The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, August 18, 1932, Image 1
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THE CHRONICLE •
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• 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
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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.
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