Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-08-25
STATE CANPAIGNERS All il
Office Seekers This Year Are Good
Drawing Cards. :.
WOMEN ATTRACT MUCH ATTENTION
All Glasses of Voters Have Plenty Of
Opportunity to Make Selection
Much Talk OF the Boil Weeyil.

which win be new to the voters, while
others have been with the campaign
ers so long that they have begun to
he called veterans, writes Charles IL.
Garrison in the Greenville News of the
state campaign party. There will be
both novelty and familiarity for those
who SIT through the FIVE and q half
hours Of the performance. For the
1922 performance begins promptly ut
10 O'Clock and continues until 1880,
when an empty water pitcher, few
wiltcd collars, showing where the
newspapcrmen sat before their necks
dropped from sheer exhaustion, and n
handful in the audience Is about all
that is visible when. the curtain is rung
down and the chairman goes home to
get his mid-day meal.
Two things stand out about the
South Carolina campaigners Of 1892.
First of all, they should be n good
drawing card, because there are two
women in the troupe. John e. Swear
ingen, state superintendent of educa-
tion, claims credit for having brought
the best looking opposition that ever
chased any candidate over the state.
He says he has two mems wives and
four men after him." and asks the vot-
ers to help him keep them there.
The other most outstanding thing
about the 1922 campaign is the alb
sence of factionalism. Whether 1t is
the presence in the party for the time,
and likewise In the audience, for the
first time, of full-fiedged women vot-
ers, Is largely matter of opinion. But
many who have attended campaign
meetings in the early '9O's and in the
present century DO not hesitate to
place much credit to the women who
have so recently been granted the bal
let. Then, too, 1t may be that the
issues have not been so tightly drawn
as in previous campaigns.
At any rate, the 1922 performance
should make favorable impression
upon the cnfranchised women voters.
II should make them form new opin-
ion of the game" In which the men
of South Carolina have held undispu-
ted right Of way for 80 long.
The women candidates in the party
do not fail to recognize the authority
of the mene man who presides at the
various meetings. They have closed
their addresses as promptly as have
the men when warned that the time
was up. One Of the women candidates,
however, has never failed to draw a
hearty laugh from the crowd by say
ing "for once woman has to do so
when she is told by man to shut up"
Many Veterans Alens.
Some of the others who are contrib
uting to tho interest of the present
campaign party are: Cole l.. Blcase,
John T. Duncan, T. C. Mcleod and
George K. Laney. The oddity OF Dun
can; the pleasing manner of Mcleod;
the earnestncss Of Laney, and the fire
and energy of Blease, never fail to
make a decided impression upon mt
least a part of the audience, judging
by their receptions in the Piedmont.
Mr.. Mcleod invariably has line of
anecdotes that takes" with the audi
ence. John r. Duncan frankly says
that while he may be termed as a
runner" he cannot be termed as a
gutter" and this invariably brings
forth applause. William Coleman and
J. j. Cantey, new members of the par
ty, are getting a pleasant reception
over the state.
r. E. Craig and T.. b. Marshall, for
adjutant general, tell of their military
records and one can not help from
feeling that the military affairs of the
state will be in good hands, which ever
one the voters may see. fit to place in
office. Both are members of the 3Oth
Division. Each has the manner of a
military leader rather than of Il po-
litical speaker.
Walter T.. Duncan ana L. iagOOu
Gooding, for the office of comptroller
general, are said by members Of the
party, to be the best looking pair in
the entire party.
Youthful Candidate.
Sam NJ. Wolfe, the present attorney
general, has recently rejoined the par
ty, and is taking his part in the pro-
gram alongside of ID. w. Winter Of
Berkeley county and the youthful Har
old Eubanks of Aiken. Eubanks. who
says he is but - years of age. claims
the distinction of being the youngest
member OF the party.
The three candidates for lieutenant
governor, J. n. Owens of Marlboro; l..
b. Jackson of Aiken. and DR.. T.. G. j..
Adams OF Columbia, have been putting
up an interesting race and almost each
day they have given the voters some
thing out of the ordinary.
Another interesting race is that for
commissioner Of agriculture, George
w. Wightman Of Saluda, opposing B.
Harris. the present incumbent. The
two have been putting some lively
numbers in the program, particularly