The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1922-07-13
APPEAL FOR VOTES
BAMBERG COUNTY DEMOCRATS.
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ticiency, but the lowering of county
taxes must correspond with the state.
Our tax system is obsolete. Per-
sonal property and wealth have
wrongfully escaped taxes long
enough. Advocates gas tax. He re-
ferred to the North Carolina tax
system where no direct levy against
property is necessary. He paid a
glowing tribute to the Confederate
soldier in language OF pathos and
fervor and is in favor of state aid
for him. He believes in education
and has helped build schools in Lee
county; he prides himself on his
achievements for education; let
there Be economy but nothing back
ward. He then said that taxes and
education were important, but un-
der the present disgraceful, heart
rending social conditions existing
among US the matter of greatest I'M
portance and what should be OF para
mount concern to us all is the vital
question of law enforcement. Crime
will never cease or stop until the
verdicts of juries carry justice up
held by the chief executives of the
nation and various states. He
preached love and respect for the
laws of the land and of course was
obliged to promise to enforce all the
laws to the letter. He thanked the
people for the nice vote given him
here 12 years ago in his last race
for governor. He also claimed to
have done patriotic service here in
the world war cause in 1918. Knows
and has experienced labor on the
farm, but does not care to go back to
it. He closed with a pledge if elected
to protect and defend the constitu-
ton as best he can. Mr.. McLeod's
platform and policies and those OF
Senator Laney are identical.
Former Governor Coleman Liking
stone Blease, now a Columbia law
yer, then hit the stump, and while
much of his old time fire and pep
were not in evidence, still, the in
stincts, the feelings, the viciousness,
of the same old Coley were some
what there and occasionally crept
out. Gov. Blease is at disadvant-
age in conducting an even, quiet,
dignifed, peaceable campaign. How
ever, many shouts and hurrahs were
heard for him and his friends were
there in no uncertain tones and in
numbers not to be sneered at by any
faction or candidate. His speech
was prefaced with the remark that
after the third Tuesday in next
January Cole Blease would again oc-
cupy your governors chair, and
lauded the fact that nobody will
take exception to that when he Was
governor he was 1T all over and
next time would continue to be the
governmental boss. of us all. He cit
ed his friends, the newspapers, to
show that crime has increased and
is increasing since Blease was gov
ernor, although his enemies had pic
tured an Uptopian dream with land
of plenty, peace, progress and God
illness if he could only be gotten rid
of. And since then the office hold
ers elected had bankrupted the state
and darn near bankrupted each
one of you. He stated that in the
general assembly he had eternally
voted to keep down expenses, and
as governor he had invariably We
toed the bills which cost the tax
payers money. He took a crack at
the useless offices, paid his respects
to the state tax commission which
paid s1,245 he says to a Sears, Roe
buck & Co. product to show them
how to keep books, and says that
the s17,500 paid last year to the
tax commission by the state was ao-
solutely waste. He scored the tax
commission for attempting to in
crease the assessment in Bamberg
county. He is proud of his pardon
record-(but nobody else isl,
And said that of all the many hum
dreds pardoned by him only two had
returned to the clutches of the law,
as renewed criminals, one for steal
ing an auto, while the other was for
merely killing negro, and that up
in his country they don't convict
white men for killing niggers. He
raped the board of public welfare
and uttered a scathing, real'
typical and characteristic Blease de-
nunciation of the budget committee.
He dealth a knock out blow to the
a+, ~ tho no1itica1 ring and ma