The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, May 25, 1950, Image 16
THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thursday, May 25, 1950
Pare Eight
COMMENTS ON
MEN AND THINGS
By Spectator
I recall that fine, handsome Sum
ter citizen who, after driving through
New Orleans, Mobile, Houston, and
other peaces with notable spots of
beauty and charm, remarked to his
wife that night, in calm, reflective
mood, “They haven’t got a tning
stitution read it as history, not as a era. Southerners, have the same in
living guide. But there is a way to terest: the preservation of the right
convince them; let them know about . .. . . ...
cases- ves letU eet down to cases 10 Uve and conduct our a"airs with
in’ Tk* , out Government interference, except
and TrcnSlnv in SUch Cases 0n 3 ^Uonal scale as
man and women according to his protect the public from fraud
own judgment; or shall he be com-
I attended the States Rights meet
ing in Jackson, Mississippi. It was on
a good meeting and a successful .the cat out of the bag; but you said groups, under Federal compulsion True'the~Civil ^Var""was"fou*ht over
meeting. Naturally it did not arouse it. That’s the real Sumter spirit. It and regulation? Has a man in busi- g tates Rights but the issue today is
o’ ,7^ k v it n ^ k i ♦ Unfortunately the term Stages Rights
Sumter.’’ George, my boy. 1 ve let pelled by law to choose from certain revives ^ issues Qf the civil War
the three Departments of the Nation
al Government want to assume the
authority to control your Cross-
Roads election.
Nothing counts with some people
but a dollar. Everything carries the
dollar mark. The jnan with money
commands our homage, our servile
adoration. So that spirit is about to
sell our rights to the National Gov-
o trol ..»at today point clear-
o iai.-m.
Wh, docs a South Carolina Com-
; an c. ion, then author-
oval, of National,
.der to operate
: Jin Carolina?
’ O' . . cu ve .he extension of the
Federal power? This is not just a
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the people as would a rally in aj*m- abouf equals the remark of the love- ness no rights? When he invests his far broader ^ an it was ^ Today e mment. Money is the theme; let
paign year. That was true of our ly lady of Charleston. We don t have money, shall he use his own ideas, or * '
State Democratic Convention also, to travel; we have everything, here!” must he be a victim of bureaucratic
That about two thouansd men and This so-called States Rights—what meddling and bossism? What right
women came from many States, in- is ifail-about? Is this a matter pe- has the Federal Government to med-
cluding Missouri and Montana, is culiarly of the South and for the die w.th such matters? No Govern-
proof of the interest felt far and near. South? Not at all; this is a danger ment has such a valid right: we have
From South Carolina Governor J that affects California, Ohio, Mas- been .v.ieca.eu into all sorts of reg-
Strom Thurmond flew over for a sachusetts and New York. It isn’t uni . . n n.. .ontrols. Because the
brief address in which he re-dedicat- jusl_a matter of White people; busy- ^o-ca .ed Democrats put some of
ed himself to the cause of State bodies in politics have done us a these nr:.:re on the Statute books
Rights. George Warren of Hampton favor by meddling with our racial mov. vi u . allowed hook, line and}
was keynote speaker and spoke with matters, because that brought the sink... . c ould have fought all
his usual vigor and clarity, receiving whole matter before the public dra- these
much applause. One speaker who matically. v •*>
struck fire was Edward Wayrigh neec j no ^ expect to persuade
from Florida. He told us how the Northern and Western States to fight
Florida Democrats defeated the Tru- over ^ Constitution: most of them
manite. Senator .Claude Pepper. were not States when the Constitu-
Governor Fielding Wright of Mia- ^ on became the Supreme Law of the
sissippi presided and was a dignified Land 0f COU rse New- Yot-k and Mas-
and gracious figure, as^ always. W. S ' ac husetts know about the Constitu- „ 1Wk „
W. Wright, a genial affable worker tion> but so many people have come racial matter; deep down it is a mat-
of great zeal and ability, was the from a vj roa d within a hundred years ter u wiping out the States.
and U rnamspnng - . VVa -y that the few who remember the Con- Repub leans, Democrats, Northern-
Wright is a businessman who works
with all his heart and head. We owe
a lot to “Wally" Wright. Speaker;
Walter Sillers of the Mississippi
House, a stalwart man. was there,
as he always is. So was Ex-Gover- !
nor Frank Dixon of Alabama, a first
class fighting man, a real crusader.:
Many of our Carolinians remember
Judge Horace Wilkinson of Alabama:
well the Judge was there and -in his
form. Lcander Perez’ of Louisiana
was one of the notable men on the
platform.
