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$10.98 THE PRICE OF ll (26 S?ll OR OUT When we say $10,98 buys values up to $25, we mean it; and our $25 values are tar superior to any other concerns' $25 values. It is absolutely impossible for any concern to touch our goods. It is impossible for you to duplicate any goods selected from us at our price or within $7 or $8 of our price. Come in and get samples and satisfy yourself as to the honesty of thet .? remarks. We re fer you to thousands of pleased customers in Anderson and vicinity? Every man in Anderson must wear a Columbia Suit. 50 per cent of them are now wearing Columbia Clothes and the reason of it is that Colum bia Clothes are better made, fit better and last longer and are less than one-half the price during this sale, of their real value. We are the on* ly manufacturers in Anderson selling tailoring, and it is impossible for any other concern to compete with us, in variety of cloths and styles, in quality and in price. Come in and be convinced. Do not miss this wonderful offer to secure a $25 garment for $ 1O.SS These goods are being sold at the price of 6 cents cotton. OUR LOSS IS YOUR GAIN. Our stock must be closed out by the first of the year; and this sale will continue. Dp not put off to the last minute. Pick while the selection remains. If your purchase is not all that we claim it to be whe*i the garment is delivered to you, your deposit will be cheerfully refund ed. Every garment we make bears our label and our guarantee is back of it. PLACE YOUR ORDER TODAY, LU Ml Bl A TAILORING F. IVA. UNGER, Manager, 122 W. Whllner St., Anderson, S. C 1 1 ll What Do You Think v of a Well Built Ho?se Which Needs Paint and Looks Rusty? Others think the same thing about YOUR house and it is DE TERIORATING rapidly without the covering of paint. . I The effects of the Weather on ?your property is more certain than , that of Fire; and in the long run just as damaging; why carry Fire insurance, and nut carry Weath er insurance?. BE CONSISTENT NOW is the time to paint, anc we are HUNGRY for business which means LOW PRICE TC YOU C. M. Guest Paint Co Op. Y. M.-.C. A. Phone 4' "Guest. Sells The Best" i' 1 ' - ?HliilLjCfv^ J'l 11*1} I fl S irai / Sill Wi I' * Bl Comfort in Reading You wSl welcome those bi 'roomy gW-'ce ?wk- es you ? y ocr wnoklng jacket and stippei Let os show you how light ai easy-fitting they really are. rae* $3.50 to $5.00 oed ? M. R. Campbe! Raftered Opt<*snetri?t % Office 112 W. WUtncr Sft. ' GLroimd * Floor . Telephone Connexttotv Citv Attorney ?Comes to t TO-THE PftpPLE OF ANDERSON: I 1 have read the "interview" obtain ed from Ex-Alderman Elmore, pub lished in last Sunday's Intelligencer and would have gladly given The In telligencer's readers the benefit of my recollection of our conversation on this subject on the same day the in terview appeared if I had been in- j formed of the interview and given the I opportunity to do so by The Intelli gencer. I claim no infallibility of recollec tion but I do remember the text and substance of my personal discussions of the White Way proposal with Mr. Elmore because v>! his peculiar slrc atlon as a member of the council com mittee appointed to decide upon it. Me war* the only one of tho three composing that committee who bad fonght the franchise throughout and for that reason was naturally some what concerned about his consistency if he favored the White Way after fighting the franchise. This was what wo chiefly talked about and I told I him that my opinion waa that there I would be nothir.-; inconsistent In his I favoring the white way as an adver- I tisement and ornament for the city I merely because he had opposed thc franchise before. I also said thal he I doubtless could truthfully say that If'I (he Hoot hem Pabilo Utilities Co was I I to have a franchise he was in favor of I I a white way. ' The "legality" of the I White Way "contract" was certainly ll ? not in my thoughts, and I am sorry I I Mr. Elmore thinks ho was misled by I I any Statement of mino in discussing I the subject with him. I have never thought and do not I now think that Mr. Elmore was in consistent In favoring the White Way I after tho franchise had been 'pasaed" I over his vtgortros objections. There- I foro I. have always defended his I course against those wiro disapproved I of it and even Mr. Elmore's falluro to extend to his old comrade-in- arms I the courtesy and consideration ot I comparing ft rr mutual recollections I of our conversations before permit- I I ting The Intelligencer to publish his. I I own Interpretation under flating head I lines (without opportunity offered or given me to reply simultaneously and with equal publicity) does not change I my view that Ex-Aldereoan Elmore was sincere in his recent manful fight against the "franchise" and was not inconsistent, th afterwards favoring the White Way.. On Thanksgiving day, according to the editor of The Intelligencer, "an other broadside''.' was fired at me through the guns (columns) of a neutral (t) port - (The Intelligencer) by that trained captain of word ar tillery and artfut inventor .of new forms of word ammunition-^, Captain H. Ii. W?tk???, ? TODurnan gent toman and soldier woll known In the city where he has been In training for his present work of defending and invent ing new methods of warf?