Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Cfcr ?fcrkfrnait nib 5mrt|mm. Anna Lou Im Drown haa re. turned from Black Mountain, N. C, wHr? aha attended the Y. W. C. A. eoaference. Mr. W. A. Brown, Jr.. after spend? ing* two weeks with his grandfather, Drv B. A. Muckenfuas, of Summerville, haa returned home. ?apt 8. M. Edmunds left Mon? day fat' Rock Hill, where he will t -ach English and delivered a aeries of lectures on education at the Winthrop College aummer achool. sties #? We Belote, of Aahevllle. N. C, la the attractive -uent of Mlsa Frances Smith on Harvln atreet. Mr. T. W. Trcrnhlll, of Charleaton, a rgbent graduate of Clemaon College, la Spending a few days with Mr. It. 0. Hood, Jr. Urs. W. W. Barnes and two little aone, and Ml*? Annelyse and Mr. Lau? rie Barkedale. of Augusta, passed through the city Wednesday after? noon en route to Ocean View, Va,, where they will spend the summer. M?r. Abe Ryttenberg left Wednesday afternoon to attend the Southern Wholesale Grocers* Convention, now In session at the Isle of Palms. lflsa Katie McKlever has returned home from La Porte City, Iowa, whore she taught during the past year. 8he has accepted a position to teaoh again.at the same place next ye-is. ? ? alias Mary Bradford and .little James Blrcnell, left Wednesday morn? ing; for Wilmington, N. C, where she expects to. vialt frlenda and relativea. Mrs A. J. Stubbs am! little son. Auiten. left this morning for Colum? bia [to visit relatives, and from there will go on to Wayneavllle, N. C, to apend the aummer. A party consisting of Mrs. C. E. Stubbs. sirs. S. W. Stubbs, Mlsa KaOaryn stubbs, Julius A. Stubbs. Mac Stuhbe and Master Wilbur Stubbs, left tbla morning for Wayneavllle, TR, C, where they will apend the aum? mer. aftss Willie Delgar haa returned from e house party at Hagood. sjlns Agnes Becker, of Spartanburg, la visit ins Jatiss Willie Delgar. . sir. L. I. Pollltt. of Baltimore, Vice President snd General Manager of the Sumter Gas and Power Co., is In the city. RAR ASSOCIATION MEETING. Will Have no Jury Cases In Civil Court. At a meeting of the Sumter Bar! Association Monday tho former offi? cers were reelected, as follows: Preai.j dent, Ii. D. Lee; Vice President, R. O. Purdy; Secretary Geo. D. Levy. At the meeting it was decided by1 the attorneys to have no jury cases In eJvil court at the approaching sum. mar term of court. Equity cases, honlsvsr, will be heard. MAD DOG KILLED. Some excitement waa raised on the etreeta Tuesday afternoon by the chaise of the police officers after a doe) aliened to have been mad. The dog waa first noticed when It was go? ing up Main street. Several dogs| were bitten by it before the police wore called, it then went through Harvln atreet and other doga were bitten by It. The officers Anally came up. with It at the passenger station where it waa killed. The dog was a Ions legged pointer liver colored with white apote. kj Death of Mrs. J. V. Balr. r the Dally Item, June 16. Jlews was received by relatives hare last night of the audden death of Mrs. Carrie Bair. wife of John V Balr. of thTa city, at Eloree at about ft o'clock laat night. Mrs. I lair wen tot Klloree two weeks ago to nurse a aeyfc patient While there ahe became llL and died yeaterday in a ahort tlrse. The funeral services will be held there this afternoon at & o'clock. pfrs. flair I? survived by her hus. band. John V. Bslr. and alx amall children. - ?Nt?eaih of Maxie M. Graham. ?O>tnewood, Juno IB.?Thla mornlmj st 1 o'c'.ock Mr. Maxie M. Graham dlOd at hla home on South Side. The deceased waa only <*lck about ten day* rug It waa thought nothing ?sVSOOs a?* first, as he fell while at work on a dwelling here on the 6th. He loaves a Wife, two aons. three daughters and a bout of relatives and friends t < mourn Y\\% death. Mr Graham was about '< l yeurs old. He had been a member of the Methodist church all bis life and was a Christian man and true to his re. Union. i uneral services Tuesday miming at IS o'clock In the Meth. odiat church. He will be laid to rest In the family square at Weeks' ceme. tery. JENNINGS AT 81. MATTHEWS. OPENING SPEECH OF SCMTKK'S MAYOR IN SENATORIAL CAM? PAIGN. As lie Im n Now Man In Ktnto Politics HIm Introductory Speech 1m Largely Autoblographh al?11c Stunds for Honesty and Purity In the Primary and the Ix>ynl Support of the Dem? ocratic Platform and the Wilson Administration. This la a new role for me. For the first time in n?y life, I am appearing before the people of the State of South Carolina for one of the high? est offices within their gift. It is nec. essary for mo to briefly introduce my? self, at this the first campaign meet, ing; still, I do so with a degree of hes. itancy, as It is hard for me to say anything about myself, as I prefer for others to do this for me. How. ever, I deem It necessary to briefly give a personal history of myself, while I know that there are but two qualifications required of any male citixen of South Carolina, to run for this office, to wit: To have attained the age of thirty years, and to be a citixen of the State for two years. 