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T TT ? ! M ( Polit Icul Advertisement. ) To the Voti=r;j of tho Tlihd District: Tho scurrlllous attack made on me by one J. M. Huker, formerly of Lowndosvllto, 8. ('., but now or V.'iiflli ington, D. C, through the column* of the Newberry Herald and NeWF iH. H. Aull s paper), makes it nucc?Min for me to use this method of repij ing to tho falac and slanderous char; , thut havo been made. I know thut this at tack will do me no harm ;>inong the people who know Maker, and I ask those who do not know him and his reputation for truth and veracity to make sonic inquiries. If they will ask tho people of Abbeville und An derson, they will soon find out the kind of man that ho Is. If they will ask ills own relatives they will be told an interesting but rather sicken, ing story of n note'for JIO.OUO. which was afterward compromised for 000 or $;j,r.ou. if they will ask Maker's classtnau-s at Wofford College they will be told why he left that institu tion. They will find mine Illuminating information concerning him in the court records at Abbeville, and today they will find other information as to his business methods in the rec ouls of the courts In the District of Columbia. While I believe his attack vHI not lui*" me In the District, 1 feel thut I owe it to myself and to my friends to take some notice of it. A SLIMY TRAIL. At tho opening campaign meeting at Nowborry, when Mr. Dominlck was making a garbled and misleading statement.as to my record In Con gress, I said that I believed ho had secured his information "from one Jan?es M. Baker, the grandest rascal that ever lived in Abbeville, a man whom row in his neighborhood would hAlloye/' or,, worda to that ?? lebt. I believed ihdn, 2nd ! k?nv nc?w\ that Baker bad been furnishing Domi nlck with misinformation concerning my record, and I will prove it. I*et any intelligent man read Baker's ar ticle nnd Dorninick's speech, .both of which are published In the same Issue of the 'Newberry paper, and he will at oncq_.soo that both; came from the same source. The proof will be con vincing even to a blind man. Baker and Dominlck havo the reputation of being pretty shrewd, hut they have .not been able to cover their tracks here. THE M'CALLA CAMPAIGN. Baker says the cause of my ill-will tpwnrd him is that he supported the late lamented I. H. McCalla in his Campaign - against me. That is not true, as Baker very, well knows, but it. Is a fact that In tbr.t Cam paign ho fought me moat unfairly. 1 have, no malice against Baker, but I do havo a very thorough contempt for hirst. Mr. McCalla and my self had p. hot race for congress. It was a man's fight, but there was no foul work on. his part, and thero was nono on mlno. Wo never, lost respect for each other. I had his friendship boforo ho died, and I.valued it highly. I bo ,!!y*v he voted, for mo alter he quit running himself. HOW BAKER LANDED. Bak'*r says I opposed his election as Secretary of the United States Senate. I did do that, and ray only regret la that my effortB were not successful. I acted from a high senao of duty, 1 know him to bo thoroughly . unworthy to hold such a high posi tion of trust, and it was my duty as .a. public servant, responsible in some degree'for good government and for haying clean men in office, to try to Prevent his ?Inn!Ion. f Hid not te!! ! Senator Marttno about Raker'* con nection with a discreditable bank ruptcy proceeding. If Senator Mar tine heard of that he got It fr-un ?orne Other source. But I did tell Senators Martine, as I (old other Senators, of some of Baker's shady transactions, learned that somo. of the Senators wer? put in possession of certain testimony In the Investigation of the Sully failure, in which It was shown that that gambling concern had been carrying, an account for Baker with: out requiring him to put up margins when asked tho reason for this one of the firm replied In substanco, "Oh, Bokor was In a position where ho could give us Information, about leg islation and help us. It was worth It." This testimony is a part of the pub lic records of the courts ol New Tory;?!ty and is accessible to any body .who wants to-see it. I submit that the' man who did this Is . unworthy to hold a position , of trust In the senate of tho United States or In any other body of honest men. B?kerat. onetime compromised his debts for ten cents on the- dollar. Many, an honest man has failed and has afterwards, when he got able, paid all his dobta with Interest, but nobody ever beard of Baker doing this: People who had money in the defunct, bank, at lvowndesvillo will not give such tcaltmohy. It is common, talk around the toi / at Washington that Baker elected1 Secretory of'the Senate as a sorti of ^consolation ;5r!?s to Scatter Tillman. Senator TU ira an wanted to bo chairman of, the cotamittee on ap propriation*, nod his colleagues were not1 wlUrSg for him to have it; Bak er ^atf a candidate for ; Secretary, and It was generally known that he haa'tb?S a sprt. ?f. Handy Andy for the ,-Senal?fr. servile and' eager, ol capl-'| was ways ready .to fb tch and. carry. Son a-; tAr'i'Tlllraan had, endorsed him for] the Secretaryship, out of. gratitude and out of bis well known 'disposition her'was a. partisan of Butler and w yw^to^^^'.'The are a good many pcoplo who remem her hearing Bake? apiily the of iehlthets to Till man and f*', : followers. But when, Tlllman,, elected t? tho Sonate, and came:.'