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TWO PAKELLELS
TO ELECTION SUSPENSE
IX AMEK1CA> HISTOBii
Ifcajes-Tilden iContest m 1S76 anil
Cleveland-Elaine Fight in 18S4
Rotable Elections.
TCew York, Nov 18.?Only two parallels
are found in "American history to
IV long suspense experimented thih
sear in determining the result of the
presidential election.
In 1S84 it took thrve davs to learn
"liat Grover Cleveland had won by
^aining New York State's electoral
Tw>te from James G. Blaine with only
U00 majority. In 1S76 it took an electoral
commission to decide the famous
Tilden-Hayes contest.
It is interesting to note that the cont!e^ts
of men, in which dominating
personality played a large part.
This is particularly true of the 1884
and 1876. Roscoe Conkling. the brilliant
senator from New York, had
Mmch to do with the eventful outcome,
+ Vt *-tr*tn?A ^ATltootC i
US t >1 u VVUkVObw).
In the case of the Tilden-Rayes
fight, it was said Mr. Conkling was of
the opinion that Mr. Hayes had not1
"been elected president and therefore
should not be declared the victor. If
Senator Conkling has acted on th* ,
view he could have marshaled enough
"votes in the senate to throw the elec-j
toral vote of Louisiana to Mr. Tilden. j
But he failed to act on the matter, ana
tradition says that in so doing he was
influenced by a brilliant woman who
? -* a; j
tooK mac means/oi veiunig upuu ?n.|
. Tilden her anger because he had
caased the defeat of her father, Sal-;
Mm r. Chase, in the Democratic pres-!
idential convention of 1868.
Blaine- le?eland Campaign.
Prior to 1916 the Blaine-Cleveland
campaign of 1884 was easily the most
eensational presidential campaign in
years. Blaine was the idol of the
H*pirt)lican hosts and undoubtedly
trrold have been president had it not^
feeen for the unfortunate "Rum, Ro-,'
nxrism and rebellion" utterance of
Br. Burchard in the fifth Avenue ho-,
tei on the eve of election. Mr. Blaine
?to rermdiate his sentiment.
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and as a result more than enough
votrs were turned in New York alone
to defeat him. The Burchard episode,
<?rap]ed with the relentless hostility
Roscoe Conkling, made the defeat
'?T Hr. Blaine, as it afterward turned
inevitable. i
The enmity between the two men of
dcaminating personality went back to
'Skesr rivalry for the leadership of con-;
Xjress. Efforts were made by friends
ml various times to patch up the quar-j
'Vtk, but Mr. Conkling was implacable.
His bitterness toward Mr. Blaine
sauased more than 1,000 of his support-1
<crs in his home county, Oneida, to vote;
fr\r \fr Cleveland, thereby j
"I
famishing enough votes to turn the;
tide of battle.
As it became evident that the racV
?trald be close to the last, the excite-i
anent throughout the nation, and par-j
fticularly in New York, was intense.!
lie day after -election it was an; i
ciimmced that Mr. Cleveland had car- j
Tied Xew York. Indiana. New Jersey, |
:and Connecticut, together with "the:
-solid South," thereby winning 266 elecTtoraJ
votes to 170 for Mr. Blaine.
Fignres Disputed.
The Republican managers disputed
^these figureh. They said that late returns
frcm upstage New York would
a plurality for Mr. Blaine. And,
i indeed, for a time it looked as if their'
'predictions would, be fulfilled. The
Democrats charged that Jay Gould, a
warm friend and political supporter ot
^fr. Blaine, was using the Western
Union Telegraph company, which he
?roctrolled, to hold back the election
-returns.
The situation became so serious
:?hat A. P. Gorman, chairman of the
?>t^nocratie executive committee, on
Friday. November 4, issued the following
statement:
"The national Democratic committee
"announces to the.people of the United
States that Grover Cleveland and
Thomas A. Hendricks have carried 219
electoral votes for tne office of president
and vice-president.
