The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-08-27
NEWBERRY MEETING
LARGELY ATTENDED
THE MEETING WAS HELD IN THE
COURT HOUSE.
Audience Gathered Slowly But Build
ing Was Filled-Addresses OF
Candidates.

The county campaign of 1912 closed
with the Newberry meeting in the
court house on Monday Acting Coun-
ty Chairman Frank R. Hunter, whose
uniform fairness and courtesy, have
won for him the commendation of
candidates and audiences, presided,
and at II o'clock introduced Senator
Alan Johnstone, who is candidate
for reelection, opposed by Col. D.
Augustus Dickert.
The court house lacked a good deal
of being filed when the meeting be-
gan. There were several ladies in the
audience.
Mr.. Johnstone discussed his record,
and gave in detail a list of measures
which had received his aid This list
has heretofore appeared in the reports
of the county campaign meetings CIV
en- in The Herald and News. He de-
voted himself at some length to a dis
cussion of the destruction of the old
State dispensary, in which he helped,
the repeal of the lien law, and his part
in the enactment of the present labor
contract law, which he believed would
stand the test of the courts, and other
matters dealing with his record. Il
have tried" he said, "to bear patient
ly and with becoming dignity what
ever came during this campaign, al
ways feeling that alone was account
able for the good order, in so far as
I have participated, and that no words
should fall from my lips, however
tempted, that could not be uttered in
your parlor Or my parlor. My hands
are clean, and my heart is just as de-
sirous of being clean. wish that
every man in Newberry county. wheth-
er he voted for me or did not vote for
me-because / am the senator of all
alike SO long as my term lasts-I wish
he knew every vote / cast in your gen
eral assembly"
Mr.. Johnstone closed amid consid-
erable applause.
Col. D. A. Dickert said during the
campaign he had not discussed the
private record of his opponent, but the
public record of man in the peoples
service was a legitimate subject of dis
cussion. He said, he had no public
record except his record of
service to the people in the
days of the sixties, when strong arms
and strong hearts were demanded. He
vigorously attacked the expenditures
Of the last general assembly, citing
figures he has cited elsewhere dur. ne
the campaign. He said mortgage
OF crops had taken the place of a li3n,
and the mortgage was only more ex-
pensive, and there was no difference
and Eo benefit. He said Mr.. Johnstone
had said he had worked to put the
county on cash basis. and for good
roads, and he wanted to know if the
county was now on cash basis, and
he called attention to the condition of
the roads. He said he would not boast
of his record in the Confederate army:
that he had only tried to do his duty
during the war and in the dark days
following, as thousands of other sons
of the South had done He said he
had never sought leadership, but in
the days of negro domination, when
the women of Newberry county need
! ed protection, he had a thousand men
under his orders pledged to the pro-
lection of Southern womanhood and to
the restoration of white supremacy in
South Carolina. For ten years fol-
lowing his part in the fight for white
supremacy he had been forced to keep
himself in the woods, away from no
tice, to save himself for his family. He
gave several thrilling incidents of
those troublous days He had never
had any boyhod of his own, going to
the army when he was a few days
over IS and staying until the last gun
V.es fred. Whe+ser elfctad or srct he
wsnlc co1t.4 tse during the remaining