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STATE CAMPAIGN MEETING
IN NEWBERRY ON TUESDAY
(CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3).
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viewed his record in poilics. He at- j
tacked Gonzales and others, bringing !
a number of charges against them. He j
. i
believed the viciousness of Gonzales'1
fight against Blease was for the sinister
purpose of electing Blease again,
as he did two years ago?inciting the
Blease supporters to stronger and
more determined efforts. He said he
didn't care if the newspapers had cut
out his name, he would go before
the people and state his cause, and
everywhere he saw intense interest
in the faces of his audience. He wanted
the DeoDle to come to the middle
of the road, between Blease and Jones,
and elect Duncan. He said he had
been tola that if Duncan was elected
he would be assassinated before his
inauguration, but he didn't believe a
word of it, and was not afraid. He
didn't want the people to be afraid?
those who were fighting him so would
not risk a personal encounter, and he
'iras not afraid of one. There were a
few cheers for him as he concluded.
Judge Ira B. Jones.
: said he supposed after listening to i
Blease and Duncan the people expect-!
ed to see in him one of the blackest devils
that ever infested South Carolina,
He said he had heard all they had said
with a smile. "One of your banners
says slander can't hurt Blease in, Newfeerry
county. I say Blease's slanders
can't hurt Ira B. Jones in Newberry
county. I was born in Newberry
county, and.my people have been born
here, and mv -oeooie live here?and
yet, that the chief executive of South j
Carolina should come before an audience
that knows my brother Ed Jones
and declare of him that his house was
built with blind tiger money, and
should try to slander my brother Sam,
who had the misfortune to fail! He
tad the misfortune to fail, but I will
stake my life on the fact that Sam
Jones is a man of truth and honor and 1
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ne maae no money oui 01 uis muununate
failure.
"He had to even go so far as to
bring in' a step-son of my sister,
Hugh Renwick. Now, isn't he reaching
out to cover the Jones family.
There is no use for me to say anything
more than just to submit it to the people
of Newberry county?has the j
Blease family anything in comparison .
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"With tne Jones ramny mat wouia mase i
Blease proud of his family and me j
disgraced of mine? I will leave it to
the people of Newberry county."
"I propose," said Judge ^ones, "to
convict the governor of St>uth Caro- 1
lina of a lie. What will you say to
that. Now, let me show you a clean,!
out-and-out falsehood coming from |
the mouth of Cole. Blease, so-called
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"Hurrah for Blease!" came some
shouts.
"Yes, hurrah for a man who falsifies j
and slanders," said Judge Jones. Judge '
Jones then referred to Governor
Blease's remarks as to the sending
out of two issues of the Lancaster
paper?one in Lancaster county and
one in the town of Lancaster. "Le*
me show you," he said, "what a con-1
Ruminate falsifier and slanderer he is,
and I want to know, after I show that,
is there any decent man in Newberry
?ounty that is going to endorse Cole.
Blease. He didn't open that paper, j
Iiook at the inside of that paper. That
is the paper he said Charlie Jones sent ;
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all out through^Lancaster county and,
that it contained that Grace story. Did '
you ever hear of a newspaper sent all j
over a county with one side white like j
that?" (referring to one side of the pa- j
per being blank.) "What did happen? j
The Lancaster News started to print j
that paper, and when the management \
discovered that the Grace slush was j
in it they said, we will not print that j
so it can go into the home of the peo-:
pie of Lancaster. They didn't send
out a single copy of that paper?not
a single copy. Some man in the office j
stole a copy out of the Newberry News
office (Judge Jones evidently intended
to say Lancaster News office) and gave ;
it to Gov. Blease, I have no doubt. As
coon as the management discovered
the Grace matter was in it they stopped
% the publication and never sent out a
single copy, and destroyed that issue, !
and then published a paper clean on j
all sides, and the matter that Gov. j
?
Blease objected to, there is not one j
word of it in the paper." He said that j
ri^-rr Blnooa's arera j>1r?no- this 1 inp !
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vas the "'baldest falsehood that any
man who claims to be governor of
South Carolina could utter."
Judge Jones referred to the fact
that all three candidates were born
and reared m Newberry, but he wanted
to put it up to the men of Newberry,
and to the good and virtuous women of
*r?TrrVrt?T.ir if tVijaJn r?f manhood
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was represented by "a man that will
come before you and deceive you with,
a falsehood" or a man "that has been
disbarred as an attorney by the su
pre.ne court," etc., bringing charges
I
against Mr. Jno. T. Duncan, to which
Mr. Duncan later replied under the
rule allowing the candidates the privilege
of a categorical reply.
