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TALMAGE SERMON * By Rev. FRANK DE WITT TALMAGE. D.D.. Pastor of Jefferson Park Presby terian C.iurch, Chicago (.'liicago, June 1*0.—Ite versing the usual course. Rev. F. De Witt TaImage In this sermon, on the approaching na tional anniversary, takes a look for ward. The text is Matthew xiii, TS, “The field is the world.” Every republic has a Fourth of July. It has an annual holiday, set apart for living over again the scenes of its struggle for independence. It has a birthday celebration for banquets, fire works, oratorical pyrotechnics and for the arousement of patriotic enthusi asms. The French republic’s Fourth of July Is celebrated on the 14th day of July. This Is the anniversary when the grim fortress of a prison for state criminals was razed to the ground. The Bastille was to the French what the Tower of London was to the British. It repre sented to all the common people the tyrannies of a despotic throne. It rep resented to them tin* place where men and women, to please a royal whitil, might be lodged for it little while on their way to quench with their life’s blood the insatiable thirst of the heads man's ax. So on the 14th day of July every car and wagon is stopped in the Parisian capital. Then the young men and maidens, decked in holiday attire, turn the broad boulevard of the Champs Ely sees into it ballroom. Then in the French cities can be heard the songs of the merrymakers and the mu sic from the different bands playing up and down almost every street. The Brazilian republic’s Fourth of July is celebrated on the Kith day of Novem- j ber. the anniversary of the time when ' ]>oiu Pedro's empire was overthrown | and the exiled imperial family had to | sail away from the waters of the Ama- ! 7.0n. One of the first ads of the Cuban congress which assembled after the | American soldiers had been withdrawn j was to appoint a national holiday to coininciuornto the day on which the | Cuban republic had gained her hide- | pendeuce.* So the people of the United j States government should hold sacred the day ou which Jefferson ami Adams and Franklin and Sherman and John ; Hancock and Samuel Adams signed the memorable document which made I the Goddess of Liberty a full grown queen. But there is an unwise as well as a wise way of celebrating the modern Fourtlj of July The first way is to glorify the past, as though our forofa thers bad w-.u all the American victo ries that can ever be won. The other j way is to take a national retrospect for the purpose of rousing our ambitions to go ahead and win the further victo ries that must bo won in order to fill- liil America’s mission, and if any min ister tries the latter way he cannot , take in the full sweep of America's fu- ! ture Influence and work unless he dis cusses them from a worldwide stand point. He must attune his Fourth of July sermon to a world's theme, as Phillips Brooks, the umst beloved man of New England in ’.is day. keyed his ministry to an international tone when from a European city he sent to a friend at home a letter which read 1 something like this: "Dear Harry—l wish you might do its 1 do every year, i 1 wish you would annually spend two , months abroad in travel. Such a va- ! cation teaches you the immensity of j Cod's providences and how small are i the circumscriptions of our own indi vidual lives and how small even the ! Episcopalian church appears to be | when it is focused from across the | Bens." So the purpose of this Fourth of July sermon is to try to discuss the I worldwide Influence of America’s fu- | ture mission vather than to spend our time eulogizing what has been done at Bunker Hill. Saratoga, Brandywine. Valley Forge and Yorktowu. The field of America's future usefulness is not to be limited by the Atlantic on the one side and the Golden Gate of the Pacific on the other side. It is to be as wide as the live continents, as am ple as the two hemispheres. It is to take in all the mainlands as well as the Isles of the seas. America’* Greatest Mlaalon. Emphatically the most important of all America's future missions is the spreading of the gospel until it shall “be preached in all the world for a wit ness unto all nations.” The Bible does not state that the millennial day shall come gradually, as the sunrise first tips the eastern hills with light, mak ing it appear as though the under- brush u]wu the tops of the mountains had been set afire by some careless campers. It does not state that the millennial day shall come as when the dawn in the beginning shoots its long, slender bars of yellow gold across the heavens. It does not state that the glory of the Lord shall cover the earth as the waters cover the sea. as the flood tide gradually creeps up the beach. But the Bible docs teach that when the gospel of Jesus Christ shall be proclaimed in every town, village and city of every nation; when it shall Is* proclaimed in the mountain log hut and In the ship’s cabin; when Jt shall be proclaimed under the shadow of every legislative hitII anti by the camp fire of every hjatben tril**; when