The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, November 21, 1907, Image 4

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ESCAPES. Fun With PIrm and The case of C. B. Boyett and oth ers charged with intimidating ne groes J‘because they were negroes” contrary to the provisions of sections la the Ranka ae the Party May I>e- Stre.—If the DemjOrrata Wants Him to Make the Race He Will Do So, No Matter How Forlorn the Mope. He Says the Party Must Deride Who Shall Lead. William J. Bryan will accept the Democratic nomination for Presi dent ia 1906. but he will neither ask nor make a fight for it. He says that for a pear or more he has been press ed to answer the question "Will you accept the nomination?” and he be- lieresthe public is entitled to an an- and to know the position he oc- The question that oughUto Mffi?tJ««hetheEJus--states M as T strengthen the Dem- party more than the nomina- some one else. Not only will __ seek or ask for the nomina tion, but he will not assume to de ck}* the question of availability, and If the prize falls to another he will neither be disappointed nor disgrunt led. At the same time he denies that he has waited this long in a desire to see whom the Republicans are likely te nominate, or to ascertain the of Victory Mr. Bryan says; Now that the election so amply in 1907 is past and plans are being made for next year's campaign Mr. Bryan fisels that a statement is due to the public. Those who prefer another candidate are entitled to know his position and those who favor his nomination have a right to demand an answer to the question so o' put, 'Will you accept the nomi tkm?" His refusal to answer the queetien has led to the circulation of many false reports and unfriendly newspapers have taken advantage df his rnlMice to misrepresent his atti tude. “Mr. Brpfn will not ask for or seek a nomination and he will not assume to decide the question of his availability. He has been iecompoee4]bvhia party-foi has done and f >r what he has en deavored to do that he cannot claim a nomination as a reward; neither sibuld his ambition be considered, for he has had honor enough from h» party to satisfy any reasonable ambition. The only question that ought to weigh with the party is whether the party can be strength ened and aided more by his nomina tion than by the nomination of one elae. If he can serve the par{;y by being its candidate he will accept the commission and make the best fight he can. If, however, the choice nula upon another he will not be dis appointed or disgruntled. His av&i ability is a question to be decided not by him, not by a few leaders, not even by the leading newspaper that eaQ themselves Democrats, but by the vqtasof “ he entrusts t tion—they are the Supreme Court in all matters concerning candidates, as they are in all matters concerning the platform, * ’ “Hi assumes that they will not select him unless they desire to make an aggressive fight for the applica tion og Democratic principles to pre amt Conditions, and he also takes it for granted that the organization of the pgfty yill be in harmony with the platform and will be composed of men whose political records will invite confidence and give assurance that * victory, if won,-will not be a barren victory. “TIIb Republicans must nominate either a reformer, a stand palter or one #hooe position on public <tues- Ihrrr MuiHlirw In I mil Alia Arc Charg ed Agmiuat Hnlth——— ^*1 'The finding of a pool of blood in tion* ia unknown,and the course of the Democratic party -should h* the same no matter which element con trol the Republican Convention. The Democratic party must make the fight for what it believes. While it may take advantage of Republican ^mistakes, it must depend upon its own merits for success and not upon the error of its opponents. "The action of the Republican Convention may have its influence in determining the relative availability of Demecraticcandidate, butitought not to have any influence in deter mining the question whether the one ehosen by the Democrats should ac cept the nomination. If the rank and file of the Democratic party desire Mr. Bryan to make the race, he will make it, no matter who may be the Republican nominee. * No one can estimate the chances of the party in the next campaign with sufficient accurracy to make his candidacy dependent upon the out look. While the Democrats have rea son to be encouraged by the fact that Democratic principles have grown in popularity and that Democratic poli cies are now praised by many who denounced them a few years ago, and while further encouragement is to be derived from the fact that the Democratic party H more united than it has been for many years, and the Republican more divided, still the action of the Democratic party cannot he made dependent upon the proepect of success. The prospects now seem excellent, but a Democrat ic National Convention will be held, a platform adopted and candidates nominated, whether the prospects are bright or gloomy, and the party 1 make the best fight it can it enters the campaign with or With confidence. Democrats that Democratic principles nMapd that Democratic poli- sfteoenarv; they should, there- mdone those principles and and then