Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-11-14

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have their work ready for the
Court when it. assemblies there
would not be so much complaint
and such a perennial demand for
additional Courts.
The census does not Indicate
that South Carolina will get an
additional Congressman. Some
who have figured on the relative
increase say that there seems to
be no chance for an additional
Congressman from this State.
The usual.
PROPOSITIONS TO REDIsTRICT
the State will be made, and the
usual fight against any change in
the districts, if the State is not to
get another Congressman. The
fight against any change has here
tofore to a large extent come from
the Congressman in Office or those
who have made the races in the
districts as they have been stard-
ing. The House, as will be re-
membered, passed, the Patton
redlstricting bill, but the Senate
killed it. It makes very little
difference to the average citizen
how the districts are arranged, but
it really does seem ronsensical to
have shoe-string districts in this
day and time, and have part of one
township in one district and the
remainder of a county in another
district, and divide up counties
so as to completely nullify their
influence. The demand has been
for some time for the districting
of the State upon county lines,
and it makes but little difference
how the counties are divided as to
districts, but there is no longer
any use to cut up the counties and
put part of county in one district
and part of the same county in
another district.
One of the arguments that will
be used against redistrietin&5 is
that there will be no use to- attend
to the redistricting at this session
as there will be no general election
or primary and that the Rame work
can be done at the session of 1902
One question that will come up
| in fact it has been coming up fol
several years, is the.
SALE OF THE STATE FARMS.
Some of the members of the
General Assembly think that be-
cause the State makes two or three
hundred bales of cotton ano
sufficient wheab and corn with
which to feed the convicts the
State ought not to engage in farm
ing at all, and should sell, nc
matter at what price, the valuable
farms that it owns. There has
been discussion of the question
during the recent cam
paign, and abundant promises
that the question would be brought
up. Thinking that it would be 8
popular cry the sale of the pro-
perties has been demanded on the
stump.
1t ought to be realized that on
ly the long-term COZ victs are noT
sent to the Penitentiary from
practically all of the counties
except Chareston. The counties
have their own chain gangs. except
Charleston, and prisoners sent tt
the Penitentiary and the State
farms are such as have long termI
and are not wanted on the county
chain gangs, and some way o
working the convicts has to b.
found, and the only question
seems to be whether the convict
are to make their own livelihood
tb cir -four, meat and clothing
or whether others ara to do 30 TO
them The only other plan suggested
lis to lease the convicts out ant
that is even more seiously object
led to.
THE D1sPENsARY LAW
will come up this year, as usual
for patching. There never ha
been year when suggestions haV
not teen made looking to improv
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