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SIX i Xdver»lienu r t.) 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. ~ (Advertisement-) Hammond At Millen J&V ■ v 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 [ (Continued on next page.)