The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, July 25, 1912, Page TWO, Image 2
JliiM JONES' SfEEi;H
AT COLUMBIA JULY 13
1NDISPU FABLE ARRAY OF FACTS
CONCERNING BLEASE'S RECORD
AS GOVERNOR.
South Carolina, the Stat" \??u call
yours, the State for which y? ur faxi
in +\kn?' u'orc ic on
UieiS llct\C H'U^UI Hi ivui V.
trial. You are to decide her fate.
What I say .nay help you to decide
right. Think it over.
We are to elect a Governor. A
Governor to represent you and your
chih^ren.to make laws and to enforce
them. Do you want a friend of the
people.an enemy of the criminal a: d
grafter - or one who has pardoned
more criminals than any other Governor
South Carolina ever had? A
man who has acted in defiance of
law and order? Whose message to
the Legislature was so vile and vulgar
that that body by an overwhelming
vote struck it from the record-something
that has never been done
l\a f i\ra in historv* of the State?
cases (?f diphtheria and smallpox.
He favored putting- a burden ofj
on the taxpayers to improve I
the State House, which everybody
knows is one of the finest State |
Houses in the country.
Is he the poor man's friend*' He
will tell you so, but does his record
show it?
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IS HE OPPOSED TO THE CORPORATIONS?
In 1892 he voted for free passes,
and for free express and free telegraph
franks to Legislators. (House
Journal, 1892, page tei). |
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gate the Ansel board, ine Legisiature
passed the bill but gave the
committee power to investigate
charges against anyone. That was
just what Blease did not want, so he
vetoed the bill. The Legislature
passed it over his head?and that is
the same committee that has been
hearing charges in Charleston about
the blind tigers paying three thousand
dollars a month to the chief
constable of the Governor and the
Governor still stands by the chief
constable. Do you wonder that he
vetoed the bill? Only one grafter,
John Black, has been convicted, and
Blease pardoned him before he ever
got in sight of the penitentiary. Oh,
yes, he stands by his friends. Hasn't
he stood by the grafters?
IS GOVERNOR DLEASE A FRIEND OF
THE POOH MAN?
He voted not to tax the income of
the rich man. (Senate Journal,
1907, page 452).
He voted to shut the school house
door in the face of the child of the
man who is too poor to pay his poll
tax. (Senate Journal, page 4b3)
He voted against the hill providing
for Federal help in road building.
which would have made the
road tax lighter on the poor man.
(Senate Journal, 1907, page 337).
He is in favor of abolishing the
office of bank examiner,thus leaving
it easy for an unscrupulous and dishonest
banker to rob the small depositor.
He vetoed the appropriation of
>4,133.b4 to pay for medicine furnished
for the poor man's child in
a man who poses as a friend of the
poor man and an enemy of lawless
corporations, but whose votes and
whose acts show he cares nothing for
the poor man and has only protected
the criminal and the grafter.
BLEASE AND THE DISPENSARY (IRAFTi
EKS.
He voted not to investigate the
dispensary. (Senate Journal, 1907,
pages 66 and 69).
He voted not to take up and consider
the bill supplying money to
nrnconntp thp crraffprs.
Then he voted to kill the bili supplying
money to prosecute the grafters.
(Senate Journal, 1908. page
573).
He 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
State finally won and recovered back
many thousands of dollars stolen by
the grafters. If the other Legislators
had voted with Blease would
the State have ever gotten this money'.'
The echo answers when and
how?
Finally,when he became Governor,
he asked for a committee to investi?
? * mi r i
Ill in- V >te : to let the laiii*
;.<!> keep it -vcvt ".! were carrying1
free passes (Senate Journal,
1!'07. jKiire :?11 .
!n 1 i?iiT he vol i against the hill
r < pairing the raiiroa< is to reduce pass
nger rates a:- they were doing in
other States.
