The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1914-06-02


Tle governor referred to the New
berry delegation in the State conven-
ton, ridiculing the delega ion as DEL
egation absolutely without influence
and without recognition in the conven-
ton
The Primary Rules.
Taking up the primary rules adopted
by the conven ion, he said the effort
OF the convention was to go back to
the convention system, and have all
officers, State and county, chosen by
a clique, and to cut the laboring man
and he farmer out of a voice in the
government under which he had to
live. The Safe convention, he said
had made it harder for white man
t5 enroll in the primary than for a
negro to register in the general elec-
ton.
He look up in detail and explained
the primary regulations, referring es-
pecially TO the matter of personal en-
rolmeat, and urged his hearers to go
home and write on the head-boards Of
their beds and on their mirrors the
word, enroll" 50 that when the time
came they would not forget it. The
rules, he said, were a hardship on the
laboring man and the farmer, because
the man in the city could walk around
to his club secretary on dull day and
sign the roll, while the cotton mill
man, the laIboring man and the farmer
had to lose time from their work-the
laboring man probably being "d0cked'
for this lost time, and the farmer hav-
ing to drive maybe five or six or ten
miles to personally sign the roll. He
said he was not talking for himself
that be was no. urging enrolmen- in
order for people to vote for him, or to
vote for any man, but in order that
they might put themselves in position
o AXE part in the naming of their Of
icers, county and State, and in the
election q: congressman AID United
States senator's He urged not only
enrolment, but that if scme one wan
ed . enrol who could not write that ne
take his own witness with him, and he
urged his friends not oaly to go to
he ballot box and cast their votes,
but to see that their votes were prop
cry coun.ad after they were cast.
"Enyy and Jealousy Charged.
He said that WAT made his enemies
in Newberry county so sick was envy
and jealousy. He was the only gov
ernor Nswberry had ever mad, he said
and he had put Newberry largely on
he map. He referred to various ap-
pointments Of Newberry people which
he had made, and yet, he said, envy
and jealousy on the part OF some in
Newberry county had led to a bitter
fight against him in the county. He
said the only Old soldier he had heard
of knocking" nim during the Confed-
era~e reunion in Anderson was a New
berry maa, and that man he charged
with knocking" him because the gov
ernor's brother had defeated that man
for sheriff OF the county two years
ago. 81 didn't beat him for sheriff" )"
said the speaker; "Why doesn't ne take
his defeat like a man ought to and run
two years from now, if ne wants his
Office back, and Try to get it back"
The cry had always been since ne
had been a candidate fer State Office,
said the governor, hat Newberry, his
home county, was against him, trying
to make the people of the State believe
that he could not carry his own coun-
ty. But he had always carried it, he
said, and was g3ing o carry it along
with the balance Of the State again
this summer, and he wanted to SHOW
the people in his speech o. his why