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TZZ Trash Overruns mate Says Bob IcuLh Carolina is a benighted land ft^ l^hita trash" hold# tho whip E wherr pMimHdnfiOf ruffiM* and W rju.8 free boot umid the minority Cent people who' have little to ,, the order of things, according yLh, following fnank editorial apL ring >n thc late8t l8MUe ot R?Wt Eikn's famous weekly paper, The Euntain I?n Tribune. I There is no other section of AmerI Where uien are ao quick to defend ,' hono? ah in South Carolina. There i? no other section where En are ho quick to fight when given e lie there is no other section where ft much is ?aid about chivalry and fte duty of shielding the gentler sex. (there |8 no other section where so ftuch is ha id about being a gentle There is no other section where re ion figures so largely in thp scheme | ft^ThiUdolphia gardener in Januft 0f last year picked up on the reels of a suburb a package of Kwelry. He thought the package orthless and carried them home, uesday he walked into u Philadelphia jewelry store and offered to sell e lot for $5. He was astonished hen the jeweler told him that the< auWes were valued at $25,000 and Kit there was a reward of $500 for I The (J22 qualified voters of Avon ark, Kla., registered 100 per cent. K the voting in that state last TuesK Not a registered voter failed to tch the polls and cast his or her I announcements FOR CLERK OF COURT 1 hereby announce my-self a candidate for re-election to the office of Berk of Court for Kershaw County object to the rules of the Democratic J. H. CLYBURN FOR MAGISTRATE I I hereby announce myself as a candidate for Magistrate in DeKall ownship, subject to the rules of the democratic primary. I B. M. SMITH I FOR CORONER I I hereby announce myself a candi au for re-election to the office of ftoroner for Kershaw County, and (ill appreciate the continued support '. the Democratic voters of the counK W. F. RUSSELL m FOR CORONER fa the Democratic voters of KerK County: 1 hereby announce Kg a candidate for the office of ^ rser of Kershaw County and fee myself to abide the result of pnmai y election. S. J. WEST. I FOR MASTER ^ Urn-hy announce myself as a can hte tor the office of Master in uity lor Kershaw County and will Kpreciate the support of the voters the coming primary. W. L. DePASS, JR. I FOR MASTER hereby announce myself as a can date for the office of Master Tor ^ fir?haw County and will appreciate V support of the voters, promising abide the result of the Democratic [ t >L. REX JONES rshaw, s- C., June 13, 1928. ft FOR CQjSGRESS Hereby announce that I am a can date in the Democratic primaries ^outh Carolina, for the nomination Representative of the 6th Congrea roal District for the 71st Congress, >u I take this opportunity to thank e people of the District for their ^T^support in the past and to say pport and confidence in the future. W. F. STEVENSON. for magistrate . (Upper Wateree) j rc V announce myself as a K.f ?te for the office of .Magis te for Upper Wateree District. BEN A. RABON. ???._ , FOR magistrate hereby announce as a candidate wLu.eZllon t0 th? office of Magis . ?nt Bethune, promising to abide results of the Democratic priihI C. C. PATE i >,K0? COUNTY DIRECTORVannounce myself as a cah? -e for re-election to the office of Wa . for FteKalb Township and ti elected, to discharge the K\ni . ,s office fairly, impartialKd tho of my judgment Very respectfully, H. G. OARRtSON, JR. I Wo Roa<1 Superintendent Kin 'Jv voters of Buffalo town tnk?f favor of all voters of n v c?unty in the re-election of nry E. Munn'to the office of Blh J*Tlntondont as he has faith|7 J*rformed his duties for the Interest of the people. VOTERS * At t>wF<>R MAGISTRATE ^Rur. r^nuest of many friends and B*?bv ?f Lower Buffalo Township 1 J. fe. OOPELAWBr'' ft of existence, There is no section more certain of < ita superiority in righteousness. There is no section where greater effort is?.made to observe and to enforce observance of Su.nday tt <uv . of holiness. !( There is no section where a larger j percentage of the population frowns j upon dancing, card playing and other! "worldly" pleasures. 