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^ ' _____ > VOLUME No. 48. * LEXINGTON, S. C., WEDNESDAY. AEG. 21, 19IS. ^ ^ . SKETCH OF LIFE ' ' : ft *vr> - >;fl--^HBW ffnlr mi Jrog&; x. ' ^ * - iSSx ' ^ THOMAS F. BRANTLEY i . I i * '{ , ) Thomas F. Brantley was born just; .after the Civil War on a farm in Orangeburg County, the son of Ellison "W. Brantley, a Confederate Soldier, 1 i v. "who served in Kershaws Brigade. He .graduated from South Carolina University in ,1S92. having worked him- ; self through that University by teach : ing a night school at a Baptist Mis- ; sion in the District of Columbia, and j attending the University by day. He has represented Orangeburg county in the State Legislature and Senate! ;and has taken an active part in sever &.1 national campaigns, on the stump in the interest of the Democratic party. * To the Voters of the 7th Congressional District: Owing to the fact that the cam- j r?aitrr> the District has not ^ -enabled us to reach more than a' s*mall percentage of the voters, I am j taking this opportunity of presenting , to the voters of this District a synop- j .sis of tbe platform upon which I have j "been making the campaign, so that: the people can understand clearly my position upon certain questions which .are vital at this moment. As to the War Issue?I regard the' grinning of the war, and pressiing it, to a successful conclusion at th# ear- ; liest moment possible, to be the most; vital of all questions*. The serious- i ness and tearfulness of the conflict is shown by the following facts. The lirst three years of the war, up to ~ .. .August 1, IS 17. cost in human life: Soldiers lost and killed Allied Powers 4,337,000 , ; Central 'Powers 2,667,000 (Permanently disabled) Allied Powers 3,183,000 Central Powers 1,936,000 Total amount soldiers killed or permanently disabled, 12.123,000. About lour million men have been killed or .^disabled for life each year on all sides. Up to August i, 1918, from reports, there will be about four million men more killed and disabled. At this rate, the man power of the world is | Tbelng decreased at the rate of .four .million per year. : The cost in money is shown by the following facts: The last Congress appropriated twenty-cine billion dollars fbV ^carrying oh this war and other expenses of Government, and in all Congresses of the IJ. s. from itsi ; to 1917. a period bf 126 years, there, was appropriated only twenty-six bii- < 2ion dollars for all wars and expenses; of Government during that time.; "When we contemplate the cost of hu- j man life and money that this war is : exacting of the human race, we must j realize how important and essential It is that the sooner it is pressed to a successful conclusion, the better for ail mankind. I have, therefore, ur-1 ged in all my speeches during the campaign that the people of this coun try should economize and conserve all of the resources of the country pos sible, cutting out for the time being, the luxuries and pleasures of life, get themselves down to actual living " expenses, and lend to the Government j at this critical moment in order that we might successfully finance this * struggle to a victorious conclusion. Public Highways and Drains. There j t are millions of dollars expended upon dredging rivers that could be more: profitably expended on building highways, especially at this time. With permanent cantonments established in South Carolina, and other states, great highways should connect these tup in a way that would aid the military powers in easily moving from one place to another without any great cost and expense to the Govern ment, and at the same time, the individual citizen would be benefited by these internal improvements. The ^xovernmeni. is aiso expending aoout ten million dollars annually in irrigating the arid lands of the West, so as to bring them under cultivation. I believe the Government with equal consistency could spend millions of dollars in draining the low lands of the South, as it is far cheaper to drain the low lands of the South than it is to irrigate the arid lands of the West. \ The most fertile lands of the South are the low lands, and not only would drainage transform the low lands, especially of Orangeburg, Richland, , Jjee and Sumter Counties into rich harvest fields, hut it would add very . materially to the health of the Sout/t te have these low lands drained by the Government State Rights and Individual Right pv must be,.preserved. I have taken the * p&sltioih in the campaign that " while we arc yielding up state rights to the central go\crnaicnt < f the country to I an extent that seems almost alarming ' at times, yet we must realize that inf'ivivdual rights and state rights must j be yielded temporarily to a great central government at this critical moment, in order that there might be , some directing head with power to centralize all in the winning of the i war. but when this war is over and with the coming of peace, I advocate ! that all ihese individual rights and state rights must be returned to the ; people, because the nearer the Govern i m,ent is kept in the hands of the peo- j pie, the more sacredly individual ! rights and state rights are