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A HOUSE DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF Blease Organ Takes a Dip With Senator Tillman the Senator Comes Back With a Strong Reply. Cole Blease as an Observer. The News Scemetar, published in Greenwood with Mr. W. T. Crews, son of the late Col. T. 13. Crews, as editor in-chief, came out in its first issue with an editorial headed "A Plot Against Blease." In it reference was made to Senator Tlllman as an interested par ty to a plot to defeat Governor Blease. Senator Tillmnii came hack with a reply and then Mr, Crews replied to this. A few days afterwards, Qov. IJlease gave out an interview relative to some points in the correspondence. Below is given the affair in full. "Tile Tint Against Blease." .'Several days ago Senator Till mat! was the guest of Mr. .lohn G. Rich ards at his home in Kershaw county, and when the senator left for his home at Trenton the chief justice of the supreme court of the state. Judge \ Jones, made a pilgrimage, also, Kiindenly to have become the politi cal mecca for all antl-Bleaoo politi cians. "Immediately after Chief Justice Jones' return home he sent his resig nation to the governor, to take effect next January, and also notified Col. Brooks, clerk of the supreme court, to that effect. This turn of the politi cal kaleidoscope affords some inter esting prognostications, and at the sann; time develops a political scheme that has been hatching in Columbia for some time. When that former popular News and Courier correspond ent whom Tillman loved and loves above all other newspaper correspond ents, of the antl press of the state, laid all bis wires and made report to Gonzales & Co., the political leven began to work. The big city dailies Immediately began to sing the praises of Judge Ira B. Jones for governor, and all the little 'me too' nntl-Blease papers In the state yelped approval, and have been making the welkin ring ever since with the praises of Mr. Jones. - . "Whether or not Senator Till man has given these conspiring politicians any pegs on which to hang their po litical hopes, we don't know; but whether be did or not. the anti-Blease politicians are trying to make Senator Tillman's old friends and supporters believe he did. But any rate, it is easy to picture the suave Richards and the sedate and wise chief justice sitting out on the porch of Mr. Rich ards' country mansion plotting Un political downfall of Blease and the menacling of his 'vicious and ignor ant' supporters. The Delilah-like mediator and political ambassador of the Gonzales wing of the Blease op position bad already delivered his ul timatum to the plotters, who were now expected to carry out their part of the scheme by deceiving or fooling the 'old-time Tlllmanlte-Reformers'? and to this extent his mission was successful. Now Jones and Richards get to work. The latter had already wormed out of Tillman. under the guise of personal friendship, as to the probability of Senator Tillman's he ilig abb; to make an active canvass next year, and also as to the probabil ity of Iiis resigning the senatorship in the event of his reelection, with no opposition. So. the balance of the plot was plain sailing for Jones and Richards. The Gonzales politicians bad already let it be known that they were not going to ((derate any more prohibition foolishness, in the next gubernatorial campaign, so it was Olli of the question for Richards to be come a candidate, as he was too Well known as a pronounced Prohibition ist; and after a fe\V personal expres sions of esteem one for another. .Mr. Richards patriotically 'sacrificed' him self to the political ambition of Jus tice Jones, and it. was then and there decided that if Mr. Jones would an nounce his resignation, and later on Come out as a candidate against Coif Blease. Of course, being a Prohibi tionist himself, Mr. Richards bundled inp the prohibition v< te, tied it with a .fpiece of blue ribbon, sealed it with the pledge of the prohibition press of the state, presented it to Mr. Jones with all the knightly courtesy due from one conspirator to another. This done, Mr. Jones' resignation was pre pared, which, on his return home, was to be sent to the governor, and later on to follow it up with the announce ment of his candidacy for the govern snip. The latter part of the pro gramme, however, seems to have been hurried up a bit. The conspirators got wind of the fact that there were many old friends of John Gary Evans who began to use his name in con nection with tin- governorship, when