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HORNS AT FLORENCE. - (Continued from page 1) the Murray board. "If there is anything I despise," he said, "or have a contempt for it is the garbling of facts and the pretense to read all that is in ' , the record without reading it all." Judge Jones made a vigorous attack upon the record of Gov. Blease, elaborating several points not heretofore referred to or else handled so * ( far but briefly. , T Follow Beaten Path. ; * No new features distinguished this meeting from previous meetings with the respect to the speeches of Messrs. Carter and McLaurin for State treasV 5 urer, or of Messrs. Wharton, Cansler and Richards for railroad commis . sioner. Mr. Whartoh said, presumX * ably by way of reply to Maj. Richards' challenge to show his accomplishments for the good-of the public in his six yea^B, of OflRoe compared with those of Richard r.in'12 months, that $ the power^ [of thlb commission have been greatly increased within the pakt six or eight years. Mr. Wharton followed the example set by Maj. Richards one day last week in mentening with approval a cartoon in The State which represented the people as groaning beneath the burden of excessive express rates. Mr. Cansler charged that commissions, past and present, have accepted improper favors from railroads or, specifically, that they have solicited , * and obtained the use of special trains p i on private journeys by themselves or members of! their' families. Messrs. iff Tin i _a.ii ->? i.ij i_i f tw imnuii ttiiu vvttiiaicr wiu BUUIC JUK.CS T> ' and got considerable applause when they sat down. Maj. Richards was warmly greeted on rising and seemed to be somewhat more popular with the audience than either of his opponents, if applause were taken as the index. Ovation for Lyon. J. Frasier Lyon, atorney general, received a greeting which was an ovation in the full and proper sense of that much abused word. He said that one of the members of the Murray commission so slandered by Barney Evans was John McSween of Tim monsvule? Honest John McSween. He said that if he believed a single person in his hearing gave serious consideration to Evan's charges he would undertake to disabuse their minds, but that was hardly necessary ?and the audience appeared to agree with him. It had been his painful duty, he said, to prosecute a number of persons and in so doing he had earned the enmity of many others, and among them B. B. Evans, but when he came before the people to ''teir "tfiArrr wfutt h&imer^of-infcn this Evans is, he comes not with insinuations and garbled figures but with the records of the courts. Mr. Lyon told of his work in the showing up of grafters and said that although juries had not always brought in convictions the defendants arraigned by him had been "eternally damned and convicted before the bar of public opinion." "Is it strange to you/' continued the atorney general, "that efforts should De made to discredit me?" Mr. Lyon said that in the circumstances he thought Messrs. Earle and Peeples, two of his opponents, might ? properly have laid aside thejr honorable ambition to be attorney general because the times are not normal. The times, in fact, are very abnormal, and they must know that they are pulling inemseives in ine position 01 seeking favors from the grafters and thieves who are trying to overthrow him. Not on One Achievement. Mr. Lyon said he was known principally fbr his connection with the dispensary. The spectacular things he had done had been associated with that matter, but he was not resting his claim to re-election solely on his efforts in that line. He told of the decision secured by him wherein the supreme court reversed itself and thereby secured to the State treasury upwards of $100,000 per annupi in corporation taxes, of his election to the chairmanship of the sinking fund commission and of other work he had undertaken and handled to the public's benefit, concluding with the statement that after all the charges that had been brought against him after all the assaults of his enemies, after all the attempts that have been made to discredit him, the legislature was willing to put into his hands entirely the whole task of winding up the dispensary's affairs. He reviewed his work in the Pink Franklin case, where, in his opinion, he was able to prevent the overthrow of the suffrage provisions in the State legislr.C ture, whereby negro domination is minimized. Thomas H. Peeples said that he had been supporting Mr. Lyon for six years by not running against him. He declared that if he had been attorney general for six years and had " made the record Mr. Lyon has. he would either retire to the practice of law or seek