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THE ANDERSON INTELLIGENCER founded tttl 1M North Main Strati ANDERSON, 8. C WILLIAM BANKS, - - FdJtor W. W. SMOAK, . Bmineai Manager Intered According to let of Cos .?.te aa Second Clang Mail Matter at &. Postofflce at Anderson, 8. C. fabUshed Every Morning i Bxeepi | Monday mml. Weekly Edition on Tue? day nag | Friday Morning! Dally Edition-? 5.00 per annunu I ?SM for Six Months- 9L26 (or Three Mentha, Semi.Weekly Edition - ILM per Annora; 75 cents for Six Months| fid j cents fer Four Month*. 15 ADVANCE Member of the Associated Press and j Deceiving Complete Dally Telegraphic Ber vice, A Urger Glrenlatlon Than Any Otb* j .r newspaper In This Congressional District The Intelligencer la delivered by carriers In the city. If yon tall to (st your paper regularly please notify tJC. Opposite your name on label af roar paper la printed date to which paar paper ls paid. All checks and traft? should be arawa to Th? An* Intelligencer. The Weather. Washington, Feb. 26.-The weather for South Carolina: Fair Friday and Saturday; rising temperature Friday J Tiie man who thinks success gets | It Anderson is My Town-sunshine and emilee. The grass widow may not be ?oj after all. If you can't tell a Hard luck story, U, go to work. Dont fuss with Central. She will j the last word, anyway. lng of aspiring for the senate. That ] nfcee room for other aspirants. / f-- - -Wanted-Somebody who knows to | ll us why and what is the tango. t least two members of the 'house I egatlon from Anderson are thlnk It ls President Fair Facta Harrison. stated the case plainly and wlth t honeying. t. < .The Income tax ls absolutely with al worry to ?'.e man who receives than $8.000. The new moon waa lying flat of ita j sk last night Thst'a what the full m ought to do. I ' Tho collector ot internal rt venue In j Mexico acorns to sis? up incomes to] suit hie own necessities. J Government ownership of tele phones might bring cheap talk | among the politicians. They coined a dollar in 1804 that is ! now valued at |260. But since 1804 ! ; everything but dollars has increased. _ . Orville Wright wishes to make al ; foolproof aeroplane. Would be all ytght If he knew anything about fools. - All of the reformers of the day are jwllng at the "scarlet women," but ls trying to reform the scarlet men. "Sally to Raise the Limit." This fers not to skirts, but to salaries in | te South Atlantic (Sally) baseball ?gee. >"???'? 'I _____ i't it a shame that the midday ll for Anderson was held at Belton ll the night train yesterday? That a lot of decent service. Judge T. J. Mauldln is one new who didn't graduate from Wot jrd-but he ia a Methodist steward ld Sunday achoo) superintendent. Haiti offers great possibilities for a lit like Teddy. It ls the country the sword rules. Villa loomed up like a skyscraper, tie is nothing but a cloud of Forty languages are spoken in the iHed SUtes, Including a little blt ot ?glieh. ambitious furnace will have to do for many days yet trees bito cm fwy p pup rdlu ' snow came ia time te acare Che ts*a*a Into submission to grim despite the flirting of the un warm, sunshiny days. women are willing ts, admit they have good fisura?, ?nd ii by iee clinging gown? they "l'OM.MIHMIO.N rOKM." Conditions in Anderson ure ri!>.. for commission form of government Th? present administration fias boen an unusually successful one. and it hau i t ai In d as high a point of otfh h m y as is possible under thc sdiernianlc form of guvernuient but it could not reach the highest perfection jtint he cause it is aldernianic. Alderman lc government Ls a crea* ture of American municipal govern ment boru under stress and at a time when little thought wan given to real city management ; born before the days of a perfected civic eily life, and a hundred years and more ?if it In America has demonstrated it's limita tions; and those limitation^ are that I it ls incomplete und unresponsive and unfitting the high municipal ideals und demands of toduy. mi Galveston gave the world u great governmental system In 'commission form of government, or a system of government which might be better culled a governiuent by experts, with central und individual