Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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? ' I', t , FILBERT PICNIC i ?' * (Continued from Page One). people; but the two administrations that have followed m? did not keep faith with you. Some of the newspapers have tried very laboriously to get me to deviate, from ray determination to make a campaign free from mudslinging* >but their: efforts have been of no avail. Some others have tried to draw me from my path. I am reminded of the,days when I used to go fox hunting and how as the fox dogs passed little flee would run out and bark at them;, but the fox (togs were centered on the chase and pp.id no atttntion to theml "And I don't propose to notice the barking of the flees." add Mr. Uleasc: "but propose to point out some of the troubles of the state and will try to 1 ! ?4 * ? Qnmilfinp Of point out a i cuivuj . wi<vu.?...d newspapers, however, I want to gay that you have in your county one newspaper that is fair and square dnd can bo depended upon to be fair to all and refuses to--print lies on a man because he may not happun to be of the same way of thinking: as the newspaper." * J " - . S Mr. Bleasc took a fling at some- of those office holders to were frying over the state fighting-him. -*If -you hear of one of those office holders fighting me, he said., yoj will find that he is some fellow who hag hold,Af a political tit and Blcase is.chpking-fcjm off. He launched; iAlo a vltrdjjcv.attack on tl^ state tax.commission, which he said, "is making.yen. out a of liars, and whjeh. rqpre spits tlW;corporate. interest# Carolina, The tax commission cwtyou nearly $S(},000 last'ypar and here, just redcntly When ' one'of the state political pets lost. ;i good job in the Pipdetal revenue,.fde-' r i u iin,._ partment, tne siaifK inx conimistuun created a new cler&hl Tor him at? a salary of $8,000. xhe cow oiily had four tits and thOy |kad to stick on a fifth, for this mwt-" Mr. Bleasc attacked the Budget Commission which TOSt $6,000 last year and which did nothing except make estimates of the expense of qondUucting various departments of government. "If your state officers haven't got brains enough to make estimates," he said, "then you should elect officers who can." ' ' ' The speaker'also paid, his respects to wUfit he called "the Smelling Com" /* AAmmluot An nf Pnatnn lllldOIUIl, It VVIlilWJOOlUU VI 4*VVW.. Yankees, he. said. wJiidh looked into each branch of government to see how things were run. They couldn't get men In South Caroline, for this work but had to go out of the state for them and pay more than $20,000 for their services." He characterized the State Board of Charities and Corrections as unnecessary and expensive. The printing bill of the state, he said, is now 200 per cent, more .than ,in. 1&1G and there can be ho denial of the fact. He said that when governor he had tried to have the late Senator Tillman who was then chairman of the senate committee on Indian Affairs take over the Catawba Indians. If his suggestion in the matter had been acted upon, the state would Iuiv?" s&Ved $100,000. Harking back to the state tax commission he said that some'of the mem bera and clerks spend most 01 uieir time in the Columbia club "drinking that which is forbidden" and sending word to the farmers,-"Plow on; Plow on." "How will wc eveir get rid. of >m?" inquired a man in the crowd. "Go to the ballot box on election day and vote like you holler," retorted Mr. Blease. "They told you," continued Mr. Mease, "to get rid of.Mease *ndj we'll have law and or&etr.' You'tc- jbof'n having it. You slire havve. La.-t* (he leaders preach, what Jthey pfac^jce and others will follow ti)oir,lead. "I'm not boasting," he,said, in conclusion; "but I know from the^sigys of the tirhes especially in tht counties wc have visited'that MciJcod is:a pacer and Laney is a trotter and that they are just practising, as it were. And after next January you are again-jgoing to have a real.governor -ki So?th Carolina.' _ Few Boos for Duncan. There were a few boos and joeys as a greeting for John T.. "Uitican, the third.of the gubernatorial candidates to address the voters. The noise subsided in a moment, however, after Mr. Duncan said: "You have heard your favorite?now let's talk business a j while." He said that Lancy, Hlease and McLcod arc pledged to your political boss, Edwin Wales Robertson to deliver the water power of the state to hint," and that "James 11. Duke has already possessed himself of five of your best water powers. "The newspapers would have you believe that Duncan lights Hlease alone; but it is not so. I play no favorites." Cotton Association fraud. Mr. Duncan