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CAMPAIGN SPEEC JUDC Delivered at the Meetin July 19th.?Stron of Blease's Read Gov. Blease's record and re- j w member it. Take it home with you ti and think about it. It may mean n< much to you or to your children. d< South Carolina, the State you call m yours, the State for which your fath- ?* ers have fought in four wars, is on er trial. .You are to decide her fate, j ^ What I say may help you to decide I right. Think it over. ta We are to elect a governor. A gov- er ernor to represent you and your lit children, to make laws and to enforce gc them. Do you want a friend of the j bi people, an enemy of the criminal and ; R; grafter?or one who has pardoned th more criminals than any other gover- ro nor South Carolina has ever had? A of man who has acted in defiance of D< law and order? Whose message to \ fit the legislature was so vile and vulgar cl< that that body by an overwhelming in vote struck it from the record? w; something that has never been done H< before in the history of the State? a man who poses as a friend of the poor man and an enemy to lawless so corporations, but whose votes and ha whose acts show he cares nothing fo for the poor man and has only pro- R* tected the criminal and the grafter, go Blease and the IWspensary Grafters, ye He voted not to investigate the' dispensary. (Senate Journal, 1907,: he Daaes 68 and 69.) j a < He voted not to take up and con- j sider the bill supplying money to ed prosecute the grafters. | oh Then he voted to kill the bill sup- ro plying money to prosecute the graft- j Yc ers. (Senate Journal, 1908, pagej 573.) |R1 He voted against a bill to help; pa the State in the Federal court in her sa; desperate fight with the grafters, leg (Senate Journal, 1908, page 253.) pa The State finally won and recovered, wa back many thousands of dollars Re stolen by the grafters. If the other to legislators had voted with Blease would the State have ever, gotten this Su money? The echo answers when i rol and how? , to Finally, when he became governor,j he asked for a committee to investi- coi gate the Ansel Board. The legisla- ba: ture passed the bill, but gave the go' committee power to investigate! charges against anyone. That was j sh< just what Blease did not want, so he Le vetoed' the bill. The legislature pass- wo ed it over his head?and that is the same committee that has been hear-; tw< ing charges in Charleston about the tri< blind tigers paying three thousand $2' dollars a month to the chief con- err stable of the governor and the gover- of nor still stands by the chief constable. Do you wonder that he ve- j ed toed the bill? Only one grafter, wil John Black, has been convicted and fee Blease pardoned him before he ever j Spi got in sight of the penitentiary. Oh, pai yes, he stands by his friends. Hasn't! hai he stood by the grafters? j jui Is Governor Blease a Friend of the tec Poor Man? j hoi He voted not to tax the income of j ] the rich man. (Senate Journal, the 1907, page 452.)- hu: He voted to shut the school house, Ca door in the face of the child of the juc man who is too poor to pay poll tax. j she (Senate Journal, 1906, page 463.) j pai He voted against the bill providing; yoi for Federal help in road building, | the which would have made the road tax i his lighter on the poor man. (Senate hir Journal, 1907, page 337.) sto He is in favor of abolishing the fat office of bank examiner, thus leav-; hai ing it easy for an unscrupulous and j ed dishonest banker to rob the small of depositor. of He vetoed the appropriation of i th( $4,133.64 to pay for medicine furn-' rej islied the poor man s child In cases j of of diptheria and smallpox. j sei He favored putting a burden of He $900,000 on the taxpayers to im-1 th< prove the State house, which every- de "body knows is one of the finest State ha houses in the country. as Is he the poor man's friend? He J th< will tell you so, but does his record by show it? 1 tn Is He Opposed to the Corporations? to In 1892 he voted for free passes,; and for free express and free tele- j graph franks to legislators. (House Gc Journal, 1892, page 257.) Af T_ t n n n i A ?3 j. _ l AV ? ; i 1 ill ii>u< lie vuieu iu lei iuc i anroads keep it secret who were carry- i ch ing free passes. (Senate Journal,, al 1907, page 311.) tw In 1907 he voted against the bill sc requiring the railroads to reduce pas- th senger rates as they were doing in' no other States. m< He told President Finley, of the an Southern Railway, that he would up have a friend in the mansion when | a he (Blease) became governor. When i an he got to be governor who did he or take to live with him? He took Ben i flu Abney, the chief counsel of the! M: Southern Railway Company, the bell j to 1 H OF iE IRA B. JONES g in Columbia Friday g Presentation RflrorJ. ether of the whole flock of corpora ons. Blease brags about Ben Ab ay having made a million and a hal hilars, and says he is the smartes' an in the State. Wasn't it smar : him to go and live with the gov nor? No wonder Blease tells yoi le railroads gave Abney a raise. He had to select a private