The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1902-08-20
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LATIMER FOR U. 8. SENATE.
Partial Record OF What He Has Ac
cOmplished.

The Third Congressional District,
and Anderson county in particular,
presents a candidate for the United
States Senate in the person of Con-
gresham Latimer, who has special fit
ness for the place as shown by his past
record. And what is that record? A
poor boy left by the fortunes OF war
cation beyond that afforded by an old
field school, he started life with the
only legacy left him-that of the pillow
handles. He has tried the field and
the furrow In all it's varying phases,
and is and has been a successful farmer
and more thoroughly understands the
needs, and is in more thorough sympa-
thy with the agricultural population
than any man in the field. And this
not in antagonism to the other varied
interests of the State, but as lying at
the basis of all true prosperity, realiiz-
ing that these Interests are corollaries
growing out OF the agriculturists Of
the State, and that as agriculture is
prosperous the others will necessarily
share in 1t, and that no country and no
other interests can prosper when agri-
culture is depressed.
Mr.. Latimer has brought to the pub
lie service the same zeal and energy,
the same honesty and square dealing,
the same practical business sense that
has guided through life In his private
business, and that he has made a sue
cess of 1t. Look at the record of his
ten years in congress in results brought
to t%he'people of the Third district. 1t
Is not exaggeration to say that he has
secured more in ten years than all the
other congressman who have repre-
sented the district since the war, and
this IS not said to disparage them, but
as q simple statement of truth. He
went into congress a new and untried
man, fresh from the fields, sent there
by the farmers, inexperienced in legis-
lation and not skilled in the graces of
oratory, and 1T was not long until the
farmer-representative had something
tangible to show. The railroads in the
State in the hands Of receivers In the
Federal courts had for years failed to
pay their taxes due the State, and he at
once set in motion the necessary. legal
machinery to make them pay their
taxes just as the farmers have to do
He came to the relief of the State, and
it is within the knowledge of all how
the sheritfs OF sOme of the counties
were imprisoned to collect these back
taxes. But he was at length successful
and the railroads were made to pay
$2o8 900 into the State treasury Soon af-
ter his entrancei into congress he took up
the matter OF securing the claim of New
dollars for injury to their build
eral troops. This bill had been pending
for years, and it's friends had almost
~despaired OF ever getting it passed,
but Latimer succeeded where others
had failed, and the college got the
money. He has been instrumental In
increasing the number of seed pack.
ages from 5000 to $1,000 in" each dis
trict, and Thousands of farmers to-day
testify that the seeds are the best they
ever had, and thousands upon thou
sands Of farm bulletins are distributed
giving the results of the work of the
agricultural departments.
But passing over some other matters
the greatest good hat he has secured to
the people of this district is the estab-
lishment o. the rural free delivery of the
mails to the homes of the people. He has
never claimed to be the originator Of
the system, but only to be one of the
first men to perceive the great benefit
there Is in it and to give 1t o practical
application, and to-day there are 90
routes In operation in this district at a
salary of 5000 per carrier, bringing$54,-
600 annually into the district and con-
ferring vastly improved mail facilities
upon the people.
He has introduced a bill, which is
now pending, providing for 1900, 900
acres of the public domain to be set
apart for the public schools of South
Carolina. He has now a corps of sur
veyors In the State instructed by the
agricultural department to make a soil
survey of 1000 square miles of terri
tory to ascertain the constituent ele-
ments OF the soil with reference to its
a~daptability to the production of crops.
He has also introduced an amendment
to the agricultural bill appropriating
$190, 600 for experiments in road MAX
ing. These matters are referred to
show the practical lines OF which he is
working.
These arc but a portion OF the bene-
fits this farmer representative has Sc
cured for his people, and he comes now
asking you to give him q wider field
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