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Established 1844. THE PRESS AND BANNER ABBEVILLE, S. C. The Press and Banner Company Published Tri-Weekly Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Telephone No. 10. Entered as second- iiass matter ax post office in Aoheville, S. C. Ten tit of Subscription: One year 82.00 Six months l.uu Three months .50 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1920 AN ADDRESS TO THE VOTERS. Tomorrow is ine secona prii?ui-> Ir. the races for the county offices and in the selection of officers for state offices, the editor of this paper has his choice, as have most of the oth er voters of the county, we take it. We believe that some of the men would serve us better than others, but so far as state officers are concerned, no great mistake can be made as we see it. With regard to county officers, the people of the county know the men running. They know or have had a chance to leam their ability and .capacity for work and their fitness for the positions to which they aspire. Every man is competent we take it to make his own selection. The most important office to be filled tomorrow is that of .United States Senator. We say filled, because the man who is nominated tomorrow will fill that position unless prevented by death. It is never our purpose to undertake to dictate to the voters or ^ it. -.'i.:-.? 4-"U~ o.a iu uie ciu&ens ui cue cuuutjr. uut az* a newspaper it is our duty to give the people such information as we can \ obtain with regard to* candidates, when the voters may not know all that we know; and it is our duty as we see it to advise the people as far as we are able the right course to take, leaving the final decision witft them. For the reasons stated we have N presented in previous issues facts ' which have come to us, and conclusions which we believe are warranted by the facts. It is not our purpose to restate these facts or conclusions at this time. But we do believe that a grave responibility is upon us, and that a serious mistake may be made in this matter. We say nothing against Mr. Warren that has not already been co i/J T ? wo o?r?rt v* f +V\of V? n nAM?o/?flv caiu. xx *vc giaub inuu uq vwm-vnj represents the sentiments of the people on the matters about which he has talked over the state, namely: the 'question of states' rights, we still say that Mr. Warren is talking about something which has been settled and about theories of government which have been exploded. Mr. Calhoun has been dead a great many years and the policies for which he stood in the matter of states' rights have been exploded these many years. He says that he does not promise to ' assist anybody in establishing the legalized sale of liquor in this state again. We ask then, what does he prom ise the people of this state? What measure has he advocated which is of any probable benefit to the people of xhe state? What are we to expect from him if he is nominated? There is but one answer to these questions: NOTHING. He will go to Washingi ton and vote with the democratic machine, we take it, but he says that he will be able to do nothing for the , farming interests of the state by legislation, and cannot promise to raise the price of cotton. On the ether hand Senator Smith lor a numDer 01 years nas Deen anve to the interests of the farmers of this section, which means that he is alive to the interests of every other business in this section and in this state particularly. He is our representative ir the senate. None of us can prosper without the prosperity of the farmers of the state. Senator Smith is a simcn pure farmer. He is the only one in the United States Senate. He maj in the minds of some claim to have done more for us than he has in fact; he may over-estimate what he car do. He may even seem demagogical tc some. But every man in the state whc is honest with himself must admil that he has advocated measures foi the relief of the farming interests o! this section, and that when it comc; tc legislation favoring the cotton fairer of the South he is on the job. H; says he can do something. He prcnv ..c: to try. lie doe:; not say that, h an do nothing. He may be a cran >:i cotton, but cranks "turn th .heels cf progress." The difference then is between nan who says he cannot help us, an jne who says he can, and who w enow has tried. Which will the pec pie take? The clothing merchant, th .7 gocds merchant, the banker, th .'urniture merchant, the lawyer, th oetor all of us are depender here on our farm products for ou prosperity. Will we allow sentimen and factionalism to sway us in thi amergency, or will we act like sens; ble men to promote our own intei ests? That is the question. Let the people answer it accordini to the facts at the ballot box tomoi row. A HAPPY TIME I , Ten thousand gallons of fin< ? font Viointy cViinnpH h; the government from New York t< St. Louis was spilled on the Sea board near Van WycX, twenty mile: this side of Monroe, Saturday, wher a freight train was wrecked. Th< ten thousand gallons gave up a per fume which pervaded the air foi miles around it seemed from th< crowd which soon gathered on th< scene. There were a lot of indenta tions in the ground about the rail road track ad here and there a fev gallons stood in puddles. The mer got down and lapped it up some thing after the fashion of dogs, anc in a little while there was a happj crowd on the scene. It had been i long time since there was such i love feast in that community a? then was held. The men got so happy that thej didin't know, each others' color. A white man and a. colored man wer< seen by a member of the trair crew revolving down the railroad each saying the other had taken i little too much and that he was tak ing the other home. HARDING PROMISES JUSTICE TO NEGROES Tells Visiting Baptists and Metho dist* They Have Met The Test Of Citizenship. Marion, Ohio, Sept. 12.?Senato: Harding, addressing several negr< delegations from his front porch to day, said that the American negr< had