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MANNING. S. C.. A*UG. 21. 1912. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY Communications must De accompanietd b, the real name and address of the write-r m orer to reeive attention ro eomunicatlon or a pe-sonai character wil be published except a, au. a-:ertisement. Entered at the P-ostoce at % arn, z sce ond Class matter. THE GAME IS TO CLAIM. The Columbia correspondent of the News and Courier, W. F. Caldwell, seems to have a rosy1 view of the Doliticai situation from a Jones standpoint, ac cording to him, the election of Jones is already a foregone con. clusion, and that ;verythin is over out the shouting fol the Jonesites. We happen to know Mr. Caldwell. and we like him, but we cannot take his estimates as being more than a wish being the fatter to the thought. Ac cording to Caldwell. Jolies Will, carry practically every county in the State. and then some. The newspapers readers are not go ing to be influenced by any suc-h stuff, for they know a newspaper reporter in Columbia cannot have as good an idea of the poli tical situation as those who know the people. who are in touch with them, therefore we say, all of this estimating and the Jones' band wagon being tillled up with converts to the Jone's cause is the sheerest tommy rot. We have no idea there have been any changes worth while for either side to consider, since the first week of the campaign meet inzs: what changes that were to take place were made then, but since that time the Jones and Blease forces remain practically, the same. The object of giving I out the stories of great land-, slides is to create the impression that the people, heretofore the supporters of Blease have been convinced that he is not fit to be governor, that the hour of salvation has come, and if they want to go to the political hap py land they had better climb aboard tue Jones' ship now. This kind of whooping might have served a purpose once upon a time, but it has, like man: other schemes, gone out. The masses want something more than hot air to feed upon when they are seeking political freedom, they know their wishes and will take advantage of the opportunity to make known by their ballot who they want as their Governor. We do believe, had the opposi tion to Blease not attempted to discredit his character by charg ing with all manner of corrup tion, they would have stood a better chance to get nearer to the masses, but once they made these charges and insinuations, and failing in the most ignomi nious manner~ to prove them, they have caused many a man. who probably might have voted for Jones, to hesitate about do ing so. When a man in public1 office is charged with corruption and those charging him fail to prove it, there is no doubt in our mind the charges were made for the purpose of misleading the people, and as a rule the act it is resented. We know how it is with our self, when it was tirst intimated that Blease was guilty of cor ruption we hesitated about giv ing him our support, and an nounced uponthefloorof the sen ate, unles those who were mak ing the charges proved them, we would do that which we had never done before-vote f o r Biease. We have never in the previous elections voted for Cole L. Blease for Governor; we have never considered his election or defeat the salvation of the State, but we do say that from the be ginning of his administration up to date he has been fought by his opponents such as no man in public life has ever been fought before, that notwithstand-I ing the opposition of the press, and all other forces, the people realize the fact that it is not Blease the man, they ar-e fight ing so hard, but the things that Blease stands for; now if the ma jority of the voters of this State endorse the principles Blease stands for, all of the newspapers, the pulpits and the wealth can not keep him from being the next Governor. There was a time when the people could be misled by the reports in the newspapers or the hirelings of candidates, but that time is past, the masses are doing their own! readmng, and forming their own conclusions, and independent enough to exercise their voting privileges as they see tit without dictation, and without price. No coercian and no money w i ll change the voters of this State. If they mntend to vote for Blease' they are going to do so, and if they are going to vote for .Jones it is the same way. There are as good men and women support-! ing Mr. Blease as are support ing Mr. J-mes, there is as much patriotism on the one side as tihe other, the whole