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Pccbles^Flays
Before a Large Audience
After Several Futile Attempts to Disconcert Peebles,
Hammond. Who It Was Announced, Would Reply,
Lett the Field to His Adversary
JENKINS NOW A SEETHING CAULDRON OF
POLITICAL EXCITEMENT
Hammond remained several days after
making his speech and rumors that an organ
ized effort would be made to howl Peebles
down flew thick and fast.
Hammond sat within a few feet of Peebles
and asked several questions, finally asking
leave to tell his version of his New York speech
favoring and aiding the trust to put down the
price of cotton seed and put up the price of cot
ton seed products, but he did not avail himself
of the opportunity.
Peebles indignantly repelled the charge of
garbling the New York speech and by omis
sions and punctuation, altering the meaning of
the words: “for the raw material you have
paid the Southern farmer a price which in
many instances, has been recklessly and ruin
ously high” instead of adding the words “not
a uniform market price, but a price varying
from low to fair, and from fair to foolish, a
price fixed by local seed wars.”
Peebles then showed that it had been print
ed in the Augusta Chronicle verbatim et punc
tuatim in the way that he had stated.
Peebles also showed that there was a vast
difference between Hammond’s New York
speech and the Chronicle’s report of it.
Hammond then asked why he had not cor
rected the Chronicle’s report, to which Peebles
replied:
“I wanted the farmers of the Augusta cir
cuit to see the speech that Henry Hammond
actually made and that the speech appearing
in the Augusta Chronicle was not under a New
.York headline, but was from the Augusta
end.”
Peebles inquired if it was or was not true
that Hammond’s secretary had said after this
New York speech, “the Judge could not be
elected dog catcher,” and that the Judge
threatened to discharge him. At this Ham
mond got up and said: “Whoever says that I
threatened to fire my secretary for having
made such a statement tells a falsehood.”
To this Peebles calmly and deliberately,
leaning over the desk and shaking his finger
in Hammond’s face, said: “And whoever says
that your private secretary, Mr. Albert G.
Ingraam, did not say that you could not be
elected dog catcher, tells a lie.” Judge
Hammond took his seat and made no reply to
this and pandemonium broke loose.
Mr. PuMW speech In full follows:
My fellow rttisen* Something like
fbur or five weeks ago 1 know but four
tonet** In the goo « 1 county of Jenkins
Vhogr W«t« Dr. J. L Klrkendul, whom I
bad known for quit* a number of years
•nd who wae reared not so very fur
from my own homo, Mr. Tumor, of the
yirst National Bank, him! a classmate of
ti
W P. Mufttin. formerly of Augusta, but
now of Mlllan. and Mr. 14lu* Daniel.
iHirinf these four or five weeks I have
mixed and minified among your people
Ton have extended to me the hand of
ftoepttallty. You have opened your hearts
to me. You have made me feel at home
And irretpeotlve of what your vote may
m on the 19th of August in Jenkin*
county 1 ehull alwave carry In tny heart
of hearts the tendereet regard for your
people fur the gracious. courteous man
ner In which I nave been treated In the
new. but the great county of Jenkins
(Applause.)
I am thankful. Indeed, that It has been
permitted to me to mil and mingle
among your people and that many of
the Jenkins county people can beat me
witness that l have waged a cam pal an.
Just as 1 said In my opening letter o
you. Upon the highest possible plane, and
1 def> any matt to show otherwise. My
dialing wished opponent la quoted lu the
Augusta Chronicle to hare said in his
• *n "If Mr Peebles hag
been false to me in these things, why
won't he be false to ymi If you were to
put him on ths benchr* l sm glad. In
deed. my fellow rltlsens. that Judge
Hammond himself has laid down the
pard stick with which to men sure a
Judge I have no objection to being
measured by the rig-heel and purest and
poblest standards, and 1 don’t suppose
that Judge Hammond ran make any
Mtkmal objection to my applying to him
the self-same \ard stick lie charges
that In this cotton need circular we
omitted the words "not a uniform mar
ket price, luit a price varying from low
to fair and from fair to foolish; a price
fixed by local seed ware ” right after the
wonts, •‘for the raw material you have
paid the flout hem farmer a price which
!a many Instances has been rerklensly j
and ruinously high** Ho has also
dtoprgcd that we purposely ami willful- j
ly omitted the words “especially" Just
before the words "the fermar** In the
cotton seed circular. My fellow
cltlaenn. If Judge Hammond had taken
the trouble to twv* read this cir
cular he would have seen at the
bottom thereof the hollowing lan
guage "Excerpt* from epeech delivered
by Judge 11 0. Hammond to the Cot
ton Heed Crushers' Association In New
i,? rk V h * Au * u#ta Chronicle.
