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LOUIS APPEHL'r'. I ditor MANNING4 S. C.. JUNE 17, 1914. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY A TOUGH LOT. The Columbia Record appears to be Moore determined to mis represent us with regard to the recent State convention than ev er, but not withstanding its jug gling with a mass of words, and its leaps from one craig to an other, it will never succeed in making its readers believe that one faction in Charleston is a whit better than the other-both are unsavory;the Record's editor outht to know it, and we believe does. Editor Moore was a hired writer for one of the Charleston newspapers, and lived in that city when his brother-in-law J. Elmore Martin, was in the zenith of his political power and glory. We have no antipathy to Sheriff Martin, and we must confess that we admire his shrewdness, if not his methods he is the political sphinx of the State. Neither have we any antipathy for another political genius Mr. R. G. Rhett, former Mayor, under whose administra tion Goose Creek was brought into the things famous, but when Sheriff Martin's brother in-law now editing a newspaper in Co lumbia, unaertakes to hold up such politicians as Martin and Rhett as paragons of virtue. and by doing so create the impression that Mayor Grace is the oppo site, then, with our understand ing of conditions in the city by the-sea, we protest against any such unfairness. Whatever, or however bad Grace's methods are, they are the result of the teachings of the political school of his predeces sors-Ferguson. Barkley, White, Rhett, Martin and their cohorts. Grace was very active in his support of Rhett, and he was highly regarded even with the "better element," almost entit led to membership in the St Ce celia, or to an entree 'in the shrimp aristocrisy of the "bottry" until he struck out to gratify his own ambition, which was fixed upon the sheriff's of fice as the goal. He did not win. Why? The men he had helped to elevate by giving them of his time and talents, did not sup port him-he claims betrayed him, they throwed him down to effect a deal with the State ad ministration, by giving their support to Mr. Martin, no'twith standing the fact that Mr. Mar tin did not belong to Charleston, but was forced upon those peo pie by Governor Evans under the power of the metropolitan police Act-an Act of the gener al assembly which was conceiv ed in hate, and born in political corruption. This Act was -the rawest deal ever put over a proud people. yet, instead of showing resentment when in po sition to do so, they submitted to the degredation, and to such *further humiliation as their then leaders manipulated fortheirown selfish purposes, by embracing and accepting Governor Evans' instrument he sent from Barn well county, to mortify and hu miliate them; when the people -of Charleston gave to J. Elmore Martin lucretive office, and polh -tical leadership, it was as repug nant to the people of the State, as would have been the political elevation by the people of the South of General Nelson A. Miles, the man who had irons placed upon Jefferson Davis. Did these politicians then in control, believe they deserved the humiliation the State admin istration visited upon them? If they did, their conduct must have been revolting indeed, but when they bended "the knee that thrift may follow fawning," and placed laurels upon the brow of the man who was imported to executee the outrage Governor -Evans afflicted them with, by giving him the fattest office in their gift and the political con trol, right there and then it sent shivers over the people through out the State, and their conti deuce in the political leaders was destroyed. John P. Grace is a brilliant young man,-self made and self reliant- He was the contidential secretary of Congressman Elliot t as long as Charleston remained 'in the 7th, District. then he en tered into the political game of his native city, was accepted by the then Moguls with acclaim, they used him for their purposes as long as he was useable, but when he felt that he had served an apprenticeship in the ranks, he presented his claim upon the city of his birth for preferment; those that welcomed him into the fold when he enlisted ir their ranks as a worker, turned their backs upon him, gave him the icy stare, and their allegi giance to the instrument of their shame-the person ;forced upon their comm-inity by an unfriend ly Executive. Did they do this because they believed Martin was a better qualified man? No. It was to get crumbs that fell from the administration table, they licked the hand which smote them; this very hypocrisy will ever remain in the memory of the masses to the extent, that when ever there are political troubles in Charleston, the people of the State are not inclined to give them any sympathy-through out the State the sentiment is "a plague on