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FOR READ WAT NOT LIPPMAN'S OREA Dr. Alldredge flgny exs rts "It I. the loadingeny Telood rites: Dr. Whtha ecle.G.pecie and with P. O) P. compleIe'y cured J. HDavidson. who haud suffered fifteen yeara with blood poison and sores. IT WILL HELP YOU, TOO, F. V. LIPPMAN, SA ENGINEERING Al Special Attentior McCRADY BR Office in The Bank We are fully equipper in material equipment to We would be glad to cor the sub-division of lands poses. Letters and telep attended to. McCrady Br Laurel A. L. MA HEADQUA) Heavy and Fi MY PRICES ARE GIVE ME Phon, Dry Cleani E3XPER Have your Clothes men who know how. I this shop. E. V.FE Over H. Terry's Store STOMACH TROI KuaJority of Friends Thought Mr. Hughes Would Die, But Oae Helped Him to Recovery. Pomeroyton, Ky.-in interesting ad *iss from this place, Mr. A. J. Hughes wies as follows: "I was down with stomacit Irbuble for five (5) years, and wouald hive sick headache so bad, at Ghnes, that I thought surely I would die. I tried different treatments, but they did not seem to do me any good. I got so bad, I could not eat or seep, sand all my friends, except one, thought l would die. He advised me to try 'lIbedford's Black-Draugti and quit Rheumatism Blood Poison Scrofula, Malaria Skin Disease Because it Purifies the Blood BD PEOPLb SAY OF T REMEDY-P. P. Rabbi Bolomo. of th Ba ah Con. greqatlou,. writes: "Had ov attacks of Malarial foyer lasting f oek to ten days. I took your mod i as a forlorn hope~ but now confess t P. P. P. o a real benefit.". -AT ALL. DRUOWSTS-$.00 , VANNAH, CEORCIA WD CONTRACTING i to Land Surveys OS. & CHEVES of Laurens Building 1, both by experience and meet every requirement. ifer with anyone; desiring or surveys for/ any pur-, ione calls will e promptly Os. &C ves is, S. C. HAFFEY R TERS FOR incy Groceries ALWAYS I. LINE A CALV S244 i Pressing THlE T KIND, Cleaned and (fessed by ou'll find th~) here at IRGUSON Laurens, South Carolina ~BLE JR FIVE YEARS taking other medicines. I decided to take his advice, althopgh I did not have any contidence in it. I have now been tcing Black-Draught for three months, an~ it has cured me haven't had hoa 1 sick headaches slice I began usin i~ I am so thank~ for what Black Draught has done for me." Thedford's Black-Draught has been found a very valuable medicine for de-. rangements of the stomach and liver. It is composed of pure, vegetable herbs, contains no dangerous ingredients, and acts gently, yet surely. It can be freely used by young and old, and should be kept In Ivery family chtest. Get a package today. Only a quarter. . M'LAURIN GIVES HIS PLATFORM Views of Candidate for Governor. Sees Five Issues. (The Columbio State.) The State has received from John L. McLaurin, a candidate for governor, his platform, which is as follows: To the People: After the adjourn ment of the general assembly, I an nounced myself as a candidate for governor. I take it, that the leading issues in the coming campaign will be, viz: 1. Qua!lIfying suffrage in the pri mary. 2. Compulsory school laws. 3. The Fortner bill. 4. The warehouse bill. 5. Bleaseism (socalled). On most of these issues I made up my mind after careful thought when it seemed quite likely that I would be a candidate for public office. I am no trimmer and am ready to take an unequivocal stand on the issues. I have no illusions as to public life and the burden of a campaign in the torrid summer heat would deter me, if I did not feel that I could render South Carolina valuable service in the governor's ollce. If the people think so, they will put me there, and If they do not. I have discharged what I feel to %e a duty I owe myself and the friends who have so persistently urged me forward. My record in the legislature Is against the compulsory education measure, known as the Lawson-Mc Cravy bill. I am not opposed to it on principle, and the time may come in South 'Carolina when a policy of com pulsory education Is proper, but it is not now. The funds available for common school purposes are not suffi cient. to properly equip and maintain schools in existence. As a rule they now have more scholars than can be accommodated. It seems to me that we had first best take care of these schools and the pupils who appear voluntarily, before beating the high ways and hedges to bring in more. The right to take one man's money to educate another man's child is based on the necessity of having an Intel ligent electorate to maintain civilized government. If this be true the common schools are for the many, the colleges for the few. T think we have fostered higher education at the expense of the common schools. I am in favor of maintaining the colleges, ht huikling more school houses he fore enlarging our present state col l eges. In 1 800, our common school system was very poor as compared with what we now have. If I were to venture a criticisa, it would be that we need more teachers who really teach. ('clhool is in session from 9 o'clock until 2:30 o'clock hearing recitations: then the children go home to be taught. If the parents are ignorant, those children have no teacher. A teachers' compulsory education law would greatly advance the cause. Thme Primary. I am not In favor of restr'icting the righxt to vote inx the primarny by ap plying the qualifications laid down in thxe constitution for' thxe general elec tion. Withx a few amendments the p~resenut rules, if fairly and honestly adlminister'ed, are sufficient. I am satisfied tixat the last prlmar'y was without fr'aud to any consider ale extent. Mere irr'egularities do not constitute fraud. The greatest evil in the conduct of the primary arises from the use of money in buying votes. If a man with money is withouit moral scruple, no statutor'y enactment can prlevent its use where there is a pur chasale vote. Tile intelligent man wvith money who tempts wveakness andl cupiidity is the greater crIminal of the two and I hxave not heard of any one being punished yet for thxe meanest of all election frauds. The Fortnxer bill passed the hxouse