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CAMPAIGN MEETING AT SNIDERS. ^ • The First Meeting Somewhat Exciting in Spots- Padgett and Murray Exchange ComplmenU. asked him to read^iis card as publish ed. Mr. Padgett had favored an inves tigation of the county office and was Messrs ready and willing to have it made. Here he held Mr. Murray up to ridi cule and stated that a cheap John who offered to do your work for nothing i would bear watching. The incident was allowed to rest here for the present, but there is con siderable feeling over the matter. CIRCULAR ANSWERED. very much mistaken there are hun dreds more f>eople in this county Certain Charge, in. Cir-^ M cuUr of Supervisor Moore. In the presence of about one bun- , good salary. He had done what he dred voters and one lady, the half a could for the women, and now he hundred candidates seeking county j desired the voters to help put his offices were heard yesterday at' wife in jail, and he thought the peo- and it wdll not be surprising if more is Sniders. It was a patient crowd to pie would find his wife could cook listen to the fervid eloquence of so j as well as the wife of the present many orators from 10:30 a, m. till incumbent. He was not a speech nearly five o’clock. Today Rice maker, but would do his duty as Patch has the honor- Tomorrow, best he could if elected. Lodge Friday, Smoaks and Saturday Bells will receive visitations. J w HILL. Chairman M P Howell took this when he was in the legislature help- He believes he can fill it with credit r brtunity to thank the people of ed to cut the salarv of the sheriff and ability. county for the honor of oeing from $1500. to $1200. and he was , w rARSO N their county chairman. While he willing to accept the same now, as had his political friends at any other 1 he believes this amount enough. w *8 surprised that all the man has, in the discharge of his For ten years he was the servant of candidates had ignored the one duties as county chairman he pro- the people in the State Legislature, lady present. He had once offered * ' ‘ ‘ * for magistrate and was beaten by two votes, for which he was thank ful. If he makes this speech and two more public speeches, it will make three. If he could get the office by fair means he would appre ciate it. on was selling, late "They have got their eyes open to ° now" and "Pinkey" and I helped to not heard of it. AUDITOR. P. M. Buckner has been for sever al days very unwell and is hkrdly able today to stand up. The audi- torYoffice is an important office. contends that this amount is exhor* bitant and pretends to be saving the W. W. Smoak, Jr.. Replies to j who think so and think so strongly i county hundreds of dollars per year too, They are like the Episcopal on this contract. Why was he so in finding this out? If it was much in l‘.H>7, was it pot too much in 19<)f>? It is not the dear Supervisor J. E. Moore, has eircu- 1 open them. people’s money he wished to save, lated oVer this county a circular let- The Supervisor says: "At the hut it was to vent his spleen against November term of Court last year me for daring to let the people know these slanderous insinuations were how much money he was sinking in brought to the attention of the grand jury and that body w’as asked to investsgate the same. I presume he meant investigate the cost of the ter in which he makes a statement concerning recent headlines in The Pfress and Standard over Me Gruber’s article, and concerning certain claims presented by The Press and Standard against the county, which he contends were fraudulent. the hole on the court hhuse square. Why did the supervisor take thia matter so much to heart? The Town Couneil and Intendant of the to be absolutely fair. It is a He spent more money there than he great privile r e to meet together: had made. His services were need- nere and to discuss the issues of the ed at home. He then accepted the day, and every man has an equal position as dispenser, but only after voice in choosing those who shall hit ki ' represent them. Mr Howell ap pealed to all to conduct a clean campaign and to give every one fair play. If he were to offer a man here one dollar for his vote he woud expect a physical encounter, bat there are men who will vote itchen, smoke-house and potato house, were burned, he in his did* tress applied for the position as dispenser, and he had filled it with as much honor as any man ever filled a position in a dispensary. Hia record was before the people and he asked an