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PHON %~'Oj' Iill beol\ e ot theNIState, one cmposed of.9an didow bfor theaUted tateaig Senate and Congress in the re spective. districts, and the othe: .set being those aspiring to til the office of Governor and. the other State offices. It is unfort 7unate that these campaign meet. ings sometimes take the turm~ *that they do, and that the gen, tl'men who aspire to a high of fiegive vent to their feelings to such an extent as to decend into personalities and vitupera tion. But this fact, while it is to be deplored, is the fault of the men who are running, and not of the system under which they are campaigning for the enlight enment of the people of the State. The present system of campaigning the State by the *candidates for State offices may be termed-one of the faults of the general reform movement of 1890. but it will be remembered tiat' primary elections were in practice throughout the State for sev eral years prior to the movement in 1890. The conven tion system of nominating State and County officers had played out, it afforded too much oppor tnity for private wire pulling. and.political checanery, and the will of the people was too often made subservient to the wishes and swapping of local politicians, whereby those only who were on the inside or who were polit ical favorites were the selected ones to fill office. The conven tion system, under the limit of representation then of force in the democratic party, had to go, and since a general primary election was the only substitute, in which the individual voter might have an opportunity to express himisell and his wishes as to who should 1ill the highest offices in the State government, it was only righit and reasonable that some me': s should be pro vider1 whereby the enter hhn,.;:li AI K SAY som: The ? Drc -I prices 166,. - might see the candidates, and hear them talk. and form some idea of the qualiticatious and fit ness of the men who should fil] the highest offices in the State. IFor a number of years this .system of touring the State by the candidates for prominent offices, has been under fire by 1some people and many newspa pers, and the ieading daily pa. 1pers of the State do not like it and are constantly jumping on the system. 'I he News and ICourier on the 9th, inst., had an 'editorial in the subject headed "A Vicious Rule," in which it criticised the plan very severely, and since that time we notice that a writer in that paper who signs himself "Subscriber," also contributes an article which is given editorial prominence, in which he too severely criticises the present plan of candidates touring the State and calls upon the press of the State to live up against it. But surely these peo ple do not give the matter seri ous and honest fair thought when they decry the system so severely. It is not the true reformer who merely criticises unless he has some better plan to offer, and it is not the statesman who merely tinds fault with the pow ers above him unless he has the capacity to lead the people to better and greater ideas. There fore if von do away with the present plan of requiring the aspir-ants for state offices and the representatives in both branches of congress to come before the people of all the counties, what are you going to substitute for the plan? Every voter in the State has not a per sonal acquaintance with all the aspirants for st'ite office and congress, and it is but fair to the man who is charged with the exercise of the right of suf-, frage that he be allowed thel chance to size up the qualities of the mnan lhe is called upon to vote for. and hear him speak. If< the present plan of requiring Ii state anid congressional candi-< dates to c')ver the State were I done away with, and the candi- f dates allowed to conduct their canvases as they sa w fit. with-a out cove>-ing the State and see ing the people, there are variousr objections to such a method. Ini r the first place it would put a f prnmmm on money and mulvl B.P| "Good-bye" t< Lng out in Spri mre are many i nt to trail alor p in any day j There i style creai roll Coats. er.. Some lishy" you -h all our supe --Never. $10.0 Boy's E the candidate who has the mos money and who could hire th greatest number of worker would be elected. The mal who was of moderate means, an< who could not advertise heavily and who could not hire mana workers, would stand no chanc4 of being elected, no matter wha1 his qualifications might be. Anc again. if the cundidates did no go before the people of the sev eral counties the only way th voting masses of th~e counties would have of judging of theii qualifications would be from the ideas they would get from the newspapers. It would virtually amount to turning over the selection of candidates for all state. and congressionional of fices, to the newspapers of the state, and it would be an unfor tunate day for South Carolina when fifty or sixty editors in the state should name all the men who should hold state offices or go to congress or to the United States senate. It is true that the newspapers of the State are great benefactors in the enlightenment of the people, and should be leaders of thought but it should be remembered that every newspaper expresses the views of one controlling man in the editorial chair. .L we are not mistaken it was Thomas Jefferson who said that the masses of the people could al ways be trusted, and that while they may be swayed from the right course for a time, yet they would eventually return, and it would be a very unfortunate day