The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1914-05-12
kERN >OU NDS GLORY
or InE DEMOCRACY
Senate Leader speaks 0ptimi>ticaliy
OF rart Imai TreSidenU Wilson
Leads

Inc state.
LyucuDuIe. May S.--John W. Kern,
democratic nominee f-r vlce president
in lyoS and now United safes sena-
tor from Indiana, tJld enthusiastic
listeners this morning in Bishopville
OF the .riulnpns OF democracy under
Woodrow Wilson and tonight, at tne
commencement exercises OF The
Ltnchburg high school, he sounded
warning agains, lnaterialism and
other pc, iods Of the age. The Hoosier
statesman came to SCUM Carolina TO-
Gay at the invitation Of Senator Eli
son D. Smith, for whom in his two
addresses he expressed the highest ad-
miration as d cJIleague and as man.
Seator Kern made many warm
friends for himself in Sou Il Carolina
today.
The physical proportions OF the
Indiana senator are not impressive. A
person who exchanges two words with
him, though comes under tae spell
of his magnetic personality. His
black hair is streaked with gray
and is conspicuously absent on
the crown if his head. He has small
brown eyes, hidden under heavy lids
and behind thick glasses. A gray
Vandyke beard, trimmed square at the
point, partly conceals his fighter
Jaw and aggressive chin. The proml-
rence of these features, on which
il is so easy to chang" pictures, makes
him the delight of cartoonists. He
speaks Dramatically and works up to
his climaxes admirably. He has
trick or rapping loudly with the
knuckles of his right hand when he
wants to emphasize a point. After
few minutes talk With Senator Kern
i is easy to understand how he mas
been able to dominate the democra'
CIV of Indiana for so many years.
Speaks in BisAOpVille.
Soon after they arrived in Lynch
bnre this morning, Senator Kern and
Senator Smith were driven in auto
mobiles over 16 miles Of splendid road
to Bishopville, where the Indiana SEN
ator addressed a crowd Of 300 or 400
citizens in the court house. Thomas
G. Mcleod of Bishopville, former lieu
tenant governor, presented Senator
Smith. who in turn introduced his
colleague. Sena or Kern, as one Of
the foremos; leaders of tne demo-
cratic fght for equal righ, o all and
special privileges to none, which was
crowned by vict3ry with the election
of President Wilson.
From What l aave seen ,oday rid
Ing through your S ate, l believe the
farmers OF S3uth Carolina are fully
abreast of those of India~a, said
Senator Kern. ''In fact, they are
somewhat ahead of those in my Sta e
for South Carolina mas sent farmer
as its represen. .atiye u the United
States senate. assure you hat he
has represented the farmers courage
ously and more energetically than any
one else has in tie last few years.
, The crowd applauded this tribu.e
to Sc ator Smi h.
Senator Kern spoke OF the SYM
pathy of the democrats Of the Middle
West for the South during Recon-
s.ruction and said tina, Indiana was
the first State to voice protest con-
ere ely.
"a true history of the War Between
the Sections has never been written,
declared Sena or Kern. 'T1e pur-
pose Of the war commonly assigned by
historians is that of the abolition of
slavery Tais is not true, as can
readily be seen from the decrease in
the vote given the Lincoln admins
tration in the election of 1862 after
the emancipation proclamation The
slaves were emaqcipated and the 18th
amendment adopted in spirit of ven
geance toward the South and not
through sympathy for the negro.
A Great Task.
Speaking of national issues, the In
diana senator told of the mighty task
: before President Wilson when he be-
came president after 20 years of Re
publican misrule. The Bishopville
audience vigorously applauded every
time Senator Kern mentioned Presi-
dent Wilson or W. J. Bryan.
when Wilson was inaugurated
tho oianf cornoraf fionc dominated the