Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

RECORD OF BLEASEj ? ? AS SENATOR, LEGISLATOR AND AS THE GOVERNOR. SHOWS WHERE HESTANDS How H? Voted on Many of the Questions Affecting the People and How l(e Pardoned White and Hlack Criminals and Turned Them Loose on Honest People. In his speech in Columbia Judge Jones showed up Gov. Blease's record as Senator, Legislator, and as Governor, giving authority for the statements from the official records of the State: "South Carolina, the State you call yours, the State for which your fathers have fought in four wars, is on trial. You are to decide her fate. What I say may help you to dccido right. Think it over. "We are to elect a governor?a governor to represent you and your children, to make laws and to enforce them. Do you want a friend of the people, an enemy of the criminal and grafter, or one who has pardoned more criminals than any other governor South Carolina has over had? A man who lias acted in defiance of law and order? Whose message to the legislature was so vile and vulgar (hat that body, by an overwhelming vote, struck It from the record?some thing that lias never been done before in the history of the State? A man who poses as a friend of the poor man and an enemy to lawless corporations, but whoso votes and whose acts show he cares nothing for the poor man and has only protected the criminal and the grafter? "Blease voted not to investigate the dispensary. (Senate journal 1 907, pages 0 8 and 0 9.) "He voted not to take up and consider the Hill supplying money to pros< cute the grafters. "'I hen he voted to kill the bill supplying money to prosecute the grafters. (Senate journal 1908, p. 57.1.) "Ho voted against a bill to help the State in the federal court In her desperate fight with the grafters (Senate journal 1908, page 253). The Stat dually won and recovered back many thousands of dollars stolen by the grafters. If the other legislators had voted with Blease, would the State ever gotten \heir money? The echo answers when, and how? "j inally, when he became govor' nor, ho asked for a committee to in' vest i gate the Ansel board. The legislature passed the bill but gavo the committee power to investigate charges against anyone. That was | just what Kinase did not want, so he veto*d the bill. Tho legislature passed it over his head; and that is the same committee that lias been hearing charges in Charleston about blind tigers paying $3,000 a month to the chief constable of the governor, and the governor still stands by the chief constable. Do you wonder that he v toed the bill? Only one grafter, John Mack, has been convicted, and 111 ease pardoned him before he ever got in sight of tho penitentiary. Oh, yes, he stands by his friends?hasn't he stood by the grafters? "( ovornor Blease voted not to tax the income of the rich (Senate jourral 1 '07, page 452). "He voted to shut the school house door in the face of the ctyild of the man who is too poor to pay his poll tax. (Senate journal 1906, p. 463.) "lie voted against the bill providing for federal help in road building, which would have made the road tax lighter on the poor man. (Senate inurral 1 907. nage 337.) "I :?* is in favor of abolishing tho office of bank examiner, thus leaving < it easy for an unscrupulous and dishonest banker to rob the small depositor. "He vetoed the appropriation of $4,182.64 to pay for tho" medicine ? furnished for the poor man's child * in cases of diptheria and smallpox. "He favored putting a burden of $000,000 on the tax payers to improve the State house, which every- i body knows is one of the finest State ; houses in tho country. """"Is ho the poor man's friend? ITe l will tell you so, but does his record I show it? > "In 1 892 ho voted for freo passes, 1 and for free express and freo telegraph franks to legislators. (House i journal 1 892, page 257.) "In 1 907 lie voted to lot tho railroads keep it secret who were carrying free passes. (Senate journal, ' page 11.) "in 1 907 he voted against the bill ref|u-ring the railroads to reduce passenger rates, as they were doing in othev States. "He told President Finley of the SoutI rn railway that ho would have ' a frh nd in tho mansion when he j (Blouse) became governor. When he ; t got to be governor, whom did ho take to 1; with him? Ho took Ben Ah- j ney. Hie chief counsel of tho South' * * 1% ss. Vv/%11 ??f