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** A Characterizes Them As "Inf nor's Physician and H Inauguration?N\ . ( Governor Cole. L. Blease has issued | the following statement: I have read the statement sent out by John P. Grace from Glenn Springs, S. C., which contains that foul and dirty lie, displayed in large headlines in the Columbia State, "A Negro Story." It is so infamously false and con^ temptible that I do not desire to low- j * ' ^ X- i? J.J I er mvseii as a gentleman to iunner notice it, and am satisfied that all of the people of South -Carolina will agree with me that nobody with any gentlemanly instinct whatever would make such a foul and filthy statement. I could not but wonder wrhat the moth ers of this State thought when they saw that the daily papers would publish such a thing, to be . read by their sweet and innocent daughters, particularly those between the ages of > twelve and eighteen. These same ? newspapers recently refused to pub? ?- ? ~ ~ ty> inA- V?n/>o MPQ I1SU SUJIltJ vi o-Lxixiv^ u^/vuuot/ they said they were not fit for publication, yet they were made from the stump.( But, they now give space and herald to the world, in great headlines, the filthiest article that has appeared in the South Carolina papers ^ ?n many- years. This is but another evidence of their unfairness and meanness. Shame upon a press that would publish such a thing, even though it be true?but this is truly in keeping with the paper which the editor of the State recently read upon the "Ethics of Journalism,"?and it is f a pity that a city, composed of such proud people, should ha%e such a percnn' fnw if/* movrvr OVIi 1UL X U1WJ Ui As to The Southern Bailway. As to his statement about the Southern railway, that is absolutelyand maliciously false. I never made such a statement to him or anyone else in my life, and when he speaks i of the son of South Carolina's grand -1! 1 TIT- J _ TT? + Old Iiex u, v> iiuf nampiuii, cts a wmmon drunkard, he speaks falsely and ( places himself beneath the notice of any man with pure white blood in his veins. Mr. McDuffie Hampton and myself were on the campaign together two years ago; we were friends; 1 treated him kindly and politely, as 1 treat all gentlemen. The statement that I handled money for the South? ern railway and took vouchers from Mr. Hampton for the same is as foul a lie as was ever spoken or written bv a human being. I nave never nan* died a dollar of Southern railway money in my life and I have never de- i livered a dollar or any other sum of money to Mr. Hampton during the entire campaign, and I have never so stated to any man; in fact, I did not even loan him any amount of money. As to Grace's Support. > As to Grace's statement that he supported me; he told me himself that - 4f he did not support me in the first primary, and I was informed by those who had charge of affairs for me in Charleston that he was against me and for McLeod, but that he claimed to be for me in the second race. If he was for me and worked for me in the first primary, he must have had very little influence, for I only recejved six hundred and sixty-three votes in the entire county of Charleston. # As to appointing him on my staff, I have already said that that was done at the request of Mr. Rosseler. I did /not want Grace on the staff, but wanted Mr. Rosseler. Mr. Rosseler insist ed that I appoint Grace, which I did. The "T. B? Letter. As to showing* him the "T. B." letter. When it was given to me, some weeks after my inauguration, along with the other letters, I immediately locked it up in my safe and soon thereafter transferred it to a strong box in the Palmetto National bank, where it is now, along with the others, and has been except wnen it was presented to the grand jury, and dispensary commission, and shown for publication. I never consulted Graee about it or mentioned it to him in my life, and this is but another one of the false fabrications of a diseased mind, malicious heart or a mind diseased from vindictiveness and a desire to ^ do injury to those it hates. He has ^ never seen the "T. B." letter while it has been in my possession, and I do nor B1 amously False and Contemp otel Proprietor Dealing With o Southern Railway Money h not believe he has ever 6een the original at all. The Night Before The Inauguration, As to his charge that there was carousing at Wright's hotel the night before my inauguration, I herewith submit statements which I think will prove to the public conclusively that he is a deliberate and designing falsifier. and that the proof of this is ad^i+i/vnoi pvirjpnpft of his lies in the | UltlVliUl v f ? ? other instances. Affidavit By Mr. Robert Courtney Wright, State of South .Carolina, County of Richland. Personally came Robert Courtney Wright, who, being duly sworn, says 'that for ten years he was chief clerk and manager of Wright's