the Gonzales crowd warned Chief Jus tice Jones to 'do about'?get busy? and Mr. Jones' announcement for the governorship was Immediately forth coming. Tills i.inch of the plot has already come to light! '?'" there is another side to ? th;ft the people don't know yet. "Mr. Richards is to keep in CqnstOllI tench with Senator Tillman, and of COurse lie. ami Im alone, is to know when the senator Ih to retire wheth er by ' declining to run In tho next campaign, or whether ho will roslgn after re-election. If the latter, then Mr. Richards is to bo glvon tie- ii. Id alone, so far as the prohibition faction is concerned, and be is to get the sup port and Influence of the Jones ad ministration and the Gonzales crowd to succeed Tillman?all tliis to reward Richards for his 'self?sacrifice pa triotism", etc. "Bui whal is to become ol Gov< rnor 'ones? J:; he to !>i> ? cimitted to fall put of public nouco ;,t thta e.\tl ration of a little old measly one term as gov ernor? Not a bit til It. The plot takes care of him fully and substantially. At the expiration of Iiis term the same political machine thai made him governor is to still further reward j him by giving him the Hon. Ed. Smith's seat in the United States senate. '"Phis is their scheme?their politi cal plot lo defeat Blease?and even if it take* old-time- Till man-coat-tail swingers and Tillmail's old-time bit terest enemies to accomplish it. they are going to try it. Hut as Blea'se's election showed thai tin' people were not going to be ruled at the dictation of Gonzales politicians, we hardly be lieve that they will tamely surrender next year to a combination of anti Blease politicians and Benedict Ar nolds of the old Till man-Reform movement. We shall nee-."?Nows Scenietar. Tillman in Reply. The letter from Senator Tillman is as follows: Trenton. S ('., Sept. l>:>. 1911. Mr. W. T. Crews. Greenwood, S. C. ? Dear "Hose": This morning's mail brings me the first number of your new paper, the News-Sclinltar. 1 was very much surprised to And that you bad hatched a mare's nest out of my recent visit to .lohn G. Richards at Liberi ? Hill, and have been none too tenner of his feelings, and have dealt very unjustly with him, Although it is perhaps not worth while, I take the trouble to write you this letter which you are at liberty to publish. Your father was my stauneh friend all of his life, and it will not add to my pence of mind or contentment to feel before I die that his son is not the same loyal friend that Tom'Crews was. I know*your paper will circu late, if it circulates at all, among the pronounced TUlinanites of the state, because the Laurensville Herald with which you have been connected was always one of the "blue hen's chick ens" and outspoken as regards Till manism. I think it unkind, therefore, to lend yourself to any suggestion or scheme which will weaken the confi dence in me of any friend of mine. You know, if you know anything, that 1 have nothing to do and never will have anything to dc with that Gon zales crowd, or any emissary thai they Will send to me. I may be a fool and nol recognize such emissary, but I | think I yet have sense enough to know an ambassador or agent of that bunch of politicians should one approach me. Your editorial. "The Plot Agalnsl Dlease," Is so unjust to Richards and to me and so calculated to mislead that I write this in order to set you straight. In the first place, Richards Is not the india-rubber politician and hypocrite you insinuate lie Is, but an honorable and high-toned man. and should have been elected governor last year, if character and ability lo serve the people creditably had been considered by the voters. The sub ject of Jones' candidacy was nol dis cussed during my visit to Richards and his announcement was a surprise to me. Richards has known all along that my candidacy for tin' senate de pended entirely on the condition of my health, and even if I am in bed. unless wholly pnral.V7.ed 1 expect to allow the people of South Carolina who want to do so to have the oppor tunity to vote for inc. I am anxious to see whether or not they appreciate my earnest and honest efforts to serve them these tWenty-one years. So any, hint or suspicion that I can be used in j the way you suggest in the editorial Is an insult and outrage to me and I1 am shocked to have such an assassin's j blow come from Tom Crews' son. If I am reelected l will nol resign but i die in harness. You of all men are the last one to institute that I am so cowardly and so easily wrapped around people's flnguros that I would