He told President Finley, of the
Southern railway, that he tvould
have a friend in the mansion wnen
lie (Please) became Governor. When
he got to be Governor whom did he
take to live with him? He took Hen
Abney. the chief counsel of the
Southern Railway company, the
beil w 'ther of the whole tlock of
corporations. Please brags about
P?-n Abney having made a million
and ?t half dollars, and says he is the
smartest man in the State. Wasn't
it smart ot' him to go and live with
the Governor? Xo wonder Blease
tells you the railroads gave Abnev a
raise.
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He had to select a private secre;
tary and a clerk. Did he get a farmer's
hoy or a pour man's son? No,
he went to the railroad offices and
j got two railroad clerks, Rowland,
! disbursing auditor for the C, X & L
i railway,ard Blackburn, a clerk from
the Southern railway. So the raili
roads have friends both at the Governor's
office and at the Governor's
i mansion. Does he ever get away
; from the intluence of the railroads?
' Do these clerks and Ben Abney ever
| whisper in Blease's ear when the
1 railroads want favors?
! HI-- HAS PARDONED CROOK'S AND
puill,) ruiu auuuiu ut" |iuuiouru' viit
of these pardoned criminals may
shoot down you 01 your brother or
your son in the hojx* that even if he
is convicted his friend. Governor
Blease, will pardon nim. Did th"
soft-hearted Governor stop to thirkj
of the widows and the fatherless;
children of the men who have been
murdered, when he released th?se
men? Did he stop to fhink of law
and order and the pood name of
his State? Has he not brought the
good name of his State into disre
pute? He insulted the Governor
of Georgia and said that he did not
have sense enough to raise watermelons.
He has stigmatized Wood
CRIMINALS
No Governor has ever pardoned so
many crooks and criminals. He has
pardoned and paroled nearly four
hundred. He pardoned Rudolph Rabens,
convicted of receiving stolen
goods, as the friend and ally of the
yegg man and safe cracker.
He pardoned Wash Hunter,whom
he had defended and who hail killed
a crippled man.
He paroled Slobo Young, convicted
of being a grafter in the Seminole
Securities company. The parole
is till October. For whom will
Young work for Governor?
He pardoned Glenn, who killed
Rhoden at Batesburg. Glenn says
lie paid Mr Rembert $500. Rembert
says $300. Rembert is Blease's floor
leader in the House. Did that $500
pay Rembert to explain how Glenn
was innocent, or did it pay for Mr
Rembert's influence on Governor
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. Dr Crosson had opposed
the Governor.
He pardoned Miller, who wantonly
shot into the house of John Head
in Lexington county in 1910 and
wounded Mrs Head.
He paroled Beckwith and Schultz,
two Yankee pickpockets who had
tried to bribe a deputy Sheriff with
?200 to let them escape. The Governor
turned them out on the eve of
the State fair.
He pardoned another Yankee
named Flemming who had shot down
without excuse the s.ns 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, who the jury
by their verdict said were protecting
two defenseless girls in a hotel
at Gaffney.
Remember?all of these criminals
he has pardoned and paroled, and
hundreds of others. Twelve South
Carolina jurors and an honorable
Judge have said that they were
?:u.. --.l ..u~?i,i i,., r?r,a
row Wilson,the Democratic nominee !
for President, as th^ tool of eorpor-1
aii"n>. He has made the citizens of ;
his State ashamed when they po,
abroad in the land, and now he is j
askinjr you by your votes to indorse i
his administration. Can you do it i
and be fair to yourselves? Think it:
over.
COVEKXOR UREASE'S ATTACK.
A violent attack has been made by
[Governor Iilease on my political rec1
/-,? /-! Aftur a corvir>o h? T^(rislator
I equality oeiween tne races, una ia
too absurd a falsehood to notice.
Why. of course he does not believe
that himself, for after knowing my
record fully he voted for me for
Speaker of the House (see House
Journal. 1890, page 474), for Associate
Justice (see House Journal,
1893, page 87), and in 1908 for
United States Senator (see Senate
Journal, 1908, page 950). If he believed
about me what he says, then
he is unworthy to fill the lowest office
in the gift of the people; for no
man with a scintilla of decency or
: manhood in his make-up would vote
j for a man who he believed favored
i social equality between the races.
