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' . Candidates i ' , ANDREW J. BETHEA. In my race for Congress in the (Seventh District this summer I am basing my claims to election upop -two gounds. First, I am asking the support of the people upon my record of service, both public and private. | and, second, I am presenting a ylatt form which I believe to be progress.. ive and practiical and of paramount -A importance at this time. ; The people of the District know me. They are familiar with my public ser- j vice. They know that I served four * * . years ag executive secretary in ihe governor's office, four years as Code Commissioner, and four years as lieutenant governor. In the last named office I was elected by the people ar ; * the ballot box and endorsed for reJ I election by a handsome vote?the 1 T"- largest ever given a candidate with opposition ip this State. As for my private record, I feel that I have made V good, a success of my farm, my ^business and profession and am prer pared to make good in Cognress. ' v Having been left fatherless when an infant, I have had to fight my own battles and carve out my own career. By my own efforts I graduated from a high school, a college and a university, and I believe this has developed in me the initiative and resourcefulness as well as the tenacity of purposeneeded in Congress at this time. I know I have the ambition to faithfully Serve and the resolution and deter- j minatiion, if elected, to consecrate all 1 .. my time and talents to the public j weal. . | My platform briefly stated is lis fol- j i lows: | yi :V I stand for thfe strictest economy \ *. - arid the elimination of waste and ex?. travagance in every department of B government, whether local, State or National. I protest against rJie creation by Congress of boards, committees and commissions that squander people's money and spend millions of dolars annually in wasteful effort. One of the great needs of modern gov: ernemnt is to simplify the method of administration ancTto substitute busi^ nem -efficiency for extravagance and * ^ red tape\ I believe enormous saviaga can be effected by applying businese principles to the science of govand that it: nur imnm duty, to give 100, pet cent of .good | jg^cgovernment for every dollar expended | f^vor the immediate acceptance Henfy Ford offer for Muecle ifBjn^nh! which means the employment l^jPrf Idle workers, cheaper fertilizers, !i^,t^^tieap'er farm machinery, cheaper P^p*nater power and the investment and c/^^i^rcul&tion of millions of dollars in Pcfp&Qie South. If I were in Congress, I .^wouid be found fighting for this great! project as well as using my vote and ! influence to this end. j I I advocate the* establishment of ex-; b ^perimental farms in every part of ... the Seventh District to give the farmere the benefit of expert knowledge in the best methods to control the boll weevil and to teach them how to \ increase the yield of cotton under boll 71 "f weevil conditions. I regard it as highly essential that the Federal government cooperate with the cotton grpwing states in an effort to provide calcium arsenate and other poisons to the cotton growers at a minimum cost. I favor a law to absolutely prohibit immigration for a term of years and untfil the thirteen millions of aliens in this .country are naturalized, educated and Americaanized. I look upon the constant influx of millions who bring with them vice, crime, disease, llliter- ? acy and pauperism as a national peril. I favor the continuance of the' War Finance Corporation as a means of extending credit and aid to the farmer and Southern banker and merchant in tno npoaflnt I am opposed to a protective tariff and all Republican measures resulting in deflation and hard times. ? :. I am in favor of white supremacy ' and opposed to federal interference *?~with the race question lin the South. Believing that good roads are essential to the highest development of a -.modern State, I favor Federal /Kd in : the construction and maintenance of the highways of the oountry. I farcxr a law further restricting the ess of money in elections and to orerent the corruption of the ballot by corrupt politicians, believing that a < free ballot is iadfeppeaeiblp to a free ..government. I am in favor of State's rights and the rights of the individual citizen i, . . . , , . opposed to further encroachment and usurpation by the Federal government. I am opposed to paternalism and centralization of power. t Jt favor libeial support of disabled veterans of the World War to enable ' th^m to again become useful and r ' ' Bbt r ' a: for Congress i happy citizens. " ; I believe in