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/■'/ •/f ■-4- ^ 1:HE CHRONtCLE ^ Strives To Be/k Clean News paper, Complete, N(?<k8y, • and Reliable. ^ ’ ■l, tr-i' If Ton Don’t Read TBE CHRONICLE Ton Don’t Got ' The Newfc VOLUME XXXVI CLINTON, S. C„ THURSDAY;-JULY 2, 1936 NUMBER 27 ROOSEVELT IS PARTVLEADER Democrats Name Roosevelt-Gaf- ner Ticket _By Acclamation and End Week’s Conclave. Great Crowd Stirred By Chal- S. C. Highway , Act Is Legal Supreme CJourt Justices Unani mously Rule Pleasure Ua^ed By Jissembly Constitutional. -x. - Columbia, June 30.—Supreme court lenge of Leader In Accepting' approval stamped a 1936 general '' highway act as constitutional today ' and set in motion the machinery for j Leadership. 1 T, , r-- ,, T>vi J 1 V ^ $9,156,000 road building prograjn Franklin Field, Philadelphia, June—^^^^ .27.—President Franklin D. Roosevelt . (lovernor Olin Johnston, who ve- i^epted I'enomination Saturday night toed the act and criticize<l the .^'ubse- wihi a declaration of war against quent litigation as a “friendly test' “economic tyranny.” ' . ' ’’ brought without his knowledge, Add^siiig^. a kiaiit o^tdo^r mass commented, “I am not surprised at' rneetrngKom a dais raised^ above the'any opinion-the supreme court might!, grass of the b?glnipitF^ter, the cHref highway denHrt- i - executive touched upon the constitu- nietit is involved, judgw-from the tion and hit at'^'.iiionopoly” and “the I pa>t.” _ economic royalistX* who “complain] The four justices, passing on alle-1 that we seek to ov^hrow the insti-j Rations .the act’was'rturicon.rtitutional tutions of America.” ^ ! denied a {letition for an injunction to His words, perhaps sohnding a key-11'-event the issuance of road con note in his 1936 campaign\limaxed a instruction bonds without the gover- twenty-four-hour period uniWcedertt-1 nor’s signature under it and held all ed in American political histoi^ ’ ; >ts provisions valid. John Nance Garner, speakin^be- “The fact that the constitution des- fore him, “gladly” accepted his dwniijrnates the governor as the chief ex-; renomination as vice-president. Only^ecutive officer does not require that’ —this afternoon was Garner renamed; the legislature, confer upon him the by acclamation at th§ closing session; power and duty to sign bonds which of the Democratic^nation^l conven-j are -authorized by the legislature,” tion; as had been Roosevelt in the;they early morning hours. Never before i “The j^gment of the court is that has a major party named and notified'tbe act in\question is constitutional in so short a time. - iand valid; the injunction prayed for ‘ The president, declaring America' is denied and the petition dismissed.” was fighting “for the survival of de-^ Former Mayo^ W. A. Coleman of mocracy” and for economic freedom, t f>lumbia, attacke'd the act, princi- as well, concluded with these words: ipal measure of the 1936 legislative “I accept the commission you havels^ssioh, in a suit which Governor Olin tendered me. I join with you. I am Johnston criticized as ^ “friendly Stoney, Mee DRYS TO FIGHT Pr^g Smith JO repeal UW Criticize Convention In Which Byrnes Took Leadin),^ Part. Senior Senator “Took Walk.” 1 Will Demand Next General As sembly Kill Liquor Measure and Provide 1937 Referendiim, Candidates To' Face Issue. Columbia, 'June 30.—The Fe<ierate(l Forces for Temperance and’Law En forcement called upon the next legia- ill RoojfcVcIt otvfl Gnrrv^ Baptists Meet On July 16th County As.sociational Sunday School Convention To Be Held With Chestnut kidjje Church. enlisted, for the duration of the war.” —Mf.— RooseveltV- aeecptanee - speech was carried not only to those thou sands immediately before him, but! a revenue bill originating in the test. -The annual meeting of-the l.jiuren.s I Associational Sunday .School conven- , , iieasuic I ^.;j] 1 hestnut was unconstitutional because-was Baptist church on Thursday, len- ate instead of the house; because allowed units of the legislature td' elect commissioners, formerly ap- also to more than 5,000 rallies staged by the party from' coast to coast, charging all entrants $1., As had ibeen expected, the president accepted “heartily” the “brave and clear platform” adopted by the con vention just closed. Time and again,. niernbers; and on a Mr. Roosevelt pounded against “rno-1 pointed by the governor; because it failed to provide that, the governor should commission the highway board dozen other It' is a nettled rule of South Caro lina