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BLEASE AND JONES READ STATEMENTS t THEIR REPLIES AT KENNETTSVILLE EACH TO THE OTHER. Blease Replies to Jones' personalities, And Jones Keplies to Blease's UictiAnvillA IdHrpss. JUA^UV|/T <iiV ? r * Chesterfield, June 22.?Barring a k verbal clash in which Gov. Blease, Judge Jones and the county chair^ N man, M. J. Hough, participated when the governor interrupted Judge Jones, today's meeting at Chesterfield, the fifth and last meeting of the first "week in the State political campaign, passed off smoothly and quietly, 11 such affairs can ever be said to be smooth or quiet. "Tell the truth, old man," the governor yelled to Judge Jones from a window. "I'm telling it," was the reply. ^ _ "No, you ain't," rejoined the governor. Here the presiding officer, saying | that in this' capacity he was as much -?? _ -fvxr. Trvnoc r>rtTnmanriftd ilUl Dira^-u ivi u vuvw, the governor to be silent. "You shut your mouth/' was the , retort by the governor of the State, i Chairman Hough was prompt to enforce the guarantee he had given L each speaker of a respectful hearing. f . Two Statements Read. Judge Jones consumed part 01 nis period in reading a statement which in substance was a reply to the care> fully phrased Bishopville speech of the governor. Gov. Blease in his turn read a statement regarding the denunciation of himself by Judge Jones at iiennetLsviue, uie guvwuui i in this statement reiterated his Bennettsville declaration that he desired to avoid a physical encounter and L added that hereafte- Judge Jones, havf * ing placed himself beneath his notice, I lie would not noitice any charges I Judge Jones might bring against him. [ Judge Jones' Beply. "If I favored social equality and i (showed it by my vote in the legislature," said Judge Jones, "why did Gov. Blease, who has served there with me and knew my record, vote for me for speaker and again for TTnitPrJ States senator. By his vote he stands as recorded as disapproving j Ms present attitude in this matter. I j thank him for his support then, if he thought I deserved it. But why did he give it to me, if he knew all these r horrible things concerning me?" "Gov. Blease has assailed my record ! in the following particulars: ^ "1. That I nominated Col. Irby for j i t&e tmtea mates seuaie ag, mot uvu. | "Wade Hampton. "I was a reformer and Col. Irby was j A the reform candidate fbr that office, ; and I supported him from start to j ?nish in the race. Gov. Blease voted j lor Gen. Hampton in the house in a | -nreliminary vote and then in joint j . session he voted for Col. Irby until ' he was elected. I stood by my party. Mr. Blease was elected as a reformer j and he deserted his party to vote, first, j I for Gen. Hampton, and then deserted ! ?en. Hampton, to vote for Col. Irby. "2. That I voted for county prohi- j bition in 1S91. "Spnaratp hnxps were nut at the i I polls in Lancaster count}' and the candidates for the general assembly were to abide by the result of that election. The vote of Lancaster county was for prohibition, and of course I > supported prohibition accordingly in the house. 1 carried out the instructions of my county in that respect. I voted for State-wide prohibition in j - Cte\C\ J Af tV* ^ to 1 B UCUclUSe pcrwpic tile "by a good majority, expressed themB selves for it at the polls. I believe in :js; the rule of the people. The most satisfactory and enduring plan of dealill ing with the liquor question is county 1 _ ^?jocal option. i "3. That I voted for a divorce law ! I for adultery in isyii. "This view struck me as being just j and I voted accordingly. Gov. Blease was a member of the house at that time, but did not vote on this bill.} I Quite a number of honorable representatives entertained the same view that I did on this question. See house journal, 1892, page* 234 and 235. A provision is incorporated in our con-! stitijTion now whic1^ forbids divorces, j and the law is acceptable to me. I | was a member of ^he constitutional convention. "4. That I voted against the reduction of interest in 1894. "At that time money was very scarce in this State and it would not , -11 T tliave surprised me at an ii 1 iuuuu that I voted against a reduction in the rate of interest, and it was much j better for the borrowers to pay the ? rate of interest then in force rather than purchase on credit; but as a matter of fact I did vote against indefinitely postponing the bill to which the governor refers, house journal, lS'.M, page 200. The vote he refers ' to was a motion to reconsider after the bill had been killed, and little legislation