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There la no hotter rewseiy ferthe— c«a«ie« dtoe^sae* than DK. TVTTS UVER PILLS, m a trW w» prom Take No Substitute. e»*. WtillNHSDAY AUG. 29, 1006. Mr. J. E. Peurlfoy who has bee* •Alter and owutr of the Kalterboro Press aud Standard for asrersl years, he* sold the pa|ier to Mr. W. W. Rmoak, Jr , and will retire from journalism whuh we regret. Mr. Peurifoy gives up Mis newspaper in order to devote his •ttUi r lime to his profefwiou of law, he I*«***»..ig a lai-^e and growing practice o Mr. Suuak isa gradnate ot toe citadel, mud has been principal of the Walter- boro graded school, bat for the lent few jeers has been cashier of the Farmers aud Merchants Bank of Walterboro. Be la a brave and bright young man and ■V rill he an addition to gonth Carolina THB ELECTION. _ The election held yesterday was but the expression of a preference by indi vidual votes of their choice for officers to serve the ensuing term. Taken in the aggregate we have the Will of a majority, and the candidates so favored ’ b) the voters are ’‘electwl.” Of cours?, j all of the candidates could not be j elected. Some of them must of neces sity bow their head in defeat. To such we would say: Be a man. Do not le disgruntled, bat be the first to oiler your hand in congratulation to the sue* 0 ssful aspirant. Bid him God speed. Sympathize with him, for' an office holder this day and time needs more * genuine sympaiay than a mnn with leprosy. Don t say hard things abooi .he ma:i that won, others will do that 4 for you during the next two years Don't ory c ver yonr defeat, Gat up and try again. Superb manhood is built ou the foundations of defeat. be It in p **■ whatever field the effort wee first made. Sometimes the things ws want are not KUKAL POUCH. W e reproduce this week an article from The News rfnd Courier in advoca cy of rural police which we commend •o the careful consideration of our leaders. In norther county do condi tio ns demand snob a police system more ■o than in onrs, and we hope soon to know every township is petroled by a •Donated uniformed officer of the law. If his services are never needed the effect of such a force as deterrent agents -WfH! he worth the expenditure. AN URGENT NEED. We have thought for some time that Colietou County could not expend a •nmU sum to better advantage than in n the purchase of a pair of good blood «bounds. We are now in the light of cf receut events, more convinced than •ver tluii wo need thu .t Ided saiegnard. As longas the jail staudo in it* present ®o*»ditU'U, pxisoners av 0 Ukelv to escape. Blood hound* would be invaluable in tracking them. A crime is committed. The criminal Seeks to esoape. Blood bounds are iavalaable in tracking him Aown. Xhe purity of tfnme home" is violated. The traducet' ('scapes. How •nt»y to bunt him down if blood hounds it •nt quickly oa the pcene We refer this mutter to the proper •nttioriUes for action. The need is lu the State campnigu meeting lit Grei-uViUc, A. C. Jones Injoame iucenved ... * • •t Jcel E. Brunson, hot!' caudblates for gc^ern ir, and slapped hii» face. Mr Bruuson is a < ue-nrmed man and every where indignation is fell that Mr Jones should have lowered his manhood by •triking aono-armM rpnn. At Laurens Mr Brurson in speaking of it sajd he ctirtd not swear at Jones, but after reading w hat he says, wc shall all »d* that m cotapansta any “cuss” Word would seem tame: '•lako the character of f^nilp from •Old Curiosity febop,’ and transform his greed for gold into greed for office. Then take the ctiaracter of darker from •Oomhey and Son’ for his hypocrisy; Urn* take the character of Arbaoes from Mdw. Mulwer Lyttou’s ‘Last Days of FD•lMii , for hi# nitrewd low canning; take from the Gospel as written by of Judea Iscariot journalism. While we sincerely regret- tbe things fo* ns to have. In the retirement ol oar friend Penrifoy, we rejciop that his place is to be filled •0 well .