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38 ' i -* , V ' J- ?be Hambrrg feratf) to * I i One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1918. Established 1891* BYRNES ROUTS OPPONENTS , | ANSWERS CRITICISMS AND TAKES DAY AT BALDOCK. At Opening Campaign Meeting Byrnes k Meets With Great Reception. Disloyalty Charge Fades. Congressman James F. Byrnes, "Our Jimmie," as he is fondly known throughout the second disktrict, entered the camps of his opponents Thursday at the opening of the congressional campaign at Baldock, and literally put them to rout, roe offensive staged by Messrs. Croft, IB Toole and Evans, his opponents, was II met by powerful resistence, and if the audience was the umpire, the of* fensive was a complete failure. Mr. Toole came back with a weak counI W ter attack, but it did not even make an impression. If the first campaign. meeting of the congressional party is any index to the sentiment of the people, Byrnes's opposition is very weak. Byrnes not only had "about nine-tenth of the crowd uproariously with him, but he was idolized by them. At the conclusion of his Speech and when Mr. Toole "ascended the rostrum," the crowd practically all left the pavilion, some going to the dance pavilion, with the evident impression that what was to follow was not worth listening to. Most of those remaining crowded It around Congressman Byrnes and snowerea mm wuu uuugiabuiauuuc upon his speech, which completely, in the opinion of practically all his hearers, vindicated his record from the attacks that (have been continu* ously made against him by his opponents, particularly Mr. Toole, through the newspapers and otherwise. The occasion was the annual Baldock picnic. The crowd was so scattered all over the spacious grounds that to estimate its size would be a hard task. From the number of automobiles, buggies and wagons present it would seem that perhaps two or three thousand people must have been there. The ladies, chili dren, boys and girls mostly congregated about the dancing pavilion, whefe a brass band helped to, make merry. Most of the men went across to the pavilion on the other side of the creek to hear the candidates. Four or five hundred men probably were in Or near the pavilion until Mr. Toole began speaking. The candidates were scheduled to speak in alphabetical order, Mr. Byrnes being the first. This order * had to be changed, however, as the ^ train on which Mr. Byrnes was a passenger ha*d a wreck and was? six ,"1"- oTYia n en/* Hours laie. xue cuag icoomau ouv I ceeded in catching another train, I thought and arrived when Mr. Evans, who was the second speaker, was concluding his address. As Mr. Byrnes came on the grounds, the people began to clap their hands for . him, and otherwise to display their love for "Jimmie." All during his stay on the grounds, the congressman was surrounded by fond friends and , admirers. r S While the crowd was very generous with its applause for the incumbent, only patriotic utterances of the ^ _ other candidates received any recog* nition, and then in very moderate doses. Hon. R. M. Mixson introduced the speakers, prefacing the introduc tion with a five-minute ringing patriotic talk, in which he urged the people to support only tried and true loyal friends of the government and of the administration. The audience heartily agreed with Col. Mixson. Croft Goes Right in for Byrnes. Hon. T., G. Croft was tne nrst speaker. Mr. Croft was not an entire stranger to the audience, as he had served a short term in congress, ^ * succeeding his father, Hon. George | * W. Croft, many years ago. He told of his record at that time. Right at the start he announced that he intended to discuss the record of Mr.) Byrnes in a "clean and high-toned manner." He then commenced to fire high explosive shells from a rapid 1?AA +Vi ^ "E1 rnn nil Danery eu.uai uuiu mo * i^uvu v ^ into the camp of the congressman. He said Byrnes's record was as full of holes as a sieve, and that he -had not voted right on many bills, but he was only going to discuss his record on one or two points. Mr. Croft then entered into a discussion of the selective service law, telling at considerable length the virtues of the measure, and why every^ loyal supporter of the president should have supported it. He said the president had called on every loyal Democrat to support the measure. He charged Byrnes with being against the measure, asserting that even the president could \ 0 not drive him. This, said Mr. Croft, he attributed to a lack of knowledge of the history of the country. War, said he, is the one great issue in the campaign, and that we must support the boys at the front. He called on the people to look to the record to ascertain who have been loyal. Mr. Croft asserted that if the stand taken by Byrnes had been shared by a majority the allies would have been whipped and we would have been having war here in America. The matter confronting congress was that of the mobilization of an army, and the means to do it quick. Byrnes, he said, had opposed the selective draft law, although he had been called