The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, June 25, 1914, Image 1
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VOL. XXVIIL KIXGSTREK, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JOE 25, 1914. NO. 16
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~ v Candidates for State offices opened
the second week of the countyto-county
campaign here Monday.
C The big meeting was held in the
new Central tobacco warehouse, and
the speakers were heard by an audience
of 600 people, composed of a
great many ladies. The meeting
was presided over by A C Hinds,
Esq, secretary of the Democratic
county committee, in the absence of
; the chairman, P H Stoll, Esq, who
is attending court this week at
?umter. The meeting was opened
with prayer by Rev W E Hurt.
The day was a record breaker
here for heat, the thermometer
, going to 101. The candidates comnlained
that it was the hottest day
they had felt since the campaign
opened and some of them upon
leaving the platform looked as if
I they had just emerged from a pool
v- of water.
\ Throughout the meeting good order
prevail J, except in one or two
v instances v, >en the chairman had to
request th< crowd at the front of
the building to cease talking so
loud or to move out more quietly.
In several places on the walls of
the warehouse near the speakers'
stand there was written in chalk
the words, "No coat-tail swingers
need apply/' which one of the candidates
for Governor said was to
Jno G Richards like flaunting a red
cloth in a bull's face.
The candidates for Railroad Commissioner
were the first to address
the audience and spoke in the following
order: J H Wharton, of
Laurens; W I Witherspoon, of Yorkville;
C D Fortner, of Spartanburg;
F W Shealey, of Lexington, speaking
in the order named. James
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ing iD Columbia for treatment at a j
hospital, according to announce- ,
ment by the chairman. Geo W
Fairey, of Calhoun county, was not
present when his name was called, ;
h but arrived before the meeting ,
closed anc was the last candidate to
F speak.
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LLIAMSBURC VOTERS.
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delates Receive
Hearing.
road Commissioner came those aspiring
to the office of Lieutenant
Governor. Of these Mr A J Bethea
of Columbia led off. He was followed
by W M Hamer, of Dillon, J
A Hunter, of Bamberg, and B Frank
Kelley, of Bishopville, candidates
for the same office. With considerable
ego Mr Kelley stated that he
was running for the office of Lieutenant
Governor upon his own
merits; that he was not a ' 'coat-tail
swinger" and had never been. He
vigorously attacked the requirement
for personal enrolment of voters,
and referred to A J Bethea and W
M Hamer, two of his opponents, as
"Little Goulds." He said the new
rules worked against the poor man and
were devised to disfranchise them.
He was opposed to compulsory education.
TOR ATTORNEY GENERAL.
A G Brice was the first to speak
in his own behalf for the office of
Attorney General. He said his opponent,
Mr Peeples, was putting up
such a pitiful plea for the office that
it touched the sympathetic chords of
his own heart at times. He thought
Mr Peeples might with ten years
experience and proper application
as a lawyer be a suitable man for
the office, and asked the people to
decide which was the better qualified
to fill this high office.
Mr Peeples, the present Attorney
General, said that he had held the
office for one and a half years, had
conducted his office on an economic
principle and to the best interest of
the taxpayers. He had been loyal to
his constituents and thought that he
should be continued in the office.
FOR COMPTROLLER GENERAL.
Mr Jas A Summersett of Columhin
war the first of the two candi
dates to advance his claims to this
office and he thanked the voters of
Williamsburg for the handsome vote
they had given him some years ago
as a candidate for Railroad Commissioner.
He said that taxation was
the greatest problem confronting
the people and promised, if elected,
to adjust it so as to lighten the bur'
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den of the poor man.
Comptroller General A W Jones
was the next speaker. He said that
he was no orator, that the Comptroller
General's office needed no orator.
He said he had been working
for many years to bring about a system
of equalization which the board
of eaualization had ignored. He
said that lands worth $20 an acre
were being assessed at $3 per acre,
and that mules were being assessed
at a much higher valuation than
land. During his term of office he
had corrected errors amounting to
over $250,000. ,
FOR ADJUTANT GENERAL.
Mr M C Willis of Yorkville, candidate
for Adjutant General, promised.if
elected,to upbuild the militia,
to work for the addition of machine
guns, an engineering and ambulance
corps and for a pay bill that will
compensate the boys who plow all
day and drill at night.
Adjutant General W W Moore,for
re-election, thanked the people for
the vote given him before, tie saia
he had been trying to get an accounting
and settlement for Government
property with the companies
throughout the State, but only in a
few instances had he been able to
get any responses. He stated that
because of this and the refusal of
the Commander-in-Chief, the Governor,
to muster out certain companies
which were found to be below
requirements.it had caused the Federal
war department to withdraw
any further aid until the war department
got a settlement of the
nrnn#?rtv. $83,127. owned by them
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and lent out to the militia of the
State and till the Governor mustered
out the companies found below the
standard set by the war department.
He said this knocked South Carolina
out of the encampment this year,
and there would be no further Fed- j
eral funds for this State's militia till
these matters were attended to. He
told of the Governor depriving him
of all power to enforce the laws and
carry out the military code and said
this had caused disorganization in
the militia which would take some
years to overcome. Gen Moore told
how he had tried to do his duty and
work for the upbuilding of an efficient
National Guard, but the Governor
had tied his hands by taking
all power to enforce the militia law
out of his hands. Referring to Capt
Willis's charge at Georgetown that
he was incompetent, he asked the
people to study them both,their records,
and then judge between them.
"the governors."
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Manning of Sumter, who was the
first candidate in the race for Gubernatorial
honors to speak. He alluded
to the great progress made in
Kingstree and in this county within
the past few years and complimented
the splendid citizenship of old '
Williamsburg. He promised if elected
to enforce the laws, and to remove
from this State the stigma of
a reputation for disregard of the
law. He promised to use the pardoning
power sparingly, and to carry
out the verdicts of the juries and
the courts. Increased educational
facilities for the rural schools and
local option on the liquor question
were also among the issues he advocated.
JOHN G RICHARDS.
John G Richards, of Liberty Hill,
presented his claims for Governor.
He read a brief outline of his platform.
announoing. among other
planks, his opposition to compulsory
education. He said he stood for
enforcement of the law, but he did
not propose to single out Charleston
and Columbia, like Mr Manning, he
stated.had done, but he proposed to
enforce the law throughout the
State, without singling out any community
and pointing the finger of
scorn at them. Mr Richards said
John G Clinkscales said at Georgetown
that his (Richard's) opposition
to compulsory education gave him
a pain in his anatomy. He stated
that if he could read the signs of
the times the people were waking:
up, and after the election Clinkscales
would have pains in all parts of his
anatomy. He attacked Mendel L
Smith's and RI Manning's stand for
local option compulsory education.
He attacked the newspapers for calling
him a "coat-tail swinger" because
he was going to vote for Govvernor
Blease for the United States
Senate, and he said he proposed to
ask the people from the mountains
to the sea if they proposed to allow
a newspaper oligarchy to crush him
because he was simply going to exercise
his right to vote for whom he
pleased for Senator. He denounced
the charge of "coat-tail swinging,"
which, he said, was being directed
at him by the newspapers, and sailed
into them vigorously and said he
would take care himself.
CHAS CARROLL SIMMS.
Charles Carroll Simms, of Barnwell,
opened his speech by attacking
an editorial in a Columbia newspaper,
and expressed his warm admiration
for Governor Blease, his
personal and political friend. In
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