Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1914-08-19
The Truth About Wyatt Aiken

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| the ScCrCtaryShip, out of gratitude
and out of his well known disposition
| to help his friends.
Bake was given u position in the
! senate by the late Senator NJ. G.
| Butler. When Tillman was candidate
! for the Senate against Butler, Ba-
kcr was Il partisan of Butler and was
very bitter against Tillman. There
| are a good many people who remem-
Der hearing Baker apply the foulcst
of cpithets to Tillman and all his
followers. But when Tillman was
elected to the Senate, and came to
Washington and became a power,
the situation did not change as quick
~ as Baker changed lie worked him
self into TillmanS good graccs; he
was "Quick to bend the pregnant
hinges of the knee that thrift might
follow fawning."
And now, after having been taken
care of for all these years, he has be-
trayed his benefactor in his old age,
at Il time when gratitude would have
been the compelling motive in de-
cent mans heart. Judas lscariot sold
his Master for thirty pieces Of silver,
but Judas rcpcntcd.
Many people will recall the fact that
when A. G. Latimer first ran for con-
grrss Baker fought him most outra-
gcouSly. and ridiculcd the idea Of a
plain farmer like Iatimcr being elect
ed to such position. Yet when Lat
inner was elected, and began climbing
,oward the pinnacle that he after
wards reached, Baker quickly became
| a SyCuphant and was never so happy
| as when baSking in latimCr's shadow.
AS TO IMMIGRATION
Dominick's man Baker accuses me
of having favored unrestricted immi.
| grafton, and Of having introduced a
| bill with this end in view. The truth
is, as both ought TO know, that | have
always opposed unrestricted immi-
grafton, and that the bill introduced
was for the purpose of restricting
and wedding out the immigration that
| threatened to come to South Carolina.
My bill was to establish an Informal
ton Bureau at Ellis Island where
most Of the immigrants coming to this
| country are landed, with competent
| officers in charge, who could look over
| the incoming immigrants, and, after
| selecting those suited to our people,
! give them information rs to the Op-
portunities and advantages to be
| found with us. We do need more
white people in South Carolina, to
Supplant the worthless and danger
| Gus negroes on the farms and as la
| borerS, and if we can get some Of the
| thrifty people from Germany it will be
a blessing to us and to them. Some
Of the best people that. we have in
, The Third district are descended from
immigrant fathers and mothers. They
| NCWbcrry, and in every county in the
district. Nobody wants paupcr labor
except perhaps a few mill presidents,
and few large land owners who are
noted for swindling their tenants
The people Of the Third district, in
the mill villages and everywhere else,
know my position as to Immigration,
| and this eleVenth-hour lie will not
hurt me. In a recent speech | stated
| my position on immigration so clearly
| that no one except Baker and Domi-
nick misunderstood il. defeated Mr.
| McCalla on that very issue
1t is charged that did nothing in
support of the Burnett immigration
bill, to restrict immigration, in the
| SiNty-Sccond Congress- On Jan. II,
1913, when the motion to lay the con-
| terence report on the table came up
was absent. | was also absent when
| the motion was made to rcCommit the
report. When the next vote came up
| agreeing to the conference report,
on Jan. %, 1913. | was present and
was recorded as voting Yea. The bill
passed and was sent to President
Tart who vetoed it. On Feb. 10, 1919
there was vote on the passage of
The bill over the Presidents veto, and
|
congressional Record will cheerfully
| prove Baker to be a liar if he will
turn to page 3l29, SiXty-Second Con-
frcsS, third session.
THE PURE FOOD LAW
| 1t is charged that | voted against