investigation. If elected linst a man on account of preju-! he would do his duty. This man is just as guilty asi * t pmir one who sells his vote' The time passed when campaign meetings had never been a public servant, but dice. well. If the grand jury did investi- town were equally responsible and we This circular letter purports to be was a purely one-sided inves- ^ ave n< >t heard that they became of- tigation. In fact, their report shows fended at our giving the people the that they simply had the evidence facts in connection with the well, offered by the Supervisor. The in- The fact of the matter is that the ference is plain from their present- supervisor is using his high office to in justification of his course in re ference to the waterworks. There is so little in it worthy of attention that, ordinarily, I should refuse to H. w. DUBOIS cannot be accused of running for the office because the salary has been raised, as hejhas been a candidate several times. He hoped to go in this time as he * ished to pay the ex pense of the numerous campaigns. should result in personal encounter. It should be intellect against intel lect, principle against principle. COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT OF EDU CATION T B Caldwell thinks the he had been three years. a confederate soldier He only in this did his E. M. JONES made his first attempt at speech- duty. He asked for the office and he I making. His platform is efficient wanted the people if they thought he a*™ 0 * and long service as a book- was suited to be sheriff, to vote for keeper, which qualifies him for the ! him. He did not know, the meaning He lived next door to the most of fear, but he did know the meaning eour ‘t house and could thus give important thing today is education.; of love. The sheriff should he a Teachers should be jer»coura«ied to lamb and a lion. His competitors educate the head and the heart, and were all his friends. The county this should be done at home. He chairman has starteti out with the explained the high school Act. He biggest animal show on earth, and will visit if elected, every school in he did wise to exhibit them one at a the county. His eight years ex- time, perience will help him to see that j G - OWFNS the branches are properly taught. He will palcesffiooi hooks in every four years ago a«ked the poop'* for the same thing he aspires for today. He has been sheriff twelve years. He is in and his opponents are try- His opponents are, his best friends. If more of his time than any other candidate. A. A. PATTERSON thought that it tnere was a lot of work in the office, as Mr. Buckner says, he" wa; gal of it. for there would t*e more pay. His big home Aould tie open and he could promise his friends would not be waked early by children crying.,, reply to it. but for the fact that this is intendetTto do me injury on the eve of election. Of course, I do not believe anyone will attach impor tance to these vapid utterances. They will be recognized as a desper ate effort of “your Supervisor" to retain his hold on the public pap. It is a kind of "drowning man catch ing at a straw" act. He evidently thinks the people of Colleton County the biggest fools in the world. His contention in this circular is that the headlines in the article of Mr Gruber published in our issue of July 22, are false and that there is nothing in Mr Grubei’s article to justify the use of such headlines. These headlines were: "A Perpetual | Contract. Colleton County Pays ment that the grand jury did not approve of the well. They say: "We may not approve of the town and county owning a well together. We are of the opinion that if a mistake was made it was one of judgment and not one of bad faith." I never charged the Supervisor with bad faith but I have held from the beginning that his entering into this contract with the town was bad judgment. As a public officer his public acts are subject to criticism. And the fact that he is so sensitive to such criticism is evidence that vent personal spite, thus prostituting it. Because of this he has forbidden the county officers from getting any supplies for their offices from The Press ane Standard, and has sent off all the job printing of the county officers and had it done out of the county, when it has been done here tofore at home. In addition to thia he has not done any advertising from his office since Dec. 1906 for bids for supplies nor for contracts etc. If his desire is to save the people money, why d ^es he not let out