Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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COUNTY CAMPAIGN OPENED AT MT. PLEASANT TUESDAY (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1). him $200 to attend some convention of lawyers. The adjutant general was. given seven hundred and some odd dollars more than formerly; the State superintendent of education $1,400 more: the department of agriculture had only been asking for $32,000 and was given this year $22,000. He referred to the historical commission, '' * * V * - * oriTran ?9 ?AA "which naa uceu iui uu-oi ij v*,vw and was now being given ?5,000. He explained what this commission was, the inference from his remarks being that its work was practically valueless. For expenses of general elec*10 AAA lio/l hoori sjclrpil for. and VIV/II ViUjVVV uuu vvva , this year $45,000 had oeen given by the legislature. The country schools *v,were not getting half wnat they needed. But what about the higher institutions of learning? The Citadel was given $57,000, while across the street was a better school, Porter, and the whole expenses of Porter, including board and clothing of students, was only $37,000. The University of South Carolina last year used $59,000 and this year had been given $95,000. $25,000 was to start a new building. The president nad saia max, an mat w<t& needed for the heating plant was to connect some pipes, and $10,000 had been given for this; $600 to cover an old house; $2,000 or $5,000?he forgot , winch?to fix the kichen. The moneyspent by Clemson was one of the worst outrages ever perpetrated upon the people. About $250,000 a year was going to Clemson, the State was paying interest on bonds, and from the Clemson bequest the State only received about $3,000 a year. $100 each had been given for 42 scholarships, and who got them? The same for scholarships in the Citadei aud the University. The scholarships were left to competitive examination, and the town boy, with better school opportunities, always had the advantage. The $250,000 from the fertilizer tax should either be used to pay up the bonds, or it should be divided with the \ schools. What had the legislature done for the country schools? $20,000 was given to them, which was about $10 to each. Was that justice? In beginning his address Col. Dickert had given a sketch of the lotus i eaters of the ancient days, and he applied the term throughout his address where he considered it applicable. He ! I said the legislature had been controlled by the "high-brows," and that it and its committee reminded him of the lotus eaters. Col. Dickert said he expected to conduct his campaign on a high plane; that he was the candidate or no clique; i that he wanted to do something more j X for his people. * Senator Alan Johnstone was the next speaker. He said he believed it but right to the people > and proper for him to say that he j sincerely thanked the people for the honors conferred upon him in the past. He had sought to honor the position always; to so conduct himself that, whenever the time carme to return the 1 position it would be returned without - spot or blemis'h. He said he was as i calm as a May morning, and willing to ! ^ - lace tne peupie, uwauac uc nuv<>, (God looked down from his heaven, God j J Icnew his heart was guileless in theft people's service and th it he was will- 1 : ing for his conduct to be scrutinized. 1 He wished the people knew every vote he had cast, and every act of his in i - ."the legislature, provided be had time ;j ''to tell them the reasons for his votes i and acts. No man, he ^aid. who goes i into the general assembly believing < himself the Great I Am would be there i long before he would find there men ] with as much wisdom as himself, and i he must be informed on public ques- ] tions- if he would influence their minds. 11 Not by his seeing, said the speaker, j but by appointment, he had belonged to the ways and means committee in the house, and when he went over in the senate he was placed on the finance committee. He said he stood I religiously and fearlessly by his every! vote. He did not claim to be free of. mistake^, but je did claim, and without: fear of successful contradiction tnatj ervery single dollar spent by bis vote j .had been carefully scrutinized by him, j and "was known by him to be neces- j sary for the proper conduct of the government. South Carolina stood as a State in j a great nation of people, and if it did not equip its young people to cope with j others, it and they would ran oenina in the race of life. He read seme of the acts' which he said were of public interest, and would stand for years, that had received his aid since he had been a member of the general assemTv*it-ninHon of old dispensary uxj . law; destruction of old lien law; en-i actment of labor contract law; insurance commissioner's act, bringing a revenue into tW treasury of $165,000, ' % - -V. .. . .