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BLEASE TALKS TO VAST AUDIENCE IN COLUMBIA; SPEAKS FROM THE CAPITOL onn-rnc? 1 tAfl DrAPi.T? ^ixr ^ IU l)VVV XliV> Xijut r" iAJleeed Attempt to Control Factory Tote?Says Greenyille Callers at ^ Mansion Were Dmnk. __ 5 i < Several people from Newberry went ' fiown to Columbia on Friday to hear \ the address of Governor Blease from Hie State house steps in Columbia on I" Friday night They estimate the crowd "which heard the governor at between 7,000 and 8,000 people. Enthusiasm ran high, and Blaase sentiment, Which seemed to be the sentiment of ftxractically the entire vast crowd, was expressed in great and prolonged I cheering. It was one of the most refra*Viororf in Qnnth fiJLLCti AudUiC d vU ?_-v^ ? Carolina in a long time. . Following the governor's address he retired to his office, where many hun- ' clreds of his admirers came to shake hands with him. The reception continued for some time, and until Governor Blease was forced to excuse himself in order to get come rest before taking an early morning train for the r Chester meeting. TVia fnH/vTO-vno' in TAP-ard tn fiovArnnr Blease's address is from the Columbia correspondent of the News and Courier: Columbia, July 19.?Governor Blease tonight addressed a vast audience from the north steps of the State f4* House, fully 7,500 people turning out ' Ito hear him. The crowd covered every etep and nearby approaches and was banked out nearly into the street. Standing on the upper middle tier of Jthe steps and with his coat sleeves pulled up, Governor Blease addressed his remarks primarily to the "boys" of < iWard 5, the cotton mill ward. How- ever, in the audience were people from fiTArv an/1 vrvntinn in lifp snmft ! |? of them drawn by curiosity, but the ? flziost of them enthusiastic supporters i of the governor and cheering his every ' |I "word. :!$ An hour before the meeting was scheduled to commence the steps were l| filled with the waiting throng and roar after roar of cheers went up when If Governor Blease, surrounded by some of his close personal friends, arrived I and took his stand on the step6. What He Talked About. An attack on the local newspapers, & denunciation of Lewis W. Parker, . the charge that Mr. Parker was going to try to vote his cotton mill help, a general attack on cotton mill mergers, , a. severe lambasting of the hosiery n?-l!. fho npnitpntiarx* a fhnt fhp ! I mien7 from Greenville, vho came to his house Sunday, were drunk, and a statement that the poor men paid practically all the taxes, constituted the important parts of the governor's speech tonight. He spoke for about an hour, a soft drizzle of rain causing the crowd to , disperse and the governor concluded, thanking the people for oom.mg out. He was presented with flowers from ad- , mirers when he concluded and receiv. ' ed a great ovation, cheers of "hurrah for Blease" ascending from many' fjlig* throats as the people dispersed. j, 1^11111 The governor inveighed against cot- j ton mill mergers and Mr. Parker in |?j||ff particular and charged that he had a letter from a gentleman in Greenville : to the effect that Lewis W. Parker had : tt said in this and other gentlemen's ' I presence a few days ago, that two s Vf "weeks before the election he was go-i: Iing to ordr his cotton mill superin- : tents to tell the cotton mill people how j to vote. The governor warned the ; cotton mill people to be on their guard ; and drew cheers by saying that he did not believe they could De bought. I He offered a reward of $100 to the r ' first cotton mill operative who would j: come and make affidavit that a person i offered to buy his vote, and "I will put j Ihim on the chaingang,"' shouted the : governor amid more applause from his ; I * TT _ ~ 1 J -n tetuujlfiicf. ne ioiu iue ?;uuloii jiiiii peu- | pie that the situation was in their j liands and if anyone tried to influence j their votes to walk out of the mill and ; "be white men. I will see that you don't suffer," he said. Attacking the hosiery mill at the State penitentiary Governor Blease called it "a tuberculosis incubator" and repeated his well known sentiments on this matter. He made an at I tack on Capt Graham, whc has the lease on the hosiery mill, and referred to him as "a Yankee." He caught