The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-09-09

low Self-gOVernment and hOme-rule,
favor extending the present law so as
to allow a county to have license, If
the majority of her white citizens
wish it, as other counties have dispen-
sary or prohibition. However, if Ii
cense is voted, favor the most rig
orous enforcement of the laws for the
sale in this manner, prohibiting un-
der any circumstances, any whiskey
being sold in less quantities than one
half pint, or between sunset and sun
up, and prohibit it from being drunk
on the premises, or being sold, under
any circumstances, to minors or inc
briates, or behind closed doors or
screens, prohibiting any obscene pic
lures on the premises, or any billiard
or pool rooms connected Herewith,
and providing that any person holding
license who shall violate any pro-
vision of the law shall Immediately
upon conviction, forfeit his license and
be forever thereafter barred from be-
ing licensed, and in addition be in-
prisoned at hard labor in the State
penitentiary without the alternative of
a fine. I am absolutely opposed to
the old har-room system, and would
under no circumstances sign a bill to
reinstate nat system.
(k) I am opposed to any law re-
stricting the rights of Democrats to
vote in the primary elections, other
than in provided for in the rules
adopted by the State convention,
which provide as follows: "That no
white man shall be excluded from
participation in the Democratic pri-
mary who shall take the pledge re-
ouired by the rules of the Democratic
party, and whose name has been en-
rolled on the Democratic club list five
days before the primary election, and
who is otherwise qualified under the
constitution and rules of the Demo-
cratic party, and that have not vot-
ed before at this election, and pledge
myself to support the nominees of this
primary" Rule 2 provides that no
person shll be permitted to vote un-
less he has been enrolled on a club
list at least five days before the pri-
mary election, and unless he has been
resident of the State one year. and
of the county in which he seeks eurcl-
ment so days preceding the next gen
eral election. It is, therefore, seen
that the clap-trap, so-called argument
that people are allowed to vote in the
primary elections who have only been
in the county for few days or in the
State for a short time is absolutely
unfounded and unwarranted, because
these provisions which I have cited
make it absolutely imperative that in
order to vote in the primary one shall
have been in the State one year and
I in the county so days preceding the
general election, and this absolutely
prevents any man from voting in the
primary election who is what is COM
monty called q hoater. In my opin-
ion, this is amply strong, and any
law passed by the legislature further
abridging the right of suffrage in the
primary would be vetoed by me i'm
mediately if I were governor.
Cd I am in favor Of running the
government On a liberal, but not ex-
travagant basis, (as is now being
done) and in making our tax levy,
both county and State, as low as pos
sible for a safe and economical man
agement of our financial affairs; and
of reducing expense, abolishing use
less positions, stopping extravgant
appropriations for any purpose, stop
ping the useless expenditure of money
by officials, stopping the creation of
useless Offices, and all other methods
of reckless, careless or useless ex-
penditure of money that causes an in
crease in the tax levied upon our peo-
| pie, for our taxes are too high, and
our people are now too heavily burd-
ened with taxation.
T fully believe that the grandest,
most Independent form of government
is a poor government and rich peo-
pie. When you make rich govern
ment, and thereby impoverish the peo-
pie, or make poor people, you re-
verse Democracy and create dissatis-
faction and discomfort among the peo-
pie, who are the masters and not the
servants, as some would have US think.
For me, give me poor government
and a rich people, in place of rich
government and a poor people, for the