Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1918-08-21
Presidents Picture
Used for ~Camouflage
Croft in Reply to Byrnes'
Circular Exposes Tactics
Of Congressman Byrnes
Uses Presidents Picture
for Political Effect, After
!. Failure to Get Letter
From the White House.

From the White House.
To the People of the Second Con-
.gressional District:
Byrnes always would have his lit
tie Joke. While he has departed some
what from his usual method of jok-
ing in this campaign, busy as he has
been in the desperate effort to boil
ster up his position, he has at the
last moment resorted to his joke
smith tactics, thinking to overwhelm
the unthinking and the credulous
with a great flare of patriotic pho
Biography. The Congressman's last
contribution to the literature of this
campaign-a four-page circular car
rying his own photograph on the
front page and President Woodrow
Wilson's likeness on the back page
would be comical enough f., were it
not clearly the desperation of a
drowning man grasping at a straw.
At such a grim joke nom may laugh.
His record assailed, his DETECTION
exposed, his vicious attack upon the
Presidents method of raising an eff
fective army to fight the Hun, when
he sought to defeat the Draft Act,
damning him, Byrnes sought a letter
from President Wilson which would
endorse him for reelection, for the
man has nerve, whatever else may
be his attachments. This he failed to
secure, but in the absence of a letter
from the White House, Byrnes Sc
cured what he evidently thought
would serve as the next best thing,
a picture of the President such as
every newspaper keeps in its files.
1t was not necessary to go to the
White House for this. Armed with
the Presidents likeness and his own,
this mighty statesman has employed
a printing press, a mass of white pa
per, some shrewdly worded phrases,
and a letter from a Congressman
from Lynchburg, Va, and has flooded
the District with this masterpiece of
effrontery, in his desperate effort to
inveigle the people into believing
that President Wilson has endorsed
his candidacy for reelection, in
spite of his attempt last year to
block the administrations plans for
Americas effective participation in
the war against Germany.
On the front sheet of this contrl-
button of Mr.. Byrnes appears his
own picture, and on the back page
is pictured President Wilson under
which appears the caption "who eX-
presses regret at tactics of Byrnes'
opponents" Even the letter which
Byrnes has read with such a flourish
from Carter Glass of Virginia con-
tains no such phrase as that which
Byrnes has coined for his w pur-
poses, but Byrnes probably is aware,
nevertheless, of the inner feelings OF
the great man who presides over the
destinies of the American people. he
would lead you to believe that ne
knows that great heart intimately,
Though he fails to tell you why, when
he wanted a letter from the White
House. he knew better than to go
there and ask for it in person, in
spite of the fact that he has been IN
Washington for nearly eight years.
And knowing how keen has been the
Presidents regret, and how his great
heart has ached because the MAI who
denounced his Draft Act as "lntam-
Gus" has been assailed as to his rec
ord, Byrnes has generously and con-
~siderately, made this amend. lie has
printed President Wilson'S picture IN
the same cheap political advertise
ment with his own!
When the great President sees this
splendid attestation of Byrnes' 10y
atty to himself, l have not the slight
est doubt but that all pangs OF regret
that have disturbed his sleep o,
nights, will be salved; for surely the
President, who is a mar Of deep APP
probation, will not be unmlndtul Oh
the honor that Byrnes has done him
in printing his picture along with his
own, though of course in a subordi-
nate position on the back page.
Byrnes has paraded and paraphras-
ed what he claims is President Will
sons approval of his support OF al
war measures" and Of himself. lie
loudly proclaims that he is OF the
chosen and is, the Presidents cholce,
endorsed by the President Tor re-
election; but to show for all this ne