"That states vrhicli have declared in
their T^vor are Alabama. Arkansas,.
Connectiqut. Delaware, Florida, Geor*
?ia, india-.ja, Kentucky, Louisiana,
.Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New
Jersey, New York, Xorth Carolina,
Saulh Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virarinia
and West Virginia, carrying all
-.2.1$ electoral votes?18 votes more
than sufficient to elect.
"_No fraud or connivance can -defeat
the will of the people of the -United
. States thus publicly and deliberately
declared."
Late that afternoon the belated re' turns
from upstate same through and
they insured the election of Mr. :C>eveJay
Gould was one of the first
to congratulate Mr. Cleveland on the
^venL
3IIGRATI0X OF SEGOERS
FROM SOUTH TO >ORTtf
- ,
Aianuiacturer s nauiu.
The migration of negroes from the
south to the north and west, which is
attracting So much attention, is a perfectly
logical outcome of economic
^conditions. It has been under way
'tor many months. As stated some
"time ago in thp Manufacturers Record,
r:"it -eras started, so far as can be learned
by the employment bureau of the Uni'ted
States department of labor, which
uindertook to secure some negro labborers
in the south for the Erie and the
"Pennsylvania railroads, which, were
-sliorthan-ded. While the movement
seems to have started in this way on a
large scale, it would have come about
-without any effort of the labor department.
From the time When Europe
began to buy heavily of munitions, the
"gaortli and west have been flooded Tvith
prosperity, and the demand for labor
fcas far exceeded the supply. Exorbitant
prices have been paid munition
^plants for labor. This h*s drawn the
tioating supply from the market, and
f
drawn from other employment many
thousands of men who were formerly
engaged in rougher work on railroad
jobs and construction activities. In
some cases men have left clerical
work in order to gee the high pay offered
by munition shops.
This situation necessitated an in
! crease in wages in iron and steel
! works, and all of this activity came at
a time when we were not only deprived
of the million immigrants who had
prior to the war been annually coming
| to this country, but also of the many
tens of thousands of foreigners called
' 1 ^ ~ r _ 4V/V?r/V?vt Antn f r\ V?Q_
| OaCK to llJCir gUYCi uiuciua i,u i/w
i come soldiers. The country was thus
j faced with an enlarged demand for lai
bor beyond anything ever known, with
a complete closing down of immagra!
tion and at the same time a large emigration
of labor. Advancing rates 3f
. wages and the actual scarcity of labor
to carry on industrial operations caused
iron and steel works and railroads
in the east and the west to turn to the
negroes of the south as a possible
source of supply.
Wliile the north and the west were
in this condition and an unprecedented
shortage of labor and unprecedented
ihigh wages, the south had for two
years been suffering from the effects
of war. Its agricultural interests had
ben depressed by reason of the inabili-.
ty to market its cotton crop of 1914
and the low prices prevailing up to a
few months' ago. Its exports ot
phosphate and lumber and naval stores
had been seriously curtailed, and so
thick ser.tion had a surplus of labor
while the north and west had a shortage.
The vacuum in the north and
west commenced to draw the surplus
from the south, for as nattire abhora
a vacuum so do economic conditions.
Now the south is beginning to get;
its share of this abounding war-createu
prosperity, and, though naval stores
and lumber and phosphate, are not yet
exported as freely as in the part, there
is a general revival of industrial and
building work, and the'high price of
cotton is stimulating every interest.
But negroes are being tempted north,
notwithstanding the improvements in!
conditions in the south, by the facti
that they can command a much higher |
rate of wages north and west than
they can yet get in the south. Until
the situation balances itself by an advance
of wages in the south to a relative
parity with the wages in the'
north and west the south Will probably
continue to lose a great many of
its negro laborers. This is an economic
loss which should not be minimized,
but the south can meet it to some
extent by more extensive work oo. the i
part of its people, by the large utilization
of labor-saving machinery, by'
rnttinp- down the acreaee of crobs in I
connection with heavier fertilization,
intensifying cultivation so that out
of a smaller acreage a greater yield
can be hecured at less labor and at a
large profit.
