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I nn I'isgah Baptist Church I One of the most successful revivals I <.u?r held ul the Mt* Baptist I Tjjurch was brought to a close last Friday evening, July 3. The Rev. \V. I i? Griggs pfrator of Ninth Avenue I tfapti*1 church of Charlotte, assisted I the pastor. Mr. Griggs preached I with great spiritual power. He mag nifkd Christ by preaching the soulI winning Bible gospel, and yet his I messages were characterized with I jjmphvity. The beautiful cooperation I on the part of the members of the I church was one of the greatest conI tributions to the success of the meetI jng. A largo number of people made I t profession of faith in Christ. I Church members reconsecrated themI ?elves to God, and there were twenI ty-three additions to the church memI bcrship. The church engaged in earI nest organizing prayer. Truly we I had a real spiritual awakoning. A I Baptismal service will be held at the I church next Lord's day morning at I H o'clock. If there are others who I desire to come into the church memI borship we will give them the opporI tunity just preceding the Baptismal I service. The public is invited to wor ship with us.?^Luther Knight, pastor. I " ESTATE NOTICE I . All persons having claims against the estate of John E. Gaskin, deI ceased, are hereby notified to file the I same, duly verified, with the underI signed, and those indebted to said estate will please make payment likeI wise THOMAS P. GASKIN I GROVER C. CrAiSKIN I Executors New Brookland, S. C. I August 2, 1934 WYNDHAM M. MANNING Candidate For Governor County Campaign Dates Monday, August 13, 10 a. m., at K-r?haw. Tut-day, August 14, 10 a. m., at Rvthune. Wednesday, August 15, 10 a. m., a: Kaloy's Mill. , Thur.-day, August 16, 10 a. m., at Cassatt. t Thursday, August 16, 2:00 p. m., a*. Westville. Friday, August 17, 10 a. m., at Antioch. Tuesday, August 21, 10 a. m., at Blaney. Wednesday, August 22, 10 a. m., a: Rabon's Cross Roads. Thursday, August 23, 3:00 p. m., at Camden. Saturday, August 25, 5:00 p. m., at Mill School. State Campaign Dates Camden?Friday, August 10 Ninth W?ek '"nk>n?Monday, August 13 X'wherry?Tuesday, AugusL 14 I.;u:r-ns?Wednesday, Angust' 15 * '.* mwnod?Thursday, August 16 Abbeville?Friday, August 17 Tenth Week Anbrs.in'?Monday, August 20 Waihaila?Tuesday. August 21 r k< as?Wednesday. August 22 ' A nville, Thursday. August 23. > i imbia?Friday, August 24 Citation ' i A'ato of South Carolina < 'Uitty of Kershaw 1 >; P. Jones, Esquire, Probate Judge) <a?. Louise M. Collins and A. .1 ins made suit to me to grant Letters of Administration of 1 -'.ate of and effects of Wiilie i -e are. Therefore, to cite and ;i '? ' ni>h all and singular the kin *" : and creditors of the said Willie N 1 "dins, deceased, that they be and app?-?r before me, in the Court of 1'' -bate to be held at Camden, S. C., 'he 11th day of August, 1934, next a:'>r publication thereof, at eleven " k in the forenoon, to show if any they have, why the said A iministratin should not be granted. Liven under my hand, this 30th of July, Anno Domini, 1934. 0 L. R. JONES, ' :k'< of Probate for Kershaw County Published on the 3rd and 10th days August, 1934, in the Camden 1' -Tonicle and posted at the Court Mou-e door for the time prescribed ' v law. NOTICE . Pursuant to an ordinance adopted ' > xhe Town Council of the Town of R'-'nur.e, South Carolina, in Council 7 assembled on the 16th day of 1934. a special election will be ' * '* said Town on the 15th day of A-gust, 1934, for the purpose of subTilting to the electors of said Town '' following question: vtall the Town of Bethune, South ' a*o].na. construct a municipal WaterA ?rks System for the use and benefit said Town and its citizens? voting place, L. M. Best Cotton ompany's office. , Polls will open at 8:00 A. M. and c ose at 4 P. M. G. B. McKXNNON, Clerk and Treasurer, Town of Bethune, S. C. y campaign shaping up (Greertville Observer) ,r There is one point of resemblance between candidacy and consumption. Some might >?uy two, alleging that candidacy is also a disease, which becomes chronic in some cases. Take Cole L. liltase for instance. If the Almighty had revealed to him before he tiled his pledge this year that he could not be elected, he probably would have tiled it and run anyhow, just for the sheer pleasure he gets out of campaigning. He certainly enjoys it. Like the warhorse, he "snitfs the battle from afar." The point of resemblance 1 have in mind, however, is the sanguine hopefulness of both the consumptive and the candidate. Even tho the victim of T. B. be approaching the last stagea of the dread disease he almost invariably expresses confidence that he will recover. .Similarly the candidate, , tho he have not a Chinaman's I chance, persists till the counting of the votes in asserting he is sure of being in the second race, even if he cannot quito go to the full length of claiming he will win on the first ballot. In the series of signed editorials on the governor's race in this state this summer, I am trying to view the race with the detachment of a. visitor from Mars. I am trying neither to elect nor defeat any candidate but only to give the facts as 1 see them. The reports in the daily press are very unsatisfactory. They givo but meagre sentences from the speeches of the candidates aryk nothing at all about the undercurrent movements among the voters. After a careful study i?r the utterances of the weekly papers of the state, which are more outspoken