se- i those who, in the party benefit in 1,977 and 5.508 of the revised statu tes of the United States, was decid- the supreme court of the Uni- States favorably to Boyett and his co-defendants, ^ , The alleged offense’ was commit ted in Bradley county, Arkansas, in 1905 when Boyett and other “white men were charged with having con spired to drive away a number of negroes employed by the Arkansas Lumber Company, This result wa*- accomplished by posting notices of warning tb the negroes and firing guns in their vicinity. The whites were tried in the United States dis trict court for the eastern district of Arkansas and each was sentenced to pay a fine of $1,000 and serve a year in prison. The decision of the trial court was reversed. The announce ment of the court’s judgment was made by the chief justice, but there was.no wntten opinion-. ~ The deetsfotf of tne^gytVwis edon the decision of the last term in the case of Hodges vs. the United Poultry. . .. —M-j - . _ ; A jdg bear escaped from some sho,5y peo|/le at Florence on Wednes day night. When they awoke next morning they found the great big d)ear had made tracks for the woods or swamps. Luckily for them it had rained and it was i^n easy thing to track the wanderer. "Panther,” the big dog, a pet in the show, was taken along to trail "Ord Bruin," and about four miles from the city he was locat ed, going In the direction^ dfl the swamp that follows Black Creek. He was retaken and brought back to the city and replaced In bis cage. While'at large the bear had qdite a frolic of 'it, for when he struck the city limits he knew he was "monarch of all he surveyed" and proceeded to slay chickens and the like, at one place managing to capture a good sized "shout." Col. KHIOd by Train. At Milwaukee, Wls., Wednesday night six persons were instantly kill ed arid four were njured when a southltound Chicago and Northwest -orit ’flyer plowed- through a throngp oF OH8- iaK/,p.iru The IwiHles’nf flvUTIrien anrl Bryan and Roosevelt. Geo. Harvey, editor of Har pers Weekly, thinks the financial flurry of the past few weeks "marks the beginning of the end of the po litical careers of both Roosevelt and Bryan, and that a sane man will be elected President one year hence.” The Charleston Post does not agree with Mr. Harvey.. The Post says "now and again somebody rises up. like Col.Tfarvey, with a fine academ ic protest against the way of things * and laborers. The bodies of five Then and a boy were hurled through the air by the train. negroes are citizens they must rely upon the state courts in such cases as this rather than upon the federal courts. Irr that caae the court held that it had no jurisdiction of a‘charge of conspiracy made in a state^to-pre- vent citizens of African descent, be cause of their race and color, from making contracts to labor. TRAMPS KILL FOR LOOT. Indians Killed in Fight. sin a battle between Ute Indians and United States troops, In which six Indians were killed. No soldiers were killed or wounded. McElmo Is on Montezuma county close to the Navajo, reservation. Keep the Record Straight. The Washington Post, which poses as an inHpppndpp^ papor r hnt which if* -Through a discovery made in Buf falo, N. Y., evidence has been ob tained that three men, whose bodies have been found along the Lake Shore Rail road, in Northern Indiana, in the last week, were murdered by tramps. J. W. Murphy, forty years old, of Colorado Springs, was found dead in South Bend, Ind.; .Ralph Kyle, twenty years, of Edgerton Ohio, whose body was found near Goshen, Ind., and Henry Rank, sixty years, of Befrion County, Mich., whose body was found in La Porte, Ind., are the men who were murder ed ig < car at Buffalo, in which Murphy was supposed to have ridden with a con signment of horses, and the evidence showing that he had been robbed after a struggle, led to an investiga tion, which showed that all three men had been robbed and murdered by tramp®. It is expected that ar rests will be made soon by the rail road detectives, who are working on the case. Kyle was the first man to meet death. Until the discovery made in Buffalo, it was supposed that he had fallen from a train and was run over. He was killed November *2. Rank was killed last Tuesday, and Murphy met death Thursday night. The car in which Murphy had been riding with the horses was found spattered with blood, ind several small coins were found on the floor. There were other evidences which showed that he had struggled for his life. He was killed by tramps at South Bend, and his body was thrown from the train. Keeping your mouth shut la an easy way not to hurt peoples feel ings. , , £ lieve that Mr. Bryan’s nomination will help the party, its principles and its policies, he will accept the nomi nation whether the indications point to defeat or victory. A defeat can bring no disgrace where the cause is a just one, but cowardice would be disgraceful, especially in one who is as deeply indebted to his part of Mr. Bryan is.