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r~ ^ GOV. BLEASE ADDRESSES A BKi CROWD AT POMARIA I (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4). PCions, he said tfte law allowed $o.uu per day and expenses for the officer ' who went to another State for a fugi- i tive; that the fugitive was brought "back, 'and if found guilty, he was probably sentenced to the chaingang j in the county, and he had written to j all the sheriffs that whenever a man j isfto be brought back under requisi- j tion, if he is found guilty and sen k;ed to the chaingang the county mgn gets him must pay the expenbringing him back, and not all j ftpple of South Carolina; but if J j^^pssentenced to the penitentiary j t5kI the State gets the benefit of his* | "work, then the tSate will pay the ex- 1 penses of bringing him back. He said j his friend, Luther Boozer, had come j . to him in Regard to a man caught in ! Oklahoma supposed to be the man ' that killed Mr. Boozer's son; that he I had told Mr. Boozer that from the de-' scription he was convinced they had j th? wrong man; that Mr. Boozer said he didn't want to help him catch the man that killed his son; that he told? Mr. Boozer to pay Chester county for cringing him back, and the very day ;he got back to Chester and Mr. Booz-1 er telegraphed the governor he was ? the man, the governor would send him a check for the expenses: that a man 1 3 * ? ? ? A aV A ^ n/5 +V? r. naa ofc-eu Bern, to um<uiuiuci anu mc ma^ \mder arrest was found not to be the man wranted. i ^He spoke of the State printing, say- i ir^ the State printer contracted to do ! the "^"ork for a certain amount, and yet extra bills for different amounts, were brought in. All these matters of which he spoke were small, separately $5,000 here, $2, 000 there and $1,000 nere, Dut in tne aggregate they amounted to something. "Yru have on your statute book^, passed by your last legislature," he said, "the largest appropria- j ^tion bill that has ever been in the < "state of South Carolina, and the most extravagant one in the government of! any State in the American Union."! Taxes kept going up, and was there any material benefit? "I have fought I I to k?ep down expenses," he said, "I j have fought against extravagance, I i have fought to try to run your State i government on a plan of economy, I j fcave fought for what I believed was ; for your best interests and your chil- I dren's best interests, and I have stood , i there and had to fight the world, the flesh and the devil, but I thank God j I ammot afraid of the whole combina tion put together." j Character Attacks. , "When they had attacked me in every other way, then they decided they would attack my character,'? > said the governor. "I did not fear it. j I was born and reared in your county. I Let them come and search. They can come to Newberry and search my life from the time f was in the cradle right j ^straight through. I am willing for it ! ?willing for them to turn on the1 earch-light, willing for them to come! nd see what I have done. They will j ^ind'l was like all oth,er boys; I have oeen a boy?I have never been accus- . 5d of being an angel, if I was I have j never felt any tickling under my arms ! where the wings were growing?but at the same time, those things I have j done, I am willing for them to know, j And since I have been governor of j your State, I swear to you today, as I my people, and as my father's and 1 mother's people, that I have never re-' ceived from any man or from any j source one single dishonest dollar; j that I have never done an act that I I am ashamed of, or that I am afraid for all the people of my home county to know of?my home county, where I was born and reared, and where I ex- I pect to die and expect to be buried, j And when I am dead and gone I am ! willing for them to continue to turn on^ the search-light, and willing for the honest people of my county, when they pass by the old cemetery, where ftiy ibody will sleep, to say whether or not I have been true to the people of my State. Micks to his friends. "They say I stick to my friends, j Yes, thank God, I do; and I propose to 1 continue to do it. And I tell you more ! than that; no man, I don't care who j 'he is, that is not a Blease man, need ever apply to me for. any job, because he is not going to get it. 'Of what Bould a man be proud, if he is not I 9' TV?nro cifo o yiVUU Ul Uld liicuuo . 