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( \ ' I !? t VOLUME XXXIV. I ELECTION ON 26TH f UNDER NEW PLANS \< ... ? f As A^tralian Ballot System r Now Applies in Country . Districts i ! ijOOTHS PROVIDED AT i '' MOST RURAL PRECINCTS !i ; j Provisions of Ballot System as Amended by Act of the Session of 1919. / i* The Australian Ballot system passj cd in this State in 1918, has been |l amended so as to apply to all pre , -cmcts in ine country whore there arc J fifty or more voters enrolled on the club rolls. Before this amendment [j which was passed at the recent ses' sion of our Legislature for 1919, the | system providing for booths, etc., | only applied in incorporated cities ^ and towns. The law as amended f> reads as follows, and the primary 1 election for tho selection of a con{ gressman on August 26th, will be controlled by the following: I Section. 1. That in every primary i election in this State there shall be , provided at each polling precinct one . booth for each one hundred enrolled voters or majority fraction thereof. The booths shall be made of wood, | sheet metal, or any other suitable r. substance; shall not be less than thirf jrtwo inches wide and thirty-two jfiolVes" d^p and six feet six inches I) high, shall be provided with a cur'' 'iain hanging from the top in front to J within three feet of the floor, and J shall have a suitable shelf on which II the voter can prepare his ticket: ProK vided, The provisions of this Act W :shall not apply to any precinct where Ji there are less than fifty (50) voters I. enrolled on the club roll at such pre[f cinct. ) Section 2. Polling Places.?The poll Ing places shall be provided with a ( table for the managers. The polls | shall be provided with a guard rail, V so that no one except as hereinafter provided shall approach nearer than t, five feet to the booths in which the voters are preparing their ballot. f Section 3. Tickets.?The tickets j shall be printed on clear white paper { in the usual manner, but shall have a | coupon at the top perforated so as to ) be ca?A^ detached. On the coupon ( shall be printed "Official Ballot." ' "Club , Ward , No " ( The numbers shall run seriatim for , ?ach club. There shall be 50 per cent more ballots than there are voters / enrolled at each polling place. J Section 4. Preparation of Ballot.? The managers shall be responsible [ for all ballots furnished. When a { voter presents himself he shall be ? -given a ballot. The manager in charge of the poll list shall enter the / number of the ballot next the name ' of the voter. The voter shall forthwith retire along to one of the booths, / and without undue delay prepare his B "ballot by scratching out the names of "the candidates for whom he does not r care tftrfrote. No voter shall remain in booth longer than five minI \JfcVs. After preparing his ballot, the voter shall present himself to the manager. His ballot must be folded in such a way that the number can be seen and the coupon can be readily I detached by the manager without in any way reveling the printed portion ! i.i i 11?i Tf iuA uuiiub. xi tut; vuiui in nut cuuilen^ed, and takes the prescribed oath, the manager shall tear off the coupon, put it on file, stamp the ballot, and the voter shall deposit his ticket in the box, and shall immediately leave the polling place. If a voter shall mar or deface his ballot, be obtain one additional ballot upon returning to the manager in charge of the ballots the ballot so marred or defaced, with the coupon attached. The manager in charge of the poll list shall change the number of the ballot on his poll list, and place the defaced ballot on a file. No voter shall be given a second ballot until he has returned the first one with' m* ELECTION MANAGERS ARE DULY APPOINTED And Will Hold the Election on August 26th to Select Congressman. At a meeting of the County Executive Committee held at the Court House on Saturday last, the following managers of the primary to be held on Tuesday, August 20th, were appointed: Adrian?J. J. King, P. M. Dorman, J <J. A. uartrette. Aynor?J. M. Boyd, E. W. Page, E. W. Martin. Bayboro?Geo. W. Cartrette, P. O. I Bell, I. C. King. Blanche?D. M. Alford, H. J. Sarvis, U. A. Johnson. Cedar Cirove?W. F. Jordan, J. H. Hendricks, J, B. Hucks. Conway?C. R. Scarborough, C. H. Snider, S. C. Dusenbury. Cool Spring?W. M. Mishoe, Pearley Doyle, I. M. Rabon. Daisy?VV. M. Carter, W. E. Porter, Davis Paul, Dog Bluff?Wm. Hucks, C. C. Reynolds, J. B. James. Dogwood?T. B. Parker, B. II. Todd, John Adams. Ebenezer?