it ahail ’’he proclaimed in all the world for a witness unto all nations, then Shull the end come.” Then the millen nial day shall be flooded with light, even as n darkened hall Is Instantly Illuminated when the many different electric lights flash out at the touch of a single button. Then the millen nial day shall be full of brilliancy, as the thickness of midnight was changed into the brightness of miduoou when God spake at the morning of creation the four simple words, “Let there be light.” and there was light. The mil lennial day shall come as suddenly as the tongues of fire leaped out of the heavens when the Holy Spirit hovered over the heads of 1 * praying, plead ing, exultant Penteeo. il worshipers. If the millennial day is to come when the gospel shall be proclaimed unto all the nations of the earth. I ask you this pertinent question: What nation Is better fitted to convey that gospel to all unevangelized nations than the American nationV Was not this nation, in the first place, founded iu the name of God? Did not old John Robinson stand uiion the shore just before the Mayflower sailed and dedicate to God the little hand of pilgrim fathers? Was not that pilgrim baud bound together by sacred covenant to walk In all his ways made known, or to be made known unto them, according to their best endeavors, whatever it should cost? Was not Maryland settled iu the name of God. and Georgia in the name of God. and Pennsylvania in the name of God? On account of this past dedication of our forefathers, dare America refuse to carry the gospel un to all nations of the earth? This nation is especially fitted to car ry the gospel unto all people because here we have no established church. Every religious denomination can free hundedly do its full stint of work. A Story of Whltefield. How the different religious denom inations are able to work side by side in America for the scattering of the gospel seed may lie illustrated by an incident in the life of George White- field. One day the great evangelist stopped dramatically in his sermon and, looking up as though addressing the throne of the Almighty, cried out in interrogation, “O Lord, are there any Presbyterians in heaven?” “No,” came back the answer. “O Lord, are there any Episcopalians in heaven?” “No,” again came the answer. "O Lord, are there any Methodists in heaven?” “No.” “Who, then, are the denizens of the skies?” “Christians one, Christians all.” So in the scatter ing of the gospel seed by the American nation there are no religious sects. In the sight of the government there are only Christians. The Calvinists and the Armenians, the close communi cants and tiie Congregatioualists, the Protestants and the Catholics, can work side by side because these differ ent religious denominations believe in the atonement. They can and should scatter the gospel seed unto all na tions because the American nation was settled and consecrated by our forefathers to the service of the Lord Jesus Christ. America’s second mission is emphat ically the establishment of an interna tional court of arbitration so that bloody wars in the future shall be an impossibility. That a great Interna tional court of arbitration can be es tablished by the united action of the ten or twelve principal nations of the world is undeniable, and that such a court will lie ultimately established is also unquestioned. When such a court is established, the United States. Eng land, France. Spain, Austria, Germany, Italy, Russia. Japan and China will each have representatives upon that tribunal. Then when international difilculties arise these dillicuities will be peacefully settled, as the Alabama claims were amicably settled before the Geneva tribunal which assembled in 1871. composed of the five repre sentatives which were furnished by the United States, Great Britain. Italy, Switzerland and Brazil; as the Vene zuela claims were settled before a tri- buinil which met in Paris in KKK); as the Alaska boundary line was amica bly settled and as the war claims against the Chinese government by the different allied forces are now being amicably settled. Fur I'nivrrMal Feacr. Now, my friends, what civilized na tlon on the face of the globe is better fitted to load In the establishment of this supreme court of iuteruutiouul ar bitration than the American nation? The different nations of Europe, I care not how strong some of them may be. are unable to successfully lead in this movement for universal peace because those nations are Jealous of each oth er. Those different European nations cannot do as they would, no matter how noble and Christian their motives might be. If they could do ns they wished, they long ago would have wiped off the face of the earth that most cruel and corrupt of all govern ments. the government of Turkey. When the sultan gave orders to bis soldiers to massacre In cold blood the Armenians, a great wave of horror rolled over all civilized lands. Though William E. Gladstone was then a dy ing old man. he took up his pen and wrote a godlike protest. Indignation voicing the sentiment of every civi lized government was heard alike In London. Paris. Berlin. Rome. Vienna. 