Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-08-11

representatives.
Replying to communication
addressed to each legislative candidate
by the Fort Mill ministerial union of
which Rev. J. w. H. Dyches, D. d., Is
chairman, relative to the attitude OF
candidates on Sunday sessions Of the
Legislature, Mr. Beamguard said he
was opposed to such sessions and
would vote and work against them.
w. A. BoIin.
Washington A. Bolin of Yorkville.
the second of the legislative candidates
to be introduced, drew picture Of
conditions that had been existing dur
ing the past two years. Somebody is
wilfuliy, woefully and maliciously at
fault for conditions as they exist" said
Mr.. BClin. The farmers had been told
to bend forth their best efforts in pro-
dLction since the world was threatened
with famine. The farmers had done
that and had been unable to sell their
cotton and other products at prices
that would cover the outlay expended
to say nothing of profit. "The man
who tolls and digs has suffered most"
Candidate Bolin went on to say, "and
the salaried man has not been reduced
in income anything in proportion to
the tiller of the soil. This fact is in
large measure responsible for the
feeling Of unrest that prevails over the
country"
He can not promise that If he is
elected to the legislature that he will
redeem the state but he will promise
that II he is elected he will do his bit
toward re-adjusting matters. Among
those laws that he opposed was "the
lynch laws" If a negro is lynched for
an assault his heirs may go into the
courts and sue the county in which
the lynching occurred for $4,000. 1t
had been done in York county. He
would work for the abolition Of that
law.
Mr. Bolin stated his opposition to the
hunting laws, saying he couldn't see
anything worth while in them. IF
you kill a bird and have a hunting
license the bird is as dead as he would
be If you have no license" he said.
Negroes, he declares think that If they
have a hunting license they have
right to hunt on any mans land re-,
gardless of whether or not they have
permission from the land owner. In
conclusion the speaker said he was
aware that it was up to the voters to
decide. whether or not he should repre-
sent them. Whatever you decide in
regard to me, said he, will not only
satisfy me but please me.
w. r. Bradford.
w. r. Bradford of Fort Mill who
seeks reelection to the house, re-
viewed his record as a member Of that
body for six years. He said he was
against Sunday sessions Of the-general
assembly and had refused to attend
the legislative session on Sunday in
March. He had also introduced bill
in the house which sought to make 1t
the law to read the Bible in the public
ambition to crafty in asking re-elec-
ton, but he wanted 70 go back because
he believed he could be of great SER
vice to the people by virtue Of his long
experience. He read an extract from
statement attributed to Champ Clark
saying that man should not be sent
to the legislature to crafty personal
ambition, but should be sent there for
service. He said he did not miss a
single session of the legislature or the
ways and means committee during his
first two terms Of office.
So far as his relation to the state
government was concerned, he said,
his attitude was the same as that OF
Congressman Stevenson to the Federal
government. He had always fought to
keep down useless expenditures. He
said that he and Representative Nc
Laurin had managed to chop 100000
off the appropriation bill while it was
in free conference during the last gen.
eral assembly and that Senator Christ
ensen of Beaufort who championed the
measures which the 100000 would pay
for had said that "you (Bradford) are
one of the toughest nuts have ever
tackled"
Defending his record, Mr.. Bradford
said he had voted for the bill to eX-
tend the time for payment Of taxes.
There were certain people in Colum-
bia, he said, who did not like his work
as a member of the committee on
printing and who would like to see
the voters of York county leave him at
home. He had refused to vote to let
the contract for the Legislative printing
! for 1928 and 1924 because the bid sub
mitted by two Columbia printing con-
Germs was too high. There was no
reaso he said why printing prices for
state work should not be reduced con-
siderably and yet the reductions in the
bids of the two printing concerns
bidding were negligible. In conclusion
! he said he believed in economical gov
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