The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1912-04-26
MUNICIPAL CAMPAIGN OPENS
Several Hundred Citizens Gathered to Hear Speeches
Monday Night-.-W Warm Member in
the Mayoralty Race.

the mayor to issue statements at the
call Of every little jackanapes who
called for one to be issued. Every
eitizsh could at any time go to the
treasurer and see for himself.
II y have little difficulty IL is pub
lished abroad. Some one else can
have difficulty and not word is
said.
I DIM asking at your hands reelec-
tion and hope YOU will give me
your support. we have overcome
the seeming insufmouHtabIe difficul-
ties. We are going to take care Of
the man that walks before we take
care OF the man that rides. But for
tho Sidewalks built by US on factory
hill, the people would have been una
BILE to get to the mill without the
aid OF afr machines. told the pe6=
pie would put in sidewalks on one
side. Now 1 tell them will put in
sidewalks on the other side. So
much for business. Now as to the
moral side. Some folks think we
have not been as strict as we
should. You complain about blind
tigers; II you did not patronize them
there would be none (Here some one
called out: You patronize them
yourself, to which the mayor re-
piied "You are tallow-faced liar
If you say Tom Duncan patronized
one"
In the election OF the police the
council acted as a whole. They had
as good a set Of policemen as could
be found anywhere.
They say 1 let street takers come
to Union. I've never allowed one to
come that had not been allowed in
towns like Anderson and areenville.
fhsy nay "iust absolutely ignored
the board Of trade" Now tie police
IfoEes safs huhqhu They. make mis-
ne. ,sss5e sti SaS 3 dsytAs 4 g y
aHgS Hsys q u Stll5 Z u - ~ j7is
As, ia blind tigers and gamblers:
= is Impossible to get rid OF them.
vcr cannot make man who buys
Unlikely give the fact away. The
sane ahpiies to gambling places.
Then these people were brought be-
fore me / found them guilty when
there was the least semblance of
evidence against them. YOU have got
the people who condemn blind tigers
to quit patronizing them: have
been accused OF patronkihg blind IT,
gers, and think l can show whose
typewriter was used and in whose
brain it was conceived.
AS to the police court, they say I'm
too light. Ever since there has been
cotton mill here I knew what the
man had to contend with at home.
Let me say these fellows who con-
denim blind tigers and yet patronize
blind tigers. will not take all the
poor fellow has. We are living not
in the Mosaic dispensatioh, but we
live in a Christian dispensation. Love
must rule. Better farce in police
court than a tragedy In the home. We
have been criticised for what took
place when Cal Gregory's case was
handled as it was. When his wife
and children came to me and asked
II would stop proceedings against
him IL the full amount of his short
age to the town was paid back,
said, Eyes, will not press the mat
ter against him." You go read th'
9Th chapter Of John. See where
scribes and phafisees brought wo
man taken in adultery. They asked
the Lord what should be done. Th'
Lord wrote in the sand. When asket
second time the Lord said. LIE
him that Is without sin cast tn
first stone" There we're no stone
cast. All this pharisaical cry as u
what the grand jury will do amount
to nothing. The grand jury is goin
to do nothing.
The next speaker introduced wa
Mr.. j. Frost Walker, candidate TO
election to the ONCE Of mayor, an
the only opponent Mr.. Duncan, tn
present incumbent has in the pres
ent campaign. Mr.. Walker said:
Voters of Ward One, and OF tn
town OF Union: don't take my te,
! from Luke. II had such recor
as the present mayor would b
ashamed ever read verse Of tn