the attention and sympathy of his audience j l)y picturing the suffering of a mother ! and father whose boy Is in prison and he called for humane treatment for ^prisoners. Says His Callers Were Drunk. < The governor tonight made answer 1 to the statement of iwo Greenville i mien that they had been ordered out of t the governor's mansion Sunday "by charging that they were drunk, "and if one of these fellows ever comes to my house again and uses the language tie did on Sunday somebody will have to carrv him out," said the speaker amid shouts and cheers from the spectators. He told his hearers that if any man came to their house and used the language these men did and they shot him, he would pardon them. He said these two Greenville men were not real Red Men; that they may have /\? rta rnll hilt bV the til CI I" UX&JLLl^D Vll uu^ time their tribe met three more times they would be kicked out He scored them severely and said referring to the fact that the papers had called these two men gentlemen in printing their card, "If they be gentlemen, then I feel sorry for the hoboes in South Carolina." Applause Aplenty. The governor's appeal to the factory nponle -not to allow the cotton mill owners to control their votes, and his laudation of them, brought forth a mighty cheer from the many of them in the audience. Many ladies were present and the i governor, with a few minor interrup- I tions, held the undivided attention of | the crowd. One man kept on plying the governor with questions, and twice fhp chief executive asked him "to shut up." Once during his speech a shout, j "Hurrah for the dictagraph," was heard. ' FELDEB A>D BEED. STalice and Spite of the Former and ?*-- ? -e it.. a Size-lip ui uie vuuiac vi Latter. Yorkville Enquirer. Having long ago lost all the faith we ever had in Mr. Thomas B. Felder, of course we were not seriously shocked at the result of that Augusta hearing. We will not claim that it would have surprised us if something had really been brought out, for with all the insinuation, vituperation and abuse that hpftri sroine on it was almost im possible for reasonable people to be entirely confident. And then when it developed that Mr. "W. J. Burns, the greatest detective in the world, was on the case, it seemed certain that if there was anything to develop that something would certainly be developed. But as the outcome of it all, it will have to be confessed that there was a complete fall down. Instead of deJ J ^ ? ? V* r\ airoymig {juveriiur djccwc cms uc jjiwujised, Mr. Felder put the committee in a. position of considerable embarrassment and eliminated himself as a further factor in the situation. Anybody can see now, as the Enquirer suggested months ago, that Felder's activity has no other basis than personal malice and spite. He was chagrined because of Governor Blease's action in separating him from the balance of the big fees that were almost within his grasp in connection with } the settling of the estate of the dead dispensary, and with a smallness that would be pitiable were it not so contemptible, he has merely been playing for even. And so Detective Reed, alias Mr. Porter, has decided that he would not come to South Carolina to face Mr. Xichols "because he could have no protection." He said over in Augusta that - u c Vr;..V.r>]c Via lie WOU1U ltujrj jii. ^ucuvjct auu smiled when he was saying it. We do not know exactly what to think about that. This writer has a slight personal acquaintance with S. J. Nichols, and knows a little more about him from general reputation. Mi. Nichols was bom a gentleman and reared as such, and ordinarily is as pleasant and agreeable a man as anyoody wants to meet. If anybody is inclined to get the '? ? ? ~ o Tuhiclrv cnf IHLJJreSSiUIl uiai lie io a. nuian; svi., that impression is wrong. As may be seen from what has been and is being published, he has taken more whisky than was good for him at times; but in this regard is no worse than thousands of young men who have not had the ill-luck to fall into such unpleasant notoriety along this line. He is ! not quarrelsome under any circum- i stances; that is he is not a bullying seeker after trouble. But he has plenty of physical courage, and is quick to resent an intended insult. He will fight on occasion and he will