The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1914-06-30

age in the Stat" were to ask adm;S
81 n t. the schools at the beginn ns
OF tle next term. they could not ge
IL, said Mr.. Cooper. He urged tnar
the most remote districts educational
advantages equal to those in the cite:
and towns
The trouble in South Carolina ha
rot been too much taxation, but We
have not been given value received
Cor tax money spent said Mr.. Cooper
in urging the adoption of business
methods in the conduct of the States
affairs.
If you make me governor, shall
remember my oath of Office and know
no enemies and no friends" con-
cluded Mr.. Cooper
Two years from now you won t
find single man in South Carolina
/ proud that he voted for Blease,' said
John T. Duncan, in the course of a
speech in which he talked about what
he calls the system"
w c. Irby, Jr., told of his opposi-
ton to immigration in 1904
81 told the corporations then when
they asked me to help the passage
Of the bill that there were too many
poor white people in the State woo
needed work, and | would never agree
to the importation of cheap labor to
take their jobs away from them,"
said Mr. Irby, who sketched the move
ment to get immigrants and his part
in opposing it.
"On every question which has come
up before the legislature no man has
even been able to tell me how to
vote, declared Mr., Irby in telling
o. his vote to override the governors
veto Of the 1-mill school tax bill.
Manning for Law and Order.
eff | am electeG governor I pro-
pose to bring into play a Statewide
enforcement of law, declared Rich
ard L. Manning, who was applauded
when he promised a temperate use of
the pardoning power.
Mr.. Manning advocated a business
like administration of the State gov
ernment and local option compulsory
school attendance He congratulated |
Dillon on being one of the three coun-
ties in which every school district
had voted a special tax to supply it's
schools Mr.. Manning urged State
aid for weak school districts to bring
the minimum term OF each one up to
six months.
g John G.. Richards said it rather
him to hear the candidates
VINO are lawyers trying to teach the
people of Dillon county how to arm.
He told of his work as a representa-
tive for various educational measures
and Of his opposition to compulsory
school attendance in any form. His \
declaration that he intended to vote
for Blease was literally Kissed and
Sparsely cheered.
Charles Carroll Simms read an ex-
,ract from the editorial in The State
which said he ought not to be elected
because he would continue the policies
If the present administration. He
said that the opposition of The State :
% him was due to the fact that he
would allow no one to dictate to nim
whom he should have for his friend
md whom he should vote for. {
Charles A. Smith, asking for pro- {
notion from lieutenant governor to
governor, was the last speaker. He
promised to be as considerate Of the
se Of public as OF private funds. He
dvocated submitting the question of Y
statewide prohibition to the people. I
lieut. Gov. Smith said that the State
ad made great progress educational
y in the last few years. He asked a
any greater progress would have {
cen made under a compulsory school s
tendance law and insisted that the =
tate was not yet ready for a sys-
EN- OF compulsion and that it would
orce negroes into the schools. q