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Published Wednesday and Saturday ?BY? OSTEEN PUBLISHING COMPANY SUMTEE, S. C. Terms: $1.50 per annum?in advance. Advertisements. One Square lirst insertion .. . .$1.00 Every subsequent insertion.50 Contracts for three months, or longer will be made at reduced rates. All communications which sub serve private interests will be charged for as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respect will be charged for. The Sumter Watchman was found in 1850 and the True Southron in 1566. The Watchman and Southron now has the combined circulation and influence of both of the old papers, ahd is manifestly the best advertising medium in Sumter. To The Young Men of-America. - "How can I render the most valu able service to my country during the period, of the war?" Every young man over eighteen is asking himself this question. The War Department has just of fered a new answer to the question. They say: "Enter college if you are fitted to do so or return to college ?' j you already enrolled, and enlist in the: Student Army Training Corps. By enlisting in the Student Army Training Corps you will become a i member of the United States Army.! You will receive a uniform and be given military drill under officers de tailed by the war department. Dur ing the early part of your course you will receive ten hours of military in itrucri?n a week, six of which will be drill ? rifle practice and other outdoor training and four of which will be academic work, for which military credit is given, such as mathematics, Er-glish, foreign languages, history, ? science, etc. You will be carefully rated both by thes college authorities and by. the military officers who will help you to discover a special line of! military service for which you have the greatest capacity and preference. Later in your course you will have an opportunity to specialize in a branch of training designed to fit you to be come an officer of field artillery, med ical or engineer officer, an expert in some technical or scientific sen-ice, and so on. On reaching the age of twenty-one you must register with your local board. "You may remain in college until your call is reached under the selective service law. At that time it will be decided whether you will be called immediately to active service or whether you should remain in col lege to complete the course you are pursuing. The decision will depend upon the needs of the service and up on your achievements in your military rerk and in your studies as determin ed by the military officers and by the cWllege authorities. During the summer you vill have an opportunity to attend a summer campv-fox intensive military training. Your traveling expenses to and from camp will be paid and you will be on active duty under pay and subsistence by the War Department. As a member of the Student Army Training Corps you will be subject to call to active duty at any time in case of emergency. If you desire to en ter active service before completing} your college training, transfer to ac- j tive duty may be arranged through j military channels with the consent of j the military officers at the college and of the college officials. It will be the policy of the government, however, to allow you to remain in college until you reach the age of twenty-one, or until you complete your course/ Previously there have been two methods by which a young man might enter the* national service. He might either enlist voluntarily as a private in the army or seaman in the navy, or he might remain in civilian life un til called to active service the age of twenty-one under the selective ser vice law. The Student Army Training Corps represents a third method of entering the service which has special advantages for young men fitted to gn to college. For further information concerning the Student Army Training Corps ap ply to anv college which you desire to attend or to the Committee on Educa tion and Special Training. War De partment. Washington, D. C. CASUALTY LIST. Marines 292. 51 Killed: Army .">7u. 63 Killed. Washington, Aug. 7.?The marine casualty list totals 202. Killed in ac tion, 51; died of wounds. 2; wounded severely, 33: wounded, degree unde termined. 206: severely wouned Pri vate Alfred P. Homes .of Orlando, Fla., wounded, degree undetermined. Trumpeter George II. Saunders, o;' Orlando, Fla. Washington, Aug. 7.?Five army casualty lists were issued todi'.v to talling 579 name?:. Killed in action. 63; died of wounds. 7: died of acci dents. 