Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1918-08-21
The Voice is Jacobs Voice, But
the Hands Are the Hands OF
Esau.
Editor Advertiser:

Esau.
Editor Advertiser:
It is not my nature TO tackle any
body, bat | am going to draw mS
bow at a venture and let the arrow
fly, and if anybody is hit in the
Joints of the harness, let them cry
out I am wounded.
1 suppose everybody has read
extracts Of Cole Blease' speech at
Pomaria and Filbert in July and
August 1917. Now l want to tell
what he said at Pickens Court
House on the oath of August of
last year. In all the bitterness of
his soul, he referred to Governor
Manning as Lying Dick" and the
State Council Of Defense a council
of lyers, and that of President Will
son as a cllmatized Yankee, and
said, if he had his way about 1t
Wilson would not be President
even now. I am not afraid OF
Woodrow Wilson if he is presl-
dent of the United States. Those
that don't like it dam 'em let 'em
lump it, and if it had not been for
Europe's money this nation would
not have been dragged into this
war, for l believe said he, religious
" as freely as / believe that there
is a God in heaven that on the final
Judgment day every American citi.
zen who is killed in this war off OF
American soil will be charged up
to President Wilson, and the mem
bers of congress as unwarrented
sacrifice in the sight of Almighty
God, of fresh young American
manhood. This is what he said on
the oath of August last year, as l
heard it. l said then, and now say.
why was it that he was not handled
with a firm grip, and fired. deport-
ed or killed at the fords because
he could, (or would not) not say
"Shebbath."
But he is now doing his best to
unsay what he has said, but that
wont work worth q cent now. AS
the scales are falling from his
ewes he sees the hand, and can read
the handwriting on the wall. Now
listen? This is the voice of jacob,
but the hands of Esau. I want to
saw this, that when l am elected to
60 to the United State Senate l am
going TO President Wilson and tell
him that here is an American Sena-
tor (God save the mark and what
ever is necessary to win this war
I am with him 10 the finish.
He goes further and says, If 1t is
necessary in order to win the war,
to breake the precedent set by Presi-
dent Washington in reference to
the third, 1 shall tell President
Wilson that I will support him for
the third term, and will make
speeches for him IN any part of the
American continent to which he
may wish me- to go. Jacobs voice
again.
If Blease has not got gritenough
to face Benet and Pollock IN the
campaign he would be q poor man
the-peace for President Wilson.
But he is following on behind
Benet and Pollock ut a great dis
lance in a gang by himself.
But the meanest, ugliest, low
down thing that Cole Blease has
ever uttered, is what he said about
Governors six brave sons, who had
left everything that was sacred and
holy, and laid all upon the alter OF
their country, and their lives If
need be for humanity, Christianity
and Democracy, that the world
might be a free people. Any man
that would make such a sIanderous
remark about q brave young soldier
is meaner than the devil wants MN
to be, that's meaner than a yellow
cur.
| cannot see for the love of
mike" why any loyal person can
support Blease, while our boys In
France are writing home asking the
State not to send Blease to the
United States senate. If you do,
o will be ripping us up the back.
Men. in the name of all that is holy
stand by your boy on the battle
line.
J. Russell Wright.
Walhalla, S. G.