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"COLEY BLAZE" IS ON THE STUMP And South Carolina's Happy?Political Foes in for Summer of Denouncing Stiks Manning Scruggs in The Dearborn Independent. As the bovs up in the woolhat district would put it. "Coal Blaze's" hat * is in the ring, and all doubt about tiltgubernatorial campaign being a pinkrea affair in South Carolina this autumn has passed. As we write that the Honorable Cole Livingston Bleastis again in the battle zone, with r> j third term in the governorship as n:> goal, the mauve syrirtga lends its fragrance to the zephrs of spring and the ringing intonations of the onegallus voters of the commonwealth, who are for Blease, first, last and all > the time. i The Blease boom came up with the crocus, but it failed to pass out witr the pussy willow. It hanas on like high taxes and red mud in the Piedmont section, because Mr. Blease known from the mountain tops of Dark Corners to the sands f the sea at Charleston as "the stormy pet re' of politics," never yet has shown the white, feather. He is as fond of s political battle as a bulldog, and he never quits until his jaws are pried or his friends succeed in carrying him to h:gher channeds. When Mr. Blease, then serving his second term as governor, resigned t that office in 1915, he had the stage set for him to step into the United States senate, but it proved even foi an expert politician and near-statesman a.* >ip was at that time, a case of too many cooks spoilnig the broth. And so, instead of going to the senate, Mr. Blease resumed the practice of law in Columbia. In matters of criminal jurisprudence, there a/e few lawyers of the capital city who know the law as he knows it, and still fewer who can even approximately match his wits at the bar when it' comes to > wringing a verdict from a^ jury. Mr. Blease began his political -career, as far as . state 'estimation if concerned, in 1396'when he became a presidential'efecto'r, &ut he had been a membr of the South Carolina house of representatives,, and speaker, pro tem, of that; bpdy from Newberry county, even before that campaign. As a presidentiad elector he soon won popularity on the stump. He has been in office most of the time since he was licensed to practice Jaw, except during the last decade, having been mayor of his city, representative of his county and district in the South * Carolina house and senate, and twice governor of the state. He is a candidate, 'he says, now, not because it will satisfy any persona1, ambition, but because his friends insist on his cairincr tVip . And when the picturesque individ- j ual whom the loyal Bleaseites refer to as Coal Blaze, or just plain "Coley,'' gets on the hustings, we are ready to inform the six or eight aspiring gen^ tlemen who also have their hats in the gubernatorial ring, that they will know that they have been in a fight when the smokescreen lifts next Xo^ vember. For be it known that the Honorable Cole Livingston Blease is the equal of the late Representative (Private) John Allen of Mississippi, when it comes to repartee, as witty as the eminent'Senator John Sharp Williams in political story telling and as vindictive as Thomas Brackett Reed ever was in debate. With these splendid equipments on the stump, coupled with the fact that Mr. Blease knows the political history cf practically every public man in South Carolina, he is well-nigh impregnable. And as he ha-s announced that he will speak in every county in the commonwealth before the pri> maries close this year, the rank and file of the men voters are predicting a hot time in the old state this year. Ai far as the women voters are concerned, there is an element of doubt, but Mr. Blease says he calculates to get his share of that vote because he i was a consistent opponent of woman j suffrage, but a warm supporter of the ^ law when the majority put it across. ;? > The strength of Blease, by long' odds the most talked-of man in South Carolina, and the causes of Bleaseism are results of the social and ec onomic conditions of the state, and of the quaint manner the one political party, the Democratic, conducts its campaign here. The primary is all-important. The general election is a mere form, since there is but one f set of nominees. A rule of the party is that candidates shall make a tour of the state and speak once in every county. They generally travel en masse, adhering to a schedule arranged by the executive committee. This round of speech-making and hand-shaking comes always in the eummer months, when men's tempers are, at best, eccentric. But this is a ~f rmdvs -Jrw? 5\nilfh ?:ai~rw Luiit v*.?v. Carolina is an agricultural state. The county-to-county method >s a decided ; i:! vantage :>? the stump speaker, par! icularlv since the campaigner can I asually beat the metropolitan news)ap?