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tRA), 1ft- _V I'll" X Editor., MANNIN. . _o '. L.4. 19141. PUBLIStIED EVERY WEDNESDAY SUBsCRIPT1ON RATES 0Com ... .... .. ~ SIX uo~~ ADvERTIsING RATES' one square. one tme. V: esch subseqen %ert.in. 50 cents. )bitre and Trbues Etepect charmed for as r=U' rdeSC LNer24 contrac. made or i.hree. s.ix and tweh e C0rn-.".%e C t:lhe% by the real name and addre-., or tbe writer :n order 'N roc4k1vearttentan No communicaiWon ot a pCrsona? charactr will be publis'!hed except, a.% an 3dvc-.'Cn Entcred at the Po tomcc at MI;&==n= s -' on anmtter. W. J. BRYAN ADVOCATES COUNTY OPTION. If so good and brainy a man as William Jennings Bryan can advocate local option. with the county as the unit, then we feel that we are in good company. THE TDiEs editor has been ad vocating local option ever since 199, he introduced into the Senate the first local option bill ever introduced in that body. and too,. when the State dispen s-ary was in the zenith of its pop ularity. When he was advocat ing local option some of the present latter-day converts t-o state-wide prohibition were working and advocat, ag the state-dispensary, even when the institution was conceded to be rotton with corruption. How long is it since it was worth a man's political career to stand up and tell the people they were being robbed by the manage ment of the State dispensary? -Not so long ago but what the people still remember. At that time THE TiES editor did not take the popular view, but had the temerity to tell the people the truth as he saw it, and as they learned later was the truth. Had he played for politi cal advantage, he would have done what some of the present day prohibitionists did, either said nothing, or clung on to the tail board of the state dispensary wagon until the thing was ditch .d by the wrath of an outraged people, and even then was THE TImES editor playing for popu lar politics, he would have been the loudest mouthed advocate of prohibition there was in the county, even more noisy if not more in earnest than the real. true, and sincere prohibitionists. It is the latter day prohibition ists who would crowd the sin - cere ones off, and for the office they are seeking make the most vehement pretensions. THE TIMES editor has been consist ently advocating local option these many years, and he pro poses to stand by that principle as long as the federal laws per mit the shipment of liquor into the State- Because he believes it is a sane principle. In this connection we would like to state that some criticism has been made of the course of the senator from this county with regard to the Clarendon dispensary, the people having voted it out, and the senator not -having taken the vote in that election as an instruction to vote for state-wide probibition. It is hardly necessary to explain this, as the people are conversant, with the facts, which are as fol lows: 1st. The senator was elected. on a local option platform two years before the dispensary was voted out. end. As a local 'ptionist h~e exercised his right to vote for or against the closing of the dispensary, the election was jor this purpose. 3rd. He did not rega'rd the vote to close the dispensary an instruction for state-wide prohi bition, and no such proposition was put to the voters. The onlyv question then was, shall the Clarendon dispensary be voted out? The majority said yes, but they never did say state-wide prohibition. They voted out the dispensary for various reasons, some voted agar~st it because' the price of the liquor was too1 high, and the quality too poor, others voted against it because it was dra wing tr-ade to Man ning, and still others voted against it because they claimed they were being made to pay for artesian water, whild a large number no doubt voted against it because they hoped to get prohl ition. Have they got it? When the dispensary was voted out it left in that institu tion a large amount of iiquor on hand with no way to dispose of lt. Rent, insurance, hired watchman, board of control and other expenses were going on, the senator after studying whatj course to pursue to save as much money for the taxpayers as pos-! sible, concluded to introduce a! bill providing for the reopeningI of it todispose of the stock~ on hand, and in that bill was a ro vision to prohibit any replenish ing of the stock. This was done: solely in the interest of the. tax yayers, and not for the pur-pose C: e ontinuing the dispensa ry. Aj delegation from Manninig came' to Columbia to nrotest airainst the bill, and the dispensary com mittee which w~as. composedi of prohibitionists reported tihi unfavorably ihut the Senator would hiave pressedi the bij through the senate anye. ayv. and, had assurances of enough2 for its passage. but whien h.e lear-ned the House delegation wer,- not unanimous, and that one: of them had told him he would fight it on the floor of the llouse., the Senator saw~ it would be a waste of time to press it: as somnethiing ha to be dne to keep the tax ayers f romi a greater ios.ne I 'Vihdrewv tha ual a mItII tead scurevd the paslage of the : ii which inaiy d.posed of the! 4tock on hand. but not without -consderable lOss to the tax.