The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1900-07-19
Candidates Take a Fresh Start After
Their Long Rest
WHITMAN CHANGES. HIS POSITION
~ Announces Himself in Favor OF
License. - Good Feeling Prevails
Among :he 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 a 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 favorise stamping
ground for the candidates for State
offices. 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-
narkable so far as the audiences are
concerned for the good order which
prevailed, for the thoughtfulness and
independence or 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, Dr..
Zimmerman and Mr.. McMahan 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 ap
books of county officials.
Mr.. Derham said il the people of
South Carolina wanted him kicked out
OF office they would not give Brooker
the job of kicking him out.
Derham and Brooker 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
dustrious. 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 school.
Senator Pettigrew said that in the
race for railroad commissioner he is
fighting nobody. He will commence
fighting after election-fghting for
the peoples interests.
Col. Wharton spoke Of Georgetown S
bright outlook He called attention
to injustice OF demurrage, the charge
of dollar 4 day for use Of car On
track. Farmer mus; stop his piow to
Hnload car, ard the car often remains
there empty for days.
Mai. Barney Evans renewed his
charges that the people of South Car
olina are paving the highest local
tariff of any STATE. This is because the
railroad commissioners are either ig-
norant or are bought.
Mr.. T. n. Berry was candidate On
his business qualifications, no1 on era.
torical qualities. He spoke in behalf
of prohibition. The dispensary may
be a stepping stone, but the State hes
been standing en- that stone long
enough.
Sickness IN his family prevented Mr..
w D. Evans from being present. Eth
eredge and Mayfinld were not there.
Walt Whitman was the first at the
bat. This was :he first meeting where
there were white men on one side.
black men on the other and dogs in
the aisle At some CT the meetings
there had been two-legged 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. G. Walt
Whitman. who has been suspected OF
dispensary inclinations. declared in ia
yor of license-not high license, bat
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 no. know are in existence.
He said the "Tammanyocracy"-the
Eyanses and Garys and so forth looi;
down in contempt on him for aspiring
to be governor. when Ben Tillman
himself had said. Whitman, you have
got more sense thanall your ccmpeti-
tors. but you haven't got the pull"
Frank B. Gary congratulated George
town en- the progress evident. He re-
piled with great feeling to the intima'
ton by Whitman tha; the Gary family
had been too much IN office. He was
running as an individual. When my
forefathers were battling for thei!