fight fair, either fist and skull or with deadly weapons, whichever way the other fellow wants to fight. As to what would happen if Reed should %o to Columbia, j of course we do not know. We are j mrp sure thar nobodv would take any I unfair advantage of him. He would j certainly not be assassinated. The . N'ic-hols* are not that kind of people. But we have an idea that Mr. Reed would have to listen to soiu-i very un- j i-omplimentary talk about himself that | would come straight to his face, and ; t would be talk that would put him . mder the necessity of Sghting like a j "SAYS HE PUT "GRAFT" UNDER CHIEFS DOORJ CHARLESTON LIQUOR DEALER BEFORE COMMISSION. h h Swears He Paid Sixty Dollars Per ^ Month to Chief Stothart, of Char- 9 leston for "Protection." r n Columbia, July 18.?That lie paid Chief Stot.hart, of the Charleston con- 2 stabulary, $60 per month, for "protec- v tion" from raids, by collecting amounts from his customers each month, and tplacing the amount in an envelope under the door of Chief Stothart'6 office n monthly, was sworn to oa the stand p here tiis afternoon by J. P. B. O'Neill, ^ who Bwore that he was a wholesale liquor dealer in Charleston up to June 1, as a member of the Marion Stock j company. t; O'Neill stated that in the aggregate this amount of "graft" he paid monthly d to Chief stotnart was $b0 ana he gave u the names of the men he collected o from. "When he first went on the stand d O'Neill answered reluctantly and every i< time a question was asked him, he would first ask: "Will that incriminate s ah *ni 1.1 i !i ?... 1 j : ti me:" jrieaaing tnai ji> wuuia iii- * criminate him if he told what business he was in, O'Neill secured a lawyer, o but the committee, on the ground that b this was not a criminal trial, ruled S that O'Neill could not hare refuge be- p hind the answer that the question might incriminate him. They insisted e on his answering the question, hid on ^ his declining to do so, Chairman Car- ^ lisle instructed that O'Neill be ruled in ? contempt and asked the stenographer v to telephone for the sheriff. j] ITnder the Boor. Finally, as O'Neill expressed it, "to b avoid being put in jail," he detailed n the testimony , here outlined,! t stating that as a wholesale liquor s dealer in the city of Charleston he eol- P lected stated amounts monthly from b ms customers and paid tms over to a Chief Stothart, of the constabulary, ii every month, by placing it in an en- v velope and leaving it under the door u of Stothart's office. As a result of this b "graft," the witness swore, his customers received "protection." Henry Hasselmeyer, the other witness, admitted he was a liquor dealer in Charleston, but swore he had not I only paid no "protection" money to Stothart. but that he had never even heard of such such "graft' until the recent publication of it in the newspapers. He denied having met the "dash- o ing Mr. Wilson," Burns's detective, who "dictagraphed" in Charleston dur- o ing a temporary residence there when he posed as a crook and gambler, and v said that he didn't know him. James S. Farnum was present, hav- s ing been subpoenaed, but the commit- to tee adjourned late this afternoon withnnf "h o Tri n or rvnt Viim nn fViD ctonH TIfl C uui ua vxu^ j^r LA u nxiii uu otciiiu. JLJL\^ V_ will probably be examined at a later i] meeting of the committee. ji C? >. & I. CREWS AND ENGINES, v C Each Road Oyer Whicli Through Trains Pass Charleston to Green- g Tille Now Operates e o a The Columbia, Newberry and Laur- i ens .railroad is now operating the t passenger trains on its road between s Columbia and Laurens with its own crews and own engines. The nassen- if ger trains are still solid through pas- n sengers from Charleston to Greenville and from Columbia to Greenville, but L under the ne\? arrangement, the Coast o Line engines and crews operate the v trains from Charleston to Columbia; I the C., N. & L. engines and crews from Columbia to Laurens, and the C. & W. g C. engines and crews from Laurens to t: ? ureenvme. The C., N. & L. crew which goes out h on the early mixed train from Columbia to Laurens will operate the pas- e senger back to Columbia in the after- r noon, the arrangement being along c this line throughout. c The C., X. & L. will use its new big ! S engines, Xos. 