- t ,avers. Had the first bill been i *lowei to go through it would I :ave palI the debts. and put 1 .nto the treasury at least $L.00 I proit. .\s it was, it was ony < bv the most careful management t n the part of the one in charge I Lhat a still greater loss did not fall on the people. The people I know these things. and any i eTort to try to make political rata! out of the situation shouid I ct as a noomierani'. The Contv Campaign. The initial meeting was held at Turbeville last Wednesday and was argely -attended. not only from the immediate vicinity but the entire Salem section was w!! represented, quite a number also went from Manning. It was t' desire for another to chronic!e these meetings. but it was impos sible to get any one to undertake! the job so the writer will attempt to do so without giving all of the details. The meeting was presided over by Hon. D. L. Green and opened with prayer by Rev. E. P. Hut son, in the audience was a con siderable number of ladies and they seemed to take an interest in the proceedings, in fact they seemed to enjoy the novelty of joining in the applause whenever -a demonstration was started. The tirst to be introduced were the candidates for the office of magistrate in that locality, these were J. P. Turbeville, Jehui Smith and David Beard, each in their turn made their announce ments and gave their promise -to serve well. Next came the candi dates for Auditor and Judge of Probate, A. P. Burgess and J. M. Windham respectively. neither being opposed. each thanked the audience for the continued conti dence mat .iested in them. County Treasurer Wells who is also with out opposition did not attend but sent his regrets. The candidates for the legisla ture came next with H. B. Rich ardson, Jr., to open. Mr. Rich ardson favors improvement. eco nomy. the colleges and the schools and all things which go to make up for the good of the county. He is opposed to state wide prohibition and favors local option. R. D. White is also in fa vor of local option, the fostering o, our educational institutions, good roads, and legislation favor able to the farming interests. as1 in his judgment, the legislation of the past has been one-sided. Hon. George R. Jones favors the taking care of the education al institutions but there should be more economy exercised in the maintainance of them. He wants good roads. lower taxation, pen sions for the old soldiers. being a confederate soldier himself he is naturally Interested in their be half. He stands for local option and characterizes prohibition a failure. J. D. Alsbrook like the rest is in favor of the schools good roads, economy in the run ning of the government. and on the liquor question he takes the position that we caainot have pro hibition without a strong public sentiment to sustain it. and under the present conditions he sug gests that a special election be held thaoughout the State. and the question of local option and~ prohibition be submitted to a vote of the people, and that if the ma-1 jority say prohibition, then let a prohibition law be enacted, and on the other hand if the majority say local option, the present law with some modifications will be ah that is needed. Harvey W. Mitchum made a strong plea for the common schools. told of his experience as; a teacher for twenty years in this~ State and Georgia, the needs of. those who would never be able to; see the inside of a college, favor ed good roads. wanted some of the money now going to Clemson to go to the common coantry schools. He stated the county of. Carendon was at present under a bounded indebtedness of $250, 000. and he wanted economy. He was foi- state-" de prohibition. Mr. Mitchum is a good speaker. he has a good flow of language and he received marked attention because of his apparent earnest-' ness. James Reaves a new man in politics made a first rate speech and a good imnpress-ion. He want-i ed something done to lower taxa tion at the same time he did not believe in crippling any of our ed ucatonal institutions, but on the contrary he wanted these well taken care of and run with as much economy as possible with-. out retardingtheirusefulness. He was opposedl to the laws relating to fish and game enacted at the last session of the legislature, and if he is elected he wili do his ut most to have these laws modified by enacting a protection which will not be oppressive but sane~ and reasonable. Hie also fav-orsi andc those things which go te ap lft thei county and the general welfare. 