Af h Al? orn runway coin puny, uiu uun . of th8 whole flock of corporations. Plea so brags about Pen Abney having 1 made a minion and a half dollars, J ' and says he is the smartest man In , the Sate. Wasn't It smart of him to , go and live with the governor? No wonder Please tells you the railroads gave Abney a raise. "He had to select a private secretary and a clerk. Did ho get a farmer's boy or a poor man's son? No, ' he wont to the railroad offices and got two railroad clerks; Rowland, J disbursing auditor for the C. N. & L. f railway, and Plackburn, a clerk from the Southern railway. So the railroads have friends both at the governor's office and at the governor's S man?'on. Does he over get away from 1 tho influence of railroads? Do these r clerks and Pen Abney ever whisper f in Please's ear when the railroads ( want favors? "No governor has ever pardoned so many crooks and criminals. He has pardoned and paroled nearly 400. Ho pardoned Rudolph Rubens, convicted of receiving stolen goods as the friend and ally of the yeggman and safecracker. "He pardoned Wash Hunter, whom he had defended and who had killed a crippled man. "ue pfl'o'ed Ptobo vounp, "onvieted of being a grafter in ilie Seminole Securities company. The parole Is until October. Who will Young work for for governor? "He pardoned Glenn, who killed Rhoden In Batesburg. Glenn says he paid Geo. R. Rembert $500. Rembert is Blease's floor leader in the house. Did that $50 0 pay Mr. Rembert to explain how Glenn was innocent or did it pay for Mr. Rembert's influence on Gov. Blease to liberate a criminal? "He released the Davis brothers and Sumter, three negroes who beat and robbed a white man and left him tied to a tree. "He pardoned a negro in Lexington county who burned Dr. Crosson's barn. I)r. Crosson had opposed the governor. "He pardoned Miller, who wantonly shot into tho house of .John Head in Lexington county in 1910 and wounded Mrs. Head. "He paroled Beckwith and Scliultz, Yankee pickpockets, who had tried to bribe a deputy sheriff wlt.li $200 to let them escape. The governor turned them out on the eve of the State fair. "lie paroled another Yankee named Fleming, who had shot down without: excuse the sons of two Confederate veterans in the town of Springfield: and yet he excused his pardon of Hasty, because he said he had shot two Yankees, whom the jury by their verdict said were protecting two defenseless gil ls in a hotel at Gaffney. "Remember, all of these criminals 1 w. l-i o <3 nanlnnad 'iiwl Tin rnlod fl 11 /I hundreds of others. Twelve South Carolina jurors and an honorable judge have said they were guilty and pardoned criminals may shoot down you or your brother or your son, in the hope that even if he is convicted, T-is friend, C.ov. Blease, will pardon him. Did the soft-hearted governor stop to think of the widows and the fatherless children of the men who had been murdered, when he released these men? Did he stop to think of law and order and the good name of his State? "Has he not brought the good name of his State into disrepute? fie insulted the governor of Georgia and said he did not have serine enough to raise watermelons. He has stigmatized Wood row Wilson, the Democratic nominee for president, as the tool of corporations. He has made the citizens of his State ashamed when they go abroad in tl\> land, and now he is asking you, by your votes, to indorse his administration. Can you do it and be fair to yourselves? Think it over." "We had proof even while the committee was in session mat Nichols was coming along nicely in his negotiations with the governor to sell us Dentley's pardon. Of course the telegram telling me to come and wind it up meant that the governor had accepted $5,000 for the pardon and was ready to issue it. Rut t.lie dictagraph may do still more cleverwork in this case if it's needed any more." +. + INSANE FROM DIU'CiH. ? .A \pgro Kills Four I'eopio and is Himself Killed. At Tampa, Fla., Rob Harris, a crazy negro, started out on a rampage, killed four persons, wounded two others, one of whom was white, and himself was slain by policemen after a siege, in which gasoline was used to burn him out of a house. He was insane from drugs. He first went to the house of a woman and killed her and a man he found there. He then went to another house and fired on a woman with a baby. The former was slain. On bis way out lie shot another negress. Virginia Simpkins, and a white policeman named Uiggs. He took refuge in the Simpkins woman's house, where he lived, and barricaded the doors and windows. Reing plentifully supplied with cartidges, he kept a large force of policemen at bay, and was dislodged only Eifter being smoked out of one room. The house was then set 011 fire with gasoline. When he made a dash for liberty he was shot and killed. The 1 Simpkins woman died later at a hospital, where she was carried after eing wounded. The fifth victim cannot live. * J COW'S IIKill 1)1 VF. ( .