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CONGRESSMAN SAM J. NICHOLl DISPROVES EVEF SAYS IT IS MIGHTY EASY FOR A MAN TO PREFER CHARGES BEHIND A MAN'S BACK, BUT TRUTH WILL PREVAIL. Defies Traxler to Disprove Any Statement Made in His Article. Hopes to Make One Speech in Spartanburg, Monday Night, 8:30, August 28th. He Will Invite Both of His Opponents to Be Present. Is Detained in Washington on Account of President's Veto of Military Appropriations Bill Which Has Been Referred Back to His Committee. (Political Advertisement) To the Voters of the Fourth Congressional District: I have made two races for Congress, and so far as I can learn every man who has ever run against me for Congress is supporting me now with the exception of Hon. A. H. Miller, who is run nine fnr rnnnpaco rm,io io R ill ?D lO largely due to the fact that I have always conducted a clean campaign and have not taken any unfair advantage of any man who ran against me. It has been my desire to come to my District and talk to my people and I WQuld have been there before now had it not been for the fact that we have thousands of troops on the border, who are absolutely dependent upon the action of the Military Arfairs Committee, of which I am a member, for appropriations to take care of them. I have also been requested by the Speaker of the House, Hon. Claude Kitchin, majority leaders and otRers, to remain at my post of duty. In my absence a men named Traxler, who is running against me, has endeavored to take every unfair advantage of me, 1 and for this reason I am giving this notice to the papers for fear that I will not be able personally, before the primary, to visit my District. Tricky, Truthless Traxler is getting out a statement criticising certain acts of mine in public life, and I am going to take up each item and answer them separately: First, he goes back and bring3 up the old "dictograph bosh" by Thomas B. Felder of Atlanta, Georgia, and William J. Burns. Felder is not considered in Atlanta as a dishonest trook, and is in the hospital at this time, stabbed by a man in the Georgia legislature, on account of his rascalifv. Rnrnc wqq run A?f ..u .*wu 4 van VUC yi UCUl^ia UII account of producing false evidence in the Frank case. You are all familiar with this case. I do not think that a man who would refer to such men as Bums and Felder for reference is better than any of them. The trio ought to be in pentiary. Traxler says Heron told him I had traded and agreed to fight Blease for the support of the Spartanburg Herald. Mr. Hearon says that is a lie. Mr. J. Boyce Lee, ex-mayor of Spartanburg, says this is a lie and Sam J. Nicholls denounces it as a contemptible lie. Nicholls is rnuning his own race and is fighting no candidate for Governor. He goes further and says that he will offer $25.00 reward for a statement signed by Hon. Sam J. Nicholls that he is going to support Blease in the coming primary. I am not supporting anybody in the race for Governor. I am running for Congress on the record which I have made since I have been here. We settled our differences at the last election. I expect to vote for whom I please. Nobody cares hut Traxler to know how I am going to vote, and it is none of his business. lie has never stated yet who he wis going to vote foi;, further than he was going to work and vote against Blease. lie sums up in his statement that I failed to vote for a Jim Crow ear bill; for a law limiting the hours of labor in cotton mills; for a three cent railroad fare and for a hill prohibiting black-listing. Traxler knows as well as you do, and as well as I do, that this is pure demagogue-", and unworthy of a decent man who is running for office. The record shows that these bills never came to a vote in the llouse^ of Representatives, and Traxler knows that unless they came to a vote, I had nothing in the world to do with them. If any of them had ome to a vote, I certainly would have voted for them all. This he knows as well as you do. He states further, that I voted against a bill appointing a committee to investigate railroads of the State. That is true. My reason for doing this was that?we had already 'passed a bill appointing a Railroad Commission,, whose duty it was to investigate the railroads. Another bill was introduced, appointing a separate committee and carrying with it an appropriation of thousands of dollars, to pay this committee for the investigation. I voted against the resolution because I was trying to save the taxpayers of the State from paying out money for a "junketing' 'trip for a committee when we already had a committee appointed to do the investigating. Jim Crow Law in Washington. Traxler says that I have not passed a bill prohibiting white people and negroes from riding on street cars in Washington, and that if he comes to Congress he will pass such a oill. When I mentioned this matter to the chairman of one of the large committees in the House, he said, "Sam, that fool ought to be in the asylum instead of Congress." Mr. Clark has introduced a bill Which is now pending, pro S ABSOLUTELY IY CHARGE MADE BY TRAXLI hibi'ting this outrage. Mr. Clark 1 been in Congress for over ten yej and is one of the most influential me bers. Hon. Thomas Heflin of Aluban who shot a negro on the car for s ting by a white lady, and usi obscene language, has also int duced a bill prohibiting different ra< mixing on cars. As yet, we have bt unable to get them through on i count of the fact that Northern De ocrats vote with the Republicans wl such bills come up. However, I v vote and do all I can to get such a 1 through when it comes before 1 House. If such men as Tom Hel and Frank