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CANDIDATES NOW ATTACK BLEASEISM RICHARD I. MANNING EJECTS QUESTION IN RACE AT ORANGEBURG. URE CF PARDONING POWER Law Enforcement Comes to Front in Discussions?Education is Not so Prominent in Recent Meetings. The trip last week of the State campaign party completed the circuit of the low country, where it has been for the last seven weeks From now on until August 20 the candidates for tate offices will make their pleas for suffrage in the Piedmont section and because of the much larger number of voters ?'hey must face It is expected that attacks on the public records of candidates will play an important role In electioneering. The meetings last week were at St. George. Orangeburg and St. Matthews on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, respectively. At each meeting where statements bearing on the senatorial race were made it was very evident that the sentiments of the audience were in favor of E D. Brofth. candidate lor re-election as United States senator In striking contrast, however, was the political meeting and plonlc at Filbert on Friday, when friends of the governor were far in the majority. The meeting at Filbert in York county was not a scheduled rneetinr of tne candidates and there were only a few present. R. I. Manning Eject5 Bleaseism. Richard 1. Manning of Sumter, candidate for governor, furnished the sensation of the week when at the Orangeburg meeting he injected the question of BltM.se iem into the race. It caan unexpectedly as Mr Manning had constantly pleaded that factionalism Ih laid as'de, and for this very reason he wu< taken to a--count at the meeting at St. Matthews by \Y. C. Irby, Jr.. and Charles Carroll Siimns. candidates for governor, and friends of the governor. 'The one tremendous issue before the people of South Carolina in this campaign." said Mr. Manning in part, "is the condition of demoralization brouglv about by Gov. Biease's administration. or whether a man stands with these wishing the perpetuation of the policies of the pr^ent administration w:th its lawlessness or whether lie stands at the head of that other element which thinks the present administration is a disgrace to the state." Mr. Manning went on to saythat hs was not attacking the personal record of Mr. Blease. "I am here to tell you." continued Mir. Manning In his denuciation, "that Gov. Blease's administration has boan a disgrace to S?ath Carolina. Our state is held up before the eyes of the civilized world as a state disgraced She cannot show her face among her sister states without blushes of deepest shame. She has been humiliated; she has been dragged in the mire. Will you allow this thing to continue?" he cried aloud, and many voices answered "No " Mr Manning had the audience with him throughout this exoriatlon and when he finished a storm of applause burst forth that outdistanced the impersonal attacks of other candidates. Mentioned For First Time. Except by the friends of Blease this was the first time that his name had been mentioned by the gubernatorial candidates. The attacks hitherro have been directed against tlit* abuse of the pardoning power and the r.on-enforcement of law, with especialy reference to race-track gambling i:i Charleston and the presence of "blind-tigers" in ?Vwlnml?i;i Charleston and other cities of th.1 sfat*\ These attack.- have almost bivariably been commended by a large majority of each audience. Richards Makes Statement. The Orangeburg meeting brought out interesting features in the race for governor on tlte side of the administration candidates. John U Richards made tiiis statement: "I shall stand for a strict enforcement of the law with fairness to all our people and without partiality to any. I believe, however, that Justice should be tern pared with mercy." W. t\ Irby. Jr.. and Charles Carroll Simms. candidates for governor, who have been friends of Gov. Mease for many years, stated that they were snaking their race on their own platforms and that their friendship for Mr. Please was based on personal op'nion. "If ele< 1 governor." said Mr sinmo at Orangeburg. "Mease is not going 'o control nc" Marller in the meeting .Mr. Irby. in reply to the ^ueenon or .in auanor, s>:ue?i mai n? had often refused to sitrn petitions for paroles and pardons. though he thought a" th?