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Now, Sed for the have you you get g * lothes a got mone Allip 5great va E PHONE 3 nbe ~faminga tiis L0EUXs APPELT. Editor MANNING, S. C., JUN~E 21, 1911. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAl SUBSCRIPTION RATES: . F'ou months.....- -.--. -------- ADvERTISING RATES: sertin,5 ens.T biuies andTriutes Rpet che or as rear adveriieenu realname and address ot te tri rdera rec$v ?a'centlon.n Entered at thePostoffce at Manning as Sec end Classmatter. WE SATE EDUCATIONAL. BOARD N01 MISTURBED. Th~ose newspapers which have been censurinig the governor ir advance of his action for wha1 attitude with the st.ate board of education would be must now realize that they have done Gov -ernor Blease an injustice,. They were cock-sure and so charged, thlat he was going to dismiss the board prior to the school bool adoption, and some of them wen1 so far as to intir.ate that his pur pose was tosfilIl the position witt his triends, that they may sharE graft in whatever there is of prof fit in awarding the school book contract; some of these newspap ers indulged in such strong hints of corruption brewing, that if the general public did not know the extreme prejudice this class od papers have against the gov-er nor, it would be taken for grantec they had information tot basE their vile hints upon, bait thE governor did not remove,. nor has he asked one of the board to re. sign. He did however onti-ine his position with regard tosthe adop tion of these books, which was his right as well as the right of eaci individual member of the board, and it is now up to. the majority of the board whether the gover~ nor's views and. theirs agree. Governor Blease may not be correct in alt, of his views, anc we do not think we shall be ac. cused of partisanship in his fa vor for the reason that whenevei we thoughthe-was wrong we did not hesitate to say so. at the sanie time, in doing this we endeavor ed. toreason and not abuse; when we agreed with him-we gladly commended his course, this school book proposition is a huge matter. one involving a vast amount of the people's money taken directly out of their pock ets, that the board authorized to make the contract which must stand for five years should go slow and careful mast appeal to NGW a find an extra s too ~constantly we're making t coming of fall buy now, to ge ood clothes for re always a ba y for; they'll be rces in our i lues we are gi -TN I 66, person whether he is friendly disposed towards the governor or not. There are certain histor ies Governor Blease objects to, and he gives the reasons for his objections, it is for the majority of the board to agree or disagree with him,. He wants the children of this State taught from the books of Southern authors to be taught by Southern teachers, but Dregardless of what he may think Sor feel about this matter his views and sentiments must be concurr ed in by the majority of the board~ if they are to prevail. We are truly glad the board of education was not disturbed be cause the majority- of the board are educators and men who by their experience in the school room know the needs probably better than most any other set of men the governor might select; it was nice in the governor after all of this newspaper gush about Iwhat he proposed doing to the present board for him to say to them "'I want to say to you, gen tlemen, that there will not be any change in the State board of ed ucation; for you are all honorable men. arnd I don't believe either of you would be subjected to prejudice or improper influence in this matter no matter what your political feeling is towardsI me, as that has nothing to do with the adoption, for, as I said the other day, the adoption of books is the most important matter that can possibly arise during my ad mststration." By mak-ing this satement to the gentlemen comn posing the board he, with one fell stroke smote his slanderers, laid bare in all of its hideousness their hypocrisy, and attempts to sparage his administration. *The people 'are watching the present administration more than any previous one since that of Governor Tillman, and regard less of what the newspapers may say or do they will sift the chaff from the wheat, and base their future conduct upon the actual results and not upon the repre sentations made by partisan newspapers or politicians, they will be able to judge whether or not the present administration is entitled to endorsement. the op position press and the aspiring politicians will neither mislead or influence them to render -an unjust judgment when the tune for the general summimg up comes. How's This: we -4r JOe H1umrcre Douars iRe'ard for an c s o Ctarrh ha cannot be c-ured byv IJ l~ E Y & CU.. Prop-.. Toild. 