2; died of disease, 1. Missing in action, 105; wouned severely, 23S; wounded, degree undetermined, 53; killed in action. Lieut. E'rank Mars^on of Pensacola. Fla.. Private Thomas P Cottinsham. of Dillon. S. C. Wounded severely. Corporal Richard C. Morri son, of Bishopville. S. C, Privates Willie Monroe. Charleston. S. C, Her man F.. Price, Columbia. S. C. Theo uore D Prowninc:. Daytona, Fla. Severely wounded. Private Frank P.. Collier, of Powesvido. S. C., Harry Turnipseed, of Hampton, Ca., Thomas W. Sharber, of Panama City. Fla. WIKF CONSOLIDATION PI AN N KD. Government Control of Telegraph and Telephones Will Eliminate Competition. Washington. Aug. 7.? Postmaster General Burleson announced today that one of the first efforts under gov ernment control of the telephones ami telegraph systems would probably the coordination and cosolidation <?< competing systems, wherever pos sible. 3IAYESVILLE HEALTH MEETJXG ! Campaign to Arouse Interest in Pub: lie Health and Sanitation. j The public health and community j meeting at Mayesvilie yesterday was j very satisfactory in that immediate [results were obtained, and the ladies j of thnt town took the hint and also j took the lead to organize that com ! nrunity for improving sanitary condi | tions, and the calling of a mass meet ; ing of the men and women with the j town council and board of health tc j pass certain sanitary ordinances. Mr. E. J. Reardon was the only j public health speaker and he covered j the subject of the public health condi j tions in that town fully, and pointed I out just what Mayesvilie, as a thick j ly settled incorporated community j needs to make that town a more de [ sirable place in which to live. He J told of the fly-proof sanitary surface j closet ? system that Sumter has in ! force in those sections of the city "wliere there is no sewerage system, and how the city health officer works to stamp out. mosquitoes, of disinfec tion of infected premises, and the ne cessity of reporting and disinfecting after communicable diseases, neces sary isolation or right quarantine of communicable diseases, etc^ The speaker also suggested that in the absence of any other community or ganization charged with the specific duties of civic improvement. that the Civic League and Home Demon stration Cittbs of that town, both hav ing practically the same membership, constitute a joint civic improvement > society which should be made the j forum from which may start any pub lic movement for the general gocu. ; and that the women of the commun ity take the lead in organizing the men for intensive sanitary improvements.; The ladies present by a rising vote! unanimously adopted the speaker's; suggestions and appointed a commit-! tee of five ladies to arrange for a pub- j lie health meeting at night and forj souring information from the State | health board regarding the sanitary system suggested, and other improve ments needed. The speaker empha sized the fact that Mayesvilie is not an abnormally unsanitary* community, but that in-some respec'-s it\ is aj comparatively clean and healthful j town, but that like all towns and j cities without sewerage systems *orj modern fly-proof surface closet sys- i terns the fly becomes a great source; or intermediate host for the mechan- { ical distribution of communicable dis-j eases, and that the unscreened kitch-j <*n and dining room means typhoid and j that mosquitoes entering homes mean malaria. The number of cases of j typhoid is the index to the sanitary j intelligence and culture of a com?! munity. It will soon be a disgrace.' to have typhoid in a family or com-1 munky, a reflection on the education-! ai and civic progress. The following committee of ar- j rangements was appointed by Mrs. IL I I! Grier, the president of the May es- j ville Home Demonstration Club toj carry out the ideas suggesed. Mrs. H.! Ja ..Thomas, .Miss- Alice. Cooper. ,M Willie Anderson, Mrs..-Rembert ;M&y Miss Mary Sue Anderson. Miss Alice Martin, assistant home; demonstration ag^nt was the next I speaker. She endorsed the idea that | the home demonstration club of ev- j ery com unity was or should be some thing more than a meeting place' where the members are instructed inj home economics and entertained by \ the demonstration agents, but that j the members of these clubs are vitally; interested in other home problems; besV?.s canning, presrving, and cook-; ing .ne sanitary surroundings of th-ii premises and the premises of their1 neighbors being vital home problem* i which should engage the time and i consideration of the local civic league | and home demonstration club. M: * Vnnie <>. Keels, the home' demhi..,c. tion agent, lectured on homej ecos..)mic&, and with Miss Martin gave; a very interesting demonstration in ' canning tomatoes, corn, okra and. beans, and Miss Keels very convinc- j ingiy and comprehensively showed the* connection between the individual or; family health and the public health, and demonstrated very clearly that neglect of proper hygienic conditions j in just one home might lead to a j spread of communicable disease in a : community. Wholesome and clean; cooking, protection of foods and milk.) against contamination with diseases bearing bacteria through the inter mediate host, the fly. is a public as well as a family