'Jn the liquor question while~ not a :70 nor mian nor does~ he favor the use of intox:cants a a bev'erage-. he'. :s a 'r:n believer inlocal seltZO-o-rnmenlt and~ therefore he is for- local Uiption. E. R. Plowuen is also opposed' to the present game and fish law.s ad he too will work to have thiem remedied, the laws enacted at the :ast session are not only drastic ut ini some respects foolish. He ia frriend of the~ institutions of higher learning arnd wants themi upheld, is in favor of retrench ment that our tax burden miay be: lihtned. He fa-:-ors .moi roads1 and if a plan can be devised by. he- oo-ras nsno-iation and it1 feasible it will have his sup- i iort. He stands for -local option i s the most practicable method in i ealing with the liquor problem. I Dr. I. M. Woods made one of ( he best speeches he has yet made z a a compaign, for he not only.! teld the attention of his hearers iut he made his position on the I ducational institutions clear as a rystal. He favors these institu *oi. anid claims they are neces- 1 arv as factories to turn out teach- 1 ,rs for our common schools. He j vants economy and warned his ; iearers about giving heed to all i uanner of promises which I Lmount to naught. He directed tttention to the record he made xhile in the lower house, and that ;tood forslashing anything which lad the appearance of extrava ance. He has experience as a egislator and although lie was isposed to retire from the politi :al arena this year. his friends from all over the county would :iot hear to it, and because of their sindness to hin in the past he ;ielded to them to offer himself igain. He favored good roads and mnprovement generally within :ur means but he was opposed to extrayagance. On the liquor ques Lion he was neither in favor of prohibition or local option. he did ot think a few men in the legis ature should assume the respon sibilitv to pretend to settle this 4uestion. and if elected he would work to have the matter submit ed to the peopie for settlement. D. L. Green was on his own heath and announced that he would not undertake to make a speech other than to thank the peopie for their support in the past and he asked for a continu .nce of it. Rev. R. A. Smith of Sandv Grove had propounded questions to the other candidates and as Mr. Green was about to re tire he reminded him of them and demanded that he answer. The questions were in effect: How do you stand on the liquor question? Are you in favor of the formation of new counties? Where a township desires to vote itself into another county do you favor the expense to come out of the old county or would you favor it to be paid by the movers? We think these are Mr. Smith's questions, not having them before us we are relying on memory. All of the candidates for the house replied to them and all of them were op posed to disrupting Clarendon, none of them favored taking any territory from Clarendon, and when the people of a township desired to vote themselves into another county they should bear the expense thereof, and also where a new county is desired. the owners of the enterprise should be made to pay the ex pense, it is not fair to the rest of the county to burden them with a tax, because a section desires to go elsewhere. it is enoagh for the old county to lose when it loses its territory. At the conclusion of the speech es for the lower house, dinner was announced. The ladies of the Methodist church had prepared a dinner and the proceeds went for the parsonage. It was a splendid dinner and hugely enjoyed. The crowd was reassembled after dinner, and the candidates for the Senate wound up the meeting. each of them were given1 twenty minutes to discuss the is sues but the first speaker was in terrupted by a beavy cloud w hich was threatening rain, that the chairman consented to remove the limit for both candidates. The first speaker was Louis Appelt the present Senator after making a few remarks about his relations to the people of Salem and ex pressing his gratitude to them for the confidence they have man ifested in him he proceeded to give an account of his steward ship as their Senator. He told his hearers that he endeavored to serve them faithfully, that in all o his service he endeavored to represent the masses, that while the legislature was in session he made it a rule to give to the peo pe an account of what was being done, the part the others of the delegation, as well as he had in it. that it would be impossible for any man to tell an audience in a lited time all that was done in a service of four years. He said~ the Senate in which he serve must have recognized his ability to be an active force as lie was assigned to its most important cominttees. He was a member of the committee on finance which has to do, with the finances of the State. and on this committee lie labored with all of his might to keep appropriations down, when-, ver a proposition was made toj appropriate money, and in his opinion a smalle:- sum would do, he would fight for the reduction and in this way he succeeded in a number of instances to have the imounts shaved down and thus saved the necessity for making the tax iiigher than it is now. He ras on the committee on educa ion. her-e is where he put in much work for the