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THE UNION TIMES PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY By The UNION TIMES COMPANY TIMES BUILDING, MAIN STREET BELL PHONE NO 1. LEWIS M. IUCF. - - - Editor. Registered at the Postoffice in Union. S. C.. as second-class mail mat ter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $1.00 Six Months .50 Three Months .25 ADVERTISEMENTS: One square, first insertion $1 00 Every subsequent insertion .50 Contracts for three months or longer will be made at reduced rates. Legal Notices. The regular legal rates are charged for all notices published according to law, which rates are as follows: Matter to be set in 8 point, brevier solid type?first insertion, per inch 81.00; each subsequent insertion, per inch, 50 cents. Citation to Kindred and Creditors, 3 inches, 2 times, $4.50. Final Discharge, 1 3-4 inches, 4 times, $4.50. Administrator's or Executor's notices, 1 1-4 inches, 3 times, $2.50. Obituary notices, tributes of respect, resolutions and cards of thanks strictly one cent a word. FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1912. fUl.O.NKL LO.Mi'S LETTER. It has been the policy of The Times to open its columns to every man who comes with a message which he deems worthy of publication, no matter whether the article expressed the editor's ideas or opposed them. As to the article of Col. Long: We gladly publish it. It is our custom so to do. We published Mr. Lawson's piece for the same reason. We do not undertake defense of Mr. Lawson. We presume he is able to take care of himself. Anyway, he wrote. There was nothing offensive in language or sentiment in his article, regarded as a newspaper article, so we willingly published it. So did we publish, in the same issue, if we mistake not, an article from Mr. Suber. This latter article was the very opposite of our own convictions: vet. we Dublished it. willingly ?iid without comment. A newspaper whjch openg its columns to the public cannot stand sponsor for the views of its correspondents. Every man, with common sense knows that to be true. The writer has stood for law and order. This may be seen by Col. Long or anybody else who has read the editorials from week to week. Does he condemn us for that? Is he not the executor of the law in Union county? Instead of decrying such a position of an editor, the deputy sheriff of a county should stand foursquare for the enforcement of law. The humble writer has paid taxes for seventeen years in Union county for the protection that should be rendered by the officers of the law. Has Col. Long any kick coming on that score ? Most of the years lived by uiu t'unur in union county v,oi. JjOII); has been supported by the tax-money of the citizens of this county. We contributed our humble part to his support, and did it freely and willingly. Has he any grievance on that score? Be it said, furthermore, that no one has stood for the 'defence of the fair name of Union county" more strenuously than has the writer. We have unflinchingly called attention to conditions that were bad, when we honestly saw it in that light. We said, when the lawless element threatened to rob the county of her fair name that the trouble was caused by a mere handful of lawless spirits. We still believe that to be true. We believed then and now that the great bulk of the citizenship of Union county is made up of honest, lawabiding, God-fearing people. As to the jail being empty, that will be good news to every man and woman in the county who loves God and their fellow men. We haa thought that perhaps prohibition was a failure. Its enemies have frequently so stated. But Col. Long's communication gives us new hope. If this is the first time in a long while that the jail is empty, it's most assuredly a feather in prohibition's cap. Whether that be true or not, the writer certainly rejoices in the fact that the jail is without a tenant. We have never wished it to be full. Have never floated over its being full. Personally would not care if it were raised to the ground and the sheriff discharged. We understand that has happened in some of the Western states. If there should come a day when there is no further use for the jail and sheriff, no man will more gladly welcome that day than will the humble writer. But until that day, the sheriff, the deputy sheriff and every onicer 01 me law snouiu stand firmly, unflinchingly for the en fa"?" ment of the law. That's all we have advocated, and we are not ashamed of it. As to the articles printed which Col. Long thinks shock the "sweet, tender girls," we plead not guilty, in so far as The Times is concerned. We have sometimes allowed news items to go in that we felt were not conducive to holiness, but they were articles that the thinking people should read, and we feel sure that Col. Long's fears as to the harm done the little children are groundless fears. We are speaking for The Times, and The Times alone. The other papers have their own ideas and we give them the) same right to use their discretion, as we have and will continue to do. Let us see wherein the newspapers of Union have hurt business. Does the existence of evil hurt business or the publicity of the evil? If the publicity hurts does the unpublished evil thing help? Would the publication of conditions, say of Kraft and dishonesty hurt more than the existence of graft and dishonesty? Would there be any relief from the intolerable conditions of such a state of affairs, if such a state existed, were there never any publicity? We do not believe Union has been hurt in a business way by any publicity furnished by the newspapers of Union. They stand for good schools, for churches, for law and order, for moral decency, for honest citizenship, for fair and just courts, for upright clean manhood. Could standing for any of these things hurt the business of Union? We do not see how.