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ESTABLISHED 1865. NEWBERRY, S. C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1902. TWICE A WEEK.1.50 A YEA P COUNTY CAMPAIGN AT PROSPERITY. RUOPENED ON TUESDAY AFTER THREE WEEKS INTERMISSION. The Most Largely Attended Meeting of the Campaign and the Only One at Which There Has Been Applause - Child Labor Main Question Discussed, Only Two Candidates Favoring Legisalation on the Subject. Prosperity, Newberry County, August 12.-After an intermission of three weeks, the county campaign reopened today. The meeting v as held in Young's Grove, about a mile from this place, and an audience of about 500, including a number of ladies, greeted the speakers. All the speeches were listened to with close attention, and for the first time during the canvas there was applause, Mr. Aull being interrupted by cheers and closing with some ap. plause, as did also Messrs. Taylor and Banks. All three of the candidates for superintendent of education 'ere cheered. The principal issue discussed on which there was division was child labor. All of the candidates, with the exception of Messrs. Taylor and Lull, opposed any legislation in this matter. County Chairman John C. Gog gans was present and presided. The candidates for the office of - SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION spoke first today. Mr. J. S. Wheeler in his candi dacy had two hopes-first, to be able to win, because it was an honorable position he sought; second, having won, to be of benefit to the schools of Newberry County and to the cause of education. Thought it the duty of a man in this position to visit every school at least once a year, d more if necessary, and if elected would spend the most of his time in visiting the schools. Every teacher could not attend the State summer school andl the county superinten dent should attend in order to give his schools the benefit of new meth ods there taught. This was his home and he did not think it necessary to say more. Messrs. Werts and Wicker not having arrived, the candidates. for the legislature were next intro M. F. W. HIGOINS wanted to represent these people in -the lower house. He wanted to go to Columbia not as a man who be lieved himself capable of revolution izing anything, but as one who be lieved himself capable of watching over and guarding the interests of his people. It appeared that there was a tri bunal in Columbia which was trying to supersede the people-of Newberry County as a judge of the fitness and the Democracy of the men who were before them asking their suffrage. That self-constituted tribunal was known as The State. If he were in favor of the passage of the child labor bill he would organize a com mittee and go to Columbia and ask and beg and beseech that paper to oppose it, because it had hardly ever opposed a bill that was not now on the statute books of South Carolina, or a man for office who had not been elected. He opposed the child labor bill now pending because away back in the dim and- misty past it had been decreed that the parent shoted rule his child. No one has the right to step between a father and his child. Favored putting ten year prison - ers on permanent chaingangs for building good roads, and if this should not be sufficient, get the Dal anee from the commutation tax. Tbe time was coming when a tax would have to be levied, but the people were at present too poor. Cases against railroads and such like should be tried in the counties in which the cause for the action occurs. Again attacked extravagance in appropriations to State colleges comn paring the amounts required with that used by Newberry College. Was asked by some one in the .adince how he stood on the ques tion of biennial sessions, and replied 'hat he was fully in accord with the movement. Paid a tribute to the Confederate soldier. HON. ARTHUR KIBLER was greeted with a shower of ques tions from Mr. Godfrey Harmon, who occupied a front seat in the audience. These included the ques tions of biennial sessions, pure food, bridges over Saluda and Broad rivers appropriations to State colleges, child labor, and nearly everything else ever considered in the South Carolina legislature. Replying Mr. Kibler favored biennial sessions, had managed the pure food bill drawn up by Dr. Wyche, and had voted against increased appropria tions to State colleges. The ques tions were now coming thick and fast, and Mr. Kibler assured the questioner that he would take them up later and in order. He was not ashamed to appear here today, because he had made a record upon which he was willing to be judged. At the last session he was absent only two hours out of thirty-eight 'days. The most important question to be discussed was taxation, aud to this he gave most of his time today. The appropriations for several years had been too large, and the princi pal extravagance was to be found in the appropriations to State colleges. He wanted to support these institu tions, and had supported the appro priations so long as the amounts asked were within reason. Was as heartily in favor of common schools as any one, but had voted against the bill at the last session to give $200,000 additional for this pur pose because he did not think the people could bear the burden. Opposed the child labor bill. Would be glad if every child in this State were in attendance upon the common schools. But this bill would say to the parents that they could not control their own children, and he was opposed to State paternalism. Favored everything to make labor contracts more binding. Mr. Harmon wanted to know how he stood on the question of building a bridge over Saluda river. If the people wanted a bridge, Mr. Kibler thought they ought to have it. COL. w. H. SANDEBs was proud of the support received in this race two years ago. Mr. Harmon here again fired his questions, which Mr. Sanders an swered as follows: Favored biennial sessions. Opposed the child labor bill. Opposed direct taxation for build ing good roads if they could be se ured in any