hotel in the city of Columbia; that he remembers very well indeed the night before the inauguration of Governor Cole. L. Blease: that the said Blease arrived i at the hotel about eleven o'clock at night, accompanied by his physician, Dr. w. G. Houseal and members of his family; that the said Blease was a desperately ill man and was taken immediately to his room in the hotel and put in bed, and that only a very few of his most intimate friends wer? allowed to enter his room; that everything was kept quiet and Dr. Houseal, being very apprehensive of said i Blease's condition, remained in the Vim Jnwnor OT1 tlT A | X'UUIII WILLI 11 xxxi uunug vuv>. w night; that he has noticed in this morning's State the following statement made by John P. Grace: "I recall a scene at Wright's hotel the night before his inauguration, ft was the- first real insight I had ever had into Blease and the atWsphere in which he moved, and I think I can say that without exception it is about the nastiest recollection of my life. It was a grand earouse." The above statement is absolutely * ' rv- il.. and infamously iaise. un me l-uutrary, the room where the said Blease was, was guarded in order that no noise might be made, for we all feared that the result of his trip from his home in Newberry would prove fatal. There was no carouse in the hotel during that night; if there was it was not known to this deponent, and most assuredly there was none in Blease*s I room, or in any in which he took par; or Knew anyipvng auoui. L?cpunent further says that Governor Bleass, as a private citizen, stopped many times with him; that he boarded at the hotel during the four sessions of the legislature that he was State senator^ and that he always behaved himself in a clean gentlemanly manner; that there was never any carousing or general drinking in his room at any time, and that he and the other members of the hotel family I looked upon the governor as an es? i teemed guesi. R. C. Wright. Sworn to before me this 31st day of July A. D., 1912. Fred. H. Dominick, (L. S.) Notary Public for South Carolina. Affidavit By Dr. W. G. Honseal. State of South Carolina, / County of Newberry. Personall came Dr. W. G. Houseal who, being duly sworn, says that during the fall of 1910 he attended Cole. L. Blease for^ three or four weeks, the. said Blease being very ill with cholecystitis and jaundice. That in the latter part of December, 1910, the said Blease had a relapse and was desperately ill and that this deponent was very uneasy about him, that Blease was not allowed to leave his room, but was confined to his bed; that on the night before his inauguration as governor, this deponent, assisted by same others, carried tjie said Bloase from his bed room to the depot, on a cot, at Newberry, a telegram having been sent in advance to the Pullman conductor to have a berth made down and ready when he reached Newberry; pioaco was immediatelv [licit L11C saiu iJivuuv ? ? put to bed in said car; that we arrived in the city of Columbia about 11 i o'clock; that Blease was taken from | the car and carried to Wright's hotel, where he was immediately put in bed and only a very few of the members of his family and his closest friends allowed to enter his room; that this deponent was so uneasy about Blease's condition that he persuaded A \ ease 1 tible"?Affidavits of Gover f - . y the [Sight Before the handled by Blease. Mrs. Blease to occupy an adjoining room with some of the other lady members of Blease's family, and this deponent remained in the room, during the entire night, keeping watch over Blease, as he considered his condition very serious; that he has noticed a statement made by John P. Grace, published in the Columbia State of July 31st, 1912, column 3, page 3, in which he says: "I recall a scene at "Wright's hotel the night before his inauguration. It was the first real insight I had ever had into Blease and the atmosphere in which he moved, and I think I can say that without exception it is about the nastiest recollection of my life. It was a grand carouse." The above statement is absolutely false. There was absolutely no whiskey drank by Governor Blease for some weeks before his inauguration and certainly none the night before or the day of the inauguration. There was certainly no carouse in his room, for those who entered the room were very quiet and walked on tip-toes and were very apprehensive about the condition of Blease. If there was any carouse abound the said hotel during. the night, the said Blease had absolutely no connection whatever with it, < and knew absolutely nothing about it, T - ATtr r\ + J-? ? -n cr aild i uerwimj n.uc? iiuiuiug auuui it; that on the next morning, this deponent went with the governor-elect to the State house, assisting him along, and stayed right by his side during the entire ceremonies of the inauguration, and that this