Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-07-12
CAMPAIGN MEETING.
Continued from First Page,)

dSl lSulIulO Ill pNoAiS
vided for.
Governor Manning closed with a
reference to the great Improvement
wrought in the management OF the
State hospital through his efforts.
He was unable to find a capable
superintendent for the salary fixed
by the legislature, so he employed
DR.. Fred Williams of Columbia at
a higher salary and paid the differ
ence out of his own pocket. He
exhibited his personal check which
he gave for this amount. The State
did not pay a dollar of it. Through
DR.. Williams management about
$50, 600 has been saved to the State
each year and still the patients have
had better treatment.
Hon. r. A. Cooper thanked the
people of Edgefeld for the encour-
aging vote which they gave him Two
years ago. He urged a just en-.
forcement of all laws on the statute
books. Let all criminals feel alike
the weight of violated law. He
made an earnest appeal for the sup,
port of the public schools of the
State, in which 90 per cent. of the
white children who attend school
are enrolled. The colleges of the
State can not accommodate more
than &c per cent. Let the peo-
pie become better educated and
bitterness and strife will cease.
MIR. Cooper is opposed 10 free
scholarships, believing that the
principle is wrong. A boy who is
educated by the State has his indie
pendence destroyed. Let US teach
our boys to pay 100 cents on the
dollar for everything they get. Mr..
Cooper favors the State making
loans 10 boys who are unable to at
tend college, requiring them to re-
pay the sun after they have COM
pleted their education, without in
terest.
Mr.. Cooper favors rural credits, a
warehouse system and the teaching
of agriculture in the public schools.
The national government has en-
acted a rural credit system but all
the government can do is to open
the door of opportunity to the In
dividual and he must do the rest.
He favors long term loans at a low
rate of interest in order to enable
many small farmers to own their
homes. Mr.. Cooper advocates
warehouses controlled (but not
owned) by the States just as the ma
tional banks are controlled by the
government. If controlled by the
State warehouse receipts will be
good in any part Of the world. Mr..
Cooper believes we need intelligent
farmers. The men who create the
wealth Of the country should be
we'll equipped and for that reason
he stands for the teaching Of aerl-
culture in the schools.
Mr.. Cooper closed with an en-
phatic denial hat he is in any man
ner whatsoever connected with any
| clique or political combination. lie
| stated that rumors to hal effect has
reached his ears and that he desired
to set himself straight before thu
people.
Mr.. J. NJ. DesChamps was the
last speaker Of the day and, not
withstanding the fact that the audi
ence had grown somewhat weary.
they listened patiently to him. In
fact, he seemed to get closer to the
people than any of the candidate:
who precede him. Mr.. DesChamp.
is making his campaign upon a high
| plane, and should be commended
for the moral tone of his public ut
terances. He advocates smaller
farms. higher prices for farm
products and better wages. He stated
that he is a high-priced-man, re.
ceiving from $50 to $3.50 per houl
for his lectures, as well as high
! prices for his magazine articles. Rc
referred to his extensive travels and
to the fact that wherever he went
he extolled the merits of the South.
He referred partly in jest and part
" in earnest to his Yankee friends
in the North, paying a tribute tc
their loyalty and their shrewdness.
Mr.. DesChamps is a dyed-in-the
, wool prohibitionist and cave the
whiskey business some sledge-ham
mer blows. He referred TO the fact
F., that he has been dubbed the barn
yard candidate" for governor anc
injected considerable humor in this
connection which was enjoyed by