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' ? M ?ITKit WATCHMAN. WmmWmM April, ISM. 'Me Just and Fear not?Let aft the ende Thon Almu t at he thy Country's, Thy God's and Truth's." THE thi'k soutxkon. Established June, Sj Consolidated Aur. 3,1881. Vol. XXXIV. No. 60. II FRIENO OF LABOR. bLKA -i : s TKF.ATMF.NT OF l'XIOX OFFICIALS DFMKIHF? IN I.KTTER. ? ? A um bin ii Kotterate* K< vital of Uuv Announcement Thal II?' fmm Opposed to I*ahor l.egl?la The following correspondence. In? cluding a letter from Oov. Cole L. H lease to Henry J. Hardy. Mr. Hardy's peal?, a tetter from State Senator Francis H Weston of Co? lumbia corroborating Mr. Hardy's statements, an 1 an affidavit by Mr. Hardy attest.ng the correctness of the Interview published in the State f of February 14, 1911. Is self-explana? tory: Cole L. Blease. Governor's Office, Co? lumbia, S. C. Sir: I am In receipt of yours of August IS. Men do not often take pleasure in conceding their mistaken, but I cheerfully confess to having made a grave mistake In placing any confidence In your protestations of friendship for the people, and in treating you with the courtesy I had regarded due any man holding your high office. The statement I am making und ! that you say is "absolutely false" is but the repet tion of the statement I made and published 18 months ago and that you did not then question. It Is absolutely true and Is vouched for by Senator Weston. who wan pres? ent at our conference. I may be a "Yankee," but while that may be my misfortune It Is not my fault. Let me remind you that yon thought wall enough of "Yan? kees" to pardon the "Yankee" pick? pocket* who robbed the country peo? ple of South Carolina at the State \ fahr, and whose Chicago lawyer had enough money to forfeit one thousand dollar* cash bond when he was ar? rested for attempting to bribe a Rich land county officer to let them escape. Yea, I work for The State company, days' work for aeven days' pay. company has the record of prlmf Hid off a men on ac tat of dullness or hard times. It employs more high-grade ualoa men than any publishing house in the state. It is a fair and strictly union establishment, but while the manage? ment has done personal favors u> many employes, neither I nor any other member of the force, so far as 1 have ever heard, have ever been approached In regard to politics, or sny effort mad* by the management to Influence an employe's vote. Your apprehension that I might Have been working some dictagraph game on you was without foundation. 1 was not doing a messenger ggg*fl part, nor had I sold my Influence. The fact Is my Influeuce Is not mer? chantable aa Is the Influence of your legal friends who secure pardons. My reason for turning against you Is that when the question narrows down netween friend* hip for a politi? cian and loyalty to in organization of whbh I am a member and to which I am die* loyal support I choose the organisation every time. My statement In regard to your attitude toward organised labor and its aims Is sustained by high author? ity, but were the que^tior of veracity ?Imply between us 1 wou'd be willing to leave it to ortcunhseo labor and Its friends to decide. Your *ugK*-*tion that 1 gave sold out for money Is Inst.ltimc but y. , can n?>t Insult me. I have no re? spect for you and do not know any one> who has, but I can not get away gangs all respect for the gfjgt gggg when you ar-? tggsjpftgfj it, and there? fore will not apply to yog the MelMSi end ugly" word for which you gggg glv^n *uch pro ?.. Uon, Igrj J. Hardy, Columbia.. Aug It, Itlt, Henry .1 II i I ? ir. Tie- ' 'olumbiu State. Tolumbia. 1 0 Sir: F'?r s one, tlggg past you have bSSa hol Ilm. Pggg I s 1 f gfjt as a ?ood friend of gtlgg, letting me that the fact that \"u w.-n- Working fof the t'oljmbla H al.- dd let infim re e you tn i that you were fat n ? uad would do iii you < -nid for me< You have visited At n?y ? ??. \. r 11 time*, even I ritminx fOUf BlOttiei tU SOS m?? there pr<>f t-dng .our friend hip and here recently have come to BSe and asked for nuhs ription Rtejgjg| for u church, aril losi-red upon me b?dn< preeent at the ?-.r WotMngimn un'on meeting to mak.- , 4p...