-r to the audience. Then, too, in South Carolina, polt.ics is more than politics. It is a reTeat ion, a part of life, a thing in .vhich the citizen at large has a big nter( it. u medium through which he men express themselves. For this /eason a political light is usually as .velcome in rural districts of South Carolina as a genuine circus. Men I rather at the county seat from vilages and country-sides far away. Automobiles are parked with rare abanlonment, but vhere are yet remaining in trys state many buggies and rJ.. A -ivft in ATI CP ctiJil tV(l^U!19 UIIVI liit.t ??i V, ... it these political meeting?. Another inu-sual feature of trie South Carolina political gathering is that scores >f negroes are the'o, not trial theyj ,-xp.. to vote, but they want to hear he JcVes that they fee' they Will hear >om the candidates. At some central place*. a platform 's erected and the candidates appear, >n it 10 tell the opening iok; about jheniselves or their opponent?, for] :he fortieth time. I i past campaigns ^enerr.lly the opponents of Blease1 lave -spoken first. One after the oth-i iv they have their say and then the :ime arrives for Mr. Blease to speak, ' Instantly there is a wave of animation. Any stranger could pick out: Cole Blease from those who oppose aim, for their faces are expectant.; Te:l 'em about it, Coley," shouts a! nan ou: in the crowd and instantly vMrtri sfni.terpd widelv all through the audience, shout back such enthusiastic answers as, "He'll tell em," and "Lawsy-massy, ain't he a' man!" Mr. Blease'runs his fingers through! .lis lon^ bushy hair, takes a sip of: vater, smiles, as his lighting jawbone gefs ready for action, and1 aunches into his speech, with his j ileeves rolled up and a dare for any; . ontender plainly written on his banner. He denounces his enemies, I either personal or political, lauds his j friends, declares he has nothing to, ipologize for and never did and never will apologize and the cheers ?>f j nis friends drown out the remainder if his battle-charge barrage. Then Mr. Blea.se takes a fling at :he "hoiiile press"' and that general-: y includes all -the larger newspapers! jf the state and the South, not to : mention :he nation at large. He at;acks high taxes and" those in office .vho impose them, give<3 his opinion of; he creation of new offices to be filled \vith political Xeposes, declares urr-j lying devotion to the laboring man's' ause, and go on, until the driving, dynamic concluding rhetoric is again Irowned out in the cheers of his friends. He knows the chords to play j i upon. It would be a long^ story to con-! tinue th:s narrative to its logical i conclusion. Mr. Blease is in a class I by himself. He would have made | zood as an actor. He might have -hcne in the 'business world as a cap- j :ain of industry, or possibly he could j have'been wearing the shoulder; I straps of a lieutenant general. But he chose, the law and the political hustings for his very own and these j mistresses have never found him a slacker. He is a spellbinder but he i is not any more like the late Senator ("Pitchfork ') Tillman than Senator j Tillman was like the dignified and; erudite General Wade Hampton. j The one thing that has caused the comeback of Mr. Blease in the politi-! cal domain of South Carolina politics t-'no sf-r-ir-t.he?war reconstruction,) incidental bard times, due to the cotton boll weevil, and high taxes. Mr. Blease is opposed to the hard times, the high taxes and the floods, of course, but so is most everybody else. Only Mr. Blease is smart enough to capitalize on those distressing conditions. The Coal Blaze announcement is causing* South Carolina to wake up, take a drink, ask what o'clock, ;a!:d show no evidence of drowsiness. I And that is what makes the mare go | in this former stronghold of revolt j against what its citizenship considers ; wrong. Lir.AMY CHARGE AGAINST VALENTINO IS DISMISSED Los Angeles, June 5.?Rudolph Valentino, screen actor, whose principal roles have been those of love | here, was liberated of a charge of biI gamy here today when the