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Legal advertisements. 11.00 per inch first insertion, 50 cents per inch each eubeeauent insertion. # Rates on long term advertisements very reasonable. For rates apply at chis off.ce. in remitting checks or money orders make payable to THE COUNTY RECORD. ????? THURSDAY, SEPT. 8. 1910. aaggb,. r ? < Mr. Fcathcrstonc at Home. ,. In this issue Ave publish an endorsement of C C Feat hers tone , *>y citizens of I.aureus. It is a common expression that if a man's j character is above reproach, he < needs no certificate to bolster it i tip. Tlmt is true euough, where \ the man is personally known? i among his friends and neighbors, 1 and in Laurens, town or county, < Mr Featherstone's character needs j no certificate. Here we find him \\ a leader at the bar, endorsed by ; r I the bar of Iaurens, for twen- i sty yea.-s a stewanl in the Meth- i odist church, a lay delegate to the j Methodist conference, superinten- s -xient of a Sunday-school, appointed by the Governor as special - - Judge, taken all in all, a high-' toned, Christian gentleman of cul- ] ture and refinement. i Bui however pure-minded and i upright., he is not proof against the * breath of slander. There is now 1 being circulated over the State a i I scurrilous, anonymous circular at- 1 i, tacking Featherstone's character, * charging him with being a drunk- { en profligate, a man unworthy of < respect or confidence and held in i comtempt l?y his home people. Coming out at the last moment,just : l>efore the fateful second primary, i how is a gentleman to meet this ( vile attack? There is only one < way and that is to do just as < 4 :. ' Featherstone has done. Get the endorsement of men of standing at his home who will give the lie to this annonymous character assassin, thus applying the antidote to his venomous, poisoned 1^" arrows. ? *" Read the statement over, care? * fully and take note of the signers of this testimonial. Think you all these gentlemen of social and business prominence would perjure themselves for the sake of a ^ I {drunken hyp?XTlte, wiuioui cnarac-j ter or standing among men? Let us go over our li>t: hank presidents, merchants, laywers, county officers, preachers?a representa- 1 tive li-t indeed and we venture to say that few citizens of Laut reus in any walk of life could, 'get so spendid an endorsement 1 from their home people, t; Mr Featherstone served for many years <'u* steward in the Lar.r.*ns! ? ; Methodist churo^ and the endorse-'' . ,< nient given him by his fellow member* of this board must )>e grati1 fying indeed. Could a man devoid of character or morals get such an endorsnient? We think not. ! But, you say, if all that l>ej true, wliv didn't Mr Featherstonej * I carry Iaiurens county in the recent, primary? Why, indeed! There j are tive cotton mills in Laurens; county whose operatives voted solidly for Mr Blease. Eliminate f-wt.irv v.?vd Fpflthprstonp would have l?eat L.-ase by '500 votes in Liurens county. Lauren? was always a strong State dispensary county. The dispensary was voted out by a small margin and a long and bitter contest ensued. Featherstone represented t h e prohibitionists and in that way incurred the ill-will of hundreds of dispensaryites. In that election only a little over half of tlie people voted, or very likely Laurens would have retained the dispensary. At his own voting precinct in Laurens, Mr Featherstone got 170 L* \1 ? PI aooo'o 01 tvltilti I > VIC.? Ill iUi c ^ t| ii tuiv in Newberry, according to the Columbia Record, at Club No 1 in Ward 3, Featherstone actually beat Blease at hi? own poll. In 190(5 Ragsdale carried Abbeville over Fraser Lyon but Ragsdale stood for the old State dispensary and Lyon was al*>ut to put it out of business. Abbeville, like Laurens, was a strong dispensary county. We want to give every man a | fair deal and we give our readers credit for the same spirit of fair- i ness. When you hear it said that Featherstone is immoral and without character or standing at Fionio vniir informant to the ' certificate published in this pa- ' per. ' Which are you going to credit, ( in unsigned, abusive screed at- 1 tacking a man's character or the testimony of such men as have lftixed their signatures to Feather- ( stone's certificate of character? ( ====== ! Is the Platform Binding? Is the platform of the national ] Democratic party binding? Tell i ;ue, you former admirers of Will- i iam Jennings Bryan (he di?esn't ; <eeni to have many now?more's ^ the pity) when the Democrats in ] framing the platform declared tor the free and unlimited coinage of diver, was it binding on the Con- ' pressman who pledged his word to 1 support the principles of the party 1 to vote for free silver? Suppose ' you had elected a Congressman on 1 i free silver platform and he ^ent ' to Washington, pledged to repre- ' flit your interests, and the tirst " chance he got repudiated his sol- ' emn promise and voted with the Republicans for a gold standard? 1 Would you say be bad betrayed his constituents? The Democratic platform declared for free lumber in 190X just as forcibly and unequivocably as it did in RXX) for free silver? , l how can you say that one is binding and the other is not? Now, then, you true blue Dem ocrats who stand hy the grand old party?is the platform binding? - ^ f Let's agree to disagree amieahly. i Well, we are all pretty well j agreed on Moore for Adjutant j General, anyway. j r No, Algernon, the weather is too hot for heated argument? ' even ah?ut polities. 