The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-08-19

and Hope
Deal in Personali-
ties in Trying to
Win Office Of Super
intendent Of Educa-
ton

ton
Laurens. Aug. 16. = Speaking
from the top of dry goods box
on the lawn of the Laurens High
school, candidatse for state Offices
today addressed an audience esti-
mated at from one thousand to
+; fifteen hundred voters Of this coun-
ty. Included in the number We're
large number of women who join
ed with the men in generously ap-
plauding the various speakers.
! The meeting began in the county
court house but adjourned to the
| front Of the hign school building
because of the constantly increas-
ing number in the audience. This
location was soon found to be in
ADEQUATE also, and the presiding
Chairman c. A. Powers announced
that the remainder Of the candi-
dates would be heard on the lawn
! of the school building. 1t was on
this part Of the lawn, perched on
dry goods box that the issues of
paramount importance to the vot-
ers of the state were discussed.
In several respects the race for
state superintendent of education
overshadowed that Of gubernatorial
! candidates, due 10 the three-cor-
nered controversy between John
f. Swearingen, J. H. Hope and Cecil
II. Seigler. In the race for COM
missioner of agriculture. Geo. w.
! Wightman and 3. Harris, the IN
/ cumbent followed up the thrusts
taken at the Greenwood meeting
on Tuesday. The candidates for
Lieutenant Governor also wen:
further into the charge that one of
/ the number was being run as the
candidate of a certain institution.
z. 3. Jackson. q former Citadel
man, denied the charge that he was
IN the race as a Citadel man alone,
but said that he was glad that he
| held the support and confidence Of
/ his former comrades and fellow
students.
For governor, the various can
didates made about their usual adj
dresses. Former Governor Blease,
II. G.. Mcleod. and George X. Ian
/ ev. all received a generous amount
of applause.
J. J. Cantey continued his at
tack on Blease. William Coleman.
among other things advocated a
constitutional convention to revise
the state constitution. John T..
! Duncan, who was generously ap-
plauded on several occasions, said
that he had been Informed that
BIease was in the employment of
i certain members Of the Republican
party, and had been receiving the
sum of $4,000 per year since 1910.
He had scarcely made this declara-
! ton before some one in the audi
ence cried out that is too thin to
| hold water while others yelled
| ..Hurrah for Blease."
| Mr.. Blease continued to de-
nounce the Manning and Cooper
administration, and announced op-
| position 10 taxing of poor man S
soft drinks and the poor mans
! moving picture show. when the
/! club mans whiskey and the rich
mans operas are not taxed He
continued to fay the budget COM
mission, the public welfare COM
! mission and the tax commission.
/: He declared that the boil weevii
politicians had damaged the state
| more than had the boil weevil it.
lself.
Mr.. Laney made an earnest pies.
! for education, saying it had been
his fight to place an education
within the reach Of every white
| boy and girl in the state. He said
| that he had no disposition to shirk
any work of his. and claimed re-
sponsibility for some of the large
appropriations which had been dis
! cussed. He told of his fight to aid
the farmers, and particularly of his
connection with the fertilizer and
state warehouse bills. He review
| ed the expenditure of the state
funds with reference to the COM
mon schools.
Thomas G.. Mcleod declared that
he stands for new sources Of reve-
nue., of generous appropriations to
! the Confederate veterans, Of good
schools and for economy in the op-
Grafton OF government, as we'll as
a luxury tax However, he declared
/ the question OF law enforcement to
/! be the vital issue before the people
oi. the state today. and placed him.
self on record as favoring the en-
| forcement of laws without fear or
favor.
Replying to Mr.. Swearingen's re-
marks at Greenwood. j. H. Hope
said that as TO his character he
| pointed anyone to the people Of
Union, where he has lived and
worked for the past twenty years.
However, he declared that his pri-
vate life was his own, and that IF
have to go through 4 sewer pipe
ito set the Office don't want it.
Continuing Mr.. Hope said: .'One
Of my opponents yesterday told a
! dirty, contemplate lie, and told
him SO this morning"