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&AKE SOUTH CAROLINA "SAFE FOR DEtfOCRACr' First ?un in Fight of Redeeming the State for the People Has Been * tired at Pom aria. Columbia, July 28.?The political campaign of 1918 has opend in South Carolina. The actors are the people. If there are any candidates for any particular offices in the field, they have not as ' yet announced themselves. This is t a people's movement, and it was given momentum at Pomaria, in Newberry county, today. , "They tell us that we are fighting a war for world democracy," said former Governor Blease, leader of the Reform party, during the course of his address. "It behooves us of South Carolina," he said, "now to begin a fight for state democracy in "South Carolina?for the taking back into the hands of the people their own government." Several Thousand Democrats. There were several thousand people at Pomaria, and they were representative of the democracy of South Carolina. Numbered abong the prominent speakers were Major John G. "Richards, chairman of the State railroad commission, and Hon. Thos. F. "Brantley, of Orengeburg. Dr. H. A. "McCulftugh, pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran church, of this city, also made an address. The speech of former Governor "B J ease was the key-note of the meeting, and it was also the first gun in " ?1 ~?Tv.r>oicm in- South Caro xne poiiuuai Lupui^u lina, "which next summer will sweep a new administration of the people into power. The campaign begun today is peculiar in politics in that it is a campaign inaugurated by the people, and not by any man or set of men who set themselves up as leaders of the people. Former Governor Blease discussed the war, and the effect of the war. He said that he had been opposed to the declaration of war. and that he could not yet understand why it had been "brought upon the people, but now^that ^^?gg|^on, it must be fought out to " Via uronterf SUUicaa. oui. uv who had plunged the nation retired into political oblivion I Bresnlt which he declared would Bkccomplished with honor to the BfflEion and certainly without loss of ^prestige to American arms. | Hell Xispahitod. "I want to ask this question of yon, please: What is law and order? I shall not answer it; but if the present administration of affairs in this State is 'law and order,' then hell has * for it must be a UWU UilDjnttuvvw, ? ?. paradise." "You have ?ot to organize," be told his bearers. "You have got to get I together. You have got to have a rer generation of the spirit of godliness in this country, and band together for self-protection. You have got to pray <3od for His help and Hie guidance, and the next time you go to the ballot box, you have got to cast your ballot for a man or a coward; for a man I -arhn etoTi^fl for lustice between man and man; for a man who can 'look "the world in the face and say that he "knows no master but the people whom "he serves, and that he will answer only to them and to his God." "Arrant Coward." He denounced Governor Manning as an arrant coward, and he said that he iad so stated to Governor Manning's face, and was taking no advantage of | liis absence. "In your own state," he ?SJ <w\wAi>r>nr lav like a IijcUU, ?VU1 coward that he is?and I have said so to his face, and am taking no advantage of his absence?and instead o of going as commander-in-chief of our troops and leading them like ja braro men, he lies in his feather bed in the mansion in ease and luxury, hiding 'behind his positition, whMe he sends your eons and other bojs into the trenches of death." . Neither did Mr. Brantley nor Major ^Richards mince words when they were! talking to the several thousand people who gathered for a discussion, of issues. Major Richards, who is himself a farmer, discussed fanning activities in view of the war emergency, and his address was uplifting and * hel?ftiJ. He emphasized conditions and how they ought to he remedied? especially the cutting out of the toll now being taken by the middle man. I The farmer ought to reap the results of h-ls la>bor, he urged, "because the farmer "was the man who was supporting the government, and it wa3 upon the farms that this war would, finaQly be "won. The deliverance of the farmer from an oppression which was insidious as it was burdensome -was one of the main issues now, and j It was along this line that he pitched; one of the aKest addresses heard in this State along practical lines in recent years. Major Richards, following his address, was asked by a number of people if he would not represent the farmers in the next gubernatorial race. His reply was that tie wae w:i^ 1 ! ing to serve the Reform party wherever the party should see fit to pat him. He placed himself by his address I today as leader in the front ranks of [ those South Carolinians who are wag; ing a war for State democracy, as I well as world democracy. He showed a clear insight into real needs, and I his hearers