Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-09-06
Ati5tellaaruus &raaing.
sLEAsE AND FEATHERsToNE.
Some Press Comments on the Two
Leading Candidates.
A Remarkable Result.
Columbia Record.


Official returns will put the vote for
Mr.. Blease up to 10000. 1t was en-
pected that Mr.. Blease would poll in
the first primary very nearly his full
strength.
Two years ago in the race for gov
ernor Mr.. Blease received $4,000 votes.
He will have to gain $4,000 votes in
the second primary to equal his vote
of two years ago. To be elected gov
ernor, Mr.. Bease will have To receive
the votes of 10000 men who did not
vote for him in the first primary.
1t will be the most remarkable re-
suits in the history of South Carolina
politics if Mr. Blease is elected.
For Featherstone.
Florence Times.
II is not often that the Times feels
that its duty to it's constituency de-
mands that it take a stand in the pri-
mary election between men, but we
do think that it is our duty to say as
emphatically as possible that every
citizen, regardless of his views on the
liquor question or on any other ques-
ton, should get out at once and work
as hard as he can and as effectively
as he can for C. G.. Featherstone for
governor. The returns were in the
nature of a surprise to many people
who thought that they had their fin
ger on the pulse of the public. Waive
everything to work for the election of
Featherstone. We do not deny Mr..
Blease's ability or his strength with
the people; he is a most fascinating
man, but in our cool, deliberate Judg-
ment, backed by our varied expert
ence, we feel that it would be seri-
Gus mistake to make Mr.. Blease gov
ernor of the state, and that the voter
would not, and could not, he aware OF
the mistake until after he had made
it: so that the safest thing to do is
to take the advice of those In whose
sincerity and disinterestedness you
can have no doubt and vote for the
election of Featherstone. Don't run
the risk of a mistake.
Featherstone In Laurens.
Columbia Record.
Mr.. Blease, with characteristic poll
tical shrewdness, Is quick TO direct at
tention to the fact that in the first pri-
mary he received more votes in Mr..
Featherstone's own county than Mr.
Featherstone did. 1t is a legitimate
political maneuvcr.
The circumstance is not difficult to
understand. Mr. Blease has made
several campaigns for state office. He
has built up throughout the state
following that is remarkably loyal,
tribute to the strength of his person
ality. Nowhere Is this Blease follow
ing more loyal than in the county OF
I,aurens. AS a candidate for governor
Mr.. Bleasr could probably poll plu-
rality in Laurens against any oppo-
nent. His ability to do so would be
no reflection on his opponent. The
Blease vote in Laurens is a Blease
vote. 1t is not anti FeatherstOne. out
of 5000 votes cast in that county all
but 220 went to Blease and Feath-
erstone, and while Blease received l2O
votes more than FeatherstOne, Blease
did not get majority, according TO
the returns at this writing.
In Newberry, the home OF MT.
Blease, he being mayor of the city OF
that name, Mr.. Blease received barely
100 votes in excess If majority, and
Featherstone was the second candi-
date in that county.
The vote a man receives in his own
county in a race such as that OF last
Tuesday does not necessarily Indicate
the respect in which he is held by his
neighbors: it may indicate his popu-
larity but under conditions prevailing
i'm this campaign it more probably m
dicates the popularity Of the issue ne
represents. There are few business
men in Columbia, for instance, who
stand higher than Mr.. Hyatt, yet in
the recent election he received only
about 300 votes i'm this county, run
ming next to the last man on the tlcKet
i'm Richland.
For ten years Mr.. Richards has been
sent to the legislature from Kershaw
bv n vote that has been marvellous;
he has never been in a second race
even, having been elected each time