necessity. GEN. FOCH HONORED. French Ministers Make Him Marshal of France. , Pans, Aug. 0 (Havas).?The coun cil of ministers his elevated Gen. Ferdinand Foch, commander in chiei of the Allied forces on the western freut, to a marshal of France. The ministers al?o have conferre I the military medal on General Retain, commander in chief of the French armies on the Westert: front. President Poihcare presided at the meeting of the council. In presenting the name of General Foch. Premier Cie^ienceau said: "At the hour when the enemy, by n remarkable offensive on a front of 100 kilometres, counted on snatching the decision and imposing a German peace upon us. General Foch ami his admirable troops vanquished him. "Paris is not in danger, Soissons and Chateau-Thierry* have been re conquered and more than 2'di villages have been delivered. 35.0.00 prisoners and Too cannon have been captured and the enemy's high hopes before the attack have been crushed. The glori ous allied armies have thrown him from the banks of the Maine to tin Aisne. Such are the results of th< high command's strategy, superbly ex ecuted by incomparble commanders. The confidence place,] by the republi? and by all the Allies in the conquer or of St. Gcnd. the Yser and th? Somrne has been fully justified." Tin- awarding of the "medaille mili tarie" to General Petain is a distinc tion rarely given 1<> officers, the deco ration generally, being reserved for enlisted men. Marshal .Toffre is on" of the few officers who have received this honor. j STATE SMITES Jp. i ? j CROWD TH AT FILLED COURT ROXSE SITS THROUGH / MORE THAN FOUR HOURS OF POLITI CAL ORATORY. _i i - j In AH the Speeches the Dominant Note i Was the Great War and Loyalty? j The Candidates for Governor Were the Last Speakers on the Program and Cooper the Das* of The Guber natorial Candidates Which Held! the Crowd to the Close. i I -I ! The campaign meeting forf'candi : dates for Suite offices was held in thej : Court House today, beginning at 10.30 j o'clock, with a crowd of probably one 'hundred and fifty, which gradually ?increased until every seat was idled ' and many were standing around the j walls and in the doors?the maxi j mum number approximating six hun j dred. a large majority of whom re | mained until the close of the meeting i to hear R. A. Cooper, who was the j last of the candidates for governor! ; to speak. ! The audience was one of the most j representative of all sections of Sum i ter county that has attended a politi j cal meeting in recent years, represen ] tative citizens of practically every : neighborhood of the county being ; noted in the crowd. It was an atten tive and generally undemonstrative j crowd, although several of the candi dates were occasionally applauded ;quite enthusiastically when they made! fa telling point. The only speakers to j be received with general applause ! when they were introduced w ere State Superintendent of Education and Mr. j 11. A. Cooper, and these gentlemen, j especially Mr. Cooper, were given ! quite an ovation. Mr. ? DesGhamps, j th? fat, hallelujah comedian of the gubernatorial quintette. provoked frequent outbursts of laughter and ap plause by his revival style of/oratory and comical stunts. And Mr. trdhn T. Duncan, the everlasting candidate and publicity agent for the System.'which j he alleges dominates Columbia and dictates politics and finance In South Carolina, divided honors' with Mr. DesChamps as the headliner -in the vaudeville feature of the meeting. He is as solemn and apparently ?s. dead ly in earnest as his undertaker"? countenance indicated, although, oc casionally, a. sardonic twinkle in the eye as he related the high crimes and misdemeanors of the System and 'its puppets in office, gave evidence that he was inwardly chucking qver the joke he was pulling off on -the rea' office seekers in the campaign circus. Duncan is the veteran performer on the South Carolina political circuit, all who attend the meetings, know him by sight and he was greeted with applause when he was introduced. His sarcastic thrusts at the otheif candi dates and the dark-closet revelations of the machinations of the njead-dev ils of the System?the Old feoss, W. A. Clark, and the Long Gre&n Boss, Ed Robinson, caused laughte?a^nd ap plause. If Duncan ever diesjjr. drops out* of the campaign circii^ ' South Carolina will have lost her most pe culiar and amusing political humorist. Mr. Richards was intensely in earn est and desperately eager to con vince the crowd that he was and has V>een loyal and patriotic, but at the same time studiously avoided any ref erence to his alliance with Blease and his inferential endorsement of the Filbert and Pomaria disloyal, utter ances of his factional high priest. In closing he made a really. pathetk and feeling reference fo h.is only son who volunteered for service at the first calland now wears the. uniform of his country, and it