June U. tfll. I have iiere In my poa.
session the ortgtalal Augusta Chronicle
of Juno 11. 1911, from which this cot
ton seed circular was taken, and if Judge
Hammond can show me that those words
charged are contained In the Augusta
i hrontole upon that date. 1 will get out
J? *”*■, r *°* for the judgeship and hand
it to him on a silver waiter (Applause >
What la the language contained In the
Augusta Chronicle itself? \Ylu*t whs
the speech that the Augusta Chronicle
g«ri, and how did the Anguela Chronicle
get thla speech unices Judge Hammond
himself furnished It to them? Did hs
m <ke one speech for the AqflUStß Chron
h . to be published in the Augusta
Chronicle, and then another to be pub
lished In the minutes of the Cotton
Seed Crushers* Association? You know
the custom when a man delivers an ad
dress before a convention. Tim stenogra
pher den t take down the add re** The
se* rotary sava, "Mr. Hpeaker, will you
kindly furnish me with the manuscript
of roar speech?** And when does he
do it? When he edits his epeech. He
has got time to edit hit speech twoaus*
the minutes are not published for some
time afterward* He has got time to
dm tor his speech time to make such
changes as he tees fit. and give It fin
ished literary form, which he then sub
mits But what did he sav then? Winn
did be give the Augusta Chronicle, end
1 nsk >ou In ail candor and fairness,
how else could the Augusta Chronicle
have gotten this speech? Here It Is. He
made the speech on June *. 1911. and on
June 11th. appears this speech. How?
Could It have Imen sent over the wires?
Could It have hash wrongly transmit
ted? No, for the simple reason If an
article la sent out Shorn New York It
beare a New York headline, such and
such a data, and give* some indication
that 1t was sent out from New York.
Yet this speech starts off ‘Judge Ham
mond'* address before the seed crut»h
er«. Went into detali* of the Cotton
Herd Oil Industry a* it relate* to com
merce. Moat of hi* address relate* to
the recent ruling «»f the United State*
supreme court on the trust cases- com
ments upon Chief Justice White.’’ Then
tiie article begin*, “Judge Henry C.
Hammond, of the superior court of the
Augunta circuit delivered one of the
most Important addre*Me* at the annual
meeting of the Cotton Seed Crusher*
Association, on Thursday in New York.’’
lie goe* on to say, “Out of a waste pro
duct a product regarded a* poisonous,
you have made a food for man a* pure
and as wholesome a* i* known to the
culinary art; an animal food which for
concentrated richness has never been
equalled. You have even larded the
lean earth with a fertilizer unex< el ed by
the sea-gull deposit* of the South Sea
Inland*. You have put the*e rare pro
duct* upon the market at a price in
ino*t instances ridiculously low by com
parison with kindred articles. For the
raw material you have paid to the
southern farmer a price which In many
Instances has been recklessly and ruin
ously high.” Period, no comma. Where
are the wordsf “Not n uniform market
price, a price varying from low to fair
and from fair to foolish, a price fixed by
local seed wars." 1 defy him or any
man to show me a scintilla of that semi
colon, the comm*, or the word* which
he says he delivered thereafter.
At the end is ? period, and then im
mediately he says: “If a modest and
gentle oil mill man, and most of them
are such, was required to tell what part
lie had taken in the day's work of his
generation, of the contribution he had
made to the comfort and happiness of
mankind, what a truly marvelous ac
count ho could give of himself. This
somewhat sentimental view of the in
dustry arid of your part in It* building
may not compensate you wholly for the
lack of profits and dividends, hut how- 1
ever practical a man may he. however
much his life may be concentrated to ful
filling the “ItiHtant need of things,” It
must, always be a very consoling and
cheering feeding to a man to know that
he has taken part in a clean high-mind
ed work. In the face of many dis
couragements, some of them very seri
ous, nt this moment, I would ask you
good hard fightetH to pause for a mo
ment and take stock of what you hnve
done, and what, by permission of law
and tiie will of God, you propose to do
In the future. Your Industry as such
things go Is .1 very young one. It is
crude and by no means as yet fully ad
justed to its environment. Also it pre
sents many anomalies—many difficulties
peculiar to Itself. The entire raw ma
terial la not sufficient to meet your de
mands. There is no open market in
which you can buy your raw material.
