The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, August 15, 1940, Image 8
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THE CUNTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, 8. C.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1946
Candidates Open
Campaign
(ContiniMKl fawn pasre one)
assistance for the aged,” he com
mented.
The speaker said that in 1926
the state had a deficit of 610,000,-
000, but that when he left the
legislature in 1936 there was a
surplus of $2,000,000. At the end
of the last session, he said, ,,the
state showed a deficit of $2,000,-
000.
‘'^fa^ters are in a bad way," he
declared, adding that “it will take
business men to straighten them
out.”
He warned of dark days ahead,j
a.sked the voters to judge the fu
ture by the past and announced
that “I am ready to serve you
again.”
Walter L. Martin
“I am interested in the farmer
and laboring class because I am
one of them,” Walter L. Martin,
resident of the western section
of the county who is making his
appearance for public ofJice„ de
clared in opening what*he termed
his “first political speech.” j
Mr. Martin .stated that he fa- I
vored an honest and economical j
administration of county and
state affairs and a “balanced bud
get in both.”
“I favor adequate provision for
the aged and needy and believe
rate of taxation,” he commented.
The speaker said that he real
ized one man has,very little pow
er in the general assembly but
described as “the people’s duty”
that of naming men to your public
offices who will cooperate with
one another in providing the best
possible government for the
greatest number of people.
Martin promised that “I will
be honest and sober when I ar
rive at the State House and I will
be the same way when I leave.”
C. L. Milam
the pre.sent system and set up
our own, using the state’s money
entirely. In which case there
would be so much less than there
is now that there would hardly be
a taste for anybody.’’
Mr. Milam said that the had
fought the auto inspection bill
because it was aimed at the poor
people and promised to fight for
its rej)eal if the people wanted it.
Taking issue with reports which
he said were current, Mr. Milam
pointed out that $600,185 of hi^-
way department funds had been
spent in this county in the past
four years. He said that no new
highways were secured the first
year he was in office because the
money for this county had been •
used the year before by another
delegation. “However,” he added,
“last year this county received as
much as did its neighbor, Green
ville county. I am neither for nor
against the highway department,”
Milam declared, adding that he
always voted in what he thought
was the best interests of his coun
ty and state.
The speaker said that he had
fought for the spread of rural
electrification in this county and
added that he didn’t care from
what organization or firm the
power comes ‘^so long as it
comes.”
“I have tried to remain on
friendly terms with all the de
partments because I felt that was
the best way to get the most for
my cqynty. However, I have sold
no clique, clan or organization ex
cept the Presbyterian church,”
Mr. Milam concluded.
A candidate for re-election,
Charles L. Milam, farmer of the
Lisbon cqrAmunity with four years
experience in the house, recalled
the two promises which he said he
made to the people when he first
offered for office, as follows: bet
ter farm to market roads and im
provement of the facilities for
education of rural school children.
“I wish to report,” Mr. Milam
declared, “that today you are rid
ing over the best roads in the his
tory of the county, and that I,
personally helped to write into
the state law a provision that all
white schools be kept open at
least eight months in the year.”
Mr. Milam asked the voters not
to be misled by promises of large
sums of assistance for the aged
and needy. “Under our present
system, half of the money paid
out in such assistance comes from
the federal government and, in
order to get that _mol4ey, it has to
be paid out under rules and regu
lations fixed by the federal gov
ernment. Under such a system,
there will never be any such
thing as every man receiving the
same amount. The only way for
us to fix the assistance entirely
as we please is to withdraw from
Jam* P. Sloan
A brief biographical sketch of
himself, including his parentage,
i^ucation and experience, was
concluded by James P. Sloan,
Clinton teacher and beginner in
politics, with the statement that
since “early childhood I have felt
the desire to be of public service
to my county.”
Mr. Sloan identified, himself as
a son of the late E. Blakely Sloan,
mayor of Clinton at the time of
his death, and pointed out that
he had received his education at
Presbyterian college, Erskine col
lege and Tulane university where
he was active in student affairs.
He pointed out that he taught his
tory and government at Clinton
high school last year and had been
elected for another year but
would “resign if elect^ to the
house because I don’t believe in a
man holding_two public positions
at the s5iSe time.” He said that
he is a member of the A. R. P.
church, Kiwanis club and secre
tary of the Clinton Democratic
club.
He outlined a 7-point platform
on which he was running, includ
ing a merit system for state em
ployes, free text books for school
children, a return to state-wide
prohibition, biennial legislative
sessions, sufrace-treatment of all
farm-to-market roads, just labor
legislation and liberalization of
benefits under the compensation
law and the appropriation of suf
ficient funds for good public
schools.
James H. SulliTaa
Men possessed of experience
and a loyalty to their county and
democratic system of government
are those whom the voters should
consider in electing their repre
sentatives, James H. Sullivan,
Laurens attorney and former
house member and county super
intendent of education, declared
in making his appeal.