+ . Pickled by Flash, .Animal Falls Over ] _ 1 C'lifi' into Ficnic l*arty. ( Lightning hit a cow when the ani- 1 nal was standing at the edge of a * ;liff, a few miles from Hlmira, N. Y., md as a rosnli four persons were in- ' iured and property loss sustained to ho amount of $15,000. The cow ' dso was badly used up. A picnic 1 >arty, consisting of 20 persons, were 5 unching in a tent at the foot of the ( ;liff. The cow, hit by, the electric * jolt, toppled down the declivity, raz- 1 )d the tent and Injured the occu- J mnts. A gasoline stove was overtimed and the flaming oil spread to ' tuildings nearby, resulting in heavy 1 osses. 1 ? * l llitcs Torpedo for Candy. 1 Andrew Hoffman, of Appleton, j A'is., who ate a torpedo, is dead. He tad somo caramels and torpedoes, >oth wrapped in read and white pa- ' >er, in the same pocket and chewed , i torpedo by mistake. * ? Suspended by Wedding lling. Mrs. David Swanson, living near t Sterling, 111., was badly injured when ( tor wedding ring caught on a nail in 1 i liay-mow. It held her suspended j or two hours and she was almost t lead when rescued. ( % WHAT BLEASE SAYS MAKES A GENERAL DENIAL OF ALL THE CHARGES ENTERED AGAINST HIM By Veliler and Others and Claims That Those Charges About drafting by the Constables in Cliarleston Originated With Mayor draco Who Wanted to Control Them. In a twenty-six-pago statement Issued Saturday afternoon Gov. lilease makes answer to the charges brought against him recently in the now famous investigations. The reply is accompanied by a score of ailidavits denying the charges brought against the State's chief executive in Charleston, Augusta and Columbia. The Governor denies all the charges and enters into a lengthy lam bast of Thomas H. Felder, Detective Hums and the members of the committee. The statement is characteristic of the Governor, and is said by the Governor to be a thorough refutation of the charges. Each and every charge is answered separately. In his statement the Governor says he is making answer believing it to be hisduty in defense of his State. He refers much to the part played by Felder in the recent investigations and makes use of the expression "damnable conspiracy to cause the people of South Carolina to loose confidence in my honor and to tarnish the proud name of the greatest commonwealth in the American Union." The Governor goes at length into a discussion of the fact creating the investigating committee, and says it has gone beyond its scope in unearthing these charges. He says he can easily prove that the committee has gone beyond its legal range in the investigations, but adds that ho will waive any question as to the scope of the committee's authority. "Unlawful" ?s the word used by him in referring to the range taken by the probers. His Description ol' Folder. "Unscrupulous in his methods, knowing that he was guilty of the charge that I brought against him and fearing to face any honest South Carolina jury, Felder evaded arrest and has continuously since remained a fugitive from the justice of this State," thus he refers to the Atlanta attorney who has figured so conspicuously lately in South Carolina affairs ' and he says that Felder has "issued vituperation against me and the people of South Carolina". The Governor says that Felder's 1 threats to produce evidence a'gainst him sufficient for impeachment were false and he characterizes them an "slanderous eruptions from the impure mind, foul mouth and slanderous pen of Tom Felder". The Governor says of Burns and his men that they are a set of men who are always on the lookout for the dishonorable task of blackguarding nil* gouu rvpn i m iuii in mjiiii; iimmtsi man or woman, and bleckmailing even their own employers. He says that Burns men were instructed to find all they could against the