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VOL. XXXII. LEXIAGTOX, S. C., WEDNESDAY, .JUAE 25, 1902. AO. 33
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THE BURNING- ISSUES.
The Seductive Songs of the Candidates
in Their Chase After Votes.
The campaign for State officers
opened at Sumter on the 17th inst.
There is virtually no difference of
opinions between the candidates on
questions of party polity and on the
measures which are before the people.
In no campaign since 1890 has
there been such a total lack of interest
on the part of the voters as there
has been exhibited so far in the
present campaign, and it really looks
as if the people are taking no stock
in political matters. At this meeting
the views of the candidates for the
various offices to be filled this year
were outlined, and we herewith give
a synopsis of their platform, as reported
in the papers:
Mr. M. F. Ansel, of Greenville,
candidate for Governor: He had
been connected with the legislative
and judicial branches of the government
and now desired experience in
the executive department. He had
always favored the primary system
of making nominations; favored ap
propriations for the gallant old Confederate
soldiers; believed in the
dignity of labor; is an advocate of
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the best and highest educational advantages
to the children of the State,
aud considered that education was
the burning, important and living
question of the day; favored good
roads and believed that they could
be put in good condition by. the instalment
plan; favored the dispensary
law and its enforcement; was
.opposed to trusts. If elected he
would discharge his duty and fear
no man.
Capt. D. C. Hayward, of Barnwell,
is running for Governor on his
merits. He believed that the common
development of our great and
growing interests was the task to
continue to completion; the people of
South Carolina have time and again
expressed themselves on the dispensary
law,and he regarded this law as
a settled fact and properly enforced
was the best solution of the whisky
question; endorsed State and National
platforms but believed the industrial
problems of the South
should now be discussed; he bad
been one of the earliest movers on
the subject of good roads and was
still decidedly in favor of this great
need; he is opposed to children work
mg in lactones and while not unmindful
of the rights and interests
of the factory owner or the operative,
he, therefore, favored a law gradual
in operation as to the age limit for
children to be employed in factories;
favored maintaining the higher educational
interests, but the question
was the improvement of the common
and public school system; favored
bi-ennial sessions of the Legislature.
Mr. W. Jasper Talbert, of Edgefield,
candidate for Governor, emphasized
his opposition to trusts and
commercial Democracy; favored a
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liberal support to State Colleges and
the upbuilding ox the common 1
school?; favored a law for the tax
which a white man pays to go to the
support of the white schools, and
that paid by the negro to the support
of the negro schools; favored the
dispensary law as the best solution
of the whisky question and believed
that it should be enforced in Columbia
and Charleston as well as in all
other places; favored the organiza
tion of labor as well as of capital;
favored a better system of taxation;
favored pensioning Confederate soldiers;
was a reformer and Allianceman.
Lieutenant Governor James H.
Tillman of Edgefield, was the Dext
candidate for Governor given an opportunity
to state his platform.
This candidate seems to be seeking
the honors of the office in attacking
t.Vifi rmhlie rer.nrn nf Congressman
Talbert and the 6hort comings of
Editor Gonzales, as the greater part
of his speech was given to the consideration
of these two gentlemen,
and in defending himself from the
charge of having altered the Journal
of the Senate in order to protect
himself. His position on public
questions can be summed up as
follows: He was not in favor of
further taxation even for good road-;
favored the child labor bill and had
cast the deciding vote which saved
the bill from defeat in the Senate;
believed in pensioning the old Confederate
soldiers and favored a better
system of distributing the pension
money; opposed the establishment of
! a soldiers' home as it sounded too
much like the poor house.
Dr. W. H. Timmerman, of Lexington,
was the last of the gubernatorial
candidates. His platform was briefly
6tated to be: good roads; the subject
of taxation was an important one,
but did not believe that any reduction
was in sight on account of the
increased appropriations of the last
session of the Legislature which
would necessitate the borrowing of
money to meet the running expenses
of fhfl crnvfirnmflnt: h? thought Wfl
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not riek an interference with
our educational work, which is all
important; he is a one term candidate
and should he be so fortunate as to be
elected Governor he would not ask
for a reelection because he would
have no vindication to m&k?. There
was no Cincinnattus in the race as
they have all perambulated the State
asking for votes; he would not try to
emulite these lawyers whose tongues
could scarcely be stopped, and would
talk on one side as glibly as on the
other; he was before the people with
his character as a citizen and bis
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recoru as au uuicer ui tuexr oiattj i
having experience as none of his
competitors had had; South Carolina
was as dear to him as any one,
and he would go into any corner of
South Carolina and challenge anything
public or private against Lis
character.
This closed the speeches of the
candidates for Governor and so far it
is impossible to name the favorite
candidate for the place, as each one
received his share of applause.
But it is not the whooping a candidate
receives at a slimly attended
campaign meeting that telle, but the j
great army of silent votes and this
will be the case in the present campaign.
The voters of Lexington county
are reminded that the candidates for
State officers will be in this place on
Saturday, July 5tb, to address the
people. Oar people should come to
town on that day and give each and
every candidate a respectful hearing.
We owe this to the candidates, who
have complied with the ruleB of the
party in all respects, and are under a
great expense for traveling and other
! necessary incidentals and the people
! certainly owe it to them to turn out
I and hear what they have to say. i
Senatorial Candidates.
