BLEASE STATES F ON THE Stands By the Bridge That Carrie* He But Hie Enemies bauched the !" /ff . - As the paramount ISHIM- in tim com ing State campaign may be the pro poned changes in the primary system of elections, Governor DleaHe's posi tion, as stated in his message to the legislature, is or Interest. Follow ing are his observations: The Primary System. Many years ago some of the coun ties of South Csrolina adopted a system of primary elections, which system provided for the selection of candidates among the white people for the Democratic nominees, for the purpose of avoiding a division among the white people in order to keep the negro vote from becoming a factor in the politics of this State. Many years before that the eight-box law had been in use, and it had been suc cessful in depriving the negro of -participation even in the general elec tions, except to a limited number. To go through tho entire history of this matter might be very Interesting to those who know nothing or little of lt, and yet It' might somewhat reveal si condition of affairs which it might be aa well to let be forgotten. Later the State Democracy adopted this primary election -system for the pur pose of nominating candidates for all State and county offices. Just a short time afterwards the Democracy of (State adopted it for the selection of candidates for Congress and the Uni ted States oi-iinir. The last convention for the nomi nation of a Governor and State offi cials was when Governor John Peter Richardson was nominated for his secoad term. Then came the struggle of the Reform party In 1890. The history of this and campaigns from then up to the present would b? very interesting reading, but I pres?me It ls unnecessary to give it here. How ever, lt seems that this system was perfectly satisfactory when Governors. Tillman, Evans, Ellerbe And Mc sweeney were elected, and it reached lia height in the eyes of many people -especially certain newspaper editors -who are now condemning it, and save moBt splendid satisfaction to these distinguished gentlemen, when Governor Heyward and Ansel woro * elected. Nothing wea heard of its being un satisfactory to thia areal eleme it af our pcop?ei"1 when ' Geo. Joseph II. Earle was elected to the United States, Senate, and when many COn K, ?recamen and many State officials ?were choBeri. J " But, alas, the campaign ** 1912 came nn. When that campaign came along the then Governor of South Carolina, on the 8th day of July. 1912, Issued a proclamation which read as *o? (Thfs proclamation offered a re word of $100 for tho drat five convic tions of violation Of Mic State law making it a misdemeanor to secure votes by . threats, Intimidation; or payment, delivery or promise of money or other articles et Value.") Attd In hin opening speech at Sum ter, he sa td: "After reading tho sections of thc statute in regard to fraud In olcb ttons, Governor Jilease Bald: "And I call upon ul' of my friends to see that any person who attempts to buy votos In this primary, or who Intimidates- votera by threats of otherwlee, bo^Jmrnodlately prosecuted, and ir rou n?e?l f^py assistance In the ?rosecution or tho case, 1 promise >u, aa Governor of tni* State, to tish iU because 1 believe hi fair, dare election, and, propose So tay ,.n, in CS? f;?vu-r, io see that it is held for nil the offices of our Stato. You, my -rellcw citizens, vv??eh these two things; we .sow h?vc .a! majority: we have tho "nattle won, and all that we have got to do ls to Bee that we get ? fair and honest showing. I cannot do lt all; can only do rn; part; lt is up to you lo do yours. If tho people are defeated, and tho corporations and newspapers and the old ring take charge of thia governmcnt. the people will be the sufferers. The rault will not be -lino. Let the cons?quences be what *h6y may, the people ot my' State will be forced to roy Cole L.? Rioaso did his part." But when this primary election was held In August, 1012, great charges of fraud were 'brought, and 'these "holler than thou" lords of j T>omocr?cy. the'editora and some oth ers- all "gr?at guardians" of South! Carolina's primaries, who were de feated and whipped out ot their boots, with all their money and chicanery and trickery, all at once discovered \?Mt the primary was reeking with fraud and ? ?kt ? corrupt system and was horrible to ?entern pl ate. Yet it wee the same prlniary . system mat had nominated their Hey ward and their Ansel-the same men partici pated in tt-and' the same primary system which had sent ffenater Earle to Wnahlngteat Ini ..Senator Smith to Washington against former GdVcC nor r.vrcnr.. Why did it toc?me so thoroughly corrupt all at once. aro. muh on Ini quitous system? Was it simply bc caure 'Bleibe had whipped the "aris ?