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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, South Carotin Page Number Eight Thursday, June 26, 1930 POLITICAL CARDS FOR MAGISTRATE I hereby announce my candidacy lor re-election as magistrate of the McCormick , Magisterial District, subject to the rules and regula tions' of the Democratic . party. Having had 14 years’ experience, which is a valuable equipment, I feel that I am qualified to fill the office,, and I shall highly appre ciate all suppoprt and -influence I receive in the coming primary. <4 J. b: HOLLOWAY. FOR MAGISTRATE ■c I hereby announce my candidacy lor the office of Magistrate of the McCormick Magisterial District, subject to the rules of the Demo cratic primary, and shall highly 1 appreciate the suffrage and influ ence of the voters. H. C. WALKER. POLITICAL CARDS for state senate Speeches Follow Sailie Old Themes ST. MATTHEWS HEARS STATE CANDIDATES (By Rupert Fuller, Staff Correc- pondent of The State.) I hereby announce my candidacy j ST MATTHEWS, Tune 23.—Can- for State senator from McCormick dfciates l° r stat^ offices continued County, subject to the rules and their appeal to the voters here to- regulations of the Democratic par- fay while 300 citizens gathered at ty. I highly appreciate the en- the high school to hear their pleas, dorsement received in the past, chief interest was in the guberna- and earnestly solicit your suffrage torial race and the speeches of the and influence in the coming pri- candidates who were present mary. W. K. CHARLES. FOR STATE SENATE centered around the $65,000,000 road bond issue, tax reform, and aid to the farmers. A. Frank Lever and John J. Mc Mahan, both of Columbia, were not myself as p^ent. a telegram was read from Lever saying that he could not at- FOR PROBATE JUDGE I hereby announce my candidacy lor re-election to the office of pro bate judge for McCormick County, subject to the rules and regula tions of the Democratic party. I highly appreciate the splendid sup port I have always received at the hands of the voters and trust that my honest efforts to faithfully per form the duties of said office meet with your approval, and that I again receive your support and in fluence. L. G. BELL. FOR PROBATE JUDGE I hereby announce my candidacy I hereby announce my candidacy for the office of probate judge of McCormick County, subject, to the rules of the Democratic party. I shall highly appreciate the suf- fcage and Influence of the voters Count subject to the rules in the coming election. JOHN C. CORLEY I hereby announce candidate for State senate from McCormick County, subject to the tend on accoun fc 0 f iii ne ss but rules of the Democratic primary. would probably be at the meeting I shall highly appreciate the vote j n o ra ng e burg Tuesday, and influence of the people in the rpj^ stormiest speech of the coming election:. meeting was delivered by Olin D. R. G. KILLINGSWORTH. Johnston of Spartanburg, candid ate for governor, in which, in an attack % on the $65,000,000 bond is- ^ 1 .. sue, he said: “The members of the Iherebyannouncc myself as a legislature who were responsible candidate for State senator from for the bond ^ d them _ McCormick County, subject to the selyes ^ the c wlth the ruies of the democratic party Your ^ and Negroes of the Re support will be highly aPPrecmted. construct } on iod ^ gouth Caro . FOR STATE SENATE J. J. DORN. FOR HOUSE REPRESENTATIVES lina.” Johnston said that if he were elected governor he would refer the bond issue to the voters before am a candidate for house of | sig T n ‘ ng f the bo » cl f- D , from McCormick 1 Johnston and R. Beverley representatives Her- County, subject to the rules of the be f • Columbia, speaking on tax democratic party. If elected, I |? form ’ rec , el Tf d “ ore applause pledge myself in defense of those than an y of the other candidates Both were interrupted in their speeches by applause. W. W. Smoak, Walterboro, W. H. Keith, Greenville, Ira C. Black- principles which promote the wel- w© 1 * 6 nterrupoed fare of county and State. I earn estly solicit the support and influ ence of all the voters of the coun ty- U D. LESTER WIDEMAN. wood, Spartanburg, and Ashton H. Williams. Florence, other can- # . didates for governor, spoke on the FOR HOUSE REPRESENTATIVES same lines as their first address of the campaign. Herbert told the voters that he for re-election to the House of ; was more interested in doing ! Representatives from McCormick, something for the state than he FOR TREASURER and I hereby announce my candidacy for the office of treasurer of Mc Cormick Coqnty, subject to the rules of the Democratic party. Due to varied business experiences I feel that I am fully competent to handle the affairs of the office, and if elected I shall conduct the same in a fair and impartial man ner. I am a World War veteran, having served my country two years, one year in France and Italy. I shall highly appreciate the support and influence of the vot ers. f ! < YANCEY E. SEIGLER.