.'. Watfilnston .''ajrt"' pecain? a power. (tic situation did not change as quick ly tin linker changed. He worked him Hflr into Tllliiiiin'a good graces; he was "Quick lo bend the pregnant hinges of the knee Hint thrift might follow fawning." And now, after having been taken care of for all these years, he has be trayed Ills benefuctorjn Iii? old age, at a time when gratitude would have been the compelling motive in a de cent man's heart. Judas Iscurlot sold his Master for thirty pieces of sliver, but Judas repented. Many people will recall the fact that when A. C. Latlmcr first run for con gress Haker fought him most outra geously, and ridiculed the idea of a plain farmer like Latlmer being elect ed to such a position. Yet when Lat lmer was elected,?and begnu climbing toward the pinnacle that he after wards reached, Haker quickly became a sycophant and was never so happy us when basking in I^utimer's shadow. A8 TO IMMIGRATION Dotnlnick's man Baker accuses me of having favored unrestricted immi gration, and of having Introduced a bill with this end in view. The truth is, an both ought to know, thnt I have always opposed unrestrlctetd immi gration, and that the bill I Introduced was for the purpose of restricting and weeding out the immigration that threatened to come to South Carolina. My bill was to establish an Informa tion Bureau at Ellis Island, where most of the immigrants coming to tbis country are lauded, with competent ofllccrs in charge, who could look over tho incoming immigrants, and. after selecting those suited to our people, give them information as to the op portunities and advantages to be found with us. We do need more white, people in South Carolina, to ..'.'Pjilar.t the worthless und danger ( Qi:r nSfirOflS on tho forma ?nH n; lo. I borers', and If we can get some of the thrifty people from Germany It will be a blessing to us and* to them. Some of the best people that we have in the Third, djatilet .are descended from immigrant fathers and mothers. They are ih Oconee, and Anderson, and Newberry, and In every county in the district. Nobody wants pauper labor,, except perhaps a few mill presidents, and a few large land owners who are noted for swindling their tenants. The people of the Third district, in the mill villages and everywhere else, know my position as,to immigr?t loin, and this eleventh-hour He will not hurt mo. In a recent speech I stated my.position on Immigration so clearly that no one except Baker and Dotal nick misunderstood it. I defeated Mr. .'ricCalla on that very Issue. It is charged that I did nothing In support of tho Burnett Immigration bill, to restrict immigration, in the Sixty-second Congress. On Jan. 17, 1913, when tho motion to lay the com ference report on the table came up, I was abEcnt. I was also absent when tho motion was made to recommit the report. When the next vote came up agreeing to the conference report, on Jan. 25, 1913. I was present and was recorded as voting Yea. The biil passed and was sent to President Taft, who votoed It. On Feb. 1?. 1913. there was a vote on the passage of the biil over the President's veto, and I was present and voted Yea. Tho Congressional Record will cheerfully prove Baker to be a liar if he will turn to page 3429, Sixty-second Con gress, third session. THE PURE FOOD LAW It Is charged that 1 voted against tho pure food bill. This is another half-truth, which is worse than out right falsehood. When the bill came before the house I objected to it be cause It invaded the rights of the states. The bill, as it. stood then, would have taken away from the states all their rights and powers In the administration of their health laws and regulations. As a demo crat I could not stand [or that, and I voted against It, giving, my reasonr for doing so. Other democrats who voted with me were AdamBon and Bartlelt of Georgia, Burleson of Tex an . (now postmaster general), John Shk.