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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.
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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
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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
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