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GOV. AVM tL MESSAGE TO S. (\ LEtilSLATI'JiE (COXTIXUED FROM PAGE 3.) because men went around Columbia, and in Sumter, and in Spartanburg, and in Greenville, and in otJer piaces and sorght contributions to make up campaign funds to dei'eat Biease with? What was this money being got up frv-> whowas it beins: ?0t un by? Why did Blease's opponent need such an enormous campaign fund? Was i' to pay his campaign expenses around o*er South Carolina? Was it to pay Inis son's expenses in traveling with him and carrying his books? Was it to pay the legitimate expenses^of his campaign manager? What was it for? Who was to use it and for what purpose? Wltv did the railroads make large cor. .riputions to Blease's opponent's campaign fund? Why did certain cotton mill presidents make such large contribution* to Blease's opponent's campaign fund? Had any candidate in South Carolina ever befon needed a campaign fund such as was raised against Blease? Did Tiilman u--e it, or Evans. Ellerbe. McSweeney, Hey ward, Ansel or Blease? Did General Earle use it? Then why this powerful campaign contribution for the primary of 1912? If that primary was corrupt, who corrupted it? If v men voted in it who were not entitled to vote, who hauled them from North Carolina and Georgia and paid their expenses? Ft is plain to any thinking man, ana it will be admitted by any honest man, that these large sums of money raised by contribution and hauled at a central bureau in Columbia and by parties in other parts of the State, rare what corrupted It, if it was corrupt, and only by the true manhood of ionest citizenship of South Carolina rising in its might and refusing to be bought and debauched by this -crowd, was South Carolina saved from a corrupt government bought at the ballot box. Mow, who is responsible for this great cry of fraud in t'ie primaries? The governor publicly stated on the House steps, the night after the election, that tje other side had stolen more votes and put them in the . ballet box than they knew what to do with. If his statement was.a slander, " hy wasn't he prosecuted? If his | Element was a slander, why was it that the committee of the State executi.e 'committee, a large majority r^f ivimnv were composed of his bitter VI ?* est opponents, after they had gone to Spartanburg and to Greenville and * to Anderson and to Orangeburg, disbanded, gave up their investigations, .and sneaked off quietly and went into li&Sir litle holes? These charges of fraud and corruption are absolutely unworthy but in line with t.:e source from which they come. The man who introduced the resolution in the State executive committee charging the white people of this State with fraud and corruption in that election, pulled then the rope which rang the bell sounding .-is death knell throughout the democratic party of this State. The parof riio rnmmitfpe which 4-JbttIl UiflJ Jl itj \J<L V,ilV Took it up will find that it will take them years ol hard, honest struggle to redeem themselves in the eyes of the people of this State. Today the people are alive to the fact that these charges of fraud and perjury and corruption have been made against itiem, 'ihe white people of Sout'j Carolina. and when the time comes, if men with the moral courage and the political backbone get upon the rostrum in t.iis State and expose the nefariousness of those who made and who took up these charges, every one of them will be wiped from the face of the political arena, and those who stood with the majority in that election will again stand with the majority, for fair dealing and for honesty. So, it is not the system that needs improving; it is not t'ae law tnai needs amending?we have law enough ?but it is-tiie enior'cement of mat law that we need. Prosecute the men who handed out the money and winskey. Prosecute the men who try to buy \oters. Prosecute the people who hire men to travel throughout the State under the guise of book agents, newspaper reporters and subsciiption list hunteio. and under other guises, and instead of following the vocations which they claim to follow, go around trying to buy voters, trying to debauen the citizenship of the State, and telling the most wilful and malicious lies upon the then crrwprn nr of 'their Common weitn. Such men and their accessories are the men who attempted co corrupt the primary, and it was only by Blease exposing their schemes irom the public stump that they were.whipped ?by his showing up that they had caused a- shortage in the ballots, that they had spent money and done evrything that could possibly be done, to defeat a man?and then "when they were whipped, all they could holier was 1'raud, when every man in South Carolina who is lionest and decent knows there was - - - Kn more fraud and corruption uscu u?