The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-07-26

number of years, and some had not
had an overseer appointed on them IN
two years. Bridges were in terrible
condition, he said, and better roads
we're needed all over the county. Be-
fore better roads could be had there
must be better laws. Il am not pre-
pared to tel you just what sort of
laws we ought to have he said; per
haps you know as much about that
as I do
He said he thought the most econ
omical and most practical plan for
running the public schools could be
found in consolidation. In this coun-
ty, he said, there were lots of little
schools, poorly equipped, and taught
"by people who are themselves chill
dren and don't have any information
as regards books, many of them hav-
ing graduated at little country schools,
in the seventh or eighth grade" Good
roads, he said, were a sine qua non
of good schools.
He favored reduction of taxation as
much as possible, being emphatically
opposed to all useless and extrava-
CANT expenditures by any legislature.
AS to the heating plant for the negro
college, he was not saying it was
wrong or right to vote for that, but
when the day came when be voted to
place a heating plant in a negro col
lege, when there were white schools
all over the State that had never seen
heating plant-last Year he hap
pened to be in the State University
and sat by fires kindled by wood
when the day came that he voted to
place in a negro college a heating
plant, when there existed at the same
time white colleges that had not such
heating plants, that day l shall not
come back to ask you to send me to
the legislature, but ask YOU to meet
me somewhere, when YOU find me in
this section of the country again, and
place a Winchester rife pail through
my heart" He was aot opposed to
negro education, and appropriations
for negro education, provided we
provide first and decently for white
education" He was opposed to tax
ing white people to educate negroes
when the white peoples own children
haven't seen a college and never en-
joyed the privileges of attending a
high school.
Then you are Blease nan?" asked
some one.
"I am for whoever is for the people
of South Carolina" said the speaker.
Good schools and high schools were
needed, that every child might get a
high school education without having
to go away from home The need
was also for an economical govern
ment. There were boys and girls in
this community who ought to attend
college and would possibly do so if
they could first receive a high school
education, but that required the ex-
penditure on the part of many Of
them of as much money as it would
take to obtain a college education.
He approved reduction of taxes
along all lines, good roads, good
schools, and promised if elected to
stick by his people through everything,
there not being enough money in South
Carolina, he said, to cause him to de-
viate one iota.
DR.. C. I. Wyehe,
seeking reelection to the house, said
that some might ask, Why does Wyche
want to go to the legislature? Some
men go into public Office to benefit
themselves, he said; some to make
themselves rich. He had been a poor
boy, born in the sister State of North
Carolina, who came here before the
people advocatin g what he thought
was right, as he always would do, and
they had always honored him with
their confidence. He had not made any
money going to the legislature-his
wife had said it had kept him poor. A
man had but one life to live, and his
only object was to be Of service to his
people. Some man had said to him,
"some people think yoS are traitor
to the people who elected you" He
wanted to say that traitors blood
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