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f Thursday, August 30, 1928 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, South Carolina. Page Number Two Blease And Dominick Plead For Democratic Party Regularity CONCRESSMAN DOMINICK DE- LIVF^ED PRACTICALLY THE SAME SPEECH IN McCOR MICK FRIDAY The following speeches are taken from The Greenwood Index-Journal of last Friday. Mr. Dominick deliv ered practically the same speech to the voter's in McCormick court house Friday morning at the last meeting of the county campaign and hurried o n to a meeting in Anderson Cdunty that afternoon. Senator Blease did not come to McCormick, so the full text of their Greenwood speeches is published to show the ii>- terest they have in the present cam paign: Republican skippers that hav<e been misguid’ng the Ship of State since the piratical days of the Hard ing administration were drubbed and scrubbed, from “below” to captain’s cabi n and werO held up in all their ugliness to be gazed at by any Green wood county Demccrats who might be contemplating mutiny in thtir «wn ranks by Senate Cole L. Blease \ and Congressman Fred H. Dominick in speeches at the final official coun ty campaign meeting in the high school auditorium last night. The audientn of more than 1,000 Democrats, men and women, heard Senator Blease declare with all of his old-time firr: “If any Democrats want to join the Republicans let them go up to the railroad crossing get Lewis Waller, place his left arm over him so that he will be nearest his heart and place Joe Tolbert under the other and show us the kind of com pany they want td keep.” V And the same . more than 1,000 Democrats heard Congressman Dom inick sajj. after painting a lur'd word picture of Republican rottenness: “If you can swallo v Hoover and his gang go ahead and leave tho Demo cratic party and the sooner you leave it the better.” Senator Blease- devoted most of his address to a n appeal to the votrrs to paritcipate in the primary ard to a discussic<n of “all this nonsense about Rule 32,” but he also paid his res pects in st lictly Bleaseque style to th© gopublican party with special reference to its “nigger-lo/ing” qual ities. Congressman Dorn'nick made an especial appeal that the Democratic voters not cnly take part in the pri- . mary but also vote in the general -election for the national Democratic ticket “from corc'aer to president” to forestall any contests that might de velop. Senator Blease Talks Senator Bleaa-! admitted that for the first time ha felt ashamed in ad dressing a South Carolina audience because he was a little disheveled af ter the long ride from Oconee coun ty, but he was glad of the opportun ity to address the Demo:rat'c voters of Greenwood county on his accident al stop-over here. He praised the people of tho county for “furnishing the candidates with such a fine audi ence of good looking men and pretty girls, and then launched into a dis cussion of Rule 32, aj^out which he said he had bee n talking in other parts of the state urging the people to “quit listening at this nonsense abdut the rule,” “It has been o~i the books fch* 26 years,” the Senator continued, “and I want to say to you cotton mill boys if there are any in the audience that it came from you. You boys put it on the books.” He then explained that he intro duced a resolution placing the rule before a Newberry Cdtton Mill Club, composed of .ribout 300 mill boys and a number of men from the town, in cluding himself, and that it was passed by a rising vote. Then it was introduced in the Newberry county conventio.i where it was passed un animously and next it was adopted by the State convention.” Passed In 1902 “This was in 1902” said Senator Blease. “Somebody either through ignorance of malice has said it was passed in 1916 as a slap at friends of mine, but it was 26 years ago. Now they say if a man votes in the Democratic primary and does not * votp for the nominees of the party in the general election he perjures himself. If this is true South Caro- lin& has got more liars in it than any state :n the Union.” __ Senator Blease then showed how th? vote i n various elections had fall- en’off fre'm the vote in the primaries. He recalled that in 1912 when he and Chief Justice Ira B. Jones were can didates for Governor the rule had been in force fee 10 years, and yet in the general election, after having been nominated foi Governor, he d r d not receive a third as many votes as were cast for h m in the primaxy. “If it wasn’t perjui v in 191U” a:'.U~d the Senile i “wl.y is k perju y in 1928?” In the 1924 primary, he pointed >ut, Byrnes received about 99,000 votes and he himself 101,000 vdtes, jut in the general election Blease re vived only 49,000. “What becomes of all the primary votes? Do you mean to tell me that the good men and women, swore to a falsehood in 1924?” he aga’n asked. Edgar Brown received 8(3 000 votes and Senator E. * D. Smith 89,000 votes two 1 years ago, the speaker continued, and in the general election Smith received only 14,000 votes. Tell the Demcoratic voters of this state who voted in the primary and did not vote in the general election that they were perjurers and they’ll fight you from Charleston to Oconee and back again.” Senator Blease declared that all this talk was just an excuse to work against Governor Alfred Smith. “If they don't want to be Democrats,” he declared with great emphasis, “let them get out. If they want to j«n the Republican party let them go to the railroad station here, get Lewis Waller, place their left arm ewer i m so that he will be nearest their heart and place Joe Tolbert under he other and chow us the kind of jempany they want to keep.” Rule 32 Defined The Senator then gave the follow ing definition of Rule 32: “It means •ily if you vote in the .primary you must not-vote against the Democratic