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


the time, and my endorsement would
have meant no more than any other
citizens.
At the Aiken meeting, while dis
cussing this ridiculous charge
brought by the hard-pressed Con-
gresham, I read a letter which is
still in my possession. 1t was a letter
endorsing Carmen for postmaster
and was signed by the late lamented
Henry Busch, who for many years
lived in Aiken. Mr.. Busch was a ma
tive German. He came to this country
as a young man from Hanover, Ger
many, and took up his residence in
Aiken where he vas regarded as a
splendid citizen and a good man. He
was for years a trustee of the Aiken
Institute, and did a great deal toward
building up the school system of the
town. He served in city council. He
was a good man, though a German.
Byrnes forgot that in attacking me
on this score, that he was striking
close at home, and l may say now
what l said then, to quote my own
words at the Aiken meeting: Henry
Basch is dead; but 1 am here, my
friends, to defend his memory
against this contumely heaped upon
him by his own son-in-law."
I am aware that this has been
twisted and distorted to be made to
appear as an attack by me on a men,
Der of the Byrnes family. l am
aware of what Byrnes' ~lieutenants
are telling; but Byrnes is desperate
and desperate mel will resort to des-
perate methods to influence votes.
This, fellow-citizens, is as deliber-
ate a fabrication, as absolutely de-
void of truth as some other state
ments made in Byrnes' circular. He
seeks to discredit my candidacy by
telling you that during the three
months l served in. Congress, filling
my fathers unexpired term, that
introduced a resolution to pay my
secretary some money, sent it to the
wrong committee, and didn't get what
1 vas after. While this has absolute
" nothing whatever to do with the
charges l have brought against
Byrnes on his record, and is simply
some more of his camoufage, design
ed to cloud the issue, shall in pass
ing, simply make this statement;
Butler, Hare of Saluda was my sec
retary when l was in Congress. His
brother is now Byrnes' secretary. II
anyone is sufficiently interested to
know whether Byrnes is telling the
truth, l suggest that he ask Butler
Hare for he is the man who got the
money. He knows.
A candidate who will mlslead you
on one epoint will mislead you or
another.
Byrnes says "to hell or Helena
with the Kaiser" That sounds gooo
and patriotic. But it's like printing
the Presidents picture with his owr
for political effect. If Byrnes is Sc
anxious to dispatch the Kaiser anc
his Hun legions to hell or Helena
why did he fight the Draft Act, wher
in a crisis last year, the PresldenI
and his advisers, after weighing ev
cry plan, suggested the Draft as the
one method of raising an army tina
would put enough, men IN Europe
quickly enough to keep the Kaiser:
hellish legions from crushing the III
ont of France and England and flying
ing at Americas throat? Why, in nj
vaunted patriotism, now that he i
making the eagle scream, why dix
he not fight in Congress for the es
tablishment of a nitrate plant tt
make gunpowder to help sen TN
Kaiser and his legions to "hell o.
Helena?" Why, 1 ask, did he fight il
Congress-, in the time OF a Crisis
against the machinery with which