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SENATOR ELLISO t An Interesting History I "Gattling Gun," j "Farmer, Ellison Durant Smith, familiarly known as "Galling Gun" Smith, i "Cotton" Smith, and "Farmer" i i s Srihth, along with other pseudonyms, i born in Sumter (now Lee) county, : August 1, 1866, so that he celebrat- 1 ed his 48th birthday while the re. cent campaign was in progress. ] ' x Senator Smith comes from a l'arai ^y that has contributed much -in (^scholarly leadership to the Metho- ' dist Episcopal church. South. His j1 father, the Rev William H. Smith. ( "was one of the historic circuit riuers. and was well known and beloved 1 " * throughout South Carolina. Two ' brothers followed the example of 1 r their father, and ably carried for- : (ward the labors which he laid down ! after a long and successful life of 1 unselfish service. These, by virtue 1 of their character, ability and train- ' ing, forged to the very forefront in 1 leadership of the church?A. Coke 1 * Smith being elevated to the rank of b. hop and the Rev. Charles B. 1 | Smith elected presiding elder of his ' r district. The mother, Mary Isabelle 1 [ McCloud Smith, came from a family 1 of influence throughout the State, ' which* contributed many leaders to 1 k the various walks of life. ' B Ellison Durant Smith, after at-* A.ihUo anH nrivate ' y leuuug WIC puunv r ' schools at Lynchburg, was prepared ! , for college at Stewart's school, Char- '< leston. He then entered the fresh- '< man class of the University of South < Carolina, but later withdrew and < completed his college career at Wof- 1 ford, the school of his church. From 1 this institution he was graduated in 1 1889 with honors, receiving medals in debate, science and 'literature. Twice he has been married. The first wife was Miss Mattie Moorer, of St. George. From this union one I son was born, who after 'reaching the years of young manhood, accidentally shot himself with a 22-cali- J bre rifle little more than one year ' ago. The young man died from this 1 wound a few days later. ' Senator Smith's present wife was < Mi6s Farley, of Spartanburg, nieoe 1 of Former Adjutant General Farley, ' and of Will Farley, the famous Con- < federate scout. Two little girls ana ? one little boy have blessed this un- i' ion. 1 > Senator Smith served two terms in I < the State legislature?1896 to 1900 J ?from Sumter county before his ad- 1 vent into the cotton movement,! '< which culminated in his election to ) the United States senate. It is an old adage that the crisis ' develops the leader. Senator Smith ' first began to study the cotton situa- i tion when Sully "conered" the mar-1' ket and the price in consequence was driven to 17 cents. Wall street ' brokers beared the price down to 6 < 1-2 cents and broke the speculator. ' i It was this catastrophe that first attracted the attention of "Farmer" i Smith, who was himself an extensive! i . planter, and who felt keenly the' 1 f fluctuation of prices. That was in ' y 1904, and E. D. Smith went as a i delegate to the cotton boll weevil i convention at Shreveport, La. Out ' of this developed the plane to hold 1 a cotton congress in New Orleans in 11 1 on a Tctiioh u'a? orMTiiz^d as the i 1 Southern Cotton association, when 1 for ~ the first time in history, an ef- ' fort was made to have the cotton i stored and to have farmers fix the price. Senator Smith was made field 1 agent. His territory was the entire s South and he soon became a national s figure because of the nation wide in- ] terest which the movement attracted ! < and the eloquent speeches he made 11 in defense of the movement at New Orleans, Birmingham, Shreveport < . and Dallas. For three years Senator i Smith served in this capacity, from 1 ' ^ 1905 to 1908. It was in 1908 that ' the farmers of the State united in 1 solid phalanx and promoted the "cot- i t;on leader" to the United States sen- ii oto j I In the present campaign Senator Smith has been chided for devoting j' most of his time for five and one-half < years to farmers' interests in the. p , i United States 6enate. For this he ' has made no apology. His platform six years ago, as in this campaign. 