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FILBERT PICNIC Candidates for State Offices Present Their Claims for Suffrage?Most J I of Applause For Blease (By a Staff Correspondent YcrkHf viile Enquirer.) V Filbert, Aug. 2.?Candidates for ^ state offices spoke to a crowd of people variously estimattd at from 4.000 to 5,000 people in Parsley's Grove here today, it is estimated that between 2,500 and 3,000 heaui the speeches of the cand'dutes for governor especially, while the remainder having little interest m rne po-mcai aspect of the occasion devoted their day to mingling with friends and acquaintances. Rain fell at 3:15 o'clock while Mrs. Bessie Rogers Drake, a candidate for state superintendent of education was speaking and brought the meeting to a close. Because of rain candidates for commissioner of agriculture, attorney general, comptroller general and secretary of state did not have opportunity to addres<> the voters, although Messrs. James C. Dozier and W. Banks Dove, candidates for secretary of state did introduce t'hemfcelves while the rain fell. Promoters of the picnic wfy> had a rain insurance policy for $150 did not collect their insurance despite the lac.. that it rained. The policy covered the hours between ^a. m. and 2 p. nf., 2nd since it did not rain until more than an hour later they were out of luck. However sales of refreshments ?mostly cold drinks and fruits at the-" several stands on t'^e grounds were good, and the revenue was at last sufficient to cover all expenses, i Big Jelly Crowd h was a big, jolly, good natured crowd. They came from every section of York county. There were many people present from Cleveland, Gaston and Mecklenburg counties in North Carolina and quite a number from Chester, Lancaster, Richland, Greenville and perhaps other South Carolina counties. There was not the slightest semblance"" of disorder. Each candidate was given a respectful hearing and the voters who heard the speakers were liberal with their applause. The lion's share of it went to Former Governor Blease, however, who was vociferously applauded both when he began 'his speech and when he concluded. There was scattering applause for Thos. G. McLeod of Bie&opville when he concluded his speech and there was considerable applause for George K. Lanev of Chesterfield. Mr. Laney was presented with a basket of flowers brought to the stand by a son of W. M. McConnell of Yorkville. Larse Stand for Speakers The speaker's stand was a large ' one, erected deep down in Pursley's Grove. It was large enough to- accommodate all of the speakers comfortably, the members of the Tirzah band wjio furnished the music for the occasion and a half dozen newspaper reporters representing various Eiliipatmna ilUUVUUUUV St Johns Sc i Saturday, August 1 ATI J 1 i. ~i? ah tne pauons ui Knoll are invited to and all the people of also invited to attend I want to talk to t\ munity about the sch It shall be my purp them in the doing of children of the com like to have a confer so that we might det< mi i. _ _ i i me scnooi iaw it people can do what tl We will get throuj who may desire can at Peak. Let all the good p( meeting and be in they want to do to in the community. Superintendent of 3 County. state papers. The newspaper men' were united in their praise of Chairman Pursley for thoughtfulnes.^ in providing them with chairs and tit- < bles. A recess was taken at 1 o'clock after the candidates for adjutant and inspector general, governor and iieutonant governor had spoken in order all might have dinner. Most of < the candidates ate dinner at the < spread in Purseley's vav 1. The grove 1 was dotted with dinner parties. There', v.as plenty of it of variety?a' characteristic tiibert picnic dinner. ; 1 Meeting Opene-1 With Prayer 1 Thy meeting ar f'Iberr was called 1 1 r> 'v.-.L- fu- .1 r?Vin A. - i.U UI UC1 aWUv J. \r \J civv Ji v / ..-Marion of Yo-kviil?, county Dome-! crati:- v'.'a'.' r.n a yc w.is .^yeie I v.r:ih' prayer by Rev. X. A. riemrick, pas- ; tor cf Clover and Union Baptist , ehuuhes. Thos. B. Marshall and ; j 1 Rubor. E. Craig, candidates for ad- j jutant and inspector general opened < the meeting and consumed their time t lanVoastin.z each other relative to j their war records. A lively little tilt , ensued between the two before Capt.! Craig concluded h;:3 .speech and some ) ~? fnAl/ if +.