Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-08-04


from the Seventh district in 1919 and
that when the campaign party was at
Florence recently Blcase accepted an
invitation from Mr.. Andrews, Re-
publican, to deliver speech in Flor
cnce county.
"Blease will entertain you with va
rious statements from day to day." he
concluded. HE has never told you
what the inducement was for him to
pardon Jones, the wife murderer or
Portland New, the bank robber."
Best Informed Candidate.
J.J. Cantcy, of Summcrton, Claren-
don county, q candidate for governor,
..aid he was the best informed man
about the business interests of the
state in the race. "Blcase," he said,
didn't get you out of the hole while
he was governor and he has proved
conclusively that the two administra-
tions that followed him have not done
So. You should now choose man who
can certainly do you no worse, al
though really there is so little left that
the boil wcevil and the policemen bid
fair to get that.
81 am new force in the political
arena in South Carolina, and l am ap-
pealing TO the moral courage and in
telligence of the people" said Mr.. Can
tcy. I'm conducting the cheapest and
cleanest campaign of any Of them and
1 propose to write the story Of this
campaign after its conclusion. l have
submitted to the people the finest plat
form ever presented to- any people. My
| opponents arc for law and order Vcr-
| bally, but none of them possess suffi-
cient Intelligence to suggest a remedy
for lack of law and order.
l. 'yrhe richest field in the world for
demagosic politicians is in the matter
f,of taxation, favor the taking over Of
the state tax commission by the comp
| troller general and an equalization OF
taxes patterned On the sayings of Jesus
Christ, who was the greatest authority
on taxation the world ever knew"
W. Detained BY illness.
William Coleman of Union, the fifth
OF the gubcrnatorial candidates to
speak, said that he had been unable to
make the entire campaign because of
suffering with sciatica, which is
tooth -ache in the lower limbs" Mr.
Coleman thought that the trouble with
South Carolina was that there had
been too much factionalism and ring
control in political affairs and that the
present was the time for house
cleaning. He had his platform print
ed in pamphlet form and any voter
| might secure a copy by sending him n
postal card request to his home in
Union. He gaid that it would make
good reading for the Lords day and
that it was a platform full of pros
poets, prosperity and hope"
laney Was Last.
Senator George K. Laney Of Ches-
tcrfield, was the last of the speakers
seeking the. gubernatorial chair. He
made n clear-cut speech and was
heard with close attention, receiving
quite bit Of applause and q basket Of
flowers when he concluded. He paid a
tribute to the memory of the late Con-
gressman d. Z. Finley whom, he said,
was unbeatable while he lived. He
stood for economy and REIMBURSEMENT
of the tax burden and he wanted "the
State paper to know that I am giving
half of my time to it,"
He stood, for a fair deal between
capital and labor. He reviewed his po-
litical experience as q member of the
house of representatives four years and
n member Of the senate sixteen years.
81 am here to shoulder my part of
the responsibility for the appropriation
bill of the last general assembly" said
Senator Laney "and am here to tell
you that it makes no difference who
you elect your governor, the appropria-
ton bill year from now will be about
where it stands now. The big items in
| lIldt Dill are lOT lne maintenance Ol
the asylum, common schools and Con-
federatc soldiers and no candidate has
said that he would take u single dollar
from any of them."
Candidate Lancy said that he had
achieved much in business and polit-
| ical way by his own efforts. Not a
dollar was appropriated for the COM
mon schools when he first went TO the
| legislature, but now the common school
system of the state will favorably
compare with that Of any other state
and he thought that at least q part o!
the credit for school progress was his,
since "Iancy has fought the battle of
the masses of school children for twcn-
T. years.
"Thc dcnation period has about
bankruptcd you ana not the lcgiSla
turc," said GIr. Laney. Look at your
good roads and good schools and yet
you pay only about Z mills for state
purposes. | stand for good schools
and for progress and I'll go down into
defeat standing for them. I'll not agree
TO n reduction of taxes for the common
schools under any consideration.
"If Won should abolish every state