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Hon. John I.. Mcl.aurln'8 most re?
cent political manifesto, whicn is
printed today, Is conceived and exe?
cuted In his best style and is as clever
a bit of satire as has been produced
in several campaigns. The shafts he
launches at Railroad Commissioner
Richards are tipped with venom and
are sure to penetrate even a thick
skin and to rankle for many a day.
It Is very evident that Mr. McLaurln
Is considerably embittered and that
his ire has been aroused against Mr.
Rleahrda by the latter's success In
obtaining a firmer ami better grasp
on Blease's coat-tall, which some of?
fice-seekers appear to regard as a
sort of enchanted carpet for those
who are seeking a ride into office.
Mr. McLaurin's open letter Is well
worth careful reading and those who
possess discerning eyes will discover
In it much to amuse and delight them,
if they find pleasure in an artful,,
skillful yet bitterly caustic political
satire. This letter is one of the best
things thut has been pn duced by Mr
McLaurin's one-tltne versatile pen
and will take rank with the "My
Dear ppelt" and other letter., that he
wtote when Itefawm was in flower.
NEW EXPRESS RATE.
Mate Railroad Conunbodon Take* up
I. C. C. Schedule.
Columbia, June 3.?The interstate
commerce commissioners' new rates
for express companies was adopted
by the South Carolina railroad com?
mission this afternoon, to go Into
effect July 1. The order was signed 1
by Commissioners Hampton and
Caughman, Chairman R'.hards say?
ing that he thought the matter ought
to be left open for further investiga?
tion.
B. F. McLeod. of the Charleston
Chamber of Commerce; C, S. Mon- '
tleth, representing the Columbia ship?
pers; F. Q. Tompkins, the ice Inter?
ests, end representatives of the pro?
duce people, the Ice creum interests
and mineral water people. appear?
ed before the commission on the mat?
ter. The Express company was rere
aented by J. it. Hockuday. of Atlanta,
general manager, and W. W. Owens,
of Chattanooga, Tenn., superintendent
of traffic.
The order issued by the commission
follows:
"Columbia. S. C. June 3, 1114 ?
Order No. 166.
"Southern Express Company:
"After formal hearing this date
and due consideration of facts pre?
sented. It is ordered that the South?
ern Express Company shall put into
effect on July 1, It* 14, the present in?
terstate commerce commission rate
structure, with modifications as out?
lined in heurlng before the commis?
sion.
"It is understood that the rate on
Ice and mineral water will remain as
at present.
"It is further understood that In
tho event that autlh lent protests are
entered against tho adoption of this
tariff tho railroad commission will
call a hearing to further consider
the matter.
"By order of the commission.
"G. Mcl>. Hampton, Commissi ?ncr.
"Ii. L. Cuughman, Commissioner.
"J. P. Darby. Secretary."
?UhM'ER COTTON MARK BT.
CuarecSad Daily By Ernes* Field,
Cotton Bayer.
Oood Middling 13 1-4.
Strict Middling 13 1-1.
Middling 13.
Strict Lgej Middling 13 1-2.
I?ow Middling IS.
Strict Good ordinary 11 1-4.
Staple cotton nominal.
New York Cotton Marke*.
New York. Juno 4.
Opening Close.
July .It.ll 13. IS
Ort.Ifl.fi 12 65
Dec.IM! 12.67
CHICAGO PRODUCK KXCHANG IL
Chicago, June 4.
opening Close.
It Iba-July . . ? 11-33 11.27
Wthn Beel li.fi U.fl
Some Random Thought-,.
Owing to the usual rush of har?
vesting the oat crop ami of keeping
up with the other crops at the same
time, the County Farmers' Union will
not call a meeting this week. The
next regular meeting will be on the
3rd of July with the Concord local.
Thin will give plenty of time for all
the committees to bring in full re?
ports on the matters referred to them.
The July meeting should be a very
intcrsting one.
see
The extensive and prolonged
drought has seriously cut off the
oat crop, In many fields caused poor
stands of cotton and tobacco, so that
the outlook for good prices is much
better than a year ago. On the gov?
ernment report of the cotton condi?
tion good cotton should bring 15c
now, and It would be, if our farm?
ers had stood for that price last fall.
Hut with so much of the crop in the
hands of the spinners it is very
doubtful if the few bales scattered
about will be sold much higher than
at present.
