The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1916-08-25
political Advertisement

l have made two races for Congress,
and so far as l can learn every man
who has ever run against me for Con-
gress Is supporting me now with the
exception of Hon. A. II. Miller, who
is running for Congress. This is
largely due to the fact that I have
always conducted a clean campaign
and have not taken any unfair advan-
tage of any man who ran against me.
1t has been my desire to come to
my District and talk to my people
and | would have been there before
now had it not been for the fact that
we have thousands of troops on the
border, who are absolutely dependent
upon the action of the Military Ar
fairs Committee, of which I am a
member, for appropriations to take
care of them.
| have also been requested by the
Speaker of the House, Hon. Claude
kitchin, majority leaders and others,
to remain at my post of duty. In my
absence men named Traxler, who is
running against me, has endeavored
to take every unfair advantage of me,
and for this reason / am giving this
notice to the papers for fear that I
will not be able personally, before the
primary, to visit my District
Tricky, Truthless Traxler is getting
out statement criticising certain acts
of mine in public life, and 1 am go
ing to take up each item and answer
them separately:
First, he goes back and brings up
the old photograph bosh" by Thomas
b. Fielder of Atlanta, Georgia, and
William j. Burns. Fielder is not COLI
sidered in Atlanta as a dishonest
crook, and is in the hospital at this
time, stabbed by man in the Georgia
legislature, on account of his rascal
lty. Burns was run out of Georgia on
account of producing false evidence in
the Frank case. You are all familiar
with this case. I do not think that a
man who would refer to such men as
Burns and Fielder for reference is
better than any of them. The trio
ought to be in pentiary.
Traxler says Heron told him had
traded and agreed to fight Blease
for the support of the Spartanburg
Herald. Mr.. Hearon says that is
lie. Mr.. j. Boyce Lee, ex-mayor of
Spartanburg, says this is lie and
Sam j. Nichols denounces it as a con-
temptible lie. Nichols is running his
own race and is fighting no candidate
for Governor.
He goes further and says that he
will offer $25.00 reward for a state
ment signed by Hon. Sam j. Nichols
that he is going to support Blease in
the coming primary. l am not sup
porting anybody in the race for Gov
ernor. | am running for Congress
on the record which have made since
| have been here. We settled our diff
ferences at the last election | eX,
pect to vote for whom I please. No
body cares but Traxler to know how
| am going to vote, and it is none of
his business. He has never stated
yet who he was going to vote for,
further than he was going to work
and vote against Blease.
He sums up in his statement that
failed to vote for a jim Crow car
bill; for a law limiting the hours of
labor in cotton mills; for three cent
railroad fare and for bill prohibit
ing black-liSting. TraXler knows as
well as you do, and as we'll as / do,
that this is pure demagoguc 'v. and
unworthy of a decent man who is run
ming for Office. The record shows that
these bills never came to a vote in
the House of Representatives, and
FraXlcr knows that unless they came
to vote, | had nothing in the world
to do with them. If any of them had
'ome to vote, 1 certainly would have
voted for them all. This he knows
as well as you do.
He states further. that voted
against bill appointing a committee
to investigate railroads of the State.
That is true. My reason for doing
this was that-we had already passed
bill appointing Railroad Commits
sion, whose duty it was to investigate
the railroads. Another bill was in
troduced, appointing a separate COM
mittee and carrying with it an appro-
prlation of thousands of dollars, to
pay this committee for the investiga-
ton. | voted against the resolution
because / was trying to save the tax
payers of the State from paying out
money for a "junketing' "trip for a
committee when we already had d
committee appointed to do the investi-
eating.
jim Crow Law in Washington.
Traxler says that have not passed
bill prohibiting white people and
negroes from riding on street cars
in Washington, and that if he comes
to Congress he will pass such Oil.
When I mentioned this matter to the
chairman Of one of the large commit