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LOCUIs APPELT. Editor. MANNING. S. C.. MARCH 16. 1910 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY SCBsCRIPTION RATES: Six~u moths .....7 ADVERTISING RATES: One squar#e, one time. 81: cacb subseq ue n f vertion. 50 cent& Obituaries and T- butes P Rtespect eharred for as rCLM12 r s4"-tLremerlt' Liberal, contruct% made for three. uix and twc~ie* Coam~umcamoiLs must be zmompazled by the: rena name and addres of the writer in ord?er to; re.Ive attention. Vo conmunucation of a p-rsona cnaacter wil be publish)ed except as an advertisenent. Entered at the PostoMce at Manning as Sec ond Qwmt~ matter. CHANGE PARTY RULES. The Laurens Advertiser is cor rect in urging the people to send their best men to the legislature, but the trouble is that many of best men regard going to the legislature a sacritice of their per sonal business, which they might be willing to make, if they did not have to subject themselves to the scramble our primary system in volves. A man competent and! qualitied to be of service in a law making body, whohasinterestsat home requiring his attention, does not feel like subjecting him self to the tactics resorted to by some politicians, nor does he feel like offering his character to be used as a foot ball by those who choose to oppose his nommation; the result is. that such men are very chary about permitting the use of their names for the office. Then there is another considera tion, the people do not appreciate a Representative's sacrifices as they should, and it often happens that a man may devote much of his time and talents in the inter ests of the people, and which they may approve of. but should he reach a decision on perhaps some matter that is immaterial, a demagogue takes advantage of it to incite a prejudice for the purpose of discrediting this faith ful servant The great trouble is, the ten-' dency these days ;o find out that i which is popular with the maes, and advocate it on the hastings, whether the candidate believes in itornot. The day for independent, 1 and honest leadership is fast dis- I appearing; the people are alone to blame for this condition, and therefore, if they cannot get the representation in the general as sembly they would have, they can attribute it to their lhet of appre ciation for the honest services of a Representative who acts for his1 people conscientiously with the lights before him. They do not< always appreciate one who does E A }f'? . co~~d:Hat S Ae & M i arz TH 'PH ON E 16 his own thinking. and who 7rh honest candor -eves his views to his consltitu. nts without his first tinding out whether his conclu sons are popular. A man in pub lic life may do ninetv-nine acts that will bring to him the well-! done of his people, but let him differ from them on a single is sue. they forget he has done well: discredit him and replace him often times for another who will not renresent them as weli, ard perhaps be at varience with them on all matters except the single issue raised by some fadist or schemers to con trol the politics. For these rea sons many of our best men will not enter the political arena. and the primary system is largely re-, sponsible therefore. We are not opposed to the pri mary system but we do think that some of the requirements should be changed so that a man's friends can place his name in the pri mary. without his placing himself in the position of seeking the of fice: under the present system no man can be a candidate unless he: announces his candidacy. and tiles: a pledge. whereas if his friends were permitted to announce him and file the pledge for him, men who would not seek the position now, would accept when nomi nited. There should be a change made in the party rule so far as they effect candidates for the gen eral assembly. P. L HARDIN FOR UEUMNANT GOVERNOL It is stated that the friends of Senator P. L. Hardin of Chestcr, are urging him to be a candidate for Lieutenant-Governor. Among the several names we have seen mentioned in the newspapers for the several State offices. none has: struck us more ravorably than that of Senator P. L. Hardin. He is one of the finest types of South Carolinians, a gentleman of the highest character, a man broad in his views, and conservative in his acts, one who has had many ears of legislative experience, nd who has merited the reputa- I ion of being a student of the af airs of the State. Senator Har lin is not a lawyer by profession, i farmer pure and simple, but we renture that be has one of the >est minds for solving legal prob ems in the State. Throughout ardin's long legislative career e has always been sought out to erve on the most important com nittees, especially the investiga ion of our institutions of learn ng. He is a very modest man, iever seeking anything for him ;elf, and as true as steel to his -riends; there will not be a man rho has served in the South Car >na general assembly sinct. 