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LCUIS APPELT. Edtor. .MANNING. S. C MAY 14, 1913. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY A GOOD REFORM. We note all interview given out by Hon. George R. Rembert of Columbia who is a prospec tive candidate for governor, in which he says he will introduce a bill in the next legislature to purify the elections in this State. We certainly hope he has dis covered a means to accomplish the purpose, his bill will be forulated on the lines of the laws in States of Missouri, Iowa, and Wisconsin known as the "Corrupt Practice Acts." Just at at this time, when the very air i s charged with the cry o f fraud in our elections it is well for the lawmaking powers to give this subject thoughtful con sideration, and if there can be any plan perfected which will prevent the use of money or other improper influences in the primary elections a good service will be rendered. The trouble is, that the enactment -of the laws is easy enough, but to have them properly enforced is another matter. The present laws upon our statute books are sufficient if enforced to prevent frauds, bribeiy-and debauchery. but what is Werybody's business is no body's business with the result the laws 'looking to protect the primaries are practically a dead letter. It is :fast getting to the stage where al man of moderate means cannot aford to offer for a public position which has a good salary attached, he has -not the means of securing the aid necessary tc bring out the vote in his behalf, especially if his opponent has. We will not say that all of the money spent in elections is used corruptly, in fact, we know it is not. It frequently happens that an aspirant for office is compell ed to secure the services of sup porters whom be must pay foi their time and necessary expen ses, such as board, horse and au tomobile hire in order to have help to get the voters to turn out to vote for him, in cases like this there is no money used to cor rupt the voter, it is a legitimate expense, but even this should be stopped so therer can be no ex cuse for the use of .money cor ruptly. Under the system in this State the primary is really the election, hence it is important to amend the rules of the Democratic par ty so-that there will be no more cry of fraud; to require the reg istration certificates in the pri mary will not accomplish the re form, it can only put additiona] burdens upon the electorate, and cause many to lose interest ii the elections. Our idea'is to re quire all voters to be confined tc the townships or wards in whici they reside, and then institute some system like the Australiar ballot, this we think will have a beneficial effect, it will preveni repeating, and it will also make the ballot secret as it should be, One-of the troubles in this Stat4 and which has much to do witi: the questionable means resorted to in our elections, is that there is too much of this legging abou' the polls, if every voter was re -.quired to call for a ballot fron the managers, and not allowed tc deposit a ballot secured from *some one else it would lessen the evil of improperly influencing, and the paying for votes would be eliminated entirely. If Mr. Rembert or some other membei of the legislature will formulate an amendment to the rules of the party along these lines, and ther have them reenforced with strong laws by the legislature good wil. result. - NO CONTEST. Hon. Richard S. Whaley re cently elected to congress to fill the unexpired term of the late Hon. George S. Legare has beer sworn in and is a duly accredit ed congressman. When he ap. peared lkefore the speaker's desk~ -to take the oath of office, the question was asked "if 4there were any contests?" None being presented the oath was admin istered. It will be remembered that Mayor i.race of Charleston was reported in the dispa 'bes fron Washingto'n as objecting to the seating of Mr. Whaley on the ground of corruption in the pri-mary, but, whether -.be in tends to continue the fight we have no information. As we in dicated in a previous issue, we hope the matter will be dropped. because we cannot see what good can result from such a con test. Mr. Whaley was declared -the nominee of the party with. out there being any protest be fore the State Executive Coin mittee, and in our opinion, the matter should rest with the dec. laration of that body. However, * the mere fact of attention being called to the conduct of the re cent primary in the First Con gressional District-, may have the effect to put a stop to a repe .tition of it in the future, and if it does, good will come of it. There is no doubt the recent primary was one of the most demoralizing ever conducted in this part of the State, and while there may have been very little, if any bribery in this county, the reports are that in some of the