-p Williams of Mississippi (now Senator). Candlor of Mississippi, Oar rett of Tennessee Gillcsple of Texas, Henry of Texas, Hill and Humphreys of Mississippi. Moore, Russell and Sheppnrd (mow Senator) of Texns, Sherley of Kentucky, and. Smith of Texas. That was pretty good compa ny, was It not? The bill passed the House and went to the'Senate, where the objectionable features, were 'stricken out. and when It came back to the House I voted for It, as did the - others, end It became a law. I have no apologies to make for my record on that bill. AS TO THE SPEECHES .Baker make the insinuation that I have not, written the speeches that I have made In Congress, that I have ] had to get somebody else to prepare . Uaom for. me. It Is rather fatiguing j to have to answer such a charge. I : have, not made as many speeches as same other memb-ir?. end perhaps they have .not bvsn as brilliant m Bomo others, but at any rate they have been mine, AND BAKER KNOWS IT. Bskcr says the late Zach ??cGu?e told htm of having furnished me with material for a Speech. Zach '/AcQhee was' my friend. He was a gv'utleman, and I don't believe hn ev*r spent much Urn? in Bsker's compatv. It Is' i characteristic of Baker to try to prove a'.falsehood by a dead man. Sorna years ?Sefbro his death Zach McGhee took a trip through 'England; add wrote a series of. very interesting n?rwsnaper- articles telling of btt ex* ' perlenes? ?n^ observations among the laboring people.of that country, : particularly with . reference to wjig??" and tho cost of living, and the differ* ?Hees in this country because of the high tariff,., t took some of th?se let ters and read them lato ine Congres- . Jional Record, giving Mr. McGhee oil .credit f of- them. This was bot a speech, nt ftl)rand dity sot pr?tend to ? of some very valuable data collected ; by Mr. Medice Tor the benefit of the lie, but was merely the Introduction iiiemberH of Congress, as the tariff wob then an issue. Those who would like lo see the proof that Haker has lied about this, as about'other things, I may consult the Congressional Rec ord of the second session of the Six ty-first Congress, pages 35Gfj to 3574 inclusive. Every two years the democratic campaign committee Issues a Cam- . palgn Handbook, for use in the piv otal districts, and for the guidance of Democratic speakers and editors during the campaign. This hand book has been issued five times since I have been in Congress, and three times it has contained speeches deliv ered by nie on tho floor of the House. I would not detract from the honor or glory of any other man, but I do not believe that any other member of Congress has been thus honored by his coll?gues duting the ten years, that I have been in the House. I make.no claims to gifts of oratory, but when I do speak or write I have som?thing to say and I tell the truth straight from the shoulder, ob I am doing now. A3 TO ABSENTEEISM. It is charged that I have been away from the House a great deal while it has been in session, that out of 991 roll culls I was absent 253 times. Charges of this kind bave been made against members of Congress ever since we have had a congress. I havo not taken the trouble to verify the figures as given by Baker, but, as suming that they ore correct, which I doubt, I am surprised that I was re corded as voting so many times. The record is a good one, even as they state it. Ab everybody knows, it has been a custom in Congress from time immemorial for members to pair with each other. When a member is obliged to be absent, for illness or for any other reason, he gets a member of th? opposite party to pair with him, and then neither will vote until the absent member returns and the pair Is broken. This is a courtesy that all members of Congress extend to each other. I have had to be away, * from the House occasionally, while it was in session, on account of Illness of myself or members of my family, or on public business, and I bave near ly always been paired. I have been in the House a great many times when a vote was taken, and have refrained , from voting, bocause I was paired with some absent member. The pairs , are shown in the Congressional Ree- , ord, but not in the Journal of the House. If. Dominlck and'his hench man, Baker, had wanted to be fair j they would bave quoted" from theJtec ord. and not from tub Journal, and , would have told the truth about the pairs. THE CHAIRMANSHIP. , It is charged that I was not made ' Chairman of tho Committee on the ' District of Columbia, in ' spite of seniority, becauso I bud been neglect- 1 fui of duty in attending the commit- ; tec meetings and was not equal to tho ' work. At the beginning of the Sixty- < second Congress It was up to me to ' take this Chairmanship, being the ( tanking member of the committee, but 1 did not care for lt. I knew it 1 meant a groat^eal of thankless work, 1 and that It might Interfere with my 1 duty to my own district and keep me 1 from giving it the close attention < which it has been my pride to give It < Representative Bon Johnson of Ken tucky was next to me on the commit- 1 tee, and was at that time a prospec- 1 tive candidate for governor o'i his 1 Bisie. H? whs very keen io get the chairmanship, for tho reason that he * thought it would help him in his race j for governor. I did not know a great ' deal about Johnson, but bad regard- I ed blm as my friend, and was quite J willing to unload the Chairmanship on 5 him. He seemed very grateful, and * was profuse In his thanks. Ho offered ' to do anything in the world for mo. ' and I asked him to appoint my old 1 friend Dock Owens, n Confederate 1 Veteran, who now lives at Greenwood 1 but who onco lived it Anderson, as 1 messenger of the C? nmittee. This la 1 a position that 1b rnt hard to fill, and I pays some 11,100'rr $1,200 a year, and I it would have brr.i a godsend to Mr. 1 Owens In bis d?