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The tii M Zeigler's write, wi Shake ha LOUIS APPEvLr, Editor. MANNING. S. C., JUNE 14. 1911. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One year....................1... so Six months.................. Foul months ---------.................. ..... 50 ADVERTISING RATES: One square, one time, si; each subsequent in sertion, 50 cents. Obituaries and Tributes of Respect charged for as regular advertisements. Liberalcontracts made forthree.six and twelve comncatius must oe accompanied by the real name and address of the writer in order to receive attention. NO comunIcation ot a personat character win be published except as an advertisement. Entered at thePostoffce at Manning as Sec -ond Class matter. IT CANNOT WORK. The Columbia Record suggests a primary for the selection of delegates to a National conven tion, giving as its opinion that in this way the choice of the people can be better obtained. We have given this matter some thought and at first was inclined to agree with our contemporary but upon more mature deliberation we have reached the conclusion that it would be impracticable. To have a separate primary for delegates to a National convention would not secure the expressioni of .choice from the general mass of the Democratic vote of the State, in all probability the voters as a whole would let such an election go by default because of having no loca.l interest to bring the vote out; it frequently happens in special primaries not over one half of the vote of a county is polled notwithstanding an impor tant county office is to be filled, if the people will not turn out to have a voice in their local affairs, what can be expected of them when they are called upon to have a voice in the selection of delegates to nominate a president t "d vice president? The people are very much worn out by these elections anyway, and from year to year they are becoming more indifferent, many urging that it is a waste of time to attend elec tions because the only ones prof ited by them are the candidates for office, it has gotten so there is no interest taken in the con ventions which send delegates to a. State convention, the club meetings are poorly attended, frequently there is no attendance, and the president appoints dele gates and they do not show up, the county cornvention elects del egates to a State convention and proxies are used or the county is left with no representation, when these are the conditions with the present system, how much worse will it be under asystem of voting direct for delegates who are un known to the masses? Under the system suggested by The Record it is our opinion that it would re sult in a practical elimination of the rural vote and confine the selection of the delegates to the cities and towns, tha.t it would also have the effect of eliminat ing the laboring vote as this ele ment will not spare the time from their work to attend the election. The primary elections ard ex pensive, managers have to be paid for their services, where is this expense money to come from. surely not out of the pockets of those who would consent to sac rifice their time and the expense of attending a National conven tion as delegates? It would not be the proper thing for the State to bear this enormous expense out of its treasury, then how could the scheme be put into op eration and secure as good re sults as are gotten under the present system we cannot see. The rules of the party need amending in a number of partic ulars, one thing should be espec ially fixed that is the matter of representation in the county con ventions, the practice now is to send delegates from the number of names on the club rolls when it should be on a basis of the votes cast by the clubs at the preceding *primary election; to illustrate, a club has been 400 names on its club roll a~nd in the election onlr TI ne he speaks Pharmacy. re or 'phone rnds with the polls 50 votes, under the present system that club would send to the convention 16 delegates, whereas another club has on its roll 100 names and in the election polls 95 votes, it would have represen tation of 4 delegates. The repre sentation should be based upon the voting strength and not upon possibly the padded roll. But harking back to the Rec ord's suggestion of electing the delegates to the National conven tion in a primary, we should like for our contemporary to point out how it expects to secure the right kind of men to enter a scramble for such a place, usual ly, it is difficult to get the con sent of men to undergo the ex pense for the State convention, to a