The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-08-15

| tQ0I0 W6I0 'uSduuS VI UIlSuU AAHS~I
in the mills which, if the child labor
bills hould fail would be forever bu-
RED. Should it pass the result would
be in q short time the whole United
States might honor one of them as
the chief executive of this great re-
public. His opponents said it would
be class legislation, but Judge Nc
Iver would blush before he would
make such an utterance. The mill
| people no more controlled their chill
dren than if they belonged to some
one else. The State had got into
the drift of progress, but it had not
pulled along these people who needed
help.
Chairman Goggans, in announcing
the
hECESS dOUh
| said the people had heard good
deal this morning about pure food,
and he would now give them an
hour and half in which to test that
prepared by Mr.. ". J. Mills.
The first speaker in the afternoon
hour was
COL. E. q. AULL
IF he had consulted his own feel
ings he would not attempt to make
any speech here this afternoon, but
he felt it his duty to give his views
to the peop.e whose suffrage he was
asking.
All the candidates were practically
agreed upon the issues in this cam
paign. He had no promises to make
except faithful service.
At this point the irrepressible MIR.
Harmon broke in with his oft re-
peated questions, and was replied to
by Mr.. Aull.
He favored biennial sessions.
He favored the pure food law.
Favored good roads, which he
would discuss more fully later.
In reply to the question as to his
views on appropriations to State COL
leges, he replied that the only stump
speech he ever made in this county,
previous to this campaign, was at St.
Luke's twelve years ago in opposl'
ton to the establishment of Clemson
College; not because he did not be-
lieve in higher education, but
because he believed the State
was even then top heavy in this
matter. But he was no lconOclsst,
and he did not want to see any of
these higher institutions pulled down
now, but he wanted to see them run
as economically as was consistent
with efficient work.
On the bridge question, 1t had al
ready been decided to build one
bridge, and he favored building as
many bridges across Broad and
saluds Rivers as possible. (Cheers.)
Favored making labor contracts
as binding as possible.
The most important question was
taxation. There was no chance to
reduce taxation for some years to
come, as the appropriations now are
in excess of income but there was
one reform that was needed, and
that was equalization in assessment.
The best way to secure this was to
have the county auditor meet with
the township board of assessors and
assess the property in each township
at some central point within the
township itself.
Favored good roads, and was con-
vinced the best way to have them
| was by taxation, and favored one
mill levy on all property, so that the
men who own property and get the
benefit of the roads would help to
build them. At present the town
pays one third of the taxes of the
county practically none of which
goes to the support of the county
roads. And yet good roads would
benefit the town as much as the peo-
pie in the country.
He opposed child labor in the
mills because he believed it was in
iurlous to the children and pre-
vented the development of the high
est type of citizenship and being in
inrions the State had q right to pro