-> r.iMri +Vip UL LUC ?l.u,v;? at VVV.. forerunner of other personal scraps that were to follow. In his opinion, "lcwever. they were mistaken be-' cause while some of the other candidate did take a fling at one another!] they were rather tame flings. Thos. i B. Marshall. I'he lirst.speaker, told off lv:s long military experience in thej. National Guard and spoke of his ser-j vice in the late World war. He said J. that a number of York county mili--, i tary officers including Col Spratt ana Lieut. Mack of Pert Mill and Col. J Lindsay McFadden of Rock Hill I ( would gkdly recommend him to any of the voters who might inquire ( about him. Capt. Robert E. Craig of Columbia; woo followed Lieut Marshall said his!; opponent had intimated that some of. the officers of the 118th infantry,;oOth Division in which the regiment! he (Craig) served, were against him. j The speaker suggested that any of; th^ voters interested should inquire j of the men who served under Col. j M'cFadden z-3 to who Craig was. Capt. Craig recited his experience in the National Guard extending over a; period of twenty years and spoke of j Co. L, llSih Infantry, which he com-j nvanded in the World war. He wrasi the son of a Confederate soldier but he was running for the office of id jutant general on his man. Two; York men?Sergeant .Campoell ana ! Jake Robinson, he said, hrd served) in the World war under him and j wculd vouch for him. He read a letter fiom his former) major, James H. Howell of Waynes-! ville, X. C., under whom he served in' France endorsing his candidacy for adjutant and inspector general. He said he also had letters from Major Mahon of Greenville and Col. Mc-' I Cully* cf Anderson. ''Read the letter vou have from! I Major Mahon,," inter runted Lieut-; Marshall, his opponent. "I haven't ?Ct 'em with me," re4 ^ ?-l /^vrt i n? tuiiicu wiai.s. : .?.? i ? I u % J linn! Hnircp /11UU1 j t 12, at 10 A, M. I St. John's and Red j attend this meeting 1 the two districts are I ie people of'this com- j tool situation. : I tn pnnnpiMlo with : what is best for the munity and I would ence with the people ermine what is best. i democratic and the hey want to do. ?h in time so that all attend the barbecue sople come out to the i T J position to say wnat nprove the schools of E. H. AULL, Education Newberry I Then turning r.u lire on Lieut. Marshall Capt. Cviv'j sa'.d that the latter \v;;s trying to nixke the impre.? , :ion that he had fought on ;he H?ndi'iiburg line in Frunze. "Xeither Marshall nc myself fought with the Thirtieth in breaking ; the Hindenburg line," he 5aid. "1 , ;an prove we did not a'.ul that joth :>f us had been retired on a;coun: of ^ n-nunHc Kpfnrp ihp iiyhfciiit? on the ? - J H: 21 den burg line." In concluding the little sunt Capt. , Craig said he intended to publish a < number of letters for the ir.forma- . tion of the voters before ihe cam-' !>algn was concluded. !; Cadidates for Governor i Former Lieut. Governor Thos. G. | McLeod of Bishopville, was the first.; [)f the six candidates for governor to 1 < address the voters. There were a \ ] few band claps as he began his:; speech. He was given close atten-jj tion through his speech. He was glad!, ;o welcome so many folks, he said, [ j especially women, since he had al-:; ways been a ladies' man and during!; the past twentv vears had been un-! . j ? ;ier good control. He reviewed his j personal history as a farmer, repre-!; tentative in the lower house, state!, senator and lieutnant governor. For!< the past several years, he said, he ( had been devoting his services to the public welfare. He realized, he said, that there ; were two great powers entrusted to ; the governor of South Carolina?the): pardoning power _and the power toll recommend legislation. Any governor, he said, owed it to the people ( to be careful in the use of those pow ers. While the governor can rejoin- j mend legislation, he can neither in-j, crease nor decrease the burden of;, taxes. While some might think that taxes are high in this section of the state the burden of taxation under '.he present system was on the people of the low country who have only their farming interests on which to depend while in the Piedmont section 1 1 ?i-? ^ agricultural interests a;c merited by textile interests. So far as' York county is concerned, however, there is no dnying the fact that the great majority of the taxes paid by the people of the county are paid for local purposes and especially for roads and schools. He favors economy in state affairs and abolishment of* all useless offices but he is confident that the high tax rate under which the people of the state labor at present is because of the obsolete tax system. North Carolina, he said, has a system under which no direct levy is made on personalty or realty and he thought it well for South Ca1 - ? TT?^ ronna 10 aaopc a sjjmiar svsicm. Wilder the present system, he said, 30 per cent of the taxes are on farm property, 18 per cent town property, .0 per cent on factories, about 3 1-2 per cent on banks and 11 pe-r ctnt on railroads. Luxuries have not been bearing their part. Despite uisu-esaing times he was inclined to turn a hopeful eye to the future. Educational progress had been great in the past quarter of a century. He paid" taxes to support four graded schools and patronized only one but he did not begrudge a dollar of it. He would not reduce the appropriations for the support of the asylum nor for the Confederate soldiers. He nlead for enforcement of the prohibition laws and for the enforcement of all laws in this day when "we are living-in the backwash of the World war." Verdicts of juries should be upheld at a time like this, he said, and it is the duty of every man and woman to try and help