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

ways ready to fetch and carry. Sena-
tor Tillman had endorsed him for
the secretaryship out OF gratitude
and out of his we'll known disposition
to help his friends.
Baker was given position in the
senate by the late Senator NJ. C..
Butler. When -illman was candidate
for the senate against Butler, Ba-
ler was a partisan of Butler and was
very bitter against Tillman. There
are a good many people who remem-
Der hearing Baker apply the foulest
o. epithets to Tillman and all mis-
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. He worked him
self into Tillman's good graces; he
was "Juick 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 mis- benefactors in his old age,
at a time when gratitude would have
been the compelling motive in de-
cent mans heart. Judas Iscariot sold
his Master for thirty pieces Of silver,
but Judas repented.
Many people will recall the fact that
when A. C. Latimer first ran for con-
gress Baker fought him most outra-
geously, and ridiculed the idea of a
plain farmer like Latimer being elect
ed to such a position. Yet when Lat
inner was elected, and began climbing
toward the pinnacle that he after
wards reached, Baker quickly became
sycophant and was never so happy
as when basking in Latimer'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 1 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 informa-
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 as to the op-
portunities and advantages to be
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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
are in Oconee, and Anderson, and
Newberry, and in every county in the
district. Nobody wants pauper labor,
except perhaps a few mill presidents,
and a few large land owners who are
noted for swindhug 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 recent speech l stated
my position on immigration so clearly
that no one except Baker and Domi-
nick misunderstood it. l defeated MIR.
McGalla on that very Issue.
It is charged that l did nothing IN
support of the Burnett immigration
bill, to restrict immigration, in the
Sixty-second congress. On January II
1913, when the motion to lay the con-
ference report on the table came up,
l was absent. was also absent when
the motion was made to recommit the
report. When the next vote came up
agreeing to tine conference report,
On Jan. %, 1913, I was present and
was recorded as voting Yea. The bill
passed and was sent to President
Taft, who vetoed it On Feb. 10, 1913,
there was vote on the passage of
the bill over the presidents veto, and
I was present and voted Yea. The
Congressional Record will cheerfully
prove Baker to be liar if he will
turn to page 1929, Sixty-second con-
gress, third session.
The Pure Food Law.
It is charged that l voted against
the pure food bill This is another
half-truth, which is worse than out
right falsehood. When the bill came
before the house I objected to it be
cause it invaded the rights of the
States. The bill, as it stood then,
would have taken away from the
States all their rights and powers in
the administration OF their health
laws and regulations. AS a Demo
crat I could not stand for that, and
voted against it, giving my reasons
for doing so. Other Democrats who
voted with me were Adamson and
Bartlett of Georgia, Burleson Of Tex
as (now postmaster generaD, John
Sharp Williams OF Mississippi (noW
senator), Gambler of Mississippi, Gar
ret of Tennessee, Gillespie of Texas,
Henry of Texas, Hill and Humphreys
of Mississippi, Moore, Russell and
Sbonnor6 (now Senator) of Texas