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The Dem ocra ic press claim all is ove but -e shouting, and that Wit liars Jennings Bryaw: will g in iv a veritable landslide The Republicans are equall; as sanguine of success, but i is easily.seen they are some what alarmed over condition in heretofore Republica: States, notably Ohio, and be cause of this uneasiness extr efforts are being made by ther to keep Ohio in the Republi can column. Chairman Mack is either de ing some hard bluffing or h is badly mistaken as to th States, Bryan will carry; i however, he is correct, the: the country will have a Delp ocratic President, a Democrat ic lower House of Representa tives. and a Republican sen ate. which may result in ham pering the Democratic presi dent in carrying out the re forms and the principles h has been advocating on thi hustings. Chdrman Hitchcock doe not - cem to be giving out fo his .arty any boastful state mel , other than to say he i sati: 3d with the outlook an that adge Taft will be elected If i nepublicans win. th cam tign has demnonstrates that lthough the party is i. post ~sion of the governmaen witi: he advantage of an arm; of 'dice holders and also th adv: Atage of the money bag of t . e big industrial interests they are mightily frightened and:i are got to fight, and figh hart for their victory. If th Den. yer ts win it will be be caum the people are desirou of a change, are not in accor< witih the streneous policy o the administration, and be cau of the dissensions in th ranla ~ of the R epublican party The panie has had much t do w~ th descrediting the part; in power; the vast labor ele ment in the North and Wes miss the "full dinner pail, and attribute its emptiness t the panic under a Republica: admi aistration, and too, the; belie ;e the cause of this cou dition can be traced to the ad ministration's efforts to regu late the trusts, and, unles Chairman Mack is being de ceivedi by Samuel Gompers the great labor leader, the la bor vote in the doubtful State will go to Bryan. The shooting up of Browns ville for which Presiden Roosevelt dismissed a regi ment of negro troops is cut ting a considerable figure il some of the States where tha race is a strong factor, and il some instances wield the bal ancee of power. If the negroe in these States, together wit] the labor organizations dleser the Republican party, the par ty they have affiliated with i: the pa~st, then the leaders c that party have good cause fo alarm, and Chairman Mac: the best of cause t~o b'e sar gumne. ?'~iN WITH INDEPENDENTISM. Ti -re will have to be som chat in our primary elec tion nys, or a break whic] will hard to mend will re sult. Several years ago o: acco ~t of corrupt practice in th 1)rima'ry in Greenville an it pendent candidate wa eetI over the nominee c the emnocratic party. Th prov .ation must have beei grca i a Greenville for the pee ple 3 refuse to submit, an< rese: the declaration of th Coup : Democratic Executiv Comn uttee, but they did resen it, er 1 repudiated the commit tce's :tion by overwhelmnin elec.g. an iudependent candi 4. In Richland Count' 'n is allegecd. andl a: office of Supervisor has been i announced, what the result V will be remains to be seen but the management of the e primary in that county has .given cause for dissatisfaction, t the newspapers of Columbia t are pronounced against inde- 1 pendentism and urges the peo ple to stand by the party nom- 1 inee. State Chairman Wilie i r Jones publishes a warning to Democrats against indepen dentism and pleads with the voters to vote for the regular * nomiuee. There is trouble in r Lee County, one of the best citizens of that county has de clared himself an independent < candidate for Supervisor on t account of irregularities there, t i and it is becoming common f for candidates to find provoca s tion enough to disregard the I primary pledge. i The only remedy we can - see is for a change in the party - rules, making mandatory say r thirty days before the primary - for the executive committee > to have filed with it all of the club rolls, and for that body I 7 to make careful examination t of them taking off repeated - names, those under age, and 1 s those not entitled to vote in 2 that club, and then have pre - pared an official roll certified to by the County Chairman 1 and attested by the secretary, - this roll shall be the guide for a club and no others than those - whose names appear thereon e shall be allowed to vote. This e of course is crude, but some f thing must and should be done i 1 to preserve the integrity of - the primary system. - We hearty agree with the - State chairman and the Co - lumbia newspapers, it will not - do to vote for these indepen - dent candidates, matters not how great the provocation was e to cause them to take the step. e It is far better to submit to present ills than to fly to ills s we know not of. Independent r ism, has been properly pro - nounced worse than radical s ism, and once the people give I countenance toindependentism . it means the disruption of the e Democratic party with no 1 ,foretelling the ultimate conse a1(quences. Staud by the regu t lar nominees of the party re Sgardless of the wrongs impos e ed. COMPLY WITH TH~E LAW. The managers of election have t heretofore been lax in managing a elections, for the reason there