The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1902-07-23

neard the candidates Tor state of1lCe
at the meeting at Holmes Sprin
Park in East Nam street on Friday
The speeches were as a rule not ser
sational and the crowd was orderly
There were no Incidents" Count
Chairman G. L. Smith presided. Va
rious candidates declared that he mad
the best chairman that had preside
over any meeting yet held in the State
The Governors spoke twenty minute
and other candidates live and ten each
Chairman Smith called each dow
promptly and relentlessly at the ex
piration of his time and all had q fai
chance. 1t was in this that he excellet
as a presiding officer.
The crowd was made up of repre-
sentative citizens from every township
For Governor Col. Talbert evidently
had the most friends, though Mr.
Ansel, Capt. Hayward and Col. Till
man all had friends and were cheered
DIR. Zimmerman, too, had friends. He
and Mr.. Ansel received bouquets.
Rev. w. b. Duncan, of the First
Methodist church, opened the meeting
with prayer, among other things say
ing: owe pray for the day when
self-seeking politicians should be rele.
gated to the rear and self-sacrificing
statesmen brought to the 'front.'"
The chairman stated that the beauti.
fui park was used by the courtesy OF
Capt. w. e. Lucas, president of the
Laurens cotton mills, to which the
park belongs.
SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION.
o. b. Martin, of Greenville, candl-
date for superintendent of education,
was the first speaker introduced. He
caught the crowd by saying that he
married the daughter of Laurens
man, (Capt. Abe Cook, one of the best
men in the county.) "The proposition
of my opponent" he said, +" to place
the election of county superintendent
is board politics, machine politics. If
you people are capable of selecting a
State superintendent, why not county
superintendent He criticised Mr.. Nc
Mahan for his policy with regard to
the change in text books, declaring
that Mr.. McMahan was responsible in
so far as he was a member of the State
board. He was literally applauded and
the crowd liked his jokes.
j. j. McMahan, of Columbia, can
didate for reelection, followed. "1
promised four years ago to go among
the people," he said, " as no superin-
tendent has ever done before and stim-
nlate, them TO action IN educational
matters, and L have the qualification
of knowing that trustees and teachers
say L have fulfilled the pledge" An
swering the criticism as TO mode of
selecting county superintendentsh he de-
clared that similar methods of choosing
such officers should be employed as in
choosing educators for the best schools.
He had been instrumental in providing
summer schools for teachers in the
counties, thus supplying them to de-
gree with higher education for the
duties of teaching.
FOR COMPTROLLER.
N. w. Brooker, of Columbia, can.
di,late for comptroller, declared that
his platform was one of reform In mat
ters of collecting taxes. He had been
struggling for five years to devise a
scheme for the relief of destitute vete-
rams. Mr.. Sharpe had made yesterday
an unfair and unjuat attack upon him.
The scheme he has on foot will give
bread to every suffering old soldier.
A. w. Jones, of'Abbeville, explain
ed the important duties of the office.
"Since / have had control of the fire
insurance department of the comptrol-
ler's office, / defy any man to show that
wild cat company has been licensed.
Inequality of taxation assessments is
the crying evil in the State. Let your
Legislature remedy the defects In the
law" He said that when a candidate
for this Office in 1894 he had been
sacrificed in the reform convention in
order to give the Pee Dee representa-.
ton on the ticket.
w. III. Sharpe, of Lexington, declar.
ed that he made no attack on Mr.
Brooker, but as the son of Confeder.
ate soldier who was killed i'm battle he
advocated pensioning veterans and
leaving them at home among theil
friends rather than sending them to 6
public home. He spoke vigorously and
was applauded at his close.
G.. Lawrence Walker, of Greenville
told of his record as treasurer Of Green
Vile County and as clerk in tn,
comptroller's office. He was raised OF
farm in Butler township of Green
vile just across the Laurens line. 4
voice, "Pretty rough country amt it?'
" am farmer" he continued, "an,
my sympathies are with the farmers an
i owe nothing to any corporation"
ADJUTANT AND INSPECTOR GENERAL
Col. j. G.. Boyd, of Greenville, Car
.,didate for adjutant and inspector ger
Weral, told of his record. He had nj
been to military college like some Q
his young competitors, but forty yeal
ago he went TO another sort of soldier
school and in every county he met b
classmates. He alluded of course
his record as o youthful Confederat
soldier. He would withdraw from tb
race If any man In Greenville Count
said he was incompetent. He WI
cheered.
John ID. Frost, of Richland, told
his record as Citadel cadet, officer
the volunteers in the war with Spa
and assistant adjutant general. 81 a
running not on any demerits of n
opponents il they have any, but on n
own merits."
John M. Patrick, of Anderson, 50
that he had no war record like Bo
in the Confederacy and Frost in t
war with Spain. 81 am better suit
for these piping times of peace"
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