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PAGE SIX BLEASE FIRES BACK article the same pi AT J. L. McLAURIN gave the article ! which, as you (Continued From Page 1.) .Flays Blease an ? ? J Cooper." cuit as court stenographer for eight1 Very respec years, and has been made court Stenographer of this crlcuit, a posi tion of honor and trust and I know bull's that he would be willing to leave his The statement reputation for square dealing in the ^ull follows: hands of the members of the bar.! To the Editor of among whom he has warked, and! q?he address ti with the supreme court and circuit South Carolina I judges who have presided over the jnhn L. McLaurin many courts which he has reported. I||? your isue this The statement that I Encouraged,be inspired by a 1 Heard in putting out a ticket is as ia8t January, wl black a lie as has ever been put in | McLaurin has not print. On the contrary, I warned j asfc (])a( you p Heard against any such step and repiy to the portl told him not to do it. and when ho which make chan came to me complaining that he had : that you do me t spent money to have tickets printed it as prominent i and wanted me to help reimburse ns vou have giv him. I absolutely refused to have address, anything to do with it; and there jn (he first pin isn't a man in the State of'any honor that Mr. McLauri who will say that I ever mentioned which are absob the matter of an independent ticket and which 1 hod 1 to him, except to discouarge it. of. ne Si,yS tha As to my "desrtion*" of Beard. I palled John Aull I think it only necessary for me to say loiters on this si that I warned Beard frequently Capers,'* referring about articles . that* he was writing for n bolt from t and told him JfeiXf if ho was not care- ty, jn order to ful he'was gwig to get into serious trap. Mr. MoI,a trouble. It is jfcnnecessary for me to wrote the letters say what his^eplv was, for lie is now |,<>n copies, but th serving ,a sentence for the charge out of sight he ? , 'whiph was preferred against him. inals As to the matter of having tnyi This is (j,e fns .tiame a^il Mr MrT.aurin's nam?, ?>Ven heard of his "placed on the electoral ticket. I have letters to Mr Ca| never heard of that before, and as a think that 1 have matter of fact. Duncan Adams was; such letters that li not the republican State chairman,. Capers at Wash in as everybody with any sense knows. i solutely nothing i but Joe Tolhert. of Ninety-Six, held or letters, and h then ami hofds now that position. written that I di As to Mr. McLaurin's personal letter purporting t opinion of me. that is quite laugha- such letter. Wha v N ble, after his very devoted services1 Laurin think I and expenditure of time and money j with this is more trying to put me in the governor's | stand. He may t ' , office fiit? a third term. If I was such tation for letters a ve?|^had man as he savs he knew have no recollectii 2 was, why should he attempt v&psrs of any s foist me once again upon the people j and during my coi of Yhq^State? j warehouse systen Of course everybody knows and i Senator McDaurin 2>as been" knowing for many months < secure copies of past that I was not supporting and , and never mention would not support John L. McLau- any letter that ht -v rfn for governor That is what to anybody. ' makes him mad and what makes i am sorry that f him. In his desperation, attemnt to that he was using I drag me into his class T?f politliml secretary as a tool deserters. to a trap. If tha Referring to what he says about failed, because t bis warehouse commi8?lonorship Laurin's letters w< surely the man must he out of hi- by me to Mr. I Ilea: mint) 'or have taken something and the Capers c< which caused h m to have hallucin i- gi\e him no furtl lions. Some of my friends talked to .is I am affected me In reference to running for ware- sure him that 1 hi house commissioner after Hie posj-iof it. nor any ree ion was established and I said tha' it Mis letter in i , triider no conditions or circumstances this morning is th . could I aqcept it. And Mr. Claud N. of it. Srdd then a mAmhor nf f hn locrlolo ! f ?? ' _ _ ... .cis.o.?-| ? v> it a |>rrat-ni i -.lure froni Hancaster county, almost . ing, in Washlngtn eponteneously. you might say, just , he had with John i **"" * fit the last moment, arose in his seat) I took absolutely -dfttl. nominated Mr. McLaurin for little that confen thh? .^osiflon. It came to him with-1 approval is showr ^out any .policltati^n ony his part, so immediately upon far~a?"