It has been said that the boll-weevil
tends to increase mental activity on
the part of southern farmers. The
movement of negroes from the souta
to the north will have a similar effect;
and those who have heretofore
depended wholly upon negro labor j
will be compelled by increased mental j
activity to turn to labor-saving machinery
and to other methods of lesconino
tho omnnnt r?f mannal ln"hr?r hv
supplanting it by power labor. The
situation has its bad side, but there
are also some redeeming features, even
from the economic point of view;
! and, as we stated some weeks ago,
i the south will in the long rua be
i benefitted by the rest of the country
being forced to study the negro problem
just as the south "has heretofore
had to do.
The suggestions that have been
made in the heat of a political campaign
that this movement of negroes
| to the north has been brought about
for political effect, to use these negro
emigrants as voters, is as foolish as is
the claim of the Federation of labor
that the negroes are being brought
i north and west in order to break up
J the power of union labor. It is safe
! to say that the men who have been
I scouring the country to secure negro
! laborers neither had politics nor unj
ion labor in their thought in the
j slightest degree. They wanted .workj
ers. and the negro was available and
i tbpv went after him. That is the
whole story.
? ? ?-^?
.
Some opera stars get enormous sa|
laries.
! Yes. After reading about the sums
j they draw, it sems strange that there
is enough money left to carry on the
war in Europe Pittsburgh Gazette.
RHEUMATISM AFTER
HIS DAY'S OUTIXtt
Hunting Trip On a Wet Day Brings
Painful Results.
!
| Once upon a time Charles Mullen,
J of Philadelphia, went gunning. It was
a dismal rainy day, and long exposi
ure to cold and wet brought on a severe
attack of rheumatism. He was
confined to his home.
iA- friend recommended Sloan's Liniment,
citing his own case as evidence
| of its effectiveness. Mullen bought i
bottle and applied it to his aching
j limbs. Soon improvement was noticI
ed and he was able to return to busi!
I1M?
Mr. Mullen writes: "Since that experience
I have never been without
Sloan's Liniment in the medicine
chest." You will find it soothes bruises,
sprains, toothache and relieves
lame back, neuralgia, in fact all external
pains. At all druggists, 25c.
30c. and $1.00 a bottle.
(Tltiors FACTS DEYELOP
IN SENATORIAL CHANGES
i ..?l, o!a a? rla/>ttnn Roenlfu flw f_
v^liiarysis m i^icvu^u <>v^u*vu
fectiiig I'pper House of Congress
Reveal* Queer Combinations of
lumbers.
A. S. Salley, Jr., in The State.
1 The senate of the United States is
composed of 96 members. Thirty-two
of these are elected at the general j
election every two years. The result |
of the election this year discloses i
j some curious combinations of figures. J
? -r-_ 1 1 i
Of the 32 senators eiectea ror iuu j
terms of six years each of the parties j
has elected 16. The Democrats have j
reelected nine senators and elected I
seven news ones. The Republicans!
have reelected seven senators and j
i elected nine new ones.
The Democrats have elected fivei
I senators to seats now held by Re- j
! publicans and the Republicans have j
! elected six senators to seats now held.
by Democrats.
The Democrats reelected are:
Swanson of Virginia, Williams ot Mississippi,
Culberson of Texas, Reed of
Missouri, Pomerene of Ohio, HitchVn^roci-o
A/Tvorc nf* \Tnntana.
j CUCfi Ul .*cui ~- (
i Pittman of Nevada and Ashurst ofj
| Arizona. McKellar of Tennessee and I
Trammell of Florida are new Demo-1
crats who replace Democrats. The
Democrats who replace Republicans
are: Guerry, who succeeds Lippitt
from Rhode Island; Wolcott, who succeeds
DuPont from Delaware; King
who succeeds Sutherland Irom Utah;
Jones, who succeeds Catron from New
Mexico, and Kendrick, who succeeds :
Clark, from Wyoming. Senator Clark ;
entered the senate January 23, 1895.
and has been there nearly 22 years. .
