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STATE CAMPAIGN MEETING IN NEttBERKl ON TUESDAY | (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1.) months and he knew him quite well. "That as soon as he saw the party held under arrest in McAllister, Oklahoma, he knew that it was not Perry and so announced: and as a matter of fact, ' I it was not W. E. Perry, the man who was wanted for the killing of said .Boozer. (Signed) "M. B. Derrick, "Chief Police. "Sworn to before me this 31 of July, 1912. (Signed) "W. H. Stuckey, (Seal) "Notary Public for S. C." "Sam Jones told a man the other day," he said, "that I was dishonest. If Sam Jones will prove I ever heal onrhA/ir out nf their house rent I will aii%* vk*v ? give him $100, and that is more than he can say. That is the way they are fighting me." Governor Blease said they had a paper over in Lancaster, and he wanted to show the country people what Charlie Jones, Judge Jones' son had done. He said he had a copy of the Lancaster paper before him of August! 3, and another of the same paper of! August 3, and one had the Grace negro story in it, and the other did uot. "Charlie," he said, "sent that paper out through Lancaster county, sent that paper out to people who he thought could stand it, and when it came to the town of Lancaster they issued another paper the same day and left out the , Grace negro story." He said it was cut out of the town issue to protect the people of the town and Ira B. Jones' friends and their little girls from read- j ing this dirty filth. "That is the kind of fight the Jones family is making," he said. He presented Judge Jones a pamphlet telling him that was the paper he had issued dealing with Jones' record.! "Now," said Gov. Blease, "here is a j letter hv Jones?this is not! .signed by 'Pussy-foot Bill," but signed i by Ira B. He says, The charges! ? which Gov. Biease has trumped upj against me are made only to fool people and catch votes and are false and .absurd.' Now, if Judge Jones tomorrow at Laurens?I won't ask him to do it at my own home?there is his letter j saying it is false, signed by his own Jiand, there is the record 1 sent out?if Judge Jones will put his finger on a single word of it or a single vote in it ? that is false I will quit the race for governor, and if he don't do it I propose to tell the people of South Carolina that he has sent a lie throughout j this State with his name signed to it." | Gov. Blease said he had filed an affi-1 davit a week ago from Mr. Fred. H. I Dominick and himself that they had j * received no corporation money or oth- j -er campaign contributions, that they i had no hirelings going over the State! to fight Jones, and that they didn't j have a paid State campaign manager | or paid county campaign managers. I "I challenged Judge Jones," he said, I "to make a similar affidavit, and he J >. hasn't done it, and he can \ do it." The governor then real a le'tes* he said he had received The day before, and he wanted the news-jap-^ mej to note the letter, and if "Pussy-foot Bill" 1 denied it the man wlio \*rjte it would give him the finest whipping he ever got in Edgefield county. "You know," he said, "Pussy-foot" killed a man once ,1 and Jones' boss campaign manager, p Leroy Springs, killed a man once, and I if it had not been for their money and : influence both of them would have'' been in the penitentiary." The ietter j i he read was to the effect th'at one j B^Henry'Kearsey had been employed to |i distribute Jones buttons and plead for j < votes at $2.50 a day and expenses; that; Henry used to be well off^intil they i got prohibition in Augusta and ran j < him out of business, that he had lost ; aut and was being hired to work for ] Jones, but that the governor need not j; ^ be uneasy, that Henry was too well: i ^Lknown to do Jones any good. "That," i ? said the governor, "shows whether they are hiring men to go over the J State and lie on me." Hp sair? the i 1 newspapers were publishing all kinds 11 of filthy lies on him, "but, fellow-cit- J izens, you need not be uneasy?I am ! i going to beat Ira B. Jones 18,000 or j; 20,000 votes, and let him loan Sam<j enough money to reopen his restaur- ; ] ant." i ] I -Gov. Blease said he had been asked 1 at several places why he had voted , for Jones when he was a member of ' the legislature. He said he had not 11 aifewered the question elsewhere, be- j' cause he was then representing New- j ] berry county in the legislature, and ! 