The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1916-05-05
STATE WAREHOUSE TO
BE In THE CAMPAIGN
MEETING OF STATE WAREHOUSE
ASSOCIATION WEDNESDAY
REQUEST of State Convention Made
McLaurin Will Run for Lieu
tenant Governor, if Necessary.

tenant Governor, If Necessary
Columbia, May 3.-At a largely at
tended meeting of the South Carolina
;Warehouse association, held in the
Offices of the State Warehouse COM
mission today, pursuant to the call
recently issued by President ]. Ar
thur Banks. it was unanimously ex-
pressed as the sentiment of the meet
ing that there should be campaign
this summer in the interest of the
system. and its further enlargement
and development, and that the State
warehouse commissioner, Senator
Jno. L. McLaurin, was the proper
man to make it. The action Of the as
sociation was embodied in a resolu-
-tion introduced by Hon. E. W.. Dab0s'
former president Of the State Farm
ers union, requesting the State Dem
ocratic convention, which meets next
Wednesday, to grant Senator McLaur-
in an hours time at each of the reg
ulsr campaign meetings this summer.
The resolution. was signed by those
present, and will be formally pre-
sented as a memorial to the State
convention. "a
President J. Arthur Banks called
the meeting to order promptly at 2;So
O'Clock. In a ringing address he re-
viewed the State warehouse system.
beginning with the efforts Of Sena-
tor McLaurin for the passage of the
law, and telling, from personal
knowledge, as we'll as close observa-
tion, how it had been firmly establish
ed in the money centree and the
great benefit which it had been to
the people not only of South Carolina,
hut of the entire South, in time CT
fiaancial depression when money
was not to be had at any price, be-
cause the Southern banks did not
MREe it to lend. He told of the op-
position which it had encountered at
every step. SIT has got the strongest,
shrewdest, best-organized enemies
of anything in this State" he said.
There has been struggle against it
from its inception, and there is still
a struggle, and if you don't get to-
,gether and organize your forces and
stand together behind some man of
devotion and zeal and ability, they
will finally whip you to death. And
that is the reason called this meet
ing together-for the purpose Of get
ting together on campaign of edu-
cation, so that the people of every
State may know what the warehouse
system is, and know what it means, |
and know its possibilities of good for
the whole South. When the people /
once know it, it will never die, be-
cause it is sound-sound absolutely. |
Nobody has ever been able to pick a
flaw in it,
Hon. W. "A. Stuckey of Bishopville |
said that he felt the time had come !
to present bold front, and simply |
declare to the public what it was !!
proposed to do. This was a non
partisan body, he said, and cam
paign of education was needed, He
moved that a campaign be started to-
day in behalf of the State warehouse,
to agitate and discuss it before the !!
people of South Carolina, regardless
of factional politics. 'In, an issue
like this We should be great enough
to rise above factionalism, and We
see to it that cur members of
xae sese' general assembly are
straight State warehouse men-men
whose speech, when they say so,
comes not only from their mouths,
but from the abundance Of their
hearts"
1--WE are ali behind Ar. &cLaurin,"
said Mr.. Edward e. Rembert Of Sum
ter county, and we would like to
hear from hlms and let him tell us
what ne vents ps to do to further
this great caAse.F
Senator MeLaarin saidain part, His I