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The yol. XIV Barnwell • e BARNWELL. 8. THURSDAY. JUNE 27.1912 i. ■fe. ATTACK ON JONES pits blease s staff JONES COMES BACK lyon goes for evans BUND TIGER GRAFT beaten to a frazzle RECESS BIEASE CRITICIZES HIS DECIS- - . SIGNS AND VOTES. COLONEL CHESHIRE SENDS IN HIS RESIGNATION. HE SHOWS Of THE RECORD OF GOVERNOR BLEASE. CHARGES HIM WITH BEING Gl IL- TY OF FORGERY. MANY OF THEM GAVE THE CON' STABLES HUSH MONEY. TEDDY WILL RUN IF THE PEOPLE WANT HIM TO DO SO. NOT ALLOWED TO REPLY In a Sharp (lash at IHsh;:;>viUe> Gov- ernor Blease Criticise* the Record of Jones as a LegisLtor and • Judge, Who is Refused a Reply by the Chairman. In his speech at Blshopvllle on Wednesday Governor Blease criticis ed 'the votes of Jones as a Legisla tor and his decisions as a Judge. IMeaee spoke after Jones, and when the latt r rose to reply Blease ob ject'd to his doing so and was sus tained by Chairman L. L. Boker. 'The incident created some little ©x- vit* niont, which soon subsided how- cwr, an 1 the rdeetlng ended without tiny S' lious disturbance. Organizing at Sumter Tuesday Just before the meeting there the party ol candidae s adopted a rule for the eauntiign, which is as follows, ac cording to the records of the secre- larv, S. T Carter. "When state- men's are made by on* candidate which ar otrectionahle to another candidate, he shall he allow'd to de ity th» (harg''s and to furnish a cat- tr'Tica! answer w lien the candidate r along the statements has finished or at the close of the meeting." 1'n '• - :!i rule B 1! Evans was Tuesday and Wednesday allowed a r< i ly to st it' meats by the attorney- g'" • ral. Vr I.yon, anu under the tti’c." rule Judge Jones. Wednesday, v h n Gov Blease. the last speaker, h; 1 ('orviu li'd. arose to make his re- 1 iy, tit" governor's address having ror I principally of a vigorous a'- i,«< k on Iniit. G*»v. Blease vehement ly protested against .Iti'lge Jones he- Colonel Leon M. Grew Make* Uio Announcement in a Statement to the Press. Governor Blease seems to be hav ing trouble with his colonels. Coin cident with the testimony of Mayor Grace, of Charleston, colonel of the governor's office, came the announce ment of the resignation of Col. V. B. Cheshire, of Anderson, another colon- e' on the governor’s staff, the an nouncement of the resignation having been sent out from Anderson by Col. Leon M. Green, still another colonel on the governor’s staff. The fight which the anti-Bleaseites have been making on the governor seems secondary with the onslaught now being made on the chief execu tive by the members of his official family, formerly his warmest polit ical supporters and admirers. The rtslgnation of Colonel Cheshire Is accounted the most significant de velopment of the day and seems to foreshadow a stampede, and a further strengthening of the assertion that Blease will go down to defeat under an avalanche of Jones votes and "Bleaseism" be consigned to obliv ion The follow ing card explains it self: "On the eve of the opening of the state campaign and close upon the recent break between Col. John P. Grace, mayor of Charleston, and gov ernor Cole L Blease, Is the announce ment made that Col. Victor B. Che shire, publisher of the Anderson In telligencer), has resigned from the staff of Governor Blease. This is a political break of extreme import-] ance, for Colonel Cheshire holds th- ' DON'T WANT A GRAFTER An Incident of the Campaign Meet ing Held at Hishopville on Last . > ,, Wednesday. THEY WERE NOT RAIDED At the Bishopville campaign meet ing on Wednesday B. B. Evans was the first speaker. Hts renewal of graft charges made two years ago and at Sumter yesterday against the Mur- tay dispensary commission elicited from the attorney general the prom ised commentary upon Evan’s career. Mr. Evans repeated his charge that dispensary records had ©een Judged and a deficit of approximately |40,- ©00 covered up beneath the term ‘‘capital account’’. By way of advance reply to Mr. Lyon’s threatened revelation, he gave his own version of his career. He ascribed to ill will against him on the part of “that thief, B. F. Sample" sheriff of Saluda county, the finding brought to the attention of the peo- jor ln(]k . tnunt8 