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t*!T"'. -5i' " - ' "2^* ' ' " The Fort Mill Times. ' DEMOCRATIC. Published Thussduy Mornings. B. W. A W. R. Bradford Publishers W. R- Bradford Editor ' B. W. Bradford;. ._t ; l...:..?MAN*GER | On application t? the publisher. advertising rates arc made known to those interested. The Times invites contributions on live subjects, but does not agree to publish more than 200 words on any subject. The right is reserved to edit every communication submitted for publication. Telephone, local and long distance. No. 112. So BscRirriON Rates: One Year J.."'. $1.25 Six Months .66 FORT MILL. S. C.. APRIL 21. 1010. Why Mr. Featheratone? We are not ready to accept without the whys and wherefores the proclamation of the friends of Mr. C. C. Featherstone that he is the "logical" candidate for governor. About the only line of reasoning on which they base the claim is, that he has already been a candidate. Mr. Bryan has thrice been a candidate for the presidency and has been beaten each time?whether by hook or crook is not here under consideration ? just as Mr. Featherstone was beaten by Governor Ellerbe in 1898, but we do not see the point rr?ic??ri in Mr Rrvan'c Kohalf that he is the "logical" candidate for the presidency in 1912. If Mr. Featherstone is the best man in the race for the governorship and it is known beyond question that he would make the most acceptable chief executive to a majority of our people, then he is the man who should be elected. But it is one thing to say that he is the "logical" candidate and another thing to prove that the interests of the people lie in his election. Those who favor the candidacy of Mr. Featherstone should furnish a better reason for soliciting votes for him than the stereotyped expression that he is the "logical" candidate. He is the logical candidate of his own ambition. When that is said the word logical is used correctly with respect to his candidacy. Small Calibre Legislators. One of the crying needs of South Carolina is a Legislature composed of a smaller number of ignoramuses and a greater number of men of sense. There must have been at least 25 men in the last General Assembly who did not know the difference beA. 1. Mi l . i? rv. i vween a dih ana an act. utners often did not know how to vote on matters that came up for i disposition, finding it necessary in many instances to ask a colleague whether aye or no meant the affirmative or negative. Representation by men of such | feeble mental calibre is costing the people dearly. No greater evidence of the fact is to be found than in the fabulous sum which is yearly going to Clemson college from the fertilizer tag tax. At least half of the more than $200,000 which will thus go to Clemson this year should have gone to the public schools. There ' is a reason why Clemson is feasting while the public schools are fasting. It is to be found in the fact that some one or two of the more intelligent members of the Legislature are able to influence the agricultural members by setting up the claim that Clemson is the farmers' college. In many instances there is an ulterior motive behind the interest which the slick-tongued, influential member displays in Clemson's behalf. Not infre quently he has an axe to grind; but whether he has or not, the effect is the same: the people are being taxed to provide money for educational purposes and the money is not being used advantageously. lji& There are too many weaklings in the Legisla1 ture, men who|are not able to think for themselves. This is not hear-say evidence The Times knows what it isjtalking about; but it is feared that the voter will hear it as a hog in a harvest ?in one ear and out the other. r Paraimoay. The cheeseparing-economy attempted recently by the State pension board at the expense of the Confederate .veterans who are inmates of the soldiers' home was unwortny a grateiui people. Some weeks ago the board met and passed a resolution the effect of which was to retain on the pension rolls the veterans who are living at the home. Then, for some inexplicable reason, the members of the board began to wonder wheth er this class of pensioners should not be dropped from the rolls. The matter was submitted to the attorney general for decision?as if he could construe the simple law on the subject with any greater wisdom than the layman of average intelligence. The board belittled its own intelligence. However, that is not the worst phase of the matter. There seemed to be an effort to withhold the pittance which the State pays those old men for the service they rendered the Confederacy. Twenty-five, fifty or a hundred dollars is not much to the man in good health and with a position, but in the case of these worthy old veterans it is a great deal and it was very small business, to say the least, for the pension board to question their right to the yearly allowance. The incident is another evidence of the policy of every department of the State government to spare the spigot and spill at the bung. Mr. Bryan's Home-coming. Mr. Bryan is again at home after an absence of several months spent in South America and Porto Rico in "the study of economic and sociological conditions." No blare of trumpets or marching legions greeted Mr. Bryan when he stepped upon the shores of the United States. It