The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-07-14

agreea bic campaign and ne hoped ana
knew that all of the candidates would
come out of it even better friends
than when they entered, because they
would come to know each other bet
ter. And in this way he hoped and
believed they would become even bet
ter friends than they were now. Mr..
Blease said that he had the honor of
being elected last year when it be-
came the duty to elect some one to
fiji the unexpired term Of the late
lamented Geo. S. Mower, and that it
was the first time the women had
been permitted to vote and he was
proud of the fact that he had been
so elected by, in part at least, the
votes of the women. He then re-
viewed the methods of legislation and
explained the different departments
of government and told the process
es through which a I'll had to go
before it became law and explained
tho work of committees. He said he
favored a proper maintenance of the
institutions of the state and he fav-
ored adequate support Of the COM
mon schools and modestly referred
to the part he took in saving the ap-
preparation for the common schools.
He favored the building OF good
roads but also was in favor Of good
business economy in the expenditure
of the public funds just as a good
sound business man would handle his
own business.
Mr.. W. B. Boinest was the next
sueaker and briefly told his platform.
He said he was no speaker but that
he would vote right. He was in SYM
pathy with the laboring people, be-
ing one of them HIMSELF and would
advocate and vote for the mainte-
nance of good schools in the rural
districts and if elected would always
be in his place when the roll was
called.
Mr.. H. H. Evans was the third
cpeaker. He said he was farmer
and his sympathy was, with the far
mer, though just now he was
'busted" farmer, and unfortunately
many more were mighty near in the
same fix and there should be some
relief and he thought there should be
cooperation on the part of the legis-
lature in the helping Of the condition
of the farmer and especially IN the
reduction Of the heavy tax burden
under which we were laboring. He
complained that it often happened
when the house did good thing or
passed a good law it was killed by
the senate and cited some instances
, in which this had happened during his
experience in the house. Mr.. Evans
also took a whack at the state tax
commission.
DR.. J. William Folk began his re-
marks by quoting some poetry COM
mendatorv to woman and then paid
himself a tribute to woman and SAID
he was glad they were going to vote
and he believed they were gong TO
remember him when they came to
cast their ballots. He would intro
duce a bill the first act Of his when
he got to the legislature to prevent
the desecration of the Sabbath by
holding sessions of the legislature on
that dav. He thought it was wrong
and he doubted if any law passed on
the Sabbath would stand the test OF
the court # any ore should raise that
question. He thought taxes too high
and he wanted them reduced and
would work to that end. He cited
to the fact that he was the author Oh
the bill reducing the number OF chi-
dren in a rural graded school from
so to 40 in order that the school
might receive rural graded school aid
to the extent of 5000. He thought
the plan of assessing property Tor
taxation should be changed and ne
favored having board of assessors
for each school district to go out and
make the assessment and that they
he paid $500 per day for not more
than four days. He thought this the
best plan to secure fair and eqult-
able equalization of the property and
instead of assessing a $50 mule at
the same valuation as 5000 one ne
would equalize the assessment and
thus make the burden of taxation
bear evenly on al property.
DR.. E. \. Kibler was at home and
took up his time in pleasant reIa-
ton Of personal incidents and IN ref