The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1902-09-17
HOW THE GAME WAS
PLAYED IN THE COUNTY.


The game is over. 1t was a good
game well, and for the most part,
cleanly played. The people have
thoroughly enjoyed it. A few of the
defeated and their friends take it seri-
ously. They will be all right in a few
days. Some are happy again even now.
Brother Jno M. Clardy is a notable ex-
ample. He was In a pleasant frame of
when the votes came in just as he
would have behaved had he been elect
ed unanimously. There's a man you
can't rufle with a little thing like a
primary. Nor can you make a mourn
er out of Ben Ballew. Some men whis-
lew whistles to keep up the courage of
other men. And Drummond-he's been
in hotter fights rather than this and
nobody saw him hack. You know they
called him an "~aristocrat" and they
did not mean it kindly but there is
term to cold Jim Drummond" than
they knew. Around the word-aristo-
crat-lingers the aroma Of something
fine, something gentle, something of
fire and spirit not found in the clay
that most of us are made of. cold man
Drummond" is not a typical "aristo-
crat" perhaps, but there's a trace of
~"aristocracy" in him, that same indie
Enable something that manifested it
self In the dashing superiority of
Southern men on battle-fields, that hard
times and ups-and-downs of life can't
quite expel. Ferguson is beaten-but
a memory there will linger of an ideal
Iy modest, courteous and efficient Off
Ger. Nor can defeat wipe out the re-
cord of Frank p. MCGOWAN, a record
of industry and careful telling efforts
in the South Carolina Legisla-
ture. We can pay him no higher com
pliment and ION more true than to
say hat when the house of representa-
tives meets again MCGOWAN will be
missed. We might mention them all
"who also ram" some twento and more,
but 1t suffices that q cleaner set of fell
lows never went over the course in
Laurens and none, not one, really de-
served defeat.
DIR. B.. f. Godfrey did what few, even
in the race for State offices and Con-
gress, succeeded in doing. He added
an idea to the campaign. We believe 1t
would have been wise for him to have
made his campaign solely on that chat.
tel mortgage notion of his. Had he ham.
mered 1t In steadily and let alone all
things else he would have had enough
ammunition for a successful fight. That
idea was the best political asset in the
campaign. He didn't value 1T suffi-
GENTLY. Sometimes the lustre Of a
jewel Is ruined by too much setting.
We think DR.. Godfrey discovered o
Jewel and hid it In the multitude of
other issues he raised.
Mr.. Sullivan would have made o
highly creditable Representative
Thirty, forty, ~ixty years ago Laurens
sent to Columbia such as he and they
| DuIlueu tu6 oVdtS' LID Nopo Wouiu
have gone alwayst to the side OF liberal,
broad, constructive, lasting better
ment of South Carolina.
Yes, it is q gala day for youth Justly
youth. Irby, Cooper and Nicholas
trio Of promising colts. Earnest, sturdy
men they are and they will oil count In
Columbia. Humbert, without doubt, is
olear-headed, sagacious and practical.
His office is the most important and
most difficult to fill of all. He IL sure
to make enemies, SO muSt al! County
| Supervisors, but IL he does not make
| his mark, we shall be mistaken in u
| estimate of him. "Bunch" Power is
another youngster. One rarely meets
q young fellow of more pleasing adj
dress. His success is not surprising.
One knowing him would find 1t diff
cult to vote against him. AS @ friend
maker he has rare qualities and he bris-
ties with energy and intelligence.
We believe that Judge Thompson
owes his reelection solely to the fact
that he has proven and is proving an
exceptionally fine officer. Had he been