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4 AN URGES PEOPLE TO VOTE FOR JONES - 31 V " ^ " ^1 , Blease Utterly Unlit to Be Governor / r* - Fa;*. • ^.yVwa^L.- ’ .. • . ; rv*- «• Gives Out “Ferguson Letter.” ^ * •- • ' : -' * : : -^: , ^y'' . ,% . ■'' J 5 * Senator, in Statement, Says Betrayal of His Confluence Forces Him to Declare Himself in Gubernatorial Fight. Prefers Private Life to Being “Consider ed, Even.by Indirection, as Endorsing Governor Blease.” Implores “People to Take Care of State’s Good Name Next Tuesday.” Taken From Saturday’s Charleston News and Courier, Aug. 24, 1912 • • • * ' . * •_* • f Washington, August 23.—Special: uncomfortable, in the role as a fence Ben Stothart's head off when StoU of the two or will make the better Senator Tillman tonight issued the straddler; therefore. 1 have de- hart refused to swear under oath. Governor. following statement concerning the tided to give the letter in question that he had not been bribed, under Mewne hsd Chance. Ferguson letter, which has been publicity so that all the people the pretext th&t he would "Incrlml- “Blease has had his chance. Has much discussed in South Carolina may understand ext>ctly what my nate himself?*’ Why has It been j, e maje good? On your hoiwr do during the last few days: ideas and feelings are. his habit to refer most those who you thlnk he hag made good ag «I have said repeatedly that 1 “I have no doubt Governor Blease wanted to get pardons to some Governor? No man can be a good was hands off in the race for gov- has read the whole letter, and such friend like Sam Nichols? Why did governor unless he realises that it ernor Id South Carolina, end have of his lieutenants as he chose to he not do the pardoning business |f a high offi< i e and that he oyigh{ tried faithfully to remain neutral to give it we already in possession himself dn his own Judgment, rath- to d0 nothlng t s-bring it under sus- the end. but circumstances and con- of it. He is acquainted with er than turn It over to a shifty piPion The honor of a woman and ditions have compelled me to change my attitude, and will naturally—and lawyer to charge a fee, unless he iny purpose. After the Sims letter I would do the same, uud 1 do not wa8 gating some of the money? was published I was deluged with blame him at all—use it, to my " h >' 18 11 that he l * 80 H*l*at« telegrwns and letters, both of pro- disadvantage. w|,h B<?n Abn ^' ,h * le » dIn 8 coun - test and importunity from my old "Without considering whether 8el for ,he Sout,iern Hallway as io school Dram Georgie Ackerman COUNTY RURAL SCHOOl, SUPERVISOR Editor The Frees and Standard: We sometimes speak with- some degree of pride about the Increase in *cur educational Interest, and improvement in educatlot-J met* - ods, and possibly there Is. in some ! respects, Justifiable pride in a few ! commcnttifs In our county. ..Ccrtaln- i ly the nunfber of schools ir* Colle- . ton has been greenly increased with in the last twenty-five or thirty years. In some sections where form erly there wat* one school within a radius of five or six miles, it is now more likely there are five -ehoolj. Cor«ldcr, now, whether or not this is recJ Improvement. The one, or possibly two, schools could be kept open with a competent! teacher, or two if necessary, for a term of six or eight months, where- parent needa of ColloUm Why not unite thee* three or four schools In the district, thereby har ing one large enough to secure a long term cad one or two com pet eat teachers, as the number of pupllo might require? Oh bat, sogip - oaa urges, my child caaaot wsJk to far, he or she is too delicate.—There la. little doubt that If your child had It longer walk he would possess stroag er muscles, hare redder blood la kta veins, and develop a more active aad capable bralu. because of ' taking more oxygen Into the lungs, tf tko walk Is really too long tor Mm. you might make It easier tor him by aa occr*tonal ride la your baggy or wagon, but by all meana. whatever the difficulty, keep him la aehosl more than three or foar months of the twelve. Do not pat more ally the children from one of these schools can attend two of the short terms, but even then, they we not benefltte^ as they would be if un der the Instruction of the same teacher during a term of the same length, and assuredly not If by consolidation of schools the term should be longer than two of the short one's. -Suppose c- township, or