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THE TRUTH ABOUT WYATT AIKEN (Political AdverlIseinent.) To tho Voters of thf Tlilnl District: Th? BCurrillouH attack mailt! on mi' by ono J. M. Maker, formerly of Lowiidcsvllle, 8. C., but now ?if Wash lng ton, I). C., through th? columna of tim Newberry Herald ami New? I li. II. Anil's paper), makes it necessary for rae to usn this method of replying to the false and slanderous charges that have bern made. I know that this at tack will do nm no harm among tho people who know Maker, mid I ask those who do not know him and bli? eputution for truth and veracity to make Remo inquiries. If they will ask the people of Abbeville and Au derson, they will soon fl ml otit tho kind of man that ho ls. If they will ask his own relntiven they will be told an interest In? but tat her sicken ing story of n note for $Mi.u<M), which was afterward compromised for $:(, unu or $:t.r.?M>. if they will ask Maker's clussmatoH at WotTord College they will bo told wily he left that institu tion. They will lind r.unte Illumin?t lng Information concerning him lu the court records at Abbeville, and today they will (Ind oilier inform?t iou ns to lii:t buslnnns methods In the roc 0 t\r of tho courts lu tho District of Cniuniniu. While I believe his attack will i bftrl in'" In tho District, I ft< I i II.i' i v ?- i! to myself and lo my friends to lake BOmo notice of it. A SLIMY TRAIL. At tho opening campaign .meeting at Newberry, when Mr. Dominick was making n garbled mid mlslondlng statement as to my record In ('on gross, 1 snld that I believed he had secured his information "from one James M. Maker, the grandest rascal that over lived in Abbeville, a mau whom few In his neighborhood would believe," or wo'ds lo that of fed. I believed thon, '.nd I know now, that Hnkor had boon furnishing Ikiml nick with misinformation concerning my record, und I will prove it. Let any Intelligent man road Maker's ar ticle and Dominik's speech, both of which are published in the saino Issue of the Newberry paper, and he will at Once see that both came from tho Faroe Bource. The proof will be con vincing ?von to u blina man. Maker and Dominick have the reputntion of being pretty shrewd, but they have not beep nbie to cover their tracks nero. THE M'CALLA CAMPAIGN. Faker says the cause of my ill-will toward bim ls that he supported the late lamented I. II. McCalla in his campaign against roe. That is not true, aa Maker very well knows, but lt ls a fact that in that Cum rilgn he fought mo most unfairly, have no malice against Baker, but 1 do have a very thorough contempt for him. Mr. McCalla and myself had a hot: rn re for congress. It was a rosii'a 3ghL but there was no foul - work on his part, and there was none on mino. We never lost respect for each other. I had his friendship before ho died, and I valued lt highly. I be llevo he voted for me after he quit 'cunning himself. HOW BAKER LANDED. ? . - Baker says I o pp UK ed his election ns Secretary of the United States 8enat?. I .did do that, and my only regret. Is that my effortB wore not successful. I acted from a high sense of duty. I knew him to lie thoroughly unworthy to hold euch a high posi tion of trust, and lt was my duty as n public servant, responsible In some degree for good governinont and for having clean men iii* office, to try to prevent his election. 1 did not tell Senator Martino about Maker's con nection With a discreditable bank ruptcy proceeding. If Senator Mar tino heard ot that he got lt from somo other source. But I did tell Senators Martino, as I told other Senators, of some of Baker's shady transactions, learned thnt some of the Senators .-were put In possession of. certain testimony in tho Investigation of the Sully failure, In which lt was shown that.thai gambling concern had been carrying an account for Raker.with out requiring him to put up margins. When asked the reason for titiB ono of iii e il rm replied in s abs t ance. "Oh, Baker was in a position where he could give ?B Information, about leg islation and help us. It was wert h lt." This'testimony is a part of . tho pub lic records of tho courts of New Tory city and is accessible to any body who .wants to see lt. I submit that the;-man who did this ls unworthy to hold a position of trust in tho Rennte of the United States or in any other body of honest men. \ Baker at one time Compromised his. debts for ten cents on the dollar. Many an honest man has failed and has afterwards, when ho got able, paid all-his debts with interest, but nobody ovor heard of Baker doing this. People who hod money In the defunct bank at Lqwndesville will not, give such testimony. <NIt is common talk around the capi tol at Washington ' thnt Baker was fleeted Secretary of tho Sonuto ns a ?ort. of consolation prize to Senator Tillman.