The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-04-27
A Cotton.Belt Demosthenes.

Whereupon the senate being In
consideration of the bill to create
tariff board, the day being Thursday,
March the second, and the hour one
of the clock in the afternoon, the
Honorable Ellison DuRant Smith
arose and, proceeding to convenient
station at the end of the center aisle
nearest the main entrance, turned TO
the Republicans who had happened to
be in their accustomed places let
loose the long yell.
Presently, when Mr.. Smith was IN
the midst of an eloquently and ap-
parently important paragraph con-
corning raw materials, which he was
delivering with great declamatory ef-
feet and with suitable gestures and
elocutionary eloquence, the vener-
able Shelby NJ Cullom arose, also'
and waited composedly until Mr.
Smith had enuneiated the immortal
doctrine that the producer of raw ma
etrial, under the law of trade, IS
forced to sell at world prices II ne
produces sufficient to meet the needs
not only of his people but OF the
world at large. Judging this gooo
point at which to separate Mr.. Smith
from his flow of thought, the afore-
said venerable Shelby M. Cullom ask
ed mildly that Mr.. Smith rest his
larynix for time and allow the SEN
ate to go into executive session.
Mr.. Smith paused and tapped his
brow. "I YIELD" he assented, al
though I am not near through. This
is the first opportunity have had to
give my views on governmental al
fairs. I have been novitiate in this
body and have tried to follow the Old
established rule that you have to be
here two years before you speak at
length; and was desirous of giving
this body a thorough sample OF just
what was capable Of when I was in
the Spirit on the Lords day'-and
- The, still venerable Shelby M. cul-
lom smiled benignly at Mr.. Smith and
asked for the question. 1t was put
and an executive session was declar-
ed. At the conclusion of that execu-
tive session Mr.. Smith resumed both
his station in the center aisle and his
speech. From this very moment 1t
was evident that what Mr.. Smith had
said before his interruption was as
mere sounding brass and tinkling
cymbals to the real thunders OF elo-
uuence he had in reserve. Having
stated, as he did, that he intended to
show the Senate what he was capable
of. It was after the Cullom break
in the stream that he first broke In
to poetry; and it was some few min
utes after he broke into poetry that
he began to get really good-before
he really did start showing off, so to
speak.
Still, he had the goods. There is
no denying that. He had the real,
standard, genuine, time-tried orato-
rical goods; and he laid them down
where all, and particularly those Re-
publicans who were not at luncheon,
might see and hear. He was no friv-
olous youngster, bobbing into a de-
bate with line of unconventional
ideas of producing new and untrled
figures of speech. Not so. Here was
an orator who knew the good old
stuff-the stuff that always brings
'em to their feet and sets 'em cheer
ing and crying.
When the Welkin Played Alarm Clock
His first sample was from the time
tried and always effective mother"
bin. Dashing back the hair from his
forehead, he raised both hands high
in the air and let go with few lines
of bleeding and suffering hearts
then to it, thus: II want the Senate
to remember one thing. Thank God!
the love that a mother and father
have for their children Is not meas
ured by the number of dollars they
the fathers and mothers, not the
children-"own. In spite of the cali
co dress; in spite of the work-distort-
ed hands; in spite of the scanned
cheeks, from which the bloom of
beauty has been smitten by the cruel
hand of poverty and adversity; in
spite of the stopped form-thank
God! underneath that calico dress,
despite all those physical distortions,
the poverty-stricken mother loves the
bright darlings about her feet with as
glorious and divine love as ever
burned in the heart of a queen"
The listening senators, there to be
shown by Mr.. Smith just what he