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CANDIDATE'S CARDS For Clerk of Court. I hereby offer myself as a candi date for tho olllce of Clerk of Court of Laurens county, pledging myself to abide by tho platform of the dem ocratic party and to support the nom inees thereof. Respectfully, C. A. POWER. The friends of Mr. Chas F. Brooks hereby announce him a candidato for the office of Clerk of Court of Laureus county, and pledge him to abide by the results of tho Democratic primary and to support tho nominees thereof. To the voters of Laurens County: Fully appreciating your support I'm the past and with my record as a public official before you, I take pleasure in announcing myself a can didate for re-election for Clerk of ?Court for Laurens County, S. C, and will abide tho result of the Democrat ic primary. JOHN F. BOLT. Fer Coroner-, The friends of Mr. R. O. Halrston hereby place his name before the pco p'e of Laurens county for the office ?of Coroner, pledging him to abide by the principles of the democratic party and to support the nominees thereof. For Auditor. I hereby offer myself as a candi date for re-election to the office of auditor of Laurens county and prom ise to abide by the platform of the democratic party and to support the nominees thereof. Respectfully, J. WADDY THOMPSON. For County Commissioner. I hereby announce myself as a carf dldftte for County Commissioner of Laurens County, subject to the result of the Democratic primary election. J. B. HITT. I hereby announce my candidacy for re-election as County Commsislon er of Laurens county subject to the result of the Democratic primary elec tion. T. MAC ROPER. Having been solicited by numerous friends, I hereby offer myself for re election to the office of County Com missioner for Laurens county, subject to the democratic primary. W. F. BAILEY. I hereby announce myself as a can didate for the office of County Com missioner and promise to abide by the result of the Democratic primary. AUSTIN ABERCROMBIE. For Sheriff. I hereby announce myoelf a candi date for the office of Sheriff of Ij&u re.ns county, subject to the result of the Democratic primary. W. S. BAGWELL. I hereby offer myself as a candidate for Sheriff of Laurens County and pledge myself to abide by the results of the Democratic primary. J. THOMAS PEDEN. I hereby announce myself a candi date for re-election to the office of Sheriff of Laurens county, pledging myself to abide by the platform of the Democratic party and to support the nominees thereof. JOHN D. OWINGS. For State Senator. At the urgent request of friends, I have consented to become a candidate for the office of State Senator for Lau rens county. I will abide the result of tho democratic primary election. O. P. GOODWIN. I hereby announce myself as a candidato for the offlco of Senator from this county, pledging myself to abide by tho platform of the Demo cratic party and to support tho nom inees thereof. R. D. BOY I). For House of Represontnthos. I hereby announce myself a candi date for tlie House of Representatives from Laurens county and pledge my self to abide by the results of the primary election. W. R. RICHEY, SR. I hereby announce my candidacy for re-election to the house of representa tives of Laurens county, subject to results of the Denioenitic primary election. J. IT. Miller, M. D. I hereby announce myself a candi date for the office of representative from this county in the legislature of the state subject to tho rules of the democratic party. H. S. BLACK WELL. The friends of Joseph G. Sullivan, ?of Tumbling Shoals, respectfully sug gest him as a suitable candidate for tho Houro of Representatives, and can vouch for his interest In the wel f. re of tho common people. Subject .) result of Primary Election. FRIENDS. I hereby nnnounce myself as can -didate for tho House of Rcpresentnttves subject to the rules and results of the Democratic primary. W. W. CAMPBELL. 1 horeby announce myself a candi date for the house of representatives from Laurens county, subjoct to the rules of the democratic party. W. C. IRBY, JR. Magistrate. I hereby announce myself as can didate for the office of Magistrate In Waterloo Township, and promise to abide by tho results of tho Democratic primary. ARTEMAS C. I-ONO For Magistrate. At the solicitations of many friends. 