0. we h ner'ihned. havn: w ai F. J. C:ea for the la-st I& v'ars, rand believe him p-r~.et:y hon).orabe n l business -aeations and lian ciLV ab)i - t carry out. ay obb:.:ions~ miadeby direciv uponi Ihe lu-od and mucou;; surfaces of the sys-tem. Priec 75e. i-er b.etC-. Sold by al uit or two a gi ; bad for the cl he extra suit* stocks. We'r t this summer a good deal le Tart6 ,rgain at regu good for seve tore -are mat ving. A GOOD MAN FOR SACRIFICE. Hon. E. W. Hughes has an nounced that he will remain in mayoralty race mn Charleston. Mr. Hughes is a most excellent gentleman, one who would grace the mayor's office of Charleston, without hydeing behind the poli-] ticians of that city, but we fear he has reached the conclusion too late in the game to be much in the running this time, as the voting forces have about lined themselves up between Hyde and Grace. True, Hughes has been a candidate for this posi tion ever since last year, but the hope of going on the federal bench kept him from pushing his claims for the inayorality, pending the judgeship appoint ment, the Grace and Hyde forces have been telling the boys how it is, and getting fromthem their promises of support. We believe though, there is one man in the citywho has not committed him self to any of the candidates yet, he is Chief Boyle, if Mr. Hughes will get some one to him right away there may be one sinner saved. We agree most heartily with The State's estimate of Mr. Hughes, as a man, he-is all that newspaper says of him, and more, but if he has any hope whatever of ever being mayor of the city of Charleston he had not better heed The State's advice on how to make his fight. The idea of advising a man running for mayor in Charleston to tell the voters that he will put the liquor concerns out of business, is simply equivalent to telling him to stick a match to a bale of straw the paper pnts him on. There is no doubt people like a plain, out-spoken man, but should Mr. Hughes tell the electors of Charleston that he would enforce the liquor laws, they would be lieve him airight, and then hustle to see that he did not get the chance. The legislature should give the city of Charleston a license system and let the city regulate the sale of intoxicants as the conditions permit, there should never be the farce made of the law that now exists. True, the city did not bring this con dition on itself, it was brought on by those who did not know no care about the conditions. their only thought was to comply with a political demand at the time: what are the conditions in the city today? There is an ele ment who have always resented the State's interference with local self-government, who will con done the lawlessness. and rather than make any attempt to break it up. these will join with the lawless elemnent to defeat any im who has the temerity to at templt. to put down the sale of b)evraes, the result is, that resetable hotels are deprived o tim pmhzlog of dispensing RSIl 'eat luxury; on othes. Two sui proposition to a making pricE stuff out of our as than ordinal >Chaffn lar prices; at I ral seasons. ked i~n plain drinks to their guests, while low dives are permitted to run on with a license system collected in the shape of fines. IS IT FAIR AND PROPER? Judge Prince took a novel way to secure evidence of a person sell ing liqu.orin Lexington last week. Two negroes were charged with raising a disturbance at a negro church, they pleaded guilty to the charge claiming they were drunk. The judge said, "Tom, if you will tell me where you got that blind tiger liquor, I will be lenient with you." The report goes on to'say, "Tom did not hesitate a moment, for he wanted to get off as light as possible, and with a beaming smile on his face he called the white man's name." The other negro went through the same performance. Judge Prince expressed a wish that he had the white man in the dock with the prisoners so that he could teach~ him a lesson. Suppose the white roan is hal ed before the courts on the state ment made to Judge Prince after' his promise that if they would tell where they bought the liquor he would be lenient, would such testimony be admitted as evi dence? Of course the promise held out by the judge was an in ducement for the negroes to tell something and call nobodJ's name. The - negroes may have told the truth. if so, no damage was done to the man named but should it turn out they lied to have their own punishment made light er they have aroused a suspicion against a white man who, if in nocent. would not relish such a suspicion clinging to him. 'he -only way we see out of this dilemna brought on to him by judge Prince's promise to be light on the negroes on trial beforej him, is for the grand jury of that county 'to make presentment against him, send his case to a petit jury let it pass upon the evidence against him and say whether or not the charge is true. We do not think it right for a judge to make the promise Judge Prince is reported to have made, under such circumstances, the party promised leniency is liable to put any citizen of his acquain tance in a very embarassimg po sition by raising a suspicion of wrong doing against him when he may be entirely innocent. There are many citizens who would be greatly worried did a prisoner in open court tell tbe judge that they were guilty of Iviolating the law, especially the liquor laws. However we do not suppose that Judge Prince was infuenced much in framing his' sentence against the negroes as he put the usual fme or impris onment upon them, notwithstand ng the fact that he secured their statement on the promise to be e very common: ts worn alterna you; because we Sinducements t< way. It's an a( ey prices. aer & ~he figures we s )Cle figures. You CLOTHI .HAGER's CHIL'UN SEEKING To RIDE. *bee .The Republican party is losing vi many of its negro adherants, es-gv pecially in the West and at the If North, the negroes are organiz. cor3 ing into Democratic clubs for the soU next campaign; recently they aml held a Democratic convention to the; perfect their organization, and by gro the time the national campaign the they will be a potent force in the era states where the negro vote fig.