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COUNTY CAMPAIGN' >YAS AT WILLIAMS' STOKE FRIDAY j (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1). i these facts, he said, he did not see how ' --1 J TT-itVl ttie legislature wiuu ue v,iia.6tu extravagance. la considering this matter of appropriations, it was very necessar}', he said, to consider the! purposes of the appropriations. The appropriations for State col leges had not, in his judgment, Deeu extravagant when the growing needs and the growing usefulness of these institutions were considered. The general assembly, he said, had acted with regard to the interests of the people who had chosen them, and the general assembly was not to be dictated to by any man or set of men. He j promised the people that if re-elected u-nniii serve them with an eye sin gle to their interests, and strive in their service to be independent of any man or set of men. "How do you stand for Blease?" he vas asked. "I stand, if you please, for Geo. S. Mower," he replied. "I stand for the people 01 Aewoerry cuuui.*. x for good government, for efficient government, for the protection of the interests of the people of Newberry county and of the State of South Carolina. I desire to say that my service in the general assembly is not de _ j? A pendent upon the views 01 an) ouc man or set of men. My record stands for itself, and if it does not tell the people where I stand nothing that I could say would do any more." "Come out and tell us where you ire at," persisted liis questioner. Mr. >r. W. Workman. Mr. N. W. Workman said politics m South Carolina was somewuai m a jumble, and he didn't propose to tell the people the way out. They possibly needed more light on political issues than he o^r any other candidate in this campaign was able to give the people. Mr. Workman then took up a discussion of public roads and schools: Some of the roads, he said, he did not think had been worked since ne was * baby. Better road laws were needed, or a better enforcement of existing road laws. As at Mt. Pleasant, he depicted the terrible condition of the roads. He did not advocate higher * * ^ ;mnrm-pmpnt- hut s-cien CtX 1U1' luau ^ tific concentration of the means al hand. Taking up the question of schools he spoke along the same lines as ic his previous address. We could nev er have good schools until we securec good roads, he said, arguing along th* line of consolidation o schools, securing better and stronger schools to place the children of the rural diS' tricts on an equal footing with th< children of the towns and cities. On the question of taxation, n< * jt' v granted economy in expenditures. H( thought biennial sessions of the legfe ' Iature would accomplish as efficien results as annual sessions. He want. .. ed a government along economica and scientific lines. He called atten tion to the great good which wouli result from lessons in scientific farm ing taught the farmers by experts saying there were large appropria tions on other matters but few ap propriations for the direct benefit o the farmers. "How do stand on Blease?" he wa asked. i *T stand for the man that is for th people of South Carolina," he sai( I <fo not care who you elect gover nor?place who you please in tha chair, and if I am elected I propose t -stand by that man. When the da comes that Neill Workman goes t t&a legislature and fights the man th people of South Carolina place inth? chair, that day I want God Almight; in defence of the- people of South Cai olina, to place his hand on my heai and stop it from pulsating. That plain enough, I think. "I-am not running on the Cole. 1 Blease ticket; I am not swinging c the coat-tails of any man," said M Workman, '"and do not expect to, bi f propose to stand by the official tl people of South Carolina elect, 1 that man be who he may. I have i comment to make on the present ra for governor other than this; y< fiear it in various places in the cou ** * - V ty, as wen as in oruer pares ui t State, expressed, that a man that w vote for Blease is a sorry man. fiave no objection to his making t? Kind of statement, provided T kn< who he is. If anything should be do with him I should say he ought to drummed out of the State of Soi and he should not be clai C*. A N/AALAVV w-? ed as a citizen." He proposed to v< for whom he pleased: and expecl every other man to do the same. " the 27th of August I shall write : ticket to suit myself, and if you w?* to know whcm I vote for you c know then." f Dr. C. T. Wyelif. Dr. C. T. Wyche said he had always candidly expressed his views on questions before the people of the county, and the people had honored him with their confidence, and he wanted to express his appreciation. "I do not care whom you elect gover nor, he will never decide now i vote on any question. The only thing that will decide my vote is the best interests of the people who send me there. Whom do I represent? The governor? If so, in the name of common sense let the governor appoint the legislature?why have the people to vote about it?why have the people disturbed about it? I tell you, in the presence of tbese people, I never nave cast my vote on any occasion or at any time to spite any man. That is the truth?I never have and never will. If I wer to do so I