>*raev" . .> who thought that they owned the governtneftt, Or was lt 'be/atnao men w??U around in Cohan - bia. ands in Sumter, ajid in Spartan burg, and Is flrccnvi??t. ".ntl tn GI??.-T planes afed sought cont J'butions to make up is campaign fund td defeat HiAase'wlthf What wu* this money 4tetr.fr got np fer? Whom was lt be osmoN I Him Over and Says That Not Would Have De : Electorate. lng got up by? Why did Blease's op ponent need Blieb a enormous cam-] puign fund? Wes lt to pay his cam paign expenses around over South| Carolina? Was lt to pay his son's ex penses in traveling with him and car rying hlB books? Was lt to pay the legitimate expenses of his campaign manager? What was it for? Who was to use lt, and for what purpose? Why did the railroads make large contributions to Blouse's opponents campaign fund? Why did certain cotton mill presidents make such large contributions lo llleasc's op ponents's campaign fun ,? Had any candidate In South Carolina ever be fore needed a campaign fund such as was raised against Blease? Did Till man use lt, or Evans, Ellerbe, Mc-1 Sweeney, Heyward, Ansel or Blease? Did General Earle use lt? Then! why this powerful compalgn contri bution for the primary of 1912? It| that primary was corrupt, who cor rupted it? If men voted in it who were not entitled to vote, who hauled them from North Carolina und from Georgia and paid their expenses? It ls plain to any thinking man, and it will be admitted by any honest man, that these large sums of money raised by contribution and handled at a central bureau in Columbia and by parties in other parts of the State, are what corrupted it, if it was cor rupt, and only by the true manhood of the honest citizenship of South Carolina rising in its might and re fusing tc be bought ami debauched i by this crowd, was South C?rollnaj saved from a corrupt government bought at the ballot hos. Now, who ls jwajMynalble for this great cry of fnwPtti the primaries? The Governor jytbllcly stated on the State House steW,' the night after the election, that tbe other side had sto len more votea and put th**n in the the ballot box than they knew what to do with. If'.liis statement was a Blander, why'>WaBn't he prosecuted? Iff hin statement was a slander, why waa it that the committee of the State Executive Committee, a large major ity of whom were composed of his bitterest opponents, after they had gone to Spartantburg and to Greenville and to Anderson and, tn Orangeburg, disbanded* gave up their investiga tion, and sneaked off quietly and went, into their little; notas? These charges-OT "fraud and c'orrun- " tton are absolutely unworthy but in Une with the sourco from which they come rrhe man who introduced the resolution in the State Executive Committee charging the white people of this State with fraud corrup tion in that election, pulled then the j rope which rang the bell sounding his] death knell throughout the Democrat-' le party of this State. The partisan | majority of tue committee which took] li ti"? f.Tii that it will take lh?ui I years of bard, hone BI struggle to re deem themselves in the eyes ot the people of this State. Today tho peo ple are alive to: the fact that these charges of fraud and-perjury and cor ruption have beeb made against them, tho whft-; people cf South Carolina, and when the time comes, if men with the moral courage and the political backbone get upon the rostrum in this State and expose tho nefariousness of those who mode and who took up these charges, every one of thom will be wi pod from the face of the politi cal arena, and these who stood with the majority in that election will again stand with thc majority, ' for fair dealing and for honesty. No, it is not tho system that needs I inproving; it is not the law that needs amending-we have law enough -but it ls the enforcement of tbe law that we need prosecute ;ne men-who handed put money and-.whiskey, or who In the future hand out money and whiskey.