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THE CHEROKEE VOTERS ! HEAR THE CANDIDATES LIVELY AND INTERESTING MEETING AT GAFFNEY. Jones and Blease Both Refer to Till- j man Letter?Crowd Was Generous of Applause. Gaffney, Aug. 8.?Not more than 1,000 Cherokee voters turned out today to hear candidates for State offices, but the meeting nevertheless was lively and interesting, the Jones - - i* - t? Blease debate providing tae uns&csi (exchanges. Both Jones and Blease referred in their addresses to the correspondence printed in morning papers between J. L. Sims, of Orangeburg, and B. R. Tillman, United States senator, regarding! the senator's attitude towards the i Jones-Blease race. Judge Jones call- j ed special attention to the senator's assertion that Jones "would make a good governor, because he is eminently qualified," and said he would give 1 .$100 to the man who would procure from the senator a statement over his signature referring in the same terms ; to Gov. Blease. f Judge Jones also declared, in the course of a fervent appeal for better j conditions in the political life of the j State, that the churches would fail to j justify fully their existence if they did ! not do their part to "stem this awful ; tide of lawlessness that is sweeping over our commonwealth." Nothing that was new and import- , ant wrs developed in the speeches of 'other candidates. The crowd was generous of applause. Gov. Blease was repeatedly cheered by his admirers! and liixe Judge Jones was presented with some handsome flowers. The Pardon of Hasty. Blesse. defending his pardon of George Hasty, the Gaffney man who ( killed the actors,, Abbott Davison and Milan Bennett, while they were guests ; in his brother's hotel, said that J. W.; Thurr ond, campaign manager for Judge Jones, was tried for murder at Edgef eld and Leroy Springs, to whom Mr. Thurmond had referred men who asked for Jones' campaign money was tried for murder at Lancaster, acquittal resulting in both cases in pow - _ i er and influence of the defendants. Mr. Thurmond, he said, was a public oft ficer. Mr. Springs a rich man worth more than $1,000,000. Hasty, in his opinion, would have been acquitted 1 also if he had enjoyed equal advan- j tages. Petitions for the pardon of Hasty were accompanied by a letter from J. C. Otts, the solicitor, saying j the other indictment against Hasty would never be pressed and by a let- > > ter from T. B. Butler, now mayor of i i Gaffney, saying the writer hoped the governor would see his way clear to grant the pardon. There was also a letter from Eld. H. DeCamp, editor of j Gaffney Ledger, saying among other things that the writer saw no good | > reason why the pardon power should t not be exercised in Hasty's behalf, .-v Blease said that Mr. DeCamp had demanded that he read the entire letter, j v He did not have the letter with him, ; Vvnf txtoiiIH canH it in "Yf r DiiPti mn iinH MU 1/ II VU1U UV/UU iW V V V* if he published it the effect -would be | to "put him in a worse hole than he is in now." The women in the case, hp ! said, were no better than they should ; be. One of tftem, Vernie Sheridan, af- i terward led ail improper life in Savannah, he alleged, and on departing took with her several violins, the prop- i erty of other persons. ^ These she pawned in Xew York, j ^ sending the pawn tickets back to theowners. Referring to an interview with T. B. Butler, mayor of Gaffney, which f was published in the morning papers of May 15 and in which Mr. Butler inquired why Mr. Blease did not resign as trustee of the State college for ne-! groes at Orangeburg before entering W the State senate, Blease said he did i L resign the trusteeship before becoming a senator. "I understand," said 'the ! speaker, "that there is a scheme on i * foot to count me out, I know it is a fact that some people are endeavoring to provide for it." He urged his; friends to watch the polls on election i day, keeping an eye on the man who ! calls out the votes as well as on the man who records them on the tally i sheet. Charges that Judge Jones was backed by corporations and newspapers were repeated by the speaker. He j Bsaid he was informed that a meeting was recently held in Gaffney in which the request was made that all men ; present who were not' Jones v men i would retire. He was informed, he j said, that recently Lewis W. Parker, j l of (Greenville. Dresident of the Harnp-I ' * I ton Cotton Mills company, announced the intention of having bosses in all his mills make ta'ks to their operatives shortly in tie interest of Jud^e Jones. The sp'r l:er iig-tii: c-~Y.el ^.. Judge Jones to file an affidavit saying j whether or not corporations were financing the Jones campaign. He read extracts from the speech which Judge Jones made in nomina tiny J. L. M. Irby for United States % senator interpreting these to mean that Judge Jones credited Irby rathI er than Hampton with stamping out independentism. He again charged that one purpose behind Judge Jones' i candidacy was to "disfranchise the j poor white man" by making registra-! tion a condition of participation in, tne uemocranc primaries. Jtie aeciai- j ed again that Judge Jones' elevation to : the