-. h, \,.w, I am Info med fag some rag? eon you are making the statement, which you know gl gggglglglf false, that I said that I would get gtffg any Mil. If pasned. that would help the laboring people or to regulate the boms of Work. I am not surprised at so; . > *? . ut from a Yankee Hke > ursohT, who is working for the Cuban-gpanleh burenv ol the state. If yen in telling it. you know that It U faNe. I piesume, however, that s?ui ebody bei e;ther paid you money <-r offered you some other induce? ment to turn against me within the Iget fefl days. However, 1 am glad I never confided anything in you, he OnUSS 1 believed that you were being sent to my office by the Gonzales for the purpose of trying to get some? thing ;.nd for that reason, 1 have b?en guarded in statements made to you. Cole I* Hlease. I/etter From Mr. Wcstoit. August 13. 1912. Mr. H. J. Hardy. Columbia. S. C. Degf Mr: You showed me a letter which you received from Gov. Hlease this morning and asked me to give you the facts as to what transpired at I an interview held in the governor's J office the latter part of February. 1911. At your request I accompanied you to the governor's office to see If something could not be done about his veto of the provision made in the appropriation Mil for inspectors charged with the duty of enforcing the labor laws of the State. There were present at this interview Gov. Blease. you and 1. 1 stated to Gov. Blease that you were the secretary of the Ci.y Federation of Trades and de fdred to see if some provision eould not l?e made for the enforcement of the labor laws. Gov. Blease replied, with a great deal of spirit, that as long as he was governor no law should pass which would Interfere with the right of any one above 21 years of age to contract for the dis | position of his own time. I replied ' to the governor that this was not the ! question, as the law had already set - j tied that point, but the question was I the enforcement of these laws. 1 then j sold to the governor. "What about these poor women who clerk for their j livelihood?" He replied that If they did not like their situation they eould get other employment. In the course of the interview the governor said that" the factory inspectors were worthless. I replied that I cared nothing about the personnel, that If these men were not doing their duty they could he removed and others put in their places. Finally the governor said that he would see that the law I was enforced through his liquor con - 'stables. I told him that this was Im? practicable, as these constables did not have the right to enter & manu? facturing t r mercantile establishment for that purpose. Of course 1 can not recall the exact words used by the parties to thi? interview, hut the thoughts and sentiments herein at? tributed to the governor correctly ex? press his attitude in this matter. 1 might add that this interview made quite, an impression upon nw\ as I was the author of the bill providing for inspectors. Without these in? spectors the benign laws pajwed for ihe protection of the laboring people depend entirely upon the eonscloncs Of the employer. Of 0OUFSS quite a number observe the law, but doubtless there are pome who do not. Thous? ands of dollars are being Spent In the enforcement of our liquor laws; there are game wardens to protect OSiff bird* ami RSlaSS, and 1 can not under? stand why the people who labor in the foot if*es and the mercantile es? tablish nu r.r-< should not be of as much COaoeq 14 a S to the State OS the birds and fn?h? s . rid the enforcement of the liuuor law? I would therefore say that your Interview published on Feb? ruary |4, 1 Uli. COrreCtly expresses the governor*! ttitude I? thl.