_.r'am''informed, anSl. I think he Washington I sev? f wae ^ibout as much*-surprised when with the State wa lifr.-'Sapp nominated him. as anybody the very day that ^ >Jse was.'jintf I {iddfVessed | anee sheet upon r * tniinieation to the legislature, in Auditor Wideman *" ' whlcfo I said: 'A , Mr - Walton, specls *1 congratulate you upon 'the were checking tip , finssagfi of the arreage^Jjill and the polntment of Onv warehouse hill, and jjpon your ele>t- quest of Senato'fO ing as manager of the warehouse asked th<- governn pystwn the logical man for the pla- tire records checks ~ -r?he who understands-best tied I countants, followii who, if It can he made 'a success, whfch the governo * sureiy^ls .thp one to have the <?r&Jl- i public prihf* in r< ^ ? agement ttt'the pri u Therefore. the. public can readily' Mry Crtp#s miv eee that there was absolutely no deal 11rouhlft vof ^ear< hi witlyMcLairin to make A till his sec-: effort to find any 1 CtTr foWry. but on the contrary, after4ijft which I tifoy have 'election, he came into m? office with Mr McJ.aurin ^ ..Aull and sa|d hj.rlidn't see hqw hwln' the support of ^ ^P^^Cuajg^^^tJig^jJfiuunPHa unless I to hts^wnj^dumsn i l tf ^,ar,i,)# a*o^ft^BWP^pnitg^!u!r^> a s "Johni I rtonTHt^rtjLwtf'^ van upVhad ever hoard <"tf my business iffKHB^^^'Ajw'fce now,flailed the "j^'-ji W- - ' wfnding up theBBfiVs of itafe^dfire: the pnrpose oY/:< but I don't wanffo deprTVe'JBnjU of a.measure thrnmjni. ' , ' * good posit ion, ff^eause I will h{ive hfli he promptly nothing fo4offer7yon after T leave t^ie HMf?Ttor Mcl;nnrii '<jf ffoVerhor'rf offlc<t; and while I do ^^Jnered mo the p< with piuch relnctnnce, T nrp w; Mi notary. I told Inn for^you to accept the position.'' An<r accept it, hut won I turned immediately to Mr. VV. F suit (Jov. It|e;\se. Blackhurn, who was in the^^oom., held the position ? and said, "Frank. T will nppPI^Woi. day Mr. Me|,aur private secretary, and I guess tyvMyl Hlease'4 private n get along." Mr. Rjnckburn rrplml the matter to hin that we could, because "Johfi^anW know fifrnt the < < be handy if we needed him (mM^!Lsued thaj that special matters." * ^r/ "^easyAetn I regr?^ 15,have fAken tbts Trfiich oyW^and| your spacer; in.-Xact, I thought ju^arVJ^^g^ffld^Tned fo good Idea as any was^no^.to pH aba \Vflr*'r,,>' 1 K lV attention to tills mart's 'raving* XV1 d ?conscie hallucinations, -but for fear . Vie of. lence might be tniaundaratnod. \ \ \? ,ea(* would be glad If you wfculd give tmis JP l\hing r ',- v U , - . v\ THE LANCASTER N romlnence that you had any such idea that Senator Mi this morning, in Laurin would use the State wart put it, "McLaurin house system for any such purpose id Attacks R. A. never would have accepted a positio under him, in the first Instance, tfully, The letter which Mr. McLauri Cole L. Blease. savs somebody has told him has bee seen in the pdssession of Mr. Coope Statement. and which he charges that I gav given out by Mr. Mr. Cooper at the request of Forme Gov. Blease, is a letter I wrote th The State: editor of the Anderson Tribune las o the people of Janxtary, and which, had Mr. M iy Former Senator Laurin seen, he would probably ha\ , which you publish | kept silent as to letters he wrote M morning, seems to Capers, of which I knew absolute etter written by me nothing until the Columbia Stnl lich evidently Mr. reached my home this morning, yet even seen, and never even knew before that Senati lermit me to make McLaurin had ever suggested to an; Ions of his effusion, body here that money might be s against me. and cured from Capers in Washington 1 he fairness to give) finance a bolt from the Democrat dace in your paper, party. I never knew before thi en Mr. McLaurin's, Senator McLaurin had taken me i Washington to get me into anothi ice, I desire to say trap there. I do know if that wi n gives some facts his nurnnse that ho fnttort hoonu .11 ?1 y news to nie. after I heard that conferenre n lever even dreamed resignation as secretary went t lie "frequently Senator Mcl,aurin the very day tl o take dictation for official auditors finished the ehee ihjert addressed to and however much Mr. Capers mi : to securing money address Senator McLaurin as he Bentorratlc par- Hear Mac," there is absolutely t lead Illease into a truth in any assertion hy anyho< urin states that I that I took any part in that confe and retained car- enee except as an innocent onlooke at as soon