1 f was to see that "the farmers, those -t who create the real wealth of the world, shall have their proper share." All legislation which he initiated has been with this end in view. Of all the good work Senator , Smith has done, that of which he is ? most proud is the standardization of cotton grades and the writing of section 13 into the new banking and currency law. The first enables the farmer to compare the sample of the product he is putting on the market with the national gradings and to ascertain the quality of his produce. From j m C N - !' DURANT SMITH.;" ? L of the Man Known as li "Cotton and i e ' Smith. fa in the daily quotation he is in a position ai to know exactly what price he should st obtain. It was also proved by this 01 experiment in testing the tensile Si strength of the fiber and the cost of gl bleaching that "an expert can't tell si the difference" in gradings in which ei purchasers made a difference last fli year of $15 a bale. E The banking law amendment would ei be the solution of the present demor- 01 ilizpri rendition of the cotton market in 3f the banking law machinery were to completed and the law were in full' ki operation. This amendment was an j ni extension of time for farmers' notes ! ta from 90 days to six months and i pt made agricultural products collater- j v. ll. on which a certain percentage of j til the value could be demanded of the | h< national banks. If the law were now J lu in effect, this would enable farmers i m to hold their cotton, without other gi necessary provisions. di Another bill which Senator Smith I': fathered is to regulate cotton ex- j tr changes, and compel cotton brokers | ta to fill contracts with grades "con- i se tracted" for without the alternative ; rii nf substituting other grades, or the 1?( privilege of making up the difference in price adjustment. l>( Two other resolutions in farmers' of interests, originated by Senator fe Smith were to have the cotton tie tr ind bagging and the nitrate and ra immoniate trusts investigated. In fo ?onsequence of the former, the cost d( 3f bagging and ties has been cut in * I >Vi practically in two. curate 01 suua j .?< was reduced-$13 a ton within eight rfo weeks after the investigation began, ti f0 FOULLY MURDERED. d? ta William Bollard's Body is Found. je Robbery is Motive. th m Charleston, Aug. 26.?With hi3 w heart pierced with buck shot, the th aody of a gray haired Confederate b( veteran, William Bollard, was found th lead yesterday in a pool of blood in gl the store of Isaac Lin^baker, eight sv miles froni Mount Pleksant, where ch the deceased was employed as a th clerk. Robbery is believed by au- si :horities to have been the motive'of pi :he assassination and the guilty par- y :y was not clever enough to cover up st i possible clue, over authorities, who ac ire now engaged in an investigation, ly Four negroes are held as suspects y? md three of them, it is stated, are rc iccused of being implicated. m A close' examination of the stQye 1 i room where the dead body had lain m was made and disclosures that are ol aow being regarded with the utmost K secrecy are said to have been found, sh Whether they will have any direct al bearing on the case i6 a matter of di conjecture. A lantern was found ki aear the dead body. th Mr. Bollard was a bachelor and ag made a room over the store his liv- th ing apartment. He had lived alone in for years and no one was known to as be with him at the time of the kill- hi ing. .Whether he went down to the cc ?torp room to eet oil. or was at- bt cracted there by a noise is a matter qi chat will probably never be known, pi His body was near the oil tank and A] the idea is surmised that he was get- cl cing oil* and was met unexpectedly, ni The weapon that dealt death was re not found, nor any trace of the shell. k? A series of mysteries is connected bl with the tragedy. No report of the cc shots were heard by anybody, as far G< is is known, and no one is ab'le to tii place the approximate time when the E: Jeed was committed. The man was of last seen alive Saturday or Sunday, es When discovered the body was h? :old in death and evidently had lain m in its own blood for some time. Mr. p( Limbaker, for whom the deceased w ~..l.?,3 4-Via ofnpo vocferHflV I th nui IVCU, V iditcu CUV OW4V WW ?- "?( before noon and made the startling ai discovery. He reported the matter ac to the ruraKPolice who have taken st the matter inland. w Sheriff J. Elmore Martin stated in today that he had heard only meagre w details and would go to Mount Pleas- tr ant this afternoon to conduct a per- at sonal investigation. th ^ BY THE PANAMA CANAL. Cc p< Pleiades Left California Port July 24 and Beached (iothaiu August 2<>. rj New York. Aug. 2G.?The first all! a.* water voyage from San Francisco to j C| New York by way of the Panama ?e- tl] nal was completed today with the ar-j j rival of the Pleiades, of the Lucnenbach Steamship company. She sailed from San Francisco on July 24 and ^ passed through the canal August 26. g( "I hear that Bobby Bings is ac- tt cused of being bibulous." "Nothing m of the 60rt. The only, thing about re Bobby is that he will persist in going tc on jags."