> them against the man who whipped them than could possibly have been used for him. Prosecute the men who violate the election laws, prosecute the men who try to bribe voters, prosecute th>* men who commit perjury at the ballot box, and you have got law <enongh, von have got all the law you need; and this howl, gentlemen, is hypocrisy of the meanest, lowest type: it is tne hollering of "stop, thief," when the thief is doing the hollering?and yon know it. and they know it. This clamor that the newsninlrin? i>: a slander 111)011 iw v. -- - tin white people of this State, and is bringing unjust and unwarranted criticism upon the people of South Carolina by the people of other States. Of course we want to prosecute the bribe-giver and the bribe-taker. And why such large contributions for Blease's opponent's campaign, once again, 1 ask. If people think these contributions were not asked for or 3iot given, names can be given. Now, who had the control of the \ State Democratic convention? The men opposed to Governor Blease Who hud control of nearly even county executive committee in the state? Who had the absolute contro by a large majority, of the State execative committee Who appointed tm managers ol' election throughout tin State? When Governor Blease wrote to the chairman of the Stat* Democratic executive committee anc .asked to have one manager at eact precinct ;;is request was declined When similai requests were made o the chairmen of the county executive committees, nearly all of which were ; anti-Blease, appointed anti-Bleas( managers all over the counties, anc ; these anti-Blease managers were ir the large majority all over t'he Stat( ; ?a majority of two-thirds or mon were anti-administration men. Th( ! a.iots wer put in the boxes which the anti-administration mer had control of, the anti-administraI lioii men took them off to one side Jand counted them and announced ' many for Jones and so many ! Blease. The returns were sent tc j v/.e county executive committee, anc j iie county executive committee, com posed almost overwhelmingly of anti; JJlease men, tabulated them and seni ' them to the State committee, ancl the ' State committee met and tabulated i ihe.u ana announced the result. Now ! how in the name of common sense | with ail the election machinery antiI Blease?how in the name of commoii j sense, 1 repeat, could the Blease meu ihave committed fraud? Tnerefore, il there was lVaud, as these editors ana others are now loudly proclaiming there was, who committed it? The answer is plain?the anti-Blease men because they had all the machinery in tfceir hands. They say t'here was Vaw I oav lot thul- he ac it 11 auu. JL ?jw; I ?T?AW?V ~ >-/ MM *? may, if there was fraud who committed it, when they had the managers, the county committees and the State committee? No, gentlemen, it is but the cry ol the defeated. Instead of being brave, true Carolinians, and saying, "We iave made our light and lost,'' they, like the cowards they are, cringe upI on their knees and holler fraud, forgetting 'that they wer the ones whc were in charge of the election machinery, and that if there was rraud taey and their friends were the one-: : .\iio committed it. Now, gentlemen, what wo want is honest elections. Tnev speak 01 using money. God knows the present governor has never had any to use. He practiced law at the Newberry bar, and. he is proud to say, had an exci-uonaliy fine practice on both sides of the court. .He made a good I living, and managed to save some j money. But not one nickle of it has Ue ever used to corrupt a voter; not I one dollar of it has he ever used or I given to corrupt any man, nor has j any of his friends ever done so, to hia knowledge, and certainly if they have ; ever done so, they did not consult him before, nor have they informs I him afterwards. v. t.ai we need is to enforce the law we have strictly to the letter. Lei every white man in South Carolina. o\ - legal age, vote in 