Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-08-10

Dial gave to the press a staIement
in explanation of the reason for
BLOCKING my confirmation, among 9TH
err things he said: "He appreciated
very much the assistance Mr.. Thur
mond had rendered him in the last
campaign, and yet at the same time
he was under prior obligations to
friends who had aided him on for
mer occasions = s. = =" And the
newspaper article concluded, "Sena-
tor Dial announced that he would ask
the Senate to confirm the nomination
of Mr.. Thrumond and hoped the mat
ter would be disposed of at an early
day." but this interview was a tissue
of deception and insincerity, for he
knew then that his time for helping
me had passed.
My nomination was held in the
committee for months but my Repub-
lican successors nomination was con-
frmed within a few days after it was
made.
I made no effort directly or indi-
rectly, to obtain the assistance of
Mr.. Joe Tolbert, the Republican Ref
cree, for he owed me nothing and the
Republican. party owed me nothing
I.l-l-
and would not be put in the attitude
of owing them anything.
"Never would / crook the preg-
nant hinges of the knee that thrift
may follow fawning."
In the interview given by Senator
Dial in December, 1920, he stated
that his first information was erro-
neous as to Mr.. Thurmond's position
as to the question of opening the
lists for the entry of new candidates
in the Senatorial race, after the death
of Senator Tillman. This statement
is positively untrue, for he had the
facts as to my attitude as to that
situation when the Executive Com
mittee passed on the question and
discussed it fully with me while he
was at Edgefeld during the cam
paign.
1 leave Senator Dial, the greatest
political accident the state ever had,
to revel in his own littleness, bitter
ness and arrogance.
White Supremacy Paramount.
In my opinion, the much discussed
effort to organize a new Republican
party in the state, to be composed en-
tirely of white people will meet an
ignominious failure, as it should do.
Some criticize President Wilson for
the dehation of commodities at the
end of his last term. This criticism
is unjustiied for President Wilson
did not debate, the Federal Reserve
Board did that. President, Wilson
stood by the South during his whole
administration and hereafter the
pages reciting his achievements will.
be regarded the brightest in Ameri-
can history.
It must be admitted that the defa-
ton policy of the Federal Reserve
Board has come nigh bankrupting the
whole country and especially the
South-the fact is, many good men
have been ruined and can come
back in a business way, while others
will be able in time to retrieve their
lost fortunes. During the initiation of
this defation policy and for the re-
mainder of the Wilson administra-
ton, President Wilson was a very
sick man, and I believe his son-in-law,
Mr.. McAdso, a great inancier, ex-
pressed President Wilson's views
when he took sharp issue with the
Federal Reserve Board. What COM
fort can these Democrats, estranged
from the Democratic party because
of the defation policy of the Federal
Reserve Board, get from the Repub-
lican Party which has continued the
defation policy, and President Har-
ding has even retained in office the
Democratic Governor of the Federal
Reserve Board, and it is understood
that President Harding sympathizes
with the action of that board? We
all know that the tremendous increase
in taxation and other public demands.
and the high cost of living, necessi-
tate a reasonable price for labor and
commodities-both initiation and de-
fation should be within reasonable
limits. 1 think the time has come for
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