on to stick to the president. That he fought the bill and made a bitter speech against it, but "in spite of him" it passed. He charged that opposition to the measure was the result of German propaganda. He further assailed Byrnes for his alleged support of the volunteer provision, which he characterized as a failure, asserting that nobody would have volunteered for service overseas (although the record shows that about j half of our present army are volun-j teers.) Summed up, Mr. Croft's charges were that- Bvmes ^iad turned a deaf ear to the president, to all true Americans, to the allies' call for help, and to all humanity. He did admit,' however, that Byrnes had favored the draft provided the volunteer plan would fail. He read from "the record" portions of Mr. Byrnes's speech. A striking sentence in it,! which Mr. Croft evidently forgot not to read was this: "I have but une object, that of the promotion of the interests of our country," and that that he believed this would be through tne selective volunteer -1- ? ? H1rAnAi4 f V? A nnn _ sysiem. ivu. viun, mvcucu ^uugrssman unto a flagman on a train, who had allowed his train to run into an open switch, and he pleaded that he be forgiven, but relieved of his job He said he would like to represent the district in congress, and that he would do the best he could; would look out for the interests of the boys at the front, and after they came home, and would not deliver the people into the hands of the Phillistines. Mr. Croft completely overlooked giving any reasons, however, why he should be elected, or stating any of hi3 qualifications to hold down the job. Evans Couldn't Go Below the Belt, But? Hon. N. G. Evans, of Edgefield, a member of the well-know!n Evans family, who have been in politics since man remembereth, was next called on. Mr. Evans dwelt on the virtues of grand old Edgefield county. He said that he could not strike below the belt, so he did not have much to say about Congressman .Byrnes, evidently implying mat ue had the goods, but would save them up for future occasions, Mr. Byrnes not yet having arrived. The only issue now, he said, is that of winning the war to complete democratic victory. Everybody?almost everybody?is in line, he said. Mr. Evans modestly admitted that, for himself, he comes from good old, pure American stock, who have given freely of their blood on the altar of American freedom. It is the duty, he said, of the voters to question the loyalty of all candidates for office, as we are fighting now to free America from German influences. - We will have to beat the Germans in France, else beat them in America, and that we could never do it with a volunteer army. He asked the question if anyone could be loyal who says that the selective draft law is unfair. Mr. Evans's sincere hope is that our district will follow the excellent ex ample of some of the northwestern States and defeat all congressmen who opposed the draft law. Mr. Evans generously admitted that all of us make mistakes, but that we must suffer thereby, and that we cannot afford to elect men to congress who have to take the stump to explain their votes, or who have a question mark after their names. This is no time, he said, to explain loyalty. Without naming M. Byrnes, he said that he might be all right now, which in view of all the speeches of Byrnes's opponents, might be considered quite a liberal V. f iU ft ^ f rv admission 111 lisen, uul mat, t-nc question mark is still there, and we must not stand for that. In nice, refined language Mr. Evans threw bouquets at himself for making patriotic speeches in various counties (before the people knew he was a candidate) in the interest of liberty bonds, war stamp's, etc. He eulogized the boys at the front in quite (Continued on page 5, column 2.) t DOCTORS CALLED. Government Will Take Charge of Physicians^?Medical Men Needed. Washington* July 18.?The government is about to assume control of the entire medical profession in the United States to obtain sufficient doctors for the fast growing army, and at the same time to distribute those remaining to the localities or in services where they are most needed for civilian work. This mobilization is to be accomplished either by enrolling all docI in a -irnliin+opr sprviCA COrDS Un der pledge to accept whatever service, military or civilian, is assigned them by the governing body of the corps or if the voluntary plan is not successful by legislation providing for drafting them into government service. Medical officers of the gov-! ernment believe compulsory conscription will not be necessary. I m < > Flow Into France of Americans. With the American Army in England.?America's increased flow of troops into France has brought to the British public a realization of the magnitude of the movement. The comings and goings of force after force have impressed the residents of England with the might of their new ally as nothing else has. Since the first day of May the growing volume has been apparent. Wave after wave of American troops has moved from the ports of arrival through the country to rest