1890 ut who will endorse the effort to ~et the distinguished Senator rom Chester to become a c-andi ate for Lieutenant Governor. senator Hardin is not an extrsm- I STI ~ L7~~ ~| IL J ased in .. Texa. Miss ouri or any other State and at a les %t than in the Western States. We have the advantage of climate that the great stock raisers of the West have not, we have the lands and the feed. then why longer continue the smoke house in the West. and be subject ed to present conditions, not to say the speculation of the meat trust' Let every farmer deter mine to raise the quantity of meat he thinks he will use and some for market; tben he will no long er waste the results of his honest toil in sending his money away from home but it will stay here to help develope our own coun try, and make our own people happier. CAN THERE BE A BLOCK TICKETV Thc Jaw as we construe it. re lating to municipal elections. is that they are to be conducted the same as general elections. that is say: the ticket must be a certain size of white paper containing the names the voter desires to cote for, either written or printed, but tthe said ticket shall not We scratched. Therefore it is impos sible to have a legai municipal election With tickets the same as are usedl in the primaries. i. e., all Lhe names on the ticket and the voter scratch out those he does not desire to vote for. A voter in the coming municipal election can only deposit in the ballot box one ticket. this ticket may have written or printed up on it one name or it may have as -anv names as there are officers to be voted for. out the ticket must be, in order to be counted, have no names scratched. This is our construction of the election law. a! ' this opinion is given because tz1-re seems to be an impression the voter can vote a ticket (block) just as lie does in the primary, but we think this an error and calculated to cause con fusion.' The voter can write out a ticket from Mavor down, or for any part of a ticket if he chooses. providing the same is on white paper of legal size, thaL ticket must becounted, but if he scratch es out one name on a ticket, that ticket is illegal and must not be counted. and the nanagers are re quired to destroy it. If this construction of the law is not correct we invite the law vers of this Bar to show wherein we are in error 'efore the muni cipal election comes on. We have no personal interest in the mat ter, have no favorite in the race, and we do not expect to be in the State at the time the election comes off. Candidate's Card. I hereby announce myself a, a candi date for Matyor of the town. and as so'n a-b court is :rer wi!! state my n>!atform either through the paper or to a meet ing of the citizens. WN. C. Dltvis. E made great ber Ouitig ~. The rule th mething new c ore firmly est tot in need of .its, allow us t< lid line of lats and Ik ~r Tie and Hat every Man g blocks in Stiff and Soft [rom the best $1.50, $2.00, 3 Exclusive I 25c., S0c., Gloves in the new shad iLER SATAN REECKES SIN. in last Mondav's News and Courier there is a dispatch from Mexia. Texas. in whicb is pub. lished a synopsis of a sermon de livered by Rev. L. D. Bass. who at one time served the Manning Baptist church as pastor. but whose services would not be had nlow~.TluIspreachecr gives hisviews on the racc troubles. and claims that "free schools and liquor' is responsible. He says "the negro needs the Gospel of Jesus.. The negro may need just what Mr. Bass says lie does. but in having1 that (Gospel preached and taught him. would he not also need a teacher whose walk in life tits hitn for the task- A history of R'ev. L ). .ass's career mn South Carolina. Alabama, Virginia, and in thev city of Washington would not read like a Sunday School story. nor would it nmake his pul pit utterances as influential. as thosie coming from the majority of Milnisters whoi we