Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1912-09-11
"MOOSE" TO ENTER CAROLINA e?
Intimated that Roosevelt Candidate
May Go on Blcase Ticket.
(Staff Cor. Atlanta Journal

(Staff Cor. Atlanta Journal.)
Columbia, Sept. 9.-The most sig
nifcant hint" that split between
the warning factions in South Caro-
lima politics and throwing Of the
trou bled question as to who is to be
Governor into the general election
will be the signal for the entrance Of
the Roosevelt, or Bull Moose"
party was contained in note of
warning addressed to the Democratic
State Executive Committee by w. P.
Beard, publicity agent for Governor
y Blease. ~ s..i.
h st-s$$ is3opening charge that the pres
ent political situation In South Caro-,
lima, arising as 1t does from general
charge Of fraud, put forth by the de-
feated candidate for Governor, Ira
B. Jones, and the consequent Ill
feeling it has engendered among
our citizens, augurs i'll for the future
sOlidity of white Democracy, and Of
fers an opening for the Bull Moose,
is considered by many as tantamount
to statement to the committee that
they had better go slow, or assist
ance would be lent the "Bull Moose"
Warning of Tillman.
The Blease campaign writer and
publicity boomer cites the warning
Of Tillman, who told the State com
mittee to go slow about throwing
Blease out, for he would certainly
run independently, and Roosevelt
would back him with all the money
necessary.
The public warnings are construed
by many to mean that If the State
committee should throw out Blease's
,1yNn to-,
Blease would run Independently in
the November elections, and that
there Is grave danger of an alliance
betwe him and Roosevelt
That Roosevelt Is looking to the
South with longing eyes, and that he
would quickly step into a breach be-
tween the white people in South Car
olina and make a fight for the cleo
toral vote of this State no one will
deny An alliance between Blease
and Roosevelt would throw the
smouldering flames in South Carolina
into bright white heat. The member
Of the Blease inner circle "dopes" it
out that Richard |. Manning is going
to be run for Governor in the No.
vember election by the anti-Blease-
ties, and that Jones will be stood
aside. But the dope" goes further
anu dSScl Us luuI OcHdlOE llllman VIII
be discarded and that John Gary
Evans will go before the Genearl AS
sembly as a candidate for Tillman's
seat, and the article argues that, as
the Legislature will be anti-Blease,
this will naturally follow.
The State committee is overwhelm-
ingly anti-Blease, but the Jones peo-
pie laugh at the dope" Of the
Blease adherents and say that it is
simply straw showing that Blease
is determined to run independently
II the committee should throw him
nnt The State committee, needing
the cry which came up from all
paris or the State to investigate the
charges Of wholesale fraud and ir-
Tegularltles, and the public charge Of
Governor Blease that he Jones
forces had stuffed the ball, boxes to
me extent of 10000 votes, deter
mlned to probe all charges Of fraud
10 tEe bottom, regardless of who it
helped or hurt.
The schism between the Blease and
anti-Blease forces Is deep. Partisan
feeling Is running high, and both
sides are thinking they are right. The
Jones people think that they have
been cheated out OF the election bv
wholesale fraud while the Blease
people think the State COMMITTEES 10
trying to count their man out after
he has won the nomination. each
side views the other with suspicion
and thus the uncertainty and doubt
of the outcome increases.