1 am more than thirty years of age, and have been a citixen of this State for a little more than forty.three years, because it was in Sumter county, South Carolina, where I first saw the light of day, and unless I lose \ my mind, I will continue to live in old South Carolina. While she at times may be wrong, the ship of State in my opinion, will soon right herself, and again float upon the clear waters of true democracy Parentage. My parents, grandparents, and great grand parents, and as far back as I have any information, were citi. sens of this State. My father enter, ed the Civil War at Its beginning and continued until its end. He returned home, with everything practically gone, and again began his farming operations and continued to farm un. til a few years prior to his death. Both he and my mother passed away In July and August, 1912, respective, ly. Early History. I was born on the farm; I follow, i ed the plow from the time I was j large enough to do so, and continued, ; for about ten years. I lived on the I farm until 1898. I have continued to i farm from the time I was old enough ? until the present day. I held the of. i flee of Magistrate in the country for i about four years, being appointed ] when I was about twenty-two years I of age; was married the first time in < April, 1896. 1 read law at home on i the farm, passed the bar examlna. < tlon in May 1896, commenced the ac. ? tive practice of law in 1897, and have j continued to do so until the present ] time, but all the while continued my j farming operations, so that I am, and i have always been vitally concerned in 2 the welfaro for the farming interest, < both from a personal standpoint, and 1 because I realise that it is the most 1 Important industry of our State. I Commission Form of Government. 1 In 1910 I was elected Mayor of the 1 City of Sumter (one of the best and j 11 vest small cities on the globe.) Dur. 1 ing this administration, we conceiv. ] ed the idea and beflef that we could formulate a better form of govern, ment for our city than we then had. We took the proper steps to have the issue of a commission form of govern, rnent, with or without a City Manager, submitted to the people. Personally, I favored and openly advocated the commission form with the Manager plan. My views were adopted, and a commission form of government, with a City Manuger, went into opera, tlon on the 13th day of August, 1912. I was re.elected Mayor under the new form of government in August, 1112, and am still holding this office. I am satisfied today, If the question was submitted to the people as to whether or not they would continue this form of government, that the op? position could not muster up a cor. poral guard who would be In favor of going back t."? the old cumbersome, antiquated system. I huve said more thun 1 feel like Baying in regard to myself, hut can? dor compels me to say Just a little more. As stated above, when the war closed and my father returned, all of hl? Hluve? having been set free, the country practically in bankruptcy, life had to be started over anew. My father knew very little about manag, ing free negroes. and life was a desperate struggle to keep the wolf fiom the door. Am his clilldivn would get old enough, und there were five of us that came on from time to time, we were compelled to aid hint and my mother in their struggles, and It wan our pleasure to do ho. To as. Mist him In making ends meet, my mother taught school for many yearn. She was my first public school teach* er, In fact, I only had two others while going to school In the country. Tho public HchoolM In those days, so 1 far as the equipment of the build? ings, etc., were concerned, were mere ? makeshifts. They ran from three la four months out of the year. My mother was a great reader, and she inspired her children to do all in their power to obtain as far as possible an education to equip them for life's work. Moved by this inspiration, and with a desire to try and make some? thing of myself, I determined to spare no effort, to undergo any necessary sacrifice in order to obtain some de? gree of an education. When I was eighteen years of age, I determined that 1 would attend the graded schools in Sumter. I then lived five miles in the country. Our means I were still limited. What stock we had, we were compelled to use on the farm from January, and there? fore it became necessary for me to walk