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?URENS CAMPAIGN PARTY STARTS ON SPEAKING TOUR OF THE COUNT! first Meeting Was Held at the County Seat Monday Eight Aspirants for Legislative Honors?Some of the Issues Discussed. The Laurens county campaign is] now under way, three meetings hav ing been held Monday and Tuesday. Yesterday the campaigners held forth at Langston and today they appear at Sardis church. Jacks township. The campaign was officially opened Monday by County Chairman Cooper j who announced the names of those who had filed pledges and then turned the meeting over to the precinct chair men, Col. T. 13. Crews and John B. Brooks. The meeting Avas held iu the court house and the exercises were opened without divine invocation. The meet ing lasted three hours and the court room was comfortably filled from first to last, it being estimated that f?ur or five hundred voters heard the candidates. Each candidate received some applause, hut do c owd was undemonstrative and if there were any "favorites" it was nol indicated at this meeting. The presiding officers announced the order of speaking and the time al lowed the aspirants for tho different otllces. County Auditor. The first candidate presented was W. T. Dorroh who is filling out the unexpired term of Mr. C. YV. McCravy and who asks to be elected to succeed himself. He has no opposition. County Supervisor. County Supervisor H. 15. Humbert is likewise unopposed for reelection. He has beeil in the supervisor's office several terms and he stated that he desired to tell something of his stew ardship during the past two years. By reason of the floods two years ago the county has suffered great loss in the way of bridges and road work. In order to replace these $50,000 worth of bonds were issued and these were sold advantageously for the county, with the result that, by hard and economical work most if not quite nil bridges have been replaced ami much permanent road work accomplished. Briefly, he considers the county in the best shape financially it has been since he was placed in the supervisor's office. Told of the creation of sinking fund and the railroad bonds that come up this year for settlement, stating that the county had the money to meet its obligation. He wants the commu tation tax- law changed, for it is not at all satisfactory, the county, he said having each year to lose at least $2,000 by this system, to say nothing of the inequalllty of the law and the difficulty in carrying it out. He had suggested to the legislative delega tion that the law was wrong and un just and that some kind of change should be made. For the Legislature. Clarence Cuningham was the first legislative candidate to address Hie voters. He is making his third race for the legislature from Lauren8 comi ty. He thinks the people should elect capable men to the next legislature, for some very important questions tu e coming up for settlement, among them taxation, restriction of ballot and so on. Thinks the tax system now In operation-is a failure, that it is wrong In principle. Returns for taxation of property should be made on a basis of true value, and the burden should rest equally on all, according to his or her worth. Favors increasing the number of judges. Is opposed to State-wide prohibition; favors county option, for that is democratic. When a county votes liquor out, lie believes in enforcing prohibition. Spoke brief ly of schools and compulsory educa. ? tlon, saying lie was In favor of com pulsory school attendance. Dr. J. H. Miller took up the question of taxation, considering it one of the important subjects now before the people. Should be equally placed on all property. He favors liberal sup port of penal and charitable institu tions of tho State, as he does the com mon and high schools. College i ? essary but they will take care of them selves, Thinks the State should make liberal appropriations, but not extrav agaut expenditures of the people's money. Favors conservation of the State's natural resources. As to the whiskey question, ho is eminently sat isfied with the situation in Laurens so' far as the law is concerned. J. Archie Willis is making Iiis first political race, and therefore has no record to point his friends to. How ever, he is mighty willing to under take to make one. Took up the matter of railroad freight rates, declaring that South Carolina was being discriminat ed against, giving the figures in sup port of hjs contention. Favors good schools, and better roads. South Car olina is not yet ready for compulsory education law, but it will come later, he thinks. Taxation is necessary but burden should bo made as light