The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-10-18
HIT At old BEN
Gov. Blease Doubts the TIu!hiuIuess Of
Senator TiIEman's
LETTER TO BOSE CREWS
Governor Blease Says He Believes
Senator Tillman Was in Combi-
nation With Richards to Bring
Out Chief Justice Jones for Cover
nor in the Next Election.


The spartanburg Herald says sur
rounded by constantly argumented
throng of admirers at the Argyle
hotel Friday night, Governor Cole L.
Blease freely expressed his views on
different subjects to reporter for
the Herald and disclosed something
Of his plans.
He made it plain that notwithstand-
ing Senator B. R. Tillman's denial,
he believed there was truth in the
story published by w. T. Crews, edi-
tor Of the Greenwood News-Scimitar,
to the effect that Senator Tillman
and Mai. John G. Richards, Jr.. had
plotted to bring out Chef Justice
Ira B. Jones, of the supreme court,
as candidate to defeat him for gov
ernor.
He said he believed the program
had been to elect Maj. Richards lieu
tenant governor. Then, if Senator
Tillman was compelled for any rea-
son to give up his seat in the Senate,
Justice Jones would take his place
and Maj. Richards would step into
step in-?.c- -. H.. etaoi shrdluu
the governors chair.
Eypects to Beat Jones
81 am. going to be reelected" sai6
Governor Blease, when asked if he
would say anything concerning poll.
tees. II will beat Jones by bigger
majority than the one by which I de-
feated Featherstone, and if Tillman's
man Richards is a candidate I vii
beat them both"
Another interesting statement O.
the governor was that he intended t
remedy conditions at the hosiery mil
Of the State penitentiary through leg
islation to be enacted by the genera
assembly at its approaching session
.Bristling up at the suggestion tha
the legislature might not be amend
able to his wishes, he said:
They better had. That's all
have to say.
| Continuing, Governor Blease sait
that little grand jury in Richlan,
county, which found the hosiery mil
to be sanitary, had set itself agains
some Of the best physicians in tn
State. He mentioned physicians VIII
lie said, declared the hoisery mill wa
| a disease breeder, and said he wa
marshalling his facts for submission
to the legislature.
It was foolish the governor said
for laymen to set themselves agains
experts. For instance, he said, tn
floors and walls and ceiling of the Ar
| gyle hotel seemed to be clean an
sanitary. But suppose, he suggeste
that expert physicians should sa
that the walls and ceiling were in
tested with disease germs; would
reasonable layman attempt to contra
dict them? This, he sad, was tn
case with the hosiery mill.
Speaking of legislation which b
would commend to the general asem
bly,, Governor Blease said he woul
! try to obtain the passage Of a lay
establishing two cents a mile as a fla
rate for passenger transportation o,
the steam railroads Of the State
This, he said, would obviate the mile
age nuisance and made it possibl
for poor people to travel short dis
tances as cheaply as wealthy people
Under the law he proposes, he said
a passenger who was travelling tel
miles could buy ticket for 20 cents
or give the conductor 20 cents or Civ
the conductor ten miles Of mileage
as was most convenient. If the rail
| people did not trust their conductors
re asserted, they ought to discharg
them and get men whom they coult
trust; and if he were conducto
and his employers did not trust hin
he would quit his position.
The governor said he would alst
recommend to the legislature all tn
measures he recommended befor'
which were not passed.