Governor, and that if nothing could be found to "make it appear that wrong had been found". He says he knows thousands of dollars are being used by his enemies in employ of these detectives. The Governor says if Felder was afraid to come into South Carolina he . would have sent him an escort if he , had been asked so to do and says he would have appointed as this escort the members of this investigating committee, "Brave men," with Mr.; \V. F. Stevenson?"Seaboard Bill"? and that if Felder were assasinated these men would have been present to act as pall-bearers. I He says that the real reason, to his mind, why Felder did not testify in this State was that lie knew he could "swear to falsehoods" in Georgia and would not there be prosecuted for perjury. But he knew, says the executive, that a South Carolina jury would convict him. "Vile crea- j ture" is a term applied to Felder in this consideration. The statement is ' full of sarcastic and vitriolic refer- 1 enccs to the investigation committee. 1 Mentions Mayor (.race, j Blease says Felder falsified when j he says he went to Charleston be- j tween the two primaries in 1010 to j get money from the "tigers" for his ? i ? ?~ iuui, ...a rr. ,i I'M ill jmign UApeiiBfn. u ii ut'iu iiiiuiiisit, he says that the statement that ^ lie is getting graft from the Charleston blind tigers originated with Mayer Grace, of that city, on account of the Governor's refusal to allow Grace control of the constabulary there. , The Governor says that in regard to the interurban charter, he did not want to sign it, hut did so at the request of leading citizens, and denies hat. he received any money from his ( signature to the act. The Governor ( ienies that he knew of any plans to ( >uy a pardon for Gus Deford and says hat not one word about it had been ? said to him by Nichols. r As to the pardon for F. W. Rent- * ey, the governor denies that he re- H :eived pay for its issuance. He says NV > check for $2was sent him for the * >ayment of Rent ley's railroad fare to 1 lis home in Iowa, but that no other 1 noney figured in the transaction. The * otters interchanged between the Gov- ( ?rnor and Rentley's attorney accom- 1 iany the statement. An affidavit from ' A'. F. Rlackburn, the Governor's stenographer, that ho bought Ralley's icket home and saw him to the train, t ilso accompanies the statement. i< The Governor deals at length with f he pardon of Rudolph Rabens, of e Charleston, convicted in Oconee in h 1007 of receiving stolen goods. He 2 nentiona persons from whom peti- t ions were received requesting par- h Ions one of whom was the Rev. Dr. s W. A. C. Mueller, a Lutheran pastor of Charleston. He says the accusation made by Folder that $2,000 had been paid by Rabens for his free dom was a willful falsehood and he submits affidavits from Rabens and Dr. Mueller purporting to deny this charge. In his affidavit, Dr. 'Mueller says: "I think it foolish to think that he %nid ?2.000 cr any amount to keep from serving his sentence out." Rabens says in his affidavit: He further states, that neither he nor any of his friends or relatives paid anything in any shape or form for the pardon extended him. Plenty of Affidavits. Affidavit from H. H. Evans to the effect that he has never had any transaction with Hlease as to dispensary affairs. Affidavit by H. H. Evans to the effect that he and 111 ease were never in Atlanta together, nor lias he ever had any money paid to him by any party for Gov. Hlease. As to the Lanalian whiskey house, lie produced an affidavit by Samuel J. Lanalian, who said that he had never told Lewis W. Parker or any other person that Gov. Hlease was in his employ in this State to look after the whiskey business. Affidavits from Jodie H. Wylie, H. 11. Evans, John Hell To will and I. W. Hoykin, former members of the State dispensary board to the effect that during their terms of service Gov. Hlease had never solicited trade for the Lanalian whiskey house. Aflldavit from J. S. Farnum to the effect that lie has never at any time been guilty of contributing money toward buying votes for Hlease. Statement by R. Charlton Wright to the effect that the assertion by Folder that Wright had told him that he had novel pain mouse any iuuut:\ iur socuring legislation was false. Affidavits from Eugene S. lilease and Fred II. Doniinick to the effect that they had never received nor made