The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, August 11, 1914, Page TWO, Image 2
to do to represent the people who had
Bent me there.
Proud of tlie Rceord.
(There has been only one ether matter
that 'has been brought up in so
lar as my record is concerned. One
of the candidates has his "hireling" going
around throughout the district and
Tvhat lies he has told I have been unable
to find out yet, but I have found
out seme?one of the statements he is
making is that while I was a member
of the legislature, I was called before
tie bar of the house ana reprimanaeu
lie stating that I had made certain misrepresentations
to certain members
of the house and the senate. One of
my opponents has read from the journal
of 1902. However, he failed to
follow the question up and failed to
read the record of 1903. If he had
<?one. that, he would have found that
those men who signed statements in
1902 claiming that Fred Dominick rnad
made misrepresentations to them,
when it came to an investigation, and
an investigation was held at Fred
Dominick's request, and when they
were under oath they went back on
the statements they had signed in
1902, and the report of the investigation
committee in 1903, while it did
not come out and call them liars, did
say, in effect, tfaat they were liars, and
found as follows:
"We ."find that tlcpi esentative Dominick
did not mislead intentionally
any member of the conference or free
conference committee.1' I was entirely
exonerated by this committee an<3
the records will show it.
j I simply mention this at this
time, my friends, to sTnow you thai
- ??- ?i ? j: 1 A
in a puone career eAieuumg
years, both as a legislator, as a count}
officer, as city officer and as a Statt
officer, as your assistant attorney genera\
that this is the only matter thai
tas been brought up against my political
or personal record or career. This
is a record that I am proud of anc
justly proud.
Fair and Honest Fight.
Now, I am a candidate for congress;
I am going to fight fair, square anc
honest and in the open, as I have always
done. I propose to discuss some
people's record and in no uncertain
terms and when I am discussing those
records, I am going to speak from
lie records and have nothing whatsoever
personal to say about the parties
who have made this record.
Mr. Aiken's "Obitnary."
Mr. Evans and Mr. Horton have no
political record. Mr. Aiken is supposed
to have one as he has been in
congress for 12 years, but upon investigation
it wi1} be found that he has
a very small record. In discussing
Mr Aiken-and 'bis. recoid. it migut be
well first to use his own words ii
"What is known as his "obituary'
wmch is published in thu Congrcs
eional Record. He says in that, whici
5ie claims to have written with hi;
own hand, that he is a Democrat, wai
bom 51 years ago in Abbeville count:
and was reared on a farm in AbbevilL
county. That he received a commo]
school education at Cokesbury and a
"Washington while there with his 'fath
er, Hon. D. 'Wyatt Aiken, representa
tive from this district for 10 years
was official court stenographer i:
South Carolina for 19 years; nas Dee:
a farmer all his life and has alway
taken a keen interest in everythin;
pertaining to agriculture. Now tha
is what Mr. Wyatt Aiken says abou
himself. They are not my words bu
his. How in the name of comon sens
can a man have the nerve and audac
ity to say that he has been a "farme
ail his life'' when he admits in th<
same breatih that 'he has been holdin;
office for a period of 31 years, eve
since his 20th birthday'
Over $100,000 from Public Treasury
It is all right for a man to hol<
office?it is all right for a mail to b<
kept in office provided he delivers th<
goods, but what do we :ind abou
Mr. Aiken? During his 12 years ii
congress he has and will receive ;
salary of $80,000.0,0; he will have re
ceived in mileage $2,640.00, making j
total of $S2,640.00. He was officia
court stenographer for 19 years am
received as a salary in addition to hi
'fees for transcripts, $1,200.00 per an
cum, which amounts to $22,SOO.OO, mak
ing a total of $105,440.00 that Mi
Wyatt Aiken has received from th
jpeaerai ireasury ana tut; oicue uc?
ury in the past 31 years, and that, in;
fellow citizens, is Dot including th
amount he received as an officer i]
the Spanish-American IWar in 189$
This, if you "will figure up, "will shci
that he 'has been drawing since 'he wa
a 20 year old boy an average of S3,
400.00 per year, and yet Mr. Aike
says ;iI have been a farmer all r.i
ilie. .\o^v, wnat is ine rerora mere
Has he rendered any adequate ser
vice for the onormo1 s irnounts he ha
recei" :1?
