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The Voice is Jacob's Voice, But the Hands Are the Hands of Esau. Editor Advertiser: It is not my nature to tackle any body, but I am going- to draw mj: bow at a venture and let the arrow fly, and if anybody is hit in the joints of the harness, let them cry out I am wounded. I suppose everybody lias read extracts of Cole Blease' speech at Poraaria and Filbert in July and August 1917. Now I want to tell what he said at Pickens Court House on the 24th of August of last year. In all the bitterness of his soul, he referred to Governor Manning as "lyiner Dick" and the State Council of Defense a council of lyers, and that of President Wil son as a chmatized Yankee, and said,, if he had his way about it Wilson would not be President even now. I am not afraid of Woodrow Wi Non if he is Presi dent of the United States. Those that don't like it dam 'em let 'em lamp it, and if it had not been for Europe's money this nation would not have been dragged into this war, for 1 believe said he, religious ly as freely as I believe that there is a God in heaven that on the final judgment day every American citi zen who is killed in this war off of American soil will be charged up to President Wilson, and the mem bers of congress as unwarrented sacrifice in the sight of Almighty God, of fresh ybung American manhood. This is what he said on the 24th of August last year, as I heard it. I said then, and now say, ?why was it that he was not handled .with a firm grip, and fired, deport ed or killed at the fords because he could, (or would not) not say "Shebbatb." " But he is now doing his best to uusay what he has said, but that wont work worth a cent now. As the scales are falling from his eyes he sees the hand, and can read the hand-writing on the wall. Now listen? This is the voice of Jacob, but the hands of Esau. I want to say this, that when I am elected to go to the United State Senate I am going lo President Wilson and tell him that here is an Araericin Sena tor (God save the mark) and what ever is necessary to win this war I am with him to the finish. Lie aoes further and says, if it is necessary in order to win the war, to breake the precedent set by Presi dent Washington in reference to the third, I shall tell President Wilson that I will support him for the third term, and will make speeches for him in any part of the American continent to which he may wish me. to go. ( Jacob's voice again.) If Blease has no*, got griuenough to face Benet and Pollock in the campaign he would be a poor man the-peace for President Wilson. But he is following on behind Benet and Pollock at a great dis tance in a gang by himself. But the meanest, ugliest, low down thing that Cole Blease has ever uttered, is what he said about Governor's six brave sons, who had left everything that was sacred and holy, and laid all upon the alter of their country, and their livers if need be for humanity, Christianity and Democracy, that the world might be a free people. Any man that would make such a slanderous remark about a brave young soldier is meaner than the devil wants him to be, that's meaner than a yellow cur. I cannot see for the love of "Mike" why any loyal person c:m support Blease, while our ho.\s in France are writing home asking the State not to send Blease to the United State's senate. If you do, you will be ripping us up the back. Men! in the name of all that is holy stand by your boy on the battle line. ' J. Russell Wright. Walhalla, S. C. The Edgefield Home Demonstra tion Club will meet at the home of Mrs. R. L. Dunovant on Friday P. M. August 23 at 5 o'clock. Miss Laura Bailey, specialist in domestic art will be present to lec ture on clothing or some related sub ject. A sugarless dessert will be dem onstrated. Everyone is cordially in vited to attend this meeting. P. Major, Emergency Agent. Important Notice to Candidates. All candidates must tile sworn Statements of money spent for cam paign purposes with Clerk of Court before the first primary, and also another statement after the election, and failure lo do this will forfeit election. B. E. NICHOLSON, County Chairman. August 20, 1016. Just received a shipment of No. 2 Cane Mills that were bought early and I can sell them at the old price. See or write me at once. J. H. REEL. 8-20-2pd. President's Pictui Used for CamoufI Croft in Reply to Byi Circular Exp oses Tai of Congressman By Uses President's P*c for Political Effect, A Failure to Get Le From the White Hous To the People of the Second .gressional District: Byrnes always would have hi tie joke. While he has departed ? what from his usual method of ing in this campaign, busy as h< been in the desperate effort to ster up his position, he has al last moment resorted to his smith tactics, thinking to overw the unthinking and the credi with a great flare of patriotic tography. The Congressman's contribution to the literature of campaign-a four-page circular rying his own photograph on front page and President Wooc Wilson's likeness on the back paj would be comical enough , wei not clearly the desperation c drowning man grasping at a st At such a grim joke none may la . His record assailed, his deflec exposed, his vicious attack upon President's method of raising an fective army to fight the Hun, w he sought to defeat the Draft . damning him, Byrnes sought a le from President Wilson which wc endorse him for re-election, for man has nerve, whatever else i be his attainments. This he failec secure, but in the absence of a le' from