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1> "— w m THE CHRONICLE • • Strives To Be a Clean News* • • l>aper, Complete, Newsy, and Reliable. COUNTY CANDIDATES HEARD HERE IN OPENING MEETINGS Political Campaign Yesterday In Outdoors Draws Large Crowds. Aspirants Make Plea for Suffrage With Economy As Dominant Note. No Fireworks As Initial' Guns Are Fired. They SjdcQ Something By Albert T. Reid Six hundred voters stood in front of the post office yesterday monuiig: and listened patiently for more than three hours to the campaign speeches of Laurens county office aspirants as they presented their platforms, \news and opUions from, an outdoor ros trum. TTie meeting \/as'jpresided over by Jack H. Davis, Jr.?*and all candi dates were accorded quiet and cour teous hearings. The second meeting of the campaign was held last night at the Clinton Cotton mills with a large audience present, candidates go to said he is in favor of putting the of fice in the prindary election. He said he favors a-reduction in salaries of the county' office-holders and* that not a dollar had been cut off this expense since he left the house in 192fi. If elected. Mr. Nance stated that in all probability he would be placed on the senate finance committee and he will use his energy and influence to bring the cost of government dowm to tbe basis the people are now living on. In conclusion he said, if you elect me I This morning the'will bring you a low tax bill or kill it Cross Hill where (in the .senate and come back and tell they w'iH speak at 10:30. The initial skirmishes yesterday revealed no fireworks as the various aspriants for office mounted stump, and everything passed quietly and orderly. “Economy” was the watchword, and it was soon seen that it will be-'ffl'a central theme throughout the cam paign. Incuinbents sought to show how their efforts had effected econo my in government during their terms, while; the other aspirants declared that further cuts in /the countv and state government could be made and j that they would be xealous in bringing about relief from the present tax ation burden. The worn-out subjects of roads, schools, pensions, etc., were put in the discajcd as the speakers urged /economy as the main point in their arguments for the voters’ suf frage. Clerk of Court m Thus, \V’. Bennett, unoppowd for you 1 am not the man to represent you. W. Carl Wharton was the next the {speaker. He said it was his first of- off! fer for public office and that he in- I tended ir^^ing a clean, aggressive fight. If Ic^n’t win op my own mer- it|, he said, then I don’t want the of fice. The paramount trouble today, said Mr. Wharton; is that the people are being taxed to death, and if I am elected, I will fight for a reduclion. He stated that he favors reducing the rural police force in half. Two of these officers are now fighting me in my campaign, he said, and about one- third of their time is spent about the court Viouse. He favors jnitting the game warden in the primary or doing away with it altogether and putting the duties on a reduced rural police force. He favors amending the hunt ing law so a citizen can hunt across adjacent county lines with one license. Mr. Wharton said that the railroads pay ^3,000 taxes in this county. re-election as clerk of court, was the' trucks and buses are wear- opening speaker of the campaign. He expres.sed his pleasure in being pres ent and thanked the voters for tbe splendid vote he received four years ago. He said he was the youngest clerk in the state and the first each year to file his report with the attor- new general. “I have given,” he .said, “a one-day service on all papers filed in my office. Honesty, integrity, ef ficiency and courtesy are the motto of my office,” he said in closing. State Senate O. P. Goodwin, incumbent, was the '‘irst speaker in the senate; race. He expressed his pleasure in being pres ent, to dist'uss the problem.s of the county and state. He spoke of the prevalent unrest due to high taxes and said the people have a right to d. mand relief. If I go back to the senate, he said, I will work with tlv? rcpre.«entativ€s you select to cut ex-, penees, both county and state. In dis cussing his record he. said he had made fight to reduce and voted ing out the highways without paying taxes, a practice agains>t which he i.s opposed. He favors, he said, a bill making it a law to make seins with ?