matter resolves itself down to a cuestion ofper sonal choice, if Biease is elected South Carolina will go riht on and prospei, if Jones is eliected the State will do the same, there fore the boasting of either1 sid has no effect upon the eletorate when it comes to the voting. and the pipe dream estimates that W. F. Caldwell is furnishing to the News and Courier amounts to no more than ordinary space till E3ORTS ARE FAINTED To SUIT WRITER, The Alcolu correspondent of :he daily newspapers reporting :he meeting at that place would 3reate the impression that a ma ority of thecrowd were Jones supporters, this should give a fair idea how much reliance is tc be placed in the judgment of the aewspaper correspondents. We are told by those who attended the meeting. that the Blease sup porters were greatly in the ma. jority, not only at Alcolu, but al the other meetings also. If all o the reports of campaign. meet ings compare with the report ol the Alcolu meeting, the report ers are sure poor estimators. I1 is a part of the game to claim, the idea being that there arE maar who iike to be on the big 3de, and these correspondents, whether so instructed or it hap pens so we do not know, but all >ver the State the correspon ents are singing the same tunE laiing the Jones forces are it he majority. It does not foo] tnybody, the vote is the thing Phose who are in a position tc mow the feeling at Alcolu tel] is that notwithstanding the in. luence of those who are promi 2ent in the club that club wil ive Blease a good majority. Tones cannot carry it so we arc old by men who claim to be ir lose touch with the voters there. From what we can gather, thc ,lubs in this county which will rive J udge Jones a majority, are Summerton. Pinewood, Claren lon, Manning, Fork, Sardinia nd the Forestou club. Blease xilI get a majority in the other 7 clubs. Manning will be aboul i stand off. Summerton will givE Judge Jones possibly 50 major .ty, Pinewood will give him 2. najority, Sardinia may give him 5 majority, and the Forestor nay give him 25. The Farmers Platform club will give to Blease early as big a majority as Jonei xill get in his seven conceded :lubs. Paxville club will add reatly to this majority, Douglas, iew Zion, Sandy Grove, Gib on's Mill and Midway will add majorities to the Blease column, ,hen there is Davis Cross Roads, Davis Station, Jordan, Forestor Reform, Bloomville, P an o1 a. Elarmony, Doctor Swamp and he rest, which if the reports :oming to this office can be reliec mon, will give Governor Blease ilarendon by fully 400 majority. This estimate is based upoi the views from men in the differ ?nt sections, and not upon any uess work. Our original esti mate was that Clarendon wouk o for Blease by 250 majority ut since the Salem meeting and our reports from the othei section, we are convinced that his majority will be nearly dou ble that much. We have said tha1 Summerton would give Jones 5( majority, this is based upon tha1 :lab voting 200 votes: the towr is conceded to be pro-Jones, bu1 there. are a large number of th( :lub who live outside that wil. vote for Blease, and we are in ormed by citizens of that sectiot that our estimate of 50 majorit.5 for Jones is too much, the vote at Summerton box will be pretty well divided. In Manning it is :onceded that Blease will get a large majority in the Farmer :lub, but in this club there are e number who are fighting him niot only now, but they havt always fought him, and among them are some who pride them selves upon being vote pullers but it is our opinion they wil not be able to do much in the pulling line this time, every vot er will see that he gets the ticke he wants, if he cannot read it, h~ will go to some one whom ha knows is on his side to scratch bis ticket for him. It will b seen that the poll workers wil hae little to do next Tuesday Lt would be well if there was rule to put a stop to this pulling around the polls, because, it is a leplorable sight for a free borr American citizen being led to the polls and voted like he was soim iumb animal being taken tc water. Cheap cigars and booz, will not cut any considerable Egure in this election; the voters are in earnest, they are f o> Blease or for Jones, each mar wants to vote for his favorite. and he should without fear, oi favor. The only real privilege a poor man can enjoy, is hih right to vote as he pleases, wher that is taken from him, or he is afraid to exercise it for fear o. his employer, or some other rea son, then he is no longer a man Let everybody go to the polh next Tuesday, every body vote as he sees