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TWO-THIRDS FOR BLEASE j IN SPARTANBURG CROWD! i SO REPORTS THE SPARTANBURG DAILY JOURNAL. Good Order Prevailed at Meeting?Lyon Says He Will Prosecute Evans for Slander. # ______ In its report of the Spartanburg J * campaign meeting on Friday, the Spar- | tanburg Journal says: "It was a Blease crowd at the meeting in Spartanburg and the badges of red were greatly in the majority. "Both Judge Jones and Governor i Blease were presented with flowers.' Duncan did not get any. "Blease was cheered throughout his i speech. Immediately on starting he : took a hand primary and it appeared that about two-thirds of them were for j Blease." The Journal places the crowd at 6,- j 000. * Spartanburg. Aug. 9.?Thirty-five ; hundred voters endured with perfect j decorum the harangues of 12 candi- j dates for State offices today in a pine grove on Kennedy street. Partisan- i ship ran high over the Jones-Ble^se race for governor, but only one en- j thusias was aresied and the crow a as a whole behaved admirably. One j hundred and fifty policemen, accord-; .?ing to a statement from the chairman, S. L. Archer, were on duty on the grounds, and the sternest of admoni- j % tions were given potential disturbers j of the peace regarding that which j would happend to any one who violat- j ed tiie proprieties of the occasion, j Judge Jones and Gov. Blease both pro-, fess satisfaction with the meeting, j Flowers were pour-ed upon the plat-1 form for both candidates, and Gov. Blease was presented with a silver ' loving cup by Iris Landrum, the Syear-old daughter of B. G. Landrum, a liveryman of Spart^burg, who is a member of the governor's staff. Outstanding features of the meeting from the news standpoint, besides the absence of half expected disorder and the small turnout of voters in view ; of the poll of 8,594 in this county two years ago, were as follows: ' : To Prosecute Evans. An announcement by J. Fraser Ly- ! * on, attorney general, following repeti- ! tion by his opponent, Barnard B. Ev- j ans, of scandalous charges hitherto j made on the stump against various 1 persons that he purposed to swear; out a warrant against Evans shortly j to test the application ta campaign meetings of the slander and libel sta- j ' tute enacted at the recent session of the general assembly. Mr. Lyon said he had requested friends on the plat- ; form to take down Evans' utterances for the purpose of this prosecution. Gov. Blease tonight addressed at the court house a large number of sympathizers, mostly cotton mill op* eratives who were at work during the day. J. ft. Lonsr. Jr.. of Union, brousht here ioaay a ioving cup which a committee of admirers expects to present te Gov. Blease at the meeting tomorrow in Union. S. S. Tiner, of Pacolet, ; gave the governor a gold handled umbrella today as the gift of friends in j - Pacolet township. Judge Jones was greeted most cordially, his sympathizers expressing * their approval by cheers and prolonged hand clapping. He commented on j the fact that this audience was un- ! J^-doubtedly the largest the candidates j had faced during this campaign. K."> j paid a glowing tribute to the long established reputation of the people of Spartanburg county for intelligence and patriotism. Judge Jones displayed with indications of pride and pleasure, a telegram which he had just received reaahk. ing as follows: "Judge Jones, Spar-j T tanburg, S. C.: We are working a.:d r* ? i praying for your success. (Signed) Daughters of the Confederacy, Colum* bia, Aug. 9." Briefly mentioning the daily prefer-: red charge of the governor that his votes on the' early separate coach bills i showed him to favor social equality i between the races, Judge Jones said that among those who voted exactly as he did on tfcese nr easures were Geo. B. Dean, M. 0. Rowland, R. C. Sarratt (now of Cherokee), Stanyarne Wilson and C. A. Berry, former Spar'tanburg county legislators. x ~r uue poruon OI Lilt: guvtriiiui s iec-; ord which had not heretofore been criticised in detail was vigorously attacked today by Judge Jones. This | "was the governor's policy in respect to acts enacted by the general assembly at its last session. Judge Jones said The constitution, article 4, section 23, required the governor to sign a bill of "he approved of it and provided that within three days failing of his signature, the measure should become law anyway unless adjournment of the I legislature should prevent. The