was - no opposition, and everything was s one way; things are different in1 Sthis election, there is opposition, in the electoral and congressional boxes, and, a condition is con ;fronting the voters which will p robably not be settled outside< -of the courts. Under the circum ) stances we take the liberty of ad vising the managers at the several1 - precincts to comply strictly with t the law, and permit no man to put a ticket in the boxes, who does not first exhibit to them his registration certificate and his tax receipt for the previous year. It is the duty of the commissioners - of election to impress upon the] - managers calling for the boxes - the importance of enforcing the a following section of' State Consti - tution. Article II, Section 4, subdivis ion '"(e)" of the constitution of 1895 provides as follows: "Managers of election shall re quire of every elector offering to vote at any election, before allow-1 Sing hinm to vote, proof of the pay - ment of all taxes, including poll1 - tax, assessed against him and col 1 lectable during the previous year. t The production of a certificate or of the receipt of the officer autho -ized to collect such taxes shall be conclusive proof of the payment thereof."1 tSame section subdivision "(f)" sas The General Assembly -shall provide for issuing to each 1duly registered elector a certifi I cate of registration," &c. r Section 213 of the Civil Code i says. "'The Managers of Election - shall require of any elector offer ing to vote at any election, before allowing him to vote, in addition to the production of a registration certificate, proof of the payment1 3 of all taxes, including poll tax, - assessed against him and collect i able during the previous year. - The production of a certificate or the receipt of the officer authoriz ed to collect such taxes shall be conclusive proof of the payment thereof. SIt will be observed from what we have quoted that it will be a clear violation of the law for the 11 managers to permit a voter to - vote without complying with the: legal requirement,-exhibit his1 Stax receipt and registration certi-I ficate. This election will be watched more closely than any we have, held before, because, there is an itneinterest in the ballot on the liquor question, and unless the managers carry out their dum tis as the law directs, it may] E not trouble. Therefore we ad ise every manag- to follow the w strictly. r if he does, neith r side wi. ,.ave ground to con lain, the managers will have .one their sworn duty, and if here is to be any contention in he law they will not be effected iv it. The supreme court of this State Las decided cases already in which t insisted that the registration ertificates and tax receipts must >e exhibited or the election is oid. In the Laurens case, be ause at certain boxes the manag rs did not comply with the law nd require the exhibition of the registration certificates and tax eceipts those boxes were thrown ut which changed the result of he election and defeated the will he majority. Therefore the man gers will save expense and trou )le if they manage the election trictly according to the law. PUT UP OR SHUT UP. Senator Tillman has returned ome from his extended trip to urope where he went seeking est and health. The senator in mn interview insinuates there were some newspapers who sup >ort McLaurin that received noney from the Standard Oil Prust. The News & Courier suggests, the senator- to name ;hem, and as one of the newspa >ers which supported McLaurin, ye join in the request. The Archbold-McLaurin cor respondence exposed by Mr. Eearst was a great shock to the ditor of THE TIMES, but so ;trong was his faith in the clean .iness of Mr. McLaurin's public sareer, that he had hoped it vould be shown there was no inestionable transaction that Mc aurin was connected with, but the letters appealing for financial Lid to defeat Tillman, not denied, s indeed disappointing to him. Senator Tillman asks "what iewspapers in the State received my portion of the $5,000 from the Standard Oil." We had never aeard of this $5,000 until the earst expose, and know of no 2ewspapers which supported Mc Laurin that were promised or re eived pay for their support. IHE TIMES supported John - L. McLaurin long before he ever went to congress, its editor was L member of the conference at Florence which sent McLaurin to ongress, and for years before the revoution of 1890 there was a warm personal friendship be. tween McLaurin and the present editor of THE TIMES; the revela tions made by Mr. Hearst, on ac ount of this long personal and political friendship, made THE IMES 'editor's disappointment bhe greater, but so far as news papers in this State receiving any aancial aid from the Standard 11 Company to support Mr. Mc aurin for the senate, there must me proof to convince us if there s any foundation for the insmnu Ltion. We did not always agree with ~he positions McLaurin took on 3ublic questions, but in the main ve did, lbut our standing by him, Ld defending him against the ttacks of his enemies, was rompte. not so muchi by our greeing with him on these intri ate national questions. as we tekowledged at the time, that ge were not versed in such mat ers, but it was our abiding faith n his high integrity, our confi lence in his earnestness, and our trong personal