Mr. Sullivan supported his pro
fession of love for Laurens coun
ty with the statement that he left
a position in Washington with the
federal government because he
“got so homesick that I could not
resist the desire to come back and
live where my heart was—with
the people of Laurens county.’’
He then pointed to his five years
as county superintendent of edu
cation and six years as a member
of the house from this eounty, to
gether with his experience as a
lawyer, as equipping him with a
knowledge of government oper
ations befitting him to serve, in
the house.
What is needed; what the costs;
and are the people willing to foot
the bill should be the three fac
tors determining how a man
should vote on matters affecting
the public, Mr..Sullivan declared,
promising to vote that way him
self.
The speaker said that he was
the author of the first roifipulsory
education bill, the first member
of the legislature to suggest bor
rowing idle money from this
county’s sinking fund and utiliz
ing it in the education of our chil
dren instead of borrowing addi-
nweiB'
for that purpose.
“I can cooperate with any other
men you send to the general as
sembly,” Mr. Sullivan remarked,
“and I want you to do as I am
going to do—vote for the three
men who you thirdc can best rep
resent you.”
Robert €. Wasson
Pointing to the fact that he had
headed the ticket in one of his
two successful campaigns for the
house thus far, Robert C. Wasson,
resident of the Hickory Tavern
community and candidate for re-
election, said that he probably
could spend his time in a way that
would mean more money to him
than in the legislature but felt
that he could “best serve the peo
ple of Laurens county in the gen
eral assembly than otherwise.”
As chairman of the committee
on education, Mr. Wasson said
that he was one of the two rep
resentatives from the upper state
serving as chairman of/an im
portant committee and was proud
to have been able to bring that
honor to his county.
“It is time for the Piedmont
section of the state to gain more
recognition in the general assem
bly,” he declared, and cited his
years of experience as placing
him in a position to wield con
siderable more influence through
his “seniority” than • a hew man
could. “Seniority is the basis on
which most of the committee ap
pointments are made,” he de
clared, and “indirectly has its
weight in deteimining the amount
of consideration a section of the
state receives in other matters.”
“My rcord needs no defense,”
Mr. Wasson declared, and added
that he had had hi'^ part in
“straightening out the. financial
condition in^hich the coimty was
four years ago.’* He added that
the county had been placed on a
sound financial basis while, at the
same time, taxes have been re-,
duced.
“The supervisors of past years
can not be blamed for the bad
roads we had,” Wasson said.
“They had no decent machinery
to work with. We have given the
supervisor and the c<mimlssioners
money to purcha^ new and im>d-
m machinery and today new
roads and bridges have been built
where the state hi^way depart
ment never knew roads existed.”
Mr. Wasson said that the pav
ing of roads in the state hi|^\vay
system was systematically rotat-*
ed by the hifdiway department
and that “no matter who compos
es your next delegation ther^ are
certain roads in this county which
the hi^way department has id-^
ready approved for paving socm.
And contrary to what some would
have you believe, the state high
way department has built roads
in this county during the past
four years, too.”
Other improvements which Mr.
Wasson said he had a part in
making possible for the county
were the agricultural building,
coimty library building, circulat
ing library, club market building,
‘and rural electrifi^tion. He voted
against the hignway inspection
bill, he said.
“I was responsible and sober
when you sent me to Columbia. I
and I come back to you today
that way,” Mr. Wasson asserted
in conclusion.
Sheriff
Tom D. Abrams, the first can
didate speaking for sheriff, said
that he imff 2(r years exp^ehice
as a deputy under four different
sheriffs.
H said that he believed an of
ficer should be a gentleman at
all times and that, if elected, he
proposed to dismiss any of his
' deputies whom he found conduct
ing themselves in a manner un
becoming to the office. “I will
employ as many deputies as the
delegation permits,” he said.
C. W. Wler
Caldwell W. Wier, candidate for
re-election, declared that he had
“delivered the good, clean en
forcement of the law I promised
•you four years ago.”
He said he believed he had a
“good bunch of fellows” working
with him, but promised ^at he
would discharge immediately any
deputy who could be proven to
have “corrupted his office.” “How
ever,” the sheriff warned, “I will
not discharge any man, nor will
I have him persecuted, because
of any personal grude or ill will
borne him by another man.”
Sheriff Wier deplored an in
crease of'817 jail Jn the
past four years as comimli^o^the
preceding four years, vtilbl^ng
that increase almost riuhpelir to
the removal of the prohibition
law.
Realizing that the rural sec
tions tepresents a large share of
this county’s population. Sheriff
Wiet said that his first action up
on entering office was the desig
nation of certain deputies to pa
trol the countryside every night.
“la^at way, I have tried to give
police protection to the entire
county and not just to the cities,”
he said.