Mr. Aiken >?>f Feel ('omptent t
SerTe."
Mr. Aiken h ts teen ii ?ongress fo
! 12 years; he has been on the district
j 01 Columbia committee :\r eight years.
, \YUen t. e Democrats came into power,
I .Mr. Aiken was the ranking member
' j on that committee and was in line for
'the chairmanship. Did he recieve it?
! Listen at the record. Mr. Aiken tells
you that the reason he was not elected
as chairman of that committee was
on accvunt of the fact that he stood
out ol the way of 'ais friend, Ben John
' j son, who was a canuiuate tor governor
' j of Kentucky, and he thought that by
I standing out of his way that it might
help him in his race, but what do some
ethers say about t^is chairmanship?
; If tue good people of the third congressional
district will recall, two
years ago there was held in the city
II of Baltimore a National convention of
1 all of the Democrats of these United
States of America. At that conven
tion there was a man big in stature,
big in mentality and big in intellectuality?that
man was the Hon. Ollie
1 James, who was then a member in the
house from Kentucky and who has
since been elected and is now United
States senator from the State of
Kentucky; Tvlr. Ollie James was elected
to and presided over the convention
which nominated and made possible
the triumph and result that hap
pened after the Baltimore convention
and resulted in the election of Woodrow
Wilson as president of the United
States. In 'his candidacy "for the
chairmanship of that convention he
nnno ntfrpr that Wdlliam
uvuv vv-w .. _
' Jennings Bryan, a man who has al'
most been idolized by the Democracy
and is now President Wilson's right
? hand man as secretary of State. What
t does Mr. James say about Mr. Aiken?
' In a clipping from the Columbia State
r on the morning of the 17t& day of May,
< 1913, Mr. James says: "It was com
monly understood in the ways and
t means committee that Mr. Aiken did
- not seek the chairmanship because 'he
> had not been a regular attendant on
! rv?o />nmmitfpA at hearings, was not
I familiar with the work and did not
| feel competent to serve." That is
what Mr. James says about Mr. Aiken
and Mr. Aiken himself says that he
1 was appointed on that committee;
never did like the work; does not
5 like it today and will be glad to be
L relieved of service on that committee.
t Will Be Relieved After March 4.
I do not think there is any doubt
of the fact that alter the 4th of next
March he will be relieved from service
on that committee ard his place will
be taken on that committee or some
^ '? -3 7~V/\vvt{rt? A!T
otner commiuee uy r reu jL/v.miu.n;iv.
i Only "Little and Creepy Things.*
What else has Mr. Aiken done in
Washington? He stated at one of the
f
' meetings that the only things I could
see in 'his record were through a cat
\ eye, f.nd the only thing I cculd see
through thai cat eye were "little
things and small things and creepy
1 things." When I look at his record,
he is correct on that proposition, exs
cept in one particular and that is I
' | haven't a cat eye. With my "specks"
I 'ha/ve four eyes and I have looked
1 i into the record mighty closely and
C; seeing as well as I do, I thoroughly
~ | agree with him on the proposition that
" I only "little 'hings and small things
' ~nd creepy things" can be seen be1
cause that is all that there is in his
a !record.
s
g >o let of General Interest
^ | Since he has been in congress he
t! has introduced 313 bills?64 of these
i hiii-s have hp^n amiroved and become
e | laws; 249 of them have failed. Practically
all of those vhich have heen
r approved have heen private pension
e bills or bills providing for dams
=? across the Savannah Ri'ver, which
r ! were recommended by United States
; engineers, and practically among all
f r>f his bills not a sinsle bill of Dublic
^ | importance has been introduced, suge
i gested or passed by Mr. Aiken.
t Missed Half the Votes.
i Out of a total of 999 yea and nay
i; votes, he has been recorded as not
- j voting 253 times. He was paired 207
a. i times, showing that he was absent and
11 and paired 460 times out of a total of
11999 votes, or missed voting at least
s one-half of his time.
