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Ulh? Hamburg iHirralh KSTAIil.ISHKI) APKIL, 1891. Thursday, Nov. 16, 1916. The price of groceries and commodities of all kinds is something awful. We are mighty glad the farmers are coming into their own, but the fellow who does not possess any cotton is catching the mischief now. Every now and then we notice some paper buys itself a new dress. I The Johnston Times is the latest to make marked improvement. The pa-| per has recently installed a linotype machine, and it is now one of the best printed and best edited newspa pers that come to our exchange table. We congratulate Editor McGhee. Considering the amount of money the people of Bamberg spend with the merchants of Orangeburg, it is a strange thing that the Orangeburg merchants cannot get after the authorities of that county and get them to do some work on that part of the Orangeburg road that lies in Orangeburg county. The road is in a fierce condition. That was an excellent recommendation of the grand jury that Bamberg county purchase a road tractor, ^ and we hope that the suggestion will be carried out. Supervisor McMillan is building some good roads in the county, but it is utterly impossible for him to keep them up properly under the present system. As the matter now stands, the county is building good roads and allowing them to go to ruin for lack of repair. A road tractor could, we believe, scrape ten miles of roads a day, maybe more. By keeping the machine steadily at work repairing roads, every mile of good roads in the county could easily be kept in excellent repair, and thereby save the county hundreds of dollars; for if the roads are not kept in proper ' ' repair it will be but a short time before they will have to be rebuilt at large cost. In the leading editorial of the Charleston American of November 10th, headed "Mine Enemy's Book," appears this statement: "Every man who understood the primary oath to include the Democratic electors was bound also. But every man who understood it to mean, to'hat has always heretofore been its meaning, that it bound him only as to primary nominees and not on presidential electors^ was free to vote the electoral ticket of his choice. This is what we did; and after the greatest amount of conscientious hesitation we voted the Wilson ticket, largely because we could not vote the Republican ticket, certainly not at all because we felt in the remotest bound by the primary oath." We do not know who wrote xne editorial in tne American, out' Mr. John P. Grace is the the accredited editor of that newspaper, and it is to be presumed that the article was from his pen. Our information is that Mr. Grace did not vote at all in the general election. Will Mr. Grace or the American kindly enlighten us> on this matter? Here's how one of the big news gathering agencies had the election figured out. in the newspapers it represented. Wednesday morning. Many of the New York and other newspapers carried the story: Charles Evans Hughes add Charles Warren Fairbanks have been elected president and vice president of the United States by a majority of approximately 110 in the electoral college. Hughes now has 297 votes; v Wilson 187. The Republican candidates have made almost a clean sweep of the Northern, Eastern and Western . . States. So complete was the Republican sweep that there seems to be a probability of an overturn of the Democratic majority in the house of representatives. A It V) mi p-h oil tha Wilcnn nntrc-r\o ... v4Qaa v?<* viiu ?? xm/vii iic ?? c^a~ pers in Greater New York conceded Hujrhes's election Dy midnight, the Democratic managers steadfastly insisted that Wilson had been elected. All of which shows that the big fellows don't know a great deal more about a presidential election than other folks. Of course the Democratic newspapers will have to be pardoned for making a few jibes at the Republican papers; and the coldfooted New York Wilson papers will have to also come in for a little ridicule. The reelection of President Wilson is one of the wonderls of the century. When it is recalled that the president lacked something like two million voies or receiving a majority four yea^s ago, it will be seen what difficulties surmounted his race this year, when he was pitted against a solidified Republican party. The best part of the campaign this year, from a Southern point of view, is that Wilson was elected without the help of New York, New Jersey, Illinois, or Indiana. These States no longer control the elections. It has heretofore been considered impossible for a president to be elected without carrying at least New York and several of the other States mentioned. "As New York goes, so goes the election" is no longer applicable. The great West has awakened to the fact that when it votes almost solidly in favor of a president, the North and Middle West cannot cast the deciding ballot. Wilson and peace, or Hughes and a possibility of war seemed to have been the way the situation was sized up. The Western wheat planters realized the jeopardy in which their product was placed. The election of Hughes meant at least a stronger possibility of war than the election or' Wilson. With war between the United States and any European country, the exportation of wheat would be stopped. The wheat planters are now receiving nearly or quite $2.00 per bushel for their product, i With the exportation stopped, the; price would drop to almost nothing, j as cotton dropped when the European war first started. ^ Diplomacy. "Papa," inquired a young hopeful, of some seven summers as he looked j up from a book he was reading, j "there's a word here which puzzles' me?diplomacy?" "Diplomacy, my son," and the old; man smiled paternally as he said, "it means this: Doing or saying'precise-! ly the right thing at precisely the right time." "Ah!" retorted the young hopeful,, "then I guess I exercised diplomacy last night." "How, my boy?" inquired the fond I parent. "Why I rolled Johnny over into my j place just before ma came in with the j castor oil, and then back again just before she came to the other side."? wasningion rose. ^MASTERS SALE. I By virtue of a decretal order di- j rected to me out of the Court of Com-. moil Pleas in the case of Farmers & I Merchants Bank vs. Viola Drawdy, et i al., I, the undersigned Master, will j on the 4th day of December, 1916, j the same being sales day in said I month, in front of the Court House ! door, Bamberg, S. C., offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash the j following described lands: All that piece, parcel, or tract of j land, situate, lying, and being in the county and State aforesaid, contain- j ing one hundred acres, more or less and bounded North by other lands of Viola Drawdy, East by lands of Mrs. lone T. Kirkland, South by lands of J. W. Smith and West by Wards Branch and lands of W. C. Kirkland. j Terms of sale, cash; purchaser to pay | for papers. H. C. FOLK, Master. . j Contractor and Practical ; BUILDER Will furnish estimates on i any size job. * Also on all kinds concrete i work and deep well and water supplies. L. L.CHARTRAND ! ST. MATTHEWS, S. 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