The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1901-06-18
CLlECH HEYWARD
OUT FOR GOVERNOR,
THE MAGNETIC MAN OF OLD COLLIE
TON HEEDS THE CALL
An Outline Of His Platform-Ho VIII Stand
for Ponce, Education, Intelligent
immigration, Industrial
ProSrebs
Especial to The State.1

cultOTlhl Ill InlS WO8kS tSBu6 OF tho
Press and Standard calling upon
Capt. ID. G. Hayward, Of this
town, TO become candidate for
governor at the next primary, your
correspondent called upon him to-
day and asked him whether he con-
templated making the race. Capt.
Hayward replied that he felt exceed
ingly gratifed that so many of his
friends in his own county and through
out the State had expressed to him
their desire that ho should enter the
contest for gubernatorial honors, and
that he had decided to do 80.
Capt. Hayward was then asked if
he would outline to some oxtent his
views upon the political issues which
would most probably enter into the
next campaign for State offices.
He replied that at this time he
knew of no question upon which
public attention would center chiefly
during the next campaign; that in
his opinion the people Of the State
wore closer together than they had
been for years. Old wounds had
healed and the day had come when
the people of South Carolina we're
doing their own thinking, and were
roalizing the fact more fully than
they had ever done before that those
questions which tended to inilamo
the passions of the people, and there
by retard all industrial development,
should be relegated 70 the rear, and
in their stead should be brought to
the front such subjects, the discus
sion of which in calm dignitied, and
intelligent manner, would result in
the material welfare and prosperity
of all the people of the State.
When asked to be q little moro
specific as to the nature of these
questions, Capt. Hayward replied
that the educational system of the
State was far from complete. That
there was no subject of greater mo-
ment to the people Of this State than
the education of hor youth, and that
we ought to exert all our energy to
the building up and perfecting Of
such an educational system as would
furnish our boys and girls with an
opportunity to fit themselves for the
dutiea and responsibilities of life.
Continuing, he said that the sub
ject of immigration was one which
should be given attention by those
who have the best interests of the
State at heart That immigration
should be officially and systematic
cal.y encouraged. In this connec-
tion he instanced south h-western Lou
isiana and southern Texas now the
most prosperous agricultural portions
of the South, built up to very great
extent by an influx of western farm
ers, induced to leave their mortgaged
farms in search of cheap and pro-
ductive lands and more congenial
climate. What has been done in
Louisiana and Texas, he claimed
could be done in South Carolina if
the effort was made. Good roads,
which were doing 80 much for North
Carolina, and the drainage of our
swamps and abandoned land, consti.
tuting as they do moro than one. fifth
Of the acreage of the State, should
be vigorously looked after. Capital
should be encouraged to come into
the State and should be made to feel
that it was welcome and would be
safeguarded by every protection
which the law threw around it.
GLOW about the dispensaryW he
Whb aBKoQ.
"That I consider" he replied, "a
settled question and one which should
not figure in the coming campaign to
the exclusion Of other important sub
jeots. 1t has been passed upon again
end again by the people of>the State,
and is a question which every voter
should thoroughly understand.
Should it be my fortune to be elected
governor of South Carolina 1 would
seek to enforce the dispensary law as
l would every other law which ]
found upon the statute books. The
Office of governor is an executive one.