7 and 8, in passenger I * service. These engines are late models, j ? and could make a mucii faster sche- j r dule than that in operation on the v roads in this section, if it were advis- c able. There is no change in the schedules, under the new arrangement. ' As is known, the new arrangement t affects only passengers Nos. 52 and 53, ? /( the C., X. & L. having operated all a along the morning passenger to Co- J lumbia and afternoon passenger to'c u Laurens. tiger or cowering like a pup. Then j niavbe also it' he could ha.'o been arrested and held on the charge of at- ^ tempted bribery or something else he might have gotten a dose of that also. Anyhow we think Mr. Re id. alias Porter, was quite wise enough in not going to Columbia. STATE FARMERS' I NIO>. .iinual Meeting to be Held in Colombia July 24 and 25. The program for the annual meeting of the State union is now in the ands of the printer. The meeting rill karri n o + 9 -n m -Tnlv ' ill U^^lll Ctt %J y. iil.) *? y W %?v 4, and continue through the 25th. The eports of the various standing committees at the opening session will he ateresting. The night session of the 4th "will be an educatioral one and rill be open to the public. Except for some routine busanees, lie entire day Thursday -will be devot d to a study of "marketing." At the lorning session we expect to have Jditor Hunnicutt of the Southern Culivator discuss "marketing, especially e applied to farm produce." At noon there will be an address by Ion. Charles S. Barrett, president of be National union. At 3 p. m. Hon. J. L. McLaurin will iscu6s "Cotton Warehousing, Marketag and Banking," from the standpoint f the State warehouse system. At 5 p. m. Hon. T. W. Carter, presi- j ent of the Mississippi Farmers' un- j Dn, also president of the proposed Na-1 ional Warehouse company, will preent their plan of marketing the coton crop. I At 8.30 p. m. another plan of coperative financing and marketing will e presented by a representative of the i. S. Trust company, Tviilcn is proposed to be organied. Among these three plans, and othrs that may be advanced, we confiently expect to be able to select one hat will be effective. It is possible hat some two of these plans may be worked out together more satisfactorly than any one by itself. With all the preliminary work that ias been done by the officers and comlittees of the State and County unions, his bids fair to be the most progresive meeting ever held by the State 'armers' union of South Carolina. In ehalf of the officers and committees, .nd the great practical and increasingly important cause of "marketing," *e do cordially invite every County nion to be represented, and all memers in good standing to attend. E. W. Dabbs, President. SEWS OF EXCELSIOR delegates to Sunday School Convention?Death of Child?Personal Mention?Other Matters. . Excelsior, July 18.?We have plenty f rain and some grass, too. We will not have any 6ummer term f school. Miss Susip T^nsrforri has been on a isit to Miss Nannie May Cook. Mrs. Caroline Cook nas been real ick for a few days, but is better, glad o say. Miss Rosine Singley and little sister,. Jeleste, are visiting relatives at Chapa. Mrs. P. L. Rikard and children, of Ltianta, Ua., are here spending awnne rith her father's family, Mr. A. M. founts. Mr. D. M. Langford showed us on Saturday an Irishpotato he had gathred from his patch that had a wire ;rass root grown through the potato, t was rather peculiar and strange and ! he first thing of the kind we had ever j een. Mr. R. J. Crumpton expects to spend he week-end with relatives at Wiiitaire. A little child of Mr. and Mrs. Willie j iOng was buried at Mt. PPgrim church n Sunday morning. The burial serice was conducted by the Rev. E. W. .eslie. Mrs. R. D. Kinard and children spent Saturday night and Sunday with relaivoc of \T^mrVior7*T7 i? vo ai* iiv ii j | Mrs. Enos Counts spent Sunday with | ier mother, Mrs. Joe Lovelace. Excelsior Sunday school on Sunday j lected the following delegates to rep- j esent the school at the Sunday school j onvention which meets at Trinity j hurch on July 25 and 26: Mr. J. C. j iingley, Mr. Jacob Singley and Miss < lelen Wheeler. Mr. and Mrs. H. J.