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muii ' u* M MTKIt WATCHMAN, tMabed April, 18M. *Be Job? and Fear no*-~?Let til the ende Thon Aimsrt at be thy Co on try's* Ttiy God's and Truths.' Consolidated Au*. 3,1881. THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established Jane, ISM SUMTER, S. C, WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1912. Vol. XXXIV. No. 45. CANDIDATES IN COLUMBIA I.4K4.I-: ? HOWI? II*. X Ic M'KAh Jon?? Se\erri> Arrulgns the Govern or. Who Replied In VlndictUe Tone. Hl&teen hundred persons gathered In the Columbia theatre yesterday to hear what reason* for election the lev ? ra) candidates for State office* had to present. Industrial worker* largely predominated In the audience. Busi? ness) and professional men were Sj ?parsely represented. The muss of the crowd was orderly, hut disturbing elemnnts made their presence felt early and the noise became unendur? able to those who wished to hear, when Ira B. Jones, candidate tor governor, launched Into a severe ar? raignment of the Hlease admlnlstra | Supporters of Hlease evinced so unmistakable a determination to eilence Judgr Jones that the speaker was unable to proceed until the gov? ernor himself called on bis followers to be silent. Thereafter Judge Jone* had a reasonably respectful hearing. The neise broke forth anew from Bleaee backers when Qov. 1Jlease be? gan his address, and there were oc? casional hisses from citizens who dis? approved of the governor's utter aa? es. Disappoint n snt wits generally ex? pressed in the audience over the failure of the governor to read an expected statement In refutation of charges brought against him by im? plication at the Burns-Felder bearing in Augusta There wer** two Interruptions in the course of Judge Jones' speech, aside from the periodical outbursts of catcalling, hooting, his.-ing and cheer? ing tot Blesse. Qso. R. Ren.bert of the Columbia bar. who had been floor leader of the Hlease forces in the house of representatives during the past two sessions of the general as? sembly, advanced to the front of the stage, from hi" seat at the rear, on hearing bis name mentioned by Judge Jones, and asked that the statement about him be repeated. Judge Jones read. ' He < Hlease) pardoned Glenn, who killed Rhoden in Hatesburg. Glenn stays he paid Mr. Remi>ert $500. Rero? bert is Blease's floor leader in the house. Did that $500 pay Mr. Rein bert to explain how Glenn was In? no, -nt ..r did It pay for Mr. Raas? bert's Influence on Gov. Hlease to liberate a criminal .'" 'Any who says Glenn g>\< 7.re 1500." ?aid Mr. Rehibert. ' is a lar I have not said so." rejoined Judge J >nes. "Glenn said so. and upon de? mand 1 will produce proof that he said It." Mr. Rembert said no more, but re? tired to bis seat. I dense voted not to Investigate the dispensary. (Senate Journal 1907, pages ft and It.) He voted not to .ake up and con? sider the bill supplying money to prosecute the gratfers. Then he voted to kill the bill sup? plying money to prosecute the grafter*. (Senate Journal 190H, page 673.? He voted against a bill to help the ?tats In the federal court In her des? perate fight with the grafters (Sen? ate journal 190ft, page 253.) The State finally won and recovered back many thousands of dollars stolen by the grafters. If the other legislator had voted with Blease, would the State ever gotten their money? The echo answer when, snd how .' finally, when he became gover? nor, he asked for a committee to in? vestigate the Ansel hoard. The legis? lature passed the bill but gave the committee power to Investigate 1 harges against any one. That was Just what Hlease .11.1 n.'t want, so lo foed the bill. The legislature pass? ed it o\ ei ids hea l; and that It U the same committee that has been hearing charges in Charleston about r.d tisjer* paying $3,000 a month to the i Mal I onstabie of the governor, and the governor still stands by the ? hief constable. Do you wonder that he vetoed the hill? ? ?nly one grafter. J..hn Hlaek. h.n been convicted, and Hlease paidoned him bOfOTt he gvef g.t in sight of the peniten* ary. ??h. ye?. he stand-? by his ffieadH?hasn't h?> -?..,.,,1 by the gratters? Qataraof Means rated red te. lax th- laeaaae of the rtoh (senate Jaarv : p?n<.- ? > 1 f ?? "t?.| to Shut the gtllOal house d- or In the fare of the child of the ? |g v. h>. !- |ag i.r to piy hU poll t v iSenate Journal Hoi;, pig*. l?;:;.? iIt voted againM th- Mil providing f r "'.I i.l help In road bulMlag4 whb h W' aid hove get4* th* fi ad lag lighter on the poor man (Senate .1 i:u ! ??" 7. page '?"?>'>. ? ?He Ii id fnvor of abolishing the offies i? i bnnli ? snmlner, thue leaving it easy for an unscrupulous ami dis honest I ank< r to roh the small de? positor, n? vetoed the appropriation oi H.i ;;!.?;4 to pay lot the medicine furnished for the poor man's child in eases of diptheria and smallpox. "He favored putting; a burden of $900.000 on the taxpayers to im? prove the State house, which every? body hnoaes is one of the Bneai State houses in the country. ; "Is he the poor mun'ii friend? 