nominees in the general election. That is all that it means. Now go on and vote. If you happen to be found gu’Jty of perjury I will see that John G. Richards will do as I used to do and give^ou a pardco. Senator Blease ^dded, however, that it would be better for every vot er to participate in the general elec- t‘on “becau'-o we may need it.” Turning to the national political issues, the speaker said be did not vote fer Smith in the Houston con vention but rather for an old-time South Carolina Democrat of 1876, Chief Justice Richard Cannon Watts Without saying what he thought of Sm th’s refenmee to prohibition in his acceptance speech, the Senator did not deny the New York Governor was wet and added: “If every man in Scuth Carolina that takes a drink of liquor will vote for Smith in tho November election he will get the big’gest vote since Wade Hampton was elected Governor.” * Religious Issue Touching briefly on the religious issue, Senator Blease showed that he took no stock in the criticism- of Smith because of his Catolicism, de claring that he supposed he himself was a Methodist because his mother was a nvmber of that faith and de crying the bel’cf that denomination- alism alone would get one to heaven. He recalled that Greenwood county was pait of Old Edgefield and ad monished the sons and grandsons of those brave men who redeemed the state in 1876 would find little peace in heaven, if they went there after vo'drg the Republican ticket, when the father and grandfathers there heard about it. “They w’ould better be in hell because there would be no peace in heaven,” he said. Discusses Hoover Turning to Herbert Hoover, the Republican nominee, Senator Blease issued this challenge to his audience: Go to the telegraph office and wire him as follows: “If you are elected president and a man presents him self to you for office with the quali- fic ations you think he should have would you bar him from that office on account of his color. If he doesn’t answer No I will give s you a good suit of clothes.” The Senator then, after paying his respects to the “hogwallowing crowd” that nominated Hoover at Kansas City, repeated statements he has made on Mr. Hoover’s mixing the races in the Department of Com- meice that have been published sev eral times, and he asked: “Which would you rather have a Catholic or a nigger lover?” “I beg you, especially the men who have stood by me like the Rock of Gibraltar and are continuing today in the fight to go into the primary and vote and stand in the faith of our fathers. I pray God that I will never live to, see the day when the sons and the grandsons of the brave men who redeemed the state will be tray their trust. I hope you will never forget the womanhood of your countrjt. South Carolina stands alone in protecting the virtue of her wom anhood. “When you find a man who is go- i.:g to vote for the Republican party ntroduce him to his beloved brother, Lewis Waller and Joe Tolbert.” Congressman Dominick Congressman Dominick was inti'O- duced by Char.iman Douglas Feather- stone, as “our own Congressman” and he paid a tribute to Mr. Dom inick’s r cord fo.* efficient service during hi s 12 years in office. Mr. Dominick expressed bis ap- picciatlor. ior tho support Green- ..;i e-uixty hug always given him, and was espcc’ally appreciative that he had no opposition this yeax\ Some people have wondered why he is mak ing a tour of the district he said, when ho has ro opp<«ntion, wasting himself physically, but some things are going on that need to be discuss ed and he felt as the representative from the d strict he should make him self heard. This talk, he said, began in April and the newspapers have had much about it. “I want you not only to votn in the primary, but to get your new registration certificate and vote in the general election from coroner to president.” Mr. Dominick urged. “Some say they can’t vote for Gov ernor Smith because he is a Catholic. That is a right given under the Bill of Rights—a right given to every man to worship God in his own way and a provision that there be no re ligious test as a qualification for of fice. “Others say they can’t vote fo" Smith because he is a wet. If you read his acceptance address careful ly you notice that he said he was giv- .ing his personal views. It makes no difference what the personal views of a president may be the law can not be charged w thout the required vote cf the Senate of 96 members and the Houe's of 435 members Senator Blease and' !', as ha recently pointed emt, will have more power than the president because we will have oie vote each on any change proposed.” Referring to the adoption of the 18th amendment in 1919 Mr. Dom- in : ck called the attention of his aud ience to the fact that five years be fore that South Carolina enacted a static proh bition law*, and as assist ant attorney general he argued the constitutionality of the question be fore the Supreme Court of the Unit ed States which has said that each state has the right to make its own liquor laws without interference from the federal government. If a change is made it would not and and ccfuld not affect South Carolina becaus-e • ■dy the General ssemjjly cf the state has that power. J^ho Enforces It, “Did you know that you can go to a state not like South Carolina, get a prescription from a physician and buy the best kind of red liquor for $150 a pint in a drug store? The government appropriates between 30 and 40 millions dollars every year to enforce the prohib tion law and that enforcement is in the hands of the secretary of the treasury. And lo and behold who is that secretary of the treasury. He is no more and no lees than one of the four richest men in the United StaVs if not in the world and the fortunes of his,family were made by distilling liquor and he owns bonded warehouses now. . “Do you mean to