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( ttf jglfftUi *&? fto I Entered at the Postoffict :+ Vnw- | ferry, S. C., as 2nd class matter. E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Friday, July 19, 1?12. Street paving is now the order of the day in Newberry. Fine business. The senatorial campaign seems to hp nomnletelv overshadowed by the State campaign and collateral matters. It will not be long now until the price of cotton will be claiming the almost undivided attention of South The flowers have been especially beautiful in Newberry this summer. . Newberry is the fairest and best place in- the world, anyway. -what thp dif?taerflnh misht ?l v;uu^x " v?v ~? ?0 ^? w Ihave shown in connection with Felder's successful efforts to secure the pardon of Morse?" says the Yorkville Enquirer. We wonder. Wood row Wilson seems to be keep- ( ing his head in laying his plans for the campaign. If he keeps on as he Has started, ana me pa.ru> <.v "him as it should, we believe he will . be the next president The Charlotte Observer thinks "Fel< der's detective tactics is going to arouse South Carolina sympathy for 1 < Blease and may re-elect him gover nor." We do not know how much more of this stuff is yet to come, or ( what its character may be, but the Felder tactics is not calculated to do ^ rtWTT V* n tue guvemvi" <uij uaiui. 1 1 Some people seem to think if one j does not swallow wholesale all that Augusta stuff, one is thereby attack- * Ing Candidate Jones, Governor Blease's opponent for governor. Of course, thiB is foolish on the face of it. So far as The Herald and News is concerned, it has nothing but the kindest feelings towards the former chief justice, now ' a candidate for governor. That single-term plank in the Dem ocratic platform seems fo be causing 1 a good deal of worry. There wasn't any use to try to put everything in < i one platform, anyway. The Baltimore . Sun during the convention urged a . one-plank platform, clear and to the point, contending with a great deal of . force that the essential difference be- j iween the two parties could be covered 1 in a platform of that kind. Platforms < < are sometimes like public speakers? too long. We publish today Senator Tillman's explanation of his vote *n the Lorimer case. We are not so familiar with the entire record in the case as to be able itrv with that rtppTPA I of intelligence which a case of such ^ importance would demand in its analy- ^ sis; but we want to say that we do not ^ believe any one can read Senator i Tillman's statement without being convinced that South Carolina's senior < senator voted upon this matter as his ^ ? conscience dictated. i ( Says the Charleston correspondent of the Columbia State: "The pastor of one of the largest Lu- ( theran churches in Charleston claims t that his appeal to the governor for ; leniency in behalf of the pardon on the ground tnat tne paraon wouia maKe a new man of Rabens, was not without its effect upon Gov. Blease in getting the pardon." . * We presume this was Dr. W. A. C. ] Mueller, who appears in the record of ( the case as having been interested in t securing the pardon. ? Dr. Mueller is a minister of the Lu- ? theran church upon whom Newberry f college, at its recent commencement, A conferred the degree of doctor of di- 1 vinity. 2 THE RIGHT KI>D OF WORK. t Wp want to commend city council c for the street paving work now in pro- e gress in the neighborhood of the old a court house, which will go on down ti Boyo street ro the Croiwell hotel, f Permanent work of this kixid in the improvement ol' the city's streets means a greater and better Newberry. City j council is doing this work irself, using ! its own hands, under the direction of a competent engineer?City Engineer Xorris. The property holders have aided by private subscriptions. This work, done by council under . Engineer Xorris' direction, will probably be better work, secured cheaper, than would have been done under contract. It is the right kind of work, in the right way, and the city is to be congratulated upon it If Governor Blease is re-elected it will clearly demonstrate that there are more crooks and imbeciles in South Carolina than there are honest men.?Gaffney Ledger. It is not uncommon for the minority to regard the majority as crooks and imbeciles. The majority manages to get along somehow, however, in a Democratic