The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1907-08-14
The Lexington Dispatch.
Wednesday, August ID, 1907.
WOULD ABOLISH
THE STATE FARM.

Text of Resolution introduced at Good
Roads Conyention-Goy. AnseI De.
Iivers Address.
Spartanburg, Aug. 1.-THE seventh
annual convention of the South Caro-
lima Good Roads association convened
in the court house this morning at II
o'clock with President F. H. Hyatt in
the chair. Rev. w. A. Massabeau
opened the meeting with prayer. Gov.
Ansel appeared on the scene just as
the preacher said, 'Amen." Mr..
Hyatt introduced Gov. Ansel, who
then made the opening address before
the convention.
Supervisors and county commission
ers from all over the State were pres
ent, and the court house was filled to
overhowing. When the governor
finished his address, which was a
strong plea for good roads, Hon. J.
Wright Nash was introduced and he
spoke to some length on the bond is
sue and gave some practical figures
that threw deal of light on the elec-
ton which will come off the Doth of
this month. Mr.. Nash was called on
by President E. D. Smith of the State
Cotton association.
Mr.. Hyatt, president of the Good
Roads association, made short
speech as to the purpose and told the
supervisors that great responsibility
rested on them, as they held the purse
strings of the county and had more to
do with the upbuilding of it than any
other citizens.
The morning session adjourned at
80 O'Clock for dinner. After dinner
Mr.. Hyatt and Mr.. Smith went to the
big gathering of colored farmers near
Glendale and when Richard Carroll
had finished his famous address, these
gentlemen made rousing good talks
that brought lusty cheers from the
hundreds of negroes gathered around
the speakers stand.
The county supervisors and others
in attendance upon the convention
spent the afternoon in watching the
practical road work by Col. W. A.
Neal, who had a traction engine and
several scrapers out on the old Pacolet
road just below JEFF billiards. place.
Col. Neal did about one mile of good
road work in two hours and half.
The convention held very inter-
esting session at the court house to-
night, where many matters of impor-
tance were discussed. An election of
officers was entered into with the fol-
lowing results: F. H. Hyatt was re-
elected president and F. C. Black
secretary. Mr.. Black was formerly
county engineer for Spartanburg dur
ing 1s97-9S, but at present his home Is
in Columbia.
J.. B. McBryde moved that it was
the sense Of the body to ask the legis-
lature to make the term of Office of
the county supervisors throughout the
State four years instead of two. After
considerable discussion, the motion
was passed, and President Hyatt ap-
pointed J. G. Bates, J. B. McBryde
and G.. II. Nichols as committee on
legislature, to take this matter along
with others before that body.
Mr.. G.. N. Nichols, supervisor of
Abbeyille county, moved that the
legislature be memoralized to abolish
the State farm and hire all able-bodied
convicts to the different counties at
nominal sum, say from S. to $40 per
month, to work on the roads of the
counties. Mr.. Singletary amended
the motion as follows: ''That all
persons convicted after the enactment
of this law except those sentenced to
life imprisonment, be sentenced to
work in the counties where they are
convicted"
Mr.. McKinnon moved that it was
the sense of the body assembled to
ask the legislature to levy a tax of
one mill for road improvement in such
counties as have no such levy.
H. B. Humbert, supervisor of Lau-
rens, offered the following resolution,
which was adopted:
"Resolved, That members of this
association be required to confne
themselves to the discussion of ques-
tions pertaining to roads and road
work, and that no member be per-
mitted to speak more than twice, and
not longer than 10 minutes the first