The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, July 25, 1918, Page 5, Image 5
PERSONAL MENTION.
People Visiting in This City and at
Other Points.
?Mr. F. M. Simmons, of MeColl,
spent Monday in the city.
?Mr. J. S. Breland, of Olar, was a
visitor in the city yesterday.
?Mrs. N. P. Smoak is spending
some time at Glenn Springs.
?Mr. F. H. McCrae, of Denmark,
was "among the visitors in the city
yesterday.
?Miss Ethel Black has gone to
Lake Junaluska, N. C., to spend a
few weeks.
?Miss Ethel Strom left Monday
for Aiken and other points to spend
a few weeks.
?Dr. and Mrs. F. B. McCrackin
are spending this week with relatives
at Newberry.
?Mrs. W. P. Jones and Miss Mildred
Jones are spending some time at
Cilenn Springs
?Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Johnson, of
Charlotte, N. C., are spending a few
days in the city.
?After spending some time ^t
Spartanburg, Miss Ottawa Easterling
has returned home.
?Messrs. Emile B. Price and Glenn
Hutto left Sunday for Baltimore to
sp6nd a week or so.
?Miss Lalla Byrd has gone ' to
Hartsville, where she will spend some
+*-?v>n irieitincr friPTlds.
IIUXV T AOAVAM0
?Miss Ligon, of Orangeburg, spent
a few days in the city last week with
Miss Leona Brabham.
?Miss Tibbie Padgett, of Walterboro,
is spending some time in this
county visiting relatives.
?Mrs. Lizzie M. Free left Tuesdajrior
the mountains of North Caroline
to spend a few weeks.
, ?Mrs. Frances Folk is spending
this week with her daughter, Mrs. P.
K. Rhoad, near Holly Hill.
?Mr. Tom Lyncft has returned to
the city from North Carolina where
he' spent some time visiting relatives. ,
. - ?Mrs. R. B. Still and children, of
\ Blackville, are spending this week in
the city with Mr. and Mrs. H. C.
Folk.
?Mrs. L .E. Livingston and Miss
Mary Livingston left Tuesday for
Asheville, N. C., to spend several
weeks.
?Miss Margaret Easterling has returned
to her home in the city from
Spartanburg, where , she visited
friends.
?The many friends of Mr. I. B.
Felder will learn with regret of his
illness, and trust that he will soon
recover.
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?Rev. E. K. Garrison is spending
this week at Providence, Orangeburg
county, where he is conducting a revival
meeting.
? Rev. R. H. Jones and family
have returned to the city from Anderson,
where they spent some Jime
with relatives.
?Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Beard and
family and Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Beard
and family motored to Augusta Sunday
and visited Camp Hancock.
?Rev. George P. White conducted
a revival meeting at uiar tsaptist
church last week. This week he is
conducting a meeting at the Cope
Baptist church.
} ?Mr. M .G Cooner, after speeding
a few weeks at HenMersonville and
Other points, has returned to the city.
His friends are glad to see him back '
at his old position in the Bamberg ,
Banking Co.
?Mr. and Mrs. LaVerne Thomas
and children, of this city, and Mr. and
Mrs. C. W. Rentz and little son, of
Blackville, have returned home from
Barnesville and Atlanta, Ga., where
they spent ten days.
Now We Are Fighting Everything
German.
A million men lie dead or torn by
wounds upon the fields of Picardy.
In. ten million homes there is
mourning for son or daughter, brother
or sister, father or mother.
The bones of a hundred thousand
little children mark the path of the
most terrible scourge the world has
I ever known.
Germany and the Germans have
become a pestilence, a world disease,
a stench in the nostrils of all good
men and clean peoples.
The idea that we are not fighting
* the German people turns out to be
sadly wrong. No people would al>
low themselves to be killed by the
million if they did not believe in the
* propaganda of their barbarous leaders.
The "cannon fodder" which a crazed
Kaiser is throwing to destruction
on the western front must be beaten,
as well as Hindenburg, Ludendorf
and Eithel Frederick.
We are fighting German thought,
German institutions, German civilization.
