Show Regeneration of a State C CIVILIZATION progresses so 50 slowly It is VJ Impossible to examine tho the past decade In 1st retrospect and definitely that an any particular day day- or month or year car marl marked markeda e 1 a perceptible step stop forward Man Many have feared indeed that Europe has been demonstrating demonstrating dem dam how excessively el thin is the veneer ve ye- neer that separates civilization from tram barbar barbar- ism An And 1 yet yot civilization does move onward onward on on- ward as tho the defeat of ot Colo Cole L. L for forthe tho the Democratic nomination equivalent to toan toan toan an election for tor governor or of South Carolina amply attests formerly r governed crne 1 South Carolina Caro lina Una in a 3 riot of oC misrule that seemed to shame shamo every state tato but that ho was ing Ills His tenure of office was a a. reversion to the primitive when lawlessness was at nt ata ata a n. premium and criminals exalted as mar mar- Xo No less than fifteen hundred inmates of Ot South Carolina prisons were pardoned by Blease who considered them victims of or ofa ofa ora a stem 53 which he lie co could l not correct but whoso whose consequences ho felt himself privileged I to suspend A crook elevated cle to i power jower b by some ome amazing combination of ot evil Influences could not havo have acted I I I South Carolinas Carolina's rebuke to the politician she honored may be accepted as proof that South Carolina Is progressing CivilIzatIon CivilIzation Civil Civil- Is making Inroads Inroad there as else che where Brazen effrontery apparently Is ia no longer considered cred the hallmark of ot courage and shameless boldness s has ha cea ceased d jo So o be bo reg regarded as the outward manifestation of ot Inward honesty If It I has it-has dawned dawned upon this section of ot Solid Sold South that that public officials need not not nece necessarily fy be bo gauged by theIr ability to outrage tho the sensibilities of or the themore themore more moro north a norh long step stop forward has hns been taken taen Sept Sept 12 1 1816 12 1816 should hereafter ho he a R red leter letter day on the South Carolina calendar It I marks the regeneration of or a a. commonwealth common common- wealth Another of ot Francis FancIs Josephs Joseph's generals has resigned because of ot Ill health m although at last lat accounts tho the boys bors In the trenches hes have havo o ha had to t find finda a letter better beter excuse if It they want an to go o home r Y I 7 |