This has lead to a most unusual course
of business between yourselves and the
farmer. Indeed. It is rather straining
to rail it business at all. In my opin
ion the only easy mark the farmer has
1s the oil mill man. If the banker, the
cotton factor, and the produce merchant
trented him ns you do, he would be a
lord of creation. The truth Is you have
ruined his business manners. To Il
lustrate: You never got a good title to
your cotton seed, pay for It ns you will,
until it Is notually in your seed house
acd frequently even then the farmer
will •’omo back at the end of the crush
and Insist on your paying him the high
est market price of the season and re
gard you a? very cruel If you try to
make him see why you can not do It. I
feel very hopeful and confident that your
business w'ill become better and bettor
regulated from year to year, that It will
gradually loose Its speculative. I might
say wild-oat characteristics. The law
less and rampant <xmipetltion. the gueril
la warfnre which goes on between the oil
mill nun must be Stopped by somrf
means. It is not good business. Of
course my word , will not be tAk« n by
you as final Only after consultation
with your legal advisers will you act in
any particular matter, but 1 venture to
believe that your business may be even
now controlled and regulated by perfect
ly lawful understandings among your
selves ss to how it should be conducted.
Along the line of the recent ruling of
the supreme court, and this ruling will
largely determine the ruling In state
courts, you will be permitted to go very
far In tne matter of reaching reasonable
and timely business arrangements
among yourselves. These will be pro
tect ed by the law If they con he shown
to he reasonable and Just It must be
borne In mind always that the oil mil!
business has no Independent source of
wealth You must make your money
out of the business and It Is a vor,’ *hort
sighted policy not only for you your
selves, but for nil those with whom you
deal, the farmer," instead of especially
the farmer, “to attempt to pay m*»re
than the true value for rsw ma
terial or to sell your manuf»c*uTWl pro
duct at less than the cost. This is the
A 11 C of your business Still many
oil mills the past season through tno
highly stimulated activity, heated rlvalrv
and speculation, have been gu.'tv « f
these hopelessly wrong business meth
ods.''
1 have read 1t a* It cAme in trder that
you tnay get ths connection. In order
that I may show you he did not soy, as
he claltna, **l did say In a humorous wuv
In my epeech that the farmer who l«ad
a Mg hunch of seed and who would stick
out for good prices could get i ue. and
even after he sold the seed, he could go
hack and the oil mill man would come
to his terms.'' lV*es tb it language be r
the construction that the fanner could
hold out and come hack there ant g t a
rtos for his seed? Let's read
that again "In my opinion the only easy
mark the fanner has ts the oil mill man,
If the banker, the cotton factor and the
produce merchant treated him as you do.
he would he a lord of creation The
truth Is you have ruined hla business
maimers To illustrate You never got
a good title to your cotton seed, pay for
It as you will, until It Is actually in
your seed house, and frequently even
then the farmer will come back at the
etui vs tha crush and Insists on you pav
ing him the highest market price of the
season and regard you as very cruel If
you try to make him see why you can
not do It.” la there any language there
or any In this speech which would bear
the construction that the farmer that
had -sold his cotton seed could come hack
and get any more than the contract
price?
My fellow eltliens, my friend. Mr. Hal
Moore, after writing some 15 or JO let-
• riE AUGUSTA HERALD. AUGUSTA. GA.
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Hammond At Millen
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ters finally fully three weeks after this
cotton Heed circular waa issued, succeed
ed in securing tiie minutes of the Cot
ton Seed Crushers’ Association. We al
ready had the Augusta Chronicle report
of this speech the speech that Judge
Hammond was quoted as having made,
and not until last Saturday, for over
three year*, has ever Judge Hammond
Htthl that this did not represent his
speech as It was actually made, In spite
of the criticism of the press, in *pite of
the letter written by Mr. G. Cushman
over there in Aiken criticising him for
what he said? Did he put the publio
on notice that the Augusta Chronicle did
not carry his speech as actually made?
Listen, from a clipping from The Au
gusta Herald of June 9th, 1911:
“Judge Hammond gives advice to the
cotton oil men in New York: ’New York.
—ln his address to the cotton seed
crushers Thursday. Judge Henry C.
Hammond told the oil mill men that they
wire paying the Houthern farmer too
high a price for the raw material, and
selling their products too low. He made
a plea for the elimination of ‘lawless and
rampant competition.’ and told them tliat
under the ruling of the United States
supreme court they would be permitted
to go very far In reaching reasonable and
timely business arrangements among
themselves.’ In The Augusta Herald
is tiie following: "New York —In an ad
dress before the convention of the Inter-
State Cotton Seed Crushers Association,
Judge Henry C. Hammond, of the su
perior court of Augusta, Ga., asked for
fair treatment for tiie great commercial
combinations. He said that the trusts
are of tht grsijMt benefit to prosperity,
and paid a tribute to John D. Rockefel
ler, whom he said was liked by the
citizens of Augusta because of his ‘sim
ple. neighborly and friendly associations
with them.’ "
Another local clipping under New
York headline: "Hammond Asks for
Fair Play. Now York, June B—ln an
address before the convention of the In
ter-state Cotton Seed Crushers* Asso
ciation. Judge Henry C. Hammond, of
the superior court, of Augusta, Ga., ask
ed for fair treatment for the great'com
mercial combinations. He said that the
trusts are of the greatest benefit to
prosperity and paid a tribute to John
D. Rockefeller, who. he said, was liked
by the citizens of Augusta because of his
simply, neighborly and friendly associa
tions with them. He is only the trustee
for the people," said Judge Hammond.
