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I I ?? VOLOTE LII, >OIBER 43. NEWBERRY, S. C? TTESDAY, .JINE i\ 1914. TWICE A WEEK, $1.50 A YEAR. ? 7 i j ' ~ Governor Blei Two Speec> VIGOROUS AND CAUSTIC j BEFORE BIG AUDIENCES; - SPOKE AT WHITMIRE ASD AT WILLOWKROOK. I I Was at Wliitmire on Saturday Afternoon and at Willowbrook on Saturday >' isrlit. i Gove", or Cole. L. Blease delivered t\vd vig:rous political addresses in Newberry county on Saturday. The first was at Whitmire on Saturday afternoon, before an audience of probably in the neighborhood of 800 to 1.000 people, and the second at Willcwbrock park, in West End, on Sat-, urday night, to one of the largest crowds which has ever gathered at the park?probably between 2,500 to 3,000 i 1 - ? J f car>tlAT1 C nf th P ! people, 1IU111 Uiugi vui, county, and including some ci.izens of j Laurens and other counties. In neither of his addresses did the chief executive refer to Senator Smith* his opponent in the race this summer for the United States senate. On ;he other hand,, Governor Blease devoted himself to -a history of his political career, to his record as governor, to urging the people to enroll under the new primary rules, and to paying his re-" spects, wirh gloves off and withou: j mincing words, to his political oppo-1 nents in Newberry county, whom he j mentioned by name in each instance. I During both addresses the governor j was enthusiastically received and lib-. erally applauded. j The governor came to Newberry on ! Friday night :o at*end the Odd Fellows' banquet, wi^icb is sp:ken of in another column. He reurned to Columbia on Sunday morning. At Willowbrook Park. i The governor was introduced to the j largo audience at Willowbrook park on Saturday night by Col. J. Marion Davis, superintendent of the Newberry co:ton mills, and a member o: the governor's military staff. The governor began his address by referring to his early struggles and reviewed his political career. Newberry county, he said, had always stood at his back. However, this year, he said a caucus was held in a lawyer's office in Newberry on the eve of the couniy convention, attended no: by cotton mill men, not iby farmers, though there were some present who called themselves planters who were stockholders in the ba::ks and the corpora ions cf Newberry?attended by representa ives of the four banks, who were fighting him because he was making a fight to reduce the lagal rate of interest to six per cent., without discount, instead of 10 and 12 per cen.. discount, "in order :o give to the people of this State, the poor people who had to borrow money, an opportunity ^ to borrow it a a reasonable rate, and to force these corporations, when they leaned money, to lend it at a rate of intestest hat was just and fair to both the man who loaned it and ;he man who borrowed it." The governor was pa-'ticularly severe in his strictures of others who he said had attended ;he cauccus, among them Senator Alan Johnstone, and Mr. Lambert W. Jones, referring to a financial compromise of a $22,000 deb: at 50 cents on the dollar with which he charged the former, and to a homicide case which was tried in Newberry a good many years ago which he urged should have kept the latter out of the office where the caucus was held. The Club Meetings. He. said the club meetings in Newberry county were packed against him, saying that in Ward 2 a negro and a Republican had heen carried :o the ciuiD meeting 10 ueip eitrut ueicgaica to the county convention against him. Throughout his address ;he governor mentioned names wherever "he made charges and in this instance he charged that the man whom he characterized as a Republican had held office under a Republican administration and had beben dismissed from the office which he held by a Republican administration under a serious charge. He said' that was the ki:.d o' people who had wmn'v - .T^mr , t *i n " ' 1 11 4 ise Makes hes In Cnuntv ' I ' I ' combined agains: him in Newberry ^ ' county, "to k ep Blease from having' representation in your Sate conven- \ % I tion." "Now,' he said, "if you are , ' willing to submit to that, I have no ob-; jection. because with all :his negro- j1 j ism, with all this Republicanism, with j | al his Haskellism, with all this Gold- j | bugism. 