Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-09-27
Wednesday, September "a.
"Blessed is the Peacemaker.' y

ttBlessed is the Peaccmaker.
That Governor Harvey has made
good as chief executive is on the lips
of every person one meets, having
rendered more actual service to the
people during the short time that he
has been governor than any other
governor the state has had in long
time. Ee has busted himself in hither-
to unthcught of ways to serve the
people, always proceeding tactfully,
wisely. and with frmness that has
commanded the highest respect.
Governor Harvey has rendered
Edgefeld county a lasting service in
the role of peacemaker which is
greatly appreciated by our people,
having bcen the means of reconciling
the differences existing between the
sheriff and the supervisor. Instead of
handling the situation in bungle-
some or meddlesome sort of way, he
used his good Offices as governor in a
kindly and fraternal spirit which not
only restored the friendship hereto
fore existing between Mr.. Swearin-
gen and Mr.. Edmunds but he also
won the confidence and lasting
friendship of these two men.
The Governor will not only receive
the scriptural blessing promised
peacemakers but the people of Edge
field county also rise up and call
him blessed.
Let's Have No Recurrence of '76.
History has not yet fully recorded
the horrors and humiliations incident
to the aftermath Of the Civil War in
this state, known among our people
as the days of '76 or the Reconstruc-
tion period. After the battle flag had
been furled and battle-scarred Con-
federate veteran wended his weary
way home or to where his home once
was (now perchance heap of ashes)
he soon realized that there were bat
ties none the less fierce at home to be
fought.
Where fortune once smiled the
carnage of war had left wreck and
ruin. But task as Herculean as that
of rebuilding wasted fortunes was
the establishment of an orderly gov
4ernment from a chaotic condition,
which was largely brought about by
the, reins Of government being placed
sins the hands of an ignorant and un-
developed race. However, those who
suddenly found themselves in authori-
ty were. in the main a kindly people
and the situation would not have been
so aggravated had it not been for the
presence of the scarpet-bagger" and
the 4"scallawag." A detail of the hor-
rors they experienced and the meth
ods employed by our forebears in
throwing off this yoke, than which
yoke history records none more gall
mig to a people, need not be recount
ed here, but the blood of McKie Meri
wether shed upon the altar of his
State at Hamburg and the blood of
Bose Etheredge so ruthlessly spilled
at Phoenix cries to us to take every
possible precaution to prevent re-
currence of these hellish experiences
by condemning disloyalty wherever
it occurs and by stopping the en-
croachment of Tolbertism and Re-
publicanism in South Carolina.
A grievous mistake has been made;
one which should call forth the Sc
yerest criticism and condemnation of
our people. w. G. QUITS and M. A.
Watson, descendants of two very old
Edgefeld families that have had an
honorable part in making history for
Edgefeld county and for South Caro-
lima, have become so closely associat-
ed with Tolbert and his crowd, if
not allied with the Republican party,
as to attend and have their names Of
ficially connected with the State Re-
publican convention. Both of these
men have denied affiliating with the
Republican party but if they had
been true to the faith of their faith
ers, they would have kept as far from
the Republican fold as possible, in
stead of seeing how near they could
get without being branded out-and-
out Republicans.
These men were unwilling to ride
to Columbia in the same coach with