Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-07-04
THE STATE CAMPAIGN
Some of The Candidates are Begin
ming TO Inject a Little Pep.
VOTERS DO NOT SHOW MUCH INTEREST

Dozier Trying to Get Dove on the De-
fensive-Hope is Trying to Make Mr..
Swearngen Mad-Guncan Larhbasts
His Opponents, But Tries to Thrust
Javelins Into the Blease Hide-Can-
didates for Lieutenant Governor APP
pear to be Most Affectionate Of All
While the state campaign party is
jogging along from day to day in the
lower part of the state, speaking to
only small crowds, the majority OF vot-
ers assuming an apathetic and lethar-
gic attitude toward the campaign, Inere
are nevertheless certain signs Of grow
ing interest. There are indications
that the candidates for various offices
are going to turn their batteries on
each other from now on, either with
the idea Of trying to arouse interest in
the people by that method or else be-
cause they have been travelling along
in quiet and solitude so long now that
they have begun to hate and pail on
each other because of such long COM
panionship and association. Sparks
are beginning to fly from the anvil IN
the race for superintendent of educa-
ton and in the race for secretary OK
state especially. Candidates for gov
ernor seem to each be hoeing his re-
spective row, with the exception OF
John T. Duncan, who by his sallies
from day to day Is trying to puncture
the hide OF former Governor Ble9se.
Due to the fact that that hide has
thickness almost equal to the thick
ness of the skin of a rhinoceros or
hippotamus due to a growth of political
experience of two decades or more, IT
is we'll nigh puncture proof. While
hurting spears at Blease, Duncan hurlf
little needles at Mr.. Mcleod and Mr..
Laney, although the correspondents OF
the Columbia State, Charleston News
land Courier and Greenville News make
1t appear that Mr.. Duncan is slamming
Mcleod and Laney as much as he Is
Blease; but such is not a fact. = 1a ~
Two Candidates Absent.
Up to this time Messrs. ]. j. Cantey
and William Coleman, candidates Tor
governor, have not been making the
campaign with the party. 1t is given
out that Mr.. Coleman is suffering WITH
sclatica at his home at Union; while
Mr.. Cantcy has been kept at home be-,
cause of business. Mr. Mcleod in his
speeches from day to day is in
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gram of the Cooper and Manning ad
ministrations. In each county he is
reading statistics showing that the
greater part OF the taxes that each
county is called on to pay have been
voted for local purposes by the people
themselves. Senator George X. Laney
Of Chesterfield, candidate for goE-
ernor, who has been a member oil me
legislature for a number of years,sls,
also undertaking in measure to de-
fend the course Of the general assem-
bly since the war He denies that APP
propriations have been excessive and
claims that the method for the-redlic--
ton of taxes must begin at home since
the burden Is 10 NC lOulu III PSAN.y d.
county and municipal levies.
Law and Order.
Thos. c. Mcleod is telling the vot-
crs a great deal about law and order'
and dcploring the lack of the energy
on the part of citizens of the state In
failing to run down the bootleggers,
whom he claims are running the man
hood of the state He promises that IL
he is elected governor he will do his
best to enforce the laws and he de-
clarcs that he will be very careful not
to have a long list Of pardons to MS
credit at the expiration of his term. &
Talks of High Taxes. :.
On every stump so far Former GOV
crnor Cole l.. Bleasc has denounceae
what he claims has been the eXtraYa'r'
gance of the general assembly IN lhr'
creasing appropriations for state pur-
poses. He denounces the state tax
commission, which he declares is
useless body and whose work should
be done in the office of the comptrollet
general. He also takes rap at the
board of public welfare and the bud
get commission. He is predicting that
next year the state will face the great
est deficit that it has ever faced. he
promises that if he is elected governor
and if the people elect a legislature OF
the same views, that the state tax rate
will be materially reduced and that a
great many Offices will be abolished
Women Warmly Greeted.
Mrs. Drake and Mrs. Wallace, the
two women candidates for superinten-
dent of education, are given cordial
and polite greeting at each meeting In
accordance with the greeting that
should always be given to ladies. AT
many platforms they have been pre-
sentcd with flowers. The handful OF
voters listen to them with respectful
. attention and number of ladies usu-
: ally attend the meetings just on their
account. But there is no indication
that there is any great amount OF en-
thusiasm for either o. them and 1t Is
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