The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-03-13
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w IidL q - 4lCIC -1C4, u sioh, 1iS
said. II gave up the highest Office
in South Carolina to become candi-
date for Governor. | have given the
best years OF my life to public SER
vice, having served as the head OF
both the legislative and judicial
branches OF your Government, and
for number Of years in the Legisla-
ture as representative from Ian
caster County. But have never
been elected TO an Office by the whole
people of the State, ard that is my
ambition. I have served you for
twenty-five years, and have right
to speak to you to-day and offer my
self for this Office. And l say to YOU
that if things go ON like they have
been for the last year, you will all
regret it. Let's raise the standard of
our government"
y have been called an aristocrat,
continued Judge Jones, but l want
tc say that I am sprung from the
working people Of this State. My IA
ther was carpenter, and my mother,
when he father and mother died,
learned dress-making to support her
self. I am proud Of their toll. And.
IS for myself, went to Lancaster a
young man, with wife and baby
and $40 (that was borrowed) 20
start life. I know al the heart
throbs of the working man, and am
here to-day to join him in redeeming
South Carolina from her shame, OF
raising the standard Of government
and developing this great State Of
ours
If you regard it as a job" said
Judge Jones, Il was the biggest fool
IN South Carolina to resign the Chief
Justiceship; for there was real pow
er. Like the roots of mighty oak,
the Court of the State is the power
upon which grows and develops So
unseen power, true, but mighty
nower, nevertheless. And any agency
which seeks to nullify this power OF
the Courts, to impeach it and 10 in
suit it, is an enemy to society, a
Socialist and an Anarchist!
The. darling hope of my heart, if
elected Governor of this State" said
Judge Jones. will be to foster the
cause of education. I believe in Just
approx ropriations-mind you, say Just
appropriations for all the State col
eges-liberal support to all the
schools and particularly to the rural
schools. I want to see what l can do
tor you There are so many things a
Governor can do for progress at home
and for the reputation OF his State
abroad.
Il will not be the Governor of the
people who vote for me-" declared the
speaker; Il will not be the Governor
of my friends only; will be the Gov
ernor Of the whole people Cloud ap-
plause). The Constitution is design
ed for the protection OF the minority,
as well as the majority. and when a
Governor is for his friends alone, he
is violating the Constitution OF his
State, in that he disregards the rights
of the minority, or those-w oDpos-
ed him. The Constitution would ex-
tend to the minority the same privi-
Ileges it extends to the majority.
You have heard the motto: I'll
go to hell with my friend. Let me
offer you a motto: I'll go to the
brink of hell to help pull him back.
(Applause) ! won't say that III go
TO hell with anybody; but I'll do my
best to keep my friend or anybody
from going there"
At this point there was an unin-
telligible interruption from the audi
ence, whereupon Judge Jones, with
considerable force declared: "You
cant scare me by saying boob! II
anybody thinks I have feathers on my
legs, he is very much mistaken. am
keep for the fight; ! am anxious to
get into it. The Supreme Court was
100 tame and quiet for me.
"And let me close with this, my
friends said the speaker: instead
of the motto stand by your friends
let HE offer you another one, stand
by your trust and pray that your
friend would not have you do other
wise
AS Judge Jones took his seat the
audience applauded with vim. That
his speech had made profound i'm
preston was evident. A stranger in
Hampton, never before having visited
the place, he came Wednesday and
presented his cause; he was warmly
received and the generous applause
accorded him indicated that he had
made friends in no small numbers.
TROTBLE IN MEXICO.