were in thorough sympathy with him. His addresss was an able deliverance. i j Eternal Yigiiance. I "Eternal vigilance is the price of | liberty," was the key-note of Mr.: | Brantley's speech. He began by say-J j ing that more than a hundred years . ago the people of the United Statesj had thrown off the British yoke of oppression and snatched the sceptre| i of power and crown from the king and ( pla ed it in the individual citizenship | of this American nation. "In a great. . crisis such as this, patriotic citizens j instinctively turned towards the flag, - . ? i) i? ? - J , A ; oi temr Qduua, ue stuu, auu u. i well they do, "because within the folds of their country's flag are encom-j | passed the stars symbolic of the states' I of this American republic and among, those stars and entwined around those stripes are the heart-strings of every, true American patriot." Empires were being rocked and swayed by the mighty impact of war; j nations were crumbling and rebuild-i ing within the scope of an hour orj a day; in the awful cataclysm people were destroyed and millions of sol-J I | diers were far-flung along thousands ; of miles of battle line, and from across the waters came the question, "Is this! the Armageddon spoken of in Holy I Writ?" Surely this is a time for seri-j ous and solemn thought, he said. What i of the future, as regards our nation1 'and as regards our State? "If wej are to believe what the commissions j from France and England said upon' their reecnt visit to this country; if we are to believe what our ambassa dor to Germany, Mr. Gerard, said; if we, j are to believe from what we gather j j from the Russian situation and - i.v ! from what the leaders 01 an ol Lu*rse( world powers say. that there is now a crisis, this will be a long drawn war. It behooves us, therefore, if we are j to believe what Mr. Hoover says, that j j the world is nearer starvation today than ever before in its history, that the people of these United States begin to prepare novr for the awful con-1 flict; for all indications now points that the burdens of this world war in j men and means are now falling upon. the shoulders of this American republic." Don't Act Like They Talk. It passed understanding, he said, that peace was the great propagandatodya, and yet that all the nations were devoting themselves to war andj preparation for greater war, and thatj the peace-loring American republic ; should be now plunged into a world-; wide conflict. "I do not understand,", he said, "if all .these nations are now j clamoring for peace, as we are told ' they arfe, why there should not oe some common ground upon which they J cou'ld get together. The only answer j is that there must be self-constituted authorities carrying on this war against the -frill of the people." Like Mr. Blease, he was in favor of fight- j ing the war to the speediest conclu-j sion, but he believed that a lasting! peace was th* greatest boon which could come to mankind, j Mr. Brantley closed his address by | saying that he knew this country j would do her part, as she had always: *? A1-- 1 +>? + -arhor? the j <10116 111 WltJ ya?L, au uu?v, .. ~,? , : final conflict is over, "we shall hold a I i prominent and dominating part in the council* of world peace, in order that! j this potential influence shall tend to I make a victory not of conquest, not ; j of subjugation, but a victory for peace j on earth and good will to men." Mr. Brantley's address was an in- j | spiring appeal, eloquently delivered.: j and he held the sympathetic attention, I of his audience throughout. | Unanimous Against War. j Former Governor Blease, at the con| elusion of his address, took a hand i j primary which reminded one of the1 j aays or aie un?cci?ss. | "Ail of you "who, if you kad been I members of congress, would bare rot| ed for this war, hold up your right j hand," he asked. Not & hand was raised. "All of you who would hare roted against this war and who would now rote for peace bold up your hands," he asked. Every hand went up. The meeting today was presided over by the Rev. S. P. Koon. An oldtime babecue dinner- was served. People from every section of Newberry county and from many parts of the State were present. It was a statewide i gathering of nationwide import. There j is o doubt that it "was the opening of the political campaign of 1918 so far as South Carolina is concerned. Mr. Bleaks Address. Mr. Blease began his address by thanking the committee and the people of the community for their invitation to him to address them on this u ring them that he always delighted to be back among the people of his native country?his own people. "In fact," 'he said, "I feel that I can never truly say that 1 am on my nativ heath with my own arond me, save when I am in old New-! berry. I have represented you as member of the house of representatives; as your State senator; as mayor of the city of Newberry; in other j positions of honor which you