Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-07-26
THE HIGHLAND MEETING.
Tremendous Crowd and Hot Times
At the Capital.

October. Who will Young work for fol
governor?
He pardoned Glenn, who killed
Rhoden in Batesburg. Glenn says he
paid Geo. r. Rembert $500. Rembert
/ is Blease's floor leader in the house
Did that $500 pay Mr.. Rembert to ex-
plain how Glenn was innocent or did II
pay for Mr.. Rembert's influence on
Gov. Blease to liberate criminal"
Mr.. Rembert who was present de-
nounced the statement that he had re-
ceived $500 as false. Judge Jones said
he could furnish proof that Glenn said
so.
He released the Davis brothers and
Sumter three negroes who beat and
robbed a white man and left him tied
to tree.
He pardoned q negro in Lexington
county who burned DR.. Crossons barn.
DR.. Crosson had opposed the governor.
He pardoned Miller, who wantonly
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
bribe a deputy sheriff with 5000 to let
them escape. The governor turned
them out on the eve Of the state fair.
He paroled another Yankee named
Fleming, who had shot down without
excuse the sons Of two Confederate
veterans in the town Of Springfield; {;
and yet he excused his pardon Of Has
ty, because he said he had shot two
Yankees. whom the jury by their ver-
dict said were protecting two defense
lac frlo t,, al of 20
Remember, all Of these criminals he
has pardoned and paroled and hun
dreds Of others. Twelve South Carolina
jurors and an honorable judge have
said they were guilty and should be
punished. One Of these pardoned
criminals may shoot down you or your
brother or your son, In the hope that
even If he Is convicted, his friend, Gov,
Blease, will pardon him. Did the soft
hearted governor stop to think Of the
widows and the fatherless children OF
the men who had been murdered, when
he released these men? Did he stop to
think of law and order and the good
name of his state?
Has he not brought the good name
of his state into disrepute? He insulted
the governor of Georgia and said he
did not have sense enough to raise wa
termelons. He has stigmatized Wood
row Wilson, the Democratic nominee
for president, as the tool Of corpora
tions. 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 administra-
ton. Can you do 1t and be fair to your
selves? Think 1t over.
Governor BIease.
The following summary Of Governor
Bleases speech is from the Columbia
State:
Gov. Blease made one Of the most
vindictive harangues he has ever de-
livered, his anger being bitterest
against Judge Jones, the State. Thos.
B. Fielder, w. ]. Burns and the legisla-
tive investigating committee. 1t was
not, however, so remarkable a cam
paign deliverance, in substance or form
at his speech at Bamberg recently.
He said that he had asked his friends
to give Judge Jones a hearing, but he
did not see how Judge Jones or his
friends could expect a hearing when
Judge Jones was attacking him, mis-
quoting what he had said and miscon-
STRUNG his actions: He could only ex-
plain Judge Joness course by recall
est record a white man has ever made
in South Carolina" The governor as
sembled into a group Judge Jones. the
management Of the State, T. B. Fielder
composed "a set that Is unworthy Of the
legislative committee, and said they
composed "a set that Is unworthy Of the
respect Of the decent people Of South
Carolina" Where, he asked, was Ira
B. Jones last Sunday, when he himself
| was at home in bed, resting? Judge
Jones, he said was 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 govern
or, came out on the streets with that
dirty" pair after they had visited the
office Of the State and written 'lies
about the governor. Il suppose" said
the governor, that Judge Jones was
in the State office getting that speech
written that he has read here today"
Defending his pardon record, the
governor said he was criticised for set
| ting free three negroes who robbed a
Jew peddler. Clemency was granted
in this case, he said, on the recommen-
dation of Christie Benet of Columbia
/
d-from- Abbeyille Benet, Alex. Has
campaign manager in Richland cpun-
ty.'
Judge Jones says he voted for Ir=
by" the governor said, but read what
Irby said of John Gary Evans. chair
man of the Jones executive committee
land the governor read from a scrap
book a description Of Mr. Evans in
which the words, traitor" coward,
"knave," etc, were freely used. The
governor said he would stay at home
If he had been bambooZled out of as
many decisions as Jones has beer
bamboozled out of by Ben Abney
through Jones' son, Charlie.
| Numbers Of kilograms, letters and
long distance telephone messages, the
governor said, had been received al
| the executive offices recently, contain
ing assurances of confidence. One OF
| these kilograms, which he read, came
| from Greer, in Greenville county, anC
bore seventy-fiv signatures. He de.
clared that If he had been 'repudiated'
by as many audiences in the counties
visited by the campaign party as ha6
''repudiated Jones" he would quit the
race.
| The governors address was largely
made up of paragraphs with which the
public is familiar through habitual use
of them by this speaker, their subjects
including danger of corporation power
and various things which the governor
views with alarm, or to which ht
points with pride.
| Barney Evans.
Without calling names, Barnard
Evans. candidate for attorney general
referred. for the first time since the
Barnwell meeting, to the voucher fol
$13.71, issued to Mrs. j. L. Lyon. wife
of Judge Fuller Lyon, in payment o.
clerical services rendered to the Muir.
ray board. 1t was mentioned of Mrs
Lyon in this connection which caused
the attorney general, j. Fraser Lyon
to halt Evans in his speech at Barn
we'll. At the Columbia meeting Evan.
said he was not responsible for the in
clusion of the names Of their wives
and daughters" in this dirty book,
meaning the report Of the Murray
board.
Evans said that only $372,0G0 Of tn,
s1,365, 900 realized from liquidation o
the state dispensary had been place.
in the state treasury to the credit o
the common schools. Already, he de
clared, s153,950 had been disbursed TO
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