create an atmosphere for law enforcement. You'll be told I'm tracking arour.d, he said in conclusion. Don't you believe it. I'm not making vain premises. T ni not saying I'm going lu ue guvcniui. jjui/ a -am. 1U11111115 past thost who arc running. And if I air, elocted your governor I will be governor of all the people without respect to class or calling'. Applause for Blease Considerable applause greeted Cole L. Blease, the second gubernatorial speaker and one "enhtusiastic supporter yelled as Mr. Blease rose to speak: "There he comes; there he comcs."' The former governor eaid that he felt like he Avas speaking at home when he spoke at Filbert as he came today with a message to his York county friends that he had found no man in the state who had supported him in the past who was net supporting him now while many others have joined the Blease band, j I was your governor for four years, [ said Mr. Blease, ar. 1 tried to conduct} the office for the,best interests of the { people; but the two administrations that have followed me did not keep faith with you. Some of the newspapers have tried very laboriously to get me to deviate from my determination to make a campaign free from mudslinging; but their efforts have been of no avail. Some others have tried to draw me from my path. I am reminded of the days when I used to f go fox hunting1 and how ;: ? the fox dog-.- passed little iive would run out and bark at them; the fox dogs were centered on the chase and paid no attention to them. "And i don't propose to notice the barking1 of the fiees" said Mr. Blease; 1 "but propose to point out some of [he troubles of the state and will try : ^o point out a remedy. Speaking of newspapers, however, I want to say that you have in your county one 1 icw^paper that is fair and square ! in (I can be1 depended upon to -be fair , to all and refuses to print lies on a man because he may not happen to be of the same way of thinking as the newspaper." Mr. Blease took a fling at some of those office holders who .were going Dver the state fighting him. If you hear of one of thesd office holders lighting me, he said, you will find that he is some fellow who has hold oi a political tit and Blease is choking him off. He launched into a vit- j riolic attack on the state tax commission which he said " is making : V'ou out a set of liars, and which rep resents the corporate interests of South Carolina. Tho tax.commission cost you nearly $80,000 last 1 year and here just recently when one! the state political pets lost a good : job in the federal revenue depart-; ment, the state iax commission ere-', f ated a new clerkship for him at a sal ary of $3,000. The cow only had four tits and they had to stick on a fifth for tnis man." Mr. Blease attacked the budget commission which cost $6,000 last year and which did nothing except ' make estimates of the expense of conducting various departments of government. "If your state officers haven't got brains enough to make I'hn* lire Here is a big, si ing new tire b buyer on evei age, quality an It is designed man who wa advantages of ance at the joi T4- ? o /4 aoi rtM nrl X.L uv-aigiicu. quality prodi lower than he a "long discour tread from tl Weather Treat deep, clean-cu selling price is This new tire Tread Cord. i Like the All-W 11 ally oversize 11 Compar 30x3^2 Clincher.... vj 30x3/4 Straight Side fj 32x3l/2 Straight Side $ ^ ^OOC VULCAN 1506 Main St. pstimate^, ' he said, "'then you should ; t-lect officers who can.'1 \ The speaker also paid his respects 1 to what he called l':he S.nellin.^ com- * mission," a commission of Boston ' Yankees, he said, whbh looked into t'arh branch of government t > see how things were run. Tht-y couldn't 1 pel men in South X'arolina for this 1 work but had to go out cf the state 1 for them and pay more than $20.000 for their services." He characterized the state board ! of charities and corrections as unnecessary and expensive. The prirrt- ituv bill of rhe state, he said, is now : 200 per cent more' than in 791 (> ' md there can bo no denying the^fact. He sa5:l that when governor he had ; tried to have the late Senator Till man who was then chairman of the senate committee on Indian affairs 1 take over the Catawba Indians. If his : suggestion had been acted upon, the state would have saved $100,000. Harking back to the state tax commission he said that some of the < members and clerks spend most of . their time in the Columbia cluo ] "drinking that which is forbidden" i and sending word to the farmers, 1 "Plow on; plow on." < "How will we ever get rid of < 'em?" inquired a man in the crowd. : "Go to the ballot box on election s day and vote like you holler," re- 1 torted Mr. Blease. -.1 "They told you," continued Mr. 1 Blease, 'to get rid of ..Blease and J we'll have law and order.' v You've been having it. You sure have. Let - the leaders preach what they prac- 1 bice and others will folloto their lead. "I'm not boasting:." he said in con- 1 elusion; "but I know from the signs i of the times especially in the coun- i ties we have visited that McLeod is < The new Qoodyear Cross'Rib Tread Cord markab f : at a Pc :urdy, long-wear- C [-j uilt to satisfy the E *y PUIIIL Ui illiic- 1^3 . especially for the nts the essential cord tire performs >vest possible price. to offer the buyer a ?3 jet at a price even has formerly paid for it" tire. It has a different le famous Goodyear Alli Cord?a new tread with a t, cog-like pattern ?and its substantially less. 1 ^ t T>:U is the oooayear ^russ-ixiu eather Tread Cord it is liber* n ail straight-side sizes, the e these priccs with NET prices you c ? 