and came to the senate. I favor the passage of thxis 1)111 as amendled by Senator Clifton, and if elected gov er'nor' will recommend its enactment into law. Cotton Marketing, My views oni the state warehouse prop~osition are well known and can not be0 elaborated upon in a short statement. The bill passed thxe sen ate with an amendment referring tile question to thme people. It never came to a vote in the housee. Since the ad journment of the general assembly a syndicate of capitalists, headed by Mr. Duke, the founder of the American Tobacco trust, hxas announced plans to put this warehouse system into op eration In every cotton state. This would be a grand thing if It could be controlled in the interests of the pro ducers of cotton, but this it Is unrea sonable to expect. I could have se. cured private capital to build a ware house system In South Carolina with the powers conferred in the warehouse bill, but it would have been for the profit of those fut nishing the capital, not for the benefit of the entire pco hue as under a state system. Our cotton crop sells for about $1,006000, 000 each year. The flangn innnpiy averages about 2,000,000 bales, and whoever controls that (within certain limits) can dictate the price of the crop. It is done now and would be done still more effectively under the management of Mr. Duke. He con trolled the price of tobacco to such 'an extent that after years of litigation the company was dissolved by the courts. It would be far easier to dic tate the price of cotton, because it Is a natural monopoly while tobacco is a world-wide product. There is no way for the producers of cotton to get the value of their product, except to carry the surplus themselves and hold it off the market whent the price is too low. The credit of the state and the prosperity of the people depends almost entirely on the cotton crop. All share in the prosperity of the farmers and not a business in the state or professional man but feels the pinch when we have such a year as 1911. Nothing will get the state on her feet quicker than an administra tion which will develop and encour age agriculture. If I am elected with a legislature in sympathy with me, I shall endeavor to make of South Carolina a model for all states to copy in progressive agricultural imethods. Last hut Not Least. I come now to the last, and what I regret to say will in all probability be one, if not the paramount, issue in the camipaign. I had hoped that our people would get together and that there would be no personal or factional issues in the contest, but that time las not come and whether it will in the future or not depends upon the self-control and spirit of tolerance both sides exercise in this campa ign. T'here has never been a time in the history of our State when good policy, charity and tolerance were more needed than now. Since 1890, we have had two political factions, more bitterly hostile than exists be tween parties in other states. The iovemient in 1S90 was aimed at the social and political systems, but the Alliance element which was its backbone was largely inspired by the hope of bettering industrial condi tions. The purely political got in the ascendency and gradually the industrial element, headed by Norris, Stackhouse and others became quies cent. The inauguration of the state dis pensary strengthened the political forces, but after a few years the state dispensary. with its era of graft and greed, passed away. Then ('ole L. 1llease took up the fight of the people for a Wider voice in their own ifflairs just where 'it had been lying dormant ever since Gov. ''llman delected It from its true ,1course by putting the state into the liq0uor business. 't'he present miovement headed by Gov. Illease is nothing but a continuation of the political movement begun by Tillman in 1890. The divisions are just as they were then with the exception that Blease has not the strong follow ig of an inidustilal organIzation like the Farmers' Alliance. The cry foir restriction of suffrage In the .pirimary is from those wile (10 not believe in the rule of a majorIty, but in the rule of privilege and1 No thloughltfull man can for 0one mo ment believe that there' aire not forces at work outsidie of mere person ality. The abuse and( misrepresenta tion hleapedi upon0 TIlliman was just as gr'eat as nowv shiowered upon0 Blease. Let any mani go to tile niewsp~ap~er files from 1890 to 1895 and( see for him self. Social 011( biness00 pre'ssuire was as great in 1891)0 as1nw againist a soundic lawyer' who dlar'ed take Till man0's sIde. Thle Idea seemed to be0 then that if Tillmian could be dlefeat i'd that tile mfovemlent wold~ 1)e (100(. What a mistake! Sonic unseen foie deep dlownl has kept the fires alive, and will keel) them alive until the purpose foir whichl they were kindled has been accomliishled. As long as there is an oligarcy whlichI seeks to subject tile majority to tile will of a minority, even if restrictIons desIgned to (11s franchise negr'oes In a general elec tion muist be invoked to prevent white 1m10n votinlg ini a party prliary, theire will be a leader1 on 1hand( to fight the people's b~at tie. With the plolitical battle won, then0 thle movement begun in 1890 wIll enter upon the full ac compl~llihmenit of Its destIny. I do not thlink that Tillman wvithi all of his abil ity could have led along the lInes of an .Industrial uplift, nor does the genius of DBease find its scope in that field. Tillman served his purpose in teach ing one white man that 1he was just as good politically and entitled to the same voice in government as any other white man. The people sent him to the Unoited States senate, "pitchfork" and all. He 'made good in spite of dIre lpredictions of evil to come. DBease has fortIfied and strength ened the people in thleir determination to rutlc, andl led the fight- in opiposi (Continued on Pna si. WHENEVER YOU [ A GENERAL TOi The Old Standard Grove's T Valuable as a General Tonic Drives Out Malaria, Enrich the Whole System. 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