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W V;p^p;i .<.> 'S:. ] ^ ^ ^iiitBI ?L CONGRESSMAN DOMINICK ; r i>fPTTi?Q nrn inrrvSl i AMiA JUAUO JL V IT"!' 1 ?-? ATTACK ON HIS RECORD. r 2 ' 1 In the report of the speech delivered ^ ky Mr. Aiken at Greenwood, at the r senatorial campaign meeting, which 1 was published in the Greenwood Daily ^ Journal, my record in Congress was t misrepresented. This report contains ^ several false statements as to my record in Congress, and notwithstanding j the fact that these have been repeatedly called to Aiken's attention, his . friends are continuing to have this re- f port published in certain newspapers c of tiick Th-rd District without, anv cor~ v v AU " ^ rection. This action 011 their part shows the kind of campaign that is being waged against me by Mr. Aiken , and his friends. He says that I voted against the v espionage, or spy, act. The record v Fhows, page 1841 of the permanent g record, 1882 temporary record, that f the bill passed the House by a vote, t; cf 259 to 107, and that Dominick voted a for the passage of the bill, and not b Against it as charged by Aiken. There : were three other votes on this bill, all s of which related to the section pro- 0 Tiding ior a press twiswix .witu tj against press censorship. s He says that I voted against the Ac:" f< exempting divinity-students from com-; T pulsory military service. The Record C of April 25th, 1918, page 6071, shows s< that I voted for this exemption and E not against it as charged by Aiken. ; F He says that T voced against the sol- a dier (volunteers) vote to give the ^ States credit for volunteers. The record of April 12th, 1918, page 5439, ^ chows that I voted for this provision and not against it as charged by Ai- j TVia flf \TflV 9th. 1918. ACii X UV/ X W" * VI VJL , , page 6786, further shows that I voted ^ that the House should insist od this provision remaining in the bill. ! c He says that I voted against the determination of the president not to send Roosevelt to France. I did nor r, vote to send Roosevelt to France. I voted to authorize the president to ^ maintain by voluntary enlistment not to exceed four infantry divisions, the g officers of which were to be selected c as provided by Section 1 of the Draft Act, no one 'being allowed to enlist ' who was under twenty-five years of g. age. This became a part cf the Draft j ,c Act and the act was approved by the > president. , ^ He says that I voted against the ! -Compton (?) resolution of inquiry as ; p; to the manufacture of intoxicating p; liquors. I presume he means two res- < re -olutions introduced by Cramton, a re- __ publican from Michigan, which reso- ' p i lutions were in my judgment for th??. sole purpose of trying to embarrass ' the administration in the execution of ' the laws through the Fuel Adminis- j trarion, Kanroaa Aauiimouanvii, wc War Trade Board and the War Industries Board. I voted against these (> resolutions. !> He says that I voted against my : f( party on the vote to purge from the ! record the speech of Heflin, of Ala- 'fj bama. So far as I can recall, there i has been no vote in the House to ex- j b punge a speech of Mr. Heflin from the . a T r* tVlP i \i recura. x sup^c uc i^ tv, ? , ? vot^ to expunge a paragraph from Mr. Heflin's speech, in which he referred j a to two members of Congress, Mason i a and Britten, in an uncomplimentary j a manner in which he used their names J ir in connection with "traitor'' and "trea- ! a I son", and charged them with stirring ; h up enmity to the draft law with no ; P yroof to support the charges. I voted ; b to expunge this paragraph from the record, and it was expunged. The . * balance of the speech is in the record ' today, and no attempt has evor been . c ^ I M' >11iS??$iPi ^^wi^^By^^&i-.'-~v~ -'.< ~% , . Mifflin' r11'l'lk'HmI'J 1 III !i 'i I' l''f 'i i r , / :;|P nMHHHi" ^SaiMBI^^^BHH^BBMBitJIBy^ ' I lade to expunge it so far as I know. He says that I did not Tote on the esolution making Guam and the lawaiian Islands dry. By reference o the Record of May 18th, 1918, it will ie seen that the Island of Guam was oade dry by an order of the Secretary if the Xavy. I did not vote on the ~ - *_lll ? mo c?ori lilWiliiilU Dili, iur LilC Simple imcuu hat I was not in Washington at the ime, being in attendance on the State :onvention. j obtained one week's eave of absence, which week was the inly one during the time I have been n congress that I have been away rom its sessions, with the single exeption of a few days, when I was ailed home by illness in my family. Mr. Aiken's friend, George P. Hill, f Newberry, says, in an article pubished in the Columbia State and som? f the papers of the District that 1 oted against the soldiers' credit bill. Fhich protects our soldiers from the reed of merciless creditors. The lecord of October 4th. 1917, shows hat this hill nasfiPri the House without dissenting vote. I voted for the ill. Mr. Aiken attempts to belittle my uccessful fight against the exemption f the Banks from taxation, 'by which he taxpayers of South Carolina were aved at least $500,000.00 in taxes )r this year and succeeding years, 'his was a great victory for your ongressman, and I received the per_ Dnal congratulations of the Speaker, ton. Champ Clark, the Democratic 'loor Leader, Hon. Claude Kitchin, nd many others of the leading mem. ers cf Congress, on my successful Signed) Fred H. Dominick. !1 \ 1 ?