Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-10-10
the peaceful relation now existing or
is to delay or hinder the return Of
prosperous times.


As Americans, as South Carolinians
and independent of party, we want
honest government by the people, for
the people, which shall insure to all,
independent of party, the fruit of our
effort and a just return for our labor.
No man in this state, no matter
what his condition or color, wants to
see repetition of reconstruction days.
We want intelligence and virtue to
govern. We want peace and prosperi-
ty, and over and above all, wise legls-
lation and cheerful obedience to law.
I would not be a party to strife of
classes, of section or of races.
appeal to you as candidate who
would lose no opportunity to Impress
on the people he would meet as your
representative, that the state he had
the honor to represent was the banner
state of the Union for business oppor-
tunities, for comfort of living and for
healthfulness.
Give me your support and can and
will add to the development of our
district. Truly you all appreciate
what development means. Ten years
ago, hardly factory was in this dis
trict. Today we have 81 mills. The
farmer knows it enables him to get as
much for cotton at home as is paid in
New York; that as the population
grows about our thriving towns and
villages so we can get higher prices
for all of our products. These are
things that bring prosperity to every
mans door, brings better schools,
churches and homes, more of comfort
and of money.
Other sections of our country are
already enjoying such prosperity. But
to us, to South Carolina, and by rea-
son of superior natural advantages it
should have come frst-not last.
However, and to accomplish it, urge
that you cast your vote for a man who
appreciates these conditions, 'one who
can impress them upon others, one
who has influenced such people to
come to our state.
Quoting from the leading paper Of
our district. In an article referring to
an enterprise I had inaugurated at
Blacksburg, it said: "Major John F.
Jones has created more taxable proper
ty in York county than any other
man in that county," 1t will pass ua-
disputed that the enterprises I have
created with capital brought from out
side our state pay upwards of one
sixth of the taxes of our town.
refer to this only that you may ap-
preciate how intimately l am ldenti-
fed with our common interests.
Granted that am elected, is there
any reason why, as business man, l
cannot perform all the duties and pro-
tect all the interests incident to our
common concern as thoroughly and as
we'll as any professional man3
Does it require professionalism
one be lawyer or doctor-to enable
him to determine that our best inter-
ests demand stable currency? Do
we not all want good money that
which shall be current every day and
everywhere? Money that shall en-
courage the millowner to increase the
size of his mill. Money that shall set
every spindle turning, that shall make
the manufacturer call out to the farm
ers for increased crops for more of cot
ton; to the miner for more of his ores
to the lumberman for more of the
products of our forests?
And as relates to our interest in tariff
questions. If we can, by protection of
our cotton, keep out from this country
and from our markets other cotton, the
products of other countries, such as
the Egyptian cotton now being spun
in New England; if We can keep
from our markets the products of the
looms of Great Britain and thereby
help our own South Carolina mills to
spin and to dispose of more of their
products that they may buy more OF
our cotton and perhaps be able to pay
mure for it. Then we, any of US, know
enough to legislate to gain such ends.
Other sections are enriched by pro-
lection of their products. So should
your representative, when such legisla-
tion is possible as will materially en-
hance the wealth Of your section, in
sist upon a similar protection of that
upon which the greatest prospect of
our states prosperity depends. Pro-
tect our rice, our cotton and our iron,
and this state, too, will be enriched.
Invite the voters of this district to
make enquiry as to who am. If you
believe that may do you, your neigh
borhood, your district some good, that
will exceed anything that has yet been
done for you; if you think can do
you a real practical business service
by sending me to represent you where
1 shall meet with people who are seek
ing new homes, new business, new
things and ways in which to invest
their capital, then surely it's no great
risk you run of personal injury when
you cast ballot that sends me there
for two years. The ballot is free and
sacred trust; to that extent man is
bound to cast his own as his judgment
dictates, else to play the fool by acting |
what he don't mean by yielding to the