< matter, and i have never heard that Gov. Blease charged an) misrepresentation ;?s to hi< attitinb- n this interview until you showed me hia letter to von this morning. Yours very truly, Franeli h. Weston. Mr Barely*s taeervtsgr, ? < ?n ||< i I. in company with Senator Watson visited tin- governor to ,e, . i ? , rile rossons for the wip? ing out ol Ihe factory Inspection feat? ure Ol the Ifv. The governor stated thai hit r< mos tor so doing: was that in- considered the factory Inspectors absolute!) Worthies* and I waste of the gtate'a i He f orther added that he vcould attend to thai feature himself and Hi h i own way. He fur? ther Mated thg1 he would veto anv and ail labor legislation thai might come before him where such legisla? tion sought tO ImprOVe Or alleviate the eonditioni ol any man or woman over the ag. ? f I I ;., ars "He tu Id that every iiiim and wo man w ho had attained the .,ge of 11 was a tree moral agent a ml ' ould look out for him or herself. Any man or INQl ISITOH IN AUDIENCE TRI KS To LINK VP CANDIDATES. People* ami F.arlc. <>piM>>ing Candi? dates for Attorney Generali De? clare Themselves for Blouse. Lauren?, Aug. 11.?Thus. H. Pee les and J. R, Earle came out today for Blease, This declaration of pref rence us between the leading can? didates for governor by two of the four candidates for attorney general was tlie new- feature of the State ampaign meeting in I^aurens. Fairly good order was kept in the crowd of 3,000 persons which filled a natural amphitheatre it the edge of the town except when the chairman, John M. Cannon, was unable to get a hear ng for Judge Jones when the latter sought to make categorical reply to Qov. Blease, Judge Jones gave lit? tle time to self-defense but spent the greater part of his 45 minute period in explaining policies which he ad? vocates and contrasting these with the policies comprehended in "Bleas l8m" though he did not once mention the go\ ernor'l name. Gov. Blease repeated the substance of his ad? dress yesterday at Xewberry, omit? ting, however, the charges there made by him against relatives of Judge Jones who live in Newberry. Gov Rlease referred again to the attitude of it. H. Tillman, senior senator from South Carolin i. toward the Blease JoneS campaign. ?Jones and his crowd," Blease said, ' are trying to take a safety pin and pin Jones on to Ben Tillman's coat tail. Kdgefield county has got a man in the race for the United States senate who served you as senator, as superintendent of the penitentiary and for years in congress. He has done much for South Carolina. Laurens county has got a young man in the race who is honorablo and high toned and worthy of any trust that may be reposed in him Why should the Jones people try so hard to hang on to Tillman? He has his own fight to make. It they have a proper re? spect for themselves and for Tillman they wouldn't do it. "1 do not need Tillman's indorse? ment. 1 have proved during the past 19 months that 1 am well qualified to be governor juj Ben Tillman or any? body glee. They say Hampton was defeated because he interferred in a family fight and they are doing their best to get Tillman to interfere in a family fight now. but they are not going to get Tillman into it." The governor declared in characteristic eloquent language that Tillman would never be found "lined up" with the management of The State. Messrs. Peoples and Karle were put on record as to their preference be twe n . Biases and Jones through the activity of B self-appointed grand inquisitor, a firmer from Sullivan township named TumbJjn, who wore a Blease badge the size of a half dol? lar and who repeatedly yelled, "Hur? rah for Barney Evans!'" while the attorney general, J. Fr?ser Lyon, was speaking. Mr. Peoples, however, re? frained from expressing himself until after he had ascertained by means of hand primary that many paraona present others th.in Tumblln were in? terested B. B. Evans, who left Sat? urday for Black Mountain, X. C. did not return until long after his turn to ??peak oame today, in fact not until woman who was not satisfied with their condition or the safeguards plac? ed ground then- employment or their hours of I ibor could quit their posi? tions but they need not l<>ok to the law to heit> them as long as he was In the governor's chair. "Aaked as to how this might work when applied to the working worm n and girls who might bo subjected to hardiships which they might hi' pow? erless 111 avoidi the governor stated that th"> did not have to work un? der those conditions as there was plenty ot odo r work they could go to. though, when pressed for the court of thla work, he did not an v. ir, 'le further g.i\e mo to under? stand th " ne thei I or any other out? sider ti.I ome t i him with anv con-pi 11 a t, that the man or woman iii, ted must come to him personally or no action would be taken." (' dumhla, H. ?'