The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-07-25
Why He Fights Jones.


as hard if not harder than any man
in the State. Mr.. Andrews is from
the North or West and is the resi-
dent manager of the Atlantic Coast
Lumber Company, the largest con-
Germ of the kind in the South. This
company is owned principally by J.
Pierpont Morgan, of New York, and
is a trust concern of the worst kind.
1t has in it's employ great many
men, who are said to be against
| Judge Jones to man. At the cam
paign meeting in Georgetown these
men all wore badges with Governor
Blease's name on them.
The reason of Mr.. Andrews's op-
position to Judge Jones is based on a
decision made by the State Supreme
court while Judge Jones was a mem
Der of that body that made the At
lantic Coast Lumber Company deal
Justly with the farmers and others
from whom it bought standing trees
on their lands. In other words, the
decision prevented Mr.. Andrews's
company from virtually confscating
the land on which the trees that it
bought from farmers and others
stood 1t was most righteous de-
cisien and was farreaching in it's re-
suits and gave great satisfaction to
the land owners.
So as our readers can understand
the great benefit the decision was to
the farmers and other land owners
whose trees had been bought by the
Atlantic Coast Lumber Company we
will give brief recital of the facts.
When the big lumber company began
business at Georgetown it bought up
all the trees on the land for miles
around from farmers and others. In
many instances these trees were
bought very low, with the under
standing on the part of the sellers
that they were to be cut off the land
in a reasonable time by the buyers.
After waiting a reasonable time
for the Atlantic Coast Lumber Com-
pany to cut off the trees, some of the
farmers and others on whose land
the trees stood asked the lumber
company to cut the trees as they
wanted to utilize their land. Instead
of complying with this reasonable re-
quest, the lumber company put up the
claim that they could let the trees
stand on the land until they needed
them. In other words, if the lum-
Der company did not need the trees
for a hundred years, it had right to
the use of the land for that length of
time or longer.
This really amounted to confisca-
ton of the land, on which the own
er had to pay the taxes. The farm
ers and other owners of the land re-
fused to submit to having their lands
thus confscated and took the matter
in the courts, and after a long fight
with the lumber company got a ver-
dict from the supreme court settling
the matter for all time. BY that de-
cision the lumber company was re-
quired to cut the trees from the land
in a reasonable time SO as the land
could be utilized by its owner. The
decision restored the land to its
owners.
This is the reason why Mr.. An
drews is fighting Judge Jones and
trying to re-elect Governor Blease.
Judge Jones does not claim any cred
it for this decision, as he was only
upholding the right as he construed
the law bearing on the subject. But
this decision shows that he was not
favoring the corporations against the.
people, anu HIdheo hin 'eAy ooi1o III
Georgetown, which he will carry IN
spite of what Mr.. Andrews and his
big lumber corporation does to de-
feat him. 1t proves to the farmers
and other lond owners that their
property and other rights would be
perfectly safe with Judge Jones as
governor.-Orangeburg Times and
Democrat.