The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-04-15
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CLNKsCALEs GIVES OUT PLAT
FORM OF HIS CANDIDACY.
FOR LAW AND EDUCATION

WofYord Professor Outlines His Views
on the Importance of People Unit
ing for the Sake Of Progress
Doesn't Want the Office at Cost of
Personal Bitterness and Hate.
| Dr.. John G Clinkscales, professor
Of mathematics at Wofford college,
Spartanburg, candidate for governor
in the Democratic primary the COM
! ing summer, has given out the fol-
lowing platform in statement to
the people:
When any man presumes to offer
himself for any Office in the gift OF
the people he is expected to nave rea-
sons therefor and it is his duty frank
" and sanely to state them. The
people he would serve have right to
know even beforehand what he thinks
about vital matters of common good.
1t has, therefore, become a custom
for candidates for public Office to an
nounce a platform" In which they
are supposed to lay down the princi-
pies and policies they expect to advo-
cate.
With such an announcement now
come before the people Of my native
State, whose history and traditions
are dear to me, and whose future
progress along right lines Is Of deep
patriotic concern to US all. do not
like to describe what have to say as
''my" platform, preferring "our" plat
form in the thought that it expresses
the sentiments, the views, the hopes,
the aspirations of thousands Of right
thinking people in this great COM
monweaith, regardless OF whether
they shall vote for me or not.
Measures Not Men.
/. 7 believe the time has come for
US to have in our political life less Of
abuse of persons and more Of a sane
discussion Of policies and principles
We can not think clearly for the COM
mon good If we have in mind the de-
feating Of men rather than the pro-
noting Of measures. Certainly for
me no Office is big enough to cause
me to want it at the cost Of personal
bitterness and hate. If the campaign
closes with my opponents not more
friendly to me than when 1t began
shall be greatly disappointed.
2. I believe the time has also come
when We should think Of ourselves as
one people with common interests
and hopes, and that whatever conten-
tions may have divided US in the past,
we are at bottom united by too much
that belongs to US all not to see that
whoever would disrupt US into war;
>, ing factions, poison our sentiments
towards one another with suspician
and distrist, and keep stirring the
unwholesome ferment OF bitter class
prejudices is an enemy to our peace,
our prosperity, and our largest pro-
gess. l repeat, therefore, we are
one people, and We must do our
thinking in terms Of the largest good
to all the people Of the common
wealth without regard to class con-
diticns or previous alliance Of any
sort. And even should l fail Of cleo
ton, shall count the service render
ed worth any cost If in my campaign
7 shall SOW the seeds that shall fruit
in a greater harmony Of feeling and
purpose than we have recently known
in South Carolina.
Harmony and Unity.
8 In this spirit, the spirit Of har-
mony and unity, the time has come
for a study Of conditions in South
Carolina as they really are with a
view Of applying the administrative
and legislative powers Of the State to
the great end of promoting the mate
rial welfare and progress Of all the
people. We are engaged in varied
tasks and labors, the tasks and Ia
bors by which we get living and
hope to get little more than a liv-
ing. Our problems are thus largely
economic and industrial in character.
They grow out of what we do in shop
and store and Office and on the farm,
and concern the happiness and pro-
gress Of our entire citizenship. The
world about US, other states, is on the
!. big job Of developing its natural re-
sources in the fullest and most profit
able manner. Are We on this job In
South Carolina? 1t seems to me that
our duty has at last come when real
izing our common needs and gather
ing all the knowledge We can Of what
others have successfully accomplish
ed, we should set our political ma
chinery to work, in the most scienti-
fic way, to advance every industrial
interest. In saying this, I have in
mind no special interest or pet
scheme, but rather I am possessed
with the conviction that We have
reached a point in our history when
we should begin in the spirit of per-
feet fairness to apply the most mod
ern methods to conditions as they are
for example, to the great question
Of equitable taxation, to the efficient,
economical administration Of the
functions of government, and to the
betterment of both rural and urban
life as far as this is matter OF legis-
lation. To these ends I solemnly
pledge what influence I have.
Must Look Ahead.
4. But while the time has come
for the beginning Of thoroughly
scientific effort to bring out legisla-
tive and administrative machinery up