The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-06-29
.TILLMAN WANTS
PRIMARY OF HIS OWN
OBJECTS TO BEING LIMITED IN
TIME OF SPEAKING.
Will not Join Campaign Party if Linn
tied, but Will Make Own Dates
and Accept Invitations.

join the campaign party, if he is to
be limited in his time, but that he
will make engagements of his own.
He raps the newspapers for their
brief reports, intimatihg that there
is o scheme to belittle and, finally,
destroy the county to county cam
paign.
An Address to the People Of the
State:>
Fellow Citizens: The primary sys-
tenn Of the democratic party in South
Carolina is very largely my own work.
The canvass Of the candidates from
county to county seeking office dis
cuSsine issues and letting the people
meet them face to face is an essential
ard very valuable feature Of our polit-
ical machinery The daily papers have
always opposed this programme be-
cause it broke up the old system un-
der which the editors of those papers
exercised immense power and in a
measure dictated Our politics. Unable
to get the constitution changed so as
to do away with this state campaign,
they have hit upon a device of rem
dering it imperative and largely mug
atory by giving very meagre, unim-
portant and often garbled accounts of
the speeches. The people being told
that the candidates are saying moth
ing, do not turn out to the meetings
and this makes the plan a failure. be-
cause The people do not see or hear
the men who want their votes and
the newspapers accomplish their pur-
pose Of controlling our politics.
The meetings are rendered ridicul-
Gus by the short time given to any
candidate in which to present his
views and make known his qualifica-
tions. The discussions instead of be-
ING educative, enabling the voters to
select the candidate whose personal
ity and platform are most to his lik-
ing are farces. No man can do HIM
self or any important subject justice
in the ten, twenty and thirty minutes
time allotted to him under the plan
now being carried out and something
must be done to change this condi-
tion or government by newspapers will
come again to stay. have no quarrel
with the newspapers Of our state, but
nothing ever broke up the old ring
which governed the state prior to
1890 except the joint discussions be-
tween the candidates for governor,
and nothing will restore the condi-
tions of ring rule so easily and in
evitably as to have such rules and reg
ulations rs are now being carried out.
Every candidate wants hearing in
every county, but he does not get it,
ard tho people. are nm. lliny t., lose
the day, especially when they are busy
in their farms, listening to the kind
Of speeches that are being made, and
no other kind can be made under the
circumstances. There are about twen-
tX-five candidates, leaving ont those
who have no opposition and who,
therefore, have no need to speak, and
where a congressional candidate has
opposition this number is increased.
! have something 7 want to say to
the people Of the state, because I be-
lieve it is my duty to sny it, but J.
am unwilling to join the present state
campaign party. and be limited in ny
speeches, as must be. It would he
miist,to the others if were not li.n-
tied. z I, therefore, have decided flat,
I will attentl lone Of the state cam
pnieh meetings. unless specialiy III.
vited to do so by the county as,:a ~
tive committee and shall hayesal of
thu line ] want. Instead j Civ, M.
tice that after the Nth Of July, whell
I will make my first speech lat Sandy
Flat, inf GrGenville county, q Swill be.
ready,and am desirous DC the oppo1-
t,u,ityto edoress tile lpeolletat picnics
Or other publiu& gatllerings TO bn n4l;eid
;alWays%il, iile open air at such tiEcH
and 3,cG ms may be- desired tla. 4 L
shall speak to them. OPs course II 5Mili
reserve tho right to select the coaltissi
inSwliich 4 will accept ;ppsitations and
will arrange to accommodate as many
as possiblesin the month which will