know. Mr. Bass q uot.es: I'-When the dcv:! . sick the devil a monk would be. But when the devil gets weil the devil of a monk is he." This quutation applied to the reverand who is now cavorting in Texas would be appropos. But then Ile is not the first to "steal the livery of heaven to serve the devil in." WHY NOT HANG? The city of Spartanburg has a Mayor who will go down in his tory as a Crack-a-Jack when it comes to sentencing violators of the hquor laws. The jurisdiction of a municipal court does not ex ceed a penalty of over $100 fine or :Y, days on the cbaingang. yet this "Snortenburg" Mayor. has made a decision which knocks the circuit J udges out of the box, and makes the fanaticism of the Crusaders pale into insigniti cance. If this Mayor is in earn est in thus piling on a sentence for storing whiskey. it looks to as that his sanity should be look ed into. but if he is in sympathy with the malefactors we see wherein his extraordinary sen tence might have method in it. The following is the press dis patch sent out from Spartanburg. The heaviest fine ever imposed in the police court of Spartanburg was the one Mayor Lee Thursday morning placed on Gt-orze Dearman. charged with storir. whiskey Dearman was sentenced on 1'6 charges to pay fine amounting to $16.600 or serve on the chaingani for thirteen years. seven months and :2 days. This is a test cae. Wednesday night Deaarman was ar rested cn the charge of storing whiskey. Lieut. Noien and Officers Merrill and McAbee searched Dearman's house on WofTord street. just below Cudd's sta bles and found a trunk containing some thingr ever forty gallons of whiskey done up in pint flasks. Mlayor Lee decided to trv Dearmnan on a count for each and every pitat. There were 166 pints and for each pint he was sentenced to pay a fine of 8100, or serve thizts days on the an:. prepara tion we' ve the best at everybody ~n Easter Sund ablished each one of our h2 > call your att berdashery. and Boy must have ! WA iats. of Man ufactu 3.00, to $5.00. Teckwear. to $1.50. es. Choice Shirts and Ho: LIOIl ist on anythinz. perscnaiiy he is a Prohibitionist. and the last time he was sent to the senate he ad vocated Local Option. having been elected on that platform he stood true to it: in the election in Chester county when the question came up whether Chester should continue the dispensary. Hardin advocated and voted for prohibi tion. but when it was proposed to p.xss a State-wide bill at the last session, he rose upon the floor of the Senate and stated that while he was a Prohibitionist he accept ed the compromise of the year be fore in good faith. and that he would not go back upon it. There fore while Mr. Hardin is a Pro hibitionist lie is no fanatic or ex tremist. He has always been op posed to extravagant appropria tions, and in the many reports he made to the general assembly. he always pointed out where the State could save money by adopt ing the policy he would suggest. There is no man in South Caro lina who would grace the of'ice of Lie a tena nt-Governor better than P. L Hardin of Cliester,-a South Carolinian by birth and rearing, a farmer by profession, a man of learning with a long practicai experienee in the affairs of the State. We sincerely hope that the friends will suc-eed in getting his consent to be a can didate. Thomas G. McLeod of Lee for Governor. and P. L. Har din of Chester for Lieutenant Governor. will make a strong team., RAISE YOUR OWN MEAT. The high cost of living has nu politizal signiticance whatever. and the political writers that are attempting to gull the public by trying to put the blame upon the shoulders of the political party now in power, are simply working a 1limflam game upon the credu lous. The high cost of living is due to the scarcity of food prod ucts. meats especially. A few years ago the price of meat was so low tbat the raisers quit the business because it was unprotit able, and now the remaining rais ers cannot suppiy the demand caused by an increased number of consumers. The packers are in bad straits. and they are scouring the country over for the product to supply their pressing needs, as i result prices are soaring higher ind higher: the agents for the packing houses are even looking South now to gather hogs that aeretofore would not have been :ought for any price. Hogs were ecently shipped from Sumter. :>yers have written to people in his county asking if they had Lny