rural schools, it was >n this committee where the ques ions of whether the appropria in for the c-ommion rural schools should be increased from $20,000( o $M.OjX'. this proposition was ought by the college interests, bey taking the position that if' 0.000O was appropriated for the :ountre schools it would cut the ~1p!ropriations for the -olleges., u tih.ose of us who favored the ountry schools fought it out inb hcommittee. and we renewed )i. tizht on the floor of the Sen to ~and notwithstanding the reat in!!uence brought to bear o defeat this measure we won out n today there is $60000 in the rea'surv to aid the rural schools 4 hiave loniger- terms, all that ali chool in need of aid has to, do isI A) get it i to cmlaih h S e In nnrintendent of Ed-I cation so recogrized his services. a n the Senate in imatter pertain- fc ng to education that he drafted a kiin to go out in the educational a: :ampaign last year to urge ands[ ,rouse the pcople for the common V1 chools. and that he did go to St. b Ieorge in Dorchester and made m he addresses with Prof. W. K. c< rate. Mrs. Daniel, formerly Miss'is ,ance. Hon. .1. D. Cappleman and o ,he Superintendent himself. He q irged the fostering of the -om-! non schools in that speech and f? Lfter that there was infused a d, iew educational life in that coun- I .y. as the superintendents report f( xill show. He was proud of his I f )art in that work. Then too. he ti xorked always for any measure 'N which in his judgment would help d he common schools. that he be- :i tieved the colleges can be more tl conomically run, as economical- n lv at least as the denominational p :olleges, and cited that the de- e [ominal colleges, Wofford, Fur t man. Newberry and Erskine have urned out some of our brainest e men, take the judges in this State. i t! nd nearly ail of them graduated h in one or the other of the denom- 't inal colleges. therefore he said, tl he wanted our colleges kept up, s ind improved in standard, at the ;ame time it should not cost any C more to conduct them than it does k he other colleges. All cannot go 1i to the colleges, thorefore it is the a proper thing for the State to see to it that every boy and girl is t iven a good common school ed- a ucation. He was also a member c of the committee on railroads. on I this committee he always endeav- 1, ed to be fair to the roads as hes regards them a necessity to the' country's welfare, they should I I not be crippled, at the same time I they should be made to act just ii towards their patrons. He was a member of the com- a mittee on Enrolled Acts, a most Y important committee, which has e to do with every bill introduced s in the Senate, the least oversight v would possible subject the State a to a tremendous expense, on this r committee, especially the latter - part of the session, he would be I up to a late hour of the night pre- I paring the Acts for ratification, and the supply and appropria- v tion bills bad to be handled ex- t ceedingly careful for if a mistake 1: is made it would block the entire c government machinery, and the I governor will be forced to call an f extra session to remedy such a a mistake It is most a important i and responsible position. C After going through the work mentioned he then took up the r fish and game laws enacted at the last session and told his hearers that he did all in his power to prevent their passage, and then went into an explanation of how i the bills of the Audubon Society|j got through and said he, if re- i turned to the Senate, it is his pu r-| pose to call into conference a nun. ber of fishermen and huntersan have framed a bill which will suit t the conditions in this county and section. He favored changing the I law aith regard to the taking of tax returns, and also the time for fxing the levy. The tax returns should be taken by the township assessors as they were in better r' position to know the property~ i nj thc township, and by this meansja he believed a great deal of pro p-f' erty escaping taxation would beK made to pay its prorata share. Het wnted the tax levy made after and not before the assessment so 1 that those who are to provide for t the tax levy would hrve detini te I information to act upon. He also II gave it as his view that the three i mill constitutional tax is a hin drance to having the property C placed upon the tax books at its ' value in accordance with the re quiremnents of the constitution. He takes the position that ahould ~ the people put their property on1 the books at its value it would mean almost con-acation as the' levy for schools alone would be C equal to nine mills, and this ~ money could not be used for any other purpose, therefore there I would oc more money than is needed for the schools, and not a cent of that surplus could be used C to help pay any of the county ex penses. So it would be foolish to expect the people to put the prop-I erty on the books at its value. As I? a rmedy for this and so that the jF property can be placed on