-inch meshes, and let seiners sein and keep what they catch. Continu ing, Mr. Wharton declared that ^e favors cutting every salary from gov ernor down to coroner, that he will include his own salary in the list, and that he will never receive extra pay for his services. In conclusion, he said he would fight liquor always, that he had rather be defeated fight- y^gj. 5yo,()00 bales of .'iOO pounds | day nmrning at ten o’clock. Interment ing it'than to win^as its champn^. j weight. This figure assumes! followed in the family burial ground He told of his positions^ held | average weather conditions for the re-[ with a large concour.se of friends pres- mainder of the season for the final |ent to pay a last tribute to one of the State’s Cotton Crop Is Short Production of 590,000 Bales Is Forecast. Condition Placed At 56 Per Cent of Normal. Miss Alice Watts Claimed By Death Life-Lons: Resident of Commu nity Passes In Spartanburg:. Funeral Service Here. Senator Smith Speaks In City Several Hundred Voters Hear Senior Senator Discuss Record of 24 Years Service. BUSINESS NOW ON UPGRADE Cheerinj? Announcements Come From Many Communities of South. IVIanufacturing: Plants Starting Full-Time Operation. Atlanta, Ga., .AiUg. 16.—Laborers are being called back to work, 10 per cent cuts'are being lifted and Dixie is becoming again the happy land the song writers have alw'ays made it. Within the past week there has l)een a .steadv stream of announce ments of textile workers in silk and cotton mills In'ing called back to work; ineVeased orders here and plants resuming full-time operations there; tobacco markets are opening in North and South f’arolina with higher price.s, the recent report of more cotton goiKl.s sold than had been produc ed, coupled with the steady, rise in cotton price.N are all combining to make bu.siness news more cheerj’. At I.umbtTton. N. the border belt tobacco market opened the .season with prices running almost two cents a |>ound higher than last year. Other markets opened in North and South f’arolirra with expectation of higher prices due to an almost 10 per cent decrease in thi.s year’s crop. Silk and hosiery milks at Durham, Greensbort) and Kernersville, a'’ iji North t'arolina, have ■ lifted 10 per cent cut.s and hav’e announced enough business to keep them going full Idast until October, possibly longer. Today the state of Geoi'gia let highway contracts totaling $2.1*7,- 1956.12. Involved were 21 separate pro- j Jects and included highway and bridge {building. It is the first of appvjxi- 1 mutely $5,000,000 of construction j scheduled in CJeorgia. Textile mills and fini.shing plants at Rockville, N. (k, are employing 2,300 persons; several plants are running night and day. An addition to a"leather factory it~ Waynesville, N. €., is being built; in Alabama the s-tate highway :denart- His I ment is planning to buy 500,00t> ,ar- ‘ rels of cement, providing work f'>r The reported August 1 condition ol| services for Miss Alice 56 per cent of normal for South Caro-1 Watts were held at the graveside in lina indicates a probable outturn this'the Pre.sibyterian cemetery last Thurs-! Smith la.st Friday night when h« Several hundred Clinton voters grtH'ted United States Senator F.. 1). Baptist churcl^ and said he would die fighting the liquor evil. Candidates for House W. M. .Abercrombie, the first of twelve candidates for the house of repre.sentative.s, did not make a spee<'h but merely introduced himself and asked the support of, the voters in the coming race. againsx .he state's high appropriation j R^hb, seeking re-election, ex bill. He said there had been a rumor IP*"®®***^ his appreciation of the sup- tnat he was "getting too old.” and j rweived two years ago and gave had to get about on crutches, which 1 * account of his stew’ardship. he llTanded as untrue, stating that he had not needed a crutch in 60 years. He denied a second report that he favored increasing automobile li censes, I have been in the senate 20 years, the senator declared, and I When he wervt to the hou.se, he said, he found that there was only one way to lower taxes and that was to reduce the floating debt He found that the county was spending $1,228 per week more than it took in. 