deponent knows that the said Blease did not take a drink of whiskey, and had not taken one, as above stated, for several weeks before; that immediately /lonnrinnf Q nnr\YY> _ | ailCl ddiu V/^ICIUUUICO u^^v/uviit UV/V/V1*!panied the governor to Wright's hotel where he placed him in bed, and where he was when I left him just in time to take the C., j N. & L. 5 p. m. train and I dij rected that he remain in bed until I next morning and be then taken to the governor's mansion. W. G. Honseal, M. D. Sworn to before me this 31st day of July, 1912. W. B. Wallace, (L. S.) Notary Public for S. C. The Other Matters. If Grace wrote any editorials in my behalf before the first primary, I have never seen them and I defy him to produce a single one from the files of his paper, the only ones ever having been brought to my attention being J his articles in the two issues of his rpaper between the primaries. As to his support'of me in the second primary and the condition thereof, his statements are wilful and malicious lies, which can he testified to by Mr. L. C. A. RosseW, Grace's mayoralty campaign manager, and others, if necessary. As to the charge of his having had o nartain /innvorCQh'nn with 1T1A flVPT a- V/V/i iuaii vva ? v? tJMvtva > ^ ? . ?. the phone, in which he says he had his stenographer sitting by his side and taking it down, I desire to say that this ? is somewhat strange, when he went to talk to me, if he was the friend he says he was, that he would have a stenographer to sit right at his end of the line ready to take down every word said. I remember off having no conversation with him over the telephone, but whether I did inn nfit hp nnri his sfpnoeranhpr could fix up any kind of a lie and say that that was my statement. I presume he worked this up in his mind after he read of the dictagraph. Anyone could sit down in his office, take a stenographer, pick up a phone, and say I am now talking to so and so and have the stenographer take down a ~ rN ,3 nnnroreotiftn OTtr? nf AmiTVSP i suppuacu UUU r t,x j Grace is low enough down to do that, and I have no doubt but that he could employ some stenographer who would be equally as low as himself. I am very sorry to have to pay any attention to this fellow's filthy insinuations, and would not do so, but for fear some might misconstrue my absolutely ignoring him. I am satisfied, from his recent conduct, that his mind is diseased, and I( would not be surprised, at any time, to hear of him being committed to a sanitarium. It is strange, however, that when Grace was following R. G. VT !? n laiis i By Jol i - . Rhett all over this State hounding ! j him down in the United States senate j race, that lie (Grace; m me eyea ui the Columbia State and News and Courier editors, and many others of my enemies, was a liar, a blatherskite j and a slanderer, but now, since he has begun to abuse me and belch forth his filthy lies, he becomes a great man and a high-toned gentleman in the eyes of Gonzales, Lathan and others. Why the change? The people are not fooled. They see through the plot. ! When Grace lied on Rhett, he was a ! terror and a bad man, but when he lies on Blease, he is a gentleman and | a scholar, ?uring his recent campaign j for mayor, these two newspapers were very bitter in denouncing him and saying that his election would bring shame and disgrace to the proud old city of Charleston, but now as they can use him in their villainous fight on me, I presume that they have 1 reached the conclusion that the city of Charleston is highly honored at j, having such a distinguished son at; the head of her -municipal affairs, lr ; I were to bow to them, they would i gladly take me up, but I began'this i fight for the laboring man and the | plain people, against the privileged classes and corporate interests which ; are grinding down the masses of our j; i people, and I shall keep it up to the Ifinish, and I will win by the help of a ; 1 fair and justice loving people and 1, the help of an All-wise and an Allmerciful God. I hope that I will not have to be ; bothered further with noticing any- 1 thing that comes from this filthy ; source. I have called him a character < thief and a liar to his face, when he ( was surrounced by his henchmen and in his own city, and he did not resent it, but sneaked off in the dark and began to pour forth his Infamous lies in order to injure me. Warning to His Friends. *j In making this campaign, being absent from the office so much, and at the same time having to attend to my official duties as governor, it is very hard for me to keep up with all the dirty falsehoods which are being cir-1 culatejd, and I desire here and now to | warn all of my friends against these j campaign lies and others which may ' hp started later, for the mimose of I influencing the voters or my State j against me. I am glad, however, that j they are circulating