.. Aug, l 8, i ft 18 Personally appeared before me Henry J Hardy, wh ?. being sworn. says lhat the foregoing statement which appeared in t he i lolumbia State oi Fehl uary ? t 1911, is cor? rect and true i fenry J. ilardy Sworn to nid subscribed before me this 1 Sth d ?v of August. 1912. R, B. Wilson. Notary PuhllC S. & just before the meeting ended. D. W. McLaurln, candidate for State treasurer, refused to be commit? ted on the Blease-Jones issue. Messrs Wharton, Carter, Richards and Cans ler were asked where they stood on this matter, but the question was not pressed and they all ignored it. "Gentlemen," said Mr. Peeples, "I have always been the friend of the Hon. Cole L. Blease and I see no rea- ! son?" That was enough for the in- ', quisitor who raised a shout, "Hur I rah for Blease and Peeples." Mr. Earle said: "If you want to i know where I stand I have voted as ' a rule with Gov. Blease on his vetoes, i I have had the manhood to vote for what I believe to be right. He | and I were in the general assembly together for years and he and I were usually on the same side. When he vetoed those appropriations I voted to sustain him and 1 am willing to do so again." Mr. McLaurin told his questioner that if he did not desist from an? noying him he would have him ar? rested. "You go ask Jones and Blease who they are going to vote for," he said, "and I'll tall you how I am go? ing to vote. If you had as much sense as you hue got mouth , you wouldn't ask m? such a question. Wouldn't I be a pretty fool to come before the people asking for such an office as that of State treasurer with 'Blease' or 'Jones' branded across my breast? I was a man before either of them and I bore myself as a man." Mr. McLaurin encountered Mr. Tumblin as he left the stand. They had a brief conversation in an un? dertone which ended with smiles from each and a. cordial handshake. Gov. Blease twitted Judge Jone3 to? day with not mentioning at this meet? ing the paro'e of Stobo Young and the pardon of G. Wash Hunter. One of the bouquets handed the governor Mas presented by Little Miss Eliza? beth Young, sister of Stobo Young. Wash Hunter was in the crowd. W. R. Richey, Jr., presented to the gov? ernor on behalf of friends in Laurens a gold watch and chain. Mr. Hichey's father, W. R. Richey, Sr., is a can didnte for the house of representa? tives on the Blease ticket. Judge Jones was slightly indisposed today and concluded his address while ten minutes of his time re? gained. He is "he guest here of J. H. Sullivan, brother to the Senator from Anderson county, George W. Sullivan of Willlamston. Laurens campaign meetings have usually been warm, not to say disor? derly, hut there was only one disturb? ance today, though that provided ex? citement a plenty while it lasted. Strange to say, John H. Wharton was the storm centre. That urbane cam? paigner unwittingly aroused a nest of the fiery little wasps called yel? low jackets and immediately began a war dance, while everybody in the vicinity hVd, slapping wildly with their hits at the infuriated insect Mr. Wharton in his speech said he had received a warmer reception in his home county than he had ex? pected, in fact, the warmth of it was with him Still. Mr. Wharton made a very short talk and John G. Rich? ards, Jr., followed suit. Twice during the meeting a child which had strayed off from its par? ents was hoisted t j the platform for Identification. In each case the child was thus restored 1 > its family. On the stand besides candidates, newspaper men, the chairman and a doseil or so spectators were the sheriff of Laurens county, John D. OWings, the chief of police of Lau? rens, W. S. Bagwell, and the govel nor's body guard, otherwise the deputy chief constable, YV. P. Beard. Gov. Blease gave his Indorsement to Wm. c. irby. a candidate for leg? islature In this county on the Blease ticket. He denounced as a cowardly liar one Bellow, whom he accused of circulating a letter in which the gov? ernor was quoted as calling Mr. Irby a liar and a coward. Gov. Blease and J, Ii. Barle paid tributes to the mem? ory of the late Thomas B. Crews of Laurens, Gov. Blease. by way of supporting his allegation that Judge Jones is the candidate of corporations, said he was informed by an employe of The Rtate that The state company had a bill against Judge Jones for printing of |8,000 and it would take $x,000 worth of stamps to mail out this campaign "literature." The meetlns tomorrow will he held In Greenwood. Rolls Wells will take In the dollar bills for Wilson's campaign. The handling of small change shows thai Ti e.