Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-04-19
Issues of the Coming Cam
palgn.

paign.
Enforcement of the laws, particu-
larly the prohibition laws, is essential
to the security of the people of South
Craolina and they must elect gov
ernor and sheriffs this year who will
show no mercy to bootleggers and
moonshiners. To do otherwise would
be to give up prohibition. To elect a
governor suspected of friendly dis
position toward lawbreakers would be
to surrender to lawbreakers. Numer-
Gus crimes have been committed in
the last two years and the juries are
Furnishing them. If the people do not
have governor who can be relied
upon to allow the sentences OF Jurles
and courts to stand, no home in South
Carolina will be safe. The women are
the home-makers and the home-keep-
ers.
The people must have reduction OF
taxes. Further retrenchment in the
cost of government is necessary. Use
less Offices must be eliminated and
salaries cut to the point consistent to
obtaining efficient service. No great
reduction can be had in the state levy
merely by whiting down salaries.
All possible economies of this kind
would perhaps not lower the levy by
one mill. The people do not wish the
common schools, the colleges or the
charitable institutions destroyed or
crippled, nor will they deprive Con-
federate veterans of pensions. To
meet the cost of these things the
heavy revenues are required. But the
burden of taxation on lands and
houses, though reduced from IL to
seven mills, is still too great for the
times. The sole avenue of escape is
to- tax other things than farms and
houses.
The World War and its causes re-
main as issue in South Carolina. Had
the Democrats in 1876 elected an
enemy of the Southern cause govern
or, instead of Wade Hampton, Con-
federate soldiers would not be. rever-
ed as heroes now. If our people had
voted that South Carolina wos misled
into secession by demagogues and
traitors, the state would never have
voted for Confederate pensions. To
the $4,000 and 10000 young veter-
ans of the World War the cause for
which they fought is and should be
as holy as was the cause of their
grandfathers in 1861. It is for them
to protect it from rebuke and dishon-
or and they will.
Without the national Democratic
party the white civilization of the
South would be in perpetual danger.
To high Offices in the state the people
can not afford to elect others than
those whose party loyalty, national
and state, is not in question or under
suspicion. Able and patriotic Demo-
Gratis who have never been accused of
flirting with the Republicans are
abundant. There will be no trouble to
find strong men who go to the polls
in November and vote for the Demo-
cratic candidate from president to
coroner, who know that to do other
wise is to invite peril to every insti-
tuition of white civilization. Never,
for instance, was Republican pres
ident or candidate who would not, If
he could abolish the separate coach
law. Staunch Democrats in this state
vote and speak for the Democratic
candidates, whether personally at
tracted to them or not, because they
know these things, because they know
that unless the Democratic party shall
be sustained in the nation, all that
they hold dear in the South will col
lapse.
These are plain issues of the CAM
paign soon to begin in this state. To
sensible men they are not arguable.
The State.
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