The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1918-07-25

Mr.. Byrnes asked his competitors
if they would enlist in the army to
prove their patriotism. None but
Mr.. Toole replied, he saying that he
was willing to do so. Much laugh
ter was provoked at Mr.. Toole's ex-
pense when Byrnes said Then why
the devil haven't you done it?" Mr..
Croft, he said, had written Mr.. Lever
asking him to get him a good job
in the army, but none of them had
ever attempted to enlist in the army.
If defeated, said Byrnes, he would
Immediately enlist his services in
the army, and would not try to get
fat job.
He is asking for reelection be-
cause he believes it his solemn duty
to do so, as the country needs men
in congress who enjoy the confidence
of the president, who he said had
been sent this country by the AL
mighty. Defeat me and send word
to the kaiser that you have refused
to reelect man who has voted with
President Wilson 1874 times out of
1874; nothing would please him
more" Great applause followed
Byrnes from the stand, and most of
the crowd also followed him. Ten
or fifteen men and some ladies
and children, remained on the pa
vilion to hear Mr.. Toole, who made
the closing address of the day.
Take 'Tanlac'' and Live Forever.
Mr.. Toole labored under very
great disadvantage throughout his
speech. He had evidently become
greatly upset during Byrnes's speech,
and had not succeeded in calming
himself when he arose to speak. He
vociferated angrily to Mr.. Byrnes
to stay on the stand land take your
medicine" and when Byrnes did not
heed his timely advice, he took VEN
geance by calling him "slacker," :"
"pro-German,' coward" and a few
other endearing and fondly affection
ate pet names, and proclaimed to
the world that Byrnes was a beat
man and he knew it. Mr.. Toole
came armed with "the record" vol
uminously bound in couple of
books so big that it required an
assistant to handle them, but he did
not take the people sufficiently into
his confidence to read any from them.
The speaker lost no time in pre-
liminaries, contenting himself with
personal reference that he came of
valiant forbears. He then literally
"waded" into the record of Congress-
man Byrnes, first accusing him of
thinking he was the only patriot in
the second district. His opposition
to the draft law, said Mr.. Toole, was
only small part of his vile record
as misrepresentation" of the dis
trict. He said that Byrnes had al
ways fooled the people of the dis
trict, but that he would not do it
again. He indicated that if the
people wanted to be saved from dire
calamity they had to beat Jim
Byrnes. He quoted Golfers as say
ing that Byrnes had been absent from
the house for about one-fourth of his
time, and he figured that the con-
gresham owed the people of the
second district huge sum of money,
which he should rebate to them.
Mr.. Toole defed Mr.. Byrnes to
show "by the record" where he had
ever introduced and had passed any
bill of bentft to the people of the
whole country; and said that all his
bills were little local affairs. He
charged Byrnes with "disloyalty,"
and said he had "the record to
prove it. He did not read from the
record, however. He took a special
fling at Byrnes because the latter had
declined his invitation to debate the
"questions" propounded last fall. All
he had said in his newspaper adver-
tisements was the truth, "and more,'
he said, and he is going to have his
record printed and broadcasted
throughout the district. Had moth
ing to apologize for for exposing"
Byrnes-in fact he is due much
credit for having done so. Said
Byrnes could not stand the gaff and
had run off the stand.
Mr.. Toole confined his speech al
most entirely to the alleged faults
of the incumbent. The people we're
left to draw their own conclusions
as to his own ability to serve them
in congress. He did not offer any
reasons therefor. He varied from
the other attacks on ByrneS, by going