aKain8t hlm ln that Pie some of his acts not known g-n-| ( . ouuty for forgery and doc i ared the era " J ' , j forgerv charge to be false. Taking up in detail the charges J H „ 8ald thilt thia prosecution was which Governor Blease had preferred ! nualifled by Judge Shipp wheI1 the against him, Judge Jones answered: caBe ramc on for trlal and hi8 i awV er them in clear cut style and with ef-J on thal occa8ion j. william f. ctive argument. Not merely this, l Thurinond now campalgn manag<ir as he even turned some of Governor fQr , ra R i;vaIls a: . Blease’s own,, arraignment back against him, particularly in refer ence to voting for Hampton and the free railroad passes, and showed that Blease had done the thlngshe had |andMth lliH pi8fol committed suicide. | "My life," said IBans, “has always been an open i>ook, there is no man or woman I can not face. If any man or woman has knowledge of " ( l uor dealers Jones Declares That Blease \Vfe a Traitor Twice In the Irby-Haropton ('ontest and Proves by the Record that Blease Voted .Against the An ti-Free Pass Law. The correspondent of The News and Courier says coming back in fighting style, the vigorous reply of Judge Jones to the onslaught of Wednesday made upon him by Governor Blease, was the feature of the State campaign meeting at Darlington Thursday. Judge Jones did not only defend his own record but he carried the fight into Governor Blease’s camp and id the fact that in Columbia he had been tried for murder and acquitted, In-caus. he s:iid his friend worried by charged him with doing. Judge Jones charged Governor Blease with being twice a traitor In the Hampton-Irby contest for the l’n- : ed Stntfs Senatorshlp, pointing out that Blease had on a test vote sup- '■ortfd Hampton, then turned over to 1 n h ar.i shouting "lie's had his i v i, !•■' him answer to-morrow ' Ti i ** r n \ fmor moved forward n Mi !l t • v of th- ida’form ■ • ‘ . k’ ’ |i' s t»; • [loni'nt’s a '-niyt * < ■ H •\ .t’r. M - wa* jdain'.v ex t ! 1 . . s li t * wo'-^s atoi g-*'iculat ions : • ! *j A ! •'!.••• : nan w as on hand | balance of power in Anderson Coun- !r; ’>'’ thuH '"'laying the reform par ity, which polls s/mo Mites, and whieh '>'• ln ,h " first llistancp ' thon * oin K Governor Blease carried in the last 1 ! ' ai ^ on Hampton in the next Judge election bv about 800. Political oh-1 lon ’ >8 8aid h<> wa8 a ^onttstan’ He- servers sav this break m ans a loss r. supporting Irby throughout t •• a ■,' n u- , :i t a' i ■ ,i: 1 .i''i ti. pt•— *o separate ) ►* Ia.i . tnd d. who were stand- i c, w o t) s*.o'i d rs jammed against * a 'i •••*.• r f '.trl' tiristling defiance 'I be co,.' '> 4 ha;rtnan s detracked 'be p • i .'".an, sa.' .iig he would call it. h s r"r\iie* wh n necessary T'.t : e ' 'lev stood, J uflge Jones wa:'.' g a 'i.on 'tit for qute' (tover- —* * o g \ igormtsiy to top’ m s"eaJ< hnth facing the i • r ng on a 1: 1 Me contest • ’ e !■ ' .' g j'l Ige J 'll.* had •• :t !*•'••• ) and refused to he ' 1 • ’ • 1 ■ .r d* '• rmined that ',d • •>' * i v i w ord 1 '.i ’r I 'T!.’nand you to b ' v . ' • w-am JH' * '.ind-d by " i -.e-. a' oil" junefure • ■ • w b. :. i n.i re speaking." de ■ ! t ■ , b„ rm ,n U hen th s was ! t id tones acrpiieM ed and 1 i .'".iv ('1 t tie s’and. acconi- a f. w friends, w ho had a bo:; r Gov t rnor Blease ■ I i-’-ounded by a great . ’ ’ ■ved him dow n the f r a ‘■ho;: distance ,• p" 'pi" vv re hi mow ha’ txcited e . - ■ in b i.'. which at first thev did no’ undeistand, not being ac- u i ' • d vv ,' h the rile adopted by 1 1 ''ea. w hich permits reply charges made liy op- jof Anderson County to the governor : and seriously affects his chances for '■ re-election.* Colonel Cheshire was a'tacked in his office b> a local magistrate and another citizen while a constable of Governor Blease stood guard on a neartiy railway bridge Colonel Che ^tiire ask-d for the removal of the ' w v m-n and the governor refus-d. 