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9/ )4 VOL. XL. NO. 56. EWBERRY. S. C.. FRTnAY JLY S, 1904 TWICE A WEEK. $1.50 A YEAR COUNTY CAIPAIGN AT UTOPIA YESTERDAY MORE THAN THREE HUNDRED PRESENT. A Good Meeting Throughout-Can didates Received Good Atten tion-Questions Discussed. Utopia. July 7.-The fourth meet ing of the county campaign, held here today, was attended by more than three hundred people, including a number of ladies. It was a good meet ing. All the candidates received good attention. A number of questions were discussed, and while several of the candidates disagreed on measures there was a general good feeling per vading the meeting and the day pass ed off most pleasantly. The meeting was held in the large oak grove surrounding the residence of Mr. Walter I. Herbert. It is an ideal spot for a campaign meeting. In fact, it is one of the coolest places in Newberry county, if the word cool can be applied to any place in New berry county during this season of the year. The weather was terribly hot oday, but there was a good breeze stirring here, and the heat was not oppressive. In fact, everything seem ed to work together for a good cam -paigi meeting. The people in attendance included representatives of the currounding cotintry and other parts of the county. There were several present from Newberry and several from the extreme tipper portion of the coun t. The people took an interest in the discussion of the questions by the candidates and showed their interest by their close attention. This was the last meeting until the 9th of August. when the campaign will open up again at Prosperity. It I is a long wait. but there were conflicts which could not have been avoided in a -campaign in which there was not a long recess, and hence the skip of more than a month: The Utopia section is a prosperous section of Newberry county. The crops are in good condition. The Meeting in Detail. County Chairman S. S. Cunningham presided over the meeting and intro duced the speakers. . The first speakers today were the candidates for county superintendents of education. Messrs. Thos. E. Wick er. G. Howe Ligon. and J. S. Wheeler, in the order named. They all made good speeches. favoring better schools and promising to do their duty if elected to the responsible po sition which they were seeking. The superintendents of education were followed by the two senatorial candidates. Messrs. Cole. L. Blease and Arthur Kibler, and they by the candidates for the house of representatives. It should not be judged that the orators were getting in all the work here. All the candi dates were circulating among the crowd and putting in a good day's work. The Senatorial Candidates. Mr. Cole. L. Blei,. was the first speaker of the two senatorial candi dates. He thought the most impor tant questions before the people wvere taxation and education. Taxes last' year were high enough but county taxes were a half mill higher this year and this year the state levy was ive mill< and the county levy 3 mills. W\hen the legislature met next year it wvould he found there was a deti ciency of upwards of Sigo.ooo.Mr Blease referred to what he termed the glaring inequalities in the assess ments of corporations for taxation, as shown by the comptroller general. The Southern Bell Telephone com pany. for instance had $750,ooo of property in this state and paid taxes on S113,000. Th stae trasurer had recently borrowed $5oo,ooo to meet the ex penses of the late government. The people would be told today that the county levy of three mills was a mistake, and everybody said somebody else made it. But every member of the legislature was respon sible for every act of the legislature. Suppose it had been ten cents on the -lillar instead of one-half mill? It was a glaring mistake. if mistake it was. But why a three-mill levy? The profits of the dispensaries in the coun ty last year were $io.925.61. outside of the beer dispensary, and one-half went to the county. Where came the necessity of this three-mill levy? The speaker then took up the ques tion of education. He opposed the big appropriations for higher institutions of learning. He instituted a compari son of amounts used by state institu tions on the one hand and denomina tional institutions and common schools on the other. Mr. Blease opposed the education of 'the "free nigger" at the expense of the white people. He referred to the fact that in Newberry the enrol ment of negroes last year was almost double that of the whites and a great deal larger throughout the state. He favored . bi-ennial sessions, amending the labor contract law so as to protect the farmers, better com mon schools and goods roads, all of which he touched on briefly. He op posed bonding the county for good roads.. He favored the dispensary law and always had. but it was being abused, and was not enforced as it ought to be. Prohibition was impossible. You can't legislate morality into people His distinguished friend, Mr. Kibler. had said if there was an organized campaign between prohibition and dispensary he (Mr. Kibler) would stand on the prohibition side.. He (Mr. Blease) would stand on the dis pensary side. Mr. Arthur Kibler. Mr. Kibler took up the matter of the three-mill county levy. Indirect ly Mr. Blease had thrown it upon him. he said. The delegation which repre sented Newberry in the last legisla ture was as economical as any dele gation that ever represented New berry. Suppose there was a mistake somewhere. The county supervisor and the board had met and decided that 3 and one-half mills would be necessary. The delegation decided on 2 and one half mills and the amend ment was introduced in the senate by Mr. Mower and the senate adopted the amendment and the records would show it. All a member could do was