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PAGX FOOT. TH* BARXWKLL PBOPLK-8KNTIN*U KARNWSU4. BOOT! CAKOLDU THUKSOAY. NOVEMBER X, 1928. / mi ■ * .-r . if-; a,* The Barnwell People-Sentinel JOHN W. HOLMB8 18M—It 12. •. P. DAVIES, Editor aad Proprietor. Cntored at the poet office at BarnweH S. C., ae second-claaa matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year |t50 Six Months ..... ......... .90 Three Months JtO • (Strictly in Advance.) ipn 11 > ' ' i.—— THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 1. 1928. in. j: ffs,,.: :: ■^r.= About the Bolters. The Democrats of Allendale County have no objection to anybody's know ing how they votew If there are Re publicans in the county who object to the people knowing how they vote. Smith. True, the Democratic nominee they are evidently ashamed , of the party they are supporting or have some other reasons, which are not un derstood by >loyal Democrats. The Citisen respects thosci who have the courage of their convictions, and this paper does not believe that any reasonable man or woman in the coun ty would object to having the world know how he or she votes in the gen eral election. Allendale County is Democratic and it is news when people ^hb have voted the Democratic ticket aH of their lives, bolt their party. The sole ex cuse! for a newspaper's existence is to give the news and the Citizen will publish the names of bolters of the Democratic party if they can be ob tained, because it believes that its readers, who are in the great majority, Democrats, want this news.—Allen dale County Citizen. It is undersood that a strict watch will also be kept at the polls in Barn well County and a list will be made of those former Democrats who, in this year of grace, refuse to support the national nomine** of the party. It should not be a hard job to ascer tain those who vote the straight Democratic ticket and those who do not. We understand that instructions have been given the “Hoovercrats" as to the method to foHow in order to escape detection. Briefly it is this: Tickets containing the names of Anti- Smith electors dill be fbrnished be fore hand. The voter is to approach the polls with this ticket in his pocket (we don't know what method the fe male of the species ig to follow); the voter then picks up one of the. regular Democratic tickets and, placing it in his pocket, walks away; he then takes the Hoovercrat ticket from his pocket aad walking up to the polls, deposits it in the ballot box. Them is no reason to secure ticket and leave the polls. The nameg of Democratic electors will be on one ticket and the names of Republican electors on another. Neithcir re quires any marking. Therefore, all that is necessary is for the voter to aelect the ballot of his choice and, srfter being duly gworn, deposit it in the ballot box. It may be safely as svmed that any voter who does not follow this simple method of proce dure is not voting the straight Demo cratic ticket and that he or she is ashamed of hig or her action. Let tho bolters have the courage of their convictions seven and a half years." No one questions his personal honesty and in tegrity, but as a member of the Hard ing cabinet, he sat with Fall, Daugh erty, Forbes, Hays and Mellon. He was present at the^cubinet meeting at which plans for stealing the oil re serves were discussed, and he allowed Fall to answer as he (FaJD 'saw fit, a telegram diiueted to Mr. Hoover himself requesting a conference on the Teapot Dome oil lease. As Editor McSweeney of The Allendale County Citizen sums it up, "If he did not know what was going on, then he hasn’t brains enough to bci President; •if he did know, then he cannot be trusted with any office." Do we under stand Mr. Hoover to mean that such corrupt practices of the past seven and a half years are among the poli cies that h« will continue? On the other hand, contrast ' Mr. Hoover's record with that of Governor When the Democratice State Con vention meets in Columbia in May. 1990, we hope that it will adopt a resolution rnquiiin*: every man and woman who offers to vote in the pri- maries of that year to solemnly swear that they supports the nonvnoes of the party, STATE AND NATIONAL, In 1928. Let’s not have any middle ground on this matter--lot a voter be either else. a Simon-pure , Democrat - or A Few Comparisons. Come to think of it, why shouldn’t « Hoovecrat be more or less ashamed of hia position ? “They say” that Mr. Hoover is a great engineer—and yet no one has pointed to a single great engineering achievement that stands as a monu ment to him. “Thcty say” that he fed the starving is labeled as a “wet” but so was Wood- row Wilson, who vetoed the Volstead Act, and so are scores of other leaders in both parties. If every man—and woman—who takes a drink votes for A1 Smith he will be overwhelmingly elected. At the samei time, the New Yorker has unqualifiedly pledged himself to enforce the prohibi tion laws as long as they remain on th*i atetute books.' Contrast ' that pledge with Mr. Hoover’s futile “I- wi sh-it-to-succeed.” He has been in public life for 25 yearg and the offices that he has held have been elective. The only offices Mr. Hoover has ever h<ild have been appointive. He has seived four terms as Gov ernor of the great State of New York. During that time, with a hostile Ro- publican legislature) to deal with, he has secured many reforms for the people of his State. He has made hundreds of appointments—not one has been rejected by the Republican hirislature. He has vetoed a number of bills—not one has been passed over hris veto by the Republican legislature. Contrast that record with the record of President Coolidge, who was favor ed with a Congress of hig own politi cal faith. (Such a contrast as mges- sary, as there is nothing in Mr. Hoover’s political career upon which to base a comparison.) Those opposed to Governor Smith have dug deep into the records ot his administration in an effon. to find something upon which to Hang a those who live, whose loved ones laid down their livea for their countries, who gre the, sufferers. J^heir sorrow shall last thf'length of tWr Jivef, and on Armistice Day it is only fitting to give thougfct~to''them and their noble sacrifices. • . i • • Thti symbol of the Unknown Soldier is beautiful, his grave a fit shrine for all who love America. Armistice Day should be marked with the utmost re spects to those who perished in the conflict, identified and unidentified. But our respects must alto bo paid to these known “soldiers" who are our neighbors—the mother