1 li The people ought to elect a man I Railroad Commissioner, then let the State pension Cansler. ? Inunbir and liquor seem to have dazzled the optics of many voters ordinarily of clear vision. The most ardent supporters of Mr Bleasse are the unreconciled advocates of the late lamented State dispensary. Voting a man into office Ufa use he is a perpetual candidate is as senseless as a woman's marrying a man to got rid of him. Mr Blease's spirits, now as light as a feather, will soon weigh like a stone. His hopes are undimmed, save hy the shadow of a (Me) eloud. Poor old G Walt Whitman! Had lie liyed and kept on running for Governor he would have long since got in the second race, maybe elected. Don't get mad or excited arguing politics. The election of your favorite candidate is poor compensation for estranging a neighbor or making an enemy out of a friend. "Farmer Jim" Ellerbe will piobably be known hereafter^as "Lumber Jim." They do say as now "Farmer Jim" has retired from the free and independent ufc of a tiller of the soil. The Honorable "Hub" Evan is in the second race for tlie I^egislature in Newberry. He didn't get quite as many votes as Mr Blease, but he seems to be ""still in the ring" in Newberry county. When a Congressman acquires juch expensive tastes that he can't make eiuis meet ou the modest little pittance of $&,.000 a year a less luxurious Sybarite would ioubtles* prove less expensive toj the plain working people he s supposed to represent. In the alwence of our sporting alitor we would not advise you, invmiu Tnnnirnr t<v mro nrir ULcli 4iiiAr/ur liivjuuvt , v\' * v u uj big odds on Mr Blease l>euig elected Governor. His leading in the ftrst primary is a dizzy eminence to which we never expected him to attain, hut the time has not pet arrivsd when Cole L Blende ^ will l>e Chief Magistrate '4 the Palmetto State. When local option hung in the balance Cole L Blease fought it to the last ditch. He tried by every irt and maneuver of an expert parliamentarian to defeat or delay the passage of the Carey-Cothran local option bill that meant the overthrow of the rotten old State iispensary. Having failed to perpetuate the iniquitous system would you elect him Governor now because he professes to represent the very principle he-fought so bitterly in 1906? The typographical error in the partial returns published in The Record last week of which MrW S Cainlin complains, giving him eight votes at his home precinct instead of forty-three, was regrettable, of course; but, as we tried to explain, the incomplete tabular report was made up hurriedly and it was impossible to verify the figures, as the paper went to press Thursday before the executive committee had finished their tabulation. We published the incomplete returns last week, errors and all, knowing that the attieiai returns would In* available this week, and all mistakes could he corrected. The complete official returns are published this week. Ref? i ring to the endorsement jiven C C Featherstone by the * ministers and prominent business' men of 1.aureus, Mr Blease says: j "Mv character stands for it-self I and needs no certificate from friends, relatives or acquaintances." j . . i Mr Blease's opinion as to his char- j acter needing no certificate seems to have changed since four years ago he gave wide publicity to i it* i tvstinmni.il from Rev Mr Wnllint? of Newberry, who, it subsequently developed, was a recently returned missionary, having l>een absent from the United States for alxuit twenty years. The other min- j isters of Newberry?as we recall the' incident?when Mr Wollin^/^ndorsenien" of Mr Blease w iblished, distinctly disavow'.! Jieirj indorsement of his candidacy. After the State Democratic Committee had declared the result of the election, placing Cansler and Scarborough in the second primary as the two candidates who received the highest votes for Railroa'd Commissioner, it was discovered that an error in the returns sent out from Greenville county gave Scarborough three thousand votes ni >re t!mn he was entitled to. This necessitated the calling together of the State committee to correct the mistake, permitting G MeDutfie Hampton, the candidate whose vote was next highest, to ran over with Cansler for Rail i r* i Ti i roau launnil^ioiut. n is a uiom, a unfortunate blunder, besides ci>st? I ing the committee $500 to print new tickets with Hampton's natoe * suMituted for Scarborough's. In the city of Charleston it if* estimated tliat there are more than | one-hundred, blind tigers in full blast alnaost openly defying, the ' law. It would I* natural to suppose that eiery one of these illicit liquor dealers- will support Mr Blease in. preference- to Mr Featherstone, l>eca)use the Latter told them to their teeth, tliat if elected Governor he would eufi>rce the law in Charleston, the some a* elsewhere. Mr Blease dfedares that he will stand by his friends at all hazards.. Think you* his administration would improve conditions in Charleston? If die- blind tigers are frien<Hy to Mr Blease and he makes- good his promt*? to stand by his friends, b+ tl^ere any hope % for less illicit liquor traffic should Mr Bleaee l>e elected Governor? These are questions to be seriously considered,. friends, iu choking your candidate <>r Governor. Ike U?fc tf i Find , would have been about as welcome j to A Cooper of Oswego, N Y, as a S ? * 1-i L 5 merciless lung-raouug cuugn mail defied: all remedies for years. 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