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*- iLtsiiAi, JILY 30, 1912. TWICE A WEEK, SLM A IU1
^ Gov. Blease At
A Big Croi
RECEIVED OVATION AT
HANDS OF HOME PEOPLE
DR. J. A. SLIGHT FIXE TRIBUTE
' TO GOT. BLEASE.
Governor Reviews His Record and
Touches Upon Local Matters.
Crowd of 1,200 to 1,500.
(By Jno. K. AuIL)
Pomaria, July 27.?1,200 to 1,500
people, at least Zou or wnom were
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GOV. COLE. U BLEASE.
ladies, gathered here today, in the
grove surrounding the school house,
to hear the second public address
which Governor Blease has delivered
in his home county of Newberry since
his inauguration. The big audience
accorded the governor an ovation, and j
frequently during the three-quarters I
of an hour which he spoke, he was !
interrupted by loud and prolonged j
cheering. To size up the occasion in
3. few words, it was a "big Bleas'
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REV. J. A. SL
day" for this section of the country,
and it was a "big Blease demonstra- !
* tion." Gov. Blease was presented ;
with handsome bouquets, and floral
designs which had been secured for
him, and which could not be presented
on account of the governor's hav- j
ing to rush after his address to catch
a train, were sent to Columbia to him.
.nvnrnnn lilt 11 r'OH h\* f h P
1 lie gU?CiUUl " ao> m C* vuuvvu wv |
Rev. J. A. Sligh, D. D., chairman of
the board of trustees of Newberry
college, who, though now in feeble
health, once more gave evidence of
that fine "vigor of speech which characterized
him in the days of yore, and
paid Governor Blease a magnificent
tribute. Dr. Sligh served St. Paul's
Lutheran church, near here, as pastor,
for 47 years.
idresses
vd At Pomaria
Following the governor's address,
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iVir. tll/LlU X. UUU^au, V,auuiuatv iu?
governor, addressed the audience.
Judge Ira B. Jones had been invited,
but was not present.
Governor Blease and Mr. Duncan
reached Pomaria on ' the Southern
train from Columbia at 2.19 p. m. The
governor began his address immediately
upon reaching the grove, where
the crowd was assembled, and at its
.conclusion he was driven in an auto
mobile to Little Mountain, taking the
C., N. & L. train for Columbia, where
he was scheduled to deliver an address
on Saturday night. <
Dr. Sligh's Introduction.
The Rev. Dr. J. A. Sligh, in introducing
Governor Blease, said that in
political days gone by he had been *
called upon to introduce Senator Till- 5
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man 10 a :\ewuerry auuicnuc. nc vnu.
not known why, unless it was that he 1
r
was a Tillman man. Today he was
called upon to introduce Governor 1
Blease, and he did not know why, un- *
less it was that he was a Blease man. c
"I never had a better friend on earth
than his father, Henry Blease," said s
Dr. Sligh; "he was a good man, a ?
straight man, a Christian man, a no- s
He-minded man, a man of gpod heart; <
and I can never go back on him nor i
his sons nor his da lighters?you will <
nmp Hinin? that: T would be i
an ungrateful wretch if I did. I have
always tried to cultivate the spirit of
gratitude; arid I have a great contempt
for any man who is not grateful
to his friends. That is one reason I
admire the present governor, because
he is true to his friends. You can't
expect him to do anything else except
be true to his friends; if he wasn't he
wouldn't be worthy the confidence
and the votes of the people.
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*"t *yi J^ay i*reai ueai lur mease."
"I can say a great deal in behalf of t
Cole. Blease, but I haven't the voice <
to say much today. He has been the t
worst abused man I have ever heard ?