law, the court held at the outset in its decision* that the constituiion- AlitJFypC an actJt>e upheld “unleea ita repuf^anee to the constitution is clear and beyond reasonable doubt.” The act was not a revenue bill “in a constitutional sense,” it continued, and its “only income-producing fea ture/’ the tag provisiorre; original^ in the house. The so-called “omnibus embraced “only one cdgnate subject, the creation of a state highway corn- measure’* nopoly,”, “economic dictatorship,” and “economic tyranny.” “ * Speaking of the economic /dynsk- ties” carved \out in' this eouhtiT IRas modem civijizdtion was attained, hej said: i “The hours men and women work ed, the wages they received, the con- ditioAs of their labor—these had pass ed beyond the control\of the people, and were imposed by th^ new indus trial dictatorship. The saving of the average family, the capital of the small business men, the investments set aside for old age—other people’s j mission and the definition of the money—these were the tools v^hicKj Powers, dutie.s and functions of that the new economic royalty used to dig;<^ommission,” the justices held in de- itself in.” / • nying a» contention that it included. And in giving his answer, ^ne presi-1 many subjects. 'dent made his one and only reference They overruled claims that the act to the constitution. In the platform i was unconstitutional becau.se the leg- which he “accepted” tonight, there,!"^b-Uiled” it: that its liet- stood a clear declaration for amend- iog of roads for construction was “special” and invalid legislation: and that the house lacked the right to re-' consider a vote sustaining a veto of it. Associate J ustice E. L.' Fishbume of Walterboro, wrote the 25 page de cision, .with Chief Justice John G.' Stabler and A.'vsociate Justices Jesse F. Carter and M. L. Bonham concur ring. Associate Justice D. Gordon Ba ker disqualified himself in the case. July 16th The day’s program Ivill o[)en at 10 [clock with a full representation of gates piesent from all schools in the county. The following program has^ been announced by the committee: ‘ Devotional greeting—Pastor A. B. Langston. Theme: Con>iecrated Efficiency “Our Major fS^rpose—To Seek and Win the Lost,” R^ W. D. S^^iax, and Tngl». “How Must the Individual School St. George, June 29. — Thoma.s P. .Stoney and Coh William C. Harlleej I unlimbered their heavy artillery in : lambasting the national Democratic convention, of which Senator Jamesllature today to “abolish” the present F. liyiftes was a member, for its rec-i^*9'-mr law or provhU* a statewide ref- ogniiion of Negroes as they resumed **i‘tmdum in 1937. _ - ^ their county to county senatorial!. Burts, of .St. Matthews, campaign '^th sjHH'ches here today, jt'xecutive secretary, made public a i ' .SrnatfTr^yrncs Avas absentr of exerirtive officers of the " : wor«l was received' from him directly'after a'TTHH’ting here, It •o^rbtrt-—. of l epeal,. “hoth^ [woubl Ik* in Washington this wet'k 1national, have failed to keep attending to official business, and'® single promis<‘. ’ .. ■ would I’ejnin the campaign party at! The statement said “condiiion.s for Winnshoro next Monday. i holding a referendum” under provis- ' Stone.v, former ma.vor of (’harles-1193.) li<juor act were ton, and Harllet*, ix'tired marine from { 'wholly unsatisfactory ’ and to win Dillon, united in praising Senator K. I would "give us no assurance of state- D. Smith for having “taken a walk”*^ wide prohibition, nor even county op- when a Negrt) minister j)rayed at the|l'^’®- conditions- imposed for se- l eonventj^U. mid for having quit the!the election were too compli. ' MHly after a Negro congressman ‘•'T i made a speech. unreaj'onable and unnecessary burden I A picture of the Negro minister i expen.se. We, therefore, declined I was circulated thix)ugh the crowd byll^’ such an election.” ' .Stonev, who asked that it be returned I The liquor law provides a ix*feren- Cromer Enters < • ! ' um upon petition of 1.5 jM'r cent of * ^ ® 1 .Byrnes in connection Ihe qualified votei's in 35 counties. O^najhA lv3.ee'aspect of the conven-} “Conditions las to <lriving and Stoney chargt'd that the senator have,, not^Income better ~ ' , (should hav«‘ biH‘n awaix* in a<lvance '^**•*1' the statt*ment as.serted. It well Known Lauren.s ( Itizen Of- ^f the plans by party leader.s to give many liquor dealers in the state fers for Place Now Held By: Negroes a place on the programj^ and {sanction and en- Nnnce OutlinPK His Plntfnrm las.serted he had done nothing to pre-of law privilege to ex- iNance. uuiiines itus t^iaiiorm.