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State believes that Judge -Jones is in favor of social equality.' Just as no one but a fool will consider Judge Jones as being in favor of social equality, so no one but a fool will regard Governor Blease as the only representative of Tillmanism, or its best exponent. There are hundreds of Tillman ites in the State who are better exponents of both than either Jones or Blease or Duncan. "I do not see what that has to do with it anyway. The issue is, or ought to be, integrity of purpose, patriotism and ability, cleanness of character, high ideals, capacity to lead the people and show them the best way to go, courage to execute the laws unflinch ingly and without fear or favor. "I have been made ashamed, as every South Carolinian must be at the vulgarity, indecency and cowardice that has been shown on the stump. When my brother senators read about the passing of the lie in every meeting in South Carolina, they with a veiled sneer allude to it in surprise. I have no word to say because I can not I resented the lie with a blow on j the floor of the senate, and that has I been regarded here as an illustration of the State's spirit. * "The people of the State ought to compel these wuo seek their votes for high official positions to behave and cnAflk like gentlemen. The DeoDle can do it and the people alone can do it. j One can speak boldly, aggressively and truthfully, and not flinch from stating the facts and do it in parliamentary language, and public opinion should demand this and the people should enforce it as a rule. Else for the State's good name we had better cease having these State campaigns at all, and they are too valuable to give up because of the manner In which they are being prosecuted. It is a disgrace tn have them conducted in the way they have been this year. It would be little sort of a calamity to have them cease altogether. "One word in conclusion, aua the most important word of all. Theie are mea in the State who believe if Judge Jones is not elected that the S-.ate will tn tho do^s. There are others equally honest an-d patriotic who believe that if Blease is not elected the Reform Government and principles it gfcood for will be destroyed. Both are wrong. The fabrie of our government is not built on such a flimsy founda-1 tion, but it is of vital importance? | and I say this with all solemnity of j which I am capable?that the legisla-j ture to be elected this year is of more | importance than the filling of the gov- j ernor's office. If we have brave, true | men, who are honest and not to oe i brow-beaten or bribed, or seduced in-; to betraying their constituents, no bad governor can do us any irreparable in- j jury, and without them no good gover- i nor can do much good. So I implore^ my fellow citizens to see to it that the very best men in each county are sent \ to the house of representatives and j the senate. Then whether Blease or Jones is elected we will be safe. ,1 (Signed) ^ "Tillman." ? MAINTAINS NEUTRALITY. * i ; Tillman States Position in Letter to \ J. Beiton Watson. I Anderson, Aug. 10.?J. Beiton Watson, who has at different times since 1884 represented Anderson county in the legislature and was aligned with the reform forces in this county, recently wrote to Senator Tillman asking where he stood with reference to i ^he gubernatorial race. The following reply was received from Senator Tillman by Mr. Watson: i ? "Washington, Aug. 1, 1912. "Mr. J. Belton Watson, Anderson, S. C. | "My Dear Sir: I have your letter of July 30. I have already notified the people of the State in two or three ways, both in the newspapers and by private letters, that I am 'hands off' in the ( governor's race, and no man or set of men has the authority to use my name as indorsing either of the two candidates. I have stated before and I mean it now?and you can publish this if you see fit?that when I change my mind and decide to take sides, I will do so over my own signature and give my reasons. "Very sincerely yours, (Signed) "B. R. Tiilman." This letter received by Mr. Watson is dated two days prior to tne one received by Mr. Sims, of Orangeburg, from Senator Tillman. . Columbia, Aug. 7.?Some few days ago Mr. James L. Sims, editor of the Orangeburg Times and Democrat, in writing to Senator B. R. Tillman on general matters and the political campaign going on in the State, enclosed the letter published below and requesed the senator to give his views on the question asked therein. Mr. Sims's Letter. Here is the letter Mr. Sims wrote to , Senator Tillman: "Orfk-e of the Times and Democrat, j "Orangeburg, S. C. '"Senator B. R. Tillman, Washington, ; D. C.?My Dear Senator: Many of the! j reformers who were with you in the j : nineties and who still believe in you j and are doing all they can to have you ; returned to the senate are supporters j of Judge Jones in his race for the governorship and hope to see him elected. As you doubtless know, Judge Jones has been charged with being in favor of social equality because he, with many other good men, when in the legislature, voted against a law providing separate