1 was responsible only to the people of. ] this county for his vote. He had rep- jr resented Newberry in the house, he jr I said, in the senate, and as mayor, j t They couldn't find anything else, and | were going over the State saying j t BIea?? wop - -? ose Xewberry c"?*?Ti*y ! . "Gentleman," he sa-d. "if I don't b^at ' I Jones bc'h in N-woerpv a: d Lancaster I I will give him a derby hat. The people know him too well to vote for him in I^anc-aster. and they know his folks too well to vote for him over here." He said Ira B. Jones was in the legislature from Lancaster, that he (Blease) represented Aewoerrv, wnere Jones mother lived, where his brothers lived, and where his family lived. "I was your representative, and I went to work and voted to make Jones speaker of the house of representatives. He wanted to be trustee of the South O lina college?I don't know why, but he wanted it?and I voted to make him trustee of the South Carolina college. wnen ic came to electing iiiui syfiuvei next time I voted for him again, and I voted for him for associate justice of the supreme court, because I was the representative of this county, where his mother lived and where his brothers lived, and they have always claimed to be my friends, and Ira Jones professed to be my friend, and I think he would have been now if I had not put so much red pepper in hie seat that I made him hop off the chief justice's bench. That is why I voted for him. I have never cast an individual vote for him in my life, and I think the highest proof that Ira B. Jones is an ingrate is the fact that I always voted for him and stood by him and helped him get the offices he held, and as soon as the Gonzales-negro bureau wanted to beat me lie ooweu uuwu at lueu iccu ctuu yiuved himself an ingr^te by trying to beat me for a second term after all I had done for him." Governor Blease then took up Jones' vote against Wade Hampton, saying he had heard people in Newberry swear they would never vote for anybody who voted against Hampton and vpt cam a nf thrv?p same rvpoDle were * ^ T now talking for Jones. He said he wanted to read what Jones had said about Hampton: "During the great Reform movement that swept over this State" in August and September, on whom were the eyes of the people of South Carolina turned when independentism was about to blot out the fair escutcheon of South Carolina? Who was it tnat srooa dv in? uemocrauc party and saved South Carolina? Was it Wade Hampton? No, it was Irby." What did Hampton say about Jones? he ?aid. The governor then' quoted a statement from General rt^ruptou in which he quoted General Hampton as saying that "he said that ho stated that he was going to vote for Tillman," that it might seem strange that Uomritrtn n-rvn 1 r? nfttiAQ on iTrhiiVT oniStl. ix<4ii I iptvu n vuau uwivg w *y x ?.v.? ating from that source, "but fate never wounds more deeply a generous heart than when hatred points the dart." The governor then read what he said Jones' "campaign boss" had had said about him here. "When Senator Irby came here to make his speech?Senator Irby, Jones' hero?he said about John Gary Evans, that he was a traitor, a man unworthy of belief," and other matters which the governor quoted. That, he said, was the man Ira B. Jones now had running his campaign, "refusing to give me representation on the boards of managers of election and refusing to furnish me a few extra tickets because he believes he-can get managers who can steal this election and put him and his henchmen in office." He said he had asked his supporters to go to the ballot box and watch the count. At Jalapa, in this county, he said, they had appointed three manioorc on/1 nr>t Ano r\f thpm wac a ? Blease man. "Right at