would think I ought to go off and hide myself. But I vote conscientiously and really for what I think is for the best interests of the people who send me there. Fight the governor? I fight no man, but, thank God, I have the manhood and the courage to fight for what I think is right and to the best interests of the people." Dr. Wyche sai'd he had an ambition to go back to the legislature and he would say why. He was not telling j the people here whom to vote for, but the delegation from Newberry occuipied positions on the most important committees in the general assembly. As to ^appropriations, he had voted all his life against what he considered *- ~ extravagant apprvpna,uuii2>. nc uau voted against increasing juc.ges' salaries, though he had a brother-in-law on the bench. He told of accepting the chairmanship of the committee on education, when offered by the speaker of the house'any position except chairman of the ways and means 01 chairman of the judiciary committee, and he outlined his position on common school education and on the high er institutions of learning along the 1; v.a +<-vr\ir at Mt P]f>a.?.iant. j same imcs wwo. ?~v ?... The greatest ambition he ha I in public life was to bring the schools down to the bright boys and girls of the i country districts, and to give them a fair, square deal in life. He defend ed appropriations to the South Caro> lina University and Winthrop. "You can blot out Carolina, Winthrop and Clemson, but when you do dense dark I ; ness will cover the State and you will : j put the State back 25 or 50 years.' i He claimed to be an important part oi , | the legislature but not the whole show l 1 and he claimed to have representee ! the county conscientiously, fearlesslj I, and fairly. > j "If you want a jumping jack foi -' some man who happens to be in the > ! governor's chair," he said, "don't vote - for me. So help me God, I will Ugh 5 for what I think for the best interest: M3f the people. I have no spite. I ha.v< 3j voted to sustain the present chie 31 executive on several occasions, am - ihave voted to sustain his ve:o b;-causi t I thought he was right .And I wil - vote for what I think is right an< 1 against what I. thini: is wrong wheth -jer you elect Blease, Jones, or Duncan i 11 do not believe the people of Newber -1 ry county want a jumping jack t | represent them. I believe you wan 1 me to have the courage of my convic tions, and to vote for what I think i ,f just and right." | He said he was not in favor of ex s j travagance, and had votod against aj] I propriations time and again when h e ' thought they were extravagant. 1.) Mr. Sam W. Young, - | who had been absent from the M A Pleasant meeting, said this was th o j first time he had been before an auc v ! ience of this kind. He had been o' plain, everv-day citizen and was m e ! given to making speeches. Being a< it! customed to labor, he was natural! yt j in sympathy with the laboring classe r_ but he was not prejudiced, and fe rt that he could do justice to all classe is He had never offered for office befor | and therefore had no official record 1 L, | which to point, but he had given h ,n; services to his county and State as r | private citizen, and it had been h i endeavor always to do what was rig! ie He favored an economical administr ' -1--? ~e +V. - ornirornmaiit /">rm lit V fll 0^ LAOL/1 L11V v_/ % t/x iixiAvix vj vv vj Ma 10 ; State. Taxes were climbing high ce and higher, and the only relief w >u ; through the legislature. He favor n_ | biennial sessions of the legislate he which he said the people had vot ill for iome years ago, "when the po X tic^ns had defeated the express* Lat wishes of the people." He would d )v.- cuss other matters on the stump frc ne time to time as they developed. T v. u-nrk of the legislature was done pr ue w ith cipally through committees. Lon m- winded speeches were effective prin 3te pally for campaign use at home, ^ed the Teal work of the legislature he f On that he could do good and effici< mv service. He promised if elected to lnt all he could for the people of Xe ;an berry county and South Carolina, would not go there to fight any c man or official, let him be who he may. J a "I shall try to hold up the hands of it your State officials and help them a benefit the State," he said. t Mr. .Tno. Henry ChappelL i Mr. J. H. Chappell said he was glad t to have the pleasure of standing upon t the scene of his boyhood days. He j said the present representatives from ( Newberry were composed of a lawyer, a bier commission merchant and a doc tor, and he contended that these gen- J tlemen had done nothing for the peo- ^ pie. In connection with the record of , the member who was a lawyer he attacked the increase of judicial circuits from 8 to 12. He asked Mr. S. J. ' Dominick how his taxes were as compared with twelve years ago. "About double what they were 12 years ago," said Mr. Dominick. "Values have been increasing," some one suggested. "Xo, I mean the assessment," said Mr. Dominick. Mr. Chappell was particularly vigorous in his attacks upon this increase in the judicial circuits, speaking of what an "easy job" he said the judges had. He said he would like to have time to tell why he opposed the "great big I? tTlOCO /Til 1 O.cr AQ TTft ctpjji upi lauuiio- iuj