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f . Thursday, July 5, 1928 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, South Carolina. Page Number Eight Platform Adopted By Acclamation Expec^d Battle On Floor O Convention Did Not Materialize HOUSTON, Texas, June 28.—The platform submitted by the resolu ticfts committee to the Democratic convention in part follows: We, the Democratic party in con vention assembled pause to pay our tribute of love and respect to the memory of him who in his life am in his official actions voiced the hopes and aspirations of all £ooc men and women of every race ^anc clime, the former president of ^the United States, Woodrow Wilson His sp rit moves on and his exam pie and deeds will exalt those who come after us as they have inspir ed us. We are grateful that we were privileged to work with him am again pay tribute to his high ideals and accomplishments. We reaffirm our devotion to the principles of Democratic government formulated by Jefferson and enforc ed by a long and illustrious line of Democratic presidents. We hold that government must function not to centralize our wealth but to preserve equal opportunity so that all may share in our priceless resources; and not confine prosper ity to a favored few. We, theiefore, pledge the Democratic party to en- 'Courage business, small and great alike; to conserve human happiness and liberty: to break the shackles of monopoly and free business of the nation; to respond to popular, will The function of a national plat form is to declare general principles and party policies. We do not, there fore, assume to bind our paity res pecting local issues or details of legislation. We, therefore, declare the pol’cy of the Democratic party with regard to the following dominant issues: The Rights Of The States We demand that the constitutional rights and powers of the states shall "be preserved in their full vigor and virtue. These constitute a bulwark against centralization and the des tructive tendencies of the Republican party. We oppose bureaucracy and the multiplication of offices a::d office holders. 4 We demand a revival of the spir it of local self-government withoul which free inst'tu*fcns cannot be preserved. m Rw^kblican Corruption Unblushingly the Republican party offers as its record agriculture pros tltete, industry depressed. Americar shipping destroyed, wor?:men with out employment, everywhere disgust and suspicion and corrupt on unpun ished and unafraid. Never in the entire history of the country has there occurred in any given period of time, or, indeed, in all time put together, such a spec tacle of sordid corruption and un abashed rascal ty as that which has characterized the administration oi federal affairs under eight blighting years of Republican rule. Not tho rebels of Reconstruction, nor all the compounded frauds succeeding that evil era, have approached in sheer audacity the shocking thieveries and startling depravities of officials high and low in the public service at .Washington. From cabinet minist ers, with their treasonable crimes, to the cheap vendors of official pat- rdnage, from the purchasers of seats in the United States senate to the vulgar grafters upon alien trust funds, and upon the hospital re sources of the disabled veterans of the World wa4; from the givers and receivers of stolen funds for Repub lican campaign purposes to the pub lic men who sat by silently consent ing and never revealing a fact nor uttering a word :n condemnation, the whole official organization under Republican rule has become saturat ed with dishonesty defiant of public opinion and actuated only by a part isan desire to perpetuate its control of the government. As in the t me of Samuel J. Tild- en, from whom the presidency was stolen, the watchword of the day should be:—“Turn the rascals out." This is the appeal of the Democratic party to the people of the country. To this fixed purpose should be de voted every effort and applied every resource cf the party, to this end every minor difference or non-essen tial issue should be put aside and a determined and united fight be made to rescue the government from those who have betrayed their trust by disgracing it. Economy And Reorganization The Democratic party stands for Efficiency and economy in the ad ministration of public affairs and we pledge: (a) Businesslike reorganization of fill the departments of the govern- 1 ■nent. (b) Elimination of duplication vrste end overlapping. (c) Substitution of modern busi nesslike methods for existing ob solete and antiquated conditions. No ecc/nomy resulted from the Republican party rule. The savings they claim take no account of the elimination of expenditures follow- 1 ing the end of the World war, the large sums realized from the sale of war materials, nor its failure to supply sufficient funds for the ef ficient conduct of many important governmental activities. Finance And Taxation (a) The Federal reserve system created and inaugurated under Dem- "crst’c auspices is the greatest leg islative contribution to constructive business ever adopted. The admin istration of the system