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BYRNES ROUTS OPPONENTS
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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