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VOLCSE LI I, \TOBER :>9. . SEWBERRY, S. C? TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1914. TWICE A WEEK, ?L?I A YEAE. Congressional Opened H DOMINICK IS GIVEN nr /?ni\rniA\7 A MM KtlltflWN ALL THE CANDIDATES RECEIVE GOOD ATTENTION. * Some Three Hundred Voters Hear the Candidates for Congress in Newberry Monday. The opening of the campaign of tbe third congressional district was neiu in Newberry on -Monday. It was decided to hold the meeting in tbe court "house instead of the grove in east Main street as advertised. It was FRED. H. D< [attended by about three or four hundred persons a few of whom were ladies. The best of order prevailed and all of the speakers were given good attention. County Chairman Jos. L. Keitt presided and introduced the speakers. He said there were four aspriants for the position and he asked that all of them be given a respectful hearing. It "was not a demonstrative audience bur all of the candidates were given some applause when they concluded. Mr. Dominick was presented with a bouquet of flowers and a box of fine peaches and a full blcod Dominick rooster. Mr. Dominick stated that it was a full fledged pit cock and was true game and a sure winner. He was given more hearty applause as he concluded than any of the speakers, though Mr. Aiken was received with when he concluded. All the caneta? when he concluded and when presented. All the candidates received applause as they concluded. All of the candidates took a whack at Mr. Aiken for his vote on the tolls exemption bill in which he voted against the position which was so strongly urged by the president. Even ** **? * * 1 ? ^ a r*- + V* A f MT. AlKeil illU15fc?U aiiuupauug attack undertook an explanation of his vote in the opening speech. Wyatt Aiken. v Mr. Aiken w asintroduced as the first speaker. He said it was mighty hot to speak 40 minutes but the people of Newberry had been so good to him and had always given him such a nice majority that he could not refrain from giving an account o: his stpfwarifcihm in rnn?Pftsc and in do ing so would be obliged to talk a good deal about himself. First and foremost we had now a Democratic president and a Democratic house and senate and they were elected upon the record made by a Democratic house of which he was a member and a part. Upon the passage of the tariff bill it swept out of existence and power the Republican majority which had ! Campaign ere on Monday ! so ionir dominated the legislation of i ! i ilie country. Ti:e Northern and Wes- j | tern States that have always had j j large Republican majorii. - in con- j J gress now have Democratic 1. ajorities. | j It was the result of the bills passed ! i Kv thn f>on?rpss r?f which he was I i " ~~~ ? ~ j j a meni'ber and he did all he could in : their passage. The Democratic cam- i j paign committee put a speech of his j on the tariff bill, said Mr. Aiken, as j prrt o" the campaign literature which was used in that campaign. j f ! Today we have in the president's j chair one of the ablest men that ever | occupied that position. He is a man | from t':e ground up. I have supporti ed him in everything, said Mr. Aikei., I * ! mmmmm \ ? D3ITNICK. : except in one or two votes. I stood , by the Democratic platform and the | pledges I had made to the people of: i the third district. I voted against the president on the Panama canal tolls exemption bill. I did that because I j i thought then that I was right and I ' : believe yet that I was right. If I had j to vote on the question again, I would j i vcte as I did before. He believed j that he had a right to his own opinion ; and to vote as he conceived to be the best interest of his .>ple. He said :: had been criticised for his vote on | ; this question but that he and the pr^s-j ident were on the best of terms. It i ib our duty to bring all the shipments j we can to our Southern ports. Mr.! Aiken saia that if he could not vote as he wanted to he did not want to go ! to congress. He said he had done everything he : i i could for the district. When 'he n| *ered congress he said t':.ere were i about 40 rural routes in the district: and that now there were ai>cut lo'j.; He said he worked for and voted for , ; the parcel p:st and that in the last campaign he had been criticised for I that. He thought it helped the home ' merchant. The parcels post had brought the express people to terms.1 He had also voted for the direct election of United States senators. Didn't . ^ ?"