The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1904-04-21

APRlL II, 1904
WHAT THE EDITORS SAY.
Some Newspaper Opinions Of the Winning Can.
didate for Congress in this District.
Honorable S. G. Mayfeld has faithfully
served the people of his county for
number of years in the State Senate and
he now asks the people OF the second
congressional district to send him up
higher, to the House of Representatives
in Washington. he would make fine
congressman, and would ably and worth
lily represent his people, and no doubt the
voters of that district will 50 decide on the
day of election. He has many friends
throughout the State who will wish him
great success.-Baptist Courier.
That puny catechising given Senator
Mayfeld at Aiken few days ago fell
short of it's purpose. Mr.. Mayfeld is
always ready and eager to answer any
questions in regard to his official acts and
points with pride to his public record,
upon the escutcheon of which there is not
spot or stain. Heis statesman in the
broadest sense of the word; gentleman
of the highest Christian attainments, and
has never been known to stoop to any
thing that is low or grovelling.-Bamberg
Herald.
August Kohn. in the News and Courier,
reporting the Barnwell meeting, said:
NoBLEsT ROMAN OF THEM ALL.
In his career as State Senator he said
that he had perfected and has passed
more laws that were of general good than
any other Senator within the past fifteen
years, and he invited an examination OF
his record. he felt particular pride IN
his work in connection with the road and
school laws of the State. In connection
with the dispensary legislation, he said
that he was an original prohibitionIst.
But after the dispensary law came that he
has always done all that he could to per
feet the law, secure an honest admins
tration and keep the institution out of
politics. During the entire regime Of Mr..
b. 81. Crum he said he was satisfied the
dispensary had been kept out OF politics.
1t was wrong for the dispensary to un-
dertake to meddle in politics; and then
he went on to talk about seeing dispens-
ary folks at the meetings, and that if they
were there for any purpose that they did
not come as his friends. He said that it
was largely through his work and his idea
that the several counties now have the
use of the profit derived from the sale of
dispensary liquor. As to the race ques-
ton, he said that there was absolutely
no use to talk about getting the necessary
number of States to vote to repeal the
constitutional amendments, and that it
was wasting time to talk about such
thing. The members of congress ought
to devote themselves, he urged, to live
and present-day issues and not talk about
repeating constitutional provisions that
cannot be repealed. Mr.. Mayfeld is par
ticularly strong and forcible, and he
makes as clear-cut and able an argument
upon the foreign policy of this country
as can be heard. Mr.. May6eld has ideas
and he knows how to express them on
the matter of trade expansion and what
it means to the South.
AN ENCHANTING PARADOX.
He is not an expansionist In any sense,
but he wants this country to get its cotton
and its gaods in China and the East, and
he urges that to do this strong navy is
necessary. The larger the markets the
better the prices of cotton he insists.
Four and a half cents cotton, he holds,
means thirty cents day to the farmer TOR
his labor; ten cents cotton means one dol
lar day to the farmer for. his work and
fifteen cents cotton means two dollars
day to the farmer. The cotton planter
and the manufacturer, he holds, ought to
20 hand in hand in hunting larger fields
for the sale of goods, and all of this. he
holds, can be done with trade treaties
and strong navy to protect those agree
ments.
During his entire public service he said
he had always fought rottenness and cor
ruption in the dispensary, and he has
helped to revolutionize the dispensary
board so as to get the best men on the
board. In justice to Mr.. Williams he
wished to say that he had always voted
for him as a member of the State board
and that he had always been continued on
the board.
In closing his admirable speech Mr..
Mayfeld spoke of his personal effort
and sacrifices in securing his edu-
cation, and how he had given up cigars
and whiskey and other luxuries so as to
have the money to 60 to school and COL
lege, and how proud he was Of the con.
fdence that the people of Barnwell and
now of Bamberg had shown in him, and,
if elected, how anxious and ambitious he
would be to make a faithful and capable
representative.
Conference at Ehrhardt.
The Orangeburg conference of the South
Carolina Synod Of the Evangelical Luth.
eran church will meet in the Ehrhardt
church April 21-24.
Sermon Thursday night.
Friday morning 10 o'clock opening OF
sermon by Rev. ]. P. Miller.
2.15 p. m, discussion, "Giving as apart
of Worship"