In the distribution of wealth. Judge
Hammond told the cotton seed crushers
that they were paying the southern
fanner too high n price for the raw ma
terial, and selling their products too low.
He made a plea for the elimination of
lawless and rampant competition and
told them that under the ruling of the
United States supreme court they would
tn* pgvmtttcd to go very far In reaching
reasonable and timely business arrange
ments amefng themselves."
In spite of all this, in spite of the New
York headline appearing in the Augusta
paper, saying what Judge Hammond ac
tually said In his speech In New York,
"that they were paying too high a price
for the raw material.* instead of correc-t
Ing the articles 1 Just read to you, In
spite of the fact that G. Cushman on
June 11, 1911 in The Augusta Herald
wrote the following card, not one word
did you hear from Judge Hammond
about his speeches having been mis
quoted. until last Saturday In the town
of Thomson:
"Letters from the people. Aiken, June
10th. 1911. —To the Editor of The Her
ald, Augusta. Ga. Dear Sir—ln your
Issue of Friday afternoon. June 9th, 1911,
I notice with regret a few words used
by Judge Henry Hammond, In his ad
dress before the Cotton Seed Crushers'
convention in New York, in which he
states that the oil mills are paying
the farmers too much for their pro
ducts. Would you call that loyalty to the
farmer? Would you have believed that
such a broad-minded gentleman could
have uttered such words and talked
against a business man and farmer? my
observation lias always been, when the
farmer receives a good price for his pro
ducts, tile country as a whole naturally
prospers. Probably he is not aware that
the manufactured product from cotton
seed the past season was so high that
the farmer could not afford to use any.
In conclusion 1 might add for Informa
tion that the high price of cotton seed
was due to the high price of their pro
duct.
"Respectfully,
"O. CUSHMAN."
To this The Herald adds:
"The news report of Judge Ham
mond's speech follows:
"Judge Hammond told the rep
resentatives of the Cotton Seed Crushers'
Association that they were paying the
farmer too high a price for the jaw ma
terial and selling their products too low.
He made a plea for the elimination ot
’lawless and rampant competition’ and
told them that under the recent ruling of
the r 8 supreme court they would be
permitted to go very for in reaching rea
sonable and timely business arrange
ments among themselves."
My fellow citizen**. when you recall the
fact that I had Hal Moore writing all
over the country for the minutes of the
Cotton Seed Crushers* Association; when
you recall the fact that I succeeded in
secxirtng a copy of the Augusta Chronicle
purporting to contain hts speech ax
made; when you consider tne fact that
the press had commented on his speech.
tfittl ised ths lan •
gunge In this circular what more evi
dence cou’d I get? What more evidence
would be necessary or could be procured
to convince the anil nary man that what
Judge Hammond had printed In the Au
gusta Chronicle, which had been com
mented upon and written about by Mr.
G. Cushman was the speech that
Judge Hammon<\ actually trade, tha
L speech that he JXUirfa before the
HON. ISAAC S. PEEBLES
convention All the evidence tends
to establish the fact that the
speech that he actually delivered before
the convention did not have the words
that he contend* were omitted from thi9
circular, and when you consider these
facts; when you consider the fact that
we were not able to secure this Cotton
Heed Crushers’ Association minutes for
fully three weeks after the issuing of
this circular, after we had all this evi
dence to show that he made this speech,
can any fair-minded man in Jenkins
county or the Augusta circuit, say that I
have wilfully and maliciously misrepre
sented what he said in ids speech? And
I resent with all the fire f>f my nature
the charge that I would mislead you!
JUDGK HAMMOND:
Wliy did you not correct It when you
did get a correct copy of this speech?
Why did you continue to publish false
misleading statements when the truth
was brought home to you? Why did
you go on to quote from that garbled
newspaper report when you had the cor
rect minutes? (Applause.)
For the simple reason that I know how
it is tliat Judge Hammond never over
looked an opportunity to get his name in
the newspaper. Because that I know
his secretary there in Augusta—when he
made that speech and when the speech
came out in the press. I know when his
own secretary was going around there
and saying what kind of a speech he had
made, and that he couldn’t be elected
dog-catcher. (Applause.)
Isn’t It true that you almost fired your
secretary because he went around in the
city of Augusta and said that?
JUDGE HAMMOND:
No, it is not true and the man who
tells it tells a falsehood. I paid no mors
attention to it. (Applause.)
Mr. Peebles: (Pointing finger in Ham
mond’s face) —If any man says your sec
retary didn’t say it, he lies. (Applause.)