8t. Petersburg and New York; but, though men and women were slaugh tered by the hundreds and the thou sands, though in midwinter young girls and boys were stripped of their gar ments and driven forth naked into the mountains to freeze and to starve and to die. though whole families were de stroyed and whole regions - desolated, yet not one nation of Europe was able to prevent or avenge the massacres be cause the European nations were Jeal ous of each other. The nation that would attempt to obliterate the Turk ish government would have the swords >f other European nations plunging at its heart. But the American nation, being removed 3.000 miles from the European nations, is hand free, foot free and heart free. It can load in tills movement to establish a supreme court of arbitration because all foreign nu tious will realize that it Is not making such a move to upset the “balance of European power” or to absorb new ter ritory, and a Christian nation like the American which does not try to turn the sword imo the plowshare and the spear Into the pruning hook deserves to lose its Influence, to fall from its proud position as a great and free na tion and to perish from the earth. Recognizing the fact that many poo pie arc looking forward to the time when war shall forever lie abolished, an imaginative writer onee described how that blessed condition was to lie accomplished. He declared that the time would conic when ail Europe would lie convulsed by a great inter national struggle. He pictured that event in the dim future. He arrayed every European nation upon one or the other side of the combat. But the night before the great battle was to open an ungel in human shape would be seen going through the camps of the two armies. This visitor would stop long enough to pin upon every soldier's breast a sign. And when the two vast armies should next day pre pare for battle and the command should tie given to the troops to tire not a rifle would flash, not a sword would he unsheathed, not a cannon would speak, because the si^n pinned upon every soldier's heart wouid be the sign of the cross. The picture drawn by that imaginative writer may be accepted as a truthful one except in two or three facts. 11“ describes that day as in the dim future. I believe the day is now almost at hand. Again, that writer describes the peacemaker who will attach the emblem of the cross to the breast of the common sol diers tis a man. I believe that i ten co maker wnl not be a man. but a na tion. and that peacemaking nation the American nation. America shall pin a sign of universal peace upon every European nation by the means of a supreme court of international arbi tration. This sign shail do-•roe that war. bloody, fiendish, demoniacal war. shall be no longer; that war shall for ever he as dead as the multitudes of dead soldiers whose bodies are now decomp sing in the grave trenches round the world. ili inters of (lie Wenk. America's future worldwide mission will also be found in her emphatic pro test that might is not always right. Until tin* supreme court of internation al arbitration shall lie estabiished there will lie many international injustices From time immemorial the strong na tions have been trampling upon and browbeating the weak nations. Here tofore the American nation lias been unable to do much more than look aft er its own personal interests: But now that time is past. The American na tion ami when l speak about the American nation 1 naturally mean the Fiiited States government—has grown to be so strong that by the power of its great navy and its great multitude Of inhabitants it can successfully mid in .a Christian spirit take up the causes of tin* weaker and the more heipless nations when those nations are being downtrodden and unjustly used by the greater governmental powers. The American nation can do for the help- lefts and weaker nations what it did for suffering an I helpiess Cuba. When the Spanish governor genera! o? Cuba. diers. I shall have no trouble with the Indians because l Intend to buy the land from them.” "Buy the land from the Indian*!” exclaimed King Charles. “What do you mean? Why, 1 have deeded you that tract of land. It is mine, and I gave it to you. For what, then, William Feme did you pay me $16,000?” "1 paid you the $16,000” replied the brave cjuaker, “to purchase your good will, not the land. That land. y« ur majesty, does not belong to you any more than it does to me. The land of I'ennsylvania does not belong to you any more than the city of Lon don would belong to a party of Amer ican Indians who in a canoe might be blown across the Atlantic and land upon our shores and who then might go up the Strand waving tneir toma hawks and shouting. ‘The city of Lon don is ours because we discovered it!' ” So William Fomi. believing that all weal; and helpless people should he justly protected, crossed the Atlantic and made ins famous agreement with the Indian chiefs under the “Charter oak." And as a result of that agree ment the i’ennsylvania