Clark cannot push throu such measures in Congress, I ws to ask the thinking people, how l)t Traxler would manage to do so. If hasn't any more brains than his ca paign shows, he couldn't pass a dol bill in a ten cent laundry, much l a bill formulating a law in the Unil States. Traxler has not only tried to inj factionalism into this campaign, 1 has stooped so low as to try to inj religion into it. I am a member the M. E. Church, South, in Sparti burg, S. C., as is verified by a cc of letter which I hereby print fr Rev. C. C. Herbert, pastor: ' ?Yle;rodist Episcopal Church, Sou "Chesley C. Herbert, Pastor "Kpartanbng, S. C., June 26, 1916 "To whom if may concern: "The Hon. Sam J. Nicholls of Sp tsnburg, S. C., member of Congr from this District, is a member in i< u'.ai standing of Central Method Episcopal Church, South, in Spart; burg, S. C. ,"Mr. Nicholls' father, Judge Geoi W. Nicholls, has for many years b< an influential steward of Cent Church, and his maternal grandfa er, the late Rev. S .B. Jones, D. was a leading member of the So\ Carolina Methodist Conference, tw president of Columbia College, a for several years a member of 1 bishops' cabinet. "Hon. S. J. Nicholls joined I Methodist church in early life and still a member. (Signed) "C. C. Herbert. "Pastor Central Methodist Episco] Church, South." I do not claim that from a religi'c standpoint I have been all that ought to have been. I do claim, he ever, that in the mistakes I ha made in life, I have been open a above-board, and I have not, like I Traxler, used the cloak of the chui to hide my immorality or to be a c< temptible hypocrite. He claims that I recommended \ appointment of Rev. E. A. Duff as a ing chaplain in the Navy, and 1 cause of this fact I have favored 1 Catholic church. The facts in the ci are these: A Catholic priest by 1 name of Rev. Rainey was a chapk in the Navy and died. That create< vacancy, which had to be filled, cording to the rules, by a Cathc priest. If a Methodist chaplain I died, a Methodist would have gotl the position; if a Baptist had died Baptist would have gotten the pc ti'on; if a chaplain from any other i nomination had died, that denomii tion would have gotten the appoi ment. There was no chance to hi anyone appointed to this position < cept a Catholic priest, as a Catht nvipst ViaJ <lioJ ?' *- ' ' ?.. ..i.u uicu <11111 created i.'ic cancy. Mr. Duff came to me with 1 ters of endorsement from Judge J eph T. Johnson, Hon. Louis W. Park Congressman Whaley of South Ca Una and Congressman Aiken of Soi Carolina, stating that he was in ev< way qualified for the position as chi lain. Nobody but a Catholic pri could be appointed to the position, i der the circumstances. I. therefc recommended a priest from my o District. If he) had not been appoi ed some other Catholic priest wo have been appointed. I would like know whether or not Traxler wo have recommended him under th circumstances. If he would not ha he is right in saying that he "wo not represent, if elected, the wh people of his District, but one fact of them." Traxler states that I represen the railroads and cotton mills \vl I was in the legislature of South (' olina. As a matter of fact, whei was elected to the House of Rep sentatives of South Carolina in Hi I did not represent any railroad cotton mill. I do not represent th now. I have not practiced law si being elected to Congress, and do intend to as long as I am a mem of Congress. , To show you whether or not I > influenced by the corporations wh he claims I represented, I refer ; to Page 654, House Journal, S. C. H which shows that I introduced a requiring railroads to post furt notices as to delayed trains and p ting a heavy penalty on them if tl did not. This, of course, the railro opposed. If I had been their rep pentative, would I have been fight them ? I also voted for u bill not allow children under fourteen years of i to work in cotton mills and I sta in my speech against the Child La Rill nn lha flnnr ? "?"?? V gress, that I thought this was a m ter for State to regulate and not Federal Government. The mill pr< dents sent a delegation to Colum to see me relative to my vote in t matter, and I told them that I rep sented the laboring interests of State and that I believed the bill \ ?- ? ?-? correct and that I would vote for it. So contemptible has been Mr. Traxrn ler's campaign that he critic-ses me LU for playing baseball on the Democratic team against the Republicans. las One word in regard to that. Every year *bis Kame 's played and Congress adjourns for one afternoon in order that it can be played. The proaa ceeds of the game are given to poor children of Washington to help pron vide the necessities of life. This year ro_ the net results were $700,000, which :es went to these poor children to help ,en them along. I took a part in helping ac. them get this money and I have no m_ apologies to make for doing so. len Now in conclusion, I wish to state that I have stayed at my post of duty sill w^en I knew it was to my interests Lho to be campaigning. I have done what flin I thought was for the best interests of igh my District. 1 have represented all int the people of my District without lve regard to factions. I am running on he my own merit. Traxler says I don't m_ stand on my feet. I will leave it to lar the honest, fair-minded people of my ess District whether or not I am standing ted on my feet, or whether Traxler is. I am running on the record which I ect have made since I have been in Conjut 'gress, and 1 am proud of it and stand ect by it. Traxler is swinging in the air of to the coat-tail of every candidate for in- governor, but none of them think ipy enough of him to want to pull him om along, and he really doesn't know whose coat-tail he is grabbing at. th, Traxler announced that I had no influence in Washington and that I cou'd not have Jake Gosnell appointed in the Government service. After his ar- sneech. I had .Takf? nnnnini..n v.