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daddy always go to his office at Walterboro, o~ week days. People oorni& and gOiU‘ there, ai]. the time. Daddy was sho‘ popular with the people, generally speaki&.

“The biggest crowt I ever seen up to that tirx~, was when General M. C.

Butler come to Walterboro in 1082, to speak. He had been United States Senator since 1876, and was a candîda~e for re~e1ection. General Butler nn.ich pleased, that day, when niany white leaders and daddy call athis hotel and tell him that daddy had been asked by his neighbors to introduce him. lie say: ‘Well, from what I hears, Paul Jenkins can do that job as well as anybody in the State.?

Then he pat daddy on the shoulder.

“At the speakin‘ ‚ daddy gets up ‚ and the

j oy ‚ and ug, too • Daddy not laugh m~ich ‚ just
	shoulders and say:	~

‘General Butler, laic Moses, led us forth at last,

The barren wilderness he pass ‘d

.	Did on the very border stand Of the bi ‘ d Promise Land,

And from the misty mountain tops of his exalted wit,

-	Saw it himself and showed us itt‘

n t That ‚ s why we am sendin‘ him back‘~— ‚ . That was all I hear • Daddy

	not allowed to finish. ~he people riot with pleasure, and General Butler say the tribute am de finest he ever hear ‚ • and smile at daddy sittin‘ there on the plat: ~ with the other big folks. At another time~daddy has a nigger lawyer runnin‘

~ t gainst him for County Commissioner • The	s name was Amphibious Molver.

They begin the campaign at Cottageville. Mclver speak first. Daddy follow, and begin with:
big crowd slaps smile. Then he
its hands for throw back his