National convention it would be more difficult to secure repre sentatives. It is our opinion the primary plan for delegates to a State or National convention is entirely out of the question be cause it cannot be made practical. WILL HOYT RUN? The auestion in political circles now is. will Congressman Lever be a candidate for the United States Senate to-succeed Hon. B. R. Tillman? Already it is being hinted that if Lever runs for the senate, Editor J. A. Hoyt of The Record, will be a candidate to rep resent the seventh district in con gress. We know that if Mr. Hoyt does become a candidate it will take some good hustling in that district to beat him as he is well and favdrably known throughout the district, and if elepted would make a splendid representative. He is a student of public affairs, and one of the best posted political - writers in the State. Congressman Lever has done a vast amount of good work since he has been in congress, not confining himself to his own district but his work has extend ed to the affairs and interests of the entire State. He has made a specialty of agricultural legis lation and much of the progress made in this State along agricul turallinesis due tohis efforts. The! only criticism we have ever seen~ against him was by certain news papers who took up an idea that* he went wrong on the lumber tariff proposition. .The State challenged his democracy on this vote, but the voters of his district! endorsed him with a very flatter ing vote. If Lever is in the race for the senate it will make those who have an ambition for this place sit up and take notice- He has a record of splendid service which will appeal strongly to the masses. We doubt very much if Senator Tillman will stand for! re-election on account of the con dition of his health, but should he be strong enough to stand the~ strain of another campaign he will hardly have opposition, as! tie politicians general have an aversion to going up~ against a buzz saw. Should it turn out that the bat tleship Maine was not destroyed by the Spaniards, will that give Spain a good case against the United States for punitive, and mental anguish damages? When the ship is raised and an exami-; nation discloses the cause for the; explosion was not internal but external, Uncle Sam will have to say something nice to Alphonza for having put his navy out of business, and taking away his play thing, the Isle of Cuba. The suit against The State Company for libel was dismissed by Judge Copes. The amount sued for was $50,000 and the plaintiffs were the Black broth ers of Columbia, and it grew out of some editorials in The State publis.d in connection with the recent city election. When tis suit was brought The Times said at the time there was nothing ini it, and The State was within its rights when it criticized the Blacks for their conduct at said election. Had the suit been sus taed it would have been a se vere blcw at the principle of free thought and free speech. When ever the courts stille the press so that it cannot g.re a free expres sion of opinion it will be a sad~ day for the country. Buke's Arnica ?a Eve The Rest Calve In The WarM-. is about 10:3( Only a limite [. A. Zeigler o biggest man The press excursionists did the nice thing in New York in presenting Col. and Mrs. Kohn with tokens of their esteem. Col. Kohn has done most excel lent work for the press associa tion, and he was aided greatly by his mbst estimable wife, who takes as much interest in the welfare of the newspaper folks as does Colonel Kohn himself. Texas has already put two bales of cotton into Houston, one bale was hurried to the ex change on a special train at a cost of $528,75, a rate of $1.50 per mile. We expect the News and Courier and perhaps The State to dispute this and to en deavor to create the impression that the editor of The Houston Post inspired the report to get ahead of South Carolina. President Taft's speeches on his reciprocity recommendations to congress is winning for him much praise in the South, as well as in some parts of the East but as a vote getting proposition it will be nil south of the Mason's and. Dixson's line. The South ern people will throw Taft bol quets, say the nicest kind of things of hum, will banquet and' cheer him, but vote for him, nix. There is only one political creed! in the South, and regardless of merit the people of the South will vote the Democratic ticket. Therefore the present adminis-| tration need not expect anything| from this section in the national. election. The State Board of Education convenes in Columbia next Sat urday for the purpose of making a book