* regulations of the Democratic par ty. I greatly appreciate the won derful vote given me two years ago, and earnestly solicit your suffrage in the next primary. J. O. MCDANIEL. was in being elected governor and that a tax reform was the real pur pose for his entering the campaign. Several other candidates, Herbert said, had adopted his reform plat form. On Intangibles CAROLINA THEATRE Greenwood, S. C. FRIDAY and SATURDAY June 27-28 VICTOR McLAGLEN ' and FIFI DORSAY in “HOT FOR PARIS” Torrid Loves of a Sailor on a spree in Paris. . MONDAY and TUESDAY June 39 and July 1 RALPH GRAVES and BARBARA STANWYCK % in “LADIES OF LEISURE” A daring story of an artist’s models private life. Daring! Different! WEDNESP * v THURS. July 2-3 . NANCt OAh* ROLL JACK OKIE ana HELEN KANE in “SWEETIE” Mad, musical merriment! Gay youthful whooppee! Co-ed duties and Rah-rah boys in a melody or song, dance and romance. CAROLINA THEATRE “It’s a Pleasure” By putting a tax on intangible FOR HOUSE REPRESENTATIVES Property, Herbert said that the I five mill propeprty tax could be I hereby respectfully announce my candidacy for House of Rep resentatives from McCormick County, subject to the rules of the Democratic primary. The support and influence of the voters shall be highly appreciated in the coming election. J* W. D. MORRAH. FOR CORONER l FOR COUNTY TREASURER I hereby announce my candidacy tor re-election to the office of County Treasurer for McCormick County, subject to the rules and regulations of the Democratic par ty. I highly appreciate the splendid support I received at the hands of the voters four years ago. Since elected to this offic?, I have en deavored to discharge the duties in an economical, courteous and ef ficient manner, and if re-elected will continue to prptect the inter- j primary, sets of the taxpayers of McCor mick County to the best of my ability. I earnestly solicit your suffrage and influence in the com ing primary. T. J. PRICE. I hereby announce my candidacy for re-election as Coroner of Mc Cormick County, subject to the rules of the Democratic party. I shall greatly appreciate your sup port in the coming election. T. J. LYON. FOR CORONER FOR TREASURER I hereby announce myself as candidate for Treasurer of McCor mick County, subject to the rules of the Democratic party. I feel that I am capable of handling the affairs of this office, and if elect ed, promise to do so in a fair and buSiness-like manner. I shall high ly appreciate the suffrage and in fluence of the voters in the com ing election. PAUL J. ROBINSON. I hereby announce my candidacy for Coroner of McCormick County, subject to the rules of the Demo cratic party. I shall highly ap preciate the suffrage and influ ence of the voters in the coming M. L. B. STURKEY. FOR CORONER I hereby announce my candidacy for Coroner of McCormick County, subject to the rules of the demo cratic primary. I shall greatly ap preciate the support and influence of the voters in the coming elec tion. > T. B. GOFF. FOR MAGISTRATE I hereby announce my candidacy for re-election as Magistrate of the Parksville Magisterial District, sub ject to the rules of the Democratic primary. I shall highly appreciate your support in the coming elec tion. A. V. MORGAN. FOR COTTON WEIGHER I hereby announce my candidacy for re-election for county auditor, 1 I hereby announce my candidacy subject to the rules of the Demo- for re-election as Cotton Weigher cratic primary. Your confidence at Plum Branch, subject to the FOR AUDITOR and support will be appreciated, rules of the democratic primary. You have been very kind to me, for I highly appreciate the support Which I feel grateful. If possible, received in the past, and earnestly will try to give even better service solicit a continuance of same in In the future. the coming primary. C. W. PENNAL. | S. W. WIDEMAN. ' eliminated, the state govern ment could be run on indirect tax es and the county governments would be supported by local prop erty. He also ^aid that as South Carolina had the highest taxation of any state, outside industries were being kept from withing the borders of this state. In regard to the $65,000,000 bond issue, Herbert said that he had voted for the measure and was instrumental in reducing the bill from $75,000,000, as first planned, to $65,000,000. He said that if he were elected governor he would further reduce it if it were found that all the money was not needed. As to any allegations of crooked ness in the highway division of the government, Herbert said that if there should be any he would have it thoroughly investigated. He said that this was not an issue in the campaign. Johnston advocated stricter banking regulations and laws, a separate department of labor, a hydro-electric tax, elimination of the five-mill property tax and stricter economy in the state gov ernment. Keith made his usual speech as to the highway commission and the road bonds and called for hon esty in government. Smoak in his plea for support enumerated the legislation which he had sponsored in the house to the advantage of farmers and for the upbuilding of the state. He had aided in such measures, he said, as having agriculture taught in schools, the pay-as-you-go road law, creation of forestry commis sion, development of the state's resources, and the county home agencies. “I am personally and politically dry,” Mr. Smoke told the audience Smoak and Williams, wet, are thf only two candidates who have brought the prohibition