The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, June 15, 1928, Image 3
TZZ Trash Overruns
mate Says Bob
IcuLh Carolina is a benighted land
ft^ l^hita trash" hold# tho whip
E wherr pMimHdnfiOf ruffiM* and
W rju.8 free boot umid the minority
Cent people who' have little to
,, the order of things, according
yLh, following fnank editorial apL
ring >n thc late8t l8MUe ot R?Wt
Eikn's famous weekly paper, The
Euntain I?n Tribune.
I There is no other section of AmerI
Where uien are ao quick to defend
,' hono? ah in South Carolina.
There i? no other section where
En are ho quick to fight when given
e lie
there is no other section where
ft much is ?aid about chivalry and
fte duty of shielding the gentler sex.
(there |8 no other section where so
ftuch is ha id about being a gentle
There is no other section where re
ion figures so largely in thp scheme |
ft^ThiUdolphia gardener in Januft
0f last year picked up on the
reels of a suburb a package of
Kwelry. He thought the package
orthless and carried them home,
uesday he walked into u Philadelphia
jewelry store and offered to sell
e lot for $5. He was astonished
hen the jeweler told him that the<
auWes were valued at $25,000 and
Kit there was a reward of $500 for
I The (J22 qualified voters of Avon
ark, Kla., registered 100 per cent.
K the voting in that state last TuesK
Not a registered voter failed to
tch the polls and cast his or her
I announcements
FOR CLERK OF COURT
1 hereby announce my-self a candidate
for re-election to the office of
Berk of Court for Kershaw County
object to the rules of the Democratic
J. H. CLYBURN
FOR MAGISTRATE
I I hereby announce myself as a candidate
for Magistrate in DeKall
ownship, subject to the rules of the
democratic primary.
I B. M. SMITH
I FOR CORONER
I I hereby announce myself a candi au
for re-election to the office of
ftoroner for Kershaw County, and
(ill appreciate the continued support
'. the Democratic voters of the counK
W. F. RUSSELL
m FOR CORONER
fa the Democratic voters of KerK
County: 1 hereby announce
Kg a candidate for the office of
^ rser of Kershaw County and
fee myself to abide the result of
pnmai y election.
S. J. WEST.
I FOR MASTER
^ Urn-hy announce myself as a can hte
tor the office of Master in
uity lor Kershaw County and will
Kpreciate the support of the voters
the coming primary.
W. L. DePASS, JR.
I FOR MASTER
hereby announce myself as a can date
for the office of Master Tor
^ fir?haw County and will appreciate
V support of the voters, promising
abide the result of the Democratic
[ t >L. REX JONES
rshaw, s- C., June 13, 1928.
ft FOR CQjSGRESS
Hereby announce that I am a can date
in the Democratic primaries
^outh Carolina, for the nomination
Representative of the 6th Congrea roal
District for the 71st Congress,
>u I take this opportunity to thank
e people of the District for their
^T^support in the past and to say
pport and confidence in the future.
W. F. STEVENSON.
for magistrate
. (Upper Wateree)
j rc V announce myself as a
K.f ?te for the office of .Magis
te for Upper Wateree District.
BEN A. RABON.
???._
, FOR magistrate
hereby announce as a candidate
wLu.eZllon t0 th? office of Magis .
?nt Bethune, promising to abide
results of the Democratic priihI
C. C. PATE
i >,K0? COUNTY DIRECTORVannounce
myself as a cah?
-e for re-election to the office of
Wa . for FteKalb Township and
ti elected, to discharge the
K\ni . ,s office fairly, impartialKd
tho of my judgment
Very respectfully,
H. G. OARRtSON, JR.
I Wo Roa<1 Superintendent
Kin 'Jv voters of Buffalo town tnk?f
favor of all voters of
n v c?unty in the re-election of
nry E. Munn'to the office of
Blh J*Tlntondont as he has faith|7
J*rformed his duties for the
Interest of the people.
VOTERS *
At t>wF<>R MAGISTRATE
^Rur. r^nuest of many friends and
B*?bv ?f Lower Buffalo Township 1
J. fe. OOPELAWBr''
ft
of existence,
There is no section more certain of <
ita superiority in righteousness.
There is no section where greater
effort is?.made to observe and to enforce
observance of Su.nday tt <uv .
of holiness. !(
There is no section where a larger j
percentage of the population frowns j
upon dancing, card playing and other!
"worldly" pleasures.
