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I Where "" . " w A C' a. nne ai f teed clothe worsted, C i * I Where f ?' Xewsparer Partisanship, T'Vrt Tril1 a TTV> 0111 r AT* ? IliC v* ? ^ "Will the supporters of former Governor Cole L. Blease bolt the Democratic primary? emphatic negative reply to that query is made this week by the Newterry Herald and News, and by The Yorkville Eenquirer, two pro-?Blease newspapers, which usually represent the deliberate judgment and the sound -opinion of the Blease party. Th? editor of The Herald and N?we, 'C?l. Blbert H. Aull, is said to be cJOaa to former governor, and, ia view ot lhJ? -ted of tne lurwicr consuwrauo* uw Bis paper belongs to Mr. Blease^ heme county, snucfc weight is to fee at* taehed to what he says. The Herald and News* declares tot "we are in no notion of bolting and will support the nominees. We always sticfe and take our medicine like > litflA (man. iWe fircnlv helieYe in the rule and dominion of % just and righteous God who rules' the universe and that sooner or later the right will prevail and justice -will he done and the one who wins "by unfair means I will suffer more than we will, if your cause and our means he just and right, and we always try that they shall be. Victory gained by fraud and prejudice and double dealing will prove a boomerang to the man who gains it * * * There will be no independent ticket If there should be, it will not have our support." The Yorkville Enquirer, which in the recent campaign was always fair A i? and conservative in its suppon ior :m. Blease, says: "Of course, there is going to be no bolt this year. There were irregularities. There "was indirect vote buying and there was intim' bidation and fraud. It is quite possible i 1 that there was more or less of it on both side?; but there is not going to be any bolt." The News calls attention to the fairness and frankness of that statement. "Just as Mr. Blease had the appointment of commissioners of flection four years ago, Mr. Manning lias had that appointment this year, ( ^ and just as Mr. Blease endeavored to put none but Bleaseits on guard lour years ago, Mr. Manning has iput none but Manningites on guard this year." The Enquirer continues, not believing that there will be a split among the white Democrats of South Carolina for "it is going to be a long time before these two parties (the two factions existing) ar going to -adjust Men Ha' iiii A W in,,Jin s? Our j failing pa III of those 1 M nize US 1 " Wei and take / appreciati times we dependab MEN'S CLOTH] ssortment of M s in blue, brov "onservative styl 0.00 to $2C j 1 A m Men Hav r themselves along national alignments if ever. Neither side is going to do anything of the kind, because both sides realize how foolish, such a thing would be under existing conditions. There is plenty of dissatis- * faction with political conditions, both state and national, and that dissatis. ' ' f/v ni fVvAT* n# fhft i taction is not coaucucu w ciwvi ? v?v so-called 'Conservative' or 'Reform' I factious?iManningits or Bieasites? j but there will be no bolt for the sim* pie reason that there is too general a realization of how foolteh such a thins 1 would he." Goo3, sound, common sense* U Krvth ffrrtions in this State aboul4 {adopt the Attitude of Tbt Enquirer, | there would be tar less partisan bit I teraess and prejudice in South Caro| lina. Cs'o faction can arrogate to itself all the incorruptibility, all the rir tue, all the right. In Its own eyes, each faction is impeccable, spotless as the-driven snow, tout that is mere nar, rowness of vision and blindness to the * * * OO | truth. L?et us nox lorgot ?o is a fraud which purchases a vote outright, there is another fraud "which deceives honest men into wrong thinking by misrepresentation of the facts. ?Greenville News. Except for the fact that for the j purpose of giving additional force to J the political dope it would inject into its readers, the News lias designated us as partisan, we would feel tremendously complimented by the above, and as we shall point out, there I is a certain amount of satisfaction in 1 i it anyway. Ever since it has -been a newspare, it has been the policy of The Enquirer, to treat politics as news, ana so tar as lay within the ability of its ed-! itorial management, with judicial! fairness. Whether it was a question j of giving publicity to current facts, or j of commenting thereon, our first aim i has been truth, and wherever we have fallen short in either field, it has been either because of incorrect sources of I of indement. lilWi iuo-uva vr*. w i We have always been aware of the fact that this was the most difficult and exacting policy that a newspaper could pursue; that at the same time, we have always 'believed and still be* lieve, it is the only policy that can and will stand the test of time, because