camps and from them on to the ports of embarkation with only enough pause to get the sea wobble out of the men's legs. The number of rest camps?the name that has come to be applied to what really are concentration camps ?has been increased, and British traffic men are finding themselves heavily taxed to maintain uninterrupted the shuttle of shipping between England and France. The British are doing that part of the work and American officers have been high in their praise of the efficiency displayed. Americans are in command of the men when they land and are responsible for them in the temporary camps up to the point of going to the piers where ships are waiting to carry them to France, but the transportation both across the country and overseas is in the hands of men who have been moving the British millions since 1914. It is at rest camps that the American soldier gets his first real stop in the voyage he began at an American port. At the port of debarkation he is given scarcely a pause and no opportunity whatever to look around. From the ship that brought him over he is marched directly to a waiting train Then the iourney to camp is -begun. But the trains are fast and the country is small so the journey never is long. When the train stops there is a march usually for two or three miles but in some cases the columns move on foot for ten or twelve miles before the camp is reached. To the Britisher who sees passing every day the thousands of men the sight is impressive. In London, at General Biddle's headquarters, statistical officers and officers of the quartermaster corps continuously go over tables of figures that vary only as the size of convoys vary and direct the distribution of each new lot of arrivals, and eventually their reshipment to France. ^ <o> ? Young Roosevelt Dead. Paris, July 17.?Lieut. Quentin Roosevelt, youngest son of the former president, has been killed in an airplane fight, the semi-official Havas Agency announces. His machine fell in the enemy lines. Lieutenant Roosevelt was last seen in combat on Sunday morning with two enemy airplanes about ten miles inside the German lines in the Chateau Thierry sector. He started out with a patrol of 13 American machines. They encountered seven Germans and were chasing them back when two of them turned on Lieutenant Roosevelt. Reports of the fight state that the Germans appeared to be shooting at the lieutenant from the rear, the three machines being close together. Then one of the machines was seen tumbling through the clouds and a patrol which went in search of Lieutenant Roosevelt returned without a trace of him. He appeared to be fighting up to the last moment. One acount of the combat states that the machine caught fire before it began to fall. / \ STAR SHELL FRIGHT. Effect Upon Men's Nerves When These Shells Burst. There are occasions when star shells used for illuminating No Man's Land will give a soldier a bigger fright than the explosion of a "Big Bertha" or "Jack Johnson." Corp. H. J .Burbach, a telephone lineman expert, and among the first men in the United States army to reach the front trenches in France, tells about this sort of fright in the May Forum. "The telephone system," he says, "was demolished in our sector by rifle fire. 'Tonight,' the officer told me, 'you and I will crawl out on our bellies and find that broken wire. Then we will fix it, and unless they find us with a shell, we'll crawl back.' "The prospect was exciting and I waited anxiously for night. Then, armed with the necessary tools, we started to crawl along the shallow trench containing the wires. We had no light, we could not stand upright. We went about a half mile, feeling every inch of wire for the break, and then suddenly I ran my hand along the wire and suddenly came to a point. We had found the break. " 'I've got it," I called in my best whisper, but before I could receive a reply there was a noise from the German trenches. " 'Star shell, star shell,' my French companion called excitedly. "Suddenly the shell burst above us, and it was more brilliant than day. Frightened! Say, that light is so great, and the knowledge that if the Germans spot you you're a goner, makes you just lie there and forget tr? breathe. It does not take many __ seconds for a star shell to die away to a glow, but in those seconds you go right through life and back to the present. When the light was gone I lay there fairly panting for breath." Pershing is a Soldier, Not a Liar. Statements of German cruelties attributed by a St. Louis newspaper to an unnamed sergeant of the American expeditionary forces, sent to the United States to assist in the third Liberty loan, are denied by General Pershing in a cablegram made public last week by the war department at Washington. General Pershing recommended that if the sergeant was quoted correctly, he be returned immediately to France for active duty. The statements attributed to the sergeant were quoted in General Pershing's cablegram as follows: "The Germans give poisoned candy to the children to eat and hand grenades for them to play with, They show