adoption, and contracts with the publishers of school books. There is much complaint of the frequent changes in the public school books, the patrons are tired of being constantly call ed upon to buy new books and they think there is no necessity for the changes. About the time the instructors get accustomed to the books they have to teach, here comes along anew adoption which means a throwing away of the books on hand and the purchase of new books. The publishers are always ready for a new adoption, and for some time past the city of Columbia was full of the rep resentatives of the publishing houses, each pressing his books upon the State Superintendent to the extent that he was forced to post a notice on his office door. The reports of the cotton crop throughout the cotton belt indi ate good stands and an increase in acreage. The boll weevil is getting in his damaging work in some of the states; Mississippi, Louisana and Arkansas. The rain fall is short in Texas, and unless the rains come there will be a falling off in the crop of that state. In this state the farmers have been fortunate, considering' the long dry term, those that had planted early have their cotton in a healthy growing condition with an excellent prospect of a splendid yield. There are some who were late in getting their seed in the ground that have not so good stands, and the recent rains have lie]lped them greatly; unless there is some calamity we beiive this will be an unusually good crop year with high prices1 fo- the farmers' products. The famous case of the State against H. H. Evans at Newberrd was called for trial Monday, any the prosecution asked for a con tinuance on the ground that it was not ready to go to trial, but the defence insisted on going ahead. This is the third time the defence has demanded trial. The court ordered a nol pros which ends the case so far as this term is concerned, but it does not nec essarily end it altogether as a new indictment can be iven out at some subsequent term. The at torney gerneral has giveil out a strong intimation that he doesj not intend to try such cases un der present conditions. He might go farther- and say that to try such cases at any time must nee essarily be under grreat diflicul tes. as the parties under indict went have friends at the courts, and besides, public sentiment is DAY 1, at Opera I i number of r H. H. Bradt in America. TJie State of last Monday con tains a letter signed "Robt. R. Jeffares," and dated "Shelton, May 27th, 1911." The alleged writer is unknown to us nor have we ever heard of him-before, but his attack on Senator Tillman's record will not amount to much; what the correspondent says may be correct, and yet so far as the effect on Tillman's hold on the masses is concerned, it will re main as it has been ever since he entered public life as an aspirant for a trusteeship of Clemson col lege. The correspondent referred to, admits that he has never voted for Tillman, and we suppose he is one of the same who never will, yet the fact of his criticising the senior- senator at this time must have some significance, is there a framing up some where to beat Tillman should he run for re-elec tion, or is it the purpose to force the "old fellow" out of the run ning to make room for another? Why the attack atthis time when there is no agitation in the polit ical affairs of this State? This is an off year and the people have enough to interest them with their own affairs without being annoyed with the grouches of politicians. Next year if Senator Tillman is a candidate for re elec tion, and we doubt that he will be, then this person who signs the letter in The State will have an opportunity to present his charges to the candidate, and he will then realize how fruitless his labors are. '.]here is throughout the statel a spirit of progress such as has never been before, and it is not of the spasmodic kind either, there is a substantial growth every where. The recent reports of the advance in real estate made to the Columbia State shows how rap idly the advancement has been made within the past few years. There .is a reason for this desir able condition, and we attribute it to a more businesslike way of doing business on the part of the agricultural class. The time was when the farmer was very indif ferent as to how he prepared the soil, regardled it economy to stint himsel* in the use of fertilizer-, and to content himself with a happy-go-lucky policy; but now he counts the cost of everything, he investigates and ascertains the best method of improving his lands. how to make those lands yield oftener and more. invest ments