Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-07-15
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS

The city Of Orangeburg on July
II will vote on the question Of chang
ing its form Of government to the
commission form. Much interest Is
being taken in the coming election.
The South Carolina Bankers as
sociation, in its session at Lake Tox-
away, N. c., last Friday and Satur-
day, went on record as fayoring the
establishment Of some sort OF credit
system for farmers. .-..s ....
- Orangeburg county Is to vote on
the question Of dispensary or no dis
pensary on August 10. The anti
saloon people of the county are MAX
ing an organized fight against the
establishment Of the moral instit1-
ton" in Orangeburg. Abbeville
county will also vote on the dispen-
sary question on August 10, as will
also Lexington county on. the same
date. -....-
" william Hughes. a farmer, is in
Jail in Spartanburg, charged with the
murder Of Coker Cox, Wednesday
night. A negro woman, Lula Huff,
who has not yet been found, Is .charg-
ed with being an accessory to the al
legged crime. Hughes and Cox met at
the negro woman's house and there
quarreled. Cox, who was unarmed,
according to the coroner, was shot
down by Hughes.
Governor Cole L. Blease is at
Glenn Springs for brief rest. He
went by way Of Hendersonville, where
he was met by Senator John L NC
Laurin and taken to the Wheeler
house in the senator's automobile. AS
he got off the train, the governor
shook hands with Secretary of State
Bryan, who was getting on. Next
morning when the governor read In
had stated that he was lecturing to
supplement his salary which he al
leges is inadequate, Governor Blease
said: 1t seems to me that II Mr..
Bryan's salary Is not satisfactory, he
should resign. Senator Tillman ruined
himself with the people Of South Car
olina by running about after gate
money like that, instead Of remaining
In Washington attending to his busi-
ness as he should have done. / have
had no less than four offers that
reckon either Tillman or Bryan would
consider liberal, to deliver chatauqua
lectures; but l turned them all down
as quickly as l could dictate the nee
essary letters. South Carolinians are
the proudest people on the face Of the
earth, and they consider 1t beneath
the dignity Of their state to have their
representatives running round after
peoples money for telling them what
should be told them free Of charge,
and I see 1t the same way.
Pee Dee Daily, July IL: George R.
Rembert, q Columbia lawyer, opened
his campaign for governor in speech
over an hour long to about 1900 peo-
pie, mostly from Chesterfield and
Marlboro, at Cheraw today. Blease
and Rembert arrived from Columbia
on the IL o'clock train. The speaking
began about IL. Magistrate Belk OF
Cheraw, presided and introduced the
speakers. Rembert devoted most OF
his speech to praising Blease and crit
icising the newspapers in general and
the Columbia State in particular. He
read and commented on the interview
with "Bullmoose Beard" on the guber-
natorial race, published in the Pee Dee
Daily. Referring to Boards statement
that Rembert was not gubernatortal
timber, he said: "If you all knew
Beard you would think he Is about as
we'll qualified to judge Of the qualifl-
cations Of a governor as flea on a
hound dog is to judge the qualiflca-
tions Of the Pope Of Rome" Beard
was present in the crowd. The editor
of the Daily was: also present. AS to
Boards charge that he was initiating
Blease, Rembert said he considered
that a compliment, as the rest OF them
did not have sense enough to initiate
him. He said he did not deem 1t nee
essary to read Governor Blease's reply
to Boards interview in the Daily, but
Blease said Beard was not telling the
truth, as far as he was concerned.
ID ho
didate for governor has said he would
get all the respectable Blease votes
and Rembert would get the rest. Rem
bert said he would tell the candidate
this to his face when he got into his
county. Rembert discussed briefly his
inheritance tax bill and his taxation
bill. He told Of Blease standing on the
state house steps and telling the peo-
pie of Richland county to vote for
Rembert for the legislature, "and we
licked 'em to frazzle," he said. When
Rembert declared himself against pro-
hibition, he elected the loudest ap-
plause that had been given him. He
opposed any restrictions as to voting
in the primary. He was applauded
when he closed. Governor Blease be-
gan by paying a tribute to the late
Chief Justice McIver, and gave w. d.
Evans the credit for effecting the COM
promise which secured McIver's cleo
ton. He said Cheraw still had su-
preme court justice who has more
good common horse sense than all the
balance Of the supreme court, Dick
Watts. Blease said he had too much |
sense to dictate to the people whom to |
elect governor. He advised them to |
vote for a man who stood for princi- |
pie. He said he had heard Dick Watts |
and If Watts would run, he |
would make George Rembert and the
rest get out Of the way. II have also |
heard Senator McLaurin's name men |
toned. He Is a good. true man who |
has not been treated right by the peo-
pie of South Carolina" He referred |
to Rembert as standing with him like |
a stone wall. He refused to commit |
himself as to who should be the next |
governor, but said for the past two |
and a half years, and for the next
year and a half. South Carolina shore
had one governor" He criticized the
welfare conference and Prof. w. K.
Tate, who, he said, favored white peo-
Pile teaching In negro schools. He said
he had pardoned over 700, two-thirds
Of them negroes. and was not done
yet. He said he would not muster out
the eleven companies recommended by
W. w. Moore, ''if Woodrow Wilson
and the whole Democratic admins
ration had been sunk to the bottom
IF the Pacific ocean, with a guarantee
hat they would stay there till I did"
He and Rembert both received a good
,prinkling of applause. !,