sov- ' w ernor, according to .Judge .lones, j should examine carefully every law [ passed and sent to him for inspection, i but Gov. Blease, during the recent i ooocirkii a 1 lnwptf 172 measures tn be- ! come laws without either approving or disapproving them. "Yet this/' he exclaimed, "is your great governor, who discharges so well his sworn duties." Once more Judge Jones challenged Blease backers in the audience to mention one thing that Gov. Blease had done for the poor man. Failing 1 to get a single response elsewhere, he j said he could ask Gov. Blease himself when his turn came to speak to answer the question. There was one thing he recalled that Blease hat dine for the poor man. This was to j seek the passage of an amendment I whereby the public schools would be barred against the children of the 1 poor man who failed or neglected to ! pay his poll tax. Criticising the gov-' . -c? ?-u:.? eniur iur evuiving MIC } t of all the notaries public, the speake: i said the excuse given by the governor for this action was his desire to get, rid of the negro notaries. "And here's where the 'nigger'; comes in again," said Judge Jones. ; "Hp is an nriPDt at p\-eitin<r nreiudice i and arousing passion." Judge Jones denied strongly that tie ; was the candidate of the corporations or the newspapers, but said that; if the newspapers were supporting him ' he was not ashamed of their help, but ! proud of it. "There are great differences, you j know, in newspapers. If you see it in j tne state or tne :\ews ana uourier or in the Spartanburg newspapers, it's a lie, but if you see it in Mr. Beard's \ paper, the Xews-Scimitar, of Greenwood, it's the truth straight from heaven. Yes, it's so if you see it in the little sheet, that is being sent broadcast over the State by this man, the bodyguard of the governor, whq goes armed," Turning to Mr. Beard, who sat on the stand, at the governor's right hand, Judge Jones asked: "Are you not armed?" Mr. Beard did not reply. Judge Jones persisted. "Will you j not say whether you are armed?" Mr. Beard slightly inclined his head, and said: "Wrhat authority have you to ask?" Judge Jones turned again to the audience. "He does not deny it," he said. "Are you armed?" asked a voice. "Xo," Judge Jones replied, and held up his coat, turning completely around. "Xo, but please excuse me. I forgot that I had in my pocket a iittie corkscrew. j[ snow it to you Decause if I should happen to pull it out accidentally, Gov. Blease would swear I was about to assassinate him. Over at Gaffney yesterday he made a great to-do about his fear of assassination and said if h^ went others would go with him; which meant that his bodyguard, Mr. Beard, with his concealed weapon, would make others go with him. The reason why I exhibit this corkscrew is that the governor is not stared of a corkscrew. All this talk of assassination is the veriest rot. Why, it never occurred to me that there was any danger in speaking anywhere in 1 South Carolina. It was a slander on the P-nod r>er>nle nf Cherokep p.onntv to ?? c? .. ? suggest that he was in peril of assassi- j nation at Gaffney." Mr. Beard, in conversation with newspaper men after the meeting, ; drew from his hip pocket an automatic pistol, when asked if he did go armed, : and said he was a properly constituted j peace officer, having special instruc- j tions to keep order on the stand at I campaign meeuiiga. nc caluuiccu a , commission as 'deputy chief consta- i ble," signed by Gov. Blease and bear-! ing date of July 15, 1912. "Let it be understood," said Judge j Jones, "that it is easy to commit crime} in South Carolina and easy to procure a pardon from a tender-hearted governor, and we will have lawlessness indeed." Speaking of the pardon of John Black, he exclaimed: "Xo State can stand for such indorsement of graft by her governor." He charged the governor with hav- I ing recklessly turned lose pickpockets,! barn-burners, robbers and murderers, i and said that such a policy tore down the only protection of the poor man. i The roan who would do best by the j poor man, he said, was he who would , administer just laws .iustly, fearlessly i and impartially. His opponent, he continued, s?