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? ffc" jlmM pars Entered at the Postoffice nt \tpwtti ry, S. C., as 2nd class matter. V ' E. H. AULLj EDITOR. ? _r Friday, July 26, 1912. y \ By the use of the split log drag and by filling in some holes, the road from Newberry to Mt. Pleasant could be put in. fine condition. The same is true of j Bome other roads in the county. ' The approaching primary election is like a good many bank notes, in that it ie due thirty days from date. It hasn't any three days of grace, however, because Grace has already had liie three days, and has expired. It strikes us, in the matter of the de ci6ion of the trustees of Chicora not to move the institution to Laurens, 1 u v that if the understanding of the Laur ens i>eople was correct Laurens was handed something in the nature of a raw deal. * A county campaign meeting is scheduled for Willowbrook Park on the evening of Friday, August 23. No meetings are arranged for Oakland and Mollohon. Why not give Oakland -i and Mollohon night meetings during the same week tiie Willowbrook meeting is scheduled? The schedule could be easily aranged so as to include Oak^ land and Mollohon. "When Judge Jones Called Bleasej' . a Liar, Governor Refused to Fight."? * Headline in Spartanburg Journal. In ' , the same issue of the Journal, just ' 1/ N under this head is a smaller head, |' ( \ "Evans Calls Lyon a Liar, Poltroon and/Coward," and in the article occurs i this statement: "Lyon denounced Evans in his usual strong and cool j manner arid received applause." And so it goes, in the newspapers and their headlines. 1 I,-,-' '"V ? 1 V . The Florence Times copies from the ^ . Baltimore Sun an article in which it is etated that "while this red shirt campaign is going on timid folk may 1 i be pardoned for avoiding a common- 1 wealth where the governor may shoot ' ... 1 you if you don't agree with him." The Times knows there is no reason for 1 * ' i any such statement as this, that there t ' 4 1 J is no foundation in truth for it; and i the Times knows, or ought to know, that such editorials as the Times has j been printing are responsible for this j as? view of South Carolina by outsiders. Some of the anti-Blease forces seem to be willing to go to any lengths, regardless of the truth and regardless of k * v * the good name of South Carolina, in p their efforts to defeat the re-election of the governor. And yet they place themselves on a high pinnacle of mor1 ality. T HATE MERCY. It is not essential to take the word < A# rxr?ttati a a on ffnrir* <v a ricir? or , vi auj lui wuc t^uu^i xug aiioxu^ , from thirst unslaked when to the baking rays of the sun are added the exT ^ hausting effects of physical toil. Even the man ensconced in a cool office and assigned to but little activity can bear witness in this direction. He, or the man driving the animal attached to the truck, the scoop or the , plow, can stop at will and wet parched tongue or dry throat. That privilege is not accessible to the horse or the mule, the dog, the cow or other animal. Human mercy and human forethought must anticipate and supply those needs common to us all, whether or not' Providence has endowed us with speech.?Atlanta Constitution. During the fearfully hot weather we are. now passing through, dumb animals will suffer unless they are given i proper care and attention?the care <md attention which mercy, demands. A FEARFUL PICTURE. Through the columns of the Columbia State of Wednesday, the Rev. E. C. Bailey, of Edgefield, issued a solemn, two-mlnmn warning' tn fhn nonnU nt o VI South Carolina in regard to matters political.^' Upon reading his article one would naturally conclude that if th^ present "government"?Blease is evidently meant?is continued, a proper inscription to write large upon the i / \ v gates of South Carolina would be, I "All hope abandon, ye who enter here." In fact, one might conclude that the Rev. Mr. Bailey had been reading "The Divine Comedy" of Dante Alighieri, and had got his locations a little mix ed, and had taken Dantt's vivid descriptions for a picture of South Carolira just as this time. One, however, who believed in those teachings of the Master to which professed ministers of the gospel are supposed to give a good deal of their attention, might doubt that the Rev. Mr. Bailey wag 0 < "by the Love impell'd, "That moves the sun