and propocse a mili-; tant democracy as the best means to restore the principles and ideals of; Jefferson, Jackson and Wilson, and to give hone and promise and prosperity to the future. j Thes^ and other issues I have tried ' I to make clear to the people during the campaign. I believe I have se: forth a platform which a representa tive in Congress from this distiict can put into effect and render signal ser- i vice to his constituents if he has the courage, the energy, the enthusiasm, and the ability to do it, and if I am ! I elected, I pledge myself to use my; voice, my vote and every power at my"! command to accomplish this end. It is necessary only for me to add that: I have endeavored to conduct a cam- ] paign in keeping with the highest1 ideals and traditions of the State, j and that I have faith to believe that the people will endorse my platform and prinaipies at the ballot box. ANDREW J. BETHEA. H. P..FULMER. To the voters of Lexington County: I thank you heartily for the large vote given me two years ago. I am now asking for re-election upon the | record I have made during the fifteer months I haVe been in Congress. I promised you two years ago that, if elected, I would always be found i 'on the job", standing up and argu- j ing lor my people. Hundred^ of con-; stituents all over the county tell ^me | that I have literally carried out my I promises, and, judging by what you j people tell me, I feel (that I can say. with all modesty, th^t, certainly for \ a new man, I have made a. satisfactory | representative. The work of Congress involves a b'g i business proposition. In the House ol' Representatives there are 435 picked ! men representing every section of the , United States. It takes time to get oil important committees of that large body, to make friends and do big things, but I find that I have fared as well.as any new member. I am against spending 93 cents out of every dollar for the, things that are destructive, as .Congress has been doing. I seek to. have the National Government spend -more money to develop the resources of the country a ad to educate the boys and girls who are to be the men and women of the future. I am against the "over-night" deflation policy of the Federal Reserve Board* and 1 am fighting to preserve the efficiency and purity of this sys- j tem. . 1 The War Finance Corporation proved its great worth. I w2ts glad indeed to assist in extending its op- j era^ions and it is now functioning foi : I your benefit. The advances to coop-1 erative marketing assocaitions, tenta- ; tively or finally approved to Augus I 10, for the purpose of assisting in i financing the orderly marketing of i \ 1 agricultural products during the com- J ing season, total $104,00o,000. I am responsible for the passage of an amendment relieving your State. | county and community agricultural fairs from taxation on exhibits, entertainments and other pay features. * I st^ceeded in having cancelled a tariff issued by the railroads*, which was approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission, which forbade . the snipping of hogs in double-decked , cars from North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. This will save for the producers of hogS in 'these parts thousands of dollars. I am responsible for the calling, by the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, of a conference of the Federa" Reserve banks of the South in Ju:y. 1921, and at my request they issued statement declaring that they would furnish the money to market the crop of 1921, in addition to credits already, ,extended. From what I know of the most c.cute situation at that time, this one statement of the Federal Reserve banks mari** snlcdv 11nnn mir v,-,-;trr. ? ^~ n i iut.1 request, saved hundreds of banks and thousands of farmers from going into bankruptcy in the fall of 1921. I am in favor making a contract with Henry Ford to operate Muscle I Shoals. In an article in the June 24, 1*922, 1 issue if Mr. Ford's magazine, on the ways and doings of Congress, appears this statement, showing that I have Blade some impression on Mr. Ford: "Representative Hampton P. Fulmer of Sputh Carolina, a new.ptem' ber, surr-med up the situation admirably in his initial speech, April 28. 1921, when he said: 'Mr. Speaker and gentlemen. I have been uyn.g very hard s nee being sworn in to keep out of debases and speech-making. In fact, to uo .ii.it i:* .n ?..? y with the doctrine that . rules my course. During the campaign last summer I told my people down in j _ South Carolina?that little but nonpareil State of the Union?that, next to the appropraitions for the Army and Navy, the largest drain on the pockets of the taxpayers of the United i States was because of the lost motion | of Congress?speech-making, the! 