The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1902-06-25
THE BURNING ISSUES.
The Seductive Songs of the Candi.
dates in Their Chase After Votes.

dates in Their Chase After Votes.
The campaign for State officers
opened at Sumter on the 18th inst
There is virtually no difference ot
opinions between the candidates or
questions of party polity and on the
measures which are before the Eco
pie. In no campaign since 1890 has
there been such a total lack of interest
on the part of the voters as there
has been exhibited 80 far in the
present campaign, and it really looks
as if the people are taking no stock
in political matters. At this meeting
the views of the candidates for the
various Offices to be filed this year
were outlined, and we herewith give
synopsis of their platform, as re-
ported in the papers:
Mr.. NJ. T. Ansel, of Greenville,
candidate for Governor: He had
been connected with the legislative
and judicial branches Of the govern
ment and now desired experience in
the executive department.. He had
always favored the primary system
of making nominations; favored ap.
preparations for the gallant old Con-
federate soldiers; believed in the
dignity of labor; is an advocate of
education and was in favor of giving
the best and highest educational ad.
vantages to the children of the State,
AID considered that education was
the burning, important and living
question of the day; favored good
roads and believed that they could
be put in good condition by. the in
stalment plan; favored the dispen-
sary law and it's enforcement; was
opposed to trusts. If elected he
would discharge his duty and fear
no man.
Capt. D. G. Hayward, of Barnwell,
is running for Governor on his
merits. He believed that the COM
mon development of our great and
growing interests was the task to
continue to completion; the people of
South Carolina have time and again
expressed themselves on the dispen-
sary law,and be regarded this law as
settled fact and properly enforced
was the best solution of the whisky
question; endorsed State and Ma
tional platforms but believed the in
dustrial problems of the South
should now be discussed: be had
been one of the earliest movers on
the subject of good roads and was
still decidedly in favor of this great
need; he is opposed to children work
ing in factories and while not un-
mindful of the rights and interests
of the factory owner or the operative,
he, therefore, favored a law gradual
in operation as to the age limit for
children to be employed in factories;
favored maintaining the higher ed
ucationd interests, but the question
was the improvement of the common
and public school system; favored
biennial sessions of the Legislature.
Mr.. ". Jasper Talbert, of Edge
field, candidate for Governor, empha-
sized his opposition to trusts and
commercial Democracy; favored a
liberal support to State Colleges and
the upbuilding of the common
schools; favored law for the tax
which white man pays to go to the
support of the white schools, and
that paid by the negro to the support
of the negro schools; favored the
dispensary law as the best solution
of the whisky question and believed
that it should be enforced in Colum-
bia and Charleston as we'll as in all
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