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of; he has had a hard road to travel, p
Most other men under similar circum- t
stances would have lost their heads^ v
long ago and done some desperate act t
that would have made the people lose t
confidence in them. But he has kept q
his head all the* time, showing that
he is certainly well balanced. Look t
at the slanders that have been heaped t
upon him. Look at the legislature of fc
South Carolina against him; all that c
was a made-up plan by a great many c
members of the legislature. There is> c
no doubt about that?at least, I am \
satisfied about that in my own mind, r
I do not say this of every member who
was opposed to Blease, but I do be- y
lieve they have been influenced to C
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county Sunday school
convention at trinity!
34TH ANNUAL SESSION ENTHUSIASTIC
AND INSPIRING.
Forward Movement in Snnday School
the Sunday school movement in this
sounty had received new enthusiasm
ind is on the forward movement. By
:he next State convention it is hoped j
:o cope with any county in the State,
rhis end can be accomplished only '
)y the earnest co-operation of all invested
in the work, with the officers
)f the association.
. At the convention some very import- ;
int methods were discussed as to the
tdvance of interest in the Sunday
schools of the county, which it is hop*1
will bear much fruit in the comng
year, as this is 'the most import- g
tnt branch of church work, not only c
n this county, but all over the
vorld. The statistics show that 83 c
>er cent of the members of the church ^
;ome in from the'Sunday school.
The plans for Newberry county for (
.he coming year were very forcibly x
nstilled into the 'minds of those present,
by Arthur Kibler, the president, ^
md James F. Epting. Then Miss Van- c
iiver outlined the county standard, in
ler usual thoughtful and well-spoken i
Work in County Shown?Officers f
for Ensuing Year.
The 34th annual convention of the
Newberry County Sunday School as- ]
sociation, which was held at Trinity
church July 25 and 26, was one of
the best and most inspiring conventions
that have been held for some (
time. At no time during the session .
was any subject on the program al- ,
lowed to drag, as the volunteer forces
were there and kept the discussion
on the move - all the time. This was
very much appreciated by the coni-pntinn
as it was verv evident that .
nanner. r
The association was very much graified
to hear the reports from the t
lifferent township officers of the work i
hat had been done in their townships, f
Some of the reports were very fine, g
vhile others did not show the same a
jrogress. They caught 'the "go-for- t
vard" inspiration.
Another very pleasing part of the ^
iession was when the delegates were *
enrolled, and thirty-three Sunday t
;chools of the fifty-eight in the county c
vere represented, which was by far t
he most that have answered the roll e
n some time. Greater representation
it the next convention is expected. s
The: convention was very sorry that
wo of the State officers, who had exp
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he Rev. J. B. Green, State president, 1
md Mrs. M. 0. J. Kreps, State inisiionary
department superintendent
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By the statistical figures it was ^
>hown that only about 4,000 of the
2,000 whites of this county attended ^
Sunday school, and there will be a j.
orward movement to come in contact
vith each family in the countv and ?
s
;ee if a greater part of those three- ^
ourths can not be induced^to attend ?
e
Sunday school.
The temperance work in the Sunday t
;chool was, in a clear-cut, thoughtful
nanner, discussed by Alan Johnstone, t
Fr., and W. C. Herbert, a very fine exa
>osition of that branch of the work
vas given, and it was very much enoyed
and commented on by different f
mes in the convention, as was well
leserved. ..
The convention enjoyed very much ^
he> fine spirit in which the good peo>le
of the Trinitv community enterained
it. Both days the table was
veil filled with an abundance of good
hings, to satisfy the inner man, and
here was plenty of good ice water to
[uench the thrist.
Very appropriate resolutions of t:
hanks were passed by convention, P
hanking the people for their very ^
lospitable entertainment, and the S
ountv papers for the use of their ^
olumns for the announcement of the ?
onvention. Last, but not least, thanks n
yere extended to all who helped to s
tiake the convention a success. &
The officers elected for the coining n
ear are: Arthur Kibler, president: n
Jeo. D. Brown, vice president; P. C.