authority. Fif teen years have elapsed since Galves ton lirst started the plau, und those fifteen yean? have seen an evolution in municipal government ' that ha? well nigh given the people, a perfec tion In civic city government unheard of heretofore. City government under commission today is a government that demands und,hence receives effi ciency. Mayor Hollemun and! the presen I aldermen have given Anderson thc ?.est administration the city has evei had, und lt is understood that tin mayor and all the aldermen fuvoi commission government-- a greai tribute to them-favor lt because thej favor efficiency-because Uley an progressive. . < ' Who will make th? next move foi commission government, i This papei would be glad to receive communlca timi* on th? subject, .'or er against UKV. DH. MOFFATT. Somebody has named Dr. J. S. Mof fatt, president of Erskine college, fo senator from Abbeville county. Thii is Indeed a case of lpoking for tin best available man, but cannot Abbe ville county make out to' get alon) with another man? Dr. Moffatt is om among the very best pulpit orators o the whole south; he is i>a man o lovely character and..pf 'Hplemllr* ir. tellet-1. He is the mau that the atat would be proud of. But, the pu.lpl and the school should1'not be rpbbsi even to make a Buperb, example of'i state senator. ,>i There ar?, however, many Illustra tionB in the past of the pulpit glvin honor to the public affaira? oft ? t'j country.' Old John Witherspoon t the continental congress end the te preachers of this - state ' who wer members of the-secession .conventlo nf 1860 were striking examples of th "pulpit furnishing the men1';when th times demanded. But has it come t pass that the times demand such me as Dr. Moffatt now? Is there no othe man in Abbeville county who ca take the leadershlD? If not. we. fe* sure that that splendid little churcl the Associate Reformed Presbyterian! which has done so much for the edi: cation and upbuilding o? the stat? will lend Dr. Moffatt to the State < rn South Carolina to fill a mission. Br'TT KR SERVICE ASKED. With pleasure we sec tbe'announci ment that the Piedmont arid Norther railway will operate trains from At derson to. Spartanburg on. throng schedule. As we haye all along ind ca ted. the policy or (J ils paper ls 1 appeal for. service. And va do n< think1 that Anderson is getting tli right kind of service'out ot the inte: urban in the lota of-time that ls loi at Belton. ' (, Too many trains have to walt thet on connections and too much time lost In making an entire circuit of tl town when trains for Greenville coul go right on through from the eros: lng Just the other side of the Beltc mill and save something' like 16 mil utes to the trip. SeemV to us the st lion at Belton was badly jit nailon, bi that will bs forgiven ff* the campai will but operate through trains on faster schedule. The ruK".*.ng time all right, but the tImeK Itaken o makes the trip too long^ < STA Xl? BY GREENVILLE. We wish to call to th? attention the chamber ot corn-fierce tho fa that the people of Greenville,are tr ing to get thc United States gover ?lent td send there for ehea'mpino something like 10,000 troops.**1 As BO? as it appeared that Greenville mig be ?nVtir??. Atlanta, with her usu reserve and diffidence, stepped In the limelight and tried to Uko lt. \ trust that' the people of Anders* will stick to their sister ci tv and w by resolutions, personal efforts a appeal to our legislators a^ntr our rs resMu?Uves .. congress do whet th can. for Greenville. 1 . Of course, it would bo"" Imposait to bare ^the encampmsSAtj 'here, 1 there ls not In all Anderson cour 1. tegcthsr Uni! enough not und cnltlvation to hold aa cnS^ijip-nent that many trenna** ? '?t S | re,'1,-??!! 1tW ?-** BLEASE NOT SATISFIED WITH ASYLUM REPORT Governor Says He Won Peniten tiary Fight and Is Going to Win This One. Columbia, Feb. 26.-Tl?} hotise and senate received the governors? view of j the report of the comm t?tA,charged i with investigating conditional at the Hospital for the Insane. 