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DID THEIR WORK ELECTION PROBERS FIND SOME ILLEGAL VOTES ? IN ANDERSON COUNTY In That County the Investigation Developed Seven Hundred Duplications and Three Hundred Illegal Votes. ? Hearing in Anderson > Thursday Probably Ends the Work, A letter to The News and Courier j from Anderson says at the hearing I held there en Thursday by the subcommittee of the Democratic State executive committe about the thousand votes cast in Anderson County in the primary election of August 27 were questioned. Members of the audience undertook by their comments and otherwise to give a humorous turn to the proceedings. There were only about one hundred persons present. It has been suggested rather freely in advance of the meeting in Anderson that Chairman Stevenson and his committee would find it unhealthy to go there; but, of course, they went, and they are in no respect whatsoever the worse for their going. The audience, indeed as has been slated, managed to extract a considerable amount of entertainment out of the developments as they went along, and then, too, Mr. John T. Duncan appeared and the crowd was permitted to hear his charges of improper use of money in inducing a T?ntir??in Rimnorter to forsake the Dun can standard for $2 per day and work for Judge Jones. The arguments that Duncan offered, as to why the committee should pay his expenses there, were also edifying and interesting. A small sized Blease demonstration also entered as a factor in relieving the monotony of the day. This, however, was rudely nipped in the bud by Chairman Stevenson. The audience, however, freely and generously entered into the proceedings, offering opinions, with request for compensation, on almost any matter in hand. Josh Ashley and his son-in-law W. H. Canfield, participated largely in | tho proceedings Thursday. The lattir, though, was denied the privilege at one time of completing an able and entertaining defence of Anderson County, which, lie said, had been disgraced by the newspapers. The committee Thursday ended its Itinerary to reconvene next t.Monday at noon, in the State Library at Co" Q+otn Democratic com lumuia. iuo wkww ? mittee meets the next day and to that body the sub-committee will make Its report before adjourning. Some special work was apportioned to individual members of the committee. Messrs. Bivens and Jeffries were appointed to visit Orangeburg and inquire into the reported mysterious disappearance of the club rolls and poll lists. It is likely that these gentlemen will confer with Chairman Robert Llde. Mr. Park was instructed to take up Greenwood and Mr. Butler to gather up the documents from Spartanburg. Quite out of the usual, the committee Thursday called by name the duplicates appearing In the report of the Anderson committee, allowing persons in the audience to signify their willingness to make affidavits that there were two of such name. It developed that at least some one person in the audience was able to v " ' ' ? ^ identify a majority me vuieia lhuo questioned. Mr. Ashley, who knows Anderson County pretty thoroughly, was able to furnish a considerable amount of information. When the napie of "J. W. Ashley" was called as appearing at two different polls, Citizen Ashley remarked facetiously: "I am surprised that there ain't mere of them." One name, John Wesley Brown, appeared as having vcted eight times. When Chairman Leon L. Rico of the citizens' committee, stated that he could not make oath as to the correctness of all the figures submitted, there was an outburst from the Blease sympathizers who largely comprised the audience. Summed up, the report of the committee is that there appears to be about 700 duplications of votes and about 300 who have no legal right to vote in the primary. At the Pelzer box it was reported that 35 mer whose names were not on the chit rolls were allowed to vote. It h found, therefore, that of Anderson'! * r> n A ft AT onmntlilm VCtC OI fl,UDU mci u ai u Duiuviuiut over f,000 that aro questionable. Tin merits of the allegations will bo sift ed by the committee. Thursday's proceedings were ham pored by inability to secure a sten ographer. It was stated thero tha the young women stenographer were reluctant about undertakin; the task. Delay was occasioned b discussion of the method of proced ure. Attorney P. H. Domlnick agai called for a ruling as to the specifi scope of the investigation, and Mi K. P. Smith asked a ruling as t whether or not the burden of pro^ ing duplication or repeating