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"ways ready to fetch and carry. Sena- ; tor Tillman had endorsed him for j the secretaryship out of gratitude ' and out of his well known disposition to help his friends. Baker was given a position in the senate by the late Senator M. ?. Butler. When Ulman was a candidate for the senate against Butler, Baker was a partisan of Butler and was very bitter gainst Tillman. There are a good man\ people who remem-! ber hearing Baker apply the foulest o: epithets to Tillman and all his followers. But when Tillman was! elected to tfoe senate, and came to! Washington and became a power, I the situation did not change as quick- j ly as Baker changed. He worked him- j self into Tillman's good graces; he j was "Tuick to bend the pregnant j hinges of the knee that thrift might follow fawning." And now, after having been taken care of for all these years, he has betrayed his benefactors in his old age, at a time when gratitude would (have been tne compelling mouve in a decent man's heart. Judas Iscariot sold his Master for thirty pieces of silver, but Judas repented. Many people will recall the fact that when A. C. Latimer first ran for congress Baker fought him most outrageously, and ridiculed the idea of a plain farmer like Latimer being elected to such a position. Yet when Latimer was elected, and began climbing toward the pinnacle that he afterwards reached, Baker quickly became a sycophant and was never so happy as when basking in Latimer's shadow, is Immigration. Dominick's man Baker accuses me of having favored unrestricted immigration and of having introduced a hill with this end in view. The truth is, as both ought to know, that I have always opposed unrestricted immigration, 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 information bureau at Ellis Island, where ^ ^ !*Mminr?nnfr< OAm inrr f A f hie lliUM vi Liic iiiI inipx amj IU U-JIO country are landed, with competent officers in charge, who could look oiver the incoming immigrants, and after selecting those suited to our people, give them information as to the opportunities and advantages to "be found with us. We do need more white people in South' Carolina, to supplant the worthless and dangermis nesroes. on the farms and as la "borers and if we can get some of tfte 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 district are descended from immigrant (fathers and mothers. They A/*at*AA An/^arcAn Q n H di e 111 CU1U xxiauwa cuiij MUU. Newberry, and in every county ir the district. Nobody wants pau<per 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, Jcnow my position as to immigration, and this eleventh-hour lie will not hurt me. In a recent speech I stated my position on immigration so clearly that no one except tfaKer ana uominick misunderstood it. I defeated Mr. McCalla on that very issue. It is charged that I did nothing in support of the Burnett immigration bill, to restrict immgration, in the Sixty-second congress. On Jaunary 17 1913, when the motion to lay the conference report on the table came up, | "r T -n?V? 1 W its iAUStJlll. X v> its ai&u auocui ?u^u. the motion was made to recommit tone report. When the next vote came up agreeing to tine conference report, on Jan. 2ot "191i3, I was present and was recorded as voting Yea. The bill passed and was sent to President Taft, who ivetoed it On Feb. 19, 1913, there was a vote on the passage of the bill over the president's veto, and I was present and voted Yea. The Congressional Record will cheerfully prove Baker to be a liar if he will turn to page 3429, Sixty-second congress, third session. The Pure Food Law. It is charged ttiat I voted against the pure food bill. This is another half-truth, wihich is worse than outright falsehood. When the bill came before tbe house I objected to it hecause 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~ - * ' ? * ? x i r crat i couia noi siana ior taai, ana i voted against it, giving my reasons for doing so. Other Democrats who voted with me were Adamson and Barlett of Georgia, Burleson of Texas (now postmaster general), John Sharp Williams o? Mississippi (now senator), Candler of Mississippi, Garret of Tennessee, Gillespie of Texas, ti Henrv oif Texas. Hill and Humphreys <\ of Mississippi, Moore, Russell and i Sheppard (now senator) of Texas, Sherley of Kentucky ' and Smith of Ik Texas. That was pretty good compaff. 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 v to the house I voted for it, as did the others, and it became a law. I have no apologies to make for me 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 fthem for me. It is rather fatiguing to have to answer such a charge. I have not made as many speeches as some other members, and perhaps v they have not been as brilliant as some otihers, but at any rate they Nhave been mine, AND BAKER KNOWS Baker says the late Zach ^IcOhee told him of "having furnished me with material for a speech. Zach McGhee I was my friend. He was a gentleman, and I don't believe be ever spent much time in Baker's company, it is characteristic of Baker to try to prove a falsehood by a dead man. Som* years before his death Zach McGhee took a trip through . England, and wrote a series very interesting i; newspaper articles telling of ins ex- j i periences and observations among 11 the laboring people of that country,! j particularly with reference to wages I, i and the cost of living and the differi ences in this country because of the ; high tariff. 