TlJ.l X t\i li In it Sn-f Hie Aivn TftWIl.
l'ill VIJUU^ 1VI Julio * * JLi JL v IIM?
What else did Mr. Aiken do? He
e was elected from the third congressional
district to the house; he is from
y Abbeville county; he is Ifrom the town
e of Abbeville, yet he served in conQ
| gress six years as a congressman
5 I from this district and did nothing foi
v his own town. You all know that ups
on the death of the late lamented Hon.
A. C. Latimer your former congressn
man, who was afterwards promoted tc
v the United States senate, that the
*o Hon. Frank B. Gary, now the honored
inflow r\f this rirrnit was plortPri ic
NI out his unexpired term. FraJih
Gary served as United States s^n^t.i
. for about eight months and during hi;
? t'.rm of service he built as -ajnonyi
ment to himself in the city of Abfye.r
ville a $50,000.00 pcstoffiee, a mon?
[ merit t-.at Wyatt Aken was not able 10 '
j obtain during iis six years oi' service
j and was not only not able t j obtain
j this beautiful building but suggested,
! io the Hon. Frank B. Gary at tne time ;
i that it was useless to try to get the i
| matter through on account 01 the fact j
j that it could not go through. Yet Mr. j
j Aiken is a great man.
: His Kural Credits Bill an Abortion, i
j He says he has been a 'farmer all j
[ HIS 1110 <111(1 iliiS aittava uarvcn a nccu |
I , . . .
I interest in everything pertaining to ;
agriculture. Wuat has he done f^r the
farming interest? He started out at
Xewtberry by telling about his rural
credits bill and with a great to-do told
about what a great bill it was and
said he had twenty thousand of them
printed and was distributing them
tnrougnout me aisu'ici. i lviu uuu i
when he sat down that I regretted j
that''he had not had ten thousand more
of them printed because I wanted the
people or' the third congressional dis!
trict to read his bill and see the fallacy
of it. I am satisfied that tae
most of: you have received this. A
good many of you have thrown it in
! the waste basket or misplaced it, but
| if you still have it at home J hope j
: you will look it up again and read it and
| if my criticism of this bill is net cor'
rect, why you vote for Wyatt Aiken
j and vote against me. If my criticisms
are correct, vote for me and vote
against him. You will 'find that you
got this bill in an envelope which
goes through the mails without any
stamp on it. He says >he sent out
twenty thousand of them. Now, my
friends, if I send out twenty thousand
letters it would cost me $400.00 in
postage alone, so that shows you some
little advantage a congressman has.
11 am glad, however, he has sent these
1 ^..4. ? > J Z-G n ntr nnnl/1 ri rvf llQVA i
UUl. iiuu 11 tut/ uv? ~ wv |
sent free through the mails and I bad
been able to do so I would -have been
j glad to advance the money to pay the
| postage, lor I.would be glad for every
! voter of tae third congressional dis!
trict to see this great bill that this
great mind has evolved. He tells you
that the United Slates government has
spent thousands of dollars in investigating
rural credits. I must confess j
that I know very little aibout rural
credits, but if I couldn't get up a bet- |
* "J*1 r ?-..-l J ~ v* r\+- n I
ter Dili, i wouia nut um) nut i
!
back and ask for reelection but I j
would resign before my lerm vras out.
Here is the proposition as set out in
his bill. If four of you (farmers wanted
to borrow $2,500.00 a piece, you go
to some National bank, tell the president
of that bank that you wanted to
borrow that amount and that you 'have
fnnr five, six or seven 'hundred acres
of land to mortgage to secure the loan.
