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-y< . - ! -' * ?A Ml THE UNION TIMES 1= johnlmr-nninrVOL. LXin. NO. 4. UNION, S. C., 24, 1913. ^ nn A . T> Vl.UU A I J!jA Iv. SENATOR TILLMAN S MESSAGE TO ANSWERS BLEASE'S RECENT OUTBREAK Tillman Declares He is Willing to Leave it to Any South Carolina Jury Whpfhpr "Rpn Tillman 1C , , ?' wm* AAI1U1U11 AO Feeble-Minded or Cole Blease is Crazy." Washington, Jan. 20.?senator Tillman has addressed the following message to the South Carolina legislature: To the general Assembly of South Carolina: Gentlemen: I have just read Governor Blease's message sent to your honorable body yesterday, and have been informed that both Houses did me the justice to order publication in its Journal to be suspended until my reply could go along with it. For this consideration, please accept my thanks. What Governor Rlpa?p's mnfiuoc were are very evidence in the message. He desires to continue the bitterness engendered last summer; and wishes to be revenged on me; but the primary object he has in view is to keep the minds of the people stirred up and not allow the waters , to clear sufficiently to let them see what sort of man he really is. Catiline among the Romans, and Aaron Burr among the Americans, are the. only other men I have ever read x>f who were equal to Blease in bamboozling the people. He has persuaded thousands of good South Carolinians, honorable, clean, patriotic citizens, into believing that he is their best friend and that Tillman's mantle has fallen on his shoulders. He is a past master in the arts of a demagogue. He knows full well that when the angry passions of the masses are aroused, they lose their reason. He desires to come to the Senate oc Via boasted he would do at Richmond in December last, and feels it obligatory on him to aggravate conditions in South Carolina as much as possible. Whether this is the right way to electioneer or not will be shown by the result of the next Senatorial primary. If the South Carolina newspapers do not help him by abuse and misrepresentation, he will never get here. His charges against me boiled down are: 1st. With writing "secret letters stabbing him in the back." 2nd. Hypocrisy. Jlrd. With conspiring with W. E. Gonzales. ,14 1, ivih UCOIUU^. 5th. Feebleness of mind. (ith. Having lent myself, which could only be expected of an imbecile, to sign my name to an article dictated by'someone else whom he designates as "A statesman without a job," and "This astute big Ex." I will take these charges up seriatim: If ever a man wanted to be hands off in a political contest, I was that man last summer. Time and again I was importuned to take a hand and to come out for law and order and decency. But I steadfastly refused I received hundreds of letters first uiiu mst urging me witn intense earn-1 estness to come out and announce my preference as between the candidates who were running for Governor. But I was unwilling to do so. After Mr. Sims wrote me and made the appeal that I should answer certain inquiries which he propounded in defense of Tillmanism, I wrote'him the letter I did. Immediately a phrase in it was seized on by the newspapers to proclaim that I had come out for Judge Jones. The headlines mainly were used to deceive the people and misrepresent me. I felt called on to take notice of this and wrote the article of August 12th which Governor Blease quotes. Right here I desire to call attention to the evidence going to show that Governor blease and certain of his friends were in a cortspiracy; the friends to write me pretending to be my friends, draw me out as to my attitude towards him, and then show him the letters. Otherwise how did he come into possession of so many of my letters marked "personal and confidential," I have the original letters at Trenton to show that perhaps one (Continued on page 7) ENDSJRANK ? GENERAL ASSEMBLY J. WALTER SMITH WINS ( CHARMING FLORIDA BRIDE Mr. Walter Smith of Union, and Miss Grace Baker of Delray, Fla., Were Quietly Married on Jan. 3rd, at the t Delray Methodist Parsonage. v ' n The friends of J. Walter Smith L and Miss Grace Baker were agreea- w bly surprised when they learned that g they had been quietly married at the parsonage on Friday afternoon, Jan- ii uary 3rd. ci in me presence 01 a lew intimate ti friends the Rev. J. S. Brooke, most b impressively performed the beauti- tl ful ceremony which made them man ti and wife. a The bride was becomingly attired h in a white lingerie gown and looked ir her usual dainty self. The groom c< wore the conventional black. t< Miss Baker has