1 am going to beat them a<id i going to the United S ates senate." He j attacked the political record of the j 1 coun! v chairman of Newberry, Mr. i Jos. L. Keitt, charging that in former |? years he had left :he Democratic par-j ty and joined the ianks of the Popa-J lists. The same kind of combination, | / j he charged, hacf been formed all over j | the Sta e to try to beat him, but he ! said he was going ;o be elected by 16,-j | 000 to 18,000 majority. T.ie governor referred to the New- j I berry delegation in the State conven-! j tion, ridiculing the delega ion as a del-', | egation absolutely without influence! | and without recognition in the conven- i ! tion. The Prmary Rules. ' . . letting up me primary ruies aaspiea i } by the conven.ion, he said the effort! of the convention was to go back to ! the convention system, and have all' officers, State and county, chosen by j a clique, and to cut the laboring man j and ihe 'farmer out of a voice in the I government under whic'a he had to j live. The S ate convention, he said, j had made it harder 'for a white man I j to enroll in the primary than for a j negro to register in the general election. He :ook up in detail and explained 1 the primary regulations, referring especially to the matter of personal enrolment, and urged his hearers to go home and write en the head-boards of their beds and on their mirrors the i word, "enroll,' so that when the time came they would not forget it. The rules, he said, were a hardship on the laboring man and the farmer, because! the man in the city could walk around to his club secretary on a dull day and sign the roll, while the cotton mill man, ;ue lajoonng man auu uue larmer had to lose time from their work?i:he laboring man probably being "docked'' ; for this lost time, and the farmer having to drive maybe five or six or ten 1 miles to personally sign the roll. He said he was not talking for himself? that he was no- urging enrolment in 1 ordei for people tc vote for him, or to \ote for any man, but in order that they might put themselves in position o ake part in the naming of their officers. county and State, and in the Action o~ eongre?smen a.:d United States senator?. Ho urged not cnlv enrolment, but that if s:me one waned *o enrol who could not write that he r.ak'. his own witness with him. and he I'rged his friends not o:ily to go to he ballot box and cast their votes, but to see that their votes were prop| er.y conned after they were cast. "Envy and .Jealousy'' Charged. j He said that wV.at made his enemies j * ; in Newberry c .unty so sick was envy ! and jealousy. He was the only gov- ! ernor N \vberry had ever had. he said, and he had put Newberry largely on he map. He referred to various appointments of Newberry people which j he had made, and yet, he said, envy | and jealousy on th.e part of some in 5 Newberry county had led to a bi ter | fight against him in the county. He said the only old soldier he had heard f "knocking" him during the Confederate reunion in Anderson was a Newberry man, and that man he charged with "knocking" him because the gov- * at c Vvrnf V\ f nrl * Vi o f o n i riuui o uiuLiici uau ucicaiua uiau iiia.ii \ | for sheriff of the county two years ; ago. "I didn't beat him for sheriff," ! said the speaker; "winy doesn't he take 1 his defeat like a man ought to and run j two years from now, if he wants his i office back, and :ry to get it back." The cry had always been since he I had been a candidate f^r State office, ! said the governor, hat Newberry, his i home county, was against him, trying i to make the people of the S^ata believe thai he cou'ld not carry his own county. But he had always carried it, be said, and w<is gv :ing o carry it along j with the balance of toe Statt again "this summer, and he wanted to show ; the people in this spech a.' his why j some -1: th se Xewberry people were igainst him. Appointment of Supervisor. The governor referred to his appoin meat ot' Mr. John Henry C.iappell as supervisor f Xewberry county. Several of his good friends were applicants for the position, he said, and ii was in the positi .11 of having, in the performance of his du y, to clioo.se between friends, because he could f only appoi.:t one. Two years ag>, he said, when Ward 3 club "fixed up a slate agi-inst me and beat me for a delgate o the county convention, a man went to the Ward 5 club?your club, my club?the club ;hat I organized in 1890, in the silting r ,0111 of t-e old hotel that used to s and down on Lie cor. er, where they built the new mill?when Mr. Crosby and I'ncle Jake Senn, and Mr. Woodward and myself and a f w othe'.'s me- and organized it ?this man whom 1 appointed supervisor went over to ;his Ward 5 club that night two years ago, and told them of this scheme they 'nad fixed up cn me in Ward 3, a;id that he wanted them to elec me a delegate to the county convention. They elected me; I went to the conven.icn and presided over it, and I went to the State con vention. That man came to my office in Columbia and said, I want 10 be county supervisor. Tha; man had saved me against this scheme that night two years ago. and had put me in the county convention when the club