The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