in vol ing was with the investigators or th men whose names appeared twic< Chairman Stevenson declared ths the committee with the use of th poll lists and club rolls would b able to unravel the tangles. It wn declared that all the apparent dupl cates who could not be identified b the audience should be published an affidavits secured, either establishin or disproving the voter's right of ba lot. A large part of th# day was cor Burned in the call of names and th 8idc comments. Mr. Ashley expresi ed his opinion quite frequently as t BANK OF Con wa Has largest capital and surplus of ai than the combined capital and surpl CAPITAL STOCK. . .. SURPLUS LIABILITIES OF STOCK SECURITY OF DEPOSIT< 1)1 R FX jbert B. Scarborough, i. L. Buck, Jeorge J. Holiday, We^offer our customers every accc un II in?hfv. anil we s " " J? J t BOBBBT B. SCARBOROUGH, D PBB8IDBVT. 1 We continue to pay 5 per "served him right A STRRET OAR HOG TAOKLEI> THE WRONG CUSTOMER. Young Woman Ho Insulted About Big Hat and Feathers Hands Him Over to tho Police. The New York World says passenirorr. on a north bound subway train o ? - ? - , were attracted Monday by a pretty girl whose large plumed hat was unusually becoming. The train stopped at Fourteenth street and a man got aboard and took the seat next the girl. He seemed inerested in his newspaper, but suddenly he looked angrily at the girl {fid cried: "Those ugly feather things you are | wearing tickle one's face. I wish jyou'dkeep them out of mine." | "They are not ugly," objected the girl, and she turned away. At the next jostle of the train the man slapped at his face and exclaimed: "Keep the blamed ugly things out of my face, will you? It's getting so a peaceable man can't ride one of these subway trains for all the hideous woimens fashions. Then he said a good deal more, telling the girl what his opinion was of her and of others like her. At Ninety-sixth street he was still abusing her when she leaped to her feet, grabbed the man by the arm and shaking him roughly said: "Here's where you get off, and get off with me." The man drew back, but the girl pulled hard ana witn me assiau* HOC I of some passengers he was hauled to r.lie platform, where the girl appealed to Patrolman Verenkomf of the West One Hundreth street police station. "I want this creature arrested for annoying me," she said. At the West One Hundreth street station the girl said she was Lillian Gray, twenty, of No. 317 Halsey St., Rrooklin, and that she was stenographci and secretary to James Regan, proprleter of the Hotel Knickerbocker. The man gave his name as Rudolph Shane of No. 106 West Ninety eight stree. He said ne was a umber. Shane was arraigned in Night Court before Magistrate O'Connor on a charge of disorderly conduct. The magistrate heard both sides of the story and said to the prisoner: "I know women wear big plumed hats these days but it is the duty of men to put up with them. You should have changed your seat if you didn't want your face tickled. I'll ftn?' you $10. Shane paid the fine. Francisco del Valle Frasquilo lies in the hospital at Los Angeles, Cal., gored by a bull which he attempted to throw by the horns at a Mexican celebration at that place on Saturday. In the presence of thousands of spectators tho bull, after hein^ goaded to rage, caught Frasquilo and threw his high in the air, caught him on his horns, dropped him to the ground and gored him . tJiri ugh the side. Tho agedv was n-unncHPri hv thousands of Mexicans who went wild over the sport, as they call R. Such exhibitions should s bo prohibited by law. \ ? ? [ The Greenville News says in Jef{ ferson county, Texas, one man and > team takes caro of ten miles of fine 3 shell roads. He Rets $85 a month 3 for himself and team and works only ? half tho year. He says he could take 3 care of 25 miles if ho worked full time . This method of keeping up roads might he well worth consideration right here in South Carolina. t s whether or not tho man was a gooc g citizen. "He's all right, he's a Blens( " *? * .,i. y man" was me n equuni, icmui n, 1- Mr. John T. Duncan appeared an< n bv indulgence of the committee re c read his affidavit regarding chargei r. ot' improper use of money in thii o county. JI is witness from Pelzor one W. A. Lee, did not appear. Tin t- committee, upon motion of Mr. Jef o fries, decided that it was incumben 2. upon John T. Duncan to secure soim it affidavits in support or his charges o Mr. Duncan was genorous in his of e fers to "accomodate" the investiga is ting committee but consumed con i- siderable time in his contention tha y the committee should pay his expens d ee in coming hero ^Thursday. Th g entlemen of tho comnntteo, howevei 1- appeared rather unanimous in th opinion that John T. Duncan, if h i- chose to enter charges, should so e them through, so action in referonc 3- to financing Mr. Duncan's complaint o was deferred. I HOttRY, y. S, C. ny bank in Horry county. More us of all other banks in the county 150,000 12,500 HOLDERS . . . . 