There can be no safety in
the world until these things are torn,
root and branch, from among us, and
from among the nations of the earth.
Our government has realized this,
and the law now provides severe
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penalties for enemies at home. This
is not enough. German propaganda
must be removed from among us
as an epidemic of loathsome disease
is removed?coldly, scientifically,
and without mercy.
The firing squad and the cold stone
wall are none too harsh for those
who strike for Germany from behind
the screen of religion, politics,
philosophy, or a foreign language
press.
There comes a time when all good
citizens must turn out to hunt down
an individual murderer. A ravisher
is execrated by every decent man. A
man or woman who wantonly robs
and destroys churches is banished
by society.
Germany and the German people
have done all these things a thousand
times. They have no place in
the family of nations?no claim to
membership in the brotherhood of
man.
Once a man was crucified by a
rabble?a mere handful of irresponsible
people, yet for that deed the
nation to which that rabble belonged
was ostracised by the world for a
thousand years.
Today, a league of nations, heretofore
thought to be civilized, led and
held together by Germany, has crucified
whole nations. Belgium, Poland,
Serbia, and Armenia bear witness.
And the end is not yet, for
this same German controlled power
is attempting the crucifixion of the
world. Neither written history nor
the traditions of mankind record
any crime comparable to that now
being committed by Germany.
She is trampling upon every princople
beloved of free peoples since
the creation of man. She has violated
every law of humanity in the intercourse
of nations in peace and
war, which civilization* has built up
in two thousand years. Her people
have broken every law of conduct
for folks living together in the world.
No house, no church, no woman's
honor, and no child's life is safe.
Against this sublimely savage nation
we are sending the flower of
our sons. These sons face, not clean
warfare against a civilized enemy,
but cold-blooded murder at the hands
of "picked brutes" duly selected for
that purpose.
Instances might be mentioned indefinitely
to prove that the German
people have placed themselves beyond
the pale. They deserve no sympathy
and no mercy, either here or
over there. They recognize no law
but might, no force but the sword.
By the armed hand of war they
must be broken, and whoever, by
word or deed, hinders the progress
of the war, or delays the day of victory,
is as surely a traitor as though
he marched with Hindenburg's
brutes.
"Made in Germany," from this war
on is something to be avoided as one
would shun the mark of Cain. What
years of travail the Teutonic people
must undergo to wipe away this stigma,
no man can say. It is enough
to know that today three-fourths of
the world want none of them.
We turn to the future with confidence.
Germany MUST be defeated.
Only our best blows can beat her.
Let us fight, then, with all honorable
means, and with the high faith that
our cause is just and must prevail.
But we must fight, while we believe
and trust.?Household Journal
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BYRNES ROUTS OPPONENTS.
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a patriotic manner, and told of his
love for statesmanship which knew
no dishonor or questioning," and
urged the people again to vote only
for men who have nothing to explain.
A few of the ladies present in the
pavilion, and perhaps two or three
men, were moved to an outburst of
patriotism through the medium of a
half dozen hand-claps when he
rounded out his speech.
And Now Comes Our "Jimmie."
When the chairman announced
that Jimmie Byrnes would
be the next speaker, everybody
gathered up around the
pavilion and in it, believing that
something was coming. And it
came.
But before Mr. Byrnes had uttered
many words, Mr. Toole, who was
seated very near, became quite excited,
and made some remarks to
the speaker. Mr. Byrnes then asserted
that he had been slandered
by his opponents for months past
in his absence in newspaper advertisements
and otherwise, but that
they could not slander him to his
face. This brought forth from that
erstwhile candidate, Mr. Toole, a
volley of pent-up wrath, and he said
"You lie, you lie, I did not slander
you." It looked as if trouble might
be brewing, for Mr. Tcole seemed to
have lost all his self-control, although
what there was to arouse
such deep resentment was not clear
to anybody but Mr. Toole. Mr.
Byrnes contented himself by ignoring
the evident effort to "start
something," and proved to the satisfaction
of the crowd that he had not
departed from the straight and nar
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; row.
