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/ THE CHRONICLE ; / Strites To Be a Clean News* ^ paper, Coaiplete, Newsy, and Reliable. , *. * . .1. i' -i' / C If Too Don't R«n4 THE CHRONICLI Ton Don't Got Tho Noii^ ' VOLUME XXXVI CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY', AUGUST 27, 1936 NUMBER 35 Mahon, Bryson Run Over for Congressf Landslide for Byrnes CROMER WlNSMflRST BALLOT; BENNEn AW LEE RE-ELECTED RUN-OVER RACES FOR HOUSE, SHERIFF, COMMISSIONER Laurens Man Named State Senator Over Three Opponent^. Ben nett Re-eledted Clerk of Court and Lee As Game Warden. | Wasson, Witherspoon, Huff, Milahi, Davis and Hunt Six High- ' est In House Run-Over. W'ier Leads for Sheriff. Wharton Is First In Commissioners* Race. UxioffTciin’ ref urns j^ffcere’J Tu^di'y nlllff by Th<' Chftthi'de ‘'Yevealod nevenT exciting races. The races for state senate, clerk of court, and game -warden were decided on the first ballot, while the contests for the house of representatives, sheriff, and county commissioner will be settled in a sec ond primary two weeks hence on Tuesday, September 14th. — The Senate Race In the four-cornered race for staffe senate. Dr." Charles A Cromer, on the face of unofficial returns, was elected over his three opponents by" a majority of 68 votes. The vote stood: Cromer 4,328, Nance 3,281, Bram- lett 738, Gedeist 172. Honee of Repreaentativea In jthe race for the house with twelve candidates in the field, no one' receiv<^ a majority. The six receiving the highest vote who will enter the second race are: Wasson 3,461, Witherspoon 3,28Q, Huff 3,099, Milam 2,672, Davis 2,594, Hunt 2,021. _ " ' Clerk of Coart Thos. W. Bennett, incumbent, was re-elected on the face of unofficial returns over two opponents by a majority of 52 votes. The vote stood; Bennett 4,260, Anderson 2,167, Power 2,041. ■ Rare For Sheriff In the five-cornered race for sheriff, Caldwell W. Wier of Clinton, stood first,'with the incumbent, John D. W. Watts, second. Neither received a! ma jority and will enter the second race. The vote stood: Wier 2,463, Watts 1,930, ^ings 1,697, Abrams 1,390, Riddle 1,185. ' County ChmniisaioBer In this rare, with six contestants, there was no election. .The four high est to run over are: Wharton 3,905, Anderson 8,898, Stoddard 2,982, Hunter 2,328. Game Warden Re'Olectcd Sidney A. Lee, incumbent, was re-elected game warden on the first bal lot over two opponents. The vote stood: Lee 4,717, Cannon 2,112, Jackson 1,675. Unopposed Rare J. A. Thomason was re-elected coroner without bpposition. Rare for Coagreaa and SoUdtor Mahon and Bryson led the county in the rpee for congress from the Fourth district. 0. L. Long of Laurens^ walked away with a landslide vote for solicitor over his four opponents. The four leaders in Jhe county in these contests were: Midion 8,8W, Bfcy^on COUNTY TICKET U. S. SENATE — CONGRESS — SOLICITOR PRECINCTS U. S.'Senate I >» QC Congress !• * — >, V c c o U] 1 vl Li G o >> .2 In c A £ a to bo A X o ■t-t . w >» Ih OQ CO .3 >» A H CQ S A a> QQ A u B .3 Solicitor ■BarKsdaTe-NarTiie. Clinton City Clinton Mill........... Cook’s Store Cross Hill Daniels Store Dials Ekom Goldville..., Gray’s Gray Court Hopewell Hickory Tavern Jones’ Store Lanford Langston Laurens City: ...... Laurens Mills.... Lydia MilL Merha. Mt. Olive :... Mountville Mt. Pleasant Ora Owings.... Pleas&nt Mound Poplar Springs i, Princeton... 