cars for the races when you were governor, because of rhp nnnonstitutmnalitv of such a law under the constitution of the State at that time. Other charges have been made against Judge Jones because of his acts as a legislator and justice of the supreme court, which we need not mention as they are familiar to you. Judge Jones was speaker of the hous= of representatives' when he vote'' against the bill providing separate cars for the races, having been elected to that position by the reformers, wiio afterwards elected him associate justice. We feel that these charges I against Judge Jones are a reflection on 1 all reformers, as they made him asso- j ciate justice after he committed the; act, for doing which he is charged with | being in favor of social equality. The j same may be said of the other charges against Judge Jones. As you were the head of the Reform Movement and! were governor when Judge Jones vot-j ed against the separate car act, we would like for you to say whether you; consider Judge Jones an advocate of social equality because he voted against that law, and whether in your judgment he would make a good gover- j nor of the State. With great respect, j I am vorr trillv vnnrs I JL uiu ? vt; v* u*^ ^ wv**. wj (Signed)- "Jas. L. Sims." Here is Senator Tillman's answer to Mr. Sims: Senator Tillman's Reply. "United States Senate, "Washington, D. C., Aug. 3, 1912. "The Hon. James L. Sims, Orange- j burg, S. C.?Dear Mr. Sims: I have! your letter of July 29, for which please accept my thanks. I have been surprised that Judge Jones has allowed i Governor Blease to put him on the defensive and made him explain some-1 thing that needed no explanation, for | no sensible ?nan in th^ State believes i that Judge Jones is in favor of social equality, and Governor Blease has laughed in his sleeve to see how shrewdly he has muddied the' watei In other words, he has played politic more adroitly than the judge. In rr ply to your question: 'As you were the head of the Reform Movement and, was governor when Judge Jones voted ! against the'separate car act, we would like for you to say whether you consider Judge Jones an advocate of so- j cial equality because he voted against J that law, and whether in your judgment he would make a good governor: for the State,' I answer: I do not consider that Judge Jones was an advo-! cate of social equality because he vot- i ed against that law, and I believe lie! would make a good governor, for he is eminentlv qualified. I say this more willingly because it can not be con- j strued as my taking sides as between j the men. I announced last fall that I would not do this, and thus far I have Seen no reason why I should change my attitude. ' If the newspapers keep on publishing such stuff as Grace's attack on the governor and the dictagraph 'slush' they will certainly make Blease gov-1 ernor again. | "Very sincerely yours, "(Signed) B. R. Tillman."* ARMY WORM\A YANDAL. Stops Trains and Damages Crops to Extent oi Last Month. . Washington, Aug. 8.?More than $S,_ uuu,uuu carnage was ao:i-e to crops in the South last month by the army worm, according to unofficial estimates of the department of agriculture. Whether the season's second brood of tlit? irsects, already appearing in South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia and other States, will increa?? this loss is of much concern to government experts. All the means at iha depart | I ment's disposal are being used to m.:-e: the emergency. j Reports to the department say cne army worms, at some places naii a foot aeep 011 ramuctu ira.t;tt.?, uavs oiupptu trains. This loss is plased at $1,000,000 in Georgia, while in Arkansas 20 per cent, of the corn and 10 per cent of cotton planted have been destroyed. Losses also have been great in Tennessee, the Carolinas, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. In some of these, ' particularly Louisiana, they excsed the million mark. Corn, cotton, sugar eanp and rice rrons from Louisiana to the Atlantic have been affected. * JONES HAD HARD GOING AT THE UNION MEETING }IADE DETERMINED EFFORT TO SPEAK TO HOSTILE CROWD. Blease Received Cheers, Loving Cup and Flowers?Says Jones Using Corporation Money. Union, Aug. 10.?Judge Ira. B. Jones, candidate for governor was almost * 1 j T? nowiea aown uy supyuncia ui uis opponent, Governor Blease, at the State campaign meeting here today. That the greater part of the audience of about 2,000 was in the humor to prevent Judge Jones speaking was very j apparent, and it required the combined | efforts of County Chairman McBeth Young, Sheriff J. G. Long and Mayor T. C. Duncan to hold in check the dem- j onstration against the former chief j justice. Judge Jones chided his tormentors I for their disposition against according him a fair hearing. He was full of: fire and his words breathed defiance i when, in conclusion, he shouted, "I j want to say I propose to be the next j governor of South Carolina. The people's will will be registered on the. 27th of August, and neither men who f make noise, hold up their hands in | _ I primaries nor howling mobs will con- j trol the destiny of South