For I heard it out of his own mouth. Be
cause I believe that that was the speech
that you made and yo urealized that you
had pulled off a “bone.” and you sent
up to the Cotton Seed Crushers a doc
tored copy of your speech to he put in
tiie minutes to remedy tiie evil. (Ap
plause.)
You, my fellow citizens, are the judges
of the facts. You have the evidence
and you are the final arbiters of this im
portant question.
My fellow citizens, the Judge thinks
that it is very cruel If I quote him, and
don't use every word in an hour’s
speech. He thinks it very cruel that I
didn't add on there “as a farmer. I have
no objection.” Why, of course, as a
farmer he has no objection for what they
pay for cotton seed. He has WTitten a
letter to a Jenkins county farmer with
in the last two months, that *he raises
oats but not cotton.
My fellow citizens. Judge Hammond
has told you what a friend he is to the
farmer, the great speeches he makes at
the Farmers' Clubs, the Agricultural As
sociations to which he belongs. But when 1
a fellow down here is among the farm- i
ersj* of course is for the farmers— doing |
in Rome as Rome does. Why insist that ;
he is their friend? It isn’t what a man j
says to mv face, the assurances of f
friendship that be gives me, that I prize
most highly When some friend tells
me some little kind word that some fel
low says at my back—those are the kind
of things that count! A man may go
through life and come to your face, to
his neighbor's face, and every man's face
in the community and give you all the j
"taffy” you want, but it does not have;
nearly so much weight as if he says a
kind word to some other fellow and that
kind word reaches your ears! It isn’t
the agricultural associations that Jvdge
Hammond belongs to: It Isn’t the speech
es that be makes in the Smith: It is what
he said in New York before the Cotton
Seed Crushers* Association, at your
hack, not at your fare, that counts!
What did he sav about you then, when
he had an opportunity of helping you,
and didn’t do It?
These are the minutes, tho edited and
finished copy of his speech and here is
something else he said: 'Still many oil
mills tho past season through too high
ly stimulated activity, heated rivalry
and speculation have been guilty of
these hopelessly wrong business meth
ods. Methods which not only injures
♦he man who follows them, but tfnd to
disorganize and demoralize the entire in
dustry. It is sad to record the fact
that the last season's crush was made
at a loss.” Who in the world believes
that the last season's crush, the 1910
and *ll crop was made at a loss? And
if that loss was to the farmers* benefit,
what was the use of going up there and
telling them, "Boy* you are crushing
these seed at on excessive loss: you are
paving too much for the raw material?”
Was that helping the farmer?
Let us read his speech as he finally
got it into the minute* of the Cotton
Seed Crushers Association and see what
he says: "You have put these rare
products upon the market at a price in
must instances ridiculously low by com
parison with kindred articles. For the
raw material you have paid to the
Southern farmer a price which in many
Instances has been recklessly and ruin
ously high, not a uniform market price,
but n price varying from ltfw to fair,
and from fair to foolish; a price fixed
by local seed wars ’*
Where is any language in there that
they had paid a ridiculously tow price
for cotton seed at some times, as he is
quoted as having said at Thomson?
Where ts that language that The Au
gusta Herald report* hint to have said
in hi* speech ;it Thomson?
My fellow citizens as soon us I wa»
•hie to procure the minutes of the Cot
ton Seed Crusher*' Association, I we«t
around In Jenkins county and showed It
to the people. I have read It line for
line I have not read the entire speech
to every man In Jnkln* county, as our
friend Hammond seem* to want me to
do. That would take forevsr. But he
couldn't even quote my whole letter. I
resent with all the force of my nature
the unjust accusation that I have misled
a single man, or a single farmer, in the
Augusta circuit, and I defy any man to
stand up to me, man to n an. and say
it! (Applause.) lam not afraid of the
devil when it comes to the truth, when
I am grounded in the truth! And 1
have never done anything for which I am
ashamed to look any man squarely in
the eye!
Now, I understand that Judge Ham- I
mond had a representative at my meet
ing at Hood’s Chapel on the fourth of ;
July, to see what I had to say. I know
there was a good crowd out there. I
understand that there were about five
men on the ground for Hammond, and
that two Hammond men went away.—
three changed. Everybody else vas for
Peebles. When I was making my ad
dress, some one asked, “What about that
cutting grain on Sunday?” I replied: •
“I don’t know’ anything about nnv cut
ting grain on Sunday." While down here
in Jenkins county, people have asked me
if Judge Hammond w r as a Catho lc—and
I am going to get to the Catholic mat
ter In a minute. I defy any man to
stand up and face me and tell me I have
said Judge Hammond was a Catholic!
