The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1914-08-21

ever received Sucl severe cOHueIlAd-
ton from his colleagues as Mr.. Doml-
RICK received on the floor OF the
house and senate There are doubt
less men living in every county III
tle Third district today VINO were III
the legislature at tlat time, and who
Will testi J as TO the truta OF what
say 1t is interesting TO add IN this
connection that when Mr.. Domlnlch
offered for reelection 20 the leglsla-
ture tie following year he was over
whelmingly repudiated by his home
people, receiving only something like
400 votes in the entire county. And
his nome people tell me that in ais
race for congress this year he will
again be repudiated and that he will
fail to carry his home county by many
hundreds of votes.
They have not forgotten how he
made the county pay MIN an outrage
Gus fee for doing work which it was
his duty to do, while drawing a
salary as clerk o. the board of coun-
ty commissioners without extra COM
pensation.
In Conclusion.
| have tried to answer this SANDER
Gus attack fully, although ! believe 1t
has not cost me votes, because
felt that | owed to my friends, who
have been so true to me in TIE past,
to do so. If l have not answered any
essential charge it is because | have
overlooked it. have been necessarily
busy here since the attack appeared
in the Newberry paper.
l have linked Dominick's name with
Bakers in this matter, for l have
known for months that Baker has
been furnishing Dominck with am
munition. Dominick probably real
ICES by now that t@e ammunition is
faulty and won't shoot straight. Many
people know of Bakers frequent trips
to Anderson and other places in the
Third district, more than 500 miles
from his post Of duty, to confer with
Dominick. 1t is notorious that Baker
6as been neglecting his work in order
to go to South Carolina to engineer
a campaign against me; while l have
been here in Washington looking af-
ter the interests entrusted to my
care. II what l have written about
Baker is not true he las a remedy.
l cordially invite him to sue me for
libel.
Congress mas been in session al
most continuously for the past four
years, and l have not been able TO
canvass the district each year, as
mad been my custom before, and as
wanted to do We have been in ses-
sion continuously since April, 1913,
and it looks today as if we will be in
session until the fourth of March,
when this congress expires by limi-
tation. l went to the Third district
in the early part of August and made
the campaign tour as arranged by
the executive committee, speaking at
each court house During that week
the European war suddenly broke
loose, and we found one morning that
tle South was facing great disaster
because of the threatened drop in the
price of cotton caused by the closing
of the European markets. l had
hoped to spend the remainder OF the
time until the primary in the district,
visiting my friends, but the situation
became so serious by the close of the
campaign tour that l hurried here, and
have been here ever since. felt that
if the people of the district ever did
need my service in Washington they
needed them in this crisis, want &c
get away from here next week, but do
not know that l will be able to do so.
l will arrange to have this article
printed in as many of the newspa-
pers of the district as possible in
their next issue, and will also have
some copies printed in circular form.
l will ask my friends to try to get
this article generally circulated over
the entire district at once, 1
thank my friends N advance for this,
as 1 thank them Tor all their goodness
to me in the past.
And in conclusion, l want to say
that l have lived all my life in the
Third district, more than Ealf CEN
tury, and am now serving my sixth
term in congress. My life has been
an open book l know the people of
the district, and l believe they know
me- If, after all these years, the peo-
pie are willing to retire me on the
slanderous charges, made at the
eleventh hour of the campaign by a
proven scoundrel. l am ready to step
down and out believe, though, that
tie people OF the Third district be-
lieve in decency and fair play, and
that on the 25th Of August they will
rebuke the methods used against me
in no uncertain terms.
Let me close this article, which is
already lengthy, witi tae following
words from Speaker Champ Clark:
men should not be sent to congress
simply to crafty their own personal
ambitions but because they can be Of
service. Having proved that they are
of service, wisdom dictates that they
continue to be of service; and it may
be confidently asserted that the
value of the service o. a man Of ca
pacity, character and Industry and