< Senator Tillman wanted to be chairman of tho committee on ap propri?t lons, and his colleagues were not willing for him to have lt. link er was a candidato for Secretary, and lt "was generally known that ho had been a sort of Handy Andy for , tho Senator, servile and eager, al* -ways ready to fetch and carry. Sena tor Tillman bad. endorsed him tor the Secretaryship, oat ot gratitude and out of his weil known disposition ; 16 help his frionds. ..Bake' was given a ^position* In the senate by the Into Senator M. C. j Builpr. .When Tillman was a candidate ? ftdr the Senate against Butler,. Ba .?XM^tpm. vPgrUsan of .Butler and waa ..very; bitter against Tillman. There a good .roany .people .who .rcmom ,^..b<*rlng .Baker apply, the .foulest of epithets to Tillman and all bia r??t'iowers. Rut when ; Tillman was tla?* situation Kl nut change as ipiick I ly as Baker . tinged. Hf! worked him . self into T innti'd good graces; he was "Quid o bend the pregnant hinges of t knee that <hrirt might, follow taw oinc " And now. after having been taken rare of for nil these your?, lu? ha? be trayed his benefactor in lifH old age, at a time when gratitude would have been Hie compelling motive in a de cent man's heart. Judas Iscariot sold his Master for thirty pieces of silver, but .ludan leppiited. I Many people will recoil tho fact that ! When A. C. Latiiner llrsl ran for con gress linker fought him most outra geom ly. and ridiculed tho Idea of a plain farmer like Lal liner being elect ed to r.Ucli n position. Yet when l.at Inior was elected, and bogan climbing .eward the pinnacle that ho after wards roached, 1 faker quickly became a sycophant ami was never so happy as when busking lu lattimer's shadow. AS TO IMMIGRATION Dominick's man Baker accuses me of having favored unrestricted Imtni grintlon, nod of having introduced a bill with this em) in view. The tl util ls*, as both ought to know, thal I have always opposed unrestricted immi gration, and that the hill [ Introduced was for tho purpose of restricting and weeding out Hie immigration that threatened to coinn to South Carolina. My hill was to establish an Informa don Hu rea-,i ai ,10111s' Island, where most of the Immigrants coming to this country aro landed, with comp?tent olllcers In chnrge. who could look over thc incoming immigrants, and. after ?electing those suited to our people, give them information us'to the op portunities and advantages to be found with us Wo do need more white people In South Carolina,'to supplant the worthless and danger ous negroes on the farms and us la borers, and If wo can get some of the thrifty people from (?r-rmany lt will be a blessing to us and to them. Some of thc bent people that we have In Hie Third district are descended from Immigrant fathers and mothers. They are In Oconee. and Anderson, and Newberry, qjid In every county in the i 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 or tho Th ?id district, in , the mill villages and everywhere else, know my position as to immigr?t loin, ? and this eleventh-hour He will not hurt me. In a recent speech I stated my position on immigration so clearly < that no one except Baker and Domi nick misunderstood it. I defeated Mr. McCnl?a on that very issue. lt is charged that I did nothing In 8uppott ol the Burnett immigration bill, to restrict immigration, In the Sixty-second Congress. On Jan. -17, I ill 3, when the motion to-lay the con ference report on the table came up, I was absent. I was also absent when the motion was made' to recommit the report. When tho ne:-* vote came up ugreeing to thu conference report on Jan. 25, 11)13. 1. was present and WSH recorded as voting Yea. The bill passed and was sent to President Tatt, who vetoed it. On Feb. 19, 1913 tbete was a vote On the passage ol the bill over1 tho President's veto, and I Was present and voted Yon. Tnt Congressional Record will cheerfully provo Baker to be a liar if he will turn- to page 3129, Sixty-second Con gloss, third session. THE PURE .FOOD LAW lt ia charged that I voted against tho pure food billi This ls nilethe half-truth, which Is worse than out right falsehood. When tho bill cami Inf ore the house I object ed to lt be cause lt Invaded tho rights of Hu states. The bill, as it stood then would have taken away from thi states all their rights and powers ii tho administration of their healtl laws and regulations. As a demo erat I could not stand for that, and voted against it, giving my reason for doing so. Other democrats win voted with me were Adamson am Bartlett of Georgia, Burleson of Tex as (now postmaster general). Jobi Sharp Williams of Mississippi (nov Senator). Candler of Mississippi, Oat rou of Tennessee, Gillespie of Texa? Henry of Texas, Hill and Humphrey of Mississippi, Mooro, Russell am Sheppard (now Senntor) of Texat Shelley of Kentucky, and Smith e Toxas. That was pretty good rompu ny, was it not? 