He takes your application and sends
| his lawyer down to look over the
i titles. If you owe as much as $100.00
| or any amount on that land, your
j "cake is all dough" and you can't borj
row a cent of money on that land,
j However, if the record is clear, then
j the banker tells you that we will go
! up here to the county paper ana aa|
vertise to tie people o: the coanty thai
j you are applying for a $2,500.00 loan
| on a certain piece of property to secure
that loan. This has to be done
once a week for three weeks and in
case no8x>dy ccmes up and claims this
land then they take your mortgage.
This is bundled up and sent to the secretary
of the treasury at Washington
! q n/i innVc nvpr t'hp narters and fin
j a, 11 u AAV/ w ? -w-. ~ x x
j ally comes to the conclusion that the
papers are in proper shape and he
then calls in his clerk and says:
! "Johnnie, go out here and put $10,000.00
worth of United States bonds on
the market." Johnnie might be able
to sell his bonds today, tomorrow or
sometime in the next three months?
any way, when he sells them and gets
the money for them, then they ship
I nicVi Hnwn tn the Yatinnal bank
Iliac V/UOU uv n vv vju V - ?? ?
and you get your money??ny where
j from six weeks to six months after
you have made application. Now, isn't
| that a beautiful bill? Now, in Mr.
j Aiken's 3\vn words, it is nothing but
| "flap doodles and poppy cccks."
| Ashamed of His Own Bill
i Mr. Aiken at Anderson got ashamed
| of his own bill and called on me to
1 write a bill better than the one he had
j introduced. I told him t'hat I would
I write a better one but would not give
| it to him to introduce but would in1
troduce it myself after the 4th day of
next March.
Vote Against President Wilson
i
j Mr. Aiken started of! at Newberry
and devoted most of his time
' to a praise of his own record
and to an explanation of his
vote against President W .ison on
the exemption from tolls of the Ameri>
can coastwise vessels. I shall not at
:: this time enter into a discussion of
i j this matter or the merits of the ques!,
tion because to a certain extent it is
,n yv?otfftn rhnt hfpn cr>rrlf>(] "\Ir
;i Wilson, the president of these United
i.j States, went to tho American con"J
jgrv.-s and stated that this was a qaes:
j tion that involved a great deal in so
|far as this country was concerned;
that it was a delicate question and'
I..a: he ::ad reasons of his own which i
i
he couid nut and would not divulge !
to ..is party associates, but asked that i
they have confidence in him and grant j
him irr an "ungrudging manner" the j
request that he was making of them
in asking for a repeal of the free tulls '
which had hertofore been granted, i
Mr. Aiken voted against tJe president i
til tills measure, i uou i go as iar iis> ; some
people and say because he voted !
tv.at way that he is a Republican, but <
1 want to remind you o;' one thing, i
my fellow citizens,?in May of this :
year there were held in every county i
in the State of South Carolina county ;
conventions of the Democracy of ]
South Carolina. In four of the six
counties in the third congressional i
district, these conventions went on recoFd
as approving the policy d: the ]
president on the canal tolls matter ,
and called on our representatives in ,
congress to support the president. :
Further than that, cur State convention
was held in May, 1914, and went i
i
on record by resolution as approving;.
the policy of the president and call- ?
ed on our representatives in oongress
and the senate to vote with the presi- ,
dent. Further than that, Senator .
J
Gore, the blind senator fr:ifr Oklaho- j
ma, took a poll of the former members i
of the National convention that met in!
Baltimore in 1912 and more than
seven-eighths of them in response
to 'his request insisted that
the president should 'be sus
tained in his views. Now wnat do
we find today-HMr. Aiken comes i before
you and says that he voted
against the president and tries to
justify his vote by argument. He tells ;
you that -be voted against him and not- '
withstanding the fact that your county 1
convention?notwithstanding the fact
that your ;State convention?notwith1
J - ?.? Al. Vo i J-\V\ O 1
I SlclIJLUlUg lilt? l?HJL tnal jvui iianuuai
convention, has approved the president
Mr. Aiken has the nerve and
audacity to stand up before you and
say that if he 'had to vote over again
he would vote the same way as he did
before. If that is Democracy, I don't
know what Democracy is.
j The Third District Deserves the Best
My, friends, the third congressional
j district is one of the largest if not
the largest, in South Carolina in point
of territory, population, wealth and
manufacturing. It is the home of e
immortal Cal-houn; within its borders
today lives the chief justice of the
supreme court of South Carolina;
within its borders reside three of the
13 circuit judges of Sout\i Carolina;
j it is noted for its wealth, its agriculj
ture, its intelligence and its manufacturing.