'This had to be paid, he said, and the only way was have nevfer voted /against the inter ests of the working man. He wentUo provide additional levy or into an analysis of the tax money, j »PP*‘opr>at.ions. Year before last, the showing where the taxes go. He said,|*upply bill was cut $100,000, he said, 52 mills for school purposes, 17 mills for past indebtedness, 13 mills for upkeep of roads and bridges, 8 mills for state taxes, and 10 mills for or dinary expenses of the court house and officials. Senator Goodwin said Jie J^'ored a state law to cut every employee. In conclusion Tie saTi^tfiat he believed that if the South would stand back of Roosevelt there would and the past year a reduction of $111,000 was made. The county’s tax able income, the representative said, is $551,000, while the county received $92,000 from the st4te for educational purposes. The salaries of the county aggregate $22,000. If it shoud all be eltminatect it woTiW emlyTTPduTO $2.50 per thousand, he said, while in compari^son with Others, Laurens is outturn may be above or below this amount in response to gogd or bad weather influences. The forecast is 415,000 hales below last year’s good crop and 268,000 less than the aver age .numlier of bales during the past five years. With an August 1 condition of 7i per cent last year the state produced 1,005,000 bales and in 1930 the Aug ust 1 condition was 74 with a final crop of 1,001,000 bales. On August 1 the principal limiting factors were: Showery weather, wee vil activity in the south and east; a smalJ plant up-.state, and reduction in fertilizer used. On the other hand the plants were,.blooming and fruiting w’ell and a perioil of warm dry weath- increase i "'oultl improve the situation. Cotton planted was estimated at 1,773,000 acres on July 1 and since no estimate of abandoned acreage will be made until the September report, the ten-year average abandonment of 2.5 per cent was allowed in arriving at the estimate of 1,729,000 acres to be harvested thPIs season. The indicated yield per acre is 163 spoke in front of the po.srt: office build- j several thousand cement workers. The Kingsport (Tenn.) Pres:^ r>?- ported an order for 400,060 h/ni hooks that will take a long tin ;• to print and many men to print tho /. n Virginia a furniture nlar’ it ing at a meeting arrnaged for him by i n-ihl Knob is working night and da.,. g night a ('., c()tL)t local friends. He was given mo.st re-; \ Liucolnton. cotton ir spectful attention throughout his ad-' f,ack on full time with eight in d^eaa^-aml was enthuidAstically ap-,^__urder.s ahead; contract has i olaudi'd by the lar^e audience. The awardeil for consli uction of a Slo, •speaker was introduced by R. W. i ^-atohouse for a mill at Ashevil ?. Wade, and earlier in the evening he <'., fit.si' step in an exiiansion had addressed a (roldville audience, igiam. S'enator Smith said he had conic i At Rorkniart, Ga.. a huge ■. n;. on full time again; si .(*r:il community’s life-long and est<M*med citizens. M iss Watts passed away on Wed nesday in a Spartanburg hospital wheris; she had been ill for ten days. Although .she had been in <lec!ining, health for some time, her (teath unexpectp<l, and as a shock to her .'’‘‘‘'i*''’ Washington, the longest, ('hattanooga, Tenn,, plants are ca ^Tiig friends. She was a noble ('hristian I ® South Carolinian had ever | ^yorkers hack; a Wayneshijn). \ a.. I'lc woman, possessing many fine traits j senate. He .stated thatirnill has rai. ed wages and called of character, and alway.s gentle and I first in point of service on theia),nost fiOO workers, kind, .she made and held a large circle of friends who will ing. Miss Watts was of a long DenuKiralic side of the senate; third | t'harlotte, N. ('., report.s thou t.: i.s regret her pass-i’^^ service of all memh<*r.s of; called hack to work in textile mi n the senate, being outranked only by | that area. A large cotton mi it line of Utah, and Borah of j Gainesville, Ga.. i.s busy again; V*in.