is well that such useless display was not indulged in. That sort of thing is being reserved for the man who needs it-the fourflusher who will return presently from Europe. Mr. Bryan could well afford to advise against the elaborate reception which some of his admirers wished to accord him. No show of ostentation is necessary to impress upon the country the worth and greatness of the man. He has a place in the hearts of his countrymen that cannot be accentuated by ! tinkling symbals or the echoing : roll of drums. There are reasons why Mr. Bryan is loved and admired as no other man. Personally Mr. Bryan is an accomplished and honorable gentleman; as a statesman he ranks any living man and with the single exception of Thomas Jefferson is without a peer in comparison with any of the many great men the country has produced. And he is today as he was 14 years ago, a power in American politics. Mr. Bryan may not be the nominee of the Democracy for the presidency two years hence, but for true and unselfish patriotism he stands head and shoulders above nnv mun Koc. r.. ?? - ? v *? iuo ou iai been suggested for the party's leader. May be the trend of political events will make it advisable to again bestow the honor upon Mr. Bryan of leading the party of the people. If so the honor will not be misplaced. The Statue to General Lee. The Massachusetts camps of the Grand Army of the Republic have been raising a great hullabaloo over the placing of the statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee in Statuary hall in the national capitol. They have set up such a Pickwickian wail that the country might find time to listen to their clap-trap were it not engaged in sensible diversions. The stock in trade of these tinkI ers as announced by their puerile lamentations is sectionalism and e m J 1 - < lauaticisiii. i u*?y ufinaiui mat the State of Virginia remove forthwith the statue of General Lee. But they admit their inability to enforce the demand, since the statue is in Statuaryhall by right and not by sufferance. Virginia was entitled to place in the hall statues to two of her worthy sons. The first one [ was to George Washington it should have been Thomas Jefferson?and the second to Robert E. Lee. The people of the South accept at face value the silly cry of these cranks. Nothing they can say against General Lee detracts froi:? the affection in which his | memory is held by our people. ! With the passing of time we are , the more able to appreciate hi$ J military genius and the grandeur of the man. Nor are we of the ( South alone in acknowledging the greatness of General Lee. In; tne iNorth many who have in the I past made reference to General Lee as a great man an occasior for vulgar explosion against him, now find their malice intercept- ; ed and their hitherto cordial hatred of the man transformed ; into admiration and reverence. ??= What do you know about Easley, reader? Not a great deal, perhaps. Then there is something about the town for you to learn worth knowing. Easley is over in Pickens county. In population, Easley is about the size of Fort Mill. In another respect, however, it is about three times as large as Fort i Mill. Monday, by a vote of 10 to 1, the citizens of Easley decided that their town needs waterworks. They realized that j no one intended to come along ! and present the town with such , a public utility, so they voted j a tax upon themselves to build | the plant. Easley did not need waterworks any more than Fort Mill needs waterworks. Hut the 1 people over there are appreciative of the knowledge that to make their town what it should be re-1 quires the expenditure ofj money- money raised by taxa- j tion. Our people are not yet quite so well educated, but there is hope that the citizens of Fort Mill will learn a few valuable lessons?from observation if in ' no other way. i i uiuiiiAa J ? . Richmond Journal. One hundred and sixty-seven years ago the war governor ( ' of Virginia, the author of the | Declaration of Independence, ; the founder of the University of I Virginia and the greatest statesman America has ever produced, was born in Albemarle county, in Virginia. Thomas Jefferson was one of | tne most remaukable men that | ever livod. No other man has ever exerted such an influence 1 on posterity as Jefferson has exerted for more than a hundred 1 years, and will in all probability i exert for many more years to come. Honored even as he was in his lifetime, though mis-1 understood and maligned by' many, as all men in the public eye always have been and always will be until the coming of ; the millennium, he is even more honored today. He is not! thoroughly understood to this time, because, though he lived and worked a hundred odd years ; ago, some of his ideas are ahead of even this advanced age. No greater tribute has ever; been paid to mortal man?to his i/lnoo t ^ v* /J 1 1UC(M, HICVll ICS clIIU [Jllliusopiiy than to the Sage of Monticello by ensuing generations. There are ' few public men of today who do - not call upon the name of Jeffer- j son and who do not attempt to prove that their position is in ac- < cord with that of the Virginia statesman. JefTersonian De- ' mocracy is the name given to every brand of Democracy and j | Republicanism, using these words 1 in a party sense, ever created. It is not merely the small