The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-08-23
Candid dates For State Offices
Addressed Voters Here Today
Court House Filled To Its Capacity ByVoters Tt
Hear Speeches. Candidates For Lieut.. Gov
ernor, Adjutaht General and R. R. Com
missioner Only Ones Present At The
Meeting Respectable Hearing
Given Each Candidate.

The candidates for state offices
spoke in the Court House this morn
ing to an audience of about rve hun
dred voters, the building being filled
to capacity. County Chairman Moore
was called out of the city and at his
request VIM. p; Greene presided and
introduced the speakers.
Candidates for Lieut.. Governor.
Hon. Octavus Cohen, of Charles
ton, was slated as the first speaker
for this office. Mr.. Cohen was not
present, and did not arrive IN Able
vile in time to address the voters.
Capt o. K. Mauldin, o. Green
vile, was introduced to the voters
and spoke for twenty m1nu:es set
ting forth his claims to the sut1rages
of the voters. In /beginnfng the
speaker recalled the fact, that when
he was young man he spent great
deal of his boyhood in this city. He
was glad, he said, to be Win the peo-
pie of Abbeville County, many of
whom were his friends or former
days and a good many of whom were
related to him. He was aIways glad
he said to speak to the people in the
Piedmont section where he spoke the
same language as the people whom he
addressed, and that in the early
stages of the campaign he had felt a
little embarrassed in the lower part
of the state where he was not so well
known. ..
The affairs of the state, the speak
er declared, had been in the hands Of
the people of this section for the most
part for the last twenty-five years,
and they had been well managed. The
speaker stated that he was gradu-
ate of Furman University, was in the
Spanish-American War, had been en-
gagged in farming and practicing law
up to the outbreak of the World War,
when be went to Camp Ogelthorpe
and was commissioned as a Captain,
serving in France until the end of the
war. In 1914, the speaker reminded
his audience that he was elected to
the House of Representatives from
Greenville County by the largest vote
ever given a candidate for that Of
flee in his county.
Calling attention to the fact that
his father once held the Office of
Lieut.. Governor, and as such cast the
deciding vote in favor of the estab-
lishment of Clemson College, the
speaker stated that he like his father
stood for education. A school for
every child and every child in school,
was his slogan. He was -or good
roads, saying however that ne OPP
posed the bond issue in Greenville
County for roads because the people
were not allowed to vote on the
subject. He fayors prohibition.
He looked u pom the office as an i'm
portant one and stated that the peo-
pie should elect a man Of capacity,
character and dignity to. the office.
The man elected, he said, in view of
the fact that he might succeed to the
office of Governor, should be such a
man as the people would select for
that Office.
He concluded with joke on the
two negro soldiers, which pleased the
audience.
Hon. Wilson G. Harvey, of Char
lesion, followed in an earnest ad-
dress to the voters. He did not want
the office because his father had filled
it, he said, but because ne zelt quail
fled to fill it on his own account.
He read the endorsement of the ag-
ricultural interests in his section and
of the labor organizations, the latter
declaring that as an officer of the
city government in Charleston he had
been fair in all his dealings 20 all in
terests. He stated that he was the
president of a bank but that his bank
had been accustomed to serve the ag-
ricultural interests in his section,
.pJ tbat he ,yas in touch through lc