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. . ... M MKKK 0- 3EWBERKY, S. t. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1>7, 1916. TW1CE 1 WEEK< ,U, A IEA* VOLUME LI1JU MMBtK 9o. >0 ORGASIZTD BOLT 1 FROM STATE TICKET ! Blease Men in Coueus Take Steps to Rehabilitate Reform Faction? Resolution are Passed. News & courier. Columbia, Oct. 24.?Tlie Biease taction in caucus here tonight formally adopted a resolution which shows that there will he no organized bolt from \ the Democratic State ticket. They ^ took steps to atempt the rehabilitation of the minority faction by the appointment of a central committee to call another convention. The caucus was held in the court house, the Blease partisans cheering their leader ^continuously. The following resolution, introduced i)y John G. Richards, was unanimously adopted: 1 "Resolved, by the Reformed Demo i -cracs ui ouuui ^iuunua, iu wuicunvu assembled, that we do hereby reaffirm our allegiance to the Democratic party ^ -and to the Democratic principles, State and national." v Grievances Becited. In the course of a long resolution, which recited the grievances of th? socalled "reformed faction," introduced by C. . Sims, in this connection, "'Still we would be the last to encourage any division of the white voters of this State which might tend to lead to an appeal to an alien race." f This resolution was unanimously , -adopted. The minority faction adopted a reso lution introduced by (Wl A. Stuckey, ijrroviding for a central committee of from Aar.h Congressional district and two from the State at large to organize and attempt to rehabilitate the Blease faction. The resolution, unanimously adopted, reads: "Resolved, That the chairman of this meeting be and is hereby directed, -to appoint a committee to be composed of two members from the State large, and' one from each Con? gressional district, to be known as *he central committee of the Reform faction of the Democratic party of South Carolina, which committee is liereby empowered to call a convention to meet at such time and place as they may deem best, and to fix the representation by courses, for said convention." . ' . Prepared List ' Upon the> adoption of the resolution a prepared list was read out by the chairman as follows: | State at large, W. A. James, of Lee, O. L. Johnson, of Spartanburg. By districts: First, John P. Grace, of Charleston; Second, E. R. Buckingham, of Aiken; Third, James N. Pearman, of Anderson; Fourth, Riley J. Row'le\\ of Greenville; Fifth, I. J. Campbell. of York; Sixth, Thomas P. Brown, of Florence; Seventh, J. B. Addy. of Xiexington. I The platform adopted was merelv a reiteration of Blease's campaign speeches the plaform having been 4 introduced by Thomas F. Brantley, of Orangeburg. Reaffirming their allegiance to the : j ! l_remocranc party, >->i^en_tr auu uauunai, boldly and hotly asserting that their! candidate for Governor in the last, primary election was nominated, but -that his nomination was "stolen" by fraudulent methods, and listening to I two speeches by Cole L. Blease and one from John P. Grace, of Charleston, the so-called Reform Democratic Convention tonight formally attempt-i ed to rehabilitate their faction with the avowed purpos i to wrest the reius of the State government from the iiands of the faction that is now in power. ! The convention was called to order -*by W. 'Ai. James, of Bishopville, the author for the call for the gathering, who stated the object of the gathering following an invocation by Rev. J. is.; Oliver of Georgetown "W. J. Talbert, of Parksville, who today announced for the United Stales State Senate unconditionally, was then elected permanent chairman of the convention, and John K. Aull, of Columbia. former private secretary to Blease, when he was Governor, ana later to State Warehouse Commissioner John L. McLaurin, was named as permanent secretary. Chairman Talbert then made his speech which dealt extensively with the history of the so-called reform movement in South Carolina. I W. F. Caldwell. I BLEASE'S FIRST SPEECH AS HEPORTED FOR CHARLESTO\ AMERICAN i >Tr. Blease. He said: Oentlemen of the 'Convention: Last October, in a convention sim- j ilar to this, it was insisted that I, should become a candidate for gov-,1 -a /-,*, nf this State. I did not desire! 