} [inard were elected delegates to rep- j esent the second at the township con- j ention. which meets ut Mt. Olivet hurch on Saturday, July 27. Sigma. WILLIAMS' KIDNEY PILLS Have you overworked your nervous sysem and caused trouble with your kidieys and bladder? Have you pains in oins, side, back and bladder? Have you . flabby appearance of the face, and uner the eyes? A frequent desire to pass rine? If so, Williams' Kidney Pills will ure you?Druggist, Price 50c. WILLIAMS MFG. CO., Prop*.. Cleveland. Ohio CHICHESTER S PILLS! TliE DIAMOND HUA.M). A J A-aaion: ask your ??ru?urift?or/a\ ] & * I'i-ciies-ter's Diaitiunu lirnnd/^^\ | I'lll* in Rod and <iold n:*tai!:c\^Xy ?.Vj?2 boxes, cc-'eii with Blue RiL?bon. \ f ,yri Take no other. Buy of your ? r/ - nf lirueriot. Ask^rrin.rin'>.TFEa I C- J$' 3>IAilO.\I> l(KAXI> I'lLI-Sf r *J? \ "?" m yearskno-vnasBeft, Safest, Always Reliable 1 ^?r Sft! h RV OPf nni^TS FVERVWHFRi i ??? Subscribe to Ibe Herald and >"ews. PROGR; OF TH 34th ANNUAL ( OF TH Interdenominational Smidav Newberry TO BE HEI Trinity, July 25th a THURSDAY, JXJ] 10.30?Song eervice and devotional 10.45?Address of Welcome by Re^ B. Hunter. 11.00?Enrollment of delegates. 11.20?"What Newberry County Ex Year"?J as. F. Epting and Arthur K ~11.45?"The State Work of the A Purposes for 1912 and 1913"?Rev. J scciation. 12.10?Short report from each De] report from each Township Presidec 12.30?Intermission and acquainta AFTERNOON SESS 2 P. M.?Song service and devot Bowen. . z.io? Kound Taoie: urgamzed w 2.40?"The Sunday School Standar 3.00?"How to Organize a Towns From It"?Dr. W. D. Senn and J. A. 3.20?"Missions in the Sunday Sch 3.40?"The Organized Adult Claee j and J. H. Wicker. 4.00?"Our State Paper"?Mise Vai 4.20?"The Home Department and A A A i i. - V 1 ~ A Ui ilUJLUCO. AUJU FEIDAY, JUL! 10.00 A. M.?Devotional exercises White. 10.15?"The County Standard, Ou: Vandiver. 10.35?"Better Teachers and How Jno. C. Goggans. 10.55?"Mow to increase tne suna and E. 0. Counts. 11.10?"How to Prepare a Lesson' 11.30?"Hound Table: The Sunday Vandiver. 11.45?Payment .of pledges for St for the next year. 12.10?Appointing committees. 12.15?"The Teacher's Spiritual Pr J. B. Harmon. Intermix AFTERNOON SESS 2 P. M.?Song service and devotioi lido 2.15?"The Sunday School Teacher 2.45?"The Purpose of a Cradle Ro Grace Vandiver. 3.00?"How to Make Temperance and W. C. Herbert 3.20?Report of Committees and e! ing year. 3.40?"The Teacher's Qualification.4 4.00?Short expressions of the Cor of the work in the County. 4.30?"Where Will the Convention Pastors and Superintendents are Convention and lend all assistance t I Wilmin: I :i Ivv rigmsvu Is calling you--th< all cry out for yo crowd. No more delightf on South Atlantic ing, boating, fishii (pleasures. Reached in a fe elegant service of COAST LINE rj s Standard Railroad c connections. | Inquire for rates I of your local agent, I W. J. CRA I Passenger VMME I E J CONVENTION 1 IE 8 School Association of I County I -D AT 'I md 26th, 1912. J jY 2a, 1112. 3 exercises by Rev. T. C. Croksr. j| 7. J. M. Fridy. Response by J* 5 pecte to Do During the Ceasing I ibler. ssociation, What Its Aims and f. B. Green, President State Afjartment Superintendent AlBO " it or Chairman. nee meeting. ION, JULY 25. ional exercises by Rev. L. D? t fork"?Miss Grace Vandiver. d"?Rev. E. Fule<iiwider. >hip and the Benefits Derived I , C. Kibler. 4 I ool"?Mrs. M. 0. J. Kreps. 4 J md Its Advantage"?I. H. Hunt idiver. Its Work"?Jaa F. Epting. * . urmment [ rtf, iyrj. : fiv\ and song serrlce by Rev. L. B? r Pllns for 1912"?Miss Grace Secured"?Rev. S. P. Koon and 4 , ay School"?Rev. J. W. Carson '?Dr. E. C. Jones. School Teachers"?Mise Grace ate work, and making pledges eparation of the Lesson"?Rev^ ion. " i ifl ION, JTLT 26. jl ral exercises by Rev. J. E. Car- / 4 >' bB "?Dr. Geo. B. Cromer. 11 and How to Run One"?Miss 9 : teaH Votes"?Alan Johnstone, Jr., 1 H . H i Lection of officers for the com- mm . i s"?S. J. Derrick. H ivention as to the advancement Kfl of 1913 Meet?" j B especially invited to be at the :o carry this great work on. ?il Bl Jy m . M nB le Beach | b surf, the music, I r?vll/\??r ^KA I U IU JLUUUIT UiV ul seaside resort Coast, for bathlg and vacation w hours via the I m the ATLANTIC | I MLROAD, The I I f the South, and I fl I , schedules, etc., % or address ] * AN klu' I ** Traffic Mgr., I Wilmington, N. C. I f r? ?d