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V AVI O n State (Candidates Here Last Friday Hy Rupert Fuller in The -State. Camden, August 10.? Devoting ;,)OHt of his 20 minutes to an attack on Cole. L. lipase, (Senator It. Kemper Cooke of Horry enlivened an otherwise tame state political mooting here today, at which the candidate* for state offices spoke to 2,000 persons in Hampton Park. ^ AU candidates except Greenville's 'Mountain Liop" Sloan spoke to the standing crowd from a platform built on a truck body. Mr. Manning, speaking first of gubernatorial candidates, said reductions were made in appropriations while he was a member of the house had not been made because of desire but to save "farmers and householders." The state's 'budget was now balanced, he continued, and the state was on u Cash basis. After three years, he said, school teachers were being paid in actual money. "We are not out of danger of bankruptcy,. however," he declared, 'because there is already talk of a return to high spending. "We must hold the ground we have already gained and as business improves there will be a surplus and then we will be able to take ofT the five mill state property levy. The next step, he added, would be to revise the tax system which, he said, had grown "little by little" until it was an uneven structure. He said there was no need of new taxes of any kind, and that taxes on intangibles, especially in the lower brackets, should be lowered. "How long are the frymcrs," the Sumter county farmers asked, "going to be fooled by campaign promises? I offer you a safe, sane method. 1 have worked on my plan for four years and it has stood the test of this campaign." Dr. L. 13. Owens, who was overwhelmingly re-elected mayor of Co' lumbia this year, said he had i eccived the support of the masses. "I know something about the hardship? of the people," he declared. '1 know it first hand and not by reading about it." As mayor of Columbia he said he bad served not only this city but the .-.tute, and he added that n<?t a man had secured more from Washington than he had. v"Yi>u have already been robbed of, almost everything you have, Mayor < <)w. n- continued. "1 want t-> see th*-( people rub-; I'm tired of seeing the, state ruled by a few. He said the state highway department and corporation.- had eandnlate111 the field, an! lie added that the 'G.ivai- .-tin-: ling" had opposed him in tin !a.-t mayoralty .ampaign. They < at e nothing for the people, he rollI f.Ueit. 'They ktlOW hoW to pud t be Wo..; ..vI 1 your eyt Mav-r Owe!:- ad\",ated free texthook for al. pupil* in grades ' <<m on. -e-. < n. I 'M - eou.d he prov ided without an in.tca.-e in ta\e-, he said. "I'm lighting your battu-. he cor. . hided. Mr. l'eaiie. the third speaker, out;ilied his public and semi-public activities. During his four year- in the-eiiate he said he was particuiH) A in'.erc-tcd in labor and social legislation. He wa- co-author of the unsuc -fit: is-hour mea-ure, he continued. and had also supported a bill providing minimum salaries for women win kers, If eleeted lie said he would -co that -, lioo. tea.diets along vvirh other state employee.-. g"t a "fair deal." A . i,airman <>f the power rate in\ e-' igatmg cofr.mrttee. Mr. I'ear.-e -a; wa- pa:t:a y i-e-ponsih.e for - living- of . ? 1.1 oO.ooO . year to U-. 'S i?* . t r; it y irt South < 'arolir.a. \ a 11eiegate to the Di-mo.ratu :a'i< r.a. o: v. r.t: -n he .-aid he had ; ' I: -1-v? It from -tart to I'm \! I'.-I'ee fttVorvd a w.'lk'llfl s . on. p?-nsatier. a. t and ex tens:or. of rural elect rifle at i or. '.ir.es where tea.-iI?; r. "Why should a farm woman not h a v i eleetruuty for ne and a radio, a- well a- for other ma. runes . he a-Ked. "With proper leadership agricud .rt .nr. be mat'.e attractive.' I'o- ovi r .'>0 years r.e saui he had wo.N,,j m the m:d-t of tie people of ate He de.-criU-d his humhde hig.nr.mg m business and the -ucI.-S of It Mr Sheppaid who was heard r.ext. sa. ! . f South ( arolir.a could recover from the Confederate war it could re. i.ver from the depression. l^.s grandfather, he .