The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-09-08

TO My Friends and Supporters.
A due sense OF gratitude and thanks
10 you for your confidence and sup
port. as well as n feeling of propriety
upon my part, impels me to make to
you a statement, as briefly as / can,
with regard TO the late primary cleo
ton for the United States senate.
AS you know, two years ago made
the fight for reelection for governor
without having any financial means to
maintain any organized management
IN my behalf in that campaign, and
had to rely entirely upon the volun-
tary expression of the will of the peo-
pie In casting their votes at the polls
was opposed by the organized ef-
forts and the resources OF the bank
ers. manufacturers and corporations
with substantially the entire press Of
the state lined up against me with the
determination to show neither fair
ness nor justice. nor to abate a single
effort to misrepFesent the true state
?f tho campaign ss 1t progressed. but
on the contrary 20 distort and villify
me In every respect.
With this combination of press and
cIpltal against me, received 72,043
ynfcr d lcrd Of 5.495 over a man who
/. 4! !,-tcG from his early en-
"a 80 5int3spublic life with the TIL
nanitc D.Jvcmdnt, and who had been
trained az ths candidate In whom the
senior senator from South Carolina
and the press placed all OF their hope
Of defeating ME. This geutleman had
been speaker OF the house OF repre-
senthttves, had been an associate JUS
tice upon the supreme bench, and had
hpnn Hhtaf iYtutfan tn 4,
resigned for the purpose OF carrying
the standard OF the trusts, capitalists,
corporations, and the press, who had
cOnspired with the determination at
all events and under all circumstances
to try - perpetuate their control over
the politics OF South Carolina, and se-
lect her state officers.
immediately after that election II
was announced by the partisan and
unscrupolouB majority OF the state
executive committee that there were
frauds and wilful irregularities COM
mitted In the election which was held
under their own management and aus
picas. Quietly then submitted to the
indignities and injustice which were
attempted to be perpetrated upon me
aud The majority OF the people OF the
state. M
There were cast In that election
for state officers ii40.g63 votes: It was
yehemently asserted by the, newspa.
pers and by the members OF that ex4
ecutiye committee who were trying
TO nullify that primary election, TINT
there, were not that many qualified
white democratic voters in the state
The prpcettiings 3n the nature of III
CONTEXT lilcl were ,inanSur&tsti by
my Opponents. under& the ADVICE and
auspices Of the partisan executive
comfnitt ZEE, noWever. showed conciti-
siyely. even by the one-sided and par.
sfienal examination made there, that
Brch charge yas without Foundation
and the contest resulted in n ridicu-
lous farce. 80 a.
There was evinced In the present
election the, greatest interest In any
election held within the last twenty
years or more. and yet the total num-
her Of votes as cast for the office OF
United States senator, as reported by
my opponents In control of the count
was only f32.S01-about 5000 less
than were cast in the election of 1912.