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CANTEY ON POLITICS f Former Candidate Tells ol What Ke| Thinks oi Things. PEOPLE NOT INCLINED TO LIST IN i , ?.*) . I Campaign of Abuse Has Had Bad Effect?Blease Better Sport Than Mc- j Lood?Laney Fine Fellow, But Offered Nothing. J. J. Cantey of Suir.mcrton, ia the I Charleston American. As a candidate for governor at the recent primary, I not only tried out an experiment, but 1 learned some thlngB which may be of Interest to your readers. At the commencement of the cam- | paign I assumed that in view of the fact that the people of South Caro1' ?- > >*??? vu?r readers, that ' UlUt UIC b * * "V " "f- . ? ? ?r they had become worn and wqary with ; the eounty-to-county campaign, and j that possibly a candidate could "be elected by merely publishing his platform, provided the platform contained j constructive ideas. Therefore, I de- ; termined upon publishing1 my platform in the State and the News and Courier , with the view of remaining in my office and cleaning up all of my legal engagements in connection with the summer term of the court for Clarendon county, and devoting myself solely to an active campaign in the Piedmont section of the state. From the commencement of the campaign to the end I held to ray original idea, with the view of testing out the experiment, the result being that I was politically buried 10,000 fathoms deep, although ( lending periodicals all over the coun- . 1i>\ Tic the New York Times d-'olar? yd that I had the beet platform any <>i the'candidates for governor. As a j voting lawyer I had been put through , the fiery furnace of poverty and I had secured good from the experience, and ther< fore when T' actively entered the *iiio'irn T nrcached at every county -Beat, which I visited, a politico-moral ( doctrine^' doterminod If I could to a ive the civilization of old South Carolinn from the ravages of deflation, tKe boll ( weevil infestation and Bloaseism,'which I regarded as a species of bolshevism. ; I had not been out among the people , more than a few days when I dis- j * covered that a large proportion of the I 1 people were lined up behind Bleasc, I v/hQ vaas intentionally doceiving them 1 by appealing to the best, in a vuin at- ]1 tempt to make the people throw off j" the burdens of civilization and at the 1 same time elect him. On the other ' hand, I discovered that McLeod had raptured the majority of the antiIIlease faction by reason of his staleness ao a politician, his personal pom- | posity, his lack of constructive ideas, ' and his ability to relate an amusing joke. The county-to-county campaign is in some respects a great institution, makes for democracy, and affords a ' line oportunity for a good man to teacn j and uplift the people, but at the same 1 time IE has some dangers, has a ten- |' dcncy to force the people to elect a | candidate simply because of his frt- | fluent running, and fixes the mind of the people on the trotting capacity of the candidate to solve the economic and political problems which confront the people. The only two candidates in the race for governor who had constructive platforms were Coleman and myself; both of us had college and university training, without being sicklied over with the pale case of political stalcness, but both of us were burled politically, because we did not attend , as much as half of the county campaign meetings and because the sole thought of about one-half the people was to elect Blease and .the sole | thought of the other half was to defeat Blease, while Ce'eman and my, self solely bent on saving South Carolina. It is true that Lanoy is a fine , gentleman; his campaign speech was ! an interesting and instructive resume [ of what the last session of the legisla- j ture had done in the matter of equal- | 1/ing taxation, but Laney offered the | people noxning luuKiriji luwunu kic iu- j ti.re and his campaign speech die- J played an absence of constructive | ideas. I think the campaign which | Pollock and Jennings made against j Please several years ago was a great . misfortune, because these gentlemen 1 confined themselves to dealing in jiersonal vituperation, which had a ten- j SITUATION ON Mtrnrfcte. C, '^^feMYRN/i05ALiH Chanak is tne key position to have been established there. . 