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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
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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
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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
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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, ,
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Mississippi; Richardson, ]>el8wnrJ^T\ooT^ve^^ror^^^i!WBI?
Utah ; Wefcmore, Rhode Island; Williams, Mississippi (
Lorimer, Illinois.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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