^ weakness of our ■ I, He also declartHl Byrnes was a close sale’s ha‘l reaOhed moro Dr. tharU-r A. ( romer, well W.anar. iif New, lhan ril Onil.nnminn,wily. laauren.s citizen and me.iiibei of ttoYT^v i u r n i' c * > i-. * ec : 10ik, chairman of ment of that doeunr^ent if necessary to attain the aims ,df his administra tion. ' ; y “The economic royalists complain,” he said, “that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. W’hat they really/complain of is that we seek to take away their power. Our allegiance to American institutions requires the overthrow of this kind of power. ^ “In vain they seek to hide b^hm<I the.flag and tjie constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag and’ the_^onstitution aland for. Now, as 'ahva^ ffie "flag and The constitu tion stand for democracy,'not tyran- Country Club Elects Board Of Directors At a membership- meeting of the \ , X ny; for freedom,'not subjection; and .Lakeside country club, held recently, against a dictatorship by mob rule the following directors were elected and the over-privileged alike.” jfor- another yeari Easteiby, V The president was ^notified” of his j Charles F. Flemiing, Robert H. Ro- renominatiqn by Senator Robinson of . per. Dr. M. M. Teague and L. C. Arkansas, the permanent chairmanTiif * Barksdale of Laurens, R. C. Adair her of this year's grand-jury. Mr. the Dernocratic convention, who heap- ed new^raise upon the Deal chief, p tory in enemies. overwhelming vic- Be Organized To Promote Its High est Consecrated Service?” L. L l.ang- ston, and Rev. H. L. Fergusbn. How May the Laurens Assbeiation Be Properly Organized To Meet^ the Demands of ^ts Schools ?” Rev.^J. Bobo,«and Rev. J .L. Corzihe, stat' director. At 12:30, recess one hour for din ner. i IkiVotion and song service, Rev. J. A. Martin. “The 'Best Method of Enlisting the Whole Church and All Prosi>ects in Sunday School Work,” W. C, Whar ton, P. W. Burns, S. W’. Sumerel. “Teaching the Word, Our Primary Function,” J. H. Holcombe, and C. B. Bobo. “Spiritual’ Benefits From Summer Bible Schools,” Rev. B. L. Wood. - Miscellaneous matters, election officers. Olin 1). .lofinston’s military staff, an n6tilir*ed several w<*eks ago that he .would le in the race for the seat in the state senate now held by Si'nator Carroll, I).- Nance of Cross Hill. His formal announcement api)eai's in The Chronicle today, and he stated yester day that he ks very much gratified and enco-urage<l over the outcome of his race. “If honored by the. people of J^au- ren.s county,” said. Dr. Cromer, "it will be my endeavor to return the state and county #over.Bm«nt back' to the people where It rightfully belongs. I expect to carry out the will of the people becau.<re that is necessary in order to maintain government by the people and for the people.” the platform com- imitlee, iind co-author (if the Wagner- Costigan bill, which would make lynching a federal offenie. Colonel Harll^e recalled the state’s of Charging the “state, to say nothing of the nation, is already in the grip of the organized li(iuor traffic,” the organization’s leader.s asserte<i liquor was diverting income from other bus- !»truggle to rgeain. white supremacy branded arguments that le- in TX'Construction timfes, and added: “Our s.tate has had plenty of ex perience with the kind of harpies who i consort with colored people to control the government. “It is indeed strange that our party has become a haven for the radicals and Negroes who have lately come to galization of liquor had helped em ployment and provided increased rev enues for government and schools as “stamped with a stupidity unworthy of any forward-looking statesman.” “Education is but half of the sub ject,” the statement said. “Remove the profit feature for the state and it, and to hear our party proclaimed j individual and we have Ron£ far to by a Negro featured by Mr. Farley ward the solutieii of the problem. Li as the party which proposed to .secure’flegalized)not so much because' for the Negroes full equality and op portunity to dominate our govern ment. people want to drink a.s because oth er people want to sell. \Ye are, thei*e- fore, asking the next legislature to t(»()k a walk to challenge a jirolcama-j ^he organization called upon vol ition so astounding in a lH*nnocratic if^**’*' Dr. Cromer stated that he “is in; ..j^ .strange that but one of the pre.wnt system or provide flavor of the trustees and taxpayers •‘'I'nators from South Carolina I fo** » wide referendum in 1937.” handling the affairs of the county s ‘ ‘— " ■ school disfricts without dictation from senator and members of the house j ^/ilf walk with the dis-jwho would “as.