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ROPER, President. Sec. A Treas. LAURENS, SOUTH CAROLINA MAYOR JINO. P. GRACE ARRAIGNS GOV. BLEASE (Continued from Page Three.) charges as to my personal habits, will say that this Is better Judged by personal observation than by originat ing and promulgating false charges and base insinuations. "Whatever money I borrowed for my campaign expenses was funlshed me by the Palmetto National Hank of Columbia, S. C, for which amount I gave my personal note with ample security. This amount was been re paid to the bank by myself and I bold tholr receipts for same. This statement can be verified by anyone desiring to inform himself by inquiry at the bank. Occult Keason. "I regret exceedingly that for some occult and political object my name has been dragged into the present po litical campaign. Although these per nicious reports from the fertile Imag ination of some diseased mind are unpleasant, they are nevertheless un true and unjust and will not injure me as Intended. Very truly. M'D. HAMPTON." GRACE REPEATS CHARGES. He Says He is now In the State nnd not Afraid of any of Blease's "Thugs or Assusslns." Spartanburg. S. C. Aug 2.?Mayor Grace last night at Glenn Springs, ho tel, after reading the reply of Blease dictated to a reporter for the Journal another statement, which appears to day here. The statement consists largely of further arguments to show that Grace Is the man who Is telling the truth and he assails Please in terms even stronger than those in his first state ment. He takes up each special phase of the controversy and throws much new light in the situation. Grace said that he had proven things about Please worse than those which Felder accuses Blease of doing. But he says, Blease does not want to get him, as he does Felder. He says he is always in South Carolina and Is not afraid of the governor or his "thugs and assassins, who are his boon companions." But here is the complete statement: The Statement of Grace. "I am somewhat in doubt as to whether or not I should take any verbal notice of Blease's reply to my charges and am strongly inclined not to do so. I only do so because, on the whole, I think It better to keep the record straight. "With his usual shiftiness, he seizes upon some comparatively irrelevant part of my statement, misinterpretes it and by affidavits makes it appear that I have said something which Is not true, just as in his long statement in reply to the Investigating commit tee's work he gave out an affidavit from .1. S. Farnum and others upon secondary matters and resorted to what lawyers term 'special pleading.' For instance, he got Farnum to make an affidavit that he had not contri buted any money to Blease's cam paign, as I recollect the exact lan guage, "for the purpose of buying votes in Charlest?n County or else where." "I don't suppose Farnum did give to his campaign coupled with the provision that It was to buy votes, hut I happen o know of my own personal knowledge that Farnum gave a substantial contribution to his Charleston committee and at the time sta'od that he would give more but that be had already contributed huge amounts to his state campaign. I do not believe that he can get any affidavit from Farnum denying this statement; but, if he should, I would he in a position to prove at lea^t the first part of it?that Farnum did give a substantial amount to his Charles ton campaign. "And so It is now. Anybody who will read my interview will at once see that I in no place accused Blease of being present nnd taking part in what I termed the carouse at Wright's Hotel the night before the inaugura tion, so that it was not necessary for him to go to the trouble of getting affidavits from Mr. Wright and Dr. Houseal. They are both telling the truth, if their affidavits are both confined to statements that Blease was not in the gang that night. What He Did Say. "But what I did say was this: " 'As I read this letter I recalled a scene nt Wright's Hotel the night be fore his inauguration, tl was the first real insight 1 had ever had Into I Blease and the atmosphere In which ho moved. And I think I can say that, without exception, it is about the nastiest recollection of my life. " 'It was a grnnd carouse, and I re member that 'Hub' Kvans said to me: 'John. I am going to call on you some day,' because, he said, 'You're Just the man 1 want.' He then went at length Into his approval of the way In which I had won the Morde cal-O'Neill will case, which was at that time stirring through the news papers.' "The account which I have seen of Blease's denial does not contain these affidavits and I therefore do not know what Dr. Houseal and Mr. Wright have said. I hope the.y have not said, however, that there was not a scaturnallan scene at the hotel that night. Indeed, It was worse than a carouse, it was an orgte, and I was so utterly disgusted with it that when I got back home I told my Intimate friends how loathsome it was to me. Examined His Stomach. "Blease was said to have beon too sick that night and I have no reason to doubt that he was, because the next day?his inaugural day?he sent for me to come to his room and I found him in bed, apparently suffering very much, with his doctor examining him every few moments, particularly in the region of his stomach. I men tion this only as a little incident to refute the Idea that Blease now puts forth that he did not consider mo very close to him. "I expressed great surprise In my recent interview that Blease. not withstanding his inconquerable au dacity, would go so far as to inti mate at this time that he ever had any doubt that I supported him in both the first and second primaries and he repeats these doubts in his recent interview, going even so far as to say he (meaning me) told me himself that he did not support me in the first primary. A Mendacious Lie. "1 would like to know where and when 1 ever told him this. This is the most mendacious He that Blease has ever uttered, because it carries with it a monstrous and manifest ab surdity. 