the White House, Byrnes cured what he evidently thou would serve as the next best thi a picture of the President such every newspaper keeps in its fi It was not necessary to go to White House for this. Armed \\ the President's likeness and his oi this mighty statesman has employ a printing press, a mass of white per, some shrewdly worded phras and a letter from a Congressm from Lynchburg, Va., and has flooc the District with this masterpiece effrontery, in his desperate effort inveigle the people into believi that President Wilson has endors his candidacy for re-election, spite of his attempt last year block the administration's plans f America's effective participation the war against Germany. On the front sheet of this cont bution of Mr. Byrnes appears 1 own picture, and on the back paj is pictured President Wilson und which appears the caption "who e presses regret at tactics of Byrne opponents." Even the letter whii Byrnes has read with such a flouri; from Carter Glass of Virginia co; tains no such phrase as that whi< Byrnes has coined for his own pu poses, but Byrnes probably is awar nevertheless, of the inner feelings ( the great man who presides over tl destinies of the American people. B would lead you to believe that Y knows that great heart intimately though he fails to tell you why, whe he wanted a letter from the Whit Hou.-e, he knew better than to g there and ask for it in person, i spite of the fact Thal he has been i Washington for nearly eight year: And knowing how keen has been th President's regret, and how his grea heart has ached because thc man wh denounced his Draft Act as "infam ous" has been assailed as to his rec crd, Byrnes has generously and con isiderately, made this amend. He ha (printed President Wilson's picture ii the same cheap political advertise ment with his own ! When the great President sees thi splendid attestation of Byrnes' loy alty to himself, I have not the slight est doubt but that all pangs of regre that have disturbed his sleep o nights, will be salved; for surely thi President, who is a man of deep ap preciation, will not be unmindful o: the honor that Byrnes has done hin in printing his picture along with his own, though of course in a subordi nate position on the back page. Byrnes has paraded and paraphras ed what he claims is President Wil son's approval of his support of "al! war measures" and of himself. He loudly proclaims that he is of the chosen and is the President's choice, endorsed by the President for re election; but to show for all this he has not even a letter written to an other person and bearing the Presi dent's signature. He has not even a letter from the White House to show, though he sought for one and failed to get it. He has a letter from Carter Glass of Virginia. That's all. I think this editorial from the Aiken Standard explains very aptly the Byrnes' camouflage: "Jim Byrnes' letter from the White House, via Carter Glass of Vir ginia, which he has endeavored to put over as an endorsement of him self, but which the people re: accept, even though Byrnes sa Glass says that President says so and so reminds us roundabout vagueness of thi of hearsay concerning anothi portant matter: "Absolute knowledge have I But my aunt's washwoman's s . son Heard a policeman on his 1 Say to a laborer.on the stn That he had a letter just last Written in the finest Greek From a Chinese coolie in Timi Who said a nigger in Cuba Of a colored man in a Texas Who got it straight from a clown That a man in the Klondike the news From a gang of South Ame Jews About somebody in Borneo Who heard a man who claim know Of a swell female society ral Whose mother-in-law wity'unde To prove that her seventh husb sister's niece Has stated in a printed piece That she has a son who has a f; Who knows when this war is ? to end." Byrnes' circular lays claim OT face of it, to be a refutation o charges, various and sundry, ag; him. But he would brush all t aside with a grandiloquent wav his hand, for he cites not one re he gives not one authority to stantiate himself. He simply asks to take his word for everything his defence of himself, is.he ai to cite you to the records, and 1 you look them up for yourseli submit that in every criticism I 1 made of his record and his vot have pointed out the page and p graph of the Congressional Rec I have dealt only in facts, and 1 given my authority; he is dealing fancy, and in his efforts to do the facts, he wouW have you igr the fact that there is a record, owe it to yourself and to your co try to look into these records ? know for yourself before you < your vote for a member of Congi in these critical times. Facts are stubborn -things, < though a man would brush th aside for his own purposes they main facts and stubborn facts j che same. And ignoring some fae Byrnes attempts in his circular as has attempted on the stump, to c tort other facts. His circular clai to be as I have said, an approval his record by President Wilson, a a refutation of all charges ma against him. But he devotes cons erable space in his masterpiece political juggery to mud-slinging an effort to reflect my candidacy. Although I have challenged h on every stump since he first ma the assertion at the campaign me? ing at Graniteville, and have denou ced and exposed his underhanded i tack at the meeting at Aiken whe everybody is familiar with the fad Byrnes has incorporated in his ci cular a statement that I gave my e dorsement to a Republican, and mai him postmaster of Aiken. C. E. Carmen was for many yea postmaster