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De Aarning imes. LOUI&' .I'II-'.I'. MANNING. c.. 'E-. PUBLISHED EV ER1 WEDNESeAN GIVES REASONS FOR PRAISING WOOD ROW WILSON. Mr. Editor: Last week I wrote an article for your paper over th,' n:-d plume 'Palmetto Amer a. : which I commended Prien: Wilson for his st: uhm and his advocacy of oure: try making some preparation foer i fending itself in case we s::v.d. be driven into war again st our will. I was afraid not many pMF ple would read my article, but it seems that the people of our country do read sucil articles. Since your paper came ont last week somebody has uaed to my non de plume nane. care of The Times, a little . amplh!et which arouses quit'e amount of interest in my mind. I do nket know who mailed the pamphie:. as the person did not disclose his name. out the article is a nrint ed speech by John Brisden Wal ker, delivered in New York last November, in which the speaker severely criticises Woodrow Wii son and his administration. charges him as standing ii. with the moneyed interests, with be ing unneutral, with being favor able to England and against Germany, and with being guilty of many other bad things. and finaily predicting the Presidents downfall, "a monument of fail ure," etc. The article was mail ed to me from a post office in our own county. But the interest ing part of the matter is when I find stamped on the back of the pamphlet, "Distri uted by Ger man- American Literary Defense Company," who have headq uarit ers in New York City. To my mind this last revelation pre sents matter for thought 'on the part of American c:itizens who love America and he'r id..b That is as much commnent :ts I care to mak-e on this incide::: a: the present time. In my ar-ticie last week I said that the President stes dange.rs ahead, or th~en hie wouaie speak with such f->r.e . 1. tence that the coun~ry~ get b* hind him. Hie has told the. Pu ple in several of ins spoe.':s that they were expectong him~ ti maintain the rights and d'.g 1 y of the country, and to doitnh honor, but that the t::ue nlh come when lie could not ma:: tain the honor of o.ur cuantr-v: less the people were behind im, and that if a crisis should cL n-' while our navy might oe ade quate, that as to land for-ces we were utterly unprepared. TI President knows what he istl ing about. Do vou know up t fifteen year-s ago the United States maintained an arm'- of 25.000 men, and that now our regulars only number some where from eighty to a hundred thou and. Any man who has been~t no farther from home than Chrle" s ton would know that a iltt army of eighty to one hundredJ thousand would not be a drou in the bucket if we wer-e to get into~ trouble. I am penning this article on Saturday the 5th of Februar-y. We all know that the contr versy between our governmenit and Germany over the sinking of the Lusitania by a Gena sub-marine without warning'ntr the drowning of a hundredu o more American lives. has niot been settled. The lat--st ii patches which we ha-e ro Berlin. in the daily pap-r to day. indicate that the Germa government refuses to adni that this act was -illeg-a , ari a violation of internaioali laI If it turns out that tls:s G-n any's final attitude, thenw> next? What ar-e w- gor about it? She huas wicke>*' with the heart of sai':awr a passenger ship, w.ituit ing, and d rownI(1cd . orw and children in th- a where ther had ar Her reply is. them, but t al."' Ca:n that? WJ~ the United a: cowards? D. love of U ber: are the pinc p. forefathers g?0 lives to obtain c pray God tha:tuc case. and if I thought ' CA." l~a .2 : ''' Li.'ll : t .L v( 20.I li Vt", Vt :, + I1 It i ' '1 . C"'~_: u"t :.t . ' t ' )il t1 : 1I "~uu orderly or dis.orderly. '.'