-W. L. Long, N. P. Gore, J. H. Bellamy. Farmer?J. H. Richardson, Oscar E. Todd, B. S. Butler. Floyds?C. F. Dubose, W. C. Hooks, H M. Elliott. Galivants Ferry?Ed. Doyle, H. K. 1 11 i coupon attached. o.. ji! K lirl ? * *? * ownwn o. nnen ana now voier May lie Assisted.?No person shall be allowed within the guard rail except as hereinafter provided. If a voter can not read or write, or is physically disabled, and by reason thereof did not sign the enrollment book, he may appeal to the managers for assistance, and the Chairman of the managers shall appoint two of the watchers representing different factions to assist him in preparing the ballot: Provided, After the voter's ballot has been prepared, the watchers so appointed shall immediately go behind the guard rail: Provided, further, That !f there he no such watchers available, the Chairman may appoint two bystanders who are qualified electors to assist the voter in the preparation of his ballot. Section 6. Admission to Polling Place.?From the time of the oepning of the poll until the announcement of the result and the signing of the official returns, no person shall be admitted to the polling place except the managers, duly authorized watchers and challengers, the Chairman of the Executive Committee or member of the Executive Committee appointed ir. his stead to supervise this polling place, persons1 duly admitted for the purpose of voting, police officers admitted by the managers to preserve order or to enforce the law: Provided, however, That candidates for public office voted for at such polling place may be present at the canvass of the votes: Provided, Canvass of the votes shall be opened to the public. Section 7. Interference With Election.?If the watchers or officers of the law who are admitted to the polling place by the managers shall interfere with the managers or obstruct the voting, it shall be the duty of the managers to suspend the election until order is restored, or as may be provided by the rules of the party, i No person shall be allowed to approach polling places within twentyfive (25) feet while polls are opened, other than the persons herein provided for. Section 8. Managers to Account for Ballots.?Upon the close of the election, managers shall account <o the Executive Committee for all ballots delivered to them, and make the following returns: (a) The number of official ballots furnished to each polling precinct. (b) The number of official ballots spoiled and returned by voters (c) The number of official ballots returned to the Execuitve Committee. (d) The number of official ballots actually voted. i Wimx CONWAY, S. P., THURSDAY FLOODS OF TOBACCO SOLD AT CONWAY When Warehouses Reopen Monday Following Removal of Embargoes WAREHOUSES DISPOSE OF VERY LARGE QUANTITIES Sales Will Likely go on Every Day Until Whole Crop is Sold. With the removal of the restrictions made by the Railroads following the strike, the warehouses at Con way opened for sales again beginning last Monday morning. Some of the warehousemen stated before hand that it might be well to keep the news from getting too widely scattered as more tobacco might be brought in than could be sold, especially during the first days of the week. The news got scattered in some way and tobacco poured into Conway the first of this week to such an extent that the sales at all the warheouses could not be completed and tobacco was left on the floor unsold overnight. On Monday morning at an early hour, tobacco began to come in, and the warehouse floors were all full before time. No sales at all that day could be made at the Horry Warehouse, as all the time was taken up at the others. The same conditions | continued only on larger scale on Tuesday morning, as every warehouse floor was full to overflowing before ten o'clock. Some of the farmers were starting back home with loads of tobacco that they did not take off. This condition of affairs shows more than ever the need of more buildings at Conway for handling the tobacco business. The buyers dare not bid off more tobacco than they can get packed and shipped unless they have some place to store it and take care of it. The town has | no prize houses or other etablishmcnts to rent to the buyers for the, tobacco season. Still the warehouses here are selling an immense amount of the weed i and the farmers are accommodated if they wait. The rush will be over in a day or two. So far as the Herald understands, the sales will go forward as rapidly as possible until all of the crops arcsold. In the meantime, if the farmers of the County were organized so they could hold meetings and bring the tobacco in according to some system, they would, no doubjp get rid of it more conveniently than they will if they put it all on the floor at once. Cooke, W. Ash Page.. Grahamville?W. J. Jordan, J. D. Watson, B. H. Vaught. Grahams Cross Roads-?P. L. Hard wick, V. B. Housend, H. H. Graham. Green Sea?E. L. Buffkin, J. T. Mills, J. M. Fowler. Greenwood?Willie Dusenbury, C. G. Shelley, H. W. Cannon. Gurley?E. W. Prince, W. R. Tyler, F. B. Black. [Hammond?J. D. Royals, J. J. Rheuark, G. A. West, i Homcwood?Manzv Gause. Hinaon Spivey, W. E. Sessions. Horry?E. C. Smith, J. E. Hughes, J. E. Allen. Jernigans Cross Roads?W. J. Sarvis, J. J. Harrelson, E. O. Sarvis. Jordanville?T. M. Lundy, R. 1). Jordan, S. C. Davis. Knotty Branch?Mc. Johnson, H. L. Richardson, N. B. Johnson. Little River?P. K. Bessant, J. E. Vereen, A. V. Bessant. Loris?J. J. Elliott, M. C. Butler, G. C. Butler. Marlow?S. Tom