secrery and a clerk. Did he get a farm's boy or a poor man's son? No i went to the railroad offices and )t two railroad clerks, Rowland disirsing auditor for the C.. N. &. L. ailway, and Blackburn, a clerk from e Southern Railway. So the railads have friends at the governor's flee and at the governor's mansion, aes he ever get away from the in lence of the railroads? Do these srks and Ben Abney ever whisper Blease's ear when the railroads ant favors? e Has Pardoned Crooks and Criminals. No governor ' has ever pardoned many crooks and criminals. He .s pardoned and paroled nearly ur hundred. He pardoned Rudolph abens, convicted of receiving stolen ods, as the friend and ally of the ggman and safe cracker. He pardoned Wash Hunter, whom had defended and who had killed crippled man. He paroled Stobo Young, convictof being a grafter in the Semin3 Securities Company. The pale is until October. Who will >ung work for for governor? He pardoned Glenn, who killed loden in Batesburg. Glenn says he id Mr. Rembert $500. Rembert ^*s $300. Rembert is Blease's floor ider in the house. Did that $500 y Rembert to explain how Glenn is innocent, or did it pay for Mr. mbert's influence on Gov. Blease liberate a criminal? He released the Davis brothers and mter, three negroes who beat and Dbed a white man and left him tied a tree. He pardoned a negro in Lexington inty who burned Dr. Crosson's rn. Dr. Crosson had opposed the vernor. He pardoned Miller, who wantonly Dt into the house of John Head in xington county in 1910 and unded Mrs. Head. He paroled Beckwith and Schultz. o Yankee pickpockets who had ed to bribe a deputy sheriff with 00 to let them escape. The govlor' turned them out on the eve the State fair. He pardoned another Yankee namFlemming who had shot down :hout excuse the sons of two Conlerate veterans in the town of ringfield, and yet he excused his 'don of Hasty because he said he 3 shot two Yankees, which the y by their verdict said were proving two defenseless girls in a tel at Gaffney. D nrriQmKnr oil r\ f nri TYi i T) Q 1C Ltcinvuiu^i an \ji. tiiv/i?^ tiuiuui^ has pardoned and paroled, and ndreds of others. Twelve South rolina jurors and an honorable Ige have said they were guilty and >uld be punished. One of these "doned criminals may shoot down i or your brother or your son in } hope that even if he is convicted 1 friend Gov. Blease will pardon n. Did the soft-hearted governor p to think of the widows and the herless children of the men who d been murdered, when he releasthese men? Did he stop to think law and order and the good name his State? Has he not brought 2 good name of his State into dispute? He insulted the governor Georgia and said he did not have ise enough to raise watermelons, i has stigmatized Woodrow Wilson, ? Democratic nominee for presint, as the tool of corporations. He s made the citizens of his State hamed when they go abroad in e land and now he is asking you your votes to indorse his adminisition. Can you do it and be fair yourselves? Think it over. /V D1^ uyvwuur mcasc & A violent attack has been made by >v. Blease on my political record, 'ter a service as legislator and eaker of the house, associate and ief justice of the supreme court, 1 together covering a period of enty-one years, I invite the closest rutiny of every act of mine during at period, and I feel positive that i fair or just man will impugn my stives relative to the discharge of y official duties that have devolved ion me. I have never represented railroad company or cotton mill, d no corporation has ever exerted attempted to exert on me any inlence in the discharge of my duties, r. Blease, as bitter as he has been ward me, has failed to find any TO COM IJ AT ARMY WORM. i House Passes Aiken Resolution A ) preprinting $5,000. Washington, July 25.?The hou of representatives to-day passed t 9 resolution offered by Representati Wyatt Aiken, of the 3d South Car Una district, for the appropriation $5,000 to aid the department of a riculture in meeting the emergen caused in South Carolina and oth Southern States by the ravages army worms. Representatives Lev f of South Carolina, and Heflin, of A t abama, spoke in favor of the res I lution. Senator E. D. Smith to-day call* , on the secretary of agriculture to e list his aid in the effort to check tl ravages of the army worm. Seer tary Wilson said he had experts rea< but that owing to the delay of agi | cultural bill in conference there a no Tunas avanaDie 10 piace mem the field. The secretary said th, $5,000 would be much too small ; amount. Senator Smith at once prepaid and introduced in the senate a joii resolution authorizing the payme: of $25,000 to secretary of agricultu] | for immediate use in fighting tl pest, with the proviso that th amount shall be deemed to have bee advanced as a part of the fund pr vided for such purposes in the pen< ing agricultural bill and shall be sul tracted therefrom when the bill b comes a law. There is a serious situation in tl' department as a result of failure 1 enact the appropriation bills. Tl resolution extending appropriatioi r\r> tV>Q lac* ficpal vpflr's basis lirnite