feVony | complaint against him was dismissed [after a preliminary hearing before ; Justice of Peace Ilflnby. The justice j ruled there was insufficient evidence j to support the charge. | The dismissal of the case followed l three days of testimony concerning jthe marriage in Mexicali, Mexico, [May 13, of Valentino and Miss Winifred Hudnut, professionally known as Xatacha Rambova, and their honjeyir.oon in Palm Springs, California, a desert oasis south of here. Crime in Chicago iaems a tide, ra, ther than a wave. i BEGINNING OF TILLMAN ISM GRAPHICALLY RECALLED ; Veteran Newspaper Man Writes in a Reminiscent Mood I ~~ J Geo. R. Koester in Greenville 1'iedmont. | The pre once of feaviV <?<-!; gates'; made th<. South Carolina Democratic stale convention last week different from its predecessors, but that was the main different;.'. . ha-'? b, vn a* I almost every Democr:,Vc eonvonlic !"! j ; in this >tate lor -i-i yei-', either ;:s a J reporter or member <-r Mv i"rit j was the famous convention of 1883, { which 1 reported. The whole course of politics in South Carolina since that date mig'ht have been different. had not .Joseph ii. tane nau such a: hitch sense of honor. | When that convention met. John! Peters Richardson was serving- his j first term as governor. He was a typ-j ical gentleman of the old school, kindly, considerate' and courteous, very much satisfied with h:3 state and a natural conservative. He made an excellent figurehead for a ship of state sailing through a placid sea. Like the vast majority of the gentle'men of his day, he likcid his mint julep or other blended beverage, and with two or three snifters aboard, could make a most eloquent and feeling response to the toast, ''South Carolina." which was a large part of the duties of the governor of South Carolina in the old banqueting days, when quite an array of wine glasses were semi-circled in front of each plate at a puJlic* dinner. Under the old convention system,! before candidates were nominated by primary, the proletariat had litHe share in the government. But the giant was beginning1 to stir in the eighties, to rub his eyes, to wonder why leadership in the Civil war should be construed as giving an unimpeachable title to public ollice in the days of peace. Tillman had been making himself the voice of that awakening proletariat. He had spoken in various places in the state, voicing discontentment with the "close corporation, limited" management of ihe Democratic party in South Carolina. And, as to David of old, "every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them." Even ome who had been Republicans or Green backer*?. When that convention of 1888 met, the opponents of Tillman in it agreed in support of a renoniinatioi: of Richardson. I have never absolutely made up my mind as to why th( opposition threw away its suppori upon Earle. It may have been force* of habit that le i the proletariat tc think it had to give leadership to one of the old aristocracy. It may have been due to a knowledge that thr proletariat could win that year without the help of some of the aristocracy and a conviction that such help 'would not be forthcoming, which would leave Tillman Tree to say in future campaigns, we tried to get one , of them to lead us, the best of them, 'and he would not, so we must depend | upon ourselves to make the fight. The delegates aligned with the new Reform movement had E.irle put in | the nomination in the convention of 1888. Earlo was a man of ability [and had great love and capacity for public service. I have always believed that if he had agreed to accept support in 1888, he and not Richardson, would have been the nominee of j the convention, which would have j meant h>3 election and such a satisfy-l ! ins: of certain desires of the proletar-! j fat as would have made impossible the Democratic revolution in South Carolina in 1800. The masses had confidence in Joseph H. Earle. The i bcist proof of that is that he was the ! first' one of the old school of pu-Mic j men in the state to sc-> *c a state vicItory over the Tillman machine, and ! he did that as early as 1S9G, when he i was elected io the United States senjate defeating John Gary Evans whom j Tiiiman had made his successor as ! governor, and who was backed in that .campaign by Tillman and his closest I I associates. i it was announced to tnc convention j that Earle would not accept the gub! crnatoria! nomination if the convention should give it to him. Jlis reason did his sor.