The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-08-02
THE CAMPAIGN MEETING
In NO. 5 TOWNSHIP
LITTLE NEW NATTER IN SPEECH
ES OF CANDIDATES.
About $50 Voters Present, in Addition
To the Candidates. Good Bar.
becue Dinner.

The county campaign meeting for
No. 5 township was held in Sligh's
pasture a short distance above ia
lapa, on Wednesday. The meeting
was attended by about $50 people, in
addition to the candidates. A very
excellent barbecue dinner was fur
nished.
The candidates for superintendent
of education spoke first, and were fol-
lowed by the candidates for the State
senate.
Col. D. A. Dickert again attacked
the appropriations of the legislature,
and the vote of the Newbery senator
thereon, and again vigorously attack
ed Senator Johnstone's record as a
farmer. He said he had been admon-
ished this was a "Johnstone camp"
and to temper his speech somewhat,
but that nothing in the world could
have made him more firm to say what
he thought.
Senator Johnstone said he did not
propose in this campaign or any other
car. paign to discuss any mans rec
ord except his own. In concluding his
address, he said: 81 said at Williams
Store 1 began life after the war with
a good deal of property, but with no
money. I see sitting by me my friend
Wilson, who knows l tell truth when
I say that my father had two families
Of children, and under an agreement
between myself, my own brothers and
sisters, and those other children, they
took the cotton and we took the land
without dollar of money. That is all
1 told them"
Col. Dickert in his address had
again referred to the cotton which he
had mentioned at Williams in reply
to Senator Johnstone's claim to have
started life as farmer boy, Col Dick
ert saying it may have been 300 bales
sent to Europe instead of 500 bales.
Col. Dickert gave figures which he
said showed the legislature had
squandered money, and Senator John
stone cited his record, which he said
he was willing to stand upon.
The candidates for the house OF
representatives spoke along the same
lines as at previous meetings. Mr..
Mower paid especial attention to the
rural police measure, reviewing the
governors objections to the measure
in the Newberry bill and contrasting
them with his objections in other
bills and with his approval of other
bills. He said in vetoing the Cherokee
act the governor had said he declined
to sign it because it provided that the
sheriff of Cherokee should appoint the
rural police upon the recommendation
of the county commissioners of Chero-
kee, and in the governors opinion it
would be mistake to allow the coun-
ty commissioners to dictate who those
officials should be if they are to work
under the sheriff. In Newberry coun-
ty, said Mr.. Mower, the provision was
that special deputy sheriffs should be
appointed by the sheriff, to work un-
der the direction of the sheriff, and
the governor in vetoing that act had
given as his reasons that the act was
not properly titled, and that it inter-
fered with the duties of the county
commissioners as now constituted in
said county. Mr.. Mower defended the
rural police bill both from legal
and from the standpoint OF
good to the county, and went into the
record at some length in contrasting
it with other bills and the governors
action on the various bills.
Mr.. Kibler, in defending his record
against the charge of extravaganza,
mentioned among other things that
he was chairman of a subcommittee
of the ways and. means committee of
the house which had tried to cut down
the appropriation to the South Caro-
lima college as low as possible, and
that this subcommittee had recon-
mended the elimination of $4,000 ap-
propriated this year for a new build
ing. but had been overruled by the