'the primaries, and i if one comes frcn another State intc 1 this State and votes, or goes from onf I. o a my into another and votes illegally | let the men whom he votes for, as I well as the men whom he votes against, see to it that he is prosecutec | and punished to the full extent of the law. If one man offers to buy th( \ote of another, let the latter pro!seiir-> to the full extent of the law | the man who offers the bribe, and i: I the man takes the bribe, prosecut( him. Enforce the laws we have. Le honesty and square dealing begir with the State executive committee land let it be followed by the counts ! committees and kept up by the man |agers of the election. We nave al the law we need; we have all the hon or we need in South Carolina to enforce } that law. And it comes with ill graci i from that crowd which had contro I U1 iill lilt? CICUClun niaLunici j, i charge fraud, when they and thei: | friends were the only ones who coul( | have committed any fraud. I am opposed to any change in th< ! primary system. I believe in hones j elections, and I believe an letting j every white man participate in th( i primary who is eligible to vote unde: j the rules of the Democratic party J Whenever we deprive the white p^o pie of the right to vote, or any iarg< number of them of their right to vote ; we will break up the primary system j.because those who are qualifiec : want the right to vote, and the: | should have it, and they do not pro pose to be put, by any party of men on an equal footing with a fre< negro. Tlic Straight Democratic Ticket. In \iew of certain recent events, . dc-.-ire also to call to your attentior an address which 1 issued to the Democratic voters of this State on Octobei ID 12, urging them to turn out tc the polls at the general election ii November and support the entiri Democratic ticket. State, Xationa and county, as ionows: Columbia. S. C., October 2(>, To the Democratic Voters of Soutl Carolina: Much has been said "lid written ir I regard to The coming election, whici is to be .:cld for State. National aru county officers, on November 5th, ani II deem it absolutely unnecessary l'oi me to make any further statement ii reference to the matter. However as i have recieved some communications and have also heard a greal deal of talk, possibly it is not amiss lor me to urge upon the voters of this State to go to the polls on the dat( of the election and vote the straighi Democratic ticket from president o: the United States down to the coronei of t'.ieir county. We pledged our selves in the Democratic primary tc abide the result and to support tht nominees of the party. We took t solemn oath to do this, and, in 1113 opinion, that pledge and oath coven and binds us to -upport the nominee: of the National Democratic party jus as much as it does me nominees o the State and county Democracy, have hea"d several^ say, and it 'has been reported to 111^that many other: have said that then* were two mei i A JM ' on the Democratic electoral ticket . that under no conditions or ci-".um' stances would they vote for. It is ti'uc ; that these two men were very obl noxious in the recent campaign, and - in their speeches and writings were j very bitter against me and against Me ! interests of the people of South Caro5 lina, and 1 consider the placi.., o. J their names 011 tne ticket a Jireci :n1 suit to me and to every man who vot1 ed ior me; however, you reyiember . who controls and dominates the f present State executive comniiuec, i and you also remember their attempt i to defeat the will of the people as ex? pressed at the primary, but, "there 1 will come a time" when we can re1 pudiate t'aem and their acts, but we } must not injure our party in order to j punish a few who, on account of neg2 xect upon our part, are temporarily > in power; therefore, I beg my friends i to remember that they are not voting - for the men whose names are on the ; electoral ticket, but that they are on) ly the tools which the Democratic * party uses to express their prefer> ence for t.ie Democratic Presidential t candidate. Our congressmen, parti i- y, shouid have an overwhelm ing vote polled in their behalf, for if c tnere snouia De a comesi uuuui aui ; of their seats, nothing would be more I _,c**eiic:al to the:ii than "to be able lo , point to the fact that a large majority , of the qualied voters of their district nave cast