grown to young h womanhood here, and by her win- li some ways has endeared herself to f< all, who are as one in wishing them p all happiness that can be crowded in- fi to one life. Mr. Smith is a brother of our well known citizen, J. Ben Smith. He v came to Delray about two years ago si from Honolulu, having held a respon- a sible position in the Government w Coast Survey there. He is now f< connected with one of Delray's lead- hi ing business institutions and is held in the highest esteem by his friends a who congratulate him and wish him ir "bon voyage" on life's matrimonial lc sea. rr Since their marriage Mr. and Mrs. b Smith have been stopping with " friends, "but will soon add one more O to the many happy homes in Delray? n Florida Times-Union. ei d Mr. Smith is a son of Mr. and Mrs. C] Levi Smith of our county and has a a host of relatives and warm friends al here who wish for him and his bride everything good that life holds. hi Douglass-Durant. ai T A marriage' in which numbers of ^ Union people are cordially interested, 18 was that of Miss Melle Douglass and v" Mr. JohnDuRant which occurred at P> the residence of Mrs. V. E. DePass in Columbia, on the 9th of January, 1913. ol M rs. DuRant is & young woman of ai rare charm and sweetness and her tl friends here and elsewhere wish for her a long life full of happiness. ol - m Declared Dividend. ei At a meeting of the Citizens Real a] Estate and Loan Company held Wed- (' nesday, an annual dividend of 8 per "i cent was declared and a good amount was carried over to surplus account. 111 All the officers were re-elected for the ensuing year. Mr. Davis Jeffries is president and Mr. I). Fant Gilliam is treasurer of the concern. hi hi Death From Self-inflicted Wound. *1 Mr. Ollie Harris, watchman at Monarch Mills, who shot himself last ^ week, died Friday from the effect of ?' the self-inflicted wound. It ' was n' known from the first that the wound was a serious one and the man's conflitinn u/nltnifrh Knnftlaoo Rnl - I) vi?v?v*i If -w?? 11*^11 iiv/|yvivoOi *-?U1/ i VI several days it looked as if he would d recover. n He leaves a wife and five children. His burial was at Wesley's Chapel. P w Union County Medical Meeting. K The Union County Medical Society held a meeting Monday in the Cham- ?: ber of Commerce room and had as a their guests Dr. Curran B. Earle of a Greenville and Dr. Adair. Hayne of P' Columbia. 01 Dr. Hayne, State Health Officer, made a fine address on cerebro spinal meningitis, which is giving the country so much, concern at present, and 01 the subject was discussed by the body. s* Dr. Curran Earle also made a ^ strong address which was listened to with interest. 81 After the business meeting was c' over, an elegant dinner was served at thft TTntol IlniAM ^ Practically all the physicians in the County Medical Society were in attendance and the .meeting was a ^ most interesting and helpful one. ai m Mr. Sam Blease of Greenville spent Sunday in Union with friends. 1 NAU6URATI0N DAY AT " ' ( COLUMBIA LAST TUESDAY ?? ** Uhief Executive Delivers < Characteristic Addresfc. Injects Great Amount of Politics. Praises Friends and Raps His "Enemies^ Columbia, Jan. 21.?The ni&Jdf ion of the legislative session todijr jl ras devoted to the inauguration cefl|- .ti lonies. Governor Cole L. Blease attd t lieutenant Governor C. A. Smiih I b re re duly inducted into office and fe- c an their second, terms. It was a simple and yet strikijqg f lauguration. Under ordinary df* ii iimstances the ceremonies are quite ime, but today they were livened dp J y a stirring speech on the part 'df g ne Governor. Backed by a re-elecon and with confidence in himsdtf nd his positions, the Governor *%t F imself out", so to speak. He. ir C 1 the pink of condition for a politl- I Eil or stump speech and he gave sueh I > his audience. Towards the clofe 1 e stated that he had wiped his~lf- C tical slate entirely clean?exe.wt I >r a few, and that he harbored fco olitical animosities and wanted to irgive and forget together. T. C More a Campaign Speech, k. $ I Altogether the inaugural ad^rtbs I ras a forceful campaign speedm- ^ jch as was heard last summer, with f bit of toning down. Yes, it Wis C 'ell done, for stump speaking it a I >rt with the Governor, and pefhutt J e knows it. j ?* ?. C The inaugural address started .gat F nd ended with the virtues 'of stick-11 ig to ones friends. It was an ty&r r >ng and at na time in those satty J linutes was there any listnes'SMU, B ut on the constant mental qvWy: Who or what is to be hit n?At" f course the daily newspaper .