Mr. Byrnes frequently found it
; difficult to speak for being interrupt!
ed by constant applause. He ex,
plained that he had been delayed by
a railroad accident, and stated that
i he wa shardly physically fit to make
i ( a speech as the arduous duties of
congressman had made a tremendous
drain upon his physical resources.
i He had been working day and night
day after day. He had stayed on his
job, although he had been slandered
and misrepresented continuously. It
was at this time that Mr. Toole made
a display of his wrath.
Regarding Toole's challenge to debate
last fall, Byrnes said that he
had something else to do, and that
even if John T. Duncan had challenged
him he would not have quit
his congressional duties to meet him.
Mr. Byrnes then answered fully all
the "questions" which Toole had de
| fied him to discuss last fall. Only
one of these questions appears worth
giving space to, that of Mr. Byrnes's
alleged opposition to the draft law.
Regarding this Mr. Byrnes explained
that the measure which he opposed,
and the opposition to which had
brought down such violent attacks
by Mr. Toole, had been drafted by
an army man, an enemy of President
Wilson, who was afterward shelved
on account of pro-German tendencies.
The bill provided for the draft of
all men between the asfes of 19 and
25, and provided no exemptions except
for industrial reasons. No agricultural
or other exemptions were
provided for. He denounced this
measure as an infamous bill, and he
still thinks so.
Mr. Byrnes called attention to the
fact that many various measures
of this sort \yere introduced. They
were threshed out in committee, and
the greatest majority of them were
killed, as this one was, before they
were ever presented to the house
to be voted on. The bill in question
was opposed by a great many
others besides himself, and after the
committee had adversely reported it,
the author did not even consider it
of sufficient importance to ever call
it up in the house.
He denied that he ever was opposed
to the measure which became law,
and he invited anybody to show by
the record that he was opposed to it.
He called attention to the fact that
134 administration war bills had
-been voted on in.the house, and he
had voted with the administration
on every one of them. As an indication
of his loyalty, he said that
President Wilson had called him to
the white house and personally
thanked him for his work in behalf
of the administrations war programme
in congress. He had voted
with and stood squarely with the
president on every matter that came
before congress.
In view of the fact that Mr.
Byrnes's attitude toward the measure
above referred to is the bone of
contention in the opposition by his
opponents, his explanation so completely
cleared his record of any
stigma that it rather knocked the
props out from under his adversaries.
Mr. Byrnes admitted that he had
favored, when the first influx of bills
had been presented to the house, the
trial 6i a volunteer system before
applying the draft. "We did not
knowr as much then as we know now,"
he said. He also admitted that in
this he had made an error, but "if
your boy makes one mistake in all
his life are you going to turn him
out of your home?" He considered
his record a pretty good one when
out of the 5,000 votes he has cast
in the house they could attack him
on only one, and by the cheers of the
audience the people evidently thought
that way too. He dared any of his
opponents to say they would have
voted for the draft bill he had opposed.
He had been attacked, too, because
of his frequent absence from roll
call. This was due to his work in
the committee. He is a member of
the appropriations committee, which
had a large volume of work to do,
and this necessitated his frequent absence.
In addition to this he is a
member of a sub-committee of the
appropriations committee, which
placed an added burden of work upon
him.
From lack of information, some
people had even accused him of voting
against the war resolution, which
he flatly denied, and defied any man
to prove it by the record.
Mr. Croft here came in for a bit
of criticism. Mr. Byrnes said that
when he was in congress he did not
even know enough to collect the salary
of his secretary. Only 34 votes
had been taken while Mr. Croft was
in the house ,and he did not vote
' on half of them.
Enter Mr. "Tanlac" Toole.
The speaker charged Mr. Toole
with having run a race with "Tanlac"
to see who could use the most newspaper
space. In this campaign of
"exposure" Mr. Toole had made all
kinds of slandering charges against
him. Mr. Byrnes thereafter denominated
Mr. Toole as "Tanlac" Toole,
to the great amusement of his hear
ers.
