The Times And Democrat

Senator Tillman is getting ready to give Teddy the best roasting he ever got.

Our voting contest is getting quite lively, and before the time is out it will be red hot.

If there are any blind tigers in Orangeburg county they should be run down and put out of business.

Governor Ansel attended the Taft banquet at Augusta on Wednesday night, and to his credit be it said he did not slop over in his appropriate little speech.

Prohibition will be the entering wedge to split the Solid South. It caused the Democrats to lose two congressional districts in North Carolina and reduced the Democratic majority in other Southern States.

The newspapers that every day visits hundreds of homes, and is looked upon by its readers as a reliable friend and adviser, is the medium through which the wide awake business man will speak to the people.

There is going to be rupture between Taft and Roosevelt before the former is in office six months. Taft is going to be President and not wear Roosevelt's collar as some thought he would.

If what "Native" says in the Walterboro Press and Standard be true of conditions at Smoaks, we are inclined to agree with him that night riders are needed in that section of Colleton county.

A colored preacher at Suffolk, Va., murdered another colored preacher so as he could get a call to his church. No doubt this is the first time in the history of this country where murder was committed to get rid of a preacher.

So far as the white Republicans who are holding office in South Carolina are concerned, no one has any objection to them, unless it be some so-called Democrats who are anxious to aid Mr. Taft break the solid South by holding these offices themselves.

We hope Judge Taft will not forget all the good things he has been saying about the South when he is inducted into his high office. There are many ways in which he can help us, and we hope he will not forget to do these things when he is President.

Talk about the electric road is being revived. We have never doubted but what this road would be built sometime, and we are not surprised at it being agitated again. This road would mean a great deal to this section, and we hope to see it built in the next few years.

Judge Taft is going to try and break the Solid South by appointing so-called Democrats to office who will help him do it. For our part, we have a great deal more respect and confidence in the present Republican office holders in the South than we would have in such so-called Democrats.

The prosperity promised by the Republicans just before the Presidential election don't seem to be forthcoming. It was claimed that the election of Mr. Taft spelled prosperity for our farmers, but the low price that has prevailed for cotton since that event has taught the farmers better.

The shops of the Norfolk and Western Railway at Roanoke, Va., have closed down, throwing fourteen hundred men out of employment. Similar action is being taken by other railroads in other parts of the country. It only shows that ante-election promises of prosperity don't count for much.

The Bamberg Herald says, "In his address at the Methodist church last Sunday night, Rev. J. L. Harley stated that he had been told by Dispensary Auditor West that there were more blind tigers in dispensary counties than there were in dry counties." If Auditor West made any such statement as this, he ought to give the facts to the public.

Some of the newspapers that ridiculed Chief Justice Pope for his decision in the Jones case of Union now say his resignation is a great loss to the State. We do not believe any such nonsense. Judge Pope is an elegant, lovable old gentleman, but his day of usefulness is passed, and he has the good sense to know it. None of us can withstand the ravages of old Father Time.