^rire I ipped; so were alleged "nigger 'Mpr- J rs;" so was the member who JMM I efeated; so was the effort tain- F rease appropriations. Whgdfln* 1 lany of them, were pcainst appfOprfatlbfis; ixes and the like. I Pretty much all that the Governor F ad to say was of his politicult cult \ nd his convictions. * J he only unfortunate suggestion was F lat there might be any anta^on- r m between Winthrop and the WO- L ersity of South Carolina. It is a ity that the Governor had not asked d >r both sides or known the full facts v jfore his onslaught. The University c ? South Carolina has nothing to hide b id never has attempted to impede n le progress of any sister institution. It was along the lines of scores T his political speeches, with clilaxes tj^bring applause. Spoaking of the new Attorney Gen- c ral, Mr. Peeples, he remarked that j( ny man who could eat a lion Lyon) could be depended upon to do is duty. ^ The overwhelming burden of the laugural was political and how bad- j ' the newspapers and others had -eated him, and still he was the v iend of the man who did not have is rights, and coupled with this vjas is sarcasm and way of putting sotne lings. } Loves His Friends There are some central features s > the Governor's address. He started ^ ut by saying that God Almighty had r ever givfcn a man truer and more evoted friends, and that no man p |vo<j His frion/la Koffor Vinr. Ua ? is. That was the motif of his adress. During the course of his talk t e injected several interesting state- ^ ients,/One of which was that he had p romised his dying father that he c ould be governor of South Carolnia. f After he had spoken of his obliation to the nearly 73,000 white vo- c ;rs, who had re-elected him Govern- t r, he took a shot at the preachers d nd women, who, he said, had prayed gainst his re-election, and he sup- y osed they had prayed for the best F inn to win, and their prayers had fc een answered. j Attacks Dr. Mitchell. He then took up what he considred a fight between Winthrop and le Universit of South Carolina, and :ated that his information /about t le matter had come from President f . B. Johnson, and in this connection i lid that he understood that Dr. Mit- s hell, president of the University, c ad written Governor Ansel, who is a <; lember of the Peabody board, that \ the University got a portion of the c loney that he would be quite willing j >r the balance to go to the negroes, s nd, added Governor Blease, this is t o place for a "nigger lover" at the ead of the University of South Car(Continued on last page) v 5IVIL COURT CONVENES MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3 Divil Court Convenes Monday with Judge Memminger Presiding?Solicitor Hill Represents the State. List of Jurors Drawn. Civil Court convenes here on Morilay, February 8rd, with Judge Memninger, ptesiding. This is the first erm over which Judge Merr*tninger tas presided since the W. T, Jones ase here three veers ncn. Solicitor Hill will enter upon his irst Union county work as solicitor n the courts here The Grand Jurors, also the Petit uror? for the first two weeks, are iven below: Grand Jury for 1913. M. C. Deaver, J. W. Gilbert, R. M. tates, W. J. Hames, J. C. Ammons, J. T. Kitchens, Jno. R. Mathis, David I. Fant, W. H. Barnes, R. S. Foster, I. J. Barnett, J. B. Betenbaugh, W. X, Cuningham, J. B. Estes, W. R. 'rocker, J.G. Faucdf^-G. W. Grady, L M. J&hnson. > ^ Petit Jurors, First Weejp . J. M. Eller, J. C. Mobley,.H. A. Jault, J. E. Mabry, J. A. Orr, J. P. Sstes, Ed. Helton, John Petty, D. J. ''arr, H. M. Sparks, J. W. O. Good, V. M. Sparks, O. M. Sims, B. C. L/)nr?a W T I T r> 1 ftUMiiioy ff x. xjanouiiy u. \j. Vvl UCIVCI , J. D. Jenkins, A. D. Austin, R. C. .little, G. S. Simmons, J. L. Wyatt, . L. James, B. B. Going, N. W. 'raig, W. H. Burris, J. M. Bates, tobert Keisler, Matt Stevens, J. M. larrison, J. H. Abrams, A. F. Cabiless, T. B. Kelly, Hiram Coleman, . R. Murphy, J. C. Mobley, J. W. lixson. Petit Jurors, Second Week. J. F. Parks, W. C. Johnson, Robt. j. Young, Warren Sumner, W. R. oily, J. J. Littlejohn, J. T. Byars, t. B. Black, G. W. Bentley, W. T. lolcomb, W. F. Carter, J. G. Adams, V. T. Farr, J. J. Davis, L. K. Littleohn, T. G. Murphy, Richard Adams, Bfattbn, C. L. Greer, W. H. 