Aiken Standard from Aiken, South Carolina • Page 1

A CONVENTION SETTLES NO ISSUES AND ADVANCES NO CANDIDATES SOUTH CAROLINA GAZETTE Politics Fails Get Muck Encouragement at Stale Democratic! Defeated by Combination of Circumstances. John Aull. i lurabia attorney, for re-election 1 state the CT-LUMBLV. The partyTby the meant e. convention brought the nhi nd ittle more In the tirt place of course there were "mighTy good men pitted -against Ben T.

Leppard tJ'fisefivi Murdaugh of Ham'pton, Leppard be- but there were no issues nor there any candi- in- state races advanced. II races retarded, nobody heard about it. that could been, set State Senator H. Kemper Cooke, fe lot. Sapp was caug-ht between tyro wave's that rolled in upon the bottom of the Red Sea along: He continued his silence as-to his.

political i wa's state pre-convention manager He said he might have for Roosevelt, a 'something to say in a few days. That to Chicago with un- was as far as he would go. The sat- der the unit rule solidly for bet is that "he-will not be in the Roosevelt for the nomination. He he- enter-the-race, thefcamo" waters will considerably muddied because of the entry of the Jim Farley -as his guest. He and Farley are close personal friends." 8app is! senator 'from Horry, but because of also in the the complications which his entry if one may judge by surface appear-j wbulr; bring about.

Senator Cooke ha? disavowed ances here. Then came the tioTi nrbership in the Farmers and Tax-i cn of last November. Folks back ini League, or espousal of its! tne provinces had been fighting for! as such. but ffi'rpienHvj ''eiK-al taken the floor in the senate to fighting against it. The laUei fend its policies.

He is regarded gun-1 brought Dr. G. E. Burls over here eraiiy as a defender of the league, i f'' 0111 Georgia. Doctor Hurts is aj and the league has counted him South Carolinian, but was at.

that! such. On the other hand, there a.ro'i tilni r' serving the big Mucoii Baptist league members who do He is ser-j not -want to see him in the Church St. Matthews, in th s' toria; race, and have told sta 1 ut that aside. was do-i Tbe particular members to whicn his best to carry South Caro-; reft is made here have, another i ma the repeal plank in the Chi-' in mind whom they think platform, as were others in the CRAWL. Price 5 DROUGHT IN WEST EFFECTSJWmCS of SKoots Doing 'hat Has Worked for in- Vain.

WASHINGTON tlrtvwsttm-irr Wirahnigttrar ut this -writing is- nothing the Administration or Congress or anyone else hud anything to do with. It belts. The drought is political in its effects, because- it has apparently what the Administration- bcen attempting to do by political methods; that is, reduce the supply" of to avert, a surplus and rmise. the price. Instead of -operating; through" 1 the-political machinery aF' the A A took a hand and a crop" the old reliable short-cut method.

Physical evidence -of the drought was brought to President Roosevelt by tbe air route. dust storm which darkened the on the At- ftte grains of grit from North Dakota and the rest of the prairie, states forming a clou-1 over the Kast, left plentv of dirt on i there is going to be a fight. Tin; Rev. Dr. ('.

K. Hurts, executive have a much better chance ni HIS flection, and who they think would 1 They thought they, had Ihe fight-' view affairs very much as they I won. There was a repeal" llry itl llth v-w organization. Then, a few day, ilUnn Ytfl wf 'the state convention; he and others, r.at. however, is all gucs-s work, November Sapp invited his' i i i i 1 organising for the cnmnaign this v.

tivthmir else, now, fdlowntic the, l-arley down here, to make jMimmcr. on the prohibition On of the convention to brim' A Ior repeal. It was a oig meet. i the other hand, the wet.s THIS WEEK BY BRISBANE i i i i i i Hie other haml. the wol.s are fortn anything bevomi a plethora held in tin- township was mUlv all it' urn.

Governor Se 0 nf 1 primary, without the restrict ions of couni (to, It was a gathering rnes and others were there. It; i Kent-nil election, thev will win n' some of the ablest men in South natural move. Hut there weroj, Car? tin. It clmne as its temporary in the ranks of the wet-; and keynoter, in the person think so well of such a 'hands, dow.n. A prophecy would be.