? ? e
If all cotton merchants would work
as hard to secure a full price for the
farmers' cotton as Mr. David Coker
of llartsville has done I verily believe
the average price for several years
would have been at least one cent
per pound more than we have re?
ceived. This applies to short as well
as long staple. It should be very
gratifying to the farmers of South
Carolina that Mr. Coker has been se?
lected as one of the directors of the
regional bank for this district, at
Richmond, Va. I am sure that if
anything can be done by this system
of banking to aiu the farmers to
market their cotton and tobacco
more satisfactorily, Mr. Coker will sec
that it is worked out.
SOS
Supervisor Pitts and Overseer Hol?
land, with their assistants are doing
a good Job In building the Shlloh
road. They will finish about one and
one-half miles of the most difficult
part this week. While this road has
long been needed, the experience of
the builders Is enabling them to build
?o much better road than would
have been done ten years ago that it
U worth the long wait to secure it.
This highway and the building of
the Sumter and Turbeville-Olanta
railroad will be even more valuable
to the city of Sutoier and the coun?
ty than the securing the Seaboard.
The highway is now assured, and no
reasonable expense should be spared
by Sumter to secure the railroad. It
should be made a part of either the
Coast Line or Seaboard systems, if it
Is to give the greatest convenience to
the people along the line.
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The splendid cooperation of the
County Farmers* Union and the
Chamber of Commerce?good team
work?has given us tick eradication
work several years before it would
have come about, but for these or?
ganizations. We have not yet se?
cured an ideal produce marketing
system, but thanks to the Union Bro?
kerage company, the creation of the
Farmers' Union, conditions have vast?
ly Improved. Some team work on
the part of the Farmers' Union and
the Chamber of Commerce ought to
perfect a marketing system. If any
two men can work it out, President
Williams of the County Union, and
Secretary Reardon of the Chamber
of Commerce will turn the trick.
Qivo them the support of the farm?
ers and of the business men of coun?
ty and town, and watch results.
Ill
It would not bo a bad idea to put
this combination in tho railroad
proposition. The same arguments that
were made for securing the Seaboard
will apply to getting the Sumter
Turbcville-Olanta railroad and unless
Sumter made a bad bargain in pay?
ing for the former it ought ,.ot hesi?
tate to making a reasonable outlay
for the latter. Anything that will do
tho general public so much good
should tot be left to a few public
I spirited citizens of the city and coun?
ty.
see
Tho work of the County Democratic
Kxecutive Committee in carefully de?
fining tho boundaries of the various
club districts last Monday was the
longest step toward perfecting the
primary system that has ever been
taken. Of course there will be a
few voters who will be put to some
Inconvenience who may be placed in
clubs that they would rather not be
in, but the work of enrollment is so
simplified that there should not be
any objection from any one who truly
wishes to secure to every mini justice
and prevent the possibility of fraud
or irregularities. F.. W. 1>.
CLINKS*\\IJ?:s IIIJ.S PliKDOB.
Jno. T. Duncan Also Annoiiiucs Can?
didacy.
Columbia, Juno 4.?John (
scales tefJny died his pledge j
his assessment as a candl '
governor, making four so f;
have enteret! tho ra? o. John
can of Columbia also annotl
candidacy for governor,
FAVORS COMP! LSOKY EDUCA?
TION,
E. II. Blake of Greenwood Cites let?
ter from New York to Show Ad?
vantage of Statute.
Kditor Tho Item.
A negro school teacher in South
Carolina recently said that the white
people of South Carolina passed a law
in 1895 compelling the negroes to
attend school when the constitution?
al convention required that a negro
be able to read and write, or that
ho hold property before he could
vote. He smiled and said that since
that time the negro children could
not be kept from going to school, and
that the negro schools were always
crowded, but that now the white peo?
ple would be forced to pass a com?
pulsory education law to give the
white children the education they
would need to compete with the ne?
gro. That negro teacher's statement
is plain enough.
So we have In South Carolina a
compulsory law already for the ne?
groes. Here is what Hon. James D.
Sullivan, chief of compulsory at?
tendance division of the State of New
York, replies from Albany under date
of May 28, 1914, as to the effect of
the compulsory attendance law in
that State and what the people think
of it:
"Mr. E. IT. Blake, Greenwood, S. C.
Dear Sir: Your letter of inquiry
under date of May 25 received, and
I beg leave to answer your questions
in the order submitted.
"1. Do you believe education has
made greater progress in your State
under a compulsory education law
than before such a law was passed?'
Xo other single school statute has
done so much for the cause of edu?
cation in this State as tho compul?
sory education law now In operation
here. Thousands of children who
have been in attendance upon lawful
Instruction annually since the law
went into effect would havo been
growing up without a chance for ed?
ucation, augmenting the ranks of il?
literacy and swelling the ranks of our
criminal population, were it not for
the compulsory education statute. But
very few children in this great State
physically and mentally competent
are found out of school while the
schools are in session.