counties of the district, corrup tion was the rule and not the exception. The law on this subject is very severe, both State and Federal, and the bringing to the attention of the voters the conduct of the last election may result in cleaner elections in the future. We hope so THERE IS CAUSE FOR ALARM. senator Tillman is considera bly exercised over the reports of the recent election in this dis trict. and properly so. He has called attention to the law on the subject. and shown that by it the bribe-taker as well as the bribe-giver is liable to arrest and conviction; if convicted, the penalty is a heavy fine and im prisonment. This is all well enough as far as it goes, but ' - upon the statute books are il. 3ess if the public sentiment ot s not demand their enforce ment, if it is true, as it is alleg ed, the electorate was bribed and debauched, how is the law to become effective if those who participated in the corrupt prac tice sit in judgment? There is much being said about reforming the primary rules and laws. to our mind this is all tommy rot, if the legisla ture enacted any more stringent laws than we have now there is no guarantee of any better en forcement of them than at pres ent. We do not believe the leg islature can enact a law which will make corrupt men incor ruptible as long as the general public or the average citizen is indifferent, but as soon as there is a-healthy public sentiment'se cured against the practice of bribery and debauchery in elec tions, then and only then. will we have cleaner politics. The people of this State are now reaping what they sowed years ago, then, it was againsi another race of people, and, un der the stress of a vital emer. gency, but the sin committed then has come on down until it is being used against oursolves - the wind was sown and the whirlwind is reaped. We hope however, there will be no more cause for complaint, and tha people will realize the dangerous policy of being indifferent abou1 the sacredness of the ballot, be fore they brinz upon themselves the embarassing situation of having our elections supervised by the federal government, as we believe will be the case be fore many years roll round tC protect the federal elections, since the constitution has beer amended so tnat United States Senators will be elected . direct by the people, instead of by the general assembly. ARE nEROES REGISTERING? According to the correspon dent of the Columbia Record Rev. J. L. Harley the head o the anti-saloon .league in this State made statements in his address at Sumter which should be investigated. He is reported to have said that the whiskey trust has men employed to se cure the registration of negroes to qualify them for the electiot to be held on the question of dispensary or no dispensary, and that tbis trust is paying lawyers to prepare the petitions and have them circulated. Whai evidence Mr. Harley has thai warrants him in making sucha statement'would be interesting as well as important to the gen eral public. If he is correc1 that such a movement is on fool the people should be in posses sion of the facts, and Mr. Har ley having made the charge should also give his proof. The agitation in Sumter to re-estab lish the dispensary in that coun ty is causing considerable ac tivity, both sides are .working to secure the necessa~jy signa tures, and should the election be calledi both sides will work still harder. The main point in this matter is whether or not there is any effort to have negroei registered, because if i$ is truw there is danger of trouble in the future. The registration officers of Sumter county are in better po sition to know how much cred ance to place in the- statemeli attributed to Mr. Harley, they know whether or no$ an unus nal number of negroes have ap plied for registration certificates, therefore it is easy to ascertair whether or not there is justifica. fion for the charge. Al HONEST CONGRESSMN. Congressman H. Olin Young of Michigan rose in his seat last Saturday and tendered his resig nation because he believed he had been wrongfully declared elected. Mr. Young was elected as a Republican over a Pro gressive by the name of Mc Donald who is contesting his seat. The unusual resignation has caused a great deal of com ment all over the Union, because it is known "that few die and rone resign." The action o f the Michigander is. not without precedent however, we remem ber a similar incident of . a con gressman refusing to hold the seat when he was convinced that his election was procured by unlawful means. To throw up a seat in congress is no little sacrifice, and to do so requires a man with a strong conscience, but in the long run this gentleman will find that the people of the district he repre sets will appreciate his honesty, and if he desires to remain in public life, his act of S~aturday will make