in Heaven and all the stars." The Rev. Mr. Bailey draws a fearful blood and thunder picture of what is going to happen if we don't "stop, look, listen," and take his advice on matters political. "The rate of speed at which the average train runs about measures the speed at which we, as a State, are running to destruction," he exclaims. Then he talks about divers evils impending, such as being shot down like a dog for trying to make an honest living; "for trying to save your wives being insulted; shot down like a dog for claiming a right to your business, a right to your home, a right to your farm, a right to your life! Shot aown line a aog i"r trying to save your sons from the ditch of drunkenness; shot down like a c(og for protecting the virtue of your daughter!" j And then he hurls this thunder-bolt rat us: "And why are these nameless . characters not afraid to challenge you i it every step? Answer! Let us write j t in large letters at the crossing, BE- j 3AUSE THEY KNOW THAT THE j iOVERNMENT IS BEHIND THEM, rhis same corrupt, rotten government Rrhicli some of the so-called citizens A* )f South Carolina advocate and support" So, in South Carolina, if we are to >elieve the Rev. Mr. Bailey, the end 3f all things is near at hand, unless we n If. in ? Luiiuw Air. x>a,iie,y s ouviv;e iu uu^ mai:er of casting our ballots. / While we are "running to destruction" at the rate of a fast passenger train, we would advise the Rev. Mr. Bailey to heed Simon Peter's admonition in that Book which is supposed to be his guide, and to add "to knowl 5dge temperance?temperance in language as well as. other things. Otherwise, his verbosity might run away., with him, and he might get lost and not be found at the approaching end? that end which Mr. Bailey says is so: snrplv rnmins' unless wp follow Mr. Bailey's advice. I Until the Rev. Mr. Bailey becomes I more temperate, which is possible for him, by diligent study of the Book to which we have referred him, it is probable that it would be a great deal better for him to apply himself assiduously to that Book and its teachings, and to his ministerial duties. We hope his L-ongregation would be benefited by his so doing; we are sure South Carolina would not suffer by his continuous absence from the political forum. * 7> County Campaign Schedule. Williams' Store, Friday, July 26. Jalapa, Wednesday, July 31. Fairview, Thursday, August 1. Tl.ir irill -i-.. ? J ~O ! xiauacrcs JUII, odiuiuajf, auguoi, o. Longshores, Tuesday, August 6. Utopia, Wednesday, August 7. L. C. Pitts' res., Friday, August 9. State Campaign, Newberry, Tuesday, August 13. Youngs Grove, Wednesday, Aug. 14. Little Mountain, Thursday, Aug. 15. Jolly Street, Saturday, August 17. Keitts Grove, Tuesday, August 20. Forks School House, Thursday, August 22. Willowbrook Park, Ffiday, August 23, 8 p. m. TirMf-miro Qotnr/lav AiiPnict 91 5 Tf UltlUAX ^ k/UWUi f V/ j p. m. Newberry Court House, Monday, Au- j gust 26,10 a. m. rrn A rtTTTTI XMT A VfTT^n l?AtJa?iV Experienced male teacher preferred to teach Excelsior school. Salary $60 per month for term of 7 months. All applications to be in before Aug. 3. Write any one of the undersigned. D. B. Cook, Prosperity, R. F. D.. J. C. Singley, Slighs, R. F. D. J. A. C. Kibler, Prosperity, R. F. D. * * CAMPAIGN MEETING AT 1 WINNSBORO WAS SPICY: GOVERNOR MAKES PROPOSITION IN STOTHART MATTER. Jones Applies -.Lie" ro aiaieraeoi ui Governor, Who Says He Won't Hurt "Decrepit Man.* Wjnnsboro, July 22.?Replying to the charge* made by Judge Jones that Governor Blease is dereiict in his duty as governor, and does not hold a proper regard for the good name of South Carolina, in retaining in office his appointee, Chief Constable Ben H. Stothart, of Charleston, against whom, charges of accepting graft have been made, the governor, at the State camnatHn meeting: here todav. made a proposition in the following statement: "If they will get two men in Charleston, whom R. Goodwyn Rhett will say he would believe on oath, to say that Stothart has received any graft, I . will remove him from .office at once. Now, that's a fair proposition, isn't it? , And Goodwyn Rhett is; no friend of! ( mine, but he is an honorable man." J. Judge Jones holds that sufficient!, evidence has been submitted to the' legislative committee to constitute a' prima facie case, ani, in effect, j, charges that the