I told them he was not a Catholic, that
as far as I knew he was not a n.embei
of any church. I defy any man to
show where I have said anything to
Henry Hammond’s back that I wouldn’t
say to his face. And if there is any
man here that has heard me ray any- ,
thing that he thinks I am afraid to say, j
let me hear it now! (Applause.)
I told you I was going to fight this
campaign on a high plane. 1 don’t I
propose to be brought down in the mire.
I don’t wear the judicial ermine, but I
have the profoundest respect for it. I
expect to wear it after the first of Jan
uary. hoys. I call you boys, I feel so
much like one of you. I have been down
here so much, I feel so absolutely at ,
home, that I forget myself.
On June 11th, 1914, Mr. S. M. Hay- 1
wood, an ex-member of the legislature
from McDuffie county, a man who didn’t
support me in my race for the solicitor
ship, but who is supporting me now,
wrote me a leter in which he stated, “I
understand Judge Hammond has been
down around Avandale telling that you
was brought out by the Catholics.” That
is hearsay evidence. We will get to
that later on. I went to Hearing the j
following Saturday. Some of the Dear- ;
ing boys are here. Mr. Willis Evans, 1
candidate for congress, had Just deliver
ed an address. There were quite a I
number of farmers in town, and every
group I would get in, they would say:
Why, Peebles, they tell me thai you j
were brought out by the Catholics in
Augusta; Judge Hammond’s crowd have :
been circulating it around that you have
been brought out by the Cathodes in Au- j
gusta.” Some would say Judge Ham- (
mond and his crowd, and some Judge
Hammond’s crowd. I told these boys
up there T would not appeal to any re
ligious feeling or prejudice for any office
within the gift of the people. If lam
elected judge of the superior court, I
propose to give to the Catholics the '
same square deal that I give to a Pro
testant. I, myself, am a Baptist. I
was baptized by Rev. J. M. Atkinson, of
the town of Harlem, who is one of my
earnest supporters. But. boys, don’t take
my word for it. Go down to the city
of Augusta. Ask who the crackers of
Augusta are for. Ask Dr. Jas. P. Lit
tleton, the recognized head of the crack
er faction in Augusta. Find out who
the great majority of the Crackers are
backing in this race for the judgeship.
Find out who Jerry Collins, a wholesale
liquor dealer, a Catholic, is for! Find
out who Dan Bowles, a saloon-keeper, a
Catholic, is for! Find out who the
Cashins, wholesale liquor dealers, and
Catholics, are for! Find out how every
single Catholic podtician in the city of
Augusta, with the exception—and uev are
not politicians—of the O’Dowds and P. u
O’Gorman, and decide for yourselves!
I have not brought this issue into this
campaign. I voted for Dr. Jas. R. Lit
tleton, in the city of Augusta, for may
or, and I used my automobile in hauling
Cracker voters to the polls on Mav lath,
for Pund and Holley, Cracker candidates.
We carried the election by a majority of
votes for Holley, and 840 for Pund.
T am satisfied that Judge Hammond and
his crowd could read the writing on the
wall without a Daniel to interpret it.
(Applause.) „ . ,
When I got down in Jenkins county.
I kept hearing "Catholic, Catholic. 1
understand the Catholics brought you
out" and I have given them .he self
same explanation. If you don’t believe
what I say is true about the condition, j
write Dr. Jas. R. Littleton, who made
a speech in my behalf in this race on j
July 4th, he will tell you who I am- .
the Cracker candidate. He will tell you
that 95 per cent of the Catholics are sup- j
porting Hammond. I confess that lam ,
surprised at Judge Hammond’s crowd
hollering “Catholic. Catholic.” Try
Ins? to Inject It Into this camT>i:igr. If I
you were to mention such a thing :n the
citv of Augusta, you would get the big-
Ke st ‘horselaugh" that was ever given
a man! When 1 wee In Hearing. Rev. J. !
J. Pennington tolii me.—this is sti 1
hearssv evidence: —I am going to follow
It on with something later—that Mr. Jim
Anslev to’d him that Judge Hammond
had stated i was the Catholic candidate
and that they were backing me Ir. this
r^l'^ understand, my fellow-citizens, Mr
J S. Jones is here.
Mr. Jones— Yes. sir!
Sneaker What is the standing of Mr.
j M Ansley in your community?
Mr. Jones—He is considered to be a
high-toned gentleman In Ihatcommunltv.
Mr Frank Perry, ex-sherlff of Colum
hta —Does Mr. J. M. Ansley live so very
far from you?
Mr. Perry—He doe* not.
Mr Peebles—Do you know his reputa
tion for truthfulness In the community .
Mr. Perry—We consider him a first-
Cln Welf eT T t 'wAn'ted to get somewltnesses
here. This is a matter between Mr
Anslev and Judge Hammond. 1 read this |
for what it is worth. These gentlemen
recommend him as being a mail ot
very high standing. , * th , t
Henrv C. Hammond told me that I
Peebles Jr . was going to he supported
bv the Catholics, and that the • atholtcs
are going to spend their money or h.m,
" p. Peebles. This 21st day of-July.
