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


whatever race they may be. Neither
are we prejudiced against the we'll
meaning country-loving negro, who
! prepares himself for the duties Of cit
izenship, owns property, and in every
way behaves himself. The constitu-
ton of the United States demands
nothing for him except what it gives
to the white man, and surely the
white man with equal opportunity
should be able to take care of him
self. There will be no understand
ing" with the negro as long as he is
lawlessly treated, and nobody need
expect it. We say this in full realiza-
ton that our views are not the views
of others, but we would be worse
than cowardly as a newspaper if we
did not speak the truth.
| Good Men and True.
We hope the time has arrived, and
with the advent of the women at the
polls, we believe the time has arriv-
ed, when no unworthy politician need
seek office in any party. If the vote
cast in the recent election means any
thing it means that the women have
not voted as psrtisans, as do the men
! but that they have voted for real men
and principles. They could not stand
Mr.. Cox. Whether you call him the
| barroom politician or the government
! neutrality-suspicious. politician,
every man who reads impartially
knows that the forces which compass
ed his nomination at the San Francis
co Convention are the forces which
would like to foster the legalized sale
of liqnor in this country. Taggart,
Murphy and the rest of the bosses
, who named him are all "wet." The
democratic convention consumed for
! ty barrels of liquor taken from a
! bonded government warehouse before
he was nominated. 1t was therefore
wet.
We take it that the country believes
; Mr.. Bryan to be an honest man and
a we'll informed, if not entirely well
balanced, statesman. He had twice
assisted Mr.. Cox in his CAMPAIGNS in
Ohio, and must have been his friend,
but this year he refused 20 take the
stump for him because .!a declared
Mr.. Cox to be "wet," and that he
was and is. 1t is true t,::at the smart
! candidate said tia the legalized
sale of liquor was as dead as slavery,
but industrial! slavery still lives, and
the liquor forces of this country only
yesterday won a decision from the
United Gates Supreme Court, and
they a::.e fighting everywhere openly,
coversly, by means of the law and in
spite of the law, to again debauch the
land with their product. And we have
reached the point that we shall not
support them or any candidate of
their choosing for any Office from
Coroner to President. If that be
treason we are guilty.
Finally.
The Press and Banner has no OBJ
lection to a white mans party in
South Carolina for the selection of
state officers and for the selection of
local officers. But we refuse to be
bound by national platforms made by
and in the interest of designing poll
ticians which do not express our
views. Unless the democratic party
in South Carolina is willing to aban-
don the iron-clad pledge now requir-
ed of voters binding them to support
the nominees of the democratic par
ty, nominated, as was Mr.. Cox, by
the liquor and other questionable in
terests of the land, and whose can
| didacy was undertaken to be further
! ed by Misrepresentation and SANDER
and not by argument, there are many
men who have cast their last ballot
in the democratic primaries in this
| state. They will prefer to await the
general election and seek an oppor-
tunity to vote for men of principle
there, if they are offered, and if not
to await better day. The editor of
the Press and Banner is of their
number. And when we get ready to