a better job. He stood, he sai<j, for enocomy. Mr. Peeples ro called that effort in which Represennr'i tative T. P. Brown'of Florence was associated with him, to procure the passage of an act forbidding whites to teach in negro schools. He would never, lie. said say thaLany one ho had prosecuted had been convicted at the bar of public opinion. He had too much respect for the justice of South Carolina. It was a great mistake to decry the action of any court or any public officer. Judge Jonea Record, one year as chairman of the ways and means committee of the house of representatives, Ave years as speak i.L.a L- -1? -an er vi vnitv Dfloy, 10 years as an associate justice -of the supreme court and three years as chief justice, he had been called upon to come out and endeavor to change the administration of the governorship of South Carolina. That office, he said, was too high to be sullied. "Don't place in it," he implored, "any dishonest man, any crook, any1 friehd of thieves and grafters." Judge Jones took notice again.of the charge by Gov. Blease that by certain votes in the legislature he had shown himself in favor of social equality as between white and black. "Any one," he said, "who suggests that I stand for such equality in the slightest degree tells ?.c malicious falsehood." He told of his activities in the Hampton campaign for white supremacy and said he was one of s~ ?11:? *i? u*.. v??v i^?u?io an VMiitu^ U1C \AIU9lltU" tional convention in 1895, of which he was unanimously chosen vice president, which convention for one of its chief objects the framing of a suffrage provision which should forever make impossible the control of the State by negroes. Such an evil imputation as this the governor had brought against him was the cheapest sort of political claptrap, h$ said. Judge Jones attacked the governor's pardon record, dwelling on his disregard of the constitutional and statute provisions regarding reference of petitions to the board of pardons, and the go"arnor's action in the Bascom, Wash Hunter and John Black cases. "Shall a governor listjen," he said, "only to the moans that come from the criminal's home? Or for that matter, shall he listen exclusively to the moans that come from the home of the victim ? What of all the homes of South Carolina? What of the isolated homes of the farmers?" Judge Jones here referred to the governor's action in pardoning, after only five months, a negro sentenced in Lexington county, to 12 years' imprisonment for burning Senator Crosson's barn. "Hear me," he exclaimed, "not for my sake, but for the triumph of decency in South Caroolina." The governor, he said, ought not to be controlled in the exercise of executive clemency by petitions, and what of the counter petitions, in the Bas? 4om~ease, though Solicitor Wells had a counterpetition signed by many prominent people, the governor telegraphed, when the solicitor sought a hearing: "You can come if you wish, but I've already decided to issue the pardon." Moreover, not merely the nennle t\f the immediate i-nmmnnitv but a vast number of people in other parts of the State have an interest in this .matter. Somethinng had been said, Judge Jones continued, about free passes. Gov. Blease has neglected to tell the people that he himself voted to repeal the statute against free passes for State officials and legislators and also voted against a resolution to require railways to hie a list of pass holders. The governors' effort to amend the constitution so as so bar from public schools children of men who had not paid poll tax, his veto of the act to prevent unnaturalized foreigners voting in the prima ries, his parole of Stobo Young in the Seminole case and other matters previously mentioned were discussed in much the same terms as heretofore. Gov. Blease was greeted with tumultuous applause from admirers, some of who came from Lee, Sumter, Dillon, Marion and Williamsburg counties. He began his speech by reading the statement above mentioned with regard to an alleged taking to himself by Judge Jones of the credit for the "reasonable time" opinion of Mr. Rucker in the timber lands cases. The governor read also a seeon dstatement as follows: Blease's Statement. "Inn 1908, while I was a member of the senate an adjourned session was called for the purpose of electing a successor to Senator Latimer, provision was made to pay the members of the house and senate for this extra session. I took the position that the law allowed the legislators a certain amount for per diem and that they had no right whatever to any additional pay, and that when they came back they should not receive extra compensation, and when the same was advocated" by Mr. Mauldin I