than their daily contemporaries, I am more than ever convinced of the substantial correctness of t^ie diagnosis I made of the governor's contest in my first signed editorial in the issue of June 29. Practically all of the weekly papers which have spoken out in meeting completely eliminate three candidates?Sheppard, Sloan and Owens?from their calculations. By common consent they are already put in the also-ran column. The general expectation is that Cooke will run fifth, getting a good vote in his section but only scattering support in other parts of the state. That leaves but four considered real contestants?Please, Johnston, Pearce and Manning. A very common assertion of those discussing tho governor's race is that no man has ever been elected governor of South Carolina the first time he sought the office. But going back to 1890, a year which ushered in a new era in South Carolina politics, the statement is not true. Tillman had never made a race for governor before he was elected in 1890 nor Evans before he won in 1894. It is true that McSweeney was lieutenant governor when the death of Ellerbe elevated him to the post of chief executive, but he had never made a race for governor before he was elected in 1900. And Heyward, a man absolutely unknown in the politics of the state, was elected the first time he pan for governor, in 1902. Since then, no man has been elected governor who had not made at least one unsuccessful campaign for that office. This may be a year in which the nominee may be a man who never ran for chief executive before. Only two of the eight have before sought the governorship. Please has been successful in two campaigns for that office and has run for it several times without success. Johnston was the runner-up four years ago. The real race this year, according to the general view, will be between those two and Pen ice and Manning, both of the latter making their first bow in a state-wide campaign. So. on the number of candidates in the real running, there is a fifty-fifty chance that the nominee will he a man who never ran for governor before. Sloan. Cooke and Manning are farmers; Blease, Sheppard and Johnston lawyers; Pearce a business man and Owens a physician. If the weekly papers be right, the next governor of this state will bo a farmer, a lawyer or a business man. Little things have large influence on casting of votes. Some will not vote for either Johnston or Blease because they do not think lawyers make good governors. Some will not vote for Johnston because the present governor is from Spartanburg and they do not think that the next governor should come front a count} which at pre<>ent has the honor of claiming the governor as its citizen. Some will not vote for Blease because they think four years as governor are enough for one man. Some will not vote for Pearce because his firm sells beer. Some will not vote for Manning because his father and four of his further back ancestors have been governors of this state. Those making that argument against Manning admit that his father and other ancestors mack; good governors but they say that the family has had honors enough. A farmer to whom that argument was addressed replied: "Why should I not in picking a candidate to vote for for governor be influenced by the seme reasons which decide my choice in buying ? horse, a cow or a ^>i>f? If blood tells in stock, why should it not tell in human beings? If I wanted to buy a trot-, ting horse, 1 would not decline to | buy one offered me because his sire liad a record of trotting the mile in less than 2:10." Which two of those four will be in the second race, it being generally J agreed that a second race will be necessary? One man's guess is as good as another. Had Uleaso ami Sloan not entered, the race, Johnston would most certainly have been in the second race. There will be slight dispute of that proposition. The mill vote, with scattering support from others, would have been sufficient to put him in the second race. However, the mill vote is not enough to elect a candidate, even if it went solidly for him. He must get support also from other classes. While many think the mil^ workers vote solidly, that is not true. A majority generally votes together, but roughly speaking, about one-third votes differently from the other two-thirds. That third would not haye gone for Johnston, even if Blease and 'Sloan had not entered the race, and that third will not go for Blease, Sloan or Johnston. With Blease and Sloan not in the race, Johnston would have carried the other two-thirds. But Blease is stronger in the mill villages than he was when he ran for reelection ak United ^States senator in 1930 or against Senator Smith in 1932. Those who were alienated from him by his advice as to unions are beginning to turn to him again, as the wisdom of . that advice is proven by such things as the unsuccessful strike at Piedmont and the failure of other strikes since his advice was given, strikes due to the work of labor agitators and the backing given them by politicians who hope to get the mill,vote by inflaming mill workers against their employers. The strikers at Piedmont lost one hundred thousand dollars, in round figures, by not receiving wages for the weeks that they were out on strike. That is a huge price to pay for following the advice of agitato*'-? and politicians who. if they were competent to advise workers, would have known that business conditions ma le it impossible for that strike to have