for the ad vantage of stock market speculators should cease. It must be adminis tered for the benefit of farmers, wage earners, merchants, manu'fac- tuicrs and others engaged in con structive business. (b) The taxing function of gov ernments, free of despotism, has for centuries been regarded as the power above all others which requires vil- igant scrutiny to the end that it be not exercised for purposes of favor or oppression. Tariff The Democratic tar'ff legislation will be based <»n the following pol icies: (a) Increasing the purchasing power of wages and income by the reduction of those monopolistic and xtortiorate tariff rates bestowed in payment of polit'cal debts. (c) Abolition of Idg-rolling and rertoration of the Wilson conception of a factfinding tariff comm ssi^n uesi-judicial and free from the ex tent've domirat’on which has des L royed the usefulness of the presen- •jdmmission. (d) Duties that will permi* rffec V.vc competition, insure agains* monopoly and at the same t r mc pro duce a fair revenue for the support ''f government. Actual difference between the cost of production at home and abroad, with adequate -.afeguard for the wage rf the Amer ican laborer, must be the extreme measure of every tariff rate. (e) Safeguarding tho public against monopoly created by special ‘ariff favors. (f) Equitable distribution of the »en!-flits and burdens of the tariff ng all. Wage earner, farmer, stockman, jroduc^r and legitimate business in general h^ve everything to gain rom a Democratic tariff based on jant'ce to all Civil Serv’ce Grover Cleveland made the ex tension of the merit system a tend of our polit'cal faith. We shall pre serve and maintain the civil service Agriculture Deception upon the farmer and stock raiser has been practiced by the Republican party through false and delusive promises for more than >0 years. Specially favored indus tries have been artificially aided by Republican legislation. Comparative ly little has been done for agricul ture and stock raising upon which national prosperity rests. Unsympa thetic inaction with regard to t^ 1 * 5 problem must cease. Virulent hostil- ty of the Ropublication administra- L ion to the advocates of farm relief and denial c¥ the right of farm or ganizations to lead in the develop ment of farm policy must yield to Democratic sympathy and friendli ness. # Four years ago. the Republicar party, forced to acknowledge the critical situation, pledg'ng itself tc take all steps necessary to bring back a balanced condition between agriculture and other industries and labor. Today it faces the country not only with that pledge unredeem ed, but broken by the acts of a Re publican president who is primarily responsible for the failure to offer a const.Active program to restore equality to agriculture. W,hile he had no constructive and adeouate program to offer in its stead, he has twice vetoed farm re lief legislation and has sought to justify his disapproval of agricultur al legislation partly on grounds wholly inconsistent with his acts making industrial monopolies the beneficiaries of government favor; and in indorsing the agricultural policy of the present administration the Republican party in its recent convention served notice upon the farmer that the so-called protective system is not meant for him; that while it offers protection to the priv ileged few, it pfontises continued world prices to the producers of the chief cash ci'ops of agriculture. We condemn the policy of the Re publican party which promises relief to agriculture only through a reduc tion of American farm production to the needs df the domestic market. Such a program means the continued deflation of agriculture, the forcing of additional millions from the farms, and the perpetuation of ag ricultural distress for years to come with continued bad effects on busi ness and labor throughout the Unit ed States. The Democratic party recognizes that the problems of production dif fer as between agriculture and indus try. Industrial production is large ly under human control, while agri cultural production, because of lack of co-oi'dinatidn among the 6,500,000 individual farm units and because of the influence of weather, pests and other causes, is largely beyond hu man ejf.trol. The result is that a larfge crop frequently is produced on a small acreage and a sn.aii crop on a large acreage; and measured in money value it frequently .happens that a large crop brings less than a small crop. Producers of crops whose total volume exceeds the needs of the do mestic market must continue at a disadvantage until the government shall intervene as seriously and as effectively in behalf of the farmer as it has intervened in behalf of la bor and industry. There is a need ctf supplemental legislation for the control and orderly handling of agri cultural surpluses, in order that the price of the surplus may not deter mine the price of the whole crop. Labor has benefited by collective bar gaining and some industries by ta riff. Agriculture must be as effec tively aided. The Democratic party in its 1924 platform pledged its support to such legislation. It now