part of one, in which there are five'schools of three months each and It. requires little logic to see that three schools of five months ougbt to be dew to every CaroliDiar, each W0l ,i d be* far better. When consolidation is advocated, the ob- as, the four or five schools in the ‘ _ _ same territory rre run for only thought aad spend more money \m about three months, and some of the ralslr^ and training of * homo them have shorter terms. Occasion- D f high pedigree or a fin* blooded friends, or men who claimed to be there will be any countervailing ad- •uch. Some of them touched me vantage to me In making the letter tnke him into his own t-ouse, when he knows Ben Abney is the greatest deeply because of their pathos. Most public, I will at feast have the satis- We bav ® rV€r had In South Blease of them dem.M.d th.. I .held .action o< knew, .ha. I am no » manlpnl.. OT o. Le,l.l.- •ayl ja much for Blease as I had longer considered too cowardly to •aid for*Jones. Others threatened come out in the open and racke me with retirement on account of known my opinion. Ih this grav£ interference In the Governor’s race, crisis in the State’s history I can About ten dayg ago I wrote to one better afford to retire to private of the latter in Anderson County, ijf e> j; necessary, than to be con- e.T>J asked him especially not to gidered, even by indirection, as let anyone fee U- endorsing Governor Blease. I "Thrqe or four day* ago Dreceiv- wilL'at leeat maintain my own self-, ed altepy'of the letter from Gov- respect, and as my confidence has ernor Blease, with the inquiry i,<*en betrayed, I will give the whole whether I had written it or not. i e tter to the public. Oa the 19th 1 received a letter from “As the battle has progressed, 1 Harrison Ferguson, of Spartanburg, have been more and more convinc- asklng whether or rot I .thought ed Q f t h e utter unfltDDss of Blecae Blease was not alao eminently t a ^ Governor, and rather than^ tures and railroad commisslonara. " 'If I had been running for Gov ernor like Jones is, what da you**, suppose I would have said to Blease when he charged me with having ‘Son Chtfrlie’ megaphone up, to ‘Pa* on the supreme bench? 1 would have retorted: -Govercor Blease, Ben Abnej^does not have to use a megaphone or telephone to reach you wid tell you what the Southern Railroad wants. He can talk to you three times a day across the table, and if be does not finisb by sup per be can go to -bed with you, and talk over and get anything fix ed, Every intelligent man in the “1 have tried my best to stay out of this fight, but tnyi friends are trying in every way possible It te* ms „to me, to drag me Into it, having no thought of the conse- qm-m-ts to me, but intent only on or Jones. I could was as well qualified as Jones without lying, except as 1 have explained in this letter. • If 1 could speak to every South Carolinian in the Stcte who is a Tillmanite, between now and the primary, this is what 1 would say: ‘1 am the same man that I h&ve always been, and have not changed one particle. ,J still believe the poor people and the farmers ought to have as many rights aud privileges as anybody else in the country, but they only play into the bauds of their er<?niles and fight against Iheir Interests when they vote for an'unworthy man. 1 did not win qualified for Governor.to 'which I feel, as I would be compelled to do. kDowg Den Abnejl . fi pftrnloioUS the,r conf,<i «. nc ® and ,OTe b > l >' iu » to cow than in the intellectual Ufa of your child. Let the money which must of necessity be paid as taxes be used for the benefit of your child •long with your neighbor*, and If ived be, add to it. Let us hare fewer schools, if need be, that wo may have better achoola and longer distances, that we may have long er terms. THE XF< KHSITY OK THE HIGH SCHOOL. Jectlon most commonly urged is the distrnce to be covered by- some of the children in walking to school, and, granting that In eases of weak, delicate children this is a Through the lawyers in the legislature, in the them, and 1 do^jiot believe Blease would make as good a Governor as answered in the affirmative, with thc * i waR ln part responsible ae(lvlty ln CoIun ibia. some restrictions and explanations, for lt> if f. remained silent, I write lluwj . epg , n the , and marked it also private and con- this statement and will take the employ of the railroad, he has pre- l'' 1 * a very muth worse one