them as early as i they are, and I desire to call to the ! attention of my fellow citizens that no j man has ever been fought as meanly, | as contemptibly and as bitterly as I am being, and, for what reason? "Who is furnishing the money to pay for all these matters? The newspaper colI umns are open to any negro preacher, any trifling or dishonorable white man, or anyone else who will write a vile slander against the governor of the State, yet, when I want to get anything before the public, the newspapers charge me so much per line for inserting it. I believe in the integrity of the people of South Carolina; I know that they are honorable people, and I am fully satisfied that they will not allow me to be sacrificed by thf crusade of falsehoods and slanderous insinuations and abuse which are now being heaped upon me by the organs and managers of Ira B. Jones' cam paign, out tnat on tne contrary iney j will rally to my support and put their j mark of disapproval now and forever j upon this kind of political campaign-1 ing in this State. It is hard now to get our best men to offer for office and if they are to be subjected to the kind of abuse which is being thrown at me, how ?oon will it he when not one will ! desire to enter t^he political arena? I have bitter political enemies in Newberry; they, have circulated some very dirty reports in regard to me, but inone yet have been so low and so i mean as to insinuate such foul and infamous falsehoods as ihe newspapers carry in their columns of July 31st, 1912. I am standing for :>}o rights of the people; for the laboring | men and the masses against the classjes and against the oppression of the J newspapers, the corporations and ponlinnn tli orofAro fh cvco nomc. ! V/H4UC; U1V1V/4V4V, V/UVWV WVMW j ; papers rejoice giving circulation to j the most base and dirty falsehoods I that were ever spoken or written'of lany man, and WHY? i I My father's father, Thomas W., and ! his brother, Horatio BJease, were in three brothers and mv mother's four i 1 ? ' i 1 -3 AT I _ ? , tnree Dromers anu ray mouier s iuur j brothers were all Confederate so!- j fhe hn P. L diers, in the war of 1861-65, and all of them that were living were true to the cause of white supremacy in " r"~n J U ?YY>n+/vn "D,ff _ IS i D <H1U 1U11UWC10 UJL xinuiyiuu, uutler and Gary. I am asking no favors on this account, but beg of my friends to go to the ballot boxes early on the morning of the 27th of August and remain there all day and watch closely the counting of the ballots, for it - - * * X - J* XI X * /? xl. ... is oemg openiy Doasiea mat n iue^ cannot beat Blease, that they will count him out. Managers of South Carolina, are you thieves? I do not believe it, so give me a fair count. Friends, see that it is done. G. McD. HAMPTON'S STATEMENT. Kailroad Commissioner Denounces Reports From "Fertile Imafrina tion of Diseased Mind." To the Editor of the State: I note in the issue of the State of July 31, 1912, an article with the following conspicuous headline: "Grace Repeats Tales He Says Blease Told? Charleston Mayor Relates Interesting Conversation With the Governor? n?4-1^ DoilTiroTr \fnrior Wflc TTfiAd OU U unci JLL iiau >Y C4.J iuvuv; ? wwv?. in Campaign?Says Blease Credited Southern With Practically Paying McDuffie Hampton's Campaign Expenses for Railroad Commissioner.'^ This article reports a purported statement from Gov. Blease to Mr. J. P. Grace, mayor of Charleston, and reflects upon my integrity and honor. My first impulse was to treat these base insinuations and this dastardly attack upon .mystflf with the silent contempt tfhich it deserves, but out of respect for myself and reverence for my name, and my appreciation of the trust imposed in me by those who honored me witn tneir sunrage anu elected me to a responsible State office, I feel it my duty to make a statement. In'the article alluded to I find the following as quoted by Gov. Blease to Mr. Grace: "Why I practically paid th<* campaign expenses of McDuffie Hampton out of money fur- j nished to me by the Sou:nern railway I and gave them vouchers signed by j McDuffie Hampton for the amount." j These words convey in themselves j a manifest falsehood with absolute ab- ! surdity on the face. As a matter of fact, I will state truthfully and positively that I never received any money from the Southern railroad or any oclier railroad through Gov. Blease or any representative of the Southern railroad, nor did I receive any financial assistance from th Southern or any other railroad directly or indirpptiv in anv wav for mv camnaign expenses of 1910. I never met Gov. Blease until a snort while before the campaign in 1910 and he never tendered me any money in any shape or form for campaign expenses either before, duriugNor since the campaign of 1910. However, I will frankly* state that Gov. Blease was courteous and polite to me