'The; exp-es Hlon of thc governor is embckiied in a special inessaRe. In which llfie says; "On Jun. _0, 1?H4. I seat you spe : cial messuge No. 10, in which,1 called your utteution to a letter whioh 1 had ' in my possession, charging that there I wus being 'an effort made to oust Dr. I Babcock fronw the Hospital for the In j sane,' that Governor Mease's uinkjrv lings and satellites want to manipu late tho sale of that property, and the building of the new institution out nt State park,' and that 'an effort will he made to smirch Dr. Hahcock and his lady assistant, Dr. Saunders, as tliehe men must have some excuse, you know, and are not at all scrupu lous.' "In this message I set out facto and statements which it ls unnecessary that I should repeat here. Upon re I ceipt of this message you appointed u I committee, under u resolution which I lt is unnecessary for me to repeat, or dering uti investigation of these mat tera. . Asks for Information. . "I notice Ute report of your com mittee has been tiled, and I would like to ask the chairman, or some other member of that committee, please: to state if they have investigated, the charge 'that an effort was being made to oust Dr. Babcock,' and whf.t tlie findings of the committee were'there on.; if tliey investigated the" icharge that 'Governor Blease's underlings and satellites want to manipulate the sale of that property and the' bainding of the new institution out at State park,' and what their findings were; und if they investigated the charge that 'an effort will be made to smirch Dr. Babcock and his lady assistant, Dr. Saunders,' and what their findings were. "If I can read correctly their report they have not touched the subjects which they were appointed to investi gate. "The report does not touch In the least the charges made in that letter which I transmitted to the general as sembly In my special message' No. 10. The people, of course, will understand this,.and will know why it is done and what it means. ! cannot Change Act. [? "In my opinion the concurrent res olutlbn"which followed the report of the committee will ?Imply become a nullity, The constitution makes cer tain provisions and .the german sta tutes cover certain .matters', in con nection with the State Hospital for the Insane ieee sectaort 3,W^Jdown to and including secjtfon S&Ut! vol ume' i, "????* of lawB of Sooth, tJaro Itna*. T?l_y. fcttd atty1 lawyer'.with any ability at all and any man With com mon sense knows that a sim?le con current r?solution' cannot change an act of the general assembly. (See also article li, section 2, constitution of 1895). f "The Teport of your committee only makes me more determined to exer cise the power given men under the constitution. "Aa 1 clearly see from the report of thc committee that the one thing that lt does find ls that the institution has not been properly handled. The prin cipal thing I was lighting for-as I was fighting in the penitentiary fig -was to help the Inmates. I won in the penitentiary fight, and I am go ing to win In this, for I have some constitutional rights as governor which, I am proud to say, the general assembly cannot take away." Over on the senate side the report was adopted. On motion of Senator Sharpe the concurrent resolutions embodying the suggested rules, which had been unanimously adopted ? in the house, were referred to the judiciary committee fer a report. The- house has done -its duty on the report and passed it up to the sen ate. ******* * * * * * * * V * THE DAY IN CONGRESS * * * ******* * ***** F KB Kl'A HY 26, 1914. Senate* &tet at noon. President Van Ilise, of the Univer sity of, Wisconsin, testified on the trade commission bill. Commerce committee voted favor ably to report bills to combine ! the vices into a coast guard service and for four new revenue cutters. Debate resumed- bn postofflce appre ciation bill. ^TsS? Immigration* committee Uliban* to complete the Burnett bill. SP ,M\ Adjourned -at MtiVvK m., io ft?? Friday. House Debate on urgency deficiency bill returned. President Bush, of the Molssouri Pacific, and Chairman Trumbull, of the Chesapeake and Ohio, discussed railroad problems before tho ' com merce committee. Herbert Noble, New York, protest ed bet?re'judiciary committee against I legislation to further define re straints of trade. 