could be seen that he was deeply moved and felt every word he uttered?but he never once said that he would feel that if that dearly beloved son . should give I his life in proof of his patriotism and i loyalty, it would be an unwarranted sacrifice of fresh young manhood, in the sight of Almighty Cod; or that his blood would be on the hands or Woodrow Wilson and the members of congress who voted to declare a state (A war, as Cole L. Blease assorted at Pomaria four months after the war [ was declared and later reiterated at I other places in his disloyal efforts to i stir up strife in South Carolina. No j one could see and hear Mr .Richards j and question his personal loyalty a1 : this time, but he does not explain j how he reconciles his personal sen , timenls of absolute loyalty and his po ! litical support of Cole L. Blease. It is j best explained by the old adage that J politics make strange bedfellows. Mr. j Richards' speech in the main was a j repetition of speeches at other places i duri *g the campaign. He nromised ! to reduce taxes, even pledging him j self to veto -appropriations for the i support of departments of the gov ernment if he could not accomplish j . his purpose by other means. | Mr. Rethen related his olfice hold-l ! ing record from the time he became j private secretary of Gov. Ansel, then I Code Commissioner and Lieutenant I Covernor. The remainder of his I eighteen minutes he devoted to a pa j triotic speeh. the exposure of Blease's. j disloyal utterances, and Mr. Richards' alliance wih Blease. and he did i* ; well, having the facts and records at I his tongue's end. He said that Mr. ? Richards never admitted being a ? Bleaseite?he called himself a Uo ; form?"-, being ashamed to call himself ia Bleaseite?even Blease himself hav I ing reached the same stage, beim: [ashamed to be known .-is a r;1ease:t;\ Mi-. Cooper said at this time ther'* j was but one paramount issue, the war. and in this he differed radically [?from Mr. Richards who declared th: f I the war was not an issue in this cam ; paign. Tin- war and Iovalty to the i government and to American ideals ? is the issue and until tin- war is won lit is the foremost duty of every man to subordinate all other interests t< i this < ne issue. As to taxes he as ? sorted thai he had never said that In ; was in favor of high taxes; what he : had said was thai he was in favor of : efficienl igovernment and that this I could not be obtained under war eon ditions by lowering t*vxes. He favors ? low taxes as possible with efficient [ and progressive government. Fte I fering to Hip ha oil of office se"':er? |. promising lower taxes; as Mr. Itich ards is now promising, he said*that all j recollect that Cole L. Blease had j made extravagant promises of the i great tax reduction that he would make: but few kepi in mind the re sult of this promise?Blease increas ed luxes ?400,000 per annum be tween the year lie became governor and ihe year lie went out of office. Mr. Richards also talked about tax reduction, promising great reductions if elected governor; but it is a matter of record that Mr. Richards, as Rail road Commissioner had sought and obtained an increase in the expense account of that department of the State government of 3i> per cent dur ing his term of office. Perhaps this increase was necessary for the efli cient administration of the office, but it did not measure four square with Mr. Richards professed belief that expenses should be reduced and taxes lowered. He briefly explained his plan of substituting a Joan fund to aid young men and women to obtain an educa tion in place of free scholarships. He stood for the best and widest possible system of education in the State. In conclusion Mr. Cooper said that he did not ask any man to vote for him ?what he did ask was that they vote for the man the people believed best i suited to fill the office during this; time of stress, trial and great events. He pledged himself to enforce the law! without favor, and no man should vote for him in the hope or expec tation that if he got into trouble by: breaking the law he would receive fa vored treatment. He would never pardon or parole a convict unless he was convinced that justice would be served by so doing. An experience of twelve years as solicitor had convinc ed him that mistakes are sometimes made, and that on rare occasions jus tice demands that the verdicts of juries be reviewed, but otherwise the! aw should take its course, and he wculd never interfere' with the just and orderly enforcement of the law. Th^ speches of the candidates for the other State offices were all more or less interesting, especially those ofj the candidates for Superintendent of Education and Attorney General, and mention of these speeches will be made tomorrow. The interest in the speeches of the candidates for minor State oriices was not very much less Tuesday than that evinced in the longer