ten miles each day to attend the graded schools at Sumter, and I did so for three years, and being bless? ed with an iron constitution, and per? fect health, I was able to make the journey, and was never tardy a single time during the three years, and nev? er missed but two days, and it was then to attend the funeral of an uncle. I held out to the end and graduated from the graded schools at Sumter. A part of the time 1 had one of the best teachers that ever taught human mind. He is not only known throughout the length and breadth of South Carolina, but prac? tically throughout the United States, to wit: Professor S. H. Edmunds. I have said more, perhaps, about myself, than most of you think I should have said. I have done so, not with a spirit of egotism, but in order to let the people of South Car? olina know that I know* by personal experience, the hardships, toils and struggles of the "poor man's son." If any one does not believe the statements just made, and thinks thai 1 have overdrawn the picture, all I ask of such person is, that he write to any acquaintance that he may havo within the borders of Sumter County, who has known me from childhood, and ask him whether such are true. _ The Poor Man's Vote. I understand it has been charged from various sources that it was the purpose of the last State Convention to so fix the rules that it would de. prlve the poor man of his vote in the primary. I -am proud to say that 1 was a member of that convention and took part in the adoption of the rules as they now are. I defy any man, at any time, and anywhere to point out from the rules, any clause or sen. Lence, anywhere, that will deprive a ilngle man whether or not he can read or write, of any privilege that is accredited to any man, even though lie be rich, or even though he might be highly educated. All that is re. iiuired of any man is that he be a res. ident of this State for two years, and of the county six months, and that he appear in person and sign the roll, if he can write his name, and if not. have the secretary write his name, and he make his mark, and he has the right to vote. Oh, someone has said it is a hardship io require a farm? er or a workingman to go to the trou? ble to go to the secretary in person and sign his name. If such one votes in the primary, ho will have to ap? pear in person and most likely will have to travel just as far as he would have to go to enroll his name. What farmer has objected to go and enroll his name in person? What working man has objected to do the same thing? If a man, whether he be a farmer, whether, he be a merchant, whether he bo lawyer, doctor, preach? er, or whether he be a loafer, or any? thing else, does not take sufficient in? terest in the government of his coun? ty, State and nation, to take the trouble to appear in person and sign the roll, such a one should not be al? lowed to vote on election day, because any one who would take such little interest in the affairs of State, would not take interest to get out on election day unless he was sent and brought to the polls by some ward heeler for some candidate, then such a one should loso the right to vote on elec? tion day. All this rot about deprlv.? ing a poor man of his vote, is only to prejudice the people. 1 am satislled there Is not a man within the borders of South Carolina who is so Ignorant as to be misled by any such demagog ism. I am satisfied that there is not a farmer within the borders of South Carolina, who would, if he had the chance, cast more than one vote In any election, and under the rules he has the right to do this. Under the rules, no one can vote unless he per? sonally signs the roll, or personally makes his mark. While under the old rules the voter did not have to appear in person and sign his name, but it could la; put upon the club roll by the secretary, a list of names could be brought the secretary by u person who might be willing to coin, mit fraud, he could bring one bun. died names to be enrolled in a thick? ly populated city, the secretary per? haps would not know any of the per. suns whose names were brought !