could ever be accomplished if: i you fought the same thing over and over. Tile governor s cnarge is mis- j leading. j J Working Hours Bill. "3. That I voted to nullify a bill j limiting the number of hours per day j of employes in cotton and woolen! manufacturing establishments in this State by voting for the following proviso to the bill: "Porvided, That nothing herein contained shall be con strued to prevent any of the employes in the aforesaid manufacturing estab lishments from engaging to work or j working such time in addition not to j exceed 110 hours per annum as may,; be necessary to make up for lost time j caused by accident or other unavoid- j hi** r>irr>ninstances." I voted for the; bill to limit the hours of labor for each ! day and each week, and Mr. Blease1 knows that he and I voted the same | way on that bill. Gov. Blease moved j to strike out the proviso aforesaid,! but I was convinced that the labor- j ing people preferred to have the proviso and I voted for it accordingly, j His reference to this vote garbles and j misrepresents the facts as any one \ X ! can see by reference to nis statement j and *then examining the journal of j 1892, pages 357 and 358. "My father was a carpenter and a j laboring man, and there is every rea-1. son why I should favor the laboring < classes, and my vote and my efforts j have always been in their interest ac- j cording to my best judgment. "6. That I voted against the antit'rep Dass bill in 1891. ~ *" J "I did not believe that having a! free pass would .-fluence members of j the general assembly or public offi- j cers in the discharge of their duty, j However, the bill became a law, and j in 1892 a bill was offered to repeal j that law. I was satisfied with the; law and the results therefrom and I; voted against a repeal, and therefore, vntnA acmin<at t.h#> acceDtance of free , '~vv~ - i passes by members'of the general as-j sembly and State and federal officers; j but Gov. Blease voted to repeal the! law, that is, voted for free passes. See house journal for 1892, page 258. He condemns me- for voting against j the anti-free pass bill in 1891 and j 1 r\r\c\ v ?j - ??iqa_ i Y6t m I VULCU (Xgaiusu LI1C I I ceptance of free passes and he voted j for the acceptance of free passes. "Jim Crow" Bill. "7. That I voted against the "Jim! Crow" or separate coach bill. "At the time these bills were up i lor consideration when I was in the house, there were fiist and second clas passenger tickets sold, and the people buying these tickts usually' went into separate coaches. The rail-, - - - ..... I roads of this State at tnat time were hard up and struggling for existence and I was anxious to bring capital' into the State and to promote and de- ; velop its resources, and it was emphasized before the house that the law would place a great burden on some j of the railroads in the State, especial- j ly the weak, short lines. Besides, first and second class fares gave the white people an opportunity to be separate from the negroes; one color occupied one end of the coach and ( the other the other end oi the coacft, j and as the acts were imperfect and appeared to me to be unconstitutional, i i I did not vote for them.. The conten- ; tion that both colors used the same toilets is absolutely untrue and an j appeal to pre judice. I am in favor of J J the law as it now stands and would j oppose any effort to repeal it. "'The purity of the white race is one of the greatest bulwarks of the safety j of the Anglo Saxon race, and I am ! willing to compare records with the I governor or anybody else as to my private or public conduct in that line, i The effort to. make it appear that 11 have ever favored social equality be tween the races is a malicious misrep- ; resentation of the facts. "8. That the last State convention j did not pass a resolution favoring the repeal of th-e 14th mid 15th amend- j ments to the constitution of the Unit- j ed States. ! "Again an appeal is made to excite prejudice agair.st me with some people j by the effort to make it appear that j I favored negro suffrage. Why such an argument is bosh. The Srate con- j vention had no power to repeal any section of the constitution of thej United States, and any resolution in j that direction would be mere de-ma- j gogy. However, I am on record on nnojtmn nf -nrhifo <unrpmapv T IjUCOtlVH VI n i*4VV . A , was in the constitutional convention | of 1S95 and helped to pass the suffrage law which has disqualified the j negroes of this State from exerting j any influence in the politics of this j State. I am for wMte supremacy. I j am absolutely against