lukes section. The young couple are the rccepients of the many well wishes f A 1 _ * f...' J_ oi iiieir irienus. l ' Shriner show Opera House, Nov. 22. Gulley Artists 'it* , > L1A??0A KI ATTA?M k At* &^ll IIA A iUUOt j AlW.vAMW* UHI. e Lyceum Course in New - ' . < " * i <' 'action $1.10 and 55c. * J ictions. fl and Students $2.20. 1 m. ' '; b - < E AMERICAN LEGION. ? i f a 17 is News terest you! PANTS I i flnn mSkhh :h Made to Measure TWO PIECE ^LL WOOL UITS . Special at an extra pair x>f pants free for 1 'coat with extra pants free for I v Fall Patterns. ;ailor made suit but hesitated t. Now is your chance to get at, with extra pants free at a le. without notice?the time to sale is over. lack's Dry Goods Co. Prosperity, S. G. ,