Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Annon Uu Merchandise of at Pre On account of the unusual cor the tightness of finances and unfe gone through our stock and, re ductions necessary to meet these many articles at pre-war prices, z you know there is 100 per cent val A glance over this sheet will shc you, but to fully appreciate what t that you come and go carefully thi pleasure in showing you even if: pate these goods moving very rap Read y-To-W Clearance Sale of all Seasonal Voile Dresses, $7.00 to $9.50, 1 Taffeta Dresses, $13.00 to $22. Georgette Dresses, $20.00, fori Gingham Dresses, $1.14 to $1 Children's Gingham Dresses,' Serge Suits, $13.00 to $24.68, Wool Poplin Suits, $12.00, fc Tricotine Suits, $20.00, form( Georgette and Crepe de Chin $12.00. Silk and Satin Skirts, $7.00 t< Garbedine Skirts, $2.00, form Linene Skirts,e$1.90, formerly ALL HATS AT $1.50 EACH. Womens and Misses Ribbed I Dry Goo Following at Pre-War Prices: Gingham 12c per yard, formei Gingham 1.5c per yard, formei Light and Dark Percales 20c, Skirting 25c per yard, formei Light Outings 25c per yard, Heavy Cotton Flannel 35c per Unbleached Domestics 25c per Best Quality Van Guard Blea< Carolina Fine LL Unbleached White Skirting 15c per yard, Fancy Light Voiles 50c per ya Dark Fancy and Plaid Voiles, 3-1.75 per yard. Satins, Taffetas, Plain and Fa Following Fall and Winter Sh 146 pairs Men's Shoes, $6.25, 82 pairs Boy's Shoes, $3.00 an< 247 pairs Womens' Shoes, $5.C - 43 pairs Womens' Opera Pui 18 pairs Womens' Bronze Pui 56 pairs Misses Shoes, $4.00 ai 32 pairs Childrens Shoes, $3. All Spring and Summer Foot.. *Men's All Spring and Summer Suits Suits formerly $20.00, now $11.00 All Straw Hats at COST. Overalls $2.15 per pair. Silk Shirts formerly $15.00, .Retail Groc 4,000 pounds Sugar at 21e per About 500 Lbs. roasted coffee, H ardwar 100,000 best grade Cedar Shi American wire fence all size, Barbed wire $4.00 to $6.00 p~el Roofing p~aper, one p~ly $2.00; I Furniture and Houw Lace Curtains 50c to $2.00 p~er 21 Bedroom Chairs, $1.50 to $ One, three piece Over-stuffed One, Ten piece solid Mahogar One, Ten piece Walnut Dining One, Four piece Walnut Bedr' One, four' piece Mahogany Bt AI/TERATIONS EXTRA. - YOUR PATRONAGE IS MO: ALDERMA _i_ CLAREND)ON'S STORE OF QIL nc emen t neernent Quality Now Selling War Prices nbination of circumstances, resulting from rseen conditions in the markets, we have gardhss of cost to us, we are making price re tbnormal conditions. This places before you nd when you buy anything at Alderman's ue back of the price. w a few of the many wonderful savings for his means in reducing living costs, we beg - -ough these departments; we will take great ou do not buy, but come early as we antici car and Millinery le Dresses, Suits, Skirts and Hats. ormerly $21.00 to $25.00. 50, formerly $37.75 to $62.50. nerly $65.00. 4.00, formerly $2.00 to $20.00. T4c to $4.80, formerly $1.15 to $6.75. formerly^$35.00 to $70.00. rmerly $31.50. rly $50.00 to $64.25. e Blouses, $3.00 to $5.00, formerly $5.75 to $14.00, formerly $21.00 to $42.00. erly $5.00 to $8.00. 4.50. Jnderwear, 35c to $2.75, formerly 65c to $5.00. Is Department 'ly 25e per yard. 'ly 30c per yard. formerly 35c and 40c per yard. -ly 35c per yard. formrly 35c per yard. yar'd, formerly 50c and 60c per yard. yard f6rmerly 35c per yard. :hed at 30c per yard, formerly 40c. 20c per yard, formerly 25c per yard. formerly $1.75 perL yard. 'd, formerly $1.25 per yard. 35c, 50c and 75c per yard, formerly $1.50 to ncy, fornierly $3.50, as low as 90c per yard. Shoes oes at Pre-War Prices: formerly $12.75. I $4.00. formerly $7.95 and $9.90. '0 to $8.00, formerly $9.75 to $15.00. rips, $5.00, formerly $10.00 and $11.50. nips, $7.00, f ormerly $14.50. d $4.25, formerly $9.50 and $9.75. 5 and $3.75, formerly $7.50 and $8.50. wear at COST. Furnishing for Men and Boys at COST. Palm Beach now $7.50. ery Department Lb. 15e per LI). e Department ngles at $9.00 per M. 3, $8.50 to $14.50 per roll. roll. wo ply $2.75; three ply $3.25. ~e Furnishing Department pair, formerly $1.25 to $6.00. 