'shooting of hot air', the playing of! politics, the Nero-like fiddling while Rome burns. And, gentlemen, . I j have found it so since coming to Washington.' " Legitimate business is Handicapped o ... by red tape and complications in con-; nection with the laws. Farmers are; being robbed by middle-men, specu-j lators and trusts?especially so in the j grading of your cotton and in the excessive freight rates. I have great h'opes of eliminating this undergrad- j ing of cotton, as I have introduced a j bill to establish and jnake effective j from seller to ultimate buyer '.'United States Standard Cotton Grades", and 11 believe this will become a law and that millions of dollars will thereby J be saved to cotton growers each season. I am the only business man and farmer repreesnting the State of South Carolina in the Ho^*se of Representatives in Washington, the other six being lawyers. And there are now opposing me two more lawyers,: 1 the election of either one of whom; I would deprive the business and agri- j cultural interests of representation in Congress from this State of your type of martf j The time has been when you need- I ed men like Calhoun and McDuffie. i but Congress today is nothing but a , big business concern which spends millions of money secured from tax- ' ing the people. The trouble about it, is that these millions are being spent j along wasteful and destructive lines. Therefore, you need successful busi- i ness men, practical men with good ^ common sense, to stop the plunder-1 bund. I You need ^neii in Congress, in fact, j in all legislative bodies, from every< vocation in life. Not only should our interests be represented, but the interests of the laboring men should be represented. Having worked my way through life,- I am in sympathy with the man who has to earn his living by the sweat of his brow. 1 ? 1 have in every instance stood for the interests of the ex-service man. | and I shaP always stand up for- his rights. Not a day passes but what I j am working to secure treatment or! compensation for some of our dis- j abled boys, and, I am rather proud of my success in tfiis respect. Space prevents my discussing other important and vital issues. 1 do not believe you will make a /mistake in voting, on the 29th of August, to send me back to Washington to continue a work that is already, well started. I ! .1 . T 1 .1-- 1 *? - ier*u Liiat. x nuve uie nonesiy, me syrnl>athy, the experience and the ability | to serve you still better in Congress ! I thank you for the confidence you registered in me two years ago and for the many sigvs that that same confidence still exists. ? ' HAMPTON P. FULMER. BY JOHN J. McMAHAN, v I CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS. ! . I Part of McMahan's Platforiu. i I favor reforming our currency, and banking laws, to stop the present control of the money supply by the Money Power. Money is a mere tool of .trade, provided by the Government, to facilitate the exchange of commodities and prevent the congestion of products on the hands of the producers. The Government has been deputizing the Money Power to perform this duty for it, and thus it has put the producers in slavery to the speculators. The latter, with the a.d ox the government, control the momy supply and consequently the price.-, oi products to suit their purposes as buyers and speculators. it is like turning over the care of the sheep to ravenous wolves. Money is the life blood of trade. To stop its flow is to cause stagnation in the midst of plenty, and in eti'ect to bring on death where, otherwise. ; there is perfect health. All panics are largely artificially produced ami enrich the classes while imjx>veri.shinjr ! the masses. Whoever control* the Money holds all the aces and irttiQpj ui ihe game, where the sta*.e ? the ! possession of the goods of the earth. I favor government guarantee of cost of production and reasonable pi ?fit as the minimum price each : year for the necessary staple products j of our land. The Government now conducts a scientific investigation and calculation of the world's prospective needs of different commodities. Th.s : is done annually at great expense ai.u withov.. resulting in any general u .. ( producers. The desired I production of each staple crop or commodity should be determined and | called for, being apportioned by States and counties and producers, and a guarantee should be given of a fixed minimum price, including estimated cost of production and reasonable profit. This would remove