both of your houses"-a people who will sub mit to politicians selling them for a little selfish pottage are nit deserving of sympathy or political respect. There are no greater people on earth socially or commercial ly than are the people of Char leston, but politically, they have permitted themselves to get into the hands of pirates, and this condition has continued so long it has become second nature. If there is any difference in one faction from another in that city, it is possi'.ly in degrees, one set is awful and the other very bad. When The Record undertakes to defend Charleston's political methods, as a matter of fairness, and regard for the truth-the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. we should like to know, will it not conress the truth and force of what we have written, and deep down in the Record editor's heart, aside from the interest his brother-in-law has in Charleston's politics, does he not know that rottenness is not confined to one faction. THE GLADIATORS ARE OFF. The contest for the. United States Senate will not be con fined to the two gentlemen who first occupied the stage of public thought; the newspa pers did all they could to confine the race between Sena tor E. D. Smith and Governor Cole L. Blease, just why these two should have the sole right to make this contest we have never seen a reason assigned, but it is all off now, all of the calculations have miscarried, there are two other entr .nts, Messrs. W. P. Pollock of Cheraw and L. D. Jennings of Sumter, the former is a young man of legislative experience, having served in the lower house, with some distinction, the latter is the Mayor of his city. Just what induced these two to butt into this race we do not know, but it is to be presumed they did not go in blindly. The campaign starts off today ot St. Matthews and the reading masses will watch the developments, per haps then it will be learned why Pollock and Jennings rushed in "where angels fear to tread." It is needless'for us to discuss either Governor Blease or Sen ator Smith, both have their official records before the masses, both are thoroughly known, and the voters are in as good posi tion to judge between them is we are. In our opinion, regardless of what Messrs Pollock and Jen nings may say or do, the mind of the people is made up as to which of the first two they will support; it is either Blease or Smith, and if there are any changes, which we believe will be but few, the new entrant who makes the most noise and is the most reckless in his charges may or may not benefit. Sumter's Mayor coming into this fight impresses us as not being very considerate of Sum ter's candidate -for governor, it should not affect Mr. Man ning but in our opin ion it will; many who are now thinking of giving their support to Hon. R. I. Manning will hesitate, because of the en trance into the senatorial con test of a Sumter man; the Gov ernor and Senator both claimed by one county is not calculated to help the candidacy of either, but especially will it hurt the first to announce. If Mayor Jennings is as enthusiastic in his support of Manning for gubenatoial honors, as the people of Sumter repr-esen ted to be through their newspapers, he must see that his getting into the political arena to contest for a high prize is not calculated to win votes for the man who real ly has a look in, with a possi bility of being one of the top liners. It is the supposition that both enningsnnd Polinck will be aggressive, both of their. will at tempt to pound the Governor, and, with what they will endeav or to do to embarass Governor Blease, together with the elo quence of Senator Smith, it is going to be an interesting con test, but the man who imagines that Blease is overawed by the unequalled fight, so far as num bers is concerned, has not stop ped to think the opposition to Blease may find themselves em barassed by the zealousness of their own friends, as there is such a thing as overdoing it. Smith and Blease are good stump speakers, and they are the ones the public eye is on, the others will be regarded more in the light of trouble-makers, and will not be taken seriously, unless unforeseen events occur after the fight has progressed. Their is an old saying "you can not tell the luck of a lousy calf," and it may so in this case, some thing may develop which will put one or both of the stars out of the running; if rumors are to be considered Blease has "some thing on Smith," and visa versa Smith has "something on Blease," so there you are, both' may make charges and be able to prove them, in that event, conditions may become so chang ed that one of the other two will profit thereby. It will not be long to wait to be able to form an opinion, that is, if the daily newspapers will, in their accounts of the meet ings, give a fair and impartial account of the proceedings, but if they conduct