-^Bamberg Herald’ 1 U...C* . , to protect, if need be, to the extent of life itself. Such aoticn on the pert 9! tL's sheriff and hi^ deputy is a disgra* e to IX^rchoster «or.u4y and to Souib Carolina, They are no less guilty cf the murder of Willie Spain then the mob who *hot him to death. We hope Governor Heyward and Solicitor Hildebrand will probe this lynching to the bottom, and see that those guilty ot this crime pay the full penalty of the law. jn»e lew as to prisoners being taken from law officers by a mob is as follow*: t “Sec. 12S. In the case of any person lawfully In charge, custody or control offtny office, State, county or mnnici* pel, being seized end taken from and offioed through his negligence, permis sion or connivance, by a mob or other utdnwiul assemblage cf per*onn and at their hands setturing bodily violence or [ death, the mid officer shall be deemM guilty of a misdemeanor and upon true bill found shall be deposed from his office pending his trial, and upon con viction shall forfeit his office, and shall, nnless pardoned by the governor be it eligible to hold any office of trust of profit within this* State. It shall be the doty of the prosecuting attorney within whose circuit or county the offeuse may he comm, ted ro lorth- with institute a prosecutic" against said officer, who shall be tried in s^'b ,onu* ty in the same circuit other than the otfis in which the offense was commit- tad, as the attorney general ^may elect. The fees and mileagsT of- all material witnesses, both for the State and de- fensivfchall be paid by the Stare treas urer on a certificate issned by the clerk and signed by the presiding jndge, showing the amount of fold fees doe the witneM. ,< it MlAi 4. - everything it is for the best. “There is a divinity shapes oar end* Rungh-hew them how we may.” We would nrge the successful caudi- date* not to^prget tluu they have by the voice of (he majority become public servauts, not public masters. There have been promises made in the cam paign that must be fulfilled. A con- " '1 .0 V tract has thereby been made, the terms of whioh are just as binding as if it were in legal form and duly executed. Tou have assumed voluntarily the responsibilities of yonr office, and you will be held to the performance of yonr duties. Let u* forget the strife of the compaign and all together work for the glory of Oolleton—than which there is to grander eounty. • • 0 Gentlemen we congratulate yon. — • ■ ANOTHER LYNCHING. Verily we cannot contemplate the frequency of unlawful killings by mobs without experiencing c fecliug* of horror. When the orinxd is such as that coirmlttftd by Bob Davis in Greenwood C’ouuty, v e can condoue tbo act of ihe mob. In that esse the crime <‘oiomit* tsd was one extremely revolting and rsleulated to aronse all the imlignution of our Southern manhood; the mob wns composed of the best, citivons cf an entire section of the State: ami the negro who commiUei the criTie had not been in the custody of an officer of the low. As we said last w^V we, are opposed to lynch law, but ta such cases as v the above, until onr laws are so amended ns to make the punishment sure and swift, we would not condemn such a lynching. fc But we do condemn and denounce j such mob violence as wu* enacted in in their hearts that a would-be rapist onr sister county a few days ago. In this lese the negro had only attempted to break in the house. Perilap* his sole 1 so in the deterrence of punishme nt, object was to steal. From the reports I fil° r ying so in the display of knowl* this seem* prolwble. He wu* caught; on technksalitiosfThat the Vote and turned over to the sheriff of the '8 often allowed •!! extra and unde* county who locked him in .. A 1 on ^‘ e * Wrongwl men “mob” composed of about fifteen men j With this, came to the jail ahd overpowered ( v )| fourth, the fact that the sheriff and his deputy, took the prisoner, carried him to the neighbor hood of his attempted crime and shot him to death. ^ . If reports be true the sheriff of Dor chester County must be eadly in need of some red blood corpuscles. It is au Lynch Law. There teems to be do way to stop lynch law except there b ; .ound a way^o stop the crime ti/ul bring! swiftly in its wake the lypching* In our sane, sober moments, and when it is some other mao’s wife daughter, or sweetheart that ii assaulted we may say ‘ let the law take its