The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-03-21

titled to and desired; and he has
never notified me that he had
changed his feelings or purposes.
Senator Martin, after making these
voluntary statements and pledges to
me, became member of the steer
ing committee which has given him
my craftsmanship. Fairness and de-
cency, it seems to me, required him
to notify me of his change of mind
and attitude towards me. He never
at any time expressed any uneasi-
ness about my health to me. Had
he done so, his conduct would not
seem so desplcable. When L talk
ed with him about his own race for
the chairmanship of the caucus and
mentioned to him that l wanted the
committee on appropriations he ad-
vised me to say nothing about it and
keep others guessing, which L did.
1t is this phase of the subject which
do not understand. | would hate
to believe there has been any un-
derstanding or any promises or
pledges made. AS l have no proof l
must perforce leave any accusations
unsaid. But l can not help the sus-
picion that there must have been
deal of some kind or Senator Martin
would not have retired without
show down.
ON THE RACK.
Another phase of this subject
and | am through. l have been on
the rack, as it were, ever since the
caucus met on Monday last, and
have persistently refused to con-
slider getting off the committee on
appropriations or OF giving up its
craftsmanship. 1t seems that this
demand was so insistent and so per-
siStent that suspicious came into my
mind, and in analysing the situation
grew very angry. l declared to
the gentlemen of the committee who
came to see me about it that if |
were turned down in caucus l would
carry the fight into the senate itself
Yesterday morning, when there had
been no conclusion of the case, /
went TO the capitol and began writ
ing a speech to be delivered in eau
Gus and was engaged on it nearly all
you, so hot that it almost burned
the paper it was written on, for |
was angry from the ground up and
my indignation was such that 1 pull
to my vitriolic tongue. Some of you
who have heard me in days past
know that there are few men who
can surpass me in saying biting and
yindictive things. l was in this
frame of mind last night, but, as is
often the case with men of my tenn
perament, l slept only two or three
hours and then walked up and began
to think. All public men know that
some of their best thoughts and
speeches have come to them in this
way. | myself know that If / could
have recollected them next day |
have made better speeches in bed
than | have ever made on the plat
form or rostrum When | analyZed
the situation and the conditions here
my anger vanished. | thought how
pitiful and contemplate in compari-
son was my fight for my rights and
the rights of my state as compared
with the great battle to be fought
and now being fought by Democracy
for the rights of the people. had
thought and written bitter things
but my passion was stiled and en-
tirely disappeared when | remem-
bered President Wilson's clarion
call in the last paragraph of his in
augural address:
I summon all honest men, all
patriotic, all forward-looking men,
to my side. God helping me, / will
not fail them, il they will but coun-
sci and sustain me
ANTICIPATION.