-at res largely in obtaining success- S ful results. The managers of the rig] Democratic party had better goI tive slow as to how they deal withj la C that element, they may succeed in in landing them this next time stat but in our judgment this same mai negro alliance will rise up to m ei pleague them when they feel se. 'ious cure in the victory, should it bejThe victory, which seems likely at seri this time. to perch upon the Dem- ity ocratic banner. It is evident that cha the Republican party has forso some time shown a disposition to of rid itself of the negro burden, pla: this is shown almost daily by the tiol appointments made at Washing- 'V ton, there must be a reason. be The white masses of the West stat do not desire political affiliation Rei with the negro. they resent the' legi appointment of a negro to office thei as strongly as do the whites of mal the South, whenever the race stat question is sprung in their public sup meetigs the sentiment voiced for ern a separation of the races is ap plauded to the echo, all this has ome about within tne past few THEl years, and much of this feeling is due to the lectures of such men as . Tilman of this state, and others is g who went into the Western coun-th try to teach the people our con- Hol ditions and situations. .t We believe the negro is fast disappearing as a political factor go everywhere and we also believeth his trying to now come in underwi Democratic coveris his last strug- of ge for political recognition. Thear Republicans do not want him, and di the Democrats had better, if they er touch him at all, take hold of him cu~ with a fork, less the contamina- eme tion brings dire results. le MIGHTY THIN ICE. que The national legislature seek- Ido1 ing to amend the constitution so hibi that united senators shall be the elected by a direct vote of the to people instead of by the legisla- law ures as now, is now depended cal upon the action of the conference lea< between the House and the Sen- to ate. As the bill passed the sen- are ate it places the election under are federal supervision, and if the pai House agrees to this then in our wmt opinion the southern memiibers 'l who voted for the bill have made in a grave mistake. The policy of abi; the Democratic party has been and to advocate such a law. but while legi it may be needed in the corpora- no tion ridden states, in our judg- ele< ment should the Repnblican par- tha y get into such contrnl as it has ber! nistake men tely will out. ~'re getting I > you to buy ivantage to 3 Man eli now you can readili enjoying, the right to super our federal .elections may us considerable annoyance. e understand the proposition -ectly, we do not believe the thern states willyvote for the adment. we are ~almost sure - will refuse to do so on the md that any interference with ballot on the part of .the gien government is likely to cre irritation an'd trouble. far as the people hiaving the it to select their representa in the natiponal legislature meerned they have tbat now bout all of the southern es, this is done in their pri ies, the general assemblhes ely confirm the action prey ;ly taken by the electorate. ref ore, we ~say that it is* of ous doubt to us the advisibil of the South aiding in the uge in the constitution as is ght for by the "Progressives" ie West, and by the gallery 'ing leaders from other sec Te believe this question should left to the states to settle, a which desires to elect its )resentatives in the national slature by a direct vote let a have that right but do not e it compulsory, leave each with the option without any ervision from the federal gov ment. E'LL BE A H0 t TIME IN "JAW-JAW" e Georgia political situation iving the political seers some ig to hand out to the public. inauguration of Governor e Smith takes place on the i, and it is expected that the 'ernor elect will be elected to United States senate, this create a vacancy in the office ~overnor. and- already there number of prospective can tes, among them being Gov r Brown, the present in ibent whom Smith defeated he last election. Besides the aion of a senator, the Georgia slature is expected to take up aways-bobing-up liquor stion. The prohibition ists will heir utmost to make the pro tion laws more drastic, while ntiprohibitionists will want 'epeal the present anti-liquor s and enact in their stead lo option laws. The prohibition lers are calling their forces ictivity, while the other side apparently quiet, unless they conducting a still-hunt camn a which makes the white gs suspicious. 