1 hereby announce mysolf as cancMdato for tho office of maglatrate In Lau rens township, subject to tho rule of -the domocratlc primary. R. H. DONALDSON. COL. ROOSEVELT HEADS NEW PARTY (Continued from Page One.) ed, have by concerted action with one another, put themselves upon the per manent roll, where they constitute a majority sufllcient to control the con vention and defeat the will of the party as expressed at the primaries. Conspiracy and Fraud. "Wo have exhausted every known means to head o.T this conspiracy and to prevent this fraud upon the popu lar will, r. r. without success. "We were sent to this convention bearing the most specific Instructions to place Theodore Roosevelt, in nomi nation as the candidates of our party for president and we therefore deem it our duty to carry out those Instruc tions In the only practical and feas ible way remaining open to us. "Therefore, be it resolved, That, we representing the majority of the vot ers of the Republican party, and of the delegates and alternates legally elected to tho national Republican convention in compliance with out In structions from the party voters, here by nominate Theodore Roosevelt as the candidate of our party for the office of president of the United States; and we call upon him to ac cept the nomination In compliance with the will of the party voters. "And, be It further resolved. That a committee be appointed by the chair to forthwith notify Col. Roose velt of the action here taken and re quest him to appear before us In this hall as soon as convenient." Mr. Prendergast then made the nominating speech: "I second the resolution presented by tho courageous sonator from Min nesota." This was a signal for a rousing demonstration for Senator Clapp. "Wre place him In nomination to night?we the people of the United States?the sovereign voters of this land will elect him In November," Mr. Prendergast concluded. Dean Lewis followed Mr Prender gast. seconding the nomination of Col. Roosevelt. Roosevelt Cheered. Col. Roosevelt was escorted to the hall by the notification committee, ac companied by Senator Dixon and Gov. Stubbs of Kansas. As the colonel entered the ball there was a storm of applause. The people leaped to their feet with a shout and for five minutes there was pandemonium. Col. Roosevelt mounted the plat form and waved his hands. Binlling with delight at the reception. When he said he would accept the nomina tion there was another frenzied dem ons! ration. The colonel expressed his gratifica tion to tho delegates who, stood by him. "Gentlemen: I thank you for your nomination and in you 1 recognize the lawfully elected delegates to the Re publican convention, who represent the overwhelming majority of the voters who took part in the Repub lican primaries prior to the conven tion and who represent the wish of the majority of the lawfully elected I members of the convention. 1 accept the nomination subject to but one condition. "This has now become a contest which can not be sttled m< rely along the old party lines. The principles that are at stake are as broad and as deep as the foundations of our de inoraey Itself. They are in no sense sectional. TllO) should' <ij-j-i-.il to all honest citizens. Bast and West. North and South; they should appeal to all right thinking men. whether Repub licans or Democrats without regard to their previous party affiliations. I feel that tho time has come when not only all men who believe in progres sive principles, but nil men who be lieve in those elementary maxims of public and private morality, which must underlay all forms of successful free government should join in one movement. Sound tho People. "Therefore I ask you to go to your several homes to llnd out the senti ment of the people at home, and then again to come together; I suggest by mass convention, to nominate for the presidency a progressive candidate on a progressive platform, n candidate, and a platform that will enable us to appeal to Northerner and Southerner. Easterner and Westerner, Republican and Democrat alike. In the name of our common American citizenship. If you wish me to make the fight, I will make It even If only one State should support me. The only condition I impose Is that you shall feel entirely free to substitute any other man, and In such case I will give him my heart iest support. To Absorb If Possible. "Wherever, in any state, Cue Re publican party is true to the princi ples of Its founders and Is genuinely the party of justice and of progress, I expect to see It come bodily Into the movement, for the convention that has Just adjourned in this city Is In no proper sense of the word a Re publican convention at all. It does not represent the masses of the Re publican party. It lias served the purpose only of a group of sinister po litical bosses, many of whom have used the party merely as an adjunct to money-making, cither for them selves or for tiie great crooked finan cial interests which they serve. The bosses who stole enough delegates to enable thent to dominate this conven tion have no kinship of soul or spirit with the men who started tho Repub lican party on