Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1919-03-19
SOME LEGISLATIVE MATTERS.
Senator ShclOr Begins IL Resume of
Work In Assembly.
TO the People OF Oconce:


The 1919 session Of the General
Assembly has ended after a forty
seven days session, and your Repre-
HentativeS are again at home among
you, with some kind Of record be-
mind them. An account Of their
stewardship seems now in order.
There is probably some virtue in
our conduct as Representatives, and
most likely many mistakes. Human
nature is prone to err: mistakes
;.re incident to human conduct. If
such are intentional or corrupt,
there should be no pardon. but If
honest, then | am sure Il generous
public will not too severely condemn.
Your Senator. at least. is now
ready to give 4 reason for the faith
that is in him and for the motive
that prompted him in his every
action. AS he sees 1t now. he has
no act for which to apologize, as he
is conscious of the fact that every
move made by him was prompted
hy supreme desire to further the
best interests Of generous public
who reposed such complete conf
dence in him as was shown by the
great majority Of people in nOminat-
ing him as Oconce's Senator. Your
Senator submerged every other con-
sideratiOn in supreme effort to
serve the State and her whole peo-
pic in a fair and equitable effort to
benefit all without hurting any, and
to this end has advocated and voted
for many measures and opposed and
voted against many others. lie has
no apology to make for his advocacy
or vote, and when his motives and
sured the people will approve his
every move, because he has con-
suited their very best interests and
has not in ii single instance played
politics or corruptly followed the
lead Of any man to their hurt. Every
measure advocated has been with
the sole purpose Of making the peo-
pie more prosperous, contented and
happy, and the county better coun-
try in which to live.
l, as your Senator, desire that you
know all my acts and purposes. and
to this end | am going, in Il few
articles in The keowee Courier. to
give you a statement of what have
undertaken to do rs your representa-
tive and striven to prevent being
done, and just leave it to my con-
stitucNcy 10 judge me- whether :
was right Oh not and whether Size
lnsinuatOns thrown pt nrr were irst
ANA fJlC.
;" thc first place, !, w,.a ny u.a,ie
to build a road across the county to
demonstrate what good roads would
co for progressive people: and to
This end | selected the road that
would cost the least money to build
and at the same time accommodate te
the greatest number of people. The
road selected. t0-wit from Salem to
NnOXS Bridge, would have fur
nishcd a graded road for more than
half the voters in Oconce county. to
every market in the county, and
would have taken to build it very
little more than it takes to keep up
the roads as now located The road
would have given Il graded road to
Seneca, Westminster and Walhalla
from the following points: Salem.
Tamassee, Oconec Station. Oconee
Creek, Ebenezcr. Wolf Stake, New
Hope, Return. Cross Roads (To-
keena), Townville, Oakway, South
Union, Fair Play, and all that part
Of the county lying to the south Of
South Union; and all this ! calcu-
lated could be achieved with less
than ten thousand dollars. The bill
20 accomplish this introduced in
the Senate, and 1t was killed by our
delegation in the House, to my
great disappointment and regret.
The excuse for killing the bill, as
one Of our delegation in the House
gave it to me, was because | had
planned the whole thing in my Office
before we went down" In the same
III was a provision for the repair
OF the Stumphouse Mountain road,
which is now impossible; and this
bill died i'm the House with the other
provisions. We have never stood
IN greater need OF good roads than
we do right now. We badly need
roads from the farms to the markets,
ana while so many of the political