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VOLUME XXXII. LAURENS, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20,1916. NUMR 9 ANALYSIS OF ( G. Watts Cunningham, Pd. D mont, a Native of this Cc Analysis of Former ( Printed in the 1e In its issue of September the third, the New York Times appealed to some cain analysis to inform it. of the true situation politically in South Caro lina and to tell it of the source of Cole llense's strength. The challenge was accepted by )'. U. G.Watts Cunl ninghan, a natlee of Laurens county, now professor of philosophy of Middle bury College Vermont. 1)r. Cunning ham was graduated from I'urmuan uni versity several years ago. lie receiv - ed the degree of Doctor of Letters at the last comunencement from li"urman Ills analysis follows the Times edi torial. The Times, after asking th le qu' tion says; Very likely Mr. lilease will he heat en. He is willing to go to the Senate, it is said. Eeno if defe ated by tI Mlanning-Cooper combination, lie will bob up again, distressing thie good. llow is his considerable ipopu lar strength accounted for? It is not to he thought that nearly half of the Pal metto voters who took Iet( trouble to go to the primary venerate .lMr. Iileas-e for his genius for emptying the peni tenilaries or his consigning of the ('onstitution to :heol; or that the keepers and customers of "hissing blind tigers and boot-loggers," as The Columbia State puts it, are very numii erous and powerful. According to The State, (Governor Manning "raised the standard of law and order and peace," and "I lie peo ple how It." They didn't know it last week. Moreover, "most. of the cotton mill presidents" and "some of the bankers and husiness m1en" - are opposed to the re-election of (overnoir -lanning. Surely they are no foes of peace and law and order. They must object to the governor oiln aceoliit of his enforcement of the sixty-hour law, the weekly pay-day law, compulsory -school attendance, the esIablishmient .of a Board of ('oneiiation, in his al mllinistration. Twenty-live years ago or so, Ild lon. Ilenjamnt lyan Tillman, whom Blue Bird Photopays to be shown at The Idle Flour Beginlning Fr'iday, The Idle 11011r w\ill show one of 0 h Se superb fea Lure pic tu r \vr week. Thle fif tfferirKY w'ill be "T e' Tangle He. s Featuring iful Louise Lovely, supported by an All-Star Cast The Blue Bird plays are intended to please men, women and children with out offering the sug gestive features which attract some people but wor'k a harm to the community. Come and See Them Idle Hour Theatre 5 and 10 Cents OLE L. BLEASE ., of Middlebury College, Ver unty, Gives Psychological overnor in an Article few York Times this generat Ion knows as a man of ability and force, long popiular In the Senate, was jsainted In the smartest colors by the old aristocratic machine that he broke. Idol of the "wool hats" and the "hill billes," his port rail by IIis early (neIles was a sort of enrica tlelure of Auld ('lootie, ls there any ex aggeration In the portraits by the anti ilieaseites of \lr. ilease? Is he, for all his coarse effects, sonet hing luore than his enemies rejresenl hin? The coniparative socIologist is at least .iinstitle(I inl wo dCrin:g if .\Ir. Ilease's Irritation of the nerves of Sout1h ('aro liia resplectibiitly Is any!hilng like that Hen llutler loved to prateice In .\I;=assnsett(S. AN ANA LYSIS OF liLEASE . I ns wtt'er o the Quies1tion of I! Islo. :it lenl Success. .\liddlebur y Cl .\liddilebur'y, \'f., Sept. 1, 1911;. To the .dilor of The New York 'T'inie.; One of your yest erda y's editorial ar lcles begins witi the following <iues tlon : "Will somie calm analyst in South (armina, familiar' with Its poli IicaIl and social conditions, jtilrp ret to wonderiing co0landers the lion. ('ole Livingston Illease, twice Governor of that State and last week a candidate In the primaries for a third termn?" I anm somewhat familiar. with the poli tical and social conditions of Souith Carolina and I have deci(le( to v(,n ture to citialify as a calma analyst, and attenilt to answer youir qiulestion. It Is not irprising that those itrae <iainted either with llease of with fh condition:; in South ('arolina she,.'Id wondfe' at the persistent and widespread lotiila'ity of such a type of poliltlfan. It was ino'0nplrehensi 1le to 1i1e, louigih a native South t'ar olinlan, how Bileaso could have I hohl oin the people he obviously had; litt. iIIy return to the State three suin llerx 041) 2(11(1 i ly a lendance, (iuring Ih! s;uliuner .lei.t pa.,t, upon 1 one of Ithe (alnaig mieet ilg at which ile.se slpoke have thrFOWn :OiI(ne light upIMon the situation. I am not at all siu i Ilia ;y a alsi is .3o ct, but I "del,,." it ot 11;his w:ty: .: 1 is - a 1au0 of \1:el- i l:irLk ble i l n a Veriy'3 liini:ei .a 1.:s. Ile is oit a state :215 lani if) a:n' : of the teriti; he wholly hIwlu thle seia' telii tif' v toi t i % t u i iioll en1,al 4'.: : blurred uty partisan(1, mu-r-owly Imrtisan1, con.siderations;. 