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For catalogue and special i ;NRY M. SNYDER, .President. ollege fitting School iratory school for boys. Indwidual 3ral training. Expenses low. Next ;r 20. For catalogue and special inHEADM ASTER, Spartanburg, S. C. ? =i I ey-Lebby Co land Plumbing Supplies pplies and Accessories :s .*. VEEDOL Oils and Grease South Carolina """""" " " JV*upmn~* **" I St-six| flM^L y . o. b. Factory ny work, I made a careful investiganclusion that the GRANT SIX is the I he best money value I could find, so I I as my work carries me all over the I the use to which I will put it will be I nritViftilt in thp 1#?ast interfer- II 9UC4UV11 TTlviivwv ...? ,ve become the company's representcounty. I shall be glad to furnish D. A. PHILLIPS. E. J. He % ir Tobacco at 'S w KINGSTREl iigh prices and squar tree Market. Date Will ny tobacco you hav it is in your way, brii Yours very Mclr fnniir ?nn i rcn A f ItlC. DMtolML t Written and Published Each Wee 1 Advertisements by GETTING NEARER HOMERAGSDALE'S Ragsdale Appoints His Law Partn Official Clerks and Draws Th $5,000, Although They P No Servic On April 27 I said in the editorial colem "Public office is public trust; the pi public and private character, as showi aspires to public office and asks the matters of public concern and subject THAT IS WHAT I HAVE ALWAYS STANDING FOR. IT IS THE REASOl THESE ARTICLES OF MR RAGSDALE'S FIRST EPISO Ragsdale was nominated at the August seat the 4th day of March following. On of the House of Representatives of the Un ing notification in his own handwriting. (On form fiiled out in Ragsdale's hand "Flort Hon South Trimble, Clerk of the I Washington, I) (\ Dear Sir: ? Please note that in conformity with August 19, 1912, I have this day app< as my clerk, Sixth District. State of S Yours very tr (! The United States statute governing t members of Congress reads as follows: "That on and after April first, eigh three, each Member and Delegate of th of the United states may, on ine nrsi sessions of Congress certify to the Cle sentatives the amount which he has pai hire necessarily employed by him in tl and representative duties during the amount so certified shall be paid by tl gent fund of the House on the fourth person or persons named in each of sai vided. That the amount so certified ar RENDERED to each Member and De hundred dollars for any month during further. That the provisions of this re members who are chairmen of comm rule to a clerk." Joint Resolution No 21, of March 27 Stat L 757. 2 Fed Stat Ann 220. " . . . . That ALL CLERKS to B placed .... on the roll of employees joct to be removed at the will of the \ are appointed; and any Member . . . clerks, who SHALL BE placed on the member . . . making such appointmi Act of Aug 23, 1912, ch 350. 37 Stat L 368. Fed Stat Ann, Sup, 1914, p 47. Note the fact that the statute provies r LY employed in the discharge of OFFIC duties; and again for CLERICAL SERVICl that ALL CLERKS of Members SHALL B ployees of the House. Under the above law Racrsdale, during from the Treasury of the United States, th the sum of $ 125 per month, $3,000 in the ed him for his clerk, Mr R E Whiting, and receipt: Form approved by the Comptroller of tl sster t the Old R rARI E, S. C. e dealing. It is c I Be Anr e already cured ' ng it along and p j. I-. iruiy, itosh, Hest E" RECORD. 1 :k In this Newspaper as | JAMES D. EVANS. ? ? ? ? * ?*? * $ $> $ $ ? | I OFFICIAL RECORD! I er and His Bank Cashier {?/ leir Pay to Tune of r" erform Absolutely yo e. jwl pa ins of The Florence Daily limes: rblic and private acts and n thereby, of the man who suffrages of the people are to public discussion." as STOOD FOR AND AM NOW ca sT FOR MY DISCUSSION IN W RECORD. fic DE. a!J no primaries, 1912. He took his! yy that day he filed with the Clerk i pj ited States Congress the followsigned with his signature.) nee, S C, March 4th, 1913, ; louse of Representatives, !nf j ha i S D provisions H R 2ti321 of jga )inted R E Whiting to act j jn duth Carolina, uly, Signed) J W Ragsdale." :he appointment of clerks for of teen hundred and ninety- 19 ie House of Representatives cl< day of every month during da rk, of the House of Repre- of d or agreed to pay for clerk oa le discharge of his official 01 previous month, and the le Clerk out of the contin- dr day of each month to the wi id certificates so filed: Pro- m id paid for clerical services bl legate shall not exceed one : the session: And provided solution shall not apply to ittees entitled under the A CJ 1893. LI D< lembers . . . SHALL BE W of the House and be sub- i S( lember ... by whom they ) TI may appoint one or more roll as the c'erk ^f such ?nts." >ay for clerk hire NECESSARIIAL and REPRESENTATIVE . 