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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 cat- I ? ? n n I ter at post office in Aooevuie, a. <yf"<. * Terms of Subscription: One year $1.50 Six months .75 i..' Three months .50 Payable invariably in advance. __ TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1918. \ I passer i ! Buy Them And Help Win The War IfOB SALE EVERYWHERE % ^:V - = "Whom the Oods would destroy, they first make mad." jm$ft ' * We are fighting it out on the Western front. Let the cobbler stick to his last and our "farmer" to his plow. V One of the biggest things about Jno. G. Ricahrds is his opinion of himself. f.C; ' Some people's loyalty is as extensive as the diameter of the circle of "our set" * }' We doubt now whether Jno. L. "McLcurin will vote for Blease as the only hope of the poor man. We would like for John T. Duncan to tell us what is wrong with 8or.:e other people's systems. Perhaps if Beard came out of the sack ahead of Blease and Dominick it would be because he was looking for his friends. Over in the Spartanburg-Greei ville congressional district Horace Bomar and Traxler are anxious to * ./ , sing the last verse of the Psalm. If it is true that the democrats may always be counted on to do the wrong thing at the right time, there is no longer any doubt that certain people are democrats. t . Willie praccicany every town unu -j . city in the State other than Abbeville, is either short of, or wholly without, ice, we rise to ask whether the Abbeville Medium still thinks we need another ice plant. It may be, as stated, that if Beard and Blease and Dominick were in r. a sack together, and it were shaken Beard would come out first. But if the sack contained Beard, Bradley * * M T\ ,1 X. ana AiKen, tseara woman t come uuu first. They would all come together, each fondly locked in the embrace of the other two. We thank you! It is stated that W. W. Bradley, formerly private secretary for Wyatt Aiken, is now playing second fiddle for Hon. Nat B. Dial, candidate for the senate, with the hope that he will be Mr. Dial's secretary. Say what you will, W. W. Bradley is a wise old political rat. He knows when to leave a leaky ship. Notwithstanding the loyal support of The Anderson Daily Mail, we, ("we" meaning I) expect James Francis Rice to come forward at the finish and to be elected?to stay at home?by the largest majority ever given a candidate for office in this State, not even excepting Jno. Madison Deschamps, Jno. T. Duncan, W. P. Pollock or L. D. Jennings. Mfc If a congressman always and under all circumstances must take his orders from somebody else and simply record that other person's deK; jfC' :r% fefc* . ... v ' erros, why may we not do away withj a o 7,500 congressman with perquis-: itc i and "insert in lieu thereof" a I $100 Kerr Edison reproducing ma-j chine? Extravagance will not win thh war. '< SUPPORTING THE ADMINISTRATION. | A correspondent at Greenwood, i in a letter to us, says that the out-, 1 standing feature of the congression-, al campaign at that, point was the; attack of candidate Wyatt Aiken o^ . James M. Baker, Secretary of the j United States Senate, and Commis-jj sioner of \ Internal Revenue, Daniel C. Roper, both South Carolinians. ;, We need not refer to Mr. Baker.!, ! t He has shown an ability to stand j ] alone, and he is not important in1 e the present controversy. But let'] Us remember that Mr. Daniel C. R6-f^ per holds the important office which j T he -does by appointment of the j j President of the United States. Hej handles all the Federal taxes col-! < , i' lected in the country for the ad- j ? ministration and tne country, ne is therefore, a vital part of the administration. The man who carries the pocket-boolc always is. He occupies, so far as the taxes which hej collects, something of the position of the Cashier of a bank. Now we would like to ask the thoughtful men of this county whether they think a man, who was interested in a bank, or not inter- j ested, who went about telling de-j positors and stockholders Of the bank] that the cashier (the man who handled the money of the institution in which they have placed their money,) is a crook, or "the tool 6f a crook," and by imputation who charges him with becoming rich j through dishonest methods,?we ask! ] whether the man who made such t charges against the cashier could be s said to be a supporter and a loyal t friend of the bank? t By the same token we ask the j democratic voters if they believe i that Wyatt Aiken is a supporter and j friend of the administration when ] he attacks otie of the chief financial i officers of the government, appoint- j ed by Woodrow Wilson, and kept i in office by Woodrow Wilson, and < calls him "the tool of a crook." Is i he a supporter of the administra- j tion when he undertakes to make ( the people believe that Mr. Wilson's tax collector is getting rich by some J kind of dishonest methods, not spe- j cified? The people may answer the 1 question for themselves. ( Candidate Aiken is makine this i race against Mr. Dominick because, * as he alleges, Mr. Dominick has not ] proved to be a supporter of the administration. Is Mr. Aiken supporting the administration in making his charges against Mr. Roper? It has become the custom' in this campaign for certain candidates to ask the friends of other candidates whether they endorse the statements of a certain candidate on public matters. In line with that honored policy, we arise to ask whether Mr. J. Al len smitn, tne president 01 tne in a- j tional Bank of Abbeville, Dr. F. E. ] Harrison, the president of the Far- 1 mers Bank, or Dr. S. G. Thomson,! 