The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1909-05-04

president and report to a meeting OF
the union in executive session, to be
held at 10 o'clock, when some declv-
i've action will no doubt be taken.
It is announced that there will be
an open meeting Of the union at II
0 'clock this morning, at which Gov
NJ. F. Ansel will give an address, and
other speeches will be made by Mr..
T. B. Stackhouse, president of the
State Bankers association and Of the
Standard Warehouse company. In
the speech making the chamber of
commerce will be represented by Mr.,
Beverley Herbert, vice president.
Secretary J. Whitner Reed yester-
day received a communication from
Daniel J. Sully of New York. This
letter was not read before the meeting
last night, but will be presented to
the farmers today.
Among Those Present.
Following is the personnel Of the
officers and members in attendance at
the meeting last night and the plac-
es in the State represented:
OAfcers-B. Harris, president; A.
J. A. Perritt, vice-president; J. Whit
ner Reid, secretary-treasurer; ". B..
Bodie, chaplain; ". P. Caskey, ser
geant-at-arms.
Executive Committee-W. R.
Parks, Second district; Joseph l..
Keitt, Third district; O. P. Goodwin,
Fourth district; J. Frank Ashe, Fifth
district; J. H. Lambert, Sixth dis
trict; L. L. Baker, Seventh district.
MIR. Sully's Letter.
The letter received from Mr.. Dan
iel J. Sully, and which will be read
before the meeting today, follows:
"The purpose of the Farmers un-
ion mass meeting in Columbia is the
one nearest my activities and plans.
T am working here in cooperation
with your cause, and the progress IS
so marked and the call upon my time
so urgent, that | can serve the people
of the South at the present moment
here better than in the South itself.
"Nothing else could prevtnt my
presence at your congress OF the
county presidents and those who are
vitallv concerned in the interests we
are pledged to protect and further.
II am glad to find that with your
president, Mr.. Harris, and with the
approval of your members you have
planned to give an opportunity to the
chamber of commerce; the bankers,
and business men of Columbia to dis
cuss with you the common cause OF
cotton. It is only through coopera-
tion Of all classes that the realiza-
ton of the plans Of the South can be
made possible.
"1n my present project, which is
the fruit Of many years of study and
labor in the interest of the greatest
staple the world has known and Of
which America possesses the monop-
oily. have gone first to the growers
Of cotton and through them to all IN
terests touched by cotton in its an
nual journey from the producer to
the consuming millions. And it IS
because worked along lines Of modern
cooperation that success at last, after
many years of struggle in the South
and vicissitudes in all departments IN
which cotton is the controlling factor,
has come to US.
II am glad to say to the State
Farmers union Of South Carolina,
and to all the South, that these gath
erings which have been held for the
purpose Of betering the conditions
primarily Of the growers of cotton,
and through them Of all interests
which cotton serves. are at this mo-
ment having their results in the per-
fection of movement that is prepar-
ing to finance and handle the cotton
crop.
''It is known throughout America
and throughout Europe that without
the harvest the South yields the fur
ther progress Of civilization would be
impossible. 1t is known as a result
of years of serious experiment on the
part Of our European rivals that the
South alone of all the regions on the
earth can produce cotton in the guam
titles and qualities needed by man
kind. With this marvellous asset with
which not other commodity compares,
the South should be, and I an glad
10 say will be in the near future, the
controlling factor in the commercial