11U1 V*. V*< _ - - _ to run, because T realize:!, among oth- j v er things, that no gcvc,~nor of the State I had ever served a thirA term, and I! "begged you all to put nprward some j one else. i Another convention of the same \ >1 character \va6 lield the following spring, and again it was insisted thte I should make the race for governor. nn,i it was the unanimous vote of that assemblage that I should do so. I consented, and I took upon my shoulders the responsibility of the campaign. The matter is too fresh in your rtiinds for me to tell you how that campaign was conducted, but I leave it entirely to you to say whether or not I made an honorable fight?such a fight as met, and does now meet with your approval. That fight won for you, beyond the shadow of a doubt, the victory which you sought, and gave me a majority of the votes cast by the Democratic voters of this state. I now hold in my hand, and will read you portions thereof, evidence as to that primary, which defrauded us of the victory, conclusive in the mind of any fair man, that votes were stolen from the boxes, that votes were wrongfully counted, that votes were purchased with money and with whiskey, that voters w^ere intimidated and coerced by being threatened with dismissal from their positions and with foreclosure of mortgages on their Dremises. and with the threat of refusal to extend their notes in cases of indebtedness, if they cast their ballots with you and for me. ? There is a law in this state against libel and slander. If I have-said aught that can not -be proved, let the issue be made and I stand ready to meet it. The editor of the Columbia State, in the issue of that paper of October 16, 1916, asks: "What about the man who would tempt another to break his oath? Would whisper that which rould cause the unthinking and the ignorant to regard his oath lightly? ;*'buld suggest to the unwary that they may compromise with their consciences? Would insinuate that an oath does not bind a man's honor? who would Jend himself to the manufacture of oerturieB in South Caro lina?" * ~ If "he means by this question, those who would encourage a bolt against the declared nominees of the Democratic party, I will answer his question with a great deal of pleasure, and here is the answer: EM ward DuRant Smith, Richard Irvine Manning, Alexander Chavis Haskell, Joseph W. Barnwell, William E. Gonzales, W. W. Ball, the editors of the newspapers who supported Haskell against Tillman, and all of the so-called Democratic voters of this state who did not cast their ballots for the regular nominee n? thp 'npmnnrfttir' nart.v for erov ernor for 1912, unless they believe:! tbat the then nominee for governor received his nomination by fraud, in which event they were not bound to support him, and did right in not voting for him just as I am notbound unless I see fit'to be, nor is any other man bound, to support the nominee of the Democratic party as declared by the state Democratic executive committee in the primary held on September 12, 1916, because he is not the nominee, but his nomination was obtained by the theft of votes, by the purchase of votes with whiskev and money, bv in timidation and coercion, fraud, theft and perjury. And I charge here and now that no more corrupt political machine, not even the Tweed ring of New York in 1876, has ever existed than the present Democratic machine in South Carolina today. John Gary Evans and his crowd may never be convicted and sent to the penitentiary as were Tweed and his ring, but the nomination of Manning will go down in the future history of this state as much of a stench in the nostrils of the decent people of the American nation as was the election of Rutherford B. Hays. I charge Richard I. Manning with being particeps criminis, in that he is an accessory after the fact, in having obtained this nomination by fraud, intimidation, coercion and corruption, and if he had been that honorable man that most of the press of this state and his friends hold him out to be, he would have declined to have accepted the nomination, because no ti.Vi/1 ia toinorJ with frouH Sin.-? iliCVIl ? I1V Iv? UUiilVU U ivu li UUU L4AAV* tion that is tainted with fraud and corruption such as this nomination is tainted with. In conclusion I wish to say. as for my part, that .1 am not a candidate for any office now. I do not expect to be a candidate for any office in the general election, and will not be. f am not now a candidate for any office in the near or the distant future. But I do propose to continue this fight for the principles which I represent, and for the friends that I love and the friends that love me. '.And if ever you ipnrn fhat role T, F.lease has ceased to fight for them and their principles, truly you can say that: "This poor. lisping, stammering tongue Lies silent in the grave." Mr. C. R. Wise left 'Wednesday for Atlanta to buy the second carload of mules this season for his firm, and will return with them Friday. <8> s> THE IDLER <3> ? ><$><* <3> <$> <e> <S> <S> <^> ^ <S> <$> ]n n;y last letter or article or whatever \ou may feel inclined to call it i said chat in my opinion what was the