for South Carolina when thc selection of men for high office should be turned to a few men, :> to the newspapers of the State. Then if the power of, selecting the men who are to Sll public offices is to be left with the masses of the voters, ~he voters themselves should be ;iven the fullest and freest op >ortunity possible of seeing and ~stimating the men they are ~alled upon to vote for. And if his be so, then the present plan >f having all candidates for the ligh offices canvass the State or the enlightenment of the >eople is the best method after .ll. There are those who are so arrow as to believe that the 2asses should not be given the ree rigiht of suffrage, but such view 'when reduced t itsh final RIli > your old Win ng things! iew style- featu Lg in the rear o ust to see wha tre new Suiting ;ions in the wa; Coats are cut a of the new Spr know! rior styles and 0, $15.00, $1 SUITS MADE TO A nickerbocker ndier I'he Home of L analysis, simply, means that a these people believe everybody ; else must think as they do, and that nobody must fill public I offce who is not appjoved by them, and those of their way of thinking. Solomon said that in the multitude of counsel their is wisdom, and the saying. is just as true today as it was when Solomon uttered' it, but if the sources and methods of inform ing the public and the masses are to be restricted and limited, then no wonder the people will go wrong sometimes, and how can they be blamed? The true principle of a republicay form of government is for the yeiople all to be enlightened, and for all the people to have a part in the government and its making, and in the selection of the men who are to fill the higher, public offcers, and for this reason it is hard to conceive how it would be any improvement in the selec tion of men to fill the State offces and go to congress and the United States,Senate to deny masses the privilege of seeing them and hearing them express their views. There is another phase of the qjuestion which those who advocate doing away the county to county campaign meetings seem not to thmnk of, and that is, that no candidate for State or congressional posi tions is required to make the the county rounds unle~ss he wants to. If he wants to stay at home and conduct a private campaign in his own way, he has a perfect 'right to do so, but the rights of the people to see, their candi dates and hear them speakr should not be denied just because it does not suit a few candidates: to go out upon the hustings, or because it does not suit a few] newspapers to send out report ers to these campaign meetings. The plan itself is a good one, of having candidates canvass1 the State. and no plan can, be de-1 vised which will be absolutely perfect, when the. people them. selves are not perfect. Nor can the people be driven in perfec tion. They can be persuaded and coaxed and taught and enligh t ened, and th-us brought to morei broader views and higher con ceptions, but this will never be I accomplished by withhelding< Light and infomm.tinn from them. 4 I0 ter Suit when ires this Sprin f the processic t's what in the is in handsome r of narrow sh~ ihorter, and Tri ing models are Suit goodness 8.00, $20.00, IEASURE, $15 TO $40. Suits, $4.00 ti Cloti Good Clothes THE HIT DOG HOWLS. We threw a rock, a very small one, and the editor of The Record, emits a howl- of pain. one column and a quarter long in big black type. "My Dear Appelt Has The Gaff." No The Manning Times never accused the editor of The Record of being responsible for all of the political devilment there is1 in South Carolina. He hasn't the brains or force of character to do more, than snarl and' whine. This "Rausay Sniffles" of journalism, can do naught ex cept add to the bitterness created by stronger men.I The representative of the1 Robinson interests in Columbia. we suppose if he has any policy beyond that of marplot and muckraker, it is to divert atten tion from the machinations of a predatory set, who bought the Columbia canal at a song twen ty three years ago, under a sol emn contract with the State to complete it, so as to give Columi-' bia a waterway to the ocean. These men have not compliedI with their contract, but havei bottled Columbia up and devel- I oped a hydro electric power, that has cost them nothing, be cause on this valuable franchise they have sold several million dollars worth of securities to I outside capitalists. This prop erty belongs to the Stnte of South Carolina, she has spent about one million dollars in itsC development and gets nothing in return. She pays a large sum1 yearly for lights and water for f her public institutions. No won- c :er they seek to divert attention i from the real issue, and try to e areate political strife from be- C ind a petticoat. We respect t Dr. Babcock, he is our friend, s :iobody was attacking either him C >r Dr. Saunders, but we ap-b ropriated this year $289,000 for t1 he support of the insane. t1 The people havo a right to b mnow how this money is spent p Ld how the institution is man- o ged. The people will not be nl leceived by this rot about at- d acking a woman's character. t was the duty of the Governor o know what is going on at theb sylum. The Record assumes a be chief spokesman for the irowd who would make political u ~aial out of the sex qnestion. p SU everybody els g and you cer ~n. Spring Suits! colors. New oulders, soft ausers small ~very "Eng Swe' re are ne $25. 