Jaillard, secretary and teasurer;
hairman township No. 1, J. H. Wick- (
Mill MINIM HIMIIIIimWHUI Willi
er; No. 2, Dr. W. C. Brown; No. 3,
Mark Smith; No. 4, Rev. Jno. R. Roseboro;
No. 5, Geo. C. Glasgow; No. 6,
Dr. W. D. Senn; No. 7, J. Sam Werts;
NTo. 8, H. 0. Long; No. 9, W. C. Dominick;
No. 10, J. A. C. Kibler; No. 11,
W. H. Folk; Elementary Department,
Mrs. J. Sidney Derrick; Adult Depart
but of all pastors and every one in- j
:erested in this great work to make ^
he convention next year by far the
greatest yet held, not only in numbers 1
)ut in work. Let every one have the
>logan: "Meet me at Bethel Baptist, *
ruly, 1913." X X.
NEWS OF EXCELSIOR.
Annual Picnic August 9?To Elect e
Teacher?Good Sermon?Interf
esting School Address.
Excelsior, July 29.?Our people will
til go to the Little Mountain reunion
>n Friday.
Mrs. J. D. Stone and children spent
g
Sunday with her sister, Mrs. T. L. B
"f tr?
Little Miss Lillie Belle Geiger, of
Columbia, is visiting Miss Jessie Lo- (
ick.
Misses Ollie Counts and Nannie .
Wheeler enjoyed the Mt Tabor picnic
>n Friday.
Misses Julia and Louise Shealy, of ^
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elatives in the community.
The Rev. 0. G. Davis, the new pasor
of the A. R. P. church at Prosperty,
preached an interesting sermon
or us here Sabbath afternoon to a
jood audience! Mr. Davis, while quite
l young man, is an able speaker, and
ias the promise of a bright future.
The annual picnic ot ml Pilgrim {
Junday school will be held on Friday, t
Lugust 9. There will be exercises by t
.he ischool and probably other ad[resses.
The public cordially invited t
o come with well-filled baskets and g
njoy a pleasant day together.
mr? t t, wlipftlfti* is in Columbia
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pending a few days with her daugh- t
er, Mrs. R. C. Counts.
Miss Jessie Lorick is spending sev- t
;ral days at Peak with her school
na.tp. Miss Rosa Suber.
r
A good many of our people went to
Miliaria Saturday to enjoy a good
tarbecue dinner and hear the candi- ?
o
iates speak.
The patrons of Excelsior school
vill hold a meeting at the' school ..
louse next Saturday evening at 8 g
'clock, to elect a teacher for said ?
n n rwtVi or1 o/">Vl rvl n VfiQ r
LVJl ~v< e
Cach patron is requested to be presnt
at this meeting. ^
Mr. H. T. Patterson made an incresting
address to our Sabbath ^
choo] Sabbath afternoon. Mr. Pat- .
erson is a good speaker and it was
treat to have him with us.
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Miss Victoria Crosson is spending ^
everal days with relatives and ^
riends in this section. .
Miss Alder Ray Wheeler is spending v
everal days with relatives in Colum- ^
o, I think it due my band that you h
ay that there never was any agree- ti
lent made with this band to furnish p
lusic on date mentioned. d
Very truly, t<
Win. A. Wherry, b
, Director. t
ia. ,
1<
Mr. and Mns. Jacob Warner spent t;
lunday with her brother, Mr. Berry v
lartman. Sigma. ^
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Newberry Concert Band. E
Editor The Herald and News: Some tl
ime ago it was announced in your pa- ii
a VnnrK AAnrtArf Tl
CI tlia t C11TT 4^CWUCll J V/V/UV/C1 I UUiiu
. ould furnish music at Pomaria on a
aturday, July 27. I do not know who a
,*as responsible for this article, but h
ince I have been asked by quite a a
umber of Deonle why we failed to do
County Campa
Williami
SOME SPICE INJECTED
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ment, Jas. F. Epting; Home Department,
Mrs. A. J. Bowers; Teacher
Training, Prof. S. J. Derrick.