. Ile th~e ihi gh seas o-,Aong to the world. beyvond thlree I jeis fr'oin any I do not ti rk. in his adVocacy of I.. tparct~i a'ss. thia; the Pres: Lieut S a!' , V (1Lflr .? rs ahead for us 1:it:. Eaiiad. and e trt iII \' ~ Hve PA Ifu ) at :pa: a- ,y LtiO)u.e with France or ':s ai or Fjt:V~. Frank.- ile pcii us ge"t ou r hi'.dual, over a n u :ired years'. ago~. anti tie Iia:Ile of 1..Lf-I *i "g'te is revere.i ii :11.'1it . ; et) and the ul' tctr ine out furt~t byl JmstlteiaisUteir.jt dcil lit'r of South A:::e:" ica anid the entire west-'rrli;"_:11 isp he re I cannfot un rstand 5)U iso lated tall; in our own country by A nericans, exnressinr hatred for Engla nd. England is th1e< best friend Amler'ica has today and: has been for the pat~ }hullil red y ears, the dem;iagogory of1 Hoke Smith notwithlst~Lnvlnz \\- gof our i..%ws fromu England. gX' ot our iingU:Ig.' Dritlc i )I ii i:ngut'. tul i her' t('a- a'.' t). S. 4 !I :1 I2 ' I n'~ of ') : 22: \'r .I i' .iH ' )' : C : ~. H+ i "' :x : I1" {, "i (l ! ' MANNING'S FIRST TERM. ion. Lowndes J. Browning of Lnion, on Friday addressed the oullowilg to the umlbia State: (ne year ago one of the most s:)tr it. and Irogressi Ve ad i".s.', -*Ver delivered bh one of .r governors was made by the neumba~i: t upuen1 his inlau'rurationr n ; ibC. It is speakiIg mild sur that the ht art of everv t:.n -ast . tie d with a ' wen ther heard or tue o. W,- felt that fac as !indd' deLad and . t that an era of I .bai, IVei 'dedl hvy ou: State dAwnXed. bult abov and (i bie om+i a e'.' Wt' ftet that trnly a. a:id order wouId reign su Iura: the year that has since ).iLSS., lt : see what we fimi. As ti farcina:ism an t jiserver v:t ordinary Liscernment will ee that while the declaration, -I Staid Iymy friends," has o: been blatantly and vocifer )usly prociaimed, still the effort ,o build up a personal political nachine has been as unceasing is before. I will not take up pice to cite instances, but they iave been apparent to the most asnal reader of an extremely riendly press. In regard to constructive leg slation the present general as emably, with the hearty approv ti of the chief executive. has nade a beginning along these .ines worthy of all commenda :ion and approval. Notably night be mentioned the estab isilent of the state tax com vission and the state board of -harities and corrections. If the )resent session will carry out ;he recommendations contained n the first report of the state ax commission. submitting the ,onstitntional questions to the )eopie at the next election, en .cting into law such changes as -an be made by legislation, I eel sure that in a very few ears we will have a taxing sys e'm just to all, and which will nehila ample revenue for all gov rIheILtal nd. None' of these Ailinariatons are new. ali of :m and theis equaliy as d1e !2a h'.av b n I: d5iscusseii tiue othi Upn the hust n:Is an throughji the, press. 1Throughzj Ibie work of the e.>m fl -..in on01 tba1ties and corme ..'sImuch go))i is sure to followv n 1:w mor ie um?ane, Sanfitary ii ini-il n tr--at:nient oif thle I e nue how ti thait for whieu .L no1 i strea tmin risC llgi-N .nan its source, so the greait hss5 of tile pe~ple feel the' sume espect and reverence for the aw of the land. as is shown by noUsi placed in positionis of high ionlir andI trust.. in its tirst year this adminis .rto I Lf as attemputed to violate he ?aw in at least three notable nlstances. ThIanksl~ to a learned mdII patriotic j udiciary, two of iweSe ciTorts have already been rustrated. When the general ssembliy, in its zeal to aid this dministration in every way, at empted to usurp the functions >f a constitutional state officer >y appropriating $2,000 to be ised Ly the governor for legal .dvice, he, had he been true to ids oath of office and true to his >atte cry of law and order, rould have vetoed this item, in orming the general assembly but the law of the state placed is duty upon the attorney gen rii. it comes with poor grace ro~n hi~s exceilency to say in his :aenwssage that this fund , A notben used, when the *e~ are he accep)ted it. and if *Iua [ Laurenscorrespondent tat .1 the truth, he attempted to s and was only stopped by~ ls c R C. Watts sustaining 0be obci on of the attornfey fcie.. These beinig am using to see - he inpr-sion that it . mtr ac pnthe pat in1 not usi' tmis ud You even quote in1 Vour1 *r in histac r -nt he ateha onl -e loss.