- lining years. Mr. J Johnson. did no4 Ueep his promis*)' as ' to appointing Mh Owens, and he aid < not act ' fairly i.i other matters, and < 1 quit attend'. the committee'meet- ' Ings. I am so 1 ullt that'when a man < deliberately i lays false with, me It..' Is hard for mo to get over lt. I At the be?Inning of the Sixty-third ] Congress I learned that my opponents ' for re-elect* On would ' try to use j Bn?'?Bt tu? ?u? fact tu?t I wm nul j made chairman of the'District Com- ) mlttee. and would try to make it np pear that I had been turned down be- 1 cause of fault of my own. I swallow od triV pride and went to Mr. John son' and asked him If he would be as 1 good to me as I had been to him'. I \ told him-that I had given him the 1 chairmanship to help him in bis poll- ! t leal v. for tunes, and asked him it te,1 would do the same thing for,me. I 1 wss not much surprised when he t?ld' \ me that he had defeated me for the chairmanship in a fair fight, and on ' his merits, and that I had no claim 1 on him. I did not pursue the matter as 1 vigorously as 1 might have done, for 4 Mr. Johnson had his friands. Of course. ! and I feared that a fight over the 1 chairmanship might open the way for { disruption in the party ranks, and-1 j Bid not want to be responsible for ' anything of. that kind. ' Bttt In order to be prepared ?r tjv?t \ su?h a slander as this I we. i ? iae Democratic mom bent of the V-o"* and Means Committee (which" ciiaintttee \ selects all "th? other commuted of tho House), and State?? the 'frftqatlbri , to them and asked for a stafement of th? facts.- They very promptly and \ glartly gave men the,following: ; J "House of Representatives, , ^Washington, April.34. 1913. ' frjpTop, \Vyatt Alken, House pt R?pre* l sentatlvcfl. "Dear Sir:?lu response to your In quiry , we;'the, members or tho Com mittee on Ways und Means of the Sixty-'sccohd Cougrc-ss, .take pleasure In stating that in the selection of the Committee, Chairmen at the beginning ot the St'xty-jecond Congress you would h?yo been chosen as Chairman of the Committee on the District of Columbia ff we had not received your declination. There can be no question about this as you were tbe ranking mem?cr of taut Committee and no other name was considered un til after your declination had been received. "Yours very ttuly, (Sinned.) "O. W. Underwood, " Henry T. Uainey, "Cordeli Dull, *'A.. Mitchell Palmer, "Claude Kitchen, "Lincoln Dlxon, "Andrew J. Peters, "Francis Durion Harrison, "W.- 8.'Hammond, "D. W. Shackleford, "OlUe M. James, "Wm. -.Hughes." If Baker -will read this statement he will find .attached to it the. name of Hon. Oille .M. James of Kentucky, who was a member of the Ways and Means Committee in the Sixty-second Congress, and who is now a United States Senator, and whom he has at tempted to quote against me. This ought to be convincing proof, even to Dominlck and Baker, as to the chairmanship mutter. It is true that I havo hot been attending tbe meetings < f tho committee during the Sixty-thfrd Congress, and it is also true that ray course is approved by my colleagues who understand the situation. I have found plenty of oth er work to do. I attended cue meeting of the committee, wheu ::>y vote wes on some needed legislation. It some times happens that the vote of one honest man is badly needed, und my vote has always been ready when it was needed,' in committee or else where. During my entire service in Congress I have never failed to vote, or to be paired* on any important is sue. THE ANDERSON POSTOFFICE it Is charged thut I have kept an unworthy man', a republican, in of fice as postmaster at Anderson" be cause of political cowardice. This is the first time I have over been ac cused of coward h e, and? it will prob ably be tho last time. Here are the facts' as to the' Anderson post office: Soon' aftor' President Wilson's in auguration, if hot.before, it W&a an nounced to be the . policy of the ad ministration that where ? republican postmasters were giving- good ser vice, and, there were no demands tor their removal on tho part of the patrons of the office, tho postmasters would be allowed to servo out their terms. I opposed that policy' then'nnd I am opposed to it now. If I bad had my way, every republican postmaster In the country Would havo been flrcd within a month after Wilson's inau guration. But the administration thought the other, course should be