Jalapa John P. Duncans brother appointed three managers and not one is a Blease man. Why didn't John Duncan's brother give his brother John and me representation on that board. Is that fair?" He charged that Jones, after having been a "exeat reformer" and having excused his vote against Hampton, Butler and Wallace on that ground, had now deserted the Reform party and had fallen down and worshipped Gonzales in order to try to be governor, Gonzales thinking he could not beat Blease with an old Conservative, but hoping he might be able to beat him with a deserter from the ranks of the Reformers. Onvprnnr Rleac? revipwpri the sr,e i :ial judge matters, and his refusal to appoint special judges when regular judges were disengaged, along the lines of his arguments which have; heretofore been fully given in The ! herald and News. He took up the matter of pardons. 'When Noah Taylor was in the peni:entiary for wife murder," he said, j 'VTt.c TT^ + V. Tovlrvr want tn Walter I ->11 O. JDUltil JL ivi ?? vuv tv it uxtvi Bunt," and he said $1,000 was put in | ;he bank which was to be given to Mr. ! Sunt in case he secured a pardon for ravlor. Heyward was then governor, raylor was pardoned, and Col. Hunt md Col. Schumpert, said Gov. Blease, | ?ot their $1,000. "Now, why didn't hey come out and say Heyward was "ought? No. no. that was Mr. Hunt, rhat hap; ere-! ::i yo-?r own cvn'ty, )ut if a lawyer go-s to v;C * a.ii .e-:s up a petition for pardon before me and I let the man out some little rain-sniffle goes off with a lie and says I was j paid so much. Walter Hunt didn't pay Hey ward anything. He had a right to his $1,000 and he got it. This is the same thing, I suppose that has been going on with me, but instead of giving me an honest deal and a fair mention in the matter they go to work and say, 'He is pardoning too many people.' If it wasn't for the pardoning power of God there are people I know of living in Newberry county today who would have been in hell long ago." "Whenever you send petitions to me and ask me to turn people out, I am going to do it, and Ira B. Jones and his gang can't help it," he said. Governor Blease then scored Judge Jones an his vote against the separate coach measure, when, said the governor, he voted "to make white women and negro men ride in the same coach, and the worst part about it is he had a free pass in his pocket, and when I got after him about it he didn't say anything, but after awhile, when I kept nagging him, when he got to Bamberg he says, 'Yes, I had a free pass, and I admit the railroads bamr boozled me.' If the railroads could bamboozle him as speaker with a small i thing like a free pass, what in the - name of God could they do with him if they got him in the governors office?" The governor said he couldn't uni derstand what^he railroads had waiitj ed with Judge Jones' son, Charlie, in I their employ, unless they wanted him to megaphone up to "pa, on the supreme court bench,"?"Son Charlie," J !he said, "who never has been accused j of being a lawyer, Jones himself having said he never had but one measily little case in the supreme court." Gov. Blease charged that Judge Jones had gone all over the State calling the Blease supporters anarachists, and had then called them "v ~ ennVoro Whry otartwl j iiUg?>, ctliU iO-O L, OUV/nVlOi l> uv wi.ua >.v? I this dirty campaign ? he asked. He i said he had not mentioned Judge Jones until Judge Jones had gone all over the State abusing him before the campaign opened; that he did not mention anything about Jones at the opening meeting at Sumter; that Jones got up land continued to abuse and villify i him, and when they got to Bishopville i Jones had got up again and abused jand villified him, "and,then I delivered a speech showing hiip up as having made the blackest reccr; mat any mart with a white skin ever made in the South Carolina legislature." He said his opponents had been pubi lishing and circulating all kii'-Js ot j dirty lies upon him. "They have not ! only hit me, but they haven't sparec1 | my family. In going down in tne mire j to try to bring up something