Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-11-25
STANDING For GOVERNOR
Gle l. IBiedSe Will be in the
. Race. -
TAX REDUCTION LAW ENFORCEMENT


! School System and Will Forget DH-
!ferenees That Have Heretofore Oi-
,vided the People.
Former Governor Cole l.. Blease has
definitely announced his candidacy for
the governorship in the following open
Ietter, addressed to personal and po-
litical friend:, Il '...f a.r
I.Columbia, S. c., November, p, 1921.
Hon. A. John Boggs, fr.. .tr.
> Pickens, s. G.
NV dear Friend:-Your letter of the
10th instant received, and j appreciate
very much indeed the. kind expires
sions contained therein from yop and
from those for whom you speak.
have received similar letters ana
personal requests, such as yours con-
tains, from many people and | feel
most highly complimented that those
who have been my friends in the poll
tical campaigns in the past were so
well pleased with my record that they
are again requesting me to represent
them, and feel fiattered that so many
Of those who hitherto have never sup
ported me are expressing themselves
personally and through letters, and
like those who spoke to you through
others, requesting that I become their
spokesman and representative. am
now giving you. in writing. my first
.iefinite reply.
shall be a candidate Gf it be the
will OF God to spare me both health
and lifc) for the governorship III the
campaign of 1922. Not that / have
any further personal ambition along
that line, but because there seems to
bc an earnest and sincere desire on the
part of great many of the people OF
this state that l do so. j would feel
that / am not true If my people believe
that can serve them in any capacity,
however humble it may be, and de-
clEed to do so.
I shall repeat in my campaign the
slogan of the 1910 campaign, which
was: The reduction Of taxation; the
abolition Of all useless offices, clerk
ships. etc, the enforcement Of all laws
to the letter, for II they be good, their
enforcement will lend to the upbuild-
ing and uplifting of our state and our
people: if they be bad. our people Will
soon demand and cause their repeal.
If a law is good, it should be enforced;
n
repeal is by enforcement.
Give me a poor government ana
rich people, in preference to rich
and Il poor people; Tor
when you make u rich government
and thereby impOverish the people,
Won reverse democracy and create dis
and discomfort among the
people, who are the masters ard not
the servants.
7 shall advocate liberal appropria-
tions for all of>our state institutions
but I do not believe in the cXtrava-
sance that our recent general assem-
blies have been engaged in along TINS
line, and ] cannot and will not give
nv sanction to it. / am in favor OF
building up a free school system so
that all Of the white children OF the
state may be given the opportunity ol
n good common school education, in
comfortable and convenient school
houses. believe in paying our
school teachers sufficient salaries TO
secure the best, and ! mean by pest
salaries commensurate with the class
and character of work that teachers
are supposed to perform, TO wit, the
molding ard directing OF competent
and efficient citizenship.
7 believe in and will ad"ocate the
massage of such laws as will further
and protect labor in all of its leelti-
mate claims and endeavors, ana IN
such laws as will protect capital in all
of its lawful investments, so that all
of our, people may be protected TO the
end that we may give equal rights TO
all and special privileges to none.
am in favor of the strictest en-
forcement of the laws which prohibit
the selling and use of cocaine and
similar drugs, and of our national pro-
bibition laws. If our people do not
want this done. then rise up like men
and demand their repeal, for if they
ore on the statute books and | have
taken an oath before God and man TO
enforce them, ! shall do II.
There may he. in fact there are
other additions to these expressions
which shall be discussed when the
compaisn shall have been begun.
In making this fight shall know no
foction and no class because the re-
,,pasts 70 me to make it have come
from all classes and all factions; ana
ifgelected governor, l shall forget all
differences which heretofore have dl-
yided our people and shall be the gov
ernor of all the people. All who Know
me know that there is no deceit or
by,,ocrisv in me, and that when ] say
7 will | will; and that when ] say
will not, [ will not; and they realize
tho fact, if may he pardoned for say
in, il that am what am, and that !
do what say l will do.
Now John. if this platform as laid