The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1902-08-06
Another Christian Gentleman

Another Christian Gentleman
Edgefeld Chronical
Mr.. Editor: I notice in last weeks
Chronicle an article signed J. ".
Brooks, admonishing the people not
to vote for a wicked man. He con-
cludes by saying; Il think the
people would make wise choice by
voting TO Talbert or Hayward" A
stranger to the other candidates
would infer from this article that
Talbert and Hayward are the only
Christian gentlemen il the race. l
do not wish to be understood as op-
posing in particular any one of the
candidates; but I feel sure that if we
all take Mr.. Brooks good advice to
vote for the best and ablest Christian
gentleman in the race, DR.. W. q.
Zimmerman will be our next Gov.
ernor. I have known DR.. Zimmerman
for more than thirty years, and / re-
gard him as not only the purest man
in the race, but one of the purest and
most conscientious Christian gentle
man I have ever known. He is not
given to going about, wearying re-
ligious gatherings with long-winded,
noisy Sunday-school addresses, so
strangers may not know much about
him; but his near neighbors zone of
whom I have been for twenty years.
will gladly testify that the sincerity
Of his religion is proven beyond ques-
tion by his beautiful, unpretending,
consistent Christian life, which daily
speaks for him more elequently than
all the speeches that could be made.
In his comnity he has always been
leader in every good cause, and is
pillar in his church both financially,
mentally and spiritually. He has
been a leader in providing good
schools for his community, and has
often insisted that those not finan-
cially able to attend should do 90 at
his expense. As physician, I dare
say be has done more ch ty prac-
tice than any man in the State-and
has done it so quietly, cheerfully, and
unostentatiously as to remind one of
the Master who went about healing
the sick.
As farmer, he has always been
abreast with the times, giving his
community the benefit of his pains
taking research aud experiments.
As a neighbor, I have never one time
known him not to do as he would be
done by. As man, he is simple in
taste, quiet in manner, sympathetic
in feeling, courageous in action, sue
cessful in business, temperate in
habits, and irreproachable in chsrac-
ter.
He is no politician. II he could
have stopped to the underhand tricks
Of some politicians, he could have
held a high and paying Office long
ago. He is patriotic statesman of
too pure type to compromise his in
tegrity for the sake of the highest
Office in the gift of the people. he
has been identified with the public
life of his county and State for more
than twenty-five years, and during
the whole time there has never been
q shadow cast on his spotless record,
yet he has never held paying Office
but once. Brother Christians and
Democrats, now is the opportunity of
your lives to reward this good mans
consecrated life by making him Gov
ernor. By so doing, you will honor
not only him but yourselves and your
State. In him We would have Gov
ernor who would always be on Sun
day in his church pew, and on all
other days in his Office, attending to
his lawful business. You will have
in him Governor whom the most
refined la1v can erproech a. anv tim q