guarded ! and maintained, the more stable will our republic remain. I am opposed j to any military despotism, and while! I realize now the necessity of the: military snirit of the country being dominant for the wining of this war, j when peace again comes, the military j spirit should not be allowed to domi- J nate in a free republic. I believe i strongly in the doctrine of George | Washington that the military power J should ever remain subscrviant to the j Civil power, for any military domina- j tion in times of peace would be a i menace to a. free peonle. i Warehousing System?The wealth j of this nation is dependent largely j upon the products of the soil. I have! therefore favored and urged the per- ! feeling of a warehouse system, which | should be nationwide, so that a re- . ceipt presented by a producer for the j products of his labor, showing what i ho has to his credit in the warehouse, ! should be a basis of credit, upon ! which money could be loaned directly J to the producer for a period of a year at least, by the National Banks of this country. Under the wise system of finance worked out by that great Secretary of the Treasury, William McAdoo, with its expanding and contracting features, expanding when the country needs money for the harvesting and warehousing of its products of the soil are disposed of by the producers, and in this way, and with that system, there will be no j set seasons of the year in which the I producer would have to press a dis- ' tressed crop upon the market, but i the products of the soil could be sold as the needs of the Country required it. Fixing Price of Cotton?I believe I was the only candidate at the bep-inninc nf the camDaien. in the race ! for Congress, who was bold enough to I take the stand that a minimum price ! of cotton should be fixed. I have ur- j ged it throughout the campaign, my j position has been criticized by some j of my opponents, but I still maintain j that my position is right under exist- j ing conditions. I have taken the i pains to gather information which! convinces me that my position is cor- j rect. I have gone to some of the cot- I ton mills and heads of the Warehouse System of South Carolina, and I have gathered some facts which I now give to the public for what they, are worth.' I found that the mills were making an enormous profit on cotton. For instance, at Orangeburg, S. C., one of the mills is making a cloth, one of the cheaper grades of cloth, under the following conditions: One pound of cotton makes 8 15-1 100 yds. of Cloth. Price per yard 12 cents, making, $0.73 4-5 So that this pound of cotton is bringing the manufac*''' turer 0.73 4-5 Cost of manufacturing: Cost of cotton $0.30 Co^t of mfg. 0.20 Waste 0.03 TOTAL, Cost of mfg. 0.53 4 f . # J. Leaving a clear profit to : the manufacturer on each ' nnnn/1'ftf trvn msnnfaft. tured of; $0.20 j In other words, this mill is making; on every 500 weight bale" of cotton J manufactured, a clear profit of $100. j I have Mso found that some other, mills in .lie State are selling a certain cloth for 23 1-2 cents per yard.! This cloth is made in this way: One pound cotton makes 4-yardsof cloth, at 23 1-2 cents per yard, j makes, . $0.94 j Cost of cotton $0.30 Cost of mfg. 0.20 Waste 0.03 TOTAL 0.53 i Leaving a clear profit on every pound of cotton of $0.41 ! In other words this mill is making i over $200.00 clear orofit on every j bale of cotton 'it (manufactures. I also found this astounding fact to exist. That there are mills in this States that during the course of last' year made more in profits in one year j than their entire capital stock. You ] can ascertain from the heads of the i Warehouse System of this State or j e *v,~ r>lnth msdft from O. I j rum me i iw v,. ~ - lb of cotton if you will investigate ! that these facts are absolutely correct. This is not fair to the farmer, the laboring classes, or the mill operator. Either the price of cotton should be I raised, so as to give the farmer a rea- 1 sonable profit, or the price of the fin j ished product should be reduced, with J a reasonable profit for the manufacr i turer. In other words the enormousr profits that are being made by the ; manufacturers of this country should J be so harmonized that the farmers, la boring classes, and mill operators j would share equally with the inanufac i turer. The price of the manufactur- j od product is fixed by the War Indus- , tries Hoard of this nation, and it does I seem that if the manufacturers of this j country could have the War Indus-I Iries Hoard fix the price on their man ufacturod product, then the famers of i the South should bo heard by the War j Industries Hoard, so as to fix a niin- j innon price on the raw material out! of which th* finished product is made ? and under existing conditions 1' do. not ivgc.rJ a minimum price of ; cents per pound too much in compari- I son with the price fixed on the manu- j factured product. The price of wool is fixed, the price of flour, wheat, sugar, and us before stated, the price on manufactured cotton goods, is fix- | ed, even the price of ginnery is fixed j at $3.50 per bale then why not the j price of the raw material of the farmer? I do not understand