their ballots l'or them, and t I hope that all Democrats will go to . the polls and register their votes. : Let's all rally to the polls on Novem[ ber 5tli and give the Democratic ; nominees the heaviest majorities i South Carolina has ever rolled up. Yours for South Carolina, and for peace, prosperity and happiness to all ; her people. Cole. L. Blease. ; Federal Encroachment upon suite's Kigrhts. I notice that the Federal govern! ment is beginning to encroach very ; much upon what I consider the rights : of the States, in the passage of , criminal laws. iFor instance, congress i has recently enacted a law making , it a crime to break into certain freight cars. The goods in those cars belong to parties in our State, i or in another State, to which they are shipped, and as a general rule they i become the property of such persons i immediately upon being placed upon the train, and, therefore, the shipper ; has no further right or control over ; them. Hence, if a crime is committed , as to tnese gooas, n is it crime tisaiusi ir.e property to one of our citizens or , against Ue railroad company which owns the freight car. Another 'Act, I notice, is the one fixing dates for hunting purposes within the borders of our State. The birds and ducks and the deer and fish and the other game wit a in the borders of South Carolina "belong to our i eople, and the United States governi ment has no right to come into this : : State and interfere with our local ; game laws. This is only an effort to protect a certain set of Northerners, who come down here and buy up large tracts of land' and then prohibit . our 'home people from hunting on it. ' They establish their hunting clubs. [ which are often nothing less than ) barrooms, and are sometimes gambl-' ! ing dens, and put fenced around their hunting preserves and say to our ; people, "Stay out." Or they come in to our State and hunt and fish prol miscuously, dodging t.:e payment of i ax or license, to the detriment ) of our home people. Now comes the - United States government, because rl*ese people ara rich, and is attemptt' ing, in their interest, to deprive the i -eople of our State of their God-given HVorrv onh r'trbt tn hunt and fish for i the gaiiie and fish wijich an All-wise , Providence -has provided free to all r mankind, and to deprive the people of - our State of the right to regulate 1 their seasons and to protect their - game and fish as they see fit. And i they have gone further now and ap3 pointed a special agent to run around 1 over the State, meddling into other } people s business", to bring prosecu- i r ticns for violation of this law. 1 The Federal government is now beginning to fix rates which shall be 3 charged by the railroads in our State, t both freight and passenger. It is y making other crimes which are com- i 5 mitted in the State violations of the r Federal law, such as the white slave . traffic (the law in regard to which I - am in favor of, and in favor of the 3 severest punishment for its violation, 1 ---I- - .1. , but I think it is a matter wmcu j , should be handled by the State gov-, 1 ernment first, as it is a matter pecu-; ; liarlv within the duty of the State). - j lr a store is broken into, and a little | ,. one-cent posaoffice happens to be in jlcne back end of ic the Cniced ; ! States government takes charge of that. There are other things along [ this line too numerous to mention, i 1 which I could call to your attention. It will, therefore, readily be seen ! -! that the I'nited States' government? i ) j not only under the Republican ad- j 1; ministration, but now under the 3 Democratic administration?is daily : 1 1 encroaching upon the rights of t.ie! j States, and taking from tne ii un; j | powers which have been t.ieirs, ana 11 which of right belong to them und.