The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, July 25, 1918, Page 4, Image 4
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Volume 27 No. 30.
Thursday, July 25, 1918.
One thing mere male of the species
cannot understand: Why it is that
a looking woman will insist
upon hiding and spoling her beauty
by putting paint on her face.
Ever notice how so many of these
candidates "offer their services" to
the government? It is really amusing
to hear them prate about how
they wrote to the president or somebody
and "offered" their services.
We often wonder how many of them
evertried to enlist in the army. As
a matter of fact you could scarcely
get half of them within a mile of a
recruiting office. But they offer
their services?of course, provided
they can get a commission as major,
colonel, or something. Oh, yes, they
offered their services; of course.
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Major John G. Richards takes it as
a personal reflection to even be asked
if he approves of what the former
governor said in his Filbert and Pom.aria
speeches. Yet Major Richards
affirms his allegiance to the former
governor. And he refuses to say
whether or not he approves of the
Filbert and Pomaria speeches. MajorRichards
has a son in France, but he
refuses to tell the people whther or
not he approves of a man saying this
is an unrighteous war, and that the
blood of those who fall in France is
on the 1iead of President Wilson.
Silence gives consent.
John G. Richards is the "reform"
candidate for governor. He is the
choice of the former governor, now a
candidate for United States senator.
Major Richards is the candidate of
the faction whose leader stated in
speeches last summer that he was
opposed to the war, because it was
an unrighteous war, and who would/
oust from office every man who favnrpd
thp war: in other words the
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factional leader would oust President
Wilson and every South Carolina congressman
except Mr. Dominick. Major
Richards has spoken with the exgovernor
at various Bleaseite meetings.
Let notfe he deceived by the
smooth manners of Major Richards;
he is the Bleasite candidate for gov?
ernOr. If you do not want a Bleaseite
governor, do not vote for John
G. Richards.
.
The report of one of the cam- :
paign meetings last week in the Chars'
leston American says: "Mr. Wightman
(candidate for lieutenant gov- '
ernor) announced that he was pre- 1
pared and intended to support for the ]
United States senate the man whom 1
""he knew to be the friend of the poor ]
man and the laboring classes," mean
!ng the former governor of South 1
Carolina. In other words, to change
the phraseology a bit, Mr. Wightman
announced that he intended to sup- i
port for the United States senate the ]
man who four months after the war \
was declared said that this is an un- i
righteoi^ war, that he was opposed ]
to it, that the president and those j
voting for it would be held respon- ]
sible for those who lose their lives in (
France?the same man who said that ]
> he did not care what kind of country -<
we have after he is dead. We are ^
glad to know where Mr. Wightman ]
stands, and who he stands for. t
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The Newberry Herald and News, in t
regard to Mr. Bethea taking Maj. i
> Richards to task by asking him if he 1
approved" the utterances of the for- 1
mer gover at Filbert and Pomaria, 1
says: "If he is such an ardent sup- i
porter of the righteousness of the i
war it would be in a great deal bet- i
ter taste, and he could do more real I
service in going to the front with 1
our boys than ip running around over ?
the State trying' to besmirch other i
people." The Herald is not holding 1
* any brief for Mr. Bethea in this or t
any other phase of his.race for governor?he
seems to be able to attend
to that pretty well himself?but we
call attention to the fact that what
prompts the Herald and News to accuse
Mr. Bethea of trying to besmirch
other people is Mr. Bethea's question
to Major Richards if the latter,
who had previously said he in- ;
tended to vote for the former
governor, approved of what
the former governor said. We
agree with the Herald and News that
a candidate would be guilty of besmirching
another candidate if he
accused him of approving what the
former governor said; but he did not
accuse Maj. Richards. He merely
asked the question. And Maj. Richards
has not yet seen fit to answer it.
Maj. Richards, although a Bleasite,
has acted like he thinks he has been
besmirched even by Mr. Bethea's '<
question. '*
Th9 former governor at Wagener
is reported as saying that "if elected"
he would go to the president and
"offer" to raise a regiment and raise
cain with the Germans; also he would
urge the president to stand for election
to a third term. This is contingent,
you will bear in mind, upon
his election. What if he is defeated?