followed, and I have had to acquiesce. Some months ago Mr, Cochran, tbe post maste r- at Anderson, and the as sistant postmaster and the nssltant j postmaster's father, after having. | been' friends for a long time, became estranged and some bitter feeling shaved. Serious char,,es were filed against tho postmaster, and a postofftce in spector was detailed to investigate them. When his report came in it was ????v?i uu?e io the postmaster. . uut | the officials of tho Department, having aad experience in matters, of. this kind, and pursuing tbe policy of tak ing nothing for: granted?and per haps having reason" to believe' that the inspector was not without bias it had been deceived in the matter? aad another Inspector detailed to make an investigation. This inspector had never, been to Anderson before, ind knew nobody there. He- spent several weeks in Anderson, mingling with the people and trying to get at the ' facts, and his: report was alto gether different from that of the first Inspector. Still another Inspector made a report, and his report cprrob nrtaatcd that of the second inspector. These reports, made wholly independ ent of eaoh other, tallied in almost ev-1 Bry detail. The department officials j were thoroughly.!;eehylnced that the marges against Mf.Cochran were made through spite, aha it was, clearly es tablished that most of the , charges were without foundation while oth ers wore grossly exaggerated. The de partment officials informed mo that tin? sufficient ?"*y??v?? for -ths pest auujter's removal had been -Shown, inf.-that there'was nothing for me :o do. i It Is true that when the difficulty between the postmaster and tho as datant postmaster i first occurred K?me good people at Anderson wrote that they thought the . postmaster mould be removed. Most of them lave since wrlttan that th?y were hlstaken. that"they' did hot'fully-.un terstand tbe circumstances, and that they thought It would be only justice, tor him to serve'out his term, which s*pir*b in Bwe?rj?b?r:' Thsrc -;' v .are'a lumber of applicants for th?'office, all >f whom are i^tHfin?^'t^?y?rf me of them has informed nie that he Is willing for Mr: Ocehfad to sert.e aut his term.-It la w?rtiry1 or mention la this connection that'Vire are some 15 or 30 clorks ahd carters in the Am '.erson postofflce. They are as fine and ?lean ? body of men as l hev?-i?v?r mown. Ever* single one of them has tided unreservedly with the postmas ter In this affair. 8tft?lyi.U Uiere had been anything very badly wrong, they ?o?ld not have: stood for-It-^rtahar y not all of them. It Is true that^?l*^e.. mlnlitera of the city or Anderson *.:>icn ? peti tion K> the Pf^Ment.. asarng^ ?tat the , Two tnwe but and llicy had not had timo to get ac quainted with conditions. The other | minister who signed the petition is pastor of a small church, and, I am told, spends comparatively little of his time in the city. None of the oth er 2') or mote white ministers in the c ity signed the petition, although | most, if not all were asked to do'so. Some of them even went so far as to write letteis to Washington express ing their disgust with the metbrds being used against the postmaster, and letting it be known that they were more than willing for him to re main in office until the expiration of his term. These letters are all on file in Washington, and it would have been so easy for Baker to have quot ed them If he had been trying to bo decent. Daker characterizes* Mr. Cochran as "a diunken sot." Mr. Cochran is able to take care of himself, and Baker will probably be called to account for such language. It is probably true that he* has been drinking too much. Any man who drinks at all drlnkB too. much. I can say this, because in my own young manhood I used to drink, but I quit drinking when I was elect ed to Congress and I have not taken a drink since. It is extremely dis? tasteful to make these personal re ferences, but so many slanders bave been circulated on me that I would not be at all surprised to learn tbat the character assassins are saying that I, too, have been a "drunken sot" here in Washington. So much for the Anderson postof fice. There has been no vacancy, al though a desperate effort has been made to create one. I have not tried to keep Mr. Cochran in office, and I have not tried to get him out, for I knew that would be uselesB unless there was cause. The postofnee depart ment officials say there was not suffi cient cause. Biii. I ituvc uevu ?eepi?s ?i?o? ??f> with the situation sb regards the ser vice, and there has not been one single complaint as to the service given by the postofhee In Anderson. The department officials say the of fice ranks second to none in the country in point of efficiency. Only recently it has been my pleasure to co-operate in securing better mail service in and out of the city of An derson, and right now we are working on a plan to Improve the delivery ser