as possible*. Whiskey question is not issue of this campaign in Laurens. However, he is a favor of local option. If Charleston and other counties want to sell liquor, let them do it. Be lieves the State will he prohibition by and by. \V, C. Irby. Jr. is bcfoi'0 the people for the fourth time as candidate for tiie legislature. Spoke of some of the important legislations to come up and referred to Iiis work in the house. Thinks light to restrict the ballot will be renewed next session, and lie la j opposed to restriction. Told of the immigration law. the effort made to remedy the law relating to oil mills and the child labor act in the Stat". Declared that it was very hard to get any legislation through last session, for the reason that there appeared to he a scheme to side track everything that did not suit certain interests. He felt that he had accomplished prac tically nothing. In fact "it was a do nothing, run-about legislature" and nothing could be done. Stands on I whiskey question where he did eight [years ago. I). Dunk Boyd Is for the fourth time asking election to the house of repre sentatives from Laurens. No new is sues in this campaign, so far. Had heard that. "Doyd was too narrow minded." Thought the delegation had done very well by Laurens in the mat ter of securing appropriations, refer ring to the court house bill and Other measures. He is opposed to increas ing the judiciary of the State now. Courts may be congested but the law yers are responsible for it. lias al ways stood for Improvement and pro gress in the Common school system of the State. Is not oposed to colleges; indeed, regards every dollar spent on Winthrop as money well appropriated. Clemson probably gets too much money, hut that is a matter not easy to remedy now. Would vote against the reestablishment of the dispensary in Laurens. Hopes to never see dis pensary in this county again. Re ferred to taxation and mode of as sessments, primary election law and so on. .Tared D. Sullivan conies asking for indorsement of his record as made in the last legislature. Got the court house appropriation and the new depot and "permitted the town to build an electric line." Agricultural men should be sent to the legislature, and he considers himself a typical farmer. Referred to his record in the house. Favors game law. appropriations for old soldiers. Told of his success in getting pensions for ex-Con federate soldiers. Favors all Institutions of learning. Some changes desired in the matter of property returns for taxation. Prohibition best thing for Laurens. Does not favor restricted ballot. W. R. Richoy, Sr. began by congrat ulating the county upon its prosperity and said that one of the good signs of a continuation of It was the forma tion of the Roys' Corn club in the county, and the scientific cultivation of corn by the older farmers of Lau-! rens and of South Carolina had] brought about a new era In agrleul- j tural conditions. He then entered In to a discussion of the manner the leg islature voted the people's money to this and that cause, declaring that ! unless extravagance was practiced in more ways than one. Cited the crea tion of the position of Insurance com missioner as one of the unnecessary acts of tho Inst legislature, for it only relieved the secretary of State and comptroller general of a little extra work. Furthermore, the salary tContinued on page live.) k j Mayor of New York Shot. ; The following bulletin was received yesterday at I 12 o'clock from the News and Courier: ; Mayor Gay nor of New York was shot and prob t ably fatally wounded on board steamer about to sail t for Europe on month's vacation, by an unknown for * eigner, supposed to have been a discharged dock la t borer. NOW WITH Tili: JOURNAL. Mr. Gordon Gnrlington, Young News paper .Man. Returns (a Spartanburg. The following announcement, made in the Spartanburg .Journal Th?rs, day afternoon, is of interest to Mr. Garllngton's Laurens friends: Gordon Garllng'.on formerly of this city, but has more recently been con nected with the Asheville Oazotto Nows has accepted the position ot ! news editor of. the .Toumnl and as sumed his new d uies today. He takes the place made vacant by the resigna tion of Archie Richardson, who has accepted a similar place with tiie Her ald. Mr. Garllngton is "well known in this city where lie lived many years, lie is a son of the late .1. C. ('alding ton who was for a long time owner of the Spartanburg Herald. His many ?': i nds will be glad to welcome him hack to his former home. I Alex Long Elected President. Rock Hill, August 8.?At the stock holders' meeting of the Arcade cot ' ton mill, Mr. R. T. Fewell. who lias