this county work on s competitive basis? SAM B SAUNDERS can say that hU competitors are good men. He was ejected ten years ago the people thought him the best man county superintendent of educa tion, and he did his duty there. If | elected, he shall do his duty as audi- TREASURER. ' tor. township if possible Hugo S Strickland would not make a personal campaign. Two years ago he made his first speech ing to get in. here. The county superintendent | some of them, of education should visit the schools. It is his duty and is absolutely neces- vote for him sary. In reference to the school books, he believed they should lie placed in different sections of the: A. Q. Lyons is a candidate for F0U t ^e legislature county. Great care should be taken Treasurer and is in the race for husi-j w in the granting of certificates to ness. He wnll not make a long ^ ^ “rant whs at home at teachers. i speech. * Sniders. It elected he would try to Dr H W Black, the {^ent in- ' ' matvin | be a servant of ihe people, and no law cumbent, explained that on his cam- ' he could help pass would effect others paign, he had promised that "if the gets on the stand to allow the people differentlv from him, as he was one people desired it" he v.ou d hav th' to look at their next treasurer. He of the peop'e. the books placed in more than one had no speech to make. gtoofi squarely on Democratic place. For the reason that the R c j ()NKS principles. He believes »e nave too things are not as they should be. The Supervisor refers in his cir- if t^e people of the county are en- cular to certain claims which he has titled to know certain things now by filed in his office, and w'hich he con- ^ public advertising, and they are, tends are fraudulent. w hy t hoy not been entitled to l am informed by a member of same knowledge since "Your One-half the Exjiense of Operating this grand jury that on examining Supervisor" became offended at tho the Town’s Waterworks.-Mr Gru- the vouchers turned over by the i tH j itor of The p re ss and Standard? her Explains." sapervisor to them they were in- 'php above are the consideration* Does it matter what the headlines formed there were some claims vvhich have actuated the supervisor were? Mr Gruber’s article was , ^ ert ‘ w hich were for more than was j n prostituting his high office, and there to speak for itself, and anyone 'lue, and which he (the supervisor) b^ause I would not bow’ down and reading it could judge as to whether | had refused to pay. That the [ have been made the supervisor did not say which claims j object of his slander and invective. or not the headlines were correct, j But they were "contained in Mr i they were, and they did not know Gruber’s article." Now words either mean something or they do not. If they mean any thing then when Mr Gruber says: “and it will also pay one-haL the expense of operating and maintain- I desire to ing the steel tank and tower here- paid me till after the presentment was read that r ference was made to the claims presented by The Press and Standard. In reference to these claims state that he has for similar claims. He has not nor can he offer one fact in contradiction of the facts I have presented a* to the well, and he knows it, therefore he is trying to cover the main issue with vindictive statements that contain meaningless i nothings. I regret exc«*edingly this, to me. after,"he says the tow r n and county These claims were for advertising distasteful controversy. The people are now in possession of the facts and 1 shall refuse tube made a party to any mud-slinging campaign, and I ^ , , , ... . , R. E. JONES school fund was so small, being omy i $300. if divided, it would give only desired to thank the people $25, for each township, he therefore . votes received here two y ranged with The Press and Stand- ’ It is impossible to give t for the ears ago. every man ard to handle them so that every perfect satisfaction in a public office one could get hooks whenever they i such as the treasurer’s. The longer desired. He organized a county ! a man serves the better he is quali- teachers association. He promises ; tied, that if re-elected to visit every j clerk of court. school in the county. have entered into "a perpetual con-. given me by county officers as ad- tract." Then, again. I would like vertising and done for the county, to know if this same quotation does and I presented in good faith. I not mean ‘operating” the “towm’s have nothing to hide in reference to believe the people of the