1U? will tell you so, but does his record how It? I "In D?92 he Voted for free passes, , tnd 'or free ?sprees and f?-ce tele- I graph franks to Isg^slatora (House Journal Ittf. page 257.) I In I Ml he voted to let the rail- | eadn keep it secret who were carry- i ing free passes. (Senate journal, page 311.) I -In 11*07 he voted ugninst the bill requiring the railroads, to reduce pas senger rate.", as they were doing in other States. "He told President Flnley of the Southern Hallway that he would have ' a friend In the mansion when he I Blease became governor. When he j got to be governor, whom did he take to live with him? He took Ben Ab? ney, the chief counsel of the Southern railway company, the bell wether of the whole Mock of corporations. B'.ense brags about Hen Ah ney having made a million and a half dollars, and says he is the smartest man in the State. Wasn't it smart of him to go and live with the governor No wonder Blease tehs you the railroads gav? Abney g raise. "He had to select a private secre? tary and a clerk. Did he get a farm? er's boy or a poor man's son? No. ne went to the railroad offices and got two railroad clerks; i lowland, disbursing auditor for the C. N. & L. railway, and Blackburn, a clerk from the Southern railway. So the rail? roads have friends both at the gov? ernor's office and at the governor's mansion. Does he ever get away from the influence of railroads? Do these clerks and Ben Abney ever whisper in Bleuse's ear when the railroads want favors? "No governor has ever pardoned so many crooks and criminals. He has pardoned and paroled nearly 400. He pardoned Itudolph Rabens. convicted of receiving stolen goods as the friend and ally of the yeggman and safe cracker. "He pardoned Wash Hunter, whom he had defended and who had killed a crippled man. 1 "He paroled Stobo Young, convict? ed of being a grafter in the Seminole Securities Company. The parole is ^intil October. Who will Young work for. for governor? "He pardoned Glenn, who killed Rhoden in Batesburg. Glenn says he paid Geo. It. Rembert $500. Kem bert is Blease's floor leader In the house. Did that $500 pay Mr. Kern? en to explain how Glenn was in? nocent or did it pay for Mr. Kembert's j ntluenee on Gov. Blease to liberate a criminal ? J "He released the Davis Brothers and Sumter, three negroes who beat I and robbed a white man and left him tied to a tree. | "He pardoned a negro In Lexing? ton county who burned Dr. Crosson's burn. Dr. CrOOgOn had opposed th ? governor. j "He pardoned Miller, who wanton? ly shot Into the house of John Head In Lexington county in 1910 and wounded Mrs. Head. I "He paroled Beekwlth and Schultz. Yankee pickpockets, who bad tried to bribe a deputy sheriff with I|g| to let them escape. The govern? or turned them out on the eve of the State fair. j "He paroled another Yankee nam? ed i lemtngi who had shot down wit!.t excuse the SOUS of tWo Con? federate veterans In Ihs town of Springfield, ami yet he excused bis I pardon Of Hasty, because h* said he had Shot tWS Yankees, whom the Jury. !>\ their verdict said were pro? tcetlng Iwo Innocent girls In n hotel '?t Gsffnejr, I "Remember, all of these criminals he has pardoned ami paroled ind hundreds of others Twelve south [Carolina jurors and an honorable Judge have sold Ihey were guilty land should be punished. One of these pardoned criminals may shoot down you or your brother or your son( In 'tie hope that oven It he || convict ed. bis friend. Qov, Blesse, will par i i tion him. Did the soft-hearted Gov? ernor stop to think of the Widows ami the fatherless children of the men who hoi been murdered, when it.- released these men" Did hS stop to thh k of I >w and n ib r and the SWEARS TO NOTES. 11 \< u.BA1M11 K AFFIRMS COR !ll.n\i;ss OF DICTAGRAPH RECORDS. Sigmund Titliohanni Make* Atlitiavit Thai RppoH ol* Spartanburg ( on VCHSStlon i- Not llogu*. Atlanta. July 19.?Sigmund Tletle baum ft* Atlanta, the stenographer who took th? conversation between Detective B. S. Rood and Sam J. Nlohota of Spartanburg, in a Spar? tanburg botel, made affidavits here today that his notOJ were ?accurate and Complete and not faked in any way." Tbc affidavit was made in the office ot Attorney Thomas B, Felder of Atlanta whose testimony before the committee in Augusta, Ga.. was productive of so much sensation. Charges that the stenographic re? port was altered had been made. good name of the State? "Has he not brought the good name of his State into disrepute? He in? sulted the governor of Georgia and said he did not have sense enough to raise watermelons. He has stig? matized Wood row Wilson, the Demo cratic nominee for president, as the tool of corporations. He has made the citizens of his state ashamed When they go abroad in the land, I and now lie is asking you, by your I votes, to indorse his administration. I Can you do it and be fair to your ' selves? Think it over." Gov. Blease made one of the most vindictive har.tnges he has ever 1e Uvered, his anger being bitterest against Judge Jones, The State, Thos. 