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C, July 30.?In his room at the Glenn Springs Hotel to night, Mr. Grace dictated to newspaper men a statement of 4,000 words, which, In Its entirety, would hardly pass muster with the United States postal authorities. Were is published in full Mr. Grace would have quite fullilled his promise to "nauseate the white peoplo of South Carolina." It Is, beyond question, tho "yellowest" public revelation ever made In direct connection with the name of a chief magistrate of a Southern state, and, in certain of its features, overshad ows anything In the same connection which had yet been made public, or which was offered for public use. Mr. Grace's statement purports to reveal conversations between himself and the governor, while they were po litical allies, and "more or less friend ly" toward each other, which bear in high coloring upon the private life of the governor. Further, Mr. Grace goes over in de tail a conversation he says he had with the governor, in which Blease says the people were fooled in be lieving the had elected McDutlle Hampton railroad commissioner; that bo was elected on the money of the Southern Railway Company, handled by IJlease; that Blease paid the ex penses of Hampton's campaign out of money given to Blease for the pur pose by the Southern Railway Com pany and sent the company the vouch ers signed by Hampton. This cam paign occurred two years ago. In part Mr. Grace's statement?all of which he Intended should be made public?Is as follows: ( "1 read Governor Blease's release to me, If I may so call it, under which I now feel at liberty to make the state ments to wflTch I referred in my In terview last night. I notice Jie says 'I have never made a confidante of [ John P. Grace In any manner, shape nor form.' This only confirms what I said to the effect that I did not re gard tho conversation as confidential, and it removes the last scruple that I might have In the matter. An Unprintable Review. "I. therefore, now state that during a conversation In Charleston, while Governor Blease was in a very co?. vlvial mood, he saw fit to direct his thoughts along the line of some of his experiences in matters so delicate that I will expect the public to judge of their meaning." Here Mr. Grace relates an unprint able review, which he says was re hearsed In conversation with Blease. of an attack by Blease on a "colored girl" in Newberry. The governor, ac cording to the story, was crossing a little bridge In or near the town of Newberry at the time, and was wear ing a "new suit of clothes." In the twinkle of an eye she pushed him over in the creek, new clothes and all." Mr. Grace says the governor told this as if It were a great joke on him self. "He laughed very heartily, when telling this story nnd said: 'Didn't I cut a pretty figure In my new suit of clothes, down In the creek nnd the colored girl up on the bridge, running away nnd laughing at me?' "As I said in my Interview yester day," Mr. Grace went on to say, "It seems to me thnt a man who, 'with such vaunted audacity undertook to occupy this rolo should at least be gin by being able to show that he bnd lived a life compatible with such claims. "Governor Blease by all sorts of ob lique insinuations has created the im pression that Judge Jones' private life In reference to the colored race, is not what it should be. I am not In a position to say anything as to that, either pro or con, but unless Gov ernor Blease told me a lie, which of course, Is not Improbable, just by this one episode his Is certainly not what It should be and I have heard many rumors to the effect that there aro other more flagrant cases. The only one, however, of which I know is the one of which he told me himself. Railroad Corruption. "Second: I also said that I would prove Governor Blease was guilty of corrupt connections with the South ern Railway. This I have, also, from his own Hps, and to the best of my recollection, it was In tho same con versation. "We had been talking about the prl mary through which he had Just passed and about th* primary In gen eral and Its operations in our state. I told him that he never could have been elected governor but for the pri mary system. He admitted that, but replied very contemptuously about the primary in general. "He said: 'For instance, you people, (meaning the people of South Caro lina) think you elected a railroad com missioner the other day.' All for the Southern. "I said, 'Yes, I know I worked mighty hard to elect McDuffle Hamp ton.' "He said, 'Well, who do you think you were working for?' or something to that effect, and I told him of course, for McDuflle Hampton. "He said, 'Well, that is exactly where you are badly mistaken.' He said, 'Why, you were working for the Southern Railway and you did not know it, but I knew lt. I have every reason to know It.' "I said, 'Well, how is that?' "He said, 'Why, I practically paid the campa gn expenses of McDuflle Hampton out of money furnished me by the Soluhern Hallway and gave them vouchers signed by McDnllle Hampton for the amount.' 