poli- J j ticians and the time-servers who i invoke his name. If it were so 1 it would still be a tribute to the 11 man, for these seek to use the , power of his name because that 1 name is powerful. They pro- | fess to be his followers because ! he was great; that they do so is merely a sign of his greatness, not the cause. But there are others. All real statesmen study his life, his theories of government and his ideas. Abraham T ui_ - t . /?? Ljiiicuiii, v> mi was iiwe jenerson in his love of the common people, clai ied the great Virginian as the father of all his political principles. Bryan pays a like tribute. ' But it was not alone Jefferson's wisdom and philosophy, ins; theories and ideals of gov . nment, as great and as beautiful and as true as they were, t it I made him a great man. It is i. alone these things that have made his name known in every home in the United States and honored abroad. It is not alone these things that have placed him among the world's greatest statesmen. It was his love for the people 1 vf V f -.'iV T * i o- " SHKS^ Snap Comfort You will find this com! "FELLOWCRAFT" and "RAL assortment of styles in tan, gu Prices, $3.50 and $4.00. Boy s O The "FRANKFORT" i gent's oxfords. Gun-metal $1.25 to $2.00. Ladies, you will take ste] you wear "THE DREW" S] up-to-date style?Patent Leatli tie Pumps and Oxfords, in tan Prices, from $2.00 to $3.50. SPECIAL: Irving-Drew 1 for tender feet?a broad last, s A regular $3.00 Oxford, for $2 See our "Old Ladies' Comi "Lenox Brar For Misses and childre Pumps, with ankle-straps, bri fords in black and tan. We c: price, from 50c to $2.00. Infants' soft-sole Slipperi pink and blue at 50c to $1.00. English Barefoot Sandal Prices, 65c to $1.50. E. W. K1MBREL and his contidence in their ability to govern themselves. He believed not only that the people should govern them-, selves; he believed not only in that God-given right, but he believed in the capacity of the people to govern themselves, and that they can govern themselves better than it can be done by any other authority. And by the j people he meant, not the favored few, but all the people civilized ; and well developed. "They are our dependence for continued freedom," he said. And again, "I am not among those who fear, the people." He loved the people; he be-j lieved in the people; he under- j stood the people. He was aj true Democrat. This constitutes i his greatness. ' -. 'I.. - ? From every side we are hearing complaints about lice ami other insect parasites on stock. The severe winter I makes this condition much worse and almost everyone is more or less in need | of something to kill these pests and put : the stock in condition to thrive and put I on flesh Naturally the demand is for . a material that is safe and easy to use. j In other words, nobody wants to em- ; ploy rank poisons on account of the j ever present danger of a disastrous ac- I indent, and a material that requires a \ ?reat deal of work to prepare, boiling, mixing, settling, etc., is just about as unpopular. It will bo good news to all to Know that there is a product on the j market that fills the bill exactly. Kreso kills lice, ticks, mites, etc., cures scab, mange, ringworm and other skin diseases, yet when used as directed is practically free from caustic, injurious, irritating and poisonous qualities. It was not long ago that sheep were the only animals that were dipped and consequently dipping time meant nothing to people who kept no sheep. Most farmers now realize that hogs need dipping just as much as sheep. There is no surer way to prevent that dread disease, hog cholera, than to keep the animals clean and thriving. A healthy hog is not an easy victim to any disease, j i ne Deat way to Keep hops clean and thriving is by dipping. The same is true of poultry, and a great many make it a practice to dip fowls frequently during the summer. Colts and calves are also much better for an occasional bath. You can get booklets and further information at Ardrey's drug store. NOTICE- We now own a Jersey Bull, entitled to registration. He is six years old and a beauty. We will charge $1.00 in advance for his services. You will find him at I). A. Lee's lot until the 20th of April. L. A. HARRIS & CO. Fort Mill Pressing Club, GUY ROSS, Prop. 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We are confident of the quality of these poods and will replace any defective Keach. made article (except baseballs and bats 1 j costing less than $1) with a new one. Baseball clubs will fir.d it to their interest to correspond with us about unij forms. Call at The Times office for a Reach baseball catalog. , S. 15. McMASTEK, SPORTING GOODS, Columbia, - - 8. C. FOR SALE?Elms property in Fort Mill. Two-story, 7-room dwelling, 1J acre lot, with good barn, orchard and well. For price and terms, write W. L. Plexico, Rock Hill, S. C. List your property with me. ' f* ifl igs to Eat! \ 1 We Carry. | 9 ke Sugar, or a fancy table ^ in a quality absolutely de- ? t that enters this store must * Each article is chosen from luse it has proven superior g etes for preference and none Q 'es if it fails to measure up aality. ft w 9 , , |. Telephone Ulp, Number 15. 0 _e ;N SHIP I ne to make you suddenly rich. / to wealth is to look carefully earn and spend. 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