addresses made by the candidates for governor. All the secondary candidates were limit ed to eight minutes, while the candi dates for governor were given eight een minutes to tell the voters why they should be chosen as chief execu tive officer of the State. The candidates for Commissioned of Agriculture were the first on the programme, Mr. B. Harris, of Pendle ton opening the ball. Mr. Harris is weil known throughout the State as the result of his connection with the Farmers' Union, which he was largely j instrumental in organizing in this State. He stated v'nat he considered his qualifications for the office, princi pally his success as z. diversified farm er, as an advocate of co-operation and now as the apostle of what he declares to be the salvation of farm ing as a profitable branch- - of indusr try?commercial agriculture, which means business-ltke methods of marketing by means of organization and cooperation. Mr. 3EL T. Morrison, of Charleston county, has been a farmer all his life and had never sought public office. His record as a progressive farmer had! resulted in his election as the presi dent of the Sea Island Cotton Associa tion and the offer of the presidency of a cotton warehouse company at Savannah, which he declined, as he did not care to leave the State. He advocates the drainage and improve ment of the rich lands of the coastal counties under federal supervision, which lands should be subdivided into farms to provide homes for the sol-j diers when they return from JYance. i Mr. W. D. Garrison, of I yrchester, formerly of Anderson, said he was reared in Anderson, educated at Clem son and for a number of years had been engaged in experimental farm work under Clemson College in the low country. That he had demon strated that the craw-fish land of the coastal plain, worth unimproved about a dollar an acre, could be made to produce fifty to seventy bushels corn an acre, and that by proper sanitary measures a man could enjoy perfect health in that section. He considers that his education and experience, his knowledge of all sections of the State peculiarly St him to efficiently admin ister the office he seeks. The candidates for Railroad C ? i missioner came next, with Dr. J. Mel.auchlin. of Calhouh first making his bow. He delivered the only finished and well polished oration of the day. it was a well executed literary produc tion and it was delivered with consid erable elocutionary ability. In the course of the address Dr. MCLauchlih said he was especially well fitted for the office, that he could teach railroad ing to another of the candidates who claimed to have twenty-five years ex pedience in railroad building, and that he had the business knowledge and ex perience as well as the desire to serve the people. Mr. A. A. Richardson, of Aiken. formerly Chief Game Warden, and storm center of the wrangle over that office, said his record of efficiency in that office which he had raised from an expense to the State of approxi mately nineteen hundred dollars a year to an income producer of $35.000 was evidence that he hud adminis trative ability. He admitted that the j Biles game law had enable.1 him to I increase the income of the office, I which had not been possible there j to fore, but claims that he was the au thor of the Jaw. The nex1 spea" r. I Mr. !>. I,. Smith, of Colleton called attention tc the fact that Mr. Rich ardson's successor in office had con dueled the office nruch more economi cally as to operating expenses and that he bad, produced a large gross in con ?? also. Mr. Smith gave his rec ord ns an office holder, showing the confidence the peop'e of his home had in him. He review -d his public services and gave his reasons for be lieving that In- was the best equipped nan in the race for the office, He advised Ihe voters to consider the can didafes carofullj and to vote for the best nein. Mr. J. T. Vowel, snid he had twenty-five years* experience back oi him as a railroad builder and had the qualifications that Iiis oppo nents Lacked tor discharging the du ties of the office efficiently and intel-j j Iigentiy. Mr. J. T. Arnold of Spar tanburg, said he was a farmer, but! I had represented his county In the leg- i ; islature for six years and he would! refer the people of Sumter to any of the men in this county who had serv ed with him. He briefly reviewed his' business experience and .qave his rea-' sons l or the con lid' nee that he could be of real service to the public as Kail road Commissioner. He said that the issue of Bleaseism had been raised and that all he had to say on the sub ject was that his commission as no tary public had been revoked by Gov. i'lease and P it when he applied for and received a new commission a few months later, so that he might be of service to his neighbors in the com munity this commission was revoked within a brief time by Gov. Blease. without cause. The Lieutenant