-- - THE CONGRESSIONAL RACE. < i; i bbeville Press and Banner. t Fred H. Dominick is not congres3lan from the third district by our hoice. We did not help elect him 7e voted in the laiSt election for is opponent in the race. But that ace has been run. Mr. Dominick ron, and he has represented this istrict for eighteen months. He is < efore the people again, and his - - i ? _ i_? _ ame opponent is maxing many harges against him. Mr. Dominick poke in Abbeville on yesterday, i nd his reply to Aiken's published : peech, the latter printed in this >sue as an advertisement, was as omplete, as it was convincing, to nv unbiased mind. 1 We have all been talking about atriotism, and about forgetting tho ast and putting none but loyal 1 len ill cnarge or tne suip. n we i ome tf> Hundreds of dewberry People. 1 There are days of dizziness; iSpells of headache, languor, back?he; Sometimes rheumatic pains; i; Often urniarv disorders. Doan's Kidney Pills are especially )r kidney ills. :' Endorsed in Newberry by grateful *iends and neighbors. Mrs. E. Koon. 922 Drayton, St., New- : 1 erry, says: "Some years ago I had bad case of backache, my kidneys rere all run down and I was nervous. [v back ached all the time, I felt tired nd all wornout. I had dizzy spells nd would almost fall over at times,' nd frequently, l could hardly drag lyself around. Mornings I was lame j nd sore and when T bent over, could ; ardly straighten. Doan's Kidney j i ills, which I got at- Way's Drug Store, j enefitted me right away and made me DAYS OF DIZZINESS j ;el like a different person." C-Oc at all dealers. Foster-Milburn ' o., Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. T. are in earnest in thi? should we not forget factional differences and try to elect The best men to office? If we should, hae Fred Doininick measured up as well as, or veg. better, than his opponent who filled the office for fourteen years before him? We think he has. Tt iu triip that f\Tr Dnminick at the time of the declaration of w?r voted against it. But at that same time the Chairman cf the State Executive Committee of the Democrats party in this State, was against, war. The Greenwood Journal, Aiken's strongest supporter in this district, after the war was declared, seated that none of us wanted war. but we were in it and it must be fought to a conclusion, which is Dominick's position. Mr. Wilson was elected President shortly before on a peace platform. Representa tive Claude Kitchen, of .North Carolina, the chairman of the Democratic Ways and Means Committee and Democratic floor leader voted as did Mr. Dominick. -He has been nominated again wthout opposition. Nobody claims that any of these men were or are disloyal, even though a great many people honestly believed that we should have 'been at wai* since the sinking of the Lusitania, an-1 the offering of the first insult. Why then the fight on Frfed Dominick on these grounds? We will tell you. It is simply because of his connection with Cole L. Blease, and the latter's Pomaria and Filbert speeches. It should be remembered that Fred Dominick came to Newberry as a you-ng lawyer, and was taken up by Cole L. Blease, then a practitioner at the .Newberry bar. He saw Dominick was a man of ability and made him his law part - - ? *U ^ ner. A friendship sprang up between them, and Fred Dominick would 'be worse than an ingrate if he did not feel kindly to Cole L Blease. But he should be charged in this campaign with his own sins and not with those of Blease. He has ability of his own, and judgment of his own, and a record of his own, and by these he should be judged. But if we judge him by his political friends, then we should judge his opponent ,fcy his political friends aisn nnH frtrpmcst nmongrst them we would call the name of W. P. Beard. Beard started a paper here during the campaign of 1914 between Dominick and Aiken in which he advocated in one column tha election of Aiken and in the nex* the election of Blease. He was always and under all circumstances a friend of Aiken and one of hi3 most sought after political advisers, judging by appearances. His paper was published by W. W. Bradley and his partner in their newspaper office in Abbeville. W. W. Bradley was Aiken's private secretary. When the present owners of The Press and Banner purchased the plant, they 4 1 - vi reiusea 10 longer puonsu uie scimitar, and then under the instructions of W. W. Bradley, still Aiken's secretary, a considerable amount of type was turned over to W. P. Beard, which it was stated Beard would pay for, but the same was charged to W. W. Bradley on the books of this office, and will there speak for itself. The Scimitar was published continually from that time until it was barred from the