at' Aiken. He came mai years ago to Aiken from a Repub! can State, and was appointed pos master under a Republican Admini ?.ration. He was a Republican in N? tional politics, but a Democrat i State politics, and has always part cipated in our Democratic White Pr maries. He has always enjoyed tl confidence and the esteem of tl people of Aiken, and even Byrne says "he was a competent man an an honest man." He lives here arnon as today, and as a. solid, subsianti; citizen. He is a man of worth, a sic man who came to Aileen in search c health, and has made a line fight i this climate for his life. When Mr. Carmen sought reaj pointment as postmaster, the bes people of Aiken endorsed his appl cation, and the leading Democrat: business and professional men, o the town, and patrons of the posto! fice in the city' and on the mrs routes, signed his petition which con tained hundreds of names. I sa; that my name is not among these but had I signed this petitiori, I, m more than any one of the other citi zens of Aiken, would have sought t< undermine the Democratic Party nor to have endorsed "negro parti cipation in politics" as Byrnes ha tried in his efforts to discount mj candidacy to leave the impression and at Aiken on August 1st, at the time of the campaign meeting there there were scores of men who hac signed Carmen's petiton, and Byrnes did not dare to make his usual stand reference there to this matter. I did, however, and called upon different men in the audience to'say whether, in endorsing Carmen, they intended to go on record as favoring negro participation in politics. Of course you know what their answer was. They will answer again, quite as em phatically next Tuesday at the polls. I was not a member of Congress at Do you need Now is the til McCormick ai a full stock oi your order at Large stock Get our prices I Ste wa the time, and my endorsement would have meant nd more than any other citizen's. At the Aiken meeting, while dis cussing this rediculous charge brought by the hard-pressed Con gressman, I read a letter which .is still in my possession. It was a letter endorsing Carmen for postmaster and was signed by the -late lamented Henry Busch, who for many years lived in Aiken. Mr. Busch was a na tive German. He came to this country as a young man from Hanover, Ger many, and took up his residence in Aiken where he was regarded as a splendid citizen and a good man. He was for years a trustee of the Aiker. Institute, and did a great deal toward building up the school system of the town. He served in city council. He was a good man, though a German. Byrnes forgot that in attacking me on this score, that he was striking close at home, and I may say now what I said then, to quote my own words at the Aiken meeting: "Henry Busch is dead; but I am here, my friends, to defend his memory against this contumely heaped upon him by his own son-in-law." I am aware that this has been twisted and distorted to be made to appear as an attack by me on a mem ber of the Byrnes family. I am aware of what Byrnes' lieutenants are telling; but Byrnes is desperate and desperate men will resort to des perate methods to influence votes. This, fellow-citizens, is as deliber ; te a fabrication, as absolutely de void of truth as some other state ments made in Byrnes' circular. He seeks to discredit my candidacy by telling you that during the three months I served in. Congress, filling my father's unexpired term, that I introduced a resolution to pay my secretary sonic money, sent it to the wrong committee, and didn't get what I was after. While this has absolute ly nothing whatever to do wtih the charges I have brought against Byrnes on his record, and is simply m .... some more of his camouflage, design cd to cloud the issue, I shall in pass ing, simply make this statement; j Butley Hare of Saluda was my sec retary when I was in Congress. His brother is now Byrnes' secretary. If anyone is sufficiently interested to ?know whether Byrnes is telling the j truth, I suggest that he ask Butler j Hare for he is the man who got the money. He knows. A candidate who will mislead you on one epoint will mislead you on another. Byrnes says "to hell or Helena with the Kaiser." That sounds good and patriotic. But it's like printing the President's picture with his own for political effect. If Byrnes is so anxious to dispatch the Kaiser and his Hun legions to hell or Helena, why did he fight the Draft Act, when in a crisis last year, the President and his advisers, after weighing ev ery plan, suggested the Draft as the one method of raising an army that would put enough, men in Furope quickly enough to keep the Kaiser's hellish legions from crushing the life out of France and England and flying ing at America's throat? Why, in his vaunted patriotism, now that he is making the eagle scream, why did he not fight in Congress for the es tablishment of a nitrate plant to make gunpowder to help send the Kaiser and his legions to "hell or Helena?" Why, I ask, did he fight in Congress, in the time of a crisis, against the machinery with which a mower to. harvei ne to place your 01 id Dane Mowers; a: : parts and repairs, once for a mower. of cane mills and 4 rt & Kern sss America is sending the Kaiser to hell or Helena? There are questions for yon to answer for yourselves. T. G. Croft. -Advertisement. SOLDIERS' LETTERS. (Continued from page One.) _t__ Your letter came among my first mail and I can hardly say how glad I was to get a real letter from home after a period of no mail for over,a month. We