government. And, as we l have tried to point out to both sides in this campaign, intemperate language doesn't do anybody any good. Editor DeCamp's assertion that in of Blease's election it will be demonstrated that there are more crooks and imbeciles in South Carolina than honest men isn't going to land the majority of the people of South Carolina in the penitentiary and the State Hospital for the Insane. Just as a matter of expediency, there ' isn't room enough, and, besides, a minority couldn't well handle a majority. So what's the use of getting red-eyed and tearing one's shirt? Editor DeCamp is naturally of a sweet disposition and a sunny temperament. We lon't want to see him lose these fine qualities of his. We want to see him r/-\r>T\ on ZIAAI On nACoiKlzi tVl TO lint C^O V/UUi CA-O PUOOIU1V VIXIO UVV weather. The old State has not yet taken a journey to that notorious resort where jay-birds are reputed to spend their Fridays. RIGHTEOUSNESS AS A CUVJiK. The following is from the Portland Morning Oregonian: "The straightforward course for Roosevelt and his followers to pursue, ' . JJ r. V* 4- rtKi/1 A Kir fll a r\r%_ II lliey UU Ill/l W 12>ll UJ aUiuc uj tno av tion of the Republican convention, is to go bodily out of the Republican party and organize a third party. But they are so devoted to their high moral idea that they use it to -over a course ;>f duplicity and double dealing which is anything but moral and which can result only in that chaos in which they ippe'ar to delight." ? There is in this brief paragraph an arraignment of a condition which is . becoming too prevalent, and it might ae applied to certain conditions in ; South Carolina just at this time. There is no greater wrong than that 5 J -- i-1? _ lone unuer uie uauucr ul i iguiTruu?- , aess. There is no more prevert- ; Ml moral idea than that used to s rover a course which will not har- 1 nonize with square dealing be- 1 ween man and mau. There is 1 < io greater danger to society, and none ( nore calculated to bring about a con- , 1 lition of social and moral chaos, than :he "high moral idea" with which a < nan becomes so imbued that he be- ! ieves he can do no wrong, that others 8 igainst whom he is at war, politically J )r socially, must always be wrong, this , ligh moral idea warping the soul, re- ] lucing it within narrow limits, and eaamg it to perpeiicLie wruugs > ;an never be righted, and to perpe;rate them under the cloak of a high i uid holy righteousness. < A LIMIT TO E>DUKA>CE. i We do not commend the governor ] 'or some o~f the language he has used ] 1 ;n the campaign; and we equally condemn others in the campaign ior ( he use of unsoftened language, with i i great deal less provocation than the < governor has had. The Manning Times lays: "That Governor Blease is the ' 'ictim of a merciless prosecution there | s no doubt; the opponents of the man , i.re s^.pkine his utter destruction: no t itone is left unturned to accomplish f heir purposes. This being true, we an readily understand how a man 1 i ven in nis mgn posuion win De ex- r sperated into forgetting the proprie- 0 ies of public debate to give vent to hie o ! outraged fe lings." Strong language dof*s not add to the j force of an argument, and is not in ac-1 cord with the proprieties. At the samej time, we can agree' with the Manning I Times that the governor has had very, | very great provocation. As the Times ! goes on to say: The "opponents of the j governor have scoured the earth, and j for what we know the regions below, to implant into the minds of the people a suspicion of corruption; they have even used a legislative committee to go out of its way and exceed its au thority to aid them in their scavenger work; they brought into play the rottenness of the city of Charleston?a rottenness confessed to have existed there from the beginning of the dispensary regime; they have done everything to make the people of the State lose confidence in him. No man, since the days of Tillman's activity in State politics, has been so hounded; even Tillman did not have to go through with what the present governor is experiencing." And, while we condemn the use of intemperate language in public debate, 1 we recognize the governor's provoca- j A frn-r all fhora io cnmo 1im_ ! Uvil* Wilj tilVi V * tJVUiV X A Hi it to human endurance. THE VALUE OF GOOD ROADS. In a short address