farming from the blight of gambling?gambling against loaded dice and stacked cards, as now. It would put an end to the present absurd practice of government expenditures to aid farmers in producing larger yields, only to be sold for less money, thus penalizing successful endeavor. It would make democracy a reality ?not a glittering name with hypocritical pretense. All other reforms are mere humbugs. It would settle all problems of education, citizenship and social wellbeing, because it would assure to the workers a measure of just compensation for their labor, establishing industrial freedom, economic independence, the basis for an honest livelihood, personal character and an independent manhood. JOHN J. McMAHAN. NEWS FROM ROUTE 5. Messrs. Julian and Austin McCartha and Shatter Steele motored to A a f a onnn/1 o /lo\ro /voxit v iiiv iv oji/cxiu a ic*y uaj o Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Smith and family and Mr. Clyde Hendrix spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Smith and family. Mrs. Julian McCartha and little son, Adair and Miss Boda Price visited Mrs. George Taylor Sunday. Miss Carrie Pearle Hendrix spent Sunday with .Misses Genevieve and Duvall Smith. Mr. H.E. Smith and family have moved in the late George Long home which Mr. Smith purchased some time ago and Mr. Noah Leaphart now occupies Mr. Smith's former residence. % Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Lindler and daughter, Louise, spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. Lindler's father, who is very ill. Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Rawl and Mr. Clifford Rawl spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. A. L. Smith and family. Everybody come to the minstrel Saturday night at Round Hill school house. It is extra fine and the best ever had. There will be enough fun : to please the teye and ear, the ladies wil lalso serve plenty of good things | to eat and drink. It wiil make you think hard times have gone to Germany. Come and help a good cause. Sunday, August 2th, there will be at Pisgah a public meeting of the Luther League fololwed by an address by Mr, Byron Keisl"4:*. The public is invited to attend. ^ EDMl'XD NEWS. Mrs. Mollie A. Sox of Asheville, N. C., returned to Lexngton Saturday after spending ten days here with her sister, Mrs. S. C. Reeder. Mr. and Mrs. Keith Tanner 01 Spartanburg came down recently for ! ! LOW HOI1 NO TRIP EX( ?From? (| COLUMBIA, i / j *it4.1i> ATLANTIC August I. 9, IS, 23. 29 ( J $34.00 NIAGARA F f August it, 10, 16, 24, 30, S 1 27, October 5, V/" Limit 18 T I For particulars conn f R. S. Brown. District I ( 741 Broad St., Ai \S* Soutlio r n R a 1 ' w I FOOT Tl M- L 1 g Graduate >> Permanen SS WALTER | 1420 $> Colun \ a couple of day's visit to Mr. W. G. Tanner and family, i Mrs. A. G. Smith and Alfred Jr. will leave in a few days for a three weeks visit to homefolks in Illinois. Mr. Smith will remain here to look after the gathering, packing and ! marketing of tomatoes and Honey i Dew cantaloupes, etc. There are something like twelve acres planted to tomatoes, and to us home gardenei> who have never seen any "sho nuf" tomato planting, it is quite an "eye IU1 iinu Lim accuia cituimvua. Mr. Smith is having the tomatoes that get too ripe to stand shipment, also those cracked by the exceedingly rainy weather packed in three pound sanitary cans, to be marketed in this wise. The canning is done j under the supervision of Miss Louise Griffith, a Canning Club girl. Floyd Hutto of Pelion spent the week-end her.e with his brother, Mr.! C. . Hutto. Misses Dreher of Columbia and Berry of Pelion have returned to i their homes after spending the past week with Miss Berry's uncle and aunt Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Hutto. i Wilmot a small son of Mr. and | I i Mrs. W. M. Spires has just recovered ! from the painful injury of being, bit- ' ten by a snake several days ago. His : suffering was intense for a few days and necessitated the services of a i physician. j Mr. ard Mrs. E. G. Sharpe spent Sunday with relatives at Eureka. j | Mr. W. T. Shr.rpe and family from ' down near Sunny South spent Sunday night with his brother, Mr. James I ! WEAK, NERVOUS, ! ALL RUN-DOWN Missouri Lady Suffered Until She ' Tried Card::5.?Says "Result j Was Sttrpi <ing.w?Got Along j> Fine, Became Normal and Healthy. j Springfield Mo.?