a gh'?st of a chance of succeeding. The memory of that strike will have to fade out before either labor agitators e>r political allies of those agi-i tators have .much chance of gaining1* another foothold at Piedmont. Thitj is true also at Arcadia, and otherj mills where unsuccessful strikes have ( ^n. I 11 been staged, strikes which would never have occurred but for the work of labor agitators and the backing given them by some politicians. The candidacy of Sloan is far more I important than the number of votes I he will receive would indicate. He [is an aggressive campaigner and is carrying the tight to Johnston especially. His candidacy will do much, i as well a.s that of Blouse, to Keep Johnston from getting the solid support of the two-thirds of the mill l vote which would have gone to him had neither Blease nor Sloan entered the race. It is unlikely that a candidate with as little funds as Sloan, unknown in state politic*, with no organisation hacking hitn and absent from some of the meetings ,because of sickness, will have any (chance of winning the domination, but his'cani^aigning N^iay have a large inBuance in shaping! up the alignment which will determine between which two candidates the second contest shall come, Two-thirds of the mill votes will be divided between Blease, Sloan and Johnston and one-third between Manning and Pearce. In what proportion the division will be made it is too early yet to say. If Blease gets anything like an even break of twothirds of the mill* vote with Johnston, Blease will be in the second race, unless by any chance it comes between Pearce and Manning. The Manning vote is hardest of all to estimate, that is of the four who are considered as having a real chance of getting in the second race. He has strong supporters throughout the state, but they are mainly among people who, if they go to campaign meetings, mildly express approval by handclapping and cannot be provoked to vociferous applause such as Blease, Sloan, Johnston and Cooke evoke from their supporters. "Still waters run deep." It is a superficial judgmenf^that the Manning support is not numerous because not noisy. Pearce probably has by considerable odds the largest and best organized machine working for him? and organization does count in an election contest, particularly in a statewide race. Here is a point worthy of coiyj^lci at ion. The man who would win in a state-wide race must have a statewide support. A heavy vote in a few counties or even a section cannot elect him, if he gets only a scattering! vote in oilier counties. That was demonstrated in the election of PJJO. ' Johnston carried the Piedmont section by largo majorities, but got almost 1 no votes in some of the lower tier of counties. \ery small support in the' section below the Columbia lilic, J auMMaMBonoBnnitMX . n | While Blackwood did not carry a sin! glo Piedmont county he 'got v*uBsUntiul votes in all of them, whereas C the percentage against Johnston in the lower part of tho state was much I larger. Johnston faces that same handicap this year, plus the fact that the candidacy of Blease and " Sloan will keep him from getting anything like as large a vote in the Piedmont ?> section as he got four years ago. Some observers contend that Johnston is weaker in the low country this year even than he was there four years ugo, as that section resents the attacks he has made on Charleston. There is no city in the Piedmont which has the sectional following has in the low country, probably because there is no city here predominantly large as Charleston is in the low country. Blease is sure of support in every COUJ^ because he has more strong personal supporters probably than the other seven candidates for governor put together. There are men in every county who have a personal regard for Blease which will make them vote for him, no matter'what candidate runs against him nor what arguments are advanced in the campaign. That is, as I have said before, not enough to elect him but enough to make him a factor in any statewide race ho enters. It A^uy be enough to put him in a second race with Manning or I'earce. The second race can only come between Manning and I'earce if there be anything like an even division of the voters who want neither Blease nor Johnston. That comes back to,my original analysis that there are two factions in t lie state, almost as clearly defined a- if they wi re different political parties. The fart ion w hich in the |>a-t lias supported Blease is in round figures in normal elections about lit',000. Most of the votes which Cooke, Sloan and Owens will get will come from this faction and Cooke, at least, will make a substantial out in it. That makes it prac tii-ally mathematically impossible for the second race to come between Johnston ami Hleaae. What support Shcpjvard gets will mainly come from the other faction, which in round figures in normal elections is aibout 125,000. If Cooke, Sloan and Owens get . total of 80,000 votes, a conservative estimate, that faction will have 80,000 left to divide between ltlcase and Johnston and an even division woufd give each 40.0(H) votes. If Sheppanl get 5,000 votes, that will leave 126,0Q0 to divide between Poarce and Manning. An even division would give each of them 00,000 votes. This shows the possibility of a second race between Pearce and Manning and the seeming certainty of the impossibility of a second race 'between Please and Johnston. 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