Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-01-17
GOVERNORS MESSAGE.
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fix. not to exceed thirty days under
one license. My reason for this is that
the present law is a farce. You know
this: il is common knowledge. Negroes
and some others habitually carry pls-
tolls. and then when they get into
difficulty they shoot down the law
abiding citizen, who is unarmed ana
not in position to take care OF him.
self against the coward. 1t would De
good idea also, in my judgment, TO re-
quire the clerk of court to publish the
names of the licensees, and to in
crease the punishment for violation OF
the law, providing that a person con-
yicted of carrying a concealed weapon
without a license be imprisoned for
twelve months at hard labor, without
a fine. and applying the receipts from
license fees to the special enforcement
of this law, in addition to the regular
machinery of the law which we now
have. l further recommend that you
make the same punishment OF imprls-
onment without the alternative OF
fine, apply to those convicted OF selilng
pistols. | believe, gentlemen, this Will
do much towards stopping the carry
ing of pistols so freely, and will possl-
bly save the lives of some OF our peo-
pie. If you will watch your criminal
courts you will see that most OF the
people who meet violent deaths are
killed with these little cheap pistols
that are carried continuously in the
pockets of the crap shooter the pilhu
tiger and the loafer
Detectives.
respectfully recommend that you
pass an act requiring every detective,
or so-called detective, operating II
this state to register his name WIN
the secretary of state and require MIN
to secure a license and TO pay IL
cense fee for carrying on his trade
within the state; that you also require
every detective bureau, or so-calleu
detective bureau or agency, to register
the name of each and every person
who is working for it, and make eacn
and every one of them pay license,
and make it a misdemeanor fo1 any
man to ply the trade OF detect e IN
the state without such license. We
have people running around over TINS
state acting as detectives, carr ing
pistols in their pockets, without M
missions and without authority OF
law II is not unusual for them to say
they are hired by the intendant or
mayor of some town and claim that
that makes them detectives and gives
them a license to violate the law In
going around armed. Such licenses I'M
posed as | have suggested, would be j
source of revenue to the state; woulo
not do anybody any harm; wou:d
make these people realize that there Is
a law. which, when they operate in
this state, they must obey, and DE-
lieve. would result in good.
Editors and Reporters.
7 ,asnac+fullv recommend that YOU
mass an act making ii a misdemeanor
for any newspaper editor, reporter or
correspondent to promulgate, make OF
nublish false report of the speech OF
any person who is a candidate for any
county, state or national office. make
this recommendation because II is get
ting to be a common occurrence lot d
newspaper reporter to follow a state
campaign or to attend a meeting
Somewhere, and make a false report of
the speech of a candidate by reporting
lust enough of his remarks to give the
false impression desired, or by omit
ting Just enough to create the raise
impression and then, when the can
didate sends in a correction, giving
the speech as it was, the editor slts III
his sanctum and says that newspaper
courtesy forbids him from publishing
il because it's publication may reflect
porter. If you will make it misde-
meanor punishable by Imprisonment
without the alternative Of fine, for
any reporter, editor or correspondent
to treat a man in this manner, you
will put a stop to much OF the attempt
ed defilement of reputation and much
of the vileness that is carried on
through the newspapers in our South
Carolina campaigns.
l further recommend that you pass
an act to the effect that when any
newspaper publishes a statement In
regard to any person that is injurious,
that when that person sends to the
paper a correction Of said report, the
editor or manager of the paper DC
required to publish said correction In
the same column of the same page,
and with as large headlines as the
original article appeared, wherein the
person was misquoted or mlsrepre-
sented.
Now, gentlemen, l believe no man
has suffered more from newspaper at
tacks and newspaper unfairness than
| have. l am proud to say / can SUI
fer from this no longer. The people
know that what they see in the news
papers about me they cannot believe
until they see it over my own sigma
ture NV private life and my public
acts have been so continuously talsl-
fed by the press of South Carolina, In
such a malicious and coWardly man
ner. that the people of my state KNOW
such attacks are entitled TO no Gre
dence whatever and the people nave
proclaimed them cowardly and ma
iicious falsehoods by re-electing me
governor in the face of the most fear
ful TRADE of vituperation, falSehood
and abuse ever heaped upon one man
in one. or even in many campaigns.
can no longer be affected by 1t, one
way or the other; but others are 10
follow me, and are they to be made
to suffer? 1t may have been IN the
past or it may be in the future. the
fate of some of YOU to have a wilful
and malicious misrepresentation or
YOU or your remarks prominently dis-
played in a newspaper, and the cor
rection, if published at all, placed
under miniature headlines on an in
side page where nobody will ever see
ii. Is that fair? Is it not matter
which ought to be remedied by law?
Gentlemen, you have the right ana
the power to apply the remedy IN
matters of this kind. and l urge YOU,
earnestly, 10 do so.
Election of Judges by the People.
respectfully recommend that you
submit to the people of this state
such constitutional amendment or
amendments as may be necessary to-
place the election of all judges-su-
preme court and circut-in the hands
of the people.
No doubt the recommendation will
he met with strong opposition from
the politician. but it is right, and
whether you let it pass your body or
not. it will be made an issue in the
politics and policy of this state, ard
will prevail; therefore, you might as
well take for yourselves the honor
and the credit of having given to the
people the better system
You will be met with the argument
that this will never do; that the legis-
lature is better qualified to elect judges
than the people are. Who elected the
legislature? Who elected the presi-
dent of the United States? Who elect
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