1 here is no section where whisky' ami wine and beer are more bitter-! ly denounced. There is no section where the law: and the public are more severe in' condemnation of gambling. These statements are made without intent to be oratorical. They are a grave and simple statement of fact. And I speak from first-hand knowledge, for I have lived in Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Nebraska, California, Washington, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, ,North Carolina and Georgia, and have spent a little time in several other states. This section of the country, as I say, Bets up high standards of righteousness, piety, chivalry and honor, and because its blood is hot it is quick to resent any criticism of its imperfections. And yet I know of no- other section that has so little reason to boast. There is no other section where so large a percentage of the male population will lie to make a dollar. Iher.e is no other section where so many men make debts they do not try to pay. There is no other section where dead-beats and liars are accepted by society as a whole and treated as courteously as honorable men. There is no other section where so many men make vulgar and insulting remarks about women, delight in filthy sex stories and abuse their wives. ' There is no other section wher men who think themselves chivalroyR continue to treat women as inferiors who belong in the kitchen. There is no other section where men who boast of being gentlemen are so abysmally ignorant of the, qualities required in the making of a gentleman. There is no other section where church membership and professed Christianity leave men* so flree to practice the immoralities frowned upon by all churches. There is no other section where church people, while .professing to believe the use of intoxicants sinful, consume so much moonshine whisky. There is no other section where so many people who denounce dancing and card playing stoop to lying, cheating, slandering and stealing. There is no other section where so many church people frown on gambling and yet gain and lose money by gambling in cotton futures. There is, in sh^rt, no other section of the United States where so large a percentage of the population is composed of self-righteous hypocrites. What is the explanation? You know these things to be true. Have you tried to discover a reason for thqfr? ' I have thought over.,the matter for years, trying to discover why any people so fervent in its profession of righteousness should be wholly lack* ing ih the rudiments of honor, and I think I have found it. There are in- South Carolin many people Who have no superiors in uprightness, virtue, chivalry and integrity. They are a minority. The ma jority is dirt?psalm-singing, Jesus-shouting, liquor-guzzling, thievllig trash, wilhuut the slightest runception of the meaning of honor?constitutionally incapable ^ decencyinherent ly filthy in mind, soul and body. . And the reason is not far to seek. Men do not gather figs from thistles. r- * J *' In the days of the South's glory, there were three dietinct breeds of people in this state?the white people, the Negroes and the trash. The trash was white under its dirt, but in all other particulars it was beneath the Negro. It hated the Negro, for ft fclt liis scorn ami Yecogni<e#?him as a superior. ,^-x This unwnshed trash ^element was composed of bond servants and their progeny-^rthe scum Of England's gutters. It was Ignorant and lousy, and for generations had been wbijSped to its kennels by English masters. A condition of servitude and want, endured for generations, had made iti bestial. It had no. standards of Vir^! tue or honor. It would steal and lie as readily as it would cower when abused. . This depraved, broken and filthy herd of cattle improved in the free air of America, but at the time of the opening of hostilities between the North and South, it was "far, far > lower in the scale of civilisation than i the lowest of white men now: It still \ was scorned by, black slaves. i iim Southern gentleman ready for it I ir vl War was a gentleman's game. Dan dies who kept personal servants at their side planned a short and glorious campaign in which the damned , vulgar Yankees should be licked out ' of their bouts and taught not to med- ' die in the affairs of their betters. The ' gentlemen went to war and left theii ' women folk in the care of faithful N slaves. The trash didn't go to war-?not ^ much of it. It waited to be drafted < The gentlemen planters had human property at stake, and the sturdj commoners who had drifted down from the North at an earlier day and made the South their home had sectional pride at stake. The trash had nothing at stake. Yet the trash was drafted, and the war taught it manhood?as the last great war taught manhood to Ix>n don's gutter rats. But the better class was killed off in those first bloody, years, and moBt of those who survived the war and came back to the horror of Reconstruction were low-grade men. Were there no true men? Indeed there were?else the South would yet be prostrate under the heel of a carpet-bagger political machine and the Negro would yet be in the saddle. There were brave and noble men to take the lead