The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, August 16, 1918, Page TWO, Image 2
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The regular congressional campaign
meeting for candidates from the Third
District was held in the county court
house on Friday morning at 11 o'clock,
there being a represents Ave crowd
present. In the absence of County
Chairman Harry H. ?lease, the meet.
; ing was presided over by Eugene S
$ Blease, Esq. The only candidate
^ present was Congressman Fred. H
' Dominick. Former Congressman Aiken,
who was defeated two years age
and who Is now opposing ^Ir. Dom"
1 inick. did not put in his appearance
' Mr. Aiken made a speech in Newbern
' on Wednesday of last week after th:
i , senatorial campaign meeting adjourn d
and while Mr. -Dominick was a4
Pickens attending the regular congressional
meeting, as fixed by the
rules of the Democratic party.
Congressman Dominick, in opening
his speech referred to the fact that
his opponent had seen fit to refuse to
meet him at Pickens and other places
... . .
fixed by Jfie^?ot?tinittee, and naa tasen
Jthe opportunity to come to Newberry
and make a speech in which he made
"both political-and personal attacks,
-during Mr. Dominick's absence^- Mr.
Dominick seated that he had expected
to try to run this campaign upon a
very high plane, but that it seemed
impossible to do so with Mr. Aiken,
who instead of discussing issues,
seemed to wish, in hi"? desperation,
to try to nick up a few votes here and
there by bitter personal attacks.
The speaker then entered into a repiy
to several matters charged by
Aiken in the latter's-speech last week.
Mr. Aiken had charged that Mr. Dominick
had robbed dewberry county
some years ago out of $1500.00 for
doing nothing. Mr. "Dominic k stated
that Mr. Aiken had tried to use the
same thing against him in 1914, and
at that Mme he went into a full explanation
of the matter and Mr. Aiken
had not mentioned this old charge
in the race in 1916. The congressman
stated briefly that some years ago he
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was employed as attorney for the 01ficials
of certain townships and towns
In Newberry county to provide for the
refunding of the old railroad bonds
of those townships and towns, and in
arranging these matters he save the
taxpayers several thousand dollars in
interest, and he was paid a fee for
his services at attorney and for
clerical work in connection with the
matter; that the records would show
exactly the amount he received and
lor what he was paid, and that
>*1)rough his efforts this year the whole
of the old railroad 'bond debt would b?
wiped out. This last statement he
called upon County Treasurer Schumpert
to substantiate, which Mr
Schumpert did.
With much feeling, Mr. Dominicl
referred to the insinuations mad'
against him and his law-partner, Lieu
tenant IXeal W. Workman, now i
France, in connection with a fee re
Yix> Mr Workman from the pre
moters of McCormick county. Mi
Doninick stated that Mr. Workma
wa? employed in his individual pre
fessional capacity, and that the firi
of 7>ominick &- Workman was not err
ployed. That he was paid individuall
for his services and was guilty of n
wrong doing whatsoever, and thj
"Wyatt Aiken waited until Neal Wori
man was 3,000 miles away to mali
his insinuations.
The congressman then proceede
"with a defense of his record in coi
gress in the matters charged again:
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I his record by Mr. Aiken and in a card
issued by Mr. Geo. P. Hill to several
newspapers. He stated that he did
not know whether Aiken furnishec
[ Hill this information or whether Hill
? ! furnished it to Aiken, but whoever did
| the furnishing did not know how t<
j look up congressional records as lr
x how congressmen voted, or that wilful
misrepresentations had been made
:Mr. Dominick went specifically intc
each charge. He denied the charge
of Hill and Aiken that he had vote-:
I against I he soldiers' ond sailors' civi
r risrhts bill, the espionage?or spy?bill
k1 the act exempting divinity student.'
I from compulsory military service anc
k j the bill to give the states credit foi
_ j volunteer soldiers. The speaker pro.
k ; duced copies of the Congressional
j Record, which he exhibited to the audI
ienop showing- that, anv statemenl
: j made by anybody that he vo'ed
| against these measures was false.
j Mr. Dominick admitted that he had
i vo*ed against the draft act and
j against press censorship ,as well as
j against the bill which has been called
jthe daylight-saving bill. He made a
j brief statement, as to his votes on
| Treasure*. WUh reference to
: the draft act, he pointed out that no
: draft was provided for the navy and
i yet America had up to this time got |
ten enough volunteers in the naval
I service and had a navy of which the
! whole country was justly nroud. -He
I said that some of the leading men in
i congress agreed with him in his view
amone them being Speaker Clark and
| several congressmen from South CarJ
olina; that the whole matter was jutf
' r auection of what, was the quickest
| way of raising an army; that the bill
i he voted for was the one recommendI
. ed bv the *Military Affairs committee
i of the House, which provided for the
; volunteer system at first, with the
j provision that the president could put
the draft law into effect wlien the
T>r*P?:i/1ont caxr fif tn /In on anrt ho
i Vnew that 'President Wilson couM
i ^me nearer attending to this matter
i than congress could
j The pnpaker stated ^at while he
j was under no obligations to the newsj
papers as a class, that for the interests
of the people, more than for the
; newspapers, he voted against press
j censorship as a majority of congress
; voted; that he 'believed that the ipeople
| nnnrVf. +o have true news of the wa** as
| they are aretting today instead of hav:
ir^er +hp trn+h he'd bnrk from th^m?
i and he supposed that if Mr. 'Aiken had
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; <been in congress and bad had enough
congressmen like him there, the peoi
' nle here would not he reading even
day of the glorious victories our hovs
are winning in France.