other way. Opposed extravagant appropria tions to State colleges. If the people . wanted a bridge aross Saluda river let them have it. Favored any law to make labor contracts more binding. Wanted to pension the old soldier as much as the State could stand. CAPT. J. M. TAYLOR was making the race because the mill people needed representation in the legislative halls of South Carolina. These people, who are denominated the wealth producers, he wanted to represent. Here again came Mr. Harmon with his list of questions, which Mr. Tay lor proceeded to answer: Favored biennial sessions. Would be a icolish man to want to eat adulterated fool. Opposed appropriations to State colleges beyona what was necessary He wanted them to feel hard times as much as any one else. Favored building bridges across Saluda and Broad rivers, because the county might at some time be flooded and he for one would want to get out. He wanted good roads, and they should be built by free labor. Favored levying a tax for this purpose, to be supplemented by a sufficient comn mutation tax. For ten years he had been con nected with a cotton mill, and knew its workings, and he knew that the lit. te children working there should be tnan away and put to school. Today there were < kusands of bright minds in the mills which, if the child labor bills hould fail would be forever bu ried. Should it pass the result would be in a short time the whole United States might honor one of them as the chief executive of this great re public. His opponents said it would be class legislation, but Judge Mc Iver would blush before he would make such an utterance. The mill people no more controlled their chil dren than if they belonged to some one else. The State had got into the drift of progress, but it had not pulled along these people who needed help. Chairman Goggans, in announcing the RECESS HOUR said the people had heard a good deal this morning about pure food, and he would now give them an hour and a half in which to test that prepared by Mr. W. J. Mills. The first speaker in the afternoon hour was COL. E. H. AULL If he had consulted his own feel ings he would not attempt to make any speech here this afternoon, but he felt it his duty to give his views to the peop:e whose suffrage he was asking. All the candidates were practically agreed upon the issues in this cam paign. He had no promises to make except faithful service. At this point the irrepressible Mr. Harmon broke in with his oft re peated questions, and was replied to by Mr. Aull. He favored biennial sessions. He favored the pure food law. Favored good roads, which he would discuss more fully later. In reply to the question as to his views on appropriations to State col leges, he replied that the only stump speech he ever made in this county, previous to this campaign, was at St. Luke's twelve years ago in opposi tion to the establishment of Clemson College; not because he did not be lieve in higher education, but because he believed the State was even then top heavy in this matter. But he was no iconoclast, and he did not want to see any of these higher institutions pulled down now, but he wanted to see them run as ecomonically as was consistent with efficient work. On the bridge question, it had al ready been decided to build one bridge, and he favored building as many bridges across Broad and Saluda Rivers as possible. (Cheers.) Favored making labor contracts as binding as possible. . The most important question was taxation. There was no chance to reduce taxation for some years to come, as the appropriations now are in excess of income but there was one reform that was needed, and that was equalization in assessment. The best way to secure this was to have the county auditor meet with the township board of assessors and assess the property in each township at some central point within the township itself. Favored good roads, and was con vinced the best way to have them was by taxation, and favored a one mill levy on all property, so that the men who own property and get the benefit of the roads would help to build them. At present the town pays one third of the taxes of the county practically none of which goes to the support of the county roads. And yet good roads would benefit the town as much as the peo ple in the country. He opposed child labor in the mills because he believed it was in jurious to the children and pre vented the development of the high* est type of citizenship and being in jurious the State had a right to pro. tect its future citizens. If child labor is an evil, then it should be remedied,and he favored a child labor bill, but would advise that the best way to prevent radical legislation was that the mill owners and the operatives agree upon some measure that would be just to both parties. HON. JOHN F. BANKS was greeted by Mr. Harmon with his questions. He Was glad to answer them. As to biennial sessions he had the honor to be the first man who had ever introduced a bill in the legisla ture in favor of the measure. His bill had passed the house and was killed by the senate. He believed the best way to settle the pure food question was for the Southern people to raise their own food. He didn't think it would do any good to discuss the road law. The roads couldn't be improved without money, and the State at present " didn't have any money. Believed the State's higher initi tutions were being run extravagantly. He objected to the child labor bill T in the first place because it was class legislation. He didn't believe the o parents of this State were willing to be told they were not competent to - take care of their children-that they were not humane enough! He believed they could manage their own children and all their own af fairs. If this bill is passed, where will this movement stop? To vote - for this bill was wilfully to pilfer y away the liberties of the people a little at a time. Besides, it would lead to compulsory education. When this comes, it will apply to the negro, g and if it was within his power he would not