Only two senators have been longer 1
I in the senate: Gallinger of New Hamp-! I
shire and Lodge of Massachusetts. i
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Tile KepUDIlcanb reeievicu ?iv. | .
Page of Vermont, McLean of Connec-1
ticut, Lodge, of Massachusetts, La!]
Follette of Wisconsin, Townsend of I \
Michigan, McCumber of North Da- ^
kota and Poindexter of Washington.
Knox of Pennsylvania, Kellogg of Minnesota
and Johnson of California are t
new Republicans who replace Repub-jr
licans. The Republicans who replace | a
Democrats are: Hale, who succeeds!
Johnson from Maine; Calder, who sue- '
ceeds 0 Gorman from New York; Fre-;1
linguysen, who succeeds Martine v
from New Jersey; France, who sue-,
ceeds Lee from Maryland; Sutherland,)
who succeeds Chilton from West Vir-j
ginia, and New, who succeeds Kern g
from Indiana. j r
There are two Johnsons now in the.
initio onr? thp other
S6riclL6; ont; n uxu .iiaiuv unu ? (
from South. Dakota. Senator Johnson - I
of Maine will go out and a Johnson;
from California will come in. |
Senator Sutherland of Utah will
lose his seat the 4th of next March, j I
but there will be a new Sutherland (
from West Virginia. | ,
By the recent death of Senator]
* -*1- - ! I
Clark of Arkansas ana uie ueieat ui,
Senator Clark of Wyoming the Clark j i
family will have no representatives on
the floor of the senate after the 4tii: ,
of March.
By the election of Senator Jones j
from New Mexico the Jones family
j will now have two representatives on ;
the floor of the senate, Senator Jones jJ
of Washington being the other. The j
Smith family continues to hold the;
greatest number of seats of any one'
I name, having Smith of South Caro-1
I lina, Smith of Georgia, Smith of Ari- j
zona, Smith of Maryland, Democrat,;
and Smith of Michigan, Republican, j
Other long termers, behides Senator)
Clark, who go out next March are: j
tClapp of Minnesota, with over 16'
! years service; Sutherland of Utah,!
with nearly 12 years; puPont of Dela- j
ware, with nearly 11 years, and Oliver!
I of Pennsylvania, with, two weeks,
| short of eight years,
j . j
I TO MAKE INVESTIGATION
OF MONEY I> tAATAlti.l
Administration Leaders Lay Definite
Plar.s for Senate Inquiry Into Use
of jJkney in Course of Late Fight j
For The Presidency.
i * i
i
Washington, Nov. 14.?Definite
: plans were laid by administration''
lenders today for having the senate
begin an investigation as soon as con- J
;,gress convenes of the use of money J
in the last presidential campaign.1
Several sen'ators have discussed the
question with officials of the adminis-j
j tration and it was said tomgnt mai:
J the investigation will be held beyond
question.
Suggestions were made that President
'Wilson might mention the sub-j
ject in his next annual message to \
{congress in recommending passage of,
j a corrupt practices act, but some offi- j
j cials thought he would take the posi- j
j tion that he should leave the question ,
j to the senate in view of the fact that
he himself was a candidate. Senator
! Reed of Missouri will confer with the
president tomorrow and tlie question
may be brought up at that time.
As outlined by officials today the ini
vestigation will be very thorough and
| will include the cross examination of
j wealthv men sunposed to have made
campaign contributions as well as of
the men in charge of the spending of
money raised for the campaign.
! CNrsrcd Republicans Spent $7,000,000.
J "Washington, Nov. "14.?Election.