why our present Congressman seems so vacillating and unstable as to his position upon the cotton Question. I quote from a daily paper from the Washington correspondent. dated July 20, 191S "The Ashville citizen": "Government control or the fixing* of the price of the j 19IS cotton crop would not be feasi- ! ble at this time, President Wilson was told today by Representative Lever j of South Carolina, Chairman of the j House Agricultural Committee." Xote that this interview was when | there were prospects of a 1G million J bale crop wo may well thank a wise i providence for a change in the crop ; prospects. Following Ihis report and this inter j view with President Wilson, George i R. James, chief of the cotton and cotton Pinters Section of the War Industries wrote a letter on the 28th of July to II; G| Hastings, President, | Georgia Chamber of Commerce, quot- ! ing for same: "So far as the immediate future is concerned, I think you .need give your j self no uneasiness about the War In- j dustries Board attempting to fix a! price on cotton, for as a general rule ! no attempt is made by the War Indus- j tries Board to fix prices on any raw j material, where the surplus is as- 1 sured." You can therefore see from this in- i terview and letter, if the Chairman of the Agricultural Committee of Congress is against fixing the price of cotton, being a Southern man, it is evident that the President of the U. S. and the War Industries Board would i be influenced in a great measure by his position. Of course, if the South does not want the price of cotton fixed by Congress, or any other method, and this position is taken by a South-ern Congressman, why of course the price will hardly be stabilized. The agricultural experts of the country in their reports say that there are about three million bales of cotton surplus from last year, that the cotton crop this year will be around fourteen million bales, that the consumption cannot be more than about eleven million bales under war conditions, so that there will be a surplus of around six million hales of cotton this fall. Now does not every farmer and business man know that with a surplus of j six millon bales, that the price will j necessarily fall, unless there is some- ! " J J ? tVio nnVo T imng uuuc ?.v luaiuwu. _ | take the position therefore that the War Industries Board should ascertain from the farmers of the country about what it cost them to make this crop, add a reasonable profit for the farmer, and fix a reasonable price, say a minimum price of 25 cents per pound. If this is done, cotton prices will be stabilized, so that a man with a warehouse receipt can go to any Bank, and with this receipt as a basis of credit, draw upon this warehouse receipt, even in the face of a surplus cotton crop. There is an enormous crop of wheat today, one of the greatest whfat rops that has ever been made, 'and who knows that wheat j would be selling for today, were it not j for the fact that the Government has j fixed the price on wheat at. $2.20 peri bushel, owing to war conditions; the ordinary price of wheat being about eiighty five and ninety cents per bush el. It is true that wheat was selling for over $3.00 per bushel at one time, but that was when there was a scarcity'of wheat and the market was being cornered. * But with an enormous wheat crop this year, the price remains at $2.20, because the Govern merit has stabilized the price. Would j not therefore the fixing- of a mini- j mum price on cotton stabilize that product, even in the face of a surr'us ! Cole L. CANDIDATE FC WILL SF Lexingt< Monday Even 191$, at 8 AND NEW BROOKLA 1 :COME AND FORM YOUR - IS LOYAL AND LEXINGTON MEN ' TO DON KHAKI Will Move On Camp On August 29th. All in Class 1, And Are Fine In Form. The Local Board has called the following 45 registrants from this county who will leave Lexington August 29th for Camp Jackson. Allen Julian Connelly. Charlton Eugene Miller. Charles Elton Derrick. Curtis Roy Goodwin. George Eddie Crim. James Charlie Miller. Arthur Jones Arnick. Jus. Haskell Amick. Wilbort Carlo Swygert. Loroy Watts. Jais. William T^orick. Early Clifton Schumpert. MJarrall Eld.red Hallman. Jas Eugene Grooms. George Russell Furtick. George Clifton Barefoot. George W. Willis.Fred Burton Setzler. Daniel Webster Scnn. Tom Lee Bush. John Benj. Gunter Willie Smith. Roy Sam'l Lorick Silas Jethro Hallman. Frank McLaurin Lever Cyrus Fayette Rish. Elon Craps Adam Clifton Shealy. Benj. Lawrence Frick ' T Lonnie Alexander Sox Harry Ethelbert Wessinger. John Shelton Franklin Olhe Steele \ ' Edwin Clair Floyd. Roy H. Thompson Julian Jeffcoat Bennie Carwile Derrick. P vi VAA*V* David Lovell *v'!2 Olin Richard Stockman Eugene Wilton Long. David Leroy Frick Pettis Eugene Derrick Leroy B. Eargle | W ^ ~ Jesse Marion Roof Cephus Berley Derirck ALTERNATES. _ .. Jesse Theodore Harman. Benj Bryan Wingard Jno. Brian Price . . ARMY TRAINING CORPS AT NEWBERRY COLLEGE The Adjutant General at Washingtn has informed the College authorities that the Government will establish a students army training corps at Newberry College, this fall. An army officer will be sent to comand the student body, and the Government will furnish the