tit, and then when tuh result has been ascertained le averybod y look pleasant. The best way to ascertaii whether there are any change: >f political sentiment is for eaci nan to look about him and see whether there are any change: in his community. Pay abso lutelv no attention to the boasti f politicians and partizan news papers. if you wdll notice, tbt newspapers make a great ad< about chianges and none of thenr undertake to make good b~ sowing any proof of their con tentins. The 27th, wiil tell thE tale, and until the votes are mounted estimates amount to nc more than iudividual gusss Deafness Canrnot be Cured 1)'. zc:clapp1eaions. as they cannzot reach :h, li 1)0dportio of the ear. Thre is onlyon wa o cure deaif es. and that is b~y costiti 'oa eme'dies. Djeafuess is caused by an ii a:.:dcn ito f0 the multcous linig .0f th -t.ahin Tube. when this tube g.yt mutan. d nhaeanublimz som~d or imperfect heat ' an wh''n it is entirely closedl deafueSS i .- roun. and uste ithammnationl can b ak-n -e ad tis tub restor.ed to its norma Can You Give One Reason Why Bleaise Mhd be Re-elected? Here Are 100 Why He Should Not. The following reasons given by one hundred citizens of Anderson county why Blease should not be re-elected _overnor is the result of a canvass by the Jones headquarters of Anderson, and each reason is the opinion of a dif ferent voter: 1. Because he says: "To hell with the constitution." 2. Because he said he would make the gang that opposed him sweat blood. 3. Because he would noL discharge Stothart when it was proven that he took graft and Stothart went upon the stand and would not answer claiming that it would incriminate. 4. -(Omitted.) 5. Because no man can get a job un less he buys it by a vote for Blease. 6. Because be discharged the first winding up commission that had recov ered so much money rom the grafters. 7 Because he villifies men of un ouestioned character. s. Because he publicly advocatea lynch law. 9. Because he has too many crooks for his bosom friends. 10. Because he Dardoned Wash Hun ter his own client from whom he had re ceived money as attorney. 11. Because he pardoned John Black, the grafter, and stands by his friends nc matter where they stand. 12. Because Judge Ira B. Jones is too much thbe better man. 13. Because he always tried to block investigatiou of the old dispensary. 14. Because he wants to be the whole cheese. 15. Because he insulted the lady Sticket agent at Belton. 16. Because he pardoned the yankee pickpockets. 17. Because he allows just anybody to call him liar. 18 Because he has been weighed and found wanting. 19. Because he is using hypnotic in fluence aud suggestion on the ignorant people wherever he can. 20. Because he vetoed a bill to pay for diphtheria antitoxin to the poor children who were not able to buy it. 21. Because he has pardoned or pa rolled 375 criminals and given reasons for only 50 in his book. 22. Because he vetoed the bill allow ing Charleston to have a commission form of government thereby refusing to allow local sentiment to govern in a matter involving no moral features. 23. Because of general inconsistency. 24. Because he arrays class against class when we need to pull together for the good of our state. 25. Because he regards his w il higher than the law. 26. Because he is in sympathy with the wall street interests as shown by his support of Harmon. 27. Because he was in favor of in creasing the taxes on the people to add a $900,000 wing to the State House, and at the same time he says that he is the poor man's friend. 28. Because he should not have vot ed for Jones for speaker and associate justice and senator, if Jones was such 3 bad man as Blease now proclaim. 29. Because his immoral language emanating from the mind of the high est executive officer of the state, is de grading to the youth of the land. 30. Because he pardons negroes that burn houses and barns. 31. Because he keeps Ben Abney in the mansion. 32. Because of his abuse of Governor Brown and all the citizens of our sistex state of Georgia, whom he calls "pimps" Look up that word in the dictionary. 33. Because be is in sympathy with grafters. He will say not but his every act has befriended them. 34. Be'cause he proclaims that he will violate his oath of office and lead a mob. 35. Because he tries to prove his in nocence of graft by grafter witnesses. 36. Because he has adopted as his flag the red flag of anarchy. 37. Because of his opposition to insti tutions of higher learning. 3S. Because he pardoned Hasty whc killed two unarmed men in his house. 