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COUNTY CAMPAIGN OPENER AT MT. PLEASANT TUESDAY (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 2)._ the one that has to do with the mak ing of the laws. He Tiad been in the house 10 years?not consecutively, but five terms, and it had been his duty and his pleasure to represent his people to the very best of his ability, and to do all he could, not only for the people of Newberry county, but for the people of South Carolina, and tuere was uui "man in the audience, who had kept up "with his record, who would dare say lie had been extravagant in his ideas or his votes. It was a pleasure to hear the gentlemen who preceded him criticize what the legislature had done, "that is right, to bring these questions i before you? and if we have done wrong, to enlighten you." But it required more than a sweeping charge, he said, that the representatives had not done their duty, and had been extravagantit required more than that to convince the people that their legislative body had been extravagant during the last five or ten years. "It don't require that much to convict Blease," some one interrupted. "It is very easy to make a charge, j hut to sustain it is another question," I said Mr. Kibler. Mr. Kibler said he had been a mem-1 ber of the ways and maans committee' for four years, and he had bee^ charged with being too economical and with not being liberal enough in his ideas | as to appropriations for the State colleges. Some had called him an enemy I ~a il- - ?/-.n^oro? TTP TvnnTf? tsVp uit; ounc vvn^gvu. ?_ the lead and often stand aicne in his fight against appropriations in the committee, but when the committee had decided, he wouldn't get up and fight the committee in the house, because that would not have been right, as he saw it. "That's what I would have done? flio fior'hf nn thA finnr of the VU -? w house," said Mr. John Henry Chappell. "Suppose each of +he twenty-foul members of the committee had oppos* ed different items in the appropriation hill," replied Mr. Kibler, "where -would have been the bill? Make your fight in the committee and stand by the committee." He had moved to strike out the enacting words of the bill to Increase judges' salaries to $3,500 and the bill had been killed, and every time he had had a legitimate opportunity to reduce taxes, he had done so. "They go up every year," some one interrupted. Mr. Kibler: "You are getting* more oroDertv every year." r "Ain't got as much as I had when I "was born," was the reply. Mr. Kibler said he had told the people two years ago and i'our years ago that they need not expect their levy to be much less, because the cost of running the government increased every year, just as the cost of running a family had increased every year, and taxes would naturally and inevitably increase every year, and what was > -wanted was to keep tases as low as possible, consistent with the proper k running of the government He didn't ? polor?>nrrthlVllv TVAVO pF V C ? n v* v large enough?for instance the salaries of State officers, $1,900 a year, 011 . which a man had to move to Columbia and pay $600 or $700 for nouse rent. v He could not go into every appropriation, for lack of time. He had fought day by day to buildup the common schools, and only last session a resolution had been introduc ed for the purpose of amending the constitution so as to cut oul the constitutional 3-mill tax, and he had moved to strike out the resolving words, and the bill was killed. In defending the rural police measure, he said if there was one thing needed it was the enforcement of law and the protection of the people, and that was the object of the bill. He had done all he could for a system for building up the roads and snaking them better. "That was for the poor white man and negro to work them,'* a voice in* terrupted. "Anybody between certain ages has to work the road or pay bis two dollars. I don't tbink tbe law says the poor man must do the work," said Mr. Kibler. Here a colloquy ensued between the speaker and some one ?n the audience as to the road law. "**? avnloino/l +Vl a m aicnrn iXJLI. xviuivi v/^jjauauvu ? submitting the bond issue for the insane asylum to the people, as Senator Johnstone had done, and said he hoped the people* would not nesitate, but would be willing to help those who could not help themselves. Mr. H. 0. Long * " 1-2- i*?' J ? ^ M __ said ins ineuus uau uccn uumeiuus in getting him to come out, lie had thought they were going to make his speeches for him, but he found that "was bis job. He was a farmer, and r?'' had also been connected with the SilTerstreet Warehouse company for a I number or' years. He was here as a candidate for the house of representatives. He was here not antagonizing th present house of representatives. He promised if elected to serve the people and their interests. Air. George S. Mower ,said he was here again, with his record of the last two years behind him | and before the people. He was a candidate for the law-making department of the State government, which was I separate and distinct from the two j other departments. The duty of legj islators was to shape the laws, to conjsider the questions that were presented, and to determine tfhat in their honest judgment was best for the people. He had endeavored honestly, frankly and candidly to perform that duty. How far he had succeeded was not for him to say. He could only say he had faithfully made the effort. As to taxation, he had no hesitation in saying that, in his hon3St judgment, the affairs of the State were economically administered. He was not conscious of any extravagant appropriations when the purposes/were considered. Economy should be the watch; word, but econoriiy was a relative term, and there was a certain -kind of econ omy that jvas not real economy. Take the educational institutions?it would be an act of folly, if it was proposed to keep institutions efficient and accomplishing the purposes for which they were established, if they were not supported so they could accomplish j those purposes.