3 the president of th$ Peoples Savings^ j Bank, or any of the pastors of the, churches in Abbeville, including the^i pastor of candidate's Aiken's own;] church, we ask whether they or anyjl one of them endorses the statement: < of candidate Aiken that the Com-1 missioner of Internal Revenue byj! appointment of President Wilson is ] a fAaI n avaaIt " i UUV VVVi VI U V&VVIV? J We pause for a reply from any ! of them. ] AS THEY ARE. They tell us that Mr. Fred H. Dominick is disloyal and not a friend of the administration. But they do not tell us that last fall the State Council of Defense, with Mr. David R. Coker at its head, an organization now existing by authority of the legislature, created to help further the interests of the adminis- 1 tration in winning the war, called 1 to its assistance in the wheat growing movement in the state, the services of Mr. Fred H. Dominick. They do not tell us that Dr. W. W. Long, of Clemson College, and other : officers of this state organization, and Hon. Richard I. Manning, with six sons in the war, the war governor of South Carolina and a loyal man, met with Fred H. Dominick and asked for his services for the vv. r organization of the state, and had him make speeches in certain : parts of the state in its behalf. Would Mr. Coker, Dr. Long and Governor Manning call on a disloyal man to help in a movement to win the war? They did not call on Mr. Wyatt Aiken and he did not assist, at least, we have not heard of it. Neither do they tell the voters of j this district that John M. Kinard, a leading banker of Newberry, a :ousin of the Chief Justice of the! State, not a political supporter of! Mr. Dominick, in undertaking to raise the Third Liberty Loan in this :ounty, called on Mr. Dominick to >tump the county in behalf of the jovernment and its loan.- Would; Vlr. John M. Kinard call into the j :ervices of the'government Mr. Fred 3. Dominick unless he knew him to' ? )e a patriot, a supporter of the ad-1 ninistration, and a man with ability1 ;o help? In Abbeville county, Mr. J. Allen' Smith. Sr.. Mr. J. Allen Smith,' Jr.,! ind other kinsmen of Mr. Wyatti \iken have been at the head of the novements to sell the different issues of Liberty bonds in this county, rlis brother-in-law Mr. Wm. M. 3arnwell, handled one of the issues is Chairman in this county, but we lave not heard that Mr. Wyatt Aicen was called into service of these gentlemen to make speeches to )romote the movement. Do the peo)le here at home think Mr. Aiken is jo great a man that he should for-1 ;ver represent this district in i Congress? If they do, pray tell us vhy it is that he has not been in the 'oremost ranks of the government workers in these movements? Mr. Walter H. Hunt, a distinguished lawyer of the Newberry j Bar, a man with ability to sit upon; ;he bench in South Carolina as a; ipecial circuit judge, a president of. i culiuii mill in iiewuerry, was at ;he head of the Y. M .C. A. movenent in Newberry County when noney was to be raised for that novement. He called upon Mr.' I^red H. Dominick to make speeches n the county in that good . move- j nent, and Mr. Dominick responded. iVould Mr. Walter H. Hunt call u^ >n a disloyal man, or a man' unfriendly to the government to assist = n raising money to fight the govsrnment's battles? r ! |j Mr. Amos B. Morse was at the 11 lead of that same movement inj Abbeville County, but we have not leard that Mr. Wyatt Aiken wag me of his eonspicuous co-workers, >.lthoug i he is related to Mr. Morse, ind Mr. Morse is a friend and supjorter of his as we believe. Neither lid Mr. Joel S. Morse, another kin? nan, when he was raising money for the Red Cross in the recent Irive call on Mr. Wyatt Aiken to lo any of the preaching. Why? Simply because Mr. Aiken is not rt:ognized in his owja community as i man who has the ability to ac:ompl sh things, and when it comes :o doing things somebody else does t Not so in Mr. Dominick's home.j 5Vhy then should Mr. Aiken beat Mr. Dominick, and why should Mr.] Dominick be charged with disloyal-! and be accused of hpiric an ptiaJ iny of the administration? Think] lbout it neighbor! The administration in Washington should know its own friends. The administration has not failed to tell the country when a man has been iisloyal and an enemy of Woodrow Wilson. It must seem passing j strange that if Mr. Dominick is dis-1 loyal and not supporting the administration in Washington in all. essential matters, the administration has not said so. It must seem equally as strange that the administration has not endorsed Mr. Aiken. And yet, it has not done so, and we challenge Mr. Aiken and his friends to exhibit any evidence-that the administration favors his candidacy as against Mr. Dominick. PAINTING IT RED. Chairman Barnwell, of the school board, is painting things red on Greenville street?that is, he is having a brand new coat of bright red paint put on the roof of the high r?oV? a a1 kml/linry T f ip o nnl AV atuuui uuiiuiiig* av 10 a uxigiiv vviui and the dome makes a showing for miles around. DR. FULLER CALLED. Dr. R. M. Fuller of McCormick, has been called into the service of his country and is leaving soon to enter camp. A il', m f FURN For the Parlor, Room. Library. ? ? 7 / ' and Den. All The Latest \ Mahogany, Dull:, Polished, American Walnut, Old Ivory English, Fumed, Jacobean, G All the latest designs. Louis William and Mary, Queen Am BRASS BEDS WOO Can furnish your home from The largest stock-of Furnitu on eroof in Upper South Caro! =?=? 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