to introduce a measure. He was not responsible for the mistakes of the clerical department. He (Mr. Kibler) was chairman of the committee on engrossed bills. When he came to see that the appropriation bills were right at the close of the session he found every member of the committee gone and he got four members of the house to help him and wvent over them carefully. The N ewberry dele gation was not responsible for the mistake. The franchise tax bill. in which there was a mistake which Mr. Blease had condemned so strongly passed the senate in which there were 30 or 35 lawvyers. Perhaps if there hadn't been so many lawyers in the senate the bill might have been con stitutional. There was nothing what ever in Mr. Blease's charges. Mr. Kibler said he had always fought big appropriations for state .colleges. and would continue to do so if elected. lI a 3 mill levy was necessary to pay the county's debts he had no apology to make for it. The solution was to put men in offce in the coun tv who would not contract the debts. lHe favored good roads and biennial sessions, but the latter question was now with the people. Mr. Please knew all the time. with ut having asked him at Williams Stoe, th.at if there should be an or ganized campaign in South Carolina he (Mr. Kibler) would be on the tem perance side. He had voted against the Childs prohibition measure in the house because the people of the coun ty had told him by ballot that they wanted to try the dispensary a while longer. But he believed a campaign was soon coming in South Carolina against the liquor traffic and he ,would be found on the side of those who were trying to suppress it He was not yet prepared to favor compulsory education. The Legislative Candidates. Immediately after the dinner hour the legislative candidates were intro duced by To,ship Chairman J. A. Foy. Mr. John W. Earhardt spoke first. The most difficult problem confront ing the farmers of Newberry was the labor contract question, he said. The penalty for violation of contracts should be as long as the term of the contract even if the juris diction of magistrates had to be ex tended. But the cases could be taken. to the circuit court. where most of them were appealed anyway. In the hope of solving the labor probicm, he supposed. the last legislature es tablished an immigration bureau. Who thought the bureau would ac complish enough good to justify the expense? The only thing he saw in the new department was a fat job for somebody. Foreign labor would be welcomed here, but he did not be lieve in paying it to come. The ef fort to increase the judicial circuits was simply to give more fat jobs. The dockets woud not be congested if the present machinery of the courts was conducted as it should be. Some time ago the county was shaken by the good roa'd- discussion and as a result good roads machinery had been dumped upon the county and was proving a white elephant. He favored good roads. but we should not aim too high all at once. The speaker opposed big appropria tions to higher institutions of learn ing. He had been informed that the last legislature appropriated Stoo,ooo more than the previous legislature. and by mistakes in acts had knocked the state out of$T5o.ooo revenue. What do you taxpayers think of that? he asked. The speaker continued his dis cussion of appropriations to state institutions of higher learning If elected his effort should be along the line of a general reduction. It had been stated that the last legislature refused not a single appropriation except for the St. Louis exposition. Wasn't it time 'to call a halt? He didn't think South Carolina could do too much fOr her old sol diers. Coming to a discussion of the dis pensary law. he took up chartered clubs. Why should a privileged few be allowed to get their liquor in the top story of some building when others had to go to the dispensary for it. He knew that some of the clubs did not sell whiskey. If elected his effort would be to do away with these chartered clubs or at least to eliminate the whiskey feature.. Mr. A. J. Gibson. Mr. A. J. Gibson said the kind of men the people of Newberry county wanted to represent them in the leg islature were men who were compe tent. men who were honest, men who would uphold and maintain the honor and dlignity of their county. If he measured up to that standard he asked that they elect him. but other wise. if the people did rot think he measured up to that standard he did not want the position. It would be an honor to he chosen in that man nr. notwithstanding that some said there wvas no profit or honor in the position. He believed the govern ment should be administered like a prd(ent individual wvould manage his private affairs. Individuals made states. The lack of proper manage ment he believed to be the cause the count and state were in debt today. When a sensible man was living be yond his means he curtailed expens es. and that was what the state should do. The issuance of bonds to pay de ticiencies did not pay dtbts. but only put mortages il the people and their children. The expenditures of the government 1ught to be reduced. He did it. believe in cfippling any of the higher institutions. but he heliev ed they ,,git to be run more eco nomicallv. There war one itei in the appr, priation bill which he would not promise to seek to reduce and that was the pensions so worthily bestowed ion those who sacrificed their all for their country's cause in the stirring days of the sixties. The state could never (I t-. much for these grand h eroes. Mr. F. W. Higgins. \Mr. F. W. Higgins said that school boy speeches in the legislature ac complished very little. The work was done in committee rooms where men met each other face to face and made concessions to each other. Tt was bull-dog