this emergency expenditure to ori< twelfth of that year's total, and om twelfth of the new fiscal year is a most gone. Employees are bein temporarily dropped here and thei on account of the fear of a crisis. Hidden Treasures of the Tiber. The waters of the Tiber are sai to cover many costly treasures of ai tiquity. From Lake Nemi, nee Rome, many bronze armaments an statuary from the floating palaces c the Emperors Tiberius and Caligul have already been recovered. It h? long been the dream of poets and th belief of antiquaries that the Tiber bed conceals a vast amount of arti! tic treasures which have been flun into it either from wanton recklesi ness or for the pupose of preservatio from sacrilege. There is a legen that Attila buried all his treasur beneath the river. thing in my record that he can attac successfully before a thinking an independent man. He asserts that I favor soci? equality between the races. This i too absurd a falsehood to notici Why, of course he does not believ that himself, for after knowing .m record fully he voted for me fc speaker of the house (see Hous Journal, 1890, page 474,) for assc ciate justice (see House Journa 1893. page 87,) and in 1908 fc United States Senator (see Senat Journal, 1908, page 950.) If he be lieved about me what he says, the he is unworthy to fill the lowest ol fice in the gift of the people; for n man with a scintilla of decency o manhood in his make up would vot for a man who he believed favore social equality between the races. Does any man doubt that I woul be governor of the whole people Does any man doubt that I would b just to all alike, whether my friend or my enemies? Does any man be lieve that it would be necessary t pay a lawyer big fees in order t get pardons from me if I am electe governor? No doubt Gov. Bleas and some of his friends would be ur willing for you to have the facts an information which I have given you and if you went to the campaig meeting in your county you are awar how difficult it was for me to get an facts before you so you could judg for yourself as to the qualification or disqualifications of Gov. Blease c myself. Have you any doubt ths Gov. Blease is supported by the lav less element? Mind you, he has goo people supporting him who are nc in possession of all the facts, but : you have any doubt that the lawles element is supporting him, go to th nearest blind tiger and habitual vi( l _ ? ~ f +V./-W Ion- o n r? coo rtrh r\ tha JcllUIS LllC lan auu n uu luv. are supporting, Jones or Blease.? Remember. Before you vote remember thi: You and your people, your brothei and sisters?your wife and childrei are to live in this State. If you ai the right kind of man you want goo government, law and order, honest and fair dealing so that you and yoi children will live the right kind ( lives and be the right kind of pe< pie. You want a governor who honest, fearless and upright an whom you can respect. Don't vot for a man because you think he one of the boys, or because he makt a good stump speech, or because 1 says he will take care of his friend but vote for the best man and tt man who will make the best go^ ernor. CiKOltUlA GIIIL IS COWHIDKD. p- It is Claimed that the Attackers ai Prominent in Georgia City. se According to the Augusta Herah he Essie Carter, a young white womai ve is in the Macon Hospital in a seriou o- condition as the result of a hors< of whipping inflicted upon her Saturda g- night at Dawson by three men. Sh cv was brought to Macon on a cot fc er medical and surgical attention. vv line leiu&iag iu give tiic name lT< of the men who whipped her, th young woman says that the man wh ?" plied the whip is a prominent cit; zen of Dawson and the father of -d young man whose attentions to he n_ caused the trouble^ She says sh 16 was dragged out of her house an e" while two men pulled off her cloth ly ing and held her the third adminis tered the flogging. She is stripe re and cut on every inch of her bod *n from her waist down. at According to Mary Carter, the wc tn man's sister, who brought her to Ma con, W. S. Dozier, clerk of superio 5(* court of Terrell county, did the whip n ^ ping, while Clyde Dozier, his grow: nt son, and Pope McClung held her. V re 0. Dozier, eighteen-year-old son o *e W. S. Dozier, is the youth whose in IS fatuation for the woman, is given a 5n the cause of -the cowhiding. o, , W. S. Dozier was asked by Ion] b distance telephone for a statement but refused to discuss the affair. eAccording to Mary Carter, ; ,e crowd of a dozen or more men, ii l0 two automobiles, went to Essie Car ie ter's home about midnight Satur 1S day. The servant refused them ad mission, whereupon she was knock q. ed down and the Doziers and Mc e. Clung entered and searched the housi i_ until they found Essie Carter in he 1 icr room. She was taken outside, Mar; Lo *e Carter, asserts, and after being strip ped was beaten by the elder Dozier while Clyde Dozier and McClung hel< her and the other men stood aroun< d with pistols to prevent any interfer ence. ir After Essie Carter had been beatei d into insensibility, Mary Carter says the crowd rode to her house