«unu* a .sympathetic (legation., ^ hinguished senator and statesman.” «n‘J iiitelligent” attitude toward tem- Div5romer_.saidthatheexig*ctsto .,,.t^^neyt()ldhisaudiencethatRep-l®'':a«i<^^* perforni, his duties - imbartially . re-. Mitchell, Chicago Negrjf, A cojiy of a letter was attached, gardlens of fmancial standing. >i®t' whu.-e convention speech cau.-ed Smith ' which the statement-said would be I mean by\that, he said, “is that 1 will not legislate partially for or; against capitaKor labor.” , Dr, Oomer is xg native of Ander-1 son county, but/hk« been a resident ] of Laurens for 19 years. He ks en-! W. Brooks Blakely' For Commissioner starts tomorrow. W. Brooks Blakelyy/well kn^n farmer, merchant and'^ginner ov the Tylersville section of the county; has formally made his entry hito tlMi^race of $36,82k,750, followed” by to (juit the convention, had charac- to all candidates^-for the teiizc‘<l the Sbuth Carolinian as “a | It'gislature. It asked: disgrace to the party” and had .saidi hirst, will you favor abolishing “our party will be better off withoutjfhe present law by legislative enact- . . ' ment at the next sitting of the lep' . . : He charged Byrnes had “run out” I i®tii'’e ? Second, if not, will you fa gaged in Ih^ insurance buf^iness, i.s the doctrine of state’s rights and'® submission of the-pn.shibition ^es married and has one grown son. fundamental Democratic^ prin- tion to the voters of South C^ilma ciple.«, and also on the campaign i'® 193/, in which year it will/not be j,jj,.ty. confused with personalities arid other “But when he comers back, I’m go-1 ing to see that hie answers some (|ues- Washington, June 30.—The Works tions 1 want to put to him,” he added. ' A Progress^, administratidn to<lay par-; Stoney also charged Byrne.s had celed out one fourth of the newjf®ih*d to get for. South Carolina the $1,425,000,000 relief appropriation in due share of federal money preparation for a new program which rdlief and crop control legisla- STATE GETS MORE RELIErFlJNDS Offers For House tion. A. Homer M/)idre, progressive fann- foF county commissioner op Lauren* countis Hi* anMunwment/appf.r. ini„ all iramediatply avait-" today’s paper, y Mr. Blakely has been living at the trhk Josh Craig phice^fOT severai years and is known by hi*^ acquaintances as a progressive citizien. He is a mem 1. *1 "Tm, likVold Ben Tillman in that er of tho-TTiiCity Ridge'’scectron, an- I + ^ 7t:o r n ^ decTii^d. “W'hen the ■ nounces hiw^ndidacy-in -twiayJs, j)a- ^tment of $36,8:a,750. by], th/hou»e of' r<.p,.,«.nlalive', Now^York cjty with $36,6J7i5W. .. ^ , th'o au|miachin,r primary, and says ..a .t- _ - a informed an that h^s in the contest to win. effort was 'being made to “keep peo-! .Mr./Moore is well known through- able, included: South Carolina, $2,- 645425* and W, P, Jacob* of Clinton. At a silb^uant TReetiiypf thg director*, the matter of electing a president and and hit at hi* vice-president was deferred. Acting ^n the authority of the club roeiribership. the directors voted to Garner, in a 'brief acceptance allow new members to join the club speech, declared that^ am a soldier i during the month of July without and my duty is to follow where the | paying the initiation fee provided commander leads.” He,-a<aK^that he'they paid a full year’s due* in ad- renewed “the pledge of fealt^J gave | vance. — / four years ago.” \ 1 report of Alison Lee, secretary. The president and vice-presid^ showed a substantial ^hanceme^ in were given a five-minute ovationf^embership during tno past several when, they entered the field. Garner, J months, in a blue striped suit, was interrupted' frequently by short bursts of ep-j I planse as he talked, particularly wh^ j ke mentioned the name of Roosevelt, j Some of those who cheered tonight i were still soaked by a rain that fellj before sundown. But as the New Deal! Members of theNl^nnk Girls’ club chieftains arrived, a thin moon broke I of the Joanna CottonSMills, Goldville, through the clouds. left early Saturday morning by bus This meeting tonight made political for their annual weeks’ tnp^ to Wash- Blakely said that if he is elected he CLOSfeD THIS WEEK The Joanna Cotton Mills at Gold- ville