Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-12-31

| ana the men won out, assisted Dy tnt
consideration Of their rights by thu
executive department Of the state. II
the last Columbia strike an Officer
was smashed in the head by q railway
official and other disorders occurred
You know how 1t was here.
Gov. Blease told his audience how
the last legislature tried to fool then
ON the tax levy proposition. They ha6
pretended to hold to the same levy
imposed by the session in power wher
Blease was governor, Of 81 mills, bul
had made a state levy Of 81 mills,
one-half levy for the asylum and g
one mill levy for pensions. Under
Blease the whole levy, including the
old soldiers pension, amounted to 81
mills. The last legislature in reality
imposed a mill levy and shameless
ly wasted money In appropriations and
by the creation Of useless offices
They loaned Clemson last year $780,
900. Will any Of 1t ever be paid
back? This year that school will
probably borrow 100000 and Win
throp will ask 100000 to keep even
ated by the last legislature to the
masses Of the people Of the state? u
challenge any gentleman In the legis-
lature to meet me in joint debate
and prove where any of those so we'll
paying jobs created by them do the tax
payers a dollars worth Of good" de-
clared Governor Blease.
What has the board Of charities ac-
complished other than to give fat jobs
to partisan pets? Is 1t necessary to
take a little board Of trade secretary
and give him salary equal to that
Of the governor to have him run
around and tell supervisors that 1t Is
better to work white and negro pris-
oners separately; and to tell sheriffs
and jailers that it's good thing to
keep the jails clean and advise that
the penitentiary be cleaned up. Some
penal institutions know nothing OF
jails except to go there to visit their
kinfolks or friends possibly.
When Blease was governor he wrote
supervisors to separate the races, and
when they did not he paroled the
white prisoner worked with negroes.
And he cleaned out the penitentiary
himself when he abolished the hosiery
min.
What has the tax commission done?
Revised the levy on banks. Who pays?
The poor man who does business with
the banks, of course. If they wanted
to do something which would benefit
the whole people, why did they not
fix the legal rate Of interest at per
cent, or even compel the living with
the legal per cent rate and stop the
practice Of usury that Is going on?
When railroad, bank, fertilizer and
other taxes are raised the borrower
and consumer pay them in the end.
The former governor said he had
-. la. hot II
a Columbia lawyer and politician, was
trying to get the endorsement Of leg
islators for the position Of state
warehouse commissioner. The man
who Is now commissioner, Jno. L.
McLaurin, is the father Of the system;
he is a fifty or sixty plow farmer and
one Of the big cotton growers OF the
state. What is to his interest Is to the
interest Of every man who grows a
bale Of cotton. To put partisan
political wire-puller at the head OF
the system means sure death to one
Of the greatest measures OF economic
legislation in the history Of the state.
The extra session Of the legislature
called by Blease made possible the
passage Of the measure. Senator
McLAurin was the only man In the
legislature well enough posted on the
matter TO frame Lne DILL duu h6hl ~
through. Farmers and business men
see the great good Of the system, and
1t would be crime for the legislature
to kill it by displacing the best man
who could possibly head the system.
Mr.. Blease complimented Sheriff
Ashley highly on his handling Of the
recent strike situation, and said that
recently he had heard that a prominent
circuit Judge remarked that he con-
sidered Ashley Of Anderson and Rec
tor Of Greenville, two Of the most ef-
ficient sheriffs in the state.
The Farmers Tribune was given
appreciated praise.
The ex- and next governor eloquent
ly pleaded for purity Of the ballot and
spoke scathingly Of the vote-seller
as not only betraying the trust Of his
franchise, but selling the freedom and
liberty Of his children and his family.
Don't vote for the man, vote for the
principle. Ask God to guide you and
vote according to your conscience. and
for the men who will not betray you
but for men who will see that you and
yours are protected and given your
rights"