'hereup*in Colonel Cheshire r.signed .md w li no' supper 'he Governor in bis race for re election I "The mayor of Char! s'on begins •is'imouv to-morrow morning In Co lumbia as to Ins charge that he can •race graft practically to 'h,- govern or This, with the break to-night bc- ween Blease and Cheshire, may i hang" tl.c entire political situation in ' tie s' at ■ I. M G reel) Colonel (Been has been Paak.ng m Me favor of 'ho go.ernor of South (' a r o 1 i n a n. re Mian a > ear Last \iar he was a Colon,h.a newspaper corresponden’ and resigned Ins posi- t.on when asked to resign from the staff of the governor as a lieutenant colon I Colonel Green s first public fiervire In the state was as a factory inspector He was appointed iv the governor, who gave him J-’oii a Month to raid the column.* of newspa pers and the annual report of Com mission'r Wa'son to gam some sec ond-hand information as to child lab or conditions the fight. Ovation for Judge .lone*. Judge Jones, upon being Introduc 'd. receiv'd almost an ovation To 'his he responded felicitously Al most at once the speaker enter- d into a discussion of the Bishopville niee'ing and the charges made by Covernor Blesee He accused the Governor of assisting in deny ing h:m the right of denial Visterday Ad mitting that his rerrrd as a public of ficer was a proper subject for attack, be s' at ed that he proposed now to de fend himself P suppose ou' of all the cas s I decided when a Judge." said th' speaker, "there would be some which somebody would not like One i * these cases was one conduct' 1 by Governor Ideas > himself, of course, he did not Jike it ' I made my record as a 1-g>lv ■- .'•nd Jude, and 1 stick to it 1 have no apclogles to make " Ppcaking of the qual'.flcaMons th- Governor of a great Sta'•• should have. Judge Jones said. "W- wan' no crook In that office, no man who lias the charge of graft brought against him Replying to some of th" charge* made Wednesday by the gov-rnor. Judge Jones said that he frankly ad mitted voting for Gol J L M I.rbv ‘or the 1'nit‘d States Senate agams’ Wade Hampton, claiming that Irbv For tins work Colonel u re n o : ’ i .m :ti d nlal pouen's Th> r.- vv as < ver. of a i-en ral row. for Chairman ally no danger, ho'w- ri w arded with warrants aggregating him polit ica!!y. and w as the candidate $1,111.0. This little income to the of the r- form party Consistency and colonel was cut off by the last gen- houBy t° his party and his friends eral assembly when the provision was were Judge Jones masons for sup- made for paying the tvvo fac'ory m- P or 'Big Irby sp'Ctors under the jurisdiction of the commissioner of agrfeultur. anything tending to show a dishonor- ;.h!e act in my record, let him or tv r ^i*e and poin' It out, and I will brand her as a di in th" attempt J Fraser Lyon aft-r reviewing his work in showing up dispensary graft ers and after saving he deplor'd the t.e.'SHl'v of exposing Evans, proceed 'd to real a cert:tb-d copy of one cf the 'wo indb ' m • s f"r forgery found against Lvans :n .'•'atudv coun'y and 'o tT'.cn'i'Ui o het charg s made ag'iins’ K.ats He sa 1 that Evans some years ago 1 . p,.'a ■. d a' tin- Carolina Na tional batik :n < dum a two net's liirpo; tini’ Ui hive been made by I dgetield county eltlXellS, W 111) w tl • U ' i i • • *«• "Idtga - ions matur'd made ans wer " lovit' that they tiad not signed an- s".-ti instillments and the hank 1 s' ' he mor.ev The a'tortiey cm ral said also that I'rat.k aT.d sons money 1> nders of \ ugus’a. s't” to Evans on one orca- - .n a ik ?n b delivered to one of h.s 's, bu' Evan* appropriat ed it"' tm.i.ev to h j, pw n use and his IjroMu r, .luhn (k.ry' Evans of Spar '.a' fej: g f - governor had to make •he <■', k good in order to prevent i arm y f'om t.elng prosta nted I t. a't irto • general said he had m fra t.e t a-- 1 tig a* posslhie from pr. si’Gt.e th's *■. :d'-'ii >• to the putt ie. out < ' r sp. e* to Lvans' mother, and Ins brother, ami the people of the Sta'e, h i' Mi" r vetations had to be made when Fvans persisted In going aiiotit the S’a'e making false and s andaloti* charges against .men the ',at'he's of wh se stioes Evans was Ull'Wnrth;, to tie In r piv Lvans said the attorney g'nerai had pres, nted what purport- i d to be n cords of eases that he for om- had never heard of As to the Salter check. Lvans said: "If John Gary Fv.ans has paid any such chock : f r me i don't know it " He con- Turning uj'on Governor Blease, theGiudeti: ' If I am guilty of any crime, speaker charged him with being twice why haven t 1 he n arrested'"' “If People Want