'B. Felder, W. J. Burns and the legis? lative investigating committee. It (was not, however, so remarkable a campaign deliverance, in substance or form, as his speech at Bamberg re? cently. He said that he had asked his friends to give Judge Jones a hearing, but he did not see how Judge Jones or his friends could expect a hearing when Judge Jones was attacking him, misquoting what he had said and .misconstruing his actions. He could only explain Judge Jones' course by reculling that as speaker he made I * the blackest record a white man has ever made in South Carolina." The governor assembled into a group Judge JonOS, the management of The State, Thos. B. Felder, W. J. Burns, and the members of the legislative committee, and said they composed "a sot that is unworthy of the respect Of the decent people of South Caro? lina." Where, he asked, was Ira B. 'Jones last Sunday, when he, himself (was at home In bed, resting? Judge Jones, he said, was seen on the street in Columbia, with two members of the staff of The State, who were also seen with two drunken men whom he had expelled from the governor's mansion. Judge Jones, according to . tho governor, came out on the streets (with "that dirty pair" after they had visited the ofBcs of The State and written "lies" about the governor. "I suppose," said the governor, "that 'Judge JonOS was in The State office getting that speech written that he has read here today." Defending his pardon record, the governor said he was criticised for setting free three negroes who robbed a Jew peddler. Clemency was grant? ed In this ease, he said, on the rec? ommendation of Christie Benet of l Columbia, formerly solicitor; "Mr. , Christie i mportsd-from* Abbeville Benet. Alex. Hasksll's son-in-law and ' Judge Jones' campaign manager in Rlchland county. I "Judge Jones says he voted for Irby," the governor said, "but read .What Irby said of John Gary Evans, chairman of the Jones executive com jmlttee"?and the governor read from I a Bcrapbook a description of Mr. I Evans In whloh the w ords, "traitor," I "coward." "knave," etc., w ere freely used. The governor .said he would stay at home if he had been bam? boozled out of as many decisions as i Jones naS been bainboob'd out of by Ben Abney through Jones' son. i 'harlle. Numbers of telegrams, letters and long distance telephone messages, the governor suld, had been received al tin- eexcutlve ohice recently, contain? ing assurance of confidence. One of these telegrams, which hi read, came from Greer, in Greenville county, and boie 7."? signatures. ii,- declared that it he had bei n repudiated" by as man} audiences In the counties visited by the campaign party as had "repu? diated Jones" he would ojull the race. Tin governor's address was largely Hindi u|j ol paragraphs wit in which the public |s familiar through habi? tual use of them by ti SUhle, I - in- hiding M'COMBS ASSUMES DUTIES. TAKES CHARGE OF DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE VOTE KS. Expresses Himself Confident of Tri? umph in Fall?Secretary to Es? tablish Headquarters Boon* J New York. July iy.?All records of the national committee which had been in possession of Norman E. Mack, recently retired as chairman of J the COmmlttee( were turned over to W, F. McCombs, the new chairman, i late today. Mr. McCombs, accom? panied by National Secretary Joseph Davtes, reached here this afternoon from Sea Girt and held an extended conference with Mr. Mack, who later left for Buffalo, his home. T think the affairs of the Demo? cratic party in excellent hands," said the retiring chairman, referring to Mr. McCombs. "He is a capable man f":- the place and it seems that Chair? man McCombs will make a good k.ider." Mr. McCombs expressed himself Confident of Democratic victory in the fall. Mr. Davies announced that Demo? cratic headquarters in this city would be established within a week. Chairman McCombs, as he entered the Knickerbocker hotel, where the conference was held, almost ran into Republican Chairman Hilles, leaving. Both men were too engrossed in con? versation to see each other. In a few days the appointment of Walker Whiting Vick of Rutherford, X. J., as assistant national secretary of the Democratic committee will be announced, it was indicated when the conference ended. Mr. Vick is a for? mer newspaper man and has been ac? tive in the Wilson cause since the governor's boom was first launched. WILSON SPENDS QUIET DAY. Devotes Himself to Correspondence and to Reception of Visitors With CongratuhtCons. Sen. plrt, X. J.. July ig.?Gov. Wil? son spent a quiet day at his summer home today, most of which