50.000 DRS , . . 1 lis,500 riORS ARDSON W. A. Jobs ton. W iiJA 3* jt*< ii tin >mmodation which their account olicit your business. . V. Richardson, will a. fkxrma* T " CiQQTPi v ICE I KhMunni. ,vw<u>< cent, on yearly deposits. PHOFWWIONAIi OARPJ* HL H. WOODWARD Attornay and Councilor At Iv*** ! CON IVAY, 8. O. ti. B. HCAltBKOUGJi OONWAY, S. .? Attorney hi Law. .? i.. i H. H. BUKKOOGH0 ?hj?lc'*n and SurgwF ^ 1 - /?jh. . - ' CONWAY, 8. C. Jti. WOFFOJKD WAIT, Attorney ml Uv? iUuik oi Horry Huiiding. CONWAY, 8. O. KKNK KAYEKEL liflnd Surveying and Drainage Spivey Building Conway, 8. O. K WORLDS OREKIESTSEWIM MACHJHI ffym want either a Vibrating Shuttle, Ro%h9 buttle or a Mingle Thread (CA<rt>? Sewing Machine write to MKV HOME 8EWINI MACHINE MMMMT Orange, Masit MHWMwfBffinachtrm are madetoset1rera?*ee?g| fniky,buitbeNew Home U made la ?M Oar ananotr never mna oal. > iMi If MtborlaeA deataai MlKr w 9am T? m V BUKltOUttiia .st ^v?luLXNH CO.. Conway, B. O. Turkey is in I5a<l Shape, Does tho present condition of Turkey foreshadow a speedy breakup of that, empire? Turkey has lost territory at quite a rapid rate in the last forty years and is bound to lose mor< i by her present war with Italy. That in itself means a lessened ability tc j recover herself when great emergen eies arise. And to-day Turkey seem.1 to be, as seldom before, "The Sick Man of Europe". The nation is rent between two parties?tho Youn* Turks, or party of Union and Pro gross, and the Military party which r reactionary. To this prospect of civi war is to he added the troubles witl All ania and Montenegro, and the dis i f.rrous war with Italy. Certainly tin outlook is dreary, hut the Tnrks ar? ? a brave people and tenacious. Thi: with their great vitality may extri cat them from the present crisis, bu . ev? ry such experience must have i I weakening effect. > Tt is interesting to see two sucl ^ arch demagoguses as Roosevelt am ' Hearst, misleading the people witl s all sorts of specious arguments am accusations and promises, bcgullln a tliom over tho hills and far awa - merely to bring them by a detour t t the pastures of tho great shepherd 0 of finance, to be shorn In proper sen ' son more abundantly than ever be fore, says tho Charleston Evenln Post. But we have a few of the nam t kind right here at homo. i- ? ? ? 0 There is nothing that undermine '? and ruins character more quickf ? than envy. Tho man who gives hin self over to it knows nothing of har 0 pinoss and peace, and his life begir 8 to canker away and to ultimately b< come fixed in morosoness. ^ ? Kflid IMi (MMPQfdtd ? pre a mttwm cf rWntWn, wm mm mam jmm ill U bottom Bead ailiPlfcMiwDi o# fWW Id ill papm IVy IntfDHiDomflfflbnhili iHd Ami thqr cbfaa b 1 thai Ditu add (Do odd kxx* ___ * ? ? ? * * * jro?r ppj "P " "g? noMy t** IndSgeadon, eta. Every n "tUlD* Aim iiiniafMi^i tftff Noal which 1o on external treatml tan requires Internal remedlJ Internal rcarn,1! They d\M the entire system than the M |S|H| Rheumatism h ooe of the dhmmtm ci aQ troeblea.1 fb?i* ll o/ten doubles one up, I safleringt makss Hf mJserahhl Where there Is no torn wUl ne doubt hdjl bottle vtfl bo enough for a tri hie helped others, and we bJ doom oI thorn writ* which I "I have ee?4 Hoab's UmM aff ophite im baeDtiso 6fl H M good thMjy fuAnCl Of* UML AbiwflL iTu -^^BalattHiQulllSlDil Last Year's Cotton Crop. The cotton crop for the year ended August 31, 1912, was, in round numbers, sixteen million bales; an Increase, in round numbers again, ot four million bales over the crop of the year before. As the Home and Farm points out the price of cotton ) is fixed on a competitive basis, in the open, free trade markets of the world. The twelve million bale crop brought low prices. The result was that the farmers of the South received one hundred million dollars less for the big crop than for the little crop. This would not be so bad if it were not so one-sided. The farmer can afford to take less for a big crop, provided the prices of his supplies are also lower. If his revenue decreases ten per cent ho is just as well off, provided he