The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-08-30
NEWBERRY MEETING
OF COUNTY CAMPAIGN
MEETING IN COURT HOUSE
WELL ATTENDED.
Goci Attention TIoughout - The
Speeches Of the Various
Candidates.

IL. tr;!i!;y campaign meeting i"r
lie >;;v Vas held !. the court house
>at.."~ay ::.';t;;:.. Owing |" the very
,i;s1gccahl, weather the crowd was
::"t 4 large as had been expected. but
there wa> iairlv large crowd in the
>:nur: ,n">v when the meeting opened
2, !! o'clock. The court house rap
idly :;iei. however. and there were
between three and four hundred per-
sons present ,ivrng the meeting.
The County Chairman.
In opening the meeting Coun-
~ Chairman s. S. Cunningham
referred with pride 10 the pleasant
campaign o. which that was the last
lay. and in a few well-choSen words
he thanked ;llv people Of the county
Tor t;:ei: respectful attention at all
the meetings. and the candidates in
d;v;tHally ior ;hc high plane upon
which the campaign had been pitched
Senatorial Candidates.
The first speakers Saturday morning
were the senatorial candidates, and
Mr.. Cole. /. Bleasc was the first
speaker He thanked the county
chairman for being instrumental in
having made the campaign as pleas
ant as il had been. An incompetent
officer had never yet been born. said
Mr.. B!eaSe The people made incom-
petent officers. Therefore it behooved
the people 10 consider carefully the
merits OF all the candidates and to
select the best men.
The speaker favored biennial ses-
S;ons and amending the labor con-
tract law 50 that the farmers could
control Tree nigger" labor. He fav-
ored better common schools, good
roads. and was unqualihedly opposed
TO compulsory education. He was
opposed to white peoples money be-
ing taken TO educate "free niggers."
As TO the diSpensary question, the
iispensarv would be shut up when
the people quit patronizing it. Some
thing like this had struck him:
"A little rye. corn and gin.
Is loved by all men.
And drank by most OF then.'
The speaker then took up a dis
cusSion OF the Brice bill. He opposed
the bill II the people wanted pro-
!1:bition. the way TO get it was to let
the first half hour Of the morning in
the schools be devoted to the study
OF the Bible. Let the children be
brought Up prohibitionists, and then
1hv people would have prohibition,
but morals could never be legslated
into men Prohibition could not be
enforced. The speaker favored tenn
perance in all things The dispensary
law was the best solution Of the whis-
key question.
Mr.. Blease then took up the ques-
ton 81 taxation. calling attention to
the deficiency III the state treasury
created by the last legislature having
appropriated more than the income
and 70 mistakes in bills by which the
state was this year deprived of SI68,-
900 which it was intended she should
receive this year. What was becom-
ing OF the money? The county levy
was half mill higher this year. If
elected. he would vote to cut down
appropriations to state colleges. to
cut down the expenses Of the gov
eminent, he would vote against Great
ing new Offices.
By the time Mr.. Blease finished
his address the court house was filled.
with all attentive audience. numbering
more than three hundred voters.
Mr.. Arthur Kibler
first took Up a discussion OF the liquor
question. F"::r years ago he asked
the executive committee to place
boxes al all the precincts to get an
expression rom the people on the
liquor question: The dispensary won
bv - and the Ncwberry delega-
t:n, Ind nIcti cnd themselves TO adlde