*> .: ..* . s.: .V/.:. * J < ' and increasing from $4S,O00 the first year to $165,000 last year, not costing the tax-payers a single dollar; creation of commissioner of agriculture, commerce and labor, bringing in considerable revenue; to aid weak schools; 10-hour law for cotton mills; pure food law; act to refund State debt; to submit to the people a measure to enlarge and improve the State hospital for the insane; to require railroads to accept mileage on trains and check baggage; to establish cotton warehouses?known by many members who were informed in the Constitution?"and I felt the same"? that it would be declared unconstitutional, which the court :ias done, and is null and void; factory inspection act; joint resolution to disallow $13,800 to Architect Todd for building a model of the State house; doing away with the proposed improvement to the State house, to cost $900,000. We commonly hear it said, he said? and he did not mean to charge any person with misquotiag tacts?that the legislature does a great de?l for the colleges, and nothing for the common schools. If that were true he would be ashamed to come and shake the people's hands and raise his voice under the shadow of God's temple of j worship. By legislative enactment and by constitutional enactment the public schools were given a revenue annually amounting to $2,600,000. Fe did not mean to be exact to the cent, so he would put it at $2,500,000, and he knew that came beJow the sum. That came from tax on property, from poll tax and dog tax. He would say for himself that he would not feel that he was performing his obligations if he had not made some provision for the cap-stone of the educational system?the colleges. Every time a teacher was elected for the common schools, lit was wanted to know where the 'teacher had graduated. The law re! quired that a teacher be a graduate I of some college or have a first-grade certificate. Education was not a luxury of the rich; it was a necessity of the poor. He paid a tribute to the late Jenkins A. Smith. "Do you tell me," he asked, "that man?and I say it with the utmost love and respect far his TnAmnrv?enfted in hi eh nnr pose as he was, if he had had the advantage of a common %hool and college education, would not have been a j greater power than he was?" The man j who had no property had the oppbr-j tunity to send his son or daughter to j college. He had sent iiis son to the! University to study law. He did not! send him free?he was aot a rich man,! hut had some little property. He paid ! because the appropriation ^*as not suf- ; fifipnt fnr thcw nnn-r riAinlo'a /?Vn1r1rPn i there, who did not have the means, \ and also to hold out to give to others/ and the rich people had to pay. The institution had stood there all these years "an opportunity for you." No loose .money had ever been spent by his vote, he said, and none would be.) pie in November for enlarging and ! mproving the State hospital for the in- j sane, saying sixty acres could be cut, in Columbia and preserve the utility of the buildings there, which would leave -300 acres, estimated to be worth |4,000 an acre, which the act contemplated should be placed in the hands Df a si.'.king fund commission, in order j i-rt Ka r\f rr?r,ot arlvantaffWlll?- I tv UV/ \/X I*U?U*AVV%0VW?V I lv, and the bonds retired with this; money, without extra cost to the peo- j pie. The enlargement of the State i hospital for the insane was now going j on outside of Columbia, at State Park. For House of Representatives. The candidates for the house of representatives were next intrcducd. All the candidates were present and addressed the audience except Mr. Sam W% Young, who was absent. The first candidate for this position introduced was Judge John Henry ChappelL Mr. Chappell said the greatest sub-1 ject before South Carolina and New He believed those he had served with in the house would say he had been in his seat and at his place of duty, and that the senators would say he had made an honorable record there. The poor man's tax?and some of the best friends he had were- among the poor, and he loved and reverenced | them more than some of the nreten-! sive rich?the poor man's tax was on bis dog and head, and that went to the school to which his children go. But this other opportunity awaited him if tie wished to send his children there. He explained the act to submit a million dollar bond issue to the peo-I berry county today was the name of Cole. L. Blease. The time neyer was | in