The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-08-03

ton bill, which was drawn by the
ways and means committee. If man
was not member of that committee
he had little voice in making the APP
preparation. Ncwberry did not have
a representative on that committee
during the past two terms, and for
reasons imaginable only to the dclcga-
ton. The newberry representatives
were members of few important COM
mittecs. When the appropriation bill
was reported to the house by the ways
and means committee the house usu-
ally stood by the committee, most Of
the fight being made in the committee.
lie voted to divide the tag tax be-
tween Winthrop and Clemson, giving
Clemson the bulk, hoping to save
+; $4,000. He told Of a number Of
votes i'll opposition to increasing sal
aries and in opposition to putting a
costly dome on the capital. He voted
against the bill increasing the salaries
of judges and stenographcs. He voted
against the appropriation to the con-
fedcrate Home School in Charleston.
He voted for the bill to increase the
Confederate pension to 1925 900 but
opposed increasing it to $250000. Af-
ter considering the matter he favored
compulsory education. He voted
against the rcformatory bill, for the
bill to decrease passenger rates on
railroads, and against the bill for
changing the South Carolina college
to a university, because he knew its
friends would come and ask for a
higher appropriation.
! lie asked that his record be scruti-
nized on the liquor question. Two
years age he advocated the Brice
bill and said he would vote to knock
off the tax feature. The house knock
ed off the tax feature, but the senate
refused to do so. Every vote he cast
had been against the State dispensary
He voted to let the investigating COM
mittee go unhampcred. He want:,l
no whitewash. He voted to continue
the committee, and to give il all the
power it asked. 1t was impossible to
purify the State dispensary, and he
had voted against the bill that had
that in view. He voted against it
with the sole idea of trying to abolish
the State dispensary. The other pro-
position was the Morgan local option
bill as between county dispensarics
and prohibition. He voted for this
bill from first to last, because he be-
lieved it was the best thing in sight.
The disestablishmen of the State dis
pensary would not destroy any Of the
good features of the system. If re-
elected he should vote for local option
as between county dispensarics and
prohibition and to maintain the Brice
law He was opposed to high license.
He denied cmphatically the state
ment or the insinuation that he had
been bought by the dispensary pco-
pie, denouncing it as Il falsehood EIc
voted for Evans. Evans was from
his county and had been his personal
friend for twenty years. That vote
had not cost Evans cent. His life
belied the insinuation that he had
been unduly influenced.
During the course Of his address
Mr.. Earhardt, in addition to the vote
mentioned in his report, gave many
of his other votes while member
of the house, saying that he had al
ways been consistent in working and
voting for economy.
Mr.. G.. B. Boozer
was the first speaker after dinner.
He said the last time he was at Mt.
Bethel he was running for sub-sup-
ervisor. He saw no way a sub-super-
visor could improve the public high
ways Of his county, and that was the
reason he was running for the lcgis-
lature. F1e favored improved high
ways, and the only way to get them
was to tax the people to pay for them.
He was III favor Of prohibition,
but if the people wanted local option
that was their own business.
He wanted Clemson limited to $780,
600 from the fertilizer tax, if it, was
possible to pass law to this effect.
AS to education it was importGnt
and if the county had good roads,
compulsory education could be secru-
ed because the children could 60 TO