The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-06-22

on Temporary War emergency boards.
The other figures prominently in about
everything that comes up, statewide
or otherwise In number of other
counties which l have in mind one
particular man seems to be appolnted
on everything that comes along. And
when conferences are held here,
these are the men who seem to gather
in Columbia and advise and readvise
among themselves and with the gov
ernor who calls them together.
Bureaucracy
'I had thought for time that the
idea was to have an autocracy IN
South Carolina, but l have about
come to the conclusion that the policy
is a bureaucracy, composed of num-
ber of bureaus, with practically the
same predominant membership on
each-which gets right back to the Old
ring rule which We had in the days
before the Reform movement and the
primary system.
MANY of the faithful whose merit
has not been given recognition are
kicking and kicking violently, but
their kicking is as vain as it is
violent. For the king can do no wrong
and has not his court been establish
ed, and does not it meet at frequent in
tervals in the capital city to issue
appeals to the subjects, and to lay
down the rules by which they are to
abide? And are there not in the city
of Columbia the vice regents, who are
in daily elbow touch, so that IN
every emergency - and everything
is emergency these days-the tele-
phone may summon them imme-
dio+ely to the council ia BILE:
.And surely the other faction has
been given full recognition. Wasn't
Major Richards, Of the Reform par
ty, called into the governors office and
asked to name six men known to be
politically opposed to the governor,
for appointment on some Of these
commissions, councils and boards
Gall inclusive) haven't four Reformers
been named? They have and their
names are there to show for them
selves. They are Messers. John e.
Richards, Eugene R. buckingham,
Otto Klettner and Olin Sawyer. They
are good and faithful men all, and
true and loyal Reformers, but truly
they need to be as good men as they
are in order to make up for the Re-
form party in personnel and the re-
presentation which it lacks in num-
bers.
zone wonders what the state coun-
Gil of defense would have done for
chairman had not the duties of the
civic preparedness commission Deen
about completed before the state coun-
Gil of defense was appointed. Posi-
bly, however, Mr.. Coker could have
served as chairman of both, as he is
a gentleman of undoubted energy. 1t
has been suggested, however, though
the suggestion has not been authenti-
Gated, that maybe the delay in the ap-
pointment of the state council Of de-
fense by the governor was in order not
to overtax Chairman Coker by requir-
ing his services as chairman OF both
bodies at the same time.
Lese Majeste.
Don't put me down as critic Of
the personnel fthe boards which
have been appointed. My lamentation
is not in that regard-because it is
lese majeste in South Carolina thus
to criticize, even if one feels like it,
as l do not-for | am not IN the frame
Of mind for criticism. My lamenta-
ton is for the hundreds of faithful
who have been ignored, even as the
Reformers have been ignored. My
sympathy is with them; my thoughts
are of them night and day. I under
stand that some of them were hope
full that third regiment for South
Carolina would be permitted, and that
they might get place IN the sun
there. But the hope was vain. What
matter tentative schemes by the War
Department for the enlargement of
the national guard of the advisable
ty of a South Carolina brigade to
make up the quota of the proposed
ninth division. to say nothing or the
advantages of a state brigade under
its own brigadier genera1, which
would represent South Carolina as
brigade of tht old Palmetto state?
No third regiment for South Caro-
lina-no South Carolina brigade. Vain
hope! Vain regret!
Little GratftuGc.
''7 !'Gvc about come to the conclu-
sion that a good many of these un-
rewarded faithful are almost willing
to venture the assertion that there is
very little gratitude in an autocratlc
bureaucracy. They have almost been
put into that class in which it has
been ATTEMPTED to relegate the Re-
formers They dare in the pitiable
plight, however. of being forced to
view the handiwork as their own,
while the Reformers can at least pro-
test with consistency. They are see
ing the light though, and they re-
semble the Reform party in one re-
spect right now-and that is, that
they are laying their p1ans for the
future. The suffering is acute, how