1't ' traticr near by. The widest fr?? Constantinople and the Bosporus. Scutari to the Sea of Marmora The Nationalist neadouartei represents the neutral /.one whirl invade on their way to Constants I GREEK SOVEREIG Kin* Constantine and his roy Hobenzollern princess and sister < account of the defeat of the Gree! Constantine will abdicate In favor ietiey to make the Blease people remain away from the campaign meetings. except to the extent of hearing I'ienne make his speech, whereas in a free end equal democracy, anything i?h!ch hr.3 a tendency to set pne class of people against another class or to make them feci that their Inter-sis are : ?t..identical is n phenomenon of grave 1 >g i\ I ttacked the political records of both Blease and MeL,eod, ber.use 1 did not regard either of these rntlemen as being worthy ot' being governor of South Carolina. In my attacks against Bleaaoism I limited myself to showing it tip as an economic and political fallacy, the result being: that all through the campaign I retained the personal friendship of Blease and discovered numerous followers of Blease dropping hack Into the campaign meeting to h'iar my speech, after leaving the meeting upon the conclusion of the usual Blease harangue, a dangerous habit to society and the state which had been acquired by the followers of Blease in the days of the unfortunate l'ollock nnd Jennings bombardment. I found Blease a much better political sport than McLeod. At the Anderson meeting Blease looked up Mrs. Blease and introduced thf lady to me On the other hand most of tiic candidates remained in Anderson over Sunday and attended the union services at* the rVesbyterian church, where McLeod was asked to load in prayer, and aftei* services I extended my hand to McLeod en passant, hut McLeod, who had oeen pouting over my uuusw u>. mo political record, turnpd his hack to mo and declined all friendly advances. But forgetting the Hhings that are behind and pressing forward towards the future, I enjoyed immensely my first political experience, and I have a timid idea that I at least played n small part towards saving the civilization of my state. The people of South Carolina are a great people. In their determination to preserve the supremacy of the white race they are all of one opinion?there is going to be no revolt to the Republican party, and Rlease himself k> too much of a game political sport to turn against his white friends and relatives, although at times he may have been peeved over his political defeats and the unreasonable personal attacks which have been made upon him. We must learn the lesion that the interest or every man, woman and child in South Carolina is identical, and we must lr<irn to vote at all times for constructive ideas and for South Carolina, and not for this, that or the other man or faction as against some other man or seme other faction, and then wo shall reap the fruits of a free democracy and true prosperity. THE STRAITS. 3o ' JCK Uf.A > .o\ - ^ / t^BILEJIK ,O ?AiNEGEUU 0 "BRUSAV " KlITAYAo^ J A T I A OGEDEZ \ LI ?USHAK VwO ? i a T \ ^ ^ we Dardanelles, and IIritish lines irkish cavalry is reported concennt nas been established to protect ann the British line extends from I'his front is thirty miles lon<:. s are at lsmid. The dotted area h the lienaliits are threatening to tiople. N MAY ABDICATE 5B55S5 i al consort. Queen Sophia, who is a >f the deposed Kaiser Wilhelm. On ss by the Turks It is rumored that of his brother, Prince Christopher. THEY BEAT THE DUTCH. American .Flappers Are the Envy of i ? Volcndam Girls. The pr-oplo of this seaside village have two sou.- ecs of Incon^e, fishing, aaul the tourists who come to see the medieval co.iu.noc of the .villagers and comment on their adherence* to oldt?m customs, aa.vs> a Voiehdum, Holland, diriJatch. The nun catch the one I; Jai the girls the other. For VolcnI dam its belles, and the old world attire J of their forbears becomes them well. liiu this your hundreds of American "flappers" have been amonj; Volon[ urn's visitors, and they have Intro- ; duccd chaos. The local girls have not been blind to the charms which the svelte American girls seem to hold for I the young men of Yolendnm. and it is I no uncommon sight to see Volendam ! misses walking behind groups of ' American girls, making vain attempts | to imitate the slouching, lackadaisi- | cal walk and blase air of assumed j world-wisdom. The debutante slouch, the long- j J pointed shoes