The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1916-09-22
KELTON

Kelton, Sept. 1S.-We had a nice
little season last Thursday evening,
which will do much good to make the
late bolls of cotton mature and peas
and turnips. A good many have not
sowed theirs until the rain came.
Well, the second primary came off
Tuesday. Some good men were elect
ed and some bad ones, so the old ship
will move on and we won't know much
difference. Politics is very rotten or
some men are very corrupt in politics.
If man is not honest in politics he
is not honest anywhere or any bus
mess. Some of the candidates in our
county were under terrible cross fire
and few old Confederate Veterans
are still living and they know what
it was to be under cross fire in
hot battle. Gault, a candidate for cor
oner was one of them. Some man
after the first primary went to Lock-
hart and told that Gault worked all
day against Barnes who lived there
and was candidate for township COM
missioner against Farr who lived at
Adamsburg, which was as big lie
as Ananias ever told for Gault was
at Union on the day of the first cleo
ton. The whole truth is Gault and
Farr are related by blood and Gault
and Barnes are related by marriage.
The whole scheme was to injure Gault
at Lockhart and Adamsburg and also
at Kelton as Barnes had a good many
friends at Kelton and on the eve of
the second election it was circulated
that Gault and his friends were sup
porting Barnes at Kelton. Gault at
Adamsburg on first election received
81 votes and Harris 9 the other can
didates, five, receiving % votes to go
to Harris or Gault and Gregory re-
ceived 25 of the % as several Greg
orys live in that section I suppose re-
lated tc Gregory. And IN the second
election at Adamsburg, Harris 55 anG
Gault 10. Harris gained 46 votes and
Gault lost Is and at Kelton the first
primary Harris received 4S votes and
Gault sc. At Kelton second primary
Harris 105 and Gault 81; Gault lost
5 and Harris gained 81 and the first
primary at Lockhart Harris got AZ
votes and Gault 104 and on the sec
ond primary Harris got 120 votes and
Gault 140. Gault gained SO votes at
Lockhart and Harris 7S. So I can't
tell how the result would have been at
Lockhart in the second primary. If
! those false reports had not been cir
culated in Gault's own township the
vote would have been much different.
1t was also reported in the governors
%al
to be Bleaseite in some places and
Manningite in others. A fool can
understand the tricks of men. What
kind of cross fire Gault had to
stand or retreat. All such reports
can spread rapidly at the cotton mills,
but they are learning very fast not tb
nay any attention to those eleventh
hour tales. Look at the returns from
the different boxes and you can form
pretty good idea how the thing was
worked. 1t wouldn't do for some men
to be candidates if such reports were
circulated on. If so, some men would
be badly hurt, if not killed. One can
didate in the recent election told one
of those who circulated some reports
calculated to injure him in the cleo
tion that he knew his tales couldn't
hurt him at his home box but if cir
culated such reports at others he would
stick his knife to the jaws and try
to break it off in him. So I was reli-
ably informed and I know the man
and he is just that kind of man. I
could write pages of such occurrences
in politics but space and time forbid.
Just look at the tales told on Godshall
and not only to injure him but another
man in the race for another office.
was one of the happy number who
attended the reunion of the family of
Mr. and Mrs. Simp Long, which has
already been reported in The Union
Times. We all surely enjoyed our
selves.
Rev. j. D. Croft closed an interest.
ing meeting at Mt. Joy church last
night. Rev. w. A. Strickland of Ricn-
land did most of the preach. He is
very earnest and forceful preacher.
Fifteen or 16 joined the church and
the church was much revived
The Kelly school will open today.
Two of the teachers arrived last week.
Mrs. H. A. Gault is teaching che
MCGOWAN school.
Mrs. Mary M. Page is very sick
at this writing.
Mr.. Editor, enclease you sketch
| clipped from the Progressive Farmer
of Raleigh, N. c., which explains it.
self of a gigantic scheme to rob the
farmers of the South out of millions
| of dollars. Why have not the big
dailies exposed this fraud before now
/ take daily paper and if it has