n^ils bv the United States post office authorities on account of 'Beard's disloyal utterances. It supported Ai ken all this time. After the Scimitar was debarred from the mails and after it had been adjudged to be disloyal in its utterances, Beard again tried to get out a paper under the name of The People's Advocate. .He did get out one issue and offered it to the post office. And who do the voters of this district suppose was one of the con tributors to that .paper? Will they be surprised to know that Wyatt Aiken appears in an interview in that paper, undertaking to defend cerain acts of his as a public man? Is it loyal to be a patron of a disloyal paper? By contributing to its columns did Aiken r.ot endorse Beard's efforts? Did he want his support in this electicn? And the people.should know that n ftpr Rparrl wa.s convicted of dis loyal utterances and sent to tho Atlanta penitentiary, or while he was on his road there, Wyatt Aiken appeared at the Department of Justice in Washington and asked for a parole for his supporter, W. P. Beard. Is that loyalty? Was he trying to get Beard out to help him In this election? The people may refuse to vots for Dominick because of his connecHr?n -arith PoIp t, "Rlease. but Will they support Wyatt Aiken, knowing of bis relations with Beard7 "You may pay your money and take your choice." FOR SALE?One Ford Roadster will sell or exchange for Touring car. F. T. Dominick, Savoy hotel Bldg8-20 11 SIMPLY COULDN'T FIND SIZES j Elderly Lady Wasted One Whole Afternoon, and Finally Gave Up Task in Despair. "Gosh! I wish I was?not a Belgian ?but a pole; not a native of Poland, Vint- q toll dim wfllnwv r?nlf? th;it could drape herself in the ready-made dresses which the stores are selling now, or, rather, offering for sale, for if every one has my luck, not many sales are made," said the matronly one to her street car companion. "I am fair (gray), fat and forty (bust measure), and the other day I went downtown to buy a?wash dress, we used to call them, now you ask for a tub frock. Well, I asked for them and that was about all. One saleswoman snowed me wnat sne canea a simple little gingham (it looked like the ones the nurses wear) for $19.75, and another which she said was of better quality for $25. I was prepared to pay the price, but I didn't like the gowns. It was the same way at the other stores. Every thing that was attractive was 'only in the smaller sizes.' "There was one simply made georgette crepe that I thought might be becoming to my matronly style, but when I inquired about it, it was a sixteen-year size. 4Do you have it in a sixty-year?' I asked, but the clerk ignored my query. "I met numerous other women about my build and age during the afternoon at different stores?some of them so often that we grew quite chummy, but I don't suppose they fared any better than I did. I finally met one I knew and I said to her: 'You might as well go home. They don't make 'em for us.' "I also looked for a small georgette fiat itney naa Deen aaveraseu;, uuu the clerk said: Tea, we have them, but you wouldn't want one with fringe on it' She was right I wouldn't. "I shopped from 12 o'clock to 5:30 and came home bearing with me the two articles I had been able to find in my size?a hair net and a belt. Really a comfortable costume for hot weather, but hardly suitable for a fat lady sixty years old."?Indianapolis News. Japan's Income Tax Increases. 1 Jaoan havine decided upon an in crease in her navy that involves the expenditure of $150,000,000, spread over six years, a general increase of , taxation has been proposed, and it will probably be carried out. The income tax is to be raised in a way to bring an aggregate addition of 20 per cent, the increase being graduated 30 as to be only 10 per cent upon the smallest incomes and 50 per cent upon the largest. The minimum income tax will be $250. A war profits tax is to be initiated on both business profits and 00 Incomes, but no personal income of less than $1,500 a year will be taxed on account of its having risen during the " q? onrl in fVile wnc tha nra oroo nf ?? ttl f UUU 1U tAliC '? UJ V**V ?? V4^VW working people and moderate salaries do not have to pay for the wage in, creases of war time. Higher than $1,500, personal incomes must pay 15 , per cent of increase and companies that have increased profits must pay 20 per cent tax upon the increase. Pershing of French Descent. ! Some interesting associations may I easily be woven into a news item telling about a celebration which recently took place at Laclede, Mo. The town, one of the oldest in the old Southwest of the United States, was named | after Pierre Ligueste Laclade, a native | of Bion, France, founder of St. Louis, j Mo. Years ago a man named Pershing, j a descendant of an emigrant who left : Alsace when it was a French province, ; settled in Laclede. His son, the presj ent Gen. Joseph Pershing, commander i of the American expeditionary forces ; in France, was born there. The cele-! l bration referred to was, of course,1 j in honor of General Pershing, and it j was