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^ VOLUME LY? NUMBER 47. NEWBERRY, S. C? TUESDAY,/USE 11. 191S. ^ TWICE A WEEK, $U0 A YEAR r SENATOR TILLMAN ANSWERS GOVERNOR MANNING'S LETTER 1 Says That Lever and Manning Are Both l:nder Obligations to Him j ^ on/} Hn Will Snppifv If ThPV I "V, J Ck Desire.?Snappy Letter. ? Vp The following letter of Senator v Tillman "was sent to The Herald and < News several days ago with release j at 8 p. m. on Sunday evening. Sunday morning The Herald and News j received a telegram from Senator; Tillman requesting the return of the lpi-tp-r and cancelling the release. We wrote him immediately returning the ' < copy -but told him if it were publish- j ed in some other paper that we would use it, but if not we <vould withhold j , publication. On Monday morning it r appeared in the Charleston American j irom their Columbia correspondent; and we are new copying it from that paper and do not feel that there is ; any obligation to hold it up as it al-j readv Las been puonsnea. it is a. j god letter and sounds like the Till- j : man of old. It rips the governor up , the back and somewhat lays Con- i ; gressman Lever out. We knew thatj the senator would smoke 'em out and we said so some time ago. This letter ; sounds and reads like there is a iot j of the old time Tillman fire left and f j we expect more racy developments: Kb J t'^o f .fire. There are several in t!?e letter that we woulu . 30k omment on but a? we thought Mp it would be held up we did not write i Of them and it is too late now for this j W Issue. It is racy reading and we are sure that the readers of The He~?lii; : ]: and News will enjoy it.?Editor Her- j J aid a^d News. j j Washington. D. C.. \ f June 6, 1918. , VSenior Tillman gives out the fol- j lowing M^te&ent in rep^ to Govern- ] or Manning's open lette^addressed; < to him under date of June 1: i] I have no device to question Gov-1 i ernor^rtPhnm^s personal patriotism!'] but there are some features of his j ' attitude in regard to the selection of j J a successor to the office I now hold i that I feel compelled to deal with. < I To quote his own words: "Thii4 j k is a time, however, if I may remark it. i A which demands self- abnegation and the subordination of selfish or ambi- 1 tious aims." This patent truth stat- i ed wkh such clearness causes me , rto wonder how Governor Manning j i can justify the urging of 'Mr. Lever ^ "^1 to give up the chairmanship of one 7 of the great committees in the house to offer for the senate. Mr. Lever . had in this crisis an opportunity such ? as come to few men to serve th? ,< farmers of South Carolina. This he < has thrown away to run for the sen- ] ate and also attempt to jeopardise the ] chairmanship of the committee on I 3 i nava? affairs. If Mr. Lever should , am not re-elected the State loses the ^ chairmanship of the committee on , \ naval affairs. If Mr. Lever should win he will go to the foot of all the ^ 'committees on which he will serve,! , H and so would Blease. J W Did Governor Manning consider the j J State's best interests when he ad-1 . J J vised and persuaded Mr. Lever to; i < throw away the chairmanship of the ^ committee of agriculture of the , house to go into a race for the sen-! ate? ^! : i 1 ^ Th?.?tate had successfully passed B through the floating of more than it-3 A share of the Libertv loan. This ii evidence enough that the State o? , II? South Carolina was loyal and true 1 ( PIV and earnestly behind the President: < and the war. . i This over-subscription to the Lib- ' ' erty bond issue and the generous -contributions to the Red Cross on the j part of the people of South Carolina i completely refutes Governor Man- j i ning's statement to the President and j ; "Mr. Lever's assertion in his announcement that the causes of the war and the objects for which our j country are fighting will have to be explained in great detail on the r stump this summer in every county or 'Blease will be elected and the 1 |A people of South Carolina will go o-n !? record as disoval and opposed to the | war. For myself I have no doubt about the patriotism and the loyalty of the people of South Carolina and j they are just as well informed as some people who set themselves up to be j their leader, f have no hesitation in k. resenting such