was -de? voted to his correspondence and wel? coming visitors who called to con? gratulate him. Arronf; the latter were Mayor Preston of Baltimore, Representative W. A. Jones of Vir? ginia and Representative Slayden of .Texas, Harry St. George Tucker and Kiehard Evelyn Byrd of Virginia, the latter speaker of the house of dele? gates, and Augustus Thomas, the 'playwright. Mr. Thomas was the f governor's guest tit luncheon. The governor said tonight that 'there was no political signficance to be attached to the visits of his call ' ers with the single exception of Chair 'man McCombs of the national com 'miuee. He discussed very briefly I with Mr. McCombs, he said, the work 'of the campaign committee. Chas P. Taft, a brother of the president, passed the governor's cot ? tage in an automobile today and saluted the Hag on the ritle range in front of the cottage, hut did not stop. LOCAL FIRM t.ETS CONTRACT. T. M. Rradle> *V Company to Put in Electrical Appliances at Clara* moid Hotel. I The iirm of T. M. Bradley & Com? pany of this city have been awarded the contract to put in the electrl-al appliances and fixtures for the Clire I mont Hotel which is in course of construction at the corner of Main and Bartlette streets. The work on the hotel Is progress? ing nicely and has already passed up 'higher than the first Iloor. The work j On the wiring and installation of electrical fixtures will commence as I soon as the work on the building has I reached a stage permitting it. Summer School ior Teachers. < ?n Monday. July the summer School for teachers will open at the Hampton school. Courses will be offered In primary methods, English Grammar, writing and arithmetic. Miss E. W. McLean and Mr. 8. H. Edmunds will be the Instructors. The only books that the teachers will need are Buehler's English Grammar and Milne's Arithmetic book II. The u\i'.<\ popular spot In town at t b is time "i the year is the down town breathing spot where the weary popu? lace can find real and rc?creatlon close at band. the dancer j.>\' corpora i nd \.: rions t hing* which ? \ lev s w ith alarm, or to j nominal Ion, tlon power the go- ei n TIN DAL NEWS KOTES. Cows Make Raid on Mr. A. .1. Jone*' Prise Acre of com. but Do Little Damage. Tindal, July 15.?We have been having abundance of rain for the past few days, but crops are holding up fairly well and com has improved. We hear that the cows made a raid on Mr. A. J. Jones' prize acre, which we suppose will be read with pleasure by some of the other contestants, lit? tle damage was done however. Although Mr. J. 1 >. osteen is not in I the contest, he has a very line piece of corn containing several acres. Mr. Osteen also has some very line water? melons and his mammoth squashes are very fine, although the rains have injured them to some extent. Lightning struck Mr. c. W. Comp ton's house, on Mr. II. D. Tindals place, last Thursday. Considerable damage was done to the building, but no one was hurt. Mr. L. I. Parrott attended service at Bethel church yesterday morning and at Providence church yesterday afternoon. GOVERNOR ADVOCATES MURDER Says He Will Pardon Anybody Who slays Men for Use Of Indecent Lan? guage in the Slayer's Home. Columbia, July 19.?Speaking last night from the steps of the State house to a crowd of 1,500 people, Gov. Blease said he would have a pardon ready for any man who kill? ed 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 there that they were guilty of when they called at the executive mansion last Sunday afternoon. Mr. King and Mr. Watson gave out a signed statement that they had been insulted by the chief executive last Sunday afternoon when they went to see him about getting a reprieve for Stake Norris, a Greenville negro, sen? tenced to the electric chair. Gov. Blease dcfend?M his pardon record and declared that J. M. Graham, who has the hosiery mill contract, had been "cleaning up" since he got in behino him. He told the crowd that he wanted all his friends in Kichland ?ounty to vote for George R. Rembert, when he ran for the house of representatives this summer, because he was his friend. A large part of the chief execu? tive's speech was devoted to J. X. King, a contractor, and O. M. Wat? son, a metal worker, both citizens of Greenville, who came to Columbia last Sunday to see the governor about granting a reprive to Stake Xorris. a Greenville negro, sentenced to the electric chair. Gov. Blease declared last night that Mr. King and Mr. Watson were drunk when they came 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. He declared that if Mr. King and Mr. Watson came to any man's house in the same condition that they were in when r*hey came tc :he mansion and used the same lan? guage, if that man killed them then he would have a pardon ready for aim. GOV. Blease said that Mr. King and Mr. Watson might be members of the order of Red Men now, but after three more meetings they would not be as he intended to have them turn? ed 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 pity the hoboes." Last night The State received a telegram from H. T. Mills of Green? ville which follows: "After reading the reports that Gov. Cole L. Blease said he kicked J. X. King and <>. M. Watson out of his mansion, 1 am willing to offer a re? ward of $">?'