in a fight to preserve what was left of a broken civilization, and there were sturdy thousands who had not been classed as gentlemen before the war but now were to prove themselves upright and unafriad. These made the New South. But also there was the trash. The trash came home?to a new democracy and a new life. It found itself the balance of power. It began to elect demagogues to office. It begot children after its kind, and today it shames the state. ^ There you have dishonor explained. Now you know why a section that mouths religious phrases and prates of its integrity and its chivalry and frowns upon pleasures that once were enjoyed by the gentry is nevertheless full of lying, cheating, the uttering of worthless checks, the "beating" of > debts, secret drunkenness and coward- i ly murder. Trash blood is revealing itself. Honorable men ? Yes, South Caro- i lina has them. Able men? Many of them. Clean-minded, upright and chivalrous men? An abundance.! Urbane, tolerant, civilized men Certainly; I know scores of them. But the trash dominates. It isn't always poor, as it once was. J Don't make that mistake. In many instances its owns the very houses whose doors would have beer shut in the facds of its ancestors. It has money and land and bank stock, and it has gone to college. But the trash bloods is in its veins, and there isn't room in the same veins for anything remotely resembling honor. Some of the trash still is poor, and some of it is rich. And some of the best blood in the state flows in the veins of people who haven't a* dollar. They haven't a dollar, but they have inherent honor. In the old days, "poor white"*mear.c literally white people who were poor. The poor were trash and the rich were quality. . But the casual observer can distinguish one stock from the other. Those whose ancestors were gentle are inherently honorable. They possess an innate decency. And those whose ancestors were sturdy commoners and free men of the uplands rank as high in honor and manliness as any other group of men in America." W But^. those whose ancestors were train?whether-they ride in fine cars or trudge behind a mule or work in a factory?whether they are perfumed or spur with stale sweat?whether they own the bank or give worthless checks for trivial sums to the corner grocer?whether they be high or low, rich or poor they still are trash and beneath the contempt of honorable men. ?They lie.?They say?vile?fcMtigs, about women. They are brutal to their wives. Their word is worthies1. They will kill by taking cowardly advantage. They make debts they do not .intend to pay. They defraud their friends. Their religion is a sham; their chivalry is a sham; their honor is a Their, much Mouthing about the forms of righteousness is a pose. ^They do not understand what honor . They are not capable of shame. They explain South Carolina. Sheriff Resigns Columbia, June 5.*^Sberiff Hr ~S. Gamble of Williamsburg county, has tendered his resignation to Governor Richards, the resignation has been accepted and in Ms place Deputy Sheriff H, A. Wheeler has been appointed, the appointment having been made by Governor Richards today. The sheriff resigned as a result of a suit against his bond brought by the county, in which judgment for $40,000 was returned. The sheriff's bond was for $20,000. The sheriff was due to post a new bond on June 14, but being unable to do this, in the face of the judgment secured by the county, the resignation was sent to the governor. Ths deputy sheriff Mr. Wheeler is appointed with the understanding of - - 7 ? lilljfc? Bill Steal Paper's Payroll iHjtroit, June 6.??ix men armed vilh sawed-off shotguns held up more han 160 persons in the Detroit News >uilding today and escaped in an lutomobile wilh moat of the newspaper's weekly payroll, the total of vhich w?s $66,000. Some of the money waa dropped n a dash from the building and durng a gun light m the'street in which me patrolman was probably fatally wounded. M. (Jutland Alderman, head of a ommercialphotographing business at High Point, N. C., ended a long period of painful illness by shooting j himself at 3 o'clock Saturday morning in the presence of his wife, lie was u graduate of Trinity college, a veteran of the World war and later a captain in the National Guard of North Carolina. Hiss illness was aused by an automobile accident in which the upper part of his spine was injured. I)r. E. A. Hall, a very prominent physician of Statesville, N. C., 881 years old, di?d near there on the plantation on which he was born and which was granted to his great-grand- J father in 1762, by the Earl of Gran-j ville. 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