a I’rogrwiAive PAr ty, PH Be in It," Bajh He, And Be It* CandidAte Too. Thursday night Roosevelt indicat ed that, under certain conditions, he might withdraw from the Republican party to take the lead In the forma tion of a new party. “If the people want a progressive party, 1’U be In it," he said Some of the Colonel’s supporters urged their assocldtes to precipitate the crisis in the Republican National Convention at the earliest opportuni ty. More conservative counsels fin ally prevailed and It was decided there should b« no "bolt" from the regular Convention. It was the plan of the Roosevelt *lelegates Thursday night to make their last stand on the report of the credentials committee. If the sev enty-eight'delegates claimed by them to be fraudulent are seated, the Roosevelt foyces will remain In the Convention uhtil the end, but will not vote. It Is their plah then to proceed to the nomination of the Colon'1 In the Coliseum and Hatton regularity for him. y Col. Roosevelt ha^ not definitely committed himself to Vhe latter part of this plan. He Is cotvsidering the advisability of delaying\action for several weeks and then to summon an entirely new conventKVp. Thl* would not be held until alter the Democrats have acted In Baltimore. Col. Roosevelt said emphatically Thursday night that ho would fi^ak" the Independent fight for the Presl- cRnry If he was convinced there was a popular demand for him. “I shall have to see if there Is popular de- re:, 1 before the committee in c.olum- lj)and ror m „ fo niTli " ho 8aid Ma. and wh'-Mi has ben published 1 1(p added tha , , h „ MMmtlon was The wllnesa said tha, he tol d Gov-, o0( , h ^ kal( , 1d0Br0 p 1r orH , t h a t It would he Impossible for him to out line what he would do. It might • nke some tlni'', h** said, to ascertain | • h" sentiment of 'he propl", and j Parn whether there wan a rcasunabb-j bust* for the formation of wb.it he j term, 1 a "progressive party ' One of Col Rooscv It's associates. CONVENTION HOIHS Til SESSIONS FRHAT WAITING FOR REPORTS One Tiger Said Blease Inrltrd Con stable to Kill rromishiK Him a Pardon if He (iot in Trouble and a ‘ \ < Constable bald He Drank and Slept With tbe Governor. That Governor Blease promised a pardon to Chief Stothart, his consta ble In Chari* ston. If he would put Crocker and Miller out of the way be cause they knew too much, was a sensational statement made Wednes day by Jim Crocker In his testi mony before the dispensary Inves tigating committee in Charleston, basing the assertion on a statment made to him by John Black, who said that Stothart had made the threat while drunk on a train coming from Columbia. This and the testimony uf several local whisk'> dealers, who, stating that they were "blind tigers," said that they had paid the "graft" to the ■ onstahlcs to k'ep them from raiding them, featured the sessions ot Lie, eommltte*- Wednesday. The whiskey! dealers testified that the amounts' collected averaged from $r> to $10] per month, and that the chief men who collected this "graft" wor.' Hen-! ry Doscher, Sante Po’tile and J P. O'Neill who are alleged to b© whole- Thc first witness sworn was J J. Mill' r, of rcc coming street, a for- ni' r liquor dealer, who gave In suh- ,mer, him as a liar, or die fi ’ : '' lr ° ,he eontalned In the affidavit of his which .Mayor Grace • ■rnor Blease In hi* office that he "a* stisp <"• d of sharing in the graf’ Irom t!i" Charleston blind tigers and Mi at a man named Harl-y, a travel-’ 'tig insurance n an. wa* the one who was *aid 'o hav carried the graft '" the Guvcrner WRncsses said wtien' I," told Blease thl* th. Governor re-| l’ 1 "' 1 > 1 ’' 1 ar “ ,h, ‘ ’ hir '' """i wh0 ta | k ,. d W |, h him Thursday, said who ha* told me this, < apt - 1 •'iti ! ,| lal j ie declared his willingness I'd,o k and Charlie \A .dd> t’eing riln f or |*n. 8 | d ,mt if any conslder- \\ !i> don t you 'ake a | d( , ^ u mper of he (plegat.* wished o protect yourself1 told j i|m , () ,.v,.n if he did not carry a singl" electoral district In 'he coun-' stotlinrt Dml,-*. Viverythlng J (rv , storm to When B II Stuthar*. the chief] Th „ r()lonf .