Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-07-26
County Commissioners Meet
at McCormick.

dE lVASNOI lktA(As
Mccormick, July 2O.-This is an
off year in politics in this county. 1t
is the year in which the state senator
and clerk of court, also sheriff do not
have to run, as the incumbent of each
of these Offices holds more for a term
of two years. When the time closed
at noon yesterday for candidates to
enter the race for county offices there
was opposition to the Office of ex-
ception of C. w. Pennall, who<is
seeking reelection to the office of
county auditor. Mr.. Pennall has held
this office continuously since the for
mation of the county and the fact
that he has no opposition at this time
bespeaks an eloquent tribute to the
manner in which he has discharged
the duties of this Office for the past
six years.
The first political meeting Of the
present campaign for county officers
was held yesterday at Wilmington and
the candidates were greeted by prob
ably the smallest gathering of voters
ever assembled at one of these meet
ings in this county. DR.. R. G. Kill
lingsworth, the incumbent who is
seeking reelection as the sole repre-
sentative in the lower house of the
Legislature from this county was the
first speaker today. He charged that
the prime, object of the last legisla-
ture was to transfer the burden of
taxation from tangible property to
the intangible and that while this leg
islation was been passed by the house
of representatives it had met an ig-
nominious death in the state senate
by reason of the activities of cor
poration lawyers in that body. Stand
ing on the soil upon which the great
lawyers and statesmen, Calhoun and
Pettigrew, were reared, DR.. Killings
worth expressed the hope that the
time would never come when the
state house of representatives be in
fuenced by lawyers as is the case
with the present state senate. He
promised if reelected that he would
at all times stand for those things
most needed by the people of this
county and that their interest would
always be his interest.
Thomas Moore Ross, who is also
a candidate for the house of repre-
sentatives as the opponent of DR..
Killingsworth, made his first politi-
cal speech, following DR.. Killings
worth. Mr.. Ross is a member and
president Of the Mccormick Bar as
ISOLATION. He stated that he came to
this county upon its formation for
the purpose of practicing law which
he considered an honorable profess
sion and which he had always striven
to elevate, that he had followed his
profession as a lawyer continuously
since then, with the exception of the
period of the Worlds war in which
conflict he served with the famous
Thirtieth division and had no apollo
gies to offer for being a lawyer. Mr..
Ross pointed to the fact that his in
terest is identical with that of the
farmers and other business interests
of the county. He wanted. to serve
the people to the greatest advantage
and thought that if more lawyers had
been in the house of representatives
at it's last session unconstitutional
bills taxing intangible property which
would practically bar the develop
ment of waterpower in this state
would not have been passed and sent
to the senate to meet it's deserved
death. It was from a patriotic stand
point that Mr.. Ross entered this race
from a desire to serve the people
to the greatest advantage possible.
Judge L. G. Bell, the incumbent
for reelection as judge of probate,
as we'll as his opponent, merely intro
duced themselves as we'll as W. M.
Parks, standing for reelection as
county treasurer, and his opponent,
Joe l.. Talbert.
The next campaign meeting for
county officers will be held at Parks
vile on August 1, and it is limited
that the races of the candidates will
have warmed up by that time.
Charged With Beating Negro