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J POLITICAL HISTORY j ? ? Veteran Newspaper Man frills in Reminiscent Mood. BEGINNING OF TILLMTM RECALL! D , High Sense of HonOr Kept^Joseph H. Earle^from Governor's Chair?May-> field's Witfidrawal from Senatorial J Race Is Recalled?How Black Rivv^j Got Its Name. Geo. R. Koester in Greenville Pied'mont. ' ' * * . The presence Of feriiale dHysates mado the South C&rolintf Democratic j state convention last week different J from its predecessors; but that was' f the main difference. I hav^ been at al- i moat every Democratic coyvegtion in this state for 34 years, eij,hci^as re-J poYtcr or rhe'.iber ou bojh.' My first' was the famous convention of 1888, j . which I rejiprted. The whole course I - - -- 11 of politico In South Carolina since mat /Into mlvht have been different, h^d not Jrseph H. Earle had such a high sens-, of honor. ' . \z? . vVhen that convention met, John Peter Richardson was serving "hi$' first j term as governor. He was.a typical, gentleman of the old school, k-indry,'' considerate and courteous,' very much satisfied with 'his state and a natural , conservative. Hec made an excellent ,figurehead for g fehip of state sailing through a placlti sea. Llkfc the vast f * majvffty of 'the gentlefncn of hfs day,; he lilted his mint julep,o". other blepd-i fd beverage^and, with two or . three j . . snifters abjf&d, could mt;.ke*a mbst%U , oquent and ifecllqg uespop.se to the toast "South Cufrrtina," which was a large part of the duties of the govern, or of 'Supth Carolina In the old ban- | quoting*days, when (|Uite an array of' \Vlne glasses sernl-eltjHed In front of ^ each plate at a public dinner. Under the old convention system, be- j fore candidates were nominated by primary, the proletariat had little share in government. But, the giant was hptrinnlnc to stir in thfc e.ghties, to rub his pyest to wonder why leadership in the Civil war should 1*- construed aa giving an unimpeachable title to public office in-the (Jays of peace. Tillman had been making himself the voice of that aJPakeniW proletariat. . He ha<lAsi>ckun Id various places in the stttc, voicing discdlTtctUrn'cnt with the i "ojpao corporation, limited"' manage- | mont of,the Derhoefatic. party in South | Carolina. And, as to David of old,' "every one that wus in distress, and every oue that was in debt, aud>every one that was" cffecdntentod, gathered themselves ujpto hitjn; ai d he became a cafUaln ovi^ thorn'." Even sonta who had been Republicans or < Jreenbijckers. BIDS HIS SOLDIER ' bsr '-r' - . r--. -r? ^ ' I ^ ^ ^ .. ........ 3^1* :i,-?.:'?:..w&mmm * Wliei the First Irish "Guards Doreen, the masgot of the regimer - - Yes! The "Brer Gillette R It uses tl lette Blac And it si lar price The %oo\ with 3 genuine ? FAT. NOV Gillette Blade* t , yZi O C ; V/V"> \ Si' \not to be /wSwo \ wJ vJT Wo#No bla ' C the q T -Gilletti / s . When that convention of 18R8 mot,' the opponents of "?il!man in it agreed j in support of a ronomination of Rich- j urdson. 1 have never absolutely made. up my mind as to why the opposition threw away its support upon Earle. It may have been l'orco of habit that led , the proletariat to think it had to 'give leadership to one of the old nristocril- : cy. It rflau haVe been dile to a knowi-! edge that (the proletariat could win ! that year without the help of some j of the aristocrdcy and a*convictioh that i such help would not be forthcoming, J which would leave Tillman free to say j in a future campaign, wc t^ied to get one of them to lead us, the best ont* of j them, and he would nW, so we must J depend upon ourselves to make.our | fight-, The delegates aligned witb- the new Reform movement had Earle put in j nomination in the convention of 1888. j Eai*le was a man of ability and had great love and capacity for public service. I have always believed that if! he had agrood to accept support Jn 1888 | he? and not Richardson, would have | been the nominee of the convention, j Which would have meant ins eicciiun and Hnch a satisfying of certain desires of the proletariat as would have made Impossible the Democratic revolution' ?*. South-Carolina in 1830. The masshad confidence. In Joseph H. Bad", 'ifhe best proof of that is that he was the first one of the old school of public nicn in this state to score a state victory over the Tillmsrn machine, and ho did that as early as 189fi, when he was i elected United States senator, defeating J"bhn Gary Evans, whom* Tillman ! had made his 'successor as governor,] and who was backed in that campaign I by Tillman and his closest associates, i It was announced to the convention / that Bade would not accept the guber-. natorial nomination if the convention should give it to him. His reason did j his sense of honor credit, but it chang- ! cd Hie course of history in this state. I Heflljvs attorney general during Rich ardsim's tirst t&in- as