his life when the people did not know where he stood. "Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I am for Cole. Blease first, last and all the time ! firct ho/*Piic,o bo was first for TOei second, because he advocates measures to the best interests of the majority of the people; third, because he has been persecuted more than any other man in the United States?persecuted 1 more than Christ himself, because Pontius Pilate, after he had heard the testimony of the priests and scribes said, 'I find no fault in this man.' Yet the committee of the legislature has not Jiad the manhood even of Pilate, and has crawled over the State and into Georgia hunting something against this good man, and not one word have they found." Mr. Chappell said no man knew the governor better than he did, and the governor's character was unimpeachable. He said he proposed to .show the legislators had had no regard for the 1- tin nf fhii ptjupie s U1UUCJ' iic v*. viav OA.penditures of the old Murray commis- < Sion, appointed by Gov. Ansel, saying that the books will show that for attorneys' fees, expense^ and . detective services, that commission spent $181,183. Xot satisfied with that, this same i legislature pours into the lap of the attorney general $15,000 to be dispos- ' ed of as he wished in the same connection. "I ask you farmers and working people, what on God's earth was done?" "Nothing," said some one in the audience. So far as education was concerned, said Judge Ckappell, the finest lot of j people who ever lived on the Ameri- j can continent fought in the Revolu- j tionary war, and few of them were j educated people. He was in favor of j [common school education, but he promised if sent to the legislature to work to the extent of his power to cut the appropriations for colleges in half. The rural schools was the I place for the money, he said, and at j ; the hands of the legislature the rural ; schools had not received it To the detriment of the State and almost to the disgrace of the country, the pres- j ent legislature had given the negro college at Orangeburg $7,000; not sat I isfied with that, they -had put $7,500 j | more into a heating plant, and had I put $1,000 more on the old concern. iHe prayed that his tongue might > cleave to the roof of his mouth and his strong right arm fall to his side ] paralyzed if "Chappell in the legis- 3 lature or anywhere else evei votes to 1 give one cent of your .money to edu- 1 cate the black negro. God never in- i tended it," he* said. "These people i that shall come before you gave $16,- t 500 of your money to that infernal < negro college." Under the constitu- i tion we were compelled to have negro '< schools, but he told how he had man-j < aged since he had been trustee at ^ Helena. When he took charge the 1 school only ran four months.' The old 1 trustees had been paying $65 a month ? for teaching the negroes and $4p a month for teaching the vrtites.' He * had hired a negro teacher at $25 a month, and had given the oth'er money i - - - - L to the white school, and it was now < running eight monthd instead of four. ? He attacked the legislature in in- t creasing the judicial circuits from eight to twelve, without necessity, he c said, and then voting to pay Ernest s Moore, special judge, last year $1,400, s when all over the country judges c could be found disengaged, and for e overriding the governor's veto on this s payment. The legislature over-rode a the governor's vetoes in a gallop, he 1 said?no matter what it was, so the t governor vetoed it. The time was n coming when they would be asked the e point-bl^nk question, "Why did you j run it over him?" He scored the dele- i gation for the rural police bill, saying! e the sheriff and magistrates had been I enforcing the law, and there w*as no ti necessity for this expenditure of $1,800 ~ a year, disregarding taxes to give somebody a job. He was not censuring the men who took the job, because he would like to have it himself. He promised if elected to 'try to reduce taxes, and above all, +o go hand in j a hand with the governor and cut out ^ the negro college, if possible. 