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I* '-vVs I ?SECTION OF? THE BAMBERG HERALD BAM BERGS. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1912. (HARRY D. CALHOUN OF BARNWELL CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS. NATIVE SON OF THIS DISTRICT MAKES MIS ANNOUNCEMENT AND STATES PLAT I FORM AND ISSUE ON WHICH HE WILL MAKE RACE. To The Voters of the 2nd Congressional District. Gentlemen: Ambitious to represent you in Congress, Born and roared on the farm in Barnwell County, I present my I candidacy, platform, and issue for your consideration ana support. The issue is a sacred one, in the preservation of oui rights, and I am satisfied that you will agree with me and others that we are right in thi3 matter. I apprehend trouble ? from this source in the near future and unless we vigilantly guard our rights they will be swept away. The present incumbent in Congress from this District has seen fit to vote to adopt an -amendment to the constitution which is not a credit to the party, the district, or himself. I present many letters here, the originals of which I hold, to show you that my contention is well founded a-tid the danger signal given. The only way that I can reconcile his vote on this measure i9 oil account of his youthfulness, or having been lead by others, in any event he should not be excused. Our constitution was: born in the hour when the love of liberty and freedom was ripe in the hearts of meu, so let us t elect men to public office who have the public courage to stand for the true interest of the constitution they represent, then there will be no demand for a change of the fundamental principles of our government, * .< The issue is this ; Representative Bristow, a Yankee, from ' the State of Kansas, offered an amendment to the bill for the election of United States Senators'by a direct .yote'.of .the people which has been construed bv able representatives in Congress to mean that the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WILL HAVE ^ THE AUTHORITY TO APPOINT SUPERVISORS OF ELECTIONS, JUDGES OF ELECTIONS AND RETURNING BOARDS TO CERTIFY THE RESULTS OF ANY ELECTION, AND FUTHER AUTHORIZES IF NECESSARY THE USE OF UNITED STATES TROOPS AT .THE POLLS DURING SUCH ELECTIONS. The present incumbent is found on page 6706 of the Congressional Record of May 13th, 1912 fnr aunli a measure and bv his vote we take it, as his con * UUIUq XV* ^ T?~3tHi*enfr9f -that he .approred-the tuUL? andJLguess expects us of * v' this District and State to ratify it. In the year 1876, 1 was then a small boy, I never will forget the ordeal that my father was subjected to, while working <ia7 and night for the election of the immortal Hampton for Governor, in order to rid OURSELVES OF CARPET BAGGERS TAXGATHERERS, AND NEGRO DOMINATION, A NUMBER . OF FEDERAL OFFICERS APPEARED ON THE SCENE, ".arrested him and carried liim before; thev United States Court ^ in Charleston where he was subjected to all kinds of insinuations and insults, And had it not been for the lo}ralty and devotion to the cause, and the untiring efforts of those gallant veterans Gov Sheppard, Col Croft, Colonel Youmans,Col HendI erson, Judge Aldrich, and others, who with their great legal minds defended my father and others, without price or favor, he would have been sent to Sing Sing prison. This, Gentlemen, was Fedoral interference of our elections and what will likely happen again if not guarded vigiliantly against. Do you remember it? I never can forget it. I am running this race on what I conceive to be the great principle of the preservation of States rights, and and on my own nierrits and net the demerits of my opponent. T alwavs been fair, as I saw it, to my fellow man, and .ask the closest investigation of my life and -record. . I futher obligate not to resort to the many tactics to gain success by the misrepresentation of the truth, the approach of any voter to buy his aid or influence in order to win this high and honorable > office. i ' HARRY D. CALHOUN. BARNWELL, S. C, PLATFORM ist. State's Rights.?I believe in the preservation of State's Hights first, last and always^ and never will Vote to take way any power now conferred upon the states and give it to the Federal Government. 