governor. HP did. not owo that office to Richardson. In a" sense he was a member of Richardson's official family, but many did not see how that in any way made it necessary for hi#n to stand aside for Richavdsnn to have a second term. ^ But, Richardson had discussed with Earle his plantf and hopes "for a second t<sy-m and this was sufficient for Earle, w)th ^is high sense j)f hQjHjr, $<> preeiiidc his being a candidate In opposition. Despite his fccllnnntin to bo a candidate, Karle 'receivro a very Hii-fee vote in that convention. I believe he could have won had he allowed his personal friends to add their votes to those of the representatives jn.tho convention of the Reform movement.? The main difference between Ihc convention, last week a nd its ' predecessors : PAL FAREWELL. ' ^ . sailed for Constantinople recently it, had to stay behind, ' 1 ^ ' * ^ ?a??;nQ WI11C a gvuumv, Lazor le same fine Gilles i ills for the popu~$1 Brownie rilleiie ilLLETTE SAFETY RAZOR CO Boston, U.S.A. ?w at all Dealers . 15. 1904 \ X o U ^ f VX RESHARPENED/ \ ides likeNk Cr4 enuine a Blades X Q I that I have attended was the presence | of female delegates. Otherwise it was lii^p the otiiors, only a little more so, j if possible. Both Butler, who has attended a number, thought it "a little; mo" wusser." 1 have been in conven- 1 tions in which a number of delegates were disgustingly drunk, .especially in J the wee, sma' hours of the morning. There was nothing of that sort in lasf week's convention, either because of the Volstead law 01 the ^presence of the ladies. Some of the delegates, however, had loosened their.longues a little with hootch. It seems to have a more paralyzing effect on brain than did the i whisky of olden days. . I In every convention I have attended, there have been a few delegates why did the most of the speaking. And | then there has always been a number | who had to unload one rattling speech ' at some time during the proceedings. | But always the great majority have : done little more than vote and laugh I at the antics of the chronic speakers and the prospective candidates who had to air their views on tlie eve of the ' campaign. Normalcy was achieved in Jhis con- | vention Svhcn it was revealed that | John Gary Evans had brought a plat-?j fonn to it. But, this convention treat- j ed his canned goods with scant court- j esy. The committee on platform ajul | resolutions so emasculated it as to rob j him of ail praise of paternity. And what the cominitte^spared the convention, spurred on by gif>rs at the "political essay," as the Evans draft was called, either cut out or so altered that its own daddy could not recognize It. WHen' Tom McLeod, of Bishopvllle, was orating so much in the Democratic state convention last week, and he is a rea^ orator of the old school, I was reminded of n laugh Frank Cooper got at his expense at u Pythian banquet in the eastern part of the state a number | of yearn ago. McLeou nan resyunueu to a toast and, as inevitably'usual, bad waxedyfloquent. Ills oration wax really a prose poem In prahfo of Black river. He had pictured his life as entwined with that streapi- He'had been born near its headwaters, his boyhood had been spent on its banks and its waiters had often laved his I wire feet ,bt-fore manhood's cares came,Jo him; he received his education further do>vn its course and had settled in manhood near its waters, and so on and so oh. Frank Cooper, then traveling solicitor for a daily newspaper; had-a very dry wit, Following McLeofl.' hfc too linked, his life witiv Jlluck river, buf ponfessed that he never before had understood where it got its name until he heard Tom McLeod slate that night that he used to wash his f?et in it when a boy. Another old-timer who came to lifo ngain^ip the convention last week was S. G. Mayfleld of Bamberg, who wan IT. T.Wi 1 CO The tire section above the condition of a Firesl Tire after 20,994 miles < in Chicago. The section at the rig a new Cord of the san measurements show tfya tread of the tire on the L been worn away after th [I test. The carcass is ii 11 nrn nnn rpvr>intie Uidli X*,VWW,^vv - ? Firestone Cords hav< 10,000 miles on Chicaj ' (1,201 j v stone [FIRESTONE] tho< 30 13! i FABRIC stanc $10M a 30 x 3 size S8.95 scieni New IVica I'ltM Tax ? a train Effective May 3D J ^oal" V- ? I S. vs born and reared in this county and educated at Km man. Here Tie is still remembered as "Wix" Mayfleld. In <887 he ran lor the United States senate. Senator Earle hail died that year und Governor Ellerbe had. apiKiinted John} L. MclJiurin his successor, to hold the job pending a primary. In the pri- i mary the candidates who mady the ! start were McLaurin, John Gary i Evans, John Irby and Muyfleld. The latter inade some charges against Mo Laurin that McLaurin strenuously denied. Mayfleld promised to withdraw from the race if he could not prove the charges. When the campaign