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CORN CLUB RALLY DAY. May 30 is to be rally day for the Boys' Corn Club members and the Girls' Tomato Club members. The rally will be held in the high school auditorium. An interesting program has been arranged, and this splendid work will receive additional emphasis. There is no way to accurately measure the great work being done in these movements. The results are far-reaching and will show more and more in the future. Let all those interested in the clubs be sure and attend the meeting May 30. CHAUTAUQUA FOR UNION. 1 The movement to secure a week's 1 Chautauqua for Union was brought j to a successful issue some time ago; ( but the exact date date has not been t announced. It is probable that it will < begin on July 6 and continue one week. Definite announcement of the date will be made in a few days. The ^ attractions for the week will be of a j .. high order^ and_?bejjfty_ citwwyi&.wbo,. j by their pledges, made it possible to a secure this course of entertainment, ( are to be commended for their public | spirit and their enterprise. The Cha- t tauqua will be of great interest and will be very helpful. ? ====== ? LADIES. TAKE NOTICE. 1 c On Saturday the rest rooms provided by the chamber of commerce ? will be opened to the ladies. These v rooms are centrally located, in the n Citizens National bank building, and r it is hoped that th? rooms will be used ? freely by all visiting ladies. To <; come to town for a day's shopping y and have no place lit which to resC, c makes it quite trying on the ladies, n These rooms will fill a long felt want, and should prove of real help. One ^ splendid feature is this: Ladies coming to town with small children May t leave them in charge of d responsi- n ble maid, and this will prove of great t help to the mothers coming to town. p a THE SPIRIT OF COOPERATION. J The building of a city is a big * undertaking, and requires more than c mere money. Money there must o be, to be sure, but money must s be strengthened by the spirit of co- ? operation. Our citizenship as a whols a must be behind any real advance- j ment. The spirit of loyalty to one's community is embraced in the spirit ? of cooperation. What one citizen de- x .-ires should be desired by all. When one citizen undertakes some forward r movement he should have the support t of all. The petty aims, spites and 8 ambitions should be put aside. There j is no escape from the law that holds j a community in its strong embrace, i We stand or fall together. We are 1 one people and we\annot prosper un- 1 less we are a united people. The re- j cent primary gives occasion for re- , murns aiong mis line. Some met de- t feat, some were chosen. Perhaps I your favorite candidate was not chos- \ en. Perhaps you felt, as one of the J defeated candidates, the sting of de- ^ feat. Forget it. After all, the very < man who voted against you is as good < a friend as you have. Somebody had ' to be voted against. Some candidates ( had to be defeated. It means noth- \ ing to a man's discredit that he is de- 1 feated in a political race. Pet's for- 1 get that we have had a campaign; ' and let each man pull for Union and her advancement. I 1 lie pupils of the High school who took part in the play, "Setter Than Hold," acquitted themselves in a most creditable manner. They are to be , congratulated upon their good work. IEFORM IN PRIMARY MUST COME AT ONCE. democrats of South Carolina in County Conventions Have Made Their Demand. To the Editor of The State: The Democrats of South Carolina lave spoken, and in no uncertain ;erms, for a purer primary election, ttow best to accomplish that result ,vill be the task of the State convention. I will say in the outset that jersonally I am in favor of the same estrictions beinp: thrown around the primary that pertain to the general ;lection. But from the expressions of :he vaious county conventions I do lot believe that a measure of that wind can be carried in the State contention. So far as that restriction mtting any man out of the ripht to r/-v+ if 1 o r* 11 A ?? ? ruw IO an WUOII. Ail)fUUUy tail Rt'l i registration certificate if his skin is white. It only shuts out those who ire not residents of the State and who dodge their taxes, and those kind if people, I make bold to say, should not be allowed to vote under any conditions. But a great many people who are in favor of reform in the primary are timid, and do not care to take a deeded stand. That is the great trouble with political conditions in South Car>lina today. The candidates are ifraid of offending some one, and lence they hesitate to take a decided >tand on any question. But it is a condition, and not a ;heory, that confronts the party toiay. Recognizing that condition, I ixpect to offer certain amendments ;o the constitution and rules of the jarty at the State convention on the JOth inst. that will tend to reform lie primary, eliminate fraud to some ixtent, at least, and yet not arouse ;he fears of the more timid among >ur leaders. My plan, in Substance, is this: Amend the rules so as to allow one lelegate to the county convention !ropi each 25 votes cast at the first ^receding election of two years be. fractional majority of 25 