I am just as much interested
as any other good citizen off this
' district in seeing that we are properly
j represenieu. wimm us uoi uci s <nc .
j located 30 per cent, of the cotton
| manufacturing establishments In
j South Carolina, and South Carolina, as
you know, is second only to Massachusetts
in cotton manufacturing.
\
Notwithstanding that supremacy in industry,
in agriculture and art, what
has your present congressman done to
I help out your district except to draw
I his salary?
*Sick Cotton >1111 Industry."
We have in the third congressional
district and throughout South Caro
una wnat me aany papers are nni-i
ing editorials on, "The sick cotton mill
industry of South Carolina," and why
is this industry sick?
In the Grasp of Monopoly.
I was told only a few days ago by a
i cotton mill president in Anderson that
j with only one or two exceptions the
i cotton mills in that county were not
' paying a dividend. You know the
| condition in your county; you know
j whether the stock is selling at par;
| you know whether you are getting a
dividend or not, and why is that the
i condition? I have been making a
j study of this for a number cf years
and I have found out and come to the
conclusion that the Southern cotton
mill industry and the Southern cotton ;
? "11 ? - *V*/\ o r* A i
j 111111 CllIU U1C 9HA,ftUUiU6l>J a.1 v J
j in the grasp of the greatest monopoly
; and curse tiat has e\er been put upon
j a free and liberty loving people.
I There is in South Carolina today paid
| out in wages to cotton mill operatives
i about eleven million dollars to the
; thirty-five thousand operatives. There
; is at the same time paid to the sell;
ing agents who handle the products
at least four and one half millions of
dollars or very close on to' one halt
of the entire amount that is paid to
the operatives in wages. Is that nol
an alarming condition? These are the
facts and if you don't believe what
Fred Dominick says about this proposition,
those of you who are minority
stockholders, at the next meeting of
| the stockholders of your mills, ask j
them how much they have paid out in i
! c mmission to your selling agents in j
| the north. T know that it costs some- j
! thing to sell croods. hut T know it does '
t
1 not cost four and five per cent. These
Northern selling a-ents are majority
I
'stockholders; hey don't care whether;
j any dividends are paid or not; they are !
I (CONTINUED ON PAGE 3) j
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>! K N OF MARL HO HO [a
HEAR 110 f WORDS |d
Pollock Pushes His Attack on (.over-' :j
our. Not .Mitigating; His Criti- | n
cisras. | r,
11
I p
rhe State. j j
Bennettsville, Aug. 7.?Marlboro ; ^
county voters here todav were treated
to anotehr caustic campaign meeting. :
in tue opening speecn uov. jt>iease i
charged W. P. Pollock with voting j
to kill a separate coacii bill when a j c'
member of the State legislature back d
in 1896. This Mr. Pollock branded
as a wilful distortion of the official e
record and in retaliation opened a 11
volley of invective that has scarcely s
been equalled in foe campaign.
i *
Marl'boro county is the home of J. j .
P. Gibson, of mixed Republican ticket
ame, and there had been much spec- ^
illation as to what form the rumored j
resentment would take here ^oday j
when t).ie "calico backed" 'ballot was j ^
flaunted by the Cheraw candidate in ^t]
pointing out the chief executive's j
'tainted" appointments. \ S
Mr. Pollock eliminated no unpleas- j ^
ant references. On tlie contrary, he j11
j 2,
inveighed against the governor's rec'
o
.rd as on no other occasion since the j "
campaign opened. j ^
In anticipation, the governor came j,
to the rescue of Col. Gibson, who, it j j
was pointed out, had been sent to the!
legislature three terms by iMarlboro j
county voters and had been appinct3d
magistrate by Gov. Ansel.