'he sentiment for prohibition 3eorgia has waned consider since the action of Alabama. it is problematic what the slature will do, as there was issue in the campaign which ted the ,resent legislature bwould indlicate how the mem shi stndse on that quetion.i make is that tI .ast three worn ;he summer goc now; it's a heio rou to buy now, ~d better buy a] see for youi Not so long ago one of the judges is from the bench declared prohibi- fc tion in Georgia to be a farce, but It whether he voiced the opinion of re the masses cannot be told until er there hias been a vote in the gen- U eral assembly or probably not U until the question is again put to is the people, at any rate the liquor ca question will alwaysgive the po in liticians a hobby to pester the U voters with. is When Smith goes to the senate os he will *have reached an ambition p: that lie has longed' for, and so er far as he is concerned it will not fi matter which way the liquor sen- w timent goes. He will be fixed for d< the next six years, al, THE RECORED IS ENDORSED. a The Columbia Record of last T Friday publishes a letter from S Governor Woodrow Wilson en. b dorsing its suggestion to extend g the primary to the election of del egates to the national convention. p This adds some strength to the it Record's position ~no doubt, but ei nevertheless it does not convince 10 us that such a primary can be f mad prcticaln tisstate. Com- Ipl metn p trallyon what we 6 Ihad to -say last week upon this pl Isubject the Record in its leader p makes the following argument: W BY NO MEANS IMPRACTICAL. dj The objections raised by The 13~ Manning Times to The Record's ir suggestion as to a presidential al primary are not to be lightly dis- i posed of, but they can be dispos- nI ed of. It is true that experience has T indicated an indifference among I" the voters in this State as to the k selection of thbe presidential tick- ei et. Club meetings are poorly at- jb tended: county conventions arelti made up generally of politicians t who are in otlice. have been in e ottice or want to be in office, and p the State conventions are simil- e arly composed. However, this is w the very condition that we would t have changed; and we believe'is Ithat nothing would have more b2 effect in changing it than sub- i mitting to the people directly the til national issues as represented by ja the personality of national lead- P ers. The presidential primary! might not bring out the first time pl a~ very large percentage- of the or Democratic voters, but in the d course of year-s the indifference pl which is now deplored and de- cc plorable would be dissipated, and pm there would come about a very genuine interest in national af fairs in South Carolina. th As to the objection on the Si grounds of the expense, we ha e " aiready considered this in proC- th ios articles upon the subject. in Whether or not South Carolina pl adopts the presidential primary iih system, there must be a change.S in the method of financing our s part primar in this State. if it Iw iey wear steadily ds clear to us to because -i 1you've self the ' not to become ari opportunity. only the rich or the corrupt. Virginia, for instance, as we ently pointed out, the primary Ltrance fee for a candidate for nited States..senator .is $3,000. ader the Virginia system, which similar to our system, no man ii afford to become a candidate the Democratic primary for nited States seistor unless he wealthy enough to spend $5,000 $10,000. in 'his primary cami ign, or unless he is corrupt fough to have his pampaign nanced by those who' may be ling from improper motives to )so. Reference tosthe explan ion of the Oregon primary plan Senator Bourne.' which we e publishing today, will .give ie remedy for ,this condition. e..expenses of the primary in. uth Carolina ought to be paid Sthe~ State, as is done in Ore ,n and other states where the Lrty prima.ries are conducted id regulated by state law. This ~incipal has been incorporated the commission form of gov nment act now in effect in' Co ,mbia. To require candidates er office in the primary to bear ~oportionately their share of the - pense, not -only of the party i~ary but of the party cam ign for the general election, as e do in this State, is to bar the )or man from becoming a can date. The system is thorough -wrong in principle and vicious practice,~and will have to be andoned even if South Carolina ver adopts the presidential pri n replying to The Ma.nning ies' cuestion as to how we ould expect to secure the right d of men for national delegat ;, we would say, as we have said fore in reply to a similar ques on. that there would be no more >oble in.securinlg a proper del atio than there is in secumng roper presidential electors. Del ;ates to the national convention uld occupy in the party sys m the identical position which ccupied in the national system_ the presidential electors, and eir expenses would be paid by .e Sfate, there being of course limit to the amount of such ex This we think, answers comn etely the objections raised by t Manning contemporary and monstrates that the primary an for delegates to the national nvention can be made entirely 'he Newberry Observer says eWorld quotes an editress from mmmerton, S. C., as saying ew York is too damn big." .[n efirst place there is no editress Summerton. and in the second .e, if there was she would not ye said any such thing. The Lierton people do not use . langua eren in the hot