mtes, and make the polling list of the ilub at said primary election conclusive proof of the number of delegates he club is entitled to in the county onvention. We thus start right, and on a sane md safe basis, and one which will idmit of no mistake, and absolutely ceep down any cry of fraud in the ounty convention. Amend the constitution so as to re|uire that every man shall join one lub and one only in the township in vhich he lives, and that he shall nake written application to the secetary of his local club for memberhip in the club, stating his age and he length of his residence in the Itate and county, which shall be one Cftt in the State and 60 days in the ounty before thP ?f h's enrollnent on the club list, . Require the secretary to make an lphabOtlcal list of said names and lie the same with the county, chairnan SO days previous to the date of he election. That the county chairnan shall then, within ten days, call he county executive committee torether to revise the rolls, strike off ill duplicate names, and the names if all voters known to have died beween the time of enrolling and the ime of the revision, and that five I O vro Kof A I V> AL - ? - -?1 ? u.t o me cictnuii me couniy hairman shall deliver a certified copy if said club roll, so revised, as aforeaid, to the chairman of the manners, which list shall constitute the egistry list, and no person shall be' illowed to vote at any club where he s not enrolled on said club list. Then require the managers to take in oath to allow no man to vote vhose name does not appear on the egistry list, and require them to file ill ballot boxes, poll lists, oaths of nanagers and the registry list with he county chairman within 48 hours ifter the election. With these restrictions, which no lonest man ought to object to. I be. ieve that we can get a fair election uid eliminate fraudulent voting, and [ think that is the only object any of is should seek to accomplish. I hope ,he members of the convention will .hink of these things and that they ,vill go to Columbia prepared to stay here until fair elections are assured. Unless the convention rises to the oc .m.m>n onu iciurms me primary, men t is doomed. In South Carolina we lave rendered an almost slavish demotion to the party, hut such a state >f affairs will not he indefinitely coninued, and unless the primary is reformed then the primary will be abanloned. Those who believe that the iresent plan is good enough will be eft to run their own primary, for the mass of the people demand, and will lave, a fair election and an honest *ount. Wm. N. Graydon, Delegate from Abbeville. LABORER FINDS $150 GEM IN HIS TOBACCO^ Sussex, N. J., May 13.?Edward Casterlin, a laborer, chewing tobacco, ffruck something hard It was a diamond worth $150. 1^44^44^4 4^4 4^4 A^A. A^V 4^4 fy "^" "A" A" A" Ta" "AV "A" | The i Girl I Y i' | Who I | Offers ? X !iov frionrl enmo n-f ah? ^ X x 1V11U OV/IUW UA UU1 received the night before t it surely is a sacrifice t candy. Our chocolates a They have a flavor and i Each one is a temptatio the box is empty. And t in the memory. If you 1 | MILHOUS | THE REXd A^4 Let Us Not Deceive Ourselves. Stripped of the four-ply tommyrot in wnicn u is encasea, wnat floes all this insistence that "no white man be prevented from voting in the primary" mean? It means, if it means anything, that South Carolina favors the perpetuation of ignorance, or illiterary, as a factor in politics. Nearly twenty years ago we adopted a constitution requiring that after a period of two years had elapsed after January 1, 1898) whi,te njf/i should be prevented from votWpti# les they should be'able to read and write or unless they paid taxes on $300 worth of property. There was no necessity for placing that requirement in the constitution unless the people wished to make reading and writing a qualification for suffrage. Meanwhile the primary is the general election?though it was not the real election before the constitutional convention met in 1895. Both in the elections of 1914 and 1890 prominent white Democrats were candidates for governor in the general election against the regular Democratic nominees. The conetitui tion makers did not then regard the primary as necessarily the deciding election. 1 Year after year, the primary be came more and more the real election , and, in time, we drifted into the attitude of favoring the repeal of the ( constitutional suffrage qualifiacations, ' 1 so far as the white men are concerned | by admitting illiterates to the prii mary. '!he constitution makers of 1895 j intended to remove illiteracy from the State by making illiteracy a qualification for suffrage after 1898. Now The State, at this time ;.3 urging only that the primary be made a fair and honest one, and the admission of illiterates is not irreconcilable with that aim in view. But let us not deceive ourselves. To see that no white men are excluded from the primary is to invite illiterates to participate in the primary and that is not merely to be kind to those who are now of age and illiterate but to encourage the idea that white youths and boys growing up may safely remain illiterate. The position that is being taken by many Democrats is a repudiation of the constitution made