many votes for him. If however, all who are - elected to public position would take the same stand, we fear that congress, legislature, city coun cils and many other branches of this government would be in a constant turmoil of elections. The State supreme court has suspended Maj. B. B. Evana from the practice of law with the privilege under certain con ditions to apply in two years for einttement. INSFECTOR GUEORY ON HIS JU0. Since the release from the penitentiary of "Portland Ned," i the notorious yeggman, there have been several safes cracked whether this is the work of the cracksman or the work of another is not known, but as long as these depredations con tinue, and Portland Ned is at e large, the suspicion will be that he is doing the robbing. We t regard it unfortunate that this 1 chatiacter secured his freedom, and more unfortunate still that he made his get-away in the 1 monner he did. Had the officers for the government not been so slow in informing the State au thorities there was a warrat out I for the man, we have no doubt he t would be in the penitentiary at this time. As we understand the J situation, a warrant was in the i rands of a commissioner in Co- e lumbia for several months, but he said nothing about it to the t State authorities until after, up-. t on a strong petition, a parole was granted. that the Governor had C reason to believe in the repre- J sentations of reformation there can be no doubt, because the e prisoner had made arrangements f to accept employment in the city of Spartanburg, from where a strong petition had been present t ed urging his release, and not having any information the gov ernment- wanted the man, on the , contrary, after the governor 1 took the precaution to ascer tain, and finding out from the proper authorities, the United States Marshall and the United States District Judge, there was nothing against him he granted the petition, and sent for the prisoner to interview him, while I he was in the executive office a 1 deputy marshall was setting in the outer office with a warrant 1 'in his possession waiting for 1 "Ned" to come out and be ar rested, but instead of coming out to fall into the arms of the officer he took another route and left, even then, when the officer was informed the man was gone he did got appear to be in a hurry about going after him, instead he hung around the outer office for nearly a half hour, then went and reported to the commissioner that his quarry had gone. It will be only a question of time when the perpetrators of these newly committed crimes will be in the clutches of the law, and when they are "Port land Ned" will not be one of them. Postoffice Inspector F Gregory is not asleep and he knows nearly every cracksman in the country, no doubt he is on the job at this time, and when we next hear from him the pub lic will know whether the re cently released convict has been oprating in South Carolina. TE G.O ?.WAITS TOGET OGERER. It is evident that the Republi can party does not intend to make the mistake of going into another national contest with their forces divided if the leaders can per-. suade a coming together. There has recently been held in Chica go a conference to determine up on a course looking towards bringing the regular progressive element together into a national convention, to reorganize the Republicans along the lines of progressiveism, in other words they propose to adopt the prmn ciples of Roosevelt with him left out. Whether Col. Roosevelt will consent to this program re mains to be seen, but sLould he1 decline to accept the offerings of such men as Senator Borah and, Governor Hadley,it is our opin ion the success of getting the party unified will depend upon the effect the Democratic legisla tion will have upon the businesst interestsof the country. If there is no serious disturbance of bus iess under the present adminis- 1 tration, all the efforts of the Re pblican leaders to promote har mony in their ranks will prove 1 ftile, but should the reverse prove true, we believe it will be an easy matter for a coalition be tween the Republicans and the Progressives. Jack Johnson the negro chaim pion prise fighter has been, found guilty in Chicago of vio lating the law against trans- 1 orting women for immoral pur poses. He will probably be sen tenced today if his lawyers do iot appeal. The penalty for1 this crime is severe. The gentlemen who are lay ig their plans to capture the C votes of the people next year for j the gubernatorial prize have not been slow in making their inten- t ions known early, and it is too t early to make a prediction at this time. There is this, how- I ever, the next election will be t tame compared with the last 1: State primary, because, among t the number so far announced, t there will be no fire brands. We look for a very lady-like cam- il