glee at the children's dying writhings and laugh aloud when the grenades explode. I saw one * ? oKnnt 17 V09T9 nlll iiULi^i lUau KJKJJ f a wv u i/ x i j v*<*; who had been captured by the Germans, come back to our trenches. He had cotton in and about his ears "I asked some one what the cotton was for. " 'The Germans cut off his ears and sent him back to tell us thej want to fight men!' was the answer "They fed Americans tuberculosis germs." "There is no foundation whatevei for such statements based on an> experiences we have had," Gen. Pershing said. ^ U. S. Cruiser Sunk. New York, July 19.?German submarines appear to have renewed operations off the American coast. Th? United States armored cruiser San Diego was sunk not far from the entrance of New York Harbor today. Circumstantial reports reaching here indicate that she was torpedoed There was also reports tonight, al though not confirmed, that othei ships had been attacked, one being described as a coastwise passenger ship Whether there had been a toll ol lives taken on the San Diego was not known up to the late evening hours. Not more than 335 had beer accounted for out of a crew of 1,444 men aboard the warship, of which some 300 reached New York on a tank steamship at 10 o'clock tonight Thirty-two, a lieutenant, an ensigr and thirty sailors were landed in life boats this afternoon on the Long Island shore. Had Part of the Outfit. "Please, mum," said the tramp who had knocked at the door, "would ye do a bit of sewing for me?" "I guess so," said the lady kindly; "what sewing do you want me to dc for you?" "I have a button here," said the tramp, "and I'll be very much obliged if you will sew a pair of pants or it."?Louisville-Courier Journal. KOLA. Russian Port Where Great Quantities of Supplies Are. Kola, the Russian Arctic port, where American, British and French marines are reported to have landed recently in order to protect munitions and provisions originally intended for the Russian government, is the subject of the following war geography bulletin issued by the National Geographic society from its Washington headquarters: _ "Before the world war made every Russian fishing village on the Arctic ocean a potential city, the town of Kola, situated at the junction of the Kola and Tuloma rivers, had only about 600 inhabitants. Prior to the collapse of all organized government in Russia, however, it had become a place of great importance because of the fact that its harbor is relatively free from ice all the year, thanks to its location on the Murman coast, which is tempered by the North Atlantic drift. "Kola is about 25 miles south of Alexandrovsk, the Russian naval base established 19 years ago five miles from the mouth of Kola bay. "In peace times the chief occupation of the people of Kola is fishing, which is profitably followed by the natives from May to August. "Kola is well within the Arctic Circle, being in latitude 63 degrees, 52 minutes. It is 325 miles northwest of Archangel, the great White sea 1 port of Russia. "The peninsula of Kola constitutes , the major part of what is known as Russian Lapland. It is bounded on ' the north by the Arctic ocean and on the south by the White sea. Its area equals that of the state of New York i and is largely a plateau having an average elevation of 1,000 feet. The Arctic shore, extending a distance of 260 miles, is known as the Murman ' u ?- a J* coast (a corruyuon ui inunuou >. n. presents a rugged appearance, with ' cliffs rising abruptly from the sea to 1 a height of nearly 700 feet in many ' places. There are several indenta1 tions, however, where excellent anchorage may be found, and one of 1 these breaks in the granite line is 1 Kola bay. "The Kola peninsular is especially rich in its timber resources. Great 1 forests of pine, birch, fir and spruce " are to be found. "The month of July in this region is usually quite warm, and the.crops ! mature rapidly, the time of harvest being August, which is also the rainy month. Winter settles down over the 1 peninsular in November. ^ "The Kola and the Tuloma are two of the many rivers which flow into the Arctic; there are also several 1 large streams which drain the south ern half of the peninsular and flow ' into the White sea." Army Declares War on Flies. 1 Special attention is being given by | the medical department of the armyi * in all camps to cleaning up spots! where mosquitoes and flies breed. In j some cases it has been necessary to j ! dig channels in streams, drain i swamps, and put in elaborate ditch-j ing systems to clean up stagnant) pools and streams. In, cases where1 " it has been imposible or impracticable to drain swamps and to do similar work, there has been installed a system for keeping slow moving streams and still bodies of water covered " with oil. At all points within the; " camp where there is the slightest posJ sibility of mosquitoes or flies breed1 ing daily spraying of oil is done. Arrangements have been completed with the Federal Public Health Ser? vice to carry out a similar program in the territories adjacent to the camps. The health service