'He said, 'Moreover, I was charged with the duty of wet-nursing him through the whole Campaign.' He said, 'You know he Is a terrible drinker.' 'In fact, he said, 'he's a drunkard, and I hnd the hell of a time.' Says Blease is "Stake-Holder.*' After the first part of h s statement Mayor Grace replied to the Graves statement concerning him. He said he wanted the people of South Carolina to consider carefully his charges of corruption in connection with the elec tion of Hampton and he asks whether or not the governor Is doing the same thing in the campaign this year. He replies to the insinuations made on the stump by Biease that Blouse's cousin, Ben. Abney, could reach the ears of the supreme court through the son of the Chief Justice Charlie Jones. He charges Blease with being the stake-holder for corporations when going about the state posing as the people's friends "and dealing out mon ey in dribblets to a common drunkard for the Southern Railway." Has Written Proof. Mayor Grace says that he has writ ten proof that he did support Blease at the election two years ago and says this proof is written In his paper, "Common Sense" and that his edito rials were published In certain Blease newspapers. He quoted at length from his testimony given before the dispen sary investigating committee when he told of friendly relationship existing and the overtures made to him by the governor to get him to serve on his staff, and when Blease promised to consult Grace in all matters pertain ing to Charleston. BLEASE SAYS ITS FALSE. Rings In an Attack on Newspapers and Brings in tho .Name of Wade Hamp ton. Columbia, Aug. 1.?Governor Blease today branded as false the statements attributed to him by Mayor John P. Grace, of Charleston, which the latter alleges were made during a conversa tion between them while they were political friends. Denouncing the "Negro Story" as utterly untrue, he says, "Am satisfied that all of the people of South Carolina will agree with me that nobody with any gentle manly Instinct whatever would make such a foul and filthy statement." Branding as untrue the statement that he "wet nursed" McDuffle Hamp ton in the election two years, ago, and that he paid the expenses of his race out of money furnished by the South ern Railway, the governor says: "When he spoke of the son of South Carolina's grand old hero, Wade Hampton, as a common drunkard, he speaks falsely and places himself be-' neath the notice of any man with pure white blood in his veins." He bitterly scores Mayor Grace and the newspapers and submits affidavits from Dr. W. G. Houseal, who attended him when he was Inaugurated, and from R. C. Wright, the then clerk at Wright's Hotel, to refute the charge that he was drunk on the eve of his inauguration. The Governor's statement in full fol lows. "I havo read tho otrtoment sent out by John P. Grace from Glenn Springs, S. C, which contains that foul and dirty He, displayed In largo head lines In the Columbia State, "A Negro Story." "It Is so Infamously false and con temptible that I do not desire to lower myself as a gentleman to further no tice it, and am satisfied that all of the people of South Carolina will agre with me that nobody with any gentle manly instinct whatever would make such a foul and filthy statement. I' could not but wonder what the moth ers of this state thought when they saw that the dally papers would pub lish such a thing, to bo read by their sweet and Innocent daughter, partic ularly, these between the ages of 12 and 18. These same newspapers re cently refused to publish some re marks of mine because they said they were not fit for publication, yet they were made from the stump. But, they now give spaco and herald to the world, in great headlines, the filthiest article that has appeared In the South Carolina papers in many years. This is but another evidence of their unfair ness and meanness. Shame upon a press that would publish such a thing, even though It be true?but this Is truly In keeping with the paper which the editor of The State recently read upon the "Ethics of Journalism"?and it is a pity that a city, composed of such proud people, should have such a person for its mayor. "As to his statement about the Southern Hallway?that Is absolutely and maliciously false. I never made such a statement to him or anyone else in my life, and when he speaks of the son of South Carolina's grand old hero, Wade Hampton, as a common drunkard, he speaks falsely and plac es himself beneath the notice of any man with pure white blood In his veins. Mr. McDufllc Hampton and my self were on the campaign together two years ago; we were friends; I treated him kindly and politely, as I treat all gentlemen. The statement that I handled money for the Southern Hallway and took vouchers from Mr. Hampton for the same is as foul a lie as was ever spoken or written by a human being. I have never handled a dollar of South Hallway money in my life and I have never delivered a dollar or any other sum of money to Mr. Hampton during the entire cam paign, and I have never so stated to any man?In fact, I did not even loan him any amount of money. "As to Grace's statement that he supported me. He told me himself that he did not support mo in the first pri mary, and I was informed by those who had charge of affairs for me in Charleston that he was against me and for McLeod, but that he claimed to he for me in the second race. If he was for me and worked for me In the first primary, he must have bad very little Influence, for I only received six hun dred and sixty-three votes in the en tire county of Charleston. "As to appointing him on my staff, I have already said that that was done at the resuest of Mr, Rocsslcr. 