Governor came next. Mr. J. T. Liles, of Orangeburg, made a vigorous speech, dealing principally with his long and active service in the legislature, mentioning a number of the important measures that he had introduced and had been largely instrumental in having enact ed, not the least of which was the State Warehouse law, which its au thor, had publicly stated could not have been passed save for the assist ance given by Mr. Liles. In conclud ing Mr. Liles said he had one final word to say to the people of Sumter county: "Don't vote for me under the delusion that I am a Bleaseite. I| have heard that it has been reported around that I am a . Bleaseite, and this I consider the - meanist slander that has ever been uttered against me. I am not and have never beer a Bleaseite. A priceless heritage that I leave to my children is that I have never been a Bleaseite." He was ap plauded to the echo as he took his seat. He said that he earnestly urged loyal citizens to vote against any man who has a question mark against him as to loyalty to America and Wood row Wilson. Mr. G. W. """ritman, of Saluda, the other candidate for the same office was as mad as a wet hen when he began speaking and the longer he spoke the madder he got until his face was distorted with pas sion and his lips were foam-flecked. The cause of his anger was evidently the enthusiastic reception given Mr. Liles' loyal and anti-Blease declara tions. Mr. Whitman said he is and had always been a reformer, and that his loyalty has never been and could not be questioned. He spoke vehe-1 iffnently of his record in the senate and reviewed his consistent stand for economy in governmental aifairs. Chairman Clifton announced that the third candidate for the office of Lieutenant Governor, Mr. Octavus Cohen, was unavoidably absent and he made this statement at, Jhe request of other candidates, although he had received no communication from Mr. Cohen. Mr. Victor E. Hector, of Darlington, was the first of the candidates for Superintendent of Education to speak,. He made practically the same speech that he made twice in Sumter in the spring during the educational cam paign then conducted under the aus pices of the University of South Caro lina, in which he holds the chair of professor of agriculture. Mr. Rector looks and talks like a misanthropic dyspeptic, possessed and dominated by an embittered and soured oujtlook on life. He finds nothing good in the educational system of South Carolina and no hope in the outlook. Every thing must be torn down and a new heaven and a new earth, educationally, constructed before there can be a dawn of salvation. He gave his usual illiteracy statictics and related his ex perience in the Philippines, where he was refused a professorship in the Normal School because he was not equipped to teach agriculture, cook ing and sewing, although he was the proud possessor of three diplomas and special certificate for literary attain ments. It was evident that he had a higher esteem for' the Philippine educational authorities for turning him down than for those of his native State and its university which had giv en him a job as professor. State Su perintendent of Education J. E. Swearingen, who has served ten years and is seeking re-election on his rec ord of achievement and despite the mistakes that he admits that he has made and is trying to remedy with all the earnestness and energy that he possesses, was greeted with enthus iastic applause when he was intro duced. Mr. Swearingen lit right into Mr. Rector. He said that he had recommended Mr. Rector for the place in the University, because he believed he was a worker, but time had prov en that this was one of his mistakes, for Mr. Rector put in only eight hours a week. That Mr. Rector had been ' engaged to teach agriculture, that he had made up his own course and what do we find: he is teaching English Gramar two hours a week, public speaking two hours a week, Rufal Sociology two hours a week and ag riculture two hours, and then he com plains about work. He thought Rec tor was a man who would realize and develop an opportunity, that he had a work before him that would require at least three or four years in which I to obtain results and he seems to have \ become sick of his job or was I sickened by the realiaztion that i he could not make it go. Mr. i Swearingen reviewed his record in of j lice and told of some of the develop ments and improvements in the edu cational system that had been brought about during his term of ser I vice, through his efforts in coopera tion with the intelligent friends of popular education. Wh,en Mr. Swear ingen concluded Mr. Rector asked for ja minute to reply which was granted. He reiterated seme of the statements i previously made and objected stren j uously to the assertion that he was not. ! working Mr. Swearingen retorted in 'about the same strain as he had de veloped in his speech. The