The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1914-06-30
THE COLUMBIA RECORD AND POLL
TICS.

News has offended the Columbia Re-
cord by an editorial in which it was
stated that "'t2e Columbia Record is
certainly making a desperate effort
to play up Lawyer Jennings for the
United States senate" and which went
on to say: Wonder what is the mat
ter with Senator Smith? Is he to be
sacrificed in the house of his friends?
No use, Bud, Blease has the toga and
is gone with it. Then. besides, there
is an old story about trading horses
while you are crossing stream -
The Herald and News editorial must
have hit the Record lard IN despair,
the Record directs it attack upon the
editor of this paper, instead of at
tempting TO reply to the editorial, and
the attack is largely personal and so
twists the facts that it is largely
false, altogether misleading, and a
very narrow and most contemplate
newspaper effort.
The Record AYERS that it is not in
politics and has no candidates" We
have concluded that the Record is not
in politics, but we are convinced that
it has been making a most desperate,
though fruitless effort, to get into
politics-fruitless because of lack of
knowledge. of the political situation
and lack of ability to acquire that
knowledge.
We are glad to know, however,
that the editor Of the Record realizes
and admits this fact, Notwithstanding
his daily editorials of anywhere from
a column to two or three columns
of labored stuff to apologize for Smith
and yainly trying to make Jennings
and Pollock factors in race which
those familiar with the political situa-
tion concede has already been won by
Blease.
\ The Records editorial of June 26
has very different tone from an edi-
torial which appeared in the Record
of June 9, in which the editor OF the
Record quoted an editorial from this
paper with great display and implied
commentator because the Record felt
that it might harm Gov. Blease by a.
reproduction Of our editorial. The
Herald and News always tries to ex
press its honest convictions, and the
people Of Newberry county and of tne
State know this, and We paid no at
teton at the time to the effort Of the
Record to mislead the people as to
our stand for Gov. BIease, a Newberry
nah. in the senatorial race. 1t was
very weak and lame effort, anyway.
The difference between the editor of
The Herald and News and the editor Of
the Record is that we can write what
We think without any censorship and
without any one to say yea or nay,
AS to tne testimony of the editor
of The Herald and News in the asylum
investigation, it was published in the
newspapers at the time, and was fully
thresher out, Our connection with
the asylum matter was purely unset |
fisa and an honest effort to serve the
best interests Of the institution. We
are perfectly willing for everything
we said or did in that connection to
be made public. but the editor Of tais
paper is no candidate for any Office
end we can see no ground for making
him an issue. The Record at the
time e the asylum Investigation had
some very mean tsings to say about
the editor Of Tie Herald and News, |
net because, as We believe. FOR dislike
cf US. but n IN effort to iajare+Gov.
2,ease We thought then they were