'X Renno.. Shiloh ; Shady Grove Stewart’s Store Ti^ Top Trinity Ridge Waterloo Watts Mills Woodville Youngs r... 10T -^95 ,530 87 276 82 65 ^ 141 505 36 270 86 223 .'152 76 75 1610 395 241 57 67 127 53 59 152 78 47 17 1 10' 0 0 ' 1 9 D 4 - 6 13 2' 1 2 45 12 10 0 3 3 7 1 3 0 •Iff be c 3 O 53 27 0 6 1 2 3 12 0 6 2 3 1 0 4 55 33 17 0 1 3 6 0 0 2 87 99 83 25 68 48 83 119 395 159 103 3 1 1 7 0 1 3 2 12 2 3 6 2 0 2 0 0 8 3 23 1 3 ’^19 “lU"-- mr ■ 4: 8-" 2 93 I 236 183 135 470 105 89 92 596 45 251 81 152 85 162 53 79 184 20 10 10 3 63 2 4 " 1 63 3 49 46 92 104 38 51 15 129 25 22 37 12 12 3 2 7 63 14 34 16 4 13 0 1 0 67 0 38 31 28 45 10 1 4 103 6 117 176 101 136 171 71 84 89 34 ^ 12 14 3 7- 1 4 -4) 21 8 86 47 46 100 7 12 12 196 8 12 •15 29 37 5 24 6 44 7 80 36 110, 14 41 6 17 128 7 ' 34 49 10 61 38 2 4 95 5 13 18 22 25 2 1 8 50 4 45 10 6 19 ■*7 2 10 51 2 267 222 226 918 37 32 49 1356 47 107 90 68 , 160 18 8 32 244 9 79 67 54 81 80 14 40 86 15 13 17 21 6 7 1 ' 7 42- 1 16 < 14 22 19 10 3 0 49 1 36 30 21 46 11 15 4 76 6 12 11 13 28 5 0 0 51 2 9 0 41 10 0 0 0 46 6 67 35 6 56 14 1 0 118 1 '26 14 24 12. 4 6 7 62 0 76 42 56 36 62 2 8 128 6 25 14 17 39 17 0 5 57 4 16 49 16 21 7 4 1 76 0 44 3 18 18 7 3 3 54 0 3 8 10 13 7 10 1 10 1 15 10' 15 28 3 1 4 56 0 13 12 6 19 6 2 0 33 2 11 18 21 44 3 1 2 85 1 34 16 18 56 6 2 5 95 4 148 156 77 176 70 15 24 246 19 40 16 21 86 16 4 . 0 134 . 0 > 17 15 8 68 6 13 0 70 0 TOTAL 7710 232 287 I 2140 1537 1430 3395 I 993 462 529 5277 310 STANDS SEVEN TO ONE New Deal Advocate Far Ahead of Two Opponents With 150,- 000 Vote Lead. Carries Every County. Fulmer, Gasque and Taylor Lead for Congress. For Magistrate At Clinton PRECINCTS U .E u B k • 0 be CQ CQ k. Clinton City Clinton Mill Lydia Mill ... Goldville ... Mountville .. Hopewell .. 312 100 8 114 62 20 334 118 114 2M 27. 48 369 362 77 152 55 28 Major Harding P. C. Staff Major Floyd C. Harding and fam ily arrived in the city the past week and are occupying the Bisatty resi dence on North Adair street. Major Harding comes to Clinton to become a member of the R. 0. T. C. staff at Presbyterian college. He suc ceeds Capt. George S. Beatty, who Total 61& 899 reentry" went To Kansas, after serving the institution 1 the past year as assistant professor 10211 of military science and tactics. City Schook Opmi Tuesday The Clinton city schooli will open their 1936-37 aeasion next 'Tuesday morning, S^tember first. The schools are headed for the second year by W. E. Monts as superintendent. The buildings have been put in first-class condition during the Aummer and ev. erythlng Is now in/readiness for tile formal opening. / — The list of teachers for the respec tive schools appeared in The Chron icle last week., Run-Over Race i^r Magktrate “ Mrs.