The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-08-23

noon before the campaign meeting.
This report was nailed" by the gov
ernor in Abbeville, and was nailed
in Newberry by Mr.. Robert E. Leavell,
who occupied a room with the COVER
nor on the afternoon in question, and
who told me the report, as the COVER
nor proved, was false, and who is a
gentleman who, l know, having told
me so. will corroborate the statement
wherever called upon to do so.
There is still another report" which
is going the rounds in this country. 1t
is that the loving cups which Gov.
Blease has been receiving "are only
one loving cup, which is being sent
around from county to county" Well,
it is, of course, useless to deny tha:
the loving cup" which he received at
Newberry was converted into gold
watch and chain and fob at Laurens,
and into diamond-set lockets and 9th
er things at Anderson, but I do want
to say something in regard to the low
ing cup which the governor received
at Newberry.
At about $50 o'clock of the morning
of campaign day in Newberry gentle
man who has the confidence of the
entire community-and who deserves
it-came to me and asked me II |
would present loving cup to Gov.
Blease at the campaign meeting at the
Lewis lot that morning, the loving cup
to be presented in the name of friends
and supporters" of Newberry. I told
the gentleman I would. The loving
cup arrived about 10 minutes after
Gov. Blease had finished his address
and left the stand, land the gentlemen
interested asked me to present it that
night at Willowbrook park, which
did. Next day Mr.. E. E. Williamson,
Of Newberry, who had ordered it from
Charleston for the gentlemen, came to-
nv des. in The Herald and News Of
fee. saying he would like to see the
handsome present he had ordered
from Charleston and there had en-
graved for the gentlemen in question.
told him then that Mr.. Dominick had
told me that Mrs. Blease had priced it
so highly that she would not let it out
of her possession after it was present
ed at the park, and that she had taken
it to Columbia with her the night it
was presented.
So much for another campaign
"story"
For corroboration of these two de-
malls, in regard to the governor being
drunk in Abbeville, and in regard to
the loving cup, the people of Newberry
are referred, respectively, to Mr.. Rob-
ert f. Leavell and to Mr.. E. E. Will
hanson, both of whom I know will
corroborate the facts and the state
ments heretofore made to me. l do
not think, however, that the people OF
Newberry county will ask for any cor
roboration of statements in my CORE
spondence, because they know that in
the past The Herald and News has
spared no expense to give them facts
IS they are, and that whenever | have
heen sent off or delegated at home to
renort facts, that l have done so with
ort color and without prejudice, re-
nrtng matters as saw them and as
ihc- wa,a
TO campaign meeting here today
will be presided over by County Chair
ran W. Nils Mooney. l. E. Holcom-
be is chief of police and ]. Perry Poole
is sheriff, and city council has made an
appropriation of $4,000 if so much be
necessary, for the preservation of or
der. Where there is so much talk
there is usually little action. Every
thing is quiet in Greenville this morn
ing and no trouble is apprehended.
The issue of The Herald and News.
however, which carries this story will
carry the story of the meeting.
Something as to the political situa-
ton up here: There has been little
talk on the streets and in the hotels
since have been here, but it is known
that talk of this kind is not criterion,
anyway. The situation in this section
appears to be that Blease will split