— —•:— "The next campaign will be ah ap peal to the public conscience. The in- vestigations have shown not only the corrupt use of large campaign funds, but the only source from which they can be drawn, namely—the corpora tions that seek to convert the Gov ernment into a business asset. The Democratic party stands for the doe- trine of equal rights to all and spec ial privileges to none, and therefore cannot promise favors to favor-seek- ing corporations. If it made such promises to the corporations it would be-guilty of duplicity, for it would have to betray the votets as the Re publican party has done, in order to reward these corporations as the Re publican party has rewarded them. "The Democratic campaign must be carried oft by volunteers who will work because they desire the triumph of Democratic ideas. We cannot hope to appeal to the sordid or to buy the purchable. even if such a course would contribute toward Democratic success. No one should favor Mr. Bryan’s nomination-unless the party is willing to open it books and show where its contributions come from and for what the money is expended. The"Republican party ought to be challenged to conduct its campaign in this open and honest way, and if the Republican leaders refuse to accept the challenge the Democrats can well afford to leave the issue with the public. "An appeal to conscienceJs politi cally expedient, as well as morally right, for the conscience is the most potent force with which man deals. reaHTaRepublicanj^aoer, recently said "whemBryan supplanted Grover Cleveland as a leader, both houses, of Congress were Democratic; Con- neticut, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island were Democratic; New York, New Jersey, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin were Democratic, and Ohio doubtful. Both Senators from New York were Democratic, as were those from New Jersey, Indi ana, and Wisconsin, and there was one jJemocratfr Snnfttnr from OHin r an<J another from Illinois.” This statement was either prompt ed by ignorance or’ viciousness, as IHLAND COUNTY BEATEN. Did Not (Jet Even a Majority of Vota Cart. The effort to form a new county out of portions of Spartanburg, and Greenville Counties to be Itnown as Highland County was defeated at the polls on Tuesday. ' fa r Spartan burg County every box, with the ex ception of Arlington and Wood’s Chapel, voted against the new county. The vote in Spartanburg county is 433 for the new county and 563 against the movement. The vote in Greenville County as .fteard from Tuesday night stand 886 for and 669 against the new county. .. The Efforts of the People of Klloree to (Jet Rid of the Dispensary for Past Thre*' Years Recalled. ■ r ...... ' - - - At_a. meeting of ttre-Oraffgeburg county dispensary board, held on Wednesday, it was agreed to reopen the dispensary at Elloree. Mr. John W. Berry, for several years a well known merchant of Orangeburg and now doing business at Elloree, 4jp« been elected dispenser and is dispos ing of his mercantile business so as to devote all of his time fft maw agement pf the dispensary. „ We have seen no statement from the tjoard as to why the dispensary will be re-established, but we do noi believe the board would force the dispnsary on the town unless a ma jority .had. asked for it. JWe* have heard that the boar had numerous requests to reopen the Elloree dls pensary so sent a representative there to ascertain the-wtshea of the people and-ftis report showed a ma jority df the citizens of the town as desiring to see the. dispensary re.-ett • tabllshed. It s, a,Iso stated on authority that the well known fact of there being several blind tigers in the Elloree section, had nothing to do wiih tlH decision of the board to reestablish the dispensary. They say they wort is greeted with applause, and it looks as if a stand is going to be made for the. principles of the fath ers of the republic. But just as the figltt begins to take shape the chief shouters go up to the White House to make terms and the President takes a new lease of power.” Now, according to the Post, "that is just what has been happening re cently. Mr. Morgan, it is said in Washington, has been visiting the WhiteiHoyse by night for conference with Mr. Roosevelt, and Mr. Gary and Mr. Frick have gone up boldly PB . --- .. . . by day to asR him if they will t)e perr prepared-la-handie (he blind milted to absorb the fennessee Coal and Iron properties into the steel paign against the trusts will be press- recall* the tong, ftard fight made ly.. ie New York World reports that the President is a changed man even in appearance, as thoie who saw him as he passed through New York on election day are prepared to testify The events of the past two weeks in the financial world,” says The World, "have had remarkable effect upon Mr. Roosevelt. The crash of banks, the cry of strangled business, the frightened hoarding of money have deeply impressed him. If final argu- f meat were needed to complete the remarkable change in the nation’s chief executive, it was furnished by the sight of Manhattan’s besieged sky scrapers of finance as his tugboat passed by the foot of Wall street and skirted the Battery.” "No doubt,” says the Post, that is a true depiction. Mr. Roosevelt is an emotional man, and he would very likely look upon the frightened herds of New York’s speculators as typefying panic in all the land, and think thatwas locking upon the ruins of aft’empire