-se of honor credit, but :t changed the course of history in tlr's state. He was attorney general | during Richardson's first term as .governor. lie did not owe that office to Richardson. In a sense he was a member of Richardson's official | family, but many did not see how J that in any way made it necessary for I him to stand aside for Richardson to i have second term. But Rich-.trdson had discussed with Earle hiis plans and hopes for a second term and this was sufficient for E;?rle, with his high rense of honor, to preclude his being a candidate in opposition. Despite his declination to be a candidate, "har!e rocciVeii ;; v? v\ ?..5 av Vwts ill i ; that convention. 1 V>< lieve he coui'i I have won had he allows i his pe:>;on:ji frimds i<> add tiitxi:* .m*cs to ihose wl* [the representative;; in ihe c-onvvn<1 | (f :ne lie form movement. 1 The main difference between i V v | convent ion !a>t week ;;nd :rs pred- < j cssr>rs that I have attended \v::s t!tli ; presence of female delegate-. Olh ; - e ;wise it was i:ke th<.? others, only a li:- i tie more so, if pussi-ble. Both ; j Butler. who had attended a .v.r-iber, 1: j thought it "a lht'e mo" v\t?--c." 1 1; I hav .n- a rj r.'vr of onven-. i!;nns in which del wve dismast- f S ingly <i-\ink. especially in the wee.. d jsma' hoii:> ci ihi- m..?r.r.'s. There .? was nothing ' tVi sort ii; fast week's f I convention, either her'.ur . oi' t iie n Volstead law or the pres-':ieo of the;a (ladies. Some oi' the delegates, how-j ever, had loosened their tongues a lii- o lie with hootch. I: seems to have a t m i re paraylzing effect on the brain v jthan did the whiskey of olden days. i Soldiers Reclaiming Land McGrath, Minn.. June o.?Every major engagement of the American r Expeditionary Forces in the world is | represented by 4t? former fighters, 1 who, disabled and receiving govern I ment training, are engaged in re- a ielaimig a tract of ^,">00 acres of land e ^ar here, title to which hns been * j placed in the veterans' names. It 16 3" "hi- first .project of its kind in the 1 states. The tract has been plotted c r.tn tnvt.v and eitrhtv acre farms. It ' iias been suggested that the sites be n named after some of the important ^ kittle scenes of tho war, such ai c "hateau Thierry, Belhau Wood:-, St. c [Mihiel, the Ar^onae and others. :i 11-iowever, some fighters object that their various wounds and ailments v ! ire sufficient reminders of their ex-,'c I r>eriences. j Lifo on the tract i.-. similar to army ' 'ife. There are bunt and chow halls ^ md the squad arrangement for work. .1 The men rettlod h.'re late in April, i* :cming from the University of Min-s^ icsota agricultural school where theyi'.vere studying under government sa-!v pervision. In fact they stUi are be- i ng paid for vocational training as :1 ! Lhcir courses? stipulate that a certain;' period be devoted io practical apph-I ation of their schooling;. They are paying for :Ih j land in : I '.Rstallments from the salary of ?100 ^ i month each receives. H: The men, some of whom have fam-jv lie?, are being housed ir large com- ^ nunlty buildings until separate ncus-^ 'Sean be built. It is pl?*mp.l to build ! i school, store and cMur.-h on the r >roperty when the farmer^ have be- 1 ; "ome settled. j' When the tract had,been plotted ^ he veterans were gro'tfped in units ,f o begin clearing land. The units ' vork on each man's farJn one week.,1 L ..The tract lying: in territory (level-/ j >plng rapidly as a rich, 'dairying and j j 'arming center is chiefly.burned-over and. unfit for reforestation and, ii) ^ t j ts present shape for agriculture. The new farmers present a unique!a assembly of all nationalities. Some it vere gassed, others shell-shocked, i t others wounded by bullets. Then. ? here is "Frenchy," who had a bay-!c met thrust through his stomach, but;' s now clearing land and looking j( ?? ??I??an?., Til IITil linn |>||>B IllUiimffll 1 g Style and Scrvi j in ' i 8 The best shoes are ] K !i ..l/vn r>/^l liinr# oa j SSlIUSl-llUtt'S, 1JUI> no 3 I and skilfully put together. Our finest footwear 3 | style you ean see; the You take no chances, f( | quality?your money ]>ai style, and enables you to I I and real shuo satisfaction. Come to Us A double saving on g in the good, honest I J L. ^Moi % iARDING PRAISES i SOUTHERN DEAD Washington. Jane 4.?The presi- 3 cm: of :i.e State*. himself he >011 of a rniun w teran. join *d i'!th i'.ra\ clad. gray haired veteran* : llii* v oni oer .cy v.ito .:too.l w?t;i i MHWii heads ... the graves of their 0!:i?a(ifS :11 'h.e "Lost Cause" today ? i; Arlington cemeTciy to pay the*:i* r.iiual tribute of !ov-> and remem- i >rance ;.