told a pathetic story to illustrate his view that a college education had not resulted in good. He referred to the appropriation for the negro college, being especially vigorous in his denunciation of the $7,500 for the heating plant when little boys and girls I throughout the country came near freezing in poorly equipped country | schools. He made his same promise not to vote for one cent, if elected, for negro education. He again paid his respects to the dispensary investigating committee, and referred to the expenses of the Murray commisision, which. he said amounted to $196,000. The present commission, he said, would have finished its work long ago had it not " (JI1IV Lilt; unci o uuuuiv V >- - ~ ~ ? ! dresses. I : j Mr. George D. Brown i! expressed his pleasure in being here. 1 j He said he had always had a desire 11 to serve his people as superintendent 5 of education. He said he was a gradu2 ate of Erskine and had taught six f years. As at Mt. Pleasant, he pictur3 ed the evils of ignorance and pleaded a for the unlift and the betterment of 1 the rural schools. Eighty-five per cent i of the men who had been prominent - and successful had come from the i. country. He wanted to encourage the - country boys and girls, and to give o them equal opportunity in life. He t deplored the flow of population from > the country to the towns and wanted s to better the country schools and tc make country life more attractive been for its $5 per diem and expenses ?either that or its hatred of Blease. He said that not only would he not believe Felder on oath, but he would > not believe a member of the legislative committee on oath. He reiterated his statement that no man had . ever been persecuted before as Gov. Blease was being unjustly persecut 1 ed. For Superintendent of Education. ! The candidates for superintendent ' of education were next introduced and : spoke for ten minutes each. It is possible here, on account of the length of [ the other part of this report, to give - i It* +Vi ? V.T.iofof.t nutlina r\f tbpir fld ! -|S0 as to keep the boys and girls or i- the farm. If elected and he failec e to perform his duties properly, h< wished to be buried, politically, no only six feet deep, but ten or twelv< t. feet deep, with "my hands folde( e across my sinful breast." L- I Mr. F. TV. Hi erg-ins a | reviewed his record of six years ii )t | the office of county superintendent o 1 - * *- ?i.: v >jeducation, giving tne ngures wuiuu u yjhad cited at Mt Pleasant When th s> jpeopte elected a superintendent of edu It i cation they should see that he at s> j tended to his duty, and no man live e>: who could attend to this duty an to (seek to do other things at the sam is time. If he were superintendent c a education and should get in one c is | these buzz-wagons" and visit four o tt.: five schools a day he ought to be rc a-! ported to the grand jury, because les id | than a half day spent in the schot er | room was only a worry to the pupili as | He gave his views on teaching, attacl ed ing the "tablet system." If electei he promised to devote every "iota < ed the God-given intelligence" which I li_ had to the job. ad. J* O'Seall Hollo way I,? :j crrantpsf iisspf TV; IS- Stiiu. ?tJU<y uuuuuj o ... )m its boys and girls. The place for tl he conservation of these resources?tl in- boys and girls?was the school rooi g_ He gave figures showing the illitera< ci- in South Carolina and the proportk In of negro enrolment as compared wi elt white enrolment, both the actual e >nt rolment and the average attendance do negroes being considerably larg >w_ thaa that of whites. The most stai He ling part of these statistics, he sai )rie was ttLe. fact that the greatest lack .verage attendance of whites was in j he country schools, and the greatest j iverage attendance of negroes was in j he country schools. He spoke of the | jreat importance of the education of i ; he masses, and tb.e improvement and mildinig up of the common schools, ind suiting them to the necessities )f the boys and girls. Mr. E. H. AuII jaid he had been elected by the State board of education for the unexpired term of Supt. J. S. Wheeler, and he had endeavored to discharge the duties of the office faithfully, honestly and conscientiously. He felt that the position was the most important in the gift of the people of any county? the head of the county's educational system. He might talk of the advantage of education, but he believed the necessity was to get down to rock bottom and consider what could be done for the betterment of the rural schools. He gave a sketch of his work since he had held the position, and what had been accomplished. One of the prime necessities was Viavck fpwpr weak, one-teacher tv Ut* * V "V , schools, but increasing the strength and efficiency of the schools by consolidation where conditions were favorable so as to make it possible. The school law, he said, was democratic, i and consolidation was only feasible where the districts involved were heartily in favor t?f it. Nor could a tnv lew for schools be put upon a district except by vote of the people of that district. The country children were entitled to the same educational advantages as the children of the thickly populated communities, and his work was towards that end. The