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ESTABLISHED 1844 The Press and Banner ABBEVILLE. S. C. Wm. P. GREENE, Editor. * The Press and Banner Co. Published Every Tuesday and Friday Telephone No. 10.? Entered as second-class mail mattor at post office in Abbeville, S. C. Terms of Subscription: One year ?$1.50 Six months .75 Three months .50 Payable invariably in advance. FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1918. Vwcin i Buy Them And Help Win The War FOR SALE EVERYWHERE THE CONGRESSIONAL RACE. Fred H. Dominick is not congressman from the third district by our choice. We did not help elect him. . We voted in the last election for his opponent in the race. But that race has been run. Mr. Dominick won, and he has represented this district for eighteen months. He is before the people again, and his same opponent is making many charges against him. Mr. Dominick . spoke in Abbeville on yesterday, a***] 1*10 fA Ailran'a rmhliaTiarl Oliu UIO A vv w speech, the latter printed in this issue as an advertisement, was as complete, as it was convincing, to any unbiased mind. We have all been talking about patriotism, and about forgetting the past and putting none but loyal mch in charge of the ship. If we are in earnest in this should we not forget factional differences and try to elect the best men to office? If we should, has Fred Dominick measured up as well as, or yes, better, than his opponent who filled the office for fourteen years before him? We think he has. Tt ia tni?> that Mr. Dominick at the time of the declaration of war voted against it. But at that same time the Chairman of the State Ekecutive Committee of the Democratic party in this State, was against r war. The Greenwood Journal, Aiken's strongest supporter in this district, after the war was declared, stated that none of us wanted war, but we were in it and it must be fought to a conclusion, which is Dpminick's position. Mr, Wilson * Avas elected President shortly before] on a peace platform. Representative Claude Kitchen, of North Carolina, the chairman of the Democratic Ways and Means Committee and Democratic floor leader voted as did Mr. Dominick. He has been nominated again without opposition. Nobody claims that any of these men were or are disloyal, even though a great many people honestly believed that we should have been at war since the sinking of the Lusitania, and the offering of tne nrst insult. Why then the fight on Fred Dominick on these grounds? We will tell you. It is simply because of his connection with Cole L. Blease, and the latter's Pomaria and Filbert speeches. It should be remembered that Fred Dominick came to Newberry as a young lawyer, and was taken up by Cole L. Blease, then a practitioner at the Newberry bar. ; . He saw Dominick was a man of ability and made him his law parti - ner. A friendship sprang up between them, and Fred Dominick would be worse than an ingrate if he did not feel kindly to Cole L. Blease. But he should be charged in this campaign with his own sins and not with those of Blease. He has ability of his own, and judgment of his own, and a record of his own, and by these he should be judged. But if we judge him by his politi?V - - . . ... ..... . .... c?.l friends, then we should judge i'^: his opponent by his political friends m r."so, and foremost amongst them i.-'.j v, 2 would call the name of W. P. loj Esard. Beard started a paper here ot daring the campaign of 1914 be- te tween Dominick and Aiken in which th he advocated in one column the cii election of Aiken and in the next at the election of Blease. He was al- tii ways and under all circumstances; th a friend of Aiken and one of his! th most sought after political advisers, j pi' judging by appearances. His paper, tri was published by W. W. Bradley and | aii his partner in their newspaper of-Jco fice in Abbeville. W. W. Bradley i lo: was Aiken's private secretary. Whenjth the present owners of The Press and J tri Banner purchased the plant, they' ini refused to longer publish the Scimi-j tar, and then under the instructions th of W. W. Bradley, still Aiken's sec- Cc retary, a considerable amount of fa type was turned over to W. P. th< Beard, which it was stated Beard Th would pay for, but the same was j tal { charged to W. W. Bradley on the j tei book/ of this office, and will there bu speak for itself. The Scimitar was ha; l published continually from that wi. I+Jivin until it was barred from the els mails by the United States post office authorities on account of me Beard's disloyal utterances. It sup- th< ported Aiken all this time. ' rai After the Scimitar was debarred los from the mails and after it had been an adjudged to be disloyal in its utter- so] ances, Beard again tried to get outj Ar a paper under the name of Thej va People's Advocate. He did get out no one issue and offer it to the post of office. And who do the voters of of this district suppose was one of the th< contributors to that paper? Will SOI they be surprised to know that Wy- we att Aiken appears in an interview in Otl * ?J?J.f.nJlIf inai papery UUUCI I?mu| certain acts of his as a public man ? of Is it loyal to be a patron of: a dis- in\ loyal'paper? By contributing to its Sa columns did Aiken not endorse be< Beard's efforts? Did he want his support in this election? me And the people Should know that after Beard was convicted of dis- tj. loyal utterances and sent to the At- fh lanta Penitentiary, or while he was SU( on his road there, Wyatt Aiken appeared at the Department of Jus- g01 tice in Washington and asked for a he parole for his ' supporter, W. P. g^ Beard. Is that loyalty? Was he jj# trying to get Beard out to help him ] in this election? ! Uje* The people mjy refuse to votej gta for Dominick because of his con- dec nection with Cole L. Blease, but J Cai Will they support Wyatt Aiken, < knowing of his relations with Beard? to "You may pay your money and dus take your choice." the - ma GET