attacked the South Carolina Cotton association and the American imports and Exports corporation, savins they were frauds and that former Governor Manning, the head of the Imports and Exports corporation, had paid the stockholders a $5 dividend out of the capital stock and has spent another $104,000 for salaries. He told of his own attempts to establish a cotton marketing association "along democratic lines." He paid his respects to \V. A. Clark. Esq., of Columbii , saying that In thv "days of good stealing Clark was a Republican; but in these days of better stealing he is a Democrat." Returning ,to his attack on Rlease, Duncan said'that Congressman Slemp of Virginia, was attempting to organize a Republican party in South Carolina and that Blease h s been paid $50,000 of Republican money to carry out a betrayal of at least a part of his V followers to tlio Republican party. He charged further that 131ea.se was an independent candidate for congress from the Seventh district in 1D19 and that when the campaign party was at Florence recently Rlcase accepted an invitation from a Mr. Andrews, a Republican, to deliver a speech in Florence, county. "Rlease will entertain you with various statements from day to day," he concluded. "He has never told you what the inducement was for him to j pardon Jones, the wife murderer or Portland New, the bunk robber." Best Informed Candidate. J. J. Cantcy, of Summcrton, Clarendon county, a candidate for governor, -rid he was the best informed man about the business interests of the state in the race. "Please," he said, "didn't get you out of the hole while he was governor and he has proved conclusively that tljc two administrations that followed him have not done so. You should how choose a man who can certainly do you no worse, although really there is so little left that the holl weevil and the policemen hid fair to get that. "1 am a new force in the political arena in South Carolina, and 1 am appealing to the moral courage and intelligence of the people," said Mr. Gantry. "I'm conducting the cheapest and cleanest campaign of any of them and I propose to write the story of this campaign after its conclusion. I have submitted to the people the finest platform ever presented to?any people. My opponents are for law and order Verbally, but none of them possess sufficient intelligence to suggest a remedy for lack of law and order. "The richest ticjd in the world for demagogic i?oliticians is in the matter of taxation. I favor the taking over of the stktc tax commission by the comptroller general and an equalization of taxes patterned on the sayings of Jesus Christ, who was the greatest authority on taxation the World ever knew." Detained By Illness. William Coleman of Union, the fifth of the gubernatorial candidates to speak, said that he had been unable to make the entire campaign because of suffering with sciatica, which is "tooth-ache in the lower limbs." Mr. Coleman thought that the trouble with South Carolina was that there had been too much factionalism and ring control in political affairs and that the present was the time for a housecleaning. He had his platform printed in pamphlet form and any voter might secure a copy by sending him a nostnl card reouest to his homo in Union.' Ho- wild that it would make godd reading for the lord's day and that it was a platform "full of prospects, prosperity and hope." Laney Was Last. Senator George K. Laney of Chesterfield, was the last of the speakers seeking the gubernatorial chair. He made a clear-cut speech and was heard with close attention, receiving quite a bit of applause and a basket of flowers when he concluded. He paid a tribute to the memory of the late Congressman D. E. Finley whom, he said, was unbeatable while he lived. He stood for economy and re-adjustment of the tax burden and he wanted "the State paper to;kno\v that I am giving half of my time to it." He stood,, for a fair deal between capital and labor. He reviewed his political experience as a member of the house of representatives four years and a member of the senate sixteen years. "I am here to shoulder my part of the responsibility for the appropriation bill of the last general assembly," said Senator Laney, "and I am here to tell you that it makes no difference who you elect your governor, the appropriation bill a year from now will be about where it stands now. The big items in that bill are for the maintenance of the asylum, common schools and Confederate soldiers and no candidate has said that he would take a single dollar from any of them." Candidate Laney said that he had achieved much in a business and political way by his own efforts. Not a dollar was appropriated for the common schools when he llrst went to the legislature, hut now the common school ; system of I he state will favorably compare with that of any other state anil he thought that at least a part of the credit for school progress was his,, since "Jjuney has fought the battle of the masses of school children for twenty years. "The deflation period has about bankrupted you and not the legislature," said llr. Laney. "Look at your good roads and good schools and yet you pay only about 7 mills for state purposes. 