wrought by his all powerful word. That is the idea that the financiers are trying to cultivate in him, and they are succeeding, no doubt. It is.said that Mr. Root has the President’s ear again, and we know from what sources Mr. Root This hascome - It would even be possible 8 to persuade the President that his attacks upon wealth were becoming unpopular, and if that could be done there would be an end of them.” "On the other hand,” says the Post,” "there is Mr. Bryan unop- there is not one word of truth in it. ed discreetly, not to say riegligent- !ft'T892 Mr.develand was elected president tfje second time. He car ried all the Southern States and New York, New Jersey, Connecti cut, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and California. Ohio divided her elec toral vote and Massachusetts elect ed a Democratic governor. The Democrats elected a large majority of the House of- Representative and the Senate was also Democratic This all happened m the election o 1892, when Cleveland was electee the second time, t Cleveland was inaugurated March 4, 1893, and for the first time since the war the Democrats were in com olete control of the legislative am executive departments of the gov ernment. What did Cleveland do with this grand victory. He was elected on a tariff reform platform but instead of carrying out his pledges to the people, he cal let Congress in extra session and fas tened thq gold standard upon the country^! payment to Wall Street for the mdney it had freely contri buted to his campaign fund, was in direct violation of the plat form upon which he was elected as it declared for bi-metalism and tar iff reform. This base betrayal of the people by Cleveland was' what wrecked the Democratic party. ThTS94 the biennial elections came on and the people were called on to endorse or repudiate Cleveland, who was then in the middle of his sec ond term. Did the people endorse Cleveland and his administration? No, They repudiated him and his people and they rebuked him in the severest manner. The States qf New York, New Jersey. Connecticut, Mas^|- chusetts. Indianna, Wisconsin and California, aH of which had been carried by the Democrats in 1892, were carried by the Republicans ill 1894 by large majorities. Even the Southern States of Delaware. Mary land, West Virginia and Kentucky repudiated Cleveland and his admin istration by going Republican. It must be remembered, that all these States were carried by the Democrats in 1892. The Republi cans also carried the Hbuse, the Democrats elected fewer members in 1894 than they had elected in many years. The Post tries to cre ate the impression that these States were lost to the Democratic party by reason of Bryan’s leadership, when as a matter of fact they were lost to the Democrats two years be fore Bryan’s leadership began, and when Cleveland had only served two y a ftw voices calling out in the wilderness. He seems to be practi cally certain of the nomination of his party for President, because no in isJtieing exerted. Now, Mr. Bryan has the courage of his convictions, however uncertain his convictions may be. and he is unhampered by , . . . -any traditions of friendship or any administration as no president had actual obligation to the great mon- ever been—repudiated—before—or | eyed interests. - If he set out to war since: "He had betrayed the WILL OPEN AGAIN. The Disponsary Board WIN hit at ENaraa. on his own account he would say that within a few days plenty of Govern ment money would be placed with these Southern banks for all imme diate needs. . - This statement coming from him immediately after his talk with the President is taken to mean that the latter agreed to the request. It Is learned that at least ten per cent, of the funds recently placed with the New York banks by Secretary Cortel you will be placed with the banks of the South Immediately. and that their sole reason fpr reopen ing the dispensary was the expressed trust without interj^renee by the *dali of a majority of the-Elloree eft government, and they are all saying smooth things about him, as they come away satisfied that they may have their way for a while. "Mr. Roosevelt is considerably tamed. He doesn’t like to be point ed to as the destroyer of prosperity, and the captains of finance have al>out persuaded him that the specu ators’ panic is a genuine chill of na tional industry. They have moved the President to revise his message to Congress and it is said that the dooumept will be very mild in its re commendations of legislation rela tive to the corporations. Further more it is promised that the cam- izens that they do so. It can hardly lie true-that over the Ttrotests ofta majority of the citizens in Elloree. the county dispensary board has decided to place the dis pensary back in that town, as stated by.the CSolumbia State. We are sat isfied that if a majority of the peo ple of Elloree do not want the dis pensary that the "dispensary board will not force it on them. Possibly the board has been deceived about the matter. If that is the case the matter can easily be arranged as soon as the trite facts are brought to the attention of the board. The reopening of the dispensarx by WILL MOVE COTTON CROP. RANGERS’GOOD