The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-06-25
Arguments Advanced by Aspirants for Gu
bernatorial Honors Why the People
Should Give Them Their Suffrage---All
Candidates Have Substantially the Same
Platform, Save as to the Liquor Issue.

grafton law so completely that the
legislature was forced to repeal the
act and abolish the immigration bu-
reau. Had it not been for my fight
that abomination would still be with
| us.
1 fought for the inspection OF our
mills as to health and as to working
children under the prohibited age and
not within the legal hours, and the
| legislature has made provision for
| this.
1 fought for night schools for chill
dren who could not attend day
schools. and succeeded in getting a
law passed upon that subject.
1 fought the effort which was made
to keep thousands Of our white peo-
pie from voting in the primary, and
in the State convention I succeeded
in getting the committee to report un-
favorably upon the resolution, and on
the floor OF the convention I again
fought it. and the convention refused
to pass the resolution, and all white
men in South Carolina are yet free.
My platform today is as follows:
1. An honest administration Of all
laws, fairly and impartially, to all
citizens alike.
2. Enforcing all laws upon all sub
jects, and obedience to the constitu-
tion of the United States and of South
Carolina.
3. Trial by jury for all persons
accused Of crime, and enforcing the
Judgment of courts founded upon
he verdicts of the juries.
4. Keeping forever separate the leg
islative, judicial and executive de-
partments of the government, each,
however, doing its duty and endeav-
oring to uphold and support the 9TH
er.
Upon this / respectfully present
the following issues for the consid-
Grafton of my fellow Democrats to
whom | address myself:
(a) ] am in favor OF biennial ses-
sions of the general assembly.
CD / am in favor of liberal apprO-
priations for our Confederate vetcr-
ans.
(c) / am in favor of liberal. but not
eXtravagant appropriations for our
State institutions of learning, so that
all Of them may be kept upon a nigh
standard.
(d) ! am in favor Of building up
the free-school system so that every
white child in South Carolina may be
given good, common school educa-
tion in comfortable and convenient
school houses, and in paying teachers
sufllcient salaries to secure the best.
am absolutely opposed to compul-
sorry education, as my record in both
the house and the senate in the past
will show.
IN my opinion, compulsory educa-
ton at the hands of the State means
disrupting the home, for it dethrones
the authority Of the parents and
places the paid agents of the State in
control Of the children, and DESTROYS
family government Those agents
stand between the child and the par
ent' They represent the State. They
are not responsible to the parents.
They impress upon the minds Of the
children the views of the State. and
virtually say, 1--WE have taken you
out of bondage and made you free,
we are giving you what your unnat-
ural parents would not give you-and
no child on earth can be subject to
SUCH influences. and teaching and
escape imbibing the spirit Of rebellion
against parental authority, and con
sequent disrespect and ingrattude.
Children are too easily infected with
the Idea that their parents owe them
everything, while they owe them