The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1914-06-20


pected to be in SUI ter tomorrow, the
18th, to speak to sny fellow citizens.
An accident to my ,sht foot that hap
pened on my wayk-o Keowee church
last Sunday prov entially prevents
my attendance. 1t is a grievious dis
appointment but God knows best
May | request you to read this let
ter and the enclosed printed draft
or outline of my platform to the aud
ience instead of my speech and to
hand the copies to the leading Blease
men Of the various sections of your
county and country. giving one here
and one there where they will be
read and kept and shown from and
| by voter to voter.
l am a man of limited means, a
poor man so far as this worlds goods
and money is concerned and / have
spent hundreds Of dollars. nearly my
all, to print the literature that l shall
later hand to every voter in this State
and l have no Otho" means Of reach
ing the real people, the people that
prayerfully think and vote according
ly-the people that will elect as their
governor John Bailey Adger Mutually
States senator, Coleman Livingston
Blcasc of Newberry, South Carolina
| Sincerely.
John bailey Adger Mutually.
p. S. l find that l could not come
at any rate for the most solid anti
Blease antiMullally lawyer in Ander-
son defeated by nv efforts in the last
campaign has just had me served with
a premature notice to appear before
Judge French in n settlement The
notice was ostcntatiOusly served in
the public square. The best counsel
in the city say that it should properly
have been served if at all for the
Oath or after. They can beat Cole
Rlease or Honest John" Mutually by
shyster tactics. The people OF Sum-
ter shall hear me. Fair play, amt
dead Yet. The estate in question has
been paid over SO far as the female
heirs are concerned and all this is a
matter of record.
My phainplct will tell the whole
story.
Mutually Stands with Blease.
l am now a candidate at the earn
est solicitation Of many good men for
governor of the Palmetto State.
l am for the election of the judges
Of that State by the people and not for
their selection by the Statesmen" of
the legislature. l am for Home Rule
in cities and in other localities and
boundaries where interests are identi-
cal and local, and wherever the
choice of the city or section does not
work an injustice Or a nuisance per
Sc to other localities or the State in
general. 1 am against the merger Of
the cotton mills and other industries.
/ believe-I know that "the merger
is but another name for "the trust
and that that means that the State
shall clothe by legislative enactment
the banded corporate interests with
the power unlimited; 1st To regu-
late the price of the raw material-to
force the producer. the farmer, to
take just such a price for his cotton
for instance as the allied corpora
tions, the trust, the merger, shall die
tate and fix; I'd. to give the said
merger the power 10 pay labor just
what it pleases; 81 to enable the
merger to charge the consumer-you
and /, everybc y-iust what it pleases,
protected by the in quitous tariff, for
the finished prOduct-the cloth-the
thread-the spindle's output. 1 see
unrest and strikes and labor troubles,
and the countless ills that have follow
ed the legalization Of the trusts or
mergers in every other State. see
the cost Of the necessities of life, al
ready too high, going higher.
l believe in equal rights to all and
special privileges to none.
l am a Democrat. 1 believe in a
government of the people, by the peo-
pie, and for the people. believe
with Thomas Jefferson and Coleman
Livingston Blease that the people are
capable to govern themselves. 1 be-
lieve that there is as much of patrio-
tism and virtue behind the home
spun and the gingham as there is be-
hind the broadclOth and the silks.
believe that that ,dy of the people
that supports this untry in time of
peace and dies for /. in time Of war
ought to have it's share in the pros
! perity Of the country and its part in
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