The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1902-09-04


tions galore, the farmer has littl,
time for play.
Pickens county counts anon!
hor voters big clement Of tn
most Intelligent citizenship of tn
state. 1t takes only Il glance a
tho tabulated result Of tho state
election to demonstrate this fuliy'
The fight is on in earnest DeI"e:"
John Gary Evans and A. q. h"',
mar This is race on which boast
full political calculators find 1T 'i'-
fcult to settle any positive opinions
this far before the election. Things
arc orystallizing, however, ana Joy
next Saturday the result may DO
known with comparative certainty.
Local pride always plays a con-
spicious part in elections. This ls
croditable to any community when
the man put forward lor office
measures up to the requisites OF
Office, and there never was a llme
more opportunc for the assertion Oh
tho privilege Of helping good mon
to places of usefulness and trust.
Pickons showed up SO we'll in the
last election that politicians are
seeing the weight of our vote as a
factor in state politics. Pickens
county practically cast the deci-
ding vote in the late race for state
superintendent of Education, and
she may decide other results in the
second primary. This arproxl-
mate full vote Is gratifying for
many reasons, not tho least among
which is the prestige and lmpor-
tancc it adds to the county.
Some of tho newspapers of the
state would have us believe that
the election Of O B. Martin to the
Office of State Superintendent Of
Education will prove public ca
lamity.
All tho public school sense is
not bottled up in Mr., McMahan,
and Mr., Martin is as young and ao-
tive and patriotic as Mr.. McMahan
and perhaps quite as we'll Informed
on alI matters appertainiDg to the
office. No doubt the business OF
t office will be carried on with
az good effect a. under Mr.
1ahan, and we do believe Mr.
....~.,1ahan has worked reform il
school matters Of South Carolina.
When the Southern Railwa,
completes the scheme of double
tracking its line from Atlanta t.
Charlotte, this county will hav
added to her attractions the dis
tinctlon of having within her limit
part Of the trunk line Of one c
tho greatest systems Of railways
the world. Every improvement
inaugurated by this railroad meal
some advantage to Pickens count!
and every clement of growth in tt
county means positive benefits
the people. The legitimate a.
vancement Of any enterprise moa
d corresponding advantage to Il
people touched by it, and when t.
progress is represented by raj
roads, the benefits to DO doriv'
ought to prove of lasting quality.
w. Jasper Talbert 10 essentially
politician-one Of the smothest a
ticles in that line that ever "can
down the turnpike" Hayward is
the midst Of his fist political fgl
with lead that ought to tlatter ar
candidate for any Office with suc
an array Of worthy competitor
Some predict the result in Hey
wards favor with assurance, otht
good guessers shake their heads
doubt, This much TO our mine
briefly stated, ia certain; Table,
10 hoping and moving for suooea
With deep schemes, we'll laid. J.
tho event OF his election and 70
election two years hence, 40 Go,
esnor, he will offer as the most fo,
anidable candidate possible to i'm
Imagine In South Carolina polite
Against 3. r. Tillman fox the Uu