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V PAGE FOUR THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON. S. C. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER U, 1924 ofy? dUjromrle PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO. WILSON W. HARRIS Editor and Publisher Entered at the Clinton Post OSice ns matter of Second ( lass. Terms of Subscription: One year $1.50 Six months 75 Three months 50 Payable in advance Foit-iim AHvsrtuinK R'v*’tentative i THF. AMP-RICAN PRESS AS-SCXTIATION ] The Chronicle seeks the cooperation ®f it’s subscribers and readers—the publisher will at all times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly advice. Make all remittances to the further general belief, whether true or untrue, that a conspiracy to defeat Dial existed between Byrnes and McMahan, augmented by a stren uous fight waged in Byrnes’ behalf by organized labor forces out of Washington, these enthusiasts going so far as to broadcast the state with literature urging Byrnes’ election and making every possible turn to defeat Dial. All of this helped Bkase as we contended it would from the start, and as everyone can now s?e. There were further obsiaeles tha* Mr. Byrnes had to overcome, and campaign methods that many resent ed. His having been roared early in life a Catholic, was against him and necessitated the continual flooding of the newspapers with facts and en dorsements establishing the truth that he is now a member of a Pro testant church. As eleventh hour at tacks upon him, capital was made of his early church affiliations which contributed in a large measure to his defeat. The campaign methods of Mr. Byrnes, commonly termed by many as “coat-tail swinging” was also against * En Passant | ♦ ♦ W. W. H. ♦ REFLECTIONS ON TUESDAY'S RESULTS * Well, its all over, thank goodness. It’s now Evangelist-Senator Blease. Elections are hard on everybody— especially the poor newspaper devils. From the mountains to the sea shore, Blease’s name is now on every tongue. YOU NEED NOT FAIL i> coai-tail swinging was aiso against THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO^ j n man y sections he was criti- Clinton, S. C. CLINTON. S. C. f SEPT. 11, 1924 to 8 PAGES THE ELECTION RETURNS Again, The Chronicle, wants thank all who assisted us in giving the public the election returns Tues day night. By this co-operation and the office’s arrangements fo.r hand ling the returns, we were enabled to furnish the-best service we have ever yet offered on election night. By seven o’clock, with the exception of one box, the county results had all been posted and by eight o’clock the missing box had completed the coun ty vote and the nominees declared. Bulletins on the senatorial race, an nounced at intervals, also enabled us to inform the large crowd present and to let it be known early in the evening what the final outcome would be. To the managers and those who as sisted us in the office in the tabula tions, we express our appreciation. The Chronicle strives to be a newsy paper and to render service in the community. cized for placing too much emphasis on secret order affiliations, too strong an effort to “play” to the Tillman followers, ending in the conflicting telegrams that appeared between be and the former senator’s widow. Then, too, he probably had too large and expensive an organization in the state, upon which the people flways look with suspicion. Whether it was true or not, there was a story going the rounds that a political frame-up made in Columbia called for Byrnes as the champion to defeat Dial this year. A. F. Lever, Byrnes’ campaign manager, would be pitched for gov ernor two years hence, and the report whether true or untrue we are un able to verify, further stated that Congressman McSwain from this dis trict had been “called” to contend two years from now for the other seat in the United States senate. All of these reports had their effect which hurt Byrnes and played to Blease’s hand. It was unfortunate that Byrnes ever entered the race. Had he stay ed in congress he could have con tinued to render valuable service and Dial, in like manner, would have been in a position to render valuable and intelligent service in the Senate, even in a larger measure than heretofore With a clear-cut issue between Dial and Blease," the people would have 1HE SENATORIAL RESULT rallied tt> Dial, and in our opinion, he The Chronicle was not surprised at could have won over Blease by a the outcome of Tuesday’s election. | large majority as he did six years There was a general belief over the ago. But with the anti-Blease peo state