The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1914-07-29
ONE WEEK WITH
STATE CANDIDATES
HOLD MEETINGS IN AIKEN, BAM-
BERG, BARNWELL, HAMPTON
AND BEAUFORT.
ONLY EXCITEMENT AT AIKEN
Candidates for State Offices Contlne
Much Time to Education and the
Pardon Law.

state offices last week through the
counties of Aiken, Bamberg, Barn
we'll, Hampton and Beaufort, was
quiet except for the incident at Aiken
where the injection Of the politics sur
rounding the senatorial campaign
brought on a near fight. 1t was a red
letter week for those candidates VINO
have in their platforms a bitter attack
on he indiscriminate granting or par
dons and the disregard for law, as
every reference to better these condl'
tions was warmly applauded I'M IN
some places it resulted almost in an
ovation for the speakers. The otner
question that attracted comments
from almost all the speakers is the is
sue a education, whether there shall
be a statewide or local option compul-
sorry school attendance law, or none
at all. Each attitude has is ardent
supporters ard the debates continue
from day to day with no hope Of abate-
ment until the campaign ends.
During the week issues foreign to
the main considerations OF he minor
offices have seeped through the
speeches of the candidates by attacks
on the public records Of the other
candidates.
There are II candidates for the Of
flee of governor as follows: .Lowndes
J. Browning of Union county, john U.
Cnnkscales of Spartanburg county,
Robert A. Cooper Of Laurens county,
John T. Duncan of Richland county
w. C. Irby, Jr., Of Laurens county,
Richard I Manning Of Sumter county,
John B. Adger Mutually Of Anderson
county, John G. Richards Of Kershaw
county, Charles Carroll Sims OF Barn
we'll, Charles A. Smith of Florence
county and Mendel l.. Smith OF Ker-
haw county. .. -. 49,
Lowndes ]. Browning has two prin-
cipal planks on which he bases his
appeal for votes. He is opposed to the
present personal property tax of South
Carolina on the grounds Of its made
quacy and inefficient results and
would substitute in lieu thereof a tax
on inheritance and incomes, similar
to the federal income tax law. He ar.
cues that under the laws of the per
sonal property tax a poor man with
visible assets pays taxes on all OF
them while the capitalists with stocks
and bonds pays taxes on only such
part of them as he pleases.
The other plank is that OF rural
credits, by which he plans to help
tenants to become owners Of their
farms and homes. He advocates that
the state lend these men from $1,000
to $4,000 on long time, say 20 years.
at a low rate of interest just sufficient
to bear the actual cost of the loan, as
at is landowners and producers and
not profits that the state wants" TO
the money for these loans the
state could float coupon bonds.
Mr.. Browning is against the abuse
of the pardoning power and Is for the
strict enforcement Of the laws on the
statute books of the state. MI Brown
ing has served for six years in the
house Of representatives, and during
one term was chairman Of the ways
and means committee.
John G. Clinkscales is the sole ad-
vocate among the candidates for a
statewide compulsory school attend
ance law, which has become one Of
the main issues in the campaign. He
pleads TO rthe 100000 boys'and girls in
this state who never darken the door
of a school. He is in favor of having
a term of three months during the
winter, when the children are not
needed around the home by their pa
rents, for all children between the
ages Of even and twelve. He never
fails to tell of some special instances
of illiteracy, which could easily have
been avoided had the parents been
forced to send their children to school.
He states that he has looked in many
counties in the state and has not been
able to find any place where there
were not ample facilities for, every
white child in the state.
Mr.. C%linkscales is also strongly IN
favor of the enforcement Of law and
anything that will redeem the state
from being a laughing stock" He Is
in favor of putting stripes on pistol
toters" and blind tiger men," and is
against the abuse or excessive use Of
the pardoning power. He is a strong
defender of the value of the press as
an educational agent.
Robert A. Cooper pleads for the ag,
ricultural advancement Of the state.
He is in favor of placing in each coun-
ty a farm demonstration school i'm
der the supervision of Clemson Col
lege, which shall educate the farmers
and show them the ways and means
of scientific farming. Another purpose
of such schools, as outlined by Mr..
Cooper, is that they would advise the
farmer and prepare him in the prac'
tically Inevitable invasion of the boil
weevil, which scientists state will
reach South Carolina in five years.
South Carolinians," says Mr.. Coop
er, "are essentially an agricultural
peple and we must put forth every
effort to conserve and protect these
resources"