Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-06-21


man or set of men, or any excuses to
offer for anything which has been
done as governor, and i am not COM
ing to you today, with my hat in my
corporation lawyers? 1 submit to you
as a question of great Importance,
and ask you to answer it in your cool
and deliberate moments. by whom is
a man going to be controlled-by the
corporations and newspapers which
put him in office. or by the people,
who those corporations are fighting
and endeavoring to control and to
hand, Offering excuses or making
apologies or begging you for your
votes.
Has Been and Is Governor.
1 wanted to be governor of South
Carolina, and wanted to be governor
badly, and have been and am gov
ernor, and in that have accomplished
the highest ambition of my life. If
reelected, will have no more honor
than that already bestowed. because
1t is as much of an honor to be gov
ernor of the state one term as it is
to be many years. Therefore, If not
reelected, ! shall have no tears to
shed, for this fight is made for the
people Of my state, against corpora
tions and newspapers. If the people
see fit to prefer to be ruled and con-
trolled by those interests instead Of
by themselves. I can assure you that
they will be the sufferers and not me,
for, whatever may be written, whether
it be with pen, indelible pencil, on
marble or on brass. 1t must be re-
corded that 1 was elected by the peo-
pie to the position of governor of my
state, and no matter who writes 1t,
how bitter he may be against me, or
how friendly he may be towards me,
he can not fail to record that l was
governor of my state.
In my inaugural address to your
general assembly in 1911, certain poll
cies were laid down, and your general
assembly asked to take them up and
consider them very carefully.
In my annual message of 1912, again
those same matters were taken up, as
we'll as other matters: and now beg
leave to submit to you the most i'm
portant matters which you should
give consideration to; First. and most
important of all-educatiOn of your
children; taxes: government printing:
extravaganza of your higher institu-
tions of learning; the careless issuing
of acquisitions and rewards, which has
been followed by previous administra-
tions. the purchases for your state in
stitutions; the hunting clubs, which
are in the hands of foreigners and de-
prives the citizens of our state Of their
God given right and privilege; the ne
gro lodges, which do so much harm
i'm our country; appointment of special
judges to hold court, when regular
judges are disengaged: white persons
teaching negro children in schools of
the state: railroad fares which should
be reduced to cents per mile, as
advocated by me in my message to
your general assembly: the cotton mill
merger: the hoisery mill; biennial ses-
sions of the general assembly: liberal
support of the Confederate veterans.
Your taxes are entirely too high,
which is caused by the extravaganza
of your legislature. in making large,
excessive and useless appropriations.
Your higher institutions of learning
are receiving too much money, to the
detriment of the common schools.
These institutions should be run at a
less expenditure. i'm order that more
money may be given to the common
schools. Every dollar uselessly spent
in your higher institutions could be
we'll spent. and should be, in improv-
ing the rural schools of the state.
Any one who will take the pains to
investigate will see that we are paying
entirely too much for government
printing, and that thousands Of dollars
could be saved the state If this matter