1 stand for good schools and for progress and I'll go down into defeat standing for them. I'll not agree to a reduction of taxes for the common schools under any consideration. "If you should abolish every state j office," continued Mr. Lancy, "the reduction in your levy would be from 1-4 to 1-2 mill, which wouldn't amount to the puff of a cigarette in an eqdato rial nail storm. "I'm no new convert to tax reform. 1 understand every department of this state go\eminent. If i am elected your governor I will l^e the friend and the governor of every class of industry? the friend of the Southern I'ovver company as well as everybody else." Thanks for Rest. The hand played a selection after the candidates for governor had con' eluded and everybody was thankful for the diversion. Each gubernatorial candidate spoke twenty minutes, or .two hours in all and there was an interval of about ten minutes before the candij dates for lieutenant-governor presented their claims for suffrage. E. B. Jackson, a candidate for lieutenant governor, rapped the last legislature for holding a Sunday session, and declared if he was lieutenant governor he would adjourn the body and DENMARK'S DOWAGER mMmmmmmmmmmmmmmrnmmmmmm.'mmmmmmmmmmmammrmmm ' I - <#** ; v ; i ' yp P# '' " . I r ' t Dowager Queen Louise of Denmi monia at Chateau Egelund, tl Prince Gustav. not allow it to liarmen. Ho was a far mer and banker of Aiken county. Jennings K. Owens of Marlboro, a candidate for lieutenant governor, was born in York county, where his father and mother had lived and died. He spent four years in Yorkvillc?two years as a pupil in Banks's High school and two years as a teacher. He served the Yorkvillc (traded school two years as janitor while attending the Banks school, he said. He was familiar with parliamentary law and he had if elected, "good, conscientious York county service." Dr. E. C. L. Adams of Columbia, presented his claims for lieutenant governor. He had spoken at Filbert 1 * -> ? 1 1 lw? I.../.1/ uciore ami was im-uscu iu again. He liad no public record to defend, having beciVan unsuccessful candidate for office on one other occasion. Dinner Adjournment. Adjournment was taken for dinner after the candidates for lieutenant governor had spoken and when the meeting was resumed, the six candidates for superintendent of education were heard. There was a large crowd of citizens gathered close to the stand for the afternoon meeting, most of them curious to hear the two women candidates. The afternoon crowd, however, was not so large as that which heard the candidates at the morning meeting. J. If. Hope, of Union, was the first up among those seeking the office of superintendent of education. Mr. Hope said that he had been connected with the schools of Union county for 27 years and believed*he was the best equipped man in Ihc nice. He said that there was something wrong with the educational system now since THE ANNIVERSARY OF FIF ! Tho first airplane fliglit, whic observed by the United States Go1 brother, Wilbur, built the first hea 27, l'JOlf, established an endurance minutes continuous flight. Three flew from Fort Myer, Va., to Alexi of nine miles each way. Tho Gov< this seemingly impossible feat, and fully the Wright brothers gained triumph with flying machines. Oni Lieut. Foulois of the American arn Myer to Alexandria, which market distance flying. The other shows QUEEN SERIOUSLY ILL, mm ^ V ' irk who is seriously ill with pneube residence of her favorite son, I it was evident that the state depnrt| raent of education and the legislature j were not working in harmony. He | didn't know who was to blame. lie spoke his opposition to the recent I .adoption of new text books for the schools of the state, saying that it was costly and unnecessary and that there were many duplications. There were now two sots of algebras, geometries and other books. If a child should move to another school it would be necessary to buy a new set of books if those at the second, school were different from the first. Superintendent Swearingen had Voted Tor the new adoption, he said. Mr. Hope wa n$|l to take high ! schools to the boys and girls in the | country since 8ii per cent of the boys | never saw tbe insi^g of a college. He j was not opposed, rpicolipgcs, but he did 1 think that more hign schools should be i provided. j O. I). Seay of Richland county, took I occasion 10 say innc mc gaim-riug ?ua the largest the campaign party had addressed since tlia 'Campaign opene^i. Mr. Sony recited his educational experience and told of his fitness for the office. He was formerly superintendent of education for Richland county, of which Columbia is the county scat. Scigler Says He's Competent. C. II. Scigler of Aiken, wanted the folks to know that he was as competent as anv of the other candidates for i !