The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-07-20

HE Governor asked where were
Jones people in days Of 1S61-G5. when
the war was raging? Not immedi-
ately answering his own question some
one asked where"
oh, ! better not tell Won: he's yut
mixed blood in him ana i can't get
MIN To admit it, replied the Cover
nor. In 1876, he said that Jones and
his crowd were where Moses was, in
bull-gushes. and we couldn't pull 'en
out"
In the course Of his remarks on
social equality Governor Blease said:
You people who want social equality
vote for Jones. You men who have
nigger children holler for Jones. You
who have niger wife in your back
yard holler for Jones'"
If l were to die tonight Jones
wouldn't be Governor. John +. Dun
can would be Your Governor. John Il.
Duncan is a cleaner man than Jones'"
one yelled for Duncan.
I'D just as lief you'd holler for
Duncan" commented the Governor,
because l don't believe you've got a
niger wife,"
Denouncing Judge Jones for coming
here some time ago and in a speech
attacking him, Governor Blease said:
He comes here like a coward with
his mixed blood and strikes me be-
hind my back
AS to Judge Jones entry into the
Governors race, he said: Jones got
so mad that he went home and made
his wife get him his biggest razor.
shaved the feathers off his legs and
| umped in the ring
Ben Abney has been dragged in,o
his campaign" said Governor Blease.
Now I'll tell YOU about Ben. He's
;'orth million and a half dollars; he
vas chief counsel for the Southern
hallway. but he's been promoted.
am satisfied that Jones friends are
trying to get that place for Jones'"
And then the governor told of Col. Ab-
ney's shrewdness in hiring Judge
Jones son, Charles ID. Jones, especial
ly in the Southern merger case, so that
II the case were lost and appeal taken
10 the Supreme Court, Of which Judge
Jones was Chief Justice, Abney would
have "a megaphone to Judge Jones
ear"
Some disconnected remarks Of the
Governor are as follows:
Il made the Supreme Court stick
| their heads between> their legs and
sneak home"
Jones tried to force social equality
, On the white women Of South Caro-
lima"
1t was the voice of God in the pri-
| nary election two years ago.
ANY man who says l ever had a
rec pass is dirty lar"
"Col. Bamberg is one colonel on my
taft that I have never seen full yet"
AS TO Judge Moore.
| "A pet Judge who don't know any
more about law than a bo-shoat
knows about a psalm book"-refer-
ring to Judge Ernest Moore.
Regarding the Olar lynching in this
county some months ago. Governor
Blease said: What did you do? You
did like men, defended your communi-
ty, and three black scoundrels were
put under ground" And as to social
equality he said: What do you care
about the CONSTITUTIONS. what do YOU
care about law; this is IA white mans
country and the white men will rule.
and / am her to back you up"
! Governor Blease said he was sur
prised that Judge Jones admitted hay
ing been bamboOzled hy Bunch McBee
with free pass, and that If he could
be bought with Il free pass he could
be bought with money. This was i'm
| N''' w ''DN opiiCN statement 10 the
audience: Yes, | had a free pass in
1890; it was given me; | used it in be
half of the State, but used it before
| here was a law against il. Blease used
his and boasted of it, after there was
Ia law prohibiting men bers of the leg
lSlature accepting passes. I'll admit
that was one of the men bambooZled
| by Bunch Melee in those early DAYS"
| Governor Blease again made his sol
emn oath that he had never received "A
| dishonest dollar; that he was not
Iashamed of a single act. public or pri
Na'e' all OF which he was wiling to be
neld up to the gaze of the public. OF
course. he admitted, he had been IA