.Mr. Byrnes asked his competitors
if they would enlist in the army to
prove their patriotism. None but
Mr. Toole replied, he saying that he
was willing to do so. Much laughter
was provoked at Mr. Toole's expense
when Byrnes said "Then why
the devil haven't you done it?" Mr.
Croft, he said, had written Mr. Lever
asking him to get him a good job
in the army, but none of them had
ever attempted to enlist in the army.
If defeated, said Byrnes, he would
immediately enlist his Services in
the army, and would not try to get
a fat job.
fie is asKmg ror reelection because
he believes it his solemn duty
to do so, as the country needs men
in congress who enjoy the confidence
of the president, who he said had
been sent this country by the Almighty.
"Defeat me and send word
to the kaiser that you have refused
to reelect a man who has voted with
President Wilson 134 times out of
134; nothing would please him
more." Great applause followed
Byrnes from the stand, and most of
the crowd also followed him. Ten
or fifteen men and some ladies
and children, remained on the pavilion
to hear Mr. Toole, who made
the closing address of the day.
Take "Tanlac" and Live Forever.
Mr, Toole labored under a very
great disadvantage throughout his
speech. He had evidently become
greatly upset during Byrnes's speech,
and had not succeeded in calming
himself when he arose to speak. He
vociferated angrily to Mr. Byrnes
to stay on the stand "and take your
medicine," and when Byrnes did not
heed his timely advice, he took vengeance
by calling him a "slacker,"
"pro-German," "coward," and a fewother
endearing and fondly affectionate
pet names, and proclaimed to
the world that Byrnes w-as a beat
man and he knew it. Mr. Toole
came armed with "the record" voluminously
bound in a couple of
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assistant to handle them, but he did
not take the people sufficiently into
his confidence to read any from them.
The speaker lost no time in preliminaries,
contenting himself with a
personal reference that he came of
valiant forbears. He then literally
"waded" into the record of Congressman
Byrnes, first accusing him of
thinking lie was the only patriot in
the second district. His opposition
to the draft law, said Mr. Toole, was
only a small part of his vile record
as "misrepresentative" of the district.
He said that Byrnes had always
fooled the people of the district,
but that he would not do it
again. He indicated that if the
people wanted to be saved from dire
calamity they had to beat Jim
Byrnes. He quoted Collier's as saying
that Byrnes had been absent from
the house for about one-fourth of his
time, and he figured that the congressman
owed the people of the
second district a huge sum of money,
which he should rebate to them.
Mr. Toole defied Mr. Byrnes to
show "by the record" where he had
ever introduced and nad passed any
bill of bentfit to the people of the
whole country; and said that all his
bills were little local affairs. He
charged Byrnes with "disloyalty,"
and said he had "the record" to
prove it. He did not read from the
record, however. He took a special
fling at Byrnes because the latter had
declined his invitation to debate the
"questions" propounded last fall. All
he had said in his newspaper advertisements
was the truth, "and more,"
he said, and he is going to have his
record printed and broadcasted
throughout the district. Had nothing
to apologize for for "exposing"
Byrnes?in fact he is due much
credit for having done so. Said
Byrnes could not stand the gaff and
had run off the stand.
Mr. Toole confined his speech almost
entirely to the alleged faults
of the incumbent. The people were
left to draw their own conclusions
as to his own ability to serve them
in congress. He did not offer any
reasons therefor. He varied from
the other attacks on Byrnes, by going
one further and accusing Byrnes of
always having been a "misrepresentative"
of the second district. Said
he was against preparedness before
the war. Was positive, however, that
he had not slandered Byrnes.
From various expressions heard
on the grounds, is appeared that
somebody had endeavored to arouse
rr n rrn Dirnnflo o T1 A QrMTA V* 4 TY"1 I
icciiu6 agaiusi. jjv? i xjco auu uiiu
the cold shoulder. In fact, some
people even went so far as to say
that "something would be started"
on the grounds. Whatever efforts
were made along this line, however,
met with dismal failure. It was a
Byrnes crowd all through, and the
other candidates must have felt their
ground slipping from under them
after seeing how the first meeting
Byrnes has attended in the campaign
had given its hearty approval to the
congressman, and the general feeling
among the numbers of people talked
with was that Byrnes had been misrepresented,
especially in regard to
his attitude toward the war.
