The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1919-10-01

the Greenville Daily News sent out
an interesting comment Monday on
the political situation in South Caro-
lima as it appears from Washington.
The correspondent hedged himself
about SO as to make no definite pre-
diction, but managed to bring into the
limelight many Of the possible candi-
dates for senatorial and congressional
honors. The Advertiser reprints the
story in full for the entertainment Of
It's readers, as follows:
Washington, Sept. 2s.-Some new
congressional timber is to be added to
the political woodpile in South Caro-
lima when the elections Of next year
come off, wise ones fresh from that
section have reported in Washington
recently and some that are barely con-
sidered now may come to the front be-
fore the race is ended.
Two rcent vacancies in South Caro-
lima those from the sixth and sew
eral patronage and pie connected
Herewith, have apparently whetted
the congressional appetites on the Pal
metto State.
No one hereabouts seems to be anx-
ious to even hazard a guess as to who
is willing to take good licking by op-
posing Senator e. d. Smith OH the
hustings next summer. Since the time
at Anderson, some five years ago,
when the senator had his picture talk
en- standing on top of good five hun
drcd pound bale of cotton he has ap-
parently put his competitors out Of
the running
OF course no one here knows what
Is going to be done in this race, but
it is much easier to enter and put up
the necessary fees and make a cam
paign through the forty-siX counties
of the state than 1t tSto get decision
at the hands OF the people, and ap-
parently this will be the position Of
some Of the candidates after they
have mixed up with Senator Smith
and his adherents for a month or
more. But the field is big and free
to those who wish to enter as the Sena-
torial seat in Washington belongs, it
must be remembered, to the man with
the longest pole.
Here are some predictions regard
ing the House situation, and they
may come true or they may not, but
at least they are worth watching.
In the first dis,,ict the race will
probably be between Richard s.
Whaley and w Turner Logan. the
latter the law partner Of John p.
Grace.
The second district will probably
show James #. Byrnes and one OF his
opponents, George l.. Toole, while the
third district will be fighting ground
again. In this district 1t Is said that
Representative Dorlinick will have
very severe test Of his ability to hold
on to his Washington job. The friends
OF former Congressman Wyatt Aiken,
it is said, still desire to see him back
in the House and will insist that he
make the fight again in the 1920 prim-
aries, and in addition. it has been said
here for some time that Captain Henry
c. Tillman, son Of the late Senator
'Tillman, will take the stump and en-
deavor to break Dominick's hold in
Washington. There may be one or
two others, but these are the most
prominent. ~, !. ~ @
The fourth district will be fighting
ground again. With the retirement Of
Congressman Sam j. Nichols, after |
several years service in the House as
the successor to the late Judge j. r. |
johnson, tho man who gets this place |
will know that he has been in fight |
when it is over. The way the matter
stands now, 1t Is this way, with the |
following probable line up: Captain |
j. j. McSwain, soldier and lawer, |
Greenville David B. Traxler, real
estate man, Greenville; ". l.. Bomar,
lawyer, Spartanburg; Captain w. r.
Richey, Jr., Laurens. soldier and
lawyer; Major c. c. Wychc, Spartan
burg soldier and lawyer.
IT viii! thus be seen that Of the four
counties which make up the fourth |
district, Spartanburg, Laurens, Green
Vile and Union, all will probably have
candidates except Union and that !
county may be hoard from yet.