?Baltimore American. fa I CAN'T HOLD TWO OFFICES. Judge Mo<>re Makes Derision Creigliton Case. Rock Hill. Aug. ?Judge E nest .Moore lias handed down his d cision in the case of J. Boyd C'reig ton, of this city, who is and has be< for several years, a most useful met ber of the board of trustees of tl Rock Hill school district, and of tl city council. Judge Moore decidi that Mr. Creighton cannot hold bol affices and that in accepting electic to th? city council he abandoned tl cffice of school trustee. This actic was brought by the State of Soul THE KAISER'S WAR MOTIVES. ladness for Glory Hardly to lie Con- , sidered Among Them. The Army and Navy .Journal has le following editorial on the moves of the German emperor's pro- , ?eding to the present great war in urope: It is well to call attention to a few ] tcts which lie close to the surface i this titanic European upheaval , id which should be especially in- i ructive to all military men. First. , le hears on all sides in the United i :ates that the German Kaiser is < ory-hungry and that, in a mad de- < re to achieve a name like Fred- < ick the Great or Napolean. he has ing his great army in the face of urope. When the Boulanger ex- < tement was at its height in France, j le of Boulanger's partisans arose 1 the house of deputies and shouted | i the^opposition: "How do you < low that General Boulanger will i it punish you al) with a coup d'e- ; "Because," hissed back an op- < >nent. "he is too old." Boulangerj ( as then 51. So it may he said of ] te German kaiser. Born in 1S59, i is now 55 years of age. A gray-| j tired grandfather does not seek i ilitary glory at an age three years j j eater than that at which Napolean , < ed and when 22 years older than i < ederick the Great when by the i ] eaty of Dresden, in 1745. he ob- < ined possession of Silesia for the j < cond time and by his military ge- j us had "raised himself to a great j < >sition in Europe." j The kaiser has so well kept the [ ] ;ace of Europe during the 26 years | ] ' his reign that .Mr. Carnegie only a j < w months ago presented to him a ] ; ibute as an expression of the admi-j 1 ition of peace lovers the world over! i ir the magnificent work he had I j )ne to prevent war in Europe dur- j ] g his years of power. Now to say ! . iat he has plunged nations into war j i r a mere freak is to misjudge en-' j rely those racial currents which'] r centuries, like some deeply hid j' ;n stream that undermines moun-ji ins and brings the loftiest peak | ] vel with the plain, have torn j i irough all conventions and diplo-1 i fitic agreements and made thei:.* ] ay in blood to the attainment of eir ultimate object. There has j i fen more than one occasion when j i ie German emperor, if he had been j i ory-mad, could have thrown his j vord into the balance with far more < lance of achieving success than at 1 ie present time. When the Rus.- s an empire was in that fierce grap- ? e with Japan, Wilhelm was ten i >?rs vnnneer than he is today, and ] lould have been more eager to i :hieve military fame than when on- j 15 years away from the threescore ;ars and ten which are supposed to iund out the life of the average ortal. When he took the throne in 188 France was only 17 years reoved from the disastrous debacle I the Napolean regime. Then the aiser was a young man and glory lould certainly have seemed more luring than now, when grandchi.l en are pratting on his imperial lees. He had scarcely been on the rone a decade when the Dreyfus citation broke out in France and e name of the kaiser was brought to the controversy that rent France iunder with discord. Then, if he id fought only his own glory, he >uld have manufactured a casus slli out of the allegations so frelently heard that Germany had ayed a base part in the "affaire." gain at the time of the Anadir indent in Africa a splendid opportuty presented itself for creating a ason for going to war, but the liser sat firm and the war clot.ds ew over. Why, then, should the . inclusion be jumped at that the srman emperor has no other ambion now than to achieve glory? mperors at his age, in the history ' the world generally, have already tablished their reputations and ive been content to pass the reaining years of their reign in *ace. The case of Napolean III, ] ho was 52 when he entered upon ' e war with Prussia in 1870, is not s i instance in point, for he was an 1 lventurer who held his emperor- 1 lip by virtue of a coup d'etat and i ith whom the country was becom- i g dissatisfied, a situation that made ar an apparently easy way to dis- < act popular attention from troubles i home. The German kaiser, on < ie contrary, is the regular succes- 1 >r of a beloved emperor and his ] >untry is at the height of its pros- ; irity, with no home troubles cloud- I g his administration of his impe- I al heritage. We also hear it said that the great < my of the kaiser has led him on to < lallenge the military strength of i ie Triple Entente and that his al- < "ari oafomKi; tn em to war is an- ( her reason for general