candidates for the State senate were then introduced. Senator Alan Johnstone thanked the people for the honors heretofore conferred upon him, say| ing he had tried to carry those honors with becoming meekness, with becoming modesty, and with becoming dignity. He had stood in the State senate as one of the farmers of that body, and had worked for what he conceived to be for the best interests of the farmers. He bad begun life as a farmer boy. After the war, which had devastated the South, he and his brother Malcolm, now deceased, who had also .later been honored by the people of Newberry county, had worked as boys on the farm, and he had been engaged in farming since. It would be idle for him to stand here and say he was in favor of as low taxes as were consistent with the 'proper administration of the government. He said he was one of the farmers and himself had taxes to pay. He said the charges which had 1 1 been made against tne legislature | were foundationless. The appropria| tions had been as small as the govern' ment could be conducted with. Nearly $300,000 went to pay interest on the public debt; $260,000 for Confederate J pensions; near $300,000 for the unfortunate insane. Would less money meet these demands? Every appro, j priation was carefully scrutinized and ,' reduced to the lowest figure. He had , not time to go through the whole ap > propriation bill?150,000 some odd L dollars went to "Winthrop, after a ^ careful inspection of the college by j the general assembly. He had advo>! cated this appropriation in committee L' and on the floor, and he was glad he j! had done so. He spoke of the great > work of the college for the girls. The t part Tillman took in the establish3 ment of Winthrop and other colleges * j was but a debt owed the women of A i the State, to whom he paid a tribute, He spoke of the creation of the of1 fice of insurance commissioner, an<3 f ; its purposes, among them being th* 1 l 0 I protection of the people against une | safe insurance companies, saying th( 1 conduct of the office was paid for bj _ ! the insurance companies, and was A bringing South Carolina a revenue o: d! $165,000 and was costing only S14, 0!000 out of that revenue?not out o e i j tax money. ,f | What had been done for the com ir mon schools? The revenue of th< ! common school system equaled $2, ;s 1500,000, provided for the commoi jj | schools by the constitution and th< s j general assemblies. The general as c_ j sembly since he had been a membe 3 jhad made a provision to take care o )? i weak schools, and under the piteou iej appeals of that official, it gave th I State Supt. of education money t I visit the schools and to have a speak iS j er visit them and aid them in ever ie j way he could. I TnlirotnnA <- a l rl Vl n Ti o /} of AAr! 1 j0 | IV11 uniioLUnc O^JIU nc uuu ov>vv/u * 71 the general assembly representing tfc :y people with as deep honesty and earr >IL j estness as he could, had he bee th j speaking for his own blood. The leg n_ islature had been accused of man 0f things, and he was here to answe er for that part which he did. "When became a member of that general a< sembly there was nothing that acti 0f ated me in any vote that I cast excel Excursion ti "The Land < Wednesch Leave Prosperity Returning, leave day Night, at 8 P. Round ( Trip * For Further Infora P. F. BAX' i my solemn duty to you as a representative," he said. "If I were to stand before you and say that I did not vote according to my judgment there?my individual judgment?without malice, I would tell you what is not true." "My heart was free from anything except my patriotic and solemn duty to you. I am submitting my cause to you for re-election to the general assembly because I believe with the experience I have had and with the ac quaintanceship I have had, I can give you better service than I gave you in the past." He said Clemson was. not an issue in this campaign, but, "called by your voice to serve on that board, and by the life members to a higheT service, I have been honored on that board, and I tell you, without fear of contradic tion, the hand of every one of them is worthy to be tatoen with love and respect" CoL D. A. Dickert said he had been quoted in one of the Newberry newspapers as saying at Mt. Pleasant that hie would not have been in the race except for the disgrace it was sought to bring to South Carolina over the shoulders of Cole. L. Blease. He said what he had said ! j-i?j. i ij _i _ ! was max lie wouia guu nave maue a i speech at Mt. Pleasant, in which community he had lived -for thirty years, 'and where he was so well known, exjcept for the issues of extravagance and the disgrace which it was sought ! to bring upon South Carolina over the 'shoulders of.the governor. He had dis! tinctly stated, he said, that he was the | candidate of no faction and no clique and no man, and that in making the race he represented himself. He said ihe stood for Gov. Blease a/nd would 'stand for him until he was convinced :the governor had done something I wrong. He had known him from the I ; governor's boyhood?and he had never ; seen one blot upon his escutcheon I Col. Dickert said that until convinced ; the governor was that rascal whicl "rliccrroo/ifnl /iftrnmiftfla" Vior | uxo^i uvwiui. yviuaii.i?wvv