-e for pub lic service corporations for many rears. It the Captain's Thanksgiving ..brosdaide" or InslcuSUon; Innuendo and cunningly devised offensiveness, was intended to destroy the eatable, nasa ot my Thanksgiving turkey try poisoning the turkey thebroadside fail ed to accomplish' tts purpose for none of the shells used by the captain struck, the turkey or burst" close 'enough to him to spoil his excellent meat with their fumes. The turkey saved, naturally. I, too, had something to be thankful for dur ing tb,?\t day of general thanksgiving in sotte of the fact that gentlemen m the city and suburbs are busily try? hs to make ni? disregard Kipling's injunction to "keep your head when al', about you ar? losing theirs and hi arning it on you." Sullivan ie Front Again doughty editor of The Intelligencer, Bteps out- loses his "head" by en tangling it in inpertinent questions and seeks to -.scape by blaming It on ase? Next- wah studied simultaneous ness- a tried and experienced colo nel and a skilled captain of strategy step out upon the-firing line to fight to retain their official "heads" en dangered by their own blundering by -blaming lt on me. Then steps out- nu. the board of strategy skillfully pushes out- my erstwhile fighting friend and comrade in-arms, Ex-Alderman Elmore, who cautiously seeks to retrieve his lost "head" fey Mat?lag it OH a*S With these gentlemen constantly complaining that I wickedly caused them to "lose" their precious "heads," is it any wonder tact I occasionally seek to steady my nerves and clari ty my perceptions by looking at the humorous side of the spectacle of grown tuen (an editor, a colonel, a captain and an ex-franchise ..buster) one by ono or by twos, passing in re view before the Judgment bar of pub lic opinion and defending themselves by the. childish method of-blaming it on me. Before the last Ingeniously contri ved attack upon roe by Captain Wat kips appeared in The Intelligencer on Thanksgiving morning, members of the present city council and others, who have a right to be considered and whose views, and wishes I respect, re quested me to ignore the fulminations of the gentleman from the suburbs and others unless in my Judgment they were such as to demand reply in defense of my professional and per sonal honor. For this reason and, be cause, I too,' recognize the futility ot consuming time and thought in dis cussing theso questions with paid of ficials of Southern Public Utilities Co. and other members of the general board.'o? strategy ot the company paid and unpaid, salaried and unsal aried, regulars and volunteers- 1 shall decline to be drawn into addi tional ^Mended discussions of' mat ters and pointa connected with the franchise and the White Way already sufficieut'y presented by me for th? I consideration of thoughtful and fair ? minded citizens. Hut there are certain I veiled charges in Captain Watkins I Thanksgiving offering-utterly for ? elga to the "franchise" or the "A*hiU I Way. to which I ahali direct at? cation I because of their In tend eu effect upon the confidenc? of my peoplo in mj rectitude of purpose, ability and ac complishment in the performance ol my duties as one of the city's attor I ney* during the , four years ot Mr Sherard's administration, tho tw< I years of that of Mr. Hoi lem an and foi I about three months as sole city trna? j ney under Mayor'' Godfrey and thc I present city council. 