Carolina, but. the men of South Carolina will do ; their duty and save their State." Governor Blease's voice was in bad j shape today. He declared he had al- | ready made fourteen speeches this; week and would make it fifteen at! Jonesville tonight. The governor made 110 effort to attain the standard of, l oratory reached by him at former meet- j ings, nor did he inject the usual amount of spice into his address, even j cutting short the repetition of his at- j tacks on Judge Jones. He probably thought "what's the use? nearly all of I them are for me any way." And the bulk of the crowd was for . him. The governor's adherents at the j cotton mills here turned out in full j force, the mills having shut down at. noon (as is customary on Saturday) and by the time the governor's turn came to speak, there was no mistaking for whom the vociferous cheers, were intended. Governor Blease today directly charged Judge Jones with using cor- j poration money to finance his cam-' paign, declaiming that such conclusion j was justified by the failure of the; judge and his campaign managers to ! make affidavits to the contrary. Eians's Hickory Stick. Mr. B. B. Evans, in replying to the threat of arrest for slander, made at: Snartnnhnrg- hv Attornev General Lv on, defied that official to carry out his ' announced plans of haling him before 1 the courts, and stated that he would j retaliate by indicting Lyon for 'pilfer- i ing." "Where is the warrants?" Evans j asked. "A good hickory stick is all i the warrant I want." "Now, they have threatened me with ! arrest for slander," said Mr. Evans.! "How can we slander a man without < character. I never make a statement! I can't prove," he continued "If I have slandered them what have they , done to B. B. Evans?" "Where is the warrant?" asked Mr. Evans. "The sheriff, he hasn't got it. I suppose Abney, Felder or Stevenson interpreted the act for him (Lyon) or he wouldn't have known it was on the hook." As for the hickory stick Mr. Lyon ! said this was not the first, time he was so threatened, "and by some with more sand in their gizzards than this man ~ i has. If he uses a hickory stick on me, he'll find he hasn't as much hair on his head as he has now," concluded j Mr. Lvon to ye'.ls of delight from the crowd. Another Cuj) for Blease. Governor Blease received another lovine cud tcdav bister than the one he got at Spartanburg yesterday. On J one side of the cup the following was j engraved, "Rdeemed, Carolina's'best. | Hampton-Tillman-Blease." On the re- [ verse side was, "Govenor Blease, from ' Union county friends." The cup was ! presented by Mr. J. G. Long, Jr. The ! governor also received a floral horse- i shoe. "From a number of his lady j friends of Union, with love and co'nfi- j dence." I Jones Determined to Speak. Judge Jones realized that he faced a hostile crowd when he began his j speech. Before he could start it was necessary for the chairman to appeal for quiet, and these appeals were repeated at intervals while the judge was speaking, but 111 many instances were unheard. | Major Duncan, ir an earnest talk to the crowd, asked thai the speaker be not interrupted, and for a short while afterward better order prevailed. Tnioc tvug nPTsistpnf and an ll UU57 ^ g. iparently determined to have his say, t no matter how many in the crowd thought otherwise. He hud it, but it1 was mighty hard going. He said he ? felt he could come before any audience in South Carolina and claim a respectful hearing after his long and honor- j able public service. Judge Jones called the governor tlu j "great bulldozer of South Carolina," j and quoted the latter's threat maae ai the campaign meeting in Charleston when the governor declared he would | try to give the people of that city metropolitan police and injunction if they voted for Jones. "He wanted to bulldoze the people j of Charleston into voting for him," j said Judge Jones, who called attention to another threat of the governor's that "if they are lucky enough to beat j me," before leaving office, "I'll make the gang sweat blood." Judge Jones again made his appeal for decency and good government. Closing amid great confusion, he received a basket of flowers. Blease Charges Corporation Aid. "As Judge Jones didn't bring any- I thing but his corkscrew, I'll have to drink water." said- Governor Blease, in a husky voice as he began his address. "I charge Ira B. Jones with receiv- | ing from corporations of South Carolina, or from officers of corporations, j money to pay his campaign expanse. I filed affidavits at Camden Monday | stating that I was not paying campaign managers, nor people to travel over the State to abuse me like his crowd is doing me," continued the governor,! flo/iloro/1 tViQf Tn era Ti-?noc: aftpr ?