are closed down this week while wnr be-«)Ol|>pedrJ)y hi* v.riwl bum-- mill. "*»• P)' J'*) ““-"y * pamtad and otbar rapain, made. Th* buslhess-iike administration* declar- , * u * * n *. ing,,*^! have no promisee to make ex- work schedule will be resum ceot thkt I shall do all 1 cao for Lau- ^ Monday morning. rens bounty.” a ^lufa^ bn burvig Trips Sto^ Remain I “ ^Open Saturday ! i Clinton stores and business houses! will not clo.se Saturday, July 4th, ini accordance with a j petition recently ‘ circulated and generally signed. ! The city will take its holiday fori the Fourth on Monday, the 6th, with! practically all businese clo.sed down for the observance, I history. Never before has a major party nominated its president and vi<;e-president, notified them, and re ceived their speeches of acceptance in the same day. Roosevejt _ was ,re named early in the morning; Gamer in the afternoon.. i Tonight’s show ended a 'five-day cenvention dominated as has beeq ne (Continued on pa^ six) ' ington, D. C. Members of the Mothers’ cl^b left' Thursday for a -trip to Jackson^e, Fla. The Boy Scouts, headed by Bruce Galloway, are ait Myrtle Beach on a two weeks’ camping trip. Union Service With Lutherans E^- and 'Mrs. Frank Kellers spent Sunday in Williston with friends. The city union service next Sun day evening will be held with St. hn’s Lutheran church. The pulpit be occupied by Rev. Edward pastor - of the First Baptist church. A cordud^ invitation is extended all umte in this aervice. Read Your “Home Paper” For Values Advertisements in THE -CHRONICLE are filled with helpful information you can’t afford to mi.ss. These store mesitages will enable you to shop easily, wisely and econom ically. Advertisers in THE CHRONICLE are reliable. They insure quality, unexcelled ser/ vice, and reasonable prices. / Follow the advertisemOTts closely each week. If it’s a new automobile, hat, .silft|||HdEasa,- groceries, drugs, fumitute* re frigerator, radio, household ne cessities, etc.,' you will find them advertised in your favor ite ‘family newspaper.” pie away” from the campaign meet-i<Hity^he county, havirrg~sorved ings, adding that he understood men' c^ty commi.ssioner__jCor ten years. ! had gone around in advance of the iS a member and steward in Trin- schedulcKl speakings and advised fe<iy’ity Ridge Methorlist church and ha.s eral employes against attending- always taken an interest in public Both Cblonel flhrlTw and Bto^y^affair^- - - declared the Democratic partjy had Mr. Moore said that he has always been “a white man’* party.” y ' l>een interested in the public schools “It ought to remain a whi^ man’s of the county, in law enforcement, party,” Stoney said. / I economy, efficiency and service. He Colonel Harllee express^ his senti- was outspoken in his defense of the ments in this fajihion:frankly tell constitution, declaring thait “the thing y&if' tlhat Mr. Farley’^brand of col- we have got to do is to preserve the ored democracy is jrot my brand. I constitution of South Caroliha, re stand for a white ^mocracy. igardless of the consequences.” “I am unwilling that our state be — ' ■ "■ delivered overyto Negro rule under the dominat^ of a lot of radicals I masquerading as Democrats or to per-1 mit the ^tablishment of a federal bureaucracy in which Negroes and rajtlica^from afar may come among Ralph N. Riddle was elected aldor- us and regulate the affairs of our,life man from ward five in Tuesday’s run-' an^work.” . over primary over^fbus opponent, J. I /The former marine renq^ed hi.s de- Furman Davis. The vote stood: Rid- lunciation of what he tenne/i “the die 271, Davis 143. The other two en- ! alien prophets” wbo^ne high in the tries in the race, John N. Bigham and administration councils and warned L. .M. Evans, were eliminated in the that, in his opinipn, the spending polf- first primary. jcies of the govemn»ent under the Mr. Riddle, who has been a resident i Roosevelt administration were laden of the Clinton Cotton Mills ^or sev- ! with grave danger. J eral years, succeeds Per^ L. Wilburn,' t Stbiiej^ charged iHal cotton andUl who did not of^er for r^leciion. it nients for. this state were not bde-Hs reported that the latter will be a quale, and asked ^is hearers 'what | candidate this summer for the bousa Riddlf Win* In - Alderman Race they thought of theirs, “We haven’t_,gotten any yet,” a number of voices in thp crowd, an- swered- of representatives. Charls Leaman of Whitmire, vuu- ed friends here last week.