the books at its value that scia,ol di s tricts would not have so much trouble in securing money when they want to build a modern ( school building, he proposes to t have the three mill constitutional t tax requirement submitted to the r people to say whether or not theya wish this requirement repealed: a it being in the constitution it Is would have to be submitted to the v people for their decision. and he t argued if the three mill constitu- h: tional tax was atbolished, then h the property would go (on the ir books at its value, and the proper ti tticers could from the tax books iscertain the amount of propertyi lso the amount reqluired to run n the schools a given number of c months and make a levy accord- t ingly. this he argued would do g zway with all of the special taxes, h ng in his opinion it would have v >ur schools in tirst class running p tondition at a less r-ate of taxa- :g ion than at present. On the mat ter of good roads lie was in favor g >f building up our highways andb ll other improvements within o >u mieans, but he caution the A )eole niot to be carrie d away with hi dl this impr)iovemen~it talk andI I, ork themselves into a hole. or t ii other words he warned them a 2ot to bite ofT more than they b ~ould chew.a On thle liquor questioni he stoodl ti here he has beeni standhime for he last ten or twelve years. ie al ntroduced the first local option T >ll ever- introducedl in the Sen- o1 Lt, and lie still clings to) that di rinciple believing it is more like- tI e to airl in the cause of temper- s ice tiani legislaOioni whi-i, is i_ ireed upon a peoplte. Personally, I long as the federal laws stand bi they are. allowiile! liquor to b- a' ipped into dry territory. he fa- ti( >rs a legalized sale of liquor. A at his personal view about this si atter is not for the people to is )nsider. The question for them II Do they want to he deprived F the ritlt to a voice on this to uestion' Are they willing to v ive up the right to say every l4 )ur years whether or not they (i esirc to remain in the present ( Lw after a county has beezn dry at >ur years the pe-ople can pi-titit mn p< >r ani election. and at that erec- i on the majority iust say w -liether the county shall remain w, ry, or have a legalized sale of i i quor. The election at the eni of :1 ic four years. i this county b, ext November a year. is not corn la ulsory. if the people are satisti- a d with conditions as thev exist ir ley can go along for another 0' )ur years without hiarm an is lection. but on the othlwr hand if ti iey desire a change they are to 1i1 ave the privilege next Novemn- e er a year to vote and record b: ieir wishes at the ballot box. He t tands flat footed for local option. if The next and last speaker was I 'apt. W. C. Davis. as everybody c nows lie is a delightful speaker. !i as a splendid command of words d nd is an artist at criticism as are e i lawyers who have court house a rair.ing. it such a thing as being C ble to make white appear black b an be done by oratory, Capt. i )avis can come near doing it. un. a ss the people think for ther elves as we think they are doing ti ow. From the very outset Mr. . )avis after expressing his pleas- Ir re at again having an opportun- u v to speak before them. told his a earers that he was no stranger C mong them. that lie recently de- so ivered an address at the closing U xercises of their school. and later t1 till he spoke to them at the Lasv an services He then went on P ,nd told about having '.een a 'ember of the iegislature sixteen a cars ago and how nicely the peo. C ile of that section treated him, 0 ter he went into the Spanish- 0 terican war, and when that t] ras oved he came home and went tl o work to make a living. Then n C went into a detailed account f f what was being accomplished C v the Manning board of trade C or the farming interests, that he t .d Mr. DuRant went to Wash- t] ngton and there secured from the :overnment the attention of the gricultural department with the r esult that he secured the tobac- f4 o demon.tration farm that is now a ing conducted by the govern- P aent on the outskirts of Manning, r e secured the services of a gov- a a rnment man to make a soil sur.-t ey of the county. and various ther things did he 'with the aid ni f Mr. DuRant secure for the t< arming interests.- and now lie c; topes sometime in the near future .) o have a tile factory. After giv- ti ng an account of what he accom- 4] lished for the Manning board of g rade. he took up and devoted e' ometime to tell about what has v ieen appearing in T HE .\MANNING a I.MES sinCe his Candidacy, with O egard to lawyers. He-said that 1( here are as many rascally editors It s there are lawyers. that lie had .