Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1914-07-22
POLITICS IN THE
GREAT PIEDMONT.
Continued from First Page.)

of the matter Is that Smith has been
up there in the Senate talking about
cotton, and you and l have been
down here in the South sweating and
making cotton for him to talk about.
Oh, yes, he has done big things, but
the biggest thing he has done was to
put flesh on his bones. He has been
in the Senate about five years and
he has gained about fifty pounds in
flesh. We have paid him about $780,
900 in salary, and about all he has
lone is to put OIL fifty pounds Of
flesh, so you can figure out for your
self what it has cost per pound to put
meat on Smiths Stats. Senator
Smith comes before the people of the
State and tells a lot of jokes, but up
in Washington Smith himself is a
joke in the United States Senate.
He tells a joke about his girl when
he was counting, how he couldn't find
words to say what he wanted to, but
finally got his arms around her, and,
still unable to speak, the girl re-
marked, We'll, you amt getting
very far along" NO." was the re-
ply, "but I'm holding my own"
That's the way he looks at the Uni
ted States Senatorship-he's holding
his own. He has actually got to
where he thinks the job is his, but it
isn't. 1t belongs to you the SOW
ereign voters Of South Carolina. YOu
consider these things, and you sem
to the Senate the man you wish to go
to the Senate.
D%iverging to national matters Mr..
Pollock said hat if elected to the
Senate he would work for the bring
ing Of a fair share of the public
funds that are now dumped into the
little creeks and streams that will
never be made navigable, out in the
West. He favored a more liberal use
of the public funds for the improve
ment of our coastal shipping and
transportation facilities, the building
of good roads throughout the South
as well as in the North and West, the
building and maintaining post roads,
and roads to markets, roads on which
the people can travel with conven-
fence to go to church and to the pub
lie schools, and hat the farmers and
their wives and families can use to
increase the spirit of community in
terests, and to commune among
themselves. The people Of South
Carolina deserve just as much at the
hands of the general government as
the people Of other sections, but they
have not been getting 1t. These, Mr..
Pollock said, were some of his
views on some Of the national ques-
lions that are ever live, buf he did
not have time in 80 minutes to go
into detail on matters Of national in
terests. But national issues are not
paramount in this campaign. The
greatest question before the people Is
whether we shall have law and order
in IL government and men who
stand for law and order in our pub
lie places, or shall we perpetuate con
ditions as they have been for the past
three years You have the expo
nents of both principles here to-day,
and it is our duty to choose be-
tween the two.
Mr.. Pollock said hat he had no po-
liticai record to which to point. Mr..
Smith has a record, Of which he will
tell you, though l don't think much
of it myself" and Governor Blease
has a record that ought to damn him
before the public, and a political ma
chine to back him. Il come to YOU"
he said, simply as a plain business
man seeking to serve my State. Do
not shut the door Of hope in the face
of the common people. | stand here
before you 100 per cent man, with
no organization or clique behind me-"
He was not trying to defeat Senator
Smith or Governor Blease, but his
purpose in this race was if possible
to elect himself. eff all the Senators
will vote for Smith and all the Cover
nors will vote for Blease and all the
ugly men will vote for me, then you
will elect the best man in the race
and I'll represent you in the United
states Senate.
Mr.. Pollok said that he had no
personal attalk to make on Governor
Blease, but his record was public
property, and, according to his (Mr.
Pollock's) views that record was
such that it seemed impossible for
Blease to get any extensive support
from the intelligent voters Of the
State. The Governor ought to be
ashamed Of that record, he said, and
81 have held it up as it is, in all it's
naked hideousness, before the peo-
pie of South Carolina"
Mr., Pollock here defended the new
primary rules, saying that they were
for the purpose Of purifying the pri-
mary and not for the DISTINGUISHING
Of any honest voter. He read a list
Of the names of people in Charleston,
the repetition of whose "alien votes
would be prevented, thus keeping the
votes of these "furriners' from kill
ing the votes Of honest South Caro-
linians and thwarting the will O.: the
sovereign people.
Senator t.. ID. Smith
was the third speaker, and it was
evident that he was the favorite of
the crowd, though there was no DEM
onstration made as he arose to speak
other than a few "Hurrahs for