1 foreign affairs committee agreed ito consider the Atney resolution ?sk > lng Information of protection for . Amerkans In Mexico. ? Representative Kahn assailed the administration's Mexican policy. Governor Yager told Ute Insular I committee Porto Ricans w*r? hcr.l-S i for ultimate Independence. Began ?debate for army appropri ation bill, which Representative Hay ?hara?terited as a,.measure for peace, ?*si.r.?V. ' ' vt'V .*. . ' BUSY WITH ANTI TRUST PROBE (Continued From Page One.) the congress, and may submit there with regulations ?for additional legis lation. It would further provide that "any person who shall make publie any in formation obtained by the commission without itu consent or authority shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine - not exceeding *r. non by imprisonment not exeeejj ?i?K om- year, or by both said punish ments, in Hie discretion of the court." A third amendment proposed would -maka it a misdemeanor punishable hy hue not to exceed $1,020 or a year's imprisonment, or both, for any person to "willfully make false entry in any book of accounts or records of any corporation," subject to the proposed act. Thu same punishment would ap ply to-'prisons wilfully furnishing the commission with-false Information. Provisions Would Be Changed. Provisions of, the original bill, em powering the proposed commission to investigate the affairs of corporations, would be considerably changed to as sure the conduct of all such inquiries, according to due process of law, and to make the commission purely advis ory to the attorney general and the courts. These amendments would provide; that: "The commission shall, upon the re quest of thc attorney general, and may, upon application or upon its own initiative, investigate any corporation subject to the provisions of this act for t he purpose of ascertaining whether there has been in the organi zation or conduct' of'such corporation oi' in its relation to-other corporations or individuals, a violation .yf.".fiaJd Sherman" hcPa"riar*amehdments. "The commiss|on shall submit its findings to the attorney general and they shall he public records. "In proceedings in equity brought by or under thq direction of the._at torney general, aH'i *pravlded" in the Sherman act, and amendments, the court may, at anystageln the litiga tion, in its discreTlep; refer to ' the commission any Issue In the cause or any proposed decree, or questions re lating to the enforcement of any de cree entered, whereupon the commis sion shall investigate the question or questions referred to it and report Us findings and conclusions to the court with a copy of the evidence. The rec emmendatton of the committee may be asked by the court as to any de cree proposed to be made. Said evi dence, findings, conclusions and rec ommendatlons shall be. .public rec ords." ANDERSON HIS TOWN Jaka Balley Adger ?ftalaillyl Will] Lo/fajte Her?: Editor The. In/elllge iceriii tub l'u< My attention fias jut t been called to an Item In your 1st de of today re ferring to a.rumor hst I had been appointed Solicitor f >r the new 13th Circuit by tqef. jOoydrnor. It states that I am' a membeir ot the Oconqe, bar. I was' a rest? ent of Ooconee county when teachir g schoql at the old Coneross church, betweeri Walhal la and Westminster, gs well aa when a - professor 1 aT Aflge'r "tuiiege, Wal halla, and 1 resfded;at Sen dca and was I the cashier for" ino. C. Cary and O. Warren Qignilllat. who w|re Southern agents for Ceo. H. McFadden & Co., cotton factors. I never tried a case ut law in Oconee. During the last four years I have continuously reald ; in Anderson county, in which I was born, and at Pendleton and I -did so reside ?? my piace there ttil just be fore I was recently annotated magis trate at Clemson College. Such faw suits, however, as I have profession ally appeared in. so far have been In Anderson county. AB to the rumor of my appointment as solicitor I have nothing to ,say. If it .wore true it would be as gratify ing as lt ls unexpected, and, after an experience of over .a, quarter of a cep tury as- counsel to, the Greater City Ot New York and as a Judge -la_that state, l?TfJcTal ?7 the empire city, and commonwealth, I am not'too modest to say that my record In!the cou'is, State and federal, would