2nd. One Cent Letter Postage.?I favor a one cent letter rate and realize that no one should be charged excessive profit by the Government. At the present rate, the department is ren 1 ~"1 ** onantt rvor rwrmnH ceiving on nrst ciass man a icvcuuc ui awuv UJL VVUVW ^/VA -equal to $1680 per ton making a profit of 66 per cent. First class mail supplies under 14 per cent of the total revenue. It has been clearly demonstrated that a one cent letter rate will -amply pay. 3rd TheTariff.?The paramount issue in National affairs to-dayis one of taxation,?I declare for a tariff for revenue only, so adjusted as to place the burdens equally upon all classes and industries. I condemn levying an exhorbitant tariff on the articles of common consumption. It is estimated that Three Hundred and thirty million dollars are collected annually under the present tariff laws, and where ever this government recieves One Dollar from that source the Trust Magnate receives Five Dollars. 4th Good Roads.?Having been raised in the Country, on the farm, I can appreciate good roads, and T, like all good citizens, %kv.oukl be Statesmen, and blind mules," favor good -and beter roads and all the Federal aid that can be gotten for the * building and maintenance of the same. nth Monpv Trusts. ? 1 am against the system to form and t ' ' % perpetuate a money trust in the hands of ihe lenders to the injury of the borrower. Money should be a medium of exchange and not a commodity to be bartered and sold 6th Farmer's Credit Union.? I favor a Farmers' Credit Union, whereby bonds may be issued by a society to enabh ? them to get cheaper money, thereby assisting them to product and market their farm products more advantageously. A sys ( PROMINENT DEMOCRATS WHO OPPOSED THE BRISTCW AMENDMENT. Representatives and Senators Who Voted Against The adoption Bristow Amendment. Hardwick, Georgia; Dickson, Mississippi; Hardy, Texas; Bartlett, Georgia; Flood, Virginia ; Floyd, Arkansaw ; Gregg, j Texas: Harrison, Mississippi; Adamson, Georgia; Sisson,| > Mississippi, Roddenbery, Georgia; Stephens, Mississippi; Tribble, Georgia; Turnbull Virginia; Witherspoon,Mississippi; Collier, Mississippi; Dupre, Louisiana; Edwards, Georgia; Estopinol, Louisiana; Faison, North Carolina; Glass, Virginia; Hay, Virginia ; Holland, Virginia ; Howard, Georgia ; Jncoway, Arkansas; Macon, Arkansas; Oldfield, Arkansas; Slayden, Texas; Saunders, Virginia ; Lee, Georgia ; Humphries, Mi*sississippi; Moore, Texas; Hughes. Georgia; Goodwin, Arkansas ; Dickson, Mississippi; Bell. Georgia ; Blackmail. Alabama ; ' Brantly, Georgia ; Broussard, Louisir.ana : Candler Mississippi; Dent, Alabama; Tillman, South Carolina; Bacon, Georgia ; Bank head, Alabama; Fletcher. Florida; Johnston, Alabama; Lodge, Massachusetts; Terrell, Georgia; Richardson, Delaware; Dillingham, Verm on*; Brandetgee Connecticut; Bonham, New Hamp- I shire ; Crane, Massachusets ; Foster, Louisiana ; Galliger,' New 1 Hampshire; Heyburn, Idaho; Lippitfc, Rhode vLslaud ; Oliver,Pennslyvania ; Page, Vermont; Penrose, Pennsylvania; Percy, , - ,v i? , ri j_ * Mississippi; Richardson, ]>el8wnrJ^T\ooT^ve^^ror^^^i!WBI? Utah ; Wefcmore, Rhode Island; Williams, Mississippi ( Lorimer, Illinois. v ? * * ? - ^ f 1 MHnwnm^nnni^H ' :" ' r^Hfl^H9B9 iSHHBHinBMHHHi ' . % ] .-._ ? j-.__j5K?aLUiX - - " WHAT THE BBISTOW AMENDMENT MEANS Extract From congressional Record: Senator Bacon, (Georgia) : 44 Do I understand the Senator from New York to say that under this amendment, if Congress should decide that the "GRANDFATHERS CLAUSE " was un. constitutional, that in his opinion, Congress would have the , power under this amendment, to ANNUL those provisions, and to make Federal laws to control the elections of Senators, in such , way, as to insure theRIGHT, TO VOTE TO ALL PERSONS . THOUGHT BY CONGRESS to be entitled to vote. I , .. Mr Root: WITHOUT THE SLIGHTEST DOUBT. r*.? .i,iic ir-oll flint we have ; Mr 15acon : >v en ivj r x" rwiucnij- *tu . iTvii - - ~ ? been given this notice of what the Senator from New York does mean and what this amendment means. Mr Root: I meant to put you on notice, and I mean to rut the whole Countrv on notice, if my words are able to do so. ???????^^?a?nMW it m wiiicli is liuw using successfully operated 111 France and Germany. 7th Cotton Warehouse.?I believe in the State Warehouse bill, or any other hi 11, that will successfully operate to the advantage of marketing cotton gradually, and not force the the farmers to rush it on the market within about sixty days, as now is the care. 8th Pubiic Documents and Seed.?If elected to Congress I ; will use my influence and vote to reduce the millions of dollars that to my mind are being thrown nwav each year, by the goveminent in printing and sending out so many unnecessary voJui mes of nublic docuui nits. Some of this fund could be more 1 r . _ I 1 nobly applied by pensioning the < 'on federate veterans. 