The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1902-06-19
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what he had been doing FOR his dis
trict
The forest reserve bill ilh the hons,
of representatives he had srnnorted
because he thought it would he Of vital
benefit to the people in E,reventing
freshets, regulating rainfall ,and pre.
vent the cutting and washing \awav nj
land. Much of the most valuable land
in the State was not planted because
the freshets rendered it impossible, and
the freshets had increased to an ala~m-
ing extent since the mountain forests
had been cut away. He said this was
the most important measure and
should be strongly taken up.
MR.. ]. J. HEMPHILL,
the next speaker, said he liked prom
ising man-of some kind. But the can
didates who had preceded him had
promised everything and had claimed
to have accomplished all the rest, and
it left him nothing to do. He devoted
himself to the topic OF expansion. The
Democrats are expansionists, but the
Republicans go too far in that direc-
tion. The Democrats believe in expan-
sion of commerce and manufactures.
He told number Of bright jokes to
illustrate Yankee ingenuity and inven-
tive genius and declared that all they
want the Philippines for Is to make
money of them. Is it to ChristianiZe
these people that Gen. Jacob Smith is
sending to their death all males over
ten years of age in one Of the pro.
vinces? We have country enough now;
we have far more land than we can
comfortably take care of, and yet they
want US to murder people in order that
we may get their territory.
The reason why Germany and other
nations must expand Is because the
population there Is so dense. They
have 400 persons to the square mile
while we have but 81.
In regard to the ship subsidy he ex-
pressed himself very unequivocally. He
denounced this system Of giving money
to Tom Jores and Drefacing the bill
with whereas the farmers are poor"
etc. Where does it benefit the farmer?
How are we going to remedy these
matters? BY a more general untiring
out of the voters on election day. He
has always been a member Of the pre-
cinct club at Chester, he attends his
precinct meetings and attends the
meetings OF the convention when he Is
sent there. The people ought to take
the time to go to the polls. Go to the
polls and vote for the man you think
best fitted to represen you. Mr.. Hemp
hill made a decided impression.
A SPLENDID ORATORICAL.
exhibition was the speech of Col. Geo.
Johnstone of Newberry who had been
saved 10 the last in order to hold the
crowd. He told how the government
had bought from the effete kingdom Of
Spain the Philippine islands, 1000 Of
whose people worship our God. They
say we are trying TO Christianize them.
Can a corpse be Christianized? Herod
gave orders for all under two years Of
age to be killed, and Gen. Jacob Smith
issued orders for all over 10 years to
be killed. With biting sarcasm Col.
Johnstone denounced this kind Of me-
thod for spreading Christianity. He de-
nounced the proposed ship subsidy as
an effort to direct attention from the
proposed Isthmian canal. He declared
that il ship subsidy Is granted it will
not help a single south Atlantic port,
while the Isthmian canal would build
up all ports from New Orleans to Nor
folk.
He deplored the fact that the trend
of affairs is toward monarchy and
away from a government Of the peo-
pie. as shown by Roosevelt's inaugura-
tion as compared with Jefferson's
Democratic procedure.
He painted glowing picture Of the
progress Of the south in the past 25
years and called this the future seat Of
power in the United States.
He closed amid cheers and thus
closed peaceful and pleasant meet
ing. There were many candidates for
various State Offices here today.