-id of j him many small and mean things, but jhad foand himself utterly unable to attack him in the citadel of character, j i He declared that in making this race |he was animated by no selfish or ma-' ' licious purpose, but moved only by the j ' most earnest desire of helping to re- ; j store the ancient glory of his State ! icinrl roTiahilito+o Vtov in +V>o pvpc nf hov IAI1U * VilUiyill V.U l,v 11VI 111 V J VO VA, uv* ' own people. Applause, hearty, gener- i ; ous and long continued, broke out up-! t on. the conclusion of Judge Jones' address and he was presented with sev- j era! handsome Moral tributes. Miss Dorothy Zemp, of Lexington, and Miss Lessie Johnson and Mrs. A. H. Brey- j er, of Spartanburg, brought to the j stand in person their wreaths or nowers for Judge Jones, who made a brief but graceful little speech of thanks, j I During the corkscrew episode, the j candidates 021 the stand had a lot of | fun. Judge Jones ironically extended 1 his corkscrew to Gov. Blease, who took it in his hands and laughingly examined it, returned it with a bow to its owner in a few minutes. Gov. Blease was greeted by prolong-1 ed cheering. Referring to the cork- i screw incidents, he said that for Judge j Jones this meeting was a frost, and j because it was a 'cold day in August," j he would need that corkscrew when it j came to "warm up" at his hotel in the afternoon. The governor announc- j ed that he would address an audience of his friends on the court house lawn j in the evening, because, he said, there ; were "3,000 Blease men in Spartanburg county who were locked up today ; in the cotton mills and could not get! 1 J- : here, but wno worn a iuru um iui , Blease on election day, Lewis Parker and Tom Moore to the contrary notwithstanding." He said he had challenged Judge Jones every day this week to make affidavit, as he himself had done, as ; to the sources of his campaign funds and whether corporations were financ- ! ing his race. But Judge Jones had j ignored the dare. He said that if he had done nothing I else for the poor man he had at least j stood between them and "Corporation ! Jones." Defending his action in pardoning | three negroes, convicted of robbing j and beating a white man in Richland j county, he exhibited letters rscom-j mending pardon from D. E. Hydrick, j now an associate justice of the su-j preme court, but formerly a circuit j judge, and from Christie Benet, of Columbia, who was, he said, Judge Haskell's son-in-law and campaign man- j ager for Judge Jones, in Richland county. "I regret to hear," said the gov ernor, "that there is a report being i circulated in your county today. I do j not like to speak of it, but I feel com- f pelled to notice it. A man named Massee was taken off the train here the other day. He was wanted in Ten- ! riessee. I granted the requisition. They j appealed to Judge Sease for a writ of I habeas corpus and asked for a hear-f *? T j +v>Qir ViqH cmnoalpr? tn mg. 1 iuiu uicm iutj ? Caesar ana by Caesar they must be j judged. Judge Sease, who is an hon- ; orable Chrisitian judge, Ifeard the case and the man was turned loose. I had ( nothing to do with it. Yet some -peopple today in your county are circulating a report that Massee paid me $5,-. 000 to hand the case up to Judge Sease. The man who said, it is a dirtv and black-hearted liar as ever disgraced a Christian State. The j attorney who came here on behalf pf I the State of Tennessee is here in this audience. When he asked me to grant a hearing. I told him I would have i nothing more to do with the case. I j ".jii q+rti-o,, if t nnt tpII him I > will aoxv. Utv/nvo ii. X V*?VA ~ , wouldn't have anything more to do with it." "You certainly did," replied the Ten- j nessee attorney, Harry Stokes, of Nashville, who stood near the stand. Then the governor took up the dictagraph incident now listed among the i classics of South Carolina political j history. "You had a great machine here not j long ago," he said. "They tried to j drag down one of your best young men j by an infernal, lying dictagraph in order to hurt Cole. Blease. That led them to nothing but the darndest beat- j ing you ever heard of on August 27.1 You had another happening. I don't j like to mention it. But somebody ask- j ed me: 'Why didn't they serve brains ! with the eggs?' and I told them: 'Because the Jones men didn't have enough brains.' (This was a reference ' to the throwing of rotten eggs from I 11 - 1 T ^ "U? T) riro/JA movrir ! tile gaiiery m juiui x. uiav/c, juuju! . of Charleston, when Mr. Grace spoke recently in the theatre here.) "It was a great crime," the speaker went-on, "when in Spartanburg some people howled down a speaker, but at Manning, when the mayor stood in the crowd and let Jones whelps howl me down, he was- a