supreme court bench was his re-; ward for voting to retire Hampton, Wallace, Butler and others who had stood by the State in critical times. "Go to the Tillman boys and to the , laboring men," he declared, "and they ! will tell you they are for Blease." Speaking of the Tillman correspond ence the speaker said, "I notice this j morning that Senator Tillman has giv- j en Jones some advice. I am mighty j glad the senator took compassion on him, because he needs somebody to advise him. They thought they would get Tillman to come out against me, j but they didn't. He says he is taking j _ At. . ~ ? ~"u:- ? J no pare in uie guveruursmy race anu j that the slush poured out against me ; at Augusta is making me votes. That j letter is poor consolation to Uncle Ira, : but it is the best he could do for him." Blease gave less attention than usu- j al to his familiar charge that Judge ! Jones, in voting against the early sep- i arate coach bill voted for social equal- j ity between the races. He challenged j Judge Jones to point out wh'erein the j constitutions of 1868 and 1895 differed j on the separate coach matter. Anoth- ! er familiar charge which he again made was that Ben Abney megaphoned to the supreme court through Chas. D. Jones, of Lancaster, son of Judge Jones. Blease said the newspapers would probably say that throe or four i certain men were present at this meeting. "Yes they are here," h=> said, "and I'll tell you why they are here. They hsve received word, by letter and by i word of rpouth, that I would be assassinated on this stand todav. I told them I would make mv'speech and if I was assassinated thers would be some others going down the same road with me." The speaker svd w;th a smile that he had wondered at the accounts the newspapers had printed of the Lancaster meeting, but he understood them now, because he heard on the j train this morning that after the Lan- j caster meeting Charlie Jones sent up I a bottle of "happy water" to the re- ' porters. I At the conclusion of the governor's ; speech the band struck up "Dixie," > and a group of young women appeared j on the platform bearing flowers. One /\f fViQ i-mincr \vr?mon H nor? a Kmi f hie VI tug J vuug " ViilVii U1 upvu MluTV/LiU neck a large floral horse shoe, the party was composed of Mrs. Sallie Har- I riss and Misses Mamie and Callie Wil liams, Addie Davis, Custus Moor.ehead, Olive Tate and Bertie Jones. Judge Jones* Second Visit Judge Jones speaking of the hearty welcome given him referred to his address in Gaffney last March, when he j said he received a most pleasant re- , ception at the hands of as many! Cherokee county citizens as could get into the court house. He ridiculed the assertion of the governor that his elevation t6 the supreme court bench was due to scarcity of good material in the ranks of the reformers. He said he was the only man suggested for the new justiceship when it was created by the constitutional convention of which he was vice president and that in the general assembly he received the vote of every member, whether reformer or conservative, including Blease himself. Referring to attempts to make it appear that he is the tool of newspapers and corporations Judge Jones said with considerable feeling that such efforts to impugn his integrity were worse than blackguardism. He said it was wholly false that he had "deserted his party," but that in all the times of bitterness he had never lost his conscience or his sense of justice and hence even the conservatives looked on him as a fair and upright. man. The dav for the hitter strife is gone, he said, unless such men as Blease are put into authority to stir up racial and class animosities and breed dissension. "I want," he i said, "the vote of patriots in South Carolina." Judge Jones read the Sims-Tillman correspondence to the crowd and clearly made a powerful impression. He then made the otter above mentioned to pay $100 to any man who should produce a certificate from Senator Tillman saying that Blease would J I "make a good governor because lie j is eminently qualified." "Do you think," 'Judge Jones inquired, "that Blease; really believes I stand for social equal- ; ity." "No." replied a voice in the crowd. "lie or Miybo^y else a white i::." Js.-Ijje .-ours re4k r minded his audience that 011 the separate coach legislation, R. C. Sarratt, j of Cherokee, voted just as he did. Mr. j Sarratt was formerly senator from this i county and his family has long been prominent in this section. Ui 1*00(1 lioveniiuvuu "Tell us about good government, i that's what we want to hear," shouted a bystander, and the request evoked a round of applause. "We've got it from Coley," yelled an adolescent voice from the grandstand, the owner 1 of which persisted in his interruptions of the speaker, saying among other things, "Coley's the man, I can't vote for him, but pa can." Finally he was ejected by two special policemen. Thirty of these special officers were 1 on duty" and, by the way, Mayor Butler said he had purposely chosen most of them from among Blease supporters. Mayor Butler is a supporter of ; Judge Jones. He said that the officers who removed this young man were both Blease