The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-11-12

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TIE misguided to do so. We say
| thetsfore, that the Medium should be
pasaoned for accusing other people
Of having opinions only for patronage
T.cr on account of promises. Its editor
measures them only by his own yard
stick and his hypnotic influence over
the rest. Of the "force" causes them
to do the same.
The men in Abbeville who believe
that Mr.. Harding should have been
elected are business men, as we have
said. They seek no Office and would
accept none. For our own part, and
the Medium refers to us, we are glad
to say that we have always been able
to run our own business and to get
more remuneration and satisfaction
cut of doing so than by seeking or
flee. Besides, We do not believe that a
man who runs a newspaper, even a
county newspaper such as the Medi-
um and Press and Banner, should be
allowed to hold office. A statute in
this state making it a misdemeanor
for the editor, or owner, or part own
er of newspaper (Which undertakes
OF advise the people on matters polit-
ical) to accept public Office of any
kind would meet with the earnest
support of this paper. We think one
of the troubles with the people now is
that in this state and elsewhere they
are being advised by newspapers and
newspaper men with axes to grind,
and with offices to hold, and with
others to seek. The Medium will find
no more willing co-worker than the
Press and Banner if it will advocate
measure along this line. We feel
that we should be content to operate
the leading paper in Abbeville Coun-
ty, to advise the people unseltishly,
to continue to receive just COM
pensaticn for what we give the peo-
pie and to help the community as we
have always tried to do, in all mat
ters, and just now in the building OF
Baptist High School. We think that
if the Medium will be fair it may find
out that most of the other men in this
community who believed Mr.. Hard
ing should be president are men
! whose activities do not carry them
into cffice-seeking.
A Difference in Principle.
We must take issue with the Medi-
um on the statement that both par
ties are at one one on the demo
cratic principle of the Monroe Doc
trine. The democratic party, led blind
ly by Woodrow Wilson, sought To
abandon the good democratic prin'
ciple" of the Monroe Doctrine, and
the people of the United States by a
majority of some seven millions OF
votes kicked him and his party from
'the throne of government" and
turned the protection of this "demo-
cratic principle" over to the republi-
cans. The Medium, too, is far afeld
when it says that the views of the two
parties are practically the same on
the tariff question. Neither Mr.. Will
son, as the leader of the democratic
party nor the democratic party itself,
has never stood for the protection of
American industry and of American
labor against the cheap products and
labor of Europe and Asia. The re-
publican party, and that was one of
/ the planks stressed by Mr.. Harding
in his race, promises that we shall
have under it such a protective tariff
as shall protect the American manu-
! facturer and American labor from
the i'll effects of competition with the
poorest paid labor on earth. We shall
discuss the tariff later in this paper,
because an impersonal discussion of
this and other questions would we
think be profitable to the people of
this County. The people of this state
have been fed by the partisan news
papers of the state on cries OF "pat-
ronage" and "nigger" long enough.
They are entitled to hear the prob
lens Of this country discussed freely
and fairly and as far as we are able
to do so, we expect to inform them of