'arks, Arthur Lawson, Bothwell 'ant, Jr., J. H. Willard, S. M. Bailey, rirgie Betsill, J. P. Vaughan, C. A. eter, L. JT. Lancaster, D. J. Gault, \ R. Cudd, A. R. Vinson, L. E. Morow, Paul Free, W. A. Tweed, Ed iOng, John R. Meador. Jurors for the third week will be rawn next Wednesday. The third reek will be criminal court. In the riminal court there are quite a num er of continued cases and a large umber of new cases. Miss Ada Hancock Leaves Union. Miss Ada Hancock who has been onducting millinery parlors in Unjn for several years, under the firm ame of Hancock and Lake, has sold ut her stock and decided to move o Columbia. Miss Hancock has hosts of friends 11 Union and throughout the county rho regret her decision to leave but /ish her unbounded success in her ew undertaking. "The Gibson Iteunuion." "The Gibson Family Reunion" preented by local talent at the opera louse Monday and Tuesday evenings nade a decided hit. The play was given under the austices of the Aid Society of Grace Methodist church and was directed iy Miss Anna Paul of the Bock Enertainment Company. A neat sum vas realized and everybody had a food time, for not once after the urtain went up, did the show drag or ail to present an added pleasure. . The 'many beautiful songs and, lances were pleasing features and he lovely gowns of the actresses adled to the scene. The theatre goers Union will tail with delight a return of this topular Company and each one is to e congratul?ted upon the success of londay and Tuesday's performance. Organ Committee Visits Union. Messrs. D. A. Davis and W. P. Thomason, composing a committee rom the First Baptist church at ..aurens, were in Union Sunday to inpect the handsome pipe organ reently installed in the First Baptist hurch here. The church at Laurens nt.nnHss t/? nnr/?Viooo on rwtra n on/I ommittee timed their visit to meet dr. Haury, of Louisville, who is intailing the organ at the Church of he Nativity. Mrs. W. A. Beaty of Coldwell was isiting in Union this week. \ TILLMAN, IN ROLE C STABBED I FER6US0N REPLIES TO TILLMAN'S STATEMENT Says That Senator Tillman Has Done Him a Great Injustice, and Asks for a Modification of the Assertions Contained in the Statement. (Spartanburg: Journal.) Harrison Ferguson, of this city, who was the recipient of the letter written by Senator Tillman just prior to the recent gubernatorial campaign in this state, and who was criticised by the senator in his reply to Blease, sent to the general assembly cf South Carolina, has written the senator and asks a modification of the assertions made by Mr. Tillman. Mr. Fergpison says that he feels as if the senator has done him a grave injustice. He wrote the following letter to Mr. Tillman immediately on reading the senator's statement: Spartanburg, S. C., Jan 21, 1913. Senator B. R. Tillman, Washington, D. C. Dear Sir: I have read your reference t^tme in your "frank message" to the general assembly of South Carolina, and noted carefully what you l^d to say about "My letter to Ferguson," and your insinuation that, in your opinion, I am not believeable; also, that I did not swear to the actual truth, and another sub Lie insinuation that 1 had suppressed the truth; also "and that a man with an easy conscience could swear to almost anything." Now, Senator Tillman, I want to say that I am a young man In ordinary circumstances, and, you might say, just entered upon my business career. You have used your dignified position to besmirch my character for telling the truth, and having manhood enough to swear to it, and and for which I hold you responsible. I have- no knowledge whatev?r'"Ofl how Gonzales got the information as to the contents of your letter, for I did not furnish it, nor did11 show it to Governor Blease, or allow anyone else to?and c&n furnish witnesses to the fact that I burned the letter without ever letting it leave my posescinn Knfr\vn onni ?-? P T> 1 Mtvil WV1 VI V. OCCIII^ UVVUI IIUI UlUiiJSU, after I received it. I feel that you, of your position and influence, did me a grave injustice, and that you owe me a modification of your assertion, and a correction of your aspersion on my character for truthfulness. You have gone beyond your privilege as a citizen and a gentleman, violated your right to respect from a fellow citizen. Very truly yours, Harrison Ferguson. Narrow Escape. Mr. C. R. Robinson came near be: i_:ii i i a. TII i? uiK miit'u last inursuay aiternoon when his buggy was struck by the Eastbound Carolina Special a few miles above Union. Mr. Robertson was carrying the mail on Route No. 4 and as he passed over the track at a crossing near Bonham the rear of his buggy was struck and the vehicle torn to pieces. Mr. Robertson was considerably bruised and badly shaken up, but was able to be out 'on the streets the following day. Hurt by Automobile. I)r. S. G. Sarratt, while cranking his automobile, received a "kick" on the hand which inflicted