uuv ; sought to make him out, he was goin^ ! to stick to him. He was opposed tc some matters which the governor ad,' vocated, "but I stand to him becaus( he stood with us when they broughi Hampton back from Mississippi t( lead the "Red Shirts" from the moun tains to the sea, and when Hamptoi } | was about to be thrown down by Jno IL. M. Irby, Cole. L. Blease stuck t< him in the caucus and only went t< 'r 1 Irby when his party went to him. i stick to him because ne nas oeen tru ^ J to his people and has done more fo j the poor man than any other man whi f j has offered them his service." J Col. Dickert said he was opposed t | negro education with white people' a! taxes?not for the reasons advocate " | by Gov. Blease and others?but be /^oneo f Vi n /?An r\ f r?xr woo -n r\Ttr rvoTTin ^ I ^auov vvuuvi j vv cto uvn '; $258,000,000 pensions for the Unio [veterans, who had -naade the negroe the wards of the nation, and h r ^ thought if the nation wranted its ward educated it ought to take its mone and do so without imposing furthe e burdens upon the poor people of th o i _ . ..... . i South. If education would maKe rnei v better he would say educate them, bi they seemed to be getting worse wit school advantages. He said Senator Johnstone had sai e, | he had been a poor farmer boy aft< the war. "Yes," said Col. Dickert, "l had nothing to fall back on but thn or four thousand acres of land. Th? had 500 bales of cottoD that took thr< r "? 4-**. "Pnv/vnA 1 /* A j IIIt?Ii to gU lU iiiui w skii uiai v,v ton and bring them back the gold. E ^ tells the people he had no money ar ^ had been a farmer boy. He knew not] ??? M o Asheviile 1 of the Sky" % A H ly, Aug. 7 r at 8 A. M. <M Asheville Thurs- jfl fhA nN ? ration Phone 117. \ rER, Mgr. " ing about farming except what be lflomoH flrrrui crh thft whitft OWTSPArSL itftiugu uu* wmq? v?? ? ? - w. ? riding behind his father's horses over thousands of acres of land. Then he comes up and says he is a friend of the poor farmer. What has he or any of his people ever done for the poor? Show me anything anywhere, I will acknowledge it. Have they ever done one act in the legislature, or one act outside, that has ever tended. i + /n vi a1? 4-vi a rkaaw r\aanl/i 9" I IU UCip lUC puvi pwpiv Col. Dicker! said at Mt. Pleasant, In referring to his opponent, he had said he had felt honored in having enjoyed the friendship of his opponent's distinguished family for many years; that he intended to pitch the campaign on a high plane, and refer only to Senator Johnstone's official record. "The Ordinary civilities of debate," said Col. Dickert, "would have caused him i to acknowledge that But, instead of that, he treated it with high disdain, I suppose not considering me his equal upon the stump, socially or anywhere else; tnat ne loosed upon me as a weakling, and he didn't notice it I looked over that. I do not expect him to show me any civility. But when I saw that he ignored all the rules of ? propriety, and all the rules of debate, and that he refused to recognize the chairman of that meeting, I saw then, it was a studied insult. If he means it that way I throw it back to him." Col. Dickert, charged the last legislature with being the equal of Cham I - _ j berlain and Scott in squandering | money. He said it bad refused, in response \o a message of the governor, I to vote any money for a monument ? to the memory of a brave Confederate general, one of South Carolina's tru-' est sons, and yet had voted money for a monument to a man who was in " France when his State needed 'the ser ' vices of every loyal son, and who when ! he came back from France located in New York (referring to the appro' priation for a monument to Dr. J. Ma^ rion Sims.) He said the senator from 1. Newberry had voted for the measure. 1, $2,000, he said, had been voted to pur* j purchase some books written by a lady ) i in Tennessee by the "great name of . * " Evano"?a manual for magistrates, * j to be given to judges and solicitors, wno ougnt to pay ior tneir own dooks. > "Did he have a right to go into your pocket and take your money for that 11 purpose?" asked the speaker. '* | He also referred to the appropria3 j tion for buying copies of Col. U. R. 3 | Brooks' "Bench and Bar"?"U. R. * i Brooks," he said, a kinsman of Pres. 4 e .Brooks, who first started the war,,ten r j years in which book was filled up with 0 j the doings of negro judges, and radij cal judges. That book was to be giv 0 en to our children in the schools." ? | These were small matters, he said, but it was tiie peoples money wmcn was being appropriated. s i Col. Dickert then took up the apn propriations for State colleges and s along other lines, citing figures which e he said "proved the people's money s i had been squandered." He gave the y figures which he presented at Mt. f r Pleasant, and other figures. For Clerk of Court. 11 Messrs. J. D. Wheeler and Jno. C. Goggans were introduced, in the order k named, and made happy little talks in advocacy or tneir cauiuuac.y iUf cier* a of court, which position is now held 'r (by Mr. Goggans. ie j it) Asthma I Asthma! _ POPHAM'S ASTHMA REMEDY < gives instant relief and an absolute cure t- in all cases of Asthma, Bronchitis, and [e Hay Fever. 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