in the national house of representatives several days ago, in which address he secured permission to publish in the CongressionI al Record relevant data upon the subject, the Hon. William Sulzer, of New York, made an exceptionally clear and forceful exposition of the value of good roads. This is a question vitally affecting the happiness and the prosperity of the people of all the i country, and its importance can not | be too often or too strongly stressed. "The plain people of the land are familiar with the truths of history," said Mr. Sulzer. "They know the past. They realize that often the difference between good roads and bad roads is the difference between profit and loss. ! Good roads have a money value far beyond our ordinary conception. Bad roads constitute our greatest draw-: back to internal development and ma- | terial progress. Good roads mean prosperous farmers; bad roads mean abandoned farms, sparsely settled country districts, and congested populated cities, where the poor are destined to become poorer." The remainder of Mr. Sulzer's ad i dress is not long, and we desire to re- ! produce it in these columns with our , hearty endorsement, and to urge the people of Newberry county, and especially those living in the rural dis- i tricts, to read it and to consider it i carefully: "Good roads mean more cultivated farms and cheaper food products for the toiler in the cities; bad roads mean poor transportation, lack of com munication, high prices for the neces- j saries of life, the loss -i)f untold mil-1 lions of wealth, and idle workmen seeking employment. Good roads will help those who cultivate the soil and feed the multitudes, and whatever aids , the producers and the farmers of our country will increase our wealth and 3ur greatness and benefit all the people. "We can not destroy our farms with- 1 aut final decay. They are today the heart of our national life and the chief source of our material greatness. Tear Sown every edifice in our cities and labor will rebuild them, out abandon the farms and our cities will disap- 1 pear forever. < One of tne crying needs in this ; country, especially in the South and : West., is good roads. The establish- . ment of good roads would, in a measure, solve the question of the high : price of food and the increasing cost Df living. By reducing the cost of h transportation it would enable the farmer to market his produce at a lower price and at a larger profit at the same time. It would bring communities closer together and in touch with the ; centres of population, thereby facili- * tating the commerce of ideas as well j is of material products. i "When the agricultural production \ ilone of the United States for the ?ast 11 years totals $80,000,000,000, a ;um that staggers the imagination, md when we consider that it cost ( nore to take this product from the ? arm to the railway station than from ;uch station, to the American and Eu opean markets, and when the saving n cost of moving this product of ag>t W/N aITAm /V/\/n /] V* 4 o-Vi r?t/. *<n ^ icunuxc uver s*-hju mguways msitMU | >f bad would have built a million miles f f good roads, the incalculable waste " of bad roads in this cotnury is shown to be of such enormous proportions as j to demand immediate reformation and ; the exercise of the wisest and best I statesmanship. "But great as is the Joss to trans-1 portation, mercantile, industrial and farming interests, incomparably greater is the material loss to the women and children and the social life, a matter as important as civilization itself. The truth of the declaration of ? ~ ~ ^ ^ 4 (jnaries Sumner, ou years agu, mat "the two greatest forces for the advancement of civilization are the schoolmaster and good roads," is emphasized by the experience of the intervening years and points to the wis- j * - -J l j dom 01 a union OI me euuuauunai, commercial, transportation, and industrial interests of our country in aggressive action for good roads." -w NICHOLS, BLEASE A\D *'THE EXIGENCY OF THE HOUR." The alleged dictagraph record of a conversation between Sam J. Xichcls, y the Spartanburg attorney, ?nd Detcc- j tive "Porter," in a Washington hoiel, .' which was published ia The Herald and News of Tuesday, appeared in the j : I morning dailies of Sunday morning, j On Monday morning appeared mi al-j| leged dictagraph record of a conversation between