1 took some of these let- 1 Iters and read them into the Congresj sional Record, giving Mr. McGhee full credit for them. This was not a ( j speech at all, and did not pretend to ] | be, but was merely the introduction < ! of scfme very valuable data collected j ! by Mr. McGhee for the benefit of the < members o>t congress, as the tariff i < was then an issue. Those who would j likwe to see the proof :hat Baker has , lied about this, as about other things. < mav pnnsult the Consresional Rec- ' ord of the second session of the Six- ! J ty-first congress, pages 3565 to 3574 j inclusive. j Every tiwo years the Democratic \ campaign committee issues a cam- ] pai^n, handbook, for use in the pivotal districts, and for t&e guidance i of Democratic -peakers and editors,during the campaign. This handbook has been issued five times since I have been in congress, and three times it has contained speeches delivered by me on the floor of th3 house. I would not detract from the honor nr crinrv r>f anv other man, but I do v* v not believe that any other member I of congress has been thus honored by ' his collegues during the ten years that I have been in the house. I make no claims to gifts of oratory, t :t when ] I do speak or write I have something < to say and I tell the truth straight 1 from the shoulder, as I am doing ] now. ,. < As to* Absenteeism. < j It is charged that I have been away 1 I from the house a great deal while it x ?j- ~e nni nas been in session, tnai oui in. ^jl < roll calls 1 was absent 253 times, i Charges of this kind have been made 1 against members of congress ever ] since we have had a congress. I l have not taken the trouble to verify 1 the figures as given by Baker, but. as- j suming that they are correct,, which I j 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. As everybody knows, it has < been a custom in congress from time 1 'immemorial for members to pair with ] j each other. When a member is |1 obliged to be aosent, ior limess ur iui 'any other reason, he gets a member 1 | of the i opposite party to pair with < him, and then neither will vote until < the absent member returns and the j pair is broken. This is a courtesy that all members of congress extend to each other. I have had to be away i irom the house occasionally, w<hile it 1 was in session, on account of illness < of myself or members of my family, 1 or on public business, and I have uear- < iv aiwavs been naired. I have been in < the house a great many times when a 1 vote was taken, and have refrained from voting, because I was paired ? with some absent member. The pairs J are shown in the Congressional Rec- j ord, but not in the journal of the i house. If Dominick and his hench- 1 man, Baker, had wanted to be fair 1 they would have quoted, u'rom the rec- ] ord, and not from the journal, and would have told the truth about the 1 pairs. The Chairmanship. ] It is charged that I was not made . ; chairman of the committee on the , District of Columbia, in spite of i i seniority, because I had been neglect- . ful of duty in attending the commit-1 tee meetings and was not equal to the I work. At the beginning o?f the sixtysecond congress it was up to me to take this chairmanship, being the : ranking member of the committee, but I did not care for it. I knew it meant a great deal of thankless work, and that it might interfere with my duty to my own district and keep me from .giving it the close attention ' which it has been my pride to give it. Representative Ben Johnson, of Ken- . tucky, was next to me on the committee, and was at that time a prospective candidate for governor of his I State. He was very keen to get the chairmanship, for the reason that 'he thought it wo lid help him in his race 1 * ?- T li-J -n r\+ lrnrkTL* a (TfPflt | lor guvemvi. i uiu uuv ?uU.. ~ o 1 deal about Johnson, but had regardI ed him as my friend, and was quite | willing to unload the chairmanship on him. He seemed very grateful, and i was profuse in his thanks. He offered 1 to do anything in the world for me, and I asked him to appoint my old friend Doc Owens, a Confederate veteran, who now lives at Greenwood but who once lived at Anderson, as messenger of the committee. This is . ! a position that is not hard to fill, and pays some $1,100 or $1,200 a year, and it would have beer a godsend to Mr. *v*ir?nr XTAO Y?C? "\Tr I uwens in ms ucciiuiug jcais, Johnson did not keep his promise as to appointing Mr. Owens, and he didnot act 'fairly in other matters, and I quit attending the committee meetings. I am so built that when a man deliberately plays false with me it is hard for me to get over it. A: the beginning of ihe sixty-third ;; congress I learned that my opponents for reelection would try to use against me the fact that I was not made chairman of the District com- ; ] mittee, and would try to make it ap-j; ! pear that I had been turned down bej cause of fault of my own. I swallow! ed my pride and