'Tho bill passed th House and went to the Senate, wher the .objectionable features- wer stricken out, and when lt came bael to tho House I voted for lt, ns did th' others, and it became n law. I hav no apologies to make for my recor* on that bill. AS TO THE 8PEECHE8 Hpker m ak o tn Insinuation that have not written the speeches that Imve made In Congress, that I hav had to get somebody else to prepar them for mn. It ls rather .fatig?lo to have to. answer such a charge, have not made as many speeches a some* othor members, and perbap they have not boen ns brilliant a soma others, but ot any rato the have been mine, AND BAKE! KNOWS IT. " Baker says the Into Zach McGhe told him of having furnished me wit material toi- a speech. Zach McGhe was my friend. Ho was a gent lomat and I don't believe he ever aper much time in Baker's company. Itt characteristic of Baker to try tc prov ? falsehood by a dead . man,- Som years'before his death Zach McGhe took a trip through England, an wrote* a-series of very Interests newspaper articles telling-of.his.e perlencea and observations v amor thi. laboring people of thiu conn tr particularly with reference to \wag? and tho cost of living, and the dlffe onces In this country because .ot.tl high tariff. I took some Ot these lc tera and read them Into the Congre sional Record, giving Mr. Med hi tull credit for them. This was not speech av all, abd did not pretend t fi ^ '..'. .'."* /. ;. of some very val na bin ?lata collect??! by Mr. M?'(SI. r?ir lb? bondit of th? ix*, bul was morely tho Introduction mem born or Congress, us the tariff was then mi Insu?. Thos? wlio would like lo see the pro??f that Maker bas lied about Ibis, as nbout other things, inay consult the Congressional Itec* ?ii?l ?if the se<!uiid session of the Six ty lirst Congress, pages r?iC'i to :tr>74 inclusiv!'. Bv?ry two years tim democratic campaign committee issues a Cam puign Handbook, foi use in tim |?lv olitl dis!rids, and fut' lite guidance of Denim ratio speaker:) and editors during Hie campaign. This haud bo??k has been issued live limes since I have been in Congress, and three limes it has contained speeches deliv ered hy mc on the Hour of the nous?1. I would not detract from the honor or glory of any oilier man, but l do not believe! iliat any other member of Congress has linen thus honored by his collogue*] dining tho ten years that I have been In the llouso. j muko no claims to gifts of oratory, bul when I do speak or writ?* I have something lo say and | toll the truth straight from tim shoulder, ns l am doing now. AS TO ABSENTEEISM. It ls charged that I have boon away from tho llouso a great ?leal while lt has boon in session, that out of !)91 roll calls I .vas absent 2f>:t tim?s. ('barges of this kind have been ma?ln against members of Congress ever since wo have had a congress. I have not taken tho trouble to verify i !io-ligures as given by Maker, but, as suming that they aro correct, which I doubt, 1 nm surprised that I wns re corded as voting so many times. Tb? record ls a good ono, oven as they state it. As everybody knows, it has boen a cns lom in Congress from timo immemotiul for members to palr"w!th onch other. When a member ls obliged to bo absent, for Illness or for any other reason, ho gets a membor of the opposite party to pair with him, and then neither will vote until th? absent member wturns and the pair ls broken. Thia ls a courtesy that all mom hors of Congress extend to each other. I have had to bo awny from tho House occasionally, while it was in session, on account of illness of myself or membera of my family, or on public business, and I have near ly always Leen paired. I have been lr tho House a great many times when a vote was taken, and have refrained from voting, because I was paired with some absent member. The pairs ar? shown in the Congressional Rec ord, but not in the Journal of thc House, if Dominick and his hench man, Maker, hud wanted to be fall they would have .quoted from the Rec ord, and not from the Journal, and would haye told thc truth about thc pairs. ,. ' ; *.. ?: THE CHAIRMANSHIP. it is .charged that I waa not made Chairman of the Committee on th? District of Columbia, In spite ol seniority, becnuso I had: been neglect ful of duty in attending the commit toe meetings and was not equal to th? work. At the beRinning of tho Sixty second Congress it was up to me M luke this Chairmanship, being tin innking member q,f the committee but I did not care for. it. I knew i meant a great deal of thankless work and that it might interfere with mj duly to my own district and keep rn? from giving it the close attontlot which lt has been my pride to give lt Hnpresentalive Mon Johnson of Ken tucky waa next to me on the commit toe, and was at that time a prospec ti ve candidate for governor of hil stat?. He was very keen to get tin chairmanship, for the reason that hi thought it would help him in his raci for governor. I did not know a gr?a deal nbout Johnson, but had regard ed him as my friend, and was <|ulti willing to unload the Chairmanship 01 him. He seemed very grateful, ant was profuse in his thanks. Ile offers to do anything in the world for roc and I asked him to appoint my ob friend Dock Owens, a Conf?d?ral' Veteran, who now llvo ( at Greenwoo? but who once lived i ? Anderson, a messenger of the cr;, mlttee. This I a> position thnt is nc' hard to fill, nm pays some $1,100 or ? 