<? him, lifty, a.ve, seventy-tivc, in fact all of these names Could be taken from the tombstones of grave yards of nth. er States and placed upon the club roll. This could be done all liver the stat". On election day, the toughs bums ami other unscrupulous people could be brought from other Adjoin, ing States, by the use of a little mon? ey, could be taken to these vario'us Cluba, and vote as Mr. A., Mr. B? and Mr. C, might dictate and the man? agers would never be the wiser. To prevent what might, and could hap? pen under the old rolls under circum? stances of this kind, the new rolls requiring the personal enrollment of the voters were adopted, not to de. prive the honest mechanic, the hon. est mill operatives, and the honest farmers from voting, but it was for the purpose of protecting these votes, and the votes of every one when east; because, if one hundred people could be brought from any adjoining coun? ty, or an adjoining State and vote at one club, it could be done by hun? dreds of clubs throughout the State, and could and would absolutely de? stroy the votes of our honest citizens where the votes were cast for a dif? ferent candidate than the candidate for whom these dishonest votes were cast. Is there a single man In this crowd, who would vote at more than one club, or more than one ballot in any box, if so I pause for such a one or such ones to raise his, or their hands. I again say that I am proud that 1 had the voice of one and the vote of one to aid in the adoption of the pres. ent rules. I think I have demonstrat? ed to you that under the old rules it would have been so easy to commit fraud, while under the new, it is al? most practically impossible to per. petrate fraud of any kind to any great degree, but on the other hand it stands as a protectioti to the votes of any citizens in the State of South Carolina. PLATFORM. National Democratic Platform, It is useless here to state my plat? form in detail, as 1 assume that most people, if not all, are familiar with the National Democratic platform, adopted at Baltimore in 1912. This, If elected, will be my chart and guide, as we are bound by it, for the rea? son that it is the highest law of the Democratic party, save and except the tolls clause, which was slipped irjto this platform by some member or members of the convention who Were not there for the purpose of representing the people, but for the pupose of representing the ship Building Trusts and other special in. terests. Should time show that any other plank in this platform was designed for the benellt of Wall Street pr special moneyed interests of any kind, to the detriment of the people as a whole, I should also c onsider it an exception from the highest law of a Democrat. Repeal of Tolls Exemption Clause. I believe that the Democ ratic party at Washington was absolutely correct in sustaining the views of our presi? dent by repealing the tolls exemption clause. Why should the shipping trust receive special protection by be. ing given free use of the Panama ca? nal, when, as a matter of fact, the en? tire people, both rich and poor, paid for the construction of the canal, and Will pay for its maintenance? If this is not paid by the coast wise ships, it does not go into the pockets of the people who paid for the canal, but it will go Into the pockets of the stock? holders of the ship companies, mak? ing the rich richer, and the poor poorer. Nobody with an ounce of sense will think that because a for? eign ship has to pay four dollars per ton tolls on a given commodity, in order to pass through the canal, the exempted ship would pay four dollars per ton into the United Sttaes treas? ury, or would reduce its freight charges by four dollars per ton, and thus leave this money in the pockets of the consumer. To have allowed this law to remain unrepealed would be to follow the principle of a pro? tective tariff, because there is no dif? ference In principle In taxing farmers and other consumers to maintain a canal for the free use of the ship building trusts, and in charging a high tariff on Imported steel products In order to protect and support such an infant industry as the United States Steel Corporation. Internal Improvements. It having become the accepted pol? icy of the United states government to Improve the rivers and harbors and irrigate the dry lands cd" certain por? tions of the United states, l believe that, un the same principle, the low? lands of the South should be drained, and that South Carolina Is entitled t" her share of these improvements. National Purest Reserves. 1 am in favor of the National For. est reserves to protect the- headwulcrn of the streams which furnish water power in our State. Water power is the most valuable natural asset with which God has blessed our State, and experience' has shown that the besl method of protecting ibis wate r pow. er is lo preserve the- forests at the headwaters of the streams which fur? nish it. The manufacture of cotton products has been, and .