-M 1 | the Constitution. One of the greatest' i;und noblest battles ever waged was 1 ; fought m the sixties io:* States rights 1 ' and we are justly proud of the glori1 j ous .listory which the South made in : i that struggle, and we cherish the' i | memory oi those who gave their lives 1 , j in that great cause and the sur:-i.orsj - i who have since passed away, an i j L i love and re-.erence the veterans who j ; | remain wit'.i us yet a little while, i : Ymv ;irp we to sit idly by and see j} their work undone, and the results) t achieved by them set at naught? Are: f we not to raise our voices and aliov j r State lines to be practically obliterai ed, and the National government to. ) take charge of our affairs? It is time J i we should begin to ask ourselves tli<~ ^ i question. What are our rights? and r to arise in defense of them. Some of > you may consider it a light matter, 5 but it is serious, and getting more t J serious every day, and if some effort f j is not made to stop it it will soon be l r L 1 IUU iiltC. jj In this connection, 1 beg leave to s quote you. in part, the remarks or i j Justice L. Q. C. Lamar, in an oration * on ilit- Hon. John C. Calhoun: 1 "The American Union is a demo- li .iMwui republic, a political e s.-t-... compounded of the sepa- c 0t,.e..:i.ie1n5 of the several t _ and one common govern- t i. ui all the otaios, caned .1.0 i-ovei'iiiiient or the Lmted Slates. ; us created by written con- j stiiuticr. those of the particular t States by the people of each acting . _ .v.j. aua tiiat oi' the 1'nited I Ocaies by the people of each in .ts t sovereign capacity, but acting jointly, s . c in in e powers ol government are t divided between the two?those iOdged in t'.ie general government i o' ue.elated by specific and enum- c lUc.i g;a.iis in the constitution; and c a) 1 others not delegated being re- \ served to the States, respectively, or 10 tne people, lhe powers of each t are sovereign, and neither derives r its powers from the other. Tn their s i>.*.-pective spheres neither is sub- c vi'tlai&ie to t':c other, but co-ordinate, and being co-ordinate, each 1 Ui the right of protecting its own * ^ irc.ii Lie encroaciihnient or trie ntlior fho tivn r-nnihined fnrmins one . entire and perfect government. Tne iiiie 01 demarcation between the i delegated power to the Federal govern- 2 u.oul and die powers reserved to the t ^.atus is p>ain, iuasmuc'a as all the t powers delegated to the general gov- \ .Oiit are expressly laid down, and c not delegated are reserved 10 I the States unless specially prohibit- 1 ed. The greater part of the powers 1 delegated to the general government rrelate directly or indirctly to two 1 great divisions of authority: tne one L pertaining to the foreign relations of 1 the country the other of an internal 2 character, and pertaining to u:e e.\terior relations of the States, the a purposes for which the constitution t was formed being power, security, s ana respectability without, and peace, i tranquillity, and harmony within." t Enfoceinent of Law. ? In regret to say to you that condi- c tions relating to the enforcement of v the whiskey laws are not at an ia\oi - i tuie. This, however, can not be truth- t fully laid at my door. Wnen 1 iirst t came into the governor's office I ap- t pointed a strong constabulary force i ..nci began, under that section of the statute which gave me the power, to t 1 '" />AII ntv C appoint goou men m evcij' ouuuwj ~ ..roughout the entire State to enforce c ail the criminal laws, but most parti- 1 cularly the law in reference to the t whiskey traffic. But there was much bitterness against me at that time, r and, to my surprise, it was manifest i in county officers and in attorneys s lor county boards, and as a result, in a several counties where I appointed t these constables of ,men to enforce c these laws, when they presented their r claims for salaries, the county boards, r under the advice of their attorneys c in some instances, and in other instances of their own free will and c acccrd, positively and flatly refused ( ivjv rlip l-ifts of these COU- C stabies. A test case was made from c the county of Edgefield in the sup reme court, and the supreme court sustained the action cf the county s boards in refusing to pay these men, ? and the strong arm of the law was stayed, and 1 was thus positively * prevented from having under my ab- i iolute control and direction a force v fcr the enforcement of the law. T.;e c sheriffs were elected by the people i and I had no control whatever over t the i in this regard, save a little t section of the law which reads as I oi lows: f constable, deputy constable, 1" sheriff or magistrate who shall neg- t ieci or refuse to perform the duties I required by this chapter, shall be i suuject to 'suspension by the gover- 3 ? ** t nor. This, as is known by all men, was f of no assistance to me. These sheriffs c were answerable to the people and J to them alone, and they could snap