> iotoVa 1 71 til a f 1. J * IV li* HCAU. .ilu KJ. \s ti iu t"Ul. vote. He said he had done everyt'n'ng. : he could :'or the people of the dis- i trict. j : i , ~ t . 1 j Whenever he got a letter form any i I f one in the district he answered it at i once. He didn't spend any time loaf- j I ing and didn't eat any idle bread. | Washington is no good place for any J j white man to live. Xd pleasure in j staying there but the president want- i i td to get the anti-trust legislation 1 through and they were going to stay , there until it was done. The three important things that had ' j been done since the Democrats got j I in power were the tariff reduction bill,; ; the currency bill s.nd they were now I working on the anti-trust bills. Tn ; all of these he had a part, i - 1 The income tax bill was also passed which will make the rich man "cough up" ii.s just part of the burden or tax- : aticn. A few months ago the corporations had tried .to produceva panic but Mr. 'McAdoo said there was a lit- j tie surplus of some 530,000.000 in the treasury and it failed. And money had been placed in the South to as- < sist in moving the cotton crop. He j i had voted for a 2 cent passenger rate ] 011 all railroads in the country. ] Last year a commission -,vas sent to'; J fc'urope to study credit conditions in j ( that country and he had introduced a j bill to carry the idea out in this coun- ; 1 try. The money to come from bonds thorugh the national banks. In concluding Mr. Aiken said he had j tried to do everything for the people j1 of the district that he could. If you j send some cne else there, he said, he : 1 would still stand shoulder to shoulder ' 1 with the Democrats of the district. Fred. H. Dominick. '< T:e next speaker introduced was j 1 the Hon. Fred. H. Dominick. of New- j 1 berry. He was a little hoarse and said i he hoped the people would bear with 1 him as lie had had a very strenuous ' ' time last week in arother part cf the 1 district. He said he proposed to talk ! i straight to the people and would not: t ask them to vote lor him simply be- i t < cause he was a citizen cT Newberry, j ; He had been a citizen of Newberry for . i ]9 years and his foreparents had li7- t cd here for generations and his peo- > pie still lived in the county, but he j i did not ask :or votes on that account j \ but lie wanted the people to vote for j \ the man they thought best able to rep- j t resent them in congress. \ Mr. Dominick safd that the Third \ district is one cf the largest in Us ' t State not only in the matter of popu- j \ iclllOJl UUL aiSU its a uiauuiatiui- i i iug- district and as an agricultural | \ district and is entitled to the ? very i < best and ablest representation in congress. U contains one-third of the j i cotton mills 'n the State and as an i agricultural district has no superior.! i Pie said he had been elected to the j j legislature in Xewfoerrv and had been j , ! c defated. That 12 years ago he was . - - - - , . 1 ' elected to the legislature ana wnen ne \ stood for reelection he was defeated.; t He said lie had been clerk and attorney j j ior t-e county commissioners and dur- , ing that time Le had been instrumen- J I 1 tal in refunding and adjusting some railroad indebtedness of several of the ! townships of the county and by this j 'act had materially reduced the tax in ' I c these townships. The debt had been j reduced ;frcm $80,000 to some $15,000 | and that he had saved the townships * aoout $30,000 to $40,000. He said that be was a friend of all j the candidates in the race. That he j J was not running against Mr. Aiken i 1 but he was a candidate for congress.,( He said he was going to discuss Mr.:' Aiken's record. Mr. Aiken according { to his biography in the congressional j | record had been holding office for 31 \ ' vears?19 as court stenographer and ! 