* time that it would have wi'hia reason to do <o. Mr Simnis., in addition, has continued to attack Mr Richards for his friendship to ?o many administrations that have boer at variance with each other. He ,SUk? also taken Mr Richards to account for his varying stands on the i'luuor u'lestion. With the issues of law enforcement and the judicious i*se of pardoning power corning so sTongly to the front the jusstion of compulsory education iae not l>e*n so prominent in the last week m earlier in the "wmpalgn. X la still discussed on avery stump and by nearly all the speakers, with widely variant atltudee All are in favor of expanding education among the white people, but the luaation of the education of the negro, who aje In a majority in this state of almost a juarter trf a million, continues to bob up &j an argument against compulsory *du cation Clinkscales Decries "Nigger Scare." John 0 Clinkarales, candidate for governor, is the sole advocate of a sttttwnide compulsory school attendance law and continually decries the "nigger scare" advanced by some of bis opponents as an argument against the education of the whites. Robert A. Cooper advocates "provision and anmirt school facili les." with espec ial <are that the chMdren of tee country districts be a* w?H p< spared to go to mdtool as the children in the cities, before the enactment of a law that would force all children into school. He stated also that a statewide school attendance law at this time could not be enforced. Against Compulsory Education. As against these positions on compulsory education are the statements of Mendel L. Smith and Richard I. Manning, who advocate local option in the questions of education and liquor. Lowndes J. Browning of Union, candidate foi governor, has not advocated any general system or plan of education. but has stated that a statewide compulsory education law would increase the tax levy five mills, which the people of the state are not prepared to stand. Charles A. Smith has said that he was in favor of any step that would advance tho cause of education in this state. Directly opposed to these views of the compulsory education issue is that of John G. Rich ards, who states that he is fundamen tally opposed to compelling education on Anglo-Saxon people. Mr. Richards argues that It will elevate the negro child at the expense of the white child Against this argument is the prediction of Mr Clinkscales that if the present conditions are allowed to continue for 15 years that there will he nor? negroes than white people qualified to vote at '.he expiration of that time. Advocate Rural Credits. Lowndes .1. Browning and \V. C. Irbv. Jr.. are strong advocates of the enactment of a rural credits law. which will enable farmers to own their farms ami homes. Mr. Browning and Mr. Irby would like to see tiie state loan money at a low rate of interest to prospective white farmers and to the present farmers, so that they can remain in the country as producers instead of going to the cities and becoming consumers. They point out that the general exodus of families from the country to the city and the large number of tenant white farmers should be decreased by aid from the state treasury, as these who develop the farms of South Carolina represent the backbone and material rirvwikoHfv <->f all i)f*onle in the state "We need more white farmers on small farms," pleads Mr. Browning. Wants Demonstration School. Mr. Cooper in the field of agricultural development advocates that a farm demonstration school under the direction of Clemson Agricultural College he placed In each county. This school by practical demonstration caji show the farmers the latest aids in farming As an immediate good of such schools Mr. Cooper calls attention to the preduction of scientists that the boll weevil will reach South Carolina in about five years and that all farmers should be made acquainted with the best means of hampering the 'advance of this pest that lias put many farmers in Texas, Louisiana. Mississippi and Alabama into bankruptcy. Mr Cooper maintains that South Carolina is essentially an agricultural state and that aid should hp given in all ways practicable to help the conditions of the farmers. The races for minor omces rave waned in interest as the campaign draws near to its end. and as the question of the selection of a chief executive on August l'"> must be made from eleven aspirants to that position. The quartette of candidates for lieutenant governor. Andrew J. Bethea. William M Hamer. J A. Hunter and B Frank Kellev. have confined themselves lately to gentle prods at the records of each other and the sallies for the most part have been accepted hy the audiences i nrlie host of humor Mr Bethea liases his plea for suffrage on his work as Gov. Ansel's secretary and his present position as ode com missioner; Mr. Hamer, not having been in public life before, holds up his record as a business man in Dillon; Mr. Hunter and Mr. Kellev speak of tlieir work in the legislature, the former being a representative from Bamberg county and the latter a representative and later a state senator from Lee county. The candidates for railroad commissioner. six in number, vary little in the presentation of their platforms. The candidates are James Pansier. George W. Pairey. C. D. Port tier. Frank W. ^ Ilea ley, J. H. Wharton and W. i. Witlierspoon. Mr. Pansier has no* been with the party for many weeks on account of sickness. The race for comptroller general, A. W Jones, incumbent, and James A Summerset, opposing him. continues from day to day with the same charges. Thomas H. 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