The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-04-20
PAGE SEVEN

the Law, some hear me Indifferent
| ly. There was a murmur OF pro-
test at this. All were hearing him
with great delight Continuing:
The people themselves are no more
competent 10 understand these alb
su usities than |; and you have no
right to make a law chat the great
rank and file, though they be un-
educated, cannot understand.
Proceeding pas'Ionately along
| these lines, Mr.. Smith came again to
what evidently ne considered his
strongest exhibit of what ne is
considered his strongest exhibit Of
what he is capable OF, for he re
| CURED to the original line OF spell
binding. Picturing the dismal con
ditions that surrounded young
| man and his wife, who were ceI.
tainly in poor luck as farmers if
they were only in half us bad case
as Mr.. Smith described, he said: -
have seen the mother, with the low
ing mothers heart, laboring and
| toil:ng; willing TO do any drudgery:
| willing TO put her body in the stony
road of poverty in order that tho
| feet of her darlinGs might have =
smoother road TO travel than moth
er had walked"
Mr.. Smith also told something
about the tough situation of poor
father, whom he had seen with
mute heip1essness written OH his
careworn face; where was depicted
the tragedy of unjust legislation"
And he pledged himself anew 10
strive 10 remedy these conditions
which pledge concluded his part or
the entertainment
Owing TO the press OF other mat
ters, il then being within forty-eigh1
hourS of adjournment, there was no
| consensus of opinion concerning
Mr.. Smiths exhibition OF what hn
was capable OF long the lines Of
connected thought ana real elo-
| quence and the subject was left for
| future determination. StlI, Their.
was Il large inquiry as to the iden-
tity of Mr.. Smith; and il was speed.
lily discovered he had every reason
TO feel that, after waiting patiently
Tor two years with such burning
language within him, he could hand
the Senate something that would
make it sit up and take notice.
Ellison DuRant Smith, as all shan
know. is the colleague of b. r
Tillman in the United States Sen.
ate. He lives in Florence. South
Carolina, and is the son Of :. min
ister. At college ne won gold med
and literature i'll his sophomore
Junior and senior years. He sery..
ed in the Legislature from 1896 70
1900 and began what. in his auto
biography. he calls the cotton move
ment. in 1891. lie finally became
field agent and general organize
for the Southern Cotton ASSocia-
'ion, his territory covering the eli
tire South and his service lasting
from January, 1905, TO June, 1903,
when he began his race for the Seu-
ate. He was chosen at the primdT-
les in September, receiving. as h.
points out, the largest majority eves
given to q candidate for this office
, in the state.
That. of course. is interesting, hlt
has not SO much bearing on the cas-,
as a further statement. which reads
Because a national figure on az
count OF addresses at New Orlea' 4
Birmingham, Daila, 2mu SnreN =
pot. Clear as day-now isn't il?
why Senator Smith desired to lct
the Senate hear what he was cap
able of? A thorough justifiable
ambition, say l. And he did Sc
And, mark you, a highly descrip-
tive middle name-that of the Sen
ator's: DuRant. That's what h
do.
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