The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1904-09-15
Thursday, Sept. Is, 1904

Thursday, Sept. Is, 1904
Really, it is quite an honor to be de-
feated candidate in some counties IN
South Carolina when one considers the
character of some men elected.
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The butchers have lost out in the Chi
cago strike, and have gone back to work
at less wages. They deserved to lose, for
as usual, they attempted to win by blood
shed and murder. We sympathzie with
labor but not with lawlessness.
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Good prices do as much or more than
good roads to induce large receipts OF
cotton at any market. Our buyers at
Bamberg are doing the right thing in
paying all they can for the staple. Let
them keep it up and the receipts at this
market will increase.
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You can't kill book agent. One was
knocked off high trestle near Sumter
few days ago by freight train, and the
train crew had to get in and save him
from drowning. he is not hurt very much
and will recover. The book agent, Ikea
cat, seems to have the proverbial nine
lives.
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The county Democratic executive COM
mittee of Greenville at meeting last week
adopted resolution declaring their op-
position to candidates for any Office
serving on the committee in future. This
is exactly right and every committee
should take similar action. As We said
few weeks ago, the party machinery
should not be in the hands Of ofice-hold-
ers.
The primaries are over, and without
doubt they were the dirtiest ever held in
South Carolina. More dirty, malicious
falsehoods were distributed to defeat men
for Office than ever before. We never
{ want to see another primary election if
they are to be conducted like the recent
ones. There must be change, for good
men will steadfastly refuse to submit to
such an ordeal in order to serve their
State.
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The Columbia State says that several
of our contemporaries have stated recently
that all the editors who were candidates
in the primary this year were defeated" ="
We have not seen any such statement in
any newspaper, but we have said that
many editor-candidates were defeated,
which is true. Some were elected, how
ever, but the defeat of some newspaper
men whom We know does little credit to
the voters.
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s Editors as rule especially we little
country fellows) get little commentator.
1t is the man who is displeased at our
utterances who generally lets Us know OF
his outraged feelings, and those whom we
please forget to say anything. Therefore
kind words to us are doubtly appreciated,
and it was indeed pleasure to have one OF
Bamberg county's most intelligent, SUBJ
sstantial and influential citizens warmly
congratulate the editor Of this newspaper
q few days ago on it's editorial express
sions. He believed that We were right and
cordially said so. 1t is a pleasure to know
that some people appreciate the work we
are trying to do. We think as we please
and say what we think with the single
purpose of standing for the best interests
of our community, county and State, and
it makes the burden lighter to have the
support of good cit izens.
The Herald has published many politi-
cal communications during the cam
paign just ended, and while everybody in
this section knows that they were inserted
as paid advertising, still we regret that
many of them were not so marked. Some
were plainly marked advertisement" but
in the hurry and rush of getting out the
newspaper, others were not. Hereafter
we expect to mark every paid notice as
advertising, whether personal or political,
when it is inserted in the reading col.
umns. We never place these sort Of COM
munications on the editorial page in any
event. The fact is, this newspaper is
largely responsible for the fact that the
newspapers in the second district are now
getting pay for advertising from con-
eressional and other candidates which
was formerly inserted free. But we look
on it as matter of business; we are
running a newspaper to make living,
and we do not work for nothing for any
body. Every political or personal COM
munication, of every kind and character,
inserted in this paper is paid for. We
notice that some of our contemporaries