d? the ward in which I lived had fixed up this scheme against me. Whju was I to do? There was only one thing for an honorable man to do, and that was to appoint 'him supervisor. I appointed him, and I have no apologies to make to any man for it. Whether you want ;o elect him or noi, that is your business. I am not here to electioneer for him or against him, but I appointed him because of his true, manly stand for me, for his work in my behalf, and whenever the day comes that I fail :o stand by my friends, I hope t'iat day will be my last upon this earth." The governor referred to the criticisms of his pardon record. He said that he had paroled and pardoned a good many, and that he was not hrough yet. He said that he and nobody else had been governor for the last three and a half years?tha: he had no apologies or excuses to make for anything he had done, and that the trouble with his enemies was that they could not help hemselves. Compliments Band and Rest Room. In closing his speech, the governor called attention to the refreshments which were being served for ?he benefit o* the Newberry concert band, and paid a pret y tribute to the band, which he said was a w:rthy organization which ad won recognition not only all over this S are. but in otner States, for its fine worth. Ho also congra ulated Newberry upon her ladies' rest room, saying that he had heard a great many compli merits all over tie State paid :o the rest :omi. "We have at the head cf it." he said, referring to Mrs. M. B. Evans, "a lady who, if she had never accomplished any hing else in life but that :n? thi/g. would be enti led to the thanks of tr.e people of this county, aiid when she has left it. to its ''Well clone, thou good and 'faithful servant." The Whitmire Meeting. The gathering at Whitmire on Saturday afternoo:i was attended by a laro-p r-rcwd ftavprnnr Blease was the only speaker. He was introduced in a few happy remarks by Mr. F. W. Fant. A sensational feature of :he gathering was an interruption of tne governor's address by i.VIr. William Coleman, president of the Glenn-Lowry cotton mill and of:' tie ba:ik at Whitmire, and the governor's rep<Iy to Mr. GMeman. The governor sta ed that Mr. oCleman hated him and had fought Lim for certain reasons which ;he governor was stating to his audience, among these reasons beiug law suits agains; tne Glenn-'.wry mill in which the governor had taken part, when Mr. Coleman asked the governor to prove that Mr. Coleman hated him. The governcr asked Mr. Coleman if ne did not get up in his club last meeting at Whitraire a.;d object to ;he reading of a resolution in the governor's favor. This Mr. Coleman denied. Aier the passage of a few words Mr. Coleman drove off with the remark, "Welii, you can go to hell." T!ie gov i ern r replied, t'.iat he would not ac j c pt lie invitation, but that if h should, when lie got there he woul find Mr. Coleman shovelling coa : There was some littl excitement dm ing the passage of words. The g vernor's address was largel devoted to Newberry county affair: and he chief executive paid his ri m]> c-ts with gloves off, to several c his opponents in this c uin y, anion rlu-m the mayor of Whitmire, Dr. Ya Smith. i He devoted a considerable portio J of his address to a.! explanation uf tli new primary laws, and said he effoi of the Stae conv ntion had been t take away the right cT suffrage froi 'the laboring man. treating the lab i ? ing man worse than tiie negro wa trea ed. He urged his supporters t I enroll, and o watch the club rolls an the counting of the ballots. / He sai that he had been cheated out of si: | teen to eighteen :housand votes t\v ; years ago, and had won cut, anyway \ He said ihat negroes, Republicar and Populists had been carried to ti] ciub meetings in Newberry county ; control the party machinery againi I j him, and then it had been hevalde ; t/.at Newberry had gone against bin i The S ate conventijn, he said, ha | been packed in the same way. He di ! not want the suppor: of such an ania gamation. he said, and stated that t i had received every office he had ev( j asked for in Newberry rounty, an I could be elected to any office withi | the gif of the pe:pie of Newberry no I hat he might ask them for. He to! j his audience that he was going to wi i I his senatorial race this summer by ' - - ' v. TJ j bigger majority man ever ueiuic. u said that he had reached the heigl of his ambition when he was electe governor, and that he was now no: i the senatorial race for Blease, an was not talking for Lsiea^e, but wa upholding the rights of the people wb j had supposed him. I The governor denounced as false | report which he said had been circi i 1 - ~ J ? .nmoKlr 7- o era to ?h ! IclLfU clU-JUt. <X iciaain m X