fldentir-1. And again the code that consequences. vented any relief to many people tban wt - have ever had since the ...obtains among gentlemen was violat- “The State has beer* disgraced i n 4^j>cut the mileage book situation R a< llcal^jjiiyfi, E.nd *h<* wvmltl bring ed by Mr. Ferguson, and that part the eyes of the whole world, and any r ,;i other railroad matters. u * disgrace if ejected again, of the letter shown, which srid it* good name made a byword and •* ‘Because Gonzales and all the "I know many of my friends -e- Governor Blease was ‘eminently ahlssing. Nobody can cleanse it other State papers are supporting S ar 4 Blease as another Tillman, qualified’ if Mr Ferguson hes shown redeem it except its own peo- Jones is no receon why Jones is un- He caa use ,he Pitohfork as well or, all of the letter, he has only done p] e< Gt to be Governor, or that he will P-fhaps, better than I can now, it to such friends as he could “j implore the people to take b e coiv.rolled by them, if he is bu t I never dipped the pitchfork in trust, those of the same type with C are of the State’s good name elected. My friends who have been fiRb. an d that is what he has done; himself. I am thus made to e»- next Tuesday/’ dorse Bleeae as ‘eminently quali fied,’, while explanations and re- atrictions are kept from the pub lic. Uncomfortable as Fence Straddler. so outraged because 1 said Jones and * hope for the State, he will to Ferguson Is as was ‘eminently 1 qualified to be he beaten. C onsider how idiotic Governor,’’ and have demanded that and foolish It is to vote against s* I should say the same for Blease. «ood man because tJonzales will vote in bis If he should happen ac cidentally to support me some time, that would be sufficient to d&mn In the recent educational number of The State, there occur excellent , t-rtlcles by* Prof. Bar«ks and Dr Sny der which refer to a matter that presses for our attention. This is the alarming tendency of pupils ^ .m. of h *ho mHlat of the court «. *od enter col- be urged on * he otb ®* a,d ® [ ,b lege without due oreparatlon. mTt m :Mid^ ttkfnL th^^onge? pr ^ 8 Tth^rnTrl t£ :" ,k woum -'A-r mu, : . 1 . r;, "«.*r ?„7 s ha i e ^ red | der b 00 ' , ^k! he r « ^ n | , mBsHln. Dr. Snyder prbposaa that and develop a more adiye, capable DO ^ %hf)uld r4lm £Y^ 9ll to brain, because of trking more oxy- ettmln /| 0 n for entrance, of accept gen into their ur-Ts. Then, in case a c „ llflcat€ for hinit unlM> he haa a child is physically weak and some- flnl8hed at ^ tff0 deg of tha times needs help over his road let bigh ichoo| Th|- ghould ^ the him he treated as well as the low- m | r ,«, nuin er anlmris in which so much pride | 0ur ap p M | agm | nB t this evil must is manifee ed. Many people spend ^ fo fh# at Qf counw th<> ar*1 sacrifice much In the rr-’slng . chular btmaelf and training ef a horse of hlgh-ped - t{J get off tQ nlleg*. Very likely a ,,n ® h'® 011 ®?, cow ’ J’ 11 he is tired of the high school (as think it too much trouble or too boyg and g|rl , wU| tlrtf of (he ^ great a sacrifice to carry the child of tbinga) know ltg d , ff , ca ,. to school, in order that he may hr ye tieg aDd 4ta waar | BOIne routine—aad a longer term to be spent in his theJ , do not know thow of the hlgh _ mental development When the op- e|> in a t|t ut t OD> Their tmajcteatlon portunity to patronize a school and plcture- , g e promised land the privilege of attending one is ap- of de „ ghta Tbe dul , or lntT . predated ra it should be, parents m-holar fancies that there, by some megir. study will cease to be and children will he more willing to overcome the obstacle of long dl»- and ; become delightful. These are Illusions, gad furbish no reason why a parent, ;./;alnst his own better judgement, shenfd yield to the desire of his child to hurry off to college at tba earliest possible monier*:. t yf high school system, formulat- “The letter follows: Ijetter te Ferganon. "My Dear Sir: Yours of August had better Uk* heed lest in their for and supports him 14th received. I am r*ot in the passion and prejudice and mz-lness, newspaper “I am unwilling in this crisis of habit of evading direct answers to they get a worse Governor than the State’s history to become a sup- direct questions from my frjends. Jones can possibly make, porter of Governor Blease for re-el- so I will say to you, thls^Aa far •• *1 undertake to guarantee that forever Id the eyes of some men*' ectiou, or to