Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-06-20
BLEASE TO The VOTERS
Former Governor for RetfenChment
and Reform.
NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR FACTIONALISM


Was Opposed to Woman Suffrage
But Urges all Good Women to En-
roll for the Protection of the States
Highest Welfare.
(By a staff Correspondent
Columbia June 2O.-Followins Is
part of the speech of Hon. Cole L.
please in opening his campaign 1or
the governorship at the initial meetlhs
held in the Columbia opera house this
morning. Summaries of the o1her
speeches will be sent later:
I feel most highly complimenteo
that those who have been my friehos
in the political campaigns In the pasI
were so well pleased with my fecoro
that they have again requested me u
renrescnt them, and / feel 1lattereo
that so many of these VINO hithef'o
have never supported me have eN-
nressed themselves personally ana
through letters, requesting that pe-
come their spokesman and representa-
tive.
said in November, 1921: shall DE
a candidate Gf it be the will OF Goa 10
spare me both health and life) Tor the
eovernorship in the campaign Oh 1szZ.
Not that / late any further personai
ambition along that line, but because
+bore seems to be an earnest and SIN
cere desire on the part of great many
of the people of this state that 40 so'
7 would feel that was not true II my
neonle believed that 1 can serve them
in any capacity, however humpie 1t
NAV be, and decline to do so.
7 shall repeat in my campaign the
old slogan of the 1910 campaign whlch
was: The reduction of taxation; the
abolition of all useless Offices cierk-
ships. ETC.; the enforcement OF al
laws to the letter, for if they be good'
their enforcement will lend to the up
huiIding and uplifting Of our state ana
our people; if they be bad, our people
will soon demand and cause their re-
neal If law is good, it should DE
enforced, if bad. the quickest way 10
secure it's repeal is by enforcement
lGiye me a poor government and rlch
neople in preference to rich govern
ment and a poor people, for when you
make a rich government and therepy
imnoverish the people, you reverse
democracy and create dissatisfaction
and discomfort among the people VINO
are the masters and not the servants
+ shall advocate liberal appropriations
for all of our state institutions put
do not believe in the extravaganza that
our recent general assemblies nave
been engaged in along this line, ana
cannot and will not give my sanction
to it.
7 am in favor of building up a Tree
school system, so that all or the WHITE
children of the state may be given the
opportunity of a great common schooi
education in comfortable and conVen-
lent schoolhouses.
believe in paying our schooi
teachers sufficient salaries to secure
the best, and mean by best salaries
commensurate with the class ano
character of work that teachers are
supposed to perform, to Wit: the
mouIdinp and directing of a competen,
and efficient citizenship.
believe in and will advocate the
massage Of such laws as will further
and protect labor in all of IT'S legiu-
mate claims and etdeavors, ana II
such laws as will protect capital IN al
of its lawful investment, so that all o.
our people may be protected, to the enc
that we NAV give equal rights to al
and special privileges to none.
am in favor of a liberal support
yea. if it be necessary for their com
fort, extravagant support to the 1e"
Confederate veterans, who are leit
that followed Wade Hampton through
the fields of Virginia and through the
turmoil and strife of South Carolina II
, 1876.
am in favor of the strictest en-
forcement of the laws which prompl'
the selling and use of cocaine anc
, similar drugs, and of our Natlona
Prohibition laws. If our people do no
want this done, then rise up like mei
and demand their repeal, for II the!
, are on the statute books and L nave
taken an oath before God and man Il
enforce them, shall do it.
; In making this fight | shall know NJ
faction and no class because the re
=. quests to me TO make it have com
from all classes and all factions; an'
if elected governor, I shall forget al
, differences which heretofore have di
= vided our people and shall be the gov
+ ernor of all the people. All who knOI
:, me know that there is no deceit
, hypocrisy in me and that when sa
| will, | will; and that when l say
;. will not, | will not; and they realiz
the fact, if ] may be pardoned 10
saving it, that / am what | am, an
that | do what l say | will do. All o