<? for the governor of the State If he will even attempt that job. These gentlemen have been his leading supporters In this county and have a large number of friends. This is another ease of Blease sticking to his friends." After the governor had spoken for about half an hour, a shower began to fail and the crowd dispersed. The governor received scattered cheers and applause at intervals during his speech. A vote against a g.I r ? ids bond Issue is a vote against prosperity, progress, and personal p Ido. Invest your money in ev<*ry proje t that makes for the progress of your i Signed? "11 . T. Mills. MBRE MUD-SLINGING. TAFT WILL GIVE <>VT ITH IHM TO "STEALING" CHARGES. Will h< Issued From Whit<' iluusi and Will [ndstde Exhaustive Analysis of Content Ca???"*. Washington, Juiy 19.?The reply of President Taft and his friends to Col. Roosevelt's repeated charges of "fraud" and the "stealing of dele? gates" in the Chicago convention, promises to be loosed from several sources in Washington next week; couched in terms that will be in many ways a counter attack upon the Roosevelt preconvention campaign. The statement, which will be issued from the White House?the final draft was considered at i* hours' meeting of the cabinet ? ^ -will be an exhaustive analysi' M contest cases and a reply to "V 0 the Roose? velt charges of ur >T' iealing on the part of Taft s f' v 'on the Repub? lican national ^ /ittee and the cre? dentials corr ^v -? While this state ment will V J/o far as can now be learned, > any direct charges agains sRoossvelt managers, it is understo x that Taft supporters in the house propose to attack In unmeas i ured terms the contests brought by the Roosevelt forces in Southern States, many of which were unani? mously decided against the Roose? velt contestants. Representative Frank W. Monde 11 of Wyoming, who was a member of the credentials committee at the Chicago convention, will make one of the chief speeches defending the seating of the Taft delegates at Chicago. While his speech will deal principal.y with the cases of the 72 delegates against whom the Roosevelt forces made their chief fight at Chicago, he let it be known today that he would attack the Roosevelt contests in Southern States and attempt to show that they had been brought "without founda? tion." Representative Barthpldt of Mis? souri, &ho participated >n the work of the national committee, will also defend the action of that committee. Senator Root had been suggested as the Taft spokesman in the senate but be said today that he did not expect to speak upon the subject of the Chi? cago contests in congress. * FARM EXTENSION BILL Lever Has Rule Adopted Which Will Place His Measure in Line for Progress. Washington, July 19.?Representa? tive I^ever has secured the adoption of a rule in the house which will place his farm extension bill on the calendar next in preference to ap? propriation bills and conference re? ports. Last week this matter war taken under consideration by the rules committee but it was not decid? ed until today to give it a preferen? tial place on the house calendar. Jf this bill passes, and there is lit? tle doubt now that it will, the agri? cultural colleges of the country will be much benefited. As the name im? plies, it is an extension measure intro? duced to increase the usefulness of agricultural colleges by giving them 'a more liberal allowance of go\ern ' ment funds along the lines of the Hatch and Merrill funds. Mr. Lever 'said today that he was well pleased that he secured the adoption of this rule and that he felt satisfied the bill Would pass very .soon. YOI7NG WOMAN KILLS HERSELF. Accused b> Husband, (liven as Gauss of Fatal DeeSL I Rock Hill. July 20.?Mrs. Parke Walker, aged 22, and the mother of two children, committed suicide at i her home in Carhart village this morning about ?*. o'clock, gashing her throat with a razor and soon bleeding to death, she si tted before dying thai She did it because her husband had accused her of unfaithfulness an threatened to t;ike ?' . , .....neu fron her and at the time ot the deed was ;.w..y getting n ? ? nv< yance to takt thei i. Sentiment prevailing in the village seems to be with the woman and those who have known her long be leve her o good woman. On the oth? er hand Walker hears the reputation of being worthless, and it is said he had ' een r? i" atedly ordered by thi mill manager to stay away from tin village where Mrs. Walker was earn 5r,g the living for herself and chil? dren. x n imp* to hi Ith iway is tho road " happiness,