2S RENDERED; and further, E placed on the roll of em- "e is, his first term in Congress, drew "g irough the Clerk of the House, ^ aggregate, as the salary allowgave, each time the following qu wc ie Treasury March 14,1917. en E. Car tellable onducted by the p lounced will be received ft ut it in our waref er & Co., Vouncher for Clerk Hire fo HOUSE OF REPf Received of SOUTH TREMBLI sentatives of the United States, t Twenty-five dollars, in full for an r>i?i. u;.? mevitc^artt v omnl . V/ICl cv iiur, ii uvjuijkjinviu a. vui|'i OFFICIAL and REPRESENTATI 191 which I CERTI (Signature) Member of the House of Repre District, S Paid by check No the United States at Washington, 191 to the order of Member Now, what are the facts? WHITING NEVER PERFORMEE \LE'S CLERK IN WASHINGTON, orence during the whole period, as ;d on Ragsdale's law practice. Ragsdale employed a stenographer as the law required, on the roll of d some of the work while the great* ung men whose appointment to page io were paid $100 per month for th ?nt but who did the work in Ragsda ying$125 a month to have Whiting 0, what became of the other $65? T SECOND E After two years, Whiting retired 1 clerk to the Honorable J Willard E shier of the Farmers & Mechanics I ;ed by Ragsdale, was appointed to fi ial directory of the House of Repr pointment he has never ceased to p shier and has never performed any ashington. BUT RAGSDALE ST1 JOM THE GOVERNMENT AS PET It is unnecessary to point out that fiich are shown by the official record improperly drawing from the Gove: men, designated by him as clerks,< the duties of their office, who have ,ve been closely associated with him irit as well as the letter of the law, me to the Government which he i teres: ing. BUT HERE IS A CASE MORE IN HIIRO EI As hown by the records on file in Representatives,Washington, Rags< 15, secured the appointment of Jan ?rkship in Washington. The appoin ile forwarded to J A Pettigrew, casl office, which Penny, at his instance ith was duly returned, at Ragsiale'i the House, and was filed there as ? One month later Ragsdale sent tc awn on the Treasurer of the Unitec ith a receipt which Penny signed. 1 arked paid, are on file as public (Joe e. Clerk of the House in Washingtoi PENNY DIDN'T GET A CENT 0 10 OF IT WAS RETURNED TO CL dDY IN WASHINGTON FOR DOII NCE, $70. WAS HELD BY RAGSDi XEDIT ON PENNY'S PERSONAL ] WILL THE PEOPLE OF THE SIX' [NA STAND FOR CONDUCT OF TJ 0 THEY WANT TO BE REPRESEI HO HAS THE RECORD HERE SH )UARES WITH THE IDEA THA: *UST? (Candidate for Cong (I will give some hotter stuff still, Wonier of Wonders. The Herald hears upon gooa auority that the prohibition law is 1 ing enforced in Charleston?that really enforced, and not merely aid to be enforced." It is stated ' at it is possible to secure a small 1 antity of whisky, perhaps, if the ' >uld-be purchaser knows the ropes ough; but that the open sale cf Ill roll Burgess USE rioneertobacco Later y us and taken ioiico IUUOVi Props. r Members and Delegates. No tESENTATIVES. E. Clerk of the House of Reprehe sum of One Hundred and nount due me as allowance for oyed by me in the discharge of VE duties during the month of FY to be correct. sentatives of the United States. Itate of j ?? tmaaauwav a/ Ulttwu uii uic ncaouici ui D C, dated signing above for $125. \ ) A DAY'S SERVICE AS RAGS- ? but on the contrary, remained in Ragsdale's partner at law, and car at $60 per month, who was not listthe employees of the House, who 2r part of the work was done by ship in the House Ragsdale procured, eir services as pages by the Governle's office which the Government was do. After paying his stenographer he Government Records do not show. IPISODE. :rom his remunerative employment 'agsdale, and James A Pettigrew, lank of Florence, owned and man11 the vacancy, as appears by the ofesentatives. Since Mr Pettigrew's erform in Florence the duties of services as clerk to Mr Ragsdale in LL DRAWS $125 PER MONTH . TIGEW'S PAY. the performances recorded above, Is of Congress, prove that Ragsdale rnment, each month, as the salaries .vho have performed absolutely none never beer, in Washington, who in business, in contravention to the and has made no accounting for the is supposed to represent. This is ITERESTING: PISODL. the ofHce of the Cierk of the House iale, during the latter part of May, les H Penny, of Florence, S C, to a tment was for 30 days only. Rags- A--? lier of his bank in Florence, the oath \ , signed before a notary public. The W ? direction, to South Trimble, Clerk t public record. i Pettigrew, in Florence, a check, I States, payable to Penny1 for $100, rhis receipt, together with the check, uments in the office of South Trimn. F THE $100. ON THE CONTRARY ERE TRIMBLE TO PAY SOME MG THE WORK AND THE BAL\LE'S BANK AND APPLIED AS A MOTE. TH DISTRICT OF SOUTH CAROLE CHARAdER SHOWN ABOVE? MTED IN CONGRESS BY A MAN 0 WN? IS THIS A RECORD THAT r PUBLIC OFFICE IS A PULIC JAMES D EVANS, ress, Sixth District South Carolina), next week). Watch this space). whisky and beer has positively been discontinued. This is an accomplishment that few of us, two years agro, little dreamed would ever come to pass. Indeed, it is almost as miraculous as the stonninc of the sale of rodka in Russia ovpr night.?Bamforf Herald The allies continue their victories. ft