colonies lived n peace and happiness because they were true to the helpless. So God will prosper America's future if the Amer ican nation is true and faithful in its I retention and care of the weaker and heipless nations. But perhaps the greatest mission of America next to scattering the gospel of Jesus Christ is to prove that its people can lie true to God in its days of prosperity as well as in its days of adversity. When a people are poor, weak and helpless, when a troubled and bleeding and suffering people are struggling for liberty and for their very existence, when a collection of ex slaves are following their leader through the weary Journey of a forty year tramp through the wilderness, it is not so difficult for them to pray and to worship God, but it is difficult for a people to be true to God unless when riches come and prosperity comes ami unlimited influence comes they have an especial grace given to them. It is diifieult to he true to God when the mighty fortresses have been builded at the mouth of every harbor to keep out the foreign foe and when the rat- tic* of the factory and the whistle of the steam engine and the blow of the hammer and the rasp of the saw are all playing an accompaniment to the tune of a national financial success. Reecii»M*«*rate (lie* Nation. As the American nation is a govern ment for the people and by the people, 1 would have every one of us this Fourth of Jur season reconsecrate our nation to God by reconsecrating our own personal lives to ins divine serv ice. When Uie emba'sader from Ger many app< ..i • at ih>* White House and prose a; s bis oiliCui documents, he docs not com** ns the representative of the G.rman nation, but as the personal ifpicseiitutive of Emperor .William. '1 he c.iibn -sackr of England rei resents King Edward. The representative of Italy reprcsuits King Victor Emman uel. But win n America's embassador g es abroad In* docs not represent the : p: - e- ; :d<‘Ut or the secretary of state, hut Announcements: For the Senate. I hereby announce myself a eanhtiiat- for State Senator. Mihjeet to the rules of the Democratic primary. Thus It Ben.kb 1 hereby offer myself as a candidate for re- eieetion to 1 he State Senate, subject to Re action or the Democratic primary. li. Ci SAKHATT. The friends hf Dr. John G. Black aiiiiouuot him a candidate to represent r.'licrokeecoun ty In t he St ate seriate. For House Representatives. I announce myself a candidate lor the House of BeprcM'iitatlvc», -uhjeet to the action of the county Democratic primary election. J. 4. Gai t.r. | • - At tne earnest solicitation of numerous frieiids i have const nied to make the race tor • he Beirislai tin . ami therelore announce my-.eif a can. mate. vil. ect to the a lion of I the Democratic primary. « . w. Will SONANT. I am if candidate for t he legislature, ub- .ject to t he Primary elec ion. .1. C. < •tts. I hereby announce myself a candidate for • lie House ol liepreseiitati ves, subject to tie- rules ol the Democrat c party. EbWABP A. TW—COT. I announce myself a candidate to repre- •>i ni Cherokee county in the Legislature an- pledge myself to abide by tin: action of the j Democratic primary. j W. Jcpsor -akhatt. Having the best interests of the people of ncrokec county at heart and feeling sure that l could benefit them were I in a position to do so, 1 icsp ctfully offer myself for their consideration as a candidate for the Bo ise of Lepresentatives and beg them to give UP-their support, subject to the action of the Democratic primary election. Respect iHi-’r- W P Kinnv. __ For Clerk of Court. Having ereh avored at all times and on aU occasions to do my full uuty and give en tire satisfaction to tiie public at large. I Hereby announce myself a candidate for r<- | , !; 1< L n U> U,e ,,ffl '* "t ' Jerk of Conn of ' herokee courily. subject to the Democratic ; primary, and I premise, if re-elected, toeon- j nue to lende r the same etticient service unit i have so endeavored to do in .he past. I J- Kb .lKPKKiur.8. 1 ! her.-hy announce myself a candidate for Klerk of the Court lor i hero, et county, suhjeel to the action of the pemo- j gfatlc primary. w. W. c akkm y. I hereby announce myself a candidate f... ofhi-e of ( jerk of tiie Court of Cherokee county subject to action ol tin Democratic | primary. J. C, H. Derg, ' . The many friends of W. H. Bum, reeoirnic ing tiis ability and integrity hcrch) present I. s name as a suit able and efficient ca ml Id ate for tbc office of Cierk of Court of Cherokee County, siiDject to the action of the Pemo- 1 primary. I hereby announce myself as a candidal' for the office Of Oh rk of Court of Cherokee ; County ami resp *ctfully solicit the support oi the voiersol ilie county ill (lie approach ing Democratic primary. Ben I-’. Bonner. Fo' Treasurer. i herehv announce myself as candidate lor I t»i i county hu'ijnct io tip- action of the Dimoctatic primary election. W n.i. m. m< cka»v. 1 hereby in-nonnre myself a candidate for tiie office of Tieusui-.