great man." Gov. Blease, in passing, put his "0. K." on Olin T. Johnson, mayor of Spartanburg, who has 'been severely criticis- j ed because of his attitude in regard to the disorder at the Grace meeting. "You'll never have a more honorable man," said the governor, "nor greater friend of the* poor man than Spartanburg has in the mayor's chair right now. You're going to send turn higner up, too." Jones, Blease said, was one of those who voted to retire Wade Hampton, yet some of the same crowd who swore they would never vote for a \ . I man who voted against Gen. Hampton were now lined up behind Jones, i He says the Daughters of the Confederacy are praying for him. "Yes, and ; the Sons of the Confederacy and those qvp nnt nvuvinor : \\ I1U lUIIgllL ]U U1C >?" ! c??~ I.vs. so much, but they are voting for Cole.; Blease. I suspect that come of these l I same Daughters of the Confederacy j had better be praying for their hus-! bands, who lay around the clubs in Co- j lumbia and play poker and get drunk," j said the governor. Gov. Blease repeated his. declaration that Judge Jones wronged Gen. Hampton by crediting Irby instead of Hampton with "stamping out independentism." The speaker said: "Let's see what Irby said of your fellow towns-j man. John Gary Evans." He read from j a memorandum a string of epithets,! including "traitor," "liar" and several i other terms of like severity. He did not say when or in what circumstancas this language was used by the late Sena??)r Irby. Gov. Blease read an editorial printed in the Charleston News and Courier of April 17, last, in which the methods' employed by the Atlanta detective en- j gaged in the Beach case at Aiken by | Solicitor Gunter and Mayor Gyles J were criticised. " Yet after that," said j the governor, "they published on me a dirty, filthy story that was not fit to be read in the humblest negro hovel in the State. In one cast it was to \ convict a millionaire; in the other to | hurt me for political purposes. Then it was 'anything, Lord, to beat Blease.'" The speaker declared Jones wrould never be elected because the people would not make "that man" governor in name and let "Gonzales" be gover iiur ill i ccwilj'. "They quoted," he said, "from Tillman today. They have been doing everything they could to get him to come out against me. But they will never find Ben Tillman lined up with that gang that runs the State and the Spartanburg Herald. Jones says that if you take the 'nigger' out of my speech there is nothing but froth left, but I found out today that if you take the corkscrew out of his pocket he has no brains left." Judge Jones, the governor said, has not told him becausfe he was afraid "Gonzales" would take him out and spank him, whether or not he wouia order out the militia to defend a negro "who laid his hands on a white woman." Sarcastically referring to the support of Judge Jones' candidacy by Mayor Grace, of Charleston, Gov. Blease lapsed into a parody: * "Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound, 'Tis music around on Jones' mound." i Replying to Judge Jones' declarathat Qrippified nersons. formerly tiVil UiUW A- legislators from this county, had voted with Jones 011 the separate coach bills, the speaker said that^all of these were dead, but one, Stanyarne Wilson, "and he," said the governor, "is quietly sleeping in private life. I'm satisfied if he were here he would say he was sorry he vo^ed that way." The governor declared that the men who earn their bread by the sweat of their faces would reelect him because he was the one governor whom the newspapers could not control. Long continued applause broke out as the governor retired. His speech was the last of the day. Domestic Troubles. Willis?Are you going to take that " * ~ ? nai you were speciAius ouuui. Gillis?I don't know. Of course, we can keep the baby in the kitchen range during the summer, but I don't know where we can put him in the winter. ?Satire. A Widow's Are, Anyway. Gibbs?Here's a table showing woman's chances of marrying at various ages between 20 and 40. Of course it grades down. I Dibbs?Rubbish! If anv woman' \ really wants a man her chances are j 100 in 100 at any age.?Boston Trans-1 cript. 1 TEACHEE WAITED. Teacher of experience wanted for Central school. Term of five or five and one-half months at $10 per month. All applications must be in by August 20. Apply to either of the undersigned. J. A. Counts. T. A. 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