nave conferred upon me, and as your governor?and I know that you know*! without my saying so, that I have never had any boss except the people. I did what I believed to be my duty. I did it regardless of any political fu-j ture for me, and only for wliat I conceived to be for the best interests of the people whom I had ben chosen to serve. You must have believed it, for I never asked you for any office or for j any position that you did not givo j me, nor for any honor within your power that you did not bestow upon ' ? me. i "We are here, on this occasion, at; the invitation of the Christians of this community?the members of three' congregation^ of a denomination of; Christians who love their God andj who love tneir state; peopie wno stand for what is right; who teach i their children that duty is the sub-j limest word in the English language, I and that they do their duty under alii conditions and-circumstances, regard-1 less of what any man or set of menj may say or think. It is to that class j of Deonle that I have been requested! to speak. Rather for Christ Than for Wilson, j "It has been published of late in the j anti-reform press that I and the party! to which I belong are outcasts in tliej political world just now, but I want; to say to you so far as I am per-! sonally concerned, that I would rather j be an outcast in the eyes of Wood-; row Wilson, and a follower of Jesus | Christ, than to be a follower of Wood-1 row Wilson and an outcast from Jesus Christ; that I would much prefer 'being a water boy in heaven, listening. throughout eternity to the chant of the ia than +r? hp the commander-in-1 aajjviu, VUMM - ? chief of all the forces of hell forever.' hearing only the music of the crackling of coal, the leashing of the blazes and| the shrieks of the damned. I was; opposed to this war. Had I been a! United States senator or a congress- j man I won Id have voted against it, | and I believe religiously, as firmly aSj I believe that there is a God in heaven, j that on the final judgment day every, American citizen who is killed in this j war off of American soil will be charged against the president of thej (United States and the members of; the congress of the United States who j voted for it, as an unwarranted sac-| riftoe in the sight of Almighty God. of fresh young American manhood. Mast Fight to Finish. "Do not misunderstand me. We are now in this war and it must be pushed to a successful conclusion. The might of the nation must be thrown towards bringing it to an end at the earliest possible moment. And let us all pray God that it may be brought to a successful end before a great number of our young men are killed upon the battle eld of Europe. We are in the fight, and we must fight it the finish with all the power of our great nation. "When Christ was upon this earth, He taught. 'Blessed are the peacemakers.' Can any man show me where Christ ever said, 'Blessed be the warmaker?' No, but He did say thatl He came upon earth to save men andj not to destroy them. He led thei fight for Christianity and to save from death. Today what do we find in this great country of ours? We find the press, with all its might and power, swing itself upon the side of death and destruction. We. find that for fear of losing that awful influence of money, it is willing to rush into the trenches of France the bone and sinew and the very flower of the manhood of the American republic. We ind more than that?that it fears, yea, it | cowers beneath the lash of that influence, and giree to the people of this nation no information except what the editor wants the people to see. It keeps the news from the people; it hides the facta; it conceals the truth, and it gives to us only those things which it thinks will inspire passion, and will call the mean and not the good, the evil and not the godly, in u? to the forefront, in order that the destruction may go on and on?and call it?may God save the name!? Liberty! Rotten Miafeterf. "Can we go further? Yea. Shame though it -be, it has reached the pulpit, and our ministers of the gospel stand up in their churches (of course there are exceptios, and thank God there are many good men among the exceptions), with one hand upon the Bible?a Bible wiich teaches them Christianity; a Bible which says to them, Love the Lord, thy God, with all thy heart, and thy neighbor as thyself?and plead for thi3 awful war, ?