WORK I’resident Roosevelt Promises Gov- ernmenf FUttds to Help: The W*febitagtoQ correspondent of The Np4rs arid Courier says Leroy Pe^ly of. Mississippi calked on the President Thursday in reference to placing Government, frajtds in the banks of the South and'Southwest to move the crop and relieve money stringency. After his conference he stated that he was not at' liberty to disclose what the President said to him, but that ENTERS THE RACE. State Superintendent, of Education Martin Out for Senate. State Superintendent of Education Martin anrioifttces that he will, b® in the fftC® for U. S. Senate language. L Two Mysterious Deaths. W. O. Brown’s child, eight months errr old, and R. L. Lockman's child, 18 monts old, were both found .dead In the loan of Huntersville, N. C. The cause of deaths is unkqown, but the affair has caused consider able- excitement in the town: Both children have been healthy young sters all their lives. - Open Next Year. The directors of the lamestown Exposition the other evening unani mously accepted a cpimpittee report favoring keeping the Exposition open next year, provided $200,000 can be raised by popular subscription. the people of Elloree to get rid of the dispensary and means probably the' will make another effort along the same lines. The efforts to remove the dispensary started about three years ago . A petition was forward ed the State board of dispensary di rectors asking them to close the El loree dram shop. It was signed by all except four or five of the voters of the precinct and the State board decided to order the place closed. However, the dispenser, J. M Weeks, brought action before the su preme court to order the dispensary reopen on the ground that the Brie* law had been violated and that under that law the board had no right to close any dispensary, where the coun ty retained the institution as a whole, juftt as the board was required to close ali dispensaries when, under thr same law, they were voted out. This contention of thJ dispenser was sus tained by the supreme court and tin dispensary was^reopenad,— Whcn the Carey-Cothran act k-as passed the citizens of Elloree-again Low Prices : Pit Owarmntccd Ruffians on ths MsxIcm Borior r Art Mv WMdtd Out Smugglers, Train Robbers, Murder ers, Cattle and Horse Thieves Re- . cehe Their Deserts, i. Smtigglera, stage robbers and cat tle thieves, who used to prosper on the Mexican border, are finding their business’' too uangerous to pursue. They are migrating to more congen ial quarters. Some have been sent to their graves or to prisons by the . rangers of the Southwest. The work of "cleaning out the country” was given over to the rang- . ers only six years ago. The ruffians took the undertaking as a joke. They declared they knew no law save their own will and no force of men could ever eompel them to cease their law less life. But the joke has turned and the men who laughed are either dead, In priaeffrcffTh fear olf capture for crimes committed or attempted. A recent dispatch from Yuma., Ariz., is the best evidence of whV the rangers succeeded. It follows: "In a fierce battle on the desert, SO miles from Gila "Bend, Sunday in vigorous'* 'morning. F. S. JWheeler. ranger, sin- , tIc. handed, killed James Herrick arid 'JeuHey^'Jw8 ^desperadoes. Both 7 weft 19 orr er ts and Herrick (was a They were wanted for _ Eyes Accurately Fitted BYMAIL Fromm fltiod to fueo porfoett* FREE •xomlmotioo Marta CRYSTAL OPTICAL COMPANY SU Tcwple (hurt. AUaatu. Qs. SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS £2 —ON—' /HANGS AND ORGANS FOR THE NEXT FEW WEEKS. 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Rynning. lieutenant in the Rough Rider regiment in the Spanish-Araer- ican war, is in command of the 26 Arizona rangerA_^: The Mexican border was a lawless district before the year 1001. Train robbers, bank breakers, cattle thieves arid criminals of every kind flourish ed They committed de ired^ttons on the American side and the ncross- ed to Mexico. Moonshiners operated In every quarter. No revenue officer that ap proached the distilleries in the de sert land was ever known to return. Then came the rangers in 1$01. They are determined and are generally anc- eeasful, because they are not afraid to shoot and are expert riflemen. The ruffiatft are acquainted with both of these facts and are making them selves scarce. THE ONLY HOUSE In Columbia, South Carolina, making a specialty of handling every th! hk in the Machinery Supply Line. v W’rite us for prices before placing order elsewhere. ________ COLUMBIA SUPPLY CO.. Oolumbia, 8. C. 1 On corner opposite Seaboard Air Line Passenger Station. mr.de a strong effort to have thh place closed under the opportunities giyen under the act for local Self-govern ment. They presented a petition tc Gov^ Ansel-and also wrote Attorney General Lyon for an opinion on_the matter;—Before any TesT was made however, the county board of Orange burg announced that the place would be closed and up to the time of the election of a dispenser recently the ^k»ee has been without a dispensary. The State says recently, however. posed in the Democratic party save some of the leading citizens of the by a town heard that the county board contemplated reopening the dispen saryv-aiuL-akhough they were inform ITorma for Sale. tyfe iu Habersham County?