Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-08-09

dCCouHlS, SHOWlHB lne amounts spent
for all kinds Of personal expenses.
| he said that II we could not prove II
we ought to quit trying. There were
cheers when he sat down.
b. B. Evans at once jumped into his
| criticism and analysis Of the expenses
| OF the dispensary winding-up commits
sion, claiming that most of the money
had gone to high priced lawyers and
was squandered. He said more than
$165,000 had been plundered from the
school fund. He repeated all the hard
things he had said about Mr.. Lyon
elsewhere. He said that the Blease
commission did not collect anything
, for the reason that Lyon had not al
lowed 1t to do so. He refused to sane
tion a contract with Mr.. Holman of
| Charleston; but afterward agreed to
the employment Of B. L. Abney, and
| when Abney compromised $500,000
case that had already been won and
paid for 100000, Lyon allowed Abney
$4,000 for merely signing receipt. He
| said that If elected attorney general of
| South Carolina he would expose the
most Internal band Of kid-glove thieves
that has been known in South Caroli-
Vote for me and you will not be voting
| for pin hook lawyer. II do not
make good / will resign from the po-
sition. He was cheered.
]. Fraser Lyon was received with
| liberal applause. Referring to the read
Ing Of his expense account at Wash
| ington by Mr.. Earle, he acknowledged
the account and said that he had made
the account out in that way in order
that the people might know exactly
how he used their money. He said he
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natl and whever else the trail of graft
carried him. He charged that Earle
had denied that he had voted In 1907
| to put a stop to the investigation. Earle
claimed that he had not made any such
denial; but denied that he had voted
that way. He charged that Earle had
voted against the senate resolution de-
! claring that the state OF South Carolina
| was party to the dispensary case.
This vote had seriously hampered the
case in the United States circuit court;
| but the case was finally won in the
United States supreme court without
the help Of Mr.. Earle. AS to Mr.. Bar
nard B. Evans he said he wanted to
| apologize for noticing him; but there
are some people who might be misled.
He said that Mr.. ]. 8. Brice was a
| member of the commission that is
| charged with fraud, and you all know
that Mr.. Brice would not touch q dis
honest dollar. (Applause.) He denied
that he had had anything to do with
the contract under which Abney had
been employed, and he went on to say
that all that Evans had said was false.
He said that the crowd that wagtry-
ing to defeat him was the crowd that
he had been prosecuting and he argued
that II was natural that these thieves
should tell ali kinds Of lies. When he
closed he was literally applauded.
Mr.. Thomas H. Peoples introduced
himself as q young attorney from Barn.
| we'll county who was not mad, but who
| was running for the Office because he
wanted 1t. He was not here to indulge
in vituperation and abuse against the
other candidates. He did not under
take to tell the voters that he was the
best man in the race; but he did say
that IL you see fit to give the place to
| Tom Peoples he would not be mad.
And II the people on their good judg-
ment should decide that he was not
the man for the place he could con-
tinue to make living practicing law,
or he could go back to his farm. The
| fact that he was q young man did not
necessarily mitigate against him, be-
cause the greatest attorney general the
state has had-W. A. Barber-was a
young man. If after he had held the
office four years he could not get bet
ter political job, he would go home. If
you will put me in this office promise
you that / will protect the rights of
every citizen and will discharge ever,
duty in a manner that will merit your
approval" He had no big record to tell
about but his future was in your
hands IF you give me the job will
| be mighty glad to get Ii but II you do
not give 1t to me I'll not be mad how
ever disappointed. I have been intro
| duced to you as Tom Peoples. want
you to remember that name Tom
Peoples. The name suggests that I am
a Democrat-that I believe in govern
ment by the people, and want you to
elect Peoples to the peoples Office, the
attorney generalship Of South Caroli-
na." Niberal applause.)
For Governor.
Judge Ira B. Jones said he was proud
| to be here at this time and again ad-
dress an audience Of York county peo-
pie. Some twenty-five years ago he
had canvassed the county as candi-
date for solicitor. He was defeated
but he had learned that 1t did not
kill a candidate, because he was still
| here. Another thing he had learned
| was that you cannot feed York coun-
L
wheat. Then he told joke about the
man who after having used various ex-
pedients in trying to commit suicide
| lived to run for the legislature. He
Is now a candidate for governor.
He Is not actuated by spite or
malice. He has resigned his great Of
| fee as chief justice Of the supreme
| court to lead the people In good gov
eminent and civic Righteousness. He
| said he had no malicious feeling
against any one. He had been asked
to express his views on the liquor ques-
ton, and he said that the principle OF
and that its correctness had been es-
tablished. He expressed himself In IA
vor Of the liberal support of the state
educational institutions, and he was
quite sure that the great Associate Re-
formed denomination to which he be-
| longed, was not in favor Of tearing
down any of these institutions. He
asked where was the South Carolina
educated boy who could take con-
tract for a concrete sidewalk, sewer
age system or other public utility.
Work Of this kind has been going on
and 1t will continue and we must pre-
pare our own people to take care of
these tasks. He did not want to take
single brick out Of any Of the COL
leges and he wanted also to do all that
could be done to develop the rural
schools. Many Of the prominent lead
ing men and women OF South Carolina
had come from the farm and he want
ed the country boys and girls to have
the opportunity to get an education at
home.
Next he took up as one Of the next
most important things that could be
done, was the establishment Of sys-
tematic plan for road development. He
wanted our own people to do all we
can; but he hoped that congress would
soon take up the question Of extending
Federal aid to roads. He thought
there was nothing to prevent this, es-
pecially in connection with the estab-
lishment and improvement Of rural
free delivery routes. He took up the
state warehouse question. Cotton could
not be left loose about the farms with
out loss and depreciation; but cotton
in a warehouse was the best security
in the world. Therefore we should
have some system Of warehousing. II
we cannot have private system Of
warehouses we must have state sys-
tenn. The decision of the supreme court
on the warehouse bill passed at the
last session of the general assembly