question tc the fore in the campaign. Smoak said that he was thor oughly opposed to any person try ing to destroy the confidence of the people in officials of the state by attacking the highway bond act and Governor Richards. He is in accord with the road bond act and stands for law enforcement, equal ization of taxes, adult education, and the development of the state’s resources. Blackwood, defeated by Gover nor Richards for governor in the last second gubernatorial race, is for a reduction in the operation cost of the government and to let the counties conduct their business at their respective county seats, thereby, he said, lowering the cost of legislation. He advocates stricter banking laws, development of natural re sources, a friendly relation be tween labor and capital, and a re form of court procedure. In regard to the highway act, he raid that he had thought the act illegal but that question was set tled by the state supreme court. He added, however, that he was not in favor of spending any more of the $65,000,000 than would be necessary. Williams pointed out to the aud ience what he said were the effects of prohibition. He cited statistics in several South Carolina cities on the increase in number of arrests of account of drunkenness since the national prohibition law was enacted. He also said that money was being wasted in attempting to enforce what he described as an “unenforcible law.” Williams said that he was in favor of biennial sessions of the legislature. Other Speakers The political meeting started here at 10 o’clock this morning ati the high school auditorium. As the presiding officer, George W. Wan- namaker, county chairman, began to call the names of speakers only two candidates were present when their names were called. They were J. E. Harley, candidate for lieutenant governor, and W. H. Keith, gubernatorial candidate. Harley’s speech was followed by that of Keith and the presiding of- ticer began to call the list of speakers again. Other candidates, with the ex ception of Lever and McMahan, were present, however, by this time. The meeting continued un- Al 2:30, at which time the last candidate had finished. The can didates go from here to Orange- Durg where they will be heard Tuesday. The meeting here was orderly md without interruptions from he floor. The gubernatorial can didates contented themselves with naking attacks on non-candidates. Aside from the candidates for sovernor, the following also spoke Frjr state superintendent of Edu cation, James H. Hope, John E. Swearingen and M. M. Wilkes. For commissioner of agriculture, Tames W. Shealey, D. L. Smith and 1. Homer McAdams. For lieutenant governor, J. E. Harley and James O. Sheppard. For secretary of state, W. P. Blackwell and H. D. Calhoun. For attorney general, Jam«i H. Sullivan, Sam M. Wolfe and John M. Daniel. ' For comptroller general, A. J. Beattie and L. A. Searson. 6 6 6 Relieves a Headache or Neuralgia in 30 minutes, checks a Cold the First day, and checks Malaria in three days. 666 also in Tablets A Son Is Bom To The Lindbergs ENGLEWOOD, N. J., June 23.— A son was born late Sunday to Colcnel and Mrs. Charles A. Lind bergh at the home of Mrs. Lind bergh’s parents. Ambassador and AT Dwight W. Morrow * at their palatial estate here. By a happy coincidence, the stork arrived at the Morrow resi dence on Mrs. Lindbergh’s 24th birthday. , . , . Beyond the word that the child was a boy, no information wa c forthcoming from the Morrow household. From other sources however, were learned these sta tistics so important in the history of any newborn child. He will celebrate his future birth days at 3:15 p. m. . He weighed seven and three- quarter pounds. His name has not been selected yet. The only quotation from anv member of the Morrow or Lind bergh families was. obtained in directly from Ambassador Mor row. x An hour after the child was born, the ambassador went to the home of Douglas Thompson, form er mayor of Englewood and but tonholed him to tell him this: “I’m a grandfather! A baby boy has been born to Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh. But don’t you tell any one.” News of the arrival was first made public by a close friend of the family, who desired that his name be withheld. He said the mother and child are doing well. He continued: “It has been decided to make no announcement of any kind. You can understand how they fell. But my goodness, when my baby was born I wanted to broadcast the news to the world.” The deep secrecy surrounding the baby is understood to have re sulted from direct orders from Colonel Lindbergh. ’ A few hours before the birth of the child was revealed the usual number of reporters had gathered at the gates of the Morrow home. They were met by one of the sec retaries, who said: “You might as well return to your offices. Nothing is going to happen today.” An hour' or two later the an nouncement of the birth was made. It was not revealed to the re porters, however, instead, someone within the house telephoned to news services, which in turn car ried the information to newspa pers. 1XX Senate Speakers At Charleston Monday CHARLESTON, JKhe 23.