are getting well fixed where we are though I am laboring hard with all the rest. I have been wanting to write you for some time but it seems as if most of my time is taken up and after writing one letter the rest are about the same as we re main in the same place ami are un der similar conditions. The only thing that changes is what we are doing and that thing we cannot tell so you see we are mostly out of news. I mailed "The Fly Paper" to Papa last week and though it is not much it enables us to get a little news home thai, may be cut out of our own letters. The post cards I ma'led two weeks ago should be well on the road by now and I hope that they will be of a little interest to the folks at home. The news we get at camp is usu ally two or three days old as the pa pers are a day old when they reach here. We have three American pa pers published in Paris: The New York Herald, Chicago Tribune and the American Daily Mail. Though they are only of one folder they con tain almost as much news as The Stale. The Stars and Stripes is also published in Paris and is more like the Sunday paper for it contains a little more than just news and is published about Thursday. I have been getting the Edgefield Chronicle direct also The Advertiser you have mailed and with the exception of that I have hardly seen an American paper so you can imagine how I ap preciate it. We iret very few magazines and other literature of that kind so you can imagine'how glad wc are to get anything of that kind from The Lit erary Digest to the Police Gazette. No doubt all of you are rejoicing with us over the drive our boys made during the last **w days and being our first drive it is quite encourag ing. Though we are not all at the front doing our part there and get ting all the fame, honor and glory we feel that we are doing our part where we are and living in hopes that it will not be long before we are with those at the front. The most encouraging of all is to know that we succeeeded in the first real at tempt and that each step nearer Berlin brings us one day nearer home. About the be^t news I can men tion of what has taken place here since writing last is that we have a little "Y" started in our camp and with piano and vicuola we do not feel so f?r away from our home after all. We have a chaplain down with us who has spent some time at the front. With his stories of the front and the little services'he holds makes him about the most popular man in I camp. Friday night he gave us a ! little entertainment at the "Y" and ?though it was just among ourselves ?we enjoyed it almost as much as the st your hay? .der. We sell nd also carry Better place evaporators. aghan refreshments that followed. Speaking of refreshments, do not think it was ice cream and cake for ice cream and cake is almost un heard of around here and even the ice we had for the lemonade had to come about fifty miles. Last Sunday being the 14th which is equal to the 4th in the United States for it is a national holiday in France, we went down town and gave a little entertainment to the French. All seemed to enjoy it for such little things help us to get better acquaint ed with the people around here. The The peasants, or the "wooden shoes" as we call them are about us most of the time but the real French, are usually seen in town or 'on the beach. It may help you to realize the population better in comparing the whites and negroes around home with the higher and lower classes of the French though not nearly so strict a line is drawn and there is no hard feelings between the classes. We are still making good use of the beach for the water is -fine now and oh my! how we enjoy it after a good day's work. It was certainly encouraging to look over the contributions to the Red Cross, in Edgefield county and if my thanks go very far or not I want to express them as well as I can for every little bit helps us to down the Hun and at the same time brings us nearer home. Though I have not had any urgent need of the Red Cross I have seen lots of good done by the "Y" and I know the Red Cross is much more important at the front. We are very comfortably fixed where we are and though we have begun to feel at home here I cannot say how long we will be here but we are expecting a few more hardships during the winter for then perhaps our dreams of the front will come true. Saturday afternoon we had quite a little sand storm with a little rain and although it lasted on into the night no damage was done about us. I spent Saturday evening making a hand for my watch for after having it in a shop for two weeks and a trip to Paris it was returned to me with out a long hand. In about two hours I ! .;d made a good hand out of a needle and is now going as good as ever so you can imagine I am proud of my time! In order to send any package to us we have to get a written state ment that we ?are in need of that article approved and sent to you all to be presented at the postoffice with the package when it is mailed. We are paid inFrench money and use it altogether so now the dollars and cents are almost a curiosity to us. I suppose by now the crops are well on their way and here is hoping the best of success will grow with them all. It is really dark now so will close with all good wishes to everybody at home from Papa to D. R. ,Jr. Love to all. Yours, George. I shall be out of my office for a short vacation beginning Saturday, August 24th, and will be open again for business on Monday, September 2nd. GEO. F. MIMS. t?jil Surely Stoa Thal ?ouaii.