The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-06-24

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Jump on a bale of cotton. Maybe,
Ihe said, 'tthey want US to stay at
home becuase Blease is Blease and
because I'm farmer"
| The Senator said that "we have
heretofore been too timid" but said
"we have been working in the Senate
while I have been in the Senate"
In reference to the raising of the
lprice Of cotton Mr.. Smith said that
he does not claim to have done the
whole thing but does claim that he
was a fighter in the crowd for the
price of cotton. He gave relative
figures of the price Of cotton for the
Hast 20 years in support of his con-
tention OF the increase in price. He
referred to the year when Dan Sully
put cotton up and said that the
staple was sold to Europe and Amer
|icasand the mills used it and it was
found that everything was all right
with cotton bringing good price.
| In reference to the statement
made by Mr.. Pollock that Smith did
not measure up to Calhoun and Nc
Duffie, Mr.. Smith said, 4" that may be
so, but I certainly have worked for
the farmers. when I was working
for cotton Senator Reed from Miss
ouri asked me if all the legislation
was to be for the farmer and I told
him it was not so much that as it
was to take some laws off the books
which yere 'agin'- the farmer"
Smith quoted figures in reference to
the rise in the prices Of cotton which
rise said that the other candidates
claimed he had nothing to do with
the increased price of cotton, "but, "
he said, eff this were crime they
were trying me for, they would use
these figures and convict me. It is
strange coincidence that the price OF
of cotton went up while I was in the
Senate if I had nothing to do with it.
He told the story of the two ne
groes having joint ownership OF
cow, one owning the front half and
the other the back half. The owner
| of the front, when the other fellow
told him he was not entitled to any
milk as he had nohing to do with the
back half, said, Gus gwine turn that
cow round right now." He said 1--WE
have turned that cow around"
Not Hoke Smiths Bill.
Smith referred to cotton bill No.
lilo, which he introduced and which
passed the Senate unanimously. He
said he wanted to keep the record
straight and with emphasis said:
This was E. D. Smiths and not
Hoke Smiths bill, Hoke Smith has
never introduced any cotton bill since
ITve been in the Senate" He told Of
the efforts the New York cotton ex-
change made to have him cease his
work in the interest of the cotton
farmer.
''It was charged here to-day that I
claimed to be the one who put cotton
up. know that the people at Wash
ington, knowing my knowledge OF
cotton, welded a great influence.
Z talked and talked cotton and will
continue to work for higher prices
for cotton until it will be put where
lit Is commensurate with the work
necessary to produce it. I don't take
the credit for the bill to standardize
grades of cotton This bill was pass
led before I got there but was lying
dormant"
He told of getting an appropria-
tioation mentioned.
AS a quick illustration of what he
has done Smith said: ''If you were
asleep and man was taking money
from your pocket and woke you,
you should have manhood enough to
make him stop, and I have done my
duty" ga slurring remark was
made Of my amendment to the bank
ing and currency bill; s0-day paper
lis no good for the farmer. Under
the new law, your paper, when &C
cepted as negotiable paper, becomes
as United States bonds. Other bus
inesses get returns right away but
you have to wait six months to get
commercial asset" He compared
the farmers to the coal and water
necessary to run the engine that
pulls the pullman car.
Fulfilled Every Promise.
every promise made you on the
platform has been filled. I have got
ten bills through the Senate and
many new laws have been added to
the statute books The senator here
sang the praises Of President Will
son and in an eloquent burst Of ora
tory told of what Wilson has done for
the South. He said: "1've voted
with and stuck to the administration
all the way through"
| He gave some attention here to the
immigration question and said that
this country should not be the dump
| ing ground of the "riff-raf" and
"bob-tails" of the old world and said
that if it were in his power, he would
let no alien enter the United States
during the next ten years for the
purpose Of becoming citizens.
Smith told Of his now being the
ranking member Of the committees
on agriculture; on post Offices and
post roads and on the committee On
interstate commerce and told of
working against the fertilizer"
trust and the "bagging and tie"
trust. "'Cotton Smith is on the
job" he said with much emphasis.
Said he was not surprised that he
was the target of the other candi-
dates, but that he had done his duty