| himself said he he-," wa * a * u ’ iatl0 ^ fu” of posai- eon*'able, the one accuse * of f-ceiv - , , 1( . %t , d hp W(Hlld , u . able to count upon i 1 Bnd thH { 'Onv^ntlon offlctala 1 , • h • r 'wo act .on th Gey,"nor Police and Convention Officials Keep Tab on Bltuatlon, Fearing Attempt of Roosevelt Forte* to Gain Po*- semdon of Hall, Tumultuous Crowd Finally Forced to Leave. Five minutes was the entire durftr Don of the two'sessions of the Repub lican National Convention Friday, with a recess of four hours between.'* Thu first session convened at noon, lusted four minutes; the second on* minute. The afternoon session was rn- markabl^ for the extraordinary con ditions which ensued upon Its ad journment. Almost with the fall of Chairman Root's gavel there broke out a pandemonium of cheering, which lasted almost as long as that of Thursday. It had scarcely a definite cause, (hough Its Immediate occasion was the effort of a man in the west gsl- ry to swing the great gathering Into unison with the cry "we want Teddy" It started all right, bnt almost Im mediately the LaFoilette, Hadley and Cummins enthusiast* began an Oppo sition turmoil, with the that within Less than a minute there was .-imply one meaningless choas of noise. Presently a group of men la tho south gallery, back of the platform, brought four or five megaphones In to play with "we want Teddy!” ▲ smashing rsln storm was In progress outside; so the people simply stood where they were and shouted, each t^* his taste. Vndir cover of the racket and at firs^ unnoticed by the crowd, there began to gather on the platform a body \>f big policemen until finally some twenty were present. And they w re un^lcr personal .command of Aar slstnnt -c\lpf Sehuettler. Then !t\began to be noticed that Chairman Ytoot, Secretary Gleason, .•Jergean'-at Vms Stone and his as sistant, Col. Vhayer, had never left the platform at all. And the crowd began to understand the reason for •hi* considcuous spow of force. The crowd whldb waited for the cease wa* good humored. olie accuse* or receiv mg arid lie;,(ling the collection of the support of" tlm’bulk’of RepuhlM w ‘ >r * ^king no chances- giaft from th- liquor dealers, was r „ nl , | n Western States and that (ailed to the stand, h;s attorney oh- b(< W(M| ] d ,xp*'( AsslsUnt chief Sehuettler was loi|th to turn }rm. to d-rtve consider-1 1,, ‘- ,,ut ,nto ,he * able strength from the Democrat*. I for n,ore th;,n j an h 11" would not express anv opinion 1 *»" rd ^rrounded the how soon after the ad'ournment ()f ; and th-Conv• ntlon officer, k the present Convention the new par-' 1 !a '’ t ' 8 ()n ,hp whlle ,h Jected to the Jurisdiction of the eom- mlfei' and also asked time to collect a' 1 ', lav :t* and witnesses to sutistantl- h• •• ’"PUim"ti> of Stothart <’om- t -- ruled 'hat Stotliart could cer tain!' affirm or deny the charges brought aga.n*' him now, but stated,^., that they would give him ample time ,, ort , rH , haf the ,,ute„me a' Haiti- nnd another to aring to allow him to mor ,, w ould have a conslderahle bear- pr.sen' any affidavits or witnesses , ng upon the situation ty would l,e form d, should sueh a decision be reached The opinion a* expr-ssed by some pf his sup- was u;tR •’ !r personal friend, had honored 'hat h- might (boose He was then railed to the s'and and sworn Quest'.oiied hv Chairman Carlisle.' Stothait stated that he was appointed i chief State detective on March 1, ! !'! 1, by Governor Blease: that h" t ad he. n sta’ioned and worked for the greater part of the time since thet, in Charleston, enforcing the li quor laws, but had done some secret work throughout the State, at Olar ou the lynching eas , and in Ham- berg. lie said he met Col. Green, | vr>r >’ severe headache I then a detective on the Governor's MUR r said, "let s go by a place and staff a' (Lie, tmt they were not work - ] P , *f ri coco-cola Col. Roosev It said there had been *ome difference of opinion among hi* support, rs a* to the advisability of bolting The Ohio d-L gates, he said, felt tha r under their Instructions they should remain In the Conven tion until after th- nomination "was made Other delegates, including some of those from California, were | in favor of withdrawing at oiuc Mt-r. while admitting Judge Jones |)„ r | nK the first part of this year the! a traitor in this very instance, saying - iMit to speak In reply and declar- _ itig on the same ease and he really I "Miller told me thaf someth!