with French heels, the i short, scant skirts and the chic hats I have aroused the envy of the young Dutch women and created a. panic in the village which may cease to bo a j groat mart for souvenirs if its female population begins to copy world fashion sheets. The village elders arc up in arms. Tirades are launched against the follies and foibles of fashion. The lacemnkers who fashion the quaint , white caps for women, the manufac| turers who turn out the wooden shoes, j and the shopkeepers who thrive on the j j quaintness of Volendam are conduct- I I ing an anti-flapper campaign. Of course there are Dutch flappers, j but the Dutch girls generally have too j much weight to stimulate fashion i sheets successfully, and Dutch mod; istes lack the skill of American and I J ren.cn uressmaKers. c>o me Aiiicntuu ! girls and their extreme attire have I stirred little Dutch girls who were : never thrilled by the efforts of the girls of Amsterdam to copy the manikins of IjOPSTohnmps. "MISS COLUMBUS" IS ; nHnt: "Miss Columbus" (Mary Ka Ohio) is the most beautiful bathinj Judges composed of some of illustrators in the country so deci j awarding nine prizes to bcautifu bathers' revue. "Miss Columbus" \ "was thus able to compete for the mermaid, held by "Miss America" year. Miss Gorman loses her cro "Miss America," at least for a yet / ? WOMEN GAMBLERS. Many.Gccan Liners Said to Be Infest- ' cd With Them. Women arc replacing men gamblers aboard ocean liners, says a Xcw York' dispatch. "Lihtlc Eddie" Malloa, the watchdog of the piers, whoso job it is to "spot"' sea-going gamblers, is authority for the statement. He says the men claim they are going straight because they have found that travelers rtre to > careful and ship's officers too ' watchful. Mont of the gamblers, says Mailon, came to that conclusion just about the time a White Star captain sent a well known gambler to the detentibn lios- j pltal aboard Iris afcip following a spirited iittle paity in' the smoking room, when tistc? were brought into action. But where men have dropped cards and dice, women have taken them up. The women are known to*Eddie and to other detectives who hip him watch the piers, but the problem is to catch j thorn. One bis liner recently crime intoJ port, and Eddie, as usual, met It a' quarantine. He lost himself as scon j as he was aboard. Rut by the time j the liner*had reached the pier, lie pop- i ped into view, sore and disgusted, with disappointment easy to be read in his , face. , . CRIMINALS BEWA Petite Danish girl, Ingeborg with a new fingerprint system. S perts of the Copenhagen Police I For more than four years IV little else but the net and the lu | reaching dragnet of the law. and XI ut IUU rilUbQ \jUUlUilUbw, fcy ? v ? gressed the law. She is attending the conventic "I lost the Duchess' again," he grumbled. His story was brief. Ke had received a wireless tip that there was a ! woman aboard, aristocratic and cul- ! tured: that she had been very sweet QUEEN OF BEAUTY. V , !\ i thcrine Campbell of Columbus, I girl in America, the most prominent artists and ded in Atlantic City, after first 1 girls who participated in tha vas one of the nine winners, and grand prize, the $5;000 golden ' (Margaret Gorman) since last wn and Miss Campbell becomes ir. i TO HEAD NAVAL COLLEGE, iy-mn.alitia ? ' N. .i J I ^.. ^ . ' tBmmH:. j f: # lSp? 1 ? *s' Rear-Admiral Williams, who succeeds Vice-Adralral William S. Sims (retired by r ;e limit) as president of the Naval War College at Newport. R. I. to several of the men passengers; that bridge practically every night n,t sea; that she had collected rather heavily RE OF THIS GIRL Hellncr-Nielsen. pursues criminals he is one of the best fingerprint exiepartment. [iss Hellner-Nielsen has thought of re. The net, however, is the widethose she seeks to lure into it are e men and women who have transin of police officials,^ sho had reluctantly consented to play at the end of every sitting. "I talked to about five men about her," continued Eddie, "and not one would complain. She was a woman, they said, and they were not willing to accuse a woman of cheating at cards. So I had to let 'the Duchess* come ashore and she has just passed with her baggage. Sho will probably be I bark on the French line next week, laughing at mc. "What's the big trouble now? 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