misrepresentations of their loyalty and .patriotism. I fully share the opinion of President Wilson who in his last address to Congress said: "Politics is adjourned. The elections will go to those who think least of it; to those who go to the constituencies without exDlanations or excuses, with a plain record of duty faithfully and disinterestedly performed. I, for one, am always confident that the people of this country will give a just verdict upon the service of the men who act for them when the facts are such that no mar can disguise or conceal them. There is no danger of deceit now." How does this statement of President Wilson's compare with Governor Manning's open letter to me? Governor Manning says, "My opinion was and is that it is imperative for him OBlease) to be met in debate at every meeting so as to keep the true and vital issues of the war and loyalty to onr country and government before the people." Also, "That we in South Carolina could not take -1 ~'r?cha * f Itot if was: P it V-'IiaiH-TC lilt IJUG ioowt. _ State and national duty to see to it that South Carolina was represented in the United States senate by on^? who was, and is, loyal to the United States and a strong supporter of President "Wilson anrl his administration. Blease does not fill these requirements." Here is the crux of the situation: Governor Manning was not willing to trust the peopie with making their own nomination for senator and he with the aid of a very small coterie of politicians set to work to make a senator satisfac torv to Governor Manning. Naturally Governor Manning is concerned in the defeat of Blease. This is no new sensation to him; he has called on me in times past to bring about this nuch desired event and I contributed something to th^ end, notably whei le himself was in the race two years igo for governor, but now he thinks it advisable to get someone else to 'bell the cat." What a transformed * ' "' ? l,n ic rrrVi or* ind UDlQUltOUS S linesman 11c 10 It comes to making it possible to 3lect a senator, frow that of 2 years igo when the issue was on the election of a governor? I want to say in this connection that when the second race was on !>etween Manning and Blease I issued /xT?r? eiornatnrp a letter in _>ver jlu.y a ~ _ which I t.ied 'Blease and McLaurin together; I outlined the iniquities conlected with the proposed deal, etc., md had this statement ready for the winter when 'Mr. Lever came to rrenton in the hot weather in early September in an automobile with the Mt-foinc down and returning to Co y/U.1 Laiuo lumbia after dark to get. this anti- j Blease document to the -printer?., ; keeping it a secret as to the part he vas taking in the election. Governor Manning's opinion as well 3 s Mr. Lever's as to my ability to defeat. Bless0 by newspaper coramunirat^xis and nr* own plan of campaign have evidently undergone a considerable change in their minds. Tv,r> hii.rf- tri:th about. the matter is this: Governor Manning has recently been in the business of making a senator for the people of South Carolina to swallow. To carry his plans through he even went to Washngton and tried to set the President >id 'Gen. |T?ul<v-on to help him, making the snecious statement that Tillman could not defeat Blease. Ke Rras asked who in his judgment could defeat Blease in South Carolina and Governor "Manning named Mr. Lever as his candidate. Governor Manning !:as been instrumental in taking from a olace of usefulness a youns: man whoso <-prft?r was fx;li of promise an.{ possibilities and offered him as z sacrifice to nothing less than vanity and tullheadednesc. If there are ar.v t'**o persons in South Carolina who have more cause to 'be grateful to me for services than Governor Manning and Mr. Lever, I do not remember ft'ho they are. Neither will deny what I have done for them nor attempt to belittle its value. If they want m.* to ?r>eoifv I will do so. ; There is one striking feature abcu: Governor Manning's open letter to me. In his egotism anc} ?anity hi makes no effort to conceal me raw. that he has tried to use President Wilson and General Burleson and create impression that B lease | War Savin. I TV J . | June 14 to * I < > f* i t if m" "Buy Ai t ! ings 3ta 4 I | j m* "Sign th | PledgeV <?