It is a difficult task to fathom a' <
shallow mind.
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I hereby announce my candidacy
for reelection to Congress, pledging c
myself to abide by the rules and I
regulations of the Democratic party'?
and to support the nominees thereof., *
JAMES F. BYRNES.
I am a candidate for Congress from I
the second congressional district com- c
posing the counties of Saluda, Edge- s
field, Aikeu, Barnwell, Bamberg,;c
Hampton, Jasper and Beaufort, sub- 1
ject to the present and future rules jc
and laws of the Democratic party.
Platform?one hundred per cent.
American. G. L. TOOLE. c
Aiken, S. C. ?
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I hereby announce my candidacy 1
for election to Congress from the (
second congressional district, pledg- ing
myself to abide by the rules and
j^gulations of the Democratic party,
and to support the nominees thereof.
T. G. CROFT. <
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 1
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I hereby offer to the people of
Bamberg County my services as a
member of the House of Representa- i
tives and announce my candidacy for ! i
that office under the rules of the j <
Democratic party. i I
J. CALDWELL GUILDS. |j
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I hereby announce my candidacy t
for the House of Representatives, sub- j ject
to the rules and regulations of
the Democratic party, and promise to
support the nominees thereof.
W. L. RILEY ;
In compliance with the request of I ?
a number of our citizens I have de-! ^
cided to offer for election to the \
House of Representatives and hereby pledge
n^yself to abide the result of
the Democratic primary and to support
the nominee of the party.
JONH F. FOLK.
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BAMBERG BANI
Bamberj
dent of Education, subject to the
rules of the Democratic primary, and
pledge myself to support the nominees
thereof. F." 0. BRABHAM.
Being thoroughly familiar with the /
iffairs of the office and having had
ictive charge of the duties thereof
for the past several months, I hereby
innounce myself a candidate for the
office of Auditor and Superintendent
Df Education of Bamberg county, subject
to the rules of the Democratic
>rimary. W. D. ROWELL.
COTTON WEIGHER BAMBERG.
I hereby announce-myself a candilate
for the office of Cotton Weigher
it Bamberg in the primary; subject
a f l-i ^ rnl rocnlotiAnc Af
VJ til V I U l'y J C111 U 1 t/0UlUtlvllU VI. tuv
Democratic party. A. P. BEARD.
I hereby announce myself a candilate
for Cotton Weigher at Bamberg,
iledging myself to abide by the re.ult
of the Democratic primary and
o support the nominees thereof. ?
W. M. SANDIFER.
I hereby announce myself a candilate
for Cotton Weigher at Bamberg,
subject to the rules and regulations
>f the Democratic primary, pledging
nyself to support the nominees there)f.
CLARENCE B. FREE.
I hereby announce myself a candi1
late for Cotton Weigher at Bamberg,
subject to. the rules and regulations
)f the Democratic primary, pledging
nyself to support the nominees there)f.
D. K. SANDIFER.
MAGISTRATE AT EHRHARDT.
I hereby announce myself a candiiate
for reelection to the office of
Magistrate at Ehrhardt, subject to
:he rules and regulations of the DemDcratic
party. J. H. KINARD.
Having been induced by a large
lumber of my friends, I hereby anlounce
myself a candidate for the
iffice of Magistrate at Ehrhardt. /
iledging myself to abide by the rules
md regulations of the Democratic
jarty and to support the nominees
;hereof. E. D. GRANT.
MAGISTRATE BAMBERG.
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I hereby announce myself a candi1o+a
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nagistrate at Bamberg, pledging my;elf
to abide by the rules of the Democratic
party, and to support the nom- x
nees thereof. E. DICKINSON.
COUNTY COMMISSIONER.
Lower District,
v I hereby announce myself a candllate
for reelection to the office of
:ounty commissioner for the lower istrict
of Bamberg county, subject to
he rules and regulations of the Demiratic
primary. O. L. COPELAND.
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