- It would be unwise, it would be an act of folly, to ! erect a college and not support it? ;that would be wasting money. So far [as the educational institutions were 'concerned, he thought a comparative I r\ +Vv o "f on A IICVUIU KJL CL]J?fiuyi>icn,x\jn& UU mat cu? 'ject, coupled with the growth and exf jpenses of those institations, would | show that they had not been extra vlagantjry managed and that execessive appropriations had not been made. A sum may looke large, but, when you look to the purposes and consider that you get the value of the money, you have administered the affairs of the institution economically. So far as other appropriations were concerned, so far as he could judge, they had been kept within the bounds of reasonab^le economy. He had had no ulterior motives in his service, and his record was an open book. It was writ, and whatever the people might think of it, he hoped they would ?ive him credit for having acted honestly in all matters which they might examine into. In connection with the appropriation for the heating plant for the negro I college, he mentioned incidentally that 'the maintenance of that institution, he 1 | said, had a good deal to do with the J appropriation made by the federal government for the support of agricultural educ&tion in South Carolina, so ;to an extent the maintenance of that ! iricsH+nHftri Wise ffir thft miT ipose of keeping this appropriation. As to the heating plant, the institution had formerly been conducted in a wooden building, and on account of the lack of a heating plant, the building had been destroyed by fire. The heating plant was regarded by the legislature as a business precaution, and a simple business proposition. In passing the rural nolice law, he said the delegation had been actuated by a sincere desire to protect thfe peo? " 1 - ~ pie ui i\ewocn7 nuu iu pxwvide as much protection as they could. I It -was said that w?s extravagance. Practically it did not add to the expenses of., the county, because in the estimate of the county board, submitted to the delegation, there was an item for liquor constables, $2,000; the appropriation for rural police is only $1,800, and the act provides they shall discharge the duties heretofore discharged by liquor constables, and discontinues. the liquor constables' which had been costing, "he judged by the estimate submitted, $2,000 a year. He promised, if re-elected, to ac? in the same manner he had always tried to act?to be honest and faithful in his endeavor to promote ihe best interests of his people, and to stand as free and independent of any man or set of men as it was possible to do. }Ir. >\ YF. Workman began with a joke, and the statement that this was his baptism in politics. He said he did not feel called upon to tell everything that took place in the last legislature, beciuse he did not know all that took place, though he was there for a good portion of the time. He did not come at this time +>1.0 1 oo-ic 1 atnrc thov xrprA IU tuuu^uiu l,uv ivgiuiuvviu, .. in the people's hands; the people could deal with them to suit themselves. He regarded as two of the greatest questions in this State today, the rural school and the public road The public road was an indispensable requisite to the symmetrical development of the people of our State. He said the roads got in worse condition, while there was progress along oiner lines, xie spuis.e of the roads in some sections of- the county, saying that in rome sections ! . j there had been no work on them in a J number of years, and some had not | had an overseer appointed on them in two years. Bridges were in terrible j condition, he said, and better roads j were needed all over the county. Be-1 fore better roads could be had there ' must be better laws. "I am not pre- ' ' ---to'i von inct what sort of I j yaicu lu __ | j laws we ought to have,' he said; "perhaps you know as much, about that as I do." 1 He said he thought the most economical and most practical plan for 1 running the public schools could be found in consolidation. In this coun- > |ty, he said, there were lot^ of little i 1 - - . , , A i schools, poorly equipped, ana laugm "by people who are themselves chil- : dren and don't have any information ' as regards books, many of them hav- |' ing graduated at little country schools, * in the seventh or eighth grade." Good 1 roads, he said, were a sine qua non ( of good schools. ( wp fnvnrp/i rpduction of taxation as ] much as possible, being emphatically * opposed to all useless and extrava- 1 gant expenditures by any legislature. As to the heating plant for the negro college, he was not saying it was ] | wrong or right, to vote for that, but ' (when the day came when he voted to ] '"lo/vn o ViQafinc nlnnf iri r> rPTO r>nl- ^ i \J i. CL L - ? - u, 4. W0* V j 1 'lege, when there were white schools 1 i i i all over the State that had never seen a heating plant?last year he happened to be in the State University and sat by fires kindled by wood? when the day came that he voted to place in a negro college a heating plant, when there existed at the same : 'time white colleges that had not such ' ! heating plants, "that day I shall not I come back to ask you to send me to j !ttie legislature, but ask you to meet . ! me somewhere, when vou find me in j. |this section of the country again, and 'place a Winchester rifle Dall through I my heart." He was not opposed to , 'negro education, and appropriations . ; for negro education, "provided we i i provide first and decently for white . I ? ,1. . ? ? A ; ~ ? ? TT - _ 4- _ , euui:auuii. n? was ypiKHScu iu uu\jing white people to educate negroes ! when-the white people's own children ! haven't seen a college and never enjoyed the privileges of attending a ;high school. ( ! "Then you are a Blease njan?" asked someone. ' ^ "I am for whoever is for the people of South Carolina," said the speaker. Good schools and- high schools were needed, that every child alight get a high school education without having to go away from home.' The need was aiso ior an economical govern- ; | ment There were boys and girls in ; this community who ought to attend : college and would possibly do so if they could first receive a high school education, but that required the ex1 