! Does any man doubt that I would
be Governor of the whole people?
Does any man doubt that I would be
just to all alike, whether my friends
or my enemies? Does any man believe
that it would be necessary to
pay a lawyer big fees in order to
get pardons from me if I am elected
Governor? No doubt Governor
! Blease and some of his friends would
be unwilling for you to have the
facts and information which I have
given you; and if you went to the
campaign meeting in your county
you are aware how difficult it was
for me to get any facts before you
so you could judge for yourself as
to the qualifications or disqualifications
of Governor Blease or myself.
Have you any doubt that Governor
Blease is supported by the lawless
element? Mind you, he has good
people supporting him who are not
in possession of all the facts, but if
you have any doubt that the lawless
i element is supporting him, go to the
nearest blind tiger and habitual violators
of the law and see whom they
are supporting, Jones or Blease. i
Before you vote, remember this: '
You and your people, your brothers '
/ 1 I ! 1 i
anu sisters?your wire and cnnuren,
are to live in this State. If you are
the right kind of man you want
good government, law and order,
honesty and fair dealing.so that you
and your children will live the right
kind of lives and be the right kind
of i*?ople. You want a Governor
who is honest, fearless and upright
and whom you can respect. Don't
vote for a man because you think
j he is one of the boys, or because he
makes a good stump speech, or because
he says he will take care of
his friends, but vote for the best \
man and the man who will make the \
best Governor.
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Receipt Books, Blank Notes, Mortgages and j?
all Legal Blanks in demand, for sale at u
The Record office. If we have not the *
form you wish we can print it on shotr ?
notice. H t
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and Speaker of the House, Associate
and Chief Justice of the supreme
| court, all together covering a peiiod
of twenty-one years, I invite the
j closest scrutiny of every act of mine!
during that period, and I feel posi,
tive that no fair or just man will
impugn my motives relative to the
discharge of any official duties that
have devolved upon me. I have never
represented a railroad company
I or cotton mill, and no corporation
has ever exerted or attempted to exjetton
me any influence in the disi
charge of my duties. Mr Blease, as
I
i bitter as he has been toward me,
I
i has failed to find anything: in my
; record that he can attack successfuli
ly before a thinking: and indepen|
dent man.
He asserts that I favor# social
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! You Can Always
Tell a Cheap Piano
By theMethodUsed
; In Selling' It
i Pianos sold by agents begging
t" place them in your home on
trial or to save storage or forcing
them in vou?- home without your
consent.
"Coupon Schemes," "Guessing
Scheme-*." Club Schemes, ' Special
Sale Schemes." "Special introductory
Sale Schemes," etc,
are fake methods, pure and simple.
for unloading cheap pianos on
people who don't rea'.iz- the difference
between a fin piano and
a cheap one. and don't know that
high pianos are not sold through
fake schemes.
You had better call on the old
reliable firm of Ch;is M Stieff before
buying.
Chas. M.Stieff
SOUTHERN WAREROOM3:
219 South Try on St..
Charlotte, - - N. C.
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THE KINGSTREE JEWELERS
We keep on hand everything
to be found in an
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Repairing and engraving
done with neatness and
despatch. :: As home
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vJNL>* Kingstree Lodge
Ifelll N?- 91
Knights of pytbias
Jr Regular Conventions Kverj
2nd aod 4th Wednesday nights
Visiting brethren always welcome,
iastle Hall ^rd story Gourd in Building.
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R. C. McCabe, K of R & S.
Hacker Manufacturing Go.
Successors to
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Charleston, b. C
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Farm of 193 acres; 75
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J in high state of cultivation,
balance in fine timber land.
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2 miles to school, 2 miles to !
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wh ere your dollars will go the ^ r
hest. So far as our pianos areft
uments of national reputaLon.
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lers before you buy.
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