governor in continu- | ing Stothart in office is aligned with j grafters. , Governor Blease prefaced the above proposition by saying: "I suppose I ought to be turned out . of office because of the falsehoods told on me. Stothart has had no chance to defend himself." Another interesting feature of the meeting was the hand primary taken by Governor Blease. Declaring that the. newspapers had misrepresented j the sentiment of the crowd at Chestsr; j stating that a crowd of l.GOO people i had heard him and only about onetbird as many had heard Judge Jones, and that the papers had credited Judge Jones with a great ovation Governor Blease. to satisfy his personal desire; asked all his friends in the crowd to : hold up their hands. 1 As they responded, Judge Jones, j ?~ +V>a otonrJ orneo and ! < wiiy w a>j u11 iu^ ou< nuy ma wuwj M.^%. , glancing over the audience, remark- 1 ed: "About a third of the crowd hold- j ing up their hands." < "Judge Jones says only a third of ] the crowd are holding their hands j1 up," said Governor Blease, and he ask- | ed his friends to hold dp their hands 1 ? - A .1 * i.*. 9 _ I again. As nearly accurately as mis 1. correspondent could estimate from j. both tests, barely half of the crowd responded to the governor's call. This was the occasion of consider able surprise to several on the stand, < for the gathering here was at first j1 thought to be easily a Blease crowd, j especially in view of the hearty reception given him upon his appear- : ance. Another noticeable fact wafs that 1 that Judge Jones \yas accorded but sparse applause when he began, but 1 at his retirement received hearty and j general commendation in the form of j: cheers and hand-clapping. There is no dispute on the point that j when the governor "made the fur fly" j there was louder cheering for him, but j general distribution and participation | is quite another question. Further-1 more, the Governor did not receive a 1 rousing ovation when he appeared, but it was not long before he had 'em whooped up. Jones Gets Hot The lie was passed at to-day's meeting, Judge Jones twice saying at the conclusion of statements by the Governor "that's a lie." However, this was not productive of any trouble, nor even any considerable degree of excitement. Governor Please replied that he was not going to hurt "this old 1 decrepit man." Chairman McDonald had arisen, but Governor Blease proceeded with but a moment's interruption. "In charging that Judge Jones had as | justice and chief justico rendered de- \ cisions favorable to the corporations,! the governor said: "Ben Abney megaphoned through Son Charlie to the ear of Pa Jones for ! 1 1 what he wanted, and he got it." "That's a lie," interrupted Judge Jones. Governor Blease either did not hear | this or took no notice, for he proceeded to declare that in the decisions rendered by the supreme court, Judge Jones always, on a divided court, sided with the Southern railway. "That's a lie, Governor," again broke in Judge Jones. The governor, turning towards Tn/? era Tnnac CaiH* j uufev^ vvuw) "If I hit you, old man, that would make you governor. That's what you want and I am not going to do it. I am not going to lose my head or eni gage in any difficulty, because some I of you good women here or some of you men might get hurt. I walk the I i . i ( .mum..., , ,| streets and if anybody wants to see j me, he can. I won't hu!\ him, though, j I'll just hold him to keep him from ! hurting himself. Why, I could take him around here and tie his hands behind his back and spank him like his mother used to do." "No, Jonesy," 6aid the governor, "you can't catch this fox in your trap." The Fairfield crowd numbered not j more than 500 at the highest. County j Chairman J. E. McDonald stated that order must be maintained and this admonition was substantially carried out, except at. the outset of Judge Jones' speech when a few attempts we<re made to make his way more difficult. However, Chairman McDonald squelched that with a word that was loudly applauded: Determined to Have Order. "If order is not maintained ana eacn \ speaker is not heard there won't be any more speaking here today," and i Judge Jones was allowed to proceed { with the fewest kind of interruptions. | In fact, the audience today was unusually orderly. For '.he most part it i was a Fairfield audience, although i there were