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0ii6 Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 1,1918. Established 1891.
CANDIDATES IN DAUBERS
SENATORIAL AND CONGRESSIONAL
ASPIRANTS SOPKE HERE.
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Blease Scored by Pollock, Benet and
Dial. Byrnes Defends Record.
Is Well Received.
The senatorial and congressional
party visited Bamberg Wednesday
and addressed the voters here. A
splendid crowd greeted the candidates,
estimated at four or five hundred.
A very attentive hearing was
i given all candidates. For congress,
I the incumbent, Mr. Byrnes, received
m quite an ovation, and that it was a
f Byrnes crowd no one could doubt.
[ The other candidates for congress
?-,1 nnH nrflro tho rp.
were wen xewcxtcu., auu
cipients of some applause during and
at the close of their speeches. All of
the senatorial candidates, with the
exception of Mr. Rice, were applauded.
Mr. Dial was easily the choice
for the long term, and Messrs. Pollock
and Benet both met with
considerable applause.
The meeting was presided over by
Chairman J. F. Carter, and the meeting
was opened with prayer by Rev.
R. H. Jones,
i The first speakers were the candidates
for the short term to succeed
the late Senator Tillman, Mr. Benet
> being first introduced. Mr. Peeples,
candidate for the short term, and
the former governor, candidate for
the long term were, as usual, conspicious
by their absence.
Christie Benet.
Sir. Benet said that this meeting
is being held at the same time that
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in France, something that probably
may never occur again. He thinks it
A wonderful opportunity for people
to accomplish something. "Our children
will look back to this time in
after years, and will want to know
what we did," said he. " Those of
ns who are kept at home have as
important work to do as those at the
front. The election is the voice of
the people, and he pleaded with the
people to elect only men who have
valiantly supported the president.
The honor of being a senator came
to him unexpectedly, said Mr. Benet.
He paid a tribute to Senator Tillman.
He kpew when Senator Tillman
died there would be some who would
try to side step and try to evad$ what
they had said before.
Referring to Blease, he said that
if Blease saw fit to ignore the campaign
meetings, it was no fault of
his, and it is not his lookout if
Blease and Peeples will not come
to the meetings and hear what he
has to say.
Concerning himself, he said that
he is known to many officials in
Washington.' When he went to the
. senate he was appointed a member
of the appropriations committee and
made chairman of the committee on
national banks. He is a Democrat, all
^ wool and a yard wide, said Mr.
Benet, and he is a fighter. He is
38 years old, and has been a lawyer
sixteen years; has been solicitor of
his district, and is now city attorney.
He' was recently appointed alien
property agent for this State. He
complimented Mr. Pollock, and said
that Pollock stood right with him in
the fight, although he was a little
surprised that he should have opposition
at all.
He said that he had asked Tom
Peeples if he endorsed the speeches
of Blease; Peeples had side stepped
and said he believed in Wilson, was
loyal, etc., but he could never get
Peeples to say whether or not he
would vote for Blease. He urged
_ the people not to vote for anybody
unless he tells where he stands. He
read extracts from the Charleston
American and the Yorkville Enquirer
of Blease's speeches, and confined
his criticism of Blease to the
records as printed by these papers.
"You are either for Wilson and the
United States or you are for the
kaiser and Germany?there is no
half way ground." Blease had said
in Aiken county that if elected he
would stand with the president, and
urge him for a third term. "Do you
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IU1HK iae president wuuiu. uaic tu
receive him after what he has said?"
He called on a sailor in the audience
to say whether or not if he were
killed he would charge his blood to
President Wilson, and upon the sailor
replying that he would not, there
was uproarious applause.
Of course, he said, no one will
. blackguard the president now. The
people will not stand for it, but he
has no use for anybody who has done
it in the past. The most dangerous
organ in the State today, he said, io
the Charleston American, which had
been disbarred from the mails and
only' reinstated when Grace quit as
editor, and a premise had been made
that no more incendiary editorials
would appear in it. John K. Aull he
characterized as the go-between for
the attempted expenditure of Republican
money in this State, whether
you believe McLaurin or Blease.
Aull is connected with the American.
The American had printed a letter
from Blease commending it, but he
challenged the newspaper to print a
letter from the third assistant postmaster
general.
Mr. Benet says he defies Blease to
ask President Wilson what he thinks
of BFease . There is no use for the
president to interfere in this race,
"we can take care of it ourselves." |
Mr. Benet said his first vote in the
senate was for national prohibition. J
He made a splendid patriotic speech
and was well applauded.
