The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1918-08-08
POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT.
BYRNES SOUGHT A
LETTER FROM PRESIDENT,
BUT DIDN'T GET 1T.
Sent Congressman From Virginia to
the White House, But Failed to Get
What He Went After-Produced
4 Letter From Virginia Congress
man, Which Failed to Convince.

| A Letter From Virginia Congress-
man, Which Failed to Convince.
In a desperate effort to defend his
| position-attacked as he is by his
opponents on the question of loyalty,
because of his vicious and venomous
attack upon the Selective Draft as
means of raising an army to tight
Germany-Congressman Byrnes pro-
duced a letter at the campaign meet
ing Thursday, and read it for the
! edifcation of the crowd.
1t had been rumored about that
Byrnes had a letter from President
Wilson, in which the President said
that Byrnes was to be considered
loyal man, and that his services in
, Congress were acceptable to the ad-
ministration.
Of course nobody believed that;
but there was an atmosphere of ca
pectancy when Byrnes unfolded his
letter and read it.
1t was not from the President at
all. The letter was from Carter
Glass, Virginia Congressman.
1t seems that Byrnes, very much
perturbed, sought letter from the
President, which, however, the Presi-
dent declined to give.
After nearly eight years in Con-
gress, Byrnes did not 60 in person to
the White House in search of the let
ter he wanted for reasons of his own;
| but he called upon a Virginia Con-
gresham, whose loyalty to the admin
istration was never in doubt, and who
| hn n1 OF
White House.
Congressman Glass went to the
White House and, as the story goes.
asked for letter endorsing Jim
Byrnes.
The Virginia Congressman wrote
Byrnes that he did not secure such
letter-that the President did not feel
| himself called upon to give such a let
ter, or words to that effect-but that
the President said this, that and the
other thing.
The idea Byrnes sought to convey
by the letter was that, while the
President declined to give letter en-
dorsing him, he, Byrnes was consld-
cred loyal man.
AS Byrnes spoke last none of his
opponents had opportunity to ask him
why, if he was considered loyal and
true, if he was considered valuable
man by the administration, the Presi-
| dent should decline to give him the
letter he so eagerly sought through
a Congressman from another State.
| When, several months ago, Con-
gressman Lever had entered the race
for the United States Senate, the
President wrote not one, but two let
| ters, endorsing him, and urging him
not to leave the House of Representa-
tives.
| Byrnes' record-particular his
DETECTION on the Selective Draft, and
his denunciation of the President s
plan for raising an effective army
to fight Germany-was laid bare by
Mr.. Toole, who spoke first, Mr.. Evans
of Edgefield, and Mr.. Croft.
At Barnwell day or two ago,
Byrnes charged T. G. Croft with hav-
| ing endorsed C. E. Carman for post
master, and because Mr.. Carman had
been a Republican, since he came
here from a Republican State, and
who served very acceptably for many
years as postmaster, with having
thus gone on record as endorsing
negro politics.
At the Aiken meeting, Mr.. Croft,
in a very effective manner, showed
how Byrnes had sought to gain an
advantage in another county by un-
derhand methods. He produced pa
pers to show that many of the most
substantial citizens of All ken signed
a petition, asking that Mr.. Carman
be retained as postmaster at Aiken.
Some of these gentlemen were in the
audience, and Mr.. Croft asked them
before the crowd if by signing that
petition they meant to endorse ne
gro politics" Of course they an
swered that they did not, and the
beautiful charge of Byrnes crumbled
| into nothingness but boomerang.
Mr.. Toole flayed Byrnes on his rec
ord, and made strong speech. Mr..
Evans delivered a stirring, patriotic
address and urged his hearers not to
elect a man who is not 100 per cent.
American and 100 per cent. loyal.
Byrnes, who spoke last, sought in
his usual artful manner, to explain
the charges against him, simply by
lodging the issue.-Reprinted from
Aiken Standard and published as an
an advertisement by T. G. Croft, can
didate for congress.