paign of it. The New Jersey legislature ~ has passed the compromise "jury f reform" measure that President il Wilson interested himself in to fi the extent of going into that State to make speeches in its be- ~ half. The bill will now have to be c thrashed out in the senate where la the Republicans have a majority t which may result in its defeat. * The indtuencrof the president in New Jersey is as strong as ever, a notwithstanding the fact that in s that State the Republican pasrty C is very strong; the independent Ij Republicans are among the r President's friends and sup- iN AT o: '-8tiALR. iterestig Ezercises in Memory of Confed erate Soldiers. [Address by Hon. John L. McLaurin.] Between 250 and 309 people >articipated in the memorial ex reises held at Ebenezer last Fri ay afternoon under the direc ion of the S. D. Barron chapter, Inited Daughters of the Confed racy. They came from the sur ounding country, from Rock :ill and Yorkville and various >arts of the county. Capt. Ire [ell Jones, presided, as he has een doing for many years past. Zev. D. W. Thomasson offered he opening prayer, and the clos ng prayer was offered by Rev. . T. Dendy. W. J. Cherry .sq., of Rock Hill, read the roll >f Confederate dead. Several atriotic songs appropriate to he occasion were rendered by be choir and by ladies from Vinthrop. The address of the >ccasion was delivered by Hon. John. L. McLaurin, of Bennetts rille, and the graves of all the ild soldiers were decora'ted with lowers. In introducing the speaker, apt. Jones recalled with pride be fact that the orators on nemorial occasions at Ebenezer iad almost invariably been men >f distinction, including leading eaders in the professions, a gov ,rnor, a chief justice of the su >reme court, and others in the :onfidence and esteem of the )eople, and he was proud to be able to say that in character at ainment and public service the )resent speaker ranked with the )est and ablest who had honored she occasion in the past. Senator McLaurin spoke about ihree quarters of an. hour and 2eld the attention of his highly ntelligent audience to the end. le reviewed the causes of war n detail, showed how it grew >ut of conflicting civilizations, emphasized the glory and hero sm of the men and women of the south, and refused to concede ,bat abolition of slavery was ever L motive on the part of the north except as a deliberate means to in end. He claimed that ;how iter fifty years by the election >f Woodrow Wilson from Geor ;ia, a man of the same high pur poses of Washington, Jefferson, fackson and Lee. the south has Lt last come in for complete vin lication. The audience attested ts approval of the address with generous applause. Following is Substantially the full text of the Lddress. Ladies and Gentlemen: We are met today to do honor o the living veterans who wore the gray. and to deck with flow ers the graves of the dead. It is well on this day sacredly set part 'and observed from the Po onmac to the Rio Grande to re sall the historic facts which led o the war. The first friction of i sectional character occurred in 1817 when Missouri was to be dmitted as a state. The moral ty of slavery was not question d at all, because both sides Lgreed- that its morality was es ablished by the Bible and its egality protested by the Feder il constitution. Both sides ree gnized the fact, however, that ree labor and slave labor could uot exist in the same state on the ame footing. Therefore in 1820, he slavery question was settled >y what is known as the "Mis ~ouri Compromise," giving over 0 the south all of the western erritory, below 86 degress 40 ninutes. This went on until in 848, Martin Van Buren ran for he pi'esidency on what was nown as the "Barn .Burners" icket. The south at once noted his threat against their lives-and roperty and began an aggres ive defense campaign. In 1850, he southern leaders- forced the ugitive slave law through Con ~ress, and the enforcement of his law created so much friction. hat in 1854, congress, by a small najority repealed the "Missouri 3mpromise." This relly was a lefinitive treaty between the two ections, and the war began, you night say, right there. Border affians armed with rifle and orch, swarmed over the line. [he name of John Brown of Os awotomie preaching insurrec ion and murder came to be mown. The flame that declared he coming of a greater day of vratch swepb abroad throughout he land, and men could see one nother's white faces by the red ~lare that blazed out from the idnght sky, and there was a Leep foreboding roar as of an ap roaching earthquake One event following the other, he soil of Virginia was invaded >y John Brown, Lincoln was lected, Fort Sumter fired upon. oth sides took down their guns, le south to repel invasion, and1 irotect its constitutional proper y rights, the north to preserve be Union. I am