The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1914-07-22

one essential thing is that the Con-
gresham should not pocket any of
the fund himself, and in this respect
Mr.. Aiken's record is absolutely
clean. Perhaps the position that Mr..
Dominick holds as clerk in the At
torney-G Generals office is of more i'm
portance and may have a name and
a place on the States pay roll. We
assume. however, that Editor Auli,
who would take US to task, sees no
objection to both the Attorney.Gen-
eral, MI. Peoples, and his clerk, Mr.
Dominick, taking a couple of months
outing in the pleasant game of job
hunting, while their salaries go Sc
renely on. This is an insignificant
matter, not worthy of notice, except
to illustrate to Colonel Aull the
smallness of his similar reference to
ourselves.
g Col. Aull asks if Mr.. Aiken owns
the Third District. No, Mr.. Aiken
nor his private secretary does not
own the Third District, but the Third
District does own Mr.. Aiken and it
has had from him clean, prompt,
faithful service, receiving all of his
time and the closest possible atten-
ton. Not man in the Third Dis
trict, no matter what his station in
life, who has had occasion to ask MI.
Aiken's aid will gainsay this state
ment.
1t might be well enough in this
connection to remind Editor Aull
that he can not mortgage the Third
District to Mr.. Dominick, by stalking
1t off in his $40 acre and a mule"
style in the columns of his paper.
Political booms, like charity, should
begin at home and we submit that
there is nothing in the record for
twelve years, and even up to the
present, to indicate that MI. Domi-
nick, aided all the while by the editor
of the Herald and News, will carry
Newberry county. In fact, reading
the future by the past, there is every
indication that he will not carry
AS to the other counties of the Dis
trict, Colonel Aull has one of two
sources of information: his favor
ties statements or his own car win
dow canvass. Col. Aull has had too
much political experience to rely on
either, of these, and hence we con-
clude that we have taken him too Sc.
riously. After all he was perhaps
just boosting:his candidate.
!, Editor Aull doubtless believes that
Mr.. Dominiek will be elected. He
wants to believe that way, and faith
usually follows pretty close in the
wake of inclination or self-interest.
The Good Book defines faith to be
"the substance of things hoped for,
the evidence of things not seen.
Then Colonel Aull must be a verita-
BILE Abraham as concerns Mr.. Domig.
chances, for he is evidently
consumed with hope and we believe
he has seen but little on which to
base it.
We:Would not intimate that he is
expecting any favors from Mr.. Dom
mick in trying to land him in Con-
gress. We.credit him with unselish.
friendship, cemented by the ups and
downs of fifteen. years. or course
Col. Aqll is not looking for any job
for himself or for any Of his people
in case: he can land Mr.. Dominick,
but if he were, it would be very easy
TO see how his faith would ripen into
hope and hope would ripein into Ger
tainty in-his forecasts.
Come to think of it, however, both
Editor Aull and this editor are vast
ing a lot Of printers ink carrying
counties and districts for our respec-
tive favoritesy in advance of the pri-
mary. We recall now that claims
very much like Editor Aull's modest
little omnibus claim for MI. Domi-
nick have ushered in nearly every
who has opposed Mr..
Aiken since the beginning of his SER
vice. They do no particular harm,
and it always helps the candidate up.