1,200 a year, an it would have been i godsend to .Mi Owens In his declining years. Ml Johnson did not V >op lils promise a to appointing M* Owens, and be di hot' act fairly I . other mattera, au I quit nt tomi in ?he committee meei Inga. I am so 1 ..lt that when a ma deliberately p1-vs false with me ! Is hard for nv to get over it. At tho bog! ning of the Sixty-thlr Congress I h a med that my opponent for re-elect iou would try to tts against me the fact that 1 was nc mado chairman of th? District Con mlttee. and would try to make it a] pear that T had been turned down ht cause of fault of my owu. I swailov nd my pride and went to Mr. Join son and asked h tai if he would be s good to mo as I had been to him. told him that I had given ...him th chairmanship to help him in bia'poi tleal fortunes, and asked him if h would do the same thing -for mo. was not much .surprised when ho toi me that he lind defeated me fm th chairmanship, in a fair fight, a~d o his merits, and that t had no clari on him. 1 did not pursue the-matter ? vigorously as I might have done,; ft Mr. Johnson had his friends, ot cours and I .feared' that a fight over til chairmanship-might open the Way f< disruption .in the party ranks, and did not wont to he responsible fi anything of that kind. . But In order to be prepared1 far lui such-a slander as'this I went tb tt Democratic members of ibo Ways ax Means Committee i < .vhtch comt-.itti selects'.ah the., other committees < the Home)? -and stated tho < sltuntit to thom and asked for a'statement i tba r fact a.. They very promptly. -ap gladly gave men the following: ; "House of Representatives, ' 'Washington, April 24, 1913. "Hon. Wyatt Aiken, HOOBOof Repr ?putatives. "Hear Slr: In response to your In <iuliy Wo, til?? mein hers of the Com mit le? on Way? and Means of the Sixty-second < (ingress, take pleasure In Butting Hint in HM> selection of thc Committee Chairmen at the beginning of the Sixty-si imid Congress you would havo boen l'hoseli as Chairman of Hu> Committee on the District of Columbia if we had not received your declination. There can be no question about this as you were the rankine, mern bi r of that Committee und no othor name was considered un til after your declination had been received. "Yours very tiuly, (Signed.) "O. W. Underwood, .nileiirv T. Ilalney, "Cordell Hull, "A. Min hell Palmer, "Claude Kuchen, "Lincoln nixon, "Andrew .1. Peters. "Krauels Hinton Harrison, "\V. S. I lammond, "D. \V. Shaekleford, "Ollie M. JamcH, ''Wm. Hughes.'/ |f Raker iwjll read .this statement he. will find attached "Tb it the name of lion. Ollie M. .lames of Kentucky, who was a member of the Ways and Moans Committee in HIP Sixty second Congrpss, and who is now a United States Senator, and whom he haB at I tempted to quote against me. This ought to be convincing proof, even to Dominick and Baker, as to the chairmanship matter. It is true that I have not been attending tin meet lng? < r the committee during t> Sixty-third Congress, and it is alu truo that my course ls approved by my colleagues who understand the situation. I have round plenty of-oth er work to do. I nt tended one' meeting of the committee, when nv vote was needed- to Secure a favi. iblo report on some needed legislation. It some limes happens that the vote of one honest man ls badly needed, and my ? vote has always been ready when it ?as needed, In committee "r else I <vho:e. During my eutlre Bervlce in i Congress 1 have never fulled to vote. I or-to be pained, on any Important is* j sue. I ,THE ANDERSON POSTOFFICE it ls charged that I have kept -an I unworthy map, a republican, in of fice as postmaster at Anderson. be cause of political cowurdice.' This is ?tho first time I have'ever be?n nc : culed, of cpwnrdieo,-*?ndit-wlil prob ably be the/last time. Here are the facts as to the Anderson posloffice: i Soon after Pics I dent Wilson's in auguration, ' If not before, lt was an nounced to bc the policy of the ad ministration that whore republican postmasters were giving good ser vice, arid; thpre^ere:??:;demandB for their removal* on the. part- .. of the patrons:of tho of?l?c, tho postmasters would *ve altmvet? to serve out theil terms. I opposed that policy then and ? I am opposed to lt now. If I had had my way, every republican postmaster in the country would have been fired within a month after Wilson's inau guration. Due the 5> administration ? thought the ether