W. P. Pollock.
The next speaker introduced was
W. P. Pollock, who was greeted in a
very enthusiastic manner. He said
his voice was very bad from frequent
speaking, but by the help of God
he was going to continue his work
for his country. He paid a glowing
tribute to the late Senator Tillman.
Benet, he said, was a fine gentleman,
and a 100 per cent. American, but he
need not have been surprised at opposition.
In fact, he had better get
used tc- surprises, for he was going
to be surprised again on election
day. There are three reasons, he
said, why he is in the race. The
first was that from forty counties
in the State he had received wires
and letters urging him to make the
race. 'lis second reason is an ambition
to represent his State in the
senate, but he would never hold office
if he had to dodge the issues in
order to get it. His third reason
was that the whole world is in war,
and he has five nephews and over
fifty kinsmen in the fight, and he
wants to do his part in the mighty
conflict, and he is going to use his
powers against any man who wants
to go to the senate who is for Germany
and against America.
Mr. Pollock paid his respects to
the Charleston American in no uncertain
or vague terms. Its editor,
John P. Grace, he said only a few
years ago went over the State denouncing
Blease in language more
scathing than he could use, and was
rotten egged for it. He is now supporting
Blease and spreading proGermanism
throughout the State
through his enwspaper, and is sucking
the residue of the same rotten
eggs. This is the same newspaper
whose editorial writer, Paul Wierse,
is now on the way to the penitentiary
for conspiracy against the government.
He is sorry that Blease is so feather-legged
as to stay away from the
meetings, and he has many things
he would like to say to him face to
face. He dares Blease to meet him
and repeat the words he uttered at
Pomaria and Filbert. If he repeats
them he will will go to the penitentiary,
and if he denies them the
Charleston American is a liar and
the truth is not in it. Blease says
they are conducting a scurilious campaign
against him, but he is always
certain to say this from a distance.
Blease is now jumping from place to
place, and he is keeping him jumping
until he lands him where Blease
said he would lead a regiment to. He
said Blease had already led his followers
to the place where if they
take one more step they will he
traitors to their country, but he does
not believe that the good people of
the State will take this step. Honest
people have supported Blease, said
Mr. Pollock, but he does not believe
that they can honestly do so again.
One old man in the audience
shouted to Pollock that Blease was
as good as he was. Mr. Pollock interrupted
his speech long enough to
give the interrupter a very sober and
logical lecture, winding up by telling
him he hoped God would spare him
long enough to get right, and if he
were the intelligent man that he
looked like he was he would not
vote for Blease.
Mr. Pollock was asked how many
votes he thought Blease would get
in the State. He replied that he had
covered fifteen counties and that in
seven of these counties he had discovered
three Bleasites. He asked
everybody in the crbwd who en
dorsed Blease to hold up their hands.
Not a hand was raised. He then
asked all who believed that Bleaseism
should be spued from the mouths
of all South Carolinians to hold up
their hands and practically, if not
all, hands were raised. "Beaseism
is dead and burried so deep it will
never be resurrected." He thought
he had found two Bleasites in Bamberg,
and he wanted to get one, put
{ him in a cage and exhibit his over
the State, charge twenty-five cents
! admission and give it to the Red
Cross. Blease talked about raising
a regiment, but Pollock said he did
not believe there was a regiment oi
Bleaseites left in the State. "What
would he look like leading a regiment?"
As soon as he and Benet got
behind Blease he tucked his tail and
quit the party. Even the Bleasites
: would not follow him to war, for
I they would want to stand and fight,
while he was beating it to the rear.
Asked how many would follow Blease
to war, he said all who would not
fight would go.
Mr. Pollock read a letter from
Senator Tillman to C. L. Jones, of
Ridge Spring, in which the senator
said it would be a disgrace to the
State to elect Blease, who he described
as a traitor to his country
and to his God. "If you want to
help Germany, elect Blease." Pollock
would like to see the kaiser
and Blease handcuffed together and
sent some place where they would
not disturb the peace again.
J. F. Rice.
Mr. J. F. Rice, a candidate for the
long term, was the next speaker. He
said he was in full accord with the
administration, and considers himself
a suitable man for the job. He
is acquainted with many public men
in Washington and would not be a
stranger if elected to the senate.
Does not consider that he has but
one competitor, as Blease had eliminated
himself from the race. He was
listened to with attention but with
absolutely no enthusiasm. He spoke
for thirty minutes, but to be utterly
frank about it, he said but very little.