1 quote verbatim one of the Cap tain's pussy-footed, sllp-up-be-hlnd you allusions to my record as a pub lie prosecutor to refresh the memor les of ai oso who may navet redd 1 hastily and thereby missed some o the "piten" concealed with such et quislte artfulness wtthin lt. Iteally v?r preteustrely - fprobabl; the latter) provoked by nothing'mor offensive or serious than my good-na tured referenco to bis not being i resident-Of the etty, the captain sud denly discords hi* doak of dlgnlflc and moderato statement . (seeming! worn by-him only as a part c his strategy) and writes about me a follows, except italics: ,"lf I were to follow hie ex ample in thia discussion, I might suggest that X regret that tho pub lic waa se leaf deprived of the splendid* work which he finally accomplished and that an earlier clean-up at the hands v>f so oin I clent a prosecutor had' not saved' tho city the disgrace and aim0 Tillich rna riot so long." I shall not attempt to compete with the suburban gentleman in thc inven? tion and uso of subtiles cf speech 1 and accusation but shall make a plain and direct reply which he and all-who read it will understand without ef fort or quibble as to my meaning. It is this: Whoever says, ?riles, insinuates, suggests or hy cunningly prepared phrases and sentences at tempts to create the impression that ? by indifference, neglect or in any oth er way. I was responsible for "tba disgrace and crime which ran riot so long" in the city of Anderson-wheth er he be a man of the professional and social standing ot Captain H. H. Watkins or a man lower in the scale of human estimate of standing and lesponsiblllty- is either a falsifier, tut ignoramus, a resentful partisan de signedly seeking tu injure or a dunce. The Captain skilfully resorts to "I " am informed" to wouvo into hlB' arti cle suggestions and accusations not Within his personal knowledge, which ' obviously opens tho door of our dis cussion interminably us may be il lustrated by Just a few Of tho many [ "I-am-lnformcds" within my posses sion about himji'.at now. I I am informed that the captain": recollection about the White i Way contract la not onlv defac tivc but that his mcnv)ry is equally defective about his connection with ?ho franchise. It has been stated te me that there in a letter or letters In ?he files of the Southern Public Utili ty c om p..:: y from President Taylor to Manager Orr, .mowing conclnusivc ly that : tho captain was consulted about the franchise and that this lut ter or letters aro still in existence unless destroyed since the present controversy began a short while ago. I am also informed that Mannger Orr, President Taylor and perhaps others-directly or indirectly intmjr [ested- consulted tho captain . ?th.mt I the franchise more than once toward I the close of negotinttms- last winter. I I am further informed that tho cap tain actually prepared at least one if not more of tf.e many sections ot tho ?"franchlse-contraC." at the request of President Taylor br Mr. Orr or chang ed and corrected to his own view one section or more submitted to bim by ?one of them or another Ot the Com pany's numerous officials.' I When we step into the field of "I am informed" tho possibilities are limitless for both sides and prcfltlean to either. If the captain is sine pre in hilt be lief that the action of thc present city Council was a "repudiation" of a morally binding obligation and, that "his people" agree with bim in this view. lask him to obtain the consent of his "client" to agree to submit to the qualified voters of the city the question of authorising and ratifying lbs "franchiee" and White Way "con tract'' witboat any. litigation whatso ever. He knows lt la only sideatep picg thc issue to my the City Coun cil alone has the pawer to order the election upon a petition of freeholders because his client is claiming that? no'election ls necessary to make the instruments valid. It his, client is sincere, then his evident intention is, lo test the right of the people to vote in the courts and thus dem ive them of the right to vote if in his power to prevent by law or .to pre vent it aa long as possible by litiga tion and delay. Therefore, I say to tho captain, if you aro tincere In your belief that tho people agroe with your "repudiation" view, why not advise your, client ts? givo the people the op^ portunity to vote now without litl gattea or delay and thus decide whether or not they consider the acr (ion of the present city Council a re pudiation of an obligation of the city If you decline to so advise,-you sro convicted of insincerity or yon pre fer the litigation and delay. I conreas that I am not well train ed for defense against the pussy-foot ed-slip-up-behind-you methods of at tack being employed by the. Captain and others in their efforts to save themselves from tho censure of Mr. Duke (their real employer) .by blam ing their blunders on me. It is necessary of course that oftl cials of a public service corporation, members of a city council and city at torneys, should employ a reasonable degree of Becrccy in the formulation of plans and policies in order that they may not be made Ineffective or bo weakened by premature publicity. Tho greatest democrat In America -President Wilson, has ' recognised this and approved the principle by applying lt to important affairs of our