Which he will be. Are we to infer
that the government is to receive no
in tVioi ovpnt fmm thPi
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former governor? In other words
the country can go to the Germans
if he is not elected. We see.
No candidate, whether for township,
county, State or national office,
who, in the light of utterances made
at Filbert and Pomaria, is still an adherent
of the former governor of
South Carolina, need look for or expect
either any votes or support of
any nature whatever from The Bamberg
Herald or anybody connected
with The Bamberg Herald. Regarding
county or local offices, The Herald,
as a newspaper, has no choice
between loyal Democrats and supporters
of President Wilson and the
administration but "we camiot reconcile
loyalty with approval of the Filbert
and Pomaria and other speeches
of the former governor. And, inasmuch
as the former governor has
never retracted or apologized for
what .he has said, it naturally follows!
that any candidate who still swings
on to the former governor must give |
silent approval if he does not openly
repudiate the leader of the Bleasite j
faction. We do not mean by this
that there are not many honest men
?but sadly deluded?who still sup-l
port the former governor, but the
fact that they permit themselves to
be deluded disbars them from our
vote or support.
A situation full of possibilities has j
arisen on the western front in
France. If you have not already
done so, get a map and note the position
of Rheims and Soissons. Between
these points the Germans made
a salient last spring extending some
twenty-odd miles into allied territory.
The distance from Rheims to
Soissons'is about 19 or 20 miles. The
salient pushed into the allied lines,
however, carried the battle line to a
distance of 60 miles between Rheims
and Soissons. The number of Germans
engaged in this salient is, of
course, not known, but one may rea-!
sonably suppose that on a 60-mile |
front there must be several hundred
thousand of the enemy. If General'
Foch can succeed in closing the neck
of this pocket, the Germans will lose
scores of thousands in prisoners.
Even if the allies cannot succeed in
closing the neck before the escape
of the Germans, it now seems certain
that nothing but a pell-mell retreat
could save the German army from (
annihilation. French and British .
big guns now control the railroad i '
I 1
leading, to the apex of the salient,
and the Germans will not be able to
transport their heavy artillery to the
rear. We have good reason to hope
that within the next few days we will
read of the greatest coup of the war
?perhaps it has already happened
when you read this.
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Those people who have conscientiously
been opposed to Congressman
Byrnes on account of his alleged attitude
toward the selective draft act
will be quite surprised when they
tiear him speak. At the Baldock
picnic Thursday Mr. Byrnes told of
ais connection with this bill, and not
inly did he convince his hearers of
lis absolute loyalty, but he also convinced
them that he had been the
victim of misrepresentation. Mr.
Byrnes has never been opposed to
;he selective draft act that is now a
aw. Numerous measures were in;roduced
in congress looking to the
aising of an army. These measures
were threshed out in committee, and
were finally consolidated into the act
which became law. Many of the
neasures before the committee were
without merit; some were unjust
md unfair and some were very im- c
lerfect. We have not the record be- s
'ore us, but we believe we will be
safe in saying that not a Democrat i
n congress supported all of them. (
\lr. Byrnes's opposition to one of
hese measures, which, by the way, j
lever came to a vote in the house, =
las brought forth all kinds of silly
charges of disloyalty to the adminis:ration.
Mr. Byrnes candidly admits
;hat he did at first favor a volunteer (
system while putting the draft into 1
?ffect. With the light before con- t
jress at that time, he was not un- i
justified in doing so. The proposi
;ion at that time was to raise an 1
irmy of a half million. Mr. Byrnes
lelieved that a half million could be
aised through volunteer recruiting, lut,
in case "the volunteer plan failed,
le was in favor of the draft system.
