Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-01-20

BLEASE.
legislator, attorney, and even as pri-
vate citizen. Every daily and all but
two weekly newspapers were aligned
against him.
His Platform.
In making my campaign during the
past summer, / announced that my
platform was:
1st. An honest administration of al!
laws, fairly and impartially to all cit
izens alike. ...
I'd. Enforcing all laws upon all SUB
jects, and obedience to the constitu-
tion of the United State and the con-
stitution of South Carolina
Sd. Keeping forever separate the
legislative, judicial and executive de-
partments of the government, each,
however doing it's duty and endeavor-
ing to uphold and support the other
4th. Trial by Jury for all persons
accused of crime, and enforcing the
judgments Of courts founded upon the
verdicts of the juries.
Government BY Injunction.
This 1 stand firmly upon today, and
I consider government by injunction
the most vicious and degrading which
can be tolerated by any civilized ma
ton, and l beg to call to your atten-
ton sections 5, 16, II and rs, Of arti-
Gle 1 of the constitution of this state,
which every officer Of the state is
sworn to uphold and obey. The Dem
ocratic party in her national conven-
tions condemns injunctions in the
most strenuous terms. South Caro-
lima, though she is the bedrock Of
Iyin n1nnnPr1tin
doctrine in the meanest and most con-
temptible form, and, in my opinion,
only those exercise it who are govern
ed by spite and malice for those whom
they use it against.
Biennial Sessions.
AS l said in my canvass, I am in
favor of biennial sessions Of the gen.
eral assembly. The people Of this
state have already expressed them
selves in favor of it, and 1t certainly
should be given to them.
Confederate Veterans.
l am in favor of a liberal support to
our Confederate veterans, and hope
that, while you gentlemen will not be
eXtravagant along this line, yet that
you will give to them whatever is nee
essary to make them comfortable, and
that you will so amend the pension
laws that so many unworthy people
who now receive it will not receive it,
in order that those who are entitled
to it may get more of that which IS
appropriated. l need not say more
on this subject, for any man who does
not love the eX-Confederate soldier is
either a Yankee or has negro blood in
his veins.
/ recommend liberal appropriations
60 oil iYct nf
ing for white boys and girls. They,
with our denominational colleges, are
doing grand and glorious work.
None is in the way; none can be spar
ed. If there is rivalry, it is friendly,
and spurs all on to a greater work.
But ] 20 not believe in the eXtrava-
gance that the general assembly has
been engaging in along this line for
several years past, and l cannot and
will not give my sanction to 1t during
my term of office, and therefore hope,
in order to keep down any friction along
this line between the legislative and
executive departments, that, you gen.
tlemen will reduce these appropria-
tionS.
The Common Schools.
| am in favor of building up the free
school system so that every white child
in South Carolina may be given a good
common school education in comforta-
BILE and convenient school houses, and
in paying teachers sufficient salaries
to secure the best, and of books, espe-
cially histories, by southern authors for
southern children, and l hope that you
will take such action and make such
appropriations as will bring about
these reforms.
Opposed Compulsory Education.
l am absolutely opposed to compul-
sorry education, and have little pa
tence with, and much contempt for,
that man or those men who go around
in the state or outside of the state
and parade figures to show the per-
centage of the ignorance of our peo-
pie. And if they are state officers, or
hold positions under the state govern
ment, they should be decent enough
to resign, and if they are not then they
should be kicked out. If what they say
is true, we should all get together and
try to remedy it, and not parade it and
humiliate our state by advertising it.
If some people are being paid for this
kind of speeches, | recommend that
you abolish their positions, for they are
not helping, but injuring us. In my
opinion, compulsory education in the
hands of the state means disrupting
the home, for it dethrOnes the author
ity of the parents and places the paid
agents Of the state in control of the
children, and destroys family govern
ment. Those agents stand between the
child and the parent. They represent
the state. They are not responsible to
the parents. They impress upon the
minds of the children the views Of