1 12 years as congressman?from the j 1 time he was 20 years old. And yet in ! ( this biography his occupation is put j 5 down as a farmer?a great farmer j ' that. As congressman he has drawn ' ' ! ] from the public treasury some $82,- ; COO and as court stenographer about j 1 $19,000, making a tctal of over $100,- ;J I ] AAA fv./-vr>i tVia O+o + o an/1 fTTodor-ol crnx"- : 'M J\J i 1 Will IU t Uiiu VUVi l+i BV/ ? I I 1 ernments in the 31 vears and yet he is d farmer. As he put it, "I have been 1 a farmer all my life." Has he renc-ered value received. Mr. Aiken has introduced 31# bills i since he has been in congress and 64 i ^ have become law*. Thirteen of them j are of general interest. He has not j j been the author of a single bill ofj general interest. A friend of mine' nas sent me one 01 i::ese on is, suiu IMr. Dominick. I wish vou would 1 ] read it. It is what he calls his rural j . credits bill. If you want to borrow ; ^ money and you put. up certain property. They send a lawyer Irom Wash- ; ington down hf/e to look up the title. If there is mortgage on the property 'you can't make the loan. If there is 1 c none then an advertisement is put in * the papers for three weeks to see if ] there are any other claims against the * (property. Wbo would want to have (such advertisements made about him. He speaks of "Washington as a hot place. Well, we will relieve him of * t^at inconvenience after the fourth of March. "* Mr. Aiken has been a member of the j I j CCOX'TINUED OX PAGE 5.) BLEASE MAKES STATEMENT. K I * Submits Certificate of J)rs. KnowltoD a and Mcintosh to I)r. Mcintosh. ! u i o rile State, 2Gth. | e Offered the privilege ck tlie columns ; c \f' T n r\ Ctotn fnv o raocAnahla ctnto- 1 T -> L X ut kJLULV^ IVi a X V/UOVliU Kf i. t/ ocutv ' went by tvie governor in regard to the a repudiation of Dr. Mcintosh of the ? report on the condition cf R. A. c Richey, read by the governor at tue 1 Jviunibia campaign meeting, John K. a A-ull, the governor's private secre-j :ary, sent the following statement: j { i e Gov. Blease, when asked about Dr. ^ Mclntosn's statement denying his sig- 1 t 1 iat;tre to the Ricl.ey certificate, said: "When I returned from the Saluda neeting this afternocn, and the Co- r .umlbia Record was handed me at the governor's mansion, after 1 read the irticle, I immediateliy called up my private secretary. Col. .John K. Aull, ^ ind dictated to him the following, instructing him to go to Knowlton's hospital and deliver the message to Jr. Mclntcsh: " 'Gov. iilease just called me up on L 1 ~ ..u ~ ? ? /I ? * V? /\ lino 111 ct VO_ .iltJ jJdlOiiC itnu aavjj 11c na.-> juji it/ r urned from the Saluda meeting, and . . I *ie first information that he had that a rou desired to se the Richey certifi cate was when he read it in t'ais af.ernoon's paper, and that if you will aate'an hour this afternoon, when the ^ governor can call at the hospital, he i vili be glad tj come to the hospita1, t vith one of his friends, and :or you o have one of your friends present, ,vhen the matter will be taken up. He ^ .vill take pleasure in presenting to you his certificate in this manner for >*oitT examination. Whether you ac- ? ;ept this offer or not. he desires that i on include this in your statement to *o into the morning papers.' "That message was delivered to Dr. iicjntosh b> my private secretary. J; "Col. Aull informs me that he saw t )r. James H. Mcintosh in person. He f cnows him well, because Dr. Mcin- ? oscii has been bis family physician, ind my secretary and he "jave lived () 21 the sam 3 town and have known . .. . v-i/ ./? ,? ,oonrotorv wnc C\ UIUC1 OillV-C ill> OVVi v? ittle boy. "In reply to the statement which . O -vas made to Dr. Mcintosh, Dr. Mc- j, ntosh said: In view of the fact that 0 ie had alreadiy given out this state- ? a lient to the paper this aiternoon, he . iid not care to see the certificate, but nat he would take up the matter with >ome of his friends and call up toe governor later. j "It would give me a great deal of ^ pleasure to submit to Dr. Mcintosh ;he certificate, or to submit it to any x r )f his friends, for their personal ex- j imination. "This certificate was delivered to 3 ne by a prominent lawyer in this J State. If it is a forgery, 1 am as anx- , ' ous as Dr. Mcintosh is to find who ' ^ :he/forger is. I have shown the, * i-ertificate to several parties who are j 1 / 11 'amiliar with Dr. Knowlton s and Dr. j . Mcintosh's handwriting and they all igree t:iat t^e certificate is genuine. I ; herewith submit affidavit, in this con- j section, of Private Secretary John