afraid the children grow ag up now haven't the zorrect le of the true issues whicn rought about the war. Most of be histories and the school books mach that the war was fought to ree the slaves. Peace monument i Washington perpetuates the lsehood that the south was1 ghting for slavery and the north >r the cause of human freedom. lavery may have been God's use for the war, but it certain r was not recognized as such in ie beginning by the people of ie north and the south. In the north, slave holding iemocrats took down their guns od marched to the front to pre rve the Union. when South arolina fired on Fort Sumter. I 'ake the fact as shown by the scord that fugitive slaves were sturned by the Union soldierst their masters for a. lng time r after the beginning of hostilities, and it shows that the slavery question was an after thought. [n the north abolitionists were bated and despised. They were mobbed. shot and hung. United States officers hunted fugitive slaves and returned tnem to their masters in the south. A mob of, Yankee aristocrats dragged Wi. Lloyd Garrison through t h e streets of Boston with a rope around his neck and the attor ney general of Massachusetts presided at a mass meeting in. Fanniel Hall that approved of the killing of Elijah Lovejoy be cause he attacked human slav ery. A United States marshal. nam ed Isaiah Rhynders, broke up an anti slavery convention in New York city by force'of arms. The press and the pulpit as a whole in the north, were behind the in stitution of slavery in 1860, al most as unanimously as in the south, and in any of the large cities of the north a pubic ora tor who preached abolition did so at the risk of his life. The reason for this is patent, the pro- slavery vote in the nation held the balance of power, and the influential commercial and manufacturing classes in the north upheld slavery because there was money for them in the trade of the south, whose cotton brought gold from the whole world. The Republican party was born through sectional selfishness and the abstract question of the right or wrong of slavery from a mor al point of view did not enter in to it. There were people in the south who freed their slaves be cause they thought slavery wrong. Seward first announced the impressible conflict between industrial systems that were built one on free, the other on slave labor. There was more money in it for the north to have new territories come in as free states, because it meant a larger white population, hence more buyers for their manufactured goods. There -was something tangible apon which to build a political party appealing to a people who were greedy for money. The inevitable shock of battle came, when the Republi can party went into power by a plurality vote. The south seced ed and the national instinct rec ognized that enduring prosperity was impossible unless all the states formed one government, and right there is the reason why we failed. President Lincoln de cleared repeatedly his utter in diference whether he saved the Union with or without slavery, but it must be saved. I will tell you why the slavery question was brought in and the issue changed from one of money to morals. The first two years of the war, the south beat the north to a standstill. Bull -Run and Manassas had aroused Europe; England and France were about to recognize the Confederacy as a nation. This would have ended the war at once, for really it was not Grant who defeated Lee, but it was not the blockade of our ports, which kept us from the markets of the world. If we had ad access to world markets and been able to utilize our resourc es, the war would have been end ed before 1862 in the triumph of the south. I have often wondered why it was that England did not recog nize the Confederacy, and I be lieve that the injection of the slavery issue had much to do with it. The English govern ment is singularly responsive to public sentiment, and they had ust gone through with the agi tation of the slavery question in their colonies, and once the idea became prevalent that it. was the cause of human freedom, the government did not dare recog nize the Confederacy. I believe that the acknowledge of this fact was responsible in part for the injection of the moral issue of slavery. The other reasor, was the war policy to destroy our in dustrial system by creating in surrection and disorder at home, so that we could not feed our armies. At this distance of time, ifty years or more, it is easy for anybody to look back and show that secession was folley and ore-doomed to failure. It looked different though, in May, 1860. There never has been in any ountry a stronger, abler and longer headed set of statesme~n, than the men who planned and :arried through the secession movement. There has never been aor never will be abler generals :>r a iner army than