*Ga., that will produce a bale of Cotton, Corn. 35 bus. Wheat, *00 bus. Potatoes, 4 tons hay per acre, other crops that grows in the ground according at from $3 to acre, on very easy terms. Also fine wafer powers, timber and ' land at less-thun cash value. Write for long list and prices, be interested when ytro-took-ir over Address: * ' ~ 50 bus. and all $10 per mineravj You will J. H. HICKS, €LARKE8Y1LM:. (JA. ed by members of the board that this telligent effort to keep him out of it (wrouTd fiol be rfone^against the win upon wealth he wouldn’t let up when the rich began to squeal; indeed that would probably spur him to redoubl ed effort. He could look upon a mon ey panic with considerable equani mity, if not with satisfaction, as Rfs r enemies will believe. Mr. Bryan is, at least, no molly coddle, Were he in the White House today the magnates would not find it easy to stop him from hitting them when they were down. He would have no Elihu Root at his elbow to whisper moderate words info his ear. In short Mr. Bryan would come very near to being the real thing which Mr. Roosevelt pretends to be. Let us be perfectly sure that the men whu are now howling against Mr. Roosevelt would shout most lustily : 'or him to save them from Mr. Bry an if there should appear even a pos sibility of the Nebraskan’s preva- ence. "So. it will depend upon whether the appetite of the people for radi calism has been appeased as to whether or not Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Bryart are to pass from the stage next year and make way for more quiet performers. If jt be reaspn- abiy certain that the Democrats will nominate Mr. Bryan at the time the ■ national conscience has already bi en aroused and a large majority years of his second term. Brvan’s l &!P ub lican convention meets, and or the voters have been educated to * * —*' the necessity of real reform—a re form that will make this Government i of th* party be- . / r mocratic to convince the voters that it can be entrusted with the work. of reform, and nothing will do more to convince the public than a refusal to negotiate with predatory wealth and an honest appeal by hbneat methods to the honest sentiment of the coun try.”. leadership of the Democratic party began in 1896, two years after Cleve land had wrecked the party almost beyond resurrsection. The fact that Bryan revived the party and brought out under KIs leadership the largest vote it ever polled in a presendential .election proves that he is a match less leader, and worthy of the con fidence and support of the people.— Orangeburg Times and Dement. sighs point to the gathering of a for midable following after him, the Morgans and the Garys and the Frick, and the Harrimans, who are practical men, and even the Harveys, perhaps, who can be persuaded to reasonably practical views, may lead the cry for Mr. Roosevelt to take the field once more. When it comes to- choosing between two radicals they will every time take the on* who can be stopped short of doing things and that one ia Mr. Roosevelt. -Or- Democrat. ' - of the majority, a petition, signed by nearly every taxpayer An the tnwnahlp In y^hich the town is located, was presented to the l>oard. Since then, however, according Rev. John -A. Brunson, one of the leaders in the fight to keep the dispen sary away, others have been at work for the dispensary and the decision of the Orangeburg- board means that soirie legal steps will be taken to keep it closed and—should there be no section in the present law war ranting this—that an amendment will be introduced at the next session of the general assembly making- it possible. The contention that a county board has no right to close any plac# open at the time of the passage of the Garey-Cothran act is easily overcome by the paragraph giving county boards authbrity to fix the salaries of dispensers. A salary of $1 per year would rhake it impossible to se cure a dispenser. This advice was given by a State official once, unoffi cially. We are very , certain that the'dis pensary board have no disposition to force the dispensary on Elloree, if a majority of the people there Sre not In favor of It. Let the niattef be thoroughly canvassed for and against and then let a vote be taken of the qualified voters on the subject and see how the matter stands. Take a vote, so as each man can vote his opinion. In that way the wishes of the people can be had, and in no other way. Somq men may be in favor of the dispensary but do not care to herald their request to the world by-signing a petition to rees tablish it, and the same may be said of some-who oppose its reestablish ment. LOOFC FOR THE TRADEMARK U uu-uns tha^ we are manufacturers and sales agents for complete Power Plants, In steam of gasoline, Statkm- ^—^2- ary and Portable BoHera; SawHftTt*, " Kdgers Planers, Shingle, Lath, Stare and Corn Mills"and anything in.Ma chinery. Our stock ia large, our prices are right and oar goods guar anteed, . v Write for Free Catalog. o GIBBES MACHINERY COMPANY, Box SO, Columbia, 8. C. IVMUSIM. 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