Jordan, Van B. Turbeville, S. P. Vereen. . Port Harrelson?A. C. Harper, Her l ert Thompson, B. F. Moore. Sanford?Levi G. Gerrald, Sam t 9? , AUGUST 21, 1919. SAYS FARMERS ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE Expert Declares Manufacturers and Strikers Guilty of Living Costs ABNORMAL PRICES WILL CONTINUE Unless Capital and Organized Chestnut, S. W. Vereen. Spring Branch?J. J. Enzor, C. M. Hammond, R. M. Bullock, Taylorsville?S. B. Small, B. F. Harrelson, P. D. Gerrald. Soeastee?C. G. Newton, G. M. Mc? Cormick, B. F. Watts. Vardelle?G. L. Williamson, T. A. Harrelson, H. Hinson. Wampee?R. V. Ward, F. H. Ciardy, C. C. Suggs. Withers?Geo. W. King, P. D. Owens. Labor Cease Profiteerings. Washington.?"Unless capitalistic monopoly" and organized labor "cease profiteering in goods and wages" the next cycle of the seasons will effect a condition of living now undreamed of, the senate and house agricultural committees were told by J. R. Howard, president of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation. Mr. Howard appeared as spokesman for the committee recently appointed at a conference of farmers from Iowa, Nebraska, Indiana, Ohio and Illinois. Denying that the farmers were responsible for present conditions, Mr. Howard said: "The high cost of living is not due to lack of desire or effort on the part of the farmers to produce to the limit of their physical ability. The farmer has not struck, walked out, or other wise slackned in production. He has Increased his effort, extended his operations to the limit of physical ability^ arird financial credit, and striven vo feed the world, believing the world would fairly and gladly recompense him. Instead, he finds those who, in their eagerness to find an answer where there is none, and to shun the real facts of the situation point to him with scorn and malevolence, saying "thou art the culprit." The high cost of living is due to a stagnation in production of manufactured goods and prepared foodstuffs Every labor strike that shuts down any plant engaged in the preparation of foods or the making of clothing, that shuts down a mine or mill, adds to the high cost of living, "If capitalistic monopoly wants enough food produced that it may be feasted, if organized labor wants food pioduced that it may be fed, if the do-nothing dwadlers want enough food pioduced so that they may occasion a'ly eat, let them stand forth now at this time when the farmer must deter mine his 1920 food production progiam, and declare by deeds?cutting out of profiteering in goods and wages, going honestly to the business of preparing and surveying the necessities of life, going honestly to the job of doing a full day's work for a full /lnubi t\n ?r Ur*! ? %?f-il 1 * % f*?r?/MiO 4 a pajr viiuii ? mi iivo'i iu tuoperate. Failure of these forces to do this now will be a boomerang that ere the next cycle of the seasons, will effect a condition of living now undreamed of. o DEATH OF M. P. BORDEAUX. Manly p. Bordeaux died on Wednesday of last week after a lingering i iliness, suffering from a chronic case of tuberculosis. He v/as a son of Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Bordeaux, HL I remains were interred at Lakeside cemetery on Thursday, the funeral services conducted by the Rev. D. L. Hill. He was twenty-two years of age. o Gt.-t adding machine rolls at the Herald office. Stevens, W. A. Suggs. Shell?W. Chancey Todd, Sam P. e t'il I tl. RETURNED SOLDIERS ALLOWED THEIR VOTES In the Coming Election For Congressman on August 26th. A meeting of the County Executive Committee for Horry County was held at the Court House in Conway on Saturday with practically a full representation of the Committee, the Object being to name managers for the special election to be hold August 26th to nominate a candidate to Congress to succeed the late J. Wilh id Ragsdalo. At this meeting, carrying out the plan adopted by some of the other counties of the District, which was proposed by the County Chairman, Mr. E. J. She mood, the Committee unanimously agreed to allow the returned soldiers in the county to vote in this election. It was pointed out by the Chairman that so far it had not been found to be legal under the rules for the soldiers to enroll regularly in the primary, but at his suggestion it was agreed that those of the returned soldiers whose names were not on the last club roll would be allowed to vote. The plan agreed upon was that every discharged soldier who is otherwise qualified to vote in the primary and whose name is not on the club roll may, on the day of the primary, go to the voting booth of his precinct, secure his ballot, mark it pioperly and deposit it together with a slip of paper containing his name and organization, in a sealed envelono. Thoso vntn< llui? will Ko * A" ? ..wfw ' v v" " * %?? v%**'v " 1 1 ' turned over by the managers at the election at the several precincts to the County Executive Committee who will pass on the ballot. Mr. Sherwood stated before his Committee that while the State