vice in the city and on the rural routes. As I have stated, if I had had my way Mr. Cochran and ev?ry oth?r Re publican postmaster in the country would have been removed long ago. There is a Republican postmaster at , Greenville, and there are -Republican postmasters still in office at other! places In South Curoltna and all over the oountry. As fast as their commis-1 sions expire they are being'removed and their places filled by Democrats. Baker knows this, if Domlnick does not. And by the way, why is- it that ' Baker Is bo distressed about a Re-1 publican remaining as postmaster at Anderson, when he has been working so hard to enable Republican employ es - of the Senate to hold their, jobs while capable Democrats are asking for. them? I have every reason to believe that if it were left to the patrons of the Anderson postoffice, 90 per cent of them would vote for Mr. Cochran to I Serve Mb term out Baker and I Domlnick are not patrons of the of fice, and I have'bad many assurances within the past two or. three days that the people of Anderson resent their gratuftlous interfence.. Baker says a certain man has been "slated" for the Job. Another rile;' that is all fixere is to that. If there had been any "slating" I would have been a party to it, and I know noth ing of It I have not decided whom-1 will recommend. for the position, but when the time comes I will give the matter careful consid?ration. and SO I the best I Can. All the applicants! arc good men, and I believe any one of then would make a good post master. TH? CANAL VOTE. (1 am criticised because I did not vote with President Wilson on the canal tolls matter. This has been threshed out time and again,' but I I-had as well, say something about that too.-One of .the main arguments for going to the enormous expense of bullding the Panama canal was that It would open a short water way Republican, and this fact was widely, commented on throughout the coun b'etween the Atlantic and Pacific I coasts, and i would' insure' .cheaper] freight rates across the continent ?n?S j to and from the f?ddte West lo the two. seaboards. Ujf? bunt the cafca with that understanding. Free toll fo'i coaai wise vess??s was one or the mam planks in the Baltimore, plat form, and this plank was specifically l endorsed by I?T?sTdent TVilabn, M^'l Bryan" and 'other Democratic leaders during the campaign. They told 03 the pietform meant juaV what it said. I believed that then; and I believe - it-now. .When-1-became a candidate for. re-election' to Congress two years ass'S signed the piedge, required by the State Convention, that I would "support ' the principles and policies of the party.*' Free tolls was consider ed a Democratic principle ,' ,andIj", ; Democratic policy. We .ps-sed a . law providing for free tdlla lh the Sixty/ Mid':,*" t?-^?or*ua'^^ sbtf came before us suddenly one dayJ last; -rfprihsTand "demandefff<that arr 1 rt?eat that law. He g?ve no .re*ja* for his action, and he bar, given hont since. I have never been able to. fine any satisfactory reason' for voting to rejjfcal th? law; and 1 did not:: row that way. Other Domocrats/ Speaker f&lrk, Mr: UnderwoooV ttb^ ..periW cro?t* ? *<?'>' ur- ' tmWjhfj?.w L North Carolina, wbo wIII be' the-" D?mol i erratic leader in the next Congress, voted just as I did. The4 charge tb?t I we lined up with the Republicans is ! false, for it was not a party question; [ and the R.?.'Publicacs-wore as -badly;! divided as the Democrats,.ThQ charge J that in favoring free tolls; we: w? favoring a ship subsidy is equally false. On the other hand, if the coast wise ships using th? canal have to pay tolls they will have to charge higher rates, and that will be in tbe inter est of tho railroads, their competi tors, so that making the ships pay tolis la a fotrn of railroad subsidy. As a matter of fact Oreat Britain never raised the question of free toils until it was brought up hy the Tehun tapec Railroad, in Mexico, and tho Canadian Pacific Railroad, both of which are owned by British Interests. In repealing tbe provision for free tolls for vessels engaged in coastwise shipping we were legislating directly for tbe benefit of this English-owned railroad In Mexico and this English owned Canadian railroad, and the trans-continental railroads in our own country, and no sensible man.can deny that fact. The more I think about my vote on the canal toils ques tion the more convinced I am that I was right, politically, economically and in every other way. Several persons have stated that they heard Mr. Dominlck say, Just af ter thiB vote was taken, that if he had been in Congress he. would ; have voted just as I did. It appears that when he got to examining the state ment as to my record, as furnished him by Baker, x he found so little to criticise that he decided to attack me on my vote on the canal tolls. .It appears that he abandoned his own convictions in the hope of