say that the Gov ernor of New Yoik for c ght years with nothing whatsoever against his record would not do more to enforce the law tha n the man who has made his fortune frnm dvstilling? Tammary f/all Mr. Dominick said he held no brief for Tammany Hall, but he advised his audience to do this: “The next time anybody throws up Tammany to you ask tl« m to tell you some- th'ng about that rotten machine in Pennsylvania controlled by William S Varcv whe has been barred from the United States Senate and who is stil 1 knocking at the door. ‘“J'hen tell them to go to Indian: where they will find that only a few months ago Governor ]\fcRae, a Re publican governor o” that state, had just been released from the fereral penitentiary fdr corrupt'on. I have noticed in the papers that the Repub licans fear they will not have a suffi cient number of men here to put out tickets because most of them are either in jail or awaiting trial. In Illinois “Then tell them to gc« to Ill'nois whei'e Governor Len Small showed a record of hundreds of thousands in misappropriations. Also let them find gig Bill Thompson in Chicago where he and his Republican gang have been required to pay back $2,- 000,000. “Next there is the Veterans’ Bu reau to be pointed out—a bureau handling between 500 and 600 million fc*r the disabled veterans and Col- Charles R. Forbes, Republican in charge of that bureau, has just re- qantly finished a two years’ sentence at Foit Leavenworth for accepting bribes in th e location of hospitals— taking money from helpless soldiers now on their backs. “Let’s go up a little higher,” con tinued Mr Dominick in a discussion of the Harding regime. “Harry M. Daugherty was driMe n from office in disgrace, Secretary of the Navy Denby had to go and Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall was dis credited. Chocolate Hoover was a member of that cabinet and if he didn’t know what w^as going on he hasn’t got sense enough to be presi dent of the United States.” Turning to the records of the Democratic party, Mr. Dominick said 5 billions of dollars was spent in the world war—cne fifth of the wealth of the country at that time. “What did the Republicans find when they came into power? They spent mill- iors in investigations and were forc ed to give the Demo::*atic party and the officers of the government a clean bill of health Prcud Of Democracy “I am proud that I belong to a party formed 132 years ago by Thom as Jefferson,” exclaimed Mr. Dom inick. “It believes in /equal rights to all and special privileges to none. It is the cnly party existing then that is al've tt-iay. I am not* speaking with a fear that* the Democrats of South Carolina will vote the Repub lican ticlrt. If you can sw r allow Hoover and his gang leave the Dem ocratic party and the sooner you leave it the better, but I can’t see how anybody in South Carolina can think of going back the party. White supremacy is going to remain hore, Hoover or Republ’can party r.otwithstandng.” Mr. Dominick closed urging Dem ocrats not to seek excuses to stay cut of the general election. The light vote may give rise to conii'sts. He pointed out that two years ago with out opposition he received 40,000 votes in the primary and only 2.632 in the general election. He rem’nded his hearers of constant attacks by a Re publican Congressman from Boston whe boasted of a vote of 77,000 in the general election and compared this figure to Dominick’s in the Third District of South Carolina. “Watch your step,” was the final plea. “I d'dn’t kntfw tonight whether or not a man may be put out against me and get 100 votes, thus giving election. The Democratc party is the occasion for another attack o'\ our guarantor of white supremacy in South Carolina.” tx: \ Bottled Beverage Business Uses Much Sugar Apd Fruit — ^ When the sun shines down and th^ meicury climbs the people of the United States turn to “soft drinks,” or “nonalc'.violic beverages,” as they are designated, by the food control division of thr Food, Drug, and In sccticidc Admin stration. And, when tho dog day 3 have passed and snow whirls there is still a considerable co. sumption of soft drinks, net for the sake c.? the cooing effect they are supposed to ha^ie in summer but because people lik: them. J. W Sale, of the United States Depart ment of Agriculture estimates that more than 11,000,000,000 bottles of these beverages a: e consumed in the United States each year. They play a not unimportant role in providing a market for many farm products. Into these 11,000,000,000 bottles go, it is estimated 250,000 tons of sug ar, 5,000,000 p'.jnds of fruit acid, 50,000 pounds of artificial color, 1,- 00^000 gallons of flavoring extract, and 400,000,000 gallons of carbon ated water. There are all kinds of soft drinks. Some arc pure fruit juices. Others belong to the “ade” class and contajn from 15 to 20 per cent of juice, often with c-ther ingred’ents added. There arc also the nonalcoholic cordials, cereal beverages, and the bottled sodas. The bottled sodas account for he gr> at bulk of the business. Most of the soft drinks now are free from harmful substances, but seme are found to c.otuin unwhole some or injurious acids, arsenica dyexn metallic salts, uncertified coal tar dyes, or soap bark. It is to pre vent tho sale of harmful drinks and tho'e improperly labeled that the regulatory forces keep after manu facturers, checking up the product, analyzing it for forbidden ingred ients, warning manufacturers to des ist from unlawful practiced, and prosecuting when necessary. Popular belief holds that artificial colors are harmful, but this is a mis take provided they are the right kinds of colors. Careful tests have established that many of the coal-tar dyes are entirely harmless, and these are “permitted” for use in bever- Q ages. 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