- old .South Carolina familioa. Hor an-i K.ToW'cansHo orwaat a costora worn pionoors and loaders : i»o">oorat.c y.otory this fall and «a.d this comfy. She was horn dear Clin-1*'7'/'' and .lack (.ar- ton on .Sept, h, 1861, the second daughter of William Dendy Watts and Frances Theodore .McCrary Watts. She and her elder sister, the latc Mrs come a Democratic victory and the'payihg lower salarie* than any other tearing down of the high tariff wall, eounir. He said he had stood for econ- in G.4). Nance was the second speaker this race. He spoke of his pride omy, both for county and state, that the road appropriation had been cut and pleasure in representing the coun-1 from $100,000 to $68,000, while the . ,if -1928-29 had w away re- Babb stat- ty for six years in the general assem-j floods^-of-=1928-29 had wiped a'^ bly He said he had no word of criti-1 $HK),000 of bridges that had to be mm or afrUfA .atfhpr of his^ placed. In conclusion, Mr. Babb s opponents and would make a clean ed that if sent back to the general as- campaign on his own merits. South | sembly he will continue to use his ef- Carolina today is calling for leader- j forts to reduce expenses as his past pouhds made last year and a ten-year average of 165 pounds. A condition of 56 compares with an average of 62 for the years 1921,-1930 and is the lowest August condition since 1926, when it was 54 per cent. Eula Burdette, were the first children of the Presbyterian church of Clinton baptized by its pastor, the late Dr. W. P. Jacobs, and at the age of twelve she united with the church and re mained a devoted member all her life. ‘ the agriculture committee,” Senator Smith spoke of the ex travagance of the Republican regime and condemned it for, its graft and corruption. He; Reviewed his relief ; work for the farmers of^thtL state and told of his succe.ssful efforts to se cure money for them under various 1„«4 .,oo"oT.:ta toTvTTr'mother, Thomas M. Watts of Colum bia, and a number of nieces and nephews. The pallbearers were: Jack H. .ston—Salem, N. C.. is rated six |;- 'lU higher than th<* nation’.-, averag2 in trade volume index. The number of worker.s retir e! can 'hardly he e.s>iimated; exory re- opening has not been reported. Similar news comes in daily from over the .South; some of the inc^eaz-e is seasonal, other Is normal reaction. None of the news is astounding, but every bit tells of work where thei-e was none before an^d even the depres sion has not altered the fact that a.ny of acts of congress in the pasd few year.s, and stated that he had secured i ^thing is nothing hut a ma over $10,000,000 firr- South- (-»roJina-i-|ittle-trf»e^»r since 1930. j ■ In discussing prohibition, Senator Smith said: ‘*I am personally and po litically dry, and have never said that land, L. D. .McCrary, C. W. Stone and F. .M. Boland. Stocks And Cotton Move Up Again I ^ihm. 4»e^«ud^-meiL_are n^ded of|recoid will show, and that he will ex- ability and courage to fight the; peo-jefrm-ththieTfre-tP britig about^^ pie’s battles If T am elected. HO fiut ter conditkms by waging a flght will make me do its bidding. When I was in the house, Mr. Nance said, and the people were prosperous, you against waste and extravagance A. Ross Blakely of this city, was New York, Aug. 15.—The securities markets found the upward track again Young, John D. Davis, W'. D. Cope-; j favor repeal,” "I am a Democrat, he said, ‘‘a party Democrat, loyal to j the party’s principles, and I am per-j fectly willing to let the people scuttle, this que.stion through submission. The members of congre.ss can only vot<‘ to mit the (lucstion of repeal .to the several states and two-thirds ma.tor- No Laxation Of Enforcement Schools Open August 29tiij^ Attorney General Mitchel Ap- nounce.s Forces Will Contiutue To Enforce Law. • • J I* * L „ I,. 1..., Washington, .\ug. 15,— While rty 18 required. It takes action l)> leg-, , , • ‘ 4 • 1 .1. 4' - 1 4 I . i.i'Und .ilry organizations work ttr’euHrt another ^ntle renljnder that |..*lature, .,r xp«-.al .„nu.nt,onr member,'ot c.nKress ted«,-4a«-tll4_JlilL.bMk late laat,Clinton school bells will, be rmgmg thre,-f..u,ths .,f he state, to fn ally ^ Attorney wee*. —jatHtn coiiieB the aultniinrrmnnt thii^.rrrf.ilLjlM_anieni|niciit. If you <l"'"ic;n,ra 'h'" "-..0 August 29th will bring the I take a <lrink until you can get it le The recovery developed some vigor iM^ay, --w* «*“ vncik„,k,- « ,.'c relaxation in federal rr.