whose son gave all, the father who mourns the loss of his boy, the widowed wives and fatherless ?h ; ldren of American sol diers. On* Armistice Day, in addition to expressing our boundless joy at the present state of peace and amity be tween nations, we must give a thought to these known “soldiers," and do what we can to alleviate their pain aad sof ten the sting of their memories. They also have our whole-hearted respect and love. Insidious Propaganda. The ways of the propagandist and publicist are many. He does his work under false pretense, he gets his mes sage! “across” to the, people, by taking advantage of unsuspecting editors and publishers Take the case of B. M. Hofer, of Portland, Ore., who testified before the Federal Trade Commission that the power companies werci subsidizing Hofer’s “independent" news seivice. The electric power interests handed Hofer eighty-four thousand dollars a y<©r. During the last f° ur years his news service has sent out 3,328 edi torials to 14,000 newspapers. An accurate check on the manner !f» which the articles were used through out the country show s that an average of 1,935,792 inches were used per annum, or a total of 7,743,168 inches for the four-year period. This figure represents 64,526 solid newspaper pages T^nk of it! These 64,526 solid pages of newspaper space were filled with propaganda paid for by the pow- u* trust, through the agencjTof an “independent" news service. Permitting propaganda of this char acter to enter newspaper columns is an imposition on the reading public. One of the greatest assets an editor . , . can have is tho knowledge of just when charge of cormpton—and they havci . ... . . . . K / I to use the wasto paper basket. We failed. Contrast that with the cor ruption in the Republican national administration during th“ past *even and a half years—the policies of whicn term Mr. Hoover seeks to continue. Goveinor Smith openly and ard<fit ly advocates farm relief. Such advo cacy was termed by Mr. Hoover as ‘‘State socialism” in his New York speech the night of October 22nd, white only a few days ago he was persuaded by Senator Boiah to prom ise to call an extra session of Con gress to consider farm relief ir. the event of Republican victory at the polls, because his stand on this ques tion is jeopardizing his chance? of success. This change of heart clearly shows the whol<s chaiacter of the men. First he was a Democrat, then an Independ ent, then a Republican. He has been for and against the League of Nations. He has been and “dry.” He has been against and is now for farm relief. Apparently, he tries to be all things to all men. He is quite willing to barter principles for votes. Govcimor Smith has lived his en tire life within the borders of the United States and has an understand ing of the needs of the American peo ple that cannot possibly be shared by Mr. Hoover, who has spent most of his life in foreign lands. And lastly, conti ast the attitude of the Democratic and Republican par ties toward the South, and when all of these cbmparigCTrs have boerLmade, we refuse to believe that any Demo-! crat in Barnwell County will desert “the party of principle, the party of honesty, the party of the people in exchange for a party of corruption, a party of thievery, a party of privi lege,” to again quote our good friend McSwqeney, or that a single man or have a big one handy! The Turn of The Tide woman in Barnwell County prefers to omen and children in Belgium—of i follow the vacillating leadership of come, he did, with the $100,000,000 that President Woodiow Wilson had Congress appropriate for that pur- po*e—what else was he to do with it? “They say” that he is a “dry.” Well, what does the Republican candi date himself say about the matter? Be describes the 18th amendment and the Volstead Act as “a noble experi- aent" and “he wishes it to succeed.” However, hr! hasn t condemned his party leaders for their non-enforce- rnent of the prohibition laws, nor has Ite promised to do all in his power to (paforce them. Herbert Hoover rather than the honest straight-thinking, out-spoken leader ship of Alfred E Smith. Known and Unknown Soldiers. Agitn we are to celebrate Armistice Day. Already the war is almost for gotten; America is back to peace time conditions; the wounds of con flict have healed swiftly, and former foes are friends % - Many are the persons the world ( over, however, who are still grieved I because of the lo^s of their nearefst Hr- Hoover promises, if elected, to and dearest, a lots that no circum- the poBcios of the past stance cm make less tragic. It isj Thus far Governor Smith haa been campaigning in the States where he la least well known and therefore In territory where the underground prop aganda has been moat effective. Hit succetc has been amazing. No com petent observer can have any doubt that the contrast between Mr. Hoo ver’s silences, evasions and Irrele vances, on the one hand, and Governor Smith’s plain apeaking, on the other, haa made a profound Impression on the voters, declares the New York World. Everywhere the question It being asked: What keeps Herbert Hoover from speaking hia mind? Why can’t he say what he thinks about water power, farm relief, prohibition? Why does he have to make a fake issue out of the tariff? Why do hia spellbind ers have to misrepresent Governor Smith’s position on immigration? Why, when every intelligent business man knows it is absurd, does Mr. Hoover, who eight years ago appealed for a Democratic Congress, now pre tend to belief that the Republicans have a patent on prosperity? In leas than a month of campaigning Gover nor Smith has unsettled, exposed and discredited the Republican campaign strategy. He has already reverted the whole trend of opinion In the £outh andWeet. - The Republicans, who thought that the South would change Its allegiance to the Democratic Party at the behest of Southern bigots and fanatics, must know by this time that Bishop Canncn, Dr. Straton and Mra.-Wil ( ebrandt have failed. ** ^ ‘ > The Republicane know all this quite well, and In the last ten days they have done their btet to conceal the greatness of tho tide toward Smith by a propaganda of defeatism among the band-wagon voters. For an historical parallel It Is nec essary to go back to the victory of Andrew Jaokaon in 1832 and of Abra ham Lincoln In 1880. For today, as In those two epochal campaigns, a multitude of American voters, hitherto disregarded by the-< party In power, have found a champion and a pro gram. 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