The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-06-21
Jones AND BLEASE IN
FIRST JOINT DEBATE
CONTINUED FROM PAGE y.


for the whole people, not for man
and his friends, Judge Jones calleo
upon the people to elevate the politics
in this State, to get it beyond petty
personal contentious.
Replying to the governors state
ment in reference to second term Ine
speaker said Blease ran against Ansei'
who was at the time seeking secono
term. But" said Judge Jones, If a
man has fulfilled the Office in all its
requirements, has advanced the inter-
ests of the State, has filed your con-
ception of what a:governor should be,
then by all means give him a second
term" Judge Jones laid down the
proposition that he could show Gov
arnor Blease's unftness for second
term.
REGARDING the implied charge that
the corporations are backing him,
Judge Jones said, eff the corporations
are back of me 1 do not know it, and
if anybody is furnishing the money for
my campaign have not heard of il" !"
"And who is this man that is tell
ing you about corporation rule SAID
Judge Jones, "the man who claims to
be the poor mans friend. One of his
strongest supporters is W. H. Andrews.
head of the Atlantic Coast Lumber
company, the largest corporation IN
lower South Carolina. And who is the
chief counsel of the Southern railway
in this State? Ben L. Abney, a cousin
of Cole. l.. Blease, who lives in the
same house with your governor. And
yet he is the man who is talking to you
about corporations controlling me-"
Governor Blease's pardon record
came in for severe criticism, especially
in connection with the Wash Hunter
case, in which Governor Blease was
formerly attorney for the convicted
man, and in the George Hasty case in
Cherokee.
Evidently winning stronger favor in
the concluding periods of his speech,
Judge Jones left the stand amid long
and loud cheers. Mingled with these,
however, were "hurrahs for Blease''
here and there. During his speech
Judge Jones was often interrupted by
remarks from a few men in the audi
ence, to whom the speaker replied in
good humor, telling joke or two with
application, that caught the crowd.
Candidates for attorney general
spoke next, Senator ]. R. Earle, of
Oconee, first. So hot had it become On
the court house porch and yard that
it was difficult to hear the speaker who
merely announced his candidacy.
Adjourning to the court house audi
torium, Mr.. B. B. Evans, of Columbia,
presented his cause, declaring with
the same matters to which he devoted
himself two years ago, claiming vim
dication of his charges then as to the
abuse Of State funds. 1t is recalled
that Mr.. Evans charged that the funds
of the old dispensary were not turned
into the proper channels and the peo-
pie lost something like s670,000. "And, -
said the speaker, "the reason they hav-
en't wound up the business even yet,
is because there are still some good
pickings there"
Attorney General Lyon was greeted
with applause, which" he said, ''is
the applause of no CRATER or thief. y
Mr.. Lyon said that in reference to his
prosecution of the dispensary cases,
that one of the grafters had been con-
victed, one had plead guilty, and every
one of them had been convicted before
the great bar of public opinion in
South Carolina.
AS an evidence of his stewardship in
other lines of activity, Attorney Gen
eral Lyon stated that in one suit alone,
before the. supreme court he had
brought to the State annually 100000
revenue from corporation tax.
''I have borne patiently with the ac-
cusations of Barnard B. Evans said
Mr.. Lyon, principally for the sake OF
his family. But I serve notice upon
him here and now that if he persists
in these attacks upon the integrity OF
the winding-up commission of the old
State dispensary, composed of such
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