The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-07-22
MPAIGN
PARTY HEARD
AT SUMTER
Intense Heat Takes
Pep Out Of Meet
ing Many Candi-
dates Consider the
Campaign W aste Of.
Tine and Money

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COURIER
Sumter, July Patiently
braving sweltering heat, with per-
spi~atien streaked faces and wear
ing sodden shirts. fully 500 voters
here today, many of them from
Clarendon and Lee counties. lis
tsnsd to the drone Of gubernaterial
and state candidates fer Office as
they pleaded for the. suffrage OF
the people.
If any apep had been engender-,
deFed OF the candidates from the
week Of rest most Of it had per
eelated through their pores due to
the. excessive heat. although their
speeches we're fair. but differed lit
tie from those things they have
said on other .tstuTnps. !. The crowd.
though super heated, was rather
generous with It's applause, partic-
ularIy to Thomas e. Mcleod,
George K Laney and Cole l..
Raease, candidates for governor.
and Mrs. Wallace and Mrs Drake,
candidates FOR state superintendent
s of education.
The meeting was first staged in
front Of the court house. but the
heat Of the suns rays caused it to
be moved TO the rear Of the struc-
ture, when slight rain began TO
fall It was then taken into the,
court room which was soon packed
to- sufocation.
Many Of the candidates would
Ike the campaign to be dissolved.
as they think that, because Of the
Iethargy Of the average voter, the
itinerary is merely a waste OF time
and money and they would do bet
B ter by making INDEPENDENT exclr-
sdons into various parts of the
state. However, no official action
on this matter has been taken by
the party as a whole, the probabil-
ity being that a majority would
oppose such a movement
John T. Duncan Of Columbia, the
first peaker for governor. said
that Blease had referred to Thomas
g. Mcleod and George K. Laney as
his friends and he's had not seen
where any Of them had repudiated
the governor.
If BIease was to commend me-,
he stated, q would get down or my
knees and pray Oh. Lord. what
have / done
He made his usual plea for a
state-owned system Of water pow
ers, claiming that they would be
such an asset to South Carolina
that IN a few years the people
would be free of taxes.
He concluded with an attack on
the American Products Imports
and Exports Corporafior, of which
former Governor R. 81 Manning is
president, for. the payment of ex-
tortionate sa1afies, sas ne declared.
Senator George X Laney OF.
Chesterfield made his first speech
of any kind TO a Sumter audience.
he-stated He paid high tribute to
the late John H. Clifton, senator
from Sumter, whom he described
as ore of the most brilliant minds
the state had possessed. He reit-
srated his former assertions that
he had been the consistent friend
of the farmer and had always stood
for all forms of education in South
Carolina. He asked the farmer
If the agriculturists are going to
stand by Laney as Laney had stood
by the farmer. All he asked. he
averred was a square deal from
the farmer. which he knew he
would receive
- He wanted to know if the people
we're honest in their assertion that
they wanted economic relief by
lower taxation.< telling them that
ne had been a consistent and bel
Iigerent foe Of large appropria-
tioTs. He stressed the need of tax
reforms made. through which de-
creased cost of government to the
people could be obtained. emphati-
calIy claiming that the last gen
eral assembly had made good be-
ginning IN this direction by the
substitution of indirect methods of
taxation to relieve the burden from
Tangible. property. But, he con-
tinued. this is only beginning.
Claiming that the policy SO bene-
fciaIly inaugurated. by the last
legislature is continued and If
elected governor be. would en-
deavor to see that it IS extended.
The Chesterfield senator said that
before many years he was salts
fed that tangible property would
bear no burden of taxation. He
secuted the assertion that indirect
taxation was but taking money
out Of one pocket and putting it
into another pocket" He stated
that 75 per cent. of the payers of
the new gasoline tax did not pay
any property tax.
He said that it behooved all good
citizens to put their shoulders to
the wheel and to make every ef-
fort for the enforcement of the
laws. If elected, he concluded, he
would not only see TO the impair
tial enforcement of laws but
he would be the governor Of all the
naan1o recoonizing neither friend