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MANING. S. C.. MARCH 22. 1911. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES: one year.- - - - - - - -51 six months.......-- ."--'''. 5 Fout months..--........................ 50 ADVERTISING RATES: One square, one time. i; each subsequent in sertion. 50 cents. Obituaries and Tributes of Respect charged for as regulr advertisements. Liberal contracts made forthree. six and twelve Communications must pe accompanied by the real name and address of the writer in order to receive attention. No communication of a personal characmer will be published except as an advertisement. Entered at theFostoffice at Manning as See ond Class matter. AN UNWISE ACTION. The Charleston Community Club has sent a very severe let ter to Governor Blease in which they criticise him for vetoing the Commission Act, and they use language which in our opinion will not help their caase in the least. If Governor Blease was wrong in vetoing the Act, there ?s no sense in adding another wrong; two wrongs do not make a right. We are not in tLe con fidence of the promoters of the Commission Form of Govern ment for Charleston, but it looks to us like a case of the outs fight ing the ins, and politics is the basis after all. But regardless of what motives prompt the "Community Club" their on slaught upon the governor for exercising a right the constitu tion gives him, whether that right is exercised wisely or not, is not calculated to help the city in winning friends to its cause. In our opinion, the men in con trol of the commission movement have gone a little too far; it is the extremists the conservatives have to fear more than their opponents. There is no gainsaying it, Gov ernor Blease has friends in the State and in the general assem bly, some of whom do not agree with all of his views and acts, but they will not stand by and permit him to be insulted, even by men who arrogate unto themselves a monopoly of civic virtue. One of the greatest trou bles Charleston has had to con tend with in the past, was the in discretion of some of its citizens. We remember a famous utterance of a Charlestonian when he swore that Tillman should not be gov ernor; this done the city and his cause harm; the conservative men in his faction had to bear the blame for that indiscretion. So it is with Blease today, his friends wilU not stand for insult, and while they perhaps think he -might have signed the Commis sion Act, if he is to be driven to it by insult from his enemies, they will hold up his hands when he refuses, by sustaining the veto. Here is the Charleston docu ment: -THE GOVERNoR SEVERELY ARRAIGNED. Charleston, S. C., March 16, 1911 His Excellency Cole L. Blease, - Governor of South Carolina, Columbia, S. C., Dear Sir: By vetoing the Commission Govern ment- Bill you have seen fit to abuse the powers of a responsible office, never ex pected to be exploited for private or political advantage, and arrogate to yourself the right of limiting the fran chise of the people of Charleston, and of saying that our citizens alre to have no further voice in the choice of their form of government- You have, with out justification or pretext, other than the selfish interests of a small minority in this city who have done you signal service at the polls, undertaken to veto a permissive, local option bill, passed by the General Assembly of the State, at the request of fifteen hundred re sponsible citizens of this, community, representing over ten millhon dollars of property interests. Ths petition repre sented the desire of a substantial num ber of Charlestonians, in all probability a number greater than gave you their votes last summer, for a form of govern ment which would give the people of this city a larger voice in their own home governmenlt and which would make of the S700,000 to be yearly ad ministered in this city a business re sponsibility and not a jack pot, or the waste material of an experimental lab oratory. Why you have chosen in the limelight of your office as Chief Execu tive, to abandon even a professed adher enee to the principie of local option which you made much of in your cam paign, and to blazon abroad your oppo sition "in toto" to the democratic prin ciple of home rule embodied in the terms of the act you have set aside and your disapproval of any attempt to safe guard the public purse, (wherc it did not contemplate the salving of a private sore), is for yourself to understand. The purpose of this communication is not to remonstrate against an act that was partially anticipated and is for the pres ent irrevocable. It is only to acquaimt you with the indignation and censure that your autocratic and partisan con duct has aroused among the citizens of that city to which, for your own reasons, you pretend to owe your election. Y our utter disregard of their rights argues either a degree of insincerity in your former protestationsof friendship which should henceforth make your utterances in this respect less likely to deceive, or else a frank admission that your Charles ton friends are not so numerous or out spoken as you or they or the official count would have us believe. We are quite ready to admit that the form of government we advocate would prove disastrous to the political fortunes and ambitions of your friends here. But that form of government could not be adopted without a vote of the majority of the citizens of Charleston. You are not misled, Mr. Governor, it would seem, by the top-heavy vote of the sum mer primaries, and not so confident in the finality of that yerdict of six to one in your favor. Is it that you think that under the careful restrictions, of the commission government primaries your friends would not fare so well? Your fears