Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-07-26

for much valuable information about
the office that they have gotten through
the newspapers during the past four
years. Mr.. CAN'T has done great deal
Of work that he was not required to do.
and made common with the general
public, much important information
that was previously held principally by
the lawyers. If he should be elected
and prove as efficient In the position
Of principal as he has been in the posi-
tion of first assistant, the people Will
have no cause to complain.
THE STATE CAMPAIGN MEETING.
The candidates for the Democratic
nomina ton for the various state offices
to be filled in the November election.
addressed the voters Of York county In
the court house yesterday. In accord
ance with the regular schedule, us ar
ranged by the state Democratic eXecu-
tive committee. The building was
crowded to its fullest capacity. The
meeting was called to order at 1890 a.
rh., by County Chairman Brice, who
felt assured that all the candidates
would be accorded a fair and patient
hearing. He announced that the can
didates for the minor offices would
speak in the morning; that there would
be recress from l to 2 o'clock and
that the candidates for governor would
speak in the afternoon. After this an
Mr.. Brice introduced Rev.
w. G. Neville. who opened the exer-
cises with an appropriate prayer. In
which he especially petitioned that the
voters would select as their nominees
only the most intelligent men of con-
viction, courage and virtue.
The first speaker introduced was MT.
u. x. Gunter, Of Spartanburg, candi-
date for attorney general. He compli-
mented York as being q staid, conserv-
ative old county of good judgment.
He had an especially kindly feeling be-
cause 1t was before a grand old citi-
zen of York county, the late Judge
Witherspoon, that he plead his first
case. He would always remember the
high inspiration he derived from this
good man, and he paid to the memory
Of Judge Witherspoon a pretty tribute
tnat elected loud applause. Then he
proceeded to review his record as as
sistant attorney general since his first
under General Barber.
He promised that If elected he will re-
turn his commission at the expiration
of his term as unsullied as when 1t
comes into his hands. He closed amidst
loud applause.
Mr.. w. F. Stevenson, Of Chesterfield,
also q candidate for attorney general.
was the next speaker. Coming as he
did from a county that had voted for
York's candidate for congress, and from
among Scotch-Irish people, he felt pc
culiarly at home among the people Of
York, notwithstanding the fact that an
effort had been made to prejudice him
because he had come from North Car
olina. Mr.. Gunter said he had not rails
ed that issue. Mr.. Stevenson said 1t
had been raised by other indiscreet
persons, and went on to say that there
had been no such issue when his an
cestors fought side by side with South
Carolinians at Kings Mountain.
[ [Cheers1. His ancestors had been con-
nected with the legislative department
Of this government since the establish
ment of American liberty. Then he
went on to tell what the general as
sembly had done for education during
the past ten years. Spoke Of promiscu-
GUS unwarranted charges Of corruption
in various departments Of the govern
ment, and also Of the penitentiary in
vestigation. Spoke over his time few
and was applauded.
Hon. John T. Sloan, candidate FOR
lieutenant governor, had always been
in the county Of York with
its farms, it's factories, its gallant men
and beautiful women. Nothing had
electrified him more as a schoolboy
than the story of the Revolutionary he
roes who fought at Kings Mountain
and Guilford Court House, and he has
felt an admiration for the de-
scendants Of these people. Spoke OF
mis- record in the general assembly, and
the work he did for Winthrop college,
Clemson and the South Carolina COL
lege, as we'll as for the public schools.
He wanted to see education developed
until every plowboy will be competent
to step from the plowhandles to the
highest office in South Carolina. Con-
sidered the dispensary law the best so
luton Of the liquor question. Served
in the war, and went through thirteen
battles, and was captured at Apo
matax before he was II years old, and
after that devoted himself to the en-
suing fight for the redemption Of South
Carolina. He felt that he was really
entitled to the office for which he can
vassed the state two years ago, and
for which he Is still asking. Zap
plausel
Hon. Frank B. Gary, Of Abbeville,
also q candidate for lieutenant COVER
nor. He said it was refreshing to come
to York county In which his friend
Sloan had not been born. He had been
born in about seven different counties,
and If he had had a chance he would
have been born here also. lLaughter].
Mr.. Sloan: 1 would have been very
proud of it. [Cheersl. Mr.. Gary: If
he had been the last speaker he would
have been born here. Said he and Mr..
Blease disagreed on the question Of BIZ
ennial sessions. They had not gotten
1t made no difference. however, because
as the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS has no vote
1t makes no more difference about his
views on the subject than it does on
the subject of infant baptism. Laugh
teri. Stood for the dispensary law
whe nthe law needed friends. and will
continue to stand for the law until
the friends of prohibition show their
ability to prevent liquor from being
brought over the North Carolina bor-
der. [Yellsl. Spoke Of Colonel Sloan's
numerous relatives as officeholders.
Said his own people had been treated
we'll by South Carolina; but he asked
the voters to conflne themselves to the
criterion of merit. said that Sloan was
not sincere in the pretty things he had
said of South Carolina because he had
gone to Virginia to get his wife.
[ [Laughter]. Said both his competitors
were doing what they could to keep the
fight on a high plane, and that was
right because the demerits of an op-
ponent does not argue fitness.
Hon. Cole l.. Blease, Of Newberry,
also q candidate for the office of lieu
Told of his record in
the leoisla tllra and the various other