gaining votes if he could show that I was not in sympathy with the President. THE USE OF MONEY. h s t Vi N P s P o h u h cl o b d Cl Ir 11 f? c tl h tl h r? P si n t< t( tl b y a 11 e tl n H le ? tl w I Cl It is charged that I have spent a great deal of money in my campaign, that I have "degraded and corrupted politics." This must be amusing to most people, who know tho facts, ti? have never spent a preat deal of \f\ spend. I have had the good fortune p, to defeat several rich men, who spent 41 money lavishly, who had more money h than I could have raised if my life a bad depended on it. Since the cam- ai paign publicity law has been in ef- ft feet I have filed at the close of each hi campaign a sworn statement as to my expenses, and if I h?vp sworn false- m ly I am subject to prosecution in the 01 courts and fine and Imprisonment, h But this charge is so abBured that I B; can hardly give it serious consid?ra- t] tion. t pi "LITTLE THING8." It is charged that my work in Congress has consisted of "UtD? things.," Well, life Itself is-made-up of little things. ? have always believed that a man who does little things 'weir'"?o?s- h tolerably big '. thing. ?j have tried >o give close and prompt attention to the wants of the people of my district. The congressman who tries to attend to his duties faithfully eats no idlo bread. No man ca t truthfully say that the interests of the" Third district have suffered since 1 h?ve' been in Congres?. On the con trary, lb Would be very easy to show that the Third district has farer* much' better than many others. It is given to but few members of Congress to get their names connect- t( ed with national legislation. Take tbe ? new 'tariff law, for instance. It. Is V-i known as the Underwood law, and B rightly bo, for. Mr. Underwood, as h chairman of tbe Ways and Means U Committee, introduced it in the a House and skillfully handled it. And b yet, every Democratic member ot Con- t< gress bad a band In making that bill c and .in its passage. It was considered B by tbe D?mocratie caucus add amend- I ed by .Democratic votes on the .floor H of ' the House. The ssme thing is true of the now ?hrr?hcy law,' known as n th? ?l ass-Owen law. It was introduc- y ed In the house by Hon. Carter Glass,' c chairman of the Committee on Bank-' hi Ing and Currency, and. nobody Is Jeal- w ohs of him because It .bears his name, al Vet he will cheerfully - bear testi- a mony that every Democratic member a', of Congress had a' hand In Its making w and ip Its enactment. The same thing u Is true of the Smith cotton futures j, bill, and the Lever bill for agrlcul- ?j tural extension work. They w?r? amended, and . rewritten many times before they finally became law. The "same thins win t? true of my biH to provide for long-time credits on farm lands at low interest. That bill may pass and it will be aaown as the Aiken law, if I remain In Congress, but It will doubtless undergo man/ amendments before It- gets up to tl.e President for his signature'. This is true of nil legislation, for, in almost every instance, legislation Is the re sult of compromise. There are many men lb Congress, and they have many minds, and they are sb a rule good [Su^^iusa p ui?i' sets through anai becomes a HW'M is the work of the! combined wisdom of the entire body. I car/not -brag 'on myself, for Belt* prhlse Is.half scandal, but t do he lfe ve that my record In coghress will compare at least favorably with the average, and I would like for some unbiased man to make the comparison some day. SIXTY-SIX ?ILL8 nick that I have secured the passage of only 66 bills sirce I have been in Congress. I have not counted them; Hot If there *cro as asr.ny as ?? bills that is probably RO per cent grtater that is probably 60 per cent greater [than any other member of Congress has to bio Credit during my. service. During one Congross 1 ?ecured the pastaje of more bills than any other member of Cktugs-eas, . Democrat or try. It Is.claimed that most of these wer? famall ..bills * tfhat te pr?b?JUy true, and If It is true it proves that I have been looking after the interests ot ,tl>e small fellows in ?fy district s itftSfr to, the rinsll raa\ters which WHAT DOMINICK DID. I had hoped to go ^ through this} am pal KU without making any direct Bference to Mr. Dotninlck. but Binco e has seen fit to help circulate- fnlsu tatements about mo I will toll the ruth about him. In 1002 Mr. Doin-ni'*k -aB a member of the legislature from [ewberry county. There was a bill ending to increase the salary of the heriff of Orangcburg county. It had assed one house, and had passed the - Iber house with an amendment, and ad passed a conference Committee nd got into free conference. On the ist day of the session' the desired hange'was incorporated in the gen ral supply bill, and then the Orangc urg delegation asked that the Indivi na! bill be killed by haVlng the free nferees report a