followed [ee and Jackson. We came so ear succeeding, both in state raft and on the field of battle, hat the weight of a hair might ave turned the scale. Tthe lead g statesmen or i.'rope, who nade careful studies of the situ tion in its minutest details, de lared almost to a man that the outhern states would achievre heir independence. The London 'imes in 1861 repeatedly and ex altantly deciared that the south vould succeed, and this paper ias always been the mouthpiece >f English royalty. The south iad more than one million square niles with a population of about. welve million. Eleven states ~ctually seceded, and Maryland, Centucky and M4issonri at heart vere with us. The south was olid almost to a inan, and there s no rec yrd in history of such a tation being finally conquered. [he north had only about eiwh een million people, and were inwalike and given over to comn ercial pursuits, while the south was full of the military spir-it. a. eople who were soldiers by in tinct. It is different now. When was a boy we didn't play base iall: we had tournaments and ground. the enemy must invade.] us, our homes were to be defend ed. No wonder every true south erner felt equal to six Yankees, and under the circumstances he was, six men and all terrible in battle. I can see exactly how our statesmen reasoned it out, and the chances seem to favor there not being a war at all. Indeed had the south not been so deter mined to tight, and commenced by tiring on Fort Sumter, it would have been very difficult to raise an army in the north. I think at least one-third of the northern people sympathized with the south and distrusted Lincoln; the commercial and manufacturing interests domina ted the north and were bitterly opposed to war of any kind. Then too, the north knew that Eng land, the greatest sea power, must have our cotton and was jealous of New England's manu facturing development. There bad been great feeling over the boundary line between the Uni ted States and Canada. and the slogan of '-54 40 or fight" was still ringing in her ears, and making her suspicious on the Canadian question. So taking it all together, th. chances looked very favorable to the south. I believe that success rested on the slender thread of the recognition of the Confederacy by the Eu ropean powers, and I do not doubt that had the war been fought on the issue upon which it was started that after the great victory at Manassas, every European power would have rec ognized the Confederacy, the pa per blockade of our ports been raised, and the war ended by a treaty of peace between the two sections. ' Understand, I am glad we are one country and accept loyally the results, but I do wish to keep the record straight. I assert. First, that that the war~was not. undertaken by the nv3-th to free t h e slvt ;,but enmancipation came as a war measure. because of the reasons I have stated I assert, Second, that the north did not whip the south, but starv ed us into submission, by block ading our ports, which w a s equivalent to our having to fight the combined world. Not only did we lack the munitions of war, but when one of our soldiers died upon the field of battle, there was no one to take his place, while the other side had the whole world to draw upon. In the south business was par alyzed, because of the blockade of our ports and without recog nition by other governments, our paper money was worthless. In the north, instead of trade lan guishing as soon as Secretary Chase started his greenback money system, the country en tee pn an era of unprece dented prosperity. Labor rose in price and farm products in creased in value. They had the whole world open for export trade, and with their far reach ing internal revenue tax system, the northern people bore the bur-den of war with ease, and in stead of the dire poverty of the south, the north grew richer every day that the war went on. She came out of it richer by bil lions of dollars, while the south grew poorer each day, and came out of it bankrupt. History shows no finer sight, than sontbern men and women gave the world, sac riicing all that men hold dear in their devotion to an ideal. Our great leaders must have seen the inevitable end of such a contest. and what people except ours, would have refused such an offer a s came from the Hampton Road's conference? Lincoln said, so the Union is preserved, write what terms you please; but the blood of war-like race was beat ing high. and they fought on when their whole land was seam ed and scarred by the invaders track of fire. They fought in hunger and in rags by the light of their blazing homes. After Gettysburg when like s o m e wounded lion. Lee fell slowly and stubbornly back. the con stantly thinning ranks closed steadily on the center with un flinching deadly courage, until at Appomatox once proud regi ments of a