The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-11-02
Class Prejudice
Unpatriotic
j. j. Cantey of summerton
Criticses Proposed Farmers
Movement

papers of late, with respect to the
assumed necessity Of farmer Gov
ernor of South Carolina, and / am
satisfied that any such suggestion
should be repudiated by all, the
good people of the State. Any set
of men who would as .emble them
selves together for the sole purpose
Of electing a physician as Governor,
for no otker reason than that the
candidate was a physician, would
be untrue to all sound principles
of citizenship and menace to good
government. Any set Of men who
would unite upC some newspaper
editor as a candidate for Governor.
solely because said candidate was a
newspaper editc.', withol any re-
gard to the personal fitness Of sad
newspaper editor to serve all the
people, should be nipped in the
bud and promptly repudiated by all
decent people Any set Of men who
would rally politically to the sup
port cf some attorney for Governor
of South Carolina, simply because
said attorney was an attorney,
should not be allowed to vote in
any State, which makes any pre-
tense at civilization.
Therefore, it would appear the
moral duty Of every citizen, who
has the good and integrity Of his
State at heart, and who would like
to see better era Of citizenship
and economic development in South
Carolina, condemn in no uncertain
terms the ignorant cry Of dema-
gogues, who would make the fact
that some man is a farmer. the
sole test of fitness Tor the Govern
orship of this great state.
There should be only two tests
applied to any candidate for the
office of Governor or any other Of
flee, the first test, being whether
the candidate intelligently compre-
hends that no man has a moral
right to offer himself for any office,
unless he is sufficiently intelligent
to render valuable service to the
I State. and the second test, being
whether the candidate is sufficient
ly intelligent to comprehend that
the interest Of every man, woman,
and child in South Carolina, wheth-
er farmer, lawyer, doctor, news
paper editor, blacksmith, or what
| not, is Identical.
Every man, woman and child IN
this State is deeply interested in the
maintenance Of a good and sound
price for farm products, including
cotton, corn and other crops. and
the prosperity of every industry in
the State, whether newspaper, cot
ton mill, lawyer, doctor, is more or
less dependent on a good price Tor
] these farm products, and it is cruel
and the symptom of dense ignor-
ance to teach the people that only
the farmers are interested good
price for farm products, and there
fore the necessity Of a farmer for
Governor.
1t is absolutely necessary to the
happiness Of all the; people Of the
State that good roads be maintain
ed. that the rivers and the streams
be bridged for the convenience OF
all the people, and the interest OF
the farmer and the lawyer and the
doctor and the newspaper editor
along this line, are absolutely iden-
teal, the interest of neither being
greater or less than the other, and
if this proposition be true, why in
the name Of eomon sense, all this
ignorant hue and cry Of the neces-
sity of a farmer for Governor.
All the people Of South Carolina,
whether farmers o- lawyers or
blacksmiths, are interested in the
maintenance Of good health and
good schools throughout the State,
and the interest of the farmer
child and the lawyer child and the
blacksmith child are one and the
same, there aresno laws of heath
or hygiene which have special ap-
plication to the children Of farm
ers, and the children Of lawyers
and newspaper editors have mumps
and measles just like the children
of the farmers, and if this be true,
whence cometh the braying OF the
ass in the wilderness for the cleo
ton of some farmer as the Gov
ernor of the State.
Whether Jesus be regarded as