00. o $12.50. fing ( If this lady is dragged into pol itics, it was by those who thought they saw a chance to hit Governor Blease below the belt. The Supreme Court of the State has lately rendered a de cision in the case of the city of Anderson against Fant, which will be a matter of much import anice to towns and cities in the enforcement of their ordinances with regard to the sale of liquor by blind tigers. The decision in no way modifies the liw as affect ing actual blind tigers, but holds that a mere "go-between" is not a seller of liquor under the gen eral policy of the law against the sale of alcoholke liquors. The city of Anderson had an ordi nance similar to that of most of the towns ot the State, against the sale of alcoholic liquors within its limits, under the pow er conferred in the State law, :ommonly known as the Carey othran law. Tw~o white men wanted some liquor, and called t negro and gave him some noney to go and hunt it for ~hem, but when he returned with ~he liquor he was niabbed by the ~he city authorities and charged ,ith violation of the city ordii iances. It was not proven that the egro ran a blind tiger, or that e was in the habit of selling vhiskey, although the testimony1 howed that he did buy the Ii tuor from a blind tiger for the hite men. The blmnd tiger was< ndicted, but the negro was< ound guilty before the city1 ourt, and the verdict of convic-< in was sustained by the circuit ourt, whereupon the case was arried by appeal to the highest ribunal. The~ decision of the< upreme court holds that city r rdinances in such cases must t e construed in harmony with s de policy of the general law of i le State. and that it has never c een the the policy of the law to unish the buyer, but the sellert f liquor, and that since it w~as ot proven that the party in C icted ran any blind tiger, or " at he was in the habit of sell- q ig or transporting liquor, but ti erely acted as a tool or go etween to purchase the liquor -om a blind tigcer for- the white ten, an indictment against him, der the state of facts as .oven. ,.nnld not ho sustninedl J - I T' a is bios 'tainly do vrer up in SUMT] The Columbia Record of the 13th, inst., contains an editorial which purports to be a reply to an editorial in The Times, but a reading of both articles will dis close an evasion of the issue raised by The Times, with an effort to muddy the waters with large words and a congestion of thought. The Record when it claims to "hold itself aloof from politics" reminds us of the little mis chievous boy who throws a rock and looks the other way with an innocence sublime. The attempt to create the impression that a fight was made upon a woman will not materialize, the people of the State know much better than The Record appears to think, they are fully intormed on whether or not the committee carried out in full the trust re posed in them or whether they only investigated that which in their judgment would make good capital to create a prejudice against the asylum authorities. Why did not the committee look into the charge that Senator Tiliman made in his letters marked "personal?" We think we know the answer. The records of the general assembly show conclusively that Trillman was ignorant of the facts, or he 1 was guilty of the grossest kind >f deception. The Times does not claim to >e a partisan newspaper, but it loes claim to be absolutely fair,t t belongs to no faction, not to a ~orporation seeking to control ~ertain benefits, and when it ook issue with the popular side I mn certain questions, it did so rorm conclusions after a careful tudy of the questions. The Record's allusion the our amiable and pulchritudi ous brother" may be funny did he average reader know just ihat was meant without first hay ig to hunt up a dictionary. We onfess that we gave The E secord credit for mor-e influence i ian it possesses, but this was e aused by its success in bring ig on a racket by wrongly uoting one of the members of H ie House. Serious indeed! Gabe-"I saw the doctor's auto in -ont of your house~ today." "Any iing serious?" steve -"Serious? hould say so. He collected his bil." 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The farmer who allows the rabbits y carry burrs ctt of his field into nother's as they journey across themi ats yet a long ways to travel on the :cad to perfection. If it costs to haul a bushel of wheat ne mile cai an ordinary country road s much as it does the railroads to a::! that same bushcl 200 miles, t'aec ad roads are an expensive luxury. Some wheels are like scmne men bey complain loudly urnder a heavy md. The differcnes is, that you ca:: ep the e'que'nking of the wheel wie lile oil, but thze:c is mighty little t $100 Reward, $100. 'he readers of this paper will be pleased to rn that there is at least onc dreaded diswase it science has been able to cure in all its ges, and that is Catarrh. Hail's Catarrh Cu re the only positive cure known to the medicail ternity. Catarrh being a constitutional dis ~c. requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's tarrh Cure is taken internally. acting direet:y >n the blood and mucous surfaces of the sys n. thereby destroying the foundation of the ease.and giving the patients trength by build up the constitution and assisting nature in ng its work. The proprietors have so much th in its curative powers, that they offer One ndred Dollars for any case that It fails to e. Send for list of testimonials. ddress. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo. 0 old by druggists. 75c. all's Famil ' Pills arc the best. Convincing, Efany people complain that they ? t appreciated at their true wt a the numerous emnAtyson mt en haa..hm onut.