<> those who had gone oil the ; i.-: iong march. t Si :nding beneath the drooping j olds of the Stars and liar-. I're. < lent Kar !:ng uttered a pray or of < Tat i hide i\>r a reunited nation whose ] oundalions. he said, had been ce- ; lented by the blood of Confederate < nd Federal alike. TV!r. Harding spoke oxtemporancus!y and hi- appearance on the ro.>- ; rum of the open air amphitheatre ;/as a Kurnrise to the crowd. < To the sons and daughters of vet- { rans, Mr. Hardin?: added a word of t rihute. 1 ' Speaking as the son of one who ought in the I'nion cause," he said, 1 I want to say that I have only grati- i ude, commendation and the Queerest rihute a man can utter for their sons nd daughters who have lived in the ; Teat aftermath and ably assisted in,3 urning disunion into union, turn- ] ng discord into concord and reclaim-j ng fo'r/posterity all these things so i ssential to the welfare o .his repub- < ic. There comes to my mind such, ? ames as dear old Joe Wheeler whom < saw go to the front to defend his i ountry. and Fitzhugh Lee, who head- ] d the first troops that entered Jlab- < na in the Spanish-American war.il ind in that conflict let me say that 1 l*c of Amcrica were brought into *1 cmplete accord. , President Harding did not. hesitate o laud the courage of the men who 1 ought for the Confederacy, declar- : ng. although he cautioned, that while ,1 le did not mean to say that the Con- ;< ederacy was right, "I am glad to say ! o you that I believe you thought it f fas right.'' ;; Applause that was little less than ; n ovation greeted the president at 1 lie conclusion of his address. i The address of Judge Edgar Scurry i f Wichita Kalis, Texas, commander- ; n-chief of the Sons of Confederate .! /"eteranR, held a renewal of the j iledge of fealty to the Union of the : eterai>s and the Sons of the Con-;] ederacy. Addressing the president, < ie declared: "I bring you a message from the : 'or.s of the Confederacy, to you as ho son of a brave Union soldier, that he time has passed for bitterness, rhe t'nIo has come when every American's great deeds should become . he heritage of dther American's, no : natter in wh.Tt' cause they perform d." * A i| In the -town of; Marhorst, Germany,wo la*?e steel shell cases have been! iung in thp steeple of the church ind a clapper suspended between;: hem. When the clapper is shaken i >y means of ropes the shell cases re- ( pond, giving a clear, resonant tone . >f great carrying power. During the!' var the bells of many churches in : Jermany were melted. i ice 3olid Leather Shoes. made of leather. There am many good as honest leather, strongly is solid, leather throughout. The iialiiy "\\e guarantor. ?r the "Diamond Brand*' warrant, of k or a jfiew pair?i.s behind each j >uy ^ood .shoes with full confidence j I for Good Shoes. each pair?in the price and ear* * I tis Jk Son iGVv'A A*a\? REMEMBERS CHARGE OF LIGHT BRIGADE | r. is a Survivor of Brigade Made Fam- j ou: by Memorable Charge C. ;!ar Rapids. la., .May ?Ellis ! C"uiririir of this city, rode into the! .r'.ley of death with the immortal j :ix hamired. Si11 i;: 14* at his home ht re this man ! ,vho ro ;? "into the jaws of death, in- i n the mouth of hell," recalls the j ha! ?::* i f the Light JJrigade at tiaia-! Java in the Crimean war. He saw 'apt. Xolnn. suav:> young aide de :::nr> <f the British command, Lord !iag::.;T, d::sh up and hand Lord Luc>;i. valry commander, a note. Mr. .' .itting, then a seventeen year old British trooper did not know what the i oto contained. History says it con:ained thofo terse orders: "Lord Raglan wishes'the cavalry to ldvance rapdly to the i'ront and try :o pj-t vent the enemy carrying away | ;he guns?French cavalry is on your! eft." Cutting sew his commander thrust j :hat note into his glove before :te j ;?earer rode away. "Forward, the Light Brigade." The command rang. There was i flash of sabers. Down into the val "v dn&hef! the line of British horse men, to certain destruction. Cutting, who for 4o years was aj ailroad employe at Iowa Falls and j 2edar Falls, retired two years ago md is now making his home in this i-ity. He is now 85 years old and was seventeen when he en-listed in the Eleventh Hussars of hur majesty, 3ueen Victoria. Mr. Cutting beieves he is among the last, if not the ast, of the men who were immortalzed by Tennyson. He vividly recalls the charge. He =ays he saw nothing, knew nothing, heard nothing, but felt within him the insane Gurge that drove him fonvard with a furious desire to bury his sab?r in a Russian breast. "The Light Brigade," Mr. Cutting says, "was composed of the Fourth md Thirteenth Dragoons, the Eighth md Elevert'n Ilussars and the Seven teenth Laccrs. Jt was commanded by Lord Cardigan. The men wore !