any requests for money for Mease's campaign expenses from the blind tigers of Charleston. Denial of charge by Felder that while representing himself as the paid agent of the Postal Telegraph Company he had attempted to bribe the (Governor who was then, according to Folder, a member of the Senate. Denies that he was a member of the Senate at the time or that he stopped at the Wright's Hotel where the interview is said to have taken place or that Felder ever approached him concerning the matters. Those "T. I?." Letters. As to the famous "T. B." letters of which Felder has denied authorship, the Governor said that he had submitted the letters to several gentlemen of Columbia who are familiar with the handwriting of Felder and that thwse gentlemen are willing to go on the stand and swear that the letters were written by T. IF Felder. Persons in the Senate of Georgia, who are also familiar with the handwriting of Felder had made the same assertions. "1 have also two letters written by Felder?one from Endland and one from a point in the United States?to a woman, and the writing f 4 L 1 /\t ti* 1 Mi h aoa V/ I III COC 1CIICJ O, VVJlilj'Cllt.ll Willi im/nc of the "T. IT" letters shows that the letters I hoUl were written by Folder." Said that the testimony that I he company referred to in the letters which was to control the liquor situation in South Carolina through 11. H. Evans was actually chartered in the State of Alabama. "1 do not know Krauss and have never heard of him until a few days ago. If he did, in 1004 and 1005, forge these letters, he was a man of ieat prophetic powers to foresee that six years afterward 1 would need these letters to show the rascality of Thomas H. Folder." In conclusion, the Governor says tliat he has endeavored to answer every charge made against him, but if any honest man in South Carolina desire any information regarding anything, however, small, regarding any alleged dishonorable act, he is willro answer the accusation. ? I HIKM) OF KING ANI) WATSON. + Dares the Governor to Attempt to Kick Them Out. Friday night 11. T. Mills of Greenville, sent the following telegram to l"he State: "After reading the reports that now C. li. Mease said he kicked J. V. King and O. M. Watson out of lis mansion, 1 am willing to ofTer a reward of $500 for the governor of he State if lie will even attempt that iob. These gentlemen have been his fit(iiiik supporters in tms county and mvo a large number of friends, This ' s another case of Blease sticking to ' lis friends. H. T. Mills." The governor is offered an easy ' ,vay to make $5 00, but he will hardly ake it up. i , SHXATOIl TIIJiM.W IMOITSKS. j 1 I'o Abandon Tniprovcinents at the 1 Charleston Navy Yard. t 1 Senator Tillman's rerusal to aban- ( Ion a $.'1000,000 improvement at the Charleston Xavy Yard and a demand >f the house that all battleships be n out of this year's building program, probably will result in a disgroenient over the naval annrnnrin ion bill. An effort is under way to ecu re a compromise ?n (lie houso 'hereby one battleship will he agreed o. Senate conferees would yield to he house demand for (he abandon- 1 nent of proposed improvements at 1 he Portsmouth, Philadelphia, and c Charleston navy yards were it not ^ or Senator Tillman's stand. v llulmnic. Plague Kills Three. Three deaths occurred Sunday in ho suburbs of San Juan from bubon- f : plague. One suspect has been f onnd. These cases were not report- 1' d to the authorities. Since the out- (1 reak of the plague there have been n 7 cases and 2(? deaths through Por- f o Rico. The Haffkuie vaccine has '1 eon administered to all persons re-Jt iding in the infected districts. t HE DENIES CHARGES + TELLS OF BEING ORDERED FROM BLEASE'S HOUSE CAUSE OF GOING THERE +. Says Ho Put Blease on the Train at Union When Ho Was Too Drunk to Get on Himself and Gives letter Mease Wrote Hint Dast Month About Campaign. We clip the following from the Greenville Daily Piedmont. Jt explains itself: Editor Daily Piedmont: Please allow me space in your paper to reply to the false statements made by Cole L. Please in his speech at Columbia Saturday night concerning Mr. Watson and myself. The simple facts w?ti be suhlcient for my friends and the public generally to understand tlve situation. Mr. Olin M. Watson and 1 went to Columbia to ask for a respite of sixty days for a negro, Stake Norris, condemned