answered him in debate, but was voted down in the same by a vote of 23 to 7 (see page 843, senate journal, 1908)? the seven on the honor roll being Appelt, Black, Blease, Crouch, Griffin, Kelly and Talbert. However, we were defeated, but when my check for the extra compensation was sent to me, I returned it to the offices from whence it came, and I presume it is now mere. i never uccepteu or received one cent for my services rendered at the extra session of the leKislature but paid my expenses out of my / . < .S individual pocket, as will be provep troller general and ' State treasurer, and no one was in better pdlsition to know this than Ira B. Jonds. When J he got mad and resigned a$ speaker I was not then a member of $he house q and the impression which he attempted to make, that I had taken efctra compensation, was misleading-" " Tillman's Positiopv The governor also read a letter ad- ti dressed by Senator Tillman iome time ago to W. H. Gray, J. C. Verner, Jr., Tom Rogers and others of Woodruff, ^ in which the senator asserted - his neutrality as between Joties and b Blease. If Jones, said thfe governor, n is such a friend to the farmer, as he claims to be, why did he write the ^ decision he did in the Virginia-Caro- ^ ' lina Chemical cases. He' says, because of a constitutional questioh, but on that question he was reversed by C the federal supreme court. Again, & when J. Willard Ragsdale of Florence made his fight against the cor- j( porations and in behalf of the worjc- j ing men for a relief system and secured the passage of an aft his work was undone by an opinion in which ^ Jones concurred, holding the law was ^ constitutional, but again "Corporation Inn,." vwuwo ttmo avtciocu tjjr vuv supreme V} court of the United States. As to the F Bascom case from Florence county the governor said the petition for pardon presented by J. Willard Ragsdale was signed by county officials, prominent citizens and many other persons, one set of petitions being A signed by many women. Because of M this and also because of the youth of the prisoner he granted the pardon. As to the charge that he had a< introduced a resolution to bar the poor man's child from the public schools ,the governor said his object G in this .matter was to put into the " treasury a great deal of money by collecting poll taxes from negroes, why were not paying this tax, and also to ^ make more white men registet and thus qualify themselves for full participation in the governnment. The s' governor repeated his statements rc made heretofore during this campaign and previous campaigns regard- b< ing lynching. m Dillon, June 26.?The speech of the g governor today was marked with ! fewer personalities and bitter remarks than yesterday and the crowd was much mote orderly. More than a thousand were in the crowd and there were no strong demonstrations. Frpm ^ appearances it seemed that the crowd was largely of Jones sentiment. La- . dies in the audience presented Juage tr Jones with flowers. C: Governor Blease was greeted with applause of several minutes duration. He repeated the belief that Senator 1? Tillman would, if he expressed him- a1 self on the governor's race, come put for him. When Blease referred to Jones' record as "the dirtiestYdlfer is made by a white man in South Caho- ^ lina," he was loudly cheered, and, he went into the repetition of charges against Jones. He mentioned Jones' j8 approach at him yesterday and said c he never intended to hit Jones if he struck him, but woilld only call, on the bystanders to "take charge of this . old gentleman." lj The governor's defense of his re- B cord and arraignment of Jones was similar to past speeches. He 6afd many people don't want Jones or 81 Blease and might as well "vote for fi my friend Duncan." (Laughter.)n The governor charged negro lodges with committting serious crimes in F the state and gave instances where y he said lodges had picked men to commit crimes which have stirred the state recently. 8 As the governor sat down,% some one shouted, "Come back and take your medicine." Judge Jones took the floor at 2:30 ^ and was greeted with the most ex- ~ Cressive and prolonged applause that as yet greeted a candidate on this campaign. . The candidates spoke ;n a large tobacco warehouse here today before a ^ crowd bristling with interest. News of the Florence meeting had whetted the interest of the Dillonites. ? The candidate for governor start- ? ed at 1:30, Blease opening the contest. Attorney General Lyon was greeted C with loud cheers here and began j, to assail the record of J. R. Earle, his opponent. He said Earle had voted to retain the old dispensary p had voted in the senate of 1907, , against the dispensary