The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1916-08-08
Candidates For Congress
Hold Meeting In Newberry
Good Attendance and Good Speeches and Good VII
ail-CongressionaL Campaign Meeting
Held on Saturday.

not ask his home people to vote for
him solely because hewas a home
man but to vote for him ii they
thought him the Test man in the race
He spoke of the long tenure in office
of the Tillmans and Aikens and re-
! ferred to the other candidates whose
ancestors were war veterans. He said
the Dominick family also had a war
record of which he could boast Dut
that he was not running on the war
record of his ancestors. Nfr. DominicA
charged that dirty politics was start
| ed against him years ago when the
: speaking tour had closed thus afford
| ing him no opportunity to answer the
charges on the stump. He read an ex-
tract to show that the charges were
unfounded and that he had been ex-
honorated of any wrong doing.
He spoke of his record in the At
torney Generals Office as assistant
Attorney General and his success in
handling tie States cases before the
courts. He said that he was "a demo-
crat and as such he was in favor OF
preparedness, rural credits, restrict
ed immigration, etc.
Mr.. Dominick was handed an i'm
mense bouquet of hydnangeas at the
close of his speech.
John A. Horton scored Dominick
and the rest of the bunch for their
criticism of him and of each other
and said that if the criticisms got
much sharper the bark would slip
somewhere He said he pleaded guilty
of being a bank president and also of
being successful and thought the gov
arnment needed good business men.
He Thought there were too many law
yers in the state and national legisla-
lures. Mr.. Horton said there were
only two classes OF people in the
world, the class which produces the
wealth of the world and the class
which lives upon the profits derived
fromsthat wealth. He was in SYM
pathy with labor as ne had been Ia
boring man himself. He spoke in
favor of labor unions and was oppos-
ed to a system Of blacklisting as is
practiced by some mill corporations.
Predicted that labor unions would
sweep the south as they had already
cone the New England states and the
sooner the better. He thought immi-
grafton should be entirely cut out as
pauper labor from Europe would pour
into this country after the great
European war and force American
labor to the wall. This competition
he said would give capital the ad-
vantage of cheap labor and the labor
ing man would suffer. He favored !,
system of rural credits at low in
terest rate and said that 8 per cent on
large land loans would ruin any man.
AS Mr.. Aiken was not present this
completed the list of candidates for
congress. The candidates for soiici-
tor were next introduced and spoke
IN the following order:
Mr.. T. Frank McCord reviewed Lis
record as a lawyer for the past three
years having graduated in law il 19t}.
He thought the people wanted man
Of character and ability for solicitor
Thought that as Newberry had once
been honored with q solicitor and as
Laurens had also been thus honore>l
that it was Greenwood's time and
u?sad himself as the Logical candidate
over one of his opponents from
Greenwood county.
Mr.. B. w. Chapman sail that Mr.
Blackwell had given the other caGdi-
Gates for solicitor mis- time at LAT
"ens and that he (Chapn4r) would be
no less gallant in his h)ne town lie
said the people Of NewLerry knew him
! and what marner of man he was AID
ne would make no speech other than
20 welcome his opponents to New
berry.
j Mr.. H. S. Blackwell discussed law
enforcement and the A.,v # solici-
Tor along this !>fe. lie spoke G his