1 would be in a very diffi cult position but that fortunately the proof is clear not only that I did support him in the first primary, hut that he and everybody else knew it. Moreover, as I said in my interview, it is all in writing, but unfortunately I have not a copy of my newspaper flies with me at Glenn Springs. I will take this phase up later. "He said he was informed by those who had charge of bis affair's in Charleston that I was against him and for McLeo.' 1 don't know who his informant was, and, in fact, doubt that he had any informant capable of telling such a plausible lie. I be lieve if he had any such informants, they also misinformed him. .MM.c<nl Sought Support. "It would be very easy for me to prove, even by the McLeod people, where I stood. McLeou s own first cousin, who, in a way, was looking after his Charleston interests, came personally to me seeking my support for McLeod, and, strange to say, per sonally my preference was for Mc Leod, but I distinctly declined to sup port McLeod and wrote editorials along these lines upon the express reason that, while McLeod said he was a local optionist, his idea of local option was to let the law stand where it was, namely, a choice between pro hibition and the county dispensary, to both of which I was oppoced, whereas Blease's alleged platform was a choice of three?prohibition, county dispensary or the private sale of li quor under dispensary regulations. This latter was what I preferred, knowing the constitutional limitations against the only true solution of the question from a Charleston stand point; namely, u license system. "I told all this to McLeod's cousin and he we*nt away regretfully, as he said, but with a frank declaration from me that I was against him, and I Immediately wrote editorials that will bear me out. "Nobody knew this any better than Blease, who read these editorials. He said I 'claimed' to be for him in the second race. This also is a tac tic lie. He knows I was with him in both races, and, as I said, when I get back to Charleston 1 will show a letter from him, thanking me for what I had done. "Moreover, only recently la his Charleston speech, he acknowledged his appreciation of what I had done for him in the same speech in which he now says he branded me as a char acter thief and a liar, upon which I will dwell a little Inter on. In fact, it was so well known that I had been for Blease that for months and months after the actual rupture came it could not lie believed through out the state that I was really against him. It militated greatly against me at the state convention and my ene mies there sedulously insisted that my breach with him was all a sham and succeeded in convincing many people , much to my detriment, at that convention that such was the case. Mohn Was All Right." "In the meantime Blease was him self cultivating this Idea. Whenever he was asked about the alleged breach he denied any knowledge of It and even when he came to Charleston and was asked about it. Iiis answer was that 'John was all right.' And all the while emissaries were coming to me, begging me to overlook any cause which might have created a breach between us. An editor of a certain weekly paper came to me and said to me that It was too bad. and want ed to know if it could not he patched up. My Invariable answer was that it was simply useless to talk to me. "As to Blease's ungrateful fling, that In the first primary I could get only Gti3 votes for him, my only answer Is that he was so hated in Charleston and McLeod was so well loved and so favorably known, that I consider it miraculous that we got even fifltf votes. Nearly everybody of any standing and strength whatever in the first primary was a McLeod man. "The fact that Blease. in the sec ond primary, polled almost Charles ton's unanimous vote was due entire ly to the fact that the alternative was Featherstone find prohibition, The Dirty Episode. "I have no comment to make on his tirade against the press for publish ing my statement about the bridge episode. (Note: This was omitted by the Journal.) Ugly as It was and as admittedly certain as it is to shock the decent sensibilities of not only the l.iris and ladies, hut also the gentlemen of the state, It was never theless told with as delicate a touch as I was capable of giving It. It was chastity Itself, compared with the vulgar, obscene and grossness which he seemed to relish In telling It first hand. Read my Interview and you will see that, while It portrayed a nauseating spectacle, it Is presented in as few words as possible and in as circumspect a manner as the scene Itself would permit. What a wonder fully outraged scene of decency he as sumes and what condemnation of the press, after having himself excelled all records in the filth of his public utterances, utteranoes which drove ladies, mortified and embarraaed, from his meetings. "I have spoken in practically every county in South Carolina and hun dreds end hundreds of times in the city of Charleston, and I have been in the thick of acrimonious campaigns, but never once have I brought a blush of shame to even the (Continued on Page Seven.) 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