The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-07-30

nv solemn duty to you as represen-
tatiye." he said. eff were to stand
before you and say that I did not vote
according to my judgment there-my
individual judgment-without malice,
I would tell you what is not true"
"My heart was free from anything
except my patriotic and solemn duty
to you. 1 am submitting my cause to
you for reelection to the general as
sembly because believe with the ex-
perience 1 have had and with the ac-
ouaintanceship have had, can give
you better service than I gave you
in the past"
He said Clemson was not an issue
in this campaign, but, 'called by your
voice to serve on that board, and by
the life members to higher service, I
have been honored On that board, and
I tell you, without fear of contradic-
ton, the hand Of every one of them is
worthy to be taken with love and re-
|spect."
Col. u. A. Dickert
isaid he had been quoted in one of the
Newberry newspapers as saying at
Mt. Pleasant that he would not have
been in the race except for the dis
grace it was sought to bring to South
Carolina over the shoulders of Cole.
L. Blease. He said what he had said
was that he would not have made a
speech at Mt. Pleasant, in which COM
munity he had lived for thirty years,
and where he was so well known, ex-
cept for the issues of extravaganza
and the disgrace which it was sought
to bring upon South Carolina over the
shoulders of the governor. He had dis
tinctly stated, he said, that he was the
candidate of no faction and no clique
and no man, and that in making the
race he represented himself. He said
he stood for Gov. Blease and would
stand for him until he was convinced
the governor had done something
wrong. He had known him from the
governors boyhood--and he had never
Iseen one blot upon his escutcheon
Col Dickert said that until convinced
the governor was that rascal which
that "disgraceful committee" had
sought to make him out, he was going
to stick to him. He was opposed tt
some matters which the governor ad
vocated, "but I stand to him because
he stood with us when they brought
Hampton back from Mississippi tt
lead the "Red Shirts" from the noun
tains to the sea, and when Hampton
was about to be thrown down by Jno
L. NJ. Irby, Cole. L. Blease stuck II
him in the caucus and only went t,
Irby when his party went to him.
stick to him because he has been tru
9 to his people and has done more fo
the poor man than any other man VIII
has offered them his service"
Col. Dickert said he was opposed t
negro education with white people
taxes-not for the reasons advocate
by Gov. Blease and others-but be
cause the country was now payin
s258,OOO,0O0 pensions for the Unio
veterans, who had ruade the negroe
the wards of the nation, and b
9 thought if the nation wanted it's ward
educated it ought to take it's none
and do so without imposing furthe
burdens upon the poor people of th
South If education would make thel
better he would say educate them, bl
they seemed to be getting worse wit
school advantages.
He said Senator Johnstone had sal
he had been poor farmer boy afte
the war. eyes," said Col. Dickert, 81
= had nothing to fall back on but thrt
or four thousand acres of land. The
= had 500 bales of cotton that took thrt
= men to go to Europe to sell that co
ton and bring them back the gold. F
, tells the people he had no money ar
:. had been farmer boy. He knew not