The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1914-07-28
"Jking or Boosting 2"

liking or B00Stlng!
Abbeyille Press and Banner.
Elsewhere in tais paper will be
[ound Editor Aull's reply to an edi-
torial in the Press and Banner anent
his claim that Mr. Dominick will
carry every county in the Third Dis
.trict, except Abbeville.
! Not having had the training in
journalism that the veteran editor of
The Herald and News may justly
claim, this editor may have un-
thoughtedly verged on personality
in reviewing Col. Aull's omnibus
claim for Mr.. Dominick In so far
as we may have done this, we gladly
withdraw anything that may have been
considered personal; and return to the
facts
1t might be we'll in the beginning to
enlighten Col Aull as to the fiction
that am Mr.. Aiken's private secre-
tary. There is no such position as pri-
yate secretary to congressman Sen
ators have their secretaries, who are
regularly on the government pay roll,
hut the congressman pays for clerical
help, pays to one or a dozen if he sees
fit and pays it when or where ne
pleases At one time Mr.. Finley had
two lady clerks, one at home and one
in Washington dividing his clerical
hire between them The great bulk
, OF the clerical work through the de-
partment can be done at home. The
! Cne 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.. Domi-
nick holds as clerk in the attorney
! generals office is Of more importance
and may have name and place
on the States pay roll. We assume,
however, that Editor Aull, who would
take us to task, sees no objection to
both the attorney general, Mr.. Peoples,
and his clerk, Mr.. Dominick, taking
couple of months outing in the pleas
ant game Of job hunting, while their
salaries go serenely on. This is an
insignificant matter, not worthy of
notice, except to illustrate to Colonel
Aull the smallness of his similar ref
erence to ourselves.
Col. Aull asks if Mr.. Aiken owns
tie 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 ser
vice, receiving all of his time and the
closest possible attention. Not a man
in the third district, no matter what
his station in life, who has had oc-
casion to ask Mr.. Aiken's aid will
gainsay this statement.
1t might be well enough in this con-
nection to remind Editor Aull that he
can not mortgage the third district to
Mr.. Dominick, by stalking it 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 Y years, and even up to the
present, to indicate that Mr.. Dominick,
aided all the while by the editor of
] The Herald and News, will carry New
berry county. II fact, reading the
future by the past, there is every in
dication that he will not carry New
berry.
AS TO the other counties of the ids
trict, Colonel Aull has one of two
sources Of Information: His fayorite's
statements or his own car window
canvass. Col. AulI has had 100 much
political experience TO rely on either