by Democrats of all factions and shades of political complexion in 1895; it is nullification and betrayal of it in respect of its principal work agreed upon with practical unanimity by all its white lycmuciuuc memoers, il is to apologize for our own handiwork and to spit upon it. The constitution makers in 1895 deliberately and with great care framed a plan to eliminate white illiteracy from the State. Now numbers of white Democrats deliberately advocate a plan to encourage aud perpetuate white illiteracy in the State. At the same time this latter plan works to the steady and rapid elimination of negro illiteracy from the State. Let us keep illiteracy in the primary if from weak Rood nature we so wish or if we lack the grit to expel it, but don't let us fool ourselves inn. the belief that we are doing something handsome or generous or kind or patriotic. Let us look the naked fact in the face that we are promoting the rearing of another generation of illiterates?that we arc helping to injure and handicap many thousands of white lads now growing up in South; s I Blact H \ 1 The f. f. d alley ( A^A j^A Aj>^4 4^4 4^4 4^4 chocolates that she has V J is indeed generous. For V o give up such delicious ire not the ordinary kind, i smoothness all their own. #i4 n to "just one more" till j>4 he flavor lingers lovingly )uy it from JL DRUG CO. I LLL STORE X v V . J^k Carolina. While we are giving the illiterate negro the most powerful of incentives to send his pickaninnies to school!? Thursday's State. WILSON SURE NOW HUERTA MUST GO Washington, May 13.?The Mexican gunboats Bravo and Zaragoza Have come out of the river and anchored near the ' United States ships off Tampico, ?'says a dispatch from Admiral Mayo, relayed by Admiral Badger, in Vera Cruz. It is believed in the navy de> partment that Tampico has fallen. Washington, May 13?Huerta must go. President Wilson is determined that the dictator must be eliminated from the Mexican situation. He has taken that position ever since the Mexican crisis arose, and his opinion has been strengthened, it became known today, as a result of the information given him by Charge d'Aflfaires O'Shaughnessy at their conference last night. That drastic action will be taken by Secretary of War Garrison if it should be clearly proven that Orderly Samuel Parks, of the Twenty-eighth Infantry, had been ruthlessly murdered and tortured by Mexican soldiers near Tejeria was indicated today by Mr. Garrison. Nq action will be taken, however, until an Investigation now being made clearly proves . that Parks was not in the wrong in " going into the enemy's line "If polite, decent measures fail," Mr. Garrison said, "then we will take the next step. If he was tortured, it was an act of barbarism whether war was on or not." No Vessels to Tampico. "Unless American lives are jeopardized or Americans or foreigners murdered, no American warships will proceed to Tampico," said Secretary of the Navy I)pniels today. The fact that the oil wells in the Tampico section are in danger because of the presence of Constitutionalists and Federals in that neighborhood will not alter the determination of the Administration to take no step that will appear to be a violation of the truce with Huerta. Card of Thanks. We desire to express our sincere thanks to the many friends who minister to us in our affliction in the last illness and death of our little child. Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Hall. ( age to Be Orator. Chester, May 13.?Justice George W. Gage of the State supreme court, who lives in Chester, will deliver the oration at the laying of the cornerstone of the new court house building at Yorkville on June 3. In Time of Drought. Wigg?Guzzler always makes me laugh when he hints for a drink. Wagg?Yes, I have frequently noticed his dry humor.?Philadelphia Record. How Trouble's Hatched. "Papa, where do jailbirds come from ?" "They are raised by larks, bats and swallows, my son."?The Living Church. If you want dry weather, lay some thing aside for a rainy day. POLISH^ c?Tan?White 1 Ap L :o.. Ltd.. Buffalo. N. y., Hamilton. Out. f Cqi/ Tmnn/lolll I jaj ii iu(U3i Don't You Like a Store Where They're Getting in New Goods all the Time? ! | Where reliability of goods is assured. Where they treat you the same when you do not buy as when you do. Where they're sincere in making recommendations to you. / Where they are always glad to make exchanges, either for different goods or refunded cash. Where they know "what's what" in style. Where they keep stocks cleared of old goods. Where you know that your money always purchases full value. Yes, we know you like that kind of a store, and we're striving our level best every hour of every day to make this store exactly that kind of a store. We invite evervhodv tn I - J ~ ~?J vw V | call and let us prove what J we say. ' Our specialties are: Interwoven Socks, Barker Brand Pure Linen Collars, Stetson Hats and "Alco" Clothes. Our "Alco" Suit at $ 15.00 is far ahead of any other suit for as much as $ 18.00. Union Clothing Co. I D. W. MULLINAX, Mgr. TK0,EiveP JVo. T e La,est IVlodel 1914 Many marked improvements. Call and let us show you the machine itself. We carry them in stock. Terms Reasonable ~ The Union Times