Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1900-07-18
CANVASS RESUMED.
Candidates Take a Fresh Start After
Their Long Rest
WHITMAN CHANGES HIS POSITION
And Announces Himself i'm Favor of
License. = Good Feeling Prevails
Among the Candidates.
Georgetown Gathering.


twelve days the candidates met here
on Tuesday for the purpose of reopen
Ing the campaign.
Less interest was manifested here
than in any other county. There were
not over hundred white men in the
court house
During the interim since the meet
ing at Monck's Corner the candidates
have not been idle. Gov. McSweeney
represented the State in the Democrat-
ic convention at Kansas City, but each
OF his competitors was hard at work
at home The mill district in the
Piedmont was the favorite stamping
ground for the candidates for State
ofhces. Barbecues, picnics and other
gatherings on the glorious fourth wit
messed the presence of windy, wordy
candidates.
The eleven meetings constituting the
first quarter stretch OF this open-to-
the-world Democratic hurdle were re-
markable so far as the audiences are
concerned for the good order which
prevailed, for the thoughtfulness and
independence OF thought manifested
and for the sobriety of the people.
There have been no lines drawn by
narrow partisans.
Governor McSweeney was not pres
ent. Attorney General Bellinger. Di.
Zimmerman and Mr.. McNlahan were
also absent.
Col. Floyd was not here. either. nor
his opponent, DR.. Geo d. Rouse
Capt. r. H. Jennings presented his
claims for the office of State treasurer
and was applauded.
Mr.. n. w Brooker for comptroller
general wanted to go on with the re,
form which he had attempted to inau-
gurate in the method of checking I'D
books of county officials.
Mr.. Derham said if the people of
South Carolina %'anted him kicked ont
OF office they would not give Brooker
the job of kicking him out
Derham ana Brookey tangled up
over the alleged error in nulla bona
taxes in Sumter in 1896.
Ellison CaperS, Jr, candidate for
State superintendent of education.
stated that McMahan is honest and in
dusuious. but has trampled upon the
rights OF others. He was applauded
when he attacked McMahan's appoint
ing white teachers TO conduct the
State colored normal school instead of
letting negroes run their own schooi.
Senator Pettigrew said that in the
race for railroad commissioner he is
lighting nobody. He will commence
fighting after election-fghting for
the peoples interests.
Col. Wharton spoke OF Georgetown s
bright ourOok He called attention
to injustice of demurrage. the charge
OF dollar day for use of ear ON
track Farmer mus, stop his plow to
nninpn nd
there empty for days.
Mai Barney Evans renewed his
charges that the people of South Car.
olina are paying the highest local
tariff of any State. This is because the
railroad commissioners are either ig-
norant or are bought
Mr.. +. n. Berry was a candidate on
his business qualifca lions. no1 on ora
torical qualities. Ie spoke in behalf
of prohibition. The dispensary may
be stepping stone. but the State has
been standing On that stone long
enough
Sickness in his family prevented Mr..
w d. Evans from being present. Eth,
eredge and Mayfeld were not there.
Walt Whitmar was the first AT the
bat This was he FIRST meeting where
there We're white men on one side
black men on the other and dogs in
the aisle. At some Of the meetings
there had been two-lcgged dogs. He
was glad of the orderly way in which
he was received. The question of ed
ucation is higher than that of liquor.
but liquor has been made the para
mount issue of the campaign c. Walt
Whitman. who has been suspected of
dispensary inclinati0ns. declared in ia
vor of lfccnse-not high license. but
just simple license
He jumped on higher education by
the State. giving 100000 to keep up
State colleges which half of the tax
payers do not know are in existence.
He said the "Tammanyocracy"
Evanses and Garys and so forth" lool.
down in contempt on him for aspiring
To be governor. when Ben Tillman
hlmselt had said. Whitman, you have
got more sense thanall your competi-
tors. but you haven't got the pull
Frank H. Gary congratulated George
town en- the progress evident. SIe re-
piled with great feeling to the intima
ton by Whitman that the Gary family
had been too much in office. He was
running as an individual. when nv
forefathers were battling for their
country, whore were YOU sir. he asked
shaking his finger Await While
my people were fighting for their
country, the fc crefathers of that fellow
at Manning (AppelD who started this
insinuation against my candidacy were
fishing on the banks of the Jordan"
Continuing, Gary denied that he was
opposed to the dispensary The friends
OF the. governor, fearing his (Gary's)