1 here is no section where whisky'
ami wine and beer are more bitter-!
ly denounced.
There is no section where the law:
and the public are more severe in'
condemnation of gambling.
These statements are made without
intent to be oratorical. They are
a grave and simple statement of fact.
And I speak from first-hand knowledge,
for I have lived in Kansas,
Oklahoma, Missouri, Nebraska, California,
Washington, Virginia, West
Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, ,North
Carolina and Georgia, and have spent
a little time in several other states.
This section of the country, as I
say, Bets up high standards of righteousness,
piety, chivalry and honor,
and because its blood is hot it is
quick to resent any criticism of its
imperfections.
And yet I know of no- other section
that has so little reason to boast.
There is no other section where so
large a percentage of the male population
will lie to make a dollar.
Iher.e is no other section where so
many men make debts they do not
try to pay.
There is no other section where
dead-beats and liars are accepted by
society as a whole and treated as
courteously as honorable men.
There is no other section where so
many men make vulgar and insulting
remarks about women, delight in
filthy sex stories and abuse their
wives. '
There is no other section wher
men who think themselves chivalroyR
continue to treat women as inferiors
who belong in the kitchen.
There is no other section where
men who boast of being gentlemen
are so abysmally ignorant of the,
qualities required in the making of
a gentleman.
There is no other section where
church membership and professed
Christianity leave men* so flree to
practice the immoralities frowned upon
by all churches.
There is no other section where
church people, while .professing to believe
the use of intoxicants sinful,
consume so much moonshine whisky.
There is no other section where so
many people who denounce dancing
and card playing stoop to lying,
cheating, slandering and stealing.
There is no other section where so
many church people frown on gambling
and yet gain and lose money by
gambling in cotton futures.
There is, in sh^rt, no other section
of the United States where so large
a percentage of the population is
composed of self-righteous hypocrites.
What is the explanation? You
know these things to be true. Have
you tried to discover a reason for
thqfr? '
I have thought over.,the matter for
years, trying to discover why any
people so fervent in its profession of
righteousness should be wholly lack*
ing ih the rudiments of honor, and I
think I have found it.
There are in- South Carolin many
people Who have no superiors in uprightness,
virtue, chivalry and integrity.
They are a minority.
The ma jority is dirt?psalm-singing,
Jesus-shouting, liquor-guzzling, thievllig
trash, wilhuut the slightest runception
of the meaning of honor?constitutionally
incapable ^ decencyinherent
ly filthy in mind, soul and
body.
. And the reason is not far to seek.
Men do not gather figs from
thistles. r- * J *'
In the days of the South's glory,
there were three dietinct breeds of
people in this state?the white people,
the Negroes and the trash.
The trash was white under its
dirt, but in all other particulars it
was beneath the Negro. It hated
the Negro, for ft fclt liis scorn ami
Yecogni<e#?him as a superior. ,^-x
This unwnshed trash ^element was
composed of bond servants and their
progeny-^rthe scum Of England's gutters.
It was Ignorant and lousy, and
for generations had been wbijSped to
its kennels by English masters. A
condition of servitude and want, endured
for generations, had made iti
bestial. It had no. standards of Vir^!
tue or honor. It would steal and lie
as readily as it would cower when
abused. .
This depraved, broken and filthy
herd of cattle improved in the free
air of America, but at the time of
the opening of hostilities between the
North and South, it was "far, far
> lower in the scale of civilisation than
i the lowest of white men now: It still
\ was scorned by, black slaves.
i iim
Southern gentleman ready for it
I ir vl
War was a gentleman's game. Dan
dies who kept personal servants at
their side planned a short and glorious
campaign in which the damned ,
vulgar Yankees should be licked out '
of their bouts and taught not to med- '
die in the affairs of their betters. The '
gentlemen went to war and left theii '
women folk in the care of faithful N
slaves.
The trash didn't go to war-?not ^
much of it. It waited to be drafted <
The gentlemen planters had human
property at stake, and the sturdj
commoners who had drifted down
from the North at an earlier day and
made the South their home had sectional
pride at stake. The trash had
nothing at stake.
Yet the trash was drafted, and the
war taught it manhood?as the last
great war taught manhood to Ix>n
don's gutter rats.
But the better class was killed off
in those first bloody, years, and moBt
of those who survived the war and
came back to the horror of Reconstruction
were low-grade men.
Were there no true men? Indeed
there were?else the South would
yet be prostrate under the heel of a
carpet-bagger political machine and
the Negro would yet be in the saddle.