-aid, had been speaker of the fam us Wallace ho use, and his father at 22 stumped the state for Wade Hampton. * He saw a n?w day for farmers of the sandhills. Due to recent experiments with pi r.e pulp, Mr. Sheppnrd said it would not be long before farmers of the sandhills would be planting pines as any other crop. He said he had seer, for years the importance of forests ar.d he urged reforestation on a large scale Ij*ek of forest* was the root of the trouble In the West, he said. "The sandhills are a perfect gold mine," he continued. He urged the culture of grapes and the manufacture of wine. The country, he added, was beginning to buy good wines and would buy domestic wines if properly produced. , Irrespective of wet and dry views he said he hoped everyone believed in tempera nee. "I have never known of a people who drank light wines and beer to be hurt." He referred to drinking in France ami said he had qever seen anyone drunk there except American soldiers on leave. The sandhills, he continued, could produce as fine wines as French or California soil. The highway patrol, he continued, had become political. He urged a stale police system under control of the governor, attorney general ami adjutant general. If a county voted wet in the referendum he said it should be allowed to tax liquor, and if one voted dry he favored adequate protection from boot legging. Mr. Hlea.se told his audience , he [ was speaking in the same grove that Wade Hampton had spoken in as a candidate for governor. Hampton, Henjamin Tillman and himself were the only three governors of the state ever to he sent to the United States senate, he said. i "The rest of them didn't go because they hadn't done anything," he declared. He said there was a fallacy in the argument that the state was in a good financial condition. His highest appropriation bill approved during his term as governor, he continued, was $1,1*93,000. Appropriations had increased to $13,000,000 in 1033, he added. In 1012, when he was governor, he said the state debt had been $0,000,000, and in 14*3^, he said it had been increased to $77,000,0(H). County debts had increased accordingly, he declared. "What did you get for your money?" he asked. "You got a $65,000,000 highway bond issue. This issue has bankrupted the state. Why didn't they submit it to the people" He said the supreme court had "dodged" the issue of approving the bond issue without submitting it to the people and that the circuit judges, called into an enbanc session to con-ider the question had been afraid of the general assembly and had voted not to submit it. The justices were afraid, he intimated, because some of them were up for re-election that yea r. Three of his opponent.-, Mr. Blease continued, had been member- <>t the general assembly during the "high ..-pending." Mr. Manning and Mr. Llidiii-un were in the house, and Mr. IVaive wa- in the senate. '1 he appro1 pnation bill had been decreased the I pa.-t two years, he -aid. because thi\ i.i- w a - election year, j "If the governor had had as much I ha. khone a- a .-nail the-e high apIpiop-iatioH bill- would have been vetoed." be declared. "1 vetoed them.' The former governor -aid he advocated adding two year- to the high school. . "The man who say.- he can cut the appropi ia'ion bill in halt doesn t I Know what he is talking about, Mr. .Inhn-tot; declared. He said he had -tatted a drive tor state economy in 1927. but that the "brakes' hadn t been applied until 1932 when the -rate could no longer borrow. This had almost wrecked the school system. he added. ll?- -aid $3(10,out) could be saved by . on-olnlat ion. $15o.000 in -chool operation and $2oo,ooo by having biennial -? s.-1 ons of the general assembly. With the saving- he .-aid the state 1 oua 1 operate school- -even instead of -i\ month- and thus relieve di-trict0! fr<?m ten to twelve miles. "In about one year the indirect "a\e- pledged to the teachei- notew;i: he available. This money, which J ,. ?.ii,i would ho about $ 1 .oimi.ooo. ha jj:opo-i.i a- more pay for ti-ache*land for a reduction in the -tale <leI tic 11. Ten i.nie- 11101 e money .- being I-pent 11 n highways, he continued, tnar on -chool-. He advocated a reorganization of the highway department, n induction, of the number of coninus-.oner from 1-J to six. "but if they won't -educe them I'll cut them all out. 1 r.. hiding .lo-hn Stevens." He -aid he would discharge Hen M. Sawyt r. chief highway commissioner. Ht .-aid Mr. Sawyer would gladly remain highway commissioner without pay because of the influence he yielded in keeping "friends and relatives" or. the .