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I T01C50! tn, XrUBKK 66. XEWBERBT, S. C. FRIDAY. Arfil ST 21, 1914. TWICE A WEEK, ILM A MA* ' BALK JENNINGS I IN GtORGETOWN: 1NRILY ONES HOWL DOWN MAY- . OH OV SC ATTER | Decline to Hear Criticisms of (iover-11 nor?County Chairman Vainly C k5irnr? iwr viurr, The State. 11 Georgetown, Aug. 17.?Pent up par-1 tisan prejudice broke through higther- | a to orderly confines in Georgetown to- 3 # day and for the first time during the ! r senatorial party's tour through more j c than two score counties one o:' the ; f candidates, L. D. Jennings, was sue-! o cessfully howled down. ! p The crowd of approximately 1,000 j voters was preponderantly pro-admin ! o istration in sentiment and from tre j a outset it was evident tbat for the J b two candidates who daily made bold i v t and aggressive attacks on the chief } i< executive's record a hornet's nest was j s prepared By the time Mr. Jennings j n addressed the chair, the governor's i] derisive remarks. This was kept up v witih ever increa^i^g volume through t! the speaker's full time, though the ti mayor of Sumter tacked and shifted r and appealed to reason, all without I \ avail. The badgering of the speaker i ]\ was so persistent that the candidate j h hardly was allowed to speak ,wo con-! a nected sentences. In desperation Mr. j ti Jennings reminded the audience that ! a lie was mayor of Sumter. j ii "When the party gets tlliere Thurs- , c day I expect to have enough police j f< and citizens to keep order," Mr. Jen- j nings assured taem. "I guarantee in ! e advance Gov. Blease a 1 espectful hear- ! fj ing, which is more than I am r?- ; ti - " a _ ? V. I celling. mis, iuo, was a. iuuic j e J. W. Doar, acting county chair- I c. man, made several ineffectual efforts i to quell the disorder. n Andrews Enjoys It. tl W. H. Andrews, mayor of George- j T town and general manager of the j c Atlantic Coast Lumber# corporation, 5 v. who led a delegation to iWasfcington : tl to oppose tariff reduction on lumber, was on the stand, also but did not Q open his mout h to silence the hecklers. ' c< Inst^d the sallies of the unruly were , enjoyed by the mayor who sat by * and smiled complacently. Bolick, the fi chief of police was at Mayor Andrews'. o side. His arms were likewise limp d and his voice stilled. Both of the b officers expressed their preference by s< wearing Blease badges. When tfhe p time came for the introduction of a Senator Smith the mayor asked that j the crowd give the senator a respec- g ful hearing, as "I understand he dig- b cusses issues." a "I don't ask you to vote for elm," n ?e explained. "In fact I hope you ii won't," he added. There was no con-: c certed effort to interrupt Senator! o Smith*. J c Y?r. P. Pollock did not attend the s meeting- here today. Being detained'in c Oaeraw, he telegraphed, regretting his 1?' inability to attend. j n Explains His Action. j a The governor was the first speaker ?1 _ i' and was warmly applauded when in- e troduced. He began by asserting that be bad not violated tiie party pledge o as 'bad been charged in not appoint- J ing as treasurer and auditor the nom inees of the party two years ago. A The executive committee, after mak- ^ Ing one decision reversed itself two a weeks later, the governor said, after ! d the supreme court refused to deter- ! c mine which decision was proper the I refused to appoint either the first or j ^ the last selection by the committee. I d Another point of interest in tee i -4 meeillis; louav was iue icaumg u? cuc u governor of two letters purporting to be. one from J. G. C.iaffee o' Langley A to M. J. Miller, chief clerk in the of-1 L nee of E. J. Watson and Mr. Miller's v reply. The object of the Chaffee let- j v ter was to ascertain Mr. Miller's opin- V ion as to the advisability of betting on A Senator Smith. Mr. Miller's replv was t< i that the Blease following was irom c classes of people with whom he had . a little personal contact. The class prop- | c osition was what angered the gov- i n ernor. who denounced Mr. Miller as a .a "liar" as to the Blease following being , p from the lower classes, and promised fi that the man so denominated could get v satisfaction when t>he chief executive ; s got to Columbia. | tl (CONTINUED ON PAGE 5.) FRED DOMINICK RFPLIES TO AIKEN IBISE ( AN >OT WIPE OUT THE RECORD THAT IS WHIT. iixective ('an t Pull Away From Record?Playing Politics With Anderson Postmastership. t'.;e Voters of the Third District: Mr. Aiken has issued wliat he terms . brief answer to the letter of James A. Baker. While he claims it needs 10 answer yet he labors through seven olumns of