N. B. Dial.
Mr. N. B. Dial began his speech by
relating a joke about the negro, who
said Wilson was the greatest man in
the world because he had made the
days one hour longer and had taken
all the railroads and gave them to
l-'~ TVin onooL-or olcr>
1I1S SUll-lU-ia W . 1 UC wuv
considers him the greatest man in
the world, but not for the same
reasons. He made himself clear concerning
Senator Tillman, by saying
that he had not always agreed with
the veteran senator, but he had never
for an instant questioned his loyalty,
and no one else can do so. It is the
duty of all candidates, he said, to
attend the campaign meetings.
Blease had attended one or two and
then quit.
In regard to the assertion in the
Charleston American that I he had
bolted the party and voted for Haskell
in the nineties, Mr. Dial stated
that this was an untruth. He had
wired Haskell urging him not to run
on an independent ticket, and did
not vote for him. He had formed a
partnership with John C. Haskell, a
brother of Alex Haskell, and
named his eldest son for his partner,
whom he described as being a valiant
Confederate soldier, and man high
in esteem. He denied ever having
voted aa independent ticket of any
sort. He also denied having voted
for Pope or Palmer-.and Buckner.
He is in the race for two reasons,
he said: Trying to win the war is
one reason, and the other is he is in
the undertaking business burying
muckrakers and some others. "If
you want a hobo to represent you in
thie senate, don't elect me." He
said he is a man of business and he
tries to do things.
Mr. Dial took a strong fling at
Blease also. Blease, he said, had
charged that the election was stolen
from him, and yet he had never presented
the proof to the executive
committee or resorted to the courts
to right the alleged wrong. "There
is no stradling or halfway ground
now. You are either for Wilson or
the kaiser," he said, "and you have
never heard of Blease saying anything
about the kaiser."
He has stood for the best interests
of his country, and while he does not
consider himself the best business
man in the State, he is the. best
one in the race, he said. He had
succeeded in bringing to bis county
millions of dollars. Many new questions
will arise after the war, and it
will require active and qualified men
to handle the affairs of the government.
He is a great believer in
economy, and believes that taxes
will be very high for a number of
years to come, and wants to see the
tax money placed where it will do
the most good.
Before the war, he said, 14 per
cent, of the people in the United
States were idlers. This has now
been greatly reduced, but there
should be no idleness at all. He discussed
the educational question and
promised if elected to do what he
could to take South Carolina from
the foot of the list in point of ignor(Continued
on page 8, column 4.)
DIAL NOT A HASKELLITE.
Columbia State Corrects Statement
That Dial Voted for Haskell.
While the assertion that one was
a "Haskellite" ha3 long ago lost interest
to the Democrats of South
Carolina and has ceased to be employed,
except by desperate officeseekers
when they are beaten and
RICHARDS SCORED PRESIDENT.
Bethea Reads Affidavit Signed By
Heath Springs Men.
Lancaster, July 25.?Andrew J.
Bethea, candidate for Governor, at
the State campaign meeting here today
read an affidavit signed by promin'ent
citizens of Heath Springs, Lancaster
county, which alleged that Major
John G. Richards, the Reform
gubernatorial aspirant, during the
trouble the United States was having
with Mexico and before this country's
entrance into the great war had bitterly
criticised President Wilson, saying
among other things, that Woodrow
Wilson will go down in history
as the weakest president the United
States has ever had.
The meeting, the twenty-fourth
since the canvass opened, was attendor?
hv hatwaon 800 onH 1 000 T.fln
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caster county voters.
Major Richards, who preceded Mr.
Bethea, anticipating the reading of
the affidavit, neither denied nor affirmed
that he had made the statement
credited to him, stating he
could not' recall the words. "I may
have made it," he said, "I do not
know, but since the opening of this
war no man living or dead can say I
have struck our president. If I had
any such opinion it has been expelled
by the magnificent leadership and
wonderful generalship of our great
president since the war began." Major
Richards then paid a tribute to
Woodrow Wilson and his associates
in the conduct of the war.
The Affi davit.
The affidavit read by Mr. Bethea
follows:
"State of South Carolina, Lancaster
County: Personally appeared before
me the men whose names are
signed below, who, being duly sworn,
say that they are citizens of the town
of Heath Springs, are personally acquainted
with Mr. John G. Richards,
who lives near here at Liberty Hill,
that at the time the United States
was having trouble with Mexico and
had her troops on the border, also
about the time Villa v-as making
his raids into New Mexico, the said
John G. Richards passed through
here (Heath Springs) on his way
home and that during a conversation
witn a crowa oi men nere 111 reiereuue
to war matters he bitterly criticised
President Wilson, saying among other
things that Woodrow Wilson will go
down in history a3 the weakest president
the United States has ever had.