friendship; many >f the contentions of McLauric or which his enemies condemned aim, and made capitol to encom pass his retirement from politics, oave subsequently become popu .ar, and it is frequently remark ad "McLaurin was ten years thead of his time." The senti nent worked up against him by ais enemies, had in our opinion, auch to do with McLaurin's wanting the political destructior >f his arch-enemy Tillman, and n his desperation he was willing > appeal to Standard Oil or any ther source, or resort to any neans to gratify this desire; we judge this from the exposed let ser in which he asks for prompt md generous aid, but the fact hat he did not make the race against Tillman at that time or subsequently, and finally retired ltogether from politics, even de lining proffered positions-a judgeship we think, is evidence hat he did not receive the aid lleged to have been asked for. 'he question created by an in inuation from Senator Tillman, mnd asked by him is, "what news papers in the State received any portion of the $5,000 from the Standard Oil." We should like for the names and proof to be submitted to the public. If Sena bor Tillman has proof of newspa pers having been corrupted he hotld have exposed them a long bime ago, but it is not too late aow. DO NOT MISL.EAD. We must believe those who are sincerely supporting the prohibi bion movement, do so mainly up >n the ground of advocating, a noral issue, as a religious prin iple and such would not are to lend themselves to the promulgation of misleading state aents. In a recent issue of the olumbia State there appeared Erom the Manning correspondent bhe statement that all of the mem bers of the Manning Bar, with one exception, favor the prohibitior aovement in this county. This s incorrect. There are eight awyers living in Manning and oi ~hese eight, three of them are >pposed to the prohibition move nent in Clarendon, and those :ree are confident, that the law ias not been complied within call gthe letion. And furthermore the case cited by the prohibition N lawyers of the Manning bar in aLM letter addressed to Mr. W. M. Plowden, which we publish else where. in the opinion of other! lawyers will not apply to a spec ial election, as the very same su preme court has held that the notice in a general election is di rectory and not mandatory, but in a special election the statute M is mandatory, and must be com plied with. Hence it will be seen that lawyers are ever ready to find decisions which will back up their contention in any contro versy. Even courts reverse them selves. So far as it being ap parent, "that the dispensary ele ment is making every effort to keep down the vote," we think this is misleading and unjust to those who claim the same privi lege of doing their own thinking and reaching their own conclu sions. The '"dispensary element" as far as we have been able to dis-, cern is exceedingly inactive, they are having but little to say one way or another, they are certain ly not holding any Sunday mass meetings, they are not sending out literature, nor are they bring ing in men from other counties to tell our people how they must vote. We think we are in a po sition to know, and we can assert there is no effort whatever being made by those favoring the re- ik tention of the dispensary "to 2 keep the vote down," and had it not been for the legal opinion ad vanced by one of the prohibition ) lawyers at the Sunday mass meet ing, in which the speaker's were applauded as if in an ordinary pol- j itical meeting; as to the qualifica- M tions for voting-exhibiting tax receipts and registration certifi cates, we have every reason to think the election would have been held in the eustomary way, and nothing said about it, and certainly not taken advantage of by the "dispensary element." This "element" feel that the peo ple of Clarendon have the intelli gence to know what to do on this - question, and if the election is le gal. and the majority of the people in the county are willing to pay more taxes, and want the legal sale of liquor abolished, there is nothing for those who think differently to do but to submit. The matter of legality is not for five of the eight mem bers of the Manning bar to de cide, it is for the Supreme Court, but-if this tribunal decides that eighteen days' notice is sufficient when the Act providing for such special elections distinctly reads, the supervisor shall give thirty r days' notice, then the dispensary ) is abolished, and the gentlemen e of the bar, who are urging pro hibition, can later decide wheth er or not they can conscien tiously accept fees for defending men charged with illegally sell ing liquor, against the peace and dignity of-the State, and the moral issue they have pressed as a religious principle. - Deafness Cannot be Cured. by localapplications, as they cannot reach the dieased portion of the ear. There is only onj way to cure deafness, and that is by constitu tiona remedies. Deafness is caused by an in flamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this -tube gets innlam ed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hear:-A ing, and when it is entirely closed deafness is the result, and unles the 1 la m tion cn be condition,hearing will be destroyed .orever: nine ases out of ten arc caused by catarrh, which is fC nothing but an inflamed condition of the mu- t We sul gie One Hundred Dollars for any T Ficlrr. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0. W Hall' Famil Pills are the best. s Union County went Prohi tion yesterday by a reported pi majority of 282, with some fn boxes to hear from which is h supposed will reduce the major- p ity 'somewhat, In December a last the dispensary lost by a S 11 majority, but that election SE was set aside on account of o*l irregularities. The Prohibi- a tionists, aided by Rev. Thomas b Leitch, were thoroughly or- ni ganized, while there was no a organized effort on the part of ti the dispensaryites. A Healthy Family.S "Our whole family has enjoyed good t~ health since we began using Dr. King's New Life Piils, three years ago," says L. A. Bartlet, of Rural Route 1, Guil ford, Maine. They cleanse and tone the the system in a gentle way that does you good. 25c. at Dr. W. E. Brown & Co., and J. E. Arant's drug store. C p Wants the Dispensary Retained, a Editor The Manning Times: The third cday of November is draw- - ing near, and on that day we are to have a general election, and at that time we are to take a vote on the ques tion of Dlspensary or no Dispensary in Clarendon county. The result of the e~ same remains to be seen.W We are opposed to the voting out of ti the Dispensary and we will cast our vote "' for the retention of the same. We hon.. c estly believe that alcoholic liquors should be legally sold, and we believe that under the dispensary system is the best plan of selling the same. As a free citizen of South Carolina I shall vote on that day to retain the dis pensary and will vote to apply the share allotted to free schools, to the building * of bridges in the county, and the im provement of the public highways gen erally, and will challenge the right of any man to gainsay my right to do the same. A vote taken in Clarendon county as regard the convictions of the voters will retain the dispeDsary for every man that drinks whiskey cannot consistently vote for prohibition withotit making a prohibition hypocrite of himself. We believe there should be a dispen sary established at every county seat in South Carolina for the legal sale of whiskey with no dodging or evading the laws of South Carolina but the rigid enforcement of the same. This brief article Mr. Editor is the honest convictions publicly expressed , of a free citizen and voter of South Car olina and from one who is responsible for the same. GEORGE R. JONES. Davis Station, S. C., October 26, i908. Itch cured in 30 minut~es by Wool- C ford's Sanitary Lotion. Never fails. E ol by W . Bown & Co. Druggists. BOI M is full to o the newest best maker ing in Ame NORFOLK SUITS, D. B. SUITS, ages 6 to 1 RUSSIAN SUITS, ages SAILOR SITITS, ages 3 The Fabr are selecte wel as for Tailoring i all points I comes doul It will pa splendid li your Boyo0 P FH ONE 166, ~rought to Light. IS R N E anning People Receiving the FullFieTondPa-Gssea Benefit.anAcen-Bod There have been many cases like the lowing in Manning. Everyone rela s the experience of people we know. I o r ihute tywt hese plain, straightforward statementsifouaentwe ilwlcm ill do much toward relieving the suf- it u nuac aiy hc ring of thousands. Such testimonythwasa rylgendpser in l be read with interest by many peo- oeI sorsl uiess oka S. C. Brown, living at 12 Canal St.,yorisane ntetou en imter, S. C., says: "I used Dean'S eis dvtdt hswr- n idney Pills, and they did me more wn o ofe htw r sm od than all the other remedies I had ~ AET eviously used. I suffered severely om a lame back and some days was t able to work on this account. Itastecm ni',ndw sadra irt me to stoop or lift anything, I a l ie osreyu muid not rest at nights and no positonWewlbelatohrfrma assumed was comfortable. In the oei eadt nuac faykl orning upon first arising, my back was Wieo poeu n ewl stiff and lame that I could hardly getth re. >out, the secretions contained a darkYorfrpotcin diment, and I had to pass them very ten I used plasters and liniments for I~F iSl l~llf~ gl y bbut did not receive relief. I ially used Down's Kidney Pills and .ev cured me. I have not had a lame E.C OTNMngr Lck since, the secretions from my kid vs are now clear and they do not give eany trouble. I am well and strongSTE0 *present and give Doan's Kidney PillsF UIlWhULI oredit.''by all dealers. Price 50CiiI fCaedn nts. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, B ae .Wnhm s. rb ew York, sole agents for the United Jde Reember the name--Doan's-and WEES ataV er .ke no other. I aulD oelmd utt Notice to Creditors. JaeE.Brd All persons having claims againstmoshalndigurteknd te estate of Frank W. Thigpen, de-ancrdtsofheaiJms based, will present them duly attestedBerdcadt tthy b id those owing said estate will makeaperboeminteCutfP tyment to the under signed qualified btt ehl tM nigo ministrator of said estate. 5hdyo oebrnx fe ul J. T. STUKES, tinteefat1oclkintef Administrator.nontosocasiaythya Manning, S. C., October 12, 1908. wytesi d iitainsol Notice to Creditors. ofOtbrA.D10. All persons having claims against [EL1Jdeo rbt tate of Samuel L. Rantin, deceased, ill present them duly attested, and Lose owing said estate will make pay-LE&MLLAN ent to the undersigned qualifed Exe itor of said estate. HENRY s. 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