K. Anil and of Hon. John J. Earle o. the Richland bar. If time and space Q ivould permit, I could present a hun ired such affidavits." ' State of South Carolina, County of j " Richland. .. i l orvnAOraH HofAfO TT) d W ' Prank Blackburn, notary public tor * South Carolina, John K. Auli, who,: 1 I jeing auly sworn, says: That he is private secretary to Gck. f'ole. L. Blease. / [That on Friday after 11 - on, July 24, U114, about 1 o'clock, Dr. James Mcintosh, of Newberry, S. C., father of Jr. James H. Mcintosh, came to the * ! V, governor's office. He was accompa- " lied by another gentleman and I in-1 3 .ited both of them into the governor's private office. Dr. James MclntAsh 0 said to me, "John, Jim is in a very a lervous condition and he wants to ee the original statement read by 5ov. Blease on the stand yesterday." t : stated to Dr. Mclntcsh that the governor had the original statement in lis possession, but that if Dr. James i. Mcintosh desired, I would be glad ;o give him a certified copy of the j p statement. I did not say that Gov. > "' lease had the statement in his s xeket at Lexington. I did say ttyat ' q ? J he governor was in Lexington and lull i would bring the matter to liis UHiiticn as scon as I could see him. Dr. "Jai jes Mcintosh called at the .cvernor's office again on the morning it Saturday, July 2o, l'JL4, aud asked ne if I had been able to secure tne ertilieate ior Dr. James H. Mcintosh o see. J told him uat 1 had not been .nie, 011 account of the governor's engagements, to see the governor in onnection with the matter, but that woiiid take it up with the governor it the earliest opportunity. ?0 iar as the certificate of Dr. Mcntosli :s concerned, there can be no ionLt that it is genuine and I had 110 ciea th:t1 Dr. Mcintosh would question lis own signature to this certificate. ' rQio-n^Hi Inn K" Anil Sworn to before ^e this 25th day \ >f July. 1914. i.Signed; W. F. Blackburn (L. S.) N tary Public for South Carolina. i >tate of South Carolina, County of i Richland. Personally appeared before me John | ' Earle, who being duly sworn, de- j oses and says that his atte ition has ! ieen specially directed to the state- ! uents appearing on tne first page of j he Columbia Record cf date Saturday ' fternoon, July 25, 1914: "Dr. Mc ntosii Denies Signing Certificate Read j >y Governor Klease. Dr. Mclntosn ; ;ays He Did Not Sign Certificate Read ! iy Gov. Blease," etc; t.iat he nas | t ad in the last colum: mi safd page j he statements therein made. This de- 1 onent is the brother in-law of Dr.! v. ti. Km witon, deceased; that he has i c-en on many occasions Dr. Knowlton | \j-.te ana sign his name; that he is ler.ectly familiar withvhis signature; hat he can speak without any hesi ation whatever wi.h regard to the | clvMitity and aut enticity of ais broth- ! I r-iaw's signature, and can, in t*u| i;o.st positive way, swear to his siglaiuie: that a paper ha.s been handed j o him this afternoon by Gov. C. le. v. Blease and he has been asked whether or not that is the signature Dr. A. B. Knowlton. The heading f this paper is in print as follows: "The Knowlton Hospital, Xo. 1515 Marion Street, Q:lumbia2 S. C." nd the body tnereof is in tiypewrittig, without anv alterations, erasures i r the slightest change whatsoever, nd is as follows, excluding the heating heretofore mentioned: j. { "January 19, 1912. j His Excellency, Gov. Cole. L. Blease, jColumbia, S C. "Sir: At the request of Mr. W. R. j lichey, of Laurens, S. C., and with the ; lermission oi Oapt. D. J". Griffith, su>erintendent of the penitentiary, and* Dr. R. T. Jennings, sirgeon of the ame, we have this day visited and j xamined Mr. R. A. Richey, now conined in the hospital of the peniteniary. We would report that we find ,Tr. Richev suffering from a marked leurosis, that the same closely similates a true paralysis. We are inormed that 'Mr. Richey has had some ,ueh trouble for the past ten years or j '.iore, and close confinement is ren- j lering it more marked. '\Ve do not >elieve this conditon will be improved o long as Mr. Richey remains a pris>ncr in the penitentiary. We do be ieve that freedom, out-docr exercise, ! itc., would restore him to as good a I itate of health as be has enjoyed for he past ten years. "Respectfully submitted. Signed) "A. B. Knowlton, M. D. Signed) "James H. Mcintosh, M. IV'! That the body of this paper is in ! ypewriting and the signatures to it j marlp bv Den and ink: that he wears that the signature to the same, A. B. Knowlton, M. D.," is that of lis brother-in-law, the late A. B. Cncwlton. M. I)., and there can not ! ie any question or doubt about the { ame. T'ce other signature, "James ' I. Mcintosh, M. D.," he can not speak t because he has not seen him write nd does net know his signature. (Signed) Jno. J. Eaile. Sn!hsp.riih<ad arid sworn to before me his 25th day of July, A. D., 1914. (Silgned) W. F. Blackiburn (L. S.) Notary Public for South Carolina. 