as I was, who did not even know there was g destroyed the orig- ing to he a conference, and the r | cords down here in the State lion t time I have ever will show that it was a very few da; ? writing any such afterwards that I ceased to draw lets. He seems to salary from the State warehou a copy of some I system. And niv disapproval of tin ic wrote to John f! conference was the cause of my r gton. I knew ah- signation. r?f any such letter I have never given Mr. Cooper ar ave never said or political letter at the request of M d. and I have no Blease or any one else; nor have 0 he a coyv of any ever furnished him with any letter i t made Mr Me- all in any of his campaigns for go was charging him ernor. From the Inception of th than I can under- campaign 1 have seen him only on< ia\e given me die- or twice, when we have spoken I to Capers, hut I passing. He has not mentioned h on of any letter to race to me, nor have I mentioned ft pedal significance, campaign to him, either directly ( urse with the State indirectly. I, as secretary to It seems to he necessary that I never tried to give q brief recital of the reasoi any of his letters which actuated me in writing a lettt ied to a living soul to the editor of the Anderson Tribur > had ever written In January of this year, which seen to have aroused the ire of Mr. Mi M: McLaurin felt Gaurin and brought about the coi me while I was his fessinn as to how he was trying t 1 to lead Blease in- use everybody connected with hii t was his game he for his own personal political amh lone of Mr Mc lion. i?re ever mentioned I Miring the session of the goner; -o or anybodx else, 'assembly just passed there was irrespondence need fisticuff between a State official an icr concern, so far a military officer, which was reall because I can as- more amusing than serious At tli ivo no copy of any request of Gov. Manning, who urge ollection of any of it as a war measure of concern t ne 1 munitua state the State a! tho part'cular time. th e tirst I ever heard newspapers <1 id not publish It. and agreed not to mention it because n the Kvans build- was appealed to upon the propositio in. at a conference that it might interfere with the si CJ. Capers, in which curing of funds necessary to equl no part: and how the home militia, which was an o Mice met with my ganization for the protection of tti 1 by the fact that homes of the State during the al ni^ return from sence of the National Guard at th red my connection front. Rightly or wrongly I yieldc rehouse system on to the Appeal and said nothing aboi I was given a bal- it Nobody had been seriously hur nv books by State1 anyway. A bloody nose comprise W. Bradley and about the entire casualty list, il accountant, who The Anderson Tribune heard < the system, by up- the affair and undertook to take th Manning, upon re- newspaper correspondents of C< TcLaurin, who hid lumbia to task for suppressing th ir to have the en- news. I would have paid no atfe: d up by official ac- tion to this, except for the fact thf tg some statement I had been noticing that The Tribur i had made in the was publishing a good deal of h gard to the man-l spired stuff, which I was convince r=tem. was based upon financial consider; save himself the Cons. 1 had learned the Inside ? ng any files in ail how its editor had secured' the s letter a copy of called "endorement" of FHmator M I.aurin for governor by certain men ivs /hat in-order to hers of the Anderson delegatio t_he Blease diction K.ven that did not affect me. becaui lietisure dur-uig the I didn't care ltn? kIohb a 1 " 13? h'* l" these other things I was constant T;u yV itie letter In recei vim; information of Senati tat?*, is the drst^.T .aspertlon$ that while that. Oov. Blease*w^tS'^r?^*'^)y< J eta,! y he had used die i ifiws'on tnalnly for a?