The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1910-08-17
TO LAURENs VOTERS.

SduIGho Woo VI bdDibCu do a Countg
about the year 1889. So far as we
know, Laurens county has never had
a governor elected by the people. The
late Governor William ID. Simpson
was elected lieutenant governor and
served a part of General Hampton's
unexpired term. The late Col. James
III. Irby lacked one vote of being elect
ed governor by the legislature. 1t
is time that governor from Laurens
were elected. The chances by long
odds favor C. c. Featherstone's cleo
tion this year.
or course Mr.. Featherstone will car
ry Laurens county by decisive ma
jOrity; of that there is no doubt. but
he ought to receive the solid vote OF
the county.
No voter should support weak man
or bad man from county pride, but
it will help the people of Laurens to
have Laurens governor. Don't you
think you ought to support your
neighbor, If he is good man, because
he is your neighbor?
Now you men of Exon, of Cross Hill.
OF Sardis, of Shiloh, and every other
neighborhood in our old county, you
sturdy hard working farmers. with
opinions or your own, ruled by nobody,
men who make up your own minds,
don't you think it would be a good les
son for your boy If you could point to
your neighbor here in your county.
as the governor of South Carolina?
Don't you think it would encourage
him? Your boy must grow to man
mood here in Laurens; he will depend
largely for his success or failure i'm
life on the friendship of his neighbors.
Every man does. Unless there is some
mighty powerful reason. don't you be-
lieve it is right and proper and COM
mon sense TO vote for Laurens man?
This man Featherstone is no molly
coddle Every good, strong man with
red blood in his veins who isn't afraid
clashes sometimes with other good
men. Featherstone is LAWYER and
he is no feeble and chicken hearted
lawyer. Here and there he has aroused
resentment in the court house-be-
cause he is a hard fighter for his
clients and does his duty by them. He
may have crossed your path But are
you not too broad minded and too free
from pitiful prejudice to let that in
nuence you. If Il man to whom YOU
DO not speak but whom YOU know to
be square man and the best man for
an office We're running. wouldn't you
vote for him? Isn't it your duty to
lay aside petty animosities when the
public interest, your States and your
countys good, are at stake
But, you answer, There's the
principle of local option-I am on
posed to Statewide prohibition" The
Advertiser replies that If you are con
vinced that prohibition is wrong and
that the question is one OF profound
Importance this year, you SHOULD vote
against Featherstone The Advertiser
would not advise you to betray prin
clpie But there is no practical i'm
portance in the issue. Tlirty-seven
counties are already dry" In five
others a prohibition law would be
fairly we'll enforced, as well as In
the average county. and they wouldn't
worry If they had prohibition. In
the one county where everybody is
opposed to prohibition charleston
they are also opposed to county dis
pensaries and so prohibition could not
make matters worse-the blind tigers
would not be more numerous I'm
Charleston. The enactment of q
State prohibition law would scarcely
be felt. you would never know it, If
the law proved unsatisfactory, 1t would
be repealed but the prohibition agita
tlon VIII go on and on until prohibi
ton Is given trial. The writer of
THIS article Is not a prohibitionist but
1t seems plain to him that prohibi
tiOn law would not cause a ripple at
THIS time and it happens that the
prohibition candidate is Laurens
man and the ablest, far the ablest in
The Advertisers opinion. in the con
test.
is there any reason why you should
oppose your neighbor this year? Your
boy has mighty slim chance i'm life
II he hasn't as good chance as
Featherstone had Mr.. Featherstone
came to Laurens without any money
He hasn't pile now. U;s fotber