\~ ever blocked the courts. and in - .11 of his practice lie had orily f< aken three cases to the supremie b2 ourt on appeal. taiat he has been u n the supremie c-ourt ofteieri bt)U le other sidle would (do the ap. ialiig as lhe won in the court ti elow. That Mr. Appelt had for ti he public one set of views on a ewyers and in private he had a ti .ifferent vicw, and, said he. --1 it di prove it. and you will agree S< rith me. whenever any of M\r. p tppelt's friends get into trouble a nd in need of a lawyer Appelt hi ends them to Davis. so you see ir e has a different view of lawyers c r private. - But said lie. I would tI ismiss this subject with but a n: ew words. "Appelt has been aving hallucinations ever since si came out for the Seiiate, and o as been trying to get me to write a or his newspaper but I wvould not hi o it as I knew I would have my A a."- He has been cr-yinig out al gainst the lawyers- tchnical U iwvers who block the courts and si ut the taxpayers to heavy cx -al nse, but every man wvho has i erved on our juries inows thlat I i ae never blocked the courts as p am always ready with my cases. el On the subject of good roads. t 'apt. Davis advanced the idea Jo bat lie wvould favoir State aid forw le building up of the public d; oads that the State appropriate s< sunm of money and the ountyv ppropriate a like sum., this hue aid is done ini several States.j1e Ii as like the other-s. in favor of t'. je educational institutions. Then tr e took up the gamne andi tishi et Ls criticised Appelt for not be a g in the Senate ch'amiber whbenw i last vote was taken on thme mi ame and tish bills, and lie said. til iat. if lie had b~een there he c-ould lal ot have been kept out o)f the m2 biambeir matters not how impor.-f mt the other wvork he was e-n- o aged in. trace chains couldl not D ae kept him firomi getting to e ote i those bills oni thmeir final it assage.- and, says lie -'-who could t iv.- you a better- ganie and :ishlt Lw. at man who never hiunlts or e oes ishing. or -t man who in the untinzg season takes one day out aI f each week to go out hluntine ii. Pplt adadits that h.* i not a inter or a !ishiermani. the-reforea wh-o do these thing. for- rere ol, evenl thoughl 1 do belhon) to a tishinzg cl uo can give yo u thre Fraid that I wo(u11ld( not Com to e te scatc-h on t iie liqu or ir u4estion.; ut I never did do anyv dodinh 'ad I a too)oid to larn how now.. wo v.-ars ago the plet voL. d b ;t th'edispenisary. amid when they -- di it ther- gauve to, th. diele-Lation i n-iz miaringii ord-r-s to vote orc .a t-st.d lwrhiilbi tjin A nnel l ui a a1i n h.n state . prI - i ion i!i 'ai U p h-e voted t :ainst it coltrarv to the instruc- 1 >ns ie received flom ils pleoplIe. 1 [pelt is :t liqUor man pU d ad| l:ple. 114m wants liquor sold. that t wha:t ho wants ntihtnigj s a toll ~ be stondin:.- for lo)Cal If 'overnownt. and to rove. it , yu. when the disp4nsary w.as L< ,ted.( out 4f Cla1r4ndoni he did his, i velestto a-: itreoeed. a~ I *iega~io L from'*1 Maning~i~ wvent to: )I Uill :AL and dw th ite nr Set n- 1 Ors and blhcked him :1 his pur I )s# to reopen tle( dispensary. if :uin elected I will vote for state id-! prohi~bitionl. lie tiln went I i to de11,4r im inself of quite a s:ourse on th.* evils of drink. Al said the prohi bition laws can fenlforced as the records of the sI term of court will show that I onsoiderab;esi flio-e .vent to the treasury from violators tihe liquor laws. h1 Cnows this so. ais s0ome of it w.as paid by lose he defeneld. He said that juor b4n sfl)!d In somei o the >n) ties is having the etiect of de tchin l the remi ning counties. .1k about local sel-f-governnent Florene county could fence rself in So that our. citiZens )uld not et to the stuff. he ijght i willint to let Florence ) her own debaucbint. but Flor ice s! is to people of this county 'd this must ho stopped. He aims that thern is on the statute yoks0 now a state-wide prohibi on law, the recent Act. and he so says the decision of J1udgC lemninger is dissented fron by le Chief Justice and the Attor e'v General. that a man can have i his possession liquor for lawful se. Capt. Davis spokE for about a hour and during his speech. .pecially when he declared him Af for state-wide prohibition lie as given applause by some of ie men and several of the ladies. The meeting was altogether leasant. all of the candidates -ere ge a respectful hearing. ad the day was well spent. Of >urse all cannot carry Salen:. but ur observation is that the voters C that section are doing more linking, than talkin and when le time comes to vote they are oing to the ballot box and vote )! the men of their eloiice. The indidates are well known to them specially is this the case with ie candidates for the Senate, aose who are Appelt men will ote for Appelt. and those who re against him will vote for avis. This rot about a landslide >r either candidate does not mount to a hill of beans. the peo le or that section have other asons for casting their vote than speaking contest. and so have inking people everywhere. Thursday the campaigners ioved on to Sardinia. and there >o, was a big crowd to greet the indidates, quite a number from lanning and some who were at ie meeting before at Turbeville. 