small type in a wain efort to answer. The greater portion >f it is devoted to abuse and bitter >ersonaI attack on Mr. Baker. Mr. Baker is amply able to take care himself. Mr. Aiken made the first ttack on Mr. Baker when at the Xewerry meeting he gratuitously an'! oluntarily brought Baker's name iii r.e campaign when no one naa even j uggested it. I stated then as I sta~.e j ow t'.iat I hold no brief for Baker but a answer to the charge o: Mr. Aiken -*ill say tiat Mr. Baker was elected to he highest office within the gift of ae United States senate and defeated I one other than a brother of President 1 Wilson. If he is all tie mean things j Ir. Aiken says he is Mr. Aiken must j ave very little influence with the sen- j te t".:at he couM not prevent the elec- ! n-f ttol-ar oc- olarl' Tl'hon Cliph m Pn I [\JLL VJtt. JL-ra,rv^i do ix. ** x&vu mmvm w^ j s a brother of President Wilson were 1 the running and especially in view f his admission that he made the ef- ; )rt to encompass 6is defeat. In abusing and attempting to answr Baker Aiken uses my name very requently and tries to make a point j nat my published speech- and Bak- j r's letter reviewing Aiken's record j ame from the same source. ! 'his is true zrA that fact but lakes stronger the truth of le review of the record o.f Aiken, h-e source is the Congressional Re-1 :ord wnere Mr. AiKen s recora is j 'rit "and the fact that my speech and ' ae Baker review show the same! ource and are similar is proof beyond uestion that the statements therein ontained are true and Aiken may arist and squirm and fill columns ith invective but he can't run away rom that record. I stated at the pening of tue campaign that I would iscuss and criticize Aiken's record | ut that I would not indulge in peronalities. I have lived up to that osition. I "nave nothing tp conceal nd no tracks to hide. As he refers to me in h. effort to j ive "Aiken's true record" I desire rieflv to review Aiken's statement i nd his record. He does not refute or correct a single statement made a my speech reviewing his record beause te can't do so. I will refer nly briefly to the several matters he laims are not correctly quoted and hew by his own words that they are orrectly quoted, besides Mr. Lieualin assistant librarian of the senate j lakes affidavit t?at the Baker article j s published hs been compared with se Congressional Record and that very statement in it is correct. As to the chairmanship of District f Columbia committee and Ollie ames 1 quotea iroin an arucie iu t-ic | olun;bia State of May 17th, 1913. Liken has not denied that. It is: "It as commonly understood in the ways nd means committee that Mr. Aiken id not seek the chairmanship beause he had not been a regular a.tsnaant on toe committee hearings, .'as no' familiar with the work and id not feel competent to serve." Mr. iken has not denied this statement, or does he now deny it. As to the Anderson posrofiice: Mr. j liken sav> it was the policv of the ! i v t.-K Or.riu V, iico tic I 'tlliuui'lis liicti w iici r: i ere giving satis.action t'.:at they .'ould oe allowed to serve out their ?rms. If that be true why did Mr. Liken make a change at Xewberry af?r promising that there would b^ no hange? \Mhy did he make a chana-? t Pickens? Why did he make a hange at Westminister? These post:asters had not served out their terms nd there was no complaint on the art of the patrons of the several of ces as to the efficiency a: the serice. There was complaint at Anderon. Mr Aiken will scarcely deny hat. In fact he says there was, but (CONTINUED OX PAGE 4.) Newberry's 0/ In the C Two Sons of the County in 1 Election Means More to On next Tuesday the people of Xewberry county will be called upon tc cast their ballots ior or against twc Xewberry men w> o are candidates for high offices?one for the highest office in the gift of the people af this State, and the other for the highest FRED H. office in the gift of the peon e of this congressional district. Newberry county never .ad a gov ernor until Cole. L. Blease was elected in 1910. Since his election, and his reelection in 1912. Le has been a national figure. He is now a candidate for the United States senate. Surely Newberry county ought to support her own son, the governor of the State, and we believe she will. It A >' .w J" -H ti A ' ifexjrf i oportunity oming Primary Races For High Offices--Their the County Than to Them. means a great deal to Newberry conn I i}'. 