--till is. one of our greatest Industries, and in Ihls industry Ilia State cd' South Carolina maintains a high rank among her sister Slates, and I believe that our i successful fostering of this industry f has been possible only through I lie presence In the western part of this! State of the water power which h? the spindles in our mills, and niak< - possible tiie development of all lines of manufacture on the most cconomi.I < al basis. AntLTriist Legislation. T believe in the passage of bucI laws as will effectually restrain any I unlawful or oppressive combination*| or trusts in trade, but, at the same time, I believe that these laws should be so framed as to aliow honest und legitimate I isiness to la; conducted unhampered, under a law sufficient, ly definite as to be understood by the ordinary business mind. Pensions. I am unalterably opposed to the annually Increasing pension raid on the National treasury. Jt is contrary to reason that pension expenditures should increase each year when the number of veterans is necessarily do. creasing. This is, in a general way, my plat? form. Perhaps other matters will be mentioned during the campaign. Unselfish Politicians?New Jersey. Jt seems to me that the time has: come in South Carolina when we should do as other States have done. Take Xcw Jersey for example. Some few years ago, our present president of the United States, then unknown in political life, came out on a platform in the interests of the people against the professional politicians and boss? es, and the people being convinced of bis sincerity and honesty of purpose, be swept the State, drove from office the self-soking politicians and corrupt pollticial machines, and, in one short term, effected the passage of so mueh progressive legislation that he gained a national reputation. And then, i against all the politicians with all the money at their command, at the Baltimore Convention? he succeeded in obtaining i l ? ? - Democratic nomi. nation. In the Following Campaign? he convinced' ih" people of the United States of his sincerity, and of the soundness of Iho sumo principles which he h id advocated, and they elected him president; und since, not* withstanding all the influence end pressure b; light to bear, ho has rc? mained firm, and forced the passage of tin cum i cy bill, forced the repeal of the toils exemption clause and* i* now straight in l>ehlnd his anti-trust, legislative platform. In addition to this, by his firmness < C character, ho has prevented our nation being plunge cd into a costly and bloody war witli the Mexican people, a war not for t'oo protection of American honor anxl principle, not for the benefit of tho people of the United States, but f(?r the protection of the moneyed Inter* ests of an exceedingly few American Investors. While -I know of no man in South Carolina who can be compared with the president, still are ?an go along this line ;is for as possible, and it Beems to me that the i>eople of this State, should be carefu) and weigh the qualifications of all who are now as? piring to office, und select the one that they believe will best repre_ sent the Interests of all the people and not ids own selfish interests, either financial or political. Now, in judging the aspirants for this office, I perhaps may be at a disadvantage or may be an advantajp . Each of the others have a political r?icord. The records of some I do not in the least envy. By these records they should be judged, i have no State political record, in fact! no political record at all, ex* cept my local record as mayor of Sum? ter. About the records of at least some of the others l shall have more to say befor* this campaign is over. Wo t.arh Book koppln?. Banking, shorthand, FypavrlifUBi IVninan.hip, arith.nrii' and BMftBMi I.rttrr W riling. Our courses are thorough and our Collie i:> the most highly i . .-on.mended. Our graduates are always preferred because of the thorough training they receive hf. If Interested write for *?TUC CHIITU^ R?QT" particulars at once. I Fit dUUIII O Dfcd I - COLUMBIA, ^ I SOUTH CAROLINA. I "Waste Not-Want Not" YOU are wasting energy in trying to carry financial details in your mied. It's the want of good banking service which forces such proceedure. The check Account system of this bank promotes economy, in? creases business prestige, and supplies the wants of many business men. The First National Bank OF SUMTER Mr Now is the Time If you've never had a Checking Account, or wish to Increase your present facilities?to start an accoonC with this tank. For SECURITY you have our Capital and Surplus of $250,000. About service, wc refer >ou to our depositors. THE BANK OF SUMTER Established 1889 | A "Quick Change" I + Just begin saving a little each week? t You'll be astonished at how soon you X will have brought about a change in your t financial condition. Try it. r The Peoples' Bank ???????????????1 ? ?????? ???A<.? ? Lumber, Lime, Cement, BUILDING MATERIAL GENERALLY AND FEED OF ALI. KINDS. Booth-Shuler Lumber &Suppiy Co. Successor* to Booth-tfarh} Live Stotk Co. and Centrwlp umltei Cn Geo. F^pporsorv's Old Stand Opp. Court Moun -