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

more than Christ himself, because
Pontius Plate, after he mad heard the
testimony of the priests and scribes
said, 4 find no fault in this man. Yet
the committee of the legislature has
not had the manhood even of Plate,
and has crawled over the State and
into Georgia hunting something
against this good man, and not one
word have they found" Mr.. Chappell
said no man knew the governor better
than he did, and the governors char
acter was unimpeachable.
He said he proposed to show the
legislators had had no regard for the
peoples money. He spoke of the ex-
penditures of the old Murray commits
sion, appointed by Gov. Ansel, saying
that the books will show that for at
torneys' fees, expense and detective
services, that commission spent $751;
1873. Not satisfied with that, this same
legislature pours into the lap of the
attorney general $4,000 to be dispos-
ed of as he wished in the same con-
nection. 81 ask you farmers and
working people, what On Gods earth
was done?"
"Nothing," said some one in the
audience.
So far as education was concerned,
said Judge Chappell, the finest lot of
people who ever lived IN the Ameri-
can continent fought in the Revolu-
tionary war, and few Of them were
educated people. He was in favor of
common school education, but he
promised if sent to the legislature to
work to the extent of his power to
cut the appropriations for colleges
in half. The rural schools was the
place for the money, he said, and at
the hands of the legislature the rural
schools had not received it To the
detriment of the State and almost to
the disgrace of the country, the pres
ent legislature had given the negro
college at Orangeburg $1,000; not sat
isfed with that, they had put $500
more into a heating plant, and had
put $1,000 more on the old concern.
He prayed that his tongue might
cleave to the roof of his mouth and
his strong right arm Fall to his side
paralyzed if "Chappell in the legis-
lature or anywhere else ever votes to
give one cent of your money to edu-
cate the black negro. God never in
tended it," he said. "These people
that shall come before you gave $16,-
500 of your money to that Internal
negro college," Under the ccnstitu-
ton we were compelled to have negro
schools, but he told how he had man
aged since he had been trustee at
Helena. When he took charge the
school only ran four months. The old
trustees had been paying ss5 a month
for teaching the negroes and $40 a
month for teaching the whites. He
had hired a negro teacher at S25 a
month, and had given the other money
to the white school, and it was now
running eight months instead of four.
He attacked the legislature in in
creasing the judicial circuits from
eight to twelve, without necessity, he
said, and then voting to pay Ernest
Moore, special Judge, last year $1,400,
when all over the country judges
could be found disengaged. and for
overriding the governors veto on this
payment. The legislature over-rode
the governors vetoes in gallop, he
said-no matter what it was, SO the
governor vetoed it. The time was
coming when they would be asked the
point-blank question, why did you
run it over him." He scored the dele
cation for. the rural police bill, saying
the sheriff and magistrates had been
the law, and there was no
necessity for this expenditure of s1,S0O
a year, disregarding taxes to give
somebody job. He was not censur-
ing the men, who took the job, be-
cause he would like to lave it himself.
He promised if elected to try to reduce
taxes, and above all, 70 go hand in |
hand with the governor and cut out