that Blease would win, though pie divided as between Dial and it was expected to be a close and ex-! Byrnes, Blease profited, and again citing race. He has successfully : perches himself in the firmament fol- come back, following heretofore un-1 lowing Tuesday’s spectacular come- tried tactics in his campaign, and back once more he has assailed the heights Blease, like Ben Tillman before his of glory in the political world, much death, had thousands of people vot- to the delight and gratification of ling for him for the-Tirst time in his thousands of friends and support ers in South Carolina. A discussion of Blease in these columns would accomplish no good, and our position is to well known. We have never supported him in any race for any office, because in our 1 opinion, he is far from the type of man that should be placed in public office, this conviction on our part being arrived at through his past records in office. Therefore, a dis cussion of his record is out of order and will not be divulged in by us. Suffice to say. that now he is elect ed, let us hope that he will use his intelligence and do nothing to bring shame and disgrace upon the state in that great government body to which he has been chosen. There are several elements that entered into the election of Ble&se, one of the most noteworthy being the new tactics he adopted in making his race. He made a clean, clear-cut campaign, avoiding all personalities, repeatedly stating that to prove the unfitness of the other candidates in the field would not establish his fit ness for the place. Though McMa han occasionally made snears and criticisms of the former governor, he treated the campaign’s clown in ut ter contempt. TTiis policy worked to his benefit, and he played the game skillfully and well as the big vote now shows. His record was not dis cussed by his opponents and the pub lic, and this was in all probability a mistake. But Byrnes and McMahan, and their political managers, were so bent on the defeat of Dial that they overlooked Blease and he went right along with his new methods of cam paigning and profiled by the tactics of his opponents. Congressman Byrnes had a record of fourteen years service in the low er house, that on first impulse, one would naturally expect to make him a winner in the senate race. But there were several factors that en tered into his defeat and resulted in the turning of thousands of anti- Blease votes to Blease. JFirst and most noteworthy, was the fact that he let his ambition run away with him and left his own job to try to take Senator Dial’s after he had only held the place for one term and measured from every angle, had made a suc cessful and conscientious senator, in the opinion of thousands of people, one of the most useful that the Pal metto state has had in Washington since the days of Calhoun. Mr. ■Byrnes in running for congress in his district, had repeatedly stood for re-election and never advanced the argument of rotation in his office. In this position he was inconsistent, and the friends of Senator Dial,. those who supported him for his real worth, repentod the move on Mr. Byrnes’ part and the tactics he adopted in the first part of the campaign against the junior sengtor,' thM there vas THiesday’s election. Byrnes, unfor tunately, contributed in a very large measure to the ’former governor’s ascention back into power. A divid ed. anti-Blease people can never win in South Carolina. OUR NATIONWIDE PRESIDENT IAL POLL Much public interest will center in the test vote now being taken throughout the country by approxi mately 1,700 weekly newspapers, in cluding The Chronicle, with a view to giving to their readers the politi cal thought now prevalent in the country districts. Politicians in the great cities will watch this result closely, for they have come to know that elections are decided not by the cave dwellers of tht metropolis but in the homes and farms on the countryside where the great majority of the American peo- nle live and have their being, reflect ing American thought, unmoved by sinister influences, and uninflunced by dramatic and spurious patriotic appeal. This test vote will be published by all kinds and conditions of news papers. Readers of these 1,700 news papers will cast the ballots and the taunt will be read by Republicans, Democrats and Progressives alike. Unless all precedent is meaningless, the results are likely to cause con sidcrable astonishment in several sec tions of the country where the three candidates for the presidency are sup posed to have a one hundred per cent strangle hold on public favor. Not in years, if