-r o! Cherokee county, 1 subject to the Democrat ie primary eleeti. n. ■Ion n K. .1 urn in r s I hereby d< elate myself a candldaie for t he offl. e of Count y Tc-asurer. subject to t he action of the Democratic ptiumry. \\. FIahhv (room no I hereby announce myself as a . andldatc ! for 1 reusuit r of Cher, kee county, subject to tin-action ol ! he prim.-'>y election. U. Khnfst I’KBLKH. peopit—the c-oiiiliioit l the Democrat io primary. Getieiitl Wyler, began murder fin to imprisou and to exterminate and to rob the Cubans, he did not for one instant suppose that in order to pro tect find save a neighboring p opie tli * congress of the l.'nited States would declare war a gainst Spain and at one sitting vote $36,000,000 to the president of the United States to carry on that war. But tin United States govern merit did throw its protecting arm about that suffering people. The United States government did offer that protection in an unselfish manner As scon as the Cuban islands were res cued from Spanish tyranny the United States raised Cuba to !’..<* dignity of a sister republic. When the United States government declared war against Spain, the Spanish govern ment did not for one instant suppose that the Fhibppine Islands would be snatched from Spanish control, but they were. No sooner did the guns of Admiral Dewey echo round tiie world than the people of America realized that there were oth<*r islands suffering from the tyranny of Spain as well as the Cuban islands. So Uie stars and stripe*s were hoisted over the Fhilip pine Islands as well as in Havana har bor. And when those stars and stripes were raised iu the east as wel! as in the west the United States government declared that its protecting arm should care for the downtrodden races of the Pacific ns well as those of the Atlan tie. And so one of the mightiest and the purest and the holiest motives of America’s future mission will be to care for helpless and unjustiy treated nations wherever they may be found until a supreme court of international arbitration can be established. Then those weaker and downtrodden na tions shall be able to care for them selves. Th«* Taught by Pt-nn. And I would especially plead for the American nation to start forth and succor the helpless and weaker na tions because God always blesses the individual as well as tiie mighty na tion that is true to those who are weak. Do you know why the colony of Pennsylvania never had any ditti culties with tiie American Indians? When Massachusetts and Virginia were being decimated by Indian wars. Pennsylvania colonies were living In peace and liaypiness with the redskins because William Penn was always true and honorable with the original settlers of the American soil. When the great Christian Quaker was about to sail for America. King Charles of England asked William Penn if lie should not send over a regiment of sol diers to protect the young colony “No." answered William Penn: “1 do not want a regiment of English sol America. And as part of the people of Am riea we can he re;;- sents tin peop.c of common here and now begin to reeonsecrale our government to the Lord in its days of prosperity by reconsecrating our- seivts. () Lord, our God. can any one have a greater work to do in the evan gelization of the world than we Amer icans if we will only consecrate our lives to ti.. service? I selected this text. "The field is tiie world.’’ for two reasons — first, be cause the five words spoken by Jesus Christ to ids disciples exactly convey tne idea of the worldwide sweep of America’s future influence in tiie evan gelization of the two hemispheres. A Christian nation lias no more right to close Its doors and live for itself and let the rest of the people of the world suffer and die than an individual lias the right to lock and bar the doors of his own home and let ids neighbors lie murdered in cold blood. Rut tin* second reason why I selected this text is because it always lias bad an intense 'personal interest to me. ’Ibis was the first text which my fa ther as a theological student ever preached upon. When my father was a young man at New Brunswick semi nary, he went to visit my uncle, who was then a i*asior at Easthamptou. N. Y. He went to visit in the same old parsonage where the great Lyman Beecher, the father of Henry Ward Beecher, used to live and where many of the famous brothers and sisters of Henry Ward Beecher were born. And while my father was visiting his brother in-law the Rev. Stephen Mersbon, the village minister, asked him to preach. So he preached In the schoolhouse there In the village of Easthampton Ills first sermon. The schoolhouse is now used as a barber shop. It Is not larger than the ordinary sized parlor of an average city house. In that little | school house the unknown theological 1 student took for bin text. “The field Is 1 the world.” He little realized then ■ that there ever would come a time j when ids gospel field would literally he the world. 