> uy UV/V1UI V/U mtA-U U UU^V VVUVK/J v??. wv/? six days, not having filed affidavits in reply to the charge, "I have a right to ; presume that he is receiving assist- j ance direct or through officers from the corporations." The governor read a letter from J. T. Willard, he said, of! Greenville, to "show what dirty filth ; the Jones eang is using to trv to beat I me." As read by the governor, the letter j indicated an effort to induce one of i his supporters (a cousin of the writer) j to desert the governor, as "you are a j consistent church member, and do not drink or gamble." The governor said that when the campaign was over he would make J. T. Willard answer for "the dirty lie he has sent out." "I can go home," said the governor, "go to bed, stay there until the 27th of August and then beat Ira B. Jones." In ponnection with a defence of his pardon record the governor said he had "no apology to ma^e to Jones or his supporters" for anything he had done as governor. The governor said; "this crowd" after him went to Au- I I gusta and got some slime and filth, j then went to Spartanburg; that they j worked Felder and Burns and "DisGrace," from Charleston. "Worked all j the dirt and filth and I haven't a word j against Judge Jones, because he's fol-.j lowed by a dirty, filthy crowd that can be controlled by Spaniards-Cubansniggers." .Tones, if he should be elected, would 1 be governor in name only, he declared, j saying: "Gonzales will furnish the j brains." "But you needn't be uneasy," the governor assured his -supporters,! "for Jones ain't got nc* more chance of I being governor this year than that i I school building got to walk over here and shake hands with the chairman." j When the governor said: "I thank j you all for this reception," indicating j he was about to stop, there ca-ne from | one man in tne crowa in p'eacnng tone, j "Oh, go ahead, don't stop." The gov- j ernor declared Judge Jones wanted the crowd to howl him down. To the governor's invitation to visit him in J Columbia there was a thunderous; "thank you." In conclusion the gov- j ernor made this prediction "tomorrow i you'll see in your newspapers, next; V\ C C A. I4I 1110 is uivsii at cixcbc \ this was a Jones crowd, and to prove 1 that, if they publish that, they'll pub- ! lish what's not true." said the gover- I nor, "you Blease people hold up your, hands." The governor's friends were wildly ; enthusiastic by the time he concluded ' and aimost "eat him up" when he left' the stand. Obscured Identity. Judge Locks, presiding judge of the I federal court, first district of Florida. J was annoyed at seeing one of the at- : torneys, attendant upon a sitting of the ; court, put his feet upon the desk ia i front of the one in which ne was seat- j ed. . "Marshall!" roared his honor, "you will oblige me by identifying the legs to which those feet belong!"?Judge. The Herald and News?best county paper in seven States. A Great Rnildinfir Falls when its foundation is undermined, and if the foundation of health?good digestion?is attacked, quick collapse follows, un the first signs of /ndiges- i tion, Dr. King's New Li/e Pills should ! be taken to tone the stomach an?i r*e j :: ? p: . kidtjpv - o i v>*'els pi Pas- ' <5T>r flopv, a"'i 0-i'y 'Jr cynt? a? W E. Pelham's. ?? 33rd Annual Seas EXCUi ...V] Southern AUUU5 Tickets limited Until An I Good on Very Low Rc ? n i_ n I tractive Resorts neat Railway. WASHINGT $12.00 ROUNE WASHINGK Leave Columbia 6.10 P. M. 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X Will give a Uico~^ia-oo uai at my residence Tuesday, August 13, State campaign day. Will sell meat and hash at 11 o'clock. 7-9-tf. J. M. Counts. I will give a first-class Barbecue at my residence, County Campaign day, Monday, August 26. 1912. J. M. Counts. We will give a first-class barbecue at Jolly Street on Saturday, August 17, county campaign day. Good dinner guaranteed. Come, everybody! J. A. C. Kibler. E. H. Werts. We will furnish a first-class barbecue at Fork school house on August 22, campaign day. Special arrangements will be made for the entertainment of the young people, and music for the occasion has been engaged. R. L. Lominick, * Caldwell Ruff. Flagged Train With Shirt Tearing his shirt from his back an Ohio man flagged a train and saved it from a wreck, but H. T. Alston, Ralf>i2:h. X. 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Florida. i wtmarwmmnrrmmmammmmmmmmmmmmmrnmmk t fected and my liver was in bad condition, but four bottles of Electric Bit: ters made mo feel like a new* man." A trial will convince you of their matchless merit for any stomach, liver i or kidney trouble. Price 50 cents ac W. S- Pelham'a. I 1785 1912 y0^ COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON ' I 128th Year Begins September 27. It offers courses -in Ancient and Modern Languages, Mathematics, History, Political Science, Debating^ Chemistry, Physics, Biology and Engineering. I Courses for B. A., and B. S. degre? j with Engineering. A free tuition scholarship to each j county of South Carolina. Vacant f Boyce scnoiarsmps, giving $j.vu a and free tuition, open to competitive examination in September. Expenses reasonable. Terms afcd catalogue on application. Write to Entrance examinations at all the county seats on Friday, July 5, at 9 a. m. HARRISON RANDOLPH, President, ? Charleston, S. C. TEAtJtLJllS ?!AllILU. 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. 3. Cook. Prosperity, R. F. D. J. C. Siugley. Slighs, R. F. D. J. A. C KiMer. " , 4 O. L / / ' .< - * - j >