they are so dirty a^d so filthy that they have published things and said things and done things that I do not see how any ; decent people could put up with. They say, 'Oh, but the Jones men are the : gentlemen, thev are the Christians.' They are the dirtiest set of liars that ever disgraced the State." "If the jkind of Campaigning they are doing comes from Christian people, God save the churches of South Carolina." Gov. Blease said at the Lancaster meeting, Judge Jones' home, he had expected Judge Jones to get up and say a few pleasant words to the audience. and then to introduce the other 'candidates, but that Judge Jones had | criticised and abused him in Lancaster, "and' I certainly have done my : best to hand it back to him in Xewberry today in full measure." When the governor told the audience that his time was about up there were, repeated calls for him to go on. bin ! he said that would not be fair. H-; ooiH ha ha/j stn/?lr tn his friends and ; would continue to do so. "When it conies to your governor's office, bet [tween friend and foe, if my friend is | wrong and my eneiny is right, I will stand by my enemy in discharging my Iduties as governor of your State, but f ; i when it comes to appointing people to office nobody but the Blease men need apply." He said that for the balance of this year and for the next two years he was going "to matte tnis Jon.es gang sicker than they now are." Mr. Jno. T. Duncan. When Mr. Jno. T. Duncan began his speech a large crowd was escorting ; Gov. Blease fro:n the grounds, andI Mr. Duncan for the moment had con-: siderable difficulty in getting the at- j tention of the crowd. Chairman Dominick called for order and announced tnat an tne candidates must De given | quiet and courteous attention. Heeding the chairman, Mr. Duncan was given the attention of the big crowd who still remained. He charged that Blease and Jones had both been trying to swing on Tillman's coat-tails and that Tillman in his letter of this week had shaken them both off. He charged that both Blease and Jones were corporation candidates. He re(CONTINUED G.< PAGE 6?. i TEACHER WASTED. Teacher of experience wanted for Central school. Term of five or five and one-half months at S10 per month. All applications must be in by August 20. Apply to either of the undersigned. J. A. Counts, T. A. Sheely, . J. D. Koon, Pomaria, S. C., R. D. No. 2. TEACHEB WASTED. Teacher of experience wanted for Union school. Term of five months and possibly six, at $50 per month. Trustees will elect on August 3. Apply to either of the undersigned. C. L. Wilson, Prosperity, R. F. D. J. C. Kinard, Slighs, R. F. D. D. W. Buzhardt, Newberry, R. 5. DOST BE AFRAID EAT WHAT YOU WAST Eat what you want when you want it and "Digestit." 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State Superintendent of Education. Attorney General. Commissioner of Agriculture. fVimmissioner. For Congress, Third District. For Solicitor, Eighth Judicial Cir.cuit. State Senator. House of Representatives. Sheriff. Judge of Probate. . Clerk of Court. County Supervisor. Coroner. County Superintendent of Education. Treasurer. * Auditor. Magistrate. Master. County Commissioners. No vote for House of Representatives shall be' counted unless it contoino o j~. mo rttr no rack r> o m aa caiuo ao uiauj <3.0 uauivgi The managers of election shall open the polls at 8 a. m. and shall close them at 4 p. m. The following managers have been appointed to conduct the- said election: MANAGERS. ^ Township No. 1. Ward 1?L. I. Epting, W. W. Cromer, ik. <j. sngn. Ward 2?W. T. Livingston, J. C. Wil- ' son, Alex. Welch. Ward 3, No. 1?Alex Singleton, Lee ' Q. Fellers, J. W; Reagin. Ward 3, No. 2?J. J. Porter, J. A. j [Derrick, I. T. Timmerman. | Ward 4?J. R. Davidson, W. W.I Horn-ao.*. J. W. White. Ward 5?W. P. Hair. B. F. Sample. T. B. Kibler. Oakland?T. J. Digby, Jr., E. T. Riv- j ers, S. C. Hiller. Helena?B. E. Julien, B. F. Goggans,j iW. S. Williamson Hartford?L. E. Summer, W. B. Gog- j gans, Holland Paysinger. Johnstone?J. W. Mims, Will Neel,; Quinshaw Halfacre. Township So. 2. Garmanv?T. W. Folk, James B.; Buzhardt, Johnnie Suber. ML Bethel?Jno. D. Cromer, Sam Rikard, J. A. Brown. Mulberry?Jack Sease, John P. "SVicker, Thos. Murphy. Township Xo. 3. Maybinton?C. E. Eison, A. H. May- j binton, J. L. Thomas.