r their fingers in my face. ? When it came to the magistrates, t who appoint the constables in t'.ie J various townships, these magistrates, ? -ii ail instances cculd enly be named t by me by and with the advice and l consent of the senate. The senate re- ? fused to confirm some of my ap- ? pointees. The result was another t case in the supreme court. The sup- f * 1 J _ T reme court again susuuneu mc tcntion of my enemies and said t.iat I 1 could not appoint any magistrates ( except under certain conditicns. The c result was that the magistrates could I also snap their fingers in the face of c .Le governor and say to their con- i tables, "You obey me, and not i the governor.'' My hands were again f tied, as will be readily seen if you j will refer to the decision in the r magistrates' cases from the counties t >f Spartanburg, Anderson and Green- c \vcod. : Therefore, it is ,ery unfair and un- i just to charge to me the violations of ? the so-called dispensar;*. or. more c properly called, whiskey laws of our ; State. Some people hold up their t hands in horror and say, "Blind tigers rhP s.ato: Blease is not f enforccing' t!ie law in reference to I prohibition or dispensary." All those i who are honest and truthful know i r.d will admit that the facts herein s r uc absolutely true ar.d that t my .utnds have been tied by the re- t l'usal ol" county boards to obey the t iaw and to pay.the salaries of the > men whom I appointed to enforce t this law, and by the decision of the t ' * ? I .1 * supreme court iu saying mat i couui i not remove magistrates without the 1 of t senate or appoint < them without the advice and consent c . ...e ..Liiaii.-. and as a result I have ( \ '"irn ot' my power to do that i which I would have done if it had j -(m . >p n inta!?oni?tic views j of certain senators, certain county c and oi ilie iunieme court. jr My record as mayor of my home . 'cuii, .Newberry, as will be testified 1 ~ onfMllips thPTf1. t (> uv rrvcn iiij , will show that I gave that town the j cleanest administration which she j; had had in years, and there was less Mind tiger liquor sold in Newberry c the year I was mayor than has ever \ s)een sold in the town any ot::er year ! -ince the dispell:?ry law was Tvis?ed. I s and tlje same would have been saidit o? South Carolina in connection with ; ? f ny administration as governor if I a J been allowed to appoint men to nforce this law, and if the supreme ourt had sustained me in my condition that I had the ritrht to appoint . ..e:i 1. A;: it was, 1 have been helpless, i o a large extent. I could send no i;en into the counties for the pur- 1 tosi. of enl'orceing those laws. All hat 1 conid do was to send a ue- 1 c;ii\e and get such information as could, and report that information o the sheriff of the county, and that nenrf could either take that informaion and use it in the entorcement oi i ..e .^w or xcould ignore it. lates and their constables, whose luty it also was to enforce the :aw, ould positively disregard me, as 1 lave shown, because if I should J suspend one the senate would set : .?iue uie susnension and but him ! jack in office, and the supreme court ! ;aid I could not remove him, nor' ouId I appoint whom 1 wanted! \y friends, who would j lelp me enforce the law?but I must j ippoint my enemy, says the supreme: ..i,y and with the ad-. .oe and consent of the sen- j te. ?,"hich enemy would not j ie!p me enforce the law, but would ! tliow it to go unenforced in order to1 iy to injure me and my administra-j icn. In order words, many of those \ v.:ose duty it was to do so, instead ' >f helping me enforce the law when i was doing what 1 could to give them i clean administration, have enouraged violations of the law and lelped those who did violate it, in | -rder that t'ney might say just what i hey are now endeavoring to say, that he blind tigers were freely run hroughout the State under Blease's idministration Then, when you come to the towns md cities, the mayor of the city and .:e council, with their police force tnd their plain-clothes men, are esponsible for the enforcement of he law in these towns and cities. Jut my opponents have attempted to haige "ip to me that there is more whiskey sold in the. towns and cities 11 blind tigers than has been sold 4. _ c I /i ^ lmnur fViof it ic lereioiuie. i uu uui nnu? mm. | rue. I do. not believe it. I believe hat a clear