(Signed)
"C. E. Williams, J. A. Rutledge,
-M. D., J. T. Crenshaw, Ed. F. Hammond,
E. W. Croxton, J. A. Bridges.
"Sworn to and subscribed before
me this 19th day of July, 1918.
"H. A. Horton,
"Notary Public for South Carolina."
Mr. Bethea said, that the affidavit
was given to him unsolicited by citizens
of Lancaster county.
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Thanks Newspapers.
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To the Publishers of America;
On behalf of the American Red
Cross may we express our deep appreciation
and indebtedness for the
splendid cooperation and practical
support, in both the editorial and
news columns, which you have given
to every effort of the War Council,
and especially to the Second War
Fund Campaign?
uur suDscripticns went over tne
top by more than seventy per cent.,|
and this splendid aohievement is due
in no small part to the advertising, j
news and editorial help of the newspapers,
magazines, farm press and
trade papers throughout the entire
United States.
Your cooperation was invaluable.
We want you to know that you are
entitled to feel a sense of the keenest
satisfaction for the patriotic
service you have rendered and the
help you have given. You will be
interested to know that the total
amount reported as having been subscribed
up to July 1st was $170,036,394.
Very truly yours,
A \1"FT!T?Tf1 AM T?TT!n PROSS WAT?
COUNCIL.
Blind Barber Gives Close Shaves.
London, July 10.?Rock Ferry,
Cheshire, has a blind barber, Leonard
Jackson, who before going to the
front had a little shop in Rock Ferry,
and knew everyone in town.
Recently Jackson returned from
the battlefields of France blind.
Some of his former customers suggested
that he try to shave them.
He did so and found that he could
use a razor with almost as much skill
as when he had his sight. Mrs. Jackson
does the hair cutting.
Women are employed as coal miners
in West Virginia.
know they are beaten, the fact is
that N. B. Dial, candidate for United
States senate, did not support Judge
A. C. Haskell for governor in 1890.
Indeed, nearly all of the people of
Laurens supported Captain Tillman
for governor in the general election.
Very few people in the up-country
counties voted for Judge Haskell.
Mr. Dial, in his early professional
career, had a law partnership with
the late Col. John C. Haskell, of Columbia,
and named his son, born
four or five years before Judge A. C.
Haskell ran for governor, "Haskell,"
in compliment to his partner. The
men who voted for Judge Haskell
have certainly never been ashamed
of it and, so far from apologizing for
it, they boast of it. Nevertheless,
many very good citizens differed
about the wisdom of Judge Haskell's
candidacy and it happens to be
the fact that N. B. Dial was one of
those who, after the nomination of
Captain Tillman, openly supported
him.?The State.
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Another Star for Sims.
Washington seems to be under the
impression that legislation is required
in order to give to Vice Admiral
Sims the promotion to the
grade of admiral which he so well deserves,
and which the responsibilities
he now shoulders so well warrant.
We do not so understand it.
Under the law the secretary of the
navy is permitted to designate three
officers to hold the grade of admiral
at sea. At present the commandersin-chief
of the Atlantic and Pacific
fleets and "the chief of the bureau of
operations are the three officers thus
designated. It should be simple
enough for the ^department to designate
Vice Admiral Sims as admiral
in the place of one of the three officers
named.
As our Washington correspondent,
in a recent letter emphasized, Sims
is today doing tne worK wmcn ior tne
army is performed by two generals?
Pershing and Bliss. He is not only
supreme in command of all our naval
i forces in European waters, but he
represents us on the Allied naval
conferences. Nothing could be better
than the way he is performing
his every duty. He has proved himI
self not only a great commander but
| a most effective co-ordinator, and
the British and French share the admiration
of his abilities which is
strong throughout the navy and
strongest of all among the officers
of his own command. Congress could
well afford to promote him directs
to the grade of admiral, but for him
to reach that grade all that is required
is an order of the secretary oi
the navy so designating him. Has
Secretary Daniels any good reason
for delay in issuing such an order?
?Boston Evening Transcript.
An Amusing Camouflage.