3.75 each, formerly $8.75 to $12.50. Living Room Suit, $275. y Dining Suit $650.00. r room suit $400.00. >om Suit $200.00. droom Suit $200.00. NO RETURNS. ST RESPECTF'ULLY S9ILICITED. N'S 20 storce nOne (LITY. MANNIC, S. C ADDRE' The Democratic In view of the fact that I missed a number of campaign meetings, being absent from the State in attendance upon the Democratic National Convention at San Francisco where I was a member of the Committee on Platform and Resolutions and consequently did not have an op portunity to meet my fellow-citi zens of South Carolina face to face and give them an account of my stewardship in Washington, I have determined to issue this address to the people. I have been a farmer all my life and in common with the far niers I have had a struggle to make ends meet and I have no large fund at vny service that permits me to send others from place to place advocating my rdf election to the senate. If re elected it nuts be upon my record alone. In consideration of the services rendered by me to the agricul tural interests of my State and the South, I was elected to the senate twelve years ago. On every occasion I have stressed with all the force in me legisla tion for the benefit of the agri cultural interests. Briefly referring to some of the measures which I have advo cated and had passed in the in terest of the agricultural classes are: Agriculture: (1) Smith Cot ton Futures Act, preventing the depression of prices by the tend er of valueless cotton on con tracts. (2) Standardization of Cotton Grades. I co-operated in secur ing this very essential legisla tion. (3) Government comparison of arious grades of cotton, show ing much greater discrepancy in price than there is difference in actual value. (4) Resolution calling on dip lonatic and consular representa tives of the United States abroad LO urnish information as to the needs and demands for Ameri can cotton in their respective countries and the best methods of supplying it. (5) Government cotton reports. (6) Census Department to furnish number of bales of spin nable cotton and number of bales of linspinnable cotton on hand. This prevented the counting of unspinnable cotton in the carry over reports. (7) 1 led the fight which pre vented cotton price fixing during the war with the result that it was defeated. (8) Nitrate of Soda: Under the Smith bill, originated, intro duced, and sponsored by me, the governhment has constructed a huge nitrate plant at Mussel Shoals, Alabama, for telh manu facture of nitrogen from the air. This plant is practically com plete and this fall will turn out one hundred and sixty thousand tons (160,000) of 45% pure nit rates, which being reduced to the percentage of nitrate of soda will amount to 480,000 tons. This outp~ut wvill be sold1 to the farm raat cost at a saving of mail lions of dollars to them. I am also the originator and a~uth or o fthe law by wvhich nii tar te of soda was purchasedl and sold to the farmers at cost (lur ing the war. T1he Congressional Record will amply substantiate this statement in every respect. ThIiis lawv brought prices dlown ftront $110 and $121) per ton to $75.00 per ton. thereby saving the farmers inill ions of do~llars. [f it had not been for this piece of legislation there is no telling wvhere the price would have (0) Immediately uploni the sioning of the armistice I secur edl the li ftinug or the embairgo on potash from Germanty, enabling the farmers to securte this year a pa r tial suipply at a more reason able cost. (10) I am the authort of the a mendlment to section 13: of the Newv Banking andl Currency Act, wvhereby the farmers secutedl six months' time on agricultural paper as against ninety (lays on comnmercial paper. T1his pults the farmer on an equal; footing with other butsinIesses and( enables him to secure thle proper)C crediit for the hold ing and marketitng of his cr01). (11) 1 co-operatedt in the pats sage of the lFarin Loan( Act, ant Act which placedl farm lands for tho first time in the history of this country where it was pos sible for farmters to, use thteiri land as an asset ott easy terims to make them pay for' them selves wvhile suppo)(rtinig his family and helping to support his State. By virtue of my services in thte senate I was ranking imembeltxr of I t' In rstate (C ommerce Comt Cha~irmanhl Colm ilanking Demio lking Demo llanking Demlo A Member of C A Member of Ii S OF SENATO1 TO Voters of' The State < niittee and on the death of Sena tor Newland., I became Chair Man. IL was unlder my leader ship at the request of the Presi Jent that the railroads, telegraph