! \
There were approximately 2,0001 s
persons at the meeting, which was |
i
held out in the open in the court; 0
house square, D. D. McColl, county c
chairman; presiding. The Rev. G. C.
.nurse uiaue me ypcmug pia.yci.
Answer to Smith. b
The governor was the first speaker t<
today and devoted most of 'Iiis time to a
the reading of an answer to the Smith y
circular issued "for t'.e purpose of 0
keeping the record straight, and cor- s
recting some misstatements," which is o
in rebuttal to the governor's St. Mat- h
thew's speech, wiaich has also been
circularized and distributed freely t
?r'PVid orAv^rnnr'c
U VCX OUUbU \yCLX yjlllia. 1 QU'VIUUI w 41
statement dealt with >four main sub- t
jects. In the main it was a duplica- r
tion of charges made in practically c
every one of the 32 counties visited t
and are: t
That Senator E. D. Smith was a
member of the Haskell convention; c
that Senator Smith voted to pay c
$2,000 to the family of a lynched I
negro; that the junior senator voted s
against separate coaches when a c
member of ttie legislature 16 years c
ago; and that Senator Smith is not t
the author of the Smith-Lever agricultural
extension bill, the credit for v
which Senator Smith has never aslied.
I
' T.:e governor said that he did not j t
consider is a promotion to be elected j v
to the senate after being governor of
South Carolina. He had held the highest
office in the gilt of tihe people, he
said.
iAgain tcday the chief executive ?
warned his Lollowers to stay at the
ballot box August to watch the
manager who calls out the names,
and the one wUo registers the count, i
lest he lose the nomination through J1
dishonesty. jc
At the conclusion of his- speech, j?
the governor received two boxes of! *
flowers. The name of J. P. Gibson!,
I i
was read out as being among those,.,
who sent cne of the bunches.
Assails Klease's Kecord.
L. D. Jennings began 'by ^saying j
that though the record og E. D. Smith j
were as black as ti:.e goveronr had!
painted it "it would still shine as the 11
noonday sun in comparison with the j
damnable record o<: Cole. L. Blease." jc
In answer to the governor's exhi- j1
bition of the negro college catalogue,}'
wiih the mixed picture, the mayor J *
of Sumter reminded to.e Marlboro'1
voters that these white people were j(
from the Xorth and that the condi-;1
tion had existed when tie governor i1
was a member of the legislature, and j(
4
that he had never attempted to do 1
anything to prevent it.
When discussing the pardon record of
the governor, Mr. Jennings charg- [1
ed to at R. A. Richey had been turned
loose on a false and forged certificate (
and that his sickness had been feigned j'
as that of C. W. Morse in the federal j1
prison in Atlanta. i
iT.bis speaker drew much applause as 1
he held up the chief executive as "'the :
pretended protector of the virginity (
or wc-men." In supporting this char- 1
acterization, he cited the seduction ;
of the 14-year-old adopted daughter
of Ricft-ey, the trial of Dr. Eleanora (
B Saunders and the Emerson case in '
Anderson county, where the father 1
was killed when trying to protect rnis t
daughter. . J
The mayor of Sumter said that it: i
could nor be expected of the goveronr I
to keep his party pledge as 'he had i
violated it in numerous instances in r
appointing P?Iease m<m to office when 1
the majority ^ote had been for an t
anti-administration man. The auditor f
nd the treasurer o'i Georgetown were
esigned as illustrations.
Mr. Jennings offered t_? withdraw
:om ;?..e race and to pay $500 to any
ian who would point to a single misepresentation
of fact in the charges
referred against t .e chief executive,
'here were many calls to continue
hen the speaker's time had been
onsumed.
Welcome for Pollock.
Mr. P.Hock's reputation 'had preeded
him and this candidate got
rousing welcome when introduced.