Thrri' hr.vr. neon tiiree of Former Judge Mendel staged by Sapp in tbe T'" S.m:;'n of Otmden. one of the abi-st int of the campaign, it I i011 i -M I illman governor the most eloquent gentlemen, no! wtiat you will, they telt their iii 'OIKS voted for prohibition a coii- omy in Carolina, but in the dom- barm. Repeal .4 in t. sidi-raiiu' majority; nut Tihittjiti and' It.

Hiose as permanent 1 1 by. three thou- dent the of the house of -and votes. The vote was a total numiier of nrohi- J. n. Gibson Djt.

oiection vote ami was very light. liitton not a maiontv of chose state cbamnan Hen At the state convention'Sapp had iV( in lt lim .01 an ati.or- jj plat- of tbe "drys." That, not nu-an its to the that all the drys voted Sapp. vV whl( Democracy; and then- Kdgofield. under the unit rule, ll( as it had to because instance, for him an-l else for it to da. exeept if vhere over was tm that send, 1I its exeetitivi 'la oecatii'- 01 deletions down hen-, that Th( in Vi a campa.gn Uinerary for county tie othe- -n-ium and other hand.

with her eight, vote )u eighteenth am-ndm-nt ofnces this Mimmer. a "wet" county --though '-uid" -J'eV itl lw -here. stoo.i on a w-t si winning them to carry was not aue.tioned Sanp three' tho'sand Th, cum no Atlas was developed. The only Wt Sap general submitted a.narr.ow margin, and the rhair- 1 tiu P' 1 1 in a went to Greenville. Tuesday in jn rh iiy jr vija art'.

Tav'r' is of the eonvenllon. took' who wa, tr the f.rst Democratic prirnarv say waji and tliat out mo-i re- "Ulee. thus i-1 er of the '-I oi dlSCUS-loll i ii- I. mors that he niight run for govern-ir. is in" of course whevU wit'i.

There are. a many mentioneti the n.V v. neeis. There not only a state federal hanging fire were report, h- u--. i i this Mimmer.

but there arolina, and r-pecuiation i'or ar.uti-! riau Justices to be chosen rife with regard to Sapp in general As a lion with po-j; 1( i- 1- a fact, there is a chief in with di.ia -h' i -io--en and one associate whom the two -or. jv.iti,-.-. r.ppr-ars on the surface, hut j. have proposed. i co that (e The ti.at ir Staler of St.

Mat- tention to the chiei mean i 1 1" raee 1 ill be I'lr, oi Chi'-f Kuirejie i effective in OctoVr. into ve vavaiit by iatei me a--. 1 of Jn-tice ly in; 11 HI 1 of ilie. H. -n'a: r'; i and HI- -i- Vs i Ir pro-.

"i i-' i i aciii-Ht 1 have- r.iaik- up i. their S.i.'lot.- i.T;»;t- ir- a i -vhi-K-y t. rui I' 'or Speaker .1, i. i a- ill 1.1:'- M. i .1.

i ft, the roof and porticoes of While House itself. Two Views of Dust ('loud. There are two ways of looking this dust cloud and wjiai it may signify politically. To om- group of 'thinkers it is tbe "cloud biggin- than a man's liand," as Klijah saw of old. To tlioso HO i minded, it signifiis (he beginning 1 of the end of the Agricultural Ad- inini 'tiatton program.

To he sure, the wii-h is in great tbe father of thought, hi.it those wbu not like the principio the AAA are not all of them, by any niean-j. the 1'resident's political Many of them think it. wa a program wlsheil on him by These people believe j-tha!" the after a year Hi evperience with eVerv variety of M'hftn- to jio'ilaitig'of' (he fliicaiMTy-' and -kul- 1 of national it pLiye.j hen-, i-i not iitclit-vd to i'-'len to uplil'ti-rs or nation-suver-' "i- other I'olK ho have i-i-mi-iiie-i rill that 1 he- talk tliat way willing i.i ak'iee tliat the I tilted State: "a producing nnu-S; uid a market ''oj ,1, the re. in prineiplt i that manrm-i! 1 An.i i a i- 1 i a not vv bi. i-s Th-y -ay.

wa; ARTHUR BRISBANE WRITES FOR THIS NEWSPAPER.