party was speaking in Yorkville, us York was ^hen known, Mayfleld very dramati-1 cally admitted his inability to prove his ' charges and withdrew from the race- j He remained senator from Ham berg, and in the ensuing session wrs making ! a very grandiloquent speech, in which . he was picturing an eagle soaring into j the empyrean blue, rising ever and I ever higher. He kept getting the eagle up and did not seem to be able to turn his flight so as to get him back to | earth again. The senator from Sjwrtanburg at j that firm- was K. -L. Arfchor, a man with a very incisive voice, keen and high pitched. Ai'ohcr arose with utmost gravity and requested permission to interrupt the-senator from Bamberg. When permission was given, lie said: "I just arose to-state that I think that eagle lit somewhere about Yorkville lasl summer." Mayfleld sat down while a roar of laughter went ardund the senate chamber. THIS FAMILY YOUNG ARMY ' Check-off System Is Necessary for Rationing Food. Had the old woman who lived in a shoe and had so many children she didn't know what to do, lived today she would have learned something In the - > T-* ~ \ r< way or emcieuojr num mi. <*... ....... Joseph Kohler of Iron Mountain, Mich. Air. and Airs. .Kohler are the parents of eighteen husky offsprings, and their brood has now become so numerous that they have been obliged to devise a check-off system so that they can tell /ft the children have all hail all their meals and when it Is time for them to go to bed. The oldest is 18 and the youngest 2 months. The father is a miner, and s|ys that ho has no trouble in supporting the favilly. x jf'-In order thai the mother may know, 'when each has been fed she works on a system of calling each child's name as ^he cuts bread, meat, dishes vege-' tables or desert or jiours the coffee. Each child passes by In lino and gels his or her food on the plate and passes on. Every one of. the older children has household tasks to perform, nqd ! ed tiie: at the left shows and heavy in tl tone 33x41/2 Cord comes, tapered Dn a Yellow Cab steering easy a against dcstru jht was cut from high tread edge le size. Careful expanded to in t only 1/3 of the paralleling of e Yellow Cab has is double "gur is long, gruelling that each cord itact after more with rubber. S* - This is the ; averaged over Ccrds unfailing lo Yellow Cabs mileage. It ex 3 cabs all Fire- mand of thoi equipped). In tire buyers for usands of in- values. The ?S; theL^VC Firestone deale i from 15,000 to contim,e t0 p mi cs' the personal i ok at the tread? that makes Fir tifically angled ^ tire comfort anc st skid, massive _ omy complete. L. COURTN 7. F. JACKSO \ the family keeps several cows and raises some* garden truest. Tlie problem of clothes is not so bad when the wearers range from IS to less than it year, When the older ones outgrow their clothes or wear parts of them out, the garment is remodeled and is n)adc to tit a younger member of the minnture village. In this way it passes from hand to hand for many, many months. The problem of shoes, which cannot bo remodeled, is solved by the father repairing them himself, and ho says it keejis him busy in his spare time doing this alone. x Koliler is an Austrian by birth and is 45 years old. His wife is an American. f ? Spartanburg, May 28: Reports in 'Spartanburg are that a newspaper, to be known as the Cherokee Times, will he launched at (iaffney in the next 30 or 00 days. It will ^>c published, it is said, as a semi-weekly. The Gaflf ney Ledger is the only paper published at GafTney at this time. Hd. II. DeQanip is editor of that. Why She Changed: / "I have always used the cheaper baking powders, supposing them just as good as Royal but 1 invested in a can of Royal Baking PoWder and now find all my baking so much improved that 1 will use no other kind." Miss C.L.B. ROYAL Baking Powder Absolutely Pure | Contains No Alum Leaves No Bitter Taste i Send for New Royal Cook Book ?It'a FREE. Royal Baking Pow derCo^l26WilliamSt^NewYork _A-L - . ? ? :^-r; *"/ i. bKlm raphs LAIC ES be center where the wear . at the edges to make nd to protect the carcass ctive hinging action of :s. The carcass is air bag sure uniform tension and :very individual cord. It n dipped" to make sure is thoroughly* insulated / reason why Firestone jly deliver extraordinary plainfe the unanimous deightful ^ViAr.a Vrtv t\nrl niiAAAffV * I ULUrlLLD 3W : local 30x3'2 FABRIC :r will ^ " rovide ff O 9 9 service Jf O 7 Plus T?x estone 1 r 1 econ- ^0 x ^ s'zc S7.99 J New Prirrs I'lu* Tax "^^^EfTcctiv^MayM^^^ ?Y iN \ / \ ? New York, May 22.?William O. McAdoo, son of ti? former Secretary of the treasury, was married at the Municipal building today to Mrs. Mollie Tackaberry Ferguson. The bride, who said she was born in England, was divorced last March from r- WWVWWWWWWWWWWWWI I Business is C( And Yours Along With It. 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