xgui w death of Mr. X. Butler Johnson. H paid a tribute to Mr. Johnson as h. !'frie.:d, and as a man whom he ha helped in every way he could, to whos family he had offered whatever assis ance he might be able to render, an whose dea.h, he said. no one regretie more than he did. | Governor Blease spoke for an hou j and his criticism of and attacks aj j on his opponents in this county, whoi j in every instance Cie mentioned b ! name, were extremely severe. H j closed by saying thnt he expec ed { j e'l his audience throughout the Stal i of the invitation extended him b I j the cotton mill pres en: to go t j hell; t_at the heads or corporauui. j | had always' fjugat him. b?cause h j was t'he friend of tile laboring mai Land tha he was proud of this tig. j against him by th'ise corporation ! The audience was enthusiastic, an j the governor was frequently and lit j erally applauded. imm; rescued baby ' Defies Police to Interfere With Pr< cious Charge. i i 7 L:ndon Cable to Kanfeas City Journa Duke is a Great Dane. Yesterda he followed a s'raying child ten mile i through the traffic of London and d< i fied ihe police during a three hour: j march home with his charge. j Eric Leonnard, 3 years old, i3 born tramp. About noon he wa missing. "Duke," cried the di3tracted moti er, "Eric is lost again." "Gru-umm-p," said Duke, and troi * ted off. At sunset a :ired youngster and Great Dane Jogged round the corne: Eric was hanging onto his old friend' collar. Behind them strode a police man. "I spotted these ten miles awa: " * * 1 '' nffi at Mar Die Arcn, reyor ea mc wmuw "But the dog kept suca threatenin guard over the kiddie that t was ue able to approach; so I fallowed ther home." Duke wagged his .ail as if he woul say: "Yon isee, I've -"aken good care c iiiin all right." % THE NEWS OF PROSPERITY. nc si; t e Miss ('reitrlitiin to Return to Pros- I-" d perity Next Year as Teacher? 11c 1. Per-sonal. ar -1 i f I Special to The Herald and Xews. I te v 1 Prosperity. June 1.?T ie Rv. C. H. J or , ! Xabers and his mother, Mrs. Dodd, 1)6 j have gone :o Anderson for several C! ? I Hovc' stav Of >1 j-"*'" ~v"-" jr! .Mr. Ralph Crosson, of Columbia, ' B n j spent the week-end with Miss Victoria \ Crossoti. ?* A tc n I Mr. S. I). Duncan and children. Miss 11 ei _ I Mary Lizzie and Master Calude, will ' ^ ; SC .t j make this their home during the sum0 1 mer months. . u | tr n ! Misvs Eula Taylor, of Columbia, . r_ j spent the wek-end wi ll her parents, j s ' Prof. Brice Haynes, of Spartanburg, ^ 0 has been visiting Mrs. D. M. Langd ford- m Mr. .J. H. Crosson spent the week- j c_ e: d in Columbia. 0 Messrs. Fred, and Mack Sdhumpert, -n of Dallas, Texas, are visiting their ! aunt. Mrs. W. A. Moseley. <. i I LL Miss Nannie Wheeler has as her T ip guest, Miss Inez Wessinger, off Pea. rj "? Miss Bonnie Lester will spend com31 mencemen: week with Miss Ruby .. it Wheeler. , n Mr. Shelton Wingard, of Clemson ci College, is visiting Mr. B. A. Connel- ., d !y. ' 11 i I J ei | Mr. I,. A. Black has bought a Paigeie! Detroit automobile. \ V(] iT Miss Jessie Lorick will reach home today from Columbia college. n dl Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Bedenbaugh, of yj ^ Iva. ave here 'for the summer, d a Mrs. Addie Hodges has returned n j from a short visit to Newberry. al Mr. Joe Carpen er, of Landrum, who ^ ihas been clerk in the postoffice' since .' it lE December has resigned. His place >H ni will fee filed by Mr. Carlisle Taylor. r? CC Miss Bessie Bowers spent Thurs,-f w v day in Newberry. 13 Misses Y. Genia and Mollie Harmon 10 have returned home from Columbia. Pro". J. S. Wheeler, Mrs. Nannie [ a Wheeler, 'Miss Alda Rae Wheeler and j i- Rev. .T. .J. Ixmg have gone to Sum- j W ie merland college to attend commence- ! e ment today. ? Miss Martha Creigh on leaves Satt - -1- TT.M 1 TT?? \r d urday for nr home in kock run. nei -?i ie many friends will be glad o know j t- that she will be with us again next | d year, having charge of Che domestic lo d science department in the high! is school. I d( Miss Marv Langford. of Columbia th college, has gone to Black Mountain H o attend the convention of the Y. W. ai ai .C. A. before coming home for the i si ?y t summer vacation. j 01 Miss Mamie Etheredge, of Saluda, j ar is spending the week with Miss Vita in "e, Counts. ir , y ! * l (Miss Evelvn Wise, of Little Moun- j hi O " ' tain, is the guest of Miss Marguerre j pi 13 Wise. | H ie i Mrs. Perkins, of Atlanta, will reach ; of !1' i here tomorrow >.'or a visit to Mrs. 'Car- j pi j rie McWaters. :h i ar INEAKNED !