1 Mr. H. W. Fran? said he would be brief as he could, because the people knew him, knew his _ record, and knew the issues. "You ] know the record of the legislature," he said. "What do you expect and what ought you to have?" "We want a bridge at Blairs," some, j one said. , Mr. JbJvans saia 11 was useless to aiv? 1 into the past. The money that had t been squandered by the legislature was ] gone. The thing was to guard for the J future. There was no use to take up j" the appropriation bills?the people had j I read about ther every day. He was j there and saw them when they did it, [: but the people who were watching j ! were powerless. What do you people need? he asked. What ought the leg- ] ] islature to have given you? If they were going to throw away money they ought to have thrown away some on Xewberrv oountv. Whv didn't they unbottle this section of the county? i Why didn't they build a bridge and let ] the people of this section out??give i them an outlet for their products. If 1 he went to the legislature he would fight yet for it. He was no fence-straddler. Here were the facts. He T", : . . ___ i. f had promised certain gentlemen who; were here today, two rears ago, that! were interested in building this bridge, i that he would do all he could for it,! whether he was elected or not He' wasn't elected. He went to Columbia, j ~ ? "* ?1 -3 AU %NMATTAT*Kl f\ 1 A A I anyway, and siajeu iuc yiu?ciuiai I days and 40 nights, and then he had to come home'?the legislature stayed twelve days longer fighting Blease, and he wasn't in that. He had gone to Senator Johnson, of Fairfield, and said to him, "If the bill comes up here for a-bridge across this river, will you help us to get it?" Senator Johnson told him, he said, he didn't think he could do it. "I am making no cnarges," said Mr. Evans, "but Senator Johnson, of Fairfield, said he and Senator Johnstone, of Newberry, had talked the matter over and come to the conclusion it was no good" So he had been forced to drop the matter. The people did need a Dnago and neea-; ed it badly. They w.-ire bottled up j almost like Cuba was, and were they going to wait for a Hobson to come a and unbottle them, when it was the duty of the legislature? Brazzleman's bridge had been built, and bridges betwppn "Lexinarton and Newberry, What was the reason this one could not be built? What did ?hey want to throw away money on strangers and negroes for? He said when officials had disregarded the interests of the people it was the duty of the people to retire them. He contended that a man did not go to the legislature to exercise his own individual oDinion. but to reDre sent his county. . He said he didn't care whose toes he was stepping on, because he prized the right of ffee speech more than any office.' but the effort to get rid of Governor Blease, in the manner which had been chosen, was because he had the courage, the manhood and the backbone to be gov ernor of South Carolina, and his refusal to be dictated to was what had caused the fight upon him. Governor Blease was incorruptible, and the people knew it, notwithstanding all the lies and calumny heaped upon him by m :he legislature and those to whom it lad delegated its powers, including M nen "like that dirty scoundrel,' T. B. I Welder, and cowardly detectives afraid I o come into South Carolina." You I ^ 1-f firATTAimAi? *iri f Vi r.nf iricnlf- ! I /OU^t 1J-IO Ull d rv axao u a ng the people, he said. They were ifter Blease because they couldn't :ontiol him, but he prophecied Blease vopld be the. next governor by 20,000 ' n^jority, and that there would be a egislature that believed in economy ind not self-aggrandizement at the expense of the people. He was hoarse, le said, because he had been in Colum)ia, with thousands of others, hollerng for Blease. He sai-l the legislaure had been extravagant and had iquandered the people's money, and he demand was for economy. 3Ir. Arthur Kibler, :andidate f6r re-election to the house, laid he was delighted at the interest ihown by the people in the discussion if public questions. The duty of evry man was to come to the front and ;how that lie took an interest and pride in his State and its welfare, 'he State government was divided into ;hbe'e distinct and separate departments; the legislative, judicial and xecutive. The legislative department massed the laws, the judicial departnent interpreted them, the executive 11 nforced them. The position to which j I ie aspired was not Judicial, or execuive, but in the legislative department, (CONTINUED ON PAGE 3). TEACHEB WASTED. Teacher of experience wanted for Jnion school. Term of five months .nd possibly six, at $50 per month, trustees will elect on August 3. Ap ily to either of the undersigned. C. L. Wilson, Prosperity, R. F. D. I J. C. Kinard, Slighs, R. F. D. D. W. Buzhardt, Newberry, R. 5. I )0>~'T BE AFRAID ' EAT WHAT TOU WANT I Eat what you want when you want t and "Digestif' Two or three tabets after meals digests all the food. ? jrevents distress, relieves indigestion nstantly. Brown's Digestit is a little ? ;ablet easy to swallow, absolutely I larmless. It has relieved thousands I ie <riiari?"ntP0f1 tn VOU. if nOtlf *,4.414. AO w ? - rour money refunded?50c. Piles! Piles! Piles! 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