The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-07-31
MAKE SOUTH CAROLINA
aSAFE FOR DEMOCRACY"
First Gun in Fight of Redeemlng the
State for the People Has Been
Fired at POmaria.

tOlQmDla, July lo.-4Ue PoAitAe"A
campaign of 1918 has opend in South
Carolina
The actors are the people. If there
are any candidates for any particular
Offices in the field, they have not as
yet announced themselves. This is
peoples movement, and it was gwen
momentum at Pomaria, in NeWberry
county, today.
'They tell us that we are fighting
a war for world democracy" said
former Governor Hease, leader OF
the Reform party, during the course
of his address. cit behooves us OF
South Carolina" he said, ''now to be-
gin fight for state democracy IN
South Carolna-for the taking back
into the hands Of the people their own
government"
Several Thousand Democrats.
There were several thousand people
at Pomaria, and they were represeh-
tatiye of the democracy of Sou1n
Carolina. Numbered abong the prom
5nent speakers were Major John u.
Richards, chairman OF the State ral'-
road commission, and Hon. Thos. f.
Brantley. of Orengeburg. DIR. H. A.
McCuliough, pastor Of st. Paufs Lu-
theran church, of this city, also made
an address.
The speech of former Governor
Blease was the keynote of the meet
ing. and it was also the first gun In
the political campaign in South Caro-
lima. which next summer will sweep
q new administration of the people
into power. The campaign begun To-
day Is peculiar in politics in that IL
is a campaign inaugurated by the
neople. and not by any man or set
os men who set themselves up as lead
ers of the people.
Former Governor Blease dlscusseu
tbe war and the effect of the war. He
said that he had been opposed TO the
declaration of war, and that ne couio
not yet understand why it had been
brought upon the people, but now tna'
&RAuas on, it must be fought out %
+ = Riest success. But he wanted
ge who had plunged the nation
war retired into political oblivion
result which he declared would
accomplished with honor to the
lion and certainly without loss OF
brestige to American arms.
He'll Mispafnted.
"I want to ask this question OF You,
please: What is law and order? /
shall not answer it; but if the pres
ent administration of affairs in this
State is 'law and order,' then hell has
been mispainted, for it must be a
paradise"
.'Yoa have got to organize" he told
his hearers. "You have got TO get
sSgether. You have got to have a re-
generation of the spirit of godliness
in this country, and band together Tor
self-pretecsion. You have got to pray
God for His help and His guidance,
and the next time you go to the BAL
lot box, you have got to cast your bal
lot for a man or a coward; for man
who stands for justice between man
and man: for a man who can look
~fhe world in the face and say that he
knows no master but the people whom
he serves, and that he will answer
only to them and to his God"
sArrant Coward"
He denounced Governor Manning as
an arrant coward, and he said that he
had so stated to Governor Manning's
face, and was taking no advantage OF
his absence. "ln your own state" he
said. "your governor lay down like a
coward that he is-and l have said
so to his face, and am taking no ad-
vantage of his absence-and instead
of going as commander-in-chief OF our
troops and leading them like a brave
men, he lies in his feather bed in the
mansion in ease and luxury, hiding
behind his positition, while he sends
your sons and other boys into the
trenches Of death"
Neither did Mr. Brantley nor Major
Richards mince words when they were
talking to the several thousand peo-
pie who gathered for discussion OF
issues. Mayor Richards, who is him
self a farmer, discussed farming &C.
tivities in view of the war emergency,
and his address was uplifting and
bolzfnE He eznDhasized conditions