> <$> ? uhend 1 %* 1 / > | the Cam | | Buy W. 4 f I A <8> I in Mi in |n IIBM I n ~ n+o i*a?? a menace. Just hew far the gcod S people of the State will resent this p I am unable to say but there is a ' c 1 big difference in re-electing Tillman 1 a to the senate and re-electing Manning i I governor. This statement will find i s ; its vindication later on. i a ' i ' 'Mr. Lever "has stated to me and J s also to others that he would under | r no circumstances run against me but | c would aid me in every way he could i c ) f in my re-electicn. After my an- j 1 nouncement I know that General Bur- I f ! leson advised Mr. Lever to declare | c for my re-election. But in spite of' e ; his protestations of personal and po - J 8 j litical friendship. Mr. Lever has en- j v <l/vnirni.nil + /-v fVlfl l'mnroooinn in ^ ucavui cu iv xi catc cu^. nu^i iu j the State that he is the candidate of i a the administration when he in fact j c is Governor Manning's candidate [ 11 ; brought about 'by a deal that Gov- j * ! err*r Mannin? thought hp h*d made| but the terms of which could not be 11 complied with. j fc I am amused at one sentence in. 1 V ! Mori nin or'c? T f ic? thic i j VIV/ ? II VI ITlUAliilUg O Jk. V AO "w*u . j ^ "Mv views would have been offered' It' to you with equal frankness had you I 1 l sought them, but I did not feel justi-1 I fied in volunteering advice to you.*'! I 5 . Yet the gove^or did feel justified in ( I advising Mr. Lever to run asrai~?t mc.1 I I will remind the aovernor that it; ! r had been his habit when visiting : ' 1 Washington or merely passing | through to always call th? senate T committee on naval affairs to pay | his respects and exchange views i with me, ibut when he came on the I f , r[ huntirc: a champion of th^ j 1 c -rrner.c to c! of end. a*"-. exnlgfin | 0" * entering irto the war and the rr"?~~i?v for its vigorous prosecu- j tion he never deigned to call at my | office at all. In this he erred. When j he came to Washington senator-mak- j in. T would have listened to all he i ! Viar? tr? cnv with rpsnprffnl a J-tpntirv: i ?'? I and he might have saved his face in i this conntroversv of his own making j * as his message to me through Gen- i 1 j -j ern! Burleson referred to in his let- i : ter was never delivered. How ex- j r j alted he considered Ms views to be! j.f Instead he went about secretlv to r _ pe~suadp President. Wilson and the r cabinet members t^at Blease would ^ beat me unless some one would de- v fend the president and meet Blease .? - - . . i o i on the stump. T desire to sav nere La tbat neither the president nor any ^ ^ member of his cabinet have suggested i ? ro me Ahac T should retire from the t senatorial race. Thin the people of * South Carolina can see fo-r them- [ t j selves how Governor Mannin?r 'has | s i with a few men in Columbia and j scattered here and there over the j r State endeavored to name the office-, h holders and frame un a slate for the I ! * 1 ser.atcrshin I I I am o-fferi'ng for the senate1 T1 i ^ through a 3arise of duty to retain for <V a-, A f ?s Week i June 28 1 * Y V A M? * t T f/ the War Sav- ? mns Yirm Cani'' I t I ?e War Savings ? > J ' % % t Your Maney to I <S> ie of Victory? $ S $ ?" i ? bm/ 9 <9> <1 * <S i V <8> C*'& v* ^ South Carolina the influence and irestige she enjoys today. I have a ontempt for that kind of judgment .nd politics which has taken Mr. jever from the post where duty hould have held him. Blease is not l menace to me and there is not the lightest danger of his election. Th = ecent Democratic State Convention :onsisting of delegates from 44 aunties contained Biease delegations ro monlv three counties. Seventy, ive per cent of the delegates to tha* onvention were and are for my rejection to the senate and the cordial ;reeting and the interest manifested rhen I appeared before that con ention is a sufficient and complete nswer to those who have studiously irculated the report that I was physcally and mentally unfit to discharge he duties of senator. There are many other South CaroInians just as capable as Mr. Lever r> fill the position of senator, as acceptably a Mr. Lever could fill it. and rho have been urged to run, but they ave decined taking the positios fhai hey did not want to jeopardize the hairrr.anship of the committee ou i3val affairs so valuable fo the State, nd they did not. think I should re;re at. this time ^n the ^an'^n's crisis. Whether it wa? -^Ifisii ambtic**. or >2triotism that <iietated Govr nor inning's action "rsii ver o run for when Mr had promised to support me, secure the support :f President Wilson and his adminstration in behalf Wr. Lever by ir.estioning the loyalt* ^atriotm of the peo^'e of t-^ State, I will esvo fo the voter- of the St?