\( REMEXT ^ 1 1. St j Extraordinary Tetter Written by a j a Millionaire. - j j Pi In the June American Magazine j appears what is called "An Extroar- j iy dinary Correspondence." The corre- ' cc spondence referred to is between the ' th dean of he theological school wrote at y known American millionaire. The \ IS dean of the theological scchool wrote | p] ; to the millionaire asking for money J 3' I for his sch :ol. The reply was most pi ' unusual. An extract from it follows: a | "I own in the city of Philadelphia pr s 11 1-2 acres of land for which I paid re $32,.i00 a few years ago. Oil account m of increase of population and industry in Philadelphia, that land is now wcr:h about $12"),000. I have expend- th ed no lab:r or mo cay upon it. So I have done nothing to cause that ina crease of $92,500 in a few years. My r* fellow citizens in Philadelphia created s it, and I believe it therefore belongs in ^- xi ?* * ^ ma t Tioiiavii rhat an LCJ LUtlli, liui iu iuc. j. vuiav,. ? j the man-made law which gives to me he r> and oCher land-lords values we have r- not created is a violation of divine ve & law. I believe that justice demands l" that these communiiy-made values be di' n taken by the community for common purposes instead of taxing enterprise "f d and industry. Do you agree? "This is my creed, my faith, my re>f ligion. Do you teach hat or anything sv j like it in your theological school? Ifj K: >t, why not? I have a right to ask, nee you have asked me for money, you agree to my propositions but do >t teach them. Tell me why. If I n in error, show me in what respec . I am using all the money I have to ach my creed, my faith, my religi1. as best I can. I am using it as ist I know how to abolish the hell of vilization, -which is want and fear : want. I am using it to bring on the ill of our Father, to establish the rotheraood of Man by giving to each my brothers an equal opportunity have and use the gifts of our Fa.h . Am I misusing that money? If >. why and how? "If my teaching is wrong and con ary to true religion, I want to know ! take it ha: if you are not teachig religion in its fullness you wish to low it. Am I correct? "What I teach may be criticised as ixing politics wth reiligon but, can be successfully attacked on that round? Politics, in its true mean g, is a science of government. Is rvernment a thing entirely apart orn religion or from righteousness? > not just government founded upon gilt doing? % "Does not that viola :e the natural, ie divine law? Does it not surely igei selfish greed on the one hand id gaunt poverty on the other? Does not surely breed millionaires on one id of the social scale and tramps on Le other end? Has it not brought in> civilization a hell of which *he ivage can have no conception? Coulc ly bettter system be devised for conncing men that God is the father of few and the stepfather of the many? ? not that destructive of the sentient o? brotherhood? With such a jndi ion, foow is it possible for men ' masses to obey obe new conftnaiident that ye love one another? What )uld more surely thrust men apart, hat could more surely divide them o warring classes?*' A DOG THAT THINKS onderful Mental Feats of Canine Scholar of Humble Anteeedents. fto aeterlinck in Me.ropolitan Maga- *8 zine. ' ,'The case of the Elberfield horses no nger stands quite alone. There exts at Mannheim a dog of rather * )u<t>.rui oreea wuu peii^iuia ojuiuoi. e same feats as his equine rivals. e is less advanced than they in ithmetic but does little additions, ibstractions and multiplica:ions of le or two figures correctly. He reads id vvri ps by tapping with his paw accordance with an alphabet which, i appears, he has thought out for f mseif; and his speMing also is sirnified and phoneticized c tiie utmpst. e distinguishes the col'rs in a bunch p flowers, counts -he money in a irse and senara es the marks from .e pfennings. He kn'jws how to seek id find words to dei'ine the object of e picture placed before him. You iow him for instance, a bouquec in vase and ask him what it is. "A glass with little flowers,'* he reies. A.:d his answers are often curiousspontaeous and original. In the urse of a reading exercise in which e word herfcst, autumn, changed to trac: attention, Prof William Macmzie asked him if he could exain what autum was. "It is the time when ihere are apes," Rolf replied. On the same -occasion, the same ofessor, without knowing what it presented 'held oux to him a card arked with red and blue squares. "What's tha:?" "Blue, red, lots of cubes," replied e dog. McCarthy's Misfortune. Mrs. McCarthy's husband went out a boat alone. The boat overturned id he was drowned. A 'friend nieu r ?ome weeks later. "I hear," said he, "tha: Pat left you ry well off?that he left you $5,000." "True," said Mrs. McCarthy, "he d." "How was that?'' asked the friend, 'at couldn't read nor write, could , 9" "No," said Mrs. McCarthy, "nor tchaige.