j politicians and political issues comej and go. while truth goes on forever. There has never been an era of, greater political bitterness in South ( i ve Come >PRF( ditlfc sib t^'srr l success in busin tronage on the ] i i vho patronized FODAY! ire truly thankf this opportunity ion, and to assui ofn v% rl tn oiauu iv^uuj tv le in Clothing, I ?S en's Guaran m and gray es >,,00 \ e Come Carolina than that beginning with the | establishment of tbe Columbia Stata in 18S1, shortly after the writer ihereof first assumed the responsibilities of editorship. Talk about pitchforks and the like, the late N. G. Gonzales was the original artist along that line, and he has never had an equal since. He lamoastea ?sen nunxan, uie xveiurui Movement," and everybody sad everything that refused to obey and follow him. There was not even a country newspaper of that day that escaped the lasfc of his whip, and not a few of them yielded their most docile submission to his every whim. He in traduced the custom of designating his contemporaries ts "Tillmanite," * Tillmanite," '^Conservative," 'I '' on/i HVP I iKtVi H 11^ ?MV | A. B. Williams of the Greenville News, coined the word "Refawm," but Gonzales appropriated it. Often country newspapers were quoted in the Columbia State for apparently no other reason than to designate them in accordance with the editor's whims, and The Enquirer was sometimes represented as "Reform," sometimes as "Tillmanite," sometimes as "Conservative," sometimes as "anti-Tilmanite," and sometimes as "Refawm,'' and again as "neutral." As shallow as this method of tantalization ap pears to have been, this editor, then j quite a young m^tn, was goaded almost! beyond endurance and often consider- j ed retort in kind; bu? was restrained by the fur wiser and better balanced judgment of the late L. M. Grist, >who advised: "Let him alone. You are printing a non-partisan paper for both sides. He wants to smoke you out into partisanship. If you deny that you are 'Conservative,' then he will call you 'Tillmanite,' -and if yon deny that you are 'Tillmanite,' he will call you 'Conservative,' and if you say you are neither he will taunt you with being on the fence. As soon as you commit yourself to partisanship, your reputa tion for impartial fairness will suffer with both sides. Don't let him place you anywhere. Leave it to your readers to place you by your conduct, by what you say and do." We have no authority to act as> j nnnlraomon "LTr- RleoOO T1 AT* K/l far I O^A/rVCOUiftU IL'i *ui as we know, has The Newberry Herald and News, and in representing the contrary. The Greenville News is doing Mr. Blease an injustice. Mr. Blease does not and never has regarded this paper as his spokesman, and is in no For Clol ZIAT1 ess is due to part of our friei us fifteen years ul for this spier Y to express c e our friends 1 serve them wit] -iats and Furnis MEN'S Men's shoes in I styles in all clothc Brand shoes in vie $3.00 1 For Clot iJ-A-J iVl?? 4. V ? 4. *Vi, sense coimiiiueQ 'oy ttujuimg uiai ima paper says. His attitude to The "Enquiper as expressed by him the first time he ever met the editor is like this, "You may foe a little surprised to heai it but I have been keeping up witt your paper a long time. You hart not been friendly to me and at times you have misrepresented me; but I dc not believe you have ever done it intentionally. I believe you always trj to be lair, and that is all that I ask o! ULiJ UIAU. It wtaa m litle more than {oar years ago when Mr. Blease said that. Wfcal Mr. Blease said was strictly true, A1 that time this editor knew absolutely nohiug afcont 24r. Blease except wfca! he had gathered through newspapers mainly the Columbia State, and mutual acquaintances who in all cases wen enemies of Mr. Blease and friends oi rather on more or less friendly term* with the editor. Since then the edito] jhas seen a great deal more of Mr Blease, and has been convinced that ii many -particulars that gentleman hac been grossly misrepresented. Hi: faults to &3j the least, are no "worst | than the faults of the individuals whc J would have made his foults appea] greater, and he has as many virtue! I ? i ?* - - - J ? I UOLU private ;i ju.u pujjxu; lucsc yen licular gentlemen, who have made it appear that he had none. And if we have been more kind toward Mr. Bleasf since the beginning of the personal acquaintance referred to than before, it has only been because we have been ir a position to deal more intelligently with his sayings ana aoings. But to be perfectly fair with the Xews we desire to point out and acknowledge that in the beginning of its closing paragraph it bears testimony that removes all the sting that woulc be implied in its opening paragraph We are not objecting to being designated as "pro-Blease." We would certainly as lief be designated as "pro-Blease' as "pro-Manning.'' But that is nol the point. iWfe do not like to 'be classified as partisan, and the Xews bears truthful testimony of our real feeling when it says, "If both factions in this 1 ~ ?1 . <3 * V? /-v r f ^ Vi c Siaie snouiu Uic auuuuc ?.