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


faulty aud 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
has been neglecting his work in order
TO go to South Carolina to engineer
campaign against me, while | have
been here in Washington looking af-
ter the interests entrusted to my
care. If what have written about
Baker is not true he has remedy
cordially invre him to sue me for
libel
Congress has been in session al
most continuously for the past four
years. and | have not been able to
canvass the district each year, as
had 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 tha
the South was facing great disaster
because of the threatened drop in the
price of cotton caused by the closing
Of the European markets. | 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 | hurried here, and
have been here ever since. | felt that
if the people of the district ever did
need my services in Washington they
needed them in this crisis. / want to
get away from here next week but do
not know that | will be able to do so.
l will arrange to have this article
printed in as manw OF the newsDa.
pers Of the district as possible in
their next issue, and will also have
some copies printed in circular form.
| will ask my friends to try to get
this article generally circulated over
over the entire district at once. l
thank my friends in advance for this,
as | thank them for all their goodness
to me in the past.
And in conclusion, want to say
that l have lived all my life in the
Third district, more than half cen
tury, and am nov serving my sixth
term in Congress. My life has been
an open book. ! know the people of
the district, and | believe they know
me. If, after al these years, the peo.
pie are willing ~ retire me on the
slanderous charges, made at the
eleventh hour of the campaign, by
proven scoundrel, ! am read to step
down and out. believe, though, that
the 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, with the 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 of man Of ca
pacity, character and industry and
good habits increases in exact pro-
portion to his length of service. These
facts should furnish food for thought
to every constituency in the land. The
two-term-and out rule is a poor one
for any district. | can speak on this
subject with some freedom, as my
own district has given me ten unani
nous nominations"
Very truly,
Wyatt Aiken
Washington, August Is. 1914.
p. 81 am just in receipt Of the
following from Senator John Sharp
Williams:
United States Senate
August 13, 1914.
'tHon. Wyatt Aiken, House of Rep
resentatives, Washington, D. c.,
Dear Wyatt: l have heard that
some criticism has been made Of you
on account Of your vote on the Pure
Food Bill in the House in 1906 !
voted, as vou did, AGAINST the bill
when 1t came up in the House for
the flst time, because it contained
section that was objectio 1able on
the ground that it took away he right
Of a state to make any re gulation
on the subject AS states right Demo
Gratis / think we voted right.
The Senate struck out the OBJ
jectionGhle section and when the bill
came back to the house it was pass
ed without y dissenting vote.
with pleas ant recollections Of our
service together in the House, / am
with every expression of regard
Very truly yours,
(Signed John S. Williams"