39. Because he sets at nought toc much work of jui-ors. 40. Because it was necessary for hi! own friends to join in expunging his dirty mess age from the journal. 41. Because he voted for a bill tc close the schools to children whose pa rents were too poor to pay poll tax. 42. Because he voted against the in come tax and in favor of the rich man. A poor man has no incomc. tax to pay. 43. Because he ignored the old par don board and without. the aid of their services turned down the verdict of 4, 500 jurors. 144. Because lie is a dangerous dema gogue. 45. Because he paroled Stobo Young, the Seminole grafter. 46. (Omitted.) 47. Because we do not want a dicta tor in South Carolina. 48. Because bis re-election would mean a reign of lawlessness and corrup tion worse than in the time of Scot1 and Moses. 49. Because he has tried to usuri the powers of the three departments 01 the government, the legislative and judicial as well as the executive. 50. Because Ben Tillman says thal Blease has muddied the waters. 51. Because he is has been allied wit h the criminal element in our societ's while he poses as the friend of the poor and honest men. 52 Eecause he cries persecutiot when he himself is ever an anon accus ing others without any semblance o: proof. 53. Because he has accused Judge Jones of being a mixed blood. 54. Because he has accused Judge Jones of favoring social equality and Tillman says no sane man will believe 55. Because be accused Ben Abney of bribing Judge Jones for the Southerm Railway and in turn eulogizing the mar he accuses of bribery. 56. Because he said that he would vote for Taft if Wilson was the demo cratic nominee. 57. Because the republicans favor his election. 58. Because he claims to be the poot mans friend when all he wants is hi! vote. 59. Because he threatened Charles ton with metropolitan police if they didnt vote for him. GO. Becaused he pardoned a man or a hand primary when he should have referred it to the pardon board. 61. Because as a legislator he was never known to take the moral side of any issue. 62. Because he was shipped from the University of South Carolina by his fel low students and the faculty for cheat ing on an essay. 63. Because life insurance money now coming into this State at 5 and pe etwill likely be withdrawn if this 64Because the Blease winding u; commission did not recover a cent for the state and put a stop to the good work of the Ansel commission. 65. Because the Southern Rlailway has a friend in the White House, and the governor's chief adviser is also the Southern's. GO. Because Blease voted against the reduction of railroad fares in 1907. ti7. Because it takes money to geta pard on, and only Blease lawyers car get them. U8. Because he is trying to establisi rnd rul'2 by my friends. 69. Because if he is re-elected we will have no use for our court house! and juries. 70. Because he offered to pardon the man who would kill any mian who acted as King and Watson acted. 71. Because he stands by his friend! and others need not apply. 72. Because he furnished the su preme court a list of eligibles, when it special Judges. 73. Because he is making the negr< an issue instead of himself. 74. Because he threatens to wreal vengence on those who dare to disagrei with him. 75. Because be wont take the S101 reward offered by Judge Jones for som one to get Ben Tillman to say tha Blease is eminently qualified for gover nor. 76. Because he has accused the su preme court of corruption. 77. Because South Carolina can't af ford to lose the services of a man likt Ira B. Jones. 78. Because he wouldn't sign thi bills or vetoe them, thereby shirkini bis duty. 79. Because hislanguageatBamber, drove the ladies away. S. BE.cause the eyes of the wor are on South Carolina. 81. Because he said that Georgi couldn't raise nothing but pimps. 32. Because he pardoned Glenn o Lexington, who shot Rhoden with bi hands up and didn't allow him to servi a day and Rember t Blease's house lead er got $300 for the job. 83. Because he voted for free passe to legislators. 84. Because he had two clerks as hi secretaries. 85. Because he voted against federa aid in road building. 86. Because he favored abolishinj the office of bank examiner. 87. Because he favored abolishini t h e insurance commissioner's offici thereby allowing fake insurance comp anies to come back into the state an rob the people. 88. Because Tillman says Jones i eminently qualified while he does no say as much of Blease. 