- P*o?ccuto tho men who try to buy voters. Prosecute the peo ple who hire men to travel through out thc State, under the- guise of book agents, newspaper reporters and subscription list hunters, and under other guises, and Instead ot following thc vocations which they claim to follow, go. around trying to buy vot ers, trying to debauch tho clticenship of the f?late, and '.cling (he most wil ful and malici?os ?le?-upon the then Governor of their Commonwealth Such men and their accessories are the man who attempted to corrupt the primary, and it was only by Blease exposing their schemes from the public stump that they were whipped-by his showing np that they bad caused a shortage In the ballots, that they had spent money and done everything that could ho possibly Chne, to defeat a man-ind then, when they were whipped, all they could holler was frmid. winn every man In South Carolina Who ls hohen and decent; knows jhcro.was more fraud abd corruption' ?sod by them agatHst the man who ^w?lpepd them than contd possibly have been used for him. Prosecute tho .men who vio.ate ths election laws, prosecute the men who try; to bribe voters, prosecute the mea who commit perjury at the ballot toT. and you have got raw enough, yob bhve got all the law you need: and Chm howl, gentlemen, is hypocrisy et tbe meanest, 19j,est type: it is tba hollering of "stop, thief", when th? thief 's doing the hollering-un.1 **sn know li. and they tnow lt. This cla mor that the newspapers are* makins is a slahder upp'a the white people uf iii!? State, ?nu is bringing unjust and unwarranted criticism upon the people of South Carolina oy the peo ple of other States. Of course we want to prosecute the 1 bribe-giver and thc bribe-taker. And why aur-h large contributions for Blesses opponent'? campaign, once again. I ask. If people think these ron tr I but ion? were not asked for or? not given, na inc, can be given. . j Now, who had the control of the State Democratic Convention? The men opposed to Governor Blease. Who had control of nearly every County Executive Comimttce in the State? Who. had the absolute control, by a large majority, of the State Ex ecutive Committee? Who appointed tho manager? of election throughout the Kt ate? When Governor Blease wrote to thc Chairman of the State Democratic Executive Committee and asked to have one manager at each precinct, his request was declined. When similar requests were made of the Chairmen cf the County Exccu tlme Committees, il waa declined his friends. The County Executive Com mittee, nearly all of which were anti Bknee, appointed anti-Blease mana* gcrs ali over the counties, and these anti-Blease managers were in the large majority all over the State-a majority of two-thirds or more were anti-admlnistratlnr men The ballots were put in the Loxes which the antl adminlstratinn men had control of, the anti-administration men took them off to one side and counted them and announced so many for .Tones and so many for Blease. The returns were sent to the County Execu?'ve Committees, and the Coun ty Executive Committees, composed almost overwhelmingly of anti Blease men, tabulated them and sent them to the State Comimttce, and the State Committee met and tabulated them anti announced the result. Now, how in the name of common sense, with all the election machinery anti Blease-hora' in the name of common sense, I repeat, could the Blease men have committed fraud? There fore, if there was fraud, as these edi tors and other are now loudly pro claiming there was, who committed lt? The answer is plain-the anti Bleaee men, because they had all the machinery In their hands. They say there was fraud. Now, I say, letthut be as lt may, if there was fraud who committed lt, when they had the managers, the county committees and the State Commi'tee? No. gentlemen, il is but the cry of the defeated. Instead of being -brave, true Carolinians, and saying. "We have made our light and lost." they, like the cowardB they are, crlage up on their knees and holler fraud, for getting that they were the ones who were in charge of the election