-My back was sc . weak 1 could hardly stand up, and I would have bearing-down pains and was not. well at any time," says Mrs. D. V. Williams, wife of a well-known fanner on Route 6, this place. M1, kept getting headaches and having to go to bed - continues Mrs. Williams describing the troubles from which i she obtained relief through the use o!; 1 Cardui. "My husband*, having heard i > of Cardui, proposed getting it for me. | "1 saw after taking soma Cardui; ... that I was improving. The result was surprising. I felt like a different person. -Later I suffered from weakness I and weak back, and felt all run-down. I did not rest well at night, I was so 1 nervous and cross. My husband said he would get me some Cardui, which he did. It strengthened me My doctor said I got along fine* I was in good healthy condition. I cannot say too much for It- . ' Thousands of women have suffered as Mrs. Williams describes, tjntil they j found relief from the use of Cardui. 81nce It has helped bo many, you; should not hesitate to try Cardul ir troubled with womanly ailments. For sale everywhere, SLSJ j "V IIS ION FARES j \ C ITY, X. J. | I j September 6.12 ? ' Jr ALT S. X. Y. I -2^leptembcr 7, 13 2 11,19 ! { ajrs ' J\ nunicate with J *os??nger Agent, J isusta. Ca. ay System ROUBLES ? | WEEMS Practipedist << tly Connected << With | SSHOE SHOP | Main St., ib'si) S. C. \v Sharpe, near here. A number of young folks chaperoned by Mesdames S. C. Reeder and Mollie Sox met at Reeder's pond last Wednesday evening and enjoyed a chicken-fry. Those attending were: Misses Letitia Mae Jefcoat of Swansea, Kathleen Sox, Ollie and Effie Tanner, Louise, Caroline and Georgie Griffith; Henry, Clarence and John Bell Sox, Horace Tanner, Elijah and Carl Jefcoat of Swansea, Melton Monts and T. W. Reeder. The latter two acting as cook'and assistant cook, respectively, and from the way they did that chicken to a' turn, we judge they have been preparing for the new era when women will make the living and men do the cooking. Mr. and Mrs. Julian Shai^e spent Sunday afternoon with the latter's brother, Prof. S. P. Schneider in Co* lumbia. Mrs. Jesse D. Shumpert spent Sunday with her sister, Mrs. Sol. D.' Shumpert. Mrs. John A. Griffith was shopping in Columbia Monday. NEWS FROM ST. MATTHEWS. t Mr. and Mrs. Oren Lindler and little daughter visited at Mrs. Ltindler's sister's, Mr. and Mrs. Freddie Anderson, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. S. S. McCartha and sons spent a while Sunday afternoon at Mr. E. W. Keisler's. Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Steele and children spent Sunday at Mr. Steele's sister's, Mr. and Mrs. J. A.^Crout's. Mr. Ester Crout spent a while Sunday with Mr. Silas Kesler. Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Steele and two of their son and brother, Mr. D. A. Steele, who resides at Augusta, Sunday. Mr.-J. M. Keisler and family worshipped at Pisgah Sunday morning. Messrs. Silas and Callie Keisler were among the visitors at Gilert Saturday evening. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. McCartha and Miss Estelle Roof spent a while Saturday night at Mr. and Mrs. C. P. McCartha's. An Apt Misquotation The minister was attempting to f ; carve a very tough fowl at the Christ mas dinner, as. ne was trying to separate one of the joints it slid out of the dish to the other side of the table. He calmly picked it up and gravely said: "What God hath joined together let no man put asunder." FINAL DISCHARGE. . Notice is herebyv given that the un-. * dersigned will apply to Walter F. Hook, judge of probate for Lexington county, for final discharge as administratrix of the estate of Saremba Hendrix, deceased^ on Friday, August 3 8, at 11 a. m. ^ .MRS. JESSJS HENDRIX. July 18-22. Administratrix. / 666 quickly relieves Colds, Constipation, Biliousness and Headaches. A Fine Tonic. KEEP YOUNG. People with bad backs and weak kidneys are apt to feel old at sixty. Many old folks say Doan's Kidney Pills help them keep young. Here's a Lexington case: Mvc P S Pj?iir>h W Main St.. says: "I was complaining with my back and kidneys and the trouble came on from heavy work and a cold. [ Mornings I felt dreadfully tired and l r j my back was sore and stiff. Sharp j pains caught me across my kidneys. I My head felt light and I became so J dizzy I wasn't even able to get out of bed. I was run down and my housework became burdensome. My kidneys did not act as they should and when I read about Doan's Kidney Pills I bought some at the Harmon ; Drug Store. Doan's rid me of the I trouble and I haven't had a spell with * my kidneys in some time now." j 60c, at all dealers. Foster-Milburn : Co., Mfrs., Buffalo, N. Y. j / j Two-horse wagons standard nake i i fro in $75 to $$-5. I And Good i Buggies standard make from $50.00 up. ?ets harness $15.00 up. The Place to get Bargains. GREGORY CONDER MTLE CO.. ! 1100 Hampton St , Columbia, S. C. /