matter with Newberry is that all of us?that is those who are active n oi? less anil social life- are too veil satisfied with, their noble selves, and so long as the people are selfsatisfied there will be no chance for the town to spread out and grow. And this reminds me of one of Buster Brown's resolutions. You know, somehow or other, I just like to read the funny papers now. I am jus: like a ohila in that respect, and to tell the truth 1 am not sorry that I can feel tb.it I am a child. It is v.rif, you know, in that great Book something about except ye become as a little child, and so on. But as I was saying, I like the funny papers?that is some of them, like Buster and Mutt and Jeff and Bringing up Father. I can always see something in these to nnint a moral or to adorn a tale. But ' I as I "was saying I was reminded of i one- of Buster's resolutions. Some-1 how he has taken up terribly oi late with' Smith. Smith, you know is his neighbor. I don't know that this particular .resolution has anything' to do with Smith, 'but I guess it has. Some of the otter children have taken the paper and I have anly tlie resolution and it was some time ago Any *ay here is the resolution. 0O0 "Resolved, That apropos of nothing, let. me observe that the men who catch .big fish use big bait and go where big fish are. Those catc!i little fish use little bait and simply sit and wait. Men who are after bi * business use big advertising space. They know you can raise more corn on two acres than you can on one. More people see a big advertisement. If there is, a picture in it mor<a people see it- This is a picture age. Merchants who hire a store and buy a stock and sit and wait will have their shelves half full of out of date goods next year worth only half their value. If you advertise you ksep things going and get full prices for new goods." ??0O0 Now what I am afraid of we are ju->t silting and .vjtin.-- * ar-* using little bait and going after little fish. This is truly an age of publicity. And of pictures, as Busier says. We have got to get up and go after big fish if we want to catch them, and we must use big bait Bui as lont as we are .'alisfieu w'th ourselves and our conditions we going to by sitting and waiting, like Viica'ftber, for something to turn up. If we want anything to turn up in t':is age we have got to get out and turn it up. That's what. Ho >ou catcli mj' If you don't it i.-- tim? you were getting up and out of tiiat waiting humor and moo? which y.v.i are now in. j would r;.fher see a mi" make a mistake now and then doing something, than to .-ee the fel!ox?: who aevsr makes a mistake, bccause '.ie never does any thing. Now, honest, woman : you ; j 0O0 By th$ wd\, this rc-riuijidj me or another thing. Did you read President Wilson's SDfePr-h at Shadow Lawn the other day, which he made to the farmers? If you didn't, and have the opportunity, be sure to take time to read it. It will be worth your time. All of Mr. Wilson's speeches are worth. }our wnne 10 reau. i^ui i ?as suu>.r with one thing in this one particularly. These two paragraphs appear in that speech: "Now I want to illustrate in another way that has nothing to do with farming, whatVe have been trying to accomplish and I want you to keep in mind, as the central word of the whole idea of government that I am trying to expound, the word 'co-operation.' "And I want you to contrast that word with the word 'combination.' "Co-peration means all of us getting together; combination means some of us getting together and doing as we please." Now, I want you to get tbe distinc cion or the difference between these j iwo words. Had you ever seen them ' defined before? 'And isn't the definition just as plain as can be? That manuVilson is a pretty big fellow. He no doubt has some faults just like all of us who are human have, but he ai ways says something worth while when he opens his mouth, he seems to me to say the right thing and to say it in the right way. Now I didn't like his foreign policy very muchii but he seems to have known more about that than 1 did even, but somehow he al- J ways seemed to me to be leaning with the allies too much, but 1 reckon he knew better what he was doing than I did, and } nave come to conclude that he will be the means of bringing about peace yet. But what we want here in Newberry, South Carolina, as soon as we can is to get rid of that satfnalino tr> toa'ptllGr. lOil^U 4.VVAA14C), ..3 VW 0W J-O co-operation?not combination?cooperation?that's the thing we need right here in Newberry?"all of us getting together." And then pulling together. Mr. Wilson didn't try to tell those farmers how to farm, but he told them about the laws which congress had passed looking to the betterment