*e to lecicle. B. R. Tillman. Letter From Her Boy, Mrs. L. M. Fellers lias received a etter from her son. Sergeant. John tellers, who is a member of Co. K 1-Sth regiment in which there are a lumber of Xewberry boys, and it ia he first letter we have heard to arive that was written after the ar ivai ol uie croups suujuwucib iu 'ranre. Of course he does not say riiere they are or anything that would ;ive any information further than to ay that all the boys are well and appy and in 'fine spirit, and we menion it merely to give that information o others who have hoys over there. V'e are glad to receive the in forma ion as one who has a boy in the ame company and from whom we lave not heard since the troops arivpr? tha information that, they ad arrived safe. ? Miss Mildred Purcell returned la.-?t ??ek from the Sacre?! iReart college, ' 'ro-i, N. \\EWBERRY ELKS WILL OBSERVE FLAG DAY I The Newberry lodge of Elks will observe Flag Day on Thursday even- j ing with appropriate ceremonies and a fine musical program and address ! on the flag. Judge Mendel L. Smith j now at Camp WadsworUi is expected ; to deliver the address. The exercise- 1 will be held in the court house and will be public and every one is in- ' vitpil to attend. j The following program will be ob- j | served: i Song. Star Spangled Banner and ' ! chorus. Violin solo. Miss Mary Kibler. Reading history of the flag. j Solo. Keep the Home Fires Burn- j ; ing. Rev. E. V. Ba'bb. Address on the flag^ Major Mendel L Smith of Camp waaswortn. Song. America and chorus. j So:o. God Be .With Our Boys Tonight. iMiss Goode Burton. Son<r, Aul Lang Syne. Chorus: Misses Goode Burton, Julia Johnstone, Carolyn Caldwell, ' Mary Frances Cromer, Teressa Mavbin. Elizabeth Salter. Minnie 'Salter ar.d Rev. E. V Babb, W. G. Houseal, Jr.. "VV. E. Long. Violinists: Miss Mary Kibler and Miss Susie Dawson. Accompanist: Miss Mazie Dominicfc. 1 , \ ; Second Ko<! Cross War Fund. 11 i The quota for Xewberry county was : 512,000. The result of our campaign is as follows: ' Total subscriptions to date $22,142.00. i ! : Total number of subscribers, 4,548. 'I We ask all members of committees. . all contributors, the newspapers and ; ' every person who in any way aided ! in the second Red Cross war fund : 1 campaign to accept this expression o* ^ our most heartv thanks and apprecia: ticn. The record of Newberry count/ | in war service is one of which ai' : j patriotic citizens may be proud. The | splendid work that we have hitherto ; clone is only a sort ot preparation tor i j the greater work that lies ahead of | us. for we have only been walking the path of service which leads to the i place of sacrifice. It is of the utmost importance not only that we continue , to give freely and librally -but that ! we cultivate the will to sacrifice. | without which we <;annot win the war.. Geo. B. Cromer, i . i rVia i rma n VUU11 iliuu, W. H. Hunt, [ Arthur Kibler, ; Geo. W. Summer, Z. F. Wright. ! , j C. D. Weeks. j War Fund Committee. ; , i ! Seeing the Eclipse :i ? : The sun's eclipse, which was tota: ; | on a line from Washington State to ; Florida, was witnessed in iNewberry , Saturday evening by many interested , ' j snectators and several casual ob t ! servers. Xewberrv was not in the ' j path of totality but got a uood view i ! of t?ie orb whose face was darkened over the immense space of about ' j three quarters of its circling rim;! v? . ? r- 4-V> rannrtor wra c? ohla f-r, j 751^ Ifll (13 llin IV I ?? UO tv J j judge considering the fact that his ; ! calculations were taken along with j 1 tb? looks of two very 'beautiful young girls in touching proximity during j the day-light fading "from the nar-; j rowing crescent of the disappearing j ' sun." Some people didn't see that.; neither did they wait to see the re- i j markable spectacle of the "pearly ' ! radiance of the mysterious solar cor- i ona around the jet hlack hall of the j | moon hanging in the sky amone tlTe j I brighter stars." Thev didn't s^ i* r<~- ' ! { i cause they were too busy looking af-' : ter other things. | Card of Thanks. ! ! ! Vvre wish to thank our friends an5 ( ; neighbors for their kindness shown j | u<? in the death of our beloved baby, t! Bonnie E. Wooley. May God pour j o :t his richest blessings on them for ; J their kind deeds. