The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-08-14

the court house lawn in the evening
because. he said there We're 900
Blease men in Spartanburg county
VINO were locked up today in the
cotton mills and could not get here
but would turn out for Blease on
eiecuon day. Lewis Parker and Tom
Moore to the contrary notwithstand-
ing
He said he had challenged Judge
Jones every day this week to make
affida|it, as he himself had done, as
to the sources Of his campaign funds
and whether corporations We're franc
ing his race. But Judge Jones had
| ignored the dare
He said that if he done nothing
else for the poor man he had at least
stood between them and "Corpora-
ton Jones'
Defending his action in pardoning
three negroes, convicted of robbing
and beating a white man in Richland
county, he exhibited letters recon-
mending pardon from D. E. Hydrick.
now an associate justice of the su-
preme court, but formerly circuit
judge. and from Christie Benet of
Columbia. who was. he said, Judge
| Haskells son-in-law and campaign
manager for Judge Jones in Richland
county.
| Il regret to hear" said the gov
ernor, thar there is a report being
circulated in your county today. I do
not IKE to speak Of it. but l feel
compelled to notice it. A man named
Massee was taken off the train here
the other day. He was wanted in Ten
nesse. 1 granted the requsition.
they appealed to Judge Sease for a
writ of habeas corpus and asked for
| hearing. l told them they had an
pealed to Caesar and by Caesar they
must be judged. Judge Sease, who is
| an honOra bic Christian Judge. heard
the case and the man was turned
| loose. l had nothing to do with it.
Yet some people today in your coun-
ty are circulating a report that Mas
see paid me $4,000 to hand the case
up to Judge Sease The man who said
1T is as dirty and black hearted liar
| as ever disgraced Christian State.
The attorney who came here on be-
half of the State Of Tennessee is here
l,o
| to grant hearing told him 1 would
| have nothing more to do with the
| case. l will ask Stokes if / did not
tell him 1 wouldn't have anything
| more to do with it,
You certainly did," replied the
Tennessee attorney, Harry Stokes of
Nashville, who stood near the stand.
Then the governor took up the die
| tagraph incident now listed among
| the classics Of South Carolina politi
cal history.
You had great machine here
not long ago." he said. They tried
to drag down one OF your best young
| men by an Internal, lying dictagraph
| in order to hurt Cole Blease. That
led them to nothing but the darndest
| beating you ever heard of on August
q. You had another happening /
don't like to mention it. But some
body asked me: Why didn't they
serve brains with the eggs and |
| told fhan, ho
didn't have enough brains (This
was a reference to the throwing of
rotten eggs from the gallery at John
p. Grace, mayor of Charleston, when
Mr.. Grace spoke recently in the
| theatre here.)
1T was a great crime" the speaker
went on, when in Spartanburg some
people howled down a speaker, but
at Manning, when the mayor stood
in the crowd and let Jones whelps
howl me down, he was great man."
Gov. Blease. in passing, put his 80.
*" on Olin II. Johnson, mayor of
Spartanburg. who has been severely
criticised because Of his attitude in
regard to the disorder at the Grace
meeting. You'll never have a more
| honorable man." said the governor,
nor greater friend of the poor man
than Spartanburg has in the mayors
chair right now. You're going to
send him higher up too
Jones, BleaSe said was one of those
who voted to retire Wade HamptOn
| yet some of the same crowd who
| man who voted against Gen. Hamp-