a painful wound. One bone in the hand ""was , broken. Dr. Sarratt was not confined to his home by the accident. He is going his rounds, but with his hand in a sling. Installation of New Pipe Organ. Mr. E. C. Haury, of Louisville, Ky., arrived in Union Sunday to superintend the work of installing the beautiful new pipe organ at the Church of the Nativity. Mr. Haury, it will be remembered, installed the organ at the First Bap tist church last fall and charmed the Union people, both as a musician and as a gracious personality. The immense possibilities of the great instrument were shown to splendid advantage under his skilled touch, and he never tired of demonstrating its powers for those who expressed * desire to hear. The new organ will be formally dedicated at an early date and noted artists will have the exercises in harge. IF FRIEND, l/IE, CHARGES BLEASE SCORES TILLMAN AND THE PRESS. 1 In Message to Legislature Blease Says that "Senator's Weak Mind was ' Swayed by Friends."? Calls on Asembly to Pass Law to Brkfie the Press. Columbia.'S. C.. .Tan 1<??a attack on the* editor of the State and the press generally and a severe denunciation of Senator B. R. Tillman, is made bjf Governor Blease in a message transmitted to the general assembly today, in which he urges some restriction to be placed on the press, giving as a reason that the personal reputation and even thv good name ,-of South Carolina maybe properly'safeguarded from unwarranted villiflcation and assigning further that .newspaper domination may be avoided'- which domination the governor sA/s, was broken in his election. Referring to Senator Tillman, he says in part: "It will be necessary in order that the true situation and thie conditions may be brought to light, that the conduct of no less a personage .than the senior senator from Soutto.Carolina may be reviewed to some jpctent. "Shatter An "If that conduct b/ -what his friends and supporters would never have suspected or expetfbed of him, I shall regret that it has been necessar to shatter a nidol." The governor gives extracts from certain letters which he s^id were written by Senator TillmatfL during the last campaign, promisiiffiP'to be neutral as between Blease Jones I me iuvc lur governor anasproiess|-Wg friendship for Blease. He quotes what, he says, aire copies of telegrams which passed between the editor of the State and its Washington correspondent in which Senator Tillman was urged to give out for publication a letter he had written to Harrison Ferguson in Spartanburg in which Blease was scored and finally, this letter was printed on the eve of the campaign. Tillman coming out squarely for Jones and urging the people to repudiate Blease as he had in the language of the senator made the name of South Carolina a by-word and hissing." Stabbed in Back. The governor charged that this was the result of a conspiracy between the editor of the State and State Chairman John Gary Evans, in which Senator Tillman was led, by reason of which he came out against the Kuwrnur un uie eve 01 election, lie virtually charges that Tillman was persuaded against his will in writing the now famous letter. The governor says that while Senator Tillman was professing friendship for him, he was stabbing him in the back. Of the now famous Ferguson letter, in speaking of how Tillman had pretended friendship up to the close of the campaign, he says: "But in the darkness of the night the conspirators working through all tis time, it proved by later events, that one of the foulest conspiracies ever hatched in the politics of any state was brewing. The conspirators had not met yet because they were personal and political enemies of the nventy-uiie years suinaing. ine jealously of mind, the heart of one, however, and the deep malice against the heart of the other at last brought them together." He then refers to the killing of N. G. Gonzales by James H. Tillman, and the bitter political and personal feud which existed between the families. He said that the people repudiated and rebuked Tillman and re-elected him governor. Reviewing the sending of certain telegrams to a Washington correspondent ,for him to urge .Tillman to give out for publication a letter he hnrl Written tn Porffllonn <lonnnnolni? x Blease, the governor says of the letter: Calls on Tillman. I "This foul stuff was signed B. R. Tillman and I hope that before the , senator passes to the great beyond, he will tell who was with him in Washington when it was prepared and why he dragged in the names : of Colonel Ibney and Hon. Sam J. (Continued on last page)