"Who represents your ideas of manhood?
Who represents your ideas of
patriotism? Why, the idea of going
back to slander a man's family? In
all this race I have never said one
word against the personal life and
character of Blease. I have never
thrown one thing of mud or filth in
this campaign. I have never referred
to his private life. I have never referred
to his character as a man. I have
never referred in the remotest degree
to any of his family or any of his ancestors.
All that I have done is to
point to his record while in office, and
that is no personal attack, that is no
slander. I claim I can go before the
people of South Carolina at any time
and refer to any man's record, if I
confine myself to the truth, and do
not falsify, and do not misrepresent."
He charged that Gov. Blease's
charge on his Wade Hampton vote
suggested what was not true. "I did
vote for Col. Irby," he said. "'"He was
a Reformer and I was a Reformer. I
had been with Tillman and Irby and
Shell in their meeting; I was one of
the leaders in the Reform movement,
one of the lieutenants of Be^ Tillman
in his fight, and when Col. Irby, one
of the leaders of the Reform party,
was a candidate for the U. S. senate I
stood by my party and voted for Irby,"
just like, he said, he would stand by
the Democratic party if he were a
member of congress. "What did
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ton one time when the two houses met
separately," said Judge Jones, explaining
the method of election. "Everybody
knew that wouldn't result in an, election.
When the two houses came together?he
didn't tell ^ou that?when
the two houses came together they
voted six or seven times in joint assembly
and Cole. Blease voted for Irby,
just like I did, every time. Are you
such suckers as to be fooled by any
such rot as that? I don't think you
are. \I don't call people suckers, but
I want to know if they are such suckers
as to be easily caught by things
like that. It is said I voted against
Judge Wallace. I did vote for Y. J.
Pope against- Judge Wallace," paying
a high tribute to Judge Pope. "Cole.
Blease did the same thiri&," he said,
"and yet he would have you believe
that I turned traitor on Judge Wallace
and sent him back with humiliation
and disgrace, and ne ,<na tfye same
thing. He did right, and so did I.
What is the use for him to come before
the people of Newberry and try to ram
down their throats that I did something
he himself didn't do."
Judge Jones said he had knocked
Blease's Bishopville speech into a
thousand splinters. "There isn't a
thing left of it. When he offered that
speech and I got up, as I had a right to
do, to reply to it, Blease got up and
practically wouldn't allow me. Blease
tnnfc phars'e of the matter, and with his
men around howling I wasn't allowed
to make reply to it as I had a right to
do under the rules he ?himself
had agreed to the day before. And he
left the poison just where he dropped
it, without my having the right to put
in the antidote." But, since that time,
he said, though Blease had two replies
to his one during the campaign?29
replies to 15?he had knocked the
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Jtsisiiupviiie speecu uuu Bpiuucis, <anu.
I am going * to beat him, anyhow, I
don't care what the handicaps are."
The people, he said, were now beginning
to scratch their heads and wonder
what they saw in the Bishopville
speech?there wasn't a thing in it but
froth, he said. He took up the charge
that he had voted not to reduce the
rate of interest in 1890. "He did the
same thing," said Jones, and Judge
Jones contended that vote at that time
was in the interest of the workingman
who had to borrow money. Judge
Jones said he had voted for * divorce
on the Scriptural ground, but in the
constitutional convention he yielded
his views to the peculiar notion of
South Carolina and helped to write a
no divorce section in the constitution.
He defended his local option record,
saying he had voted against requiring
two-thirds majority to change from
wet to dry or from dry to wet, his vote
being strictly along the line of local
option. The charge of social equality
on the gronud of his vote on the separate
roach act. he said, had been
knocked all to pieces by Tillman, who
had made it not worth while for him
to say anything more about that.
Blease, he said, had criticised a few
of his decisions, but they were all
sound, and he thought it#unfortunate
for a decision of the supreme court to
be made a foot-ball in a political campaign.
"Tell me what lofty sentiment has
been uttered by Gov. Blea=e in his
speech today?" h? said. "I pause for
a reply. Did he say one uplifting
thing, addressed to people of mind ard
conscience and heart, who want to do'
; what is best for South Carolina. What
'did he say that was worthy of a governor
of South Carolina? All vituperation,
ail malice, all hatred, all dirt? !
nothing worthy of an audience like j
! this, nothing worthy of the governor
| of South Carolina, nothing worthy of
jour great old State."