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! Referring to what is called the day.
S light-saving bill, Mr. Dominick state(
* , that there was some question as t<
e i whether this proposition would hel]
~ I or hurt in the matter of saving fuel
11 j that t^e oot.ton m<iis of the south hav
- | to use more fuel under the oresen
arrangement than formerly; that th
r- farmers in the south do not work b
n . the clock anyway and the law doe
i affect them.
n ; Referring to the charge of M
u Aiken that he had voted to send Roosc
velt to France, the speaker stated th?
0 congress did pass a resolution fc
1 which he voted authorizing the pres
flent, if tie saw Tit ai any tune to a<
5 cept four divisions of infantry to t
i composed of men who were twenty
>3 five years of age or more, the officei
of these divisions to be men seiecie
5t in accordance with the military
of this country, that the president approved
this law but has not as ye4
accepted the divisions provided for:
, that he supposed that, when the pres'
ident got ready for "Mr. Roosevelt or
! anybody else to go to France, hs
t'n ArM til AVQ
! vvuum ?c;iu nut!
I Mr. Dominick referred to the fact
that he voted against the declaration
! of a state of war, a vote which he said
was dictated solely by his conscience
and judgment at that time; that he
aid not at this time propose to dis
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! of all good American citizens to lend
their aid and support in every way to
! backing up the government and to do
our best to win the war as speedily
\ as possible; that be had supported the
war as congressman and as an indi- j
; vidual, and he proposed to continue j
, this support; that it was easy for Mr. j
Aiken to crv out now in loud tones
, what he would have done had he heen I
: in congress, but he hadn't heard of I
a single thing that Aiken had done or j
a single speech that Aiken had made \
, to help the country in this time of
crisis. ' 1
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I Mr. Dominick then went into a dis- \
. cussion of some of the matters in the '
record of Mr. Aiken when that gen
tleman was a member of congress.
He showed by the Congressional Re- i
cord that just a little while before
1 war was declared Mr Aiken, who now i
hollers so loud and long for war, by
ihis conduct in congress helped to
keep the United States from being
i prepored for war when war did com?
t He showed by the records that Mr.
Aiken voted against increasing the
! number of men in the army of the
1 United States, and that he also voted
against increased appropriaions for
I. the navy. "Such men as "Wyatt
I Aiken," said Mr. Dominick, "in the
1 congrass of the United States caused
America to be unprepared for war.
> .and perhaps some men in congress at
> the time they voted against war cast
- thpir votes in that way because of 9
. fear that the country was not then
> fnllv for the fisrht. If 'Mr
- Aiken and ohers in conrgess had voted
I for a bigger navy and a bigger army.
! American soldiers might today be in
, Berlin."
.Mr. Dominick in closing his speech
^ referred to the fact that not much is
exDected of a. man in Ccnsress during
; his first term, but that these two
1 years are used to get acquainted and
to learn the ropes. He is proud of the
' fact that in his first term he had ac'
complished something not only for
his district and his state, but for the
whole nation. He then explained to
his hearers fully his fight to save to
1 the people of the whole United States
taxes naid by banks for state, county,
municipal, road and school purposes; :
that the Ways and Means committee l
of congress had prepared a bill which
would take all of these taxes from
the taxpayers and give them to the
banks, which amounted in the State
of South Carolina alone to the sum of
S"-00.000.00 annually; that the amendment.
which he offered to the bill wa?
pt first voted down, but finallv C!hair1
man Kitchin, of the Ways and Means
committee came to the conclusion that
Mr. Dominick was right, had the
'v .nmittee to meet again to consider
the matter and had congress to reverse
its former vote and the amend.
me->t whi^h V'ad offered w*s finallv
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i pdpntprJ "Tf -vfr. Aiken ha^ been in
jror TO? "P.irnnliehpd this,
he wo*,7d t.oid it around this district
fo~ fourteen vpars if the people
would listen that long. If M*\ -Aiken
ran <^0 - K* the records where he
accomplished that much in his fourteen
years of service to the people of
Am -1* T ri. V. J ..f
jTSOUrn 'uaroima, i siiau wnuurar;
from the race in his favor.'* said Mr
iDominick. He then stated that for
his work in this matter, he received
the hearty congratulations of both
<?r>onVor f^anrn Ola^k and Chairman
luicmn ana nwny oi ner roiiKre^Moimi j
ioa<*pr<?: that he told this because he
wished his friends to know that he |
. was watchful for the interests of hisj<
people and that he knew they would
[ be pleased to know that the leaders
t congress appreciated his services
. there"
r Mr. Dominick closed his> speech with
3, some words r>f thanks f<~>v the large
1 support which he received in the dis
fnct two years ago, and especially the
1 vote jiven him by the people of Xew5
berrv county; he called attention to
^ fVinf attaw l r-i A ilrnn 'n V* Am r\ I
tf Lilt? idUl lliai even in mi . rxiacu o ?vui ;
J j counv. Abbeville, he received a nice
e majority. 'Mr. Dominick was listened
t to with the closest attention for an
e hour, and at the close of his speech
7 -received hearty apnlause.
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