The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1914-08-11
SECRETARY u. S. SENATE
ANSWERS ATTACK ON Him
ANSWERS Al IAIA UN Him
s.RECNRD OF HUMILIATION TO THE
PRIDE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
Mr.. Aiken at NeWberry Said Some
Ugly Things About Mr.. Baker.
Mr.. Baker Makes Hot Reply
United States Senate,
Office of the Secretary,
James NJ Baker,
Secretary

Washington, D. c., Aug. s, 1914.
To the Editor of TIE Herald and
News. Nevberry, S. C.
Dear Sir: My attention was called }
a few days ago to an account in your
paper of the congressional campaign
meeting at Newberry on July 9th.
notice that Mr.. Aiken took occasion to
make the following statement:
%He said Che knew that Dominick
got his information from one James
NJ. Baker, tie grandest rascal in Alb
beville, and man whom no one in
his neighborhood would believe
The Cause of Aikens Animus.
I am not in the least concerned in
regard to Mr.. Aiken's opinion Of me,
but he took advantage OF safe dis
tance to make this statement. l have
mad no personal quarrel with him, and
I have never had any business trans
actions witt him He has not spoken
to me in ten years on account OF my
support o. the late lamented Isaac H.
McCalla, who was his opponent for
congress. This attitude he has taken
toward many others in the district
who have voted against him. rarely
ever see him at the capitol, althougn
I am at the capitol every day from
9 o'clock in the morning until
O'Clock in tie afternoon. He went
out of his way to oppose my election to
the highest Office in the gift of the
United States senate; that Of secre-
tary, and make statements in regard to
me that were false. For example, he
went to Senator MARITIME OF New Jer-
sey and told him; Senator, surely
you are not going to vote for Baker for
secretary? WY, 20 years ago Re went
through bankruptcy proceeding in the
courts down South and swindled Els
crditors out of everything Le owed
them" New, the records Of the courts
will show this statement to be un-
qualifedly false Moreover, the bank
ruptcy law was not passed until July
i. 1898, and I had then been living in
Washington for five years. | know
that Mr.. Aiken is noted for his vicious
ness, but l really did not believe he
would tell a bare ace falsehood like
that until Senator MARITIME told me ef.
it himself. In the secretarys2ip con-
test, there were six candidates, one
of them being a senator who was then
retiring, and another brot2er OF
President Wilson l was put in nom
ination by Senator Tinman and sup
ported by Senator Smith. The answer
to the abcve falsehood, and all the
others circulated about me in that
contest, were conclusiyely answered
by the votes q: so Democratic sena-
tors who nominated me on the second
ballot and then made ny nomination
unanimous.
Outrageous Attack Calls for Reply
Ny official position ought to have
relieved me of any political contro-
versy in this congressional campaign,
but the outrageous attack upon me by
Mr.. Aiken makes it my duty to myself
and my public duty as a citizen ana
voter of Abbe7iNe county to place Mr.,
Aiken's record before the v1ters OF
Newberry county and Of the Thlrq
congressional district in way that
I think will enable them to vote in
telhgently in the Ginning primary cleo
non.
Knows Aiken's RecOrd-Fayored I'm
migration.
Ihave been in Washington II years,
19 as assistant librarian of the senate,
and nearly two years as secreary OF
the United States serate am in posi-
ton to know about Mr. Afkens re-
cord, which has been such that the
third district mas been practically
without representative. 1t is a re-
cord of humiliation to the pride #
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