Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-08-13

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first the votes and all things else
will be added unto you."
Pictorial good roads literature
has been very much il evidence
at every campaign meeting.
Trapp FMcManus, who is dsve!.
oping into real orator, says that
thinking up a speech andspeaking
it are two different things.
There are 30 matriculates il the
county summer school of oratory
the campaign. Who said oratory
had declined F.?
If some of the candidates can
get a vote for every baby they have
kissed they will get the plum on
the first ballot.
The Red Hill meeting was open
ed with prayer by Rev: G. W.
Busy who served the Red Hill
church as pastor for % years.
Mr., Evan Morgan's exordium at
Red Hill was; II am now fifty
eight years of age and | rise to
make my maiden speech as a poll
tician.
The members of Red Hill church
realized on Friday last quite a nice
sum for their bdIlding fund by
eellipgrefreshments and barbacued
dinner that would would please
the most exacting connoisseur.
Two babes-brt not twins. Mou-
zon Smith styles himselfthe baby
candidate for the Legislature and
Willie Byrd is called the baby
candidate of the race for superin-
tendent of education.
A trio of Johnston citizens
Messrs: Bean, Coleman and Waters
each had hand in presenting the
orators atJohpston. Mr. I.F. Rettls
performed this office at Trenton,
and Judge l.. G.. Bell was mine
host a. Red Hill.
The Nestor of the campaign is
Mr. Evan 6: Morgan, sr., Gus
Edmunds, by common consent, in
Guiding his own. is the clown of the
itenerants. But for him the same
ness and monotony would weigh
heavily upon those who attend all
the meetings.
On Thursday last the Trenton
ladies prepared a veritable e1rpna=
ton dinner which they sold for The
benefit of the Baptist parsonage
funds. This delightful repast was
fit for the gods not merely the
kings of earth.
One of the candidates declared
that too much money is being ap-
propriated for high: art education.
We DO like to appear 40 ignorant
but must confess that this Is "be=
yant" US. Can some one inform US
what "high art" education is ?
At the conclusion of the regular
programme at the Red Hill meet
ing Dr.. D. A. J. Bell of Paeksville,
one of the good roads champions
of the west side. addressed the
audience. I'VE regret that it was
not our pleasure 10 hear his speech,
Gus Edmunds says that some
of his brother candidates have
grown 80 fat on their foraging ex-
pedltions that they had to discard
their old belts and buy larger ones.
May be after the primary they
will feel so small that they can
again use the discarded waist
band.
This is the cleanest campaign
ever conducted in Edgefield coun-
ty. Not an ounce of whiskey has
been used, not harsh word spok-
Ell, not hard thought "thunk"
not campaign lie has been circu-
lated. Verify we are in the shadow
of a political millennium.
S. NJ. Smith, Esq, says on the
stump that he is farmer, avowing
that he follows farming as side
line in order to. recoup what he
loses in the practice of law. We
hope that be grows corn and not
cotton: thereby causing cereals and
not the fleecy staple to decline in
price on account Of 30 tremendous
a yield from such an extensive
farm.
Some of the candidates who
made their first speech at Johns
ton seemed to have tongues as thick
and unwieldy as bull-tongue plow
but now after some practice they
are as glib tongued rs lawyer. AS
the campaign has progressed many
leaden tongues have by that touch
stone pratice, been transmutde into
silver tongues.