The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1921-10-26
J. J. CANTEY, Esq. WRITES
ON COVERNORSH|P CAMPAIGN
Editor of The Manning Times:

Editor of The Manning Times:
Much has been said in the newspap-
ers Of late, with respect to the as
'sumed necessity of a farmer Gryer-
nor of South Carolina, and l am salts
fled that any such suggestion should
be repudiatcd by al the good people
of the State. Any set of men who
would assemble themselves together
for the sole purpose Of clccting q ply
son than that the candidate was Il
physician, would be untrue to all
sound principles of citizenship and a
menace to good government. Any set
Of men who would unite upon some
newspaper editor as a candidate for
Governor, solely because said can
didate was newspaper editor, with
out any regard to the personal fitness
of said newspaper editor to serve all
the people, should be nippcd in the
bud and promptly repudiatcd by all de-
cent people. Any set of men who
would rally politically to the support
of 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 prctense ut civilization.
Therefore, it would appear the NOR
al duty of every citizen, who has the
good and integrity of his State at
better era of citizenship and economic
development in South Carolina, con-
demn in no uncertain terms the ignor-
ant cry of demagogues, who would
make the fact that some man is a
farmer, the sole test Of fitness for the
Governorship of this great State.
There should be only two tests APP
piled to any candidate for the office
of Governor or any other office, the
first test, being whether the candidate
intelligently comprehends that no man
has a moral right to offer himself for
any Office, unless he is sufficiently in
tclligent to render valuable service to
the State, and the second test, being
whether the candidate is sufficiently
intelligent to comprehend that the in
terest of every man. woman, and child
in South Carolina, whether farmer,
lawyer, doctor, newspaper editor,
blacksmith, or what not, is identical.
Every man, woman and child in
this State is deeply interested in the
maintenance of good and sound
price for farm products, including cot
ton, corn and other crops, and the
prosperity of every industry in the
State, whether newspaper, cotton mill,
lawyer, doctor, is more or less dcpen-
dent on a good price for these farm
products, and it is cruel and the symp-
tom of dense ignorance to teach the
people that only the farmers are in
tcrcstcd in good price for farm pro-
ducts, and therefore the necessity of
farmer for Governor.
1t is absolutely necessary to the
happiness of all the people of the
State that good roads be maintained,
that the rivers and the streams be
bridged for the convenience of all the
people, and the interest Of the farm
er and the lawyer and the doctor and
the newspaper editor along this line,
are absolutely Identical, the interest
of neither being greater or less than
the other, and if this proposition be
true, why in the name of common
sense, all this ignorant hue and cry
Of the necessity Of 81 farmer for Gov
ernOr.
All the people of South Carolina
whether farmers or lawyers on black
smiths, are Interested in the main
t"nAn"c of good health anu 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 are no
laws OF health or hygiene which have
spccia! application to the children of