ever, has there been a political situation afr compli cated as that which exists this year. The most astute of political students are perplexed to a point where even the strong partisans amongst them freely admit they do not know what will happen in November. Partisan newspapers naturally publish news agreeable to their cause, and there is a sufficient amount of this kind of news which is quite truthful to satis fy the needs of ary newspaper, whether it favor Coolidge, Davis or LaFollette. The secret test ballot of the millions living in the small towns, however, is likely to give much more of an indication of the way the wind is blowing. Laurens county has a new sheriff in the person of Columbus L. Owens. Mr. Owens is well qualified to fill the office, having had a number of years experience in rural police work. We hope he will take a definite, uncom promising stand for law enforcement in the county. Clerk of Court C. A. Power goes back into office for another term. His flattering vote is an evidence of *:he people’s approval of his. record and efficiency in office. His oppon ent, John F. Bolt, is a good fellow and made a creditable showing, but he couldn’t get the Power to make the grade. . ' Blease did some fine preaching dur- ng the campaign. Continuing such ■actics when he gets to Washington, he may be able^to lead some of the senators to the repentence altar. Byrnes finds himself in the same position as Ira Jones did several years' ago—a statesman without a job. His ambition ran away with him, the two fold effect being the loss of his seat in Congress and the election of Blease. Blease received the largest majority in the Clinton city box in his politi cal career. Normally, his vote is ibouL 85 in this precinct—Tuesday it reached the high mark of 220. It wasn’t that the people loved Blease, but they were, mad at Byrnes for op posing Dial. I have told you so often about boys with “no chance” who conquered diffi culties and hardships and thereafter rose to fame and fortune that it is only fair now to tell you about a woman who won success. She is Mrs. Josephine Duble Miller of New Or leans. In 1908, when Mrs. Miller was twenty-one, her young husband died. Death had followed a long illness and i in its wake came extreme poverty, I large unpaid debts, the problem of what she, sickly and weak and in-1 experienced, was to do, and a future ; almost devoid of prospects. Mr. Mil- i ler had been a locksmith. ; During the same year of her hus band’s death, Mrs. Miller determined to become one of the most talked of locksmiths in the world and to that end she went to work as a locksmith’s apprentice. Marine locks were her specialty. To get business she canvassed the docks and personally interviewed the masters of ships whose vessels dock ed at the port of New Orleans. Re sults of a paying nature were slow and poverty was kedn, but she stuck to her chosen work and during the spring of the following year she en tered a bid against a number of com petitors to completely overhaul and rebuild the locks of a steamship which had put in for repairs. She was given the contract. From that day her fame began to mount. It became the custo mof ship owners to send for Mrs. Miller and place large orders with her., Before two years had pass ed she was employing a Expert Meat Cutter It is with pleasure that we announce that Mr. J. H. Cato, an expert meat cutter of several years experience, is now connect ed with us in our Meat Market Mr. Cato was formerly with Camper’s Grocery & Meat Market* in Atlanta, and is skilled in his profession. It will be a pleasure for him to serve you with all kinds of cuts of Choice Meats. LITTLE 8 DENSON An analysis of the Dial yote ih the first primary in this county shows that Byrnes received 52 per cent and Blease 48 per cent in Tuesday’s elect ion. Blease, like Ben Tillman in his day, had people voting for him Tues day for the first time in their lives. The wonders of politics. The Laurens city box showed its displeasure with Byrnes by piling up 447 votes for Blease while Byrnes got 543. The people over there are “sore” on Byrnes and they showed it with a battle of ballots Tuesday, not that they wanted Blease, but they were determined to register their pro test against the gentleman from Aiken. Blease still has his followers in the county, particularly among the mill population. His boast of several years ago that he carries their vote in in his vest pocket is literaHy true when you reflect upon such figures is these: At Clinton Mill, Blease 313, Byrnes 44; Laurens Mill, Blease 290, Byrnes 16; Watts Mill, Blease 378, Byrnes 67; Lydia Mill, Blease 92, Byrnes 10; Goldville, Blease 118, Byrnes 49.