1 "WTiile this statement was being repared, Col. Walter H. Hunt, of Tern-berry, telephoned and asked to peak to my private secretary. He re- ; ;uested, on behalf of Dr. Mcintosh, ' mat tii<2 governor come lo the hos-. piiai and snow to Dr. Mclntosii tad oiijiiiial cetihcaie. Tne governor went to cue Hospital, in company with Jno. K. Auil and \V. Fra.nK JtJlackburn. He submitted the certilicate to Dr. Mclntosii in tne presence oi those who were accompanying him and of Col. Walter H. Hunte, Dr. James Mcintosh, -.1. . .tl- I? T^v ? T TT l"\ -T . T me lamer 01 ur. j ames xi. 'JOtciuuRui, .Vir. Douglas McKay and Mr. Chas. H. Barron. "No other certificate tnan this one tas ever been filed in my office in the Richey case signed by Dr. Mclntosk or Dr. Knowlton." TH1 KEW-S OF PROSPERITY. Prosneritv Tomato Club Entertains County Club?Personal Men tion. Special to The rierald and News. Prosperity, July 27.?Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Wheeler, of Columbia, are visiting their parents here^ Mrs. Pearl Rikard and children, of Atlanta, are the guests of Mrs. J. A. Counts. Misses Rosa Mae Mitchell and Katie Mae Nance have returned from Kin ards. Miss Victoria Crosson is spending the week in Pomaria. Dr. and Mrs. G. W. Harmon and Miss Pansy Wallace spent the week-end in Ninety Six. Miss Ellen Werts spent Monday in Columbia. Miss Lillie Warner is home from Chicago where she has been studying in the University of Chicago. Miss L-iza Bell (juriee, or winsboro, visited her sister Mrs. Jacob S. Wheeler Sunday. Mrs. L. ?M; Calhoun, or Branwell, spent Tuesday *with' Mrs. L. W. Harmon. Misses Katlileen Merchant, of Columbia. and Ijucile Lathan. of New berry, have been the guests of Miss Margurite Wise. Mrs. J. P. Mahon and daughter Mary Eliza visited Airs. A. G. Wise Sunday. Miss '.Ylary Lizzie Wise has gone to Sil verstreet to visit Miss Kelen ^Xichols. Mrs. R. C. Counts alnd children, of / Columbia, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Wheeler. Mrs. G. Y. Hunter and daughter, Miss Mary DeWalt have returned irom Atlanta. Mrs. Julian and daughter, Miss Grace, of Lake lOity, Fla., are the guests of Mrs. C. T. Wyche. Little Rebecca Harmon is visiting,.. "ier grandparenus at Ninety Six. 'Mr. R. E. Wheeler, of Columbia, spent last week with Mr. Ellis Wheeler. Miss Doris Kinard, of Little Mountain, is visiting Miss Nannie (Wheeler. Misses Eliza and Isoline Wyche have gone to North Carolina to visit relatives. r* ' Miss Fannie Holloway, of Newberry, sneD* last week with Miss Willie Mae Wise. Master Frank Earle Schumpert has gone to Vidalia, Ga.. to spend several weeks. / t\ir- <3j%linmnorf rvf rtnlnm.hia. '?W 1 , X i. V/U k/VUUUil|/VA V) V*. v. ? spent Sunday with his aunt Mrs. W. A. Moseley. }Ir. B. B. Schumpertis visiting in Atlanta. Miss Caro Wyche has returned from a months stay in Florida. Mrs. Davis and children have returned to Newberry after a visit to Mrs. S. C. Merchant. Prosperity tomato club entertained the Xewberry county tomato club Friday at the Prosperity high school. In the morning a grand programme was rendered by the Prosperity club. Dinner was served on the school grounds. In the afternoon a canning demonstration was given by Misses Napi/r, of Columbia and Garlington, of Laurens. (There will 'be a public missionary meeting at Grace church Sunday evening, August 2nd. Miss Gertrude Simpcrm will dp-livpr an address and will ' show the curios brought from Africa. Card of Thanks. Dr. and Mrs. J. Wm. Folk and family wish to express their sincere thanks and upproclation to their many friends, / / doctor and nurse for their many kindnesses and expressions of sympathy during lur recent bereavement. t / i