^ Scarcely any notice was taken of 1 : (1 ii ^ Know w hat Green was doing was wrong with B^ack. he said, i 11 th— arrival of f hairm.in Root, who i get away.’ 1 stood for a moment the target of a "Have you at any time ever had Black and 1 went on up. II ■ said a. * ry of photographers, iny financial dealings wfith J F B.j you go prepared. I ask — <1 what s the After th— noon adjournment Mr. the po- latforin t their ■great crowd yelled Itself tired. At la^t the rain began to slacken and the police got busy" at once, gently but firfQly cdg .ng * he people out. By that Big* th' y v -re ready to go The ostensible reason for the re-J cess was th- fact that the credentials eommlttie. at work upon the contests affeting the personnel of the Con- v< utton. Lad only fairly begun Its work, Th- only welcoming applause Fri day tiiorniruf was for William Jen nings Bryan, who Is reporting the Convention for a number of newa- : papers ] As Mr Bryan moved to his seat in •he pres* section of the platform sev- J eral persons in the gallery cried, Spe ch speech’" Mr. Bryan smil- ! ed mg that he pursued the course he d’ 1 for t!ie sake of quie’, was amply a ’I- to handle th- situation, even tho'iph if had d veloped into fiome- tl ieg more serious. ('iiv, r;.(>r Biease charged Judge ' op os wit!) voting for J. L. M. Irby ' ■ I ni!"d States Senator against Gen. a\’,,de liaaptoii. with voting agains' .D; !).•" W,iliac , speaker of the Wal lace il"" c; wit if voting for prohi bl it and ,ga r, ,f the dispensary and lo- i ,1 option and afterwards voting to totee the dispensary in Marlboro and other dry counties. References were i. v ti to prove all the charg-s. Biease also charg d Jones with voting to have a divorce law in South Carolina: w ith vo’ingagainst reducing •tie rat- of interest in this State with colonel found himself without a job that Blease In the preliminary test and Governor Blease said that Uelvot. In the House vo'ed fur Hampton. woulil take care of a friend by mak ing him the chief detective of in state. Colonel Green traveled some as a detective. He was the highest priced official in the State of South Carolina, hav- ass- mbly rnme, Blease supported Ir by, thus betraying the reform party- first, and thet. going back on Hamp ton. "I voted for Y. J Bope,’ said Judge in official. H- soon found that the public eonc-pt ion was otherwise and| , ! 1, ' r ''- immediately gav them up. "1 rep nted of that," said Judge nut Blease must answer to () Neill - he | w itness Jones, y ou i n charges against me. In the vote on ground that it might incriminate him- the aceeptane- of fre" passes, Blease, f O'Neill is a wholesale Charles- wliile in the I.egislatnr-, skipped the ltn ” blind tiger, and Is one of the men question, and did nut vote, hut in the! Miller said collected the graft Wlt- tournal of 1 Stt'J, on the qu-stion of ' rl0 • C!, saM that O. \V. CoL nian, one of rep aling the Act allowing the ac- It was merely a choice e. ; tance of pass a, you w ill find th|t l Cole L. Blease voted against the re- ing r reived $J0 a day for his labors 1 Jones, “against Judge Wallace. Of in Berkeley County. .The colonel was J coursfe, I did. He was a lifelong detailed by Governor Blease to other | friend, a Newherryian with me, a va- sections of the state. He absolutely |liant soldier with seven hull-t wounds refused to work for less than $lu a j in his body day. He turn'd in his expense ar-! o f men." count, amounting to about $400 for] As to his charge of front on the p-al and for the acceptance of passes, two month's exivense account, which liquor question, voting for prohibl- In Dial vote I had seen my error and the governor approved Comptroller General Jones turned down the ac count because it was not properly tion in the Legislature and now advo- stood against accepting passes, eating local option. Judge Jones de- 1 Judge Jones was Wednesday ae itemized. The account, amounting to 1 1ure instructed to vote for prohibi- about $380, was later paid wheu ch" j Don, and that he would have been voting to allow the nullification colonel properly itemized his account. | false to his trust had ho done other- th»- labor law by