thousand men showed ,less than 100 muskets. They fought to the "last ditch" where fighting could be no more. Be fore such immortal heroism all antecedent sins or mistakes are blotted out and the tongue of censure is forever silenced. The institution of slavery was not the sin of the seuth. In God's divine plan it broughit the heath en and the barbarian under the' light of the gospel. It took the cannibal from Africa's jungle and1 turned him into a civilized hu man being With all of the pain and suffering, the negro got more 1 out of slavery than the white man. The bones of thousands of our brave boys bleaching on the battle fields of Virginia, is only L a part of the penalty paid by the south. For four years, thirty a million people in a great repub lic with a common language, a C :ommon lineage and a common :estiny, were at each others' d hroat. The land red with blood. d All the productive energies of i the people, with their accumnula ted resources concentrated on purpose of mutual destruction. Good citizens, tender fathers, affectionate husbands torn to pices by shot and shell, wasted by wounds and withered by dis aase. Our industrial system de stroyed, anid whatever you may g think of slavery, however, much s it smaks of feudalism, one must p dit, that on it was founded ~ 0 the sweetest and worthiest civil- c izations that the world has ever a seen. I often ask myself what " u great principle did the rivers of huma n blood, ndr the bi llins of 3roperty lost, stolen and de stroyed, settle, except that when L nation with slaves, fights one ithout slaves it may lose its ;laves as a result of the war. Phe enfranchisement of the ne ,ro was an accident of war and the northern claim to it as a pri :nary philanthropic motive is as itterly false as the conferring of niversal suffrage was criminal ly foolish. The moral progress >f this nation halted at the 14th Lnd 15th amendments. The hor rors of reconstruction, put the intional conscience to sleep, and he dragon's teeth sown then in the blood soaked ground are .ontinually cropping up f u 1I ;rown. Oppressive trusts, which make the people their prey. The practically passing away of Dem >cratic government in Washing on, and the glamour of ill got en wealth dazzling the eyes of the people. The spread of an atheistic gangrene through all he body politic, these are what the war did for this nation. The public conscience has at last be some thoroughly aroused, and when the people sought a leader they came south and chose a m an from Georgia, Woodrow Wilson, typifying in his life and haracter, the same civilization which produced Thomas Jeffer son and Andrew Jackson, Rob .rt E. Lee and Jefferson Davis. In the great industrial war di viding each year more sharply the masses and the classes in tne north and the west, the very presence of the negro has held the south solid. In my earlier years I chafed at this lack of Ii jerty in thought and action, but I have come to think that perhaps Providence'has permit ted the south to be held in bond age like Israel of old, in order to aducate and prepare her for the great work of saving the repub lic of Washington and Jefferson. Under the leadership of Wood row 'Wilson, southern men now control this government in every department, and are directing the conservative and preserva tive forces in this nation. In the early days, the-- south gave the nation its presidents and shaped its policies. Wash ington gave it freedom, Jeffer son gave it the policy of expan sion and Monroe. the doctrine which is today the very founda tion of our foreign policy. Truly "God works in myster ious ways his wonders to per. form." Humbled into the dust, the heels of her former slaves placed upon her neck. the south has learned patience and wisdom under the hand that loved while it chastened. Southern honesty, genius and statesmanship now has the opportunity to build on lines broader than party and wider than section. The greatest issue before the world today is the race question, not the negro question, but one embracing the races of the world. The doininance of the Anglo Saxon race for centuries has been unqestioned, but if the ad vance of China to a republican form of government and of Japan to a world power, does not mean the introduction of elements be fore which the tariff and mere industrial issues are paltry, then I utterly misread the signs of the times. We settled this race ques tion in the south izi I876 in spite of written constitutions and Fed eral bayonets, in the only way it can be settled, by declaring the supremacy of the white race and pledging our manhoce4 to main tain it. We know that no two races differing in blood and col or, can exist in nearly equal numbers in the same community as an equal social an~d political basis. There has always been and always will be one dominant race. With a