I frauds, alleged to nave oem committed
in several of the states, particularly
in those where the result was
close, are to he prosecuted with every
resource at the command of the De
partment of Justice.
5j Among the phases of the case said
to have been brought to Attorney Gen-'
II eral Gregory's attention is the charge
" I that the Republican committee dis.
I 1 ~ ^ 4-V.a DTinrmnnc cnm of $3,000.
' | oursca iuc ciiunuuuu ?
] 000 in the last few days preceding tho
' election. and that the total exnendij
tures of the committpp rpaehed the
I'unprecedented sum of $7,000,000.
I "Friifh?Haven't you and .Tack "been
II enfiraced Ions: enoueh to sret married?
Ethel?Too lonp! He hasn't got a
j cent left.?Cincinnatti Inquirer.
*>l*KNEJ) HIS HOUSE
ALL FOR NOTHING
Winsted, Conn., Nov. 13.?Harold
N. Willard, son of Daniel Willard,:
president of the Baltimore &. Ohio
railroad, remarked 011 election day
that if Hughes were successful he
would give an old dwelling house on
nis farm in Salisbury as fuel for a
celebration. Late; Tuesday night,
when the returns indicated the elecvSv..i
u: iiugues, juo .iant Republicans ;
wtnt to the Willard place and rAil-j
id.i u. kepi nis word.
The reflection from the blaze was
visible for miles; persons living at a
distance inquired by telephone where
property was burning. "Hughes is
Ulticicu cinu >viiiaius uuiunig u^i uu
old noube in honor of the Republican
success," they were inlormed.
As smoke was still rising from the
ruins and curling about the chimney,
which alone marks the scene of the
premature Republican celebration,
joy was turned to sorrow with the
news that the election result was in
doubt, with chances favoring Wilson's
success.
? ??? a l
Esther?Bill claims he beat up Jess
Willard. ?
Hester?Yep; called at his house
cne morning before he was up Philadelphia
Ledger.
I
TAX NOTICE
The books for the collection of
state and county taxes will be open
Eroin October loth, 1916, to December
31st, 1916. j
Those who prefer to do so can pay
in January, 1917, with one per cent; j
;hose who prefer to pay in Februrary,
L917, can pay by adding 2 per cent;,
hose who prefer paying from March
1st. to March 15th, 1917, can do so
>y adding 7 per cent; after March
5th, 1917, the books will be closed, j
Taxpayers owning property in more
han one township will please inform *
ne when paying or writing for the'
mount of his or her tax.
By referring to your tax receipt of
916, you will know the township In
>'hich your property is located.
The levy for 1917 is as follows:
Mills
Itate 5
'ensions and Confederate Infirmary
1
lepairs State Hospital for the
Insane 12
)rdinary County 312,
loads and Bridges 3 8|
)rdinary County Note 12:
Constitutional School Tax 3
load and Bridges 1 j
Dourt House i:-5j
1
Total 15 18'
Except the following localities where j
an additional railroad tax has been!
leviad.
Mills;
Township No. 1 112;
Township No. 8 3
.And except the following school dis-;
tricts, where special school tax has
hoon
Mills
Districts Xos. 1, 5S 6
Districts Xos. 5, 9, 1 12, 15, 16,
17, 18, 21, 27. 32, 35, 41, 43. 57
and 59 2
District Xo. 10 1
Districts Xos. 13, 19, 20, 23, 31,
34, 39, 40, 44, 45, 48. 49, 55
and 56 4
Districts Xos. 14, 22, 33, 52 8
District Xo. 26 7
District Xo. 47 3
District No. 30 1012
A poll tax of One Dollar has been
levied on all male citizens between
the ages of 21 and sixty years, except
those exempt by law.
A tax of Fifty Cents is levied on all
dogs.
Persons liable to road duty may pay
a commutation tax of $2.00 from Oct.
15th, 191.6, to 31st day fo December,
1916.
C. C. SCHUMPERT,
County Treasurer.
