The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1908-07-31
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'avagant appropriations.
AS to good roads, he wanted to
Five the State convicts to the coun-
ies for road purposes and let the
ountics take care of them, or divide
p the tag tax which Clemson is now
Eetting and give half to the roads
and half to the schools.
If elected he would try to ccono-
2ize in every department.
lie jumped on the Office of insrr-
RNce commissioner. He said the ar
Sument had been used that the peo-
Ple would be saved money by this
officer, but didn't the people know
hat, the insurance companies would
let even by making them pay in
premiums whatever expense the i'll
companies sustainedq
I DR.. g. T. Wyche,
NOV a member Of the lower house,
ssana candidate for reelection, said
that four times he had asked the peo-
ssple&of Newberry county to send him
gtosthe legislature as their representa-
Etixe, and every time he had been a
candidate he had been elected.
laWhcn the farmers in the lcgisla-
ktNte were framin" the labor contract
Claw, they asked the opinion of two
fable lawyers in that body rs to it's
bconstitutionality, and they had done
him the distinguished honor to ask
8him to cooperate with them in franz
fng this law. lie had urged that if
they wanted to make it crime to
violate labor contract that they
|must show in that violation some
element Of fraud. DR.. Wyche went
into the details and advantages of
the law which had beer passed, and
said lie believed it would stand the
Hest Of any court to which i! might
4 FbeScarlied.
EHe said that in the legislature he
Mad helped to save the State thous-
sands Of dollars. Hc cited the Lord
bonds, amounting to 100000, Which
ssh8 said were claimed to have been
Stolen or mislaid during the war. Mr..
|ssEEGllapmond, of Edecfield, had asked
climatic make speech helping to
EENefeat the payment Of these bonds,
because it was not just that they
be paid, and though the
Measure to pay them passed the sen
Rte, it was defeated in the house, and
Ehe bonds were not yet paid.
AS chairman Of the claims commit
tee Of the house, he made those pres
1enting claims present the certificate
.pf the men for whom they did the
york, certifying that they had done
Ehe work and that they had not been
paid for it. The legislature in which
2he9served had so much confidence in
Rhim that if claim was presented and
BelEsaid it was proper, It passed. He
lad stood as Il bulwark between the
people and unjust claims.
lie was the originator of the pure
Food law which had been enacted, and
he$ discussed its practical value and
Rmportancc. lie wanted to see the
legislature create the Office of health
btficcr, or bactcrio]ogist If poor
man thought he had consumption he
Eould then send his spittle to Colum-
<bia and have it analyzed, and scicn-
lists told us that IS per cent. Of the
ases Of tuberculosis could be cured
IN the first stages. And typhoid few
Er germs could be located, if ii was
Thought that there was something in
community which held them.
Mr.. Godfrey Harmon.
candidate for the legislature, oppos-
I ed Simmigration. immigration could
= do no good, and it would work actual
Injury. lie didn't think the State
3needed an insurance commissioner, at
Ia cost of $-I,200
lie had nothing TO say against ed.
1 lucation-hc thought il was IA good
lthing--but it ought TO be had on more
&conomical lines. In 1900 the taxable
B,roperty Of the State was something
H yer SITS, 100000 and in 1907 it had
creascd to about 1867 ,UU0,000, and
Notwithstanding this increase the
by had been raised from five to
We and onc-half mills. 1t seemed to
him that, with the increase in the
aXable property, the levy ought not
6p have been so high. lie said the ap-
appropriations Of the State had nearly
! doubled in eight years, going from
Something over 100000 in 1900 to
&somclhing over $1,G0O,0OO in 1908