?Vhen the administration settled upon t
:he draft act, as finally perfected, Mr. j
Byrnes, of course, voted and worked \
'or it, as did all other loyal Demo- i
Tats. Is there anything disloyal in 2
;hat? While, of course, everybody 1
low agrees that the selective draft
ict is the fairest method of raising
in army, it is also true that for the ,
v ac
purpose of raising an army of 500,000,
the volunteer system would
have been entirely adequate. In support
of this assertion, it may be cited
! that in figures made public by the
! committee on public information last
December it was stated that approximately
1,400,000 men of the army
and navy forces, which at that time
numbered something over 2,000,000,
had voluntarily enlisted. The forces
of the navy at that time numbered
about 270,000, leaving over 1,100,000
volunteers in the army. Mr. Croft
stated in his speech at Baldock
Thursday that none would have volunteered
for service overseas. The
figures do not bear out Mr. Croft's
assertion.
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The New Law.
No. 511.
An Act to require all mercantile and
industrial establishments other
than corporations, having a place
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close the names and addresses of
tl^e proprietors thereof, and to
provide a penalty for failure to do
so:
Sec. 1. Names of owners of mercantile
and industrial establishments
to be filed with Clerk of Court and
exhibited at place of business. Be
it enacted by the General Assembly j
of the State of South Carolina, That
from and after the passage of this
Act all mercantile and industrial establishments,
other than lawfully
chartered incorporations, having a
place or places of business in this
State shall file with the Clerk of
Court of the -county in which the
principal place of business of each
mercantile or industrial establishment
is located, the name or names
of the owner or owners, proprietor or
proprietors thereof, in case of copartnership,
the name of each and every
partner having any interest
therein, and -shall exhibit on
a sign over or along side the
entrant of each Dlace of bus
iness of each mercantile or in-1
dustrial establishment the name or j
names of the owner or owners, proprietor
or proprietors thereof, including
the name of each partner of
a copartnership; such name or names
to be printed in Roman letters of
such size as to be read easily,
ment the name or names of the owner
or owners, proprietor or proprietors
thereof, including the name of
each partner of a copartnership; such
name or names to be printed in Roman
letters of such size as to be
read easily.
2. Retiring owner or partner to
be liable for debts unless sign changed
and notice filed. In case there be
any change in the owner or owners,
proprietor or proprietors of any such
mercantile or industrial establishment,
any person retiring from such
ownership or partnership shall file
in the office of the Clerk of Court of
the county in which the principal
place of business of such mercantile
cr industrial establishment is located
a notice of such change, and shall
have the sign or signs herein provided
for changed, and until both such
notice made on such sign, such
person shall be liable for all
rtebts and contracts of such mer
rnntile or industrial establishment
according to the interest he or she
formerly had therein.
3. Record of Statements?Clerk's.
Pee?The Clerk of Court shall keep
all such statements of ownership or
aroprietorship on file and shall record
:he same in a book to be provided
for that purpose, and shall keep
>uch book indexed. He shall receive
:or a fee for filing any such state- I
nent or- notice of change the sum of
Dne Dollar. ?
4. Violation a misdemeanor?
Penalty?Any person violating any
>f the provisions of this Act shall be
juilty of a misdemeanor, and shall
)e fined ten dollars or be imprisoned
for five days foi? each day such merjantile
establishment shall do busiless.
In a case of a fine being paid
>ne-half of the amount paid to the
)erson swearing out the warrant. In
;ase of a copartnership each partner
Jiall be severally liable.
5. When Act effective?That this
^ct shall take effect on the first day
)f July, 1918.
Approved the 9th day of March,
D. 1918.
EXECUTOR'S SALE.
Notice is hereby given that the unierscigned
executor of the estate of
leorge W. Beard, deceased, will, on
August 22, 1918, offer for sale to the
lighest bidder at the residence of
he late George W. Beard, the folowing
personal property of the said
estate: 1 buggy, 1 wagon, cane mill,
cettle, etc. Terms of sale, cash.
G. W. BEARD,
Executor.
July 23?4t.
CARD OF THANKS.
We, the undersigned, wish to take
his method of expressing our heartrelt
appreciation for) the kindness
md sympathy extended to us bartends
and relatives in our late beeavement,
and especially those who
issisted as pallbearers and those
'endering automobile service in the
>urial of our brother, Geo. E. Crouch,
fours very sympathetically,
MRS. R. S. SIMMONS,
JAS. R. CROUCH. |
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