join any such combination. I am as tonished at you and of course yon know I am very much hurt. I do not expect to take sides In the governor's race next year. It Is none of my bus iness, anyway, and my policy as a public man has always been that of Jefferson. "Teach the people anil trust the people.'' Hoth of the candidates thus far announced are old Tillman ites and tho people must Judge for themselves which one of them is best entitled to their confidence. Very respectfully, (Signed) H. R. Tillman. New? Sccmoiar'y Reply* On our first page will he found a let ter from Senator Tillmnn to the Ed itor '?I The News Scemetor. In our article of Sept. L'2d. to which Senator Tillman refers. "The Plol Against Blens?"-?thfl only manner In w hi< !i we connected the Senator's name with the "plot" was where we said: "Whether or not Senator Tillman has v v< n these conspiring politic;.!.* Any pegs on which to hang thoir po litical hopes. Wo don't know; but whether he did or not, tho anti Blease politicians are trying to make Senator Tollman's old friends and supporters believe he did." Senator Tillman says that he thinks it unkind for us to lend ourself to any suggestion or scheme that will weaken the conlUlencn in him of any of his old friends and supporters. Now. we dis claim any intention of doing anything of the kind. Indeed, so far from lend ing ourself to any such suggestion or political scheme. In conversation with parties who suspected that Senator Tillman had lent himself to the plol and scheme now hacking candidate Jones, and so accused him. we stoutly denied it. Hut the suspicion seemed to he general, that an unequivocal de nial from Senator Tillman was due his old friends and supporters, and to that extent the object of our editorial has been accomplished, lie says: "The subject of Jones* candidacy was not discussed during my visit to Richards.'' etc. And further? "1 do not expect to take sides in the governors race next year." Having so emphatically made denial, the.public will acquit the Senator of all suspicion, and as for ourself. we never for a minute suspected that Senator Tillman was a party to the plot, anil so expressed ourself to ev eryone with whom we discussed the matter. And in this connection, it seems to us that Senator Tillman's umbrage OUghl not to be against us. but rather against those old-time antl Tillmnn papers who SOUghl to create the impression that he was favorable1 <o and aiding in the scheme to have Jones supplant Please as governor and this. too. right on the heels of the Senator's visit to Mr. Richards. Senator Tillman seems to labor un der the impression that somebody or other had suggested the ' scheme" to us and that we were lending ourself to such suggestion. In harboring such suspic.ian. Senator, you are as "un kind" to me as you accuse me of be ing "unkind" to you. During all the years that 1 have written and fought for you, I always wrote and spoke my own convictions, not somebody else's, and if I have "hatched a mare's nest" III exposing that Jones-Richards "scheme," 1 was only following a pol icy which 1 loyally practiced in your behalf ever since you have been In public life?a "mare's nest" policy that you have never heretofore found fault with, and whether or -not they were "mare's nests," you have only to nsk ybur political enemies who road the Laurensville 1'erald when it was your staunchest champion. Rut the burden of Senator Tillman's letter, however, doesn't seem to tie so much a vindication of himself from "such an assassin's blow" as it is an effort to Clear -Mr. Richard's political skirts. Granting all Senator Tillman says as to his having no connection with any plot against Rlease. nor even discussed Jones' candidacy, that does not clear Richards and Jones from the political conspiracy with which we connected them. The v ry fact that "Richards has known all along" that Senator Tillman's candidacy for the Senate depended entirely on the con dition of the Senator's health was the moving spirit that promoted Jones' visit and his and Richard's political; frame-up. Possibly the fact dawned upon them that Senator Tillman might not altogether appl'OVO of The State and News and Courier, and other old line antl-TIUmnn papers taking Chief Justice Jones up. and, in effect if not in so many words, telling those of their own political faith that they must stay out of the race?nor would a Pro hibition candidate even be ((derated. Such apprehension on their part. Sen ator, would have been perfectly na tural, since they knew so well that you approved of