*,.. ass he is criticising me for the appointeg ment and trying to belittle Jake Goslist nell. I have known Jake Gosnell for in- years. Jake has his faults, like all of us have, but I believe that he is Tte honest and I would trust hi'm with my Jen pocketbook. That is more thani I could ral say for Traxler. If Jake had not th- ibeen a better man than Traxler I never D., would have had hi'm appointed to the ith position which he now holds, ice Traxler started out fighting Blease. ind He found out that the anti-Bleaseites had no confidence in him and his ability. He is now trying to get the Blease votes. Beware of a doublels crosser and a hypocrite. Vote for an HONEST man for Congress. I refer you to any Democratic memPai ber of Congress as to my record since I have represented my District in >u? Washington. I wish to warn my friends to beware ,w" of eleventh hour campaign lies. ^ SAM J. NICHOLLS. Si UGH! CALOMEL MAKES YOU DEATHLY SICK Stop Using Dangerous Drug Before , ? It Salivates You! It's 1 ?f- Horrible! the *ae You're bilious, sluggish, constipated . and believe you need vile, dangerous *m calomel to start your liver and clean ' a your bowels. I a?~ Here's my guarantee! Ask your 'lie druggist for a 50 cent bottle of Dodiad son's Liver Tone and take a spoonful ^en tonight. If it doesn't start your liver ? a and straiphten you right up better than calomel and without pripinp or d?- makinp you sick I want you to go j na- back to the store and pet your money. I nt- Take calomel today and tomorrow ive you will feel weak and sick and ex- nauseated. Don't lose a day's work. >lic Take a spoonful of harmless, vegetava ble Dodson's Liver Tone tonight and et- wake up feeling great. It's perfectos ly harmless, so give it to your chil;er, dren any time. It can't salivate, so ro- let them eat anything afterwards. ^ ? ? Whenever You Need a General Tonic ; Take Grove's )l'> The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless ('s chill Tonic is equally valuable as a jn" General Tonic because it contains the H'e, well known tonic propertiesot QUININE j wn and IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives t nt- out Malaria, Enriches the lilood and ! ,,l(| Builds up the Whol** System. 50 cents. to 1 ? ; Only Grand Prize uld s i A Ola I I; \IUjnC5l [ ted Dictionaries ien I wal ttie Panama-WSBri^SI ,V i I Pacific ExposiHon^flpHr "o- I Was frontedto^ |" ""; ? 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While Mrs. Tallant told of the results Tanlac gave her, two of her sisters and her husband were present. Her statement, one of the most remarkable ever given Tanlac, follows: "My system was badly run down, and either that caused me to suffer with a lot of other ailments or the other ailments caused my health to become bad," said Mrs. Tallant "I could not sleep at all at night hardly, and I would roll and toss in bed for hours each night. I never did sleep soundly. "No one knows how much I suffered. I had headaches all the time, and sometimes I thought I could not efoti/1 J T 11 ' ' ' 1 ov??..u jitnii anu i mougnt tney would kill me. My nerves were in had shape, too, and I would jump at the least noise. I had no energy, and I was very weak. Really I had to force myself to do my housework, and I just had to drag myself around all the time. "I never did feel well, and most of the time I was very miserable. Anyone who has not suffered as I have can not realize what I did pro throuprh with. I was sick all over, and it seemed as if I could not get well. I suffered a" lot with pains across my stomach, too, and with indigestio Mv sisters and husband told me I looked sickly and weak before I took Tanlac, and they did not know what would become of me. "The testimonials of Tanlac that were printed in the papers convinced me it would help me, and so I began taking it. I weighed when I began taking Tanlac, and when I had taken one and a half (1 Vfc) bottles I had gained fifteen (15) pounds. I stopped Tanlac then ,for as sure as I live I was then a well woman, and I did not WVe an ache nor a pain. That was two months ago, and I feel even better now than I did when I quit Tanlac, for I have more strength and energy. "Tanlac gave me a wonderful appetite, though I could not eat anything hardly before I began Tanlac and neither did I want to eat, my stomach was in such bad shape. I can eat anything now, though, and I never have indigestion. I feel fine and hearty and strong now, and I think it is just T..1 T<- i i ?uiiuuiiui me way laniac* nroK6 up my troubles. I am not sickly now, and I do not look ftor feel that way. I iruess if I had continued to take Tanlac I would have trot ten so heavy I would be clumsy by this time." "Everybody around in my neighborhood is talking about the good Tanlac did me, and we think it almost worked a miracle for me. Sure enough, now, it does not seem that any medicine could have done as much for anyone as Tanlac did for me. hut Tanlac is the only medicine I took and I knowit is due all the credit. "I am glad to recommend it. and 1 lac deserves the highest praise 1 c; ' give it." 1 ha 1 been planning to v 'e you and tell you how much good it did me and how wonderful J think it . but I could not (bid,^he \m\ it -med, and so I am glad you came o nC." i or sale by Palmetto Drug Co , Union; Buffalo Drug Co., Buffalo; K. ! >. 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