telephone and cable lines were turned over to the government during the war. While serving as Chairman of this Committee I discovered that the lack of growth of the com merce of the Southern ports in comparison with the Eastern and Northern ports was not due to natural causes but to the dis crimination of the railroads in their rates to the various ports and the discrimination of the government in the matter of ap propriations for dry docks and harbor improvements since the Civil War. The country does not realize that the government in the last 50 years has expended for naval stations and harbor improvements north of Hatteras, a distance of roughly 750 miles, nearly $700,000,000, while south of Hatteras, a distance of over 2,000 miles, only $70,000,000. The North Atlantic has 3 dry docks; the South Atlant, and Gulf has one, a small c e, at Charleston. During the past session of Congress two bills were introduced by Republican eSnators which would discon tinue the appropriation for the deepening of the channel at Charleston, and the construction of a tremenlous dry dock at that place. It was by my efforts in the Senate that these bills were not pressed and the work in Charleston is now going on. While I was Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Committee and the railroads were under the control of the government, I in stituted and led the fight with other Southern Senators for an equalization of import, export and domestic rates with other sections of the country. I was successful in this fight. Since the roads have been re turned to private ownership they have sought to re-establish the Old discriminatory rates against Southern ports. I intend to keep on with the fight to prevent this and at the Democratic National Convention I wrote and had in corporated in the platform that plank which pledges the party to stand for equality of rates, both import and export, for the ports of the country, to the end that there might be adequate and fair facilities and rates for the mob ilization of the products of the country offered for shipment. The equalization of freight rates, import, export and domestic, and equal harbor facilities mean more than. anything else in the rejuvenation and expansion of the direct foreign trade of Southern manufactures and Southern products through Southern ports. I have taken a leading part in securing the al location of ships by the Shipping Board to Southern ports and have had consuterable sucess. With the increase in our for !ign trade, the South will be able to take adlvantage of the oppor tunities offered, with its conse quent prosperity. It is not geni erally knwon that most of the larger cities of the Midle West are closer to the port of Charles ton and other Southern ports than to the port of New York. In th is connec :;on, whlmile d is cussing transportation. I might say that wvhile ranking member of the Postoiliee and Post Roads Committee, I collaborated and fought th rough wvithb Senator Bankheadl anid ,- the Good Roads Act whia wropriated $200,000,00)0 for thle overnmlent to co-operate with1 the States in the c(ostruction~ of good roads. l'h e cons truet ion of goodl roads is one of the grea test needs which con fron t the people of th is State as well as the m'untry at large, antd I pledlge miyselfI for the fu ture as in the past, to fight for any proper measuire which will lead to the const ructLion of better roads. One of the very many evils that resulted fa mm the Civil War was our financial condi1tion under the Banking and Currency Act oIf 1863:. Thlmis system was ini ef feet up) to the t ime of the present D~emocra tic Adm)in istra tioin. Panics were frequent andI the victims of these Panics were the weak and u nbe friended. In 19131 was PassedI the Federal Re serve Act, the greaitest const rue tive piece of legislation enacted since t~he Civil War. Th is Act, t ogether with the Farm Loan A ct, was plassed by v'i rtue of a dirmect nersonlal appieaLl of Presi dlenlt Wilson to representatives anid senma tors who were friendly to hiom. With this measure, as well as every oIthe1r mieasure, votedI withI the President. and dlid all in my plower toI secue the ~ervationi National Resoiurcf cratic Menther Agricultuire cratic Memb~er Interstate C cratic Member Patents. cralic Member Manufactur cological Survey. ailrond. SMITH >f South Carolina passage of these Acts. As the result of these measures which enabled the South to capitalize its resources, the bank deposits in the South have increased 900 per cent as against the Eastern and Western sections' increase of about 300%. These measures spelled the financial emancipa tion of the South. - While the Federal Reserve Bank measure was pending, I realized that for the Act to have a direct benefit ror the Agricul tural classes, agricultural paper must be recognized the same as commercial paper and that six months' time should be given that paper as aginst the 90 days given commercial paper. It takes six months for the farmer to produce an asset to meet his liabilities and any shorter time than this period given his paper was a mockery of him. I intro duceed and secured the incorpora tion in the law my amendment to Section 13, whereby agricultural paper is made the basis for the issuance of Federal Reserve notes and is given six months' discount. While Chairman of the Immi gration Committee of the senate gration Committee of the senate I introduced the bill and led the fight which resulted in the pas sage of the Smith-Burnett Immi gration law. This is the law in effect now, It was, by far, more restrictive than even its best friends thought possible to ac complish. I believed then and believe now that the influx of undesirable immigrants to Amer ica was at source of danger to American labor by the competi tion of ignorant foreigners, used to a low standard of living. Fur thermore, I believe that the class now coming in is doing much to undermine the principles and in stitutions of our government. I am always anxious and eager to push and support any bill which wnly lets the desirable immigrant come in and leaves America for Americans. 1ly virtue of my service in the senate I am now at the top of several very important commit tees, among them the Committee on Interstate Commerce and the Committee on Agriculture, and with the coming victory of the Democratic party, if I am re elected, I will be Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture, the commitee which controls all appropriations andi measures pertaining to the agricultural interests of the nation. A study of my record and ac compl ishments will diselo'e that I have been responsible for much economic legislation and that it all tends to giving every section a fair show and prevents the lis erimination of one or two see tions against the rest of the country by cruel and arbitrary laws. It is by virtue of some of these laws which I have had passed, that the South has beeni enabled to partake in so large a measure of the prosperity engen dered by the war. I have served the peotple and my party wvith a zeal and fidelity sincc my election to the senate. By reason of the wisdom of the South in ke'eping its meni in the senate I have comm it tee appoin t nments anrd high rank therein wvhich could not be secutredl other than by a Ion g 'erm of service. These places woul b~e lost to South C'arol in a by a chan ie at this time. 'The time is a pproach iog when the tight is to lbe waged by the Republ icanis andI other react ionarnti's to ret urn to the pre-war andI pre-democ'ratic' ad ministrato r i hn fb inanicial sys tenm and the e iduct of the gov 1rnmen t for the spermi ;: interests. I have expercienctie ini the senate. and I am in a posit ion in this crucial per'iodli it r~ede morie effectivte serv'ice to th e peo'ple' than I have ever rendecredl. I'x perie nce( and train inig arte grea t assets in pol it.ie's as wvell as in beusi ness, and every mni, farmer', bankeir, merchaint , lawyci' and btioring man is paving his money for' sei'ice' ini the senate, and I anm ini a beetteri posit ion to render sat is fact ory seri cc teo my c'onstitue'nts thai~n any' of my op DOnen'its, however ale they may be. In c'onclusiton, I w ih to ('all to the atteintion (Cf the voters of this State t hat cent of our pr'e sent de(legatin tot t'ongress, two sena tor's andl se'ven Re'presenta - lives, I aloen aon a lFA\ l'110k. Ste otheris leinrg protfet'ss ionalI men, andI of t hos getlemenii~~i neow (cppos5~inc m, I daeone am a BONA\ F'IDI; F'AlIMlR, they also be'ingc procfe'ss~inal men. Surely thi' agricuilturacl inte'r'st~s oef thIiis St ate are entit led to one E. 1). SMIT H. S. md1( Forestry. )rnmerCe.