These eleven township officers, (
with the officers at large, will constitute
the executive committee.
When the question where the con- (
vention of 1913 will meet came up,
Bethlehem, Bethel Baptist and New
Chapel schools invited the convention
to meet with them. After considerable
voting, Bethel Baptist was selected.
The pfesidlng officer of the associa- 1
tion asked the earnest co-operation 1
not onlv of the executive committee, :
INTO SECOND MEETING
STATE POLITICS FIGURED SOMEWHAT
LARGELY.
Pol. Diekert Makes Vigorous Attack
on Senator Johnstone?The
. Speeches.
(By Jno. K. Anil).
Williams' Store, July 26.?The eoun^TT
An*nnfti(*n ^trrn tlTV*' o + Vl 01*0 i
IJ K^CLiLiycLi & ii ? a i uy a, axcwaw ^
today, at the second meeting, some
spice being injected by the questions
'rom some in the audience, asked of
:he legislative candidates as to where
:hey stood in the governor's race?or,
is the questioners put it, "How do
fou stand on Blease?"?and by Col. D.
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"V. JL/ltACl I d ? 15U1 uuo atwvn. upuu
Senator Alan Johnstone.
In addition to the candidates, there
vere about one hundred voters and
1 few ladies at the meeting, which was
leld in the grove, just across the road
rom the old Williams home, now octupied
by Mr. James W. Johnson.
Secretary Frank R. Hunter, of the
:ounty executive committee, presided
>ver the meeting, and introduced first
he candidates for the house of representatives.
Mr. H. H. Evans.
Mr. H. H. Evans said, while he
bought the various issues in this
:ampaign were well settled, and that
here was little use of "much speakng,"
yet he thought it well for the
;andidates to appear before the peo)le.
He attacked the expenditures of
he legislature, saying tne representaives
in the general assembly had
iromised to look out for the interests
)f the people, and he wanted to know
'what people they had looked out
or." Everybody wanted good roads,
-le advocated putting the State con icts
on the roads instead of keeping
hem on the State farms, in competiion
with the farmers, and renting
Vizim nut f/-i "Vontoac " "HTo. 1TT7QnfOr?
111 vut L KJ lUUAgv^i AAV ?l UJUVVVi
hem given to the counties and put on
he roads.
Everybody favored education, but
he education of the negro was a menice,
and if elected he would not cast
. vote to educate the negro. He would
,lso seek to reduce appropriations to
he highr institutions, which approbations
he said were getting entirely
oo large.
The people knew the record of their ,
epresentatives. The question to ask
hem was, "What have you done for
is?" If one set of men was kept in
tnn tVlov tit all 1/1 r?wr> tVlP
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people.
He denounced what he termed the
nsults and calumny heaped upon Govrnor
Blease, which he said were ,
tissues of lies." When the chief ex- (
cutive was insulted by men like "that
tinking liar, T. B. Felder and his
ireling detectives," the whole State
/as insulted. He said the statement
n reference to him and Blease being (
a Atlanta together, when Blease was
harged with doing certain things, was
lie. During those two years, he '
aid, he was not even speaking to
3 ? I
rovernor mease anu 111 uie race iur j
he senate at that time (1904) he had
oted for Hon. Arthur Kibler against
rovernor Blease. He said the last
sgislature had devoted most of its ,
ime to fighting Governor Blease, and ,
fas making the people pay for <
:. The partisan prejudice of ]
he legislature against oGvernor .
{lease was so great, he said, |
tiat everything else was given a place ,
i the background. Governor Blease j
ad kept his promises to the people, ,
nd had vetoed extravagant measures, j
nd had sought to give the people* an (
onest and economical government, ,
nd therefore he stood with Blease. j
He scored the legislature for what <
a oaiM wac on unreasoning- ntlDOSi- ?