* Mt. Pleasant?James W. Caldwell, Tr>hn TVfi>r>lr T IT IHams Township >'o. 4. Wlhitmire?F. W. Fant, Boyce Duck-1 ett, J. D. Tid marsh. Long Lane?T. E. Chandler, J. G. Glenn, M. T. King. Township >'o. 5. Jalapa?S. B. McCarley, W. S. Waters, J. C. Dobbins. Kinards?E. D. Chaney, J. A. Dominick, J. D. Johnson. Township >o. 6. Dominick?Thomas J. Harmon, WalMngziwe. M. M. Livingston. Yon.g M-en'-s s'Tnuity)? J. A. 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Boozer, C. S. Nichols. Saluda?Geo. Cook, Maxv Bedenhan^h I.. T^. Dominick. O'Neall?J. Lindsay Boozer, Pat B. Wise, Thomson Sheely. Monticello (Hendrix Mill)?Peter Counts, Henry Barnes, Bachman Counts. Liberty?J. T. Hunter, J. 0. Moore, J. M. Lester. Swilton?Edward Harris, Frank Shealy, Claude L. Counts. TATPnoliin YA 1A n; TTLI^Ilip iiv. JV? Little Mountain?J. K. Derrick, J. G. Shealy, A. C. Wheeler. Union?M. L. Strauss, J. W. Sligh, R. N. Taylor. Jolly Street?B. B. Rikard, M. N. j Werts, J. R. Livingston. St. Pauls?J. B. Bedenbaugh, J. J. Kibler, W. H. Kibler. Centra!?A. L. Aull, Sligh Wicker, Joe. Counts. Township ]Vo. 11. Zion?H. Folk, Murray Kinard, Manw Cromer. St. Phillips?J. L. Ruff, M. L. Wicker, D. E. Halfacre, Walton?Willie Suber, J. D. Crooks, Johnie Harmon. Pomaria?H. F. Counts, G. B. Aull, George J. Wilson. The qualifications for voting to be cs follows: BIBLES! .. I i ( ' >les from agents when at the Book Store for < j and teacher's Bibles ble dictionary and self ti V D SEE ME I : i I K" v.* "T ':V THE SAME PRICE AT IK AND otadp RIETY ulllllEi THOUSAND THINGS" WWHISKEYI to-day without a rival a&1 best corn whiskey made. | get just twice as much for your money. Tar Heel Corn Whiskey nn . EXPRESS PAID to points on Adaau f <W?UU and Southern Express Lines. J : mily uses. ler, Registered Letter or CertifiecTCheck. ed. Complete price list mailed upon v DAY FROM I 3, Inc. ,* Richmond, Va. K Wine and Whiikoj? Merchants. ? (l) I % The voter shall be twenty-one years - 111 ? . ? i xi.? or age, or snail Decome- so oeiore me succeeding 'general election, and be a white Democrat, or a negro who voted for General Hampton, in 1876, and has voted the Democratic ticket continuously since; provided, That no white man shall be excluded from participation in the Democratic primary who shall take the pledge required by the rules of the Democratic party. No person shall be permitted to vote unless his name has been enrolled on a Democratic club list at least five days before the said primary election. At any election when the right of a person to vote is challenged, the managers shall place the vote so challenged in an envelope and endorse thereon the name of the voter and that of the challengers, and the person so challenged shall be allowed to vote, and the challenged votes shall be kept separate and apart and not counted, but turned over to the county execu?tive committee, who shall at its first meeting thereafter hear all objections to such votes, and where no person appears to sustain an objection made at the- polls the ballot shall be removed from the envelope and mingled with the regular ballots and counted, but where the challengers appear, or v, | produce witnesses in support of the j challenge, the committee shall proceed ;to hear and determine the question, |and in all instances the voter shall I have the right of appealing to the i State executive committee. (Amend' mim ! "lent isii;. After tabulating the-result of said election, the managers shall cartify the same and forward the ballot box, poll lists and all other papers relat 'ng to such election to the Court/ Chairman within 48 hours after the close of the polls. Managers will call for the ballot boxes on and after August 22 at the office of the Secretary, in the old , court house, where they will receive boxes, 'ballots and full instructions. Fred. H. Dominick, Countv Chairman. Frank R. Hunter, Secretary. '' 7