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Jl*" Stoli* sstal O Entered at the Postoffice .it N>wftsry, S. C., as 2nd class matter. E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Tuesday, July 30, 1912. The split-log drag would work wonjders for the roads of Newberry counjty. The State campaigners now have a "week off." They and the people have well earned it. We would judge from reading the -Columbia? State that Sergeant J. N. King, late of the governor's mansion, is the Columbia State's candidate for secretary of war in President Wilson's cabinet, if Dr. Wilson is elected, as now seems yiuu<iuic. Mr. Sam J. Nichols is reported as telling a Spartanburg audience that he "had $500 of T. B. Felder's money and would be glad to return it to Mr. Felder if he would call at his office in person for it" Under those conditions, it would appear that Mr. Nichols will have the use of Mr. Felder's $500 for some time. Besides those, the lower portion of Saluda and Greenwood counties will send delegations for the same purpose who will be \joined, report says, by members from Aiken county. The Blease rally here for the purpose of trying to fool the State and make it believe by noise that Edgefield is for ihim, is said to be well worked up.? - * - ^ -3 T 1 JbXlgeneia cor. ureeii\Nuuu jyux-uai. Oh, well, that's the way we all said it was in the nineties?it was always a Tilln?an crowd from other counties, but when the votes were counted they piled high all over the State. A Newberry man is the authority for the statement that the friends of Governor Blease are going to have the hardest fignt ol tneir lives w save the county for him. this year. Men like Alan Johnstone, the county's representative in the State senate, and George Mower, C. T. Wyche and Arthur Kibler, the county's representatives, are all opposed to the governor. ?Greenville Piedmont. I Desiring to secure some further information as to matters political we would appreciate it if the Piedmont * * " XT- ? ? ^ XT ^vn'K /\ would give us me name ui .\c>>ucn< o political prophet. , We publish today a communication to the -Charleston Post, written by Major J. F. J. Caldwell, giving the truth of history as to the spot where General Lee surrendered, and correcting the (popular impression that it was under an apple tree. Major Caldwell also r\ +Viq mvth that rjpn flrnnt V4 mv* Uij V** V.%/-. v, . V,.. V returned Gen. Lee's sword, presenting the evidence that Gen. Lee did not even offer Gen. Grant his sword. The m article is timely and valuable. Major Caldwell is a clear and forceful writer, and is thoroughly familiar with the history of the War Between the States, in which he bore a gallant and distinguished part. r. ? In his notes on the campaign, Mr. S. E. Boney, in the News and- Cour. ier of Monday morning, says: "At Chester there w^s an unusually large <;rowd of 'foreigners.' It is stated that three coach loads were brought over from Lancaster and a party of about fifty came down from Ro?fk Hill, in York county." The charge has been . imade that Blease supporters from "other" counties have been taking part * in the demonstrations for Blease at various campaign meetings. For whom were those Lancaster "coach loads" imported? Is the charge that they went over to holler for Jones, Lancaster's son, or is it admitted t that Lancaster, Judge Jones' county, is so enthusiastic for Blease that "three I-coacii loaas' iroaa l^racasicr gu m a body to a "foreign" county to iet out their pent-up enthusiasm for the governor? Anxiously we await a reply. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. Chicago News. The man who is sure he can't, ; never will. You won't travel very far if you tread on other people's toes. <;0Y. li LEASE ADDRESSES A BHi CROWD AT POM A HI A (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1). come into that band and v;ork againsi the governor of the State. Look what they did, trying to make the impres !sion that the legislature was against 'him, and therefore the people were 'against him. Look at the Democratic .convention some time ago, which tried I to impress that everybody was againsl him. Look at the plans to defeat hire since then?this great committee thai met in Augusta some time ago. Then was nothing in the world behind thai !but SDite work. I know too muct about human nature to know it was anything but spite work. Has Made Him Stronger. "The whole idea was to defeat Cole Blease. God has directed the affairs of this world in such manner as tc defeat their purposes, and I am proud of it today. Instead of injuring him, i1 ;has made him stronger and stronger. ; If they don't get up something desperate on the governor and prove it?and j they will have to prove it to the satisI faction of the people of the State? j Colle. Blease will sweep the whole IState and will get two votes to Jones lone. As to the Legislature. "If I were a candidate for the legislature and should be elected and would find that I could not work with the governor on account of prejudice onr?;"?'