The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-07-24
Campaign Meeting
At Columbia
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the whole iock Of corporations
Blease brags about Fen Abney having
made a million and a nalf dollars, and
says he Is the smartest man in the
State. Wasn't 1t. smart Of him to &C
and live with the governor? No won
der Blease tells you the railroads
! gave Abney q raise.
"COrpOfatiOn Influences"
He had to select a private secre'
tary and a. clerk. Did he get a farm
er's boy or,a poor mans son? No, he
went to the railroad Offices and got
two railroad clerks; Rowland, dis
bursink auditor for the C. N. & L
railway and Blackburn, a clerk from
the Southern railway. So the rail
roads have friends both at the gov
errors Office and at the governors
mansion. Does he ever get away from
the influence of railroads? Do these
clerks and Ben Abney ever whisper
in Blease's' ear when the railroads
want favors?
PardOned Crooks and Criminals.
"No governor has ever pardoned SC
many crooks and criminals. He has
pardoned and paroled nearly 400. He
pardoned Rudolph Rabens, convicted
Of receiving stolen goods as the friend
and ally Of the yeggman and safe
cracker. :.
"He pardoned Wash Hunter, whom
he: had defended and who had killed
a crippled man.
ale paroled Stobo Young, convict
ed of beingsa CRATER in the Seminole
| Securities company. The parole Is
until October. Who will Young work
for for governor?
"He pardoned Glenn, who killed
Rhoden in .B%atesburg. Glenn says he
paid Geo. r. Rembert $500. Rem
bert is Blease's floor leader in the
house. Did that $500 pay Mr.. Rem
bert to explain how Glenn. was in
poeent or did it pay for Mr.. Rembert's
influence on Gov. Blease to liberate a
criminal? -
4Hs re1sased tho Davis bnetAsrs
of SUMTER three negroes who beat
and robbed a white man and left him
tied to q tree.
HE pardoned a negro in Lexing-
ton county who burned DR.. Crosson's
barn. DR.. efosson had opposed the
governor.
HE pardoned Miller, who wanton-
ly shot into the house OF John Head
in Lexington county in 1910 and
wounded Mrs. Head.
HE paroled Beckwith and Schultz,
Yankee pickpockets, who had tried to
bride q deputy sheriff with 5000 to
let them escape. The governor turn
ed them out on the eve OF the state
fair. y
"He paroled another Yankee named
Fleming, who had shot down with
.,ut excuse the sons OF two Confed-
crate veterans in the town of Spring
field: and+yet he excused his pardon
Of Hasty, because he said he had shot
two Yankees, whom the jury by their
verdict said we're protecting two de-
~fenseless girls in a hotel In Carney.
HAS he not brought the good name
at,this State into disrepute? He in
,nlted the. governor Of Georgia and
4aid- he did not have sense enough
to raise watermelons. He has stig-
matized Woodrow Wilson. the Demo-
cratic nominee for president. as the
tool OF corporations. He has made
the citizens Of his State ashamed
when they go abroad in the land.and
now he is asking you, by your votes
to indorse; his administration. Can
vo do It., and be fair to yourselves?
Think it over"
Gov. Blease Vindictiye
Gov. Blease made one Of the most
yindictiye harangues he has ever de-
liyered. his anger being bitterest
against Judge Jones, The State, Ihos.
b. Fielder, W. J. Burns and the legls-
lative investigating committee.
The governor assembled into a
group Judge Jones, the MANAGEMENT
OF The State, Thos. Fielder. w. j.
Burns and the members of the legis-
lattve committee, and said they COM
posed "a set that is unworthy OF the
respect of the decent people OF South
Carolina" Where, he asked was Ira Is:
Jones last Sunday, when he himself
was at home in bed, resting? Judge
Jones, he said, vas seen on the street
in Columbia with two members OF
the staff Of. The State, who were also
seen with two drunken men whom
he had expelled from the governors
mansion. Judge Jones, according TO
the governor, came out on the streets
with that dirty pair" after they a
visited the Office of The State and
written "lies" about the governor. i
suppose," said the governor, that
Judge Jones was in The State ONCE
getting that speech written thai ne
has read here today -,
Defending his pardon record, the
governor said he was criticised LOT
setting free three negroes who roooed
a Jew peddler. Clemency' was grant
ed in this case. he said, on the rec.
ommendationtof Christie Benet, OF
Columbia, formerly solicitor; MT.
Christie Imported-from-Abbevllle
Benet, Alex. Haskell's son-in-law ana
Judge Jones' campaign manager IN
Richland county"
".Judge Jones says he voted for
'frby:" the governor said. "but read
what Irby said Of John Gary Evans,
chairman of the Jones executive com
mittee"-and the governor read from
a scrapbook a description OF MT:
Evans in which the words. traitor
coward" "knave," etc.. were freely
used. The governor said he would
stay at home If he had been pam
boozled out of as many decisions az
Jones had been bamboozled out OF by
Rem Abney through Jones son.
Charlie.