disagreement. Dut l the rush of the closing hours Mr. lominick, who was on the free con ?rence committee, wrote a report and arried it to the other members of le committee and told them e hod arranged It to suit le parties interested, and they took is word for it and signed it without fading it. The bill was about to bo ut through and become ? law, when mebody discovered that Mr. Dbml ick had struck out all before and af ?r the enacting words, and had writ m a new bill entirely, providing for ?e establishment of breweries or beer ottling' concerns in certain cities, [r. Dominlck'B report was rejected, nd in all the history of South ('are na no member of the legislature ver received such severe conderana on from his colleagues us Mr. Doml Ick received on the floor of the louse and Senate. There are doubt ;ss men living in every county in le Third district today who were in ?e legislature at that time, and who ill testify as to the truth of what say. It is interesting to add In this onnection that when Mr. Dominick Sored for re-election to the legisla te the following year he was ovcr eople,' receiving only Something like DO votes in.the entire county. And is home pe?ple tell me that In his ici .f?r Cu?gfes? this year he ' ?151 sain he repudiated and that he will til to carry his home county by many undredB of votes. They have not forgotten how he tade the county pay him an outrage as feo for doing work which It was - is duty to do, while drawing a alary as clerk of the board of coun ! commissioners, without extra com onsatiop. IN CONCLUSION I have tried to answer this slondcr us attack fully, although I'believe It as not cost . me votes, because 1 ?lt that I owed to my frirnds, who ave been so true'"to' hie in the past, j ob so. If i-bav0tnot answered any jscntial charge it is because I have verlooked'lt.T have been, necessarily usy here'since.the .'attack appeared l the Newberiy.paper, i I have linked Domuiicl:'s naine witn nker's in this matter, for I havo nown for months that Baker hd-J ?en furnishing Dominick with am ?unitlon. Domlnfck probably rcal :es by npw that the ammunition is iulty and won't shoot straight. Many eople know of Baker's frequent trips } Anderson and other places in tho 'hlrd district, more than GOO miles . rom his post of duty, to confer witlt mm I nick. It 1b notorious that Baker as been neglecting his work in orMor ? go to South Carolina to engineer Campaign against me, while I have een here In Washington looking af ar the interests entrusted to my are. If what I have wrlten about laker is not true he has ? remedy. cordially Invite him to sue me for bel, .Congress has been in session al tost continuously for the past four oars, and I haye not been, able to anva?n .the district each year, as ad been my custom before, and as: I 'ahted to do. We. bave been in Bos on continuously since April, 1013, nd.lt looks today as if we will be in esslon until, the fourth of March, rhen this congress expires by llml ition. ' I wont to tho Third district l tho early part,of August aud made *o campaign tour as arranged by ie executive committee, speaking at ach court h'on??.. During that week Te E>vopean war bUdrlenly' broke K)SCs and we found one morning that ie South was facing a great disaster ocause of tho .threatened drop in tho rice of cotton caused by the closing t the European markets. I had oped to spend the remainder of the me until the primary In Uae district, letting my friends, but the situation ecame so serious'by the close of the ampalgn tour that I hurried here, and ave been here ever since. I felt that ' the people of the district ever.did ccd ttiV BsrviccB iu Wuahingion they oeded them In this crisis. I want to et away from h?re next week, but do' ot know thr.i I will be able to do so. I? will arrange to have this article rinted in aft manw of tho nowspa ers of : thedistrict, as'possible in '".:':/ i'eir'- next issue, and . will also have cone copies printed in circular form. ? wiU ask my friends to. try ; to get ils article generally circulated over ver tb.e entire district at once. I tank my friends Jn advance for this, s f thank them for all their goodness ) mo In the past. ". And In conclusion. I want to sav iat I have lived aU my life in the bird district, more than halt a cen- \ try* and aiu now serving my sixth inn in Congress. My life has been n open book. I know the people of ie district, and I believe th?y know ie. If, after aU these years, the peo !o are willing to retire me on the anderen?; chattes, made at the leveuth hour of the. campaign, by a rdven scoundrel. I ani read to step *wa and,put. I believe, though, thai; tA neorSp* nf ffu? Third district be ere in" decency and f*tr play.T apd mt 'bn ihe^^th^ ?b?ke tfie m?thtVas used! against toe i no unc?T-fa? tefia?, - ^}niV^ps8rthia article- which Is r^^lfrglKif, with; the following wsSe from; Speaker Champ Clark: ^^ahould not be ponf. to congress