pays ten per cent less for what he has to buy. If all other men worked as the farmer works; if men everywhere were seeking to increase production, were proud of increasing the number of shoes made, of suits of clothes, or barns and houses, of steel and iron, and all of the products of steel and iion, of cotton cloth, as well as of raw cotton, then the big crop of cotton would have brought to the farmer larger returns in supplies than the ;mall crop. Unfortunately, in this country the prices of mill products, and of the products of the mine, and of the forest, are not fixed by competition in the open markets of the world; they ire fixed by monopoly, by trusts, in the closed markets of tho United [ States. This condition of affairs ; ought not to exist. Tho farmers ought to unite in one long campaign for tho right to end such a system of 1 injustice. It is a poor rule that does i not work both ways, and this rule is - tho poorest of which we have any ? knowledge. All this injustice to the a farmer is the result of the thieving ,B protective tariff, which is gotten up - for the benefit of the trusts. I3y the t operations of the protective tariff i the farmers are plundered. They should hy tlu^r votes wipe it out. n Tho Charleston Evening Post says, rj "William Randolph Hearst has been h writing pieces in the London paper.0 - ?... ?- iLI? (j about political conditions in mis country. Ho doesn't approve ol y Wood row Wilson and says so largely Q and freely, though there wasn't much need for him to go to that trouble, he l_ having been the chief sponsor and support of Champ Clark in the contost for the Democratic Presidentla nomination at the Baltimore convention, which resulted In the selectior of Governor Wilson." ? ? ? !8 We predict that Railroad Commls y eioner John G. Richards will he th< candidate for Governor of the Please >- lies two years from now. lie sup is ported Please in the Into prlmar; 3- which puts him in tho line of pro motion. # Q hwtfcu?t. If yam 1 lUtd what the! or bit wrinlii or I oiftrAw or foul "l ill?M 'V.-J*/- #-w U^J tod* Bewtn o4 takl wi qtod rtwwrln four family physic! amtoe a eaffaesr bat Yoo would gfve thing-?anything?tl to mn of rtwimi relatire or friend, *0 what (tot to ?lr way, to a serious dh *?% Bust eoenpfsint, (oiloriag If not reli siafs law of these AH ws ask you t not of i's Lini enl. Not oos case in "I had an atta es. Beware of these top, and It was har a do mow to apwt fe*fim*?tIJtoolt c11 ' w Edward Ryan, Sws Mmp(nqr relief they *" tKinlr ! Kofruwl m* briL. on all aorta I Bw* Dam? V?Dring* oo ail oct* of >~almost vnbsarabU. Nonh'a Unlme Sag or favor Noah's ! remedy for Rheum* > m Coo 25o afao Lam? Back, Stiff J< lot NooV. UnfaM* SlTSi ? jro? ?<11 nod ?fa*t Neuralgl aOovoi and all Nenra. Boi na^t fbr Aches and Peine. Jvid sayTtdidma The genuine has 1 asar mod Pan mry package and . cut, but has RED iswyrt." ii3eaperfeetawa.Beware of tmlt TUstapa Va. bottlsy t$ cants, a M wfta Dene iherxma* dealers In medlchW l LUJmsnt oomplstahr or money refund Teslif fl r f Remedy Cow, Ino, Was a Patriotic Act. The News and Courier seems to think that Senator Tillman did not risk his seat in the Senate by declaring for Judge Jones in the late primary. The News and Courier asks "did the Senator really 'risk defeat' by his eleventh-hour stand? How many old 'Antls' voted for him who would not otherwise have done so? How many votes of his formersupporters did he lose because of hts final abandonment of his attitude 01 professed neutrality?" We are sure that Senator Tillman did risk defeat in coming out for Judge Jones, and Senator Tillman was aware of the fact that such would bo the case when he wrote his first letter. Thousands of men voted for him who would not have done so bad he not declared for Jones. Had it not been for the votes of these mei. he would have been forced into a second primary with Dial, because I of the desertion of thousands of his {old friends. Had Senator Tillman kept out or the Governor's raco he would have getien the biggest vote ever received by a candidate for the oflice ne holds. Bui all this was changed when lie came out for Judge Jones. it men became a fight for any size majority he could get, and had it not been for his old enemies coming to his rescue, we are afraid he would have been I foiced into a second primary. To us at least this would have been a torriM</ blow. The News and Courier further asks: "Did the rumors which, along about the middle of August, began to reach Washington, 'to the effect that Governor Blease