- hs been a- r. people iav very laws he has sworn to exe cute. The second instance in which we are placed under obligation to the judical department is in regard to the sheriff of Kershaw county. In this instance was the sheriff, as charged, derelict; in his duty in not enforcing the law. We do not know. for his excellency constituted himself prosecutor, judge, jury, and would be executioner. Had this e act of the governor stood, see s what might have been the effect! should the state ever have as its Q ch1i-f executive a man who was V striving more to gratify his per sunal am bition than to execute f the laws of the state. Following F this as a precedent. he could t have removed every sheriff, in fact, every oftleer elected by the e people, filing their places with i his own satellites and thus de- t strov the righiits of the people to t choose their public servants. t 1 cume now to the third dlar- b ing violation of the law. In the e fixing of the salary of the super- r intendent of the hospital for the t insane, article 5, section 24, of I the constitution reads; ''All v officers other than those named t in section 9 provided for in this t article shall receive for their ser s vices such compensation as the n general assembly may from time J to time by law direct.', The I general assembly had fixed this t salary at $3,000. In the begin- h ning, his excellency had secured t the services of a physician of v nation-wide reputation as a heal- a er of the mentally afflicted. He i not being a citizen of this state, i under the constitution could not a be appointed. s Next we hear that the present p incumbent had been appointed % at double the salary fixed by law 'I his excellency pledging himself s personally for this extra compen sation, should the general assem v bly not make the necessary .p t propriation. Some mild protest b to this illegal procedure was r voiced through the press of the b state so that his excellency i his address to the general ac Sembly on January 14, beats a r'tre~. St:ting that he does !:ot ask the general assembly to r'-: in burse him for this extra comipensation paid. but that the pr-esent incumbent's commission will expire February 15, so that if the general assembly wishes to retain the sercices of this pre emI ietlyV cap~able superintend enit it can fix his salary accord in-l. Perit me to ask if you' ever heard of a mlan being ap poi n'ed t.. suoh a po. 'tion for so short a tiuwyf Has n-ot an aLes i from another state bee-n emt poyed as assistant superintend enit. at a saiary of $3,000. If the present superintendent is so pre eineiintl y ouafliied for this po sition. why was it necessary tu emtploy ani assistant, and phwe him in charge of this most im portant depart imnt. WouI i' not have been better for the pr. em inentiy qualitied sup)erintend ent to have personal charge ofj this department and to have em ployed a competent business man as assistant and place'd him in charge of the executive branch.K I trust you understand I have nothing against the present su- jh permntendent. I would view the [fatter in this light were he myh dearest friend. - i His excellency is disengenu ous, to say the least, when he r attempts to show that the raise ti in salary is comparatively small. In speaking of the perquisites b1 that the present incumbent does 1 not receive he says that the sa perintendent had the use of