1 am against the drain on tin? Treasury caused by the annual distribution" of *<o large a (piunritv of rotten and *"n?? account'' seed. People refusing to plant them on account of their past unsatisfat u rv experience. j\Iv father and mother having been forced bv the Federal f ? * 1 government to pay that unjust "wa'* tax*' on cotton, levied in the 'sixties"', 1 promise vou. if elected, to ti^ht the harder for its just return to the descend in'< of th?e who sail'ored the ha:dships caused by this nefarious act. PROMINENT DEMOCRATS STRONGLY OPPOSE THE BRISTOW AMENDMENT. FEAR OF FEDERAL BAYONETS AND THE RECURRENCE OF RECONSTRUCTION HORRORS MAKE THEM OPPOSE IT. WHAT THEY SAY. ? SENATOR B. R. TILLMAN'S POSITION Washington, D. D.' June 1st, 1912, Harry D. Calhoun', Barnwell, S. C., Dear Mr Calhoun :? I will turn jour letter over to Mr Byrne8 four immediate Representative in Congress and let him wrestle with the problem, I MYSELF FEEL AS .YOU DO that tb? House mado a mistake when it accepted the Constitutional amendment with the Bristow amendment on it., but if things come to the worst pass, we will alyrays have our shotgunts ta take care of white supremacy. I am now brooding over the Cuban situation ; our having fo send good .white men to Cuba to shoot negroes for. having tha courage *to - assert principles which . the Republican party hatbeen trying to preach in this country ever since" the war. It is a sorry spectacle and if we get into war with those negroes it would not war but guerilla wafare, with the ngroes having every advantage,and many white men who would lose their lives, and 1 CYVL 1 io WUUAU uo iiutxixiJ^ uui ct .latJiiitc uii t/lie axvai ui xaiiaux^iaui, a may break lose in the senate some day and tell these Yankees f what I think about it. (Signed) B. R. Tillman. LETTER FROM SENATOR E. D. SMITH r Washington, D. C., May 29tb, 1912. My dear sir:? ' I voted against the Bristow amendment because I believed it was against the best interests of the State. (Signed) E. D. Smith. . LETTER OF SENATOR JOHNSON OF ALABAMA . Washington, D. C., June 8th, 1912. 1 Harry D. Calhoun, ' Barnwell, S. CM * ' / ? - <Dp?x Mr Calhoun :? ' - / .y$f I think the reason that the gentlemen from ^ the South did not stand as I did on the Bristow amendment, is that they were a greatffealjonnger, and have not experienced the horrors and.daggers and results of reconstruction as I did * One who has witnessed the practices under the Act to regulate elections will avoid any possible danger of that. (Signed) Joseph F. Johnson. LETTER OF SENATOR A. S. BACON OF GEORGIA -ri Washington, D.^C., June 6th, 1912. Harhy D. Calhoun, . Barnwell, S. C., Dear Sir:? I have been very much impressed with the danger the feature known as the Bristow and Sutherland amendments ind have opposed these amendments for all I was worth, and fvoted against the passing of both, through the present and form* *r sessions of Congress, on account thereof. I think it would have been much better to have defeated it in Congress, than to ' . trust to the chance of its being ratified by the States, I sincerely hope that the legislature of South Carolina will not ratify it 'as* [ feel sure the legislature of Georgia will not. ? (Signed) A. 0. Bacon. CONGRESSMAN ADAMSONS LETTER f Washingtoh, D, C., May 27th 1912, Hon Har;ry D. Calhoun, Barnwell, S. C. , -;v| Dear Sir:? I do not feel it incumbent on me to attempt to re* concile or discuss Mr Byrne's vote; Being a new member he is to some extent excusable through being misled by some of the prominent Democratic Leaders whom he had a right to respect and follow. At least, I accord to every Representative that libertv which I exercise for myself, the right to vote and speak according to the dictates of his conscience and judement. He is a very execelent young man, far above the average members for the first term, and there is so much good about him that I cannot entirely dam him on account of one mistake. With the exception of that vote, I think, he has done pretty well. Yours very truly. / (Signed) W. C. Adamson. Don't This Scare Yon? ^ * ;1 The State Superintendent of Education, shows by his 1911 report, the following white and colored children attending schools in the Second Congressional District. ' Aiken County.?White 4221; colored 5982. Saluda County. ?White 2045 ; colored 3125. Hampton County.? White 2396 coloied on40. Edj^e field County.?White 2053 ; colored 4982! Beaufort County.?White 648 ; colored 4309. Barnwell County.?White 2453 ; colored 5413. Bamberg Count v. White 1301 colored 3263. Total white 15717; colored 30674. The census of 1910 shows the populution of the differnt counties in the second congressional district to be as follows: Aiken?whites 18997, colored 22852; Bamberg?whites 567o! colored 12S74; Barnwell?whites 9651, colored 24648; Beaufort ?whites 3964, colored 26391; Edgefield?whites 8165, colored 20116 : Hampton?whites 9046, colored 10120; and in Saluda? u-hitos 9754. colored 11189. Total white, C5247; necroes 13119Q . V_/