- We have advocated good roads, rural schools, longer terms for Our schools, better agricultural methods and honesty in business. Can any of these ideas hurt Union's business? We do not see how. Moreover, we repoice to note that there is a better condition here than there was formerly. We believe the conditions have and are changing for the better. We take no especial credit to our own breast for the changing conditions. It is in the air. The publicity of the newspaper, cursed by the demagogue and the sinner against the law, is yet the mighty factor that is helping. Col. Long, like all wise givers of a feast, saves the best for the last. He charges that the imputation for lawlessness and things bad, were handed oui, uy a people wnu nave ueen imported here, so to speak. He further says: "We welcome all who come here, and help us to build, but we have no room for those who come here and try to tear down what our forefathers builded well." We hpve to understand that Col. Long is after The Times editor, for both Mr. Colton and Mr. Nicholson are natives of Union county. The writer pleads guilty to having been born in Barnwell county, but humbly asks at the hands of the officers of the law, the support of whom is in part borne by the imported man, a square deal. Your oath of office calls for that and your sense of honesty and fairness will not refuse to give it. Does seventeen years of residence g'ive a man no rights under the laws of Union county? Does being born in Barnwell county forever bar the man who seeks a home in Union county? If the writer comes and enters into the life of Un 1VS1I UlACd III UII1UII county, obeys the laws of Union county, is he yet to be regarded as an outcast? If the spirit of Col. Long is the spirit of every Union county man, there is little hope for the future of Union county. The writer v/as never in the Confederate war, but he contributed a father to that cause for four years. Neither father nor son ever asked an election to an office as a reward for the four years of faithful service in the Confederate army. The writer has elected to move to Union county and abide there till the hand of death closes in upon him. If he thought there were many men in this county who feel as does Col. Lon^, he would undertake to shake the dust of the county from his feet. But we do not believe he expresses the heart of the hnnpst. men thf n of i uo.lmi-n TIr>ir?r> county men whose life and ideeals are shaped by the character, and life of the world's greatest teacher. Which was Which? Pulsatilli?When George and I were married he increased his life insurance. Euphorbia?Huh! When Harry and I married he let his life insurance drop. (I'uzzle: Which was the rich girl?) ?Chicago Tribune. Advertised Letters. For the week ending Auf? 16: Susie Agncw, Mrs. Marion Brunson, J. D. Bailey, Eliza Beaty, Marv Betenbaugh, Sallie Carter, W. G. Griffin, D. C. Gist, Jr., Ix)uise I,. Gregory, Madison Gregory, W. R. Gregg, Beulah Gibson, Bill Hill, Fred Henry, Hester Horn, W. G. Hughe*, .1 i m .Innormon T/Jo Trtnoe Taa Ia1K? R. M. Jones, Ed Lawson, Mrs. Will Mize, Lillie B. E. Murph, Sam West, Berry Neal, Esther Horn, J. C. Pettit, C. R. Thomas, Bessie Sims, (2) Carrie Smith, Lula Wallace, Lucy Walker, L. W. Webber, Wm. Vinson, Anni Worthy. L. Ct. Y*" *** Pa-.tmast:-. ************ * SNAPSHOTS * ************ Call me early, mother dear, For this is Jones' election year. ?Gaffney Ledger. * * Senator Tillman says Blease has muddied the water. There is. no doubt about that?Greenville News. * * Somebody ought to ask Senator Tillman if he thinks Blease has made a good governor.?Greenville News. * * "What's in a name" will be fully answered by Jonesville's vote for Judge Jones on the 27th.?Gaffney Ledger. * * * It must be contagious. Ab Hill, the Blease candidate for solicitor, has called somebody a "malicious liar." ?Spartanburg Journal. * ? The Spartanburg Herald says that it is'unsafe to say anything except your prayers in a Spartanburg hotel room because of the possibility of the presence of a dictagraph.?Orangeburg Times and Democrat. * * During the campaign meeting at Spartanburg on Friday Blease badges were given out at an undertaking establishment. Js this a case of coming events casting their shadows before.?Orangeburg Times and Democrat. , It is significant that the real Blease badges were given out from an undertaking establishment. The coroner can hold the inquest over the political dead body on the morning of August 28.?Spartanburg Journal. * * Judge Jones at Spartanburg Friday made W. P. Beard, Esq., who accompanies Gov. Blease as a bodyguard, confess that he was armed. It is a bad state of affairs when the Governor of the State must travel around with an armed escort.?Chester Reporter. * * It is a hard matter to find a voter who voted against Blease before who is going to vote for him this time, but it is an easy matter to find men who voted for him two years ago who are opposing him now. This is the case all over the State and it means the defeat