Executive Committee had not taken any action in this matter, yet he had wired the Chairman of the Committee urging that some arrangements bo made for the men who fought abroad to save the country to have a voice in who should rule the country and make these laws. ^ NO SPEECHESMADE BECAUSE OF RAIN Florence?Voters of Florence County gathered in small numbers Aug. 12, to hear the candidates for congress from the Sixth District, but the opening gun of the campaign was not fired. The rain kept many from attending who would like to hear the ambitious aspirants tell their troubles so the Florence meeting was postponed until August 21. The real opening of the speech mak ing tour therefore took place at Kings l tiee and the itinerary as previously a: ranged will be adhered to, with the exception of Florence. SERIOUS SHOOTING AFFAIR NEAR LORIS iThe news about a serious shooting affray four or five miles above Loris occurring about two weeks ago, came to Conway very late; although, it appears that warrants have been sworn out for Nabe Ward, who it is thought did the shooting. The wife of Benjamin Ward was shot with No. 2 shot, a greater part of the load taking effect in the back, and at iast accounts she was still in the Florence Hospital seriously ill. There seems to be some doubt about the identity of the person who committed this crime and it is generally said that it was Nabe Ward, brother of Benjamin Ward; that he had had a racket with his brother and that later when Beniamin Ward and his wife were passing his place Nabe Ward shot at his brother and hit his brother's wife. Nabe Ward made his escape after the shooting and at last accounts he has not been caught. It is thought that he is across the line in North Carolina hiding from the authorities. I NO. 18. GONGRESS CANDIDATES ADDRESS HORRYITES Sherwood First on Program and Gets Ovation From Home Voters CAMPAIGN IS BASED ON CLEAN LINES People Attending Montis TP^ A ? Q l/Jllt'g JLJ^V" ceeded What Had Been Expected. The meeting of the candidates for Congress took place here last Saturday at the court house; all of the candidates being in attendance and addressed the people along about the same lines as they have been talking at the other places over the district. The people who came to Conway from the country to hear the speakers in number exceeded what had been expected. The voters bgan to arrive in the town at an early hour on Saturday morning. The Conway Concert Band was on hand in honor of the candidate that Horry has in the fieid and for some time before the speaking began, the band entertained a i crowd of people with Stirling music near the town square. The band stood in front of a large banner stretched in front of the corner store occupied by L. H. Burroughs, and bearing the words: "Vote for Sherwood for Congress." The friends of the Horry candidate got busy on Saturday morning and carried round a petition which was numerously signed by the merchants agreeing to close their places of business until after the meeting should be over. The candidates in this race are J. V.. LeGrand, Julius S. Mclnnes, E. J. Sherwood, \V. F. Stackhouse, Philip H. Stoll, and J. J. Evans. They all spoke at Marion on Friday, the day before, and at Georgetown the day before that. They were tired and did not arrive in Conway until about 10 o'clock on Friday night, most of them a. l iving in automobiles. Friends of Mr. Sherwood went io Georgetown and showed their interest in his behalf, not only there but at the meeting at Marion on last Friday. They were of c urse more in evidence than ever at the Conway meeting. The candidates began speaking about 11 o'clock in the morning. They continued in regular order until all of them had addressed the people. Hon. E. J. Sherwood, being the chairman of the executive committee, was introduced to the audience by Jeremiah Smith, and he received an ovation in his home town. After he had addressed the meeting, he introduced the other candidates to the people. The race is being made in a clean way and the candidates all make their pleas for the votes on a high plane*. There is no mud-slinging yet apparent in the campaign. The speaking took place in the court room and the building was pack en with voters to hear the speeches, o cmmcDC mav ncT ouluiliio itih i uli INCREASED BONUS Washington.?Declaring the $60 bonus paid to discharged soldiers and sailors was "paltry" as compared with $240 [mid war work err., Representative Pou, Democrat, North Carolina, in the house asked for nonpartisan consideration of Republicans and Democrats in dealing with additional bonuses. "When we deal with the soldiers,'' he said, "I hope there will be no political difference. I hope there will be no sparring for political advantages. The additional bonus should be large enough to give all discharged soldiers and sailors a good start as civilians." " 'The watch dogs' of the treasury," Mr. Pou stated, "would be horror stricken at the amount of the appropriation. Justice should be done these men at any cost." %