The Savannah morning news., 1902-07-14
THE CAROLINA HIPP0DP1ME.
CANDIDATES. ARE HARD WORKED
THESE HOT DAYS.

Gus Business and Costly, Too-Even
the Successful Candidate OFTEN
FINDS That He Has the Worst of
the BargaiB-Poor Mem in once
HIVE Little Chance of Social Dis
play and the State officials and So
eiety Are Practically Strangers.
Crop Prospects Are Good.
Columbia, S. c., July 12.-Georgia's |
political troubles were met and settled |
carly in the summer; the canvassing |
was done in the cool Of the spring and |
IN these dog days the men who won |
and the man who lost can meet in the |
shade of the trees and in the midst |
of the watermelon or the barbecue |
feast and be happy together. Not so
in the less favorite Palmetto state, !
where the pursuit of Office has devel- |
oped into a profession requiring a |
strenuousness and endurance that |
qualify the candidates for membership i
on Varsity eight or champion foot |
ball team. To qualify for office they |
must race up and down through the |
state. tagging" every eourt house, |
and make a squirt in the middle of |
each boiling day. With the mercury
ranging from 100 to 12O in the sun, they
have been at it for three weeks, and |
are doomed by the State Executive |
Committee to keep up the pace till the |
end of August, when the semi-finals, |
played by the people, will decide who
shall contend in the finals of Sept. H.
However poor the Office, however
economical the candidate, his expenses
$500. And if he wishes to distribute
literature or advertise himself in the
papers-perfectly legitimate methods of
campaigning-his expense account may
run to figures that will swallow up his
two years salary, if he gets it. Some
are making the race on borrowed
money. Many a man living in court
house town or the country, and living
well, on $500 year, sees wealth in a
$500 salary, yet numbers so unfor-
tunate as to succeed leave here poor
er men than they came. They find
that what they lived well upon in the
small town but pays their house rent
at the capital.
Officers and Society.
The Governor is a little better off
than The other state officers, as his
salary is larger and he is found" a
house and lights; besides, he is oc-
casionally allowed a squad of convicts
to clean up" his premises, but ii he
is dependent on his salary, as all the
Governors of late years have BEEN
he can do nothing in the way of en-
tertainment None of the state Off
cials, except the Governor are ever
seen lin society" most of them are
unknown to the society people. The
Governor is occasionally invited to a
general reception, and by virtue Of
his office, to the state ball. This cour-
tesy was not extended to Gov. b. r.
Tnlman, and in retaliation the au-
thorites for number of years re-
fused the use of the State House to
the South Carolina Society, the or
ganizaton giving the "state ball"
There has been no ball or general re-
ception at the Governors mansion in
more than a dozen years.
Yet, With this condition of the parity
of the officeholder staring them in the
face, five men are contending for the
Office of Governor. Four of them are
in the professional class, having
held Office from two to twenty-five
years. D. C. Hayward, whose chances
OF winning now seem brightest, is a
rice planter and a college man. With
him the emOluments are not the chief
consideration.
TO Cut Negro CchOoIs.
Congressman Talbert's main plank
support given by white taxpayers to
negro schools. His plan is not only
10 withdraw the taxes paid by whites,
but those paid by corporations. His
proposition meets with no favor In the
towns and is generally condemned by
newspapers but is cheered by the
backwoodsmen. There is no chance
OF any Legislature indorsing such
plan or the courts sustaining it if such
bill passed.
II is difficult to tell at this stage what
KIND OF run Lieut.. Gov. Tillman will
make. He has a persuasive eloquence
with the boys and his name alone
Is good for several thousand votes as
starter. He defends his action in in
suung President Roosevelt by ex-
planning that the President-as evil
uenced in the Booker Washington in
cldent-considered the negro as good
as the white man.
Factory Vote is Important.
The factory vote holds the
oalance of power. 1t went
ior Tillman solidly two years ago, but
there is no sounding it now.
IN the senatorial canvass, the six
candidates seem to be making a re-
markably even race. AS in the other
Offices, the two getting the largest vote
N The primary of August 26, will run
over two weeks later. when the best
man may win.
Crop Prospects Good.
Despite a serious lack of rain in two
OF three counties, the crop prospects
tor the state are better now than at
Tue same period in the last dozen
Years Cotton has suffered but little
ana 1t is probable that, barring ac-
Siuents from now on, the results will
W second only to the year 1882, which
Is the record with South Carolina
farmers.
Inc high price of corn early in the
:ear' resulted in a large acreage of
' vniis grain being planted. The yield
WI! be exceptionally large. The
mail grain crops-wheat and oats
we're poor. Less rain has fallen in
last counties than anywhere in the
mtate' resulting in short rivers, on
, "hlch rice is planted, becoming brack
,9l Rlce has been grown. so far, al
n nost entirely without water. That
ei T rent is now necessary, however to
M M the grains, so that only early
'-iVoNy rains in the low country will