The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-08-25
CANDIDATES USE FISTS.
HODGES AND ELLERBE FIGHT IN
LAKE CITY MEETING.
Hodges Resents Use of Term Liar by
Ellerbe and Leads to the Face.
They Mix Up.

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Lake City, August 20.-Two of the
candidates for congress, Hodges and
Ellerbe, engaged in a fist fight at the
meeting held here to-day and several
blows passed before the contestants
were separated. Ellerbe used the word
liar, and Mr.. Hodges resented 1t by
landing stiff blow on the face. Ell
lerbe was game and they went at it
nip and tuck until separated by by
ISLANDERS.
Ellerbe closed his speech by taking
from his pocket slip of paper and
reading therefrom the following:
"Whoever says that l was the author
of or wrote or dictated or had printed
the circular against Mr.. Hodges re-
ferred to in his speech is an infamous
liar"
Blow in the Face.
AS he commenced to read Hodges
came out from the crowd and stood at
his left side, paying close attention,
and when Ellerbe had finished asked
him if he meant to say that he,
Hodges, was a lair. Whereupon El-
lerbe repeated his statement and
Hodges promptly struck him blow
in the face. Ellerbe went right at him
and several blows had been passed
before they could be parted amid
shouts of ''Hurrah for Ellerbe! Hur-
rah for Hodges!"
The meeting closed without further
incident other than that Ellerbe eX-
planned that Rodgers, senator from
Marlboro, had stated that he was the
author of and had printed the paper
against Hodges and had assumed all
responsibility thereof, and that he,
Ellerbe, had only circulated about 80
copies of this circular in his district.
Attack Ellerbe's Record.
The four aspirants for congress
sional honors from the sixth district,
Hodges, Sellers, Brown and Ellerbe,
spoke in the order named and were al
lowed 80 minutes each by Chairman
A. H. Williams Hodges and Sellars
pitched into Ellerbe's record and criti-
cized severely his demeanor while il.
congress, branding him a Republican,
at least in principle.
Hodges fixed on Ellerbe the respon-
sibility for the Rodgers circulars that
had ben circulated against him two
years ago on the eve of the election,
and said that he had at least dictated
that letter.
Sellers's talk was rather on the hu-
morous order throughout, and while
talking he seemed to have the crowd
pretty well with him.
Brown made a very plain and
pointed speech and gave a clear-cut
statement of his views on the import
ant issues, and referred only in the
latter part of his talk to Ellerbe's rec
ord as to his vote to place tariff on
lumber. He said that for long time
he had not said one word against Ell
lerbe or his record and had not until
Ellerbe had been given an opportu-
nifty to defend his position in voting
as he had on the lumber matter, but
Ellerbe had failed to explain it salts
factorily to his mind.
Denies 1t.
Ellerbe denied having at any time
or anywhere violated his pledge or de-
parted from his party principles, and
contended that he had always been
true to the Democratic platform,
which he endeavored to prove by read
ing extracts from the leading Demo-
Gratis in congress, among them being
Champ Clark, minority leader; Bell
of Georgia, Democratic whip, and
CLAYTON of Alabama, chairman OF the
last Democratic convention. He said
he could not but be proud OF his
achievements during his six years IN
congress. He had saved enough to
the citizens of his district in having
the tariff on potash reduced to almost
pay his salary in congress for the next
thousand years. He had succeeded IN
getting established nearly 100 star
and rural routes and had got larg-
er appropriation for public buildings
for cities in the sixth district than
many other congressman of longer
service had for cities in other districts
of more than ten times their impor-
tance
He had also succeeded in securing
large appropriations for the rivers
and harbors of his district.