hogs to sell, offering as high Ls 11 cents gross. There is no rea ;on why the farmers of this coun ;y sbould any longer depend up >n- the West for their meat, as rood pork,. beef and mutton can >e raised in South Carolina as can I E'V I Eas Spear in sc ~L4coming mn Syou are i Spring St -'our splen4 A new East< <I and correct Sprini Hats: The best of CHA]l who will make au an;-ai. Dearman aknowl-ti to the police when arrest-. that ihis was the first time he had er,-r had anr whiskey in his possesioa for sale. and the e-fflcers so testited. It is said that the whiskey is blockade Mtt coming from Augusta. The sixth congressional district has a poet, what will it ha-ve aiter Toin Rozers of Benrnetts-iile gets through with him in AugustCon gressman Ellerbe is to have op. position from the present Sena tor from Marlboro. and if Rogers, puts up the fight we know him to be vapable of. Ellerbe's poetic strains will have the appearance of a paper collar in -July after a' game of foot ball. The announcement of the death' of 'Col. W. W. Lumpkin brings sorrow to every mason in South Carolina. especially those of the high degrees. He was a very en thusiastic mason, and in his trav els throughout the State, visited the blue lodges taking great pleasure in laboring with the -raft whenever there was work to do. He died Sunday in Ashe ville. A good man has gone to his reward. tr The labor strike threatened, if carried out will tie up the country and may bring on a fearful com mercial depression. The present' outlook is that the entire West. will be bottled up by traffic con gestion, and this strike may be come general, taking in it all vo cations where labor is employed. Both the labor leaders and the railroads deny responsibility for the deplorable condition. that a, responsib:litv exists is evident and we think congress should leg islate to prevent the possibility of the entire country becoming stagnated because of differences between labor and capital. GOOD FARM WANTED. I 6aill be -lad to hear from owners of go'od farms in -Clarendon County havina such property for sale. Kindly. ive full particulars in Srst letter. I wan. a farm coo-ting from ten to fifteen. thou-;ind dollars. FAR.\IER. P. 0. Box 121. Bennettsville. S. C. Notice of Discharge. T will apply to the Judge of Probate for Clarendon county, on the 15th day of April. 1910. for letters of discharge as Administrator of the Estate of Wil liam B. White. deceased. ALFRED J. WHITE JR. Administrator. manning, S. C., March 14. 1910. WHO'S YOUR 1) ]2r usgsisT We would like to be. ZEIGI.ER'S PHARMACY,__ for your of every must ap ay, is be- ~ year. If andsome ention to e've all the new - rers. ;irv. Etc. Etc. EEASTER! WHAT ABOUT EASTER ? ib The Earliest in Fifteen Years. 6et Ready for it. Let the RRigby Dry Goods Co. help you out on the Easter question. WXE are showing all the pretty new and stylish Spring Goods right now. Come in early and look over the Line of WHITE GOODS. Linenes, Doisettes, Pongees. Poplins. Etc., that we are showino, you wili like them. and can easily select one for a Shirtwaist or Suit. Price very moderate. Hydegrade. Manchesters Galateas. just about the best article of the kind made for Suits, Skirts, Childrens' Dresses, Etc. Perhaps you would like ii some of the Ginghams,Leinenes, Percaes. Madras, 41 Satin Stripe Serges, Etc., for yourself or the Children. Some new ones in this week. We show the very best quality of these Goods, and don't ask so much for them either. ERHAPS you will need a par of Gloves, a a Collar or some Ruching, Belting, or a Belt. a Belt Pin, Handkerchief, Hosiery, Ecc., Braids, Embroidery, Bands, Lace, Etc. We are prepared. to take care of your wants in all these. L ADIES* Ready-made Musline Underwear, Ladies' Ready made Linene Coat Suits. Skirts, Etc. Come and let us show vou. L ET us suggest that you come in early and select your Shoes ior Easter, while the Line is complete, sizes and widths all here. Oxford iW ties. Pumps, two and one eyelet Ties, all Leath ers. styles, etc., for Women, Men and Children. --We sell good ones and guarantee yon satisfaction in wear, style, etc. Best known brands are on our shelves. JfE\S Furnishings-Complete Line-Hosiery. Underwear, Shirts, Collars, Ties, Hats, Caps, Boys' and Mens' Odd Trousers, Shoes, Etc. Millinery Opening, 41 Tuesday and Wednesday, March 22nd and 23nd, 1910. RIGBY U 44 Dry Goods co. ' - ANY,~~ SUMTE.S.C.