The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-08-13

at which time the duties were mare
arduous. He outlined his policy, say
ing among other things that he would
strive to establish a first class high
school in every school district 40 that
a first class education would be
brought within the reach of all chu-
dren of school age.
Magistrate.
Mr.. S. d. Cain. candidate for mag
istrate in the Fourth District was the
next speaker, and he was followed
by Mr.. j. F. Ingram. his opponent for
that office.
Congressman A. F. IeverA
When Mr.. Lever was introduced he
was received with applause, the frst
and only speaker to be thus compIi\
mented. He made a capital speech
In the limited time given him, 1t hav-
ing been agreed between himself and
DR.. Ray, his opponent, to speak only
twenty-five minutes each. When Mr..
Levers time was up the crowd de-
manded that he continue, so he spoke
about ten minutes longer. He gave
a running review of his work for the
district, telling what he had accom-
plished IN practical way for his con-
stitutents and what he hoped to
achieve in the future.
He then took up the charge that he
had violated his pledge as a demo-
crat and had proved a traitor to his
party by voting for the tariff on
lumber. He read the party platform
on this question and then stated his
position, which was in brief, that a
tariff for revenue is q democratic doc
trine, that tariff is necessary to the
support OF the government, that The
tariff on lumber was a tariff for
revenue, that it did not levy one cent
tax on any person in this district, that
1t was a tariff on Canadian lumber
and that the people of the extreme
Northern and Eastern States paid it,
and that it benefited the lumbermen
of the South in that 1t kept open a
market for the lower grades Of lum-
Der for which there is no market I'm
the South. He said further that but
for this tariff on lumber which yields
about 100000 a year, the tari9
would have been higher on other
articles which would have been a
tax on the South. He had endeav-
ored to get bagging and ties put on
the free list, but failed, although the
Republicans had secured free bind
ing twine for the benefit of the
western grain farmers. He also
worked to get commercial fertilizers
on the free list, but as this is a tax
largely paid by the South he failed.
DIR. w. w. Ray.
DR.. w. w. Ray, of Richland, who is
opposing Mr.. Lever, consumed prac-
tically his entire time in an attack on
NJ Levers vote on the lumber tar
iff. He made a strictly party argu-
ment, claiming that all Democratic
congressman were bound to vote for
free lumber by the party platform. He
read letter from Mr.. H. J. McLaurin,
Jr., to lumbermen urging them to
support Lever and Ellerbe as a re-
turn for their services to lumbermen.
This he construed to mean that the
tariff ON lumber had benefited the
saw-mill men at the expense Of the
balance of the people. He also assert
ted that a committee of lumbermen
from Sumter, Darlington and Claren-
don had gone to Columbia and beg
ged The State to let up on Lever and
Ellerbe about their vote for a tariff
on lumber.
DR.. Ray received a respectful hear
ing but he made little or no i'm
preston on the crowd, for it was a.
Lever crowd all the way through.