-nd for thi3 destruction of human K* ings created in the image of their Maker. Why this from our pulpits? Can it be that the power of money has so reached out that it is felt in our churches, and that the moneychangers today have gone back into the temple from which Jesus Christ drove them? Or can it be that characters like Judas Iscariot have taken on the livery of iieaven to serve tae devil in? Why, in my own town, the capital of your great State, the Sabbath day is desecrated in the very shadow of your capital building, within the easy hearing of your governor's mansion, and in the very sight of the Christian people going to their fhnmhps We see there everv Sundav the most damnable descrations of the day that Christ has commanded us to keep holy. What did he say? Six days shalt thau do all thy labor, but on the: seventh thou shalt rest. They tell us that this does not apply to war. times. But surely in any times Christ nava-r Vinva ^nnfprrmlfltpd RllCh a buum iiu ? v* iiv* . v violation of His Sabbath by so-called Christians as we see there in Colum-j bia. Crime is rampant all over our. State. Murders, rapes, arsons, thefts, j perjuries, and every crime known to the law, are being committed day bv day, until it has well nigh reached the point that the farmer is almost afraid to leave his wife or daughter at home by herself; we are almost afraid to leave our own domiciles, which are supposed to be protected by our great laws, unless we have doors and win dows locked ana Darrea. auq yvi boast of law and order. /What Is Law and Order? j "I want to ask this question of you, please: What is law and order? I shall not answer it, but if the present administration of affairs in this State is 'law and order/ then hell has been mispainted, for it must be a par~ j auioc. I "What is religion? I shall not answer that question, because I have been taught, as you are teaching vonr children today, in their Sunday schools, that religion is a belief in God and in His son Jesus Christ, and the keeping of the ten commandments that have been handed down, to us; and I speak to people who know what religion is, and that a religious people dare to live what they believe to be a religious life?and it is for 70 >t to answer the question for yourselves. "Now I ask you an even more serious question, in view of the signs of the times, and it is this: Is money and the power of money throttling \^riatianity? I tell yon, with shame, that is the tendency. I go into the chnrches and see men sitting in the honored places, and hear men leading people in prayer to their God. whom I know personally to be violators of both the law of God and scan. Further, I know, that it is getting to be the general consensus of opinion in this country that some of the leading church members are the worst men in the church, and that they simply use their fn H-hpr positions in Lilt/ UilIXi VLL w their financial interests in the -world. If that be true, my question is answered, and it behooves all true Christians immediately to get busy. Rererting back to these matters, in connection with the war situation, the speaker said: Wipe Out Political Powers. "In my opinion, the only way to receive relief is to wipe out of political existence the present powers that be, I do not ask you to share my opinion, and I am not speaking for any party nor for anybody but myself. Every senator of these United States, and every congressman of these iUnited States, who voted to put this country into war, and at the same time voted himself from the draft, is a coward, and will be so known in all time to come. If he had been a brave man, when he voted for this war he would have resigned his seat, tendered his services to his country, and gone to fight for her, as he was forcing the other man and his children to do. In vnur own State your governor lay dowi like a coward that he is?and I hare said so to his face and am taking no advantage of his absence?and instead of going as commander-in-chief with our troops and leading them like a brave man, he lies in his feather bed in the mansion, in ease amd luxury, hiding behind his position, while he sends your sons and other boys into the trenches of death. "You have got to organize. You have got to get together. You hare got to have a regeneration of the spirit of godliness in this country, and band together for self-protection. Yoa hare got to pray God for help and his guidance and the next time you go to the ba'Ilot-box you have got to cast your ballot for a man who will do his full duty to all men, for a man who is not a skulker or a coward; for - V ^ a man who stands for justice ue- . tween man and man; for a man who, can look the world in the face and say! that he knows no master tout the people that he serves, and th-a* he will answer only to them and to r's God. I Orgsmfoe! Onranlie! "The time to do this, ".ay Jellow-! ! citizens, is when the clubs meet next | April?and not next August, when you j go to the ballot-box. Next August is i the time for the completion of the j work. Next April is the time for the I effective work of putting the plan ! into operation, and if we don't get j busy next April there will be little use to go into a primary next August. Next April is the time. The club meetings are the places. ! "Get ready and arm yourselves and be prepared for the fight, and when ; the fight is won, take this State over from disorder, from corruption, from regime, and make it a government of the people, for the people and by the