After reminding the .Marlboro yotrs
that 'his mother had been born
i Marlboro county 80 years ago, thepeaker
said that he had no political
lachine and did not desire any. He ^
anted to appeal to the reason and j
itelligence of the voter and not com-1
.V. 1 - .,A*A W fVonnirli
ei IUB pcup;c IU ?uic iui JJ.HU wiuugt
ie potency of a political machine.
The governor had boasted, he said,,
aat he had tie greatest organizaion
ever built up in South Carolina.
Tbis candidate, too, said that the
overnor could not be depended upon
) keep his party pledge and cited
1 support various appointments wlien
nti-administration men had been
lected in the primary.
"If he did it once, he'll do it again,"
Ir. Pollock shouted witf* emphasis,
nd fhon qHHoH 4tfnr thp misprahlp
;opard never changes its spots."
The speaker warmed to a flitch of
loquence when he answered the chief
xecutive as to the separate coach*
ote. He had written the (bill, he
aid. which was adopted practically
rord for -word, after tfte bill providing
nly separate apartments in the same
oach had been voted down.
"That man," he continued, "who
slls a half truth and conceals the
alance is worse than the man who
ells a ifull lie." The governor, he
in trip legislature for
ears and years, and he 'dared tfee
hief executive to point to a single
eparate coach bill he had introduced
r to an instance when .he had opened
lis mouth to further the cause.
When the legislature was struggling
o get an act of this nature through,
Ir. Pollock said, 4'he governor was
he representative of the C. N. & Iailway,
and basking ia the influence '
if Ben. Abney, general counsel for
he Southern road, and now living in
he governors nome.
The pardon iecora came in for anitueir
grilling arraignment. In ccn:luding
this part of his speech, Mr.
3ollcok said tLat the governor had
;ot beyond the c:mmon place stage
f a "mixed breed," :md was "a four to *?ne"
in that he ?ad pardoned more
ian 900 negroes and only 300 whites.
Two new cases in the pardon record
^ere cited by the speaker.
The crowd had followed every wcrd
hp sneaker had uttered, and there.
vas much insistence t~at he contin- I
ic when ce had finished.
?eds >*o Aopolgy. J
When introduced Senator Smithy
>aid he would not insult the inteligence
of the audience by replying: 4
0 the "garbled statements" they <~ad j
leard in the morning. From 'his eariect
entry into public life, until the fl
)res'>nt time, ae said, mere was net
1 single act of his * hicl: needed an
ipology. He had come before the peo- 1
>le on the plati.orm of seeing to it .
hat me agricultural interests ux wt
k?utu had proper consideration. H-3 I
?ad kept the faith, he said, and ur^d h
:hat the record; 'be searched. His I
ime ie explained, would be given A
)ver tv a discussion of the issues which
should be dear to every farmer's
leart. *
ttu _ onneiimpH TTI11 pVl
JL Ut W(XL snuauuji
)f the speaker's time. The plan wtidc1!
he senator will urge when he ge:s J
o Washington Sunday night is th?t j
;he machine for the full operation of M
he new basking and currency la\s be M
completed with dispatch. When this
is done, it will be pccsible for farmers
:o Hold their crops as they can then fl
lemand that money be issued on cot- fl
on as collateral. Provision has been |
:nade for such transactions in section ' H
13 of t'ae currency law, whicn was
written by Senator Smith.
If this law can not be put into op- fl
oration before cotton is being thrown *
:>r. the market, Senator Smith will
.ir?e that one half of the billion dol- *
ars of emergency mcney to be issued
it once should be sent directly to the
South, to be distributed so that farmers
may receive the necessary funds ?
^ ^/^1 oTT otis? 4-nn_
JVin.'OUl unuwessilij1 vrcittj auu ?uwii ;i
lenience. H
The charge will be made, the speak- H
;r concluded, that he is going to 5:
Washington only to play politics. This,- |
prill be done, 'he said, to paralyze' H
;he confidence of the people. He would
>iay up there, he explained and wage
he fight for a rehabilitation of the
narket if necessary, t'ough it jeo
>ardized his chances of reelection. If
;!s resignation would restore the market,
he concluded, he would give it
hat minute, which remark brought
orth great applause.
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