Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Mayor Hornet R MnvhanU of fhor. loston, next on the program, assert*! that he was In the race for governor for only one purpose, and that waa to serve the people of South Carolina. He said he had been offered the chairmanship of the federal communications commission by President Roosevelt, but had declined the nineyear Job to run for governor. The federal position is now held by Frank McNInch. Reviewing his record as mayor of Charleston, the Inst seven years, he pointed out that he had served during "the worst depression," that the cjty had been fprced to use script for _ two years hut that now Charleston was on a sound financial basis. At the request of Roosevelt, he said, he was serving on the public works commission and without pay. He cited his efforts for now industries and rural electrification. "I have received no remuneration from any of the boards on which I served," he added. Ho branded old age pensions as provided in South Carolina as a shame. He pointed out that where this state was receiving only $1.75 California whs getting $15.00 from the federnl government, to which South Carolina contributed. He advocated fair treatment of Industries now operating in South Carolina and bringing more Industries into the state. "That will bring more revenue," he added. "South Carolina's resources should be advertised. We should ask for new industries not on n basts of cheap labor, hut on the efficiency of our labor." In reviewing his platform, Mr. Maybank said he stood for advertisement of South Carolina's advantages, elimi-j nation of waste and extravagance, cooperation with state and federal law-! makers and boards, rural electrification and better farm-to-market roads. "I want to give you service," ho concluded. "I represent no group; I am my own campaign manager. 1 promise that tho only voico I shall bear is the voice of the people of tho great state of South Carolina." Ren K. Adams, of Eau Claire, told of bis re-election to the house of representatives from Richland county for the last term over a field of twentyeight candidates on the tirst ballot He said that the * ity ? !' Columbia dd not support him. but that he carried thirty-four of the thirty-six county boxes. He said that be never won on Main street, but that bO per cent of tho farmers and per cent of tho textile workers were "for Adams." "I have been spokesman for labor and the farmers in the state legislature for tho past four years," he said." He said that the people went to him and said they wanted him to run for governor. He replied, he said, that he could not finance his campaign un 1688, perhups, Jio sold his printing plant. " Go on and announce; we'll take care of that,' they told me," Mr. I Adams said. "..So Juno 8 people , from every county In the state came and brought a collection of donations. They poured $409.20 in change into a hat. 1 paid my $400 fee, then took the remaining $9.20, bought gas and started riding and talking." The people then provided him with a campaigning oar, he said. One of his supporters painted It; another painted a blue, red and cream sign 1 upon it. "I am glad to stand here where I Tillman stood and turned the light on things in South Carolina." Mr. Adams said, adding that he had opposed Becret delegation meetings in Richland county and like Tillman, was , "turning the light on things." | He decried the state highway department's not putting it's $16,000,000 annual expenditure in the state appropriation bill. He declared that the highway department made a big display In a newspaper release on Its Increasing laborers' pay two cents an hour and at the satne time had kept secret the raising of salaries of executives of the department by as much as $113 a month. J "Of all Iniquities thrust upon South Carolina," he added, "It is the way the WPA pays exorbitant salaries to some while others are starving and suffering In this state." | At the close of the address Mr. Adams received a basket of flowers "Prom a Few Voters of Kershaw." "Cod bless them and may they multiply between now and August 30." he J said. Neville Bennett, of Bennettsvlller eI ported that last Friday and Saturday he had made 14 talks in the Pied^j^nt section. introducing himself, he said that] he was 35 years old, that he was born on a small farm in Marlboro county and still operated that farm. For 15 years he said, he had run the farm and had paid $2 tax for each cleared acre out of receipts from cotton at six cents a pound. "Farm problems are not only political but personal problems to me," he declared. | Marlboro elected me to the slate legislature five times straight, always on tho first ballot. Ten years ngo the Marlboro levy was 19 1-2 mills, now it is 11 mills; we hnd a $430,000 bond issue, now it is $220,000. We have created a tree hospital. We have a I surgeon to give free operations to I those who cannot afford them. We have a free library." He said that he had taught school' four years and knew the problems! of teachers and parents On the sup-j port of the teachers of the -tate hei based a declaration that he was gaining votes faster than any other can-1 dldate In tb?