—— Out of 36 precincts in the county, Blease carried 22. Hopewell and Gray Court fell in the Blease column. These are the two surprises of the whole race. LAURENS COUNTY FEDERAL COURT JURORS DRAWN The following Laurens county citi zens have been drawn to perve as jurors at the session of the Federal Court which opened at Rock Hill yes terday: W. T. Owings, Gray Court; C. W. Owens, Owings; Frank P. Drummond, Lapford; E. W. Copeland, Laurens; J. F. Bryson, MountviUe, and C. L. Waldrop, Laurens. Everybody should feel relieved that it’s all over.' For two years now we can live in peace and give our respect ive businesses some attention at least. Let’s forget it all and begin to get ready for a good Fall. The business outlook is bright and everybody should work and push and be happy. Let’s begin now to plan our Christ mas Shopping Early, and, to spend our money at home. *• AN ORDINANCE TO PROVIDE FOR THE OPENING OR EXTEN SION OF STREETS NOW BLOCK ED BY HOUSES AND OTHER CONSTRUCTION. State of South Carolina, County of Laurens, Town of ClinUm. BE IT ORDAINED by the Town Council of the Town of Clinton in council assembled: i THAT in any cases where it may be regarded as advisable by the may or to extend streets now blocked by fences, houses or other 'obstruction, the mayor is authorized, in case land owners give free right of way for such street extensions, to build such streets as rapidly as funds are ob tainable, and to remove such fences, houses, or other obstruction to such location as may be agreed upon with the property owners, absorbing the expense of such removals as a part of the expense of opening said streets. Done and ratified by the Town Council of Clintpn, and their seal (L. S.) affixed this the 5th day of September, 1924. J. F. JACOBS (Seal) Mayor. Attest: DORCAS MASON (Seal) It Clerk A Treas. ATTENTION, SCHOOL TEACHERS Lei me have your subscriptions to may School Magazines that yon SO?--! Clinton, S. C. GREAT NEEDS TWICE-TOLD TESTIMONY Clinton People Are Doing All They 4 Can for Fellow Sufferers. Clinton testimony has been pul£ The Good Samaritans are having to v,j*uiun testimony nas oeen puo- deal with a good many cases of dis-1 lished to prove the merit of Doan’s tress. Having a number of cases of Pills to others in Clinton who suffer from bad backs and kidney ills. Lest any sufferer doubt this evidence of merit, we produce confirmed proof —statements from Clinton people who again endorse Doan’s Pills—confirm their former testimony. Here’s a Clinton case: >g a pellagra treated in the mill commun ity, besides having to furnish food and clothing to several families in distress. New cases coming up con- number of, tinually. If anybody has any extra helpers, had moved into a pretentious money they would like to contribute shop and her net profits were hover- for assistance in this work send it to ing about $7,000 a year. About four Mrs. W. B. Farr, treasurer, years ago two large buildings, hous-1 Several families can not start their ing the Canal-Commercial and the children to school because they have Whitney-Central banks were erected.' no decent clothing for them. If any Contract bids for locks for all doors one has children’s clothing, any age, were let. Mrs. Miller won both bids, i for boys or girls, that can he used by P?j ns * n of my head. My such children, take them to Mrs. J. ^, 1 “ ne L y s 1 act right at all. I F. Jacobs, Sr., or phone her and she will call for them. D. J. BRIMM, President. Today Mrs. Miller’s business is a large one and she is called a special ist. Mrs. Joe Chandler, 61 Florida St., says: “The first symptom I had of kidney trouble was backache. When I swept, sharp pains shot down from the small of my back and fairly drove me wild. I was nervous and had FIRST BALE OF COTTON SOLD ON LOCAL MARKET TO ALL PHYSICIANS In all cases of lunacy, please ob serve this rule: First, send one of The first bale of cotton bought this season in Clinton was brought in by W. W. Cole, being purchased by the family, or friend, to this office. We Clinton Cotton Mills at 24 cents a' are using new form of application, pound. The cotton was raised by Mr. | P ; oceedings mU st begin at this of- Cole on what is known as the Lee ‘ c* • * w * i Hunter place, and owned by Cope-1 flce ’ Stnct observance of the rulfl land-Stone Co. The bale weighed 539 wil1 8 * ve a11 parties. delay and trou- pounds and was graded middling. - Me. O. G. THOMPSON. also had dizzy spells and would near ly fall. I heard about Doan’s Pills and got a box. 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