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on' to the governor, and advised the ,
eople to inquire into how the candi- T
ates stood. He charged that the "in- j
jrests" were trying to beat Blease I (
ecause if they ^ould do so it wouldn't *
e "but a few minutes until they could
ign Was At
s' Store Friday
get rid of Ira B. Jones." He promised*
if elected, not to give heating plant?-to
negro colleges, and not to vote for '7
extravagant appropriations to- State
colleges, but to try to "cut out the luxury
and extravagance surrounding *
them."
Mr. Arthur Kibler Absent
Chairman Hunter announced that
Mr.' Arthur Kibler had asked that his
regrets be expressed to the people oa
account of his inability to be present,
Mr. Kibler being in attendance upon
the Sunday school convention at
Trinity church.
Mr. H. 0. Long
said this was the first time he had
appeared as a candidate for any office
before the people, and he was a can.
didate because so many of his friends
had made him feel that it was his duty
to enter the race. He was no orator
and no politician; he was a farmer
and plain business man. In these yo- |j
cations he had been successful. It
seemed to him it was high time the
legislature was composed of more
farmers. His interests were the interests
of the people of Newterry
county. He wanted Newberry county
to go forward. He believed in a good,
system of common schools, and had J
long been interested in the common |
schools. He believed m the education,
of the people. He wanted to .see the
boys and girls of the country prepar*d
for life's duties. He also favored
the higher institutions of learning,
but wanted to see them conducted on
a more economical basis. As to taxation,
he was against taxes except those
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tnai were neeuiui auv uctuu ?? miq .*
benefit of the * people. "* was not k
bound to any one interefec, '">ut was in >^S
sympathy with the best interests of
the whole county. He favored good J
roads and anything else making country
life more desirable. Too many ^
people were moving to the towns, and
it was for lack of roads and proper ^
church and school facilities. The leg- 3
islature ought~~to be the servant of' ' i
the people.
He was apposed to antagonizing the
man chosen to be the leading officer 'M
of the State, and whoever occupied |jj
the governor's chair should have the .A5!
support of the legislature and the peo- (M
pie, for the best interests of the State.
Mr. Geo. S. Mower. v<|9|
Mr. Geo. S. Mower said he was
gratified in the opportunity to ap- I
pear before this audience. It was j
well to consider the nature and du- Jj
ties of the office which he sought. As
i si
at Mt Pleasant, he explained that the . *>.
legislative, judicial and executive de- ".''i
partraents were separate and distinct, -'
and he spoke of the separate duties
- m
of each. It was wrong for either <le- js*
partment to encroach upon the duties if
and powers of the other, or for one
to seek to override or dictate to the
other. A representative in the general
assembly should stand on his own j|
feet and act on his own judgment, always
conscientiously and with the
best interests of the people at heart %
He had always endeavored to be can- 1
did with tne people or me couniy, aua ?
whatever promises he made them he 3
had endeavored honestly to keep.
Taking up taxation, he had stated that 3
his platform was economy with effi- |j
ciency, and he had carried out every |
pledge he had made the people in this
regard. He believed, however, that
taxes- should only be levied for gov- .
srnmental purposes, and acting Under j
that idea he had voted against the j
State warehouse act, which the court j
had recently declared unconstitution- -38
He said the legislature had been
charged with extravagance and he. I
' 1 ?'? ' ^1 nnd h/v 1
aaa looxeu up uic icwiu, auu uc v<>m.u >?
:he figures in the defence of the leg- " I
slature. He gave instances of nec- j
essary increases in appropriations,
ind which had been approved by the I
jeople, such as the increase in amount 1
jiven for pensions and for support, Jfl
)f the State hospital for the insane,
1 x CJfofa 7 Ainr ho/i 'J
ina yet, uc miu, uic j uuu. m
emained at about the average for the I
ast ten years, and the same was true J
>f the county levy. In the face of
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