during the campaign, for which I thank him, ana accepted it in the manner in which it wrs intended. Any political assistance Gov. Blease may have rendered me in this campaign I certainly appreciate. As to the untruth and unwarranted charges as to my habits, will say that this is better judged by personal observation than by originating and promulgating false charges and base insinuations. Whatever money I borrowed for my campaign expenses was furnished me by the Palmetto National bank of Columbia, S. C., for which amount I gave | my individual note with ample secur- j itv. This amount has teen repaid to ! the bank by myself and I hold their i receipt -for same. This statement can be verified by any one. desiring to inform himself by inquiry at the bank. I regret exceedingly that for some occult and political object my name has been dragged into the present political campaign. Although these pernicious reports from the fertile imag J * - - ? W, 'n nt?A tir>_ inauon 01 some uiseascu uimu aic unpleasant, they are nevertheless untrue and unjust and will not injure me as intended. G. McD. Hampton. Columbia, August 1, 1912. _ V Proof Positive. Crawford?Do you think he's henpecked ? Crabshaw?He never mentioned it, but I've noticed that the portraits over his mantlepiece are those of his wife's folks.?Judge. y Grace THE TRIAL AT AUGUSTA Significance of Inyestigation as Sees By One Woman. (The following came to the Yorkville Enquirer from a married lady, who requests that it be published if there is no charge, and that her name and address be withheld.) Does the Bible, Ifke history, repeat itself? Since the commitee that met in Augusta adjourned, has anybody thought - il xl l. 1.^1 1 !.. 11. . oi me mai mat was neia m me uuuse of Caiphas, and concluded before Pontius Pilate? \ It is true that Gov. Blease never said, "Father forgive them, they know not what they do," for he is human. Let us hope the people of South Carolina will not censure him for the language he used until they have first put themselves in the same position, then conclude whether or not what they said would look better in print Let us hope the men of South Carolina? at least enough of them to give Gov. Blease a majority? had "written it down in their memoradum," that they would vote for Blease, and after the testimony of a man afraid to go to South Carolina has been heard, and the dictagraph #told all it knew, let them say like Pilate, "What I have written, I have written," aud then whpn the elertion is over. Gov. Blease ?I , ? can say of the people of South Carolina, what David said about his Lord, "Thou hast spread a table before me in the presence of my enemies." MAJ. NANCE FOB BLEASE. Former Xewberrian, Ex-Sheriff of Abbeville County, Tells Where He Stands. 'X Anderson Intelligencer. Major F. W. Nance, of Abbeville, j x ? j ii.;A u? x* no Siaiea ytsieruciy uiut uc x? <o .vcaio of age, that he has known Cole. L. Blease since the latter-, was a boy, has known him throughout his holding eminent positions in his native county, Xewberry, has know him through his legislative experience, but that never until lately had he heard the integrity of the present Governor questioned. Major Xance does not believe any of . the "Felder business" and states tnat ne nas no iaun in; v. B., or any other associates of that, lawyer from Atlanta. Major Naace says that particularly because Cole. L. Blease is a defender of the chastity of woman, that he is in^favor of him. Major Nance was sheriff of Abbeville and was born in Newberry. Pointed Paragraphs. It takes a shrewd man to get rich in spite of his wife. Silence is golden when it is pur cnasea wnn nusn money. - . There's many a slip 'twixt the solitaire and the marraige altar. Anything you get for nothing is -7 usually worth a little less. It's easy for a man to be patient with a stupid woman if she is pretty. The only time a bore is not a bore is when he talks to us about ourselves One seldom hears a married man boast that he never made a mistake ' in his lire. A woman never overlooks an opportunity to put it all over her neighbors in some way. Give some men rope enough in the guise of campaign cigars and they'll vote the other ticket. Xearly every day we read of some poor man who unexpectely inherit| ed a large .fortune, but we never met any of them. Purely Ornamental. A small applicant for assistance > was being interviewed by the charity worker. "What is your father?" asked the latter. "E's me father." v . "Yes, but what is he?" "Oh, e's me stepfather." "Yes, yes, but what does he do? Does he sweep chimneys or drive busses or what?" "O-o-w," exclaimed the small appli Udll(, W 11U Ud.?iilil5 11511c KJL cuiupi CU^Usion. " Xo, e' ain't done DOthin' since we've 'ad 'im."?London Tit-Bits. Reflections of a Bachelor. New York Fress. A man can worry a heap more over his baldness than his debts. / V. . ... J?5