investigation will show hat there is less whiskey being sold Li Columbia than .ias ever :een sold in it, because I have a trong constabulary force in this ity, and t'.iey have watched it closey, as the increase in the profits of ne dispensary will show. But if the blind tigers are overunning the towns and cities, should r ho rharp-pr] un to the governor, or j . -r . hould ii ue charged up ta the mayors j nd council.'11611 and police of the j owns and cities? If the mayor and ouncilmen of any city will admit to ne t.:at they are helpless and can lot enforce the law, I will take harge of the city and guarantee that c i- iUiiv enforced. Tney are there >n the ground, living right in the :ity, and should know conditions >etter than I. And if the law in their ity is not enforced, the people should ;iect a mayor and council w.io will in force it, and the mayor and council hould elect a poiice force who will ee that it is enforced. All that I ask is for a fair and j Lonest judgment to be passed 111 these Li- J r -- ?. 11'illirifT trk folrD I miners, ana i etui w 1111115 \.\j I.UJW/ 1 \ hatever blame should be placed up- j in my shoulders; but, I do not pro- i jose lor the people to be misled into hlnking that my. administration has ;ee:i worse than others for it has not een, and it would have been more j ree from the ^ale of whiskey if it ;ad not been for the refusal of county )oards to pay my constables whan sent them into the counties, and if t had not been for the senate's Lctions towards me in the magisrates' matters, and if it had not been or the supreme court's sustaining iiese people in their contentions, ^.nd, then, last, but by no means least, nany of the senators and reprensent- j Ltives who were bitterly opposed 0 me, in order to keep me from ap- 1 jointing constables in their counties, j irirmteri the rural police system for I heir counties and in their bills would >rovide that no dispenary constables should be appoined in their counties, md even then, when they would have .ie rural police system,* they went urther and would put the appointnent of those rural police in the lands of the sheriff who was inlependent of :ne. They deprived me I )f the right to appoint the rural1 policemen and thus make t'aem hold j ommissions under me, thereby giv- { ng me the power to remove these ural policemen if they did not en'orce the laws?they deliberaiely took iway from me the power to appoint' hem, and thus the power to remove \ hem, and consequently aepriveu uie >f having supporters in these offices ind put Oese offices in the hands of ny political enemies throughout the state, as the records will show, thus ioing all they could to block my adninistration in the enforcement of he law, and doing all they could to jut in office those who would not en- j orce it, in order that they .nig.n say j 51ease was not enforcing the law. j \nd then when I vetoed these bills, ! md in my vetoes pointed out to the i ienators and representatives the eviw hat they were bringing on by giving' ? ? ? ~ ntlioro th ;i n Ills appointing powei iu v<?<., lie governor, tlhey overrode my .does, and the result is today that ;here are rural policemen all over, his State who are not doing one hing to enforce the law, and I have eports in my office showing that >ome of them are a menace instead >f a protection to t.ie communities in vhich they are supposed to be worki:g. Recommendations Reiterated . '?v.g to reir.rute the '.oj'o.ving re-1 ommendations contained in my anlual message to you in 1913, in which iiessage you will find my views! 'llv expressed, with my reasons herefor: T,i"t <-*iuin<?e rhe name of Clem- ( l uat j \s\% v*A?..0W on college to Calhoun university, i That you abolish the board of par- ( Ions, or pay a sufficient salary for the \ vork to be done. That you take some action in rc-' ;ard to the cotton mill mergers in ]?is State, and the Carolina Public; Service corporation, and generally in. t I RliS-MY-TISM v| Will cure your Rheumatism Neuralgia, Headaches, Cramps, Colic, Sprains, Biuises, Cuts and I Burns, Old Sores, Stings of Insects Etc. Antiseptic Anodyne, usee, internally and externally. Price J 5c. ffcsr-'. iri wi2 T O i -2H * wi C '-J ti to, j O u * Tin: ;?i/,iiovi> b?anz.\ a ' O*^ v\ LBUii -il As? ywjr Druggist for A\ ii^vl < :>l-fhe?-ter ft /Mamonti IjrandX^Jv ^ Vo^'V" i'-JI* i;"? 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