of the farmer and how- the times had changed and "how there were still changes going on and how the govern- j ment was sending the experts into ev-i ery community to help to make bet-; ter farmers out ot them. No doubt | there will be some one to say that what I write doesn't amount to anything?that it is only like unto a little flee barking at * big dreadnaught. - V..A W rntra wen, mat may otj, oui i xi?,ve en.?a/ ^ heard that the cat could look at the moon. And I am going to keep on barking and looking at the moon, es# pecially on these beautiful October nights when the moon shines down in this part of the universe as it doe3 nowhere else. 0O0 And this reminds me of a resolution of Tige that I read in one of Buster Brown's funny papers. It runs like! this: "Resolved, That the disagreeable people should all be put together in one place and every opportunity should be given tnem to De jusi as mcau auu disagreeable to each other as they can ?maybe they might quit it. No. They don't know they are disagreeable. They think it is the other person. Besides they want to be mean and ornery?it makes them happy. There's only orfe thing to do with the sad soul or the grouch: Run. Don't listen. It isn't good for you. It isn't right for you to let others pour their troubles in your ear. It makes you unnappy t? "ear it ?uu i*. umv them magnify their trouMe and give it importance. Tell them you have an enlargement of the "oh, be joyful club" as the chairman oi the committee on forgetfulness. There's so much unpleasant stuff loose that we should laugh at it and kid it. Don't let's be serious. It's a bore. Tige." Now that's fine philosophy. Let's forget the unpleasant things we hear. | And yet do you know there are lots J of people right ^ere *n this good and 1 satisfied town who had rather heai and repeat unpleasant things about people and forget the good than to j have a good square meal of jay bird j eggs. Let's forget the unpleasant things. And all of us join the "03:, | be jovful club." I The Idler, j THE LIBRARY. With the approach of long winte:evenings the library is growing in ??? V Krtirirr OQ Pi, popularity, new mtjiuueio ucmg time it is opened. Comparatively few people are aware of the number oi 1 valuable and interesting books on the shelves not to mention the many volumes of fiction. One case is devoted to books for children and with eacfi order for the library several of tne be3t of children's books are included. The following books have come in this week: The World for Sale?Gilbert Parker. Come (Tut of the Kitchen?Alice Duer Miller. The Wonderful Year?Wm. J. Locke. Blow the Man Down?Holman Day. I Don't Count Up But Con What Candidates do Before C Determine the Prizes They and News Prizes Will Nc With Folded Hands-1 pires Saturday, $ * NOTICT TO CANDIDATES. >] <$' ? ^ On account of The Herald and >"ews being published one <S> day earlier this week, it was <v impossible to get the votes $> taunted and properly placed <S> i/ /o the credit of each candidate <*> in time for this issue. .How- <S> ever the names of candidates and their standing- will appear > in our next issue. " ' - " - - * \ The time is growing rather short, j gentle reader. Do you realize i you ' have but six days in which to reap1 the benefit of tbe greatest oportunity! you will have during :his campaign to secure extra votes? Almost every candidate in this campaign fully appreciates this opportunity and are; putting forth every effort to gather as many subscriptions as they can by Saturday, October 28. I, I 1 The campaign department wants to impress upon every candidate that they may secure as many $12.00 clubs < j as possible. We are forced to admit ! that some few are holding back, claiming thev have no "chance," "no ' luck," and do not fully appreciate the | magnitude of this offer. I < 1 | Do not hold tack, but get in the i campaign and secure the prize of | your choice by pluck, not luck. Are Yon a Gambler or a Worker? j The world is a wheel of fortune. Men are gamblers. They must take the prize at which the wheel stops,.' and be resigned to their fate, if they I draw blanks. Judging them by their,' method of living, that is, -the creed a; vast number of inhabitants of this j tprrpsi-ial o-lohe. Following the nrin ciples embodied in that creed, we, must -believe that life is all chance, i and that our destines are guided and j ever ruled bv the "Goddess of Luck." i I He depends on. the turn of the, wheel, or the turn of the card. He; bets his money, in many cases he< staVes his all on "the turns." If his turn brings him a "big win," he is j happy; if it throws him a small prize j he is depressed; if he draws a blank, he is further depressed. But if he is "game" he takes his medicine like a man, whether he wins or loses; whether he draws a prize or a blank. He is either "lucky or unlucky," be 3 . Life and Gabriella?Ellen Glasgow. , Second Choice?'Will Harben. The Bars of Iron?Ethel Dill. The Heart of Rachael?Kathleen Norris. Fish?Mary Roberts Rhinehart. The Fall of a Nation?Thomas Dixon. Poems?Eugene Field. Poems?J. Whitcomb Riley. For^. Children. The Lost Prince?Frances Burnett! The Little Hunchback Zia?Frances , H. Burnett. Mary Pose of Mifflin?Frances Ster-, rett. Georgina of the Rainbows?