Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1902-09-17
The New Governor OF South Carolina.

Duncan Clinoh Hayward, who has
been selected by the Democratic
voters of this State to be Governor
of South Carolina for the next two
years, comes of an honored and his
toric family. His father was Edward
Barnwell Hayward, of Colleton
county, and his mother was Kather-
inc Maria Clinch, a daughter of Gen.
Duncan l.. Clinoh, of Georgia. A
few years before the war between the
States his father moved to his plan
tation on the Wateree River, in
Richland county, and there the fu-
ture Governor was born in 1864.
Shortly after the war his father re-
turned to Colleton county, where he
engaged in the business of rice
planting, in which business his ances-
tors had engaged for many genera.
tions before him. A few years after
the removal of the family to Colleton
county Capt. Heyward's father and
mother both died, and the rest of his
childhood was spent with his grand
mother, Mrs. Clinch, who resided in
Charleston during the winter months
and in the mountains of Georgia
during the summer.
Capt. Hayward was educated at
the w Washington and Lee University,
Lexington, Va, and in 1885 married
Miss Mary Elizabeth Campbell, of
Rockbridge county that State. I'm
mediately after his marriage he
moved to Walterboro, Colleton
county, where he has since resided
with his family, there being born of
his marriage four children.
Since 1886 he has devoted himself
exclusively to the cultivation of rice,
in which business he has been very
successful.
Prior to the campaign just ended
Capt. Hayward had never been a
candidate for public Office, although
he had fer many years evidenced a
deep interest in public affairs, and
had always been most active in the
discharge of the duties devolved
upon him as a prominent and inffu-
ential citizen of the county.
Having but limited acquaintance
throughout the State, and being op-
posed by men of consummate skill
and wide experience in practical
politics, there were many who be-
lieved when his candidacy was an
nounced that it was doomed to fail
ure. This apprehension, however,
was not shared in by those who
knew him best. Being a man of
pleasing and attractive manners, of
fine personality, of irreproachable
character, and possessing unusual in
tellectual ability, his friends believed
from the first that he would 80 i'm
press himself upon the people of the
State as to insure his election. The
splendid endorsement given him by
the people of the State has fully
justified the faith of his friends.
The endorsement given him by the
people of his own county is nota-
BILE one. They gave him probably
the largest per cent of his home vote
ever polled by candidate for this
office in the face of strong opposi-
tion. This support at home is, in
deed, a high compliment, showing
that he is loved and trusted most by
the people who know him best.
The character of his administration
is best indicated by his public decla-
rations and department during the
recent campaign. Those deolara-
tions mark him as broad and pro-
gressive man, anxious for the wei.
fare of the people of his State and
determined to do all that he cal to
build up the States many industries.
In his public utterances he pointed
out many industries which needed
fostering and development, and
pledged himself, if elected, to use
his best efforts to that end. He laid
special stress upon the Improvement
of the common schools and the pub
lie highways and the suppression of
trusts. In addition to these inter-
ests his administration will be de-
voted to the building up and en-
largemenS of the States resources,
agricultural, industrial and CONNER.
cial.--News and Courier.
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