+ Viiin nn of GnmitV ClwjClXiJLOC AJ. A 4-1-1, ^ ** v. ^ _ ? against him, I would resign and come home and say to the people, 'Elect somebody else.' I hope we will never have a legislature again that will act i towards the governor as this legislature has. I do not condemn every member, but I condemn the leaders that directed this opposition and influenced the others. It is no wondei the governor has said hard things; | it is a great wonder to me he has not j said harder things." A ! *? I? 1 nn IA DniClU in uicasv, "Some people say Blease is a bad ' man. A man said to a friend of mine, 'I don't know how Mr. Sligh can support such a wicked man as Cole. Blease.' That man himself is a good member of the church, a good Christian man, but he measured me by his own half bushel?what he had in his own heart. That man has, to my own personal knowledge, voted for men ten times more corrupt, more wicked J +V? o r-? PaId "R1 OCJ C D OtJat dIIU. pi uiaiic uxaxi vviv. v could be. I can tell him very plainly why I vote for Cole. Blease?because I think he is a just man; because I | think he is a good man and makes | us a good governor He is an open I man; he is not a hypocrite, and 1 do j admire that in any man. I believe he has the interests of the people of J South Carolina at heart. "Ladies and gentlemen, I have the !honor to present to you a sdh of Aew; berry, Cole. L. Blease, governor of | South Carolina. The governor will ;now address you." Got. Blease's Address. The governor was greeted with a fine demonstration?the cheering of men and the hand-clapping of ladies making a real ovation. He said the past week had been one of the hardest weeks of the campaign. He had spoken at Langlev last night tn nocjrlv 9 f thp CV/ -,VVV/ VI Creek Valley; but had left Aiken this morning to be here, because he was j informed if he did not come the crowd j would be disappointed. He said he : would have to hurrv back to ColumI 1 bia, because before he accepted this ! invitation he had accepted another to I speak tonight in that city. They had started this campaign, he j said, in the eastern part of the State J because they thought it was opposed to him, that a great wave would sweep over the eastern Dart of the State, and that the result would be that by the time the party reached Columbia at | the end of the second week, it would : be impossible to break this wave. But, i he said, they found themselves mistaken. "When we went to Sumter one of my opponents had gone all over : South Carolina and abused me with the most harsh language and with the most severe criticism.' In the Sumter speech I did not refer to him at all. After I had finished he made his 1 speech, and again he opened his bat teries of abuse upon me and my adj ministration. At Bish<opville he repeated the attacks he had been makjing in other parts of the State, and there I replied to him, and I replied : to him in a speech which has been more generally read than any other political document ever sent out in ; South Carolina. | Won't Attack Jones When Absent. "I never attack a man behind his back. If Mr. .Tones were here today | r would take great pleasure in showing you people the difference between his candidacy for governor and mine, but he is not here and I will not do him as he has done me?strike him in the back and say things against ! ' when he is not present. Rut I . Tell you this; when I get him on the : : stump I put the red pepper under the i old man so hot that he can't keep his . I * ' seat. . ] "Yesterday he got up and said I .; was telling a lie. Well, I just looked . i at him and laughed. You know he j -- - T U I j! is an old man ana i can i auuiu u> , hit him. People would jump on me [ for striking an old man like him. ij [ J told him over here at Winnsboro il ; j he didn't behave I was going to take ? him out in the back yard and spank ; him like his ma used to do when he I was a little boy. But, friends, if you l i will come to Newberry court