Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1914-08-20
FOR The LEGISLATURE
To the Democrats of York County:

initiative. wish to announce that /
am candidate for the House of Rep
resentatives from York county.
My home is in Fort Mill. Almost
continuously for the last 20 years
YORK county has recognized the wis
dom OF selecting its representa-
ent sections OF the county. The plan
seems to have worked we'll and L
hope 1t Will not be discarded this
year The people of Fort Mill are
modest in asking for county Offices
they seldom have a candidate for any
of them, and so they hope when one
OF their number asks to be sent to the
Legislature the balance of the county
will help elect him. 1 think l may say,
SO far as the present race is concern
ed, that the citizens of my home COM
munity will support me generally
am Democrat: 1 have never voted
any other ticket nor do L ever expect
to. have held a number of appoint
I'VE ofhces and one or two occasions
have been elected from York county
to the State convention of our party
For several years 1 was n civil service
employee of the National Government
In 1908 1 was one of n committee of
two appointed by the State chairman.
Gen. Willie Jones, to solicit subscrip-
tons from South Carolina for the
Bryan campaign. We collected several
thousand dollars. In 1909 and 1910 |
was clerk on the floor of the State
SShate, the part OF
191 and 1872 l was one of the secre-
taries of the Printing Investigation
commission of Congress and n clerk
to the Joint Committee on Printing
AS such L was intrusted with impor-
tant work, such as assisting in draft
ing the Democratic printing bill of
the SiNty-second Congress and editing
and compiling the report submittel to
Congress thereon. Also l was one of
q committee of five selected by the
Il ftn, ii. q.
pare standard specifications for Il
years supply of paper, amounting to
one and three-quarter millions of
dollars. for the Government Printing
office. AS an attache of the State
Senate and of Congress 1 have had
an opportunity to observe and study
legislative work which [ think would
be OF some value to me as 4 member
of the House of Representatives..
am not a politician and do not
or pet schemes which | hope to put
through the Legislature, but l con-
cetve ii to be the duty of candidates
Tor the Legislature to state their posi-
ton on matters they apprehend to be
or peculiar public interest.
Schools for the People.
The prosperity and happiness of the
people being based on good morals
and popular intelligence. a well sup
ported and efficient system of com
mon schools is necessary to the State
me state should make provision for
| the children to attend school but at
present, the people of each school dis
| trict should be allowed to determine
| whether or not attendance be com
] PEELED II there is to be any legislation
on the subject. The presence of the
negro population is n factor not to be
| ignored; 1t affects different districts
| IN different ways and to a different
, extent. do not anticipate with plea
sure the prospect of the white man
| paying hundreds of thousands to pro-
| Viue statewide compulsory school at
| tendance FOR the negro only to have
| the negro in less than a generation use
that generosity aS Il club over the
head of his benefactor. The main pur-
! pose OF the constitutional convention
| or 1873 was to disfranchise the negro
! Now We propose to undo the work of
| thot convention by compelling if DOS
! sible, every little black male in the
State to qualify for the suffrage which
we wisely sought TO deprive his kind
OF IN 1879. Were we right in 1895 and
wrong in 1914, or were we wrong in
1895 and right in 1914?
Ihe colleges OF the State should be
| maintained but without eNtraVagance
! ihc common schools deserve to be
| preferred to them in liberal sunnort
| Tbc colleges better than the common
| schools can wait on Il period of state
| prosperity Tor Improvement Win
| throp College is one of five State col
| leges for whites devotcd-to the educa-
tion OF girls and it educates the girls
OF tne WorkinEman and farmer to bc
teachers and in the industrial arts. hv
| winch the wife of the workingman
is enabled to be his efficient helpmeet
| IN the struggle for Independence Ap-
preparations that would be extrava-
| giant Tor any one of four white col
ieges for men might he strictly eco
| hoihlcal Tor the one State college fo-
girls.
am opposed to the proposed CO.
| ordination of the College for Women
(ColumbiO and the University OF
South Carolina.
For Law and Morality.
AS matter of course every good
citizen believes in the enforcement oI
| ia%' ana believe i'm il. l believe that
especial attention should he given To
the equal enforcement of the law so
tnat the poor and humble shalt have
| the same chance before the Judge and
jury that the rich man enjoys.
rms IL Il Christian country. Our
: ciNlnzation and our laws rest on the
teachings of Christianity. Therefore
l believe that the Christians Bible
should be read daily iu the schools OF
the people and favor legislation re-
! curing 1T. Our mother tongue. the
language of the plain people. is pre-
served in the English Bible and that
doom "onld well deserve 10 be read
! III the schools for the sake OF teaching
the strong. simple Language of our
! fathers 10 our children even Were
! there not the more powerful reason
that il be read in order that the
children be instructed in sound mo-
I rality.
The survivors of the Southern Con
federacy diminish in numbers almost
hourly. The Thin Gray Line" at
Appomattox. decimated as il was. was
a host compared with the remnant
that is left after 49 years. Surely
South Carolina can afford To be gener-
| Gus with these brave men to whom
she owes the preservation OF her civ
iliZation.
Would Equalizc Taxation.