1 So may the Fourth of July ever be to all Americans a sacred day. May it lie a time when by retrospection we • learn what pure and noble ami conse crated ancestral blood is flowing in our veins. May it be a time when the American people bow their heads to make an earnest, intense plea that the present generation shall be r.s true to its gospel trust as our forefathers were true to theirs. Then, after we have knelt in prayer, may we go fortli inspired by the Holy Spirit to do the work which lias been given us to do. Then the brightest pages of American history will lie written at the millen nial dawn when tin* United States gov- eminent’» future mission, by the grace of God. shall bo gloriously and rap turously finished, [Copyright, 1802, Louis Klopich, N. Y.] For County Supervisor. I hereliy iinre'iiricc iiiyst-if it mndldiite for Supervisor of (. lierok« e rie m y. \\ h. (Chris) Phi m i ps. I hereby aim Miip-c niyseli a eaipiKhtte for Die office of Supt-l vIm/i- of Cherokee ( ounly subject U) Die ltd ion of the Denio -rat ic pri- tuary. .1 vmks .1. (■afkney. I liei-eliy iiniioiiru-e myself a eaiididate lor re-election to the office of county Supervisor of Cherokee county, subject to the action of J. V. Will la HEI,. 1 herei|y announce myself a ctind(date for the office of Snporvisoi ol «'Jn-rokce county, suhjt'd to the aclii u of tie Dernociatic primary. W. G. Aitstem-. i hereby announce myself a candidate for Supervisor of t 'herokee county .-object to the acllou of t he Democratic primary. D. C. Phillips. Tin- many friends of R. M. Jolley earnestly rei|nest inm to run for the office of Super visor of Cherokee Conuty, believing him to he well quaiitlei for the place, and that it will heto the mterets of the public, to elect him. and believing lie will take a pride in making good roads. Many Vot-iis. county, subject to the Demorottic primary, and I promts'-. If elected, to faithfully dis charge the dalles yf the office _ _ _ R. K- Hpenckk. I hereby announce myself ^ candidate for ♦ lie office of Coroner of Cherokee county, subject to the rules of the Democratic primary. J. Mat Allison. 1 hereby announce myseifas a candidate for Coroner ot Cherokee county, subject to the rules of tin- Democratic primary I’ittsTON Wood. The many I i i'-nds of M. C. i’ark-r hereby present Ids name a-a suitable and efficient candidate for the office of Coroner of Chero kee county, subject to the action of the De mocratic primary. For Sheriff. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for nomination for the office of Sheriff of Cherokee county, subject to tne action of the Democratic [irlmary^ K. P. St-rcuus. I hereby announce myself a candidate for re-election to the office of Sheriff of Chero kee county, subject to tiie action of the Demod-.it ic pi imarv. W. W. TlfOMAS. s At the solicitation of friends i hciehv an- n'Uiice myself a candidate for the office of sheriff of Cherokee county, subject to the rules governing the Democratic primary. B. Frank Cami*. For Audiror. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for Auditor of Cherokee county, subject to the action of tiie Democratic primary. K i mskv o. Bi-sk EY. 1 hereby announce myself as a candidate for Auditor of Cherokee county, subject to tin- action of tiie Democratic eli'ction. tijEOKOE \V. Brown. Having been ussuied by my friends that 1 have given general satisfaction and having a clear conscience of having done my duly since 1 have been in office. I hereby an nounce myself a candidate for re-election to the office of Auditor for Cherokee county. Thanking my friends for their confidence and support In the past and most respectfully asking a continuance of thel’-confidence and suppot** I shall strive never to betray*or impair t he confidence imposed in me. W. D. t 'amp. For Probate Judge^ I hereby announce myself a candidate for tiie office of Probate Judge of Cherokee county, subject to tiie action of tiie Demo cratic primary and respectfully solicit the support of t lie good people of Cherokee. Will D. Thomas. I am a candidate for re-nomination tot Probate Judge of Cherokee county, subject to tiie Peui« cratlc primary, and respectfully solicit your suff’-agt. J. E. WrBSTEK. Supt. of Education. I hereby announce myse fa candidate for the ' fflee of Superintendent of hducatlon, subject to the decision of the D-mocratlc party. J. L. Walker. I announce myself as a candidate for re- election to the office of Superintendent of Education, subject to the action of the De mocratic primary. W. F. McAkthi h. Coroner. The many friends of K <«. Bay hereby mi ni unee him a candidate for the office of Coroner knowing him to be competent in every respect to discharge tiie duties of said office and that he will lie governed by tip-rules of tip Democratic primary election. Many Voters. At the solicitation of many ft lends I an nounce myself a candidate for tiie office of Coroner of Cherokee county, subject to the rules of tip* Ih-mocratIc primary. T. &. Webber. I am a candidate forCoronerof Cherokee county and will Is- governed by tip- rules of the Democratic party. Bhht Hallman. I hereby announce myself a candidate for re-election to tin- office of Coroner of Chero kee county, subject to the rules of the De- mocratlc party. John S. Vinkkktt. 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