county will waterworks” as well as thecounty’s, these claims and would like for the vindicate my efforts to serve their for wHere will there l*e any “o|>era- people of the county to investigate interests. Respectfully, ting" to do except at the "tower and them. Upon the refusal of the W. W. Smoak Jr., tank?" So it will be seen that the] county supervisor to pay these August, 10th. labor is not what it tCiouid be, but headline "A Perpetual Contract, claims I, at the advice of my attor- ,„, 1 . fi ’ l ^ D i a0 l , “ b ° r Colleton County Pays One-half the neys, and by appointment appeared Town’s before the county supervisor and principles, much law, as some are worthless and conflicting. He. thinks the luuni gration question a serious one. 'i he FOR SHERIFF. DL Smith could not set himself straight on the charges aganist him. in the Legislature he voted for $50, 000. more as confederate pensions; $48,000. for dormitory at Winthrop; voted against the old soldiers home in Columbia, against $500. increase in judge’s salary; against Bureau of Immigration; for 2 per cent flat in crease in taxes instead of 1, 2, and 5 per cent; for more funds for militia; against compulsary education and against marriage licenses; for more money for schools. Charged with ‘Changing position. He has ambition. Favored road law’, and believed jt right. With raising the sheriffs •MUary. He wished to prove by Senator Griffin, if this be true. Senator Griffin, asked if he were present at a conference at the city hotel? Mr Smith said he wail pre sent but took no part in the confer ence. In reference to the question of Mr Smith, he said he. Senator Griffin had made the suggestion that the salary of the sheriff be raised be cause other sheriffs were getting 30 'Cent* a day for dieting prisoners and Colleton sheriff was getting only 2o Mr Smith here denounced the author of the report as being be neath the notice of any democratic voter. Time was called snd Mr Smith stopped in the midst of his P. M. Murray is not a stranger here, having been here time after time for twelve years as a candidate ! for auditor. He had announced two years ago that he would not offer for re-election, hut that it was his pur pose to run for the clerk of court. His card in the j>aper last week is we could im|K)rr. The road question is one of th*» most important. Bid roads cost u« dearly, lie favors the commutation ax, but thinks mauy people would prefer to leave u op tion as to whether or n •; h** pay it. He is in favor of any helpful solution of the road law. The question of euucation is im- Expea^e of Operating the »\ aterworks" IS contained in Mr Gruber’s article. The balance of the headline “Mr Gruber Explains" "Your Supervisor" does not quote. Supervisor Moore pronounces these headlines false, hut later makes the same statement himself, when he portant, CompuUury etiucaiion is ..... needed, but he doubts the wisdom And the county would thereby save one-half the cost of per hundred words ; doing all they can for their children.' digging, equipping and operating e law says the fee , of such a law, as mauy parents arc j BROOK FUNDER. minute of ocfupitd Only about one hJetimeby Writing .piece of poetry md by he wanted every one him md tho. fit; -‘'KKJW ^Wltrofthe J BOBS FOX ef St. Pauli hade right office whkh paid a his platform, of ten cents shall be charged for recording papers and he promises to follow the law. D. B. HUDSON was here four years ago. He is no speaker, but a good thinker uid a good looker, though hi? looks do not show it. He would like to have the job of keeping the public records. e. R. mcteer has been sick for several weeks and is very glad he is able to come here today! He was elected eight years ago to this office. He found the customs and charges the same as they had been for yean and had never had any kick on our charges. If elected, he would have this matter examined and he would do the work as cheap as any other. CAPT. H. D. PADGETT has never called the name of any man in a campaign. He is sorry to have to do so at this time. If die gentleman has known for so long a time that the charges were too large wJgrdM JOHN J. JONES the well THEREAFTER:" He further says; "to have refused had been to this historic spot beforf. L . - . ... . While a .tiuleot of l.