appear to do ao. I as brains go, Blease is ‘eminently Jones, If elected governor, will be Jodgiog ( by Ibelr actions at this know many, of my warmest frierdV qualified’ to be Governor, but he is governor of all the people and not time. Such feeling is nothing but are strong believers in Blease, and hopelessly deficit of Judgment, of bis “Friends” alone. Because all madness, and is unworthy of the have known thia front, the beginning, wisdom, and catholicity of spirit, the Dewspapers, which have howled brave Carolinians who have always A less number of the TIHmc-nites and there is so much! smoke about at me, aud some of them are still, been the backbone of the reform tanco, If,r-'ccssary. In the detcrmlna Mon to have the longer term, then* will be less of the dlftfooslrlon now manifested by ninny a pr.*ron and trustee to have the sehool or a school almost at his door even thomib it he at the cost of half the j term to a majority of the children ui>f n \ e ffeet by the wisest teachers, tr. the distr et In twp schools thr. j g supposed to provide the proper have recently had a summer • courB 0 0 f study and the proper most, if not all, of the pupils could | eng t b D f jj n , e necesatry to fit a haveattenikd cne, and the P !i,r ‘ ,n pupil either for practical life, or nearest to one of them sent his fo|> a ubera , Mucatlon at college, child™ more Irregularly thrn those The parent who bretikm luio lhl . twice as far away. How true it Is beneficent plan, does his child m that the thing which Is easily °htai n great injustice. How can It ha ax ed is very slightly valued. The an gth or »th grade truth Is not that fewer schools are pup j| > on ba |f ^a work and half tha needed, bat longer terms, and. If t|me pre^ribed. car. be anfficientlr the longer term can be secured ordy prepared to up pro maWy A the by hav ng fewer schools then sure- h| her work wh|ch he £ uat ly the longer term Is desirable even d0 , B co ,| a _ #? though It means tha longer distance. „ „ fool , gh to 9nppoU) ^ aDy . of old, but as good friends as any his corruption that r~am bound to howling, are now howling c-gainst movemet>t. Very sincerely yours, of them, are supporting Judge Jones believe there must be some fire. Blease and Jones is no manner of I do not want to appear, and I am For instance, why did he not cut proof that Blease Is the best man B. R. Tillman, Foster Murray* . I 1 Neatness of # Appearance Requires Special Effort in the Sam* mer Time. By patronizing our Laundry and Garment Clean ing Departments you will not only present a nobby appearance, but our service on COLLARS CUFFS AND SHIRTS makes them stand the heat longer than ordinary methods, and suits cleaned and pressed by us retain their original shape. If your laundry agent does not represent us tell him to “tiy the IDEAL WAY—it satisfies. IDEAL XAUNDRY CLEANERS, DYERS, LAUNDERERS. Charleston, S. C. Colletoa’a Fife* Bale. The first bale of cotton ginned in Colletor* aa reported to The Frews and Standard, was the* of A. B Mias Elisabeth Robert non Dead. Round, Aug. 26.—Special: Miw Elisabeth Robertson died at her home here early Saturday* morning, „ ,. . t having been a chronic sufferer for Carter,, which was ginned Satur- eight years. The fuD?ral service* day by H. D. Padgett, Jr., at Ruf- were held Saturday afternoon late fin. Mr. Padgett has an up-to-date and the interment took place at ginnery and so far as can be learn- Bridge cemetery, ed, has tbe distlnctlor. of hc.ving j Miss Robertson was 60 years of ginned tbe first bale of cotton this n«e and has been a consistent mem- season. her of Bethany Baptist church for y targ she leaves Hunter, Pearce A Battey, the sub- two brothers, Hon. J. L. Robertson stantial, reliable, and*ei>?rgetic fac- and Henry Robertson*, and three sis- tors, of Savannah, offer yoe the tern. Misses Julia*. Mioml and Mary, sune excellent service that has These ladies have been living to- convinced many others of the bem- gether for many jears. The death fits of marketing cotton through of Miss Robertson is mourned by a them. Until you have tried them, large circle of relatives and friends, perhsps-you are neglecting an op- ! ___________ portunity to realize more for your . Hying Men Fall .p^crrullT ,o"ctt >oar con,l,nmpni,. n(>y tr01lM ., j UM | lk , O , hor _ p i e , with like results in loss of appetite, backache, nervousness, headache, and tired, listless, run-down feeling. But there’s no need to feel like Coosawhc-tchle, Aug 26. OOXftOLIDATlOX. We sometimes speak with some degree of pride about our growth la thing of value can be built on an imperfect four.Jt.11on. Thence it comes that every year scores of college graduates are M:rived out whose ignorance of the Irtszl* a old •brme a 7th grade pupil. They educational Interest, and our im- j aavc forgotten the little they ever provement In educational methods. 