to be electrocuted on .luly '1 (? so that a largely signed petition for commutation to life imprisonment could be presented later. We went to the Mansion Sunday aftercon after dinner after making an engagement by telephone with him a.nd told Please our mission. We were in iiis bed room and the do or shut. He said they had the sleuths and dictagraphs after him arid he would not do anything. We showed him the petition signed by many citizens and the majority of (ireenville county oflicers. He refused to look at it. 1 called his attention to the fact, that if anything were done it must be at once. I was so surprised at his decision that I said, "After all 1 have done for you if you won't grant this little request 1 am done with you." Hlease said angrily, "Get out of my Mansion". 1 replied as 1 pulled on my hat, "Damn you and your Mansion too." This wa's in ordinary conversation and was heard by no one except those in the room. Mrs. Hlease met Mr. Watson and me as we went down stairs to the front door and talked to us and told us good-bye in a friendly manner. She did not know what had happened. Mr. Watson was so surprised that he said to me HJease certainly could not have understood us, or must he drunk or crazy, and after we got to the street went back against my advice. He did not stay long as Hlease ordered him out in the same manner. I have been a supporter of Hlease for several years and a personal friend. 1 remember one incident several years ago at Union where he got so drunk he could not get on the train. 1 bought a ticket, put him in a scat and told the conductor in which pocket he would find his ticket. It lroks like if I had been drunk Sun day and lie the friend he claimed to be, he would have taken care of me in ris house as I have done for him, but. the difference was that I was not drunk Sunday, but absolutely sober. lie claims he sticks to his friends. Watson and I are both poor working men and we were interested in Stake Morris because we were sorry for him. Perhaps if there had been a few hundred dollars in it. we might have been received cordially. Please said from the State House steps that if Watson and 1 were gentlemen, "Cod pity the hoboes." If he felt this way about me why did he write the following letter last month: Columbia, June 2f>, 1012. Dear Sir: 1 forwarded you by express, prepaid, on yesterday a supply of my books in regard to pardons, paroles, etc. Please distribute them to the best dvantage possible; and, should there be any expense connected with the distribution thereof, please send me bill, and I will reimburse you for the utlay. With kindest personal regards and best wishes, Very respectfully, (Signed) Cole L. Please. Mr. James N. King, Greenville, S. C. 1 have no favors to nsk of Please, but have supported him without reward or hope of reward because I believed that he was sincere and true. I know now that he is neither, and a liar besides. When he gets ready to have me .urned out of the Red Men 1 will be pad to have him come up and try it. [ am also a Woodman and a Mason nid think that my record will comjare with bis any day he wants to nake the tost. I hope I won't have to make any urther statement to the papers. Tf Pease will stick to the truth one ( ime 1 won't have to. ( Yours very truly, ,T. N. King. ? ? Several Die in Cloudburst. Twenty lives were reported lost 'riday night in a cloudburst that wlp- ( d out. the small town of Seven 'roughs, Nov. From Louvelock, nea leven Troughs, came word that seven persons are known to be dead. Five < tersons are known to he dead In a > loudbhrst at Mazuma. The Mazuma t lotol was turned over in the rush of t inter. s , Tjooso iii New Orleans. i An alligator six feet in length was < apt tired in Carrollton avenue, a ashlonable section of New Orleans, y the crew of a street, ear early Frilay morning. Tho conductor and Mttorinan were helpless until roinorced by tho crow of another car. 