'his was a picnic in a splendid rove on a hill where nearby flow 1 a mnagificient iow of artesian -ater. Mr. R. E. M1eFaddin acted s chairmiani and Rev. Mr Wallace pened with prayer. Thle candi ates for the New Zion Magis -ate, Messrs. W. E. Fleming. P. I. ;ibbon atnd B. M. Hardy. each tu rn annlounced1 thei rcandidacy >r that otlice. they were followed v L. L. Wells Counte Treasurer -ho is unoppoedI. and~ A\. P. Bur ess for Auditor who is also un pposed. These were followed by ie candidates for th~e Legisia ire whose speeches differed but ightly from the day 'oefore. only at Mr. Mlitchum was niore fullI advocating the common hools. and Mr. G;reen stated his osition on good roads, schools. A all the other issues. On thne ruor q1uestion lie is prohibition I practice. but under present >nditions he is of the opinion iat local option can accomnplish ore g'ood. The candidates for the .Senate' woke after dinner. Capt. Davis )eed and spoke for one hlour A tern minutes. with Appelt as is texst and he concl uded with ppelt. He aginI e'xploited thie :iev.1men1ts of the Manning )a-d of trade. made some allu 4)n to somethingi ini Tr: Tn~1Es >out the boardt sending its print So!f because. it could be gotten Sumnter for less. aniu agaml re2 eated .Xipelt's senfdinlg himf ients to sno0w that A ppelt hias t ditierent vie ws on th~e subject la vyers. the rest of his ypeechn aIs ahnlost word for word as thie ty beforee at Ti rbeville a pr mal~ ciriticismn of A\ pelt. .\.i-pelt id th.- rely anld wi:throut gom rg to any sup.-rilous talk he took a the. matter of sendinig clients Dav is by~ admiittinrgz that t was u. T here are tim~Ie5 wh*?en inI th4. >ure of business a m~an:i mst s'. awy-er for it miaters rnot how -li versed in the law a :aymnan ayv be,. the iawye'rs have it so o-dl that none but a 1awr-:- can q~~ear before a judge :O make- a otin. and~ when.'I son11- o4 b s iends were seeinIg th- se!rvices aL latwyer hie hiasrecoini1n11nde vs to them: i4 becus' 114 regard Da):vis the slicu-est art'eb- nt '.n. and if theyv hrad th n-'i' : jet his series they h-i b r 1~ th 1onmu. maitaiane ted for kilime a white manL~ )14 r * i n.I4)1. I t* -xn lain ~ed that - ne a-etio:: :L.1ar'nuo was not .n instruction toj the (k*u;.ation o vote for probl)ition. but if it ,ad been no -tate wide b.ii came; ip in the Senato. but One did pass he hous.. and wien it caime to he Senate the prohibitionists indn. therv co'l not ?et it hrou::hi bIhd it up. and with some >f the local ontionists effected the Ono:nmis. !! v.h il is the law odaV, aid through which the wet -ounties held the election when Li' but. six of them went dry. As .o the opening of the dispensary. 141 explained the purpose of his -!Tort to have the dispensary re >penod. oniv for th purpose of -larPi out the stock to save loss n the taxpayers. that he would invte pushed it through regard ess o' the Manning delegation >ut when 'he learnecd the delega Aion in th. house was not unani nous he withdrew that bill and tecnred the pasagre of one that rot ei-'ar of the stock Out at a oss. lIe reiterated his position )n the game and tish laws. and innounced the presence of Mr. S. NL Haynesworth who had seen ?oV. McLeod to inquire of Ap pelt's attitude when these Audu on Society bills were pending, and Gov. McLeod told him '-Ap pelt did everything in his power ,o prevent their passage. He op posed the license. fish and game aws. with all his might." The Alcolu neeting was on rhursday night. and it too was a repetition of the other meetings. there was a nice crowd many gain from _Manning. mostly roung chaps, and these did most of the noise making, the Alcolu voters with very few exceptions ere attentive listeners, but the Manning bunch were enthusias tic and applauded Davis in and out of season, those who were there saw the bunch of boosters. and the effect may be different from what was intended. every body likes a free and a fair race. The time limit for the candidates for the Senate at Alcolu was fif teen minutes. this was to give the laboring men an opportunity to hear without keeping them up too late, but it was late when the meeting closed. We neglected at the outset to say this meeting started with the candidates for Magistrate *at Manning. J. W. Herriot was first introduced and was followed by Capt. D. J. Brad hani. At the conclusion of the Senatorial spaeches a hot tired crowd dispersed for their homes. This ended the tirst week of the campaign, aside from the heat and the attempts at prejudicing voters by )ersdnal attacks, and the men who are following up t'e campaign going through the crowds in the interest of their candidate trying to prejudice votes by making disparaging comments, the week was very pleasant and the e-indidates are no wiser. notwithstanding the boasts of landslides being made, than they were the first day they started out. There is no telling how the people will vote as they ae doing~ their own thinking and will do their own voting. A. Beware of Ointmerts for Catarrh that Contaii Mercuy :ts mercurs~ w.i s~.y ti!.troy the CeNse of Aminc tnd comnpletely den.e the whole~ -vytemn wher Lon, from rputamtiv- lcimn-. :- the dkoit ebvd- i nefo he-m. Hair eaitarbh c.ure ut': di ect'v upon t he ti .od ar..d mucu.