The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1912-04-24

h0ipeu Duro oHt get MS rights or way
and blew hard for the boulevard. This
VIII not warm the half-wits DUPONT
ward.
Stump speakers will doubtless hold
before audiences an effigy and say:
This is the late lamented boulevard
embroglio."
Newspapers who have been fighting
against the States getting road, eX-
cept in some impossible way, will
doubtless say: What a victory we
have achieved; knocking out promo
ters' terrible scheme to wreck Della
ware"
AS to our attitude, we say the Della
ware State News has nothing TO regret.
When DUPONT proposed to build a
boulevard and. by some intricate tax
method, make the people pay for it.
we opposed 1t with all our might.
When he finally offered to build the
road and pay the costs thereof. only
making it necessary for the State to
Keep up repairs, we favored it and
have since labored that the State
state should get this Improvement.
We believe that, had we obtained this
modern highway, Delawareans all ov-
er the country, now and in future,
could have spoken of it as one Of the
great attractive features of our State.
We wanted the boulevard. We insist
ed upon it.
But there is no gainsaying that T.
G. DUPONT has moved mysteriously all
along and played funny politics. The
asking of anothe legislature looks like
baby play. The fastest move looks
like finis.
In the last issue of The Advertiser
was an offer, made to all candidates
iB.this county who were running on
the Blease ticket to place their names
on the front page Of this paper. A
CLOSE search of the front page today
will not disclose any of those names.
They are not there. The boys" did
not come out.
This offer was made by The Adver-
tiser rs clincher test of the real
strength of the Blease sentiment in
this county. Some time ago it was
suggested by Bleasites that lines be
drawn closely in every county in the
state relative to Bleasism. 1t was
urged that Blease candidates take the
field as Blease candidates so as to fill
all offices, especially the Legislative
ones, with Blease followers so that the
governor would not be hampered in
whatever he desired to do at Colum-
bia. This suggestion was made some
ago. when the governors star
seemed to be in the ascendency 1t
appeared then. to Bleaseites. that if
such lineup of candidates were
waged and the governor would find
unhampered in the next legis-
lature. During the past few months
it has been apparent that Blease has
been losing ground and as more
ground was lost the less was said
about the lineup. Realizing that
the time had come to clinch matters
by showing that the Blease following
was little backward about coming
forward in this lineup proposition.
The Advertiser made the proposition
already referred to. 1t was as we
thought. There was nothing doing.
"The boys" didn't have the nerve They
are afraid of the results. We have
almost come to the conclusion there
fore, that the lineup as a lineup will
never be made. The Bleaseites are
on the run
Now, what about the Jones candi-
dates? Will they lineup? If there
are any Jones candidates out, we hope
they will not be elected A man that
will go into office, pledged to support
any man in everything he does, has
no right to that office. On the other
hand any man who goes into office
pledged to oppose all measures fos-
tered by any other man, no matter
how little we might think of that 9TH
er man, has no right to represent a
law abiding people. Therefore we say
that we hope that, if there are any
such, they will not be elected and we
are sure again, if there are any such
that they will not be supported by
those who intend supporting Ira b.
Jones in the next election.
1t thus appears that there will be
no Blease lineup. because of the
doubt as to the political wisdom of
it and that there will be no Jones
lineup because none was ever in
tended.
We are very glad that such is the
state of affairs, for such politics will
prove of no benefit to the county or
state. The suggestion of the plan was
made by ardent Bleaseites and is of