READY. diti # . ( Ma The time is approaching when the the government will offer the fourth hea Liberty Loan. The campaign will firs open the latter part of September n0 and will last for about three weeks, the The people of tb,e South " are in 4 the midst of prosperity. The people enc of Abbeville County are sharing ma1 that prosperity. Whatever the cra weather conditions from now on, 5 we feel sure of making a good crop the of cotton, and the conditions war- q0( rant the inference that the prjce will cjn again be high. We are rolling in f money in this section brought to us tha by the war itself. not Shall we deny to the government twe a fair return for the prosperity Can which the government has brought m us? Shall we deny to the men overseas, who are winning the victories, ] a share of the great sums which unc their arms are bringing to our own; De] shores and laying in the laps of the | an people of the South, to the endj s that these soldiers may continue to p0\ fight our battles and win our victor- anc' ies with as little danger to them- anc * " ?1 11 selves as may De.r onau wc uiobc Ior the casualty lists lighter? Shall we the say to brave men to fight on and we 3 will lend our support, or shall we 1 say to them fight my battles while nec I "hog" the profits incident to the cau undertaking? 1 We have no doubt that the coun- pro try at large, ana ADDevme county, j taken as a whole, will perform a erii full share of duty. But in order to anc take our part of the six or eight in billions of dollars worth of bonds we pan should begin to lay plans to that ^ end. A man may want to make act financial or other arrangements in 1 order to do his share towards help- nec ? the government. The farmers, Dst of all the people, are prospered now. The other government ans have been largely t?ken by her pepole. They first felt an inrest in the war and the boys from e industrial communities, and the iies and towns went to the front the first call to arms. But the ne has come when the boys from e farms are being called to take eir turn at the wheel. As the peoe in the towns, cities and indusial communfties have come to the d of their boys, the men^ in the untry with the means should now se no time in getting ready to do eir part towards making their conibutions towards properly supports' their own boys. We feel sure that we may say for e men of means in Abbeville unty who make their homes on the rms that they are as patriotic as ose in the cities who have money, ley may not be as accustomed to Icing large sums of money in en prises as men in other callings, t we believe, now that the war s come home to them, that they II not stand by and ask someone e to -do their duty. Believing this we urge upon the: :n in the country sections to see! iir bankers and to begin to arige to shoulder their part of the id in the great war. Financial rangements may be made, but netimes a banker needs notice. i /I itf A nV\r?nl/l AM '< ? J in we onuuiu tcix bUCIIi ill aunee what we expect to do. It is t too much to ask of the people this county to put every dollar profit fl-om the present crop into ; government securities. We are newhat of a farmer ourselves, and i propose to do so. We advise lers that it is their duty to do so. the profits from the cotton farms Abbeville County this year are rested in Liberty Bonds and War vings Stamps -oiir quota will have en paid. Let us do our duty to our governnt. IE ILLITERACY COMMISSION e Illiteracy Commission has is;d the following statement: L. The Illiteracy Commission of nth Carolina was appointed by ! Governor at the request of the : ite Federation of Women's Clubs. PRINCIPLES. J L. State Pride. The shame ofi ng the most laggard of all the' ites in literacy should sting the :ent self-respect of every South rolinian into vigorous action. 5# The Future. The terriffic test which our political fitness and instrial competence will be put in fierce after-war struggle dends universal education as a conion of self-preservation. 5. A War-Measure of the First ! gnitude. Since the success of war depends mainly on the whole irted devotion of the people, the t duty of patriotism is to see that citizen remain insulated from currents of the Nation's mind. I. To save the world, the efficiy of rapacity must be overtched by the efficiency of demotic intelligence. i. Tc deny to any of our people chance even to read the word ofj 1 is to violate the very spirit ofj ~isutuui.y. I. It is pathetic and intolerable t hundreds of worthy people canread or write the letters be- J ten themselves and their boys in J lp and trnch. THE WORK OF THE COMMISSION. L. The Commission is to work ler the leadership of the State partment of Education and as auxiliary to it. !. It purposes to do all in its per to co-operatc with, encourage, 1 aid all persons, organizations, J I other agencies that are striving the education of illiteracy from State. | !. It will endeavor? To work for such legislation as is essary for the success of the se; To use all legitimate means of paganda and agitation; ro become a center for the gathig and exchange of information I for correlation of all agencies the State working toward the le end; ro assist, as far as possible, in ual execution; ro raise the money that miy be essary for the above named ends. ?3?a?S I The Rosenber Department Stores Special MidTwenty.Five Per G I --iL ^ D i cuem L,euuier\r urn tiful New Kasts hnd *This Reduc)km OH That You CarbHan ' \' tV/f^n'c Qfvaiik ATAVil a k>U u \ Panamas?2 When You Con?idei Begin Vfith, Y The&e Value [ The Rosenbet b Depart] ville, : i i i i * . . ? > ? ' ?i ? > > - ? ) ; ' OPERA One. Night Only THURSDAY 1 1 V High das DRILLS, SON V V and:PATR Rendered by Antrevil Benefit of I 11 Canteen 5e COME OUT AN! The Abbeville Cotton 1 ing Music on the I I ADMISSION - ADUL Gallery Reserved Exclusivt ???? g Mercantile Cp. I Abbeville, S/C. j C* T\ / I aummer rtrces ent. 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