The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1920-07-07

can rally around with confidence that
he will make president of whom we
shall be proud. He is a man who has
already come up from modest circum-
stances to the governorship Of great
state and bids fair to reach the high
est office in the gift Of the American
people. Although a man Of the people
he has no radical ideas as to the
ri2hts or privileges Of any special
class. but is sticklor for justice to
everybody, rich and poor alike. Nor
IS he a conservative in the sense that
he is for big business" his record
in Ohio establishing the fact that he
is sympathetic toward the great body
Of producing people. He is reported
as having liberal views on the whiskey
question but any change in the liquor
situation in the country will come
from the people and not him. lie
will execute the law as he sees it.
If the Democrats had considered alone
the matter OF winning in the election
they might have gone further and
Jared better, but in Gov Cox the!
have found a man whom they can
depend upon if elected to fiji the pres
idont's chair with credit and ability
Correspondents and contributors to
The Advertiser are again reminded
that their contributions should be
signed, The names OF our correspond
ents are never published in the paper,
but it is essential that they be affixed
to the copy they send in. On many
occasions, very much against our de-
sire, we are forced to destroy valuable
news letters because they lack sig
natures. Two such were destroyed
last week. We would like to have
correspondents in every section Of the
county, but we must know who they
are. The Advertiser seeks to be
reliable paper and we must know
that our correspondents relate tho
news OF their neighborhood in good
faith
People are hard to please. When
the whole state was in a fever heat
over elections several years ago, near
ly everybody hoped for the time, or
said they did. when We would have
nice quiet campaigns and elections
that even tho ladies could attend on
their way to the tea parties. And now
who is elected and only a mercst
handful Of people attends the cam
paign meetings, We hear complaint
about the "lethargy" of the people
There is no difference in the voters
Of today and the voters Of few years
ago. If we had candidates in the field
who were out for a hot time, or who
considerable element thought would
be a menace as an Office holder, we
would be having a hot campaign this
year But such are not the conditions
Most Of our candidates this year are
seeking to win more by diplomacy
than by gas attacks and hot bricks
while no considerable number Of v0t-
ers are fearful OF any particular can
didatc. We need to fear little either
from the heat or the apathy of cleo
tions. We may expect the same gen
eral average Of officials from either
condition
An entcrprising real estate firm with
the main office elsewhere and branch
Office here has been guilty of very
ridiculous statement in widely pub
lshed advertisements, part of which
relates to this county. After referring
to other counties in terms Of highest
praise it says that "Laurens county
has been little backward for several
years, but is now forging to the front"
or something to that effect Taking
any real estate dealers index of pro-
gress, viz, the price Of land. we would
gather from the list Of Laurens conn-
only forging ahead but has been
ahead for some time. lIaurens county
farm lands compare very favorably in
price, not to mention productivencss.
with the land Of any Of our ncighbor-
Ing counties and lead most OF those
labeled as very progressive. Price of
land, however, is not always an index
OF DrOgroSS. but IL is in II JJaureDc conn