The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1920-08-14
j. ]. MSWAIN REVIEWSD D. B. TRAXLER'S
VIEWS OF POLITICAL CONDITIONS


Let the people remember that
like David B. Traxler personally. and
he knows well how he rushed to me
Tor assistance at a certain critical
point in his campaign four years apo
and how l openly and publicly assist,
ed him, for which I have a letter of
thanks. 1t is not personal matter
1t is tremendous issue, and one in
which the white people Of the South
are vitally concerned. The trouble
is that my friend, Mr.. Traxler. has
simply stumbled and blundered into a
proposition that at first blush. and
spperficially y, seemed to him would be
good vote getting proposition, and
he did not turn the proposition Over
in his mind to see what the effect
would be when the Republicans Oct
in power at Washington.
"Not only is Governor Cox of Ohio
opposed to interference and depend
ency by the States upon the Federal
government in educational matters
but DR.. Claxton, the United States
Commissioner of Education, is
against it. John E. Swearingen, our
State superintendent of education. ia
against it, and A. F. Lever, former
member of congress, is against it.
"Not only did Traxler propose to
turn over the schools to the national
government, but later he also
"launched y his National Warehouse
System, whereby he proposes for the
warehouses throughout the nation.
and this national system of ware.
houses is opposed by J. Skottowe
Wannamaker, president of the Ameri-
can Cotton Association, John L. Nc
Laurin, our first state warehouse
commissioner, B. Harris, our present
commissioner of agriculture, and A.
F. Lever. Will anybody endorse Mr..
Traxler's system of warehouses? If
not, what is the matter? Why are
people afraid of his warehouse sys-
tenn, as they are of his educational
system?
"The answer is plain; we people Of
the South cannot afford to put our
eggs in the national basket. We have
only Ia of the votes in congress, and
we have racial and economic condi-
tions that our States can protect us
in, but the Nation might destroy us.
1t is the old story of the lion and the
lamb, with the lamb inside. Mr.. Trax-
Ter says that States Rights is a
dead issue He says this is not a day
for musty souls to look through the
darkened and cramped vision of the
dead past But he will find that this
States Rights proposition, which he
says is dead, is the livest corpse he
ever saw and that some who think it
dead will be mortally wounded on
August 81, or crippled politically for
"Mr. Traxler tells the people in ev-
cry campaign speech I have heard
him make this year that he made mis-
takes four years ago and two years
ago, but that he is now better and
wiser and he seems to think that he
is at last the political companionship
that suits him, and seems happy with
his new political bed fellows.
But respecting the soundness of
his political prophesies' the people
remember that four years ago he said
with large letters and loud mouth that
Sam Nichols is beat and he don't
know it,, but Nichols beat Traxler
Fifteen Thousand Votes. Two years
ago Traxler said with the same large
letters and the same loud mouth that
Horace Bomar is not considered in
the race, but Nichols and Bomar
again beat Traxler fifteen thousand
votes. Merely because Bomar was
only four hundred and twenty-five
votes ahead of Traxler, Traxler
SioihlS RdlIS. IL Is ike
the case of the boy who always stood
next to head in his class, but there
were only two in the class.
'If TraXler admits and apologies
for the mistakes of his races of 1916
to explain away the mistakes he has
made this year 1920 in suggesting a
national system of education and a
national warehouse system, whereby
white supremacy and Southern eco
nomlc independence would be endan-
gered and finally estroyed. l con-
cede that Traxler's mistake of 1920
is one of the head and not of the
heart. He has blindly blundered into
something that he is trying to escape
from. But l ask the people to go
back to his platform itself published
at huge expense in every newspaper
in the district and scattered broad
cast at every public gathering, some
of them religious, some of them fra
ternal, and some of them social.
eff during his residence in Wash
ington for much of the time during
the past four years, and his intimate
association with national democratic
leaders, as he himself tells us, he is
now not able to see the consequences
white supremacy, then how does he
expect the people of the district to
give him a chance to make good
when here before he is electd, with
campaign managers and assistant
managers, millionaire plutocrats and
'the nations foremost thinkers to adj
wise him and keep him straight, he
has made the most monumental blum
der that any Democrat, North or
South, ever pulled off.-(Adv.)