(surer VY. Iis is ?bong business for the people. At the stand where the Interests do business cash is counted by the barrel.?Wilmington Star. JONIX IN FIERY SPEECH, ( ALLS GOVERNOR A FALSIFIER. CuboiiuUoii.il Candidates Do not Mince Words at New berry Meet? ing ? Bleaee Makes Derogatory Statements Concerning Urothers of Judge Jones, and Latter Under? takes to "Convict Governor of a Lie'' ? Ulcase Answers Question which He Has So Far Ignored ? Terms Hlease an Anarchist, Xewberry, Aug. 13.?"I certainly have tried my best to hand it back to him today in Xewberry in full mea? sure," declared Governor Cole L. Blease, at the campaign meeting here today, near the close of a speech de? voted entirely to a bitter attack on his opponent, Judge Ira B. Jones, and including degrogatory remarks con? cerning several members or Judge Jones' family, who reside in Newber ry. Few speeches of the Governor du* ing the present campaign have equall? ed in bitterness that made today in his home city and he declared that his assault was in retaliation for the "abuse" which he asserted Judge Jones heaped upon him at the meet? ing in the latter's home town, Lan? caster, "where," said Governor Blease "I expected him to make a short speech and then introduce the other candidates for Governor." But Judge Jones proved that he also knew something about "handing it back," for, in reply, he asked the people of Xewberry if they would vote for "Cole L. Blease, falsifier and Slanderer, convicted of falsehood be? fore your face." Judge Jones did not need words. He "lit" right into the Governor and expressed in no un? certain terms his opinion of him who would go back into the past "to slander a man's family." Both the Governor and Judge Jones were fiery today, and some who have heard every utterance of the former Chief Justice on the stump during the present campaign declare that his speech today was the best he has yet delivered, nor was it all used to pay his respects to Governor Blease and reply to the latter's charges. Judge Jones found time to give his views on public issues and enunciate his platform in this connection, ask? ing: "Will some one tell me what lofty sentiment was uttered in Gov. Blease's speech today? 1 pause for a reply. Did he say one uplifting thing Worthy of the Governor of South Car? olina? All was hatred, malice, dirt, nothing worthy of the Governor of South Carolina, nothing uplifting." declared Judge J?>nes in answering his own questions. Gov. Blease in the course of hi.s speech said that ' the Jones men are the dirtiest set of liars that ever dis? graced a State." He declared he would be nominated by from 1S.O?0 u> 20,000 majority, and promised to give Judge Jones a derby if ho (Hlease) does not carry both Lancaster and Xewberry counties. Governor Blease today replied to a < uestion which has been asked him many times and which he has hereto? fore ignored: "Why did you vote for Jones for Speaker and Associate Jus t ce after ho voted against separate coaches?" Gov. Blease has repeat? edly charged that Judge Jones, by his vote In the "Jim Crow" bill in 1890. favored social equality. The Gover? nor declared he purposely waited un? til he got to Xewberry to answer this question, and said he would not no? tice it again. His reply was that lie represented in the Legislature the people of the county wherein resided the mother of Judge Jones, and otiier members of his family and where, said the Gover? nor, Judge Jones and his folks, even the Judge himself, pretended to be his friends, hence his support of Judge Jones for Speaker of the House, twice trustee of the South Carolina College, Senator and finally, Asso? ciate Justice, all after Judge Jones' Vote against separate coaches for which he has been so bltterl) de? nounced by the Governor. Governor Blease declared he had never