Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1918-08-21

| SldSS says Ilio
says so and so reminds us in its
roundabout vagueness of this gem
of hearsay concerning another i'm
portant matter:
"Absolute knowledge have I none,
But my aunt's washwoman's sisters
son
Heard a policeman on his beat
Say to a laborer .on the street
That he had a letter just last week
Written in the finest Greek
From a Chinese coolie in Timbuctoo
Who said a niger in Cuba knew
Of a colored man in a Texas town
Who got it straight from a circus
clown
That a man in the Klondike heard
the news
From a gang of South American
Jews
About somebody in Borneo
Who heard a mar who claimed to
know
Of a swell female society rake
Whose mother-in-law wiB:undertake
To prove that her seventh husbands
sisters niece
Has stated in a printed piece
That she has a son who has a friend
Who knows when this war is going
to end"
Byrnes' circular lays claim on the
face of it, to be a refutation of all
charges, various and sundry, against
him. But he would brush all these
aside with a grandiloquent wave OF
his hand, for he cites not one record
he gives not one authority to sub
stantiate himself. He simply asks you
to take his word for everything. In
his defence of himself, is. he afraid
to cite you to the records, and have
you look them up for yourself? l
submit that in every criticism l have
made of his record and his vote, l
have pointed out the page and para
graph of the Congressional Record.
l have dealt only in facts, and have
given my authority; he is dealing in
fancy, and in his efforts to dodge
the facts, he would have you ignore
the fact that there is a record. You
owe it to yourself and to your coun-
try to look into these records and
know for yourself before you cast
YOUR vote for a member Of Congress,
in these critical times.
Facts are stubborn things, and
though a man would brush them
aside for his own purposes they re-
main facts and stubborn facts just
the same. And ignoring some facts,
Byrnes attempts in his circular as ne
has attempted on the stump, to dis
tort other facts. His circular claims
to be as I have said, an approval OF
his record by President Wilson,, and
a refutation of all charges made
against him. But he devotes consld-
cradle space in his masterpiece of
political juggery to mud-sllnglng IN
an effort to reflect my candidacy.
Although I have challenged him
on every stump since he first made
the assertion at the campaign meet
ing at Graniteville, and have denoun-
ced and exposed his u~nderhanded at
tack at the meeting at Aiken where
everybody is familiar with the facts,
Byrnes has Incorporated in his cir
cular a statement that | gave my en-
dorsement to a Republican, and made
him postmaster of Aiken.
C. E. Carmen was for many years
postmaster at Aiken. He came many
wears g to Aiken from a Republl-
can State, and was appointed post
master under a Republican Admins
tration. He was a Republican in Ma
tional politics, but a Democrat IN
State politics, and has always partl-
cipated in our Democratic White Pr
maries. He has always enjoyed the
confidence and the esteem OF the
people of Aiken, and even Byrnes
says she was a competent mar and
an honest man." He lives here among
as today, and as a solid, substantial
citizen. He is a man of worth, a sick
man who came to Aiken in search OF
health, and has made a fine fight IN
this climate for his life.
When Mr.. Carmen sought reap
pointment as postmaster, the best
people of Aiken endorsed his appll-
cation. and the leading Democrats,
business and professional men, OF
the town, and patrons of the postot-
flee in the city and on the rural
~ ,oJ bic Da+itior which con-