1:11, ";o far a(: ik 'v11sin goo.s, it Is e traordin ar:ily cl'eart. lIe knows very e:,:plicitly what he wantll , 14e has clearly delinable ideas -all Ihe moi'e easily dellned he aen 14 they leerge fror44 a coidera(!11 t ion ofI (oily 0114 shle (of the (lilest ion. And tlIhis clarity of IdeasI priodulcs iln ('Cit whllih I have hii 1tet har1ldly dt miedi !oible41 ('ven Iln a 11olitiian. 2 t hose114)4 whol~ are4 114. t Ii illerly oI I osed4i to1 leaset's wanys of thinkling magnillelnt dogmalbin; and( 1(1 hout - 14 less many are.4 :affectedI by3 it; whli le the votersx ho tirl n44!ot ill the4 hlabit of thinin1tg for thIeimselves arie dazz.ledi by thbe clari1ty3 of lIl~ease's vilews and14 assumlne they.3 havet bieen Convliced when, as a Imatter of fact, they have 01nly been bI lided; amnong thIiIs class of voters lllease's omoniscience Is unot arguted, It Is admilttedl. in the ar1t of a ((ertain typle of camn ilgning lilease Is a Past mlaster. In the uIse and abuslie of (lestIon-hegging epuit hets-"poour mian's frIend," "'cauise of the people," "inalIenable rights of the individulal,"' &c.--In the aIIlity to Ilacle a mlsiscinstrucl(tioni upon11 geineraul fer'ences fron' thiei, in the ahi!!1ty to rlake the worse aippear' the blelter' 4(a (Iver he-ard sipeak. 4.er'tinlyin te ean~tlIgn1 jt's-t (closed there was no one to Comp~tarie wIth him1 in these re plects. And there are t housanlds of voters, not only In Souith Carolina. but In ever'y State In the UnIon, who ar wo bly such t rIcks, espedelally when they are accompanIed b~y the mesmer40li' Influence of atn overweenIng dlogmat - I sm. With~ the "gaping rust ics ranged J around" anel wt, a.alk C.l 1). 11. TIRAXLER iEGAINS (VlBEEN VILLE POSTM SI ERS IiSH' lBurleson issues Order 'iacing imlii In position liesigned to itun for ('on. gress. Ureenille .Agliated Over Sit. untion. Ureenville, Seplt. 1.-A political sensation was created here this alter noon when it became definitely known that David 11. Tiaxler today succeeded in withdrawing his resignation as postiaster at (ireenville, which h Ii led in .Iuly to becoine a ('andidatoe for congress against :'ontgrssinaii NicholIs of the 1"oitrth district. Iarly sireet ruinors that .\1r. Trax ler had been "'einstated" were given little cretdence until col lIiried tonight in telegra ins set by ('onigressniian Nicholls to eer'tain il)plicanti for hII piostmasteiship. Nicholls contends, stbstantiall.v, that as late as two days ago he was led to believe by state ilieits mfro l'ostiimaster (ein-irl I ur lesoit that 'l'i'xlet ' would not witht d1'aw his resignation, and ht eviteitly sat qinietly in the boat, Iie says he wa.s informed tcday by the fi's, asist tant postinasir -iu l mii that Traxter had been ordere( to go back to his Job iiniediately, as the withlrawal of his resignat int had been a>.rieedt to. ('4)n1:res.roan \'ich olls teletraplet that hi' was tol by the depai'tm ent thai tie'n't v.. It' ut ders frotm liriiI sont, and be added ha t iIrleson w.as out of \\';a:t hingion .lli e til i not be i'ts''ii otd:, '. hll Ill I "'t to i t the a iite i t lit( lii sh. We carefully kept. under ever and i I tloS''It :le I'''pot't W1i 'l ((iii tt:'t l li a \\'::whI,: on cot-resiiont t thuit T1raxler w:I:; in thc caIpital set ':Ing the vithdia\tat 4)' his r'tziination, it w ; positively denied at his real estate iit lice hetre", t\here it was amouro-e~td Ih: ie dea''t'aled aspirant fo: t ficn rt's; hadl -.onl, 14 the Ililtintai: its rei,,'t l l' it afti' Ithe ele 'it . \: '; ahr Tillmain has b".(.1 at lI h ..e i i-:d':ellebi it is not believed by citizens in touclh with the situation that he has had Ily cotineelion with thips ur prixin at l ion. -In (f t, it was :i)l ined thoii t."'i what is re iide :ii : an a u ihorit::tiv' 4 airre i I :, io s n.. :"a" r h-f l heronie I om w ia 1isa - iinted ve' Trixler's I I ' e to - w rdis the nalier. 10itIt u s n ti'. tlneo' fi:: . I. 1i still td t tl ,i' lit ul :tf 't l a jtf p:." ;Ira(:r i l the etien. ,1".TTi!T : i t s tt Il 1i Iiioiii n ot .si::t I np it .\ :r'.o 1sm of'! tti' Ofifti r i 'o'tti's - itt : . ,"i \W : : n .hi C. w I . ,!, Ns weli , vr. .\a,!d1Iitsr. i tt, dc'I th eiy' le er toot i !i-d kn w that it i. iiiire aIt e (o b t mll lcieas t e o t speaker's stand eastin his Snell i'er Iheil, in akit thim~t ht exciss whrogloit the Pioerdwot see kion orIhis Stateibritien Is annlt{3' tbot - te torgadhubtIio ieher at lnearey can 51ly tndurtheo tet. ttial sii Stto' of' iises lliteis otrnnit' tioniltof intt !ital foil s.lty hi ttf -~ t r-lVriayCadnr.odh a boundt'. lt' hniCa lerintcs f' withtt betwee oflstmnl. of it echmorn fame aendtre over Itea statetn the promii biaefe sils f i'th'iI Inr them o toe wo for'i the difderne nooth d thatrits olid een llas Ian ho Iom r(uty ofd ('outer, oneut the tiiiand ate !nm th reenu iarnd a a h I tg man casetat thes mttta 'ypilsBes ireeived wit,2i exisG.Wats Cunnhutth imnhaee State and County Democratic Primary Election. 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