1 knew of the history of their own arvl possibly there Is reason for this t country, og geography and grammar, pride In a few communities of our They spell poorly. They have never county. Certainly the number of ; learned to read with complete aaaw schools In Colleton has been grer-My and understanding. Can anyonw increased within the last twenty- doubt, as we consider such common five or thirty years. In some dis- \ cases, thtt what our boys and tracts where formerly we 'had one girls need is to spend more timo school within a radius of four, five jin the preparatory school.? or six mile*, we now have four or | Crammiog Is too often resorted five schools within the same ra- to—but. at best, cramming is a poor dius. Well, sc*ys some zealous pa- makeshift. Education Is a growth. tron or trustee, Isn’t there Improve ment In this respect. Formerly, the one school was fre am! we ran not hurry growth. There Is. possibly, no parent who. at heart, does not wish to give his Picnic at Hudson’s Mill. There will be a Farmers' Union picnic at Hudsons Mill Friday of thi as T. D Peebles. Henrjr, Tenr.., week. A number of prominent farm ers’ union* speakers will be present and deliyer r-ldresses on this occas- Mra Bead! Hurt. i However, her many friends will be jon. The public is cordially invited M*. rtf this niace plaasad to learn that the at- to be present and bring well-fiiled X .* .SfXSTJK!.- ^ —— I «* two weeks ago. While trying to: Earle Graves, of Charleston, who ca “ not *scape—our past ourselves. bo *r* * car Mra. Beach was hM b99n Til |ting relative* in and thlch'we^anni 1 avoVd—our resno^ % W. 1 ,„b«ro. 'A.»n.*d bom. proved. "Six bottles of Electric Bitters” he writes, “did more to give me new strength and good appetite than eJI other stomach remedies I used. So they help everybody. Its folly to suffer when this great remedy will help you from the first dose. Try It. Only SO cents at Jno. M. Klein’s. Better to try and fail to do. a good thing than never to try’the quently kept running during eight'child every chance for perfection, or nine month* of the year, while t Now the element of tUde enters into now the number of schools in the the complete education. Your boy, same district can scarcely make , ycur girl r. eds those three or four more months in their combined , yer-rri in. the high school not only terms, and though occasionally the that they may finish ihe prepara- children from one of these schools tory course, but that they may can attend two of the short terms, have time to mature in mind. (hey do not even then get the bent- 1 The advantc-ge of graduating and fit of a term of nirvv months. In reeeivlng a diploma from the high the days of tbe one school tv the schoo) is no means fictitious. Apart district, the opportunity to patron- from what it strictly, represents, ize a sehool, and the privilege of there is the wholesome moral effect attending one appreclr.-ted, and or* the pupil. A diplomas to him. parents and children were willing represents success— a task well fln- to overcome the obstacles of lor*? , tubed, a step taken. It makes foe distance and to undergo the hard- ( selfrespect and the respect of oth- sbip of an all day session, which rr*. It Is the true stepping stone was often necessary lr* order so one to college. teacher might teach the large nuai* j Tbe high school should be pa- ber who^came from the le-rg* dls- tronlse far more consistently than trlcf. The patrons often supplemet/e at present. This will make Its taa- ed the public funds In order to provement more fully possible. We have the longr term. Granting need fewer mt-in studies attempted I i, .n u * f \\ that the same thing Is sometimes done today. It Is etill true . that many schools are not so fortunr’e and with the greatly Increased and lr/?reas]ng prosperity of the people. at a time, 5 '*more »frequet<. reviews, and more grounding In the founda tion branches. We need a more ex acting standard of scholarship, and that every high school teacher shall . lected.)