Nichols and "Porter," nrir?r tn fho Wa.shi17.2f.nn r-nn vprsalinn. the conversation presented in Monday's papers being alleged to have taken place in the Hotel Finch, at Spartanburg. Why the second conversation was published first?whether it was because it was given out to the \ firct r\T* fr\ r- cj<vma ll,v o iiihjv. vw**.v4 reason?dees not appear. The News and Courier of Monday morning publishes the alleged Hotel Finch conversation in full. In it Nichols is alleged to have made to "Porter" 1 such statements as these: 1 "They think Blease is taking graft; * that's a damn lie, Blease has never < received a cent since he has been governor. But with me, I'm practicing law, and cases come to me, and I have 3 to make fees out of it; he wouldn't i take anything himself, though." ^ "Mr. Porter: ... Of course, we ] all know that these elections are expensive, and require the expenditure of more or less money. i "Mr. Nichols: No, be wouldn't do 5 that, he wouldn't accept a cent. . 1 In the alleged conversation Nichols 1 urws nn tn rplafp nf tpllin? him ( that Blease himself had paid money ; out of his own pockets giving railroad 1 fare to men he had nardcned, and, "now, can that kind of man buy a j pardon, and if they could couldn't ( these two men buy out?" (speaking of j two men Nichols in the alleged con- \ versation says are "now serving life < sentences, one worth nbout $200,000 } and the other and his relatives about ] $500,000"). In the alleged conversation Nichols < tells of refusing a large amount to seek a pardon for a man, telling the , people who offered it, "No, Mr. Green, i 1 won't do it if you'd give me your 1 whole farm I wouldn't do it; I repre- ' sent people in that section, and they blame me for representing him, but , I've got a right to represent my clients, t but I haven't got a right to ask my < friend, the governor, to pardon him, for 1 I believe he's right." J In this alleged conversation Nichols said to "Porter": "I'll tell you frank- t ly if you had all the money in the < country, if I didn't think your man 1 Dught to be pardoned, I wouldn't have 1 ( a thing to do with it, because I had refused both of those fallows that I / told you about. Blease knows I have got his interest at heart, and he knows 1 I'm not going to advise him to do anything that he oughtn't to do." There arp other statements alone the ( same line contained in this alleged * iictagraphed conversation, and the alleged talk of "Porter" throughout t seems to be to try to :ead Nichols to 1 ?ive some statement upon which a 1 suspicion of the governor could have * foundation. These statements, as we stated, are ^ 2 ^.ken from the report of the alleged g conversation published in the News ind Courier of Monday morning. _____ v In the Columbia State of Monday 1! nornins: aDDeared what the Columbia s state said were "interesting excerpts" rom this dictagraph record. These interesting excerpts" did not contain E t i RUTA BAG WHITE 1 WHITE PUR1 And ail the fa Landreth's Turnip ONU GILDER i "The Right 1 1 A/I HI IT <? AN IVI VULiW n r Removed with MOLESO no matter haw large, or ho face of the skin. And the trace or scar will be left rectly to the MOLE or WA pears in about six days, kil the skin smooth and natur MOLESOFF is put up oi Each bottle is neatly packed full directions, and contains enoi ten ordinary MOLES or WART a positive GUARANTEE if it WART, we will promptly return FLORIDA DISTRIB Department B188 statements along the l.'ne of those ibove reproduced. In the Columbia Stats of Thursday norning a gentleman in Spartanburg ?1*? ~ 0/\1ntYiiWo Gi-ota trv fast fnT lilt/ V^uiuuiuia U^UWV vv vMWAk these omissions} saying: "You did not publish all the dlctagrarns. You made voluminous selections, but ycu left out smaller but important sentences here md there in Mr. Nichols' favor. Is :he conscience of your telegraph editor clear that in these eliminations he 3id not purposely suppress the truth md distort the facts and do a gTave svrong, unworthy of a great paper?" The Columbia State editorially says it presents Mr. Wm. M. Jones', card (the card above referred to, which ?oesi on to defend Mr. Nichols), "in :he fullness of magnanimity." It accuses Mr. Jones of having a warped nind by reason of "a not unnatural belief in the integrity of his nephew." The Columbia State then goes on to say: "The report published on Monday ivas