are well founded. How ever, be assured, most honorable sir, that commission government is not dead because you have vetoed the bill, nor is the vitality of this movement to restore this city to a plane of political decency. A moral issue cannot be killed by your fiat. We know of nothing more effect ive toward bringing the people of South Carolina to their senses than the object lesson they now have of a dignified pub lic office prostituted to the purposes of petty spite and peanut politics. Other cities have waited long for the coming of their political freedom. You --m in ta themambition of our people for a clean. free city wiUl outlast yours that Charleston shall be your political - foot-mat. It shall also survive your brief opportunity to hamper their ef forts. You have confessed to your grier ous fear of the majority of the citizens of Charleston, and you shall find that fear fully justified. The campaign-bluff of your friendship for Charleston and of Charleston's friendship for you, has been effectively called, and Charleston's credit to this extent restored. This much good has been already gained. The rest will follow. Most unsubmissively, CHARLESTON COMMCNITY CLUB1. THE CONVICTIONS CAN BE HAD. - - The illicit sale of liquor in this county can be stopped easily if the people in the disturbed sec tions will, as good citizens, in terest themselves to bring the detiers of law before the proper authorities. It requires a whole some local sentiment to prevent lawlessness. It is reported that in certain sections of t)e county there are men engaged in the traffic who are presuming on the action of the last court, expect ing that future juries will acquit those charged, but to those we will say they were never more mistaken, and unless they hold up defying the law, the work of bringing the offenders to justice will not depend upon the class of men who have heretofore been engaged to furnish evidence, but there will be a local sentiment behind the prosecution, and when this is the case convictions will follow. The men engaged in an unlaw ful pursuit in a community do much harm and they should not be tolerated, therefore we say it is to the interest of those living in a community where such a condition exists to see to it that it is stopped. We sincerely be lieve if the people themselves will show a disposition to rid themselves of lawlesness it can be done more effectually than in any other way; those communi ties which are opposed to this sort of thing are free from such an annoyance, all because the lawlessly inclined know that the; community will not permit it to be. If there is a man engaged in an unlawful business in your community go to him and telli him he must stop in short order. and then if he continues,have a warrant issued for his arrest, bring him before the court with an unprejudiced proof, a proof which will show it to have been brought in the interest of law and decency and we can almost vouch for convictions. HE PUT THEM OUT. The State Dispensary Wind ing-up Commission has received the Executive boot, and.they are discharged from office. It would be of interest to know why this action was taken, especially since the governor asked the legisla ture to provide for an investiga tion of their acts, and this in vestigation has not been had for the reason the signature of the governor to the . investigating Act has not been af5.xed. We have tried to uphold the governor in his work as the Chief Executive of the State, but -we cannot endorse this action be cause it looks to us he has dis missed men from office with out a hearing which they should have been entitled to. If it was rumor that prompted the gov ernor to ask the legislature to provide for an investigation of the acts of the commission it does seem to us as a matter of fairness he should have waited until the investigation was made. Some of the members of that Commission are as high minded men as there are in the State. If they have done wrong, we do not believe they had any guilty knowledge of it; we do not be lieve that John McSween or J. Steele Brice are capable of cor ruption. The other members of the Commission we only know - from reputation, and these are regarded by the people of the1 State as men of the highest char-J acter. therefore we say. in sum marily discharging them without a hearing is unfair to them and to the people of South Carolina. IS THERE NO END? Sunday's morning newspapers contained a sensational charge against T. B. Felder, one of the attorneys employed by the at torney general to prosecute the claims of the State against thel whiskey houses that dealt with the dispensary. The charge is that Felder attempted to "frame up'' a deal to organize a syndicate to swindle the State. Governor Blease gave for publication what purports to be a letter which it is alleged that Feider wrote to . H. Evans, former chairman of the dispensary board. It 9 looks as if the State is never going to be rid of the complica tions which the dispensary brought the State into, but granting the letter purporting d~ to come from Felder is genuine P and that he did just what the . letter implies,we cannot see how g anything can be done about it. 'b Felder was not an'officer of the hi State neither is he a citizen, the W most that can come out of it is to show that some of those employed to protect the State's interests ce were not clean handed them- in selves. N So far as we are concerned,w we should like to see the whole ~, thing wiped out and fgrgotten.1hi There is this much certain, the m attorney general had a tremen- la: dos task to perform, and has succeeded in turning back to the treasury a lar-ge sum of money which ~never would have be en G< 'put back had it not been for the ly conscientious and continuous tu labor of that officer, a work he th accomplished over the best legal of talent the liquor concerns could dit employ, and for his splendid ha work he deserves the gratitude hi f the tnaxpyr of the State. gc I.the smaftest clothes ever rou'1l see them in our store nc vho know what good clothes 0s Coyrgt at chfne Mr ew m del fo-menandyou trons -w thrSuta- od aes r PHONE~.. 