The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1905-10-31
wrote Mr.. A. C. Jones as follows:

once. | do not see my way clear to
declining and then becoming all in
dividual candidate without laying my
self open to the charge Of double
dealing. I have determined to take
the bull by the horns and fight it
out to the finish. Should I now de-
cline to run I would do great in
justice to those people all over the
state who have been making an hon.
est effort to grow prohibition senti-
ment. It is too late for those who
Suggested me to suggest any other
man, and I must run or do them ali
irreparable wrong.
II have sent in my pledge and the
amount of the assessment. Sincerely
trusting you will hold your forces to-
gether and work them for all they are
worth, I remain"
The withdrawal card over Mr..
Jones' signature, printed in the News
and Courier of June IS, is dated June
II and says in part: "On my return
home today I find majority Of the
committee had already sent in their
approval. This does not mean that
we have abandoned the fight for the
legislature" Of course, equivalent to
saying we have abandoned the fight
for the state ticket, which we hereby
withdraw. Now was that subter-
fuge or something worse? We shall
see. Mr.. Jones now says: i wired
him at once unless he intended to
make the canvass that Mr.. c. c.
Featherstone would and to answer at
once. He did not answer. Mr..
Featherstone withdrew his pledge as
candidate for lieutenant governor
and filed his pledge as a candidate for
governor, all of which had the APPROX
al of the state prohibition executive
committee" 1t was the very last hour
before the opening of the campaign,
and how did this get the approval
of the executive committee, scattered
as it's members were, all over the
state? But here is the telegram it
self to which he refers. It was sent
from Orangeburg and dated June 10,
the opening day of the campaign, and
follows:
"Featherstone will enter the race
for governor on account of your card
in the State. I would suggest that
you telegraph Capt. Willie Jones,
Orangeburg, withdrawing your pledge
for governor.
(Signed.) A. C. Jones, Chairmah."
Now, if Mr.. Jones' card of with
drawal was not a subterfuge, and he
had in truth abandoned the fight for
the state ticket, what in the world
was he going to do with another can
didate for governor? Thatthere was no
necessity for the withdrawal Of the
candidates was we'll established two
years later, when Col. Hoyt accepted
the nomination of the prohibition con-
vention, canvassed the state and pass
ed through the primary without a
question as to his right to do so.
Even should there Nave been no evil
intent in the withdrawal it displayed
fearfully bad judgment, disbanded the
prohibition organization an wrecked
the chances of the election of any pro-
hibitionist in the state.
Mr.. Jones, speaking of'Mr. Wallace,
saws: II am satisfied now that his
\ presence at the caucus was to help
Brunson's friends fight me-" I am
sorry to say that have not the pleas
ure of an acquaintance with Mr.. Wal
lace, and do not know what his mo-
tives were in attending the caucus
But Mr.. Jones is even more rldlcu-
lous when he says, with reference tc
that same June 5 caucus held in Co.
lunnbia: "Yes, I have read his (Bris-
tow's) editorial, and ii proves beyond
any reasonable doubt that Brunson's
hand is in it, and that Mr.. Brunson's
desire is not so much TO get Mr.. NC
| c..11ouoh To rim h11t To oct him o.