country. So I havo no quarrel with the Southern Public Utilities Company, city councils or myself for refusing .to divulge policies and plans until their judgments dictate that the time for divulgence is opportune and such divulg?nos necessary and wise. What I am devlins; with no? ?re the secretly contrived and artistically veiled attacks upon my official and personal conduct, as city attorney and as a citizen of Anderson interested in tho permanent prosperity and fun damental happiness of my people. It is obviously unreasonable to expect me to devote a gri deal of time and thought to answering every Tom, Dich and Harry- big or little, who h?hn np In an unfriendly newspaper- - (loudly proclaiming its neutrality, aa Turkey did while German officers di rected her ships) and whining through it to the public: j - Either this: "I didn't do it." Or this: "If I did do it the city at-j torney told me to do IL" And this: "I did and I didn't, but, I anyway, the city attorney didn't tell. me not to do it." 'J For this and other reasons I de- ! cline to be humiliated further by the necessity of being forced (by news paper rule of ethics requiring replies to be published in the same news paper in which articles replied to ap pear) to make additional answer to the whiners through tho Anderson In* telligeneer I know-to be unfair and unfriendly to mo in this fight, because among other grounds for this belief,. I know this paper has already par-i posely violated a custom or mle of] newspaper " the highest rank and cha rac to i its seal to place me at a disadvantage in presenting "my olde" of a personal issuo relating to I this controversy, and I will prove it ? to tho satisfaction of fair-minded men and readers. Op account of thc newspaper rule that I must. answer publications through the paper in which, they ap pear, unless refused permissliu to do so, I went to Tho Intelligencer office about 6:30 p. m. on last Saturday a wwk ago, with my first reply to Capt, Watkins. BoU the editor end the re porter were In end the former prompt ly accepted my reply for publication. As 1 turned to go the editor himself began a conversation in regard to tho rroposcd citizens btw and order league very pleasantly, l responded cot ' tcously. We chatted for several minutes and I asked for permission to return later and read tho "prot?" o* my reply to Captain Watkins. Thi'j was freely granted with Instructions, to return about 8 p. m. for that pur pose. About 8 o'clock I returned and read the'proof and was in the office 15 minutes or more. Tho editor was not then , in but the reporters wero all there and during my first visit Mr. M. M. Matttson, president of the Intelligencer Company, came in and saw me there. I know ' how. but did not know' upon either visit, that the Elmore In terview had teen obtained by The tn? telligeneer before either of my visits te The Intelligencer effie* and yet neither the president of the Company, the editor or any of the reporters as'-ed me for a statement of "my aide" of ibo matter or offered me the oppor tunity ot being "interviewed".In or der-that the publie might get both aides at the same time and with equal publicity. Company buying and sending out hun dreds of coplea of The Intelligencer at tts own expense ar.d with occur-j ronces like the above, is it strango that even Btrong frier.ds of The In- t telligencer -who wish lt well and want to be convinced of lu mlrnecs j and disinterestedness- are at last convinced that The Intelligencer is hopelessly partisan in Its defense of thc Utilities Company and its contro versies and hopelessly unfair to U??*e who differ from it on thcte questions. After such treatment of me person* ally I feel compelled to hereafter ig nore any further attacks through its partisan ' columns and I believe all fair-minded readers will agree with me-without rcard to their views for or again?* the Southern Public Utilities Cjmpany-. that my course is reasonable and proper. I submit for the earnest considera- ! tion of thoughtful, fair-minded. peo = :lhoat regard to tbsir ?evra for or against the Southern Public Util ities Company in this controversy, that lt is Just as important for the general welfare, if not -more so, that they be fully informed of thc policy and attitude ot their newspapers in the gathering and distribution of nowa aa it is that they be Informed of the official and personal policy and attitude of their city attorney in his investigation and treatment of public questions, lt is, I frankly con cede, the clear duty of a newspaper of high rank and'character to give to the public important, pertinent and ?BD?uiiai information, relating to the city attorney's official policy or ac tions on