1UV & v u, J man (referring to Dr. J. A. Sligh), and j I thank him for his words of commendation today, who knew me from my childhood up; h^ has followed me in my political life; he has heard accusation after accusation; but T tell you, my fellow-citizens, my friends, I lam willing for the test to be applied, iftd {hey will never find Cole. Blease going back on his friends, and they will never find him showing the slightest favoritism to his enemies. What} I hurts them so bad is they (a::': !: : ; it. That is where the shoe pinches. ; I will tell you what 1 tell them; I tell I then whenever the table is set and all i the fancy things are put on, and the ' srnod inbs are sitting up, and all the i 0 _ . Blease men come m and eat and get through, if there are any scraps left i then the anti-Blease men can come in, : but they haven't got any showing un- ' til then." He said he loved a fair,! clean fight, but he was going to stick by his friends, whether in politics or anything else. As to Lynch Law. "They tell you I am in favor of I lynch law?a powerful bad man," he said. "They call me an anarchist, and all my friends anarchists, that believe in all kinds of lawlessness. They say, Yes, you believe in lynch law. Some of you have been on the jury, and irrt,, Viova. hoard mp stand in the old jvu "a ?c v. ?- ? _ court house, and plead as hard for a I negro as any man could plead for a white man. When I took his money I owed him as good service as I owed you. When I put his money in my pocket I owed him my best, and I b?- , lieve in giving him justice. We have I white lawyers, white judges, white ' ~ o^liVitnrc onH t)i? ls\v- i J U1 1CJ, KJ, v?V, -*V .. , yer that defends a negro has to be a ; white lawyer, and I believe in giving j him his rights. When you promise him pay for a day's work I believe in paying what you promise him, and doing what is right. But whenever he steps out of a negro's place I believe in inviting him back, and if he doesn't get back I believe in picking up something and helping him back. Now, gentlemen, here is what I say about lynch law, without any apologies to any man. Put it down, and publish it to all the civilized world, to all the ! nations of earth?here is what I say j and here is what 1 mean. Whenever I a negro lays his hands on a -white; woman in South Carolina, I will never order out a military company and tell: the boys to shoot down their neigh- j bors and friends in the defence of that j black scoundrel. I tell you more than \ that; whenever one of them lays his j hands 011 a white woman, the sooner I you put his dead body six feet under the ground, the better for all the women of South Carolina. I go further than that; I say that whenever my * : V>Q_ vUULLLLll^'iUIl cU5 5UVC1 nui owxjlivio u\^~ tween me and the defence of the good women of this State, I will tear it up and threw it out on the State house steps and go myself in the lead of that crowd which goes to defend the virtue of the womanhood of the proudest old ! State in all the galaxy of the States : of this American Union. Now, gen- j tlemen, if that is favoring lynching' then I favor it?that is all, governor; or no governor, and if any of you | don't like that, vote for somebody else, because 1 don't want the vote of any man who is in favor of letting a negro insult a white woman and is too cow- i ardly to resent it." >egro Education. The governor reiterated his posii tion against the education of the | negro with the white people's money, stressing the argument that the education of the negro was a greater menace to the farming people than to any other class. "You ought," he said, "to take these matters into con-! sideration (the arguments he had advanced) and ask your senator and ask your representatives if they voted at the last session of the legislature j to pass the bill over my veto putting a heating plant in a negro college, paying $7,500 of your tax money for it, when all over the country there j are little white girls and boys walk- < ing two and three miles to school, and the first one that gets there builds the fire, and sometimes the teacher J gets there first and builds the fire." He said he did not know but one reason for giving this heating plant, whirh was ^iven over his veto, "and 1 that must have been that some of your representatives and your senator < were afraid that those beautiful little ! i taw-footed babies would get their j1 tootsie-wootsies cold getting up in the j'J early morning." "If y<^u endorse that;1 kind of thing, if that is the kind of i i i legislature you want, then you want J < somebody else for governor, because 1 T rinn't nronose to nut un with it. J There is no use to give me the gover- I ^ norship and not give me somebody to help me in the legislature." He; did not believe in coat-tail swingers? | "I don't say elect a man because he j says he is for me or against me, but j elect men who you know are in sym pathy with your views and your ideas j and who are in sympathy with the; 1 governor of your State, when he istry- j( ing to work for your interests and for jA economy." 