The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1904-07-21
THE ADVOCATE.
Entsrsd At the Hat esburg, 8. c.. Pos,
office ~ Second. G lass Mail Matter :
n. Rogers Bayiy. Ed.::and Prop.

For Vice.Presllent:
HENRY q. DAVIS,
Eli<ins. w. Va.
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The recsipts Of our postoffice con-
tinus 70 increase. a good sign for
any town,
Get innocnlated with the building
fever. 1t will help you-it will help
your town.
Don't freeze to the dollar that will
rstard the advancement Of your homo
town-if you do. it may Away. remain
dollar.
Our present municipal administra-
is serving US well and every citizen has
just cause to feel proud Of the course
1t ir pursuing.
Col. George Bell Zimmerman, Lex
ington county's candidate fer Solicitor,
in recent speech. gave this as kis
conception ef the duties of the office
Co which he asplres: "The office OF
Solicitor is not one Of a legislative
character, II has nothing to do wife the
formation Of the laws of our land, but
with their enforcement and admI nis-
tration. 1t is an Office, id my humble
opinion, that has more to do with the
good conduct of citizenship than any
other. save it be that of juror. 1t Is
the duty Of = solicitor, therefore, to
lend his assistance, insofar as the
law gives him means, TO the conviction
Of the guilty and the protection of the
innocent" That is a clean cut and
precise statement of the duties of q
Solicitor. and we believe such ideas
will meet the approval of the thought.
ful public. We feel safe in saying,
also, that he not only has the right
ideas about the duties of the office, but
the ability and the determination with
which to put them into execution. Col.
Timmermau is tbs, ,siRht .kind of man
Loo pot "a sucn an effice, and, If rumor
can be counted for anything, We pre-
dict that he will lead In the first prim-
ary by q large majority.
Did you ever get something for
nOthingP At times you may have
thought SO. but look back, reclIect
well, and you will find that you have
more than given the equivalent or you
would not have received it. If you
have not you are expected to. There
is q string tied to everything and
something for nothing" is thing of
the past. Lorg since it sunk into Oh.
livion. The politician of today, work
ing or advanced methods, may send
you present-he does so in the hope
Of getting your vote. The friend in
business may send ynu rare find of
his, something real nice, he wants
your trade. The paper may say some
thing nice of you, and it is bidding
for Jour patronage and friendship
when it does sc. and thus IL goes. This
subject was brought foreibly to the
writer's mind a few days ago when
one Of his best friends presented him
with pocket-knife. We thought we
were secure iD our ownership and that
We bad in fact really received a gift. |
But the friend came back post haste,
and our visions Of real gift vanished.
eur fondest hopes were blighted. He
told Us that to give knife and to re-
ceiye nothing 10 return would break
our friendship, aud that the gift should
be coin, piece Of money that has
the sanction of Uncle Sam upon it. I
Here again were hopes dashed ~ IN the
rocks-''something for no, hinRs Wss
merely dream, it has never and will
never exist, and who pays more in re-
turn for the mere pittaDce it receives
9haI the paper. The Advocate wants
friends, and it wants to serve it's
frienhs-in fact it has never gone back
on one--but the Advocate has got to
livey'' On the atmosphere and rain
water it can not exist, nor will fried
rabbit tracks aud snowballs lay the
for hard days work. Each
weekly visit is an expense and We do
~ anp fr,apAo nat.nn.-a