a c house. Is not the house still be there and does the state receive fc rental for the same. He was b' furnished lights, water and fuel, ai Does not the state pay a lump u. sum for water for all its institu tions. He was furnished veg~e tables. Did the state receive re-j muneration for the vegetables the present incumbent did not ~onsumre? He was furnished I servants from the institution. Ip; Are not those ser vants still there Ihi witout extra cost to the state.p de was furnished an automobile. Fas it been disposed of in like t nanner? If these questions can t >e answered in the affrmative, t sherein has the saving in per- Ica uisite benetited tl.e state? Have we not a statute the sub- iw; an:ce of which is as follows: ti If any person or persons bar ain for the pu rchase or sale of wi ee. re warid or other proti t or a ake any promise or assurance tt or the payment of any money, fu ee. reward or other pretit. for w myl office, he shiall be adjudged t disabled person, in law, to S maye, occupy and enjoy th- said s' yfi. 'If such :s the -as, i wot the present su perint'ndent ru misuijfed nmier th w- I Si DVER 2,000 HE Beautiful Weather x-Governor Speaks on ISSUCS Personalities and Fr veri as' se) ll' I:e ".t ("!,_ I .n': i s ti. . . pe'aker?, gainn-red'! in1 .E mtl, ne f Ilcon. (''t- L. H 2I I Il:ease l'Il:u~ h"1; pcber.e ~zi c1.stecio o enjoy iiV r .~ra int I tt 011O I '1 ' " V*. F .! 1 V tin raryI . tio::n wo (rU: d "n thel' W es .. . o '.U. (", he -.her~ri o a - - he I' cr athi*r-Ui t t: i': l - Uf stanti ." usle- - ; tt . . .M . aiu int:oduv i il .. 1. ! sne.t., w !f I in a -... ... ... emark C I nc\'tr -dIie :P ii, I).Li12 8l *C i r1. 1 heo peop_)le i;dt (tni: x (overUor Bits. 11.s s1 as a tine piece of orattr. . Ducbed on the intd he day, praisi d ti wint, ystem and the tn- uh 2ade it what it is t.ia i L. McLaurin. also tp II ). White. who stuck :" the system whlen s. gilators were trying to . be life out of it. Biea' -as free from all harsh ud hecritized no one. U' 1 general, telling his i: n fat he would saY nothin ) iat man's back that he could At ay to his face. but whtn the cuml aign open next sUmnrt ?. rould call a "patdLe a SpI . 'he following are some of the ubjects he spoke on: Gov. Blease said that when b n 7ent out of the governor's ofiice tU wo years ago he resigned. anda .e had never seen fit to give his easons for resigning, but that in y his resignation he gave to al out.h Carolina one of the e n :la .2: t and be t. ctzensu to a seve Out the n~t Illn is trmf. le saidi that pers5o8A e had tilild th lie his political :am8' ratiied. hut that me v., formi and economlie on when started di ith the defeatoft r t lived on. He 58:1 ent out (of otlierm imn to rUnl, andt w: >nferred as to wh Sselected to (8arrye rms which had be' na him, but that tin- ru 1, and upon the ad en en from all over the Sta Ls ml the race for g'r' o rain. That but for the carryh.' it of the principles oif gover ent which he ad': wa'e I h. oud not have underten .:n spense and trouble f ea:. igning 44 counth-s. :u. ' tre g.iio back to N . actce his chos-n p it that theO prin' Ivctes are* in - r pepl. andr t .stand for It Governor AR BLEASE. Orderly C_ owd. the Da,, All LL " r(;Tii B use. ! ;111 itl " . . + il l, , " + 1.111 . Ald 1f :!.1:... iii ::! t l;t', "'1' ! , cu . 'tit., +" ll :l ". ; ' !ll tIl"'\ wol*e ;1" I!1 lild Yt"t';)"llit'lt ,'i.l:." ti ;i:)..ii a!1_i t.it llted it c'})t,".i'llt:l 1. l':;uLi ti) Will MeL:lurid +Jll"" a fI ' Lid t:i L )111'i 0i 1 lti(MS f)t' fiM : e ;t ofiritt'IecIt LID to v'ight '-r ven t wizen moneyed well] and St Ite (.U (I hborroWu 1I111CV ais !ilu hiIv "C]; Pa.. . li that I at' . lt'a ) Si ll I l ,1T ev i iU 1 t a-I W )LL.i tii' ft iilies I1: a'. ~rt. ;, It e to '' I I ti ,1 Iit VV;.;: x i 1~ tile,;y t )o Ii.) tt-sa I h". wa!II,i to if -t~tac With 1111 an~d ill d 0.:i~t thatt soiU-* :; )1 1- be d)f1e fur thle bellt I t ilt! t Pc I 1)!II4' Of I( l" Ie> ;aid hit.3 did not c, Ill '!l C vI, could not niC~~no -I. Va ;:l I and would :It )Iru Strii:1r. tikiitk!Ir !Neil ,iit, ad till iit , .st. , the" pet) "i1 l 1 1 11 lI11 " ' 1)t .1I nbu)Ic lII tt : & i t)..: fur')iris u; to i illt 1 : t 1) 1. ,:1 a I1 :Ii ins het'1i 1~i ;tm 1 ,.1:. .:iL~ t'" Ii I I: ' I~ t A ' :. _ ' . t i. v 1 ' ) . 