their reports as in the past, it will be impossible to glean from them anything like a fair idea of what is going on, and the only way for the masses to know what the candidates said is to attend the meetings. It is an easy matter to misrepre sent a candidate, and to him a a grave injustice may be done by simply stressing unconnected sentences, minifying his strong points and putting words ,in his mouth that were never uttered. Far better would it be for the newspapers and the general pub lic, if the newspapers would make honest reports of the meet ings, then if they desire to do so, they are at liberty to use their editorial space in opposi tion or in favor, but honesty de mands impartial news reports. RACING MUST GO. There has for the past few weeks been some newspaper agitation against the race track, evidently refering to the Char leston race track association, the agitators want the institution abolhshed. Whether these agi tators are prompted by prejudice because of having bet on the FREE ! modern machinery i Som~e Bottle Wash All empty bottle revolving pockets, l. filled with a soluti sufficient time to cle any germs. From t automatic rapid r which thor-oughly b] tie, and at the same under full pressure they then pass. witi tomatic cup conveyc before they reach th Drii Sun wrong horse or are really urg ing this matter from the view point of morality we know not, but this we can say, the race track business needs no abolish ing by law, the thing has about abolished itself because of a lack of patronage. The racing game was permit ted by the general assembly when it granted a charter for the association, we have no doubt at the time this charter was asked for, the members of the general assembly had no conception of its magnitude, then when the institution started a war was waged to stop it, but many members having voted to grant the charter, felt they were bound to allow them to run the business, unless the State held the promoters harmless of the cost. Thousands of dollars had been invested upon the faith of the State's charter, the State however, was not in position to take from its treasury these many thousands and give it to the people they permitted to have the racing privilege, there fore when the agitation was on, several voted in - favor of the race track that are as much op posed to gambling as those who are urging the stopping of this sport. The racing association, as we have indicated before, will hard ly do any business another sea son, but anyway the projectors of this institution have had time to recoup, and whether they have gotten back their money or not, they cannot not now complain if the people demand of their rep resentatives to stop the game. Hon. Edward J. Dennis of Moncks Corner, has announced his candidacy for Congress in the First Congressional District. We know Mr. Dennis, having served in the State Senate with him, and Gen. E. J. Dennis his distinguished father. Like father like son; the younger Dennis is a man of the finest integrity, unswerving in his devotion to duty, independent and broad minded, a splendid lawyer with an extensive practice, and one of the largest and most progres sive farmers of Berkeley county, and in the lower part of the State. Mr. Dennis contem plated entering the race for the unexpired term made vacant by the death of the lamented Legare but when he realized it was to be a contest of wealth instead of brains, he refused to get mixed up into it. His friends through' out the District knowing his ability, and having full confi dence in his character, urged him to enlist in a cause to clear away the cloud of disgrace that was placed on this district by LINK THERE is no admission fee toc let us show you through one of1 c a soft drink bottliug plant. Important ing nd Finishing. is go through, in automatic Lrge steam heated soaker, ~ on of Caustic soda water, n the bottles and destroy here they are inverted on bt evolving bristle brushes, -ush the inside ot each hot time streamnsof clear water are shot up to the bottles; necks downward, into an irs. and are rinsed six timesc e machine.cl rt erC questionable methods in the recent special election. Mr. Dennis is an earnest speak er, and when he gets before the people we are sure they will be impressed with him. Supervisor Davis' Position. The Editor of The Manning Times: Owing to the presentment of the Grand Jury and letters of represen tatives Burgess and White, I deem it necessary for me to make this statement in regard to the financial condition of the County. When I assumed charge of the Supervisor's office I found a great many outstanding debts against the County which had to be approved and entered on the books. After en tering all such claims and using all the money collected by the Treasur er from the four and one-half mill ordinary levy and the one-half mill levy for back indebtedness, up to March 15th, 