'The sheriff said that he favored
and would recommend to the del
egation the increasing of the age
limit for youths admitted to state
indiistrial schools from 17 to 21
years so “our young pe<^lc w(m*t
be brou^t into. contact with
hardened criminals on the chain
gang and in the prisons.”
During his term, he said, 269
cases have gone into the hii^ier
courts, 173 were found guilty, of
which only 59 went to the jury,
35 were acquitted by the jury and
two dismis^ for lack of evi
dence.'
“I have tried to let my work
make my campaign speech every
day I was in office,” the sheriff
concluded.
Svpervlssr
Bennie B. Blakely, the first
speaker for supervisor, said that
he favored special attention to
roads over which school busses
and mail carriers ride, promised
to ask the bus drivers to notify
him of needed repairs and to
have a crew of men available for
immediate attention to reports.
“Your trust will never be be
trayed by Blakely,’’ the speaker
declared.
J. A. Gathrie
Asserting that he had tried to
carry out the promises made by
the late A. Rhett Martin, the man
to whose- unexpired term he was
date for re-election as supervisor,
said that he was entering the-pri
mary altlmu^ he understood that
the anointment was for the full
four years at the time it was
made.
He said that It had been im
possible to get the attorney-gen
eral to give a clear-cut ruling on
the question so the coimty execu
tive committee was forced to
piaCe the office in the primary.
“Sixty miles of surface-treated
road have been given the county
during the time I have served,”
Mr. Guthrie said, and declared
that it was his desire to see that
all county roads are either sur
face-treated or topsoiled.
Mr. Guthrie said that the coun
ty had been saved half the cost
of concrete pipes used in build
ing roads through a contrivance
which he had built to “make our
own pipe.” He said that he had
cooperated with the delegation,
had not discharged a man, and
believed “we have better -roads
today than ever before.”
J. Ben Hantar
Expressing his appreciation for
the support given him two years
ago in his race for county emn-
mlssioner, J. Ben Hunter, farmer,
said that he was a “self-made”
man running the race with the
support of no particular group.
He claimed partial credit for
the county’s school bus system,
and promised to use just as much
of this county’s resources and
men as possible in the continu
ance of the road program.
“If the delegation will give me
a rock crusher and the other nec-
e^ry machinery, I will get rock
right out of_piis county that is
just as good as that brought in at
big prices for use on our roads.
In that way Fjvill give more em-
* ployment to local men and keep
more of the money at home," Mr.
Hunter declared.
Lander B. Stoddard
Declaring that during his ser
vice as county commissioner, he
had “month after memth” taken
money out of his own pocket to
pay his traveling exposes over
and above his mileage allowances;
Lander B.. Stoddard, present
county commissioner, basMi his
appeal for election to the office
of supervisor on his experience
and long-felt desire to serve in
that capacity.
“My purpose would be to con
tinue the road building program
we have already started and to
. adhere strictly to the provisions
of the supply bill in all expendi
tures,” Mr. Stoddard declared,
adding that he would fpvor the
establishment of a. workshop and
the employment of a good me
chanic to maintain the “modem
road machinery we now have."
“For three and one-half years I
have' helped to spend the county’s
money and I feel that I can con
tinue spending it for the bat in
terests of the county. I know the
job and am ready to serve,” Mr.
Stoddard concluded.
B, L. Toagne .
Asserting that for the past four
years he had secured pra^cal ex-
perimee by actually operating the
“modem road machinery” we now
have, R.‘ L. Teague, 36-year-old
candidate for supervisor, said that
visor because I believe I can
handle the job better than any
man in the race.”
He pointed out that he was
bom just “the offier side of Rabim
cmek,” described his practical ex
perience in road and chain gang
work and said “I would like to
give the county a fair, honest mtf
clean administration of the of
fice of supervisor.”
John B. Whsiteii
Also a present county conunis-
sioner, John H. Wharton, farmer-
resident of Waterloo township,
welcomed ^ listeners and other
candidates to “my home commu
nity.” *
He pointed to the fact that for
three terms be had been elected
to the office of county commis-
sionr, once on the Brat ballot by
“the large total of about 6,060
ballots.” He said that he was
mindful of the fact that other
good men were running for su
pervisor, but based hils claim fojr
(xmsideration on the fact ffiat for
six years as commissioner he had
been training himself in the nec
essary work, “many times at my
own expense,” and now wished
to use that experience in the hi|d^
er office. #4
He said that as one of the thrdp
members of the eounty board hip
had taken an active and cooper
ative part in spending the money
appropriated by the delegation to
bring about a number of improve
ments for the county. He descril^
ed th«M progressive steps as
eluding aboilt $75,000 worth
new madiinery owned
county, 76 miles
ed road and improved
and bridges, remodcUng
court house, construe^ii of a
(Cootina^ on page four)
B as in-
rorth «
by t»
of surf^-treai-
>roved dirt roads'
modeling of tne
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