course - should bc 'followed, and jbbave had to acquiesce, Some m on Dip-ago. Mr. Cochran, the postmaster at. Anderson, and the as slszant postmaster and the assttant postmaster's father, after 'having been friends for V long time, became estranged and some bittor - feeling ensued. Serious charges wero filed .against the postmaster, and a post of lice in specter was detailed to . investigate (hem. When his report came Iii it wai unfavorable to the postmaster. But the officials of tho Department, having lind experience in matters of t* this JHnd. and pursuing tho policy or* tak Ind nothing for granted-and per haps having mason to believe, tba' the inspector was not without - bia: or had been deceived in the matter had another inspector detailed tc molle an investigation. This inspectoi and never been'".to Anderson before and knew nobody -thore. Ho spent several we e k s. ;Jn Anderson. inlngl I nf wlih the 11 copte 'aha trying to get at the facts, and' his report was alto geJJipr different from that of tho firs Inspector. Still another Inspectoi mode a report, and bis report corrob ortpated .hat of the second inspector These roportfl.' made wholly In depend ent of each other, tallied in almost ev cry detail. The department official wera thoroughly, convinced that th> charges against Mf.Cochran were mad* through spite-,- and lt was clearly es tani ?shed that most of the charge: were wit hoot--foundation while otb ersl wero grossly exaggerated. The de part ment officials informed me tba not sufficient .grounds for. the post master's removal had been -shown and that there wns nothing for. trn to do. It is true .that when the difficult: between the postmaster and Hie nt sistnnt postmaster first occurrfti some good people at Anderson wrot> that they tbpughl the - posimaBte should bo removed. Most Ot tbet have since written,that they wer mistaken, thot they did not fully, ui: derstand tho-, efreumstance?, and : ?u* .they, thought it wopld be only ju st ic fon bim to serve out his term, wbld expires in December. There \ are I number of applicants for the ot?e% al of whom aro my friends, 'and ever nae of tbeni has Informed-mo ?that h la willing for Mr. Cochran- to serv out his term. It ls worthy or mentlo In this connection that there aro som 25 or 80 clerkB.and carriers in the Al ('.erpon postof?lt?c). They are' as fine ph clean a body of men ^s I have eve known. Ev?ry single one o? them hs sided unreservedly with-tho postmai tor in this affair. Surely, If there ha been anything very badly.wrong, the would not have stood, for lt-cert ali ly not ail of them, ii . It is true that throe ministers < the city of Andersen did sign-a pet (ion to the > President, asking ? thi the postmaster . be remove* Two of these. . I understnni have but recently come to-/-derso > - ? ..- '?.V: s-Pi<!l i;;.-t H t.-, ' and they had not had timo to Kel ac quainted with conditions. Tho other ] minister who signed thc petition ia pastor of a small church, and, I am told, spends comparatively little of his time In th? eily. None of iho otb er 20 or moie white ministers in the; city signed tho petition, although' most, if not all were askc-ll to do so. Some of thom even went jo far as to write leitet s to Washington express ing their disgust willi thei methods being used against-the lostmastor, ;vnd lotting it be fancwri' hat . they were more than williny foi him |o re main lu omeo until the expiration of his term. These leitete aw all on iilo in Washington. and-A-wouldibave been so easy for Halter to h ivejQUOtV] cd thom if he hud ber u trying to bo decent. Baker characterizes Mr. Ccchrnn as "a diunkeu sot." Mr. Cochra i ls able to lake caro of himself, iud linker will probably bo called to. ac -oust for euch ?anKuago. lt is ' prob: hly true that ho has boen drinking t io much. Any man who drinks at all drinis too much. I cnn say ibis,-beean ie in my own young manhood I used ?to drink, but I quit drinking when t waa elect cd 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 have boen circulated on me that I would not bo at all surprised to learn that the character assassins are saying that I, too, have been a "drunken sot" hero in Washington. So much for tho Anderson postof lice. There has boen no vacancy, al though a desperate efTort has been made to ojente one. I have not tried to. keep Mr; Cochran In otflce, and I have not tried to got him out, for I know that would bo useless unless there w?s cause. Tho postoftlco depart ment ofll<?lals say there was not suffi cient cau.?o. But I have -been keeping close up with the situation ns regards the ser vice, nnd there has not been one single complaint BB to the service given by tbo postoflice in Anderson. The department officials say- the of fice ranks serond to none In the country in point of efficiency. Only recently it has-been my pleasure to co-operate ia securing better mail service in