the participation in our elections by the negroes of the State, but of course on this ques- j tion we can not run counter to the ' constitution and laws of the United ' States, and any insane resolution or action on the matter is childish and ineffective. "Gov. Blease was a member of the last State convention and never open-1 ed his month in favor of the resolution j recommending the repeal of the 14th and 15th amendments. As to Decisions. "9. Then, of the thousands of decisions that I have written and concurred in as justice and chief justice of the supreme court, fault is found with only several. Is it possible that I have made only a few errors in all the decisions I have written and concurred in? Why. the attack on me along this line is an astonishment to me for its weakness, and it gives me more satisfaction with my work than I have ever had before, j In the discharge of my duties as chief i justice I regarded the trust with the! same sentiment that a woman re- j gards her virtue. I knew neither; friend nor foe, and, so help me God, j nc man or influence can warp me from such a course, whether it comes from friend or foe. Consider the charges preferred against me by the j governor not entirely in the light of i the situations of this day, but confronted as I was at the time, and >"?wor whdthpr nnv one of them un- I fits me for the duties of the governor's office or reflects upon my character or should be weighed against me l'rom whatever standpoint you view them. It has been my policy in life to be frank and open; never to deceive or obtain a vote or anytViinor nriripr false nretenses. My ! LUIU^ V*UV w j purpose has always been for the development of the highest manhood j and womanhood by my individual con- ' duct as well as present. "Gov. Blease, until very recently, seemed to have a very high opinion J of men, for in 1908 he voted for me for the United States senate. See senate journal, 1908, page 950 And he also voted for mo as spDaker of j the house after he Kuevv of my lecordj which he now criticises." Statement From Gov. Blease. Gov. Blease opened his .address by reading the following statement: "I have conducted this campaign on a high and honorable plane. Have j made no personal attacks whatever j upon either of the candidates for gov- j ernor, but have criticised severely the record of ex-Ju<ige Jones which I con sider the most vulnerable and the dirtiest that could possibly have been made by any white man and a South Carolinian. I have said not one word except what I have furnished the records to prove beyond the shadow of; a doubt and at Bishopville his record | eliminated him from this race. It; has not been what 1 have said, it was j the record as made by him. He ad- J ha rnnrio it and in narf aDOlogizes ! and acknowledges his mistakes. That1 does not relieve him from having j made it, which I regret, for I dislike; to see any South Carolinian vote for social equality. On yesterday he placed himself on a plane beneath my notice and below my standard of! gentlemanly conduct and for the balance of this race, I shall absolutely ignore him or any charges that he | may make, unless he attacks me per- j sonallv, in which event?and I putj him on notice the threat that some! of his henchmen have made that I i would be assassinated?will be given j the opportunity to be .put into effect. I t not. nronose to bandy words, as; a coward, a blatherskite or a blackguard, and I hope from this day on that he will thoroughly understand that 1 consider him beneath my notice and shall pay absolutely no attention to him or his charge. I do this in the interest of peace and order, be- j i cause I am the chief magistrate of j this State. However, if he insults me j personally, 1 shall hold him strictly j to an account off the platform when ! no other will be in danger, but he j i who brings it 011 and the gentleman who resents as a gentleman should. "1 request the newspapers to publish this in full in order that the people of South Carolina may know .-uy position, some may say that I am j a coward, but I think my position is - ' ^ nr*A TrViotouor I 111 Q V (110 COI'I fCL UHC, anu ? uai^'Vi J. be called, it is the one which I shall adhere to." j As to Newspapers. Gov. Blease, after reading a statement discussed a number of matters. "Yesterday," he said, "Judge Jones -1 * 1 PaI.omK i r* Y\r?r\&fc Tiroro UtJIlItJU Llicl I ^Uiuiuuia, ?. w ~ supporting him. At Darlington I was asked a question from the audience and I answered it, thinking it had been asked for a proper purpose. 1 learned later that it ca;iie from a trav .!$?