W”Mtnesses—Rev J. J. Fennlngton, J. R.
Judge 11 a nun ord Co you care to have
*v statement about that? (Applause.)
YaV si- we will let you make *
speech afterwards. If you want to. <Ap-
Pl Mr**Oeo. Wilson, vou are a merchant
In the town of Harlem. TV. you know
M ”t know’ Str Ansley. He Is t.bsrlu
tely reliable In every particular and as
for J J Pennington, his superior c»n *
he found When it comes to veracity and
honestv and everything that Is good. 1
can swear to that about Mr. Penning
ton and also Mr. Anslev. "(Applause.)
?■ am going over this circuit, end I
want to find a single man to whom 1
anything about Judge Hammond
that I won't say to his face. I wont to
follow-citizen!, Mr. Wallace Pure*
is here. Hid you see a letter pop*
Judge Hammond to Mr Raker «< A > r ,
On bearing postmark. Ma' 6th, 1.14.
Mr Pierce—l did; ye*. *tr.
Mr Wallace Pierce is a member wf the
Antrum Bar one of those disgruntled
lawyer* I suppose. Judge Hammonl re
fer* to. T have not got the Augusta
paper* of May 3rd with me, but I cion t
suppose anybody here will deny it. My
announcement a* a candidate for Judge
; of the Superior Court of the .%ugusta
Circuit appear* din the Avgusta Chronl
| cle and The Augusta Herald on M»y 3rd,
SUNDAY, )ULY 26.
1914. Judge Hammond at that time had
sent out some letters —some circulc.r let
ters to voters in McDuffie county, be
cause I was called up over the telephone
and informed of it. He had not finish
ed sending out his letters. I want to
be fair and honest about everything.
When I made my announcement in the
papers on May 3rd, although Jj dge
Hammond had his letters pri# ed, dated
May Ist, I respectfully submit tc you
whether or not it was fair for him to
mail those self-same letters on May 6th,
at 6 a. m.. 1911, as he did with the Utter
I hold in m.v hand, in the city of Au
gusta, contaiinng a postscript, the fol
lowing language: “Whether I have op
position or not, I have none at present,
T will thank you to write me a letter,
giving me your assurance of support.
With or without opposition, such an en
dorsement by you will give me the pro
foundest satisfaction."
“Whether I have opposition or not, 1
have none at present." It may be true,
my fellow-citizens, that Judge Hammond
at 6:00 a. m., May sth, 1914, did not
think he had any opposition, but what Is
he going around over the circuit making
speeches for unless he thinks he has got
some? (Applause.)
I announced on May 3rd, and May sth
and 6th, he mai’ed a letter stating he
had no opposition. The thing i -vould
have done, I think the proper tiling to
have done, was for him, w’hen he re
ceived my announcement, although he
had those letters printed, to nave de
stroyed these letters instead of sending
them out.
Lawyers Who Are Not Supporting
Hammond.
My fellow-citizens, in the Waynesoro
True Citizen, there appeared 41 or 42
lawyers’ names, purporting to be mem
bers of the Augusta Bar, endorsing the
candidacy of Judge Hammond. We do
not doubt for an instant but that the
gentlemen’s names that were published
there really signed it, and really and
truly do endorse Judge Hammond. That
is not the point. Judge Hammond is
quoted as having said in substance in
his Thomson speech that he didn t care
so much about the law’yers no way; that
they would run the court if he permitted
them; (if I don’t cite it correctly, he can
correct it in his speech later); that a list
of lawyers was of very little importance.
But I think Judge Hammond was very
anxious to get every lawyer, and (very
man who had been a lawyer! He has
searched for them with a fine tooth
comb, or some one has sought for hvn, to
get signatures on his list of endorse
ments. He has got down here Mr. J.
P. Verdery, the President of the En
terprise Manufacturing Company, who
retired from the practice of the iaw 18
or 20 years ago. That w*as before my
day. I didn’t even know he w<s a
lawyer, and I have been practicing law
for ten years.
He got Mr. M. P. Carroll, who hasn’t
practiced law in Augusta in five years.
His home is in Greene county. (He
has a hoy in Augusta who is a very
warm supporter of Ike Peebles >. He
was so anxious to get lawyers that he
got five young fellows just admitted to
the bar in July, and who bad never prac
ticed in Judge Hammond's court, —Mr.
Adams. Mr. Boykin Wright, Jr.. Mr. Mc-
Donald, Mr. E. F. Fuller and Mr. E S.
Moore.
He was so anxious for lawyers that
he went to the Augusta-Aiken Railway
Offices and got their law agent, Mr.