1ii. 1) . Goverll..- B3ea:!' wsto e~ Ii Vera I aii add res~s that Ii+'h r. to ie \XU:)d~nen IOU )Uo at thei r all tal banquet, but owifl, to imf )rtan t busi ness nIl( Cin u a')~, he as forced to call it off and eave catch It trainl at Soianter for at city. Ho~une er, he spoke on l-oodcrltft at 4 u'ch)C;"- to. a large lid attentive audience. For Sale!. t: i i tl,) \ _u 2t \ ASTURES ARE IM?ORTA ;T F32 PO'. PRODUCTION. C.letur.on L',il1.r.. F .bruar; A bulletin thiat i<" r(lomtImntflded A) South ( ' 1!). r.tisers io. he' t n m St'i l:)! i' s ock sp-eil: sts of Gesn-on Co eg-' is Farm _rs' B u le n 411. 'Feedin H, rs n the South." Tns bulletin mar 2e obtained by farmers f om the Divis'on of Publications. Depart n"nt of Agrieuiture. Washing on. D. C. A summary of the =ubject is preietnted in the bul etir as fol ows: 1. Hor-s can be raised at a protit in him South, and South irn farme S should raise more of 2 . H.gs can not be raised profit bly on corn alone. 3. While por-k can sometimes )e mado at a t)rOfit when corn is supplemented with nothing but t concentrated feed. still it is lot w is: to use concentrated supplemnittts alone. 4. Hogs can be produced ,heaper when pastures are used ilong with the grains than when ;rains are used alone. By means )f pasture crop: pork can b! n id. cheaper in the South than t is possible to make it in the -orn belt. 5. The advantages arising 'rom the tt of pastures are: Pork costs only one-third to >nie b ilf aIs much when pastures ire used as when concentrated e0s a Alon -r used. The soils are improved very n;ttri.uly as a result of grow n. le.gutes for hogs and feed In tx ra ;rainS to the animals. Th' r.s are harvestl thru I hos - without danger of loss rot r::it and without expense. The hi.>s are under favorabie lealti conditions; therefore, Sas foti diease will be les sened. DON'T FORGET TO SPRAY. Have you made your attack on the San Jose scale yet? Remem ber that this is just about the worse enemy of fruit trees in S. C. and that the only effective way to control it is to spray your trees in winter when there is no damage to foliage. Com mercial lime-sulfur, in the pro portion of one gallon to nine gal lons of water. is the spray to use. The use time to use it is be fore the buds begin to swell in arly spring. TATL OF SOUTH CAROLINA County of Clarendon. (o)'itT OF COMMON PLEAS. ..W. Go -..y. I.taint itT ,.it as: UNDER;L AND) BY VIRTFUE OF A ad:-nt U der .,f toas Ciur:. of Comn in m.-:r.-e'-I, hearing dat.-of Jauuar. th. 1916i. I w:li seiI v. pubilic auct~ion, a e i *zu b~ d weC . c a-h, at Ular' ,l Coutr, Huse. at Mannint. i t t' m, w-;hin te lei.LI nours f..r eIt s .-... iu :d unday, rh. i 1.d - b' 1 t. 1t91 l . tion s:eNay, tt, t n~ . ' ~ e-rt a .1e p~s brelo ora d. . .Cat e. n :mdd Iei I ~ ill '0...-n :p, ries MC-t a:.. a . , co n kn f u(40 ..r . n b u i ta flls:.or I 'a 1c.-.C f p t. R i., a: a-- . A. I. B3A RRON, Piles Cured in 6 to 14 Days -our drug~gist wilt refund money if PAZO aNTMEN1T fails to cure any case of Itching. lind. Bleeding or Protruding Piles in 6 to 14 days. he first apptication gives Ease and Rest. 50c. suit everybody. Small and realt money eomel itt and let n0 H. it-ss. Saddle Horses, fan fun ish ytou with most line. so dottt fail to see us ant~s, Ua rn ess. Lap Robes, Rigby, ARE 3,: .o - VINOL." thte Ds. e ou Lrne of \RKGIN OLIVES. NlTAR F ~IOUNTAIN." der he mot sanitary UG STORE.