been president, since the organization I of the company, tendered his resig . nation, and Mr. Alex Long was elected in his place. j Mr. Fewell, who is interested in the Rock Hill Water and Electric company I and is also head of the R. T. Fewell <k Co. firm, will (b vote his entire ltme I to these interests in the future. Mr. Long is also president of the 1 Aragon cotton mills, of this City. i. Traynhani Guards Return. The Trnynham . Guards returned Monday night from the ten days' en campment held at. Aiken. Tin? soldier boys report a very pleasant time. 1 nothing occurring to mar the pleas ures of the outing or to interfere with j the daily drills and other routine. Sunday School Convention. The Laurens Comity Sunday Sclfbol : association was held at Clinton last Thursday and Friday. The program was Carried out and helpful addresses and talks on Sunday school work were : made before the convention. The nt J tendance was fair and the association j held quite a successful convention. I All the old officers were reelected. In Trouble Again. "Preacher Nig," a well known young negro character hereabouts, was lodg de in jail Saturday charged with breaking into and robbing the store of .1. C. Shell <fc Co. Friday night. A few years ago "Nig" was convicted in the Laurens court for the robbery of j the local express ottioo and was sent to the Stale reformatory for two or three years. Having finished Iiis term he returned to Laurens some time ago and again gets busy at his old tricks. ANOTHER STORK BURNED. Mr. S. T. Taylor Lost Stock and Build' ing Sunday Night, The store of Mr. S. T. Taylor, lo cated near the Watts mills village, was destroyed by tire at three o'clock Monday morning. In addition to the Stock of goods, the fixtures and pos tal supplies belonging to the Watts mills rural station of which Mr. Tay lor was manager, were also burned, with tiie exception of the money order supplies which were in the safe. Mr. Taylor had on band a stock of goods valued at about $1.4do and the building was worth about $S00. On stock and building there was $1,586 Insurance. Defective wiring is assigned as the probable cause of the fire. Annual >V. O. W. Picnic. The annual picnic at Friendship, Sullivan township, by the Woodmen of the World, will be held on Friday, Au gust 10. Several speakers have been invited and as usual ? ? 'eat day is anticipated. THE CONFEDERATE REUNION. Detail? of Annual Meeting at Spar tanburg Arranged. Spartanburg, Augusl 8.?Plans for the reunion of tho State Confederate veil raus are fast developing. Almost daily the different committees are meeting and carrying out the details of their plans. The public buildings, BUCh as school houses ami halls, which are to be used as sleeping quarters for soldiers who do not care to be en tertained in the homes are being'fitted UP. Mattresses have been secured in great quant flies, and those'are .being placed. These mattresses are of a good quality, being made of straw and cotton. Each mattress will ac commodate two men. These mattress es Cost the reunion committee $1,35 each. After the reunion the committee hopes to be able to retail them for $2.50 each. J. F, Floyd, chairman of Mho dinner and commissary committee, has made request for '$1,000 of the $1,500 fur nished by tho State for the reunion. This amount. .Mr. Floyd says, will be just nh/jut half enough to buy the nec essary/ provisions, counting what the committee expects to have contributed by the merchants. The parade of the lied Shirt Men of 1876 promises to be one of the biggest and most gorgeous features of the reunion. There will be several thous and men in line of parade, and every one of them will wear a red shirt, and many will be mounted on gray mules. The Red Shirt men are going to bring the original Red Shirt Hag. and this will he carried at the head of the line of inarch. They will also bring the famous little brass cannon they used in the days of '76, and which has been hauled around to all reunions of Red Shirt men. Grcgorj (lets Hail. At Abbeville last Saturday, .lustice Gary issued an order granting bail in the sum of $5,000 to W. T. Gregory, who is charged with having killed Cal. Fnrr, another mill operative, on (lie streets of Clinton two weeks ago. The application for bail was made by At torney .lohn M. Cannon. The motion was resisted by Solicitor Cooper. Fishing Party. A party of Dials and Sullivan town, ship friends met at Boyd's mill Fri day and enjoyed a big fish fry. Includ ed in the party were the members of Mr. \V. F. Medlock's family of Dials and of Mr. .1. W, Taylor's of Princeton, several of each family from other points being present, namely Mr. and Mrs. W. A. MedlOCk, of Meridian. Miss.. Mr. and Mrs. M. F. MedlOCk of Clinton. Mr. and Mrs. C. YV. Taylor. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Taylor and Miss Nora Taylor of Daurens. Mr. J. 10. MedlOCk of Laurens. Mr. J. B. Taylor and fam ily of Greenville. Resides there were a number of young friends from the County who were their guests. Old Vets Reunion. Reunion of Company C. 11th S. C. regiment. Company C. and II. of the third battalion and Company A. of Sixth Calvary will be held at Union church next Saturday. Aug 13th. All the old boys are urged to attend also the public generally and to bring Well filled baskets. Negro Shooting Affair. Friday night near the Greenville county line. Will Fady and Robert Foster, negroes, engaged in some gun play at the home of the latter, with the result that Fady was shoi through the leg with a shot gun. and it Is1 stated that the member will have to be amputated, if it has not already been done. Sheriff Owings went up Saturday morning and brought Foster to )r1|, I( is saiil that Fady fired up on Foster first. The cause of (lie trouble is not known. THE FARMERS Of LAURENS COUNTY HOLD INTERESTING CONVENTION Two Days Meeting of the County Live Stock and Dairy Association Held Jointly at Gray Court With Clemson College Institute. A two <I:iys' convention of the Lau rens County Live Stock and Dairy as sociation was hold at Gray Court Fri day and Saturday in connection with the Clemson College Demonstration Institute for farmors and the Woman's j institute of Laurens county. The j sessions of the convention wen? held in the Cray Court-Owlngs Institute, and large crowds were present both days for the exercises. .Mr. W. 1). I!yrd. president of the Live Stock association, and Prof. 1?. X. Harrow of Clemson college, were in charge of the meetings. The con vention was a success from every standpoint ami those who contributed to its success have done a good work | for Laurens fanners. One of the feat ures of the convention was the Wom an's institute, quite a nuiubor of most admirable pape rs and lectures on the different phases of woman's work hav ing been presented. During the sessions n number of In teresting and Instructive addresses on agricultural themes were deliv ered. One Of the notable IcCtUI'CH of the occasion was made by Dr. Tuto Muller of the A. and M. Collcgo of Mississippi. Dr. Duller has had largo experience In connection with the ex periment station of the Mississippi college and his lecture on raising stock in the South was highly appre ciated by all who heard him. Prof. I'erkins of Clemson spoke of the farm and its Improvements; Prof. ! Nivens of Clemson talked about the diseases of fruit trees and how to ' prevent the ravages of insects; Prof. 1 Spencer of Clinton told Of his experi ence in poultry raising and Prof Pur gess of Clemson gave a demonstration ! on milk and dairy tests. The ladies in attendance woro given In rare treat by Miss Cnrrlobell Hyde' of the domestic department at Win-1 I throp who gove a most Interesting demonstration in cooking. Then en tertaining and instructive papers wore read by Mis. .1. .1. PIUSH and Mrs. It, T. Dunlnp of Laurens, while little Miss Martha Pranks, daughter of Mr. [ and Mrs. .1. A. Pranks of this city, who accompanied Mrs. Pluss to the convention, gave the audience a beau tiful recitation, Tim Misses Shell, daughters of Mr. Kdd Shell of Cray Court were awarded the prizes for best cooking. A woman's institute was organized and Mrs. It. I.. Cray was selected as manager. Excellent field crops exhibits woro made by Messrs 11. It. Owens, Geo. P Dorroh, and W. P. Harris. The stock department was splendid, among the exhibitors being Messrs W. I'. Harris. W. It. Cheek. It. C. Wallace, .1. T. , Peden, Harris & Dor rob, Many rib i hons were given the different exhibits. The people of Cray Court Olitertnln j ed the visitors in great style, a picnic 1 being served on the grounds both days. Making the Farm Home Convenient, Iteaulifiil mid Happy* The following pap< r was read by Mrs. .1. .1. Pluss at the Pamu is' in stitute held ,"t Cray Court August ">th. When I was asked, my kind fi i. lids and neighbors, by the president of our line Live Stock association, to pre pare a paper and read it oil this oc casion. I promptly answered "No, I haven't presumption enough for that." I bad, fresh in memory the splendid fairs I have attended in this section; at Cray Court a few years; then later on the magnificent blooms ami plants of the Owings station Shrysanthomum fair; also the annual stock show at Fair View. At all of these places the finality of the exhibits Is not sur passed at any of our State fairs. Then too, I