ma chinery, and that if there was fraud they aud their friends were the ones who committed IL Now, gentlemen, what wc want is honest elections. Th% speak of us ing money. God knows tho present Governor bas never bad any to use. He practiced law at the Newberry bar, and, be is proud to say, had an exceptionally fine practice on both sides of the court. He made a good living, and managed to save some money; But not one nickle of it. bas he ever used to corrupt a voter; not one dollar of it has he ever used or has .any of his friends ever done so, to hie knowledge, and certainly lt, tL?v have ever done so, "hey did not consult him before, nor have they informed him afterwards. What we need is-io enforce ino laws Wc have strictly to the idler. Let every white man in Sooth Carp Una, of legal age. vote In the prima ges, and if one cosita ive m another State Into this State and votes, or goes from one county Into another and votes ilegally. let the men whom ho votes for, as well as tho men whom he votes agaiast see to it that he is prosecuted to the full extent of the law. If one roan offers to buy thc vote of another, let thc latter prose cute to the tull extent of tho law the mah who offers the bribe, and If tho man takes tho bribe, pro.-cou te him. Enforco tho laws wo have. Let honesty and square dealing begin with tho State Executive Committee, and let it be followed by thc county committees and kept up by the man agers ot election. We have all thc law Wo need; we have all thc honor wo heed In South Carolina to enforce thai law. And it comes with ?ll grace from that cr. .1 Which had con trol of all the election machinery, to charge fraud, when they and their feiend? were the only ones who - ould have committed au" fraud. 1 am opposed to -my change In thc primary system, i believe In honest elections, and I 1 iove In letting ev ery white man p i tlclphte In the pri mary who is c Jblo to voto under th? rules ot t* . Democratic party. Whenever wo ??-prive the white peo ple of the rit to vote, or any large number of 1 n of their right to vote, we wi! >reak up. tho primary system, beer . .o those who are quali fied want t . right to voto, and they should har it, and they do ^ot pro pose to br put, by any party of men, on an eq" J footing with a. free ne gro. (The t overnor then Inserts as a part of his message, his address to the people ot South Carolina, Issued ? on the lBth of September, 1912, la) which he reviewed the evehts Of the! campaign and explained from his viewpoint tho big vote of that year. He adds also the address he Issued un Oct 26, 1912. urging the people to roll up a big vote for toe Democratic dany. State. National and county, ai ul ha says he reproduces this "in vte# of certain recent events".) GABPEN SEED Onion Sets; English Peas; Beans; Tomatoes; Eggplant; Sugar Corn; J Seed Potatoes; Wstermc'on; .Musk] Melon; Cabbage Seed; Onion 8eed; Beeta. Bte-Nothing in packages we will wVigh you any amount you want from bulk stock-dhatn our business-the Seed Business. fuman Srahh-The Seedsman. PHONE; 464. TO . - . BLEASE REHES HIS RECOMMENDATIONS I beg to reiterate the following recommendations contained in my annual message to you In 1913, in which message you will find my views fully expressed, with my reasons thereof: That you change thc name of Clem son College to Calhoun University. That you abolish the Hoard of Par dons, or pay a sufficient salary for the work to bc done. That you take some action in re gard to the cotton mill mergers in this State, and the Carolina Public Ebrvlce Corporation, and generally in regard to truste and combinations. That you take action to prohibit any town, city or county, or the State, from giving any exclusive rights, privileges or franchises to any cor poration or individual. That you require all corporations In this State using the water power of the State to pay a tax or license therefor. That you pass an Act reducing the legal rate or interest in this State to six per cent. Figures recently com piled by the Agricultural Depart ment of the Government show the enormous amount or Interest which the South is paying, in comparison with the rate .In the East and North, steadily draining the pockets or our people, and particularly the'farmers. This is a.'matter, gentlemen, of vital importance, and it demanda your at tention. Securities in South Caro lina-particularly farm lands-are as good as can be had in the world, and lt is. simply, oppression-no tiling short of it-which takes from the pockets of our people an average in terest nf - mar* th"?