east an undivided vote for Judge Jones. Judge Jones seemed to feel newly, and resented vigorously the imputa? tions cast against iiis brothers, Messrs Ed and Sam Jones by Gov. Blease. Governor Blease was accorded b splendid reception by the people of his home county, in which a number >i his admirers from other counties joined. There was prolonged ip plause when he began his speech and when he concluded the cheering was but little short of an ovation. Judge Jones was given a most at? tentive hearing bj those who remain? ed after the Governor's departure passes WOOL tariff REVISION BILL over veto. Democrats Succeed in Passing Mea? sure with aid of Insurgent Repub? lic ns?Scenes of Wild Excitement on Majority's Side of Home ? Speaker Overrules Objection.* of Parliamentarian*.. Washington, Aug. 13.?By the nar? row margin of five votes, the House today passed the wool traiff revision bill over President Taft's veto. The vote, 174 to 80, w? -nade possible only by the defec jf twenty-one Republicans whr a with the Dem? ocrats. The .ncement of Dem oeratie sucr j? ,-eated a wild scene sP in the Hr .nd amid great confus ion the ablican leaders protested that C> -er Clark must count as vo+ ^ .m members who answered ' tjr nt" to their names, a ruling oh would have defeated the Dem jratic programme by overcoming the five margin and making impossible the recording of the necessary two thirds vote of the House This the Speaker declined to do. OUR VICE CONSUL .MURDERED? American Diplomatic Agent to Co? lombi a Shot to Death. Bogota, Colombia, Aug. 14.?*} yu\ play is suspected by An ericans here to have been connected with the death of Wiliam B. MacMaster, the American vice and deputy consul at Cartagena, whose body, riddled with gunshot, was found a few miles out? side of that city last Monday. The vice consul, according to ad? vices received here, had started out on a hunting trip the day before, and when he did not return a searching party was organized. An examina? tion of the body showed that death had been caused by the gunshot wounds. The authorities at CaVtagcr.*, which is a Colombian seaport on the Carribean, and the Capital of the department of Bolivar, are investi? gating the case. The tragedy recalls the attempf made apainst the life of Mr. S**'? a-s ter three years ago, when he was at? tacked by two Colombians and stab? bed several times in the hrae", fact? and abdomen while in charge of rb* Cartagena consulate. SOME amazing figures. People of Country Drink and Smoke in an Astouding Manner. - Washington, Aug. 14.?The people of the United States produced more whiskey and nun and smoked more cigarettes dur:ng the fiscal year 1912 than ever before in the history of the country, according to the preliminary report of Royal B. Cabeii. commis? sioner of internal revenue, just sub? mitted to Secretary IfacVeagh. The consumption of whiskey was exceeded only by the year 1967, but beer drinking fell off by a SMbStenttaf per? centage. The unprecedetned smoking Of llv 221.624,084 cigarettes exceeding iht record of 1911 by nearly 2.000,000.000 amazed Treasury Officials. Stored in warehouses the country over are 262,786,070 gallons of whis? key and rum. the greatest on record. The record production of these in? toxicants for 1912 was l.SS.000,000 gallons, or 12,000,006 gallons greater than 1911. The consumption of whis? key ami rum for 1912 was 133.377,458 gallons, the nearest approach to the record of 134,031.096 gallons In 1907. A s:; linn.ooo BABY. .lohn Jacob Astor Born WodllfSsJiJ to Wealth. New York. Aua. 14.?Mrs. Madeline Force Astor, survivor of the Titanic disaster, In v. inch her husband. CoL John Jacob Astor. lost ins life, gave birth to a son at B.lff o'clock thiv morning. The new arrival has been named John Jacob Ast? r, after bis lather. The boy becomes a direct heir to $3, 000,000 of the Astor fortune. from the grounds when he finished speaking, followed by many of his supporters, reducing the crowd b\ nearly one-half. Judge Jones has many friends In the audience who punctuated his remarks frequently with expressions of approval, a great many 141 easeltes remained to hear Judge Jones and there was no dis? position other than to grant him a fair and respectful hearing.