went to Mr. Johnj son and asked him if he would be as I good to pie as I had been to him. I . ! told him that I had given him the chairmanship to fteln him in 'his poli* j tical fortunes, and a^ked him if he i j would do the same thing for me. 1 : : was not much surprised when he told | me that he had defeated me for the , j chairmanship in a fair fight, and on ; his merits, and that I had no claim , ; on 'him. I did not pursue the matter as vigorously as I might have done, for Mr. Johnson had his 'friends, of course, and I feared that a fight over ! the chairmanship might open the way for disruption in the party ranks, and I did not want to be responsible fof anything of that kind. j But in order to be prepared for just such a slander as this I went to the .Democratic members of the ways and | means committee (wihich committee i k selects ail the other committees *01 the house), and stated t e situation to them and asked for a statement othe facts. They very promptly and gladly gave me the rollowing: "House of Representatives, ^Washington, April 24, 191?.. "Hon Wyatt Aiken, House of Representatives. "Dear Sir:?In response to your inquiry we, the members of the committee on ways and means of the sixty-second congress, take pleasure in stating that in the selection of the committee chairmen at the beginning n? the sixtv-second congress you would 'have been chosen as chairman of t'r.e committee on the District of Columbia Jf we had not received eour declination. There can be no question about this as you were the ranking member of that committee ind no other name was considered un:il after your declination had been received. "Yours very truly, (Signed) "O. W. Underwood, "Henry T. Rainey, "Cordell Hull, "A.#Mitchell Palmer, "Claude Kitchen, "Lincoln Divon, "Andrew J. Peters, "Francis B. Harrison, "W. S. Hammond, "D. W. Shackleford, "OIlie M. James, "Wm. Hughes." If Baker will read thits statement le win una autuucu w n uumv Df Hon. Ollie M. James of Kentucky, svho was a member of the Ways and Means committee in tfhe Sixty-second congress, and who is now a United States senator, and whom he has at:empted to quote against me. This ought to be convencing proof, sven to Dominick and Baker as to the chairmanship matter, it is true that I have not been attending the meeting of the committee during the Sixty-third congress, and it is also true that my course is approved by my colleagues who understand the situation. I have found plenty of othir work to do. I attended one meeting )f the committee, when my vote was needed to secure a favorable report m some needed legislation. It sometimes happens that the vote o?f one aonest man is badly needed, and my * - ^ ? -'" ""1' W/lnn rooilv utrTiPn it yule Uct.5 amajo was needed, in committee or elsewhere. During my entire service in congress I have never failed to vote, }r to be paired, on aily important issue. The Anderson Postoffice. It is charged that I have kept an inworthy man, a Republican, in ofice as postmaster at Anderson because of political cowardice. This is :he first time I have ever been accused of cowardice, and it win probibly be the last time. Here are the ?acts as to the Anderson postoffice: Soon after President Wilson's inauguration, if not before, it was an+/-, Via fhck r?/~vl ir?v rvf f-hp nil L1UUUV.CU LVf US^ (.UV W? v ministration that where Republican postmasters were giving gocd service, an 1 there were no demands for their removal on the part of the patrons of the office, the postmasters would be allowed to serve out their terms. I opposed that policy then and I am opposed to it now. If I had had my way, every Republican postmaster in the country would have be^n fired within a month after Wilson s inauguration. But the administration thought the other course should be followed, and I have had to acquiesce. Some months ago Mr. Cochran, the postmaster at Anderson, and the assistant postmaster and the assistant postmaster's father, after haiving been friends for a long time, became estranged and some bitter feeling ensued. Serious charges were filed against the postmaster, and a postoffice inspector was detailed to investigate them. When his report came in it was unfavorable to the postmaster. 3ut the officials of the department, having had experience in matters of this kind, and pursuing the policy of taking nothing for granted?and perhaps having reason to believe that the inspector was not without bias or had been deceived in the matterhad another inspector detailed to make an investigation. This inspector had never been to Anderson be:ore, and' knew nobody there. He spent several weeks in Anderson, mingling with the people and trying to get at the facts anc his report was altogether different from that of the first inspector. Still another inspector made a report, and his report corroborated that of the second inspector. These reports, made wholly independent of each other, tallied in almost every detail. The department officials were thoroughly convinced that the charges againstMr Cochran were made through spite, and it was clearly established that most of the charges were without foundation while others were grossly exaggerated. The department officials informed me that not