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Wooley. ' ttut-rr> rrct>4T.r> AVTk VT7WS OVP 1 il i_. auiuiuw %^ ' THAH v0"? ONTT 51 50. WRITES INTERESTING LETTER OF THRILLING EXPERIENCES. The Herald and News is permitted to print the following very interesting letter from Lieutenant James Wallace to his mother from somewhere over there. It was written on Mother Day a very appropriate day for a son to write his mother though any day i3 ayyi vypi igic lvji ouv/u ct luo'v . Dear Mother: As today is Sunday and it is what is known as Mother Day, or rather all in the A. E. F. that are able are going to write home to mother. As I am now my own censor I will try to tell you of some of my adventures while attached to the French armv rinn'nor thp ihie1 fieht. Was sent un there to learn French method oJ fighting. T livqfl th?*ee v-^ks -T^hr un in the front line almost, as my dugout wa* situated about three hundred yard? behind the frrnt line. Had two real narrow escapes frcn making a prolonged visit to St. Peter. On one occasion I was talking to two French officers and a shell burst about 2~> yards from us and when the dust cleared up there was two of us and what remained of the third was a shapeless mass of quivering flesh and that was all. In another I had just returned from ?. patrol in No Man's Land and was standing on our front line paraper when the Germans suddenly opei^e! up sweeping our trenches with machine gun fire. I jumped into our trench landing right on top of a French sergeant and had just landed when bullets clipped the ground where I had been standing. There is a lot of grim humor up there as I saw farmers plowing and the enemy's shells whizzing over their heads. T was in one of the villages just', behind the lines and I c?w ??hccl turn out and all the litle tots had gas masks, wooden shoes and little * 1? " ? i-V- <A?m r\f o TTVon<">} > DOOK SaCKS III UUtt IUI ill ui a. A. soldier's pack. ^ Was certainly royally entertained by the French officers as I think I had the honor of havirre: dinner with nearly every officer in the regiment. I am still at school as you may see from the letter head, so until you hear from me agaii; address mail to here as I don't know when I will be assigned. Tell Uncle R. that I would appreciate a novel or rather a letter from him. . Will be writing again soon. YOV- soldier son. Lieut. Jim. ? e MISS MAYtfE SWITTENBERG TO GO TO PROSPERITY. % - ?? v Miss Mayme Swittenb^rg has been the efficient principal of the Littl? Mountain high school for several years and she has done a fine work for the educational interest of that community. Much to the regret of the pupils and patrons of this school . , she has declined the offer to return / mainly because the pay was more at Another place. And the Little Mountain school did not. have the funds to make the advance in salary necessary to retain her. She has accepted the principalship 4 of the Prosperity high school and will teach there the coming session. She has been very successful as a high school-principal and the people of Prosperity are to <be congratulated t on securing her services. *JuIe* Langford Starts Good Thin?. Just as soon as it was definitely settled that Prof. S. J.' Derrick wa* to be tile president of Xewberry col lege that institution loomed up larger +v.^ a^t?r>-(Qtirvn nf citizens here ill LHC7 goviaiu?,4v? _ Per instance Mr. Julius f. Langford sought Professor Derrick to tell him that he would be one of a nunVbei* to give $300 towards the liquidation, of the college debt. Mr. Geo. C. Hip*) "seconded the motion." There wa3 one other fellow present at the *ime, but unfortunately he wasn't in the class with Langford and Hipp, although his "heart's right there," likt* Tipperary. We have known for s^ir.^ time that Julius Langford was one of t'.ie bsst men in Xewuerry, ana no r George Hipp comes in. Three cheer> fir these two. Mr. Langford s'art^cl this good ball to rolling: we hope th* balance ""III f a 11 in.