He said his ideal of government was
that a government must be a government
of all the people of the State. I
want to lift up South Carolina. Is
that your ideal?that the government
must be for men that vote for the gov
ernor, or must the government be for {
all the people of the State, white and j
black, high and low, rich and poor? j
A government which is a government
for friends only is a government of j
the spoilsman and is not a government
of a statesman. I have said that
Bleaseism leads to anarchy. I do not
mean to say that those who vote for
Gov. Blease are anarchists. I have j
never said so, although one paper did j
put that word in my mouth. There j
were other papers reporting that j
meeting which credited me with saying,
'Down with anarchy,' and that is
what was in my mind and that is what
I recollect I said, 'Down with anarchy,'
and I say that today. I am charging
no man with being an anarchist un
less he understands the proposition
and then promotes it. I charge Gov.
Blease with being an anarchist, a^nd I
can prove it from his own mouth. That
doesn't need any newspaper lie.
"It is a mighty funny thing about
the newspapers?the way they talk
about the newspapers. If you see it in
the State or the News and Courier or j
the Spartanburg papers it is all a lie.
But if you see it in the News-Scimiter
that Gov. Blease's body-guard carries
around and distributes among the people,
then it is a message straight from
heaven.
"If you see it in The Herald and,
News it is mighty nigh true, according !
to them. But if you see it in the Observer,
in the paper edited by that
manly, virtuous, able, truthful man,
Wallace, it is all a lie. That is the
kind of campaign we are having. But
I don't need to go to the newspapers.
I can convict the governor out of his |
own mouth."
Here Judge Jones quoted the remarks
attributed to Governor Blease
at the Charleston meeting, which he
said were threatening Charleston, and
the remarks attributed to the governor
at the Camden meeting, in which the
governor was quoted as saying he
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would nave an tne rest, 01 luis jcai
and would "make that gang sweat
blood before I get through with them,"
and also the remarks of the governor
on the State house steps in reference
to the King-Watson incident?all of
i these-matters having been fully reI
ported in The Herald and News,
j "Haven't I proved Gov. Blease is an
j anarchist? That he wants to take into
| his hands all the power? And for
| what? For the purpose of revenge, j
Oh, the lowness, oh the meanness, oh
the contemptibleness of such ideals of
government in South Carolina."
"We want no czardom in South Carolina;
we want no exhibition of revenge
In the administration of the affairs
of South Carolina, but we want
an honorable, high-toned, liberty-loving,
justice-fearing, clean-hearted and
clean-banded man to administer the ]
affairs of this great State."
"Let's lift up the standard of gov- |
eminent, let's re-enthrone law in I
j South Carolina, let's have law and or- |
der, which is the best protection of the
; poor man, in South Carolina, re-enthroned
in our State.
Let's have respect for law In the j
chief executive's office." Judge Jones j
referred to his his early life here, j
saying he was the son of a carpenter j
(and of a woman that started her life;
working on the farm and finally worked
and made dresses to help support
j the family, "and if, from that humble
I origin, this son of Newberry has risen
! to the highest seats in this old State,
j is there any reason why the people of i
J his own,county, who know his people j
onH knnu- him. should hesitate one mo- !
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ment to make him the chief executive j
of South Carolina?"
i
On, the whiskey question, Judge j
.Wies said he had been asked to state ;
his platform, and that he stood for lo- !
! cal option. He explained the Torrens j
S land title plan, which he advocated,
: under this plan a title being good
! against the world when guaranteed by j
I the State; advocated progressive re- j
I forms in public education; a work-;
! men's compensation or employers' lia- I
Ibility statute; modifications of harsh j
common law defences in actions re- J
suiting from industrial accidents; a j
workable State warehousing system J
for cotton growers, which he said
| could be secured by a vote'of the r>eo'
T>le, prd discussed the fe^W'^v of
requirirg insurance companies to ?n<ro?t
a portion of their reserves in the
Star<\ and the necessity of elevating
the idea's of government.
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JAS. HcINTOSH,
County Campaign Schedule.
Little Mountain, Thursday, Aug. 15.
Jolly Street, Saturday, August 17.
Keitts Grove, Tuesday, August 20.
Forks School House, Thursday, August
22.
Willowbrook Park, Friday, August
23, 8 p. m.
Whitmire, Saturday, August 24, 3
p. m.
Newberry Court House, Monday, August
26,10 a. m.
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