sufficient grounds for the postmaster's removal had been sfaowa, and that there was nothing for me to do. It is true that when the difficulty - -1- - ? + *V1 on/1 +VlO Q G _ DSlWeeu Lilt; j^uatuia.otv;i ciuu iuv sistant postmaster first occurred some good people at Anderson wrote that they thought the postmaster should be removed. Most of them have since written that they were mistaken, t'hat they did not fully understand the circumstances, and that they thought it would be only ju^ice for him to serve out his term, which expires in December. There are a number of applicants for the office, all of whom are my friends, and every one of them has informed me that he is willing for Mr. Cochran to serve out his term. It is wortny or mention in this connection that there are some 25 or 30 clerks and carriers in the Anderson postoffice. They are as fine and clean a body of men as I have ever known. Every single one of them has sided unreservedly "with the postmaster in this affair. Surely, if there had been anything ivery badly wrong, they would not have stood for it?certainly not all of them. It is true that three ministers of Lie city of Anderson did sign a peti t_ ; # ' To the Den 1 T Viotta Viorl fVin v? AnAi? f x net v c iiau. iiv/iiv/i. c paign this summer, whiL f and pleasure of meeting. I would meet the whole > gressional district covers . paign being so short, I h wished to. ) But gentlemen: On n to the poiis and cast you: of fori Pressman. I ask before you cast your ball I pledge you my word as man that I will fill that ] will not expect you to gi have the nerve to ask yo 1 will receive a flatteri that your county will gn I wish in advance to tl Tuesday?and at any tin call on me, and I will tal I am net boasting, bu1 the primary next Tuesds All I ask is a square d will work hard for the g be on hand to vote on th turn to aay district I ass In closing, gentlemen, on next Tuesday, Augus (Signed) ! tion to the president, asking .t'hatji the postmaster be removed. Two of ') these, I understand, have recently ] come to Anderson and t&ey toad not had 1 time to get acquainted with conditions, s The other minister who signed the pe- < tition is pastor of a small church, and, 1 I am told, spends comparatively littla? t of his time in the city. None of the other 20 or more white ministers in i tiie city signed the petition, although j most, if nol: ail were asked to do so. t Some of them eyen went so far as to ? write letters to Washington express- J ing their disgust with the methods J being used against the postmaster, 1 * 1 ' u ! ? ?% rNTTT** fkof thov 1 and letting n ue wiu?u umi. were more than willing for him to re- t main in office until the expiration of his term. These letters are all on file 4 in Washington, and it would have \ been so easy for Baker to nave quot- ] ed them if he had been trying to be ] decent. j Baker characterizes Mr. Cochran as "a druken sot.'' Mr. Cochran is able < ' to take care of himself, and Baker j 1 will probably be called to account for j such language. It is probably true j that he has been drinkir.g too much. , Any man who drinks at all drinks too. j much. I can say this, because in my own young manhood I used to drink, but I quit drinking when I was elected to congress and I have not taken a drink since. It is extremely ais- ' tasteful to make these personal re- ' ferences, but so many slanders have been circulated on me that I would 1 not be at all surprised to learn tJtat i the character assassins are saying j1 : that I, too, haive been a ''drunken sot" ! here in Washington. So much for the Anderson postof- , fice. There has been no vacancy, although a desperate effort has been ^ made to create one. I nave no tried 1 to keep Mr. Cochran in office, and I t have not tried to get him out, for I . knew t'hat would be useless unless ^ there was cause. The postoffice depart- . ment officials say there was not suffi- j cient cause. ( But I have been keeping close up ] with the situation as regards the ser- ( vice, and there has not been one | single complaint as to the service ; given by the postoffice in Anderson, j The department officials say the of- j 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- j vice in the city and on the rural < routes. , j As I have stated, if I had had my s way Mr. Cochran and every other Re- 1 nnhiWn nostmaster in the country f x- would have been removed long ago. J There is a Republican postmaster at i Greenville, and there are Republican < postmasters still in office at other i places in South Carolina and all over i the country. As fast as their commis- ( sions expire they are being removed < and tfc.eir places filled by Democrats. .] ' Baker knows this, if Dominick does '< .