house ; I when the campaign meeting is up there, I will paint for one of your former Newberry sons the blackest record a white man haas ever made in the legislature of South Carolina." , "We will be there, old Bud;" "Don't [ you fret, Cole., we'll all be there," . were some of the shouts from the aud- : * l. I j lence. j "And you will say so when you hear ; |iit," continued the governor. i "He wanted to put white ladies in the same coaches with darkeys," some !! one shouted. i .1 Elected by Working People. j Governor Blease said he was elected | governor by the working people; the I men who turn the wheels in the manu- j 1' facturing enterprises, the men who j ' | run the steam engines, the- men who j ] drive the plows and pull the hoes in j I the fields, the men who keep the grass i ' from growing in the public streets of j tho tAwns and pities. I "We are going to put you there | | again," was the shout. j "When I got there," said Governor ;!Blease, "I found things going on that . I believed were wrong; I believed they were rotten; I believe so yet, to a cer- j tain extent. Whenever they wanted a job for somebody they created a new office and put their pet man in iU Fight With Legislature. "When your legislature met I wrote I them a message and asked them toll . I do certain things for the people of I ,j South Carolina?things which I had 'I i ? ?vau if T nroe nrl T I I j y I UJiU'&t^U )VU, 11 1 ** clo i b | would recommend and would favor I Jand fight for. What was the result? I | Your legislature was hostile to me, I land you had from my own county? I : I regret to say it, from my own coun- I i ty?men in the senate and in the house I of representatives who would have ! I ! voted against me if I had sent them ; R a message that God Almighty . sent!. i is P'Vttmo* r\r\ north tr* QQi'o 'mQnkiriH ! ; V^IU lot VII V/U 1 1.11 VV WM, ? V KAM V. | they would have sent back and said, 1 I 'Xo, there is some mistake, because j Blease said so.' Therefore, I had to i ! ?] I fight the whole legislature. Did I ask them for quarter? Xo; I said, 111 i I am making fliis fight for the people ^ , !of my State, for what I have promised dl ; the people I would do, and I do not ll( t! propose to let you, the legislature, 1 crj f dictate to me my policy or my course. ir The Rurai Police in Newberry. !C1 "Xow, gentlemen, they passed a bill , I to put on your county a rural police !! system. T vetoed it. and why did iL * ~ ' " I It i veto it? Because I tell you today j that if you would pay your magis-L i trates and your constables the money!,, j n< , that you are paying your rural po; j lice, and let your magistrates and con- , : p( [ Stables patrol their sections of the! ;i county, to keep peace, you would be1^, Jin better position-than you are in to-; . i (31 [ day. I vetoed it because I said then, |. ; i tr ; i and I say it to you now, that the rural: ^ .! police system as established for your I I I t j county is a farce, and simply makes | ^ 11 a position for the pet of somebody ! ^ iwho wants to give out an omce. i I to >| "Now, gentlemen, I did my part.to , I D( . i enforce the whiskey law in your i, i he j county. I helped wherever I could. 11 But since January it has been taken jout of my hands and today there is more liquor being sold in Newberry ! county than has ever been sold before * jin an illegal and unlawful manner. I get the reports, reporting it to me '?but what can I do? The legislature j : which you had there put this matter in thp hands nf votir sheriff and save ' I - I th him two rural policemen, and I have ; . | no power as your governor to come ^ into your county and enforce your; whiskey laws. That is entirely in thej^1 ' XT. hands of your sheriff, and even in this . | rural police bill, Mr. Mower so amend. ed it that if I appoint a whiskey con. stable or send a constable into your jgc county he can't get any pay for his | . [service-.. Therefore, there is no com- bl plaint that you can make against me ^ [ because the law is being openly vio - lated. The fault can not be thrown 1S ' ? 4-Vk ^ ctUrvnl/iArr. tlio o-nvornnr llpuil Lilt: OUUUIUCI C5 Ul niv a\s w l.ys. I when the legislature, in direct viola- l tion of the general law, passes a spe- |111 ; cial act taking the whole matter from j**1 his hands. And I vetoed that bill be- i?