are made in labor saving machinery and he looks for re suts as does the merchant orf banker. This condition has been brought about by the education of the farmers? sons and daugh ters, and as they left their schools to join in the struggle of life, they inspired others who were not so fortunate as to have the advantage of a collegiate ed ucation, the result being that our agricultural classes go about their labors with an intelligenc~e second to no other avocation. How's This r any case of CaH rthat cano be cred for Ha.l'. CHEN.EZ & CO.. Props., Toledo, 0. for th lat1de year. und beliee him perfectl ally able tn arr u ny obligations made by XssT & TUAx, wholesale druggists, Toledo, 0. wALmXa, KLSNAN MARvI. wholesale drug Hal' CtarhCue aeinernaly actin drugtss Testim nil re. FARERS DAY IN MANNING NEXT THURSDAY ANN IS JUNE 20t louse. To secure good se seats to be sold, and woul tam today. Come and m The Whole Story4 of a Perfect Glass of Tea. 4 Why There's no Accident About the Goodness of Our Teas. 4 They are Tested to the Cup Before Bought. Nothing but choicest sprling gathered varieties from China and Japan are used. Then we purchase in large quantities to a uniform standard, thus maintaining the ex cellence of our brands.'Forf artber improvement we blend several hundred pounds eact of our private brands at a 4 time and pack them away in air-tight cannisters to take 4 on what is known in tea parlince as the "bouquet,' which 4 is really that subtle intermingling of flavors that makes a properly blendid Tea so superior to a;l other kinds. The embodiment of all this goodness, plus twenty years ex perience will be found in our celebrated. SATSUMA TEA, 75c. Lb. 4 Of a deep amber color. Perfectly beautiful when iced. 4 - A flavor like nectar. It's the real aristocrat. 4 Just tell us Your-Tea troubles and see how thoroughly 4 we can help you. Through our superior purchasing facil- 4 ities we are enabled to offer you a Rebate Coupon Worth4 Ten Cents In Merchandise Free With Every Pound of our private brands of Teas, thus combining every advantage of quality and price. Drink Satsuma. Note The Difterence Between It And4 Others. We'll Abide Thee. Manning Grocery Co. CLAR~ENDON'S TEA\ EMPORIU\. thtflosAVOID THE STINO OF REMORSE thtflosodbemistakes. Ha~ve you. ever thought how. many START AN ACCOUNT AT TIlE BANK OF MANNING and learn by pleasant experience. Moneyn the bank doesn't burn like cash in your pocket. Once you put it in you are not nearly as ready to take it out to buy anything you see You think twice and thinking means saving. ~L IME, C EM E NT 9- Acme Plaster, Shingles, Laths, Fire Brick. Drain Pipe, Etc::-::: H AY, GRAIN. 4. Rice Flour, Ship Stuff, Br-an, Mixed Cow and Chicken Feed :::::: HORSES, MULES, Buggies. Wagons and Harness.--No Order Too Large or Too Small:: IBOOTHHARDY LIVE STOCK 00.. SUMTER, SOUTH CAROLINA A SALE OPPORTUNITY, I have immediate demand for 130 to 200 acr-es within 6 miles of Manning. Tra'ct must have good 6 to 8-.room dwelling and be located in a good, healthful neighborhood, on public road. If you have anything to offer of about this class, I can make a quick sale for- you. N.B.-Have funds of $500: $1.000. and 81,500 to loan on first mortgage real estate secur-ity. 8City,-Farm and - DD3Ren! Estate Loans, Timber Property MoneyL SEI---- s-e-d-a REAL ESTATE ATTORNEY. h! n NR N ats now is the time at d advise the public to ingle with the crowd Fireless Cooker! and The ideal * SILAM COOKER! Two wonders in the kitchen. The Ladies are invited to inspect 'these. A new and beautiful line of HAMMOCKS just received. Reed's guaranteed Enamel 5 6 Ware. Farmers' Supplies in every line. E Paints. Oils, and Varnishes. In fact every- - thing in first-class hardware can always be found at 8 THE . MANNING HARD WARE COMPANY Where Can be Found 8The Celebrated Prosperity Farm SImplements. The Beautiful Sanitary Wall Coat 8ing--ALABASTINE.an { - The High-grade Paints adVarn : 9 ish Stains. 2 J The Incomparable 0. K. Stoves and ' Ranges. 8The Matchless for Strength Ameni e can Wire Fence. The Everlasting Hickory Leathe' Collars. The Full Stock of Hardware, Enam- ~ 0elware and Orockery. gThe Hearty Welcome for all our 8Many Friends, at The 8 MANNING HARDWARE COMPANY $ Ai Rellable Spring Goods E At D. iiirschman's.I IOmI prices are right, that's our secret of holding trade, aYnd why we are growing larg er allthe time. Always ren to fil your Mannand you can depend upon gettingr a qaeDeal just as advertised. ns a continu ance of your trade is looked for. it will pay you to call on us. Ahnot ayt~ingin the ]ine of Men's. Boy's, 3 n hlrns Clohnga ut Prices.