people?and, above all, a government by man for the service of Almighty God. "I am not a candidate for any office, I have never asked for any office exthe fnvernorshiD of mv State. O " ? ? - ? ? - ? w That was the highest political ambition of my life. You, my close personal friends, know it. Even that ambition was for my party, my friends? and the other races that I have mada have been solely for them. As I have ( stated before, if at any time or place, or in any manner, they need my services, those services shall be given to them so long as I have strength. I am not speaking for myself today. I I am speaking the truth as I see it? I speaking for my fellow-man and for : what I believe to be the will of my jod. j "So far as the war is concerned, I offered my services, once we were in i it, and offered to raise a regiment or a brigade, and would have done so had t hoori nArmitted. But that kind of I regiment or brigade, with officers elected by those whom they were to , command, was not desired by the powers that be in South Carolina. The j reception with which my offer met simply bears out my statement that - - - /i?Tviiina -duo livp nnder , IOQ3Y 1H OUUXJLL Vaivnuw ?. w _ a limited monarchy, selfish, and self. seeking, in -which the people have no voice. They tell us that we are fighting a war for world democracy. It behooves ?s of South Carolina now to begin a fight for State democracy in South Carolina?for the taking back into the hands of the people tketr own government. ? GRAKD JURY DTDICTS GOTEBNOR OF TEXAS Austin, Texas, jury n . UVTCJUUl James F. Ferguson was today iadict, ed by the grand jury of this county on nine counts, seven charging misapj plication of public funds, one of em(bezzlement and one of diversion of public funds. He gave bonds in the mmm? i. .J f 15 ;s An Ambition az /? J ? '|'HE needs of the South are i f, J; ofthe Soatbem Raihray: tbeero* f m upbuilding of the other. ? J\ | * The Sootbera Railway acfcs mo fan 7 C * accorded to ethers. Vv( ' A The ambhiou of tfce Sootbera Rat y ^ nuay of interest that is bora of eo-ope | ;f f the railroads; to see perfected that fair* / ' sent of railroads which invites the I f arcades; to realize that liberality of c \/ to obtain the additional capital needed ft J enlarged facilities incident to the den i t aerrice; aod. finally? i To take its niche in Ae body pot 1 j other treat industries, with no more, ) ') drhu and equal opportunities. fe . ? ^WB^^SSmsSPmSHm s nrf^FW jit nMH^BtTi il P3^ KM No Pnaetmn I Mm nnHiNK of i5,oo( Um&m I without a punctu] ffapi%M:) tional, but the ord jffplp owners who have subs treacherous and expei agents for ESSENKAY, we i Wtmmfm service tllot positively aesui EESSENKAY absolutely slow leaks?doubles .the t relieres your mind of all ^ from the constant drawback: yoo cotMag to imvestigate. A CJ Write foe free boot essen: h-n 31s ' I sum of $5,000 in one case and $1,069 >' in r of the other cases. An indictment was also returned in four counts against Secretary of State : Bartlett, charging misapplication of : public funds, also against C. 0. Aua' tin. state commissioner of insurance ' and banking on four counts for ali j ?i ^i ^ x ? _ n i.T? 4. _ legeu viuiauou <ji tue oiait; u<uxn.jL*& ' laws. The Indictments of Governor j Ferguson are a culmination of along I series of charges that have been i>abI licly made against him during the | last several months. ' The house of representatives has ! been convened to meet next Wednes! day to discuss bringing impeachment I proceedings against him. WARNING TO RED CROSS ^ j- n ~ - 1 J. woman nim iv rose ?s Ag*w? E. H. Wells, assistant to the president of the American Red Cross, has telegraphed a warning to R. H. King, South Carolina's secretary, advising him to beware of a woman posing without authority as an agent of tbe Red Cross. The telegram: t "Mayor C. E. Brooks of Hendereonville. N. C., writes, July 16 Mrs. H. t G. Chapin poses as representative American ed Cross. Carries letters of introduction signed T. Roosevelt, and uses paper w: h Red Cross on it. Mrs. Chapin entirely unauthoi?ze*L Please be on the lookout for feer if she comes into your States." Policy Holders' Meeting. The policy holders of the Farmers9 Mutual Insurance association of Newbery county will meet in annual ???sicn on Saturday, August 4th, at 11 o'clock a. m., to elect one director from each township and any other business that might come up. All policy holders are urged to come to tMe meeting. An effort will be made to organize a live stock association. L. I. EPTING, Secretary. ,R. T. C. HUNTER, Presidtat. 7-24-tf * * - i..*.! Can Y*ur Fruits act a Yeg^vamep? The U. S. government is very desirous that yon save every bit of your surplus. We are prepared ? save it for yon. Canning charge Is 4c per oan. Will furnish No. 3 caa&s at 5 each. Beans tor home use moat be ready strung. Regular eaxmiag days Tuesdays and Thursdays. 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