— ^ If. Partridge rantt Mrs/ ter town.strip at Buster Milford spent the week-end Ln Newberry with the former's par^ts. Mr. and Mrs. L. K. Eskridge. ...Magistrate James L. Browning and Clyde H. McCrary will enter a second race for magistrate of Hunter town ship at Clinton. The third contestant, A. B. Blakely, was eliminated Tues day on the first count. McCrary headed the ticket with a vote of 1,021. Browning second, polled 899 votes, and Blakely 616. WERE UNOPPOSED Orphanage Schodk Opened Tuesday 13he Thornwell orphanage schools opened their Aew session’s work on Tues^y, with all of the children, teachers and matrons back on the campus after their summer vacation. - The schools are headed by B. S. Pinson as principal, with eleven teachers composing the staff. Only one chapge has been made in the fac ulty for the coming year. The staff of teachers appeared in^he Chronicle last week. Magistrate J. L, Dickert of Hun- Mag- "efr istrate Dixon of Jacks township, were re-elected Tuesday without opposi tion. Mr. and Mrs. Olin Sheely, Jr., Miss- Elizabeth Lynn and 0. H. Sheely spent Sunday in Pomaria with rela tives and friends. Columbia, Aug. 26.—.Senator James F. Byrnes, staunch Stfppdrtef df the New Deali buried two anti-adminis tration opponents under an avalanche of. votes in yesterday’s Democratic primary on the basis of incomplete returns. The ratio was about 7 to 1. From every part of the state came reports of huge majorities for the~ junior South Carolina senator over Thomas P. Stoney, former mayor of Charleston, and Col. William C. Harl- lee, retired marine of Dillon, both bf whom made criticism of the Roosevelt .administration the dominant note in their campaigns. Byrnes led from the first reports of voting and steadily^ increased his lead. With returns tabulated from 1,169 of 1,474 precincts, the vote stood: Byrnes, 173,799; Stoney, 17,021; Harllee, 8,526. . . A close race developed in the Fourth district where four sought the seat in congress made vacant by the recent death of Representative -John J. MeSwain. In the three other dis tricts where there were contests, the incumbents had apparently safe leads. In 213 of the 250 precincts in the Fourth district, G. Heyward Mahoa^ Greenville merchant, held a lead over Joseph R. Bryson. The vote stood: Mahon, 14,317; Bryson, 12,454. They were followed by J. G. Leather>^ood, with 10,712, and Claude A. Taylor, speaker of the state house of repre sentatives, with 9,132. In the Third district, Representa tive John C. Taylor piled up a crush ing lead over J. Wade Drake, Ander son farmer, who made advocacy of the Frazier-Lemke bill one plank in his platform. Representative Allard H. Gasque of Florence, held to a substantial lead over two opponents in the Sixth dis trict on incomplete returns. James R. Turner of Bennettsville, and Dr, R. G, Blackburn of Marion, were his oppon ents. A comfortable margin was rolled up by Representative Hampton P, Fulmer ’in the .Second district. A a ♦ rtfrtitt T^Lnt'tictLf ^ - 1 »v 0 I € p iv niHtiVvSj a o* ■ McMillan in tin* Fir.st district, and J. F*. Richard.s in the Fifth, were unop- pos<‘d in the primary. / LAURENS COUNTY DEMOCRAtiC PRIMARY ELECTION, AUGUST 25, 1936 ^ / A / / County FRBaNCTS State Senate f •» 1 c £ u t c Barksdal«>)larnie Clinton City......... - Clinton Mill Cook’s Store — Croes Hill ..... Daniels Store....: Dials Ekom Goldville I.. * Gmy's Gray Court. Hof>ewell _ Hickory Tavem_ Jones* Store Lanford v/ — Langston. j. Laurens Ci Laurens MiTli L/dia Mill M4ma Mt. Olive/.: MountviBe — -ML PUtasant......... Ora./.-. ^Ia/-ifigs...- Peasant Mound- Poplar Springs..., Princeton Renno Shiloh. ./....... 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