1913 we found that there was a deficit of something over $11,000,00. These accounts were closed with all who were willing to acecept it, at six per cent interest, and in a few cases at eight per cent interest. At the June 1913 term of court we took each claim as it appeared in tne office, and estimated all indebt edness to that date, and made a re port thereof to the (rand Jury. At the next term of Court we did the same thing. Up to January 1, 1914 after getting all accounts to that date, we found that we had an in debtedness of about $29,000,00. By reference to the report of the Treas urer, which his books will show, we received something like $17.500,00 from the four and one-half mill levy, the half mill for back indebtedness having been cut off, and consequent ly we received nothing for that. By deducting the $17,500.00 from the indebtedness of 829,000,00 we have a deficit of 811,500,00. which the County was owing on January 1, 1914. Mr. Searson, in his report, stated that the indebtedness of the County amounts to about $21,000,00. but this is computed up to May 1, 1914. This indebtedness includes some of the heaviest accounts of the year. such as Court expenses for the February term of Court, $933.40 claims of the County board of Equalization amounting to about $1200.00, and something like five or six thousand dollars for salaries and other claims for the fist five months of the year. When I took charge of the Super visor's office it was my understand ing that the revenue of the County would amount to something like $30,000,00, and it was upon this esti mate that I made my statement to the delegation that we would be able to pay the expenses of the year 1913 and pay the deficit of something like $11,000,00. but as a matter of fact the revenue from the County did not amount to more than 822,000,00. In other words, the Supervisor's of fice received about $8,000,00 less than we anticipated. The Indebtedness of the County is no more to-day than it was the same time last year, and the Grand Jury had the same infor mation then as they have at this time. By reference to the records, I find that in 1908 a bond issued for $10,000 00 was used for back indebtedness and that the same time a one-half mill levy was also put on for back indebtedness, and notwithstanding this on January 1, 1913 the County was still in debt over 811,000,00. Wnen I took charge in January 1913 this one-half mill levy was taken off. I do not remember of even having seen or heard that a report of the County's indebtedness was ever made to a GrandlJury, untillIassuam ed charge of the office. If such a re port was ever made heretofore I shall be very glad to be advised at what session of Court same was made and the present foreman of the Grand Jury was at one time .a member of the Board of Commis sioners and should be able to gie this information. With reference to the criticism of Mr. Searson in reg'ard to the manner of keeping the records in the office, I beg to say that this offlee is kept r up-to date and modern equippe bhe most sanitary soft drink bottlil Things We Water. We use City ArtesisuI well wal st through one of Lhe be'st ilLtErsI )rnator; thence through pressure I ttiing machine. Syrups. Are tripled strained into pore ,ntainers, and from thence convey< sed pipe to bottling machine. ~' DELIC oca=C in accordance with the law of the State. My impression is. that at the last session of the Legislature a bill was introduced authorizing the adoption of a method of bookkeeping for all of the counties in accordance with the plan of Mr. Searson; the plan to cost the tax payers of the State sev eral thousand dollars. This bill passed both Houses, but was vetoed by the Governor and the House sus tained this veto, and I doubt if it will be possible to get any system of bookkeeping that will meet with Mr. Searsion's approval, unless we adopt the system that he has worked out, and in order to do this we will have to pay him for his ideas. Mr. Searson calls attention to the fact that some of the accounts which have been paid were not approved by the entire Board. The Board passed a resolution authorizing the Supervisor to pay certain contingen cies that may arise, such as freight claims and a large number of similar claims which I might mention. There are a large number of claims authorized by law, such as salaries, etc., and it is not necessary for the Board to approve these claims It is not even intimated that any of claims so approved by me were not for value received. Something has been said by cer tain parties with reference to the County printing. For the informa tion of the people of the County I attach hereto copies of correspon dence that I have had with the Edi tor of The Manning Herald, and this correspondence needs no comment aS it is very plain to any sensible man, The contract referred to in the correspond-nce was made in January 