MUNICIPAL TAXPAYERS
Your attention is called to section
6 of the ordinance levying the tax for
city's revenue. It reads:
"That all taxes herein imposed shah
be naid between the 1st day of Oc
.tober and the 1st day of December,
1916, and a penalty of ten per cent,
is hereby imposed and shall be added
to all taxes not paid prior to December
1st, 1916."
Please attend to the matter.
J. W. Chapman,
Clerk and Treasurer.
SOTICE OF JURY DRAWING
Notice is hereby given tiiat. the undersigned,
Jury Commissioners for
Newberry County, S. C., will at the
office of the Clerk of 'Court for Newberry
County at Nine O'clock. A. M.,
November 17th, 1916, openly and publish
draw the names of Thirty-six
men who shall serve as Petit Jurors
at the Court of General Sessions,
which will convene at Xewberry Court
House, December 4th, 1916, and will
continue for one week.
C. C. SCHUMPERT.
! JAS. B. HALFACRE,
JXO. C. GOGGAXS,
Jury Commissioners for Xewberry
County, S. C.
I November 6th, 1916.
RAILROAD 3I?> 0X
THE CAXDIDATT.S,
Columbia Record.
What the railroad employes of the
North and West thought about Wil- j
son and Hughes is illustrated by box i
rare? from those two sections of the I
country that have been passing j
through Columbia before and since |
the election. All manner of slogans :
"boosting" t'vVilson appear on them, j
some painted and others chalked. The i
most focful idea presented is that j
the opinion of the railroad men about |
Hughes was unflattering, to say the j
least.
One box car said "The West Wants!
Wilhon,*' while another op.e com
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g / Departmec
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Blcod" goods when s^vving am
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For the best five acres of whe
For the second best five acres <
i
For the third best five acres of
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For the besc three acres of wh
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Mr. S. M. Byars, County De
a committee in due time to aw
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and fertilization when grain is
If the next wheat crop'shoal
another advance.
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NOMINATE
Good for 1(
In THE HERALD t
tion Cc
I nominate Mrs., Miss
A J J M O O lO
nuui coo
Nominated by_
In the Campaign, only
sent in for each candidate \v
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:
| FREE VOTIf
Void after Novn
THE HERALD ANI
Can
GOOD FO?
For
Address
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hill out properly, man
Office of The Herald
j expiration date.
manded "Vote for Wilson?We
for Him." These cars were from the W
West. Another from the same sec- j
tion: ,="-J
"Hughr-s is a crook and always has fl
been,
That's the reason Wilson sure to^
win."
A car from the North is just as ^
complimentary to the Republican can- *
didate when it says:
"Join the union?pay your dues;
Vote for Wilson?to hell vvitu
Hughes!"
'"Goodbye Hughes'' and "Where is
Hughes?' are other slogans apeSfing
on cars from north of the Mason
and Dixon line.
jr grain I ,
ntinsr As I
by U. S. X
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ire. y
:$ 12 Gallons y'
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: WEEKS y'
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nfforinrr U/nmon .
uiiuung ivuiiioii
laVitae,
bat it has done for others. It corrects the rrrec* 1
I vitalizes the womanly functions; restores the ap? \
asted energies. Tour money back if your are Bfli
dealer wai explain tae guarantee.
CHATTANOOGA, TENN.
i
'hosphate & Oil
r the Following
Farmers
use the Anderson "Fish and
d Anderson Phosphate and Oil
xt spring:
at $100
)f wheat 75
wheat r 60
of wheat 50
eat 50
25
^monstration Agent, will name
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rcirU IHC pi'^CS. -Till JrVU rv in
to make the yield. Raising
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sown.
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ON BLANK
[>,000 Votes
VND NEWS Subscripimpaign
the first nomination coupon
ill be counted.
JG COUPON .
neber 22nd, 1916
1 NFW.^ SnKarrintion
ipaign
: 100 VOTES
or send, to Campaign
and News on or before
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