one of the most enthusiastic ever j ' held in what used to be an almost | exclusively French section of the country. j A Seven-Time Winner. j THe unique recora or naving Deen i torpedoed seven times is held by Wil-' I Ham Jessop, a seafarer of Hull, Engj land, who is seventy-two years of age. i He is still on the active list. "Young ; men," he said, "have sometimes re| fused to sail with me, as they think I shall be unlucky." Jessop is the old] est member of the Ships' Cook and ' Stewards' union in Hull, and genera!, *ly sails as a cook or steward. During; the first year of the war he was tor-j j pedoed three times, and the last four, ! ships on which he sailed were all lost, j I His courage, however, remains undi-' minished. "I will sign on to go any- j where," he declared. I Soldier Dressmakers. War-broken soldiers are making ladies' dresses in London, while former dressmakers are turning out shells and other munitions in factories. The London postumier has never been so busy in her life. Many j are five or six weeks deep in work, heir clients being grateful to get a promise of dresses at almost any Sate. Munitions pay the dressmaker /~v?? thon <-Vi? n aorlla on/I fViOTr OPO 1/CllCi tuau IUI; m vu*v, uuu *.?vj u* v ill eager to go to Woolwich or the big factories to help make shells. A suburban dressmaker, who has three wounded men helping, says it is astonishing how well they do the work. The finest bead work on the market Is turned out by wounded soldiers. A Good Haul. "There is one wav of raisiner reve nue they have overlooked." "What might that be?" "Putting a war tax ou a poet's 11- j ? cense." i I GOVERNOR BLEASE SPEAKS TO I!!S HOME PEOPLE. L;:rge Crowd Attend Blcnse Meeting Monday Nigilt?Tiiey Wait Pati- euily Until Ten O'clock (o Hear Him.?Makes Good Conservative Speech, The political rally of the friends of former Governor Cole. L. Blease, candidate for the United States senate to s'l^eed the late Senator Benjamin ft. Tillman, held in Newberry on last Monday night, was a success in ever/ v,'3v. T'-e peop e gatne-ed in large numbers, and doubtless every democratic club in the county was repre; sented. It was difficult to estimate I * j the number of persons present, and j the crowd was variously estimated | from at least twelve hundred to two ' thousand. Quite a number cf ladies ? were in he audience. * T* U - J AA/1 f "VT Y* I' ilfciu UCCU ctlinuuin;cu ma.t .u: . Blease would begin speaking at 9:00 o'clock, and long 'before that time the 1 court ro^m, where the meeting had been scheduled to be held, was packed and jammed with people. The candidate was due to speak at Clinton at 7:30 and arrangements had been madf to convey him from that town to Newberry, after the speech in Clinton had been made. The automobile the party was to arrive in suffered a tire puncture on the road and Mr. ?lease was delayed in reaching Newberry until almost 10 o'clock, but the crowd remained and stayed in a good toumor, *or, as many remarked, ''Colie said h? would be here, and we know he'll come just as scon as he can." ; Finally, when Mr. Blease did arrive, it was seen that there were hundreds of people outside of the building who could not possibly gain admittance and these -began to insist that the meeting should be held outdoors. The 1 candidate said he came to speak to . the nennle and he wanted all of them I ~~~ to hear him and readily consented to the open air meeting, although a slight rain was falling and he had un, dergone several days cf sever campaigning. ' ' - * i I Mr. Blease spoke irom the steps' on the southern side of the court house. His appeaance was greeted with great applause. He was presented by Cpl. E. H. Aull. whn stated in introducing him, "The gentleman who is to address you is perhaps better known to you than I am, so he really needs no introduction at my hands. When but a lad, living in this town, his father expressed to him the desire that ne might some day be Governor of South Carolina. The wish of the father was realized, although that splendid old o-entleman passed away before the dream he had for his boy came true. This young man?he is older now than he once was, hut he is still young? has served the people of this city and county in many ways. He has served the State in high places. He is now a candidate for the United States senate, and his friends believe that he i will be elected, and that he will add I new lustre and honor to his name as 1 : the representative of this great old !2.