Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1922-03-07

las an illustration of this forget
fitness. The bill would have
drought into the State ssssestlry
several hundred thousand dollars
ANNUALLY from q source most peo-
pie are willing to admit should be
taxed, since the power companies
are paying nothing for fhe use
of the streams which belong to
THE people and from which they
produce the power they sell the
lpeople. But the lawyers and 9th,
Ter lobbyists of the power compa-
Fnies were on the job" from the
day the bill passed the house un-
til it was finally killed by the
senate. They had all sorts of
plausible but really unsubstantial
argument to advance why the
proposed tax was unjust and
would stifle the progress Of the
companies. And they got away
with it!-that is, they have, got
away with it up to this time, but
some are hoping that the senate
will yet see the error of its way
and pass the bill. Vain hope, APP
parcntly.
There is the prospect that the
house of representatives will this
week have the pleasure of listen
ing to an address by Gov. James
NJ. Cox of Ohio, presidential nom
inee in 1920 of the Democratic
party. Thursday night the house
adopted resolution inviting
Governor Cox to address it Fri
day while he was passing through
the State on the way from his
home to Aiken, there TO spend
the month, but the disting guished
Democratic leader did not find il
convenient to accept the invita-
tion for that day, although he in.
dicated that it would suit him to
return to Columbia and address
the body this week. Ali the mem
bers OF the house committee which
went to the union station to ex-
tend the invitation to Governor
Cox were impressed with the cor
dial reception he extended them
and the interest his, words be-
spoke in the welfare of the peo-
pie of South Carolina and the
hopeful view he took of the sue
cess OF the party in the State and
congressional elections next fall.
Governor Cox said he felt certain
that MIR. Pomerene, Democratic
senator from Ohio, would be re
elected next fall. Members of the
party who had not before seen
Governor Cox had drawn men
tai picture of him as a large. ro-
bust man. In this they were mis-
taken, as the Democratic leader
is not more than 5 feet Z inches
and weighs about $50 pounds.
But one, does not have to listen to
Governor Cox long to learn that
what he lacks in the physique one
expects to see in national figures
is more than Compensated for in
his intellectual attainments. WhaI
the future has in store for Coy
ernor Cox in political way is of
course problematical, but if the
Democratic party should again
put him up as its standard bearer
1t is certain that no man in the
country is better qualified to show
up the mworthiness of the Re-
publican party and that, if he
should be elected we would have
more practical politics, the sort of
Epolitics that keeps a party in
power, than we had under the
Wilson administrations. While at
the station in Columbia Governor
Cox complied with the request
that he be photographed with the
legislative delegation, composed
OF Representatives Anderson. Bel
ser, Blease, Bradford and Me-
Innis.
No governor South Carolina has
had in recent years has been as
completely unhorsed in trying to
put over veto as Governor
Cooper was in the tax extension
resolution last week. Tuesday
night the senate overrode his veto
81 to 3, the three senator's voting
to sustain the, veto being Messrs.
Hart Of York, Bales of Lancaster
and Miller of Darlington. In the
house the vote was 70 to 8 against
the veto. Mr.. Mitchell was not
in the house for the vote, but the
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