11 means mure iu tut: tuuiuj w^au i it does to the governor. l , ! Fred. H Dominick is a son of New) berry, who has made good in his pro'; fession, and who has been an assfy. !. to the city and t':e county. It means :' more to Xewlberry to have Fred. IXna H i ( DOMIXICK. / >nick in congress than it will mean to i Fred. Dominick. s Xewberry county on next Tuesday j will ^ave an opportunity that no other ' county in the State will have. 1 ! Let's all get together in behalf of c 1 Xewberry county and the sons of 1 j X wberry, without regard to faction-:t | al or political differences. j* I I l et s vote for Xewberry county by; supporting the sons of Newberry county. a r ? - 4- . . V ~ ? .? - vf *!' ' i . : Ik BHKIl ^^^jjlkpi i 1 1 mb. KL i ?_ ?*>T^ "ON THE DEFENSIVE BEFORE THE VOTERS" f JAMES BAKER HAKES* BRIEF REPL YTO AIKEX. Will Refrain Discussing Personal Affairs?Would Divert Attention From Issue. United State Senate, Office of the Secretary. James M. Baker, Secretary. Washington, D. C., Aug. 19, 1914. Editor The Herald and News. Dear Sir: Mr. Aiken's labored reply to my article of August 8th calls for a brief answer. All t'he assertions made in his article about me personally and my personal affairs were ought out here in the senate secretary sip contest. They were brought to the attention of Senator Tillman by other senators?Mr. Aiken never j* - a x ? v: lien-nonea i.-em 10 iue seaaror muiseiL i ?and Senator Tillman investigated j :hem to his entire satisfaction before ny name was presented to the caucus. [ placed before the Democratic caucus sworn statements i:'rom the records to answer Mr. Aiken's charges, md my election /followed, whicta was a :omplete answer to every one of them, -lis -venomous abuse I will treat with ontempt. He is on the defensive beore the voters, and not I. His fight j gainst me, based on malice and falsehood, was made and lost. Let 'him io\v defend his own record. Mr. Aiken denies, in his article, that le made t'.:e Martine statement. Why s it that he called upon Senator Mar- : ine of New Jersey last Friday after- i >on in the room of the senate com- j nittee on post offices and post roads, j iud appealed to the senator to give Mm a letter denying the statement he nade about me in the secretaryship contest? Senator Martine refused to ;ive him any such letter, as I 'had jreviously read the statement to the ;enator as published, and on this point , submit the following affidavit: Mty of Washington, District 0S Columbia. Dn.oftnollw o rvnoo ror] Kafnro mp x ci ovuaiij oyjuvai vu. v nhomas W. Keller, who, being duly ivorn, says: That he- ihas read the letter of James A. Baker, dated August 8, 1914, and mblished in The Herald and News, >f Newberry, S. C., on August 11, 914; t: at Mr. Aiken not only i^iade he statement to Sena " Martine, hat "Baker went through bankruptcy >roceedings in the courts down South . ind swindled his creditors out of j verythiir; he owed them,*' but to otht senatois, who made inquiry of him .bout the truth of Mr. Aiken's statenent. Thorns W. Keller, assistant Doorkeeper United States 1 Senate. i Sworn to before me, this the 15th ay of August, 1914. R. B. Nixon, (Seal) ) Notary Public. My commission expires December 8th, 1915. 1 i There is ample data on Mr. Aiken's ; ersonal and private record, but I : ave refrained irom discussing nis lersonal affairs, as it would; tend to ^ :ivert the attention of the voters from ? he issue, namely: his public record, 1 t'hich is a proper subject for discus- ( ion, and he cannot escape answering * or nis incompetency and neglect or' ( iublic duty. ] (The letter that he secured from \ he members of the ways and means f omittee of the 62nd congress, ana ! ] ublished by him. shows t:at he ae-1' HiQ'l + ha. ^hoirmanchin rv thA onill- ! * " t uttee on the District of Columbia, . hich <honor be was entitled to. I so , rated in my letter. The date of this : c rrer. which w is Anril 24. 1913. shows l_ bat it was secured by him for 5 urpose of whitewashing his record. | j He said, in his speech at Xewberry, f hat he \oted for the Pure Food bill !r "hen it came back to toe he use from J \ o ie senate. After I proved from cue r ecora that he did not vote for it, ^ now says that he was absent. t g Sr Aikpti rharsreri me with I -O Jj noting the record inaccurately. Here "j > the statement or" an officer of the h overnment, who has no interest in F I J' lese controversies, that the record is i ^ orrect ^s published by me in TOe a : ih (CONTINUED ON PAGE 4.) ! t I u i THE TRUTH ABOUT WYLVFT AIKEN To the Voters of the Third District: The scurrillous attack made on me by one J. M. Baker, formerly of Lowndesville, S. C., but now of Washington, D. through the columns of the Newberry Herald and News (E. H. Yuri's paper), makes it necessary ifor me to use this method of replying to the false and