perhaps war rant the conclusion that my Irlends cherish that the duties of the nigh office "bf Solicitor of the 13th circuit would be performed in a capable, con scientious and satisfactory manner. As to the inadvertent erroMtfff* ?y being a member of the OcoaeYbar, a correction ls respectfully requested, for if circumstances permit, as I have the lively hope and assurance they will, it is my expectation, upon my re turn from John Hopkins, to engage in the practice of law in thia promis ing city of vtm and vigor ana nerve, and that Anderson may be "My town" until the end not only of my days of active usefulness but until the last call. Anderson ls the county that I was born In and in which I have spent many of the happiest years of my life-I love her, not only because she ls In all respects facile princess the banner county in the fairest and 4NO. B, ADOER MULXALLY.. Pendloton, .8. C* Feb. 26. M4 Tho thforiuattoa. published In this paper that Mr. Mullally was,an Oco nee attorney, wa* 4?e to the feet that lt has been published recently that h? had removed to .Calhoun In Oco nee, county. No kann Intended.-Ed. The Intelligencer. A LIKELIHOOD. Columbia State. : WV? suppos? that wheu universal suffrage arrives, the women will In sist that the names of the states be written thus: Callie Ftornia. Della Ware. ' plenis D?. Ida Ho. Louisa Anna - Mary Laad. Mino? Bota. _ v ItiuuQg The life of this sale is but a matter of hours. S^iu'day J^?^ at 10 o'c?b?ki this s?le positlVely elos- -^ es. With the closing of this sale, ! , there passes into history the greatest money-saving opportunity ever giv- i en the people of Anderson; the greatest value-giving sale ever dared in high class clothing. We want every one to look through with us. To those who stop and think, then take a f irmgrip on oportunity, here's the savings: .... . -.?.-. ? . i. . . ^ ? * . Men's Suits and Overcoats $27.50 Suits and Overcoats . . . . . . . . v m i . . . .v. . : $20:d0 25.00 Suits and Overcoats . . . .' . .' . ; '. .MV**8* .V. ^ . . 18.75 , 22.50 Suits and Overcoats . . , . . . . . htWi . . 17.25^' 20.00 Suits and Overcoats . Tt r7T~"t rr rr. ; rr rr. 7 1475 .18,00 Suits and Overcoats ...... .. .'?. g& . . .;. 3. . 13.75 ! . 15.00 Suits and Overcoats..\ . . . ... ? . '.?,-14v50--. 12.50 Suits and Overcoats-~_.-I??; M. J $ 9.75 10.00 Suits and Overcoats. * J. ggSaSS^?2?tti. 1 . Li Men's Odd Trousers $10.00 Odd Trousers ... ?. .. . . . . . . .$7.50 9.00 and $8.50 Odd Trousers . . . . . . ....... . . . . . . ? 6.00 8.00 and 7.50 Odd Trousers ... . . . . . . ... . ; . . . : 5.?0. 6.50 and 6.00 Odd Trousers. : . . . . . .. 4.5? , 5.00 Odd Trousers . . r-'M,. . ....... . . . .-. . . . . . 3.75 : . ,4.50 and 4.00 Odd Yrqujsers . . . -v ......... . ... . .... 3.25 * 3.50 and 3.00 Odd Troupers. .. 3.5.0 ?. 2.50 arid 2.00 OddTroufeer? . ... . ... ... . . . .... 1.75., *?Nqt only ijsthis an app?alin $ opportunity, f pr..you td*get jhe right pri?e? !. i on a suit for yourboy, but ne'will get the^rightkirid of ctothes. . ~ " ' I ".- ? . ' ' ''' I - '--V"' -" " "- * * -T?^r ? <:. > j . . f.? ?..* ? v T fj ? ?' ? .?:. #H I : ' ". L ' .Bays.'Suits arid Overcoats ? $12.50 .Suit or Overcoat i X . . ... /. ..... . . . . . . $9.7$ ? 10.00 Suit or Overcoat*.. .. .. ..... 7.50 * 9.00 and $8=50 Suit or Overcoat ... .. .. .. 6.00 8.00 and 7.50 Suit or Overcoat, .> ^ . ........ . . . . . . ... 5-00 6.50 and 6.00 Suit or uvercoat 4.50 4 5.00 Suit or Overcoat. :.?. 3.75 4.50 and 4.00 Suit or Overcoat . ...... .! ri ...... . 3.25 3.50and 3.00 Suit or Overcoat . .., . . . ..2.50 Our stock of Shoes in all leathers, tan, vici, gun metar^ncr: patent, re- ' duced. -; ' 'y' ' 1 '"' Men's Shoes ... .j M , . j ; ?- ar^jcf $6.00 Hanan Shoes . ........V,??? ?? ?^v^r4'"yi. . .^4;75'""; ~ 5.00 TO\7ard & "Foste. Shoes . . . ,. 3.75 4.00 Howard & Foster Shoes. r . * . ... . . . . . . 3.25 3.50 Snow Shoes.. . ?.2.75 It is not our desire that a single 'person'miss the advantages of buy ing during this sale. If you cannot come to our store, Send us your M?ii Orders. We prepay all ' vr -charges.. when \ \ i tie ^ture ^u:<r^i a conscience ? frcUiiS; ' A ?'fj?t .-JE "sfi.jA ^M.MII-?I !?. ?? f jH?ll?lflf jt^vu^t******** *aaw" r