-state superintendent. He threw a few : pleasantries at the two women candidates, whom he said were "roses among : thorns," and who should he left in the . home garden. He was a graduate of j Clcinson and lie was formerly a farmer, who in 1920 had invested ail he iST AIR FLIGHT OBSERVED i ; ' . ' 1 ' * - ,: ::; <.! ; li took place In July, 1909, will bo irernment. Orville Wright and his vier than air machine and on July o record of one hour and twenty days after, with one passenger, ho uiuuiia, vu., <mu luiuiu, u. uioiuiiLo arninent allowed three attempts at when it was accomplished successofficial recognition as the first to 3 picture shows Orville. Wright and ly starting on tho flight from Fort 1 the first world's record for long the plane at Governors Island. had in Iwill weevils without return. John E. Swearinpen, superintendent of education, who is seeking re-election, pleaded with his hearers not to slip hnek despite-the boll weevil and the igrnorancc of some folks with figures. He wanted the people to know that the children of the state had Rotten all the benefits of education the law allows. There was no friction between his department and the legislature and any intimation that there was friction was nothing but "an attempt to bamboozle you." He asked the question if the schools were not much hotter now than they used to he. There had been no attempt to conceal from the public the adoption of new text I..W.I.H Ihn Vh.ln f.n.l 11ll. Vntvmnil Courier had published the list some time iiRn, Mr. Swearingen pleaded for a seven-months school term for every white child in the state. Women Get Attention. When Mrs. E. 11. Wallace, the first of the two women candidates for superintendent of education, was introduced, attention appeared to become more concentrated and numbers of necks, especially those of women voters. were craned to Ret a better view of lier. Mrs. Wallace told of her interest in education and of her work in army camps in the states and abroad. She was at present supervisor of mill schools at Great Falls and ahe wanted to be elerted state superintendent of education in order that she might be of greater service. Replying to Mr. Seiele.v relative to roses among thorns. she said it was common custom to pluck the roses and leave the thorns. Rain Interrupts Mrs. Drake. Big droi?s of rain were falling about the time Mrs. Bessie Rogers Drake of Marlboro county, began her speeech, and she did not take her Whole time. She told of her association with York county by reason of the fact that she was a graduate of Winthrop college, and said that many organizations of women had endorsed her candidacy. She wanted the voters to know that a woman was perfectly capable of manuring the office and cited Miss Annie Webb Blanton. who is superintendent of education of the state of Texas, who has under her direction educational funds and institutions totaling several times that of South Carolina. Mrs. Drake would not ask further attention because of the rain. Others Loft Out. Others deprived of an opportunity of addressing the voters Because or rne rain were: J. C. Dozier of Rock Hill, and W. Ranks Dove of Columbia, candidates for secretary of state; Harold Eubanks and D. M. Winter of Richkind and S. M. Wolfe of Anderson, candidates for attorney general, and B. Harris of Anderson and George W. Wightmnn of Saluda, candidates for commissioner of agriculture and Congressman W. f?\ Stevenson. /sslissisv / (gasoline \ LJ I BALA? ?not tft Mrs. W. E. Bouast, of Carlinville, 111., has the distinction of being the only woman sulky driver in the United States. xwwwwwwwwwwwwww Fight I N< I $ The grand assault of $ due. The great migratk $ does not see many weev iX immune for tliis vear has j.{* prise awaiting him. I KEEP UP THE FI< & squares. Plow frequentl f, day. Cotton will he mad X if the fight, is kept up. | there will be rough sledd f: MERCHANTS, talk ? courage all the growers ? 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