*Annie, Fellows Johnston. Other recent additions are: Old Lady Xo. 31?Louise Farrslund. The Red Cross Girl?Richard Harding Davis. , The Life Everlasting?Marie Corelli. ( Seven Miles to Arden?Ruth Sawyer. The Spenders?Harry Leon Wilson The Crimson Gardenia?Rex Beach, j I j The Heritage of the Desert?Zane . I Gray. I The Seed of the Ritgteous?Juliet. W Tompkins. The Just and the Unjust?Vaughn Kester. The Girl From the Big Horn Coun- . try?May E. Chase. Just David?Eleanor Porter, On Being Human?Wood row Wilson. 1 People Like That?Kate L. Basher. J On the magazine table will be found for 1916 Harpers, Everybodys. Ladies Home Journal, Home Companion, Literary Digest. Colliers and The Ameri~j can. ion Luck tribute Energy October 28th Will Largely TV ? ?? n mi f V V V Will secure? 1 he tierala. t Go to Those Who Sit Ixtra Vote Offer ExOctober 28th. cause he trusts to luck entirely in his eambline venture But on the other hand the man who believes life is a gamble, with "luck" the controlling genius and guarding angel, makes the mistake that has crossed the Roadway of Life to be Littered with Whitened Bone# of Hillion of Failures. In the making or marring of one's life there is no such thing as "luck;" and chances play no part whatever in the winning or losing of the world's biff prizes. So it is in the Campaign business. Chance plays no part with the success or failure of the candidates in The Herald and News Campaign. A real live candidate in this Campaign will work and take advantage of the oppprtunities offered. They are ever on the alert for opportunities and quick to take* advantage of them. Who Will Be Successful] The, successful candidates in this Campaign are going to be the young ladies who are ever on the alert fiu* candidates who see to it that no opportunity is being allowed to slip toy unobserved. They will be young ladies who will make their own opsw>rhr p- PVPTV r>roRT>prt>T? subscriber, and getting those wk? have given them short-term subscriptions to extend their subscriptions two years or more, especially during this extra vote offer, which will Bxplre 10 o'clock p. m., Saturday, 0?tober 28th. The candidates who will secure these Extra Voting Certificate* Will be young ladies who know abont things. ^ They will be candidates who ar?*. always in training. They will be candidates who think about things. They will be candidates who w!n the prizes of life, and not. those who procrastinate. But those who do not trust to " TV* f\ r\ 1UVA. 1 UUOC W UU U\J ll\JL on chance. They will be those ' who work. Those who have some control of themselves, and are arbiters of their fate. Do not trust to "luck." but get fcuay and secure enough subscriptions to earn at least two or three of thos* Fxtra Voting Certificates good for 200,000'Extra Votes, which will go a long way toward securing the prize of your choice. Get busy today and stay busy, and get your subscriptions in by 10 o'clock: p. m. Saturday, October 28. .For the present the library is opeai ed on Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 4 to 5:30 P. M. Visitors will be cordially welcomed. Mrs. Robert D. Wright, Pres. Library Assn. ? x THE ROOF OF THE WORLD "When the tasks of the day are ended and the lamps of the House ar? lit, And the chambers are filled with laughter where the lords of the dwelling sit, When the care of the living day like dusty flags are furled, I climb the mounting stairway that leads to the Roof of the World. Apart from the world's confusion and din I sit aloof, Content to dream in silence in the peace of the world's wide roof: But the murmurous hum of voices comes up from the rooms below And fills my ears with music and my heart with a kindling glow. The stars are near above me and friedly their faces seem: t Like neighbors they sit with, me as r sit on the roof and dream; They stoop like giant kinsmen and take me by the hand And lead me unresisting along their goodly land. When the honr of dreams is ended I turn from the roof again To join my human comrades in the rooms of the^ House of Men: ? T* A** f A wivr foUoTZTfl r ur my ucait i co?/\zhvl^ i-uj ?? ~ (their words like music pari) And answers the God who guardeth above the Roof of the florid. ?Exchange. f