some here from Chester.; Governor Blease stated in his speech that there were many'here who also;! attended the Chester -neeting, calling ij some by name, and declaring that they ; could testify as to the sentiment of the Chester crowd. Both Judge Jones and Governor Blease fell short of their standard speeches, although the latter injected more than usual of that jaunty confident, don't-give-a-razzle-dazle-bum tone. The heat was terrific, the meeting being held in the court house yard, enclosed on*three sides by buildings. There was no overplus energy a?where today. Judge Jones repeated his statements j in ^reference to the charges against Constable Stothart, and said in ref-' erence to the legislative committee > that he had absolutely nothing to do | with it. Lands Dispensary Probers. "But the men who compose that committee," said Judge Jones, "are among the best men in South Carolina; they | ir4 no guttersnipes, and the man who j assails them is attacking some of the best, most honorable, high-toned men in the State; men to whom I would entrust my life, my honor and my reference to the Augusta hearing. His |' references to Stothart, he said, were ! based on facts brought out in the Charleston investigation. Blease and "Anarchy." Repeating his charge that the pripciples of Bleaseism lead to anarchy, Judge Jones was interrupted by loud cheers for Blease. "That's, the pity of it," said he; j "when yoi talk^f the principles that property. I do not taKe any siock in this villification or blackguardism." There was a persistent questioner in the audience who wanted tc know if Judge Jones believed that Governor Blease had taken any graft "I have not identified Governor Blease with any graft," replied Judge Jones, "but if the fact comes out I will do it. I have said that I hoped for the good name of South Carolina that j. they will find that Governor Blease is j not guilty of accepting graft and that no stain will be placed upon his name." Judge Jones again emphasized the statement that he had nothing to do' with the work of the investigating f committee, and that he had never made j would overtnrow your government, that would destroy law. there are men to applaud it. But I want to say to these turbulent Bleaseites that they may howl their heads off, but they will not deter me from making thie fight for good government.'It was at this point that Chairman McDonald warned the crov?d against JioswjhiT* 1 UlDUiUCi. 9 As to pardons, Judge Jones said: "Governor Blease has 110 right to throw off the responsibility of his office upon those who sign petitions. If I am governor, I won't stop to inquire about lengthy petitions or big lawyers fees. Any kind of petition will be sufficient reason for ray investigating the case." "What has Governor Blease done for the poor man?" asked Judge Jones. "He turned 'em out of the penitentiary," was the ready reply from some one in the audience and there was a big laugh. "The Other "Poor Man." Then Judge Jones put in some effective argument about there being two sides to tne case, asmng wnat about the poor man who was the victim of the poor man whom the governor released. Governor Blease reiterated his statement made from the State house steps Friday night, in reference to Messrs. King and Watson, of Greenville, who, he said, acted in a vulgar and insult mg maimer ai xne mausiuu uuuuaj afternoon a week ago, and were ordered off the place. Old Towser wi nillv if vnn 1UUJ U J vu Keller Fie into hi: 10 and GILDER I Leave Prosperity Returning, leave day Night, at 8 P. Round i Trip < r i_r ciples of Bleaseism lead to anarchy. ( Dispensary Committee's ^Slime." As to the legislative investigating committee, the governor made some of his usual remarks,-commenting on the complimentary statements in their behalf made by Judge Jones. He said that Judge Jones was hoping to swim into office in the slime that flowed from this investigation. ' Governor Blease today exhibited a circular which has been sent out by ( Judge Jones, in which appeared an article or statement by Gen. U. R. T}-n/-v/->va r?f Pnlumhifl. The p.vact nature I JJi vv/iil-Jy VI VWi , _ __ of the statement is not known, but it j was deprecatory to Governor Blease, | for the governor issued a warning to Col. Brooks to keep his hand ou^t of this race. He even requested that the newspapers take special note of it He spoke