89. Because he pardoned three ne groes who beat and robbed a poor whiti man and left him tied to a tree. 90. Because he was on the board o trustees of the negro college when thi steam plant was installed, and then wen over the state cussing the legislatur for keeping it up. 91. Because Jones has proven to bi the white man's friend in 1876 whili Blease is only talk. 92. Because of his inaugural address 93. Because he voted to let the rail roads keep secret who were carryini free passes. 94. Because Sam Nichols talked to much about him and Blease put hi stamp of approval on Sam. 95. Because he treated King an( Watson uncivily. 96. Because Hub Evans, Rawlinson Black and Towill are among his favor ed friends. 97. Because he pardoned Fleming who shot the sons- of two Confederat veterans in the town of Springfield. 98. Because he called Woodrow Wil son the tool of cornorations. 99. Because his own ward in New berry wouldn't send him as a delegatv to the county convention. 100. Because Senator Tillman says "Sensible men will never weigh Sena tor Tillman and Governor Blease in thi same scales. If the fools do it is no any fault of mine." Cole L. Blease Praised Ira B. Jones as an Abl, and Impartial Speaker. Journal of the House, Saturday, De cem bee 31, 1893, Page 523. The Speaker requested Mr Breaze ale to take the chair and retired fron the House of Representatives. Mr. Von Kolnitz offered the follow ing resolution: "Resolved. That the thanks of thi House be extended to the Hon. Ira B Jonos, the Speaker, for the able, im partial, and satisfactory manner ii which he has presided over the delib erations of this body." And in eloquent and appropriat< !anguage asked for its immediati consideration. The resolution was endorsed b' Messrs. Blease, Hughes, Sullivan Johnson, Gary, W. 0. Wolfe, Moses Rast, Pearman, Whitmire, Jordan Skinner. Nettles, Yeldell, Thomas Wilborn and others, in behalf of thei respective delegations. And was unanimously adopted b: a rising vote. Hous'e Journal, 1891, Page 609. "Mr. H azard introduced the follow ing resolution, which was seconde< by Messrs. Simon and Harrison an< which was unanimously adopted b: rising vote; Resolved, That the Housi of Representatives desires to place os record its appreciation of the cor tesy and impartiality with which thi Speaker has presided over its delib erations, and hereby conveys to hin its best wishes for his future happi ness and prosperity." House Journal, 1892, Pages 6 7. "-The chairman annonneed tha the first business in order was ths election of Speaker, and that nomi nations were in order. Mr. John E Breazeale nominated Hon. Ira B Jones. The nomination of Hon. Ira B. Jones was seconded by Mr. Cole t Blease, Mr. Von Kolnitz and others On motion of Mr. Kirby S. Tupper nominations for Speaker were closet and the chairman ordered to cast tha unanimous vote of the House for thi Hon. Ira B. Jones for Speaker." STAN~DARD OF HONoR. Judge Jones' speech of acceptance Page 7, House Journal. 1892. "--I app.reciat e thc trusts and re sponsibilities of the high office of th< Speaker of the House. and I shall a] ways remember that the Speakeri but your servant, and that your will and not his, should govern here. '-I shall endeavor to have your wil effectuated by enforcing the rules o this House with the strictest impar tiality, and I should feel ashamed o myself if by any act or ruling of min I should deprive any representativ< of the people of any of his rights o: privileges. "Sincerely believing in most of thi reforms endorsed by the people. shall doubtless use my privileges a a member to assist in bringing then about, but I shall not abuse the higl position of Speaker to boost a politi cal friend or humiliate a political op ponent, nor in any way to eneroaci on the rights of any to a free and ful discussion of all measures proposed. "It shall be my aim to be fair an< impartial in the discharge of all the duties that devolve upon me, so as t< bring about a more cordial union.. hope that we all remember that ii whatever we do, we are Democrat and South Carolinians; that we al love the old state, and arc proud o her glorious paft, and of the men wh< made her history. Carried on a grea tidal wave, the grand old Democrac: has again anchored at home, and wi now have hopes of a brilliant fu ture "Let us remember that commoi memories and common i ni t e rcea t ehould blind us all in an earnest el fort to redress any grievance of tn< people and protect all their right -I trust that you will bring tF the consideration of these question your best judgment and consclen tiously endeavor to obey the wil and wishes of the people who seur ou here." CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bough Bears the signature of W.C. DAVIS. J- W- WIDEMAM DAVlS &W.