investigation and had voted against a "bill to fur- ,( nish necessary money to prosecute the grafters." He mentioned the stajid taken by T. I. Rogers and F. * H. Weston on this investigation. S Lyon was loudly applauded. His a greetings have been tne features of the camDaign. Earle answered Lyon's charges by J saying that he stood for an economical y government. "The attorney general ^ attacks others' records, but does not si ow how many hundred thousand 4ollars have been spent," said Earle, and defended his stand as be- ^ ing what he' considered was right. J Lypb later rose to deny state- ti ments of Evans and was presented with flowers. h Miss Luta Jordan of Union will ar- ^ rive this week to be the guest of ? Miss Bernice Lawson?Spartanburg Journal. V Rev. *J. D. Chapman, D. D., of * Greenville, will occupy the pulpit of First Baptist church on Sunday morn- e] ing and evening June 30th. Rev. Mr. C1 Wakefield is in Conway assisting in a series of meetings at that place. sj Miss Rena Hancock and little niece, le Edith Griggs, who have been the tx guests of Mrs. J. C. Whittaker, have B returned to their home in Cheraw, S. b< C. P LOCAL NEWS i ;'it . * " Mrs. A. H. Cottingham and Arthur, r., are visiting relatives at Greer. Mr. W. I. McKissick of Americus, la.y ii visiting friends' in Union, Mr. Arthur Lee of Whitmire was i Union Monday on business. Mrs. W. T. Kidd is visiting relaives at-Greensboro, N. C. Miss Julia Smith of Yorkville is the uest of Mrs. F. M. Farr. Mrs. J. A. Humphries and Miss Ma.1 ~/ Q?I? ? nr-j **UUI|/III??0 W1 x spoilt, TT CUesday with Mrs. George C. May. Mrs. Susan Sims of Union is visitig Mrs. C. P. Sims, on Hampton ivenae.?Spartanburg Herald. Rev. and Mrs. J. P. Stevenson of lenterville, Ala., spent last week with ir.- and Mrs. Richard P. Morgan. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Vaughan of Un>n, announce the birth of a daughter, hursday, June 20th. j-.t Misses Alice Austell and AVihie lay are the guests of Mrs. J. A. Humphries at Peake. Mrs. J. B. Foster of Neal Shoals is isiting at the home of Mrs. B. F. oster on South street. Mrs. J. Frost Walker and little son re the guests of Mr .and Mrs. J. B. : reer at Wilkinsville. Mrs. J. A. Brown and little James nderson Berry, spent last week with r8. W. M. Palmer. Mr. Walter Counts of St. Matthews >ent several days this week with relives in Union. Mr. Hugh Flack left this week for a^ney, S. C., to attend the marage of his sister. Mrs. L. L. Wolfe of Kingstree, is le guest of her parents, Mr. and >8. W. J .Hames. Mr. Alvin S. Jolly of Spartanburg >ent several days this week with Natives in Union. Master Clough Wallace, who has ;en quite sick with diptheria, is very iuch improved. Miss Kate Lois Montgomery of partanburg, is the guest of Miss Virinia Lee Poole. Miss Irene Daniels of Gaffney will rrive Saturday as the guest of Miss va Howell. Mr. Frank Sanders of McBee spent le week-end with his parents at ross Keys. Mrs. M. C. Feaster of Union Route snpnt. thp wpplr.pnH with rplnt.ivps ; Buffalo. Master Lawrence Cooper o? Laurens ^ the guest of Master Ben??F irbison i rakefield. ? Mrs. M. B. Kelly of Spartanburg the guest of her mother, Mrs. C. . Sartor. Miss Louisa. Duncan has returned rom a visit to Miss May Sims at arnwell. Mr. L/'P. Dashiell of Spartanburg ' pent the week-end in Union with riends. Miss Lillie Adams, daughter of Mr. M. Adams is reported as being er sick. Mr. Copeland Blackwell of Columbia pent the week-end in Union with riends. f, Miss Helen Minter Bobo of Sparanburg is the guest of Miss Frances artor. Mrs. E. L. Clark left on Friday for inderson to visit relatives for several reeks. M iccnc MnnHo ?nrl Mario fiarnor arc ttending the summer school in Rock [ill. Mrs. S. G. Talbert of Columbus, hio, is the guest of relatives in Unjn. Mr. Perrin C. Byars has accepted a osition with the "Ideal Pharmacy" seated at Hendersonville, N .C., and ;ft for that place Monday morning. Mr. and Mrs. George King re urned to their home in Columbia unday evening after a visit to Mr. nd Mrs. Arthur H. Cottingham. Mrs. W. A. Sumner and Master ames Sumner returned to Columbia Wednesday after a few days visit to Irs. D. A. Wessinger. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Goudelock, who rere the guests of their mother, Mrs. . W. Gilbert, last week, have rejrned to Columbia. Misses Annie and (Jiarice unsiey ave returned from a visit to the ome of their uncle, Mr. J. J. Tinsley, f White Stone. Last Wednesday evening Mrs. J. C. /hittaker gave a delightful lawn par/ in honor of her sister, Miss Rena lancock. After the young folks had njoyed many pleasant conversations ream and cake was served. 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