The men who are striving to catch
the Senatorial toga which is
about to fall from the shoulders of
Senator John L. McLaurin, opened
the campaign in Columbia on June
17fch. The striking features of the
occasion being the similarity of the
speeches to those delivered last summer
during the alleged campaign of
education in political economics and
the manner in which they opposed
measures for no other apparant
reason than that they are generally
favored by the Republicans. This,
in a dutshell, is the foundation for
their opposition.
The following is a brief synopsis
of the platform of each of the six
candidates:
Congressman A. C. Latimer of
Anderson, was the first candidate to
be introduced to the Columbia audience.
He opened by saying last
summer there was an issue but that
does not now exist and all the aspirants
are agreed a3*to what they believed
to be the best policy of the
government. There are no issues
involved between them and it will be
purely a matter of personal choice
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amuug me voters, no upposeu toe
war in the Philippines and declared
that it was being conducted in a
cruel manner; denounced the ship
subsidy because the remedy can be
found in the repeal of the present
marine laws; favored a tariff for
revenue only and favored a policy of
making the private books of corporations
public property. The most of
Mr. Latimer's time wa9 taken up in
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a resume of his public services during
his ten years of office holding.
Mr. Dan S. Henderson, of Aiken,
followed in what might be termed a
good speech in :?hich he declared
that all issues should be discussed
manfully and calmly. Some of the
contentions of the Democratic party
had been settled by the war and
some can never be settled except in
the right way; the phrases of the
"old South," and the "new South,"
made him sick: he opposed the trusts
because they were the legitimate offspring
of the Republican tariff; opposed
corporations, not because they
were such, but because they stiffle
competition and the time had come
when they should be shorn of their
power.
Former Congressman George Johnstone
of Newberry, opened with a
pathetic reference to the Confederate
soldier aDd then gave an account of
his stewardship as a legislator and a
Congressman. He discussed the
isthmian canal which be favored because
it would build up the South
Atlantic ports and as a consequence
following the digging of this canal
the improvement of river navigation
would be a necessity which he favored.
Our mission to the Philippines
should be one of peace and literty
and not of despotism: he opposed
! ship subsidy because the subsidized
! shins would still run to the norts
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I north of us in order to keep the trade
of that section: he saw the goddess
of prosperity through the mists of
the future when Columbia will contain
100,000 inhabitants with its
business increased a hundred fold.
Congressman William Elliott, made
a vigorous speech touching his own
record; he had signed the pledge required
by the State Democratic convention
and would heartily support
the platform: he opposed the ship
j subsidy; he favored the appropriation
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| to improve and open Congaree river j
i to navigation; be bad always done j
| bis duty to bis State in war and in j .
| peace, and had succeeded in ridding ; ;
I tbe ccast of negro domination.
| Former Congressman J. J. Hempbill
of Chester, was tbe next candi- i
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i date to be introduced. He treated
! the subjects of expansion, retention
| of the Philippines, tariff and trusts
| in a most entertaining manner be
! lieving that in following oat the J
| theories underlying these great ques- |
tione, if adopted, would lead U3 away |
from the time honored principles of 1
Democracy. On ail the issues touch- '
ing the growth and development of
our country he was in accord with
i the rest of the candidates.
I Ex-Governor John Gary Evans, of
Spartanburg, was the last candidate
to give bis views on the public issues 1
of the day. His claim for prefer- i
ment lay chiefly in his claim that he <
had predicted that McLauriu was a <
Kepublican; he was against the 1
tariff except for revenue; opposed *
the doctrine of imperialism and the 1
ship subsidy proposition. 6
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To the Editor of the Dispatch: i
The thresher season is on now, 1
and the little whistles and wheels t
can be heard in the land. The grain 3
crop is very light. We have had r
fine rains and corn and cotton is (
looking good. o
Mr. S. M. McCravy and wife from d
near Chapin were visiting at Mr. S. C
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Dispatch. A Parva Avis. i1
June 23, 1902. *
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Abstract Shows Increase.
County Auditor G. A. Derrick, has
completed his tax duplicate for the
year 1902 and forwarded his abstract
to the Comptroller General, being the
first Auditor in the State to do so,
as far as we have noticed. We are
indebted to him for the following
interesting information:
Assessment for the year 1902.
Personal propty, $866,607
Real Estate... .$1,824,310 .
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Total $2,690,917
1901
Personal propty, $866,262
Real estate, $1,808,135
Total $2,674,397
Increase for 1902 $ 16,520
Yvhen we consider tbe disastrous
'ailure of all crops and the depressing
cfluence it had upon the spirits of
Dur people last year, and the consequent
depreciation of all values
;his increase in the valuation of the
;axable property of the county shows
ip well for Lexington and it conclulivelv
proves that notwithstanding
he "hard times" Lexington has not
mly held her own, but has made an
ncrease. Railroad, express, tele
jraph and telephone property is not
ncluded in the above.
Pond Branch Club.
The voters of the Pond Branch
lection met at Pond Branch academy
rune 21st at 4 oclock p. m., for the
mrpose of organizing a new club at
he academy. The club was organzed
with twenty-eight members, and
he following officers were unaninously
elected: G. W. Smith, Prescient;
D. D. Smith, Vice President;
^ohn M. Sharpe, Secretary; J. L.
Smith, E. P. Shealy, S. R. Kyzer,
Committee on Enrollment and Regisration.
By the request of this club, we
ndorse our Representative, Hon. A.
P. Lever, and extend to him our
grateful thanks for his faithful .work
luring his short time in Congress,
nd we, this club, do endorse him
penly for reelection.
John M. Sbarpe, Secretary.
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