its career as an agent of liberty and Justice. Lincoln Again. "You, my friends, are the heirs in the spirit of Abraham Lincoln when he refused longer to be bound by shackles of the, past, and faced the new Issues in the new spirit that the time demanded. Rut we are more for tunate In one respect than our prede cessors, for we who now stand for the progressive cause, the progressive movement, have done forever with all sectionalism, and we make our appeal equally to the sons of the men who fought under Grant and to the sons of the men who fought under Lee, for the cause we champion Is as eminent ly the cause of the South as it is the cause of the North. "I am In this fight for certain prin ciples and the first and most import ant of these goes back to Sinai and is embodied in the commandment, 'Thou shalt not steal.' Thou Shalt not steal a nomination; thou shalt neither steal in politics, nor in business. Thou shalt not steal from the people tho birth right of tho people to rule themselves. I hold In the language of the Ken tucky court of appeals that 'stealing is stealing.' No people Is wholly civ ilized where'a distinction is drawn be tween stealing an office and stealing a purse. Gruve Situation. "I do not know whether our coun trymen fully realised the gravity of the crisis which we face. There is no use In holding primaries, no use. In holding elections, if we permit a small group of unscrupulous politicians, some of whom are certainly acting in the Interest of big crooked bosses to exercise the veto power over the pri maries and elections by upsetting the results at their own displeasure. The convention which lO'lay closes its dis creditable career Mb re iii Chicago, rep resents a negligible minimum of tho rank and file of the Republican patty. Hut with all it has done. It has pro vided for the future otter material for serious consideration. The notional comi?itV.e.t chosen by me politicians four years ago, made t temporary roll, lucludlnj; souto !?0 fraudulent delegates who had not been elected by the DOople, and thereby they controlled a majorit' of the cr.n vent Ion, Fraud t'pon Fraud. This fraudulent temporal/ roll in turn chose a fraudulent credentials committee and all the fraudulent del egates voting on one anotnor's cases, thereby made up the permanent roll, which constituted the fraudulent con vention. Then this fraudulent con vention chooses a new and not less fraudulent national committee. Now gentlemen, there are those who ask us to stay in the party which lias just fraudulently nominated for the presidency a man who inspire,! and profited by the fraud. "They ask us to submit to Infamy in (lie present ease on the ground that perhaps wo may be able to prevent such Infamy in the future. They seem to forget that the vicious circle has been completed and thai this fraudulent convention has provided in its fraudulently chosen national com mittee, a means whereby the) can hope once again, four years hence, and With the like impunity, to over throw the wifl of tho majority of the voters at the primaries. The vicious circle must be broken. The power ful, Crooked political bosses; have and ought to have no feeling, hut con tempt for the honest man who sub mits to their violent and unscrupulous dishonesty. If we permit fraud of this kind to triumph, we do a shame ful thing and show either that we are faint at heart or dull of conscience. His Principles. "As for the principles for which I stand, I have set them forth fully In the many speeches I have inndo timing the last four months while making an active contest for tho nom ination which I won and out of which I have been cheated. "Fundamentally, these principles are: First, that the people have the right to rule themselves and can do so better than any outsiders can rule them, and, second, that it is their duty so to rule in a spirit of Justice toward every man and every woman within our borders and to use the govern ment so far as possible as an Instru ment for obtaining not merely politi cal but induatrlal Justice. We stand for honesty and fair play. We prac tically apply the commandment. 'Thou shalt not steal.' I hold that we are performing a high duty in Instigating this movement, for the permanent success of practices such as have oh Summer Things At this season it is natural for you to feel that you ought to be garbed as light as nature's own in fluffy, tasty, cool things. You will find them here for we do enjoy buying summer fancies and in order to buy, of course we have to sell, and you will find the prices upon these goods correspond ingly light. JUST THREE FACTS FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION BEAUTIFUL LACE! 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