[DEMAN, MA NNTNG. S. 0. To My Friends And Constituents. Inasmuch as my opponent has been travelling about the Dist.rict criticising me and spreading charges that have no foundation, and has gone so far as to bolaly publish much of that which he has been saying behind my back. I deem it wise to place before you a brief statement of my services. In the beginning let me say, I make no charges against the gentleman who is opposing me. I do not believe in this unmanly and cheap plan of cam paigning. I am running upon my merits and not on his demerits or .past record, no matter what it may -have been. I have endeavored throughout to avoid criticising him or discussing his past life, and have made no charges against him either on or off the stump. Wherever I have spoken'in his absence, I refused to discuss the matter of his opposition or to ever mention his name. Many of my friends think I am unwise in adopting this course; but frankly I prefer to lose votes than be wrong. I always make a clean filit, and take the consequences. I want the regard and respect of the people whom I rep resent, as well as their votes; I wish to be looked upon as a statesman rather than a cheap politician. However, in spite of the respectful treatment I have accorded the gentleman, he continues to attack me wherever he goes, and to r make charges which I have disproved upon the stump in his presence and which be knows to be untrue. For instance, he says I have secured no appropriations for river, harbor and navy yard work, and the like, when I showed by copies of the oficial records at several campaign meetings, that I secured through my own exertions, and without the assistance of Senator Till man, as he claims, or anyone else from two to seven hundred thousand dollars, every year, amounting in all to more than three million dollars. Printed re cords are only disregarded by tho:e who scorn truth, and hope to gain votes boldly fooling the ignorant. Nor do I object to his doing this, for I do not be lieve there is ignorance enough in the District to secure him any very large vote But I do object to his persistent efforts to prejudice my friends in the country counties of the District against me by telling them I bare done nothing for them. In the first place the zentle man has votea for me and suoported me for nine years and always spoke in the highest terms of me up to a few months ago. Two years ago when Mr. Lesesne ran against me, Mr. Larisey worked for me, and did not hesitate to tell the voters what a fine congress man I was. Why this sudden change? Why is it he has found out all of a sud den that I am no good? Certainly I am no worse now than I was two years ago. The truth of the matter is the gentleman wants the position I hold, of course, and he is now telling you not to do that, which he himself has persistently done for all these years, viz: vote for me. But my friends is there any truth in any of his charges? Absolutely none. When you elected me to Congress we had less than ten rural mail routes in the District and the carriers received six hundred dollars per year. Today we have nearly sixty routes and the carriers get one thousand and eighty dollars per year. Every one of these new routes were gotten through my individual effort and work, and it has been through the efforts and hard worlk of myself and a number of other South een Congressmen, who have this work at heart, that the carriers have had their salaries raised year by year. The gentleman says anyone can get a rural route, but of course, he is ignorant on these subjects, and does not know. Why I have worked hard on some routes for over a year before securine their establishment and no route is ever established without a fight. The postoffice department always trys to keep down the number of routes, be cause each one is an additional expense and they never establish them unlesi urged and pressed to do so. And next comes farm demonstration work. This is a new thing started solely for the farmer. And I have worked hard te secure the appropriations to carry or this work. This spring when the Agri cultural Bill was up before Congress I with one other man made a fight tc increase the amount named for this work and we won the fight, and added sixty thousand dollars to the Bill. And Stoday this experimental de aonstratiton work is being carried od in every county in my District. -I secured the assistance of the gov einent in the drainage work being carried on in certain counties in the District