slanderous charges that hvve been made. I V.now that his attack will do me no harm among the people who know Baker, and I ask those w'ho do not know him and his reputation for truth and veracity to make some inquiries. If they will ask the people of Abbeville and Ajiderson, they will soon find out the kind of man that he is. If they will ask his own relatives they will be told an interesting but rather sickening story of a note 'for $10,000, which was afterward compromised for $3.000 or $3,500. If they will ask Baker s classmates at Wofford College they will be told why &e left that institution. They will find some illuminating information concerning him in the court records at Abbeville, and today they will fin? other information as to his business methods in the rec ords or tne courts in tee uistnct 01 Columbia. While I believe bis atack will not hurt me in the district, I feel that duty is to myself and to my friends to take some notice of it. A Slimy Trail. At the opening campaign meeting at Newberry, when Mr. Dominick was making a garbled and misleading v statement as to my record in congress, I said that I believed Hie had secured his information "from one James M. Baker, the grandest rascal that ever lived in Abbeville, a man. whom ifew in his neighborhood 1J " * ~ /*} would ueiievt:. or vvurus tu mat cfect. I believed then, and I know now, that Baker had been furnishing Dominick with misinformation concerning my record, and I Will prove it. Let any intelligent man read Baker's article and Dominick's speech, both of which are published in the same issue of the Newberry paper, and he will at once see that both came from the same source. The proof will be convincing even to a blind man. Baker and Dominick have the reputation of being pretty shrewd, but they have not been able to cover their tracks here. TIia Wnfalla ro r?inoiffn J lie M\.\ Miia l. UJJU^Mi^ua Baker says the cause of my ill-will ? 1 ;s toa; hp sunpoi.ed the late lamented L H. McCalla in his campaign against me. That is not true, as Baker very well knows, but it is a fact that in tnat campaign he fought me most "nfair7v. I have no malice against Baker, but T wqvn a r orough contempt for him. Mr. MoCalla and myself had a hot race for congress. It was a man's fight, but there was no foul work on his part, and there was none on mine. We never lost respect for eacn otner. 1 naa nis inenasaip meagre he died, and I valued jt highly. I believe he voted for me after he quit running himself. How Baker Landed. Baker says I opposed his election as secretary of the United States senate. I did do that, and my only regret is that my efforts were not successful. I acted from a Meh of duty. I knew him to be thoroughly unworthy to hold such a -high position of trust, and it was my duty as a. public servant, responsible in some rtppr-po f-,r ?r. er'^ent and or having clean men in office to try to prevent his election. T did not tell senator Martin about Baker's conQection with a discreditable bankruptcy proceeding. If Senator Marh?j?rd of tvat hp ?ot it from some other source. But I did tell Senator Y'artine. as I told other senators, of some of Baker's shady transactions, learned that some o?! the senators were put in possession o? certain testimony in the investigation of the Sully failure, in which it was ^hown :hat that gambling concern had been carrying an account for Baker withrequiring him to put up margins. When asked the reason for this one >f the firm replied ir substance. "Oh, Baker was in a position where he jould give us imormauon, aooui iegslation and 'help us. It was worth it." This -testimony is a part of the pubic records of t?he courts of New i'ork city and is-aceessible to any )ody who wants to see it. I submit that ':e man who did this is unworthy o hold a position o trust in the -r-nate of t'.e 1'nited States or in any >ther body of honest men. F-aker at one time compromised lis debts for ten cents on the dollar. tfany an honest man bis failed and las a'terwards, when he got able, >aid all his debts with interest, but lobody ever heard of Baker doing his. People who had money in the 4 lefunct bank at Lowndesville will / lot give such testimony. f T * A/\nr?mAn toll- r\ TS\ 11 T1A PQ Hi .XL IS l^uuuuuii tain, ai uunu wv I- ol at Washington that Baker was elected secretary of the senate as a ort of consolation prize to Senator "illman. Senator Tillman wanted to ie chairman of the committee on apiropriations. and his colleagues were tot willing for him to have it. 3akv was a candidate for secretary ,nc it was generally known that he :ad been a sort of Handy Andy for be senator, servile and eager, al