has planned to have his lieutenants in the counties advise the Blease supporters to vote ror Torirer Congressman Talbert in the Senatorial contest, on the alleged ground that Talbert is openly for Blease, while Senator Tillman is regarded as inclining to Jones,' have anything to do with tho course which the Sena, tor finally adopted?" We can say from what we know or our personal knowledge that uoverrtor Bleaso's attitude towards ?enaror Tl'lman had nothing to do with the , Soi ator's declaring for Judge Jones i when he did. In declaring for Judge i Joi es, Senator Tillman was actuated i by tho highest and most patriotic im? nnlsoa that could compel a man to I'? ? ' ac.ion. In taking the action no <tnt, i ho lost sight of self and thought of ? serving his State only. I Ho knew that his action would es. trango many of his old friends and 1 might jeopardize his own re-election, . but this deterred him not from doing i his duty as he saw it to the State, JUegardless of consequences to himself he bared his breast to the storm - of opposition that his action caused 3 to beat about him. No man over did - a braver or more unselfish act, and - those of hia old, friends who voted jr against him becaus.% of that act, Bonn - of these days will see it in its right having done his duty as he saw li ^ \ I B I' ) ul 1 V \ I < f i / jr 1 * I I j LIW Ul KlXCUIUdllSUl 111 ftUY IIKiil |B d for me to get about. Noan's the pain and soreness away."? HE inaboro, Va. ^H. bottle of Noah's Liniment and ^H greatly. I suffered with rheis> H: lc.M?Mrs. Martha A. Lambert^ IH h nt is the best >?wigw B itiem, Sciatica, ^H' >ints and Mus- ^H Colds, Strains, ^H inilses, Cotio, s Toothache, ^H ia and Muscle WHHffi ^H Noah's Arfc on H looks Uka this HillSHil HI band on front iH0)n ^H Noah'a lini- atismt B RED ish BRK55* ggSK? ^ H | { Bociul Life for the Farmers. Gov. Wilson, the Democratic candidate for President, in an address io *? - II - J -?i _ - 1 _ tk. me rarraere, caneu aneu>iu.i iu iuv neglect of the school houjes. Ho set forth the necessity for conference and consultation among farmers. He Baid that the place for the conference was the school house, unoccupied a greater part of the timo. Retter farming, better business, better living?this is what we should it all be striving for, and they can bo accomplished, not by individual effort alone, but by co-operative effort, j, by joining forces with neighbors and friends, by consulting, by conferring, by comparing your own experiences, with the experiences of others. As Home and Farm says there Is another thing to bo said in regard to the local gatherings of farmers; they supply what the whole farm family needs?occasions for social intercourse, for friendly meetings purely for pleasure. It is not important whether these be held at night or in tho atfernoon; but it is important that they be held, and at the time and placo which will bring together the greatest number of farmers and families of farmers, "ltest," says a poet-philospher, "is not in quitting the busy career; rest is but lifting oneself to one's sphere." ^ f That is what, the farmer has to do. Ho must lit himself for (lie work ho lias undertaken. It is possible for the farmer to live under the happiest auspices of any man in tho world, to work under conditions the most attractive. lie has been working under hardships that only the strongest survive. Let all farmers every- , . where consider what hard conditions of farm life can bo made easy. The first thing the farmer should do to bring about this condition is to free himself of the burdens placed upon him for the benefit of other interests. While ho produces nearly all the wealth of this county. Ho is allowed to enjoy very little of it. lie Is I plundered by having to pay a heavy <luty on everything he uses and sell in nn onen market. / Whither knowledge is a blessing or j | not to the individual who accumu- ; lates it depends upon the use ho makes of it. If he confines it to himself it lies on tho mind liko an undigested mass. Hut if ho uses that knowledge to inform others then is he a benefactor, and to him as well as to the world that which he has accumu lated is a lasting benefit. ',2 ? Along with most people we are tir- ^ < ed of politics. As long as the candi- \] ' datss wero before the people we did I 1 what we could to get the best men as 1 we saw it, but the matter is no longer * 1 debatable, and we are done. Ii?t us 1 all now pull for Wilson, the County 1 Fair and other natters. t to tho Stato in the face of possible t] defeat.