* . cause I knew my county, I know my people, I love my people, and I did not , believe that act would bring about cc i good, and I do not believe today that ai i the people of Newberry county ap- gi : prove of that act in the form that it ie BMMMMMBiiiiaa I At LeR Photo THE OLD RELIA bLEST AND To each baby u on Tuesday ?! J A\ir r swing ana unc t work, FREE OF Ci Only one previi by former photogr years ago. Sittin First come, first s( One Day ( DOORS in." As to the Courts. The governor said when he got to olumbia he also found an antagonisc supreme court, that was appointig special judges when circuit judges ere disengaged, and the governor scussed this matter along- the lines 3 has discussed it heretofore, giving is position as it has already been iven in The Herald and News, sayig he had refused to commission speal judges when circuit judges were isengaged, because he was looking it for the interests of the people and >r their tax money. "Then," continued the governor, ! he senate came along and said, You j ? ive got to appoint whom we say to fice. Well, now, gentlemen, some: 3ople may dictate to some other peo- j le in Newberry county, but when [ ley get down to Columbia they can't ctate to Cole. Blease; and when they ied to make'me do it, I simply wrote iem a little note and told the senate had an engagement up the country; lat I he i no further use for them in :>lumbia; and when I got backdown i Columbia they had stuck their head Jtween their legs and sneaked off >me. Not Through Fighting Yet "They say, Yes, but you fought the gislature in other matters. Yes, I j ught them and I am not through | it, and for the next two years, if ev don't do what I believe the peoe of South Carolina* want them to ), I propose to continue to fight them, never propose to sit down and allow e legislature to dictate to me against hat T believe to be for the best inrests of the people of South Carola. And I want to say to you today iat we have been through 25 counts, and 21 of them will give me a mdsome majority for re-election as )vernor of your State. The news ipers may report what they please, it I tell you, my fellow-citizen6 of ewberry county, that the State of juth Carolina is backing ray admintration, because of the fact that the ?ople know that I have honestly en?avored to do what was best for their terests, with the legislature, with ie supreme court, and with the State ficials." Decapitation of Notaries. He referred to his revocation of the jmmissions of all notaries public, id in referring to the fact that ne*oes had held commissions as notars:, he said: "I just simply want to tell^ oy A. & M. M. and Art i ^2B|?k"TS^**> " * vtal? nder three years of age broug v. Aucrust 6th. wi ABINET PANEL* PHOTO of BARGE. >us offer of the kind ever ma apher J. Z. Salter, at same st gs will be made in order in ;rved. (Whites only.) 3nly, Tuesday, A OPEN AT 8:3 \ Jones, Duncai 1: lvirwiMn T J.TAV V JLA t V# M AT ' Arcade Wednesda * AL THREE REELS OF OPEN A1 Don't Miss Seeing This. you this; that with the blood that runs in my veins, being born and reared in the grand old county in which you were born and reared, no negro, I don't care who he is, will ever hnld p commission to any office with the name of Cole. L. Blease signed to it." Referring to the financial side of the question he said over $10,000 had been brought into the treasury from notaries public. This had been denounced as robbery of the people, but he explained the matter of notarial fees, and said there was no hardship upon any man, and possibly the first official transaction the notary had he wonlH sret hack his $2.00 which his commission had cost him. He said he had no apologies to make to any man for his course in this matter, because he believed he had done right He said he had saved the State thousands of dollars by refusing to offer rewards until convinced that they ? ??tt . fViof nf <51 A nnn cn'von were IltJtJCfiiSili jf , I.uax v/i. vmv,v\s\s . v,?him for law enforcement and rewards, he turned back into the treasury the first year $5,300. All the other governors spent it, he said. He did not accuse them of spending it wrongfully, but said they were extravagant. Requisitions. Discussing the matter of requisi (CONTINUED ON PAGE 5). AY NEW- I i'if'!' * BERRY, S.C. ;ht into our stadio ill be given a free our best finished de in our city, that and about thirteen Salter's studio 943-945 I MAIN I STREET 8 which registered. Lugust 6th O A. M. 9 " ii and Blease v PICTURES ititL ????? Theatre iy, July 31 SO OTHER PICTURES L i5 f. iVi. I Admission 5 and 10 Cts. I CALL AT ANNIE 0. RUFF &CO/S to get your CIGARS. 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