Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-07-30
FRIDAY, JULY 80, 1915.

SO3SS AN>A
and important position in the SER
vice of the state. His enemies had
told this story in all parts Of South
Carolina, and adding their own selfish
desires to the story, they had said:
1.-The voters Of York county are 60
ing to repudiate Blease for this Of
Tense, and when we turn him out of
office we are going to put this lady
back into the position he put her out
Of" They did succeed in defeating
Blease with their lies, and they did
succeed in getting in power; but they
did neither with the vote of York
county, and when they had the oppor-
tunity to put this most estimable lady
back into the position that they were
instrumental in taking away from
her. did they do it? Nothing of the
kind. They put in her place a yam
Tee woman from the north.
81 am especially honored at being
the last speaker on this programme
today, and 1 feel some encourage
ment too, because l am reminded OF
a passage Of Scripture which says,
The first shall be last and the last
shall be first and this leads me to
the idea that maybe 1t will again
come my time to be first.
These congressman here have been
telling you what to do about cotton
and the like, and it all sounds very
we'll maybe; but it seems to me that
you might very well ask them why
they don't do a little something, for
if they nave ever done anything worth
while I have not heard Of 1t. lap
plause.1
It is all right to talk about gov
eminent controlled warehouses. 1
signed the bill creating the state ware
house system because ! believed 1t
was a good thing; but let's no have
any Federal control II we can help
1t. We have a so-called Democratic
government at Washington now; but
we have no guarantee as to how long
the Federal government is going to
be friendly to h south. and how
would we feel with a Federal ware
house system under the management
OF a niger warehouseman and niger
graders? .
II always knew that Wilson had
some kind Of a dog in him; u until
Mr.. Lever gave us that description a
while ago, I did not know that 1t was
bull I guess Mr.. Lever Is about
right about it."
II America wants to get into war
with anybody, she had better go aft
er her real enemy, England, and let
Germany alone. What have got
against Germany anyhow? Germany
did right when she sunk that boat. I
would have sunk it. If they had been
coming after you with a load Of am
munition to kill you with, wouldn't
you have sunk EN-? You bet you
would.
"IlI tell you one thing. If the
United States gets into var with Ger
many. she will know that has a
war on her hands! You remember
that, will you?
''The administration at Washing
ton Is not Democratic. 1t is not a
government Of the people, and Wilson
is no friend of the south. He Is little
more than an agent Of England and
a representative Of the money inter-
est of America, who does not do any
thing until after he gets instructions
from j. Pierpont Morgan. If he had
any part of the Democracy Of Thomas
Jefferson in his makeup, he would
say to England: Damn you, II you
don't stop taking our cotton we will
stop you!"
Lots of Them" said the ex-govern-
or, have been fighting the warehouse
bill over the shoulders Of McLaurin.
They claim the idea is good; but that
McLaurin only wants office and they
don't want him. Now that's a come-off,
amt it? If it is McLaurin they OBJ
ject to, what do they want to kill the
warehouse system for? Why don't
they elect q commissioner that Will
please 'em and help improve the sys-
tenn? 1 am not sure they are honest
about this thing. But McLaurin did
not elect himself. The legislature did
il without even asking him. When it
looked as If at last this bill was going
to pass, McLaurin came into my office
and asked me who / thought was the
right man for commissioner. l told
him / did not know. / have since
been surprised at myself because it
did not ecu to me to tell him that
by all means he was the mar but /
did not. I did not think of it until
Representative Sapp of Lancaster,
nominated him and the legislature
elected him. But 1 do know that he
never sought the office. But 1 suspect
some Of these fellows don't like Nc
Laurin any better than they do the
warehouse system and they don't like
the warehouse system any better than
they do McLaurin.
The speaker paid his respects to the
newspapers, especially the dailies.
He alleged hat some Of them had
lied upon him ~outrageously and had
refused to print corrections even
when he had offered to pay.
Referring back to the campaign Of
last year, n speaker said that his en-
emies had undertaken to promise that
If Smith was elected the south would
get fifteen cents for cotton. They
claimed that McAdoo had a billion
dollars he was going to put into the
south in the event of Smiths election,
and what did he do with it? Sent
some of it to Europe to bring home
those globe-trotters. But you will not
get Smiths fifteen cents cotton nor
McLaurin'S fifteen cents cotton until
your congressman do something. And
what are they doing? Nothing. They
are so interested in the little bit of
patronage Wilson is holding over
them, that they are not even repre-
senting you. For a little p~ostoffice or
something, the president can make
them do anything. That is why they
have not helped to protect your in
assemble at your club meetings and
at your courthouses, and pass resolu-
tions demanding that your congress-
men get busy. That will make them
trot. [Cheers.] And until you do
more in this way they are not going
to do anything but lie around the pie
counter waiting for little postoffices.
They tell you to diversity your
crops" said the speaker, but sup
pose you make all kinds of crops, how
are you going to sell them without a
market?"
Getting back to the financial situa-
ton in the south, h former govern
or said that if certain people now had
in their pockets all the money they
had spent in 1910-11-12 trying to beat
him, there would not be so many of
them now going into bankruptcy. and
if Lewis Parker had that $4,000 he
gave Smith last veal to beat me with,
he would not now be begging bread
in Greenyille. But all of them are
paying up. The Lord does not allow
them to do things like that without
taking toll. Only last week n of
the Greenville mill presidents, broker
in health, went to his mountain home
to recuperate, and 1 car imagine the
good Lord, knowing his record, says,
"All right, old fellow, you are about
as near heaven as you will ever get"
He went on to say that many of the
mill presidents had gotten rich steal
ing from their Notwithstanding
is stealing" he said, and there were
cheers. But l will tell o more
about this at another time, the speak
or prnpniCal