12.50 31 x 4 Straight Side $22.20 513.50 32 x 4 Straight Side $24-50 j> 19-25 33x4 Straight Side $25.25 These prices include man iyear Cross-Rib Tread Cord Tires are al FOR SA FOR 1 IZING AND SE HILL oJ&* Phone i pacer and Lancy is a trotter and : l a a t ihey are just practicing:, as it < utVe. And after next January, you ire again going to have a real govor- 1 ior in South Carolina." There were a few boos and jeers is a greeting1 for John T Duncan, the third of the gubernatorial candidates 'm n ? >*t w- t J.? T'Atn??c r/Mo,. _*nV\_ *w v_-o tiiv. v u i/u; i iir liviov. ouwsided in a moment, however, after ; Mr. Duncan said: '"You have heard ^'our favorite?now let's talk business for a while." He said that Larey, Biease and \IcLeod are pledged U your political joss, Edwin Wales Robertson, to deiver the water power of the state to 1 iin\" and that "James B. Duke has : already possessed himself of live of . irour best water powers. "The newspapers would have you believe that Duncan fights Biease alone; but it is not so. I play no ravomes." i Cotton Association Fraud i' Mr. Duncan attacked the South ^aro:ina Cotton association and the J American Imports and Exports corporation, saying they were frauds uul tha: former Governor Manning, ' :ho head of the Imports and Exports corporation, had paid the 'stockholders a $5 dividend out of the capital and has spent -another $104,000 for salaries. He told cf his own attempts io establish a cotton marketing association "along democratic lines." Pie paid hit? respectc to W. A. Clark, Esq., of Columbia, saying that in the . 'days of good stealing Clark was a Republican; but in these days of bet:er stealing he is a Democrat." Returning to .his attack on Blease, Duncan said that Congress-man Siemp Df Virginia was attemptnig to organizes Republican party in South Carolina and that Blease has been paid ; ^ i I a I fi 4%-inch. tire, for e: I S 10 a measur^nSne2 if I I til Like the All'We rf I jl Cord, its foundatic \S In high-grade long-si W l t)J Like the All*Wez \y ^ / Cord, it embodies $1 group -pi* construqti L 0 / ^ear patent* Like the All-Weather it is the product of an company which has a reputation to safeguard. Look at the prices of the ne Cross-Rib Tread Cord, listed Compare these, prices with n< are asked to pay for "long-di of unknown reputation and 1 Why take a chance on such know it doesn't pay. ^ / -. t f M9: ire asked to pay for "long aiscounr 34x4 Straight Side $25.90 34x4^j Str; 32x4^2 Straight Side $31.45 33x5 Str; 33x4j? Straight Side $32.15 35x5 Str; \uf acturer s excise tax so made in 6, 7 and 8 inch sizes for true IE BY fOUR bUUIJ 1 ?LJ\ E OTHERS 405 / $50,000 of Republiccan money to carry out a betrayal of at least a part of his followers to the. Republican party. He charged . further that B'ease was an independent candidate for congress from ihe Seventh district in 1919 and that when the eamp.:isn party was at Florence recently Biease acccpted an invitation from a ri.Ir. Andrews, a Republican, to deliver a speech in Florence county. ''i31e~.se will entertain you with various statements from dav to day," concluded. "Pie has never told you what the inducement was for him 10 pardon .Tones, the wife murderer or Portland Ned,"*"the bank robber." Best Informed Candidate J. J. Cantey of Sumnieiton, Clarendon county, a candidate for governor, raid he was the best informed man about the business interests of the state in the race. "Blease," he aid. "didn't get you out of the hofe while he was governor and he has proved conclusively that the two admin isrwrinn; rhn* fnllmvprl him have not clone-so. You should now choose, a man who can certainly do you no worse, although really there is so little left that the boll weevil and the policemen bid fair to get that. ''I am a new force in the political x arena in South Carolina, and I am appealing to the moral courage and intelligence- of the people," said Mr. Cantey. "I'm conducting the cheapest and cleanest campaign of any of them and I propose to write the story of the campaign after its conclusion. I have submitted to the people the finest platform ever presented to any people. My opponents are for law and order verbally, but none of them possess sufncient intelligence to sug(Continned on Page 7.) I f \ * \ T % * ' V 1 \ t Cord rice sample, actu? ? * ? iriy 5 lncnes* :ather Tread >n is genuine ? taplc cotton* ither Tread the efficient / on, a Goodi t . 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