The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-07-05
ROLL CALL RECORD
GIVEN BY WARREN
HAMPTON MAN CLAIMS SMITH
MISSED MANY-IRBY AGAIN
ATTACKS NATIONAL RAILWAY
MEASURE.-POLLOCk RUN
, MING AGAINST NOBODY BUT
FOR THE oFFIcE.-sMALL
CROWD HEAR CANDIDATES

FOR THE oFFIcE.--sMALL
CROWD HEAR CANDIDATES
Winnsboro, July 3-Candidates for
the United States senate spoke to a.
about so Fairfield county voters at
the campaign meeting held here yes
terday. The meeting was held in the
county court house and was presided
over by J. E. Mcdonald county
chairman.
George Warren of Hampton added
a new angle of interest to his speech
when he brought out, in response to
a question, that Senator Smith has
failed to vote 1927 times out Of g.
lO6 roll calls during nine of the IL
years he has been in the United Stat
es senate. These were failures to vote
on important matters. Mr.. Warren
said, and were not casual roll calls to
determine if quorum were present.
w. C. Irby of Laurens was the'frst
speaker and he, too made some yaria-
ton from his usual speech by point
ing out defects in the disability clause
of the war risk measure. His conten-
tnon, which was sustained later in a
statement by Congressman Stevenson
was that officers in the. emergency
army who are disabled receive only
about one-third the amount paid Of
ficers of the regular army similarly
disabled. In full agreement with Mr..
Irby's argument. Mr.. Stevenson ex-
planned that he had a bill to correct
this injustice. The bill .pad the ,ap-
proval of the committee to which it
had been referred and three-fourths of
the members of both houses had
pledged their support OF the measure
but the Republican steering commit
tee had refused to report it out. Of
ficers in the emergency army receive
only the pay of the privares as to dis
ability.
The Laurens county candidate
MADE his attack again today on the
national railroad measure which guar
a1tees definite profit to the rail-
roads on the investment much of
which investment Mr.. Irby contend
ed is watered stock. If the roads lose
9 half billion dollars the first six
months the government must pay the
roads a billion dollars, he says. He
also argued for the establishment of
packing houses, cold storage plants
and foo! exchanges in every commu-
nifty, financed by federal credit, to
break the packing house trust, which
he says, is operated in collusion with
the railroads. Farmers who ship live
stoc.,, he says, at times receive only
postage stamp after all freight has
been paid, the markets being so de-
pressed by the packers when cattle
are en- route.
W. P. Pollock says he is not run
ming against anybody in particular
for the office of United States sena-
tor, but is running for the Office to
crafty personal ambition to 60
back and establish record commen-
surate with the honor. He had a term
of only three months in Washington,
term all too brief in which to prove
his mettle. If sent to Washington,
he will put South Carolina on the map
He wanted the voters to ask them
selves one question, which was: "Has
Senator Smith by signal ability or ac-
complishment eafned the right to stay
in the senate forever?" The Cheraw
candidate would be satisfied with
their answer.
Mr.. Warren made his first refer
ence to Senator Smith and did this,
he said in response to question
from voter as to the senator's ser
vice in Washington. Mr.. Warren
charged that Senator Smith was not
on the job, according to the official
record, emphazing that the voters
would think he was INDECENT in the
performance of duty if he failed to
respond to 800 roll calls in nine years