bad in remembrance the deli cious dinners that the good house wives around here serve; everything showing such excellent skill, that I felt more like setting at your feet and learning of you, than preparing a pa per to read. Put a woman's "Xo" is often ' yes," as you are well aware, before it is done with, so. here I am, only though, (bat we may talk over together the many convonb ncofl that we may have in our homes, hut as yet do not have. "If any little word of mine May rni-ko a life the brighter; If any little song of mine May make a heart the J|ght< r: Cod help me speak the little word And take my bit of Binging And drop it in Borne lonely vnlo To sot tho <,<,1m>".; ringing. I mil a country woman us you all know, all of my girlhood ami Bovoral years of my married lit" were Bi>ont on an old fashioned sioc l< farm whero evorytbing we used was grown except ing the groceries. I expect we would still he on the farm, hut, during the years of reconstruction In the South, the politically crazy froedmcn Btolo the hue hogs, sheep and cattle and tho line bottom lands along tho streams grew up in thorns and thistles so thai, the health of our locality was ruined and we led! the old farm thai we loved. My father used to raise splendid Devon and Durham (o vs. no Jerseys of today are liner. I am suro! and I. was trained to he a skillful milk-maid, as well as to do all tiie kinds of work done in a farm house ami for this I am grateful*! It has made mc independent: through all these years, up to tho pres ent day. of the uncertain kind of help we often have. Wo did not havo tho splendid farm papeis of today to in struct us, nor the many conveniences in (hi' kitchen. There were not many buggies and no automobiles either, but: wo rode our splendid young horse;* and had a very happy time. Sidney Lanier, our gilt? d Southern poet made this prediction thirty years! ago; "A vital revolution in tho farm ing economy of the South and an entire agricultural Change is tie one sub stantial fact upon which any really new South can be predicated.'' After years, long and dreary, of misrule, |g ? nornncc and mismanagement this revo - lution has come at las' ; nil the South land, "Phoenix like'* in arising from the ashes of the past to ; full ronliz.-u lion of her many blessing in this sec tion of line climate and splendid op j port unit los. Dr. Page, the editor 0) thai ? XOOllollf maga/.ino "Worlds Work," ;in<! who by the way is a North Cnroliliil ". iias this to say, "The spirit of destruction that SO long dominated out lai d, laying waste tho fair Heidt : nd forests, pass ing and tho constructive era dawning' to conserve our re ourc ? and to build up that which, in ignorance, we threw down and wasted. Is |he hotter order Of today." And We Bin Id nol fall to accord honor where it Is due; tho grand farm papers of today, with tin Ir experienced staff of Ilm writers, gjj abroad into homes as the best of homo missionaries; who is i* thai does not love our splendid agrlcull mil papers? Then tho Formers' union Is a bul wark of strength; If the farmers of the world stood unitedly togothor, there is no organization that could successfully contend against thorn, for tho farmer fcedclll all. Without broad none can live. And the I? in Ills of tho farmers' institutes are beyond words-; to loll or figures to compute; it bring? togothor trained agricultural leuilors, face to face with tho fanners, i; has; broken trusts, righted wrong*, in structed in best methods until farming has been uplifted from seemingly coni < nion drudgery to thai of ? lino sclem ? . I pur farmers, well Instructed, ar<i I no longer at the inorcy of thousands of unscrupulous agents, representing every kind of fraud, at loi' wo aro coining into "our own". Along with these Institutes for men, the North and \Vor1 for years have held insti tales for women. OUl VOI'y pt'OglOS" BlVO sister state, North Carolina >vas the firs' I believe to adopt and is tho most advanced in this work which Ik no langer an experiment but a SUCC08S. That splendid writer, speaker and practical farmer. Dr. 'fait Mutier was the organizer, lie say.;: "We regard the institutes for women more far reaching influence for good than tho Institutes for men. for ll Is here that, the things pertaining to the uplift ot the home life and health are (HSCU880(1. A farino. may make the finest et'0| 8 of coin, cotton and grain, but unless there is health and good management in tho home it cannot be the place ot which .!(,tin Howard Pai ne wrote: ? Mid pleasures and palaces though wo may roam lie it over so humide. 111- ? s no place like home." Where woman's work is lightened (Continued on page four.)