+ofA of Woohincy+nn 99 Is. Ulitu at ?T U^MAjLiOWViA. | As Mr. Blease came forward to 'be- ' ; gin his speech, greeted by the cheer? i i from many throats, two young ladies, ; Misses Estelle Chappell and Flossie , ; Sanders, stepped towards him, carrying in their arms beautiful bouquets I of flowers. .Miss Sanders first addressed him, \ ?nd she was in turn, followed by Miss j j vnappen, ana eacn 01 meui m pre- i senting their flowers, made a nice ; little speech, the spirit of which was that they knew him, that their people had known him and loved him, that they had always trusted him and trusted him now, that they wanted to tell him, here in his old home, where the greater part cf his life had been spent, that the insinuation against his loyalty to his country would meet-no; rocnnnQo fnr hi<a Invalfv to his tOWH I .his county, his state, his nation, and . his friends and the rights of the peo- j pie had been proved over and ove;* a^ain. The remarks of these young ladies were applauded loudly by the concourse of people. Mr. Blease spoke for about forty minutes He was in good condition, and could be heard plainly by all the crowd, in spite of the fact that his speech was the third since four o'clock in the afternoon of that day. All along through his speech, and at the close, his remarks were applauded. The speaker discussed several questions of importance to the people. He advocated thirty-five cents as a minimum price for cotton, as the farmers of the South, on account of the present high prices of everything they had to buy, and because of the scarcity of labor and the Tiigh prices j therefor, could not afford to raise j it at a lower price, and especially j with the demands upon them to sup- ' j port the government in this time of war. He spoke earnestly of the need of governmental aid for the building of roads, showing that good roads were j no longer for the luxury and pleasure ' r '4 of the oe^p!?, Vjt fed h!"V brought the peo .le 'loser Vgether, tins, saved :nor>^y in tiie end, and was a help in 'he work of the churches and schools. mod i*e people to be wa^cit fill for the days of readjustment which would come after the war, pointing ^ ouL especially that Certain :nterests would desire to take from the States , i their treasured rights and turn them over to the National government. He * .said it was necessary now for the National government to have more power during the war, ?s the States could nof separately carry the war to A a 3uccessf 1 conclusion, but that ic M many matters, and especially in that ^ of fixing the qualifications of voters, * the powers of the State should not be molested, and that grave and great danger miirht come to the "South if ^ the right to state the qualifications of voters and office holders were transferred from the state legislature to? the congress of the United States. V ;Ke told of some of his work for the people of the State during his four yeirs as governor, especially pointing out how he had come to the aid of the farmers in 1914 in his support of the State "Warehouse system when * .cotton was so low and so many farmers were near bankruptcy. He compared his- record with that . of Mr. Dial, the leading candidate of ^ the opposition to him, and told the people how Mr. Dial had always Ibeen repudiated by the people of i^iurens fl county, whe? e he lived, having received only about one vote In seve* when he ran for the legislature and ? being also badly defeated for a men- M ber of the State Executive Committee hy Captain Richey. He reminded those who wtre opposed to him that .they, themselves, had laughed at 3lr. Dial as a candidate for the United States senate, and treated his candTdacy as a joke until the time came i when they had to choose between Mr* ^ J riease and Mr. -Dial. He asked thesa people to lay aside prejudice and 'bitterness and vote for the man who was ^ ( best qualified to represent tie 5taia in the senate. - Mr. Blease made what was said by many 01 ius incuus 10 iue luk gicaLcau speech they had ever heard from himv despite his reputation as a speaker heretofore. iHe was not hitter, and throughout almost his enire speech discussed issues "rather than men. Ha; referred personally to the editor of | the Columbia Record who has been. * writing some severe attacks upon him,. , / and gave the audience some informa.- ,JBj tion as to the ?;*e and eharacter~of~tti^>"'"*s-'^^ editor and the owner 0f the paper. in closing, he pledged himself to doall that he could, in any way, both. as an individual, and a senator, in the evident of his .election, to support the. president and the administration incarrying on the war to an early and! successful conclusion. He said noman could prevent him from belngr true to his country, and his tribute to the boys who are serving their country, in this day of ordeal was full of eloquence. a ftpr *he conclusion of the address Mr. Blease was surrounded bv hundreds of men, women and children. who wanted to shake his hand an<i* 9 wished to assure him of their hope ^ that he would win in his race. Mr. Blease spent the night in -Newberry, with his brother, Sheriff Blease,. and left early Tuesday morning', by automobile, for Union county where: he made three speeches. LITTLETON COLLEGE Fas jn?5t c'osed one or tne most* snrces?ful years in its history. The37th Annual session will begin Sept. * 49 25th. ' ^ Write for new illustrated catalogue,. also and QUICKLY for particulars* concerning our special offer to a fewgirls who can not pay our catalogue^ rate. Address J. M. Rhodes, Littleton. N'. C. 666 cures hy removing the cause. 8-5 tf Wood's Seeds P * f1! ' ! 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