The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1921-09-22
CALLS FOR MOSES"
TO LEAD FARMERS.
Would Repeat the Reform Movement
of 1890


of 1890
Mr.. c. P. Hodges, well known far
mer of Brownsville, writes as fol-
lows to the Columbia State:
To the Editor of The State:
1t appears to an onlooker as well
as to one who is vitally interested in
the political and governmental af-
fairs of our state that farmers revo-
luton in the affairs of state is immi-
nent another year in South Carolina.
Somebody might as well take
notice. for the pastten or IL years we
have been wholly dominated in South
Carolina by lawyer governors and
lawyer members of the general as
sembly. AS result of this state of
affairs, the states nervous system
has been prostrated, as we'll as her
business affairs, and conditions have
gone from bad to worse. The farm
ers of South Carolina, are tired of
these conditions and, watch what I
tell you, we are going to change
them at the first opportunity.
When you put a lawyer in the gov
ernor's chair and fill the general as
sembly with lawyers and politicians.
you have simply got the devil to paw.
Any man of ordinary sense knows
that the average lawyer by his edu
cation, training and profession can
not be an all round statesman. He
is ever and eternally playing the game
for himself or his client; he is al
ways looking forward to something
he has not, and this within itself. on
vital issues, makes him a straddler
and politician. All lawyers have
their eyes on big business big
business, as little as you think about
'it, has a powerful influence upon
the lawyers in the general assembly.
This OF course does not always ap-
ply to the best lawyers, but all the
best lawyers do not by any means
get to be governors or members of
the general assembly.
And again, the lawyer that is elect
ed governor or TO the legislature
does not expect to remain there al
ways; he knows that none of these
offices are going to furnish permanent
means for a livelihood, so while in
office serving the people ostensibly
he is looking out for big business for
a job.
Il
sing. The lawyer has a great way
when running for office of telling
such monstrous number of half lies.
ne is an expert along this line, a be-
1uddler In campaign just as he is in
court house on case. Owing to his
power of trained manipulation and
scheming, he actually makes the
farmers believe that they have no ca
pable leaders among themselves and
are incapable of governing them
selves.
Hear them on the stump and in the
halls of the legislature, and you hear
a confusing and conglomerated mess
even to thinking mind, and to the
Iunthinking mind the politician law
yer has done more to destroy the in
dependent thinking and voting ca
!pacity of the masses of the people. by
his studied deception and villainous
lies TO the people, than all other
agencies combined in a general ton
We have certainly found it to be a
fact, that from the politician lawyer
IN most cases you can not determine
what he is going TO do by what, he
says, and these lawyer politicians
have created more mischief, discord
and trouble, than the people of the
state know what to ds with, and we
farmers especially are very tired of
1T and have determined, by the help
of God, to put a stop to il another
year. We are beginning the fight to-
day and we give the lawyer politician
due notice. Talk about the farmer
being the backbone of the state, what
N T. 4
of filthy dope that is dished out to
MIN every two years merely to get
MS vote. and after that you can plow
on.
1t is a foregone conclusion without
a doubt, and 1 believe that 90 per cent
Iot all classes of our farmers will
fully agree with me that in our hor-
rible condition there is no lawyer or
set Of lawyers in the state that can
lead us out of the mire; but to the
contrary would make matters a thou
sand times worse.
Then. you ask, who is to lead us :?
answer. that somewhere hidden back
In South Carolina, there is a great
big man. man with a vision, a man
free from trickery and political ma
nlpulation, a man whose heart sin
cerely yearns to help and serve all
the, people, a man who has never
held office and is not an old political
hack. a man who would impress his
moral and righteous life upon all the
people. man who would see to It
that taxes were equitably distributed,
and that the rich corporations and
money powers would bear a just pro-
portion Of taxes and that taxes all
along the line be reduced and, last
a man who would get UP a general
assembly Of farmers and business men
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