The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-06-14
FIGHT IN THIRD
SOMEWHAT WARM
THREE CANDIDATES RUNNING
FOR CONGRESS THERE.
Mann and Boggs May Show Aiken
Enough to Make Him Do Some
HuStling.
Zach McGhee in The State}.

~ SAO
of South Carolina, comprising the
counties of Newberry, Greenwood,
Abbeville, Anderson, Pickens, and
Oconee there are three candidates
for the position now held by Wyatt
Aiken; that is, two besides the in
cumbent. Julius E. Boggs, of Pick
ems is going to try his hand again
and the Hon. Rev. Coke D. Mann, Of
Walhalla, is already running to beat
! the band. The Hon. Aiken is again
"A in the race to the bitter end; and
% I'm here to tell you shat if things
&#ehis year are as usual, the word chit
er" is not merely a stock phrase
without meaning, but one which, as
senator Smith says, is a~propos-with
. the accent on the "poss." The Hon.
Ika McCalla, of Abbeville, used to be
somewhat of a fgurer in the congress
sional race up in the Third, and when
be and Aiken got or tire stump to-
gether on the banks of the Savannah
and opened up the phials of wrath, I
tell you, there were some "phumes"
therefrom. But the Hon. Ike disap-
peared from the scene n day, and in
the last two campaigns Boggs and
Aiken opened up the phials all alone.
I was up in that district at several
places during the campaign four
years e when the aforesaid phials
were opened up, and while I never
was able to exactly figure out what it
was all obout. I could tell by the
"over-heated" atmosphere that there
was something "agwine on"
There Are Two Now.
Now we have Boggs again, and in
addition to him a real sure enough
live parson, a fighting parson at that
who says that Aiken is no fit man to
be congressman and that he proposes
to show the people a thing or two
about real craftsmanship. Some
. body sent Aiken a message not long
$50 that he had better hurry and
pe up into the Savannah Settle:
A$hts-don't forget the accent al
belongs on the "ments"-for the
a& Mr.. Mann was approaching away
to beat the Jews.
ken sent word back that he
as#eked to be there after a little, and
e he might not be much on
fAH ching he thought he would. be
e8ht smart on a prayer.
w Now it would be hard to pick out
@h section of South Carolina where
gthere is a higher average of intelli-
wgence, CULTURE, and especially ma
4 terial progress than the counties OF
: the Third district. It has been that
i way from time immemorial. That's
i where I come from myself, you know,
h and that raises the average quite
I considerable. I talked with some of
the folks along the road of the old c.
Eksss G. the other day, and it seems to
you can go along that road any
LAY of the year and find about half Of
81 the people of the district either on
' the train or at the alton. That is
where Wyatt AK acquainted
with most of them, he seems to
know every mothers son and daugh-
ter of them all by their Christian
names. Most of the men seem to have
played marbles or "gone in er-wasn-
in" with him.
Matter of Titles.
And that is why Wyatt is in con-
gress, and that is why he is likely to
stay there for the next term in spite
Of Boggs and Mann. Boggs, you see,
is always "Mr. Boggs," and Mann is
the REV. Manu." while Aiken is
wyatt" That makes a world Of DIFF
ference, little as you may think. It
makes more difference than all the
tariff bills, all the railroad bills, all
the appropriations for public build
ings, even, that were ever introduced
in congress.
Now Aiken is not any popular ne
70 as a statesman. These people Ire
not deceived about him. He is not
the sort of man to make any great
pretentions, but is the same every
where, being the big boy in Washing
ton, when his constituents come up
here as he is around his district. And
the people of the Third know him
clean through. They know he does
not take any active part in the de-
bates in the. house or in the larger
legislation. The point is they do not
care. John c. Calhoun and McDuf17
once represented this district, and the
naOn1o noint With craot 0ri6a tc ~ q