and out of the city of An doison, and. right now we are working on a plan to Improve the delivery ser vice in thc city and on the rural routes. ! As I have stated, if I had had my way Mr. Cochran and every other Re pirblican postmaster in the country would have been removed long ago. There is a Republican postmaster at Greenville, and there are Republican poBtmastcis still in office at other places in South Carolina, and all over the country. As fast as their commis sions expire they are being removed and their places filled by Democrats. Baker knows this, if Dominick does not. And by the way, why is lt that Bater is so distressed about a Re? publican remaining as postmaster at Anderson, when he has been working so hard to enable Republican employ es of tho 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, 30 per cent of them would vote for Mr. Cochran to serve his term out. Baker nnd' Dominick are not patrons of the of fice, and I have had many assurances within the' past two or three days that the people of Anderson resent their gratuitlous lnterfence... Baker says a certain man has been, "slated" for the job. Another lie; that la ali there 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 I will recommend for the position, but when the time comes I will give the matter careful consideration and do iho best I can. All the applicants are good mon, and I believe any one pf then would make a good - post master. THE CANAL VOTE. I nm criticised'becauseil did not1 vote with President 'Wilson on thei canal tolls matter. Thia has been threshed out time and again, but had as well say something about that. too. One of tho main arguments for going to the enormous expense of building' the Panama' canal i was that lt would open a short waler way Republican, and this fact waa widely commented on throughout the cdun betwocn tho Atlantic and Pacific I coasts, and would Insure ell caper freight ratos acrdB?' f^^ftl^Weiit and' to nnd from the' mi? 'ldawelt (o the tW.O seaboards. - W^.,b?dlt _tno i canal with that -underst for const wise vest main planks in th?'''BalttmoTfl{:pl?fr^ form, nnd this plank was specifically endorsed by I'rcB?Jent^iWilson,- Mr. Bryan * and other ' Derri?civA?lc leaders during the- campaign*'Thflyi.tdld tis Ute platform meant Just what lt) said. I believed that then; atid-'T believe it now. When I bocaiac^aY candidate for re-election - to Congress two ?years ago I-signed tho pied ga. required by tito State Copventlou. *hatwonld "support /the pr inc ipi win and policies pf the party." Fr?ao. toUa was -consider-1 ed a Democratic principle ann prise to all of ns when 'Pres l?t; son came before' os suddenly i last spring and demanded that we' repeal that. law. He gave, no reason tor his action, and he . hais'given none since. I .'have never boan able to find any satisfactory reason for voting to repeat the law. and I did-pot rote that way. Other Democrats. Speaker Clark, Mr. Underwood, the Demo eratic floor leader. Mr. Kitchin . of North Carolina, who will be the Demo cratic leader-m the next Congress, voted inst as I did. Tba charge that ! wo lined, up with the Republicans, la. raise, for lt was not a party question. ?nd the Republicans were as - badly I divided aa the Democrats, The charge ' that In favoring freo toils we were fa vc ri ir,; a ship subsidy ia equally falso. On tho other hand, If the coast wise ships using the canal have to pay lulls they will have to charge higher ratos, anti that will he in the Inter es of the railroads, their competi tors, so that, making the ships pay tolls is a form of railroad subsidy, As a matter of fact Creat Britain never raised tho question of free toll? until lt was brought up by the Tehan tapec Railroad, In. Mexico, and the ''anadian Facillc Railroad, both ol which are owned by British iuterests In repealing the provision for free tolls for vessels engaged In coastwise ."..hipping we Were legislating dlrectl; for the benefit of this I'ngllsh ownec railroad In Mexico and this English owned Canadian railroad, and Mu trans-continental railroads in out own country, and no sensible man eat deny that fact. The more I thin! about my vote on the canal tolls quos flou the more convinced 1 am that was right, politically. econo.nicoll and in every other way. Several persons have stated thd they heard Mr. Dominick say. Just al ter this vote was taken, that if lie hat been In Congress he would hav voted just as I did. It appears tba when he got to examining the state ment as to my record, as furnisher him" by Baker, he found so littl to criticise that he decided to attacl me on my vote-on the cnnal tolb It r.ppenrs that he abandoned his owi convictions In tho hope of gahila votes if he could show that I was na in sympathy with the President. THE USE OF MONEY. It is charged that I have spent great deal of money in my cnmpaigi that I have "degraded and corrupto