candidates for Attorney Gener , al. three in number, spoke next. first Mr. lb P. Searson of Darn well, who told of his sixteen years as an attor ney in general practice, and six years scervice in the legislature. He said he was an administration man and was heartily in favor of the war policy of President Wilson. He was not and bad never been a Bleaseite I for "I certainly do care what sort of I America we have- when I am dead and gone, lor 1 have some consideration for my sons and your sons, and hope to leave them a free America and not a province of the Kaiser." I also bit terly resent any man going around the State sneering at the six Manning boys who are wearing the uniform of my country and defending it against German autocracy. Every man should resent such sneers if he has any respect for any of the boys in uniform,, some of whom have already laid down their lives on the field of battle. Mr. S. M. Wolfe, of Anderson, said he was a graduate of Furmah Uni versity, had taught school three years, attended the Law* School of the South Carolina University and had practic ed law at Anderson for ton years, had been honored by his associates by election as president of the Anderson Bar Association. That he had ex perience in all the cot.. *.; of the State and in the Federal courts and felt that he was equipped to represent the State. As to his stand in State polities he felt that he need only state that he had three times been a candi date for the legislature in Anderson county and had bven defeated each time because he would not declare himself a supporter of Cole L; Blease. Mr. Wolfe is a pleasant, for cible a*~.d attractive speaker "and has a most attractive personality. Mr. Claudel M. Snpp. at present Assistant Attorney General, hails from Lancas ter, lie related his experience as a lawyer, as a legislator and as 'Assist ant Attornev General. He said this was no time for discussion of isms and ites, that this country is* at war and everv; good citizen should give to his country his best efforts and his most loyal service. That he was no eleventh hour convert to the belief that this country should link hands with the Entente powers in the strug gle to make the world safe for 'de mocracy?that two years ago he was of this opinion and was on record of having so declared when others were too weak-kneed to come out.- He ask- . ed election on merit and was not hanging on to the coattails Of any other man. Mr. Sapp's efforts and his vigorus declaration of his long standing loyalty to the Wilson war policy was quite pointed in view of the fact that he is the candidate slated on the Please ticket, arid is it. lino for the solid Please supoorf. Ho***/ he and Blease and the Bleaseites will reconcile his views on loyalty and those entertained by Blease announc ed at Pomaria and reiterated at other places, recently at York where Blease said he'had nothing to take back or . apologize for is a problem that they must solve. Mr. Kapp is a -first class stump speaker and if his declarations are not analyzed too closely'and a.rei not compared with his support of Please he will get away with it quite nicely, for he is a plausible and con vincing special pleader. ? - SHOOTS RXSPAXD TO DEATH. Mrs. Lizzie Blackwood Charged With Kroner John, B\ackwoW' of Clover Tuesday Morning. . . .. York, ? Aug. ? 6.?Robert .Blackrw?l>a~ aged 35, mill operative of Clover, was shot and instantly killed at ,6 .o'clock this morning by his wife, Lizzie Blackwood, aged 2C. The bullet was iired from a 38 calibre revolver and penetrated the heart. An inquest was held by Coroner McManus, following which Mrs. Blackwood was .commit-1 ,ted to jail. Her version of the affair is that, during a dispute her husband snapped the pistol at her and when she got possesion of it a few seconds later she snapped it at him, not thinking it would fire. She claims the pistol was not cosidered dangerous, as it would seldom explode. Mrs. Klackwood has one child, aged two years. COTTON PRICES TUMBLE. Break of Five Dollars a Bale Shortly Before Xoon. New York, Aug. 7.?Cotton prices broke today. Shortly before noon cot ton sold for five dollars a bale under In st night's price. The break was due to more favorable advices. LAKE CHARLES DEVASTATED. Great Storm Sweeps Through LonUt iaiia Town?Ten Persons Killed. Lafayette, La.. A.ug. 7.?The tropi cal storm whioh hit the Louisiana coast' yesterday afternoon wrought havoc at Lake Charles and vicinity. Ten persons are reported killed. The property damage is .estimated at more than a million dollars. Hardly a building in Lake Charles escaped damage. ::::;:;:::;:;::;3g We Grind Lenses, examine the eyes scientifically and fit eye glasses perfectly. Let us work for you. We have all prescriptions on file. Broken lenses replac ed promptly. Graduate Opto metrist and Optician in char*fe. : W. A. Thompson, I JEW ELK & OPTOMETRIST. ???????? .....?.-........... -