met the test and would not fai his country, and that "America ha: not and will not fail the Americar negro." "Citizenship," he went on, "is noi based on what one can get, but ii based upon what one gives. I say? and 1 wisn tnat i couia speat through you to all America?'let's serve.' " Inez McWhorter, Senator Hard' ing's cook, left her kitchen for the front yard, where the negroes were gathered this morning, and stooc beside Frank Blacksten looking ui at an overcast sky. "Frank," she said to the Senator's chauffeur, "every time the white folks has a delegation the sur shines bright, but every time the culled folks has a delegation the Debbil comes with his rain and clouds." But the sun finally came out, driving a few shadows away from the front porch, and the negroes representatives of two branches oi both the Baptist and Methodisl churches and the National Equa! Rights League, staged a ceremonj that had all the fei*vency of a' camj meeting. They sang "Old Time Re ligion" and other camp meeting tunes, while "Hallelujahs-" anc "Am'ens" and "You tell it!" inter rupted the speeches. The numerous negro speaker: grew eloquent in praising Senatoi Harding, and one preacher in hi: prayer invoked the Almighty t< look down on Pennsylvania Avenue March 4, on "the inauguration o President Harding." Another speaker implored hi , oarers to "march in a solid phalan: t. the polls November 4." Anothe jut Confederate buttons on Willian ! I'sKlnley, but asserted he had neve ; 'worn the Southern yoke." i Senator Harding delivered th > s :n? speech to both morning an ? t;f U : .loon delegations, addressinj ; t iein as "Americans." He said i: : part: : "Too much doctrine based upo 5 another principle has been loosed o a warworn world. Abroad,' partici > larly in Russia, there has grown u - the idea that by some impossibl I ^ * e magic a government can give out a k bounty by the mere fact of having e liberty and equality written over its cjoor, and that citizenship need a make no deposit in the bank of cornel man weal in order to write checks e upon the bank. Here at home we have had too much encouragement e given to the idea that a government e is a something for nothing institue tion. But I say that citizenship is !t not based up on what one can get, r but that it is based upon what one t gives. I say?and I wish that I could s speak through you to all Amerli_ cans?'let's serve.' "'Under that slogan of good citizenship there is no reason . why you g should not hold your heads high. - You who are assembled today and your race in America have "the good sense, as all thoughtful Americans must have, to know that it is only|| in a country where the merit, capa-11 2'city and worth of men and women I j are recognized and rewarded that; | ) merit, capacity and worth are de- j - veloped. You and I, and good Amer-; 5 i.-ans of whatever color, blood or i creed, know that the aspiration of j all men is equal opportunity, and - t :at no injust^e known to man can r be greater than that of the tyranny ; and autocracy that label themselves B ? democracy, or bolshevism, or prole-! I . taiiat, and enslaves all men and all I . t.ieir freedom with the iron band of ft j mediocrity. R l t Say3 Negro Has Met The Test j "The American negi-o has the ( 1 good sense to know this truth, has J the good sense and clear head and i brave heart to live in, and I, assum- j i ing to speak a truth which America; 5 ought to know, proclaim it to all the world that he has met the test and 1 did not and will not fail America. ! l "I proclaim more. I assert to the ; vorld that America has not failed , 1 and will not fail the American j , negro. If there are those who doubt; i me, let them look to the record of - the colored race in American citi-| zenship and the record of America | in giving opportunity. "The expression of spiritual life ' alive in the hearts of the |cople of your blood ha.^. I believe, been the * basis for the achievements of the American negro. They are great and amazing achievements. They have been wrought, not with words nor false claims, but by patience,!^ tolerence, restraint, and by the1 American negro, earned rewards of>J that merit, capacity and worth in citizenship of which I have spoken, i "But when we Americans of whatever color render tribute to the record of the American negro, let us not forget to render tribute to America, under whose institutions and among whose people their reL "cord was made, for I tell you?and through you I tell all Americans? that if your people have progressed in so amazing and inspirig a manner ' it must have been that America has ' given you opportunity. You have ' risen by your merit, capacity and ' worth, and not by agitation and violence and revolt against our in~' stitutions, and have loved them. ' j "If the men .and women of your 1 blood have given, as we all desired ! to give, a great outpouring of treas' ury and blood upon the altar of pa' triotism, ^t is because the truth was in your hearts. ' J "America has given you her sreat ^blessing of justice. You have it and ''you shall have it: It will be good AI MICKIE SAYS: r - , e>\Rx> \ | f M" \S -OV OMREASONNBVJE POCfcf | | RSU NJJUM sirs VAAO A.W COVASS ) I [ } \Ki AVix ?TOP?3 U\6 PAPER. AUC> I ' ITVAEVJ CAST'S A hAfcAVi LOOK. AUx) I 'ROUND "TYV OFPtS AT "WO R?STj \OP OS, *S VAOCU AS 1t> SANX / 5 \nAQV!0 gTAKMEj^ P j e i etMaoe i 1 ? I /O o bounty \Jaui . MAKE YOUR DOLL DO DOUBLE DUTY The way to do th with the CoUntj lar deposits in as I let this money re and earn liberal A i rri fin I And lhtn, wner the money you h; as much as it woi \ If You Have Sa\ I we shall be glad lection of a safe, A Savings Bank i place to put his t arnnnnt in q ItllV/J U/HIV UllVWU W Home for your fi which will take c ONE DOLLAR MAKE YO' County Sa^ SOUND SAF G. A. NEUFFER, President. ALBERT HENRY, Vice-President. V I lerican citizenship and America can obedience to 1) ill continue to accord it to your uniawful violence, v eople. 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