coarse.” And it is true that the law should take its course but it never will, so long as the blood that runs in our veins is the blood of freemejx snd brave men. That’s all there is to it. Let the rapist oease upon the earth, then will oease the spirit of ivnehing. But so long as it doe^ exist there seems to be no remedy, a sad fact, but verily the truth; and we had just as well face it and be done with it. We stand for law and order al ways and everywhere. But Is it not thinkable that our state's laws are at fault and inadequate? If not, why such frequent violations by sane and sensible mui; for some of our very best citizens, law-abiding and true, are members of these lynching par ties? 1 >0 they not jee and feel that they must - net in defense ot their homes? The very faci of so much lynching gives food for thought along this line. 0 Here, we thick, are four causes why lynch law | revails: First and foremost, the crime which the lynchers seek to avenge. It is of such horrible nature that' mcii’a blood boils and clamors for speedy retribution. Second, an attempted rape is not punishable by death, and men know* merits death, nothing less. Third, our lawyers seems to glory ininU td the intelligence of any right thinking perocu to believe for an in- ■wd toll them into one human akin, and 4 aLt that a “mob” of fifteen persons, 1 present to you Adam Oranc Jones.”* could so awe a brave sheriff and hts -n* crowd cu**red Brunson and jeered . deputy as to cause them to unlock their Jones •derisively. [ jail and taro over to tbt mob's tender! (Union Times) must appear in the court before a gap ping, curious, vulgar crowd and tes tify to her shame. These seem to us to lie the causes of lycbing, and until these causes, of which lynching is only the result, are removed we may expect lynch law to countinue. The- legislature of ISouth Carolina may just as well take up the matter, for something be done. Lynching will continue unless there is a change, and if not, we may ex- ject a veritable rei; of terror.— Alteration Sale i> Reduced Prices On All Lines We Must Close Cut Ra Many Good* as Possible To Make Room for Important Alterations. The headlines tell the story in * wotsheil. As you may - have heard we have planned a thorough remodeling of this store. We are going to make it over into the best equipped and hand- * somest business estalMi«hrr.ent in town K-ir the next three or lour week^ carpenters he busy renovating and remodeling "the in tire a«.ot and interior of store. x t * And we want to get the goods out of their way just as much as we can. With a sffivfc turned topsy-turvy, there is great danger of grWb being damaged; there is in any case, great inconvenience in moving them about from one part of the store to another. So, to avoid all the trouble we c»n we are going to let you have almost anvthing fou want from this stock at a price that will make i pay you well to buy it now. In this “Remodeling Sale,*’ we shall put greatly reduced prices on eve ything Mens Clothing, Boys Clothing, Shoes Hau, Underwear, Shirts and everything elan Uie store . contains. , « The New Store Just a word about the new store. Tbe splen did growth of our trade for the pait two or three seasons has been ihc direct inspiration which has set us at work transforming the store mw a hand some, up-to-date place of business. Both the appearance and the convenience of the store will be vastly enhanced. The fittings and general arrangements will be attractive in the highest degree: while the stock will oe dis played to much better advantage and me e r vtnience of shoppers will be in all way* grea liy facilitated. BWrk TAYLORS BSKfil o We have anticipated your every wish and. req' ice ment in th e way of Fall goods, and will appreciate a call. Our line of goods are coming in C* every steamer, and we are Opening them" up. Our show fng will eclipsp, all of our former efforts and Rr styles and ^ v . up-tp dateness, will be equalled by but rsw and ex celled by none. We are prepared to prove it if you / . ■ • ». ’•"■eeksiiroi let us. We have ibpught Jwith-the-crop condition in view and the prices will be accordingly. •TAYLOR’S. • “'V'. ;V*. ‘ : A ■