any public question, hut lt is equally such paper's duty1 to the pub lic and its readers, to obtain, pre pare and publish this information with scrnpluoua fairness in order, that the public and its readers may get lt all without advantage or favoritism in the distribution of any particular portion of lt. In the present contro versy snd in the* weary fight last som mer and winter, I respected the ob ligations of friendship and regard for another by refraining from attacking his methods (except once very mild ly) even in self-defense snd even when I know he was deliberately us ing The Intelligencer In s persistent* ly partisan way to compass the "pas- ! sage" of tho "franchise." But I con no longer permit thoso obligations to fetter my freedom of speech when I have patiently waited and havo become convinced that no obligation ot friendship Ve regard for' me is uelng or will be considered sut? dolent to afford me even the protec tion of fairness In the Intelligencer's warfare upon me. Disgusted with the superficial f ne cessity of striking at a brilliant young reporter, who, like a good soldier, merejy obeyed instructions skilful ly and well, I have decided to strike the really responsible man-tho presi dent of the Anderson Intelligencer Company, Mr. M. M. Mallison, who h?s been eermiits? ts direct ?ie ?iu? icy of his -pHi-tr Z*A to the franchise and has ?irec'?d lt with deliberate partisans!lp trota the beginning until now. it ls no Justification. for partisan unfairness'that the financial burdens ot the paper rest heavy on his shoul ders. It vms no Justification for deliber ate suppression of the "other aide" of thia question last summer and win ter, that the directing mind believed the passage of the franchise a splen did accomplishment for Anderson. It ie no Justification for unfair War fare upon the city attorney that the man directing tha policy of the paper In this fight wishes him well in other battles not interfering with bis own plans and ambitions for . himself and the city. It ls no unforgivable offenso to direct a partisan policy for a news* paper without protegee of neutral ity, but to persistently try .to ?aka the people believe that* a ' partisan policy Is In fact perfectly fair and neutral is a sor lout Offenau against the community. It is of more far-reaching Impor tance than the record ot the city at torney now being examined tor parti san purposes. There aro hundreds of thoughtful people in the city and outside of it who believe, as I believe, that the -An* der son In telliz ".r under Mr. Mat? tlson's direcf i.g i sponsibllfty. could not be more < ' - dly utilized for tho benefit of '.' u v?n: Public Utili ties Company ?_ . ... Z. V. Taylor him self was sole ovner, di tor and re- ., porter, The tactics no v be&g employed are almost ah exact replica of the tactics used last summer and winter to put 'through" the franchise. They remind one of the. tactics of tho Germans in the European war. They began the present hattie with the present eity council with a troop cf editorial^ deployed s?d IS=2;.UV?V-' ed by. the Intelligencer as a sort of advance cavalry to "feel out" tho enemy's positions, andi aa a "screen" to hide the long-ranged guns brought into action later by a skilled colonel and captain of artillery. Thc revelry movement, not being very , successful,, the guns were forced to fire without' accurate ' rang?" and did very little damage. Now In desperation tho board of strategy decides that a nanhmg move- - ment may save tho day and It appeals to Mr. Elmore to serve them with al* leged Information obtained by hint' while fighting for a long time under another flag. If methods ot publie, service . war fare like this prove successful -and they may for all I - now know and as a result great material pros perity and material expansion come to our city-- may God save our pjs?*J - pie who are asked to enjoy material properity and expansion gained by such a sacrifice ot their soif-respect and independence! '.'hey demand 'peace," while, like): the Kaiser, they rattle their swords. They fight hy the Prussian code and the cynical standard that a "good war" needs no Justification but ita own strength and power to conquer and desti\>>. Respectfully. G. - CULLEN - SULXJTY Ar Nov 28, 1914. . ! HEAR IT ? TThatV '6PPOR1T?NITY knocking at your door. lt's like 'this-I ttave a farm of.210 acres of good land; run J down slightly, but a CQOD. farmer can easily and economi cally build .i up. lt is Ritual ed three mile* this a*e of Sandy Springs and eight miler? from Ander ton. $t,5oo dov/r. and the .balance on. yearly payment* will turn the trick-and the price h VERY LQM&fc ffi g im Real Estate Ur> Ovar Hubbards - -. Jforab*