of Blease.?Orangeburg Times Democrat. * * One hundred per cent of the grafters are supporting Blease, as are also one hundred per cent of the law> less and one hundred per cent of thfl blind tiger element. Which side arm your on, that of law and order ' of lawlessness??Qaffney Ledger. / * * Governor Blease has voted for Judge Jones every time he has had a chance to do so. It must be evident, therefore, that the Judge was a good man, from the Blease point of view, until he became a candidate for Governor. ?Rock Hill HernlH. * * * Ninety-nine per cent of the preachers are supporting Judge Jones, as are also 95 per cent of the newspapers, 95 per cent of the doctors, 90 per cent of the lawyers, 90 per cent of the merchants and 90 per cent of the right thinking people who want law and order instead of lawlessness and anarchy.?Gaffney Ledger. * m * One of the party of personal 1 ?i.~: s menus anu lewincr^ Liuit is accompanying Gov. Blease over the State, ostensibly for the purpose of seeing that no physical harm befalls the chief magistrate, but in reality to lend as much appearance as possible to the claims of support that he is making, is P. H. Corley, formerly sheriff of Lexington county, but now special agent of the Southern Railway.?Chester Reporter * * * The Spartanburg Journal says:? "This is a free, country. A voter can go with the best people in the state and vote with them; or he can vote with all the scoundrels, pardoner convicts, grafters, gamblers, licentious degenerates and lawbreakers, if he desires. Let him choose his crowd and line up with them, lie ought not to be ashamd of his associates.?Chester Reporter. * Many persons profess to believe nothing they see in the newspapers, though the truth is they believe what they like, and it is only what they don't like that they assert thei;e is no truth in. In most states and communities the newspaper is regarded as an educational force of great value and importance. It is only in communities where the demagogue has got in his work and poisoned the minds of the people by arraying class against clasc that the newspaper is not regarded at its true value.?Chester Reporter. * Senator Tillman says now that his letter to J as. L.. Sims was not intended as a boost for the candidacy of Judge Jones. So much the finer and the bigger compliment. If Senator Tillman should try to dictate to the people whom to select for the next governor of South Carolina it would rf roscr/e:* hy a great ???-?i ?? A BIC In Men's If vnn nppf your boy, < save you r Big Reducl John B. SU 66 Just receii Silver Brai tonholes; t 25c. Coi MUTUAL r he is, hand8voff ir the race, paying to Judge Jones a: high a compliment as a man can re ceive from another. Senator Tillinai must think that it requires some man hood to he the governor of Soutl Carolina properly, for he has hel< the place himself. And yet, though neutral in thi: rate, he has the frankness and th< sincerity to say that Ira B. Jones i: eminently qualified for the place. I is even more of a compliment tha; if the senator w.ould say "for politics reasons I wish to see Ira B. Jonei elected governor." Instead of tha he says that from a political stand point he is disinterested, but as i citizen who loves his state he i: forced to say that Ira B. Jones is no guilty of the things alleged agains him by Blease and that the judge wh< has'served his state signally and wel is worthy to be the governor of this state. As we have said before, Senatoi Tillman's opinion of Judge Jones is of interest because it was being cir iui#ieu mui oiease was " unman: man."?Anderson Daily Mail. Kelton Dots. Kelton, S. C., Aug 13.?We had f fine rain last week which will dc much good. The weather has beer very cool for August and is hurtinj cotton very much, which is alreadj sorry. There is a good deal which i: vety good if the rains continue. There was a very interesting meet ng at Foster's chapel which closet last Thursday night, lasting some ter days. Rev. Maness did the preaching Several joined the church. A special meeting began at Mt. Joj church last Sunday and will continut all the week. Most of the white people of th< Ridge attended the State campaigr meeting at Union last Saturday. Th< meeting was an orderly one whicl was as it should have been. I am glad to know that our count] campaign meetings have been carriec on in a dignified manner. All prais< to our Union county candidates. Mr. Mack Page and his daughter Miss Bessie, of Wilksburg, Chestei county, visited their relatives anc friends on the Ridge last week. Mr Page went to the old home-plac< near Flat Rock church and dranl water from the old spring where h< used to drink in his child and boyhooc day's. It is very natural for a mar who has left the community for manj years, where he was born and reared when visiting that community, t< strole over the hills of his boyhooc ''rya. 5 REDUC1 i and Boys' 1 1 a suit for yo some to see us noney. [ion in Summer >tson $3.50 Hats 1 3.00 " /ed a shipment nd Collars, linoc hey don't tear c me to see u . DKY GQOI ;| Haile's, The Big Ussma i > 150 pairs of Ladii fords, (small sizes, ; their orders and n onee. ; $2.00 J ' We're Here to Your Shoe Ii HAIL L r The Leading Shoe ? MAIN STREET - - i ? 'ION I llothing urself or i; we can t Oxfords for $2.50 2.00 ? ! ii t of new ;ord but>uf; 2 for IS p.n iV VWI | Shoe Store March us* Fine Ox2 to 4,) have lust move at v EAD OF 50 AND $4.00 Think of iterest E'S House. UNION, S. C. ?