The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, 1922-08-16
ANDREW j. BETHEA

i've and practical and of paramount
Importance at this time.
The people of the District know me.
They are familiar with my public SER
vice. They know that I served four
years as executive secretary in the
governors office, four years as Code
Commissioner, and four years as lieu
tenant governor. In the last named
: office I was elected by the people at
the ballot box and endorsed for re-
election by a handsome Vote-tne
largest ever given a candidate with
opposition in this State. AS for my
private record. feel that I have made
good a success Of my farm, my
i business and profession and am pre-
pared to make good in Cognress.
Having been left fatherless when an
infant, T have had to fight my own
battles and carve out my own career.
BY my own efforts graduated from
a high school, college and a univer-
sity, and 1 believe this has developed
: in me the initiative and resourceful
ness as well as the tenacity of purpose
7 needed in Congress at this time. ]
know have the ambition to faithful
II serve and the resolution and deter
1nninauion, if elected, to consecrate all
my time and talents to the public
veal.
Ny platform briefly stated is as fol-
lows:
Il stand for the strictest economy
and the elimination Of waste and ex-
travagance in every department Of
Z government, whether local, State or
National. protest against the ere
alton by Congress Of boards, commit
tees and commissions that squander
tile peoples money and spend millions
OF dollars annually in wasteful effort
S one OF the great needs Of modern gov
ernennt is to simplify the method Of
administration, and to substitute busi-
ness efficiency for extravaganza and
RED tapes I believe enormous saw
ings can be effected by applying busi-
ness principles to the science of gov
exnments and that it is our impera-
live duty TO give leo per cent OF good
:ssovernment for every dollar expended
sAes.
favor the immediate acceptance
Henfy Ford offer for Muscle
yh6ais. which means the employment
idle workers. cheaper fertilizers.
cheaper farm machinery, cheaper
water power and the investment and
cfrculation Of millions of dollars in
che South. If I were in Congress. I
would be found fighting for this great
project as well as using my vote and
influence to this end. :,
i advocate the esta blishment of ex-
perimental farms in every part of
the Seventh District to give the far
nners the benefit of expert knowledge
IN the best methods to control the
$ boil weevil and to teach them how to
Increase the yield Of cotton under boil
weevil conditions. I regard it as
highly essential that the Federal gov
eminent cooperate with the cotton
growing states in an effort to provide
calcium arsenate and other poisons
70 the cotton growers at minimum
cost.
favor law to absolutely prohibit
Immigration for a term of years and
untal the thirteen millions Of aliens in
this country are naturalized, educated
ard Americaanized. I look upon the
constant influx Of millions who bring
with them vice, crime, disease, Hitter
acy and pauperism as national peril.
favor the continuance Of the War
finance Corporation as a means Of
extending credit and aid to the farmer
and Southern banker and merchant in
the present crisis.
I am opposed to protective tariff
and all Republican measures resulting
liz deflation and hard times.
am in favor of white supremacy
/ and opposed to federal interference
With the race question in the South I.
Believing that good roads are essen
tial to the highest development Of a
modern State, favor Federal Aid in
the construction and maintenance of
the highways of the country.
favor a law further restricting the
rse Of money in elections and to pre-
vent the corruption Of the ballot by
: corrupt politicians. believing that a