Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1920-08-04
Senatorial Campaign Meeting
Held Here Wednesday.

Held Here Wednesday
The senatorial campaign meeting
was held in the court house We'd
nesday, the meeting being presided
over oy j. L. Minis, county chairman
who called upon the Rev. P. P. Bla-
lock to open the meeting with pray
er,f The audience was large and re-
preventative, there being about 400
people present.
The two candidates for solicitor
of this circuit, T. C. Callison of Lex
ington and S. M. Smith of Edgefeld,
spoke first, both being well received.
The first speaker presented for the
United States senate was W. P. Pol
lock, who said the life of service was
the only life worth while. He stress
ed the responsibility that rests upon
the shoulders of United States SEN
ator who acts for more than 1,000,-
600 American people. He stated that
the only act he introduced during
the three months he served in the
senate was in the interest of a fed
eral appropriation for education. He
referred to the good results follow
ing the federal reserve banking sys-
tenn. Mr.. Pollock said that he had
never used money in political cam
paign except for travelling expenses
and hotel bills. He would not have
public Office if money had to be
used in any manner to secure votes.
The second speaker was w. G.
Irby, who spoke at length of the ur-
gent necessity of the federal govern
ment aiding in the establishment of
cold storage plants in every county
in the country to aid the producers
in marketing their produce, He
urged upon the South Carolina leg
islature the necessity of borrowing
money in 1914 to aid farmers in
holding their cotton. He opposed fed
eral money being used to aid sena-
tors in being elected to Office.
George Warren was next intro
dnced and he made an earnest ap-
peal for return to- true 'Jefferso-
nian Democratic principles and to
.C,alhoun's position on states rights.
The federal authority is expanding
too much and the rights of the indi-
vidual state is diminishing. He said
he was being called the wet candi-
date because he favors revision of
the Volstead act, which is too dras-
tic. To prove his loyalty as prohibi-
tionists, he stated that he with his
own hands drafted the present South
Carolina prohibition law and secured
it's passage while in the legislature.
He has no pet scheme. The price of
cotton cannot be raised by legisla-
tion. He favors stretching out pay
ment of the war debt over longer
period of years than contemplated.
Senator E. D. Smith referred to
his continued efforts in behalf of the
farmers, stating that he was charged
with being absent from the senate
too many times. He was working in
the departments and in committee
rooms, looking after legislation more
important than Republican filibus-
tering. He spoke at length of his cot
ton futures act and the benefits de-
rived directly by the farmers. Sen
ator Smith also spoke of his efforts
in securing nitrate of soda for far
mers during the war through govern
ment ships at price of SIS per ton
when the prevailing price at that
time was $11O. He also spoke of his
service in having the embargo on
German kainit raised, thus making
it possible for farmers to obtain a
balanced fertilizer.