- ate payroll. His references to the highway department were applauded A- in previous speeches he said the highway department had built a road ir. Orangeburg county just for the convenience of Mr. Sawyer's motherin-law. It had cost $25,0tH), he estimated. Mr Johnston predicted that the state would go dry in the referendum He read from a speech he had made :r. Charleston over the radio. He said he would vote dry "because the people said they were dry" and because he jvns dry personally, but that if the state went wet he would be guided "largely" by that vote. He emphasized that he would not sign a liquor control bill unless he approved of the regulatory features. "I told the people in Charleston it was repulsive to me to see young f boys and i r Is H> or 1? year a old, ?ell| ing whisky .over the counter a.r> they j were doing there," he asserted. This remark also was greeted with ap- j I plause. "I'm just plain Olin Johnston, your j next governor," he concluded. John M. Daniel, seeking re-election as attorney general, said Cordie Page, who opposed him, had refused U> work for Die state after his salary was re? duced materially as a result of the depression. Mr. Daniel appointed Mr. Page the assistant attorney general in 11)24. "1 was willing to take a cut from , $o,000 to $.1,200," Mr. Daniel said. He said the office had handled over $1,000,000 of legal business a year. His duties, he continued, kept him in the office. "The people are not complaining aoout me because they can always see me," he said. Mr. Page said Mr. Dtytiel would be unable to hold the position unless he f had an assistant "to do the work." Mr. Daniel had not requested his salary to be reduced to $2,200, he declared: He said the attorney general had gone on a month's trip to Seattje, W ash., when the office had been j called on for an important school opinion. t "For more than two years I wrote ! every argument, tried every tafce and, wrote most opinions," ,Mr. Page de- j dared. He charged that Mr. Daniel had had to pay $7,000 for outside legal aid. A question by Mr. Page provoked a heated verbal exchange. "What has Mr. Daniel done about the railroad commission cases?" he asked. He referred to several cases which the railroad commission had i handed the attorney general's office for opinions. 4 Mr. Daniel replied that he had turned the cases over to Mr. Page when he was assistant attorney general, but that Mr. Page had never pursued them. Tom J. Marshall, Richland county, candidate for adjutant general, charged that Brig.-Gen. James C. Dozier, the incumbent, had had petitions circulated in the National Guard "under his command" in be- . half of his candidacy. Such action he said was "unethical." He said General Dozier had been on the state payroll for 12 years. Mr. Marshall advocated taking the South Carolina National Guard regi, 1 ment out of the state occasionally for training rather than having the regiment train always at ('amp Jackson. General Dozier, who followed him, said he had been appointed adjutant general because he was wanted to head the National Guard by the > guardsmen. It would cost $110,000 to take the South Carolina regiment out of the state for its training period, he said, ami moreover he said that where the regiment trained was.a matter decided by the war department which furnished the money. He had recommended a training period out of the state, he continued, but there was not money available. He said he did not feel that the state should appropriate $.'10,000 for that purpose during such times. "It is positively not true that I coerced men (of the National Guard) to sign petitions backing me," he asserted. The National Guard had indorsed him, he added. Candidates for other offices followed in general speeches delivered! prior to today's meeting. The meeting today concluded the regularly scheduled meetings for this week. Monday the candidates move into the Piedmont, speaking on that day at Union. Albert Teester, a Holiness preacher, preaching near Sylva, N. C., Sunday night a week ago, to. demonstrate his faith in God, allowed a rattlesnake to bite him. He suffered agonies from the poison. His followers constantly prayed for his recovery. His life was despaired of ,but at last accounts he showed signs of improvement. The California department of the American Legion is criticising Secretary of Labor Perkins for "failure to proceed with deportation proceedings." The legion wants a drive for ' stricter enforcement of laws against | subversive elements in the United States. A London dispatch says that the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer pictures corporation has paid $127,000 to end thr [ suit in the English courts, for libel of ( Princess Irina Alexandrona Youssopoff, on the allegation that the picture, "Rasputin and the Empress." represented her as an adultress. The princess is to be paid for evepy country in which the objectionable picture was shown and will amount in the total to a very large sum. To Hold Reunion i September 3,4, 5 j At the reunion held in Sumter last October, Columbia was selected as the place for the 1931 reunion, Mr. Enoch j Smith, commander of Palmetto Camp of the Sons of Veterans having kindly I offered his services, he has been authorized to * have