to the extent of having all oj the surveying done by expert govern ment engineers, and a number of us who are deeply interested in drainage and fighting for it are now working or Splans whereby this entire work will ii ime to comne be done by the govern ment. This year we worked out a pinc whereby we got around the Constitu tion and passed a first class good roads law and we expect to get around the Constitution on the drainage question also. Under our good roads plan the county receives fifteen dollars per mile for every mile of road used by the gov ernent for post road, star~ route and rural route. A route twenty mile long will draw three hundre-td dollars per year for the ordinary sand ro -four b~Unlth v'd per .* ar wo ni-m-,. perfect cond;tionl. And this ms.m. when paid byelongs to the coun ty aio. can be used anywhere ons any of i other roads. Now don't understan 1me as claiming that I did this bym f elf It was done by about thir~ v of -us. There are nearly four hundre Congressmen and no one man can put through a thing of this kind byv him self. None but a fool would say that' !he could. Of course my opponenit says he will do all of these things by him. self, and I do not mean to call him fool. To the contrary lie thinks the people aere fools and lie is smart enough Ito make mese rash wild cat promises in 1hopes of fr.o ing them. But return to good ro-J. Tnere are a numbr I ( men in Congreiss who lik~e myself have Ithe int ere :. of the rur al distr icts a Iheart. :snd are always ready and willin:2 and anxious to do things that will help. the farmner. Twenty live to thirty of us got together andl held a mneeting. We )had a Dem:oeratio majority at 5i . and Iwe knew we could by united e.Tort. and 1hard work push a good roads Bill Sthrough the House, if we could devisc a plan to get around the Constitution. SAt this meeting we thrashed out. a plan )to pay 1.his money to a county asa rentai ju-.t us the government is now 'paing rent. for postotliees. It w-as a good olau. It was constitutional and we workd hard on it, and for'ced its passag-- though the I-oust, -atd as soon as i:. be-:,5me operauive it1 ism Sto give you li:st class roads. all ovr your county. And now we are wo:rktig on the drai:nage plan in the same .ny. SWe wi sue -- d in the end.. l3Bz I a to warn -.:. . -rmers th~at it takes e through. IhAve h:~d ten years of e I erience- a:.ui I know what i amtaku tabout. .\y o'i:onent hits had no expo ience whaxtsoever-, and when be maie these bold, rash promises he must know in his heart lie cannot fultill them: so far as I know his first entrance into. public life was last summer whe-n he made a few speeches for his very deai friend Mayor Grace. who wvas then running for Mayor. What you need is an expert at the helm of your affairs and especially so just at this time when we expect to elect a Democratic Presl dent and have a Democratic admin is tratioi. It is poor policy to sway horses while you are crossing the stream. I1 - you want drainage and other things tc .your interest, don't be changing ubout nd sending up green men to be broker in and trained; but stick to the mar who has been, is now and will continue to work for them, and who is trained ir the business. You cannot get them all na da orm at one session of Congress. It takes tire. lietemb 1:at all of these years, but one. I hare been work ing uphill anC. aa eua leblican administration. \W Ve iiad but one year of Democratic majority in the House, and during that year we have passed a rural Parcels Post Bill, where by you can telephone to town to your merchant or drop a postal, and have anything weighing less -thau twelve pounds sent to you b;- mail, for a few cents cost, instead of hitching up a team aa&!eaving your work to go after itlnid we have passed the good roads' Bill and many others in the interest of the farmer. And I have worked hard for every one of these measures, and shall use my every effort to secure drainage. I know the needs of the farmer. I was born and raised on the farm and most of my life has been ::ent on the farm. I have a large stock and dairy farm and I know just how the farmer feels about these things. and realize what is to his imerest. But I do not hesitate to make one criticism of the farmer. You are too quick to bellieve every thing that is told vou and to listen to all sorts and kinds of ridiculous prom ises made you by people you know nothing about and have never heard of before. I want you to stop and think about these things and to reason them out for yourselves. You are intelli gent men aud fully able