1 did not want Grace on the staff. but wanted Mr. Hoessler. Mr. Roessler in sisted that 1 appoint Grace, which I did. "As to showing him the 'T. B.' letter. When it was given to me. some weeks after my inauguration, along with the other letters, I Immediately locked It up In my safe and soon thereafter transferred It to a strong box in the Palmetto National Hank, where it is now, along with the others, and has been except when it was presented to the grand jury and dispensary com mission, and shown for publication. I never consulted Grace about it or men tioned it to him in my life, and this is but nnother case of the false fabrica tions of a diseased mind, malicious heart or a mind diseased from vindic tiveness and a desire to do Injury to those it hates. He lias never seen the 'T. B.' letter while It has been in my possession, and I do not believe he has ever seen the original at all. "As to his charge that there was carousing at Wright's Hotel the night before my inauguration, I herewith submit statements which I think will prove to the public conclusively that he Is a deliberate and designing falsi fier, and that the proof of this is ad ditional evidence of his lies in the other instance. "State of South Carolina. County of Riehland. Personally came Robert Courtney Wright, who, being duly sworn, says that for ten years he was chief clerk and manager of Wright's Hotel In the city of Columbia; that he remembers very well indeed the night before the Inauguration of governor Cole L. Blease; that the said Blease arrived at the hotel about 11 o'clock at night, accompanied by his physician, Dr. W. C. Houscal, and members of his family; that the said Blease was a des perately ill man and was taken Imme diately to bis room In the hotel and put in bed. and that only a very few of his most intimate friends were allowed to enter his room; that everything was kept quiet nnd Dr. Houseal, being very apprehensive of said Blease's condi tion, remained in the room with him during the entire night; that he has noticed In this morning's State the fol lowig statement made by John P. Grace: "I recall a scene at Wright's Hotel the night before his inauguration. It was the first real insight I had ever had Into Blease and the atmosphere in which he moved, and I think I can say that without exception It is about the nastiest recollection of my life. It was n grand carouse.' "The above statement Is absolutely and infamously false. On the contrary, the room where the said Blease was, was guarded in order that no noise might he made, for we all feared that the result of his trip from his home in Newberry would prove fatal. There was no carouse In the hotel during that night; If there was It was not known to this deponent, and most as suredly there was none In Blease's room or in any In which he took part or knew anything about. Deponent further says that Governor Blease, as a private citizen, stopped many times with him; that he boarded at tho hotel during the four session of the legisla ture that he was State Senator, and that he always behaved himself In a clean, gentlemanly manner; that there was never any carousing or general drinking In his room at any time, and that he had the other members of the hotel family looked upon the governor as an esteemed guest. "(Signed) R. C. Wright." Sworn to before me this 21st day of July, A. D., 1912. Notary Public for South Carolina. "State of South Carolina, County of Newberry. "p?r.-.onnliy came Dr. W. G. Houseal who, being duly sworn, says that dur ing the fall of 1910 he attended Cole L. Blease for three or four weeks, the said Blease being very 111 with chol ecystitis and jaundice. That In tho latter part of December, 1910, the said Blease had a relapse and was des perately ill and that this deponent was very unevsy about him; that Bleaso was not allowed to leave his room, but was Cenflned to his bed; that on the night before his inauguration as governor, this deponent, assisted by some others, carried the said Bleaso (Continued on Page Three.) There is more loss by in decision than by wrong 4 ? ? THET5?RKLAU RENS LAURENS, S.C. TAKE A LOOK At the Many Valuable Properties that we Offer 180 acres of good farming land 4 miles of Laurens, about 140 acres in cultivation, one tenant house, on tho main public road leading to Reedy River Power Co. Price $35.00 per acre. Qood terms. 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