- in stocks in the late trading, although {formal opening of the new session, gaily, you will he a pieU.v go(,d j.ro- enforcement. the next speaker. He’extended a wel-ithe turnover of some 2,000,000 shares {'The faculty .has Wn completed, - — aV.an. 4WW... 4-^ a nrl ' nrao omatlAr fKon fni* anv /llll (UMlAinll ' bUlldinjfB PUt Ifl II TSt'ClilSS COnUi he in readineas the hibitionist by that time,’ asked for good things and I gave * come to the candidates to CTinton and | was smaller than for any full session j buildings put 1 to yoi pay ondltion, In concTusiuii, .Seuatoi^Sniith stated The cabinet member di.spatchid a he declared. , 4,. -11 I • J- I .v . u 1 II .; * u;.. circular to departmental chiefs carrv- rh7rt«‘''vou*b^auM7ou were abk toUid he had no political record sincejin nearly tyr" ’«'««''»• land everything will be in readmes, that he had render,., senuc o h , • Tjrt!.rLdarcondHtions lit was his firatem^ience in offering I Share pr'ices failed to get within»for the opening. , people and state during h.s term o “ . , , . ’ ‘ for office. I am in this race, he said,'Striking distance of the high .'prices i The Thomwell orphanage school; it upon this lecord on my own merits and I stand square-jmade in the middle of last we^, but {will open on the same date, August that he is seeking re-eleiUon ^^ud «ot ly back , of the Democratic party. I' have changed. He spoke of the wop derful power of a state senator, and said the appropriation bill today » higher, than in 1926. If your house members want this appntpriation con tinued, and I am in the senate, I will kill it, Mr. Nance declared. He said he U in favor of putting all county officers <m a straight salary basis commensurate with the ability of the people to pay. In regard to the abo come, he said, from a pure Demo cratic people and always voted consolidation as far as possible, and will favor and demand that the state and county appropriations shall he kept within the levy. If elected, he • 1 s *11*'^ ▲ i_ j lition of the-^ural police force, he said, I will use my ability to bring said he was in favor of sending the *rnv<4mm».nt pwenses down in reach a number of prominent issues ad-j29th. The new session at Presbyterian by attacking un<l critici.sing hit, oppon- vanced $2 to more than $§. In bonds j college will start on Sept. 13th for; ®ut.H. a number of the railroad issues push- the matriculation of freshmen, .and on j i • ~ ~ the ticket of my parentage and an-]ed up into new high, ground for the the 15th for old students. UniOIl SciTVicC At cestora. I sfand for elimination and; summer recovery. ^ ;—— ww ■ • clositig, 16 to 18 points higher than i Erskine Head i Presbyterian SaturdaV'sJin.l quotatic^n.^ „ Here SlMlday 1 The union .rvice for next Sunday *" ^ ' 1 evening will be held in the First Pi es- j question back to the people in a ref- go vem ment expenses down in reach of the people who must pay tbe bill. erendum dhd let them abolish or re- The over-head expense can be cut, be tain.it as they desire. If such is done! declared, and T pledge to use my in- and it is kill^, I will give the sheriff; fluence in this^ direction. I promise the necessary deputies to carry on i efficient, honest, economical service ment had received suggestions from •’those who should know better” that "i ecause .some changes in the prohi bition system are under discussion .and may he adopted, the deparirrent j of justice should relax its efforts to enforce the existing laws.” Mitchell’s memorandum adds tKat a federal easing up "without substito- i tion of any lawful state control v/ouid Wheat advanced as much as one and a quarter cents per bushel. MOVE FROM LAURENS the -work of his office. Discussing the office of* game warden, Mr. Nance if elected, he said in conclusion. (Contini^ on page \two) Misses Emma and Dolly Crawford, formerly of Laurens, are now making their home with their nephew, J. Roy Crawrford, several miles south of Clinton. Erskine Head Here Sunday! . . /i 4 ibyterian church. Rev. H. 0. Charal>ers,i ^ The guest minuter at the Meanwhile, Dr. Daniel A. Poling w . iB«id in a statement that the ‘ ^ ^ Forces, prohibitTon group, bad I Preabyterian church next Sunday i*;, . sneaker and -.4 morning will be Rev. R. ^^rierj . 4. ^ ....{to support Presi^nt Hoover; the D. president of Erskine f- thiV service tional Board of Trustees of Tbe Cni- Due l(Vett, and one of the state's wide-1^ ^ .^ers,* anti-prohibition organixatioft, ly known educators. A cordial invita-i tion is ext^ded the public to‘hear Dr. Grier next Sunday at 11:15 a. m Miss Miriam Donnan is Mrs. Deaver in Whitmire. . ’visiting coni mended the president’s stand oa the dry law as indicative of' "demand” for a chsrtgc. A ■4.x. mm