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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.
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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..
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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