the "Colloton Plan," and that plan, you know, was devised to prevent just such a political con dition as now confronts us. and which is sought to be used to the political undoing of Governor Blease, the peo pie's governor, and to which you gave your moral and political Influence to prevent just snch an unfair condition from being used against John Kvans. in the Primary of I SIM. But for the Colloton Plan, you know, the Conser vatives would have negatived the vote; i of tho Reformers, in that Primary, and it was considered "good politics." then to adopt it. Rut now. when the same political tactics which made necessary the Colloton Plan are resorted to b.t Rlease's enemies, and I sound tie; alarm, it is "unkind'' in me. and 1 am accused of striking "an assassin's .blow." Yet. in such political extrem ity. Senator Tillman calmly Informs US that he is hands off. Now then, if conditions are such as we have Btnted. ?that Mr. Jones is the candidate of the newspaper ring and that of tho Prohibitionists. Senator Tillman ought not to stand for It?even to the ex tent of being hands off. Senator Tillman seems to have mis understood our meaning, In saying that be will "never have anything to do with that fionzales crowd or any em issary that they will send" to him. We never for a minute dreamed that the Senator would hob-nob with such a crowd, nor did we say he would. Rut. that Mr. Jones is the candidate of that crowd Senator Tillman can't deny! for didn't the Chief Justier, say him self, that he was the candidate of the Spartanburg Herald and Isn't that pa per the fledgling of the Columbia State? And didn't Mr. Jones, in his newspaper Interview, a foW days ago, say that he was "not one of the fools who helloved,the newspapers bad lost their inlluenee?" and waon'l Senator Tillman. himself one of those who. in giving their explanations <?!' Bl? victory, said that i' seemed to him that the hoW^papOifl had lOftl th ir ii> fluence. So It seems that, no matter what the Senator might think of emis saries from "that Gonzales crowd," Mr. Richards was not so particular. The rank and Hie of the voters who sustained Blease in the last primary, and who will sustain him next year, are the same yeomanry of the State that sustained Senator Tillman, and they consider that they are lighting for the same principles that actuated them when they stood so loyally to Uncle Ben. As to Mr. Richard's "India-rubber" qualifications as a politician, the Sen ator certainly can not deny that Mr. Richards is one of the bounding sort, lor with the least effort possible he hounded from the dispensary, as Its champion in the legislature into the ranks of the most blatant prohibition ists at one hound: and as to his being the "honorable high-toned man" that Senator Tillman says lie is, why we will take the Senator's word for that we don't know Mr. Richards person ally: but when Senator Tillman says that "he, Richards, should have been elected governor, last year, it char acter and ability bad been considered by tin1 voters." the Senator ought cer tainly to be willing to "trust the peo ple" and a majority of the voters thoughl differently, as niease Feather stone, and McLeod received more \otes than did Mr. Richards. W. T. Crews. (?ov. Blouse's Observation. From Spartanburg Herald.? Surrounded by a constantly aug mented throng of admirers at the Argyle hotel last night. Gov. Colo L. Blease freely expressed his views on subjects (o a reporter of The Herald and disclosed something of his plants. To make it plain that notwithstand ing Senator I'.. It. Tillman's denial, be believed there was truth in the story published by \V. T. Crews, edi tor of the Greenwood Nows-Scomotnr, to the effeel :n<it Senator Tillman and Maj. .lohn G, Richards, Jr., had plot ted to bring out Chief Justice Ira B. Jones, of the supreme court, as a candidate to defeat him for governor, lie said he believed the program had been to elect Major Richards lieuten ant governor. Then, If Senator Till man was compelled for any reason to give up his seat in the senate, Justice Jones would take his place and Major Richards would step into the gov ernor's chair. Expects to Beat Jones. "I am going to be reelected," said Governor Blease, when asked If he would say anything" concerning poli tics. "I will beat Jones by a bigger majority than the one by which I de feated Featherstone, and if Tillman's man Richards is a candidate 1 will beat them both." HELPFUL HINTS ON 1IAIK HEALTH Scalp and Hair Troubles Generally Caused h> Carelessness. Dandruff is a contagious disease caused by. aniicrohe which also pro duces baldness. Never use a comb or brush belonging to some one else. No matter bow cleanly the owner may be, these articles may be infected with microbes, which will In/ccl your scalp. It is far easier to catch hair microbes than it is to gel rid of them, and a sin gle stroke of an Infected comb or brush may well lead to baldness. Nev er try on anybody else's hat. Many a hat-baud is a resting place lor mi crobes. If you happen to be troubled with dandruff, itching scalp, falling hair or baldness, we have a remedy which we believe will completely relievo these troubles. 