*. iu\ Enquirer, there would "be far less partisan bitterness and prejudice ir South Carolina." Also we are willing to say that if this is" what the News means when it designates us as "proBlease," we withdraw .all objection to occupying the position in which if would place us. i _ _ _ cries since / loyal, un- M ids. Many /% ago patro- I M tdid loyalty y?? ur sincere \ that at all ti all that is hings. i SHOES 1.4 W* 1* 1 butcher cut, Lnglisn k Peters Diamond i, tan and gun metal. to $5.00 us hes Since i "THE SPELL OF THE YUKON." Edmund Breese, recognized as one of America's foremost dramatic actors, ? arranges to fin?I time away from the ' speaking stage long enough to make a 1 Metro wonderplay occasionaly, and his > next offering will be "The Spell of the i Yukon.'" Mr: Breese is probably 1 best known to theatre goer9 lor his - remarkable performance in "The Lion " and the Mouse," the sensational play f In wkich he played the leading part for three years in this country and in , England. It was in that play that KoL bert W. Service, the anthoF of "The Spell of the Yukon/' and other Terse* r dealing with the Alaskan life, and ^ often called "The Kipling of the. North/' saw Mr. Dreese for the first, l time. They met and a strong friend. ship resulted. When he came to mo. tion pictures, Mr. Breese suggested 5 that the Service poems offered un-, . bounded opportunities for stories of action and color in the Alaskan counl try, which..had never before been used <-?-? *V<O nilont iImitio A & ft TOQlllt 'Mptro I I ? j made "The Shooting of Dan McGrew," "The Song of the iWage Slave," and "The Lure of Hearts Desire/' which were wonderful picturizations of the poems of the same name by Mr. Service. "The Spell of the Yukon" is perhaps Mr. Service's best known work. It is the poem that he selected above all others to put in first place in his col| lection, and which also carried the 1 j title of his famous book poem:;. The j r pictured story deals with Jim Carson, the foreman of->a sweat shop in Ne"w i York, in love with Helen the steno. grapher, who returns his love. Jim . has had several quarrels with the sur perintendent and when they carry I their alteration to the owner's office Jim finds Helen apparently in the em. braces of his employer. Jim mis . judges her and later when his employ' er arranges to have it seem that he t has falsified his accounts, in order to . get him out of the way, Jim answers ; the call of the north. Arrived in the r Yukon he seeks a friend, who has pre; ceeded him there and finds that he has ; just heen killed by a half breed, leav5 ing a baby boy behind him. Jim adopts . the boy and they become deeply at r taohed to each other, while Jim is 5 amassing a fortune in the gold fields. Jim's one idea is to square accounts i with his former employer, who has : since married Helen, and he comes to New York for that purpose. Jim finds ' i 1901 j 1 * W 0^ I 1901 him heavily involved in Wall street and -with his fortune crushes him. Temple, his former employer, sends Helen to Jim begging for money. Jim insists on full revenge, until he learns that the daughter born to Helen is his own child. How the daughter and Jim's foster eon accidently meet and fall In love, and how after their union Jim leaves for the North, alone, gives & romantic touch to tfce elimax of supreme appeal. / KEC^T?1 FOB HUES WIS SOKZE, IS *?F#*T I'riti# *t &rmcze Agemej Ciaisu Freack **4 Brfttak Lost Eore Xkas Xflllei Hei la Gal&XBf $r*u4 ?S Wwtent Berlin, Oct 14-?British god French divisions, -with a total of more th-aa 1,000,000 men, hare been virtually annihilated in the Samine battle, says the military crit.t of the Overseas News agency. According to figures from Swis? sources, aa given bv the news asrency. the Russian losses from June 1 to October 2 were about 1,000,000 men. The news agency's military critic writes: "The heavy sacrifices made by the British and French for the recapture of each square yard on the Somme is proved by the fact that in three and one-half months about 90 fresh divisions were virtually annihilated, so that it was necessary to withdraw r\ i tri r* i r\v\ c ron ? tUCLLl 1U1CTC1. I u 1 ?ioiwao ivf resents a total of considerably more, than 1,000,000 men. Thera are -uoout 12,000 men m a French division an<l 19,000 in a British division. "These divisions disappeared completely from battle. Fifty-five divisions in consequence of their great losses were able to engage in combat only twice, 15 divisions three times and only one was able to engage In combat four times. 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