- race He said that he had written and introduced South Carolina's first free r. \t book bill and In other ways had espousei the cause of education. Ha added that in hi* ten year* In the legislature h? had voted for every labor bill sponsored by the working people and had made the motion for creation of the department of labor. "I aland for sound community structure In South Carolina founded on sound principles," he said, "1 have stood by good government aud law enforcement . . I do not have the support of the political machine In Columbia or of any other machine." D. T. Blackmon, Jr., of Columbia, opeued by saying that "now Is a good time" to drop some of the bombs he plans to explode during the campaign relative "to what the candidates do not tell you about themselves." His first assertion was that he paid his owu entrance fee In the race and Was paying every cent of hla own campaign expenses. "1 did not go to those lu need to - contribute to my campaign; 1 did not go to a machine to support me." "Mr. Adams has been saying that he spent that $9.20 for a suit of clothes," Mr. Blackmon continued. "Now he says he spent It for gas. I wonder whyhe changed his story this morning." * He declared that he had various "bombs" (verbal charges) to hurl during the campaign and would drop them at various places along the route. ? "Be sure to enroll, because if you fail to qualify you'll bo Borry before this campaign ends." He launched an attack on Burnet Rhett Maybank, laying emphasis on the middle name, and asked whether Mayor'' Mavbank had raniiPHtad resignation of a Charleston alderman, who, Mr. Blackmon said, had been Indicted by the Charleston grand Jury. "If Maybank wants to be governor, why doebn't he resign from mayor and the Santee-Cooper project?" he asked. He also raised the question of why a South Carolinian had not been chosen as Santee-Cooper engineer. Mr, Blackmon was Introduced as a former Camden resident. Cole L. Blease, former governor and former United States senator, said he had begged the Democratic party In South Carolina not to make Its rules any part of the statutes of the state, but this had been done. "Now you are confronted with a proposition," he said. "Is the colored mau to stand at the ballot box August 30 as your equal. What becomes of the fight of the Confederates? . . . "They are allowing Negroes to enroll. The time to stop it Is before they enroll. If the matter goes to the court8 we will have serious trouble. I am speaking as a citizen, not as a candidate; I am speaking as one who has oome through reconstruction and Tillmanism. "Ten thousand negroes are enrolled. Will there be more? "For fifty years I have been your servant and I feel It my duty to call this to your attention. . . . "I told you that all you would get out of the World war was debts and widows and death . . . "You're In debt. The state will have a deficiency of $4,000,000 In 1939 . . . Senator Ward, who is on the budget corrwnlttee. predicted that a general sales tax would be proposed to meet the deficiency. Walter Q. Query, chairman of the state tax commission, estimated that $3,000,000 over what is now being collected will be necessa.y to care for the deficit that w^l be created this year." Mr. Blease spoke against secrecy in government, adding "Office holders are your servants, not your bosses." He said ho favored fair and economical government. "I want to see the government go back to where it was. It operated on an appropriation of $2,000,000 a year when I was governor. We had good state colleges then Your government is being handled extravagantly; I do not say corruptly." "Some say I'm too old to be governor." he continued, then called attention to others older than he who were holding positions of high responsibility in the state: Senator Ward. SI; Justice Bonham, 34; Former Governor John G. Richards (who was in the audience^, 77. and others. They're doing splendid work." he commented, "and 1 m younger than any of them." "What we want is not so much education? that is a fine thing but information." I'm training these young men (the other candidates)," he concluded, "and you can elect one of them four or eight years from now." John Hughes Cooper, of Columbia, last of Ihe gubernatorial candidates to speak, thanked his hearers for the Kershaw vote he received when he ran for lieutenant governor four years ago. He pointed out that in the same race he received 7,000^ votes in his home county. Richland, and half the votes In his former county. Williamsburg. and I had not lived there In twenty-eight years." He aald that hia "town" (Arcadia, suburb of Columbia) had held an Congress Adjourned But Not Bad Laws "But the evil men do lives after them." It is Hit Id that a week will be required to determine the amount of public funds appropriated this beaslon of cougreas. Nothlua was said about the generations that will be burdened with the more than twelve billion dollar* poured out that NewDealism may survive one more election. Never has there been anything approaching the scandalous misuse of public money that has characterised the present administration. It will go down In history on one of the darkest pages ever written about America. Crime is never pretty. Kidnapping and murder are vicious things. But neither compares with the wholesale uniuorality of the deliberate unremitting efforts of leaders to undermine a nation tbey swore to uphold, while deluding their hearers with honeyed words of deception. The misery and pov-; erty and hatred they aro prodqclng Is beyond imagination. Eventually they will be defeated in their objective to obtain federal control over all economic life Just as Hamilton was defeated when he attempted the same thing. But it will take longer, this time, because Hamilton did not have the >vast sums that his successors have appropriated from every possible source to maintain themselves In office. The gallant fight of a few men of conscience against the avalanche of dictatorship is the one bright spot In the picture. Their 'names deserve to be enshrined In the memories of every patriotic American. ?Tennaco Times. -. j election without nominees and that he had received