'c "I wouldn't," said the governor, "go |? through the abuse, lies, villification, j * the slime and the filth that they pour i i ou me for any office in the world, but, my friends, I made tnis ngnt ror you, s and you elected me your governor, ; and I am making it now for you and . t for your interests, against a Cuban-j( Mimnaugl The I That 1 Pace 1 Tliic c+nv. JL I 17 VV/f ' We buy foi mand terrru to expect. than elsewh est store i i bringing us 36 inch Brown Linen, every t Flax, and 35cquality, sale pri 100 white Bed Spreads, extra worth $1.50, two Spreads to < - at each II Will put on sale this week 25 inch Brown Linen, worth is sale price 36 inch Satin Messaline, all 1 evening and street shades, vj special sale price the yd 72 pairs White Canvas Str worth elsewhere $1.50, take> pair 100 Ladies' Black Skirts, all models, worth $8.50, $7.50 choice Ladies' sheer thread Silk I garter top, Lisle heel and toe and white, 69c value, at 40 inch Sea Island Sheetir quality, worth and sells el 8}4c, 10 yards to customer, A price, yd > mamma^mmmmtmm "The / Spanish mixture of blood, a newspaper combination and corporations, which are furnishing money to try to beat rne in order to take charge of this government." Governor Blease referred .to the . Jays when he worked in his father's I - ' - J 1- - i ? V ? ' stable in .Newberry ana naa uuuucueu : the horses of some of those present j here today; to his father's telling him j: that he wanted him some day to be 11 governor; to his fight for the people I >f his county and State, and warmlv i lhanked the people of Newberry conn- ] :y for their past favors to hinL "Joe i Keitt went down here the other day - md told them in Columbia this week J i ?hat I would lose Newberry county; 'i hat there are 200 people in Newberry c iounty who voted for me before who e -vere not going to vote for me this t ;ime. Joe Keitt also must have thought s vhen the county convention met that 1 [ would be defeated in the county ionvention and he didn't get enough f rotes against me for president of that 11 ^-invention to plect him do? catcher I i it Prosperity; and the next time Joe t veitt runs he will find out he is still n the dog catcher class." y He closed with a joke, and amid the f shouts of his audience. I A barbecue dinner was served in 1 he grove by Messrs.-J. Walter and t George Richardson. s Vs I The Peop Jnders Is Aiwa fhat Noi z is recognized r cash in mam 5 no other Neu TU JL HUt \Aji+y v/v* tgrg. This it'oi f it wasn't tl f new goods. 1 hread pure Corset week at Mimn ice yd 19c shipments of the fam Sr Ct. Corsets ^o c o large size, Kxtra long, high a *ach buyer, garter attachments. 89c $i-49i aiid up. pieces 36 Two cases, 72 pai ; and 20c, ' Pumps, leather hee 10c values, take vourchc t tb* annular All ti on art <?1^0 L.XJ.V. 1>\J VsJ-KJilue $1.25, Oxfords and Patent ! ....... 98c pers, choice ap Pumps, j-c Pajama Checks a rour choice, and a nice fine finish 9^c dren's and all kinds value, sale price.... new 1 g 12 ^ and $6.00, , ^ . .$308 10^ Bleached Pepp 90 in. wide, witn a lose, Lisle each bu>'er- a'-the >' , black, tail Sixteen Button Le _____ black and white; for lg, smooth close out sewhere at ???limnaugh's Save money and com 5c to "The Store That'; UN A j Store That figures, if you do not possess aiso, j Ihe "milk of human kindness," you are j lot filling the place you were created j 'or. It is how we treat people, it is what j ve come to mean to them that counts !; n this life?in other words the amount' )f joy we bring and the sorrow and ] raffering we alleviate in the lives of i; hose about us will, alone, balance the j scales of justice in our favor on the j ast session of that higher court. < moHar whst vniir relilrion. or Cultivated Kindness. If your early training did not tend ( to create a feeling of kindly interest