Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-06-29
HAMPTON VOTERS
HEAR CANDIDATES
(By Staff Correspondent

Ing mere u UetNeeu EVV anu oVV w
ters.
The campaign to educate the people
to the fact that their tax burdens are
largely local in character was con-
tinued today by Thomas G. Mcleod OF
Bishopville, candidate for governor
Mr.. Mcleod showed the people by fig
ures taken from the office of the
comptroller general that 76 per cent
of the taxes paid by Hampton is spent
within Hampton county. He does moi
charge that there is local extravaganza
and doubts if there is any, but he
wishes the people to understand that
there-fourths of the economy the!
wish effected is a matter which the!
and their legislative delegation mus
determine for themselves. Mr.. Nc
Leod also gave statistics as to the
percentage of taxes as paid by the diff
ferent classifications Of property
Farm lands and buildings last yeal
paid approximately 80 per cent tow
and city real estate and buildings, Is
per cent; cotton mills, y per cent;
merchants, 10 per cent; and bank!
about 31a per cent. The last general
assembly had attempted to reduce this
tax on real estate and personal prop
erty, and through the passage of meas
ures calling 70 ra state income tax,
gasoline tax and a water power tax
it had cut the state levy nearly hall
in two. There must be tax reform and
economy, Mr. Mcleod says, but meth
ods in effecting this economy must not
be destructive.
VIII Be Few PardOnS
Mr. Mcleod was emphatic in hi,
utteranceS relative to law enforcement
and the issuing of pardons. There vii,
be few pardons, Mr.. Mcleod said, if ht
is elected governor. While there have
been instances where there have been
miscarriages of justice, these instanc-
es are rare indeed and he will not up
set the verdicts of juries and the SEN
tences of courts and thus break dOwr
the spirit of law enforcement.
Cole l.. Blease told the voters he had
a law office we'll stocked with law
books, a good home, did not owe any
man a dollar and was, therefore, no
dependent on politics for his liveli'
hood. He would not have entered thc
race for governor after his two terms
if so many who never had supported
him before had not written to him ant
urged him to make the race.
He had warned the people Of the
state, he said, that if certain crowC
was elected to office eight years age
they would bankrupt the state. Now
some people are going to bed hungry
He attributes all this to high apprO
priations and extravaganza incident tC
the creation of useless offices and jobs
for unnecessary employees in the dif
ferent departments.
While he was governor the people
had also been told TO get rid of BleasC
and they would get rid of lawlessness
in the state, he said, pointing out tina,
during the last six years there hat
been more murders and lawlessness il
South Carolina than any other STATE
in the union. Flowers which the peo-
pie had been told would strew Their
pathway If they would oust Blease
were, he said, on the graves of thos'
who had been killed The former gov.
eronor said he believed in the enforce
ment of all laws but when justice /!
miscarried the constitution imposes
on the chief executive the duty TO cor
rect, and he proposed to do his duty
Others before being elected governor
said they would not pardon but some
OF them after going into office, h
said, had issued more pardons in pro,
portion than he did. He recalled tht
fact that the day R.-A. Cooper left Of
flee Is pardons and paroles were
granted. saAk
Duncan Versus BleaSe
John T. Duncan directed a cOnsid-
cradle portion of his speech to Blease.
The former governor, the speaker said
Haunted long list of those to whom
the state is paying your hard earned
money. Didn't you have them when
he was governor" In handling the
truth, Mr.. Duncan said the former
governor was like McLaughlin's mule
which lis not blind, but just doesn't
give a damn"
George K. Laney of Chesterfield en-
phasized today that he was not the
candidate of any organization or ma
chine. He was just plain man from
the plain people, who for 20 years had
fought the peoples battles in the gen
eral assembly, he said. The trouble
in other campaigns to elect a COVER
nor was there was too much machine
and organization. lie wanted the
plain people Of this tsate to be his
machine.
Mr.. Laney defended his vote in the
state senate for the water power tax
when an effort was made last session