Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-07-15
THE COUNTY CANDIDATES..
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case before one Court. We can't ex-
pect to secure men to co1npete with
these great corporation lawyers with
out paying more than we do and as
consequence we must put up with
second-class men. L Did you ever stop
to think what is coming and what,
soon we Will have to meet between
thetaaces? Take few figures: Glenn
son College, with TOO boys, Is SPEND
Ing in the neighborhood OF $3.50.
900 per year, while the negro college
at Orangeburg. with 600 students, is
spending $4,000 per year. With this
state of affairs what will meet us in
the future? This may not be pleas
ant to contemplate, but we had bet
ter be considering and preparing to
meet it I'm the future Wisdom calls
for consideration. Il lie had always
been opposed to any compulsory edu-
cation law because no man has the
right to enter the home and dictate
to the parent what he shall do with
his child or what he shall do for It.
Eight years ago he began his fight
against the lien law. Then only
about twenty men were with him In
the fight. He kept 1t up until last
year. when only about twenty men
in the House were against him. The
House passed law of repeal, but the
Senate defeated the act Send who
you will to the House this year. he
said, and the bill will pass again to
repeal the law. He was responsible for
and due what credit there Is attached
to reduction Of one mill In the
State levy. Three mills were asked
for ordinary county purposes, and he
ran his pen through 1t and wrote two.
(Here Mr.. Verner'S time expired and
he was called DOWN.
J. r. Earle said that from express
| sions he had heard from one end of
| the county to the other his record
in the. Senate meets endorsement.
Talk about high taxes! The most
OF the money demanded In the coun-
ty Is for maintenance and repairs Of
our roads and bridges. We demand
good roads and substantial bridges,
and IL We get these we must pay for
them. We can't have good roads nor
substantial bridges without money
and we must raise that by taxation.
| The expenses of the State govern
ment have never been as low as four
hundred thousand dollars since Re-
| publican times He opposed immi-
grafton. We do not need the class
Of immigrants that are being brought
here by our present law. He had
nothing to say as to who shall be the
Clerk of Court. That Is with you.
But since he had been Senator a law
had been passed fixing the salary Of
the Clerk at the sum of 1920, and
required him to pay all the balance
Of funds coming into his hands from
fees into the County Treasury, but
this law was declared unconstitu-
tional. 1t is said that it would be
imposing an unjust tax to make a
man pay more for his recording than
the Clerk gets and pay the surplus
into the County Treasury. He did
not think any one will suffer much
from the 25 per cent Of the fee ne
would pay into the County Treasury
from his recording bill. (Here Mr..
Earle was called down, his time hav-
ing expired) l..--. ...
After the candidates for the Gene
raj Assembly had spoken the candi-
dates for County Superintendent Of
Education spoke in the following
order: ]. S. Colley. T. A.. Smith, ].
l.. McWhorter, ]. H. Captrell and
Wade G.. Hughs. All these candidates
made ten-minute speeches. Then DR..
G.. C. Probst, John F. Craig and G.
r. D. Burns, candidates for Clerk Of
Court, spoke. After this the county
campaign meeting ended and the can
didates for Solicitor spoke.