The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-08-12
THE COUNTY CAMPAIGN
The Views of the Candidates as Ex-
pressed at Young's Grove
on Tuesday.

The county campaign meeting at
Young's Grove, near Prosperity, On
Tuesday. was attended by nearly five
hundred people. including a number
t ladies. The clouds were heavy
during the morning, and the meeting
was interrupted by rain during the
afternoon, Messrs. J. w. Earhardt
and J. w. Sanders, for the Legislature,
not getting an opportunity to speak.
The candidates had been requested
in The Herald and News by citizens
of Prosperity to express their views
especially on the Brice Bill, and this
question was given a good deal of
attention by the candidates. The
meeting passed off very pleasantly
throughout, except for the Interrupt
ton by the heavy rain during the af-
|'ternoon.
County Chairman S. S. Cunningham
presided during the morning and Mr..
R. T. c. Hunter during the afternoon.
The senatorial candidates were
the first speakers.
Mr.. Arthur Kibler took up the dis
cussion of the Brice Bill. He opposed
the tax feature of the Bill, with which
the Bill finally passed, unless it was
necessary for the enforcement Of the
law. Th Same power that made the
dispensary ought to unnake it, and il
town was allowed to vote a dis
pensary in, it ought to be allowed to
vote it out He stood by his record
in the legislature, when he voted for
the Dorroh amendment, which pro-
vided that the one-half mill tax
should not be levied unless the peo-
pie of county refused to enforce the
law after the dispensary had been
voted out. Mr.. Kibler discussed taxa
ton and education, taking the same
position as at preceding meetings. In
conclusion he wanted to refer to a
personal matter. He wanted to deny
the 1umor that had been circulated
in some quarters that there had been
an understanding between himself
and Mr. Mower. There had been no
agreement between them.
Mr.. Cole. L. Blease first discussed
taxation, which he considered the
most important question before the
people. He said the last legislature
appropriated more than $168,ooe
more than it made provision to raise
and referred TO mistakes whereby the
franchise tax law and the dog tax
law and other revenue laws did not
become operative this year, as was
evidently intended. The county levy
this year was three mills, half mill
higher than last year. Did the peo-
pie have better roads? Where was
the good roads machinery? PART Of
it was at Sam Crotwell's, part of it
was elsewhere, and the engine had
been running planning mill some
where at 50 cents day.
Mr.. Blease then took up the educa-
tional question, favoring better COM
mon schools and southern books by
southern authors. He favored cutting
down the appropriations for higher
institutions to an economical basis.
He opposed compulsory education.
He didn't want free niggers" educat-
I'd with white peoples money.
The Brice Bill was a Trojan horse
loaded with dynamite for the destruc-
ton of the dispensary, and nothing
else Mr.. Blease read to his audience
his interview in ne Herald and
News OF this morning. in which he
took a positive stand against both
the original Brice Bill and the Brice
Bill as it finally passed with the
amendments Brice himself, who had
loaded this Trojan horse for the de-
struction of the dispensary, was a
bitter enemy of the dispensary. Mr..
Blease said he was dispensary man
! from the crown of his head to the
! sole of his feet. He took I'D the