working the opera- After the general discussion ; wise. Dvoh 110 hours extra; for voting for, throughom the 8tate aB )0 the high] "There were two ballot, boxes In fre-* passes in the legislature and rld -i Ba iary paid the colonel, he d-cided to that primary, one for the candidates inc on‘one: w ith voting against the thp service of the governor and and the other for and against prohihi- bHl providing seperate coaches fom a d pf-p<>Hve and. enter the newspaper tion,” said the speaker. “The men asked Senator Carlisle, hut matter; he said, ‘true Ben Stotliart Is] M-ynn h-ld an informal reception in declined to answ-r on the drunk, hut he tAld coming dowa.th- pr- ss s< efi-n. People waited la im the train, that h- had been in- a long line to shake hands with Mr. strueted by the governor that if he Bryan, who wrote his autograph for would dispute of you and John Miller,'any one who requested it. ] - would pardon him ’ " ■ Go!. Roosevelt and Senator Dlxoa "Is this the same Black w ho was " nf'r-ed af'-r the morning ,adjourr- his constables, Is a cousin of i;< v. r-, , ' r mv!rtod for grafting in dispensary ment ami whim they concluded their nor Blease, and is from Saluda Coun- 1 matters, and pardoned by the gov- 'Ls'-ussi.m Mr. Roosevelt was rushed ty He hranded as false the state-j r 'nor," asked Representative Evans ’ through the crowd at tho hotel to his ment of Crocker that he had threat- «lf." replied Crocker. Mum beon room and Senator Dixon an- ened to sh-ot Crocker and Miller. j Testimony of th- same character ,'rcunced t he cO.richision that had been Drank and With Blea*e. ' w -is given In the affidavit of L J, Mil -' r M <'hf d jcr. ] "We will not recognize the legality Paid Graft to Stothart. of tins s.,-,ailed Republican Conven- Crocker said Theodore Mappus, ] teon unMI it purges itself of stolen tind blacks. A bill providing for sep-:done other things wRh bin]?" Mayor who runs a place at Tour-Mile House t ’ <n ^^-''bted in Governor arate roaches was Introduced in thejGrare asked Chief Stothart. “I told him if he was getting a share D-ml > •- motion of * urs ay. legislature in 1892. This, Judge Dou I had slept and drank with him'bf ,ho Kraft which he and others had “Th- nomination fpr Preaideat al- Jon s stated Thursday, he knew to he, nnd That vyas all," witness replied/'l aid ‘n to Andrew Nelson, a rural po-, r-ady has been made. The American i n const i t it Dona 1. That wa§ prior to! He said that h- had heard thut a iceman. He said. Mappiis said he Pttop'e have named Th-eodor^Rdose- “Dld you tell me one time that you •lared that he went to the L-gisla- ettsed by the Governor as favoring the, had slept with the Governor, drunk ' same railroad coaches for both w hites ] wi'h him, gambled wMth him, and Mi- races on railroads in this State.' bug j neEB wag e i ec tcd by Colonel elected were hound to support In the Mie CcnsDtutional Convention inilirst cousin,of the Governor’s was i aid "graft" to John Burton, another velt and elected a majority of mor* 1895.. j selling liquor in Charleston. He said r ' iral policeman, and that Burton than 100 delegates to this convention. "That bill, as presented," said the o frequently went'to Columbia to kept his. He said Mappus asked him Ihese delegates must be recognized Governor Blesse also referred to Cheshire as editor of The Anderson Legislature the decision of the county 'speaker, "could not have stood the re the Governor. He declined to. h * w as gcfDrig his share of protec- or we will not recognize the Conren- a- veral of Judge Jon r s decisions intelligencer. The tone of Colonel in the liquor Issue. I was elected a tests of tho Courts five minutes. Ijt-’l wha‘ he went to Columbia so fre-i^IND TIGER GRAFT TWO j tion as the regular Convention of th* w IMIe on t he Su preme Bench in which | c reen’s statement would indica’e prohibition man, anti I carried out my am heartily in favor of separate. q uently to see the Governor for. Hejtlpn which the blind tigers were pay- Republican party, xvlth other mom hers of the court de-jf^f j B preparing to leave the fold trust.” : coaches for negroes, of course, and it; said Blease told him that ^ r - Grace’ arid which Stothart said w-as to be -id 'd cases ajtainst citizens in favor ] of tbe ch ief executive. | Regarding his support of a divorce 0 r social equality.’’ J " 'j bad been up there, but didn’t recall | shared with the Governor and with seat the 78 delegates what — — . , . < law some years ago, Judge Jones "No,” said Judge Jones, “you can- receiving any letter from tho Gov-! the other constables. He said he had pen?" which places the negro on equal foot-] paid: “I did believe then, and do. not tear down a man by finding a ernor. He said Governor Blease had nevor gotten a cent. 1 That wqll come later, ing of citizenship with the white man! now, that divorce, for aduitry alone, fiaw here and there in some of his In- ] remarked to him: “They tell me you ! Crocker said that he became a await developments on this and deprivaes tho State of the right to should be granted.Bnt the State of dividual acts: if you cannot make a are getting graft down there.’' j great “whiskey wagon raider, ’ and taking any further action, r*p disfranchise him. j South Carolina has written her will successful attack upon his character,] “Do you remeiBber a conversation ! k 6CaUBe h® raided several wagons he ^ Dixon. The above is a short synopsis of against it, and I accept her peculiar you cannot damage him by citing, with Captain Jphn Black, coming ^as put out of the way by being com- nf railroads and telegraph companies and other corporations. The Govern or (_>.".!> rntnfioned four cases, but said there were a great many others. It is r-aeonable to suppose ne picked but those that he thought would ehow the Judge up in a bad light. Governor Blease also charged that .Tnd' r i' 1 ‘If the Convention does lot un- hap- will the charges made against Judge Jones attitude In the matter,’’ Judge Jones some errors of judgment. I am to by Governor Blease. The Governor ] de( 'l ar « d That he held his own view d&y making a fight against the great- Jonrs’ son was an attorney of elaborated the charges to great length rn th' 8 great debatable question, but e et demagogue who ever ruled in the Southern Railway and that he re- md put them 1b the best light ptossl- that he was content to abide the will South Carolina. I defy an investi- slgned as soon as the Ju,dge resigned from the Supreme B-ench. Hjs also blamed Judge Jones for the late Dem ocrats StaJe Convention voting down a resolution favoring the repeal of the of the 14th and 15th amendments to the constitution of theUnltadStatas back from Columbia?’ ble to injure his opponent. We feel °f kl* State, and that he could not eatlsfled that the Judge can take change the law If hp wished, care of himself, and will not suffer! the ro*tt®r of free railroad pass- _ Col. Roosevelt arranged for * L, a ^n. was asked missioned to work at Barnwell by the! vate conference with his Isadora James Crocket, former constable, bylKownor. On* of the wagons raised, mediately gfter luncheon. Not all; Senator Carlisle, with reference to 1 h® 8a ld. ^longed to Santo Sottlle. He delegates will b* admitted, the promised pardon statement. ’’Yeslal^ 8a ld that Mappua charged that gatlon of my whole life, the lives of] sir,.’ said/Crocker. "Captain Black j ihe Sotttle Company had about eighty my whole family." Turning his guns upon the record said he was going to see Cols B4sass d ® a lw 8 In Charleston from which and make him put me back to work.jtk®^ were collecting $10 a month by a comparison of records, private ® 8 Judge Jones admitted that in those of Governor Blease, Judge Jones y went on to the train to meet him t ^' roc ^ er * a l d that while on a visit to and public, wtfth *h* Governor, da y» h® waj » fo<>1 enough to think aald; "y ou don’t have to go back! and. Chief Stothart came out behind; Columbia and Just before he was or- which his attack on the Judge chal-| that tk® acceptance of a free pas* into ancient history to find vulner* lenges and Invitos, Itould not, by any m*ana, influence| (Continued on l&at page.) *. t Want It Looked Into. Representative Martin W ton, of New York has prepared & solution calling f® a eo; investigation of the charges of me. 7 Some one said Todd wsa there. | <Jer « <1 to 8° ^ Barnwell, A. W. T«3djlj'bary tn connection wlfch 11 can National Convention. 1 “* * " ' ■fsT Black was complaining of having a (Continued on last page.) . ■