—The three candidates for democratic nomination for the United/ States senate, Leon W. Harris, Cole L. Blease and James F. Byrnes—pre sented their cases to 500 voters of Charleston county gathered here jonight. Heat in the Hibernian hall was xlmost unbearable but the audi ence accorded the candidates a •espectful hearing, interrupted on ly on two or three occasions by two hecklers, one of Blease, and one of Mr. Harris. Each candidate assured the vot ers that he would be the next United States senator from South Carolina. Mr. Blease went, further and said that Charleston would give him a majority in the August primary and that the state as a whole would send him back to the senate, by a majority of 35,000 to 45,000 votes. The candidates followed the line of their previous speeches in their campaign. Mr. Harris continued to hammer away at the record of Senator Blease. While not label ing his address as a reply to the attack of his opponent, the sena tor cited various acts of his record whieh he said would give the true story. Mr. Byrnes, the last speaker of the meeting, expressed belief that too much attention was given to “this business of the negro and of liquor, and too little attention is being given to the great economic questions facing the nation today.” This address also followed the trend of his previous speeches deal ing with tariff, immigration, farm relief, disarmament and other na tional questions. Coleman And John son Pay Supreme * Penalty For Murder COLUMBIA, June 24.—Ray Cole man and Paul Johnson, brothers- m-law, paid with their lives today their debt to the state for nurder- ing Earl Belue, Spartanburg tex tile mill payroll clerk. They were electrocuted early this norning. * Deliberately and outwardly calm they went'to their death, Coleman preceding Johnson by 24 minutes. Johnson had a 24 minute respite. Coleman’s death struggle broke the chair braces, making it neces sary to bring workmen in to re pair it. He was pronounced dead at 5:52, five minutes after the current was turned on. The men were sent to the chair for killing Belue on December 14, 1928, in an attempt to rob him of a $7,000 payroll. None of their relatives was at the prison this morning. Johnson’s father, the Rev. L. W. Johnson, pastor of the Simpsonville Meth odist church paid his son a last visit late yesterday. Coleman had married the Rev. Mr. Johnson’s daughter. \ A crowd of more than 100 was gathered outside the penitentiary long before the appointed time of the electrocution. About half that number was admitted to the death chamber and saw the last in the lives of the men whose case has stirred South Carolina as has no other case in recent years. Last minute prayers were said' for Johnson and Coleman by Rev. Dean Crain, prison chaplain, and Rev. T. L. Bryson, Methodist min ister of Pendleton, a close friend of the Johnson family. Coleman, a big heavy-set man, seemed interested in those present as he entered the death chamber. He sat calmly in the chair as guards fastened the electrodes on his arms and legs. Asked what he had to say, he replied “All I have to say is that I am innocent between my God, my wife and my baby.” Then as* the death mask was being placed over his head, he muttered, “Pray for me, pray for me.” and continued repeating over and over in undertone. “Have mercy on me, have mercy on me.’'' Johnson was even more calnr than Coleman. Entering the death chamber he looked over the crowd, took his seat in the chair and made his brief oration on the evils 6f sin. “I want to warn all you men that are here that there ift dan-, ger in sin,” Johnson said. “It is An th^t >put me here today, but by the grace of God my sins are 'orgiven. I hope to meet you in Heaven. Let this be an example for each and every one.” Captain Olin Sanders of the penitentiary force, whose duty it is to give the signal for the switch^ to be turned on, is an old friend of the Johnson family and said he had often played with Paul John son when Johnson was a small joy. He was visibly affected to day, Johnson and Coleman were cap tured in Indianapolis a short time after Belue was killed. Their ef- orts to get aid in their projected loldup gave officers a clue that hey .followed in discovering who lad slain the. payroll elerk. Brought back to Spartanburg they were tried in April 1929, and sentenced by Judge M. M. Mann to die after a jury had brought in a verdict of guilty. Then the fight for their lives began. An appeal to the supreme court dragged for months, but in March of this year the court af firmed the decision of the lower 20urt. They were sentenced to die May 23, but a reprieve was grant ed them by Governor Richards the lay before they were to be electro cuted. The governor, after several veeks of consideration, announced he would not interfere, although he said he had the utmost sym pathy for the men and their fam ilies. During all this time, the gover nor was bombarded with letters telegrams and calls at his office and at home by persons seeking to have the sentence commuted to life imprisonment. So annoying had the annoymous calls become during the last few days that it was necessary to remove the tele- i phone in the executive mansion. xxx A A candidate stands for a few Usually the difference between j things, but the voters have to success and failure is judgment. (stand for everything,.