* *!*ht per -cent:, when other States are laying, some of them, between flv? ?gtf als. That you prohibit lanka from charging customers exchange on drafts or checks. That you prohibit express com panies from charging for returning money collected on C. O. D. pack ages That you pass a flat two-cent pas senger rate on all railroads in this State. That you take, some action in re gard to the concealed weapon law. That you make lt a misdemeanor tor' any newspaper editor, reporter or ?corespondent to promulgate. ' make r publish. .raise reports of the speech of any person who is a,candidate for soy county, State or National office, and that you pass an act to the ef fect that, when ?ny newspaper pub lishes a statement in regard to any fviouu inm IE laiurious, mat wusii that person,;seada io the paper a cor rection ot- sold report, the editor or manager of/the paper be required to publish said correction in the seme column of the same page, and wi n as largo -headlines, as the, rrlglnal. arti cle appeared wherein tho person twas misquoted: or misrepresented. Thavyou submit , to the people such constitutional amendment or amend mn ri t u no ni av haurixmanof y ?Q p?OVidC foi' the election af Judges by the peo ple. I beg to rottcrato thc following recommendations contained in my annual message to you in 1912. in which message ' you will find my views fully "expressed,, with my rea sons therefor: That you investigate our institu tions of higher learning, particularly with regard* to tho amount of their expenditures. That you look Into thc matter Of the too groat amount bein? paid for water and lights by tho Stale. . That you look into the matter of tho too great amount b*lng paid to tho Catawba Indians. That you investigate Into thc mat ter ot purchase for State institutions, and that you provida e?me means of ail these purchases being made in such manner a? tb sec the lowe pr;c us which should bo had ..hy pun ing them In buik'upon a cu'ntr?t?t In cluding all tho iaallltttfens.' That you have, one of your com mittee inx*?*?sat?. carefully thc hunt ing clubs and other corporation? of foreigners locater! In this ??tate t*. see If they are violating the Constitution and Section ?"689; ..Volume I, ot the Code of 1912. Thal you pas? some Act which would have thc effect ot disbanding negro lodges. That you pass-'?a Act prohibiting ?tty white pereofl from teaching In negro schools or from teaching ne gro children. ? That iou provide for cxperva ot the highest character ?nd ability, to make a thorough Investigation into and check up aUt^ vouchers, bonds, books and other .*fk$Vg,- In all the State offices. 1 beg to - MtteiiAtv * the Trowing recommendations'coatalnod in my in' augural address di ii\U 'Liberal support ot o?r Confederate Veterans. , .Liberal but not extravagant appro priations for our State Institutions of learning. , Thai, you* amen? the law so t.ia white convicts w?? not. be placed * the same camps and worked along I the same squads' wita negro con ! viet*. I I respectfully -enU your attention ^ once again to iho evil of the sale and 1 ns? of cocaine and such like drugs, and te? the smoking of cigarettes by [ boys uudvr the aire of sixteen years. ? In other words,, gentlemen.: I. pro poso to do my duty, no matter who > els? may fal) In his. and I therefore I call your attention to all*the recom mendations road? hy roe during the sessions ot 1911. 1912 and 1913, and again beg and Insist that you take some action In roi?srd to the??? mat I ?era. i ] Qffic M. M. MATHISON. C E. TEIBBLE, Bec'. BEAL ESTATE DE AL MAKES NEW RECORD. Big Property Transaction Take? Place In Greenwood-New Home For Bank. Greenwood.