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I Page Eight THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Old Times Recalled By Copy of 1888 Election Ticket Carrying First Returns Thursday, April 24, 1952: (From The Laurens Advertiser) B. L. Clardy, one of the old tim ers who has recently retired from the furniture business, was show ing last Tuesday in the court house a copy of an election ticket of 1888 carrying the returns from the first primary. Candidates for senator were Col. T. B. Crews, at that time ed itor of the now discontinued Lau- rensville Herald, Col. John W. Ferguson, attorney, and Lewis Simpkins, also an attorney. Col. Crews was credited with 1,- 008 votes. Col. Ferguson 1.232 arid Simpkins with 326. , The run-off was evidently be tween Col. Crews and Col. Fer guson. Mr. Clardy was unable to reacll who was nominated in the second primary. He was just 11 years old at that time and he said he was not taking much interest in politics then. The ticket did not show the in itials of he candidates, but there were also eight candidates for the house, two for the clerk, three for ■ jdge.of probate, four for auditor, five for sheriff, four for treasurer, five lor school commissioner, nine '.or county commissioner, and three f'-r coroner; .a total ofN^i. • That was..ai.tuaeujf .five cent cot- ton when public jobs were .in de mand and county offices were cov eted more than they are now, Mr. Clardy remarked. Candidates for the house were listed as Wallace, Wharton, Irby, McGowan. Abercrombie, Cunning- than all of New England. The National Park Service ad ministers 16,600,000 acres of na tional parks and monuments, rang ing in size from the house where Lincoln died (2,178 square feet) to two-million-acre principalities like Yellowstone and Death Valley. Tthe Office of Territories sup plies the rum industry in the Vir gin Islands, runs the railroads in Alaska, and shapes the destiny of three million people spread all the way from Puerto Rico to the swel tering Trust Islands in the Pacific. The power instrumentalities, Recclamartion, Southwestern, Southeastern. Booneville, market 26 million kilowatt-hours a year, an output equal to that of the eight biggest private hydroelectric pro ducers in the country.” Quite a hand in many affairs. Birth Announcements MACK Mr. and Mrs. William R. Mack an-j nourice the birth of a son, Steven ! O’Neil, April 11, at Hays hospital. Mrs. Mack is the 'former Miss Ruth, Ballard. HEATON Mr. and Mrs. TEarly Edgar HeatSrtj announce the birth of-a April 15, at Hays hospital. Mrs. Heaton is the former Miss Ola Gam- brell. MEDLIN Mr. and Mrs. James Medlin an- ham. Janes and Sullivan; for clerk, nounce the birth of a daughter, Ruby Shell and Watts: for probate judge. ;yi ar j et on April 14, at Hays hospital. Burnside, Clardy and Boozer; for Medlin is the former Miss Lil- auditor. Langston, Thompson, jj an Medlin. Franks and Compton; for sheriff. * . mci-irn* Balk w, Duckett. Simpson, Lanford * and Turner; -^rr.d. K*mgtTtv for treasurer. Cope- Mr. and Mrs. William Bishop an- Amrict'• rrn?’TTTTrr'C1 ,-.vc'-' Vt]a<an0 ^ tha biefh .of- a Robert I and; for school commissioner, Bui- Steven, on April 14, at Hays hospital, j lock. Barksdale. Bird, Fowler and Bishop was before marriage Peden: fur countv commissioner.:^^ Georgia, Bee Nabors. commissioner, Beil. Drummond. Downey, Young. 1 Mitchell. Parks, Goodman, Wright; and McCord; for coroner. Harris, Sloan and McGowan. FINAL SETTLEMENT Take notice that on the 29th day of April, 1952, I will render a final account of my acts and doings as Administrator of the estate of Fan nie Y. Blalock in the office of the Land O' Lakes POWDERED MILK Lb Pkg 35 C Swift’s Cleanser SUNBRITE Can 0C Toilet Soap WOODBURY’S 0 Facial Size 23^ Toilet Soap WOODBURY’S 2 »«th Six. 23® Cloverleaf Dry SKIM MILK 7 Ox. Pkfl. J 0C Household Spray FLIT 29 c Sint Can Judge of Probate of Laurens County, at 10 o’clock a.m., and on the same day will apply for a final discharge!- from my trust as Administrator. | Any person indebted to said estate; is notified and required to make pay-' ment on or before that date; and all persons having claims against said estate will present them on or be- John C. Calhoun did not devote fore said date, duly proven, or be all his great intellect to “Nullifi- forever barred, cation.” Here in the South we DR. GEO. R. BLALOCK, think of Calhoun as a gigantic f.g- Administrator, ure, but we do not always remem- ber on what his fame rests. Cal-1 ^ arc h 29, 1952. ^ 27-4cw houn was not a narrowly sectional j man: he was on honor man of Yale and knew at first hand the prob lems of the Nation on a National scale. He served as Secretary of War, Secretary and Vice-President of the United States. His service as a Senator from South Carolina did not limit his vision of National greatness, nor of National perils. How great his vision was can be seen from this quotation from a speech of his in the Senate: ■’ ‘Mr. President, there is some thing ominous in the expression 'the Secretary of the Interior.’ This government . . . was made to take charge of the exterior relations of the states. And if there had been no exterior relations, the federal government would never have ex isted . . . (This) monstrous bill . . . will turn over the whole interior affairs of the country to this de partment, and it is one of the greatest steps that has ever been made in my time to absorb the re maining power of the states.’ "Daniel Webster, Jefferson Da vis, and the other U. S. Senators who heard John C- Calhoun’s de- monstrance that bitter day in 1849 evidently thought their colleagues had mistaken a -molehill for a mountain. The States, in mid- nineteenth century, seemed more than a match for the federal gov ernment; the whole interior affairs of the country were then mainly a matter of preserving a few beelag- ured outposts on the perimeter of ah ocean of land; and the proposed agenev. far from being omnipotent, seemed to have no n»ore power than any other heap tA ill-assort ed functions and responsibilities. Time, however, has since given his words a disquieting reality. The Department of Interior, next month to celebrate its hundredth- and-third anniversary, is an au thoritarian colosus. Spending $600 million a year, maintaining a pay roll of 63,000 employees, Interior holds the economics of many west ern states in the palm of its hand and exerts a decisive influence on the entire region. In much of the West, when peo ple speak of ‘the government,’ they eman the Interior Department. Its Bureau of Reclamation par cels out that life-or-death commod-, ity, water, on a fifth of the nation’s irrigation acreage. Interior’s Bureau of Land Man agement controls 68 per cent of the land in Nevada, 48 per cent m Utah, 28 per cent in Wyoming, and in general, the department says who shall mine, and who shall graze, on a total of 35 per cent of the area of the eleven -far-western states. 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