-? cr ^mnlnvoH Kv thp Pn OV/V/iiVfl l-V/i V1H j-'iv/j VVi u 1,1?V v/w luinbia State, who had been following us around for the purpose of doing me injury. Another employe of the State, Earle Page, followed me to Bennettsville and went around asking people to holler for Jones. He followed me down to the mill villag? in the evening. \ ''During the press convention in f Spartanburg they had a caucus on' Blease. The majority opinion was that' the newspapers had better keep quiet, j Others said they had better give Blease hell from the start. The answer was we did that two years ago j and he won." The State, though, couldn't stand the fire, and today it comes out for Jones. Here the gov- j ernor read an editorial article from I the State of today, saying in substance, that Jones did not have to answer charges of graft. The governor declared that Justice Jones, explanation of his vote against reduction of the interest rate when the banks were charging farmers 10 to 12 per cent, did not explain, nor did he satisfactorily meet the charge of favoring social equality between the races in j the separate coach legislation. BleaseJ read parts of his Bishopville speech on this matter ana Judge Joues' record in regard to liquor legislation. "Judge Jones now tells you he's sorry about some of these things," said Blease. "Of course he's sorry." Gov. Blease denied that he had told a negro audience in Columbia he favored letting the negroes have their share of the privilege tax. "I did not mention the privilege tax," he said, "but I did say I was opposed to expending the tax money of white people on the education of baboons and free niggers." Does Not Hate Negroes. The governor denied that he hated - ? TT- WAII lrnAnrn negroes, xie le&iai-ru mo ncn awnu views on lynching, defended his pardon record and then said: "When I was in the legislature I cast certain votes. I represented Newberry county and-not Chesterfield, and it is none of Chesterfield's business how I voted. When I went to the legislature in 1890 I was a mere boy. Ira B. Jones was born and reared in my, town. When Irby was, elected United ^T nrant tn TVTr Jnnps OUlLea 5>CUtt<,Vl A n wi o 4?>. and urged him to run for speaker. I helped elect him speaker. The next time I seconded his nomination. I voted for him for trustee of the State university. When he was running for associate justice against Eugene B. Gary I voted for him. He was my friend. I don't know, but I guess I would have voted for him for chief justice. He, however, has shown himt self an ingrate by running for my job." Blease declared that he also was unpledged. 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The next session will nnon Spntpmher 18. 1912. For further information and catalogue, address President D. B. Johnson, Rock Hill, S. C. NOTICE TO TOWX TAX DELINQUENTS. The Hon. J. J. Langford, Mayor of t the Town of Newberry, has placed in my hands executions for the collection of delinquent City Taxes for the year 1011 ?nr:trnrt:cns to collect them at oncfe. This is to notify all persons of the city who "nave not paid such taxes that they can save cost by com"-o iinrl navino- rhp sam# at 1 i 1C> W i? W*i4V4 !'* *- *"? ^ once. M. M. Buford, Sheriff Newberry Couoty. Sheriff's Office, June 6, 1912. A?i>TAL MEETING. The annualj meeting of the stockholder cf the Farmers' Bank, Prosperity, S. C., will be held at the office ANNUAL I MMER * SIO N .NT A, Ga of the Souths A. /*. nd S. A. L Railway, IUNE 25TH. riAM mm KUU1W TRIP i Ever Before. T. DON'T FORGET IT. lTBS. fast schedule. am $3-50 Round Trip am 3.50 " am 3.50 (i " , am *.<;o " " ? - - - - SJ ~ \J am 3.50 . 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C., on Tuesday, t -i ni o ~ i- 1 A o m All .JU1I0 ? 0, (XL ?" J v-iu^n u. m. ....... interested will please attend in person or by proxy. The Prosperity Cotton Oil Mill Co., H. J. Rawl, 6-18-2t. Secretary. NOTICE MEETIXG COUNTY DEMOCRATIC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. The Democratic Executive Committee for Newberry county is hereby called to meet in the Court House, Newberry, S. C., on Saturday, July 6, 1912, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of preparing a campaign * ' * " **- A? J! J?iA- -P r\*+ TTO _ scneauie ior me cauaiuaucs iui wc ?rious "county offices, fixing assessments and for the transaction of any other business that may properly come before the committee. Members of the committee will please come prepared to hand in the names of Managers of Election at their respective clubs to serve ai uie approaching primary election. Fred. H. Dominick, County Chairman, Frank R. Hunter, Secretary. j