There were brave and noble men to
take the lead in a fight to preserve
what was left of a broken civilization,
and there were sturdy thousands who
had not been classed as gentlemen before
the war but now were to prove
themselves upright and unafriad.
These made the New South.
But also there was the trash. The
trash came home?to a new democracy
and a new life.
It found itself the balance of
power.
It began to elect demagogues to
office.
It begot children after its kind, and
today it shames the state.
^ There you have dishonor explained.
Now you know why a section that
mouths religious phrases and prates
of its integrity and its chivalry and
frowns upon pleasures that once were
enjoyed by the gentry is nevertheless
full of lying, cheating, the uttering of
worthless checks, the "beating" of >
debts, secret drunkenness and coward- i
ly murder.
Trash blood is revealing itself.
Honorable men ? Yes, South Caro- i
lina has them. Able men? Many of
them. Clean-minded, upright and
chivalrous men? An abundance.!
Urbane, tolerant, civilized men Certainly;
I know scores of them.
But the trash dominates.
It isn't always poor, as it once was. J
Don't make that mistake. In many
instances its owns the very houses
whose doors would have beer shut in
the facds of its ancestors. It has
money and land and bank stock, and
it has gone to college. But the trash
bloods is in its veins, and there isn't
room in the same veins for anything
remotely resembling honor.
Some of the trash still is poor, and
some of it is rich. And some of the
best blood in the state flows in the
veins of people who haven't a* dollar.
They haven't a dollar, but they
have inherent honor.
In the old days, "poor white"*mear.c
literally white people who were poor.
The poor were trash and the rich
were quality. .
But the casual observer can distinguish
one stock from the other.
Those whose ancestors were gentle
are inherently honorable. They possess
an innate decency. And those
whose ancestors were sturdy commoners
and free men of the uplands
rank as high in honor and manliness
as any other group of men in America."
W
But^. those whose ancestors were
train?whether-they ride in fine cars
or trudge behind a mule or work in a
factory?whether they are perfumed
or spur with stale sweat?whether
they own the bank or give worthless
checks for trivial sums to the corner
grocer?whether they be high or
low, rich or poor they still are trash
and beneath the contempt of honorable
men.
?They lie.?They say?vile?fcMtigs,
about women. They are brutal to
their wives. Their word is worthies1.
They will kill by taking cowardly advantage.
They make debts they do
not .intend to pay. They defraud their
friends.
Their religion is a sham; their
chivalry is a sham; their honor is a
Their, much Mouthing about the
forms of righteousness is a pose.
^They do not understand what honor
. They are not capable of shame.
They explain South Carolina.
Sheriff Resigns
Columbia, June 5.*^Sberiff Hr ~S.
Gamble of Williamsburg county, has
tendered his resignation to Governor
Richards, the resignation has been
accepted and in Ms place Deputy
Sheriff H, A. Wheeler has been appointed,
the appointment having been
made by Governor Richards today.
The sheriff resigned as a result of
a suit against his bond brought by the
county, in which judgment for $40,000
was returned. The sheriff's bond
was for $20,000. The sheriff was due
to post a new bond on June 14, but
being unable to do this, in the face
of the judgment secured by the county,
the resignation was sent to the
governor.
Ths deputy sheriff Mr. Wheeler is
appointed with the understanding
of
- - 7 ? lilljfc? Bill Steal
Paper's Payroll
iHjtroit, June 6.??ix men armed
vilh sawed-off shotguns held up more
han 160 persons in the Detroit News
>uilding today and escaped in an
lutomobile wilh moat of the newspaper's
weekly payroll, the total of
vhich w?s $66,000.
Some of the money waa dropped
n a dash from the building and durng
a gun light m the'street in which
me patrolman was probably fatally
wounded.
M. (Jutland Alderman, head of a
ommercialphotographing business at
High Point, N. C., ended a long
period of painful illness by shooting j
himself at 3 o'clock Saturday morning
in the presence of his wife, lie
was u graduate of Trinity college,
a veteran of the World war and later
a captain in the National Guard of
North Carolina. Hiss illness was
aused by an automobile accident in
which the upper part of his spine was
injured.
I)r. E. A. Hall, a very prominent
physician of Statesville, N. C., 881
years old, di?d near there on the
plantation on which he was born and
which was granted to his great-grand- J
father in 1762, by the Earl of Gran-j
ville. Dr. Hall had been the community
physician there since 1808,
until a few yearB ago.
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