The Barnwell people-sentinel. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1925-current, November 01, 1928, Image 4
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The Barnwell People-Sentinel
JOHN W. HOLMB8
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•. P. DAVIES, Editor aad Proprietor.
Cntored at the poet office at BarnweH
S. C., ae second-claaa matter.
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THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 1. 1928.
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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.
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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. No dopeater studying the fig*
urea of 1924 and 1920 can possibly cal
culate the consequences of the upris
ing In the West and In the Eaet of
millions of silent voters whom tha Re
publican Party haa trsatsd as second-
elase citizens.
All that anybody can say la that the
tide has turned toward Smith, and
that with courage. Intelligence and
candor the victory can be wen.
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