166 If te cnvits ae t bepar- Thenewpapes, ll ver he ol.W me* htsteueo h x onr r aton the Demo- was :a1 y us f rals intecurs tcrt nCogest adopt * a *ndth* e e rat thes pardns ae beig ratonalmetho in dalin with a' "dla anethpnietir wilso tetaif.W ati mat ya erak deplted.In he eercie o ratonalmetod i to o sow ad *Comon sK-e h oenrsol et ie oec eto h ei-t n h .-a4ise aswl shmn.laini ato ohrwrsti ac a kind f loca optio tarif . gtrc o Booke T. Wshinton. he - -.- - "Od oc lebate nero ductor go Juge arydecde in%~4 th toamxu ihajaioYncsfth euctapit .wYr4as"udy gtad et ha . ovro a no Te e -ss eeeycubdta ergtt pontwsi com Yokde st ake toahsitlt amsinr o eufr onyedyt s onsdesdIh atrwowr o~rcmeddb aebe isokWahnto o br-th ont ee ao. Tela.et.ft r- elain to maisrae alonthn nitytowia nmoe for m pone neendend yh eour btherc ofhsuit hs e.of oefcHo maesm roai StetHoeer weaytsur $3.50cdemm to $5; Cxr.ss mself wat's make for the eat coseetry are ctionn the JdeSta wasll ane e pe nitentiay wilso h aif Wha disr ean. b as eraska this Spring=and.wI offered to the well dre w; and a little later yo 3Lre. HART SCHA clothes ---we're talkir for men of the most ination. Everything actly what you woul specify all the detail, They're clothes mad his interests; not sir sell. Hart Schaffner wool fabrics; the your clothes; the the advantages certain you are' The shape-keer quality of the ts that. As for style, Lhec style creators; you'll As for fit, leave it to -* we'll be more ashar We'd rather not sell Ifor our own -sakes. SPECIAL F' Young fellows, business men, will f most striking model maker, the Varsity; to look at them; we just for the pleasure any kind. Lg men in spring suits; ~aves; at prices from $1 m $10 up. Boy's Knici & K. Hats, $3; Hawes :ome of Hart Schaffner & 1liam Jennings Bryan Jh .Jnswowsrcnl ears old last Mondlay, cnitdadsnecdt h ent was celebrated withpeietayfrteklngo dinner" at Lincoln, b ersie a ie ei the home of the great to o adn'ihtegr r. We will venture twoero.Jnsiintepne re was not a person at taypniga pelt h uet more loyal to the speecutadi shrl inee of the Democraticprbbetahewlbeadod the presidency thanbeoeteaplishrd Ln ofMannng. essohe apea. abanesoo was reenl _____ conviten senenedt the gvro a ptaeanytiy for the millingro 1 ernoorionescontnehetpinten-w not seemto have abude thatt renill el hardne C Leaders on both sides when a married man in South l laboring for an adjust- Carolina contracted marriage in e differences, but so far another State and afterwards. as been accomplished. brought his second wife back to1 epresents the majority this State while his first wife is s the party, and Roose- yet living does not constitute the lz lative of the ex-presi. crime of bigamy in South Caro e ainority forces. If the lina, but against the State in D continues New York which the second marriage was1 t Le a Democratic rep- entered into. If this ruling of t a in the Senate for the the Judge is good law it will be s ;ion of Congress, and a boon to that class of persons a' nion the party in that who take unto themselves a wife u lose all it gained in thewherever they happen to locate il mfor awhile. ear we hope=some of ssed men of this section. u'll see them on the men FFNER & MARX ig about them-are made critical taste and discrim r about these goods is ex .d have it, if you were to s of your own garments. .e for the wearer, and, in aply made good enough to & Marx use onLy all t's what you want in more you know about of all-wool the more Lo insist on having it. ing, the service, the Liloring all depend on %e clothes are the product never do better in style. us; if the clothes don't fit, aed of them than you are. L you clothes that don't fit DR YOUNG MEN. :Iressy young college and ind in this great line the s ever offered. The Shape great stuff. We want you injoy showing suech things of exhibiting fine work of new fabrics, colors, pat 8 up. terbocker Suits, $3 to $10. Von Gal Hats, $3 to $4. Marx Clothes. SUMTJE3R, S. C. A bank president at Wichita, of the agricultural people. It (ansas, was convicted for buy- means a general building up of ng stolen stamps. He bought the country. all avenues of trade he stamps from a former chief are directly effected. the - .aren f police who bought them from ant reaps his harvest when the mother man now under sentence cribs are full and the mtney can r robbing a post office. The remain at home, the banker gets anker in his defense claimed he deposits that heretofore had to id not know the stamps were gc West as fast as the crop was tolen. The penalty is five year~ Iharvested, and all along the line n prison and a fine of $1000: it means the great life giving im ncle Sam will not stand for the petus to progress. fractions ot his laws, and those __________ who will violate them, be they irge or small, will sooner or ; How's This t ter have to account. Wc offer One Hunre Doallars Rewar f or If it is true that the corn rais Ha. 'sF CHEE & Co., Props., Toledo, 0. aed 3800 000, and there ha hoob'iaibsns rasatoania een a falling off of 00 cars of the rtn arry uta wobleslrg.ists Toleo b. orn from the West. how much WES nrs, st a1 r wholesa e drug-it.ToeoO oney can be savecd to this coun- gksTieo Cur stknItralatn is yea a As a writer recently th ytm rc Tc e ottle. sold by all naely phrase that means vol ns in its applicatiplet fam roprt inh countless homes Makes Kidnevs and Bladder Right