- tsur He's His Brother's Keeper. The farmers up here :rave had plenty of rain and grass. crop~ are improved very much of late. Lspecially cotton. where it has been properly worked and well fertilized. My. don-t men~f differ in opin ion. some men appear to have foundi prohibition to i'o a great giant but this writer has never eenI nor expects to see anything but prohibition in its infancy. Bless the Lord the infant has -ome. the loving hearts that have longed to see it in their iay will nurse it very carefuli y. May the Lord bless it arnd heilp t to increase in power and mnake ta great ruler over the world. n Tin-: Ti~;-:s of the 10th. inst.. .ppearedl an article fromt a writer' t or near Davis Station. giving t to prohribition :n style : now rtcles of this kind may give omfort to those who cannot or ill iiot see anyV evil in wvhiskey. :Ut they~ cannot stay the G reat oral issue tha has appeared! und is sh~aki::g th ry founda ins of thne whiske denls. He ~aid whse is ient'ifuli. adhn it in ti true It has' beeni law md.. eastedl ouit into the loW''r .4 fzgi s '.:h.1 re it shoulId be giae- o to spen( ~islst days. Si .' referred'(2( to o.ur (God( ow this~ hiumb le scribe droes not >Le-: that any ma has such 744 nfamil no m oe tan i .- :.th rgh 4[f :neni to ebIi . degrade~l's andl ruins -l. - i and body* ( .l. as well21 brin d1'' isgrace and .04.o4verI y * )other' o his ICower '4 )4a \ nin upon his i. .I l Iovcer and iurcl:e a ... i ain myi brotiers keepe r. V. A. BROADWAY. Sumter. S. C.. Au. 1- 1910. In Memoriam. .\. D. ( ancor w.f born in the y-ar . ). . and diid .lul 0th 1914). lIe was a son of the iate Col. Wi!!iam Henry Cannon of Darlington counjL. le !ired a!wav, an honest. upri-rht life. even true to the traditions of hi fathers. and his perfect dignity and sterling qualities called for the admi ration of people with whom he was associated. Even in his aftliction. and up to the gathering of the shadows the same dignity was displayed. Mr. Cannoc was a m.an of strong- qualities. his convictions were the result of care ful investigation, and while he was as a giant oa.c. still his heart was as ten der as a chi!d. and sorrow and suffer ing ever appealed to him. He was a man indeed that the word implies. He was a man who had a great heart and he towered above all narrowness, never indulging in hard or bitter criticismu. A man of unswerving truth and honor. a man who was without price. He is survived bv his wife, one dauahter. Miiss Daisy. and two sons. I Mr. Clarerce of .acksonville and Ed ward Poreber of Georgia. He went to rest at peace with God and the world. "Pale league on azure Iaeague To dust's first star Beyond a sad sea sunset. And the night." OsE WHO LOVED HIM. Summerton. S. ('. Staggers Skeptics. That a clean. nice, fragrant compound like Bucklen's Arnica Salve will instant ly relieve a bad burn, cut, scald. wound or piles, staggers skeptics. But great cures prove it a wonderful healer of the worst sores, ulcers, boils. felons, eczema. skin eruptions. as also chapped hands. sprains and corns. Try it. 25c at all druggists. Notice of Discharge. I will apply to the Judge of Pro bate for Clarendon county, on the 5th day of September. 1910. for letters of discharge as guardian for Honey Floyd. formeriv a minor. W. J. TURBEVILLE. 1 uardian. Turbeville. S. C., August 1. 1910. Notice of Discharge. I will apply to the Judge of Pro bate for Clarendon county, on the 2'nd day of September. 1910, for Let ters of Discharge as Executor of the Estate of AndrewJ. Tindal. deceased. W. SCOTT HARVIN. Executor. Manning. S. C., August 20, 1910. Notice of Discharge. I will apply to the Judge of Pro bate for Clarendon county. on the 22nd day of September, 1910. for Let ters of Discharge as Executor of the Estate of William H. Gaillard, de ceased EDWARD F. BORROWS, Executor. Providence, S. C.. August 20. 1910. BUY YOUR RUTABAGA AND TURNIP SEED NOW At 35c. per Lb. We handle only the very best Seed-Buist's or Ferry's. We prove they are fresh by growing them on cotton right before your eyes. This is Turnip planting time. Order them now, by mail or by 'phone. from Zeiglers Phnrnav. Drugs and Seeds, 11ianning. 5. C. H. C. McKELVEY, PUBLIC AUTO. To or From Depot. z5c. i'se the 'Phone. Undertakers and Embalmers. HE ARSE L r~ihe for White ' and Colored.V We are also dealers in al k ind.s of Furnitura. C. W. EVANS, M1gr. SUwrERTON. S. C. TRY THE NEW Grocery Store z :r your nextL order.Fvey thi n. new. fre.h and: cean.: ust opened i MOUZON'S OLD STAND} ru: and prmpt a:tenuron antd wil:: be highl~y ap Iree;:Ltl. STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES Mouzon's Grocery P. 8. MOUZON. Pinoi. ARANT'S DRUG STORE The Licensed Druggist. Sells in Everything DRUGS and MEDICINES iJR.KING'S NEW DISCOVERY Will Snrely Stop That Gouqh.