'hey combined forces and the alligaor was finally hauled the car arns. BLEASE WILL PARDON ? MUIIDKHEK OF MEN WHO ACT LIKE KING AND WATSON. Any One Wlio Slays Men for Vsing Some Alleged Indecent Gets a Pardon. Speaking Friday night from the steps of the State House in Columbia to a crowd of 1,500 people Gov. Blease said he would have a pardon ready for any man who killed J. N. King and O. M. Watson of Greenville, if they came to any man's home In the same drunken condition and used the same indecent language that they were guilty of when they called at the executive mansion last Sunday afternoon. Mr. King and Mr. Watson gave out signed statement that they had been insulted by the chief executive last Sunday afternoon when tney went to see him about getting a reprieve for Stake Xorris, a Greenville negro, sentenced to the electric chair. Gov. Blease defended his pardon record and declared that J. M. Groham, has the hosiery mill contract, had been "cleaning up" since he got in behind him. lie told the crowd that he wanted all his friends in Richland county to vote for George R. Renihert. when he ran for the House of Representatives this summer, because ho was his friend. A large part of the chief executive's speech was devoted to J. N. King, a contractor, and O. M. Watson, a metal worker, both citizens of Greenville, who came to Columbia last Sunday to see the governor about granting a reprieve to Stake Norris, a Greenville negro, sentenced to the electric chair. Gov. Blease declared Friday night that Mr. King and Mr. Watson were drunk when they cam? to his home and that one of them "dropped into the first chair he came to". His excellency said that the two Greenville men used indecent language. lie declared that if Mr. King and Mr. Watson came to any man's house in the same condition that they were in when they came to the mansion and used the same language, if that man killed them then he would have a pardon ready for him. Gov. Blease said that Mr. King and Mr. Watson might he members of tho Order of Red 'Men now, but after three more meetings they would not be as he intended to have them turned out of their tribe. The governor said that Mr. Watson and Mr. King had been referred to as gentlemen in a newspaper and added, "If they are gentlemen, then God pitv .the noboes." + + + 1 MAKES SERIOUS CHARGE. ? Man Says He Paid Lawyer Five nun drcd Dollars for Pardon. At the campaign meeting In Columbia on Friday Ceo. It. Rembert, of the Columbia bar, who had been lloor leader of the Blease forces in the House of Representatives during the past two sessions of the general assembly, advanced to the front of the stage, from his seat at the rear, on earing his name mentioned by Judge Jones, and asked that the statement about him be repeated. Judge Jones read: "He (Blease) pardoned Glenn, who killed Ithoden in Batesburg. Glenn says he paid 'Mr. Rembert $500. Rembert is BJease's floor leader in the house. Did that $500 pay Mr. Rembert to explain how Glenn was innocent, or did it pay for Mr. Rembert's influence on Gov. Blease to liberate a criminal?" "Any one who says 'Glenn gave me $500," said Mr. Rembert, "is a liar." "I have not said so*" rejoined Judge Jones. "Glenn said-so, and upon demand I will produce proof that he said it." * ' Mr. Rembert said no more, but retired to his seat. Why did he not demand the proof? ? WOMAN DRAGGED TO DEATH. ? ? (Jot Entaglod in Rope Hied to a Cow Which Ran Away. Mrs. Ida Emerick, the young wife of E. J. Emerick, a wealthy oil operator, who, with her children, was spending the heated term on a largo country estate near Washington, Pa., attempted to lead from the pasture a cow to which she had taken a fancy. A bee stung the cow and the animal ran around and around Mrs. Emerick, imprisoning her within the thirty-foot leading rope. Then the cow dashed madly across the pasture, dragging Mrs. Emerick at her heels. Mrs. Emerick was terribly bruised and battered, and died a short time after being rescued. ? Cloud Durst at Denver. Several hundred men, women, and children are homeless, a number of deaths are reported and a million and a half dollars worth of property is in ruins because of a cloudburst which precipitated the overflowing of jnerry i;roon inrougn intuver suulay night. Shoots ami Kills Ills Father. Walter Nichols was shot and killed by his son, Earl Nichols, at Dellvood, Fla., after tho father had atempted to kill his wife, the boy's notiier. Young Nichols gave hinijelf up to the sheriff and was later 'oleased when the coroner's jury renlered a verdict of justifiable liomi;ide. 111 ease l>id Not Specify. Governor Fllease did not make good lis announcement that ho would irove tho testimony of Folder and ho Ilurns detectives to be false at he campaign meeting at Columbia Friday. Netiher did lie mention tho natter of his own meeting.