1913. W. R. DAVIs. COPY. Manning, S. C.. May 5th, 1914. Hon. W. R. Davis, Supervisor, Manning, S. C. Dear Sir: Sometime ago we spoke to you about the County printing, and were informed that the contract would not be awarded this Spring. because of its having been awarded for two years by your predecessor. Reflection, however, and cursory reading of the code lead us to believe that the County has no authority to grant such a contract for two years, even it has authority to make a con tract of this kind at all. Again, we cannot conceive of one Supervisor binding the administration of an other in this manner. Knowing that you are under the impression, as stated to us, we ask to be advised on the following points: What contract subsists between the County and Hon. Louis Appelt? What is the duration of the con tract? Is the contract an instrument in writing and a matter of record? What authority has the County. for letting a general contract? Are the commissioners empowered to' make contracts for a period ex ceeding one year? This, you will understand, is a plain matter of business, addressed to you officially and we ask for a prompt, official reply. Yours Very Truly, J. K. BREEDIN. The Herald Publishing Co. Maning, S. C., May 5th, 1914. Herald Publishing Co. Manning, S. C. Gentlemen: In reference to your com inunication addressed to this office, relative to County printing, have thae following to say: 'There is no law requiring the Coin missioners to award a contract for printing, this is a matter in Boards disretion. At a meeting of Board. a vebjal contract was made with the Manning Titres to do the printing for a period of two years at $125.00 per year, the Board believing the amount reasonable for work done. The contract was a renewal of a former contrct with previous Board and confirmed or renewed by the present Board. My construction of the matter is, that the Commissioners have au thority to make such contracts as they deem advisable, which may be either written or verbal, depending r1 Bottling plant. We would be g ig plants in this part of the Souti Want You er. passing We use only I the car- the used ones-dol ose to the don't use secondha 0 Floors are coI flushed with water clam ined The most fast d throughi our bottling-plant our beverages are IOUS AND RE In Bottles---Call for it b ACCEPT NO IMMITAl ola B< entirely upon the p'osibility of the $100 Reward. $100. conditions being met, or they may The reidersof Li,. paper will be pleased to permit the work to bo done at rates learn that there is at least one dreaded disease allowed by law. This contract ex- that science has been able to cure in all its pire~anurY 115.stages, and that b. Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure piresis the only positiv cre known to the medical Yours Very Truly, fraternity. Catarrh bcng a constitutional dis W. R. DAVIS ease, requires a cn -ttutional treatment. Hals . Catarrh Cure is taken internally. acting directly Supervisor.upon the blod and mucous surfaces of the sys ___________________ tem, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease~and ;giving the paticntstrength by build ing up the constitution and assisting nature in The War Department at Wash- doing its work. The proprietors have so much ington has at last made up its Hnrdollars for any case thatlt fails to cure. Send, 'or list of testimonials. mind what it proposes to do A F. J CHENEY & CO.. Toledo. 0 about the encampment of the Halls Fas lv Pills are the best. troops, or National Guard, that is to say, the soldiers will go Poker an Italian Game. into encampment at Augusta, if Poker is probably a development of Secrtar Garrsondoesnot11frue -o, an Italian game of the f Secretary teenth century. A similar game called have another wheel to turn in primiera was played in Italy in the his head and change that mas- sixteenth century, and thence jour neyed into Spain. In France this be came ambigu, and later appeared in - jEngland under the name of brag. Poker is distinctly an American game, Expensive Lawmaking Body. and seems to have descended more France has the most expensive par- directly from the game of Drag than USamannL It costs $1,500,000 a year. from any of the others. Have You Planted Your Corn? If not, you are going to need a late crop. There's Nothing Better Than GOLDEN DENT SEED! We will have a new lot of the well-kown Wood's Golden Dent Corn in this week. Come early to avoid disappointment. Mix Soja Beans With Your Cow Peas! Only a Few More Soja Beans Left, The Maing Grocery Co. neyed into Sn In ran h ie Auom bie Smiuppndlates erd-i Brig yor e EnyGland unks, the wnam ex-bag $2.0, e hve n s okvery goo disin of Supicaae.. Expnsv camakn they prceriht Allm tof have gdese mre gFrane eda thmot exeive sarisf ct fo m G te usam tbra ha lmn.I Our 150, aGyarag .js roth of the orthoue. 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