(Political Adverti.ement.) nocratic Vote berry County: ind pleasure of meeting m; e there are some that I have , I was in hopes when I em citizenship of Newberry corn ! a very large territory?six ave not seen as many of mj im 1 ii. . f?F?ii. 1 ext ruesaay, me zoia aay c r vote. I trust, for the best you, one and all, to consider iot?think it over seriously,; ; a God fearing man that if position with credit, and 1 ve me the congressmanship u to give the Horton family ing vote throughout the di re me a handsome vote. lank each of you for the vo le?whether I am elected o: ce pleasure in doing so. ; I feel gratified and confide iy. eal. Everybody who knows ood of the whole congressioi e measures coming before e ure you that my record will I wish again to thank you J t 25. Your humble serv J t aot. And by the way, way is it that Baker is so distressed albout a Republican' remaining as postmaster at Anderson, wtten he has been working jo hard to enable Republican employes o: the senate to hold their jobs ;vhile capable Democrats are asking 'or them? I have every reason to believe that f it were left to the patrons of the Anderson postoffice, 90 per cent, of faem would vote for Mr. Cochran to serve his term out. Baker and Dominick .are not patrons of the ofice, and I have -bad many assurances svithin toe past two or three days :ht the people of Anderson resent :heir sratuitious interference. Baker says a certain man 'lias been 'slated" for tne job. Another lie; :hat is all there is to that. If there aad been any "slating" I would have been a party to it, and I know nothing of it. I have not decided whom I will recommend for the position, but ivhen the time comes I will give the matter careful consideration and do the best I can. All the applicants ire good men, and I believe any one >f them would make a good postmaster. The Canal Tote. I am criticised because I did not irote with President Wilson on the sanal tolls matter. This has been threshed out time and again, but I J ?? TL-rtll eo-p cmir\or ahnilt !J?IU as ?'CH oaj w ^ :hat, too. One of the main arguments or going to the enormous expense :>f building the Panama canal was that it would open a short water way Republican, and tfiis fact was widely commented on throughout the country between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, and would insure cheaper freight rates across the continent and to and from the middle west to the two seaboards. We built the canal wit'a that understanding. Free tolls for coast wise vessels was one of the main planks in the Baltimore plat* ' * " * ? - ? ? rtft lit! form, and cms piaiiK wa.s spccmwn/ endorsed by President Wilson, Mr. Bryan and other Democratic leaders during the campaign. They told us foe platform meant just what it said. [ believed that then, and I believe it now. When I became a candidate ior re-election to congress two years igo I signed the pledge, required by the State convention, that I would 'support the principles and policies Df the party." 'Free tolls was consider3d a Democratic principle and a Democratic policy. We passed a law providing for free tolls in the Sixtysecond congress, and it was a surprise to all of us when President Wil ?on came before us suddenly one aay last spring and demanded that we ~-3peal that law. He gave no reason !or his action, and he has given none since. I have never been able to find my satisfactory reason for voting to repeal the law, and I did not vote :hst way. Other Democrats, Speaker 3Iark, Mr. Underwood, the Demofloor leader. Mr. Kitchin of Scrth Carolina, who will be the De?ioi'ratic' reader in the 'next congress, > 4 :rs of Newt \ ) t j i any 01 you in tne cam-, not had the privilege tered the campai6n that nty, but the Third concounties, and the camr fellow Democrats as I >f August, you will go man for the high office my fitness for the office and if you vote for me I am elected congress! further promise that I indefinitely. I will not this honor tor zi) vears. strict and I am assured te I will receive on next r not I can serve you, nt over the results of > me will tell you that I aal district?will always ongress, and when I rebe above reproach, for the vote you give me rant, OHN A. HORTON. Summerlarnd College For Young Women! Courses: Literary, Music* (Piano, Voice, Violin.) Preparatory course for those not sufficiently advanced to enter College. Next Session Begins Sept 16 For catalogue address I <=> P. E. MONROE, Leesville, S. C. voted just as I did. The charge that we lin?d up with the Republicans is false, for it -was not a party question, and the Republicans were as badly divided as the Democrats. The charge that in favoring free tolls we were j favoring a ship subsidy is equally i-CUSC. l,UC VL1JICI uuuu, it I.MV . wise ships using the canal have to pay. tolls they will have to charge higner rates, and that will be in the interest of the railroads, their competitors, so that making the ships pay tolls is a form of railroad subsidy. As a matter of fact Great Britain never raised the question of free tolls ! until it was brought up by the Tehuntapec Railroad in Mexico, and the Canadian Pacific Railroad, both of which are owned by British interests. In repealing the provision for free tolls .for vessels engaged in coastwise shipping we were legislating directly for the benefit of fihis English owned railroad in Mexico and this English owned Canadian railroad, and the i 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 tolls question the more convinced I am that I was right, politcially, economically and in every other way. Several persons have stated that they heard Mr. Dominick say, just after this vote was taken, that if he had been :in- cocgress -he - wouW '-'banre 4