students with uniforms, rifles and equipment The college has eight students in training at Plattsburg who will assist the army officer in training the student body. NOTICE, Rev. M. W. Hook, Presiding elder of the Marion District of the South Carolina Conference, will preach at Hebron Church Sunday, August 26, at 11:90 A. M. . FOSTER SPEER. crop ? . ' ' \ These arc my views upon the questions which have been discussed by me during, the campaign. I believe I **in mv nnsitions: and will cXUi V.V4 I VVW ^ c- , stand i?y those positions, should I receive the suffraerc of the voters of this District. Very respectfully. Til OS. F. BRANTLEY ?R U. S. SENATE 'EAK AT in C. H., ing, Aug. 26, O'clock, A T> -TX X ND AT 9 P. M. OWN OPINION OF WHO WHO IS NOT! _ . GEORGE BELL LEXINGT< CANDIDATE FC SEVENTH TIMMERMAN TE Favors Clean Eie^i of Politician; of Pc To my Friends: j Allow me to thank you for what J' you have done, and may do, for me in! my race for congress. The catnpaigni is about over, and the issue of who shall represent you in congress for; the next term will be partially settled ' next Tuesday. At the close of the first heat, I desire to say that I have no regrets. I have made a clean campaign, and a fair one. I have resorted to no cheap political tricks, and 1 will not do so. I have made no personal appeals to vot ers to cast their ballots for me. I have tried to present the issues in a straight forward manner, and I am content to leave the decision in the hands of the people. No body hasj been imported from neighboring counp ties, by me or my friends, to tell the people of this county how they should o vote. I have confidence in the peopleof my county, and I do not believe they need outsiders 'to tell them how] . . - 4, to cast their votes. Tour ballot is yours to cast according to the dictates of your own conscience. If I go to Washington as your re- ] presents tive, I will go there pledged to no interest, except the interest of I the people. I am standing in my own i shoes. I am in no political combin-! ations, and I have made no political . i I promises, that will embarrass me in ; i I iMiimTioN J ! AUGDST 241H ! ? , i Of all men who have become 21 years| of age since June 5, 1918 In accordance with the Proclama-! tion of the President of the United ' States, all men who have become 21} j years olu since June 5, 1918, are re-1 j quired to register on August 2-1. 1918, j i under the Selective Service Act of i May IS. 1917 j For convenience of prospective registrants, there will be registration , places provided at Batesburg, Swan-1 [ sea. New Brooland, Chapin. and Lex- j I ington, to any of which registrants I may report on that (lay I I i < A\!)II)AT1>S IWITETl) TO FISH FHV | The Junior Order of Saxe-Cotha .Mill village will give a fish-fry and j chicken stew on next Saturday night. August 1M. Candidates have a special invitation, as well as the general public. Subscribe to The Disnatch-News. i MM ? TIMMERMAN I )N, S. C. )R CONGRESS DISTRICT 1ANKS FRIENDS :ioDs?Against Rule i?For Rule iople. caring for the public interest. I firm ly believe in clean, fair and honest' elec tions, and equally firmly I believe in a clean, fair and honest discharge of the duties of a public office. Every move I have made in thi# campaign has been made in the openr and there is not a word I have spolteo or a line I have written that I would be unwilling for any fair minded voter to hear or see. Xo set or clique! ' of politicians has directed the cours# . . of my campaign, and none will do. so#. I have directed my own ' course. I. have gone directly to the people, andr*^ if I succeed, it will be the success of*the people. I will be under obligation#...',,. to no one, except to the people, f .. .. ***** .. am against the rule of the "politician# I am in favor of the rule of the peo pie. rf 'c I am proud of ray friends in ray * home county, and I-most heartily thank, them for the interest they havo taken in the race. The only thing: that I can ask theui is that they go to the polls and aid in every way possible in seeing that there is a clean, fair and honest election. That is all . I ask, all my friends desire and all t any one could expect, and it is what 1 believe every one will get in Lexington county. George Bell Tiramerman. / GREATEST DRAFT REGISTRATION SAT. WASHINGTON Aug:. 17.?The na tion's greatest di*aft registration will e held on a Saturdav.This announcemet was made today by Provost Mar, shal General Crowder. Althouefr congress has not vet passed the nev? manpower bill the registration will be held on a Saturday because that day is a half holiday nd the assistance of many persons for the registration may be had without disruption of bu# iness TWO BALKS N'KW COTTON'. Mr. I). James Cau^hman sold the first bale, of new cotton on the Lexington market Saturday. It weighed IC6 pounds and was bought by Thos. Ij. Harnian, the well known buyer, for 1-3 cents per pound. Mr. Caughinan a second bale to Mr. Harnian this morning for 32 cents, the regular price, for the new staple. The bale weighed pounds. WE SERVE THE PUBLIC. Everything in drugs and medicines, p.,Ask Lice, he knows in)lit it, t'.ve!i>y years experience. :?. i!anTvio>; wive* co.