justification for the position of the south is the situ ation on the Pacific slope. Here is California crying out in 1913 for States Rights as South Caro lina did in 1860. and proclaiming as we did in 1876, that her civili rcation can only be preserved by naintaing w h i t e supremacy against a mere threat by a few shousand Japanese immigrants. The south can read the way in abis fight for a white man's coun try, and I trust that the govern. nent at Washington will let it 2e understood once and for. all, ,hat the yellow man in the west, or the black man in ,the south ~an ever dominate these United states industrially, politically or ;ocially. There is no half way ~round. One race or the other mist and will control. Duncan's protest against the ontirmation of Judge C. A. Woods will not be worth the ime it takes to read his paper. rudge Woods will be confirmed .s soon as the nomination reaches he senate, and be should be. $100 Reward, $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to ~arn that there is at least onc dreaded disease iat science has been able to cure in all its lages, and that isCatarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure the only positive cure known to the medical -aternity. Catarrh being a constitutional dis ta.rere u csctitutional treatment. Hai's mthereby destroyin th fundation of the hsaen ging th patient trent b y build eing its work. The proprietors have so much ith In its curative powers. that they offer One ured Dola for n cas that it fails to Address. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0. 'al Famil ils are the best. Unveiling of Monument. Th- members of Trioity Camp No. 70, Woodman of the World, are here y notified rhat the unveiling ceremon es of the monument of our late brother ov. Charles Eugrene Young will take 1ace at the Mannine~ cemetery, on unday afternoon, May 18th, at 3 'clock. Hon. Mendel L. Smith. of smden, will be present and make an. :dress. All memnbers of the Woodmen: F the World are invited to meet with 3L. M. JONEs, Alconl, S. C. May 12rh. 1913. An Ordinance. AN ORDINANCE TO REGUL'TE TRAF FIC AT AND ARoUND THE RAILROAD DEPOT AT MANNING, AND TO PRE SCRIBE PUNISHMENT FOR THE ViO LATION OF THE SAME. Be it ordained by the town Council of the town of fanning in reguzar Council assembled, and by authority of same: SECTION I. That it shall be unlaw ful for any hackman, buss driver, liverymen. their agents, servants or employees, or any porter, butler, agent or servant of any hotel or boarding house, upon the arrival of any Passenger train at the Railroad Depot in the town of Manning, to approach said train, for any purpose, except for the purpose of becoming a passenger thereon, at any distance nearer to said train than the line of posts now standing on the southern side of the railroad track in said town. 'ECTI*N II. That it shall be unlaw ful for the parties enumerated in section one of this Ordinance, or any one of them to go within said enclos are, as before referred to, until the said Passenger train has departed and cleared the yard. SECTION III. That it shall be un-& lawful for any and all persons to ap proach any passenger train nearer than the limits mentioned in section one of this ordinance, except for the purpose of becoming a passenger up on said train, or for the purpose of assisting a passenger on or. off the said train, or having business with the train crew, or a passenger there on. Provided, that the provisions of this section shall not apply to the parties enumerated in section -one hereof. SECTION IV. That all hacks and vehicles, for hire at said depot 'shall, upon arriving at the premises, place said vehicles at right angles to the line of posts located ona- the' said premises, with the rear of the ve hicles nearest the said line of posts. so that said vehicles may take up and use as little space as possible in and around said premises. SECTION V. That any person or persons violating this Ordinance, or any part of the same, shall upon con viction thereof; pay a fine of not less than one dollar, nor more than twenty-five dollars, or be sentenced to labor on the chain sang for not less than three days, or more than thirty days; Provided, that if the of fending party be a hackman or liv eryman, it shall be' lawful for the Mayor to revoke the license of said offending party. All Acts or parts of Acts inconsis tent herewitu are hereby repealed. Ratified in Council this 29th day of April, 1913. T. M. WELLS, A. C. BRADHAM, Clerk. Mayor. This Home Bank WILL START YOU SAVING AND KEEP YOUR AT IT. m. - iGO C +"h l " " "iC.LS Cam :fTS1RC r~~i~IIi! '1' 1, I . 1I i! . FREE To our Savings Depositors, made to help people save - -You can no more build a fortune without the first dollar than y..u can build a-house-without the first .brick." 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