Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-08-22
TILT At CLOVER
TaIIey And Kennedy at LOggerheadS
Over Corporation Employees.
PLATFORM ON WHEELS FOR TAKERS

About 100 Voters Hear the Candidates
for County Offices-Speaker Says
Factions Should Unite to Fight
Money Power of Wall Street-Tax-
alton Topics Tended 10 Tickle
Temper of Tired Throngs.
(By n Staff Correspondent.)
Glover, Aug. ia little tilt between
w. ]. Talley of Rock Hill and Porter
B. Kennedy Of Sharon. candidates for
the house cf representative Gnlivened
the county campaign meeting here
this afternoon. Mr.. Talley took ex-
ception to a statement made by Mr..
Kennedy at several meetings to the
effect that he was opposed to corpora
ton employees representing the people
in the legislative halls. Mr.. Talley
said that he did not agree with Mr..
Kennedy in this particular because 1t
was well nigh impossible to find
laboring men who did not work for
corporations Replying in his speech
to Mr.. Talley, Mr.. Kennedy said he
thought the former had misunderstood
him What he meant was that he
didn't think corporation employees
should be in the legislative halls at
the same time they were drawing
salaries or fees from the corporations.
He took it that this wouldn't apply to
Mr.. Talley, since Mr.. Talley was now
on strike and he didn't suppose he was
drawing any salary from the Southern
Railway Company for whom he work.
ed. Besides" Mr.. Kennedy added, Il
didn't have Mr.. Talley in the back
side of my head when / began men
tioning this matter and 1 still stand
upon my position"
About 100 Voters Present.
Candidates spoke to about 100 voters
including two automobiles filled with
ladies here this afternoon. The meet
ing was held in the center OF town
near Uncle Bill" Falls's restaurant.
A truck, the property of the Carolina
e. North Western railroad, was bor-
rowed to serve as a speakers stand.
Several Of the candidates spoke from
the stand but the majority preferred
to remain on terra firma, afraid per-
haps that the truck might not remain
stationary or probably for the reason
that they did not have the energy to
make the thirty-six inch climb to the
truck bed. The only applause OF the
day came from the several ladies while
Erwin Carothers was speaking. One
lady jocularly remarked to the COR
respondent that it was because Mr..
Carothers was the best looking man in
the bunch.
]. A. C.. Love, precinct chairman,
presided and candidates for the house
were first introduced. They were fol-
lowed by candidates for probate judge,
superintendent of education and treas
urer.
Emmett w. Pursley, candidate for
reelection to the house told or ms
record and spoke in opposition to ex-
travagance in several governmental
departments. Mr.. Pursley promised II
elected to support economic measures
and promised to try to cut out eXtraVa-
gances. He reiterated the statement
he has made on the several stumps
that he would do nothing to cripple
the common schools or other institu-
tions of learning in the state.
Wants to Crafty Ambition.
DR.. J. Lee Spratt of Fort Mill, told
the voters of Glover that he was in
race solely to crafty a worthy ambi-
ton to serve the people of his county
in the legislative halls. He was count
ed a pretty fair business man in his
home town, he said, and he was able
to judge both sides of question and
to decide relative to the right side and
this he would do If elected to the house
of representatives.
w. ]. Talley of Rock Hill reiterated
his statement that the corporations
were fighting him because he was
union man and because he was on
strike. He discussed the railroad
shopmen's strike from the shopman's
viewpoint. He attacked the plank in
Mr.. Kennedy's platform by which the
latter would prohibit employees of cor
porations from sitting in the general
assembly and declared it would be
practically impossible to find laboring
man who did not work for corpora
ton. He also made it plain that he
would not be the tool of the Southern
Railway, the corporation for whom
he works if he were elected. He said
that he had the endorsement of labor
i'm his own community and that he was
president of his shop craft.
Wants Voters to Say.
James f. Beamguard of Glover re-
minded his friends that he was on his
native heath and spoke his apprecia-
ton of the vote given him by the peo-
pie of the old home town in previous
races. He told of the demand sweep
ing the county and state FOR reform
and denounced as worthless "the little
army of office holders going over the
state Mr.. Beamguard thought the