Those men from Texas and Ala
bama take their politics very ser*
iously; they talk, they plan; they
fight; they mull over 'the tight; and
they line up for another fight. Here
in South Carolina w*e declare pofit-
ical w-ar and for three or four
months we keep up one barrage after!
another; and then we count the votes
'and cease firing for a couple of years'
except those strenuous gladiators of i
the General Assembly. But those
men from Texas and Alabama go at!
it, hammer and tongs, twelve months i
in the year. Like the sturdy old fol
lowers of our Pitchfork Ben Till
man. they put on the whole armor
of battle and wear it until they pitch
their tents on the other shore.
From South Carolina I saw: Gov- J
ernor Thurmond; George Warren,!
Hampton; C. W. Lawrimore of (
Georgetown; B. F. Anderson, Dun-1
barton, Barnwell County; Julius
Stubbs and Clayton Webster of Sum- j
ter, Game Cock City of Iris Card- j
ens; Leon W. Harris of Anderson—;
staunch fighter; and Thomas R. Mil
ler of Florence.
The Sumter men run and are not'
weary and walk and faint not if!
there is a chance to advertise the j
hustling Game Cock preserve. Of
course I know Sumter and her spi
rit of perennial youth, with bubb-!
ling enthusiasm, but even I was sur- j
prised on seeing fifty bearded Sum- ;
terites in Charleston, during the Azal- |
ea Festival, and about fifty later, in [
Columbia. At first I thought they
were the House of David, not the j
ball team, but the whole House. Ev
en so, I did not expect to see a beard
ed Sumterite on the streets of Jack-
son. Mississippi, handing out folders,
inviting everybody to come to the
Iris festival. Of course a few from
all over the South had never heard
of Sumter, so they were probably-
told that it is near Manning. That,
would clear up everything. But I’ll |
long remember seeing the whiskers!
approaching me. then the voice]
through the whiskers, inviting me to!
the Iris Festival. And that was Clay-;
ton Webster. Naturally the occasion!
in Jackson wasnll a funeral, but,
Clayton reminded me of the Califor-;
:.ian who came East and attended a I
funeral. Following the Minister’s re-'
marks, there was a hush. Up rose'
the Californian and said: “If nobody !
else has anything to say I'd like to i
tell you about California”. So, you !
.-ee, California has the Sumter spir-i
it.
CITATION FOR LETTERS OF
ADMINISTRATION
The State of Squth Carolina,
County of Laurens. j
By J. H. Wasson, Prbbate Judge:
Whereas, A. Clark Meadors made]
suit to me to grant him Letters of!
Administration of the estate and ef
fects of George Watson Meadors.
These are, therefore, to cite, and
admonisjj all' and singular the kin
dred and creditors of the said George
Watson Meadors, deceased, that they
be and appear betore me, in the
Court of Probate, to be held at Lau
rens Court House, Laurens, S. C-. on
May 19, next, after publication here
of, at ID o’clock in the forenoon, to
'show cause, if any they have, why i
the said Administration should not
be granted. ’
Given under my hand this 13th day
of May, A. D., 1950. i
J. HEWLETTE WASSON,
25-2p J. P. L. C.
us get money. “Gain be my lord, for
I will worship thee”, is something I
recall from Shakespeare. If our pa
triotism stands in the way of getting^
Government money we will be pa-^
triots 'another day; now, today, we
want the money! That is the spirit of
the day.
John Milton says that “some men
prefer bondage in ease rather than
strenuous liberty.”
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