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Real Estate Cast Your Eyes Over this List of BISHOP & WOLFF'S and let us know if any of the Property appeals to You. ."(;"> acres, U miles from the old Parksdale home place, Rood house good well water in the yard. n? acres in cultivation. $25.00 per aero. Belongs to M. K. Sctzlcr. so acres in l-l mile of the little village of Parksdale. 7 miles north of Laurons. Improvements ate very good. I'rice $35.00 por acre. Known as the Simpson laud. 334 acres in Greenville county Known as the .lohn II. Lutimor place. I horse farm in cultivation, tear Princeton. 'The new pro posed Augusta <M- Greenville railroad is going through this place. Will cut In small tracts or its a whole Sis.no per acre. Most my Kind of terms. 117 acres of farm land. 1 mile below Cold Point, hounded hy lands of Joe Pearco and others; near the C. & W. C. railroad. Price $22 ."'0 per acre, terms one-half cash, balance in two years. 127 acres near Mt. Pleasant church, hounded by lands of Joo Pearce, Sam Deudy place ami public road. Price $22.GO per acre. 204 acres between Watts Mill and Oru, known as the Sain Neigh' bor's place. Will cut In half or sell as a whole. The place now belongs to M. I!. Pool. For a quick sale will sell tor $?'."..tin per acre. 100 acres of good land on Knoroe river near George Ityrd ant) Known as the l.inson place, now belongs to M. II. Pool. Will sell for f.n per acre, good terms with Interest. Don't folget the lit) acres in Greenville County, belonging to K. P. and T. G. Trnynlinilt, good Investment for a young man. Price ?L'.'> per acre, good terms. The Hob Polt place has still got 75 acres in lb like to show this place to any prospective farmer. t rod; would \. Trnynham place for For a short time you can buy the $60.00 per acre. It is worth while. 52 acres very close to Parksdale Station; for a (|lllcl< sale will sell for $;'<l.00 per acre. 10 acres with good 5-rOom new cottage In the town of Cold Point. Price $1250.00 and on good terms. l.aurens street running north ami south. We have on west side a 0 room two story house, electric lights, water works, and sewer age connection. I'rice $2500,00, good size lot. On the corner of Jail and Caroline streets we have a good <> room brick house, lot 70 by 75, electric lights, water works and sewer age. An Ideal place for warehouse, garage, store buildings, and only one-half block to public square, the lot alone is worth what we ask for it. Also on I,aureus street a nice cottage for sale, juice $3000.00. 110 acres '*. miles north of I.?aureus, 100 acres in cultivation, good tenant houses, well watered. Prlco $42.00 per nero. One ten-room house and lot on Church street. 100 foot fron', about 200 feet. deep, electric lights, water works, sewerage and all modern conveniences. Price is cheap, come quid, if you want a bar gain. 172 acres between Laurons and lloyds Mill. L' good i Inn .. good 7-room dwelling house, the owner says there Is practically no washes on it. Will sell lor $10.00 per acre di e hundred and twen ty live acres In cultivation, halanc tenant houses. in woods' 300 acres 7 miles from Lnuroas, Known as ton place, ?.?mi acres in cultivation! lots of line sale will let her alldo for $20100 per acre, See u. lion. See lohn F. Hop. till past Ute, 2 good ? nl : for a quick lUick tor Informti Tho same 125 acres in N same nrice. $(2.50 per tier good Umbel', 2 or good ho only miles from Whltnili ? This place i: v eil wad red lots of and about 150 acres in cultivation.' Bishop & Wolff Re a! Estate Laurens, South Carolina I WANTED I YOUR COTTON SEED! I am going to make the Laurens Market pay as much for cotton seed as any place in the county. The market here has al ways been just a little below other places. But this season bring your seed to Laurens and you will always get the highest market price. free! I will also unload your seed olT your wagon free. R. M. EICHELBERGER 1fc Laurens, South Carolina