reaffirms that stand and pledges the united efforts of the legislative and executive branches of government, as far as may be controlled by the party, to the immed'atc enactment of such legislation, and to such other steps as are necessary to place and main tain the purchasing power of farm products ard the complete economic quality of agriculture. The Democratic party has always stood against special privilege and for common equality u.:dcr the law. It is a fundamental principle of th party that such tariff : as are levied must not discriminate against any industry, class or section. Therefore, we pledge that in Its tariff policy the Dcmoc.atic paity will ins’st up on equality of treatment between ag riculture /nd other i ndustries. Farm relief must rest on the basr of an economic equality of agricu! „a:c with ether industries. La v Enforcement The Republican party, for e’ght years in complete control of the gov ernment at Washington, presents the :cmarkable spectacle of feeling com pelled in its national platform to promise obedience to a provision cf the federal constitution which it has fragrantly disregarded and tc apolo- g zc to the country for its failure to c: f orce laws enacted by the con gress cf the United Slates. Speaking for the national Democracy, this con vention pledges the party and its nominees to an honest effort to en force the 18th amendment and all other provisiens of the federal con- s f itut!on and all laws enacted pur ,uunt thereto. We cendcir... the improper and ex cessive use of money in elections as i danger threatening the very ex'st- mce of democratic irstitutidns. Re publican exp. diiufes in senatorial orlmarles and elections, have been so erorbitant as to constitute a na tional scandal. We favor publicity in all matters affecting campaign ontributions and expenditures. We •.hall, beginning not later than Au gust 1, 1928, a.:d every 30 days thereafter the last publication ant .ling being not later than five days before the elect'on, publish ^n th' •ress and file with the appropriate committees cf the house and senate a complete account of all contribu- ions, the names of the contributors, the amounts expended and the pur- ioses for public inspection the books and record relating to such matters. In the event that any financial obli gations are contracted and not pa ? d, our national committee will similar ly report and publish, at least five days before the election, all details respecting such obligations. Wie agree to keep and maintain a permanent record of all campaign contributions and expenditures to in sist that contributions by the citi zens of one state to the campaign committees of other states shall have immediate publicity. Merchant Marine We reaffirm our support of an efficient, dependable American mer chant marine for the carriage of the greater portion of our commerce and for the national defense. Flood Control Being deeply impressed by the teitible disasters from floods in the Mississippi valley during 1927, we heartily indorse the flood control act of last May, which recognizes that the flood waters of the Mississippi River and its tributaries constitute a national problem of the gravest character and make provision for REHOBOTH NEWS The people are very proud of the new road Supervisor Graves has built connecting the two main roads in this community. This road is the fullfilment of a promise made four years ago to a person who has s’ept beneath the sod for more than three years; plain to see our supervisor even keeps his promises to the dead, and we are not only indebted to the supervisor for the road, but to every one whd had a part in the work. The Sunbeams had a meeting Sun day morning after Sunday School. Attendance was small, but little Mildred Gilchrist gave us a fine, well spoke n recitation. She is just eight years old, too. Miss Marie Gilchi'ist gave a good reading. Most of the Sunbeams are daily Bible read ers. Superintendent Freeland has his school meet on time and is making a good leader; and his wife is a great inspiration, ndt only to him, but the many young people whom she has taught in Sunday School and day school in the past, and she is again teaching a class in Sunday School. Glad to see Miss Lorene Moultrie heme for a few days. She has al most completed her business course in Columbia. Miss Carrie Reynolds recently spent a week very pleasantly with her cousin, Miss Mary Yeldell, in Greenwood. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Reynolds and little son called to sec Mr. and Mrs R. J. Moultrie Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Strom and children epent most of the day Sun day in the old home community. They motored down in their handse'me new Ford ca:\ They called at some five or six homes, and tried the new road. Miss Moline Wnn has completed her business course in Greenwood and is home for a little vacation. Miss Frances Strom spent one aitea noon vv.th Miss Marie Gilchrist Mr. Edward G Ichrist spent Sun day with homcfolks. Mr. S. B. Strom is about the sanr —still quite sick. Sorry to say Mrs. Saille Strom is not so well. She has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. John Quarles, ir. Edgefield. PSTffiL (ADDS I- I — COTTON WEIGHER I hereby respectfully announce my candidacy for re-clccticn as Cotton Weigher r.t McCormick, subject tc the rules and regulations of the Democratic pr’mary. I greatly ap preciate the support given me in th' past, and again solicit your suffrage upo n the promise to faithfully, hon estly and impartially perfoi'm the duties of said off’ce. as I have striv en to do heretofore. D. M. BULLOCK. FLY-TOX is protecting millions oi homes from mosquito invasion. The enti o homo can be freed from mos quitoes : n two nfinutes. Take an im proved FLY-TOX Hand Sprayer and spray FLY-TOX toward and against the ceiiing until the finely atomized spray reaches -every part of the room. Also spray the hangings, •lesets and screens. It is absolutely ta nlcss, safe, ^ragrant, sure am •ary to use. FLY-TOX is the scion if.c product developed at the Mellc nst tutc of Industr’al Research by Rex Fellowship. Every bottle guar anteed.—Adv. Notice Of Final Settlement On the 27th day of July, 1928, I w ll make a final settlement of the estate of Sallie Hartfield, in McCor mick Court House, at ten o’clock a. m. All persons holding claims should present them properly attest ed before that date. JOE MIMS, Administrator. June '8, 1928.—4t. Locor otives still sport a cow catcher but the chances are that they ho k more automobiles than steers. their speedy and effective control. This irrmsure is a continuation and expansion of that policy established by a Democratic congress in 1917 in the act of that year for controll ing floods on the Mississippi and Sacramento Rivers. It is a great piece of constructive legislation, and we pledge our party to its vigorous and early enforcement, _ Sees Mary Bickford’s New “Tess” As Picture Sensation Dixie Theatre, Friday and Saturday “I cannot see how Mary Bickford’s own and strictly new production of that famous screen classic, “Tess of the Storm Country,’’ can help being the phe* onlay sensation of the year. Every one of the millions who saw her in the original production made eight yeaife ago is certain jo want to see it again as produced under the marvellous advantages and improve ments in present-day motion picture making, and an entirely new genera tion of picture-goers has grown up since the first ‘Tess of the Storm Country’ was made.” Thus spoke Edwin S. Porter who e’ght years ago directed Miss Bick ford in the first “Tess of the Storm Country” and incidentally served al so as the cameraman, and who, to day, is head of the biggest concerns manuracturing projection machines. “Despite the fact that the ‘Tess’ of 1914 was a really good picture from a producing standpoint, and was con sidered about as nearly as a mot’on picture could be,” said Mr. Porter, “the opportunities for Miss Bickford improving on the original are simp ly tremendous. The first ‘Tess’ was a good picture as pictures were then made, but it would never stand up under the test cf present-day meth ods and standards. “Miss Bickford and I made ‘Tess’ under conditions that were anything but ideal. In December, 1913, we left New York ^or California. Miss Bickford had ju~t come from the hos pital and I felt I was just about to go into one—it was just at the time when I was otganiz'ng Famous Play ers, and that was a good deal cf a strain. “Arriving in California wo found that out there nearly ail the good screen players v/ere tied up, so a< first we made a picture called ‘Hearts Adrift’ which had only cha" actcrs in it 7?or the first f've of the six reels. In February we decided tc start work c n ‘Tess cC the Stcrir. Country.’ We didn’t have million dollar studios in those days. All we had was a raised platform, a camera, and a wonderful story and star. The only cthe;« two players I remember were Dave Hartford and Harold Lockwood. Hartford played the role of Tess’s father, and Lockwood, the role cf hero. “Being from New York, we did not particularly please the picture colony cut there. One of the rea sons was because I took scenes near ly every day. You see, unt 1 then :lI:'ectois always had contended it was impossible lo take a scene unics: the sun was directly behind them and it was somewhat of a shock t them tc' see someone cPe takmf scenes on all kinds of days—cloudv and clear, akke. By their method you see. they would work only abou' five days out of fifteen, and then g< out and cover the camera with r p'ccc of diriy muslin to get cloud ef fects. “We had no artificial light at al in the day^ of the first ‘Toss.’ If wc wanted a spet or a black-light wc'cl use a mirror with the sun . This if •ne phase of picture making where the new ‘Tess’ should show a tre- i mer.dous improvement. We had only about threo interiors, but when these were shown on the screen in the fin ished picture they produced a huge sensation. Imagine making interiors that way today—Aind without dozens df sunlight arcs to help out “The:e was a little fishing village down the coast inhabited by Russ ian and Japanese fishermen which we used for the setting of the story. It really was quite ideal for this story, but of course the one Miss Pick- ford constructed for her new ‘Tess’ was a vast improvement. I couldn’t find a suitable lake anywhere, so we used the Pacific Ocean for the wat er scenes. “The first ‘Tess’ we finished in four weeks, and it cost between $13,- 000 and $14 000. I made it origin ally fer six reels, but received word from New York that it had to be cut down to five that nobody would s‘t through a picture for longer than that. It was like cutting off my light hand to touch that picture, and I always have believed that in six reels it wduld have been about fifty per cent better. You see, I was both director and cameraman, and took exactly what I needed—no more, no less. “Miss Bickford made her own ver sion of ‘Tess’ under about as ideal conditions as can be imagined. She knew exactly what she wanted, and what was even more important, could get it, without being hampered by anybody. “And all phases of motion picture making have advanced so much since then! Lighting, direction, sets, con tinuity, acting—fit all has been rev- lutiorizcd! However, I personally lon’t ren how Miss Pickfoi'd is go- i^g t"> improve on her ntor"rota tion of the role. To me, she was just about perfect as the wonderful child, Tess. “In no spirit of boasting I must say that I believe that p eture did as much for Mary Bickford as any thing else. More people saw ‘Tess’ at that time than ever saw any oth er picture. They would go and see, it oVer and over again, and I cannot see how this new version can help being the photoplay sensation of the year. Everyone who saw it before certainly will want to see it again, and an entirely n ew generation of picture-goers has grown up since then who will want to see this new ‘Tess.’ I certainly wish every suc cess possible to Mary PickfoVd and ‘Tess.’ ” txt Smith And Robinson Best Men Party Could Have Chosen The Spartanburg Herald of Satur day says: That Alfred E. Smith of New York and Joseph T. Robinson, of Arkan sas, Democratic nominees for presi dent and vice-president, will sweep Spartanburg County and that they are the two best men the convention could have named, is the opinion ex pressed by Sam Nicholls, local at torney, who became personally ac quainted with both men in Washing ton while serving as a member of Congress. Mr. Nicholls said he lived in the same hotel with Robinson during three sessions of Ccngifess, and in that time, came to know him in timately. Mr. Nicholls also met Al Smith i n Washington. The impression, Mr. Nicholls said he had of Smith was: Magnetic per- sor.ality, sincer ty, and determina tion. The Democratic nominee is a plain man. “Success has not turned his head a bit,” he said. “He is just like he was when he sold newspapers on the streets of New York.” Robinson Quiet Man The outstanding characterlst'c the local attorney remembered about Robinson was his hard work. He was pictuicd as being a quiet, hut determined man. firm in his convic- tiors., but always open minded. In speaking of Smith’s stand on prch b.tion, Mr. Nicholls said Smith was of the opinion that the govern ment sht'uld not dictate what a man should eat, drink, and wear, because it is not consistent with the “per- st nal freedom” idea upon which this- country was founded. However it was pointed out that Smith’s record shewed he believed n v fwous enforcement of all laws ard th<t he would enforce the 18th amendment, much better than it has ')ee n enforced in the past and far better than it would be if Hoover, he Republican nominee, should be- cc-me the next president. Mr. Nicholls declared that Smith as governor of New York, had sent troops to the border line to assist Federal officers in preventing whiskey from be'ng smuggled into the United States. Calls Hoover Bigoted Mr. Nicholls said he had also met Hoover while in Washington and was net favorably impressed with him. Hoover was described as being a grouchy kind of a man. hard to get along with, bigoted, “purse proud.” the kind of a man who has con tempt for common people. “I was certainly delighted when the Republicans nominated Hoover,” he said. “I believe Smith has a better chance of being elected than etiher Cleveland cr Wilso n had.” In speaking of differences in the personalities of Snr'th and Hoover he sa'd he was in New York, Smith’s home state, sometime ago and that Smith was admired there from news boys to bank presidents. On the ether hand, it was pointed out. Hoover was the type of man who thought himself better than most people and couldn’t mix very well. “If Smith should come to Spar tanburg, he would get among a bunch of common, ordinary people and be calling them by their first names and having them call him “Al” within half an hdur.” The former congressman stated that he had attended banquets at which Smith was present and Smith did not drink any wine. He never drinks, Mr. Nicholls asserted. The Spartanburg attorney also mentioned that Andrew Mellon, who he said would be the “real presi dent” should the Republicans win this fall has made a large percent age of hi?, fortune by distilling “Old Overhol ' liquor. It was also point ed out ti-.it Mellon sells whiskey to the govcr. ment now for “medicinal” purposes.