The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-08-25
THE EXPLOSIVE Mr.. ScAIFE'

other extensively gotten up circular
telling us why Senator Smith should
not be reelected. Mr.. Scaife was
asked by someone to act as Commls-
s;oner of Explosives is South Caro-
lima in and during of the war. He
didn't want the job, no siree,' ne
didn't. but he was willing to do the
exploding if his country called him
(Hurrah for Scaife.) What Mr..
Scaife really wanted to GO was to get
where the fighting was tie hottest
and the. bullets the thickest. He ad-
mits that himself. But being SOL
der, nevertheless, he was out to serve
the country wherever caMed.
Knowing of Mr.. Scaife's burning
desire to face the bullets rather than
fill an office back at home, Senator
Smith it seems selected for the Ex-
plosive Commissioner Col. VIM.
Banks, of Columbia, man who
looks like he might explode a great
deal more easily than Mr.. Scaife
thus gratifying the desire of Mr..
Scaife to take shot ''at them Ger
mans"
Now every reasonable person
would have thought that both Mr..
Scaife and Col. Banks would have
been satisfied with the outcome of
the explosive matter and that every
thing would have been love1y and
peaceful, and so it was or appeared
to be, until Senator Smith came up
for reelection, and then it was that
p Mr.. Scaife, although he nae not been
appointed Commissioner of Explo-
sives, imagined himself in that office
and began to explode, and he just
keeps on exploding, though, as stated
last Monday, he doesn't MAKE much
more noise than large paper bag
when it is filled with air an~ "ous:-
ed" or "exploded," we should say by
Son Bill.
As VIC have said the peoP:e are not
Low concerned about who was ap-
pointed Commissioner OF The EXplo-
sives, but they have a vital. interest
in the matter of selecting a suitable
L.t. 70 rep-e:ent us in the United
States Senate.
And they would like to know just
why Mr.. Scaife is doing 80 much ex-
ploding, t.nl who IS iurn:3ling the
explosives? If he got what lie wanted
I'D Was not ivI>e>, - b. ihc Io..:-
E..sa.onc during the var when he
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t.. against Senator Smith: Of course
Mr. Scaifc if he thinks the country
is about to be given the pip by
Senator Smith has a right, and it is
his duty, to come to the front and Of
fer a remedy. But is that what he is
doing? Is Mr.. Scaife as anxious to
serve the state just now as ne is to
serve somebody else, or to punish
Senator Smith for letting him fight:
And what OF his remedy: 1t. is Nj.
George Warren, we believe. Mr.
Warren is busy defending Mir john
C.. Calhoun, who died~a great many
years ago without asking Mr.. War
ren to defend him and his po::cies. III
fact it is not believed by those who
know something Of Mr. Calhoun that,
were he living, he would select Mr..
Warren to defend his cause.
Mr.. Warren tells us that away back
in 1914 he introduced INFO the Gen
eral Assembly the prohibition law
now on the statute books. But what
the people of this state want to
know is whether Mr.. Warren is NOW
for national prohibition, or against
it? They would like to know whether
he would favor an amendment to OF
the repeal of the Volstead Act? We
want Mr.. Warren's position IN 1920,