The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-08-22
"BUGABOO" SAYS TILLMAN.
Senator Declares Nothing in Talk
Against Bristow Amendment.
Comes from Men who
Want Office.

To the. Voters of the Second District:
In the campaign now closing my
opponent has endeavored to create
q false issue, stating that the Bris-
tow Amendment for which three
fourths of the Democrats and all
South Carolina Congressman voted,
means 1.-The protection of the negro
at the polls by the federal govern
ment." This statement, of course,
has no foundation in fact. If the
Bristow Amendment meant any such
thing, l would not have voted for it,
nor would the other South Carolina
Congressman.
Lever voted for it and has no op-
position, and no attention has been
paid to it in any other District in
the country. Senator Smith voted
for it. Col. Jasper Talbert, when
in Congress, voted for resolution
Identical with the Bristow Amend
ment, and now says it is the "cheap-
est kind of politics to pretend fear
Of the negro on account of this res
olution:'' In a letter to Hon. V. S.
Owens, of Barnwell, dated July
q u,
saying Summing it all up there is
not as much danger in the BirstoW
Amendment as appears, BUT 1T IS
BEING MADE A BUGABOO OF BY
SOME MEN WHO WANT OFFICE" !"
Woodrow Wilson, born in the
South, says: 1T was the patriotic
duty of every Democrat to have voted
for the BristoW Amendment and had
I been in Congress I would have
voted for it, He writes me on
August 14th, that he is going to
urge the New Jersey legislature to
ratify it. Therefore, if man votes
against me on this account, to be
consistent, he should vote against
Wilson. Against the judgment of
these men and three-fourths Of the
Democrats of the House and four
fifths of the Democrats of the Sen
ate who voted for the Bristow
Amendment, Mr.. Calhoun asks you
to take his judgment.
In Louisiana, a State with a large
negro population, the Judiciary
committee has recommended its
adoption. Georgia did not repudi-
ate it as Mr.. Calhoun has published,
but on the other hand, postponed ac-
ton until next session.
In the BristoW Amendment there
is no excuse for talk of the negro,
and Mr.. Calhoun should be the last
to indulge in it in view of the facts
1 have stated from the stump in ev-
cry county in which we have spoken,
in the presence of Mr.. Calhoun,
and which facts have never been de-
MED by him, that in Beaufort, when
he was. a candidate for Mayor, he
attended a meeting OF seventy-hve
negroes, in a negro hall, where he
furnished the refreshments and beg
ged them to vote for him. He states
his good father "beat back the ne
gro from the polls in TO-" Instead
of following the example of his
father and beating them back from
the polls, my opponent endeavored
to lead them to the polls. The man
who approves of such action, ask to
vote for Mr.. Calhoun.
Mr.. Calhoun, in order to appeal
to the farmer says he is member
of the Farmers Union, but it is
well-known that his occupation is
that of Bank President and before
assuming that position he was a
travelling salesman.
I am asking for reelection upon
my record, with which the people
are familiar. In the history of the
State, but one Congressman has
been denied a second term, and l
respectfully ask your earnest sup
port.
JAMES F. BYRNES.