only not help the negro to get an education, but would stop xA them if possible. He had never heard of a child being forced into a mill. Most of the people in the mills have gone there for the purpose of mending their fortunes and wanted to work their children under twelve years of age. Favored making laws for violation of labor contracts as stringent as possible and had done all he could to make them so. HON. F. H. DOMINICK wanted to be judged on the record he had made in the position he now - sought. in reply to Harmon's questions he favored biennial sessions, and had f voted for the measure in the house. Favored pure food.I As to the road law, favored allow ing each county putting its ten year prisoners on its own permanent chain ganig for working the roads. Did not favor taxation for this purpose. A one-mill tax in this county would raise only $4,500, and how many miles of road would that build ? - Did not favor pulling down a sin gle State institution, but wanted them run as economically as possible. The bridge question was a matter entirely for the county supervisors. His position was well known on the labor contract measure.I On the child labor question, it was a little funny that he should be here making a speech. We are all Demo erats, and yet an editor in the State has said that it is inconceivable how a man could oppose the child labor bill and run in a Democratic primary, when the State convention had en - dorsed the measure. What is Mr. Gonzales' record on supporting plat forms? He is the editor of a paper - that was born in an independentism, the characterized by Wade Hampton as do little less than radicalism. In 1898 chi the dispensary was incorporated inmi the Democratic platform. Did Gon zales support the dispensary ? The he only man in favor of the dispensary m that Gonzales had ever supported for be4 office was elected. Why did he sup port him? He came out in a threein colmn editorial later and admitted d that he (Gonzales) was buncoed..te Mr. Gonzales also says that it iste inconceivable that a white man, and a South Carolinian at that, should ha think that compulsory education tw would lead to negro supremacy. It mi is not only not inconceivable, but en sem tirely possible and probable. If thegi negro is educated you cannot keep I him from registering, as an educa- ca' tional or property qualification is all su that is required, and if he is regis- all tered, you can not keep him from fu voting, except through force. We all know how badly the negroes out teo number us, and it is a very simple th matter of calculation to see that we C< can very easily have negro suprem- au acy. m M. Dominick had voted against cc --BI( adds an( - SAL SLL ODDS and END SHORT LENGTH 'able to be closed out at les n the dollar. MY Al, ro GET READY for an en by making as much roon oing to buy the biggest Fall ed, and*nust reduce my S rho can appreciate Bargain: til to visit my*tore now. In TEN Di Iwill Leave For liv Goods,Mii and Sh OF THE1 (EEP{" AN EYE onth I t omake it lively MMNAL The Cheapest_Store il child labor bill twice, and would IM.T .WCE so again. He didn't believe thethu ttetie adcm Idren were being forced into the cr fato ntepr En conlsion, referred to the part euain h g a took in the beer dipnaybill ms eppc.Cm o tter, and to the fact that he haductndea ed hepi ,n exonerated by the investigat-tetn. Teeahr tn committee. paeo h aetadh Eollwing came the remaining can- amno hrce n lates for the position of superin- Aansae i iwo dent of education:curclm Rednwa MR. E. s. wERTs h osdrdo otvt I filled the position he sought for ane years. He knew he had made FOTHOFIEFPRBJ 3takes, but he had endeavored to Co.Jh C.Wlnstt ye his people efficiently and haddiay Teofce h ren his whole time to bis duties.quedabo -mn dac he had failed, it had not been be- osmn n ihtecr ise he did not try to serve them covtin. H waru i cessfully. Co operation among a"is hm u ewne factors was necessary to success H a lastkna c school work.th afarofhsS te es Education was not knowledge of 17,adhdsre i t books alone, but a realizatio,n ofth leiatr. nteC duties and responsibilities of life.madn oeoftebs lege training is not necessary tothte rlfthiSaefo education. It is upon the corn fed.fwr ~n scools hat te fhtrugother im e had W elske untrydepedsucatindapp ed hvn asi I Ends 3, REMNANTS and S placed on Centre s than 50 per cent. 'I s >rmous Fall business ri as possible. I am line I have ever car TOOK for it. People ; will miss it if they ITS SThe Gical J1ORTH. 3 space. I am going Sfor the Boys this fall. IG H'S,. n the Carolinas. nents two such old and honored po fr litical leaders. They had been hon foeryn ored in the past, but he did not see resteden where that put the p)eople under any eofi-obligation to honor them in the fnture. neucatio He was not a veteran, but that was education- not his fault. His blood was just as scal at patriotic as any that flowed through el pin the the veins of any man. His father should be had served in the war as a simple one who private, and if his opponent was go it. ing to claim the votes of veterans he he poperfelt entitled to the votes of the sons hprprof veterans. he branch; He thought his being a young man iimpor. would better entitle him to the office than an old man with no ambition. JUDGE. Hon. WV. W. Hodges belonged to the crowd that was in and didn't d his can want to get out, and claimed that a >ught re- man who had learned the duties of I courage an offce was better prepared to dis age of his charge them than one who knew them oig against not. It was best to let well enough ing to say alone. That was a maxim true in theofie every vocation. He had sought to vpart in discharge faithfully the duties de >ecially in volving upon him, and had heard no county in copant. While he needed the >nfederate money in the office, he was not actu -of com- ated solely by mercenary motives for companies he wanted to live~ so that when he the bloody has passed away it can be said of him that he has done some good for She was 'his fellow man. Jno. K. Aull.