Frank Courtney, who never hung rut a
shingle, and if he ever had a client I
never heard of it, other than w.irking
for the street railway.
Three of these lawyers are holding ap
pointments under Judge Hammond at
the present time: Mr. Irvin Alexander,
as receiver; Mr. Bryson Crane, as re
ceiver, and Mr. Archibald Blackshear, as
attorney for the receiver.
Oh, yes he has got all tTsi *9iPoad
lawyers,—Maj. J. C. C. counsel
j for the Central of Georgia Railroan: Mr.
I Jos. B. Cumming, general counsel for the
I Georgia Railroad, counsel for the Aagus
| ta Southern, counsel for the Southern,
land his own uncle. Of course, he got
: him—there is -no question about that! I
could have told him he would have got
ten his own uncle before any of his
! friends went to get him!
I Of course, he got Bryan Cumming,
who is his first cousin, and who 1s as
sociated with his (Cumming’s) father,
and also associate counsel for railroads.
He has got Mr. Wm. FI. Barrert. gen
eral counsel for the Georgia and Florida
Railroad—that is true.
He has got Mr. J. M. Hull, Jr., who
is associate counsel for the Georgia
Railroad, Southern Railroad and Au
gusta Southern Railroad.
Of course, he has got Albert G. In
gram, his private secretary. I dc n’t
doubt but that T could procure my pri
vate secretary’s endorsement, too! I
wouldn’t take the troub’e, though, to
have him sign up to that effect. I sup.
pose anybody would concede that Mr.
Ingnm would like to have Judge H am
mond elected.
I don’t see the endorsement of Judge
H. C. Roney, before whom he was ad
mitted to the Bar, as he told us in his
Thomson speech. And Judge R>noy has
practiced law all these twenty-five years
he was talking about. It looks like Judge
Roney is conspicuous by his absence,
doesn’t 1 it?
He hasn’t got Mr. Wallace Pierce, a
man who was against me in a three
cornered race for solicitor-general two
years ago. If he can find anything right
now that Ike Peebles said about him, he
is going to beat the devil out of I'im.
Mr. Pierce —I will do it, too.
You are supporting me for judge,
aren’t you?
Mr. Pierce—l am.
He has not got the endorsement of
Sam L. Olive, a present member of the
legislature from the county of Ricnmond.
He has not got the endorsement of him,
or he .didn’t publish It. I would like
to see it. I don’t know what 1 o lias
got in his vest pocket; I am going by
the paper.
He hasn’t got the endorsement of Mr.
N . M. Reynolds, the cousin of Mr. Jos.
S. Reynolds. He has not got the en
dorsement of Mr. L. B. Glllebeau. T did
n’t see the name of Mr. W. D. Irvin,
recorder of the city of Augusta. I didn’t
see the name of Mr. Jno. P. Coaart on
the list. He hasn’t got the endorse
ment of Mr. Sam V. Garllngton. a mem
ber of the legislature from Richmond
county. I don’t see the endorssment of
Mr. Jos. S. Reynolds, and in fairness to
Mr. Reynolds, 1 think he would nave
better sense than to Jump Into some
body else’s campaign.
He hasn’t the endorsement of Mr. Sa
lem Dutcher. the Nestor of the Augusta
Bar. and one of the ablest lawyers In
Augusta.
He hasn't the endorsement of Mr,
Brigham. Mr. O. R. Eve, Mr. Levy,
Mr. Henry S. Jones. Mr. E. R. Hill, Mr.
Sidney Smith. Mr. McCowen, Mr. Bui ch,
Mr. Sally. Mr. Walton, Mr. Cason, Mr.
B. E Pierce. Mr. Harris. Mr. O'Oorman,
Mr. Dunbar Mr. Kalbfielsch, Mr. South
all. Mr. Purdy. Mr. Harris >n, Mr.
Houghton, Mr. Barwick. Mr. Woodward,
Mr. Chance and Canady.
He hasn't got the endorsement of Mr.
Hamilton Phinizy, and he is a close sec
ond in the knowledge of the Inw to Mr.
Salem Dutcher.
He hasn’t got the endorsement of Mr.
I W. T. Gary the *on of the man wnom
Judge Hammond tucceeded. He hasn't
the endorsement of Mr. J. S. Bussey. tT*
i hasn't the endorsement of Mr. Leonard
| Phinizy.
Mr. Emory Cason’* name »hould b*
1 on Judge Hammond's ist of endorsers if
, the Judge Insist* on having follow’*
I name* there who have not practised aw
I In year*.
Now, my friend*. Judge Hammond ac.
cuae* me of having left things out of a
great long speech. But he had a let
ter down here that T wrote to Mr. Dan
j ieli, and he couldn’t even copy that. I^l
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