twi ia blocks away, determined to punisl ls her in similar manner. Mary Carte ie say6 she was warned in time to es 's cape in the darkness and hid in i 3_ nearby grove until after the crow< g had dispersed. She brought her sis 3_ ter to Macon on the first train an< n placed her in the hospital, d Friends of the Carter women ii ..3 Macon say they will employ Macoi attorneys to prosecute the Dozier: - and others who took part in tin k horse-whipping. d "Because it will bring disgract upon his son, I am not going to tel il the name of the man who lacerate( is me with a buggy whip," declarec 2. Essie Carter, "although I really thinl e he should be exposed. His son hac y been coming to see me, and I hac >r been warned to leave Dawson, bu e I stayed there, and that is why I an >- in this condition. I told the youn^ man that he should forget me, bu ,r he said he couldn't and persisted ii e his attentions. i- ''Saturday night his father, ac n companied by two other men, enterec L_ tne nouse. rney seizea me ana arag 0 ged me out into the street and twt r of them pulled off my skirts and un e derclothing and the father then bea d me until I fainted. "The man used a long buggy whii d which was concealed under his coai when he entered the house. He is e one of the leading men of Dawson s and is wealthy, and his son stands as well as he does. For that reason, be 0 cause it will shame and humiliate th< 0 son, for whom I feel a sincere affec d tion, I am not going to give an} e names. l" "Dawson is my home. I have livec d there many years, and my people live ' there now. My way of living ma} n not please everybody, but I am not ? e bad woman." y The young woman is being taker e care of here by friends who hav< lS raised a fund to defray the doctors ir and hospital expenses. The doctors say she will recover, but may be crip 7~ pled for life, as several tendons an d affected. )t ^ ^ Mother Failed to Save Son. ;s e Lexington, Ky., July 25.?Pro )- longed sacrifice of blood by a mothei iy failed to save the life of Frank Grov or op-oH 17 whn Hipri from a maladi the doctors couldn't diagnose. H( s. was stricken weeks ago, and the af s fliction took the form of a mysterious 1, blood absorption that left him weak e Physicians decided that he mus d have new blood. y "Frank shall have my blood," sah ir his mother. "I am strong and m] )f blood will make him strong." > VortVi p>iq nroc etrannpH tn hpi J~ Uttj oug TT ug uvi WJ^JJVU w Mv is son on an operating table and the d blood transfused through arm arter :e ies. The boy's strength returnee is quickly and it was believed he wai ss recovering. le Recently a change for the worse s, occurred, the malady absorbing the te new blood faster than it could be r- supplied. He collapsed this after noon and died. : | THIS IS THE FIRM I a who ten years ago reasoned: 1 e W "People come miles to get a taste of |?|. d IB real 'New Orleans Coffee'?they've gj W heard so much of its remarkable and JH d IB peculiar goodness. Why not send m I I 1**1* 1# ' 1"' y H it to them?place it within reach of || ^ S i- everybody, no matter at what distance ?** H | H The result was?^ 1 I Now the most popular, the most 1 IB called-for brand on the market | IB Many imitators have since come upoQ :4? j ijj the scene, but after you once know > % IB Luzianne you will never be do- 61 r IB ceived by the "just as good** argu- |S| y B ment of its imitators. i U SOLD EVERYWHERE S fjjl II Hie Refly-Taylor Co., New Orleans, U. S. A. IS ? sJtm 9hk mM '*1 can tell toe egjs. How many have we?" "Ten dozen. a& Irak.** - ? ? a ; The farmer who has a telephone in [ his home can meet a business situation J 1 whether he be at home or in town. Can - you call your home on the telephone like ' 1 ! "his farmer is doing? til ' If not you are losing money by not i using the greatest convenience or modern times. The cost is so small that telephone t service is within reach of every one. Write ' for our free booklet which tells all about * this economical service. Address Farmers Line Department ^53^. SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE fjl , & TELEGRAPH COMPANY > 108 South Pryor St., Atlanta, Ga. : | dont fail."' | . When you have use for a gun or pistol you want 1 y one that will not fail to fire when you want it to do 4 so, one that you can feel satisfied that it is working M) . * fft, "just right." Bring your gun or pistol to me to be ? repaired and you can then have that "satisfied feelS ing" when you have use for them. I also repair y r Bicycles, Automobiles, Locks, etc., at reasonable y J* prices. All work guaranteed. y : i J. B. BRICKLEt 5 ?g. The Repair Man Bamberg, S. C. i ' II A Cof ^ ntir?n ll 11 In the Banking business Is ample capital, careful meth- i $ ' jgg ods, shrewd judgment and unfailing courtesy. Thus j? t* the fact that our deposits are increasing rapidly is suf- a J 3 g 9 ficient proof that our customers realize and appreciate jag 11 that this combination is our method of doing business. | 5 2 11 shall be pleased to number you among our new ;? H* customers. We pay 4 per cent, on Savings Deposits. 3 M PEOPLES BANS Bamberg, S. C. 11