politics." This must be amusing t most people, who know the facts, have never spent a great deol c money, becnuse I have not had it t spend. I have had the good fortun to defeat several rich men, who sper money lavishly, who had more moue than I could have raised if my lil had depended on lt. Since the can pai*?n publicity law has been in e feet I have filed at the close of eac campaign a sworn statement as to m expenses, and If I have sworn ful-< ly I am subject to prosecution in tr courts and fine and imprlBonmen But this charge is so abBured that can hardly give it serious consider tion. "LITTLE TH1NG8." It ls charged that my work Congress has consisted of "HU things." Well, lite itself is made i of little things. I have always believe that a man who does little thlni well does a tolerably big thing. have tried to give close and prom attention to the wants of the poop of ray district. The congressman wi tries to atTendTto his duties faithful cats ro. idle bread. No man c. truthfully say tfast *he interests the Third district have suffered sin I have been in Congress. On the co trary, lt would be very easy to she that thc Third district has far much better than many others. It is given to but few members Congress to get their names cornie ed with national legislation. Take I now tariff law, for instance. It known as the Underwood law, a rightly so, for Mr. Underwood, chairman of the Ways and Mea Committee, introduced lt in t House and- skillfully >handled it. A yet every Democratic member of Cc gress had a band in making that t and in its passage. It was consider by the Democratic caucus and amei od by Democratic votes on the fie of the House. The same thing is ti of thc new enrtency law, known the Class-Owen law. It was introd ed in the house by Hon. Carter Ola chairman of the Committee on Ba) ihg and Currency.'and nobody is ji ous of him because lt bears bia nar Yet be will cheerfully bear te mony that every Democratic merni of Congress hnd a hand in its makl and in Its enactment. The same th; ls true of the Smith cotton futn bill, and the Lover bill for agrie tural extension work. They w amended and rewritten many, tit before they finally became law. 1 same thing will be true of my bill provide, for long-time credits on fa lands at low interest. That bill n pass and lt will be known as Aiken law, ff I remain In Congre but lt will doubtless undergo, mt amendments -before it gets up to President for hla signature. This true of all l?glslaUon, for, in aim every Instance, legislation 1B the adit of compromise. There are mt men In Congress, and they have mt mind?;, and they ?re SB a rule g minds. When a bill g?ts through becomes a law lt is the(work of combined wisdom' of the entire Ix .?l cannot br-aaTotf myself, for i praise ls. half ?cabdal, but I do Ueve that mt' record In'coguress compare at lenat favorably with average, and. I-.would Uko tor st unbiased man t? make the com pa ri some day/ SIXTY-SIX B1LLB nick that t have secured the pas? or only CG bills.since I have boei Congress. I bave not counted th but if there were ?a many as 66 1 that is probably]?0 per cent gre that la,probably 50 per cent gre than any other member of Cong has to his cfcdlt during my sen During one Congress I secured passage of more bills than any o member Of- Congress, Democrat try. It ip claimed'thst most of tl were "small bills." That Is prob: true, and if It is true lt proves tb have been "looking after the later of the small fellows in my dis icBtead of trying, to serve tho big lows, that-while trying to do my duty on "matters of national inc tance t have alwaya. found time ti bind to the email matters whlet rec tl y affect ray. propio at homo matter how humble. .' WHAT DOMINICK DID. * | had hoped to go . through Q>\a rc; .... I ?i-f f- ? t -1-.-: ! -' ' campaign without making any direct reference to Mr. Dominick, hut. Hinco he baa seen tit to help clrculute false Btatewenln nhout me I will tell the truth about him. In 1U02 Mr. Dominick was a member of the legislature from Newberry county. Thor? waa a bill pending 10 Increase the salary of the sheriff of Orangeburg couuty. lt bad passed one house, and had passed the other holme with on amendment, and had pnsaed a conference cr.iaralttee and got Into fr/pe conf?rent. On the last day of the session the desired change was., incorporated in the gen oial supply bill, and then th.? Orange burg delegation asked that the Indivi dual bill be killed by having tho free conferees report a disagreement. Hut in tho nish of tho closing hours Mr. Dominick, who was on the free con ference committee, wrote a report and carried lt to tho other members of the committee and told thom he hail arranged lt to Huit tho parties interested, and they took lils word for it and signed it without reading ll. Tho bill was about to be put through and become a law, when ' . somebody discovered that