« with Gnffi. toenler >nto thie agreement - - & Padgett be c*me here in company wou ^ ^ ave shown that I was either with a young lady, aud ii is s^fe to a fool or utterly disregardful of the ssy he aaked her to marry him for Julies' of my office.” THE FACT reed oat the fee biU which al lowed 10 centa for even hundred words, and for even ptobete md certificate 25 centa. There ia never e feeling Ml He Mr. Marray that there Padgett Jbept every mile ol the way. She promised him to think of it on the last "pop." He favor* the two dollar com mutation tax, but is opposed to any pioperty tax.nnles* the .people desire it. He itoeived his education in the country schools and is in favor of better schools. He is in favor of lower taxa tion. He would favor amending the vagraney law, so that the negio should be forced to work on the farm. He opposes the immigration bureau, and will strive to have this law re pealed and in ita place be would erect an institution to treat those bit ten by mad dogs free of charge. He is a prohibitionist by birth, hot if elected will try to repreeeot the ■ejonty of the people, u the p tiooieti • in or lose he would ■eat the majority vote. In reference fee his oitiseoeaip, he bee out ef the county six ttmei i “ is in flavor of keeping op J. L. miahy that - If prjhi- Mr. Mum* InUrrupm Mffi mi 9 the at a He ■ eulmhfeeoad ege m us. U reference Is the county Board of with witnesses to prove the correct ness of these claims. They refused to even allW us a hearing. From this decision ami acting on the ad vice of my attorneys, who believe in the justness of my claims. I ap pealed to the circuit court. This case is now pending and 1 hope it will be heard as soon as possible. I make the statement here thaf! every claim The Press and Standard has presented against Colleton coun- i ty since my connection with it is THAT HE DID ENTER INTO IT SHOWS THIS CONCLUSIVELY, or it shows that the county supervisors of Beaufort, Sumter, Greenwood, Union, Anderson, Darlington, Ches ter and other counties, who furnish their county buildings with wafer at a cost ranging from $60.00 to $150.00 per year by renting water from the town, as shown in last week's issue ofl^The Press and Standard, are either fools or diaregardful of the duties of their office." To think of this is to laugh. Am editor of The Prem and Stand ard! only kept the people informed as to the program befog made on tha well by telling "Pinkey" each weak how deep it waa. This “Your Super- The following is the itinerary of the campaign party. Speak- Commsssioners ing will begin promptly At 10 o’clock. Sniders, Tuesday Aug. 11; rice Patch, Wednesday Aug. 12; I/xlge, Thursday, Aug. 13; Smoaks, Fridry, Au£. 14; Bells, Saturday Aug.'15; Ilendeiscnville, Tuesday, Aug. 18; } Kavenel, Wednesday, Aug. 19; I Adams Run, Thursday, Aug. 20; Cottageville, Friday, Aug. 21; Walterboro, Satuoday, Aug. 22. just and proper and legitimate, and by proper and legitimate—except in the case of the two first supervisors j ^umlay, August 2nd, at eleven reports which were for more ^han o’clock, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. $15. what the law allows, and then I J. R. Reynolds, a very pretty mari- was ignorant of the proper charge, ^ waa celebrated, when their visor" is tie to cull “» systenm- »» of insinustion and Were not the people en- ^ titled to tUt information? Was it Ik ptiutiog came up. The -i-u w, 1 ft Isgiri—kl BMW lor which thsgr kkord^riidedthkcontract on every |«| that thw *-—^ ^WStltBBOffidri ^ as was the supervisor any sUtement to the contrary by anyone is false. These matters are now before the courts and I do not care to discuss them further at this time. In fact it is not proper for either the Supervisor or me to dis cuss them to try to shape sentiment on these matters that will cpme up before jurors. The supervisor states: “In January, 1907,1 refused to award him a contract to furnish the county advertHing at $600.00 a year. All advertising should be paid for “at so much per inch." Two yean ago the supervisor made a campaign for ra-etectfon and the question of paying $000.00 for pub- wan daughter, Miss Zule Reynolds, be came the bride of Mr. Eddie Gatch. The ceremony was performed by Rev. S. W. Ackerman, in the pres ence of a host of friends and rela tives. The first to enter was Miss Ruby Gatch, maid of honor, and Mr. Willie Reynolds, as best man. After the ceremony a reception was held, at which rake and wine ware served. We wish for Mr. and Mrs. Ghtch a long and happy life. A Friend. August 5th. 1908. and just, and that printing dona waa wall worth what he had paid for It Now, in akaM ha On account of the rampaigfi will have to omit oui tors this week our via- [Continued ea page 1]