The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1920-05-27
POOR RWAYTOBREAk
THE SOLID SOUTH"
EVERY ATTACK BY MADDEN ON
CONFEDERATES HURTS G. 0. p.
Burchard is Emulated.
Makes His Displays in Connection
With Arlington Memorial
Amphiteater.

that the chance of "breaking the solld
South" in the coming presidential
campaign is really good, and they
are pointing with glee to the actlon
of the Georgia Democratic state con-
vention, which refused to indorse the
Wilson administration or the league
of nations.
One of these impulsive prognostl-
Gators was holding forth orally the
other dav when he was brought to a
dead standstiu by listener who IN
terrupted to say:
Look here, B, don't kno"
how far you are right or wrong IN
assuming that the south might break
on league of nations or the perpetual
ton of what you call wisconsin, but
T can tell you that any such chance
which has existed is pretty thoroughly
destroyed if you can't squelch your
'bloody-shirt wavers' like Congress-
man Madden, of Illinois. Every time
Madden attacks the heroes OF the
Lost Cause'-and he seems to be do
ing this every day or two noW-the
soliditv of the south is strengthened
and insured.'
The comment took so much Of the
"pep'' out of the dissertion on the
breaking of the solid south that the
original speaker changed the subject
Arlington Memorial Affair.
Representative Martin Madden, OF
Illinois, is a member of the Republl,
can steering committee Of the House
This committee has been character
lied as a little "millionaire's club,
as three or four of it's five members
are reputed to be exceedingly veal
thy.
Madden has for years made a spe,
cialty of attacking the south. His
present activity is apropos of the
names of military heroes inscribed on
the Memorial Amphiteater at Airing
ton, Va, the former home of the Lee
family of Virginia just across the Po'
tomac from Washington, beautiful
memorial amphitheater.
The amphitheater was built under
act Of Congress, which placed the su'
pervision of the structures complet'
inc in the hands of a commission
composed of the Secretaries of Wal
and the Navy, superintendent Elliott
Woods, of the Capitol building anc
grounds; Col. John McElroy, repre-
senting the G. A. R.; Capt. FREQ
Beall, representing the United Con
federate Veterans; Capt. Charles
Newton, the Spanish War Veterans
and Col. C. S. Ridley, U. S. A., ex
ecutive officer. 1t was held by thu
commission that under the statute
governing the subject the names O.
Confederate heroes could not be in
scribed on the memorial.
The ruling has caused great dea
of feeling among Southerners, ant
some of them in Congress have takeI
occasion to criticize the omission O.
the names of Lee, Jaskson and otheI
great Confederate chieftains. Whe1
he has been present on these occas
ions, Madden has interrupted to asl
the speakers if they believed tha
men who had been TRAITORS to thei
country ought to be honored on ;
memorial intended for those wht
died in their country's defense. Pan
demonium has followed this ugl,
talk, and words which have not ap
peared in the Congressional Recort
have been freely applied.
Better No Names at All.
In the meanwhile there is pending
in each branch of Congress a join
resolution to authorize the inclusion
of the names of Confederate heroe
among the Arlington inscription, bu
it has been impossible to get thes
resolutions reported from the com
mittee to which they have been re
ferred.
In the House case the resolution
was offered by Gen. Sherwood, al
Ohio Democrat, who is a distinguish
ed federal veteran, but the chairma!
of the library committee, Represen
tative Gould, of New York, says tha
his committee will not be able to re
port on the matter before the comm
recess of Congress. Mr.. Gould per
sonally expresses the opinion ,tha
there should not have been any name
at all on the Arlington Memorial, an
in that case he may be right.
At each side Of the stage at tn