cut down. Ten columns of dictagraph was furnished. The news editor, who possibly knew more of the r\f tVl Q linnr +Vmr? riiH Mr. rAlgC'ilV/J V/l l/UV/ aavsu>& M-VA ? Tones in Spartanburg, ordered a reduction to five columns. Nothing that was omitted hurt Mr. Nichols, and :hose who read the reports in the State ind who now read the extracts in Mr. rones' letter that he complains were >mitted will find they are familiar, rhey were covered in some other part )f the long conversation. One part of ;he expurgated matter referred to one >r more of Spartanburg's married women that we are quite sure Mr. Jones vould not have in the published rec)rd." The "exigency of the hour" in the Columbia State office seemed to denand that everything be eliminated tvhich looked favorable to the "de ,'ence" in the "case" of Felder and his letectives et al. vs. Blease and every>ody in South Carolina not thoroughly nti-Blease. It would seem that in cuting down matter, where charges had veen brought against gentlemen, a lewspaper whose editor undertook to each the South Carolina Press asso:iation the "ethics of journalism" vould be very careful not to eliminate ill the matters favorable to the accus I Thacp aro atrajisre times upon which ' ye have fallen?times when the "exi ?ency of the hour" seems to demand , trange things. Sow Is the time to subscribe to The [erald and News, $1.50 a year. ?I 1 iAS I ?aa : GLOBE 5LE TOP | i vorite varieties of Seed. % Y AT fc WEEKS Drug Store." ; * 1 ' JD WARTS FF, without pain or danger, w far raised about the sury will never return, and no MOI PSHFF ic AnnliAfl ?li. * lRT> which entirely dissaplling the germ and leaving j al. j ily in One Dollar Bottles. \ in a plain case, accompanied by 1 ugh remedy to remove eight or S. We sell MOLESOFF under fails to remove your MOLE or rl the dollar. iUTING COMPANY Pensacola, Florida. ' ' % >.*< BARBECUES. We "will give a first-class barbecue at Williams' Store Friday, July 26, campaign day. ,Good. dinner guaranteed and Dlenty of cold drinks. La dies an4 children especially invited. ? J. W. Sanders. G. W. Chapman. We will give a first-class barbecue at the residence of B. II. Wilson on Wednesday, July 24. A first-class dinner guaranteed. W. H. Suber. B. H. Wilson. v . -r ill _ C 4. /.I 1 wui give a iirsc-^iass uaruccue * my warehouse, Prosperity. 5 .C., Saturday, July 20. A good dinner is guaranteed and everybody is invited to come out and enjoy themselves. G. W. Kinard. DODSON'S LITER TONE BEATS CALOMEL Xo Need Now to Risk Your Health Taking Dangerous Drug?New Remedy is Guaranteed* Next time your liver gets sluggish and you feel dull and headachy go to W. G. Mayes drug store and get a bottle of the successful medicine, Dod- ? son's Liver Tone. It will start your liver, gently but firmly, and cure an attack of constipation or biliousness without any restriction of habit or diet Dodson's Liver Tone is a pleasant tasting vegetable liquor, for both children or grown people. Its use is not followed by any of the bad after-effects which sometimes follow taking calomel. W. G. Mayes drug store will give you 4 your money back if you do not find it a perfect substitute for calomel. % A SAFE SUBSTITUTE FOB CALOMEL A M31d Vegetable Medicine for the Liver That Is Free From the Dangers of the Powerful Checlmal, Calomel. Mi 4 The W. G. Mayes drug store has a . mild, vegetable remedy that success- ' fully takes the place of the powerful mineral drug calomel, the old-fashioned liver medicine. This remedy is Dodson's Liver-Tone, a very pleasant tast- ? ed liquid that gives quick but gentle relief from constipation without the bad after-effects which so often follow taking calomel. Dodson's Liver-Tone is fully guaranteed to be a perfect substitute for calomel, and if yr>u buy a bottle and it does not entirely satisfy you, Mayes drug store will promptly give you your money back upon request It is fine for both children and grown people. f Subscribe to The Herald and News* AVOWAL MEETING. The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Farr ^rs' Bank, of Silverstreet, will be held in the president's office at Silverstreet, S. C., on Monday, July 29, 1912, at 11 o'clock, for the election of directors for the ensuing year, and for tho transaction of otner Dusiness. Please attend in person or by proxy. W. A. Asbill, Cashier. " S? bwilbe to TheHfcWrfdaad ? ?; MBPUitbiK ' ?