of Col. Brooks as "U. Reversible Brooks, of Dark Lantern Fame in Columbia." "I have taken- no part in the*races of any of the other candidates," said the governor. "I have been asnea j about the State treasurer's race, but 1 i I have refrained from saying a single thing. But I warn Brooks to keep out of this fight, for if he doesn't I will take part in the campaign, and I will ??11 +V10+ nrill nnfit snmp of Ctril LUUI. n<u v? his friends a big vote." This was presumably in reference to/ Mr. S. T. Carter, who, it is understood, is a relative of Col. Brooks. Governor Blease said tfjat if any "low down, drunken hobo wants to become a gentleman, let him write some vile attack about me;" that he nAn ih ?rot it rmhiishpd in the Columbia ! WU*V4 QVV 4V. ?* State and was immediately pronounced a gentleman. / In answer to a reference by Judge Jones as to lawyers' fees for securing pardons, the governor said no lawyer would take the trouble of looking up the records in a ease, securing signers for petitions, go to Columbia and present the case for nothing. Whether or ) not this is a point of either in the pro- \ fession is not knowr;, but Governor Blease declared that no lawyer would do the work attendant upon securing a pardon without compensation. I L ______ iiflMaMHBMHHMHBaHBBnHnHHi ! r . ? excursion i "The Land Wednesd; V 11 sleep peacenik a little a Powder 5 coat ..i t / 25 cts. J I'WEEKS | 1A 1 ' i . oAsheville | of the Sky" iw Aurr 7 *J9 y at 8 A. M. i Asheville Thurs- '*: M ''r; ?? (to oe wm 39 ration Phone 117. rER, Mgr. . ? ? i - > --f.rSKia^ How Moch He Will Beat Jones. ; - , ' Governor Blease today gave sojne estimates as to how much he woiild. "beat Jon<js." He said he would beat him 2 to 1 in Lancaster county, the home county of his opponept; that he * would beat him in his native .county, Newberry; in the county in which he married, Saluda; and in Richland, where he sat for sixteen years on the supreme court; "and," said the gov- , ernor, beat hiin 300 or 400 votes in Chester county." . Barney Indignant Among the candidates for attorney general Mr. Barnard B. Evans in his^ address today declared that any man _ who said he was a forger wa& an' infamous liar and a coward, and thal^^H any one insinuating that had been indicted for forgery was a smer, ant infamous liar and a poltroon. 1 | He said that among the thousands '\m\ of dollars he had handled while in the ror runner iniuro P. F. B AX* "I said it and I say it again," declared the governor: "If any man goes into your house and acts as those two men did in your house (the mansion) and you pick up a chair, hit him j over the head and kill him, and if I'm governor, I'll pardon you." t It is upon this statement, which Judge Jones brands as inccndiary, that his opponent today based most of his remarks to the effect that the prin- j insurance business in uoiumoia, vmy two notes, had proved to be not genuine. This was in reference to the two notes of $150 each discounted by the Carolina National bank for Mr. Evans,. which the alleged signers disdained. 4 "v; - '.J* In answer to this Attorney General Lyon stated that he had the certified court records of these cases and would . be glad to 6How teem to any vuv iu- v terested. As to the fees paid lawyer*, J Mr. Lyon stated that whatever may be said against Felder he had rendered South Carolina a service in collecting | large sums due the State and that his (fees all came out of these synis col-/ Iected. _ The attorney general was firm but entirely parliamentary in language employed in reference to Mr. Evans/ j as ne saau, cuuiuximug m cue ^ of County Chairman McDonald." Applause for Peeples. Mr. Thomas H. Peeples carried off | the honors in applause among the (candidates for attorney general. i fho fi-rc+ Httia there was today J- VI WAV UA MV ^ , a little tilt between two of the candidates for railroad commissioner. Mr. Jas. Cansler made the implied "charge that Commissioner Richards had been / bought by the railroads. Taking advantage of his right of reply, Major Richards said: "For the first time in my life I find it necessary to answer an attack upon my personal character. 11 have never accepted a gift from the railroads and I regret to take notice of the charge, considering the source. Any such carge is foully false and that man knows it" jw ? - ?__ Subscribe to The Herald tad News. - '.a