tenacity which created in the minds of legislators a respect for your pertinacity, if nothing else. He promised to do his duty. and if not he would never stand here again for anything under the bright skies above him. The higher institutions of learning. Ie said. had no better friend than himself. but there had been an ex cessive amount of money spent on these institutions. If elected he would examine closely into the needs of these institutions and vote for such amounts as would carefully foster them. but not one dollar beyond. He took tip the road question. The county had $5.ooo worth of road ma chinery to pay for and it ought to be worked. He held that a return to the old six-day term of road work or S3.00 commutation tax and the roads worked like they ought to be and where they ought to be. ,we would have good roads. He opposed special terms of court. As to the Brice bill. he didn't know anything about it and he didn't think any two men in the legislature knew anything about it. To vote out a dispensary and then pay to keep up dispensaries in some other county he I didn't consider a very delectable mor sel. He wanted to see South Carolina do everything possible for the old soldier. and while he was willing to economize all along down the line. he was not willing to take one dollar off the old soldier. Mr. J. W. Sanders. Mr. J. W. Sanders thought the most important question was taxation. Taxes were too high, and it was on account of extraordinary appropria tions. If elected. he would cast his vote against these large appropria tions. Mr. J. M. Taylor. Mr. J. M. Taylor said he was a prohibitionist from the crown of his head to the sole of his foot. He didn't touch it. If everybody would do that the whiskey question would settle itself. The main idea of the original dispensary law was in the direction of temperance. buit the main idea now seemed to be to sell all possible so as to increase the revenue. As to taxation. the thing to advocate was as economical appropriations as posible. The state had to take care of her institutions. But appropria ions should not be made to private institutions. He had heard $2500 had been appropriated to a private school in Charleston. He favored taxation for road work ing. Let a handfuil, say. be appropri atedl the first year. used in connec tion with the machinery-the white elephant-that had been talked about. It was a tine white elephant, a grand piece of machinery. The machine ought to be going. instead of stand ing still. There was the trouble. Mr. E. H. Aull. Mr. E. H. Auill thought it right for THE DEMOCRATS IN NATIONAL CONVENTION PARKER WILL MOST PROBA BLY BE NOMINEE. The Chances Seem to Favor His Se lection on First Ballot-Fire works May Come Today. Special to Herald and News. St. Louis, July 7.-The national democratic convention adjourned this afternoon at six o'clock until tomor row morning. No nominations have yet been made. There will probably be some fireworks tomorrow. Called to Order. Convention Hall. St. Louis, July 6. -The national democratic convention was called to order at 12 o'clock, Centra I time. D. B. Hill. of New York delegation, and his delegates entered their seats without recognition from the crowd, at 12.03. The Tammany braves en tered. also without recognition from the crowd. at 12.03. , Mr. Bryan entered at the head of. the Nebraska delegation. Mr. Bryan was well received. At 12.10. order.having been obtain ed, the call for the convention was read. The, California delegation as they entered shouted their battle cry, "Boom. Boom. Boom. Crack. Crack, California. Hearst." There was great cheering in the galleries as they marched up the aisle and back. At 12.12 p. m. prayer was offered by the Rev. John F. Cannon. of Grand Avenue Presbyterian church. Pretty nearly every seat in the hall was tak en. with the exception of a few in the galleries. When prayer was concluded Chair man Jones announced the selection of the Hon. John Sharp Williams, of Mississippi. the brilliant minority leader on the floor of the national house, as temporary chairman. The convention cheered the men tion of Mr. Williams' name and un animously ratified the choice. Mr. Williams was conducted to the platform and began his speech. Chairman Williams' Address. After a brief introduction Tempo rary Chairman John Sharp William took up the speech of Former Secre tary Elihu Root at the republican con vention recently held in Chicago. In the most satirical manner point by point he discussed Root's speech. He said it dealt much in history and in.a great deal of bad history. It was a labored argument to prove, he said, that the party of Roosevelt must by something like a revolutionary pro cess act as the party of Lincoln and McKinley. This was necessary in order to disguise the fact that it is not so acting. Mr. Williams characterized the re publican shibbol eth. "stand pat," as a precept born of cowardice and fear to move. He said that Elihu Root's praise of Roosevelt was nothing more than a repayment for the president's statement that "Root is the greatest man the republicans have left in the. country." He took up Elihu Root's conten tion that the money per capita in cir' culation in the country has materially increased, and that this increase was due to republican administration of affairs. H e wanted to knowv what act of legislation they would attempt to show as being responsible for this increase per capita of the money in ciculation. He could find none. Tak;n;g 'p the inap--r o; trusts, Ch irman, Tali~1 ams a...; ted' and wem on show that tih, republicans had nt dlone wnat they - imed the: hade' to cutr'im trust act': II ridi en!edC( An-t rner' Generali wx and deC n o; .dl .a lsurd th. epublican claim they had perfected the inter state commerce law. (Cntinud on Fifth Page.)