Anything which will take the invalid's
mind off his or her sufferings
1 is indeed a welcome gift. Bear this
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ID. lillLLU ijl )uu am planning iu o^uu
over to the sick neighbor a bottle
of grape juice or your homemade wild
cherry cordial. By just a little work
and some patches you can camouflage
that bottle into a comical doll. Tie a
petticoat or dress around the neck of
the bottle and a shorter cape over
that.
Tie a piece of kid or cloth over the
top of the bottle and mark out features
on it with ink. Then top the
bottle with a little pasteboard toque
and you will have a doll calculated to
J bring a smile to the bluest invalid of
your acquaintance.
j Other things can be hidden in the
same way, even bottles of medicine
for children will be better received
than if allowed to stand uncoverea
on the bedside table. Imagine how a
.little tot will wait for medicine time
to come around if the bottle is a little
Red Cross nurse and her head comes
off in a fascinating manner when the
cork is removed.?Philadelphia
North American.
Johnny Knew.
Teacher?What is the third letter
of the alphabet, Johnny?
Johnny?Dqnt know.
Teacher?What do you do with
your eyes?
Johnny?Sleep.?Tit-Bits.
CAPTURED GERMAN BASE
FRENCH AND AMERICANS MAKE
BIG ADVANCE.
Rheims-Soissons "Pocket" Decreasing
in Size Every Day.?Germans
in Full Retreat.
July 29.?The Franco-American
troops, continuing their pressure on
the Germans in retreat from the
Marne, have reached and crossed the
Ourcq river and penetrated the .town
of Fere-en-Tardenois, one of the
great German supply bases for the
enemy troops inside the SoissonsRheims
salient.
Meantime, on the center of the allied
right wing southwest of Rheims,
violent attacks by the French have
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lurceu. me eueiuj iu give IUHUOI
ground and enabled the French to
capture several towns of strategic
value and to draw their front appreciably
nearer the high road which
runs northward from Dormans to
Rheims.
On the extreme wing of the gradually
decreasing pocket?near Soissons
and Rheims?the enemy, heavily
reinforced is holding tenaciously
to his ground, realizing that success
there would result in a general
crumbling of his plans of defense
against the locking up of his entire
army inside the big bag.
Using Long Range Guns.
In addition to the large number of
troops for reinforcements that have
been thrown on these two sectors the
German long range guns from the
region north of Soissons and north
and northeast of Rheims are keeping
both wings of the salient under
a heavy enfilading fire.
Under the battering tactics of the
Americans and Frenchmen the German
line on the south has now been
driven back more than 12 miles from
the point south of Chateau-Thierry
where the allied troops locked the
door to Paris against the enemy July
1 18 and themselves became the ag1
gressors in what has turned out to
be one of the greatest battles of the
war.
The crossing of the Ourcq, even if
only by advanced elements of the allied
forces, presage a general crossing
later on. The French official communications
thus far during the battle
have been remarkably conservative
in their estimates of the gaina
1 that daily have been made and it is
indicated in unofficial dispatches that
allied troops are constantly in advance
of the line as announced officially.
Where the Germans are in retreat
; from the south, the cavalry has been
brought into the fighting and numer- --N
ous tanks and machine guns aje
1 everywhere harassing the enemy,
whose losses are heavy.
! Meantime, airplanes are flying over
I the retreating hordes dropping 1
r bombs, while the big allied guns
1 from the sides of the salient are
keeping up their intensive firing from *
all along the line in the densely con4
gested area.
Expects to Make Stand.
The retreat of the enemy has by
no means become a rout and so long
as the picked troops around Soissons
and Rheims are able to keep
well open the mouth of the bag
. through which the Germans are
; falling back, it is expected that the
i greater portion of the armies of the
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I reaching in order the line where it
[ is intended for them to turn and
: make a stand.
> Just where this stand will be made
, is problematical. More than half the
: pocket has been recaptured by the
American, French, British and Italian
troops opposing the enemy, and
i there have as yet been no signs of a
let-up in the retrograde movement.
i If, as some of the military critics
i have suggested, Crown Prince Rupi
precht, of Bavaria, purposes to start
! an offensive against the British in
France and Flanders, as a diversion
i against the big battle now in prog
ress, no signs of it are apparent at
present. What little fighting has
been going on in this region has been
in the nature of patrol raids in which
the British have taken a number of
prisoners and machine guns.
For canning and preserving sugar
can be obtained up to 25 pounds per
month, upon the signing of pledges,
which the dealers have, that the
sugar will be used for this purpose
only; but rich jellies and preserves
should not be attempted this sum fner
in view of the acuteness of the
sugar shortage, says the food administration.
Read The Herald; $1.50 a year.
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