all the votes for mayor except three. "But I resigned to enter this race, as I didn't want to hold two public offices at the same time." Mr. Cooper emphasized his campaign slogan, "Ask my neighbors about me." and said his platform planks, "Clean, progressive, economical government." He added that he was for honesty, good schools, good roads and thrift. "People do not object to moderate j taxes," he said, "but they do object to extravagance In government." He deplored the inequality of expenditures of federal funds, saying South Carolina had received only $2.61 as compared with $53 In Nevada. I'll try te get everybody his share." Mr. Cooper declared that he would like to save the candidates the worry of a second race by beating all of them In the first primary. "Hike all the other candidates," he adijed, "I am opposed to a sales tax. I favor advertising the advantages or thla state, but. first, I am for helping the people who already live here. I favor bringing In new Industries, provided they pay good wages and provide good working conditions." "I have more votes than anybody else in the race except Mr. Blease," ho said In .conclusion, "but he's been running for fifty years. However, a clock sometimes runs down." Preceding the talks of the gubernatorial candidates, talks were delivered by other state office aspirants. Adjutant General James C. Dozier, Attorney General John M. Daniel and Superintendent of Education James H. Hope, all unopposed for re-eleclion, spoke briefly. I State Treasurer E. P. Miller paid I high tribute to the late Col. Thomas B. Spratt, who was his opponent in the race. Others on the program, but who did not speak, were J. Roy Jon s. commissioner of agriculture; A. J.I Reattio, comptroller general, and W.J 1\ Blackwell. secretary of state, ail unopposed. Mr. Beattle, who halls from Kershaw county, was unable to attend as he had to be at the opening of bids on 250 miles of rural electrification power lines. He is secretarv and treasurer of tile REA. R. E. Hanna was the first of the three candidates for lieutenant governor to speak. "The reason I got Into the campaign was to open the office of lieutenant governor for twelve months a year," he said. "That would cost $2 ,000 and the office pays only $1,000." J. E. Harley, Incumbent cited his record, not only as lieutenant governor, but also as mayor of Barnwell, member of the legislature and delegate to four national Democratic conventions. I,. Caston' Wannamaker pointed out the Importance of the office of lieutenant governor and cited his record as a representative -of Chesterfield county. Following the gubernatorial candidates' speeches, William P. Donelan and A. Fletcher Splgner, incumbent, candidates for solicitor of the Fifth district, spoke and asked for the support of Kershaw voters in the approaching primary. Pisgah News Notes Pisgah, July 20.?Carl Baker, Jr., of Rembert, and James Burdick spent last week with C. J. Furman and Thomas Baker. Miu. Leon Stuckey and daughter, Arelia, spent last Friday with Mrs. C. L. Baker. Oene McLeod, of Rembert, visited his graiidj?a rents, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Dennis recently. Lila Baker spent Saturday night at Horatio with her sister, Mrs. Galilard Lenoir. Hawkins Watson, of Orangeburg, was a visitor here Saturday on account of the Illness of his father, J. T. Watson. Mr. Watson had a heart attack Saturday, but his friends are gald to learn he is feeling much better now. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Baker and children, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence McLeod [and little daughter, all of Rembert; Mrs. W. E. Capell, of Sumter; and Mr. and Mrs. Galilard l^enolr, of Ho-j ratio, were dinner guests of Mr. fcnd! Mrs. W. F. Baker Sunday. J. L. Shivar, Mrs. Sallie Shlvar, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Dunlap spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. John T. Watson. Mrs. J. T. McLeod, of Blshopvllle, spent Tuesday afternoon with her mother, Mrs. J. T. Dennis. Mrs. L. S. Vinson and Mrs. K. R. Kenney spent Tuesday with Mrs. John T. Watson. Rev. Llttlejohn will be assisted by Rev. Sanders, of Kershaw, in a revival meeting at _ Pisgah Baptist church, beginning Monday, July 2*5. There will be services at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. each day through Friday. There will also be a, Vacation Bibl^ school each morning at 9 o'clock. Children from four to sixteen years of all denominations are invited to this school. A temporary pay cut of 15 per cent was ordered by the Federal district Judge at Rutland, Vt., for the 1,300 employees of the financially-harassed Rutland railroad. The' judge said the road's income might force it to cease operations over it's 400 miles of track, and told the receiver to reduce the pay and then to Increase it when the road's finances would permit the in-' crease. lister- Parker, chief of police at [Coats, N. C., 1b la Jail at Lilllngton, charged with murder which he allegedly committed six years ago at St. Augustine, Texas. Parker admits the kHlJl)g of nn& 1 awria AbiS ill the Toias town in 1932, and claims self defense to save his own life and that of his mother and brother. The electrocution of Frank Pierce McOtall for the kidnapping of James Bailey Cash,Jr., at Miama* Fla., scheduled for the week of July 24, has been indefinitely postponed by the granting of a writ of error by Judge Atkinson, pending an appeal to the supreme court, the writ being returnable October 31. SAVANNAH JACKSONVILLE rtn r??n? ^CL-ydyj. to SmRRiH round trip $ O .00 to Jacksonville u 9:34 PM. Sat. 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