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3l2. Did he still have his free pass
IN his pocket? Was he an attorney
for a railroad? l do not know, M
do not accuse him OF, 1t, but the rec
ords show that on every vote, when
the opportunity was afforded him 10
prevent social equality in South Car
olina. he voted TO force white ladies
and white children to associate with
free negroes by travelling III the same
coaches with them, by forcing them
to drink out of the same water
glasses, by forcing them, in some IN
stances, to use the same toilets, Dy
forcing them to sit 81 close to e
as to smell the filthy odor which tney
throw off. Every time he had the
opportunity to prevent that ne Votea
against it and in favor OF the railroad
corporations who were fightlng u.
That is some of his record gentle
men.
Has Candidate Jones stood by the
negro? His recent convention re-
fused to pass a resolution faVorlng
he repeal OF the 14th and 18TH
amendments to the constitution OF
the United States, which places the
negro on equal footing OF citizenship
with the white man and deprives the
State of the right to ~distranchise him.
This resolution was introduced by Mr..
Wannamaker of Orangeburg. All OF
the other Southern States favor II.
The Jones corporation convention
committee reported it u~nfaVoraDly
and the convention adopted the I'M
favorable report, thus putting them
selves on record as opposing the
repeal OF these clauses, while all the
other white people and all the South
ern States do. This is the capstone
corporation Jones-fighting against
separate coaches and in favor OF ne
gro euuality-places Upon his as
graceful corporation record as legls-
lator, Judge and delegate. 49,.
Now you have heard osme painting
If "Bleaseism." Which do you prefer
negro equality and association, such
as he attempted to place upon you
or freedom and independence such as
l have given you? Who do you want!
'Joneism" or "Bleaseism," as ne sees
fit to call it?
Now he passed on to the supreme
court. What do we hnd mere!
will tell you one thing you Will mo
that while he was on the supreme
court bench, and while he was cnlel
Justice, his son, who was looking a1ter
q hank and a grocery business and a
stock business over here at Lancater,
was riding around on railroad passes
as a railroad attorney. Just as soon
as Jones quit being chief justice that
bow Quit being railroad attorney
why? Was he not just as good a
LAWYER as he had ever been? Oh! NO
Pa was no longer on the supreme
court bench, and the railroad nc
Ionge needed Lawyer Jones. He
NAV say he resigned; possibly he did;
so did Pa. The Lawyer Jones is oul
of a Job; so is Pa. The lawyer though
may get another one; so may ia, put
it won't be governor. 49,,
What about some Of his decisions
in favor of corporations, while ne
was on the supreme court bench:
Take the case Of Taylor VS.. A. c.,
L. R. R. Co., IS South Carolina. This
is a case in which a white lady OF
good standing was put off a train
at Green Pond, in the midst or a
crowd of drunken negroes, who vio-
lently pushed and jostled her, abused
her with m~enacing speeches, using
profane and obscene language, etc.
The agent Of the company ran on
telling her that he was going to get
his pistol, but he never returned'
leaving this lady there among Una.
throng. of drunken negroes She
brought suit against the Atlantic Coast
Line railroad and the jury gave her
a verdict of $4,000. A motioR for
a new trial was made and Judge
Dantzler, refused it. But, 10, and
behold, when they got into the su-
preme court, the distinguished cor
poration lawyer, Jones, wrote the
opinion of the court and said. among
other things: 1T is not the duty OF
a common carrier to provide escorts
for unattended ladies'" and winds up
his opinion by saying that, the judg-
ment of the circuit court is 'reversed-.
thus depriving this' lady, who had
been so o~utrageously and ~indecentiy
treated by a corporation, Of all the
mohey which. a jury Of her county,
had given her and WHICH that just
and christian judge, Dantzler, had,
sustained. We fdd Justice, NOW
chief j~ustice) Gary dissenting from
JONES. Again, corporation Jones
saved the corporations $4,000, and
the poor white lady, insultedc by a
crowd of drunken negroes, deprived
of her rights and the, money WHICH
a Collector county jury 1.-THE county
which he claims was his fathers home
cotnty) had given her. He must
have great respect for the juries or
his fathers home county.
See also the case of O1ner vs. West
ern Union Telegraph company, "
South Carolina Reports. page 80, IS
Southeastern Reports, page 545:.s,
This was where a white lady, a
widow, paid Is cents for a telegram
to be delivered in Newberry,t asking
after her two children, at the time
of the terrible fire which destroyed q
large porto nof the town OF Ney-
berry. The telegrame was never de-
livered. The jury gave her a verdict
which Judge Ernest Gary upheld.
But 10, and behold, when it got to-
the supreme. court, corporation Jones
wrote an opinion in which he set aside
the verdict, making the poor widow
nav the costs, Notwithstanding the
fact that the Western Union Telegraph
company kept her rs cents for m
thing they had never done. However:
we are not surprised, for John Gary
Evans was the Western Union Tele-
graph company's counsel in the case.
Chief Justice Pope dissented and said
that the widow was entitled to re-
COVER CORPORATION Jones not only