*on1*jT>vet other people Intrv trap ertting a warehouse and that tie was^oaiR to "show ui When if came to certain things, tell how a ce signed it. I,nter tain poMtlcian ha4. used" mo '.In I ) came to me and attempt to get m?H;ev to holt tl is tion of liis secre- Democratic party, arm how w i I was inclined to goiji*y to raise merry Jtoliticafc ca Id first have r0 con- generally, in all of which**! was Vn under whom I thM^Uie goat. Then I heard tiny he viC1 of secretary / ?fext dt\?n In Hnnnettsvilie laborious in came iu>d* (Jov. preparing what he considered w fflce and^nentioned the gfc-atest political anniyiclatl >. in if* presence I in tba history of South Careiu mvjjrsatlon that en- which' was forever to retire Mien j^Tho first time Mr. atid.H'illnian into otdivhMv.'4 and th if of it I accepted wrtvn he finished It ho^^as going |?or two years, un- Charlotte and give iy.to the prei Mowing the Wash- That also did not a/feet me, hut e Mr. MeLaurln as all these statements' that were coi ntious service as 1 in'^ ^ipa on jajithorlty which I d If I was helne e- <*t nut^uucstiiW.Jnv nafc'ie w;ts consrai Blease Into a beinK runK^ln, and I kno*/T?i >f It; and If 1 ,*cl.ar^e to be made, atyi whi ' X i*' ** ^ ">iL^ v* i-i*' EWS, LANCASTER, S. C. H&j . --had "been made, that I had played all that far-fetc j- any double part, or had anything to letters to Mr. Ci I' do with any Washington conference, and the original n or any bolt from the party, was ab- destroyed, in on isolutely and unequivocally false, and be led into a tr n I was getting tired of being drawn That Is abou n | into the political mess which Senator whole matter, r, i McLaurin was stirring in the pot ment to "my < e which he always has handy. It seems, overtures made ir'down in Marlboro. In order to put false. Mr. M ie both Senator McLaurin and The Tri- that I was "ke *t bune on notice. I wrote the editor of.ed'' as to anytl c- The Tribune, about the time I cal-, McLarin's office re culated Senator McLaurin was to untrue. As I r.! start for Charlotte to give out his developments. 1 |v' great political annunciation, and told Senator MrI.au te Cheshire that I thought it would be to use me as a I better for him to come to Columbia ed only in so ir and make certain statements face to me the best w v- face rather than to be publishing capable for bin p. them from long range, and also house system, to warned him that "none of the news-1 to any rha ic paper men involved is subsidized by aCcount Gf nt a candidate for governor, as you are. changes of pos to and none of them supporting a man tonal race of r>r who, in the face of his previous re- an evidence of cord, went to Washington after the jn.rtion which campaign of lit 16, and offered to t() j,PijevP that 1V curry the State Hepublican' if $1,000 ,0 SP,.VP j,jn, ^ to 'or each county was put up by the pOSP ^jv rPC( ,P Republican committee." 1or-s position I k. That's all I said, and it was in a wrote Mr. Bles iv letter to Cheshire, in which 1 did Rlease Candida Iy not mention the name of Mchaurin er. and that Bli 10 nor of Capers, nor did 1 say anything the race in fa1 iy about any correspondence between. he then player r- Mci.aurin and Capers, of which I' Rime until r, learned only this mornin. As a mat- j down in the i o- ter in controversy was the incident Fred Dominick e- here in Columbia, with regard tojtion. came to t Be( which the newspaper conference hau | warehouse syst ys taken place in the ottice of Gov. | out actively at a ManninR's secretary, participated In and made spec se by the News and Courier and State When Blease v at representatives and myself, and at | drops Blease. e-J which Gov. Manning stated what he | circulated askii felt would be the injury resulting to governor, and iy South Carolina if the fisticuff should these, sinned b r. be published at that time?in which j the \nderson I I agreed?I furnished a copy of the'occasion to exc at 'etter to the city editor of The men who had v- State, the Columbia representative of compliment th< is the News and Courier, and to Gov. Tillman and B ^e Manning. It was from one of these create a McLa In sources that Mr. Cooper must have Carolina. He Is secured the copy of the letter and not running for p le from me. concludes he c ;r Had Mr. MeL.aurin requested a and Blease, and | copy of the letter, I would have way towards i I gladly furnished it to hint, and he senatorial cani| ?s would have saved Mr. Capers a close, however >r search of his files and saved himself the gubernator ie his latest polii is 666 contains no alcohol, arsenic, body can figure c- nor other poisonous drugs. lug at, they cat o m /liiniT' H mm H &B n| m U Nk Db BB m Wi S M WM B3H fl Ra I 'P More Trutl r- ; >H ' ' * <" j.! ..." Beat It, Beat It, little car,ie| They all wonder what you are, (j ('limbing all the hills on high, ,t Passing many others by. ' "* ? As it passed the first man cussed, ,,I While the second merely fussed. But the third ofen said: "They say It won't stop', it'i a Chevrolet," ie All consent with one accord, It's a car you can afford. |e In the swainp of In wet grass 1. None of the others are in its class. ,? In the sand Vurr in the mud 14 ie It pulls out jwhere others just chug. v K'eonomiealaB Well, I should say ,,j None can fMpial the Chevrolet, j. Summer. jvViter, Spring or Fall Has a little <ji\ them all. or X l- | ; 11 ,f> I r*~ v l Ns. fj *<' nr * nil -j " ' * ia. * The price of the Chevrolet will advanc mbo' ! 