penditure on the part of many of I v i ithem of as much money as it would take to obtain a college education. He approved reduction of taxes along all lines, good roads, gopd scnoois, ana promised u eieciea to . stick by his people through everything, j there not ieing enough money in South \ Carolina, he said, to cause him to dejviate one iota. Dr. C. T. Wye he, i seeking re-election to the house, said ! that some might ask, Why does Wyche iwant to go to the legislature? Some i men go into public office to benefit themselves, he said; some to make j themselves rich. He had been a poor j boy, born in the sister State of North ! (Carolina, who came here before the i people advocating what he thought | was right, as he always would do, and jthev had always honored him with j their confidence. He had not made any money going to the legislature?his wife had said it had kept him poor. A man had but one life to live, and his only object was to be of service to his people. Some man had said to him, "Some people think yof are a traitor | to the people who elected you." He | ! wanted to say that traitor's blood | was not made of the kind he had in :his veins. Why did he want to rep!'resent the people? He proposed to tell ' them why. | The people ought nol co be ashamec? j of him as a representative, if he was | a Tar Heel. The man who was elected speaker of the house hal come to him and said, "I will give you any position you want except two?chairman of the ways and means committee and chairman of the judiciary." He had chosen the chairmanship of the committee on education. Why? When a boy he had trudged four and five miles to school, had left home at 19 years of age, with only three dollars in his j pockets, and had taugat school and j educated himself in madicine. God j grant the people of South Carolina j mio-Vit woVa nn tn thp imnnrtanpp of ! j education. When the high school act came up, appropriating $60,000 to build high schools, he fought it, but it was adopted, and some of the leaders wanted to put the high-schools in large I cities like Newberry. He said no, he | was not in favor of that, if they give us a high school put .it as near dcrtvu in the country as possible, not because he was prejudiced against a city, but' Newberry had money enough to run her own school without the little ad dition from the high school act, and he wanted the high schools in rl>t? country, and the legislature had said no high school should De estaonsnea in places of more than 1.000 inhabitants. He had rather have put it out in the c'ountry. If better schools were not built up in the country, the country was not getting a fair deal. Scholarships would go to the towns and cities, not because town boys and girls were brighter, but because they !>ad better advantages. He wanted to render better service and give better opportunities to the country children. The legislature had made' some.schol arships at Winthrop applicable only to girls living in the country, and the same thing# had been done in reference to Clemson. Since he had beea in the legislature there was never any juestion that favored better schools for the country but what he fought ind voted, for it. His ambition was to get better schools for the country. He took up the charges of extrava- j gance, and said not a dollar was ap-1 propriated to Clemson by the legisla^ire the fertilizer tax was running it, as Tillman had said it would when it was established, and, ha believed it would become more of an agricultural college than it is?and would to Sod it was* And there was Winthrop ?'do we give her too much?" A $35,300 library had been secured from C-iraegies and over $100,000 had been raised in addition to the appropriations by . the State, because the State was too poor to give it, and because it was known what good Winthrop was doing. He was, a member of th-e board of trustees of the University, by virtue of Deing chairman of the- committee on ; a^n^5finri anri ?4 000 tvqc anrriart hir ! Y V V " IfcJJ ww*x *? v\* * boys working their way through the University. He 'was studying the question, because his heart bled fcr boys and girls who have the talests and do not have the opportunity. He referred to the criticism as to not building a bridge at Blairs, and said the delegation had also been criticised about building bridges because it was said they were spending too much money. He t.nought the neonle. ought to have the imDrove- i ments, but if they were going to buiM between Fairfield and Newberry, Fairfield ought to pay half, and if Fairfield could be got to pay half, he^didn't think there ought to be any trouble in getting the bridge. "If you go and ask for the bridge and make the proper effort, you can get the bridge," he said. He wanted some supervision of the finances of the county?he wanted to put the financial affairs of all the coun ^ lies on a Dusmess Dasis. :ne appro(CONTINUED ON PAGE 6.) A SAFE SUBSTITUTE / FOR CALOMEL A Mild Vegetable Medicine for the Liver That is Free From the Dangers of the Powerful Cliecimal, Calomel. The W. G. Mayes drug store has a J mild, vegetable remedy that success-1 fully takes the place of the powerful i mineral drug calomel, the old-fashion- j ed liver medicine. This remedy is Dodson's Liver-Tone, a very pleasant tast ed nquia tnat gives quiet but gentle relief from constipation without the bad after-effects Which so often follow taking calomel. Dodson's Liver-Tone is fully guaranteed to be a perfect substitute for calomel, and if you buy a bottle and it does not entirely satisfy you, Mayes drug store will promptly give you your money back upon request. It is fine for both children and _ . 9 _ grown people. 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We will furnish a first class Barbecue at Perry Halfacre's Mill, Saturiay, August 3rd, one of the regular campaign meetings and will furnish ill conveniences for the public and candidates. T. T. and C. L. Ruff. . We will give a first-cJass barbecue it Williams' Store Friday, July 26, campaign day. Good dinner guaran ? - j? --o ?i J T n :eed ana plenty 01 cuiu uiiu&s. uaMes and children especially invited. J.W.Sanders. . G. W. Ckapmiai.