disarma- < ent, since without his large army ; i would not have been tempted to s > to war. Here the assertion is < iat the possession of a huge fighting 1 achine made him imperious and un- 1 :asonable and that it lulled him in- j i a false sense of security. But the 1 icts do not bear out this assertion, t V' ' . Carolina upon information of Job r. Roddey. There has been considerable inte ;st and much speculation upon tt jrobable outcome, of this cas iVhether Mr. Creighton will appe; :o a higher court is not yet know: Certain it is, however, that shorn ie accept this judgment, or shou! in appeal, fail, the ousting of M Creighton deprives Rock Hill of or if the most valuable officers the cil ias ever elected. ' As a matter of fact there are son llustrious precedents in the Stai which while they may not be accon ng to law, uphold the justice of M Creighton's position, and shou! some citizen be so patriotic as I Siring a case against them it wou seem that the decision would be tl same, the letter of the law beir very plain that no man can hold "tv iffices of honor." In another column we print a sur .nary of a book by Lieut. Col. V von Bremen, a German officer, whir limed to show the Germans the weakness from the viewpoint of mil :arv preparedness. In it will 1 found little to give confidence to tl kaiser, as it shows Germany ar Austria would be outnumbered I nearly 2,000,000 men without coun ,ng Great Britain, while Italy cou not be relied upon to stand by tl Tripple Alliance. Emperors, unle :hey are 'military geniuses like X polean, are not eager to rush ini var when outnumbered by moi :han a million men on land and cor nletelv overshadowed on the sea. Americans, not having been place n an environment where they coui leel the pressure of rival races, na nrally form the opinion that ti [treat military estaDusnmem ui u German emperor is responsible f< this war, and they cannot unde Jtand how a thing that appears t small to them as the Austro-Servia mbroglio should result in this pai European conflagration. This att tude on their part is due to the gnorance of conditions that hai ibtained in their own country. On i few months ago the United Stab nvaded territory of Mexico and sei id her greatest port because a ce :ain salute was not given to tt American flag. Doubtless the Amer ;an people would have been muc iggrieved if Europe had mock* them for entering upon hostility .'or such a trivial cause. Americai ire inclined to condemn the streni jus methods adopted by Austria i punish Servia for the assissination ( the heir to the Austrian throne, y jur own government refused to re jgnize the authority of Huerta c the ground that he was implicated i the alleged assassination of Mader i Mexican?a refusal that result* iventually in the invasion of Mexica territory. If one of the European natioi laving island possessions near tl Caribbean terminal of the Panan :anal should dispose, by a perfect egal sale, of her islands or island i mother nation, the United States ui ier the Monroe doctrine would ei :er a protest and, we doubt no tvould be ready to go to war. Tweni /ears ago this country was on tl /erge of war with England ov< Venezuela and the Monroe doctrin 2ould not Europe very justly ridicu )ur clinging to the intangible thir :alled the Monroe doctrine, whi( las no place in international law To the European the doctrine rm seem very insignificant indeed, bi :o Americans it appears to be vit :o the future welfare of the republ ind sometimes for which the natic is justified in going to war. We wf tvatch over the doctrine with nervoi :are are scarcely in a position 1 shout "militarism" at the Germai )r Austrians when they risk the a aitrament of war for a principle < racial homogeneity that may hai just as solid a basis in the needs < :iie people as nas me .tioiuue uu rine. One very important tiling tl American people should learn is thi ?ach continent, each people, has i sues peculiar to itself, and that it lot proper for a country thcfusant jf miles *away to evoke from tl lepiiis of its isolation a sneer or criticism for people who may he ju is faith fully' living up to the nece sities of their national existence s iid the American people in 186 ivben they preferred to precipitai :he greatest civil war in histoi rather than siee part of their feder; tion withdraw to form a separate n: tion. j i j MONEY INCRI e ' n- MONEY INCREASES FAST. ^ if you employ it in careful yet ng ie wide awake business manner, 91 ss and to do this you must have iH :h it in a safe place, yet conven- 9ft in ient to get at a moment's n<)ie tice. Open an account here ^9 in you are offered every facility ^9 :h to do business on a prompt in basis. jfl ie s Enterpris 4 per cent. Paid on Savings Deposit r. ?????? 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