Mr. Domi nick had struck out all before and af ter the enncting words, and had writ ten a new bill entirely, providing for tho establishment of breweries or boor bottling concerns In certain cities. Mr. Dominick's report was rejected, and in nil the history of South Caro lina no member of the legislature over received such severo condemna tion from his colleagues as Mr. Domi nick received on the floor of tho House and Senate. There are doubt less mon living in every county in the Third district today who were in tho legislature at that time, and who will testify as to thc truth of what I F.ay. It is Interesting to add in this connection that when' Mr. Dominick offered for re-election to tho legisla ture the following year he was over whelmingly repudiated by his homo people, receiving only something like 400 votcB in the entire county. And his home people tell me that in his race for Congress this year he will again be repudiated and that ho will fall lo carry his home count** by many hundreds of votes. They have not forgotten how he made the county pay him an outrage ous fee for doing work which lt was j bis duty to do, while drawing a j _ .lary as clerk of the board of coun- <? j ty commissioners, without extra com I pe ii sat ion. IN CONCLUSION I have tried to answer this slander I ous attack fully, although I believe lt Ibas not cost me - votes, because 'I I felt that I owed to my friends, who I have been so true to mo in tho pa.it, I to co PO. If I have not answered any I essential charge lt Is because >I have I overlooked lt. I have been necessarily 1 busy here since tko attack appeared ?h4ar?the-Newhctry " traper. I I have linked Dominick's name wUo J Daber'.-? te this i -x^^r, for I haye j known for - months "that Baker has been furnishing Dominick with ara I munition. Dominick, probably real izes by now that the ammunition la I faulty and won't shoot straight. Many people know of Baker's frequent trips Ito Anderson and other places In the Third district, more than 500 mile3 I from bia pnst of duty,- to confer with I Dominick, if ls notorious that Baker j hag been neglecting his work in order Ito go to*South Carolina tp engineer I a campaign agt.inst me. while I have I been herc in Washington looking af I ter thc intere? ts entrusted. to my j enrc. It what l have wrlt?h about I Baker is nat true he has a remedy. II cordially invi'e bim to out? mo (or I libel: . .. . I Congress has boen in session al I most continuous]! for. the post four I years, and I have not been able to canvass the dis riot each year, as [hod been my CUB!om beforehand as.I j wanted to do. We have, been In BBB* I sion continuously since- April, 1913, I and it looks to tiny as If we -will be in J session nntll the ?>fourth1-of March, I when this contrera expires by lbni I Cation. I went lo Ute. Third district j in the early Mart of August and made j the campaif;n, tour as 'arranged by I tho oxeent iv s committee, speaking at I each-court hvnse. During that week I the European war 'Suddenly broke I loose, and we found one morning that I the South was facing n great disaster I because Of thv threatened drop,In tho I prion of cottoni caused by tho closing I of tho European markets. I had I boped to spend the remainder of Ute I time until the primary' in the district, I visit inj; my friends, but the situation I became so serious by the elOse of the I campaign tour'that I hurrlod here, and I have boon here ever slnco. I felt that I if the people of the district-ever did I need roy service's In Washington they I needed them In this crisis. vl want to I get-away from here next Week, but do I not know that I will be able to do so. l l will arrange to have this article I printed In as manar of the newspa pers of the district as possible In j their next issue, and will also have j -some copies printed In. circular form. I X will ask my friends to try to get I this article* generally circulated over I over the entire district at once. E j thank my-friend 8 In advance for this, as I thank thom for all their goodness to mo In tt? o''peat. I And in conduelo*, I wast to sky I tlroV 1 have lived all my iff o in the I Third district, mora, than halt a cen tury, and am now .serving my Bixth I terni In Congress. My lifo, has'been .an open book. I know tho "people ot tho district, and I believe they know me. -If, after al) these years, the peo ple are,willing to retire me on the slanderous charges, mada at the pie vent h hour of tho campaign, by a [ provan scoundrel. I? am, regal to step down and out. I believo,, though, that ? tho people of tho/Third district be lieve In decency abd fair play, aid that ? on the 2Gth of August.'they will L rebuke tho mo th od a used against mo tn no uncertain terms. Lat me dose this article; which la already lengthy, with tho ; following words from- iipeaktir Champ 'dark: "Men should hot bo sent to congress - . .'il