j i.r. v/vu-r pnmr>3Tiions and friends, as I 411 vw well as your family, try to cultivate j it nowj Xo matter bow well educated you may be, how many O's you are entitled to write after your signature, or how many points from the left hand side of ; the decimal you can begin your check |! aith and belief, the foundation of ] hem all is made up of that one pur- ( )ose, to live for the betterment of i he human race. v ( The Christian religion was founded 1 >y One who not only lived, but died ( or His fellowmen. His compassion, < t: - nitv mnrJo TTim hp- 1 IIS LCllUCl-iicancu IJ1 ... ovea by all people, and even the man vho sent Him to death realized this I tnd said, "In Hirn^ T find no fault!" onaDBBaBauaaMnanananmBBSBanni le's Store Miir ellingi ,ys SettL le Can F . us Li tc/at/ kjf ? moth quantitie iberry concern < nvi/*/1C /7V/J /ylli li yji /w&o w w viiu uldrCt always be re best. Every m T7M1 O /yiii you come: augh's. Two large New Val Lace ous W. B and R. i2^c value, )n sale this week. choice Vvncf- witVl iiU iV?l I Special 98c, $1.39. Mohawk Shee torn and hemn __H--11 S5C each, Mim: rs, White Canvas 1, all sizes, $2.00 rice $1.25 Printed Organ, . terns, regular Ladies' Vici Kid Leather Strap Slip- ioc solid colon $i 98 yaras t0 eacn 1 Standard Shirl t I0C> ful1 Vd- wide sells everywhe , elegant for chil- t0 eac]j buyer of underwear, 15c I0C Standard Stap hams, worth a eral Sheeting, full Mimnaugh's j limit of 5 yards to ??? ard 25c 15 and 19c Ch ?? all sizes, 4 to i :ugth Silk Gloves, ??? mer price $i.5o, to 100 doz. Lad 98c Vests, tape n ?????? value, 5 Vests ^ '"^^1 fViii /~"r-/~vTT7rlc- Qrttnp r?f flip Tu IC Willi LliV, V.lUtVUO uviuv v? VAA? ?... s Always Busy." in the show w ? A -m r% 7s Always tsu The magic light of kindness in the heart of one person will lighten the way for many to travel through days s< of darkness and pain. If you have but one spark, cultivate it and soon it will increase in strength until its rays will resemble a veritable "searchlight" M along life's pathway?revealing beauty d< and goodness eeverywhere, and giving back four-fold that which it discovers. ? IT: Honeymoon Season. a*,** > .\C\V lUiiV OU11. Lots of the couples who have been j .Q in the lobbies of the hotels during th9 last week or so are honeymooners and aj the clerks say this continues to be a record month for such visitors to N'ew York. The more youthful ones, according to the clerks, come mainly from th? south, where the people are e(j i??. +Via /\f + \ yy.er moTTl'^ dt OTI < ill luc nauii \jl gciwufi uiai < 'vu uv ?u ?arly age. it The clerks say they can tell a ? Dridal couple even if they only see P( jne-half of it. The male part of one vent to a fashionable hotel the other ' lay and wanted something fixed in Ml Lhe rooms he had engaged several be: lays before. There must be flowers, ho stc. Then he looked at the clerk and o'c jlushed. ed. "I'll tell you a secret," ne wnispered. "I've just been married.* L. "I knew it," replied the clerk. inaugh's t - )tore ag A ollow ^conornv.11 s, and dezould hope jays lower i the husiy train is and Inserting 8c, ioc and all on a bargain table, 5C ts 81x90, full bleached, ied, ready fo.r use, worth naugh's price is, each. 69c dies and Batiste, new pat10c quality, at the yd. .5c rViomKrv limited. to Duyer, at the yard 5c :ing Calicoes, worth and re at 5c, limited, one dress at yd 3c le Apron Checked Ging- / nd sells elsewhere at 8^c, * # * - - ^ Drice is oniy ildren's Fancy Top Sox, choice ioc ies' full bleached gauze eck and arm holes, ioc to each buyer, at each 5c as beens have 'em hanging indow 3 for 25c, special. -rs IS17W ?7 wkmmmmwmammmmmammtmmmmmmmimmmmmmmmmmm "Why, when did you find it out?" >1 "When you first engaged the roon^ tid the clerk. . " ' $' His Last Besidence. Lawyer (to witness)?Now, then, r. Murphy, give us your last resi?nce. \fnrnhv TTaith snr. T riiinno* but '11 be the cemetery, Oi'm thinkin'!? it-Bits. Sticks to His Job. "Your son certainly sticks to his b." "Yes, he's like a postage stamp, he ways sticks when he is licked first." Houston Post. Where the Pins Go. "Oh ma'am ma'am. T'va swallflw a safety pin." 'So that's where my safety pins go, is?"?Punch. >LICY HOLDERS ANNUAL MEETING. rhe policy holders of the Farmers' ltual Insurance association of Newrry county will meet in the court use on Saturday, August 10, at 11 lock a. m. A full meeting is desirR. T. C. Hunter, I. Epting, President. Secretary. < \ ; . .