charge of all ar-1 j rangements for the reunion and has | named September 3, 4 and 5 as the dates and issued the following anj nouncement: "Enoch Smith, general chairman of the Confederate Veterans' reunion committee, announces theUate of the state reunion for Confederate Veterans to be held in Columbia September, 3, 4, 5, on the campus qf the University ground*"All Confederate veterans, wives and widows of the Confederacy are urged to come to Columbia on the afternoon 'of the ilrst day, (September 3rd. Every , effort will be made to make this the best reunion ever held for the Confederate veterans of South Carolina. "Books will open for registration on the afternoon of September 3rd, on the campus of the University of South Carolina. "Free entertainment will be provided for one attendant of Confederate veterans, physically unabl^ to make the trip alone. "Other announcements will be made later." Up Goldsboro, N. C., way, a farmer tells . of using dynamite to blast stumps. A pig followed him. The pig ate some of the dynamite. The pig nipped at the hind feet of a mule. The mule kicked. The pig exploded. The pig and mule both were dead. A barn 50 feet away was obliterated. The farmer went home. Judge John M. Oglesby hearing the trial of the case of the state of North Carolina against five members of the Tilley family at Wilkesboro, on a charge of having murdered Leola Childress, 18-year-old adopted daughter of the Tilley family, ordered a directed verdict of not guilty Saturday afternoon after the case had proceeded for several days. The defendants included Warwick W. Tilley, GO; his wife, 58; a son and his wife and a second son, 18. Nearly 100 witnesses were put on the stand in the case. _ V> . maBfHramwrjraMmwanHMHanri News of Interest In and Near Bethune Bethune, Aug. 14.?Mrst C. o. xtr iv and daughters, Missea Both UIIj Katharine, of Quitman, (ja.t spending ?ome time with Mrs.' xer. ry's parents, the J. A. Me'CaskUU. Mr. and Mrs. Ervln King of Mullins, were guests last week of t,h<.|r sister, Mrs. John McDonald, Mrs. C. M. Wilson and children of Columbia, have been spending s*v. era! days with Mrs. M. L. Kelly, Miss Eddie Bradham, of Pitiewood is the guest of Mrs. Hattie lleustisi' Misses Marguerite Huggins an<i Meta Randolph, of Lamar, have been spending some time \yith their grandparents, the J. E. .Severances, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Foster and children have returned from Pauline, where they were called on account of the illness of Mrs. Foster's mother Mrs. J. S. Shand. Mrs. L. M. Yarbrough and daugh*ter, Betty, of Hartsville, are visiting Mrs. Yarbrough's mother, Mrs. McDonald. Mrs. Z. P. Gordon, with her sou, Grier Gordon and wife from Charlotte, are visiting Mrs. A. L. Gardner in Wagener. Miss Tally Padgett of Virginia is the guest of Mrs. S. B, Padgett. Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Mayes enter* tained a group of friends from Camden Monday evening with a chicken pilau supper at Big Springs. Circles one and two of the Baptist W. M. U. met with Mias Rosa Lee Fields1 and Mrs. Hattie, Heuatiss, respectively, Monday afternoon.. Morrison Graham is visiting relatives in North Carolina. The Rev. J. T. <Fowler, presiding elder of -the Sumter district, tilled the pulpit at the Methodist church Sunday morning and Mr. Clemmons of Philadelphia spoke in the evening. Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Richards of Asheville, ?N. C., were visitors here during the week end. M iss Louise Tiller has returned from Myrtle Beach, where she spent several days. Miss Frances Sanders of Columbia is the guest of Mis** Margaret Hearon. Miss Carrie Yarbrough is visiting Miss Marguerite Gates at Vance, South Carolina. Mrs. J. V. Davis and daughter Myrtle of Birmingham, Alabama, are visiting Mrs. Davis' parents, Mr. and Mr. C. L. Mays. Gardner Yopp of Savannah. Ga., is spending several weeks with his uncle, Mr. W. W. Gardner. Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Parker visited relatives at Lynchburg during the week-end. Mrs. Joe D. Blankenship, young farmer's wife of Copperas Cove, Tex., shot her husband to death and then committed suicide. t A V*8 Engine at a saving of $2030 1 i! Only Ford has been able to put the V-type engine Into an inexpensive car?the type of engine that holds all records on water, land and in the air. That's why the Ford V-8 gives such outstanding performance. At 50 or 60 the Ford V-8 is just loafing along smoothly, effortlessly. It can dc 80 and better. The Ford V-8 engine gives you V-type 8-cvlinder performance at a saving of at least $2000. 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