25 per cent increase in freight charge*- ^ at | vance in price. IW. E. GRE I Lancaster, Chest< ^ ~ . LANCASTER, I sil -i_?: & ? J . \ ter j <W * * . " ' C* ?; TUESDAY, JULY 9, 1918. hed rigamarole. about NO AI>V.\N?CK IN PRICK apers, dictated to me, IIP a Of which he says he I ?. jfenl ier that Hlease might ^ <g> ap through me. j one applic.tion of1 aA' th?re iB.to.t.he (L,ini,uu>wiiim 'ea Mac a? \mgc*im3 by me Is absolutely ""~"kZ,"k? cLaurln's statement! eplng Hlease inform- j happen to recall that in the caraling going on in Mr. j pajgn Qf 1914 he sent Heard around 1 is also absolutely gtate, jn the interest of Mansay, in view of latei n|ng> telling the people that Cooper . have 110 doubt that had proni|se(| if elected to make mo rin was endeavoring hj8 Becretary, and that would simpl.v Jool: 1)111 he succeed- m(,an a continuation of the Hlease mi im nt-vuiiuR 11win reRjme> when he has admitted to me ork of which I was lhat he ha(l no i(|ea that Cooper had i and the State ware- pypj> made any such promise, but that he was doing it lor political effect to nge in my attitude on secure the election of Manning. McLaurln's frequent1 As to Mr. MrLaurtn's reference ition in the guberna- to my condition, there is also no 1016. that is simply truth in that. 1 was taken by him the senator's imag- into the office of Capers in Washinatoo often leads him ton; and they took me up on the those who are trying mountain, and showed me all the ave some double pur- valleys and fertile lands below, an 1 illection of the setia- told me they could he mine; but the n the race is that he nid order of things down here in ise urging that the South Carolina was at no time obey would elect Coop- scored in my vision: and I came on pase should get out of back home, severed my connection ror of Manning; that with the State warehouse system i to the Manning re- and with Senator MeLaurin. and Manning threw him have had no connection with either 3tate convention, and since. and I. in that conven- I have nothing to do with Senator he rescue of the State McLaurln's campaign for governor, em. Then he came and have no desire to meddle with id openly for Mease, tt; I have nothing t,o do with his tches in his behalf, political record, and no desire to revas defeated, he then fer to it; but while he is making this He then has petitions uncalled for and untrue attack on ng himself to run for me. he might tell the people of the in reply to one of state if he did not withdraw his v certain members of cotton from the State warehouse delegation, he takes system as soon as his connection orlate these eentle- with it wn? s?v?ro,i nn,i if >m,i paid hlni the highest j any cotton in it since. ?y could; cusses out I note the upbuilding of the syslease and sets out to tem is one of the three reasons which urin faction in South he says induced him to make the then has the idea of race for governor. :overnor. Later ho I regret that the matter has come an heat both Tillman up in this shape, but I feel that I I sets about feeling hie it to myself to make clear exan entrance into the jaign. Before the lists Continued on Page 7.) , \e drops back into ial fight, and now in 666 cures Headaches, Biliousness, tical address, if any- Loss of Appetite, or that tired ach> out what he Is driv- Ing feeling, due to Malaria or Colds, a do more than I can. Fine Tonic. RirOS |jj| BB i Than Poetry One thing sure, if nothing more, . (fx .< You can't beat it, so don't get sore. F.asy riding, very nice, , Beats> the auto world for price. *? If ybu think some other beat We caa change your mind by test, j '/On the hill or In the sand . can go to heat the hand. ^ Come and try It If you will. Going up the steepeat hill, maybe we are talking funny Hyt this car is backed by money. J We can meet yon 'any day ** And i>eat you with a Chevrolet. f Come and get a demonstration It will gain your admiration-. * , ^ If you want a car, come try It. ' And we are su^e-that you will buy It. * c $50 August 1, and in addition there will ^ a , H A Ve hJrve a few cars for delivery before 9 * *5 4 ;EIN,E>eal^r 1 3* jfr* ||| f """ j-/SF^8F