to judge for yourselves if you will only stop and reason it out. Votc for the mun who can do you the most g-ood. I have never lied to you or filled your ears with hasty and extravagant promises. In fact, the only pronise I have ever made you was rhat T would do my best. and this I have done honestly and earnestly; fullilling my duty as I saw it and at all times discharging the ser vices of a public servant with faithful ness and zeal. My conscience is clear; I know that no man could have done more than I have done for thisDistrict. My opponent is at libertv to continue his false accusations and charges. The records are there to disprove every one of them, and I do not believe there are many voters in the District ignorant. and foolish enough to be hutu-bugged and fooled by his rash promises. I make no charges against him: I have conducted a clean campaign. So long as I shall remain in public life, I shall always avoid this cheap plan of the demagogue. My record is clean and I intend to keep it so. come what may, I know that I will be re-elected. I have absolutely no fear in this regard. My only regret is that after all these years of hard and earnest work in your be half, there should come into your com munity a stranger who stoops to these methods in order to prejudice you against me in the face of the fact that he has voted for me and praised me himself up to a few months ago. I thank you for the kind and almost unanimous support you have given me in the past, and I sincerely trust that you still regard me as worthy of your confidence. Sincerely urs, .GE,_. S. LEoARE. GRACE'S FIGHT. The conditions in the city of Charleston from our observa tions recently are bad. There are two determined elements which are fighting tooth and nail for control. Grace the mayor has bcen and is now a most relent less opponent of Martin the sheriff and Congressman Legare every effort will be made by Grace to encompass Martin and Legare's defeat. Grace has the control of the police, and it is said this force will be used to intimidate the Martin and Legare supporters, many in the city fear the election day ~will not end bloodless; if, as somne of the Martin supporters fear, there is an attempt to rush upon the managers to capture the boxes there will surely be bloodshed. We were told that at some election in Charleston the box of ward 5 was stolen from the managers and it was never recovered: it is the belief of some, that under the leader ship of Grace similar tactics will be resorted to, that the police will protect the box grabbers. Grace is determined to beat Martin at any cost. He is also deter mined to carry Charleston against Gov-ernor Biease, and Congfressmanx Legare. but hi e '-ould rather Blease carry the city .~overwhelmingly thatn for Mar tiu to be re-elected by one mjorty. While in the city we taled to a number of gentlemen and in each case it was the opin ion that B3lease, Martin and Le ga:e would carry Char-leston not wi tstading' Grice's opp)ositi. Ble3Iase.c cannIot go the mtajority mit J. bul, thwi- b wil . * ,a nad . anopporta;ii . to u tsc1 s the subje.ct Lith. ARANT'S DRUG STORE Sells Everytiling in DRU6S and MEDWC NES A ?T'TOiZNEY .\T .i!ANNING3. C. H. L ESESNE, A\TTOR{NEY AT .LAW, :ANNINa. s. C. M \ortgages. I Arc~y & O'Brya23 \TTO NE AT Nn An torneys and Counselors rat L:'.: MANNING. S. C. NOTICE. The qualified eletors residing in Barmour School District. No. 1:3. will hereb-: take not ice that anI elete tion will he held at the Harmony 'r Plowden Schoo! House, near Cyp s Fork Church. on TIhursday. Auguti~ 22d.101:>, for the purpose of votiog a Four Muils Tax for schiooil purposes in said District. P'olls open from~ 8 IA. M. to -11P. Md. H. L. B. HOD(-E, .JOSEPH B3. HOLLA DAY, JOHN W. HU6cd15S, Board of Trustees Hlarmcny Schot oij THE SUMTER TRUST CO., SUMTER, S. C. We have among our Directors all of the Presidents of ? the Banks of this city, also President of the Bank of Clar - endon and Summerton, as well as prominent lawyers and and business men of Sumter and Bishopville. S. C. Besides handling all the business done by an up-to date Trust Co-, we will take Saving Deposits and issue Certiticates of Deposits allowing interest it 4 and 5 per cent. ill appreciate an account with you. THE SUMTER TRUST CO., SUMTER, S. C. co GOTO 5-00 Sfor Dry Goods, Clothing, 51-0 5 Shoes and Hats. 5-4 5-.0 -wa 0 SoH -a- - - asVrinFec lv Ol is rsigaanwo disia i o- nos W hvescl aen~efo t~sfoein :f - a - det lalwegurat.e urp tros o aris temth Ues q a of -anin imprtedFrenh Olve Gl i Diksons Drg Stre -- neo oW .Bov o)e