*ed trousers and -blue jackets which trained for them the name of 'Cherrylegs.' "The Brigade had been lying inactive during the progress of the fighting- until the order to charge ?amo. The battle had hardly begun until it was over. Blindly a few straggling through heaps of dead and dying, horses and men in death throes, ,,ools of blood, fought' their way to the rear of the line." Mr. Cutting disagrees with history iL. TTo iu uiu iiuiiiutri wxiu ictuiucu. xic says there were only six. He was asked what was the secret of the futile and merciless command. Cutting said Lord Raglan denied to Lord l.ucan that he had even given the order to charge, and that then Lord Lucan pulled the order from his glove where he had tucked it. "Is that your handwriting?" Lord Lucan asked. Mr. Cutting does not know what the reply was, but for ten minutes he suw them engaged in a battle of words. He believes Lord Raglan gave m - !Come 1 | ' ' , . . For Gooi Peters "Diam Solid Leather Th The Style you c The Quality We The Best Advei Newberry Count !? The Strongest || Shoe in the worl I Come to i 3 U A1 I iiooct 5tlO( I Our Prices it in good faith but that instead of rushing in the cavalry, the infantry should have ;>een sent in to maneuver. After the Crimean war. Mr. Cutting went :o India with the British troops and passed through the mutiny. He . marched from Deilii to Lucknow and f.ought in that famous iiiege. Ones he was wounded. He passed through # Ki:ypt and v.*as in active service in South Africa in 1857. Jn June 1860 he received his discharge from the Briton army, and in 1871 he came to the United States. On the Safe Side A man from Arizona on returning home was telling of the crookedness of card playing as practiced in Montana. "1 was settin7 in a litue poser game with some fellers up there," ho orated, "when one guy parks a cud of chewin' tobacker in the middle of the tabel. Well, I don't say nothin\ Then pretty soon another feller parks his. Still I didn't say nothin'. But when a third does the same thing I gets fretful. . " 'Say,' 1 says, 'what's the big idea?' " " Tardner,' one of the fellers says, 'you don't think we're goin' to t?ke no chances by turnin' our heads, do you?* " ?. ? J A bridge has been designed to span the Hudson river at New York which will be the most important gateway to the West. Its lower deck will carry 12 railroad tracks, its upper deck roadway, two and a half i times as wide as Fifth avenue, will i take care of 16 streams of vehicles. j There will still be roon^ on the upper I deck for four surface car lines and jtwo sidewalks. Although the bridge j will cost $130,000,000 it is believed j it will pay for itself by cutting the j ccst of bringing goods across the : Wn/}cnn frnm S9 98 to 50 Cents a | ton. ; RENEWED TESTIMONY I No one in Newberry who suffers [ backache, headaches, or distressing j urinary ills can afford to ignore this : Newberry woman'? twice-told story. ; It is confirmed testimony that no i Newberry resident can doubt. Mrs. W. Alewine,. 609 Drayton St., | gave the following statement on : March 22, 1918: "My back ached (severely and I was worn out and felt (languid. I had dizzy spells when npots came before my eyes and mornings I was tired and languid. When I bent I could hardly straighten again my Iback pained so. My' j head ached so I thought it would ] spilt and I was terribly nervous. : procured Doan's Kidney Pills and' jafter lining them I was cured of all I the trc&ible." . On January 20, 1922, Mrs. Alewine added: "I have not needed Doanrs Kidney Pills since they cured me. They are a splendid kidney medicine and I am glad to recommend them agair .'* 60c, at all dealers. Foster-Milburn Co., Mfrs., Buffalo, N. Y. ij6<r N V I. i Cures Malaria, Chills and Fev|er, Dengue or Bilious Fever. It ] kills the germs. f & To Us 1 ' ' d Shoes t osid Brand" iroughout. an See Guarantee. i tised Shoe in :yGuaranteed do us For ^ue ?are Low J