Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1914-07-22

not be true to themselves and say
that b. ID. Smith has not accomplish
ed something. l went to the Senate
as the representative Of the farming
interests Of South Carolina, and God
knows | have had but one interest at
heart since l have been thereto
serve the people of South Carolina,
who are primarily an agricultural
people. The farmers of South Caro-
lima had gotten together some years
ago to elect a representative in the
Senate who stood for their interests,
and they had elected him, and they
are going to elect ME again because |
have been faithful to my trust. You
can't stop them.
Here Mr.. Smith told a joke to IL
lustrate the determination of the far
mers. There was an old fellow once
who had never seen a locomotive and
a crowd of his friends took him to
where an engine had been run into
the siding and stopped at the station.
They explained how it had come
there, and the old fellow was dumb
founded. All that mass of iron, steel
and brass was more than he could
comprehend as a means of locomo-
ton and he could not imagine it in
motion. you'll V move her"
he said; you'll never move her."
The old fellow was taken away for a
time, the engine run down the track
a piece, a full head of steam put on
and the iron monster started back
full speed. The old man was brought
to where he could get a good view of
the engine, and seeing the flying
monster, he shouted, "Well, you've
got her goin', but by the Lord you'll
never stop her, you'll never stop
her." Just SO with the farmers of
the country. They have gotten to
moving together for their w inter-
ests and "by gum, you'll never stop
EN-"
Referring to the charge that he
had voted for a bill to pay the fam
lily Of lynched negroes $4,000, he
said: THAT was written into the Or
ganic law Of the State by B. R. Till
man and other reformers in 1895,
when the new Constitution was writ
ten, and when a member of the Leg
islature | tool and oath to protect
of this State"
AS to the charge that he had voted
against the separate coach bill he
said that if any one would simply
turn to page 423 Of the House Jour
nal Of 1898, you will find hat F.. D.
smith voted for the separate coach
bill.
Governor Blease charged that he
(Smith) was a member of the Has
kell Convention, and he passed this
charge up with an unequivocal de-
NAL and by reading the following af-
fidavit Of C. P. Moore, of Dorchester:
"The said e. d. Smith was at st.
George on the night of the Haskell
Convention. l called the said e. D..
Smiths attention to the reports in
the morning papers and asked him
how it was hat he was in two places
at once. (Signed). C. P. Moore"
Mr.. Smith entered into a brief eX-
PLANTATION Of his cotton grading bill
and of his farmers section Of the
new financial system measure. IT
vas he who had written into the lat
ter bill the provision that farmers
loans could be made upon the same
basis as loans in other lines of bust
ness. Their was no provision for
protection Of the farmer, for he could
do nothing with 30-day paper. He
must have 90 days like other bust
ness men or the provisions Of the new
banking system would be worthless
to him. But there was opposition,
and he was told to let it pass and the
farmer would be taFen care of later.
But not by Il darned sight," | told
them that "the farmer gets 90 days
time on his paper along with other
business interests, or you'll get no
bill" And l got the 80 days time
for the farmer along with the other
business men Of the country SO that
he al borrow his money and have
time to cultivate and gather his crops
before his paper will fall due. His
grading bill had been the means of
saving much to the farmers Of the
South, and it would save millions
more so soo as it is put in general
use where cotton is on the market.
Do you know, he said, that the differ
ence in price paid for middling and
strict middling is about SIS a bale,
when as a matter Of fact the actual
difference in spinning value of that
cotton is less than 81 a bale? Who
gets the difference? The buyer, who
never did a lick of work or sweat a
drop in making it-those fellows who
buy your middling cotton, sell it for
a higher grade and deliver dog-tail
cotton finally. 1T is not right, and
that difference justly belonged to the
farmers who work and sweat and
sweat and work to make it.
At the close of his speech Senator
Smith was presented with a minia-
ture bale Of cotton and a bouquet
from a number of girls. Holding
them up before him he shouted:
Here are the emblems | love: Cot
ton, which represents the prosperity
OF the South; flowers from the girls,
who make for the glory OF God and
the honor of the State"
As Mr.. Smith closed he WAS greet