has agreed ' to fill bogs, open streams, and drain I swamps, and continue the oil spray ing for a distance of one mile around each camp. ? Special precautions have been tak? en to prevent the spread of disease 1 by flies. Instructions were given on : the disposal of 'materials that were 1 likely to become breeding spots. ArL rangements were made to protect all food from flies. With this end in 1 view, all buildings in which food is ' prepared or stored were screened. ? Entrances to the buildings have been vestibuled. An average of 6,000 flytraps have been placed in each camp. More than 22,700,000 square feet of ? screening have been placed in all I camps. According to a correspondent in > France, writing to a London paper, the United States is building in > France the biggest airplane factories [ in the world. One airplane plant covl ers a tract one and a half mile widei by six miles long. i ITINERARY IS HALF OVEK MEETING AT CHARLESTON FINISHES HALF OF CAMPAIGN. I Former Governor and Peoples Afflicted With Neuritis of the Feet. Pep Introduced by Pollock. Charleston, July 21.?Charleston, will be the half way house of the senatorial campaign next Wednesday, the itinerary sliding into the last half after tfiat date. Six meetings will be held during the week. These will be: Georgetown, Monday; Monck's Corner, Tuesday; Charleston. Wednesday; Walter boro, Thursday; Ridgeland, Friday, and Beaufort, Saturday. The meeting in Charleston will likely be held in Hibernian Hall Wednesday evening, and considerable interest attaches. The meeting in Beaufort is usually held at night, and an effort is being made to hold the meeting Friday evening instead of Saturday, that the candidates may gain a day for the week-end trip to their homes in the northern half of the State. The teritory to be covered this week has been lost by Blease in the last three campaigns. In the heated partisan race of 1912, Judge Ira B. Jones's majority in the six counties was more than 1,000. The vote against Blease, in the sextette of counties four years ago, when he made the race for United States senate against E. D. Smith was 1,651. This lead over Blease was materially reduced two years ago, by Charleston, where several hundred voters switched. But the vote for the territory covered by the six counties was retained in the Manning column. Peoples Yet Missing. "Official business," "circumstan- ' . ces" and "inability to attend" have been given by Thomas H. Peeples as his reasons for not canvassing with, the senatorial party last week, after Senator Christie Benet and W. P. Pollock, " opposing candidates, led him to the "bar of public opinion" at / Florence and smashed his defenses in attempting to get from him a re- * pudiation of Blease's war utterances at Pomarla and Filbert, as published in the Charleston American and the Yorkville Enquirer, or an unequivo/ i.jj cal answer as to whether dr not he would vote for Blease after the exgovernor had made such statements. It was at this same meeting that N. B. Dial, candidate for the long term, branded Blease to his face as a dislovalist "from the crown of his head to the sole of his feet," which stigma the ex-governor did not resent. The only answer Mr. Blease had was that he had not come to Florence to make a speech and with this anI nouncement to the crowd he left the court house and has since that time been camouflaging in other parts of the State. May Have Neuritis. This was the first day Senator Benet and W. P. Pollock unmasked j their batteries in the campaign, their ! canvass for the short term beginning in Florence, and wherever the senatorial party travels the deadly affectiveness of the first day's fire is the main topic of conversation. Barber shop gossip is that both Mr. Blease v and Mr. Peeples are suffering with * neuritis in the feet and are possibly away consulting specialists. Abandons Campaign. Mr. Blease has declared his inten- N tion of abandoning wholly the senatorial carrmaien as arranged by the State Democratic executive committee, fearing that he would be set on by thugs, were he to attempt to make the regular meetings. This has given the people of the State another cause to convulse with laughter. The man who sat handy with t magazine pistol six years ago/ while the ex-governor "laid on his traducers" is now languishing in the federal penitentiary in Atlanta for disloyalty. Peeples has said he would not recanvass the territory covered when canvassing the State as a candidate for governor from the opening of tne State campaign until His announcement as a candidate for the United States senate. Should he stand by his declartion and also not attend either of the three first meetings this week, he would not join the party before it reaches Anderson, August 14, when only seven counties remain to be visited. Should he become a member of the party at that time, he would visit withHhem seven counties with a heavy voting population. They are: Anderson, Oconee, Pickens, Greenville, Union, Gaffney and Spartanburg, the campaign closing at the latter place August 23. Read The Herald; $1.50 a year.