"2. Are tho people trying to get it
repealed V
They certainly are not. Every
single newspaper and magazine in
this State is a staunch advocate of
a rigid enforcement of this law and
all our people in all the various
walks of life have come to believe
thoroughly in this statute. The com?
pulsory education law has come to
stay, and it will yet do for our peo?
ple what a similar statute has done
for the people in Germany during the
last 70 years. Illiteracy in the Ger?
man Empire is almost a vanishing
point, as a result of a vigorous en?
forcement of attendance laws in that
country.
"Every Stato in the union has now
a workable compulsory education law
except the following: Oklahoma,
Texas, Florida, New Mexico, Georgia,
Mississippi, and South Carolina.
"Jn no Stato where a compulsory
education law has been enacted in
my opinion will it evor be repealed,
and in every State having such a law,
year by year it is being made more
mandatory, specific, comprehensive
and workable."
Mr. Editor, what are the white peo
plo of South Carolina going to do
about it?
Yours very truly,
E. H. Blake.
Greenwood, June 3.
A license to marry has been issued
to Mr. W. D. Shupe of Columbia and
Miss Emma If. Carr of Suinter.
I Candidates' Cards.
i_
Announcements of candidates will
bo printed in this column until the
close of tho campaign for $5. No
cards accepted on credit.
For Supervisor.
I hereby announce myself a can?
didate for the office of Supervisor for
Sunder County, subject to the rules
of the Democratic party.
L, E. WHITE.
County Su|h>rintciidctit of Education.
I hereby announce myself a candi?
date for tho office of County Super?
intendent of Bducatlon for Bumter
County, subject to the rules of the
Democratic party.
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THE RESCUE WORKERS.
Local Corps of Religions Workers Es
1 tal)lishcd in Headquarters.
The American Rescue Workers
who arrived in the city Wednesday
evening and have been holding open
air meetings on the street corners and
attracting large crowds, have secured
quarters for the present at S. Main
and Bartlette Streets and are looking
for a hall for their indoor meetings.
They have come to Sumtcr to stay,
not to solicit funds to take to other
fields. The money received by them
here will be spent in Sumter helping
tho poor and the destitute of this
city. The Bescue Workers, as stated
already have no connection with the
Salvation Army, and are an incorpor?
ated organization, having nearly
twenty homes for women and chil?
dren in the United States, and many
industrial institutions for poor men.
Tho cap, bonnet and uniforms arc
very different from that of the Sal?
vation Army, and Major Owens, the
Divisional Officer from Charlotte,
who came with other officers here to
open the work, states that he wants
the Rescue Workers to stand on their
own merit in Sumter, and asks that
all citizens cooperate with them in
their work, and this will make the
work much more effective and the
Rescue Workers will be of greater
help to the poor and fallen classes of
suffering humanity in this city. Any
one wishing to make a contribution
to tho local work of this organization
and not seeing any of the workers can
inclose same to the Captain, Walter
Harmon, general delivery, Sumter,
and ho will acknowledge same with
receipt by return mail. As soon as a
hall is secured for indoor meetings
the public will be advised. Major
Owens left here Saturday morning to
go back to Charlotte, and wishes to
thank the public through these col?
umns for their kindness and words
of cheer and encouragement to him
and his officers since coming here.
In co-operation with the weather
bureau, forest rangers are to meas?
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RICHARDS DECLARES FOR
PLEASE.
Candidate for Governor States His
Choice for United States Senator.
Columbia, June 3.?"I am going to
vote for Cole L. Blease for United
States Senator because I believe he is
nearer the masses of the people than
the other man," said John G. Rich?
ards, Jr., candidate for governor, to?
night. The statement was made in
answer to a direct question as to
whether he was for Smith or Blease.
It was talked around Columbia dur?
ing the State convention that Mr.
Bichards had declared, in a Blease
conference that he was going to vote
for tho governor for United States
senator, and it was known also that
Mr. Bichards attended the Blease
caucus here on last Monday. This is
the first authorized statement of the
position of Mr. Richards.
Major Richards expressed his confi?
dence that he would be chosen gov?
ernor. He was here today in attend?
ance on meeting of the railroad com?
mission, of which he is chairman*
and leaves with the other members,
in the morning to inspect the Caro?
lina and Northwestern Railway and
the Seaboard Air Line. * ? ^
The foreman in charge of the par?
ing work on Liberty street lent hie
roller and rolled the baseball grounds
Wednesday before the game, a fact
that was very greatly appreciated by
members of the team and which did
much to put the diamond in better
condition.
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