-The largest real es tate transfer in the history cd" Green wood was the purchase by the Peo ples Trust Company last week of the thiee story fireproof office building owned by P. B. Grier and J. B. Park? also the two story brick store adjoin ing the office building, occupied by F. B. Cobb and the large two story brick store on Maxwell avenue own ed by Messrs. Grier and Park, occu pied by the Hartxog-IIagood Vehicle and Livestock company. The Peoples Trust company ls a holding and trust concern organized some time ago. Its officers are B. F. McKeller presi dent: Charles E. Klugh. secretary and treasurer. The directors are: F. B. Grier J. B. Park, B. F- McKellar, E. Z. Seymour and Charles E. Klugh. The Peoples bank will occupy as a first floor of the office building and. this is being handsomely fitted up now with the latest banking fixtures. The bank will move in about January 15. GIFT FOR HOSPITAL. William H. Bailey Gives ?5,000 to Greenwood Institution. Greenwood.-William H. Bailey of Greenwood has made a gift of $5,000 to the Greenwood hospital making it possible to wipe out the indebtedness of thin institution. Mr. Bailey inti mated his intention to do this some time ago to the ladies , who have la bored so long and so earnestly to es tablish the hospital and some days ago he, told them ha wished to make. ' the gift now. The hospital had a debt of ir?,000'on Its building and the Bill, ui mr. ontiey uiakce it irteu til : debt- The only condition attached to the gift by Mr. Bailey is that thepl?c? , shall always be used as a hospital. In ' case the hospital is abandoned the sum given by him to revert to his estate. The Greenwood hospital hus been In operation now" almost three years and has been of very great ser vice to the community and adjoining sections. Lt was fostered from Its hoo-Jnntnfr. |jv H. ??SOCla?On O? ladles. Mfa. E. "b. Andrews ls president of tho association. RICHMOND'S BANKS Actively al Work" For the Regional . Reserre Richmond, Va.-RichmonJ bankers, who aro on tour of tho Carolinas in an offert to enlist support fur the move ment to have Richmond designated as the location of a federal reserve bank, held a meeting in Raleigh tonight and will pursue' thc campaign In other cltiCB during the next week. The point ls being emphasized that Richmond is not trying to be named Over Atlanta, the bankers asserting that thc natural bank flow is East ward, and they are- opposing any at tempt to divert lt. r Virginia ana North v.aro?tn? ettie:; hove strongly endorsed^Rlchmond, and the 'delegation lit the field will pro ceed corly hext week to South Caro? lin?.' TRAfKBAIC 18 KILLED Richard SoRdtcy, Jr" Meets Instant Death at Abbeville Abhe7Ulo.-Richard Sondley. Jr., ; wa:? crushed to death last night In the Seaboard Air. Line yards here. He was a. fiagma nfOr. the Company and waa on his way to go out his run, when attempting to avoid one train he stepped directly in front Of on en gine backing up to the roundhouse. He was Instantly killed. He was Just I 23 years of age, and had been working I for the. Saeboard only six months. I His sudden death was a great shock to this community. The funeral was held this afternoon at 3 o'clock, and burial at Long Cane cemetery in thc family "piot. His father, County Au ditor Richard Sondley, hts mother, one brother and one sister, Mrs.'A. L. Har vin, survire him. SPENT MANY MILLIONS. Seven Big Powers Blew $7t7tM8,Me * sn Naries Washington.-Just $797,94R#00 was expended last year In construction by tho seven naval powers ot the World, the United States standing second in the Hat, with appropriations of 8140. 800.643. Great Britain spent $235,713. 48ft; Germany ?111.270.035; Japan, ?4840S.151. These facts appeared in the navy year book for 1913. Great Britain held her place as th? first naval .power with 2,691. S91 tonftge; Germany ranks second with a tonage of i, 2*8.10*; the united sutes , ls third with 921,844 tons; France fourth with 878.1GB, and Japan fifth with 702,090. PROMPT SERVICE ?s Ascidleimfts, H?aM?, Stauna B?n??!r? Fly Wheel, liabiEfty MSUE?KCE I??M S?fc ?ti?t?feiiiii? ??? ini ia m m r?an ?tum. /If?f MM ?Ufctt 18 WANl?Si iL ffl Ht?^anieV'blcjv.lerujaB^ /Wk ??$*^ / lu'?!!.? B IAI*? Ffhyounro't&T?^^ I nllilflltmllFACTOBY WIPESX^^k^S&SSSS%5f?t&? I klMnHan WKdMactual factorytbtin Yoo ?vetlOtoffStntatttoftvm'a pronta by hur I r\jXtUvHfH nPWBlngdlrectiafu?? ?idbnvo th? manufacturer aguoranteobehindyoar I M?IIIH Ml?rfflblcJ-^ DOWOTBU Y a bloycloor?patrc4!.iirtafram(mvon?at 1 |-^^JWrBy^fc^WiBari^pri^ until yoe w??r^^^^^^^^^^^ ' SI Ago Benetton ftoctare-Proof