men. "What is good government," said judge Jones. is it not equal rignts to all and special privileges to none, fair play nd a square deal to all? Is it government for the friQn?is of the! governor? No, my friends, that is the ! rule of the spoilsmen and not of the j statesman. You do not have to take it j from the newspapers. He convicts himself out of his own mouth." "Put it to Coley," some one shouted. "So, friends, I am not putting it to Coley," said Judge Jones. "I make no personal attack on the governor. T ha vp n nth in or trs s3it nf hie narsnnQl. ! ity. It is the ideal of the government j for which he stands that I am attack- j ing." Reciting the well known details j1 of the King-Watson incident at the i governor's mansion and the declara-i' tion of the governor in regard thereto from the steps of the State house Judge Jones said: "No governor ought to give utterance to such thoughts. He ought always to stand for enforcement of the law and for good order." The speaker recalled with dismay the declaration of Blease that in cer- ! tain cases he would lead a lynching ( mob. He said that whatever the friends of the injured party might say or do, whatever people might enlist in them, the governor of the State ought not to incite to violence for there is too much lawlessness now and the people are already much too prone to viol-! ence. "Don't make me ynir governor," the speaker exclaimed, "if that is what ' you expeci 01 me." Judge Jones referred to the Rhodes ' blacklist case as a refutation of the charge that as. chief justice he had favored corporations. He said that during his 16 years on the bench he acted on 3,299 cases and today Gov. | Blease had found but two of them to criticise. Xot one of these decisions, ' he said, was of a character to make!. him ashamed of it. | <8> <$> j <? THE COTTON RED SPIDER. j <$> <s> <$> Clemson Extension Work.?Ar- <S> ele 81. 3> <$> <S> According to the letters received at | this office the cotton red spider is doing considerable damage in many parts of the State. Owing to the number of j calls for assistance in checking the | ravages of this pest, it is impossible j for/a man to be sent to each place. The cotton red spider is a very small _ insect, about tl:e size of a chicken mite, and is seen only on close observation. When plants are infested the damage ?s first seen at the base of the leaf. The leaf turns reddish in color, a d this gradually spreads over the entire leaf, which soon fills off. On ex- j amining closely the under side of the ! infested leaves, the red spider will be found, sucking the sap out of the leaf. ; A fine web is made on the under surf n f 1A /\ 1 Aft ^ A J U AM A A iL. ll. - . 1.1* ? iavc UJ. Lilt? iCdL, <iuu utrneam LUJ.S lilt; ! spiders lay their eggs, and are sup-; ported while feeding. As they have no wings, the spiders must crawl from j pjant to plant or be carried by some ; animal, as the horse or mule while! plowing. As soon as the damage is noticed, if j it is confined to a few plants, these; nay be pulled carefully, and burnt. Any plants that are pulled up. and | then left on the edge of the field, will ; not check the damage, as the spider ; will soon crawl to fresh plants. Where I the infestation covers too large an area ! to warrant the above procedure, the j plants should be sprayed at once with potassium sulphid, using three pounds to 100 gallons of water. It is best even where a small area is involved, to use the above mentioned spray over an area extending out at least 50 feet from the original place of infestation. In spraying, be sure that the under sides of the leaves are covered, as j most cf the insects ar-? found there. j yi-r. r-j urMally si.TTts! . "> ?. .7?.n f-.'. J, or pok.' berry weeds. Violets are usually the starting points, and these plants should be examined frequently and carefully, if the spiaer is round on them, they should be sprayed as recommended for the cotton. The Jamison weed and the poke-berry weeds should not be allowed to grow anywhere near the cotton fields. As soon as the cotton becomes infested, the farmer should see that the above plants are destroyed, not merely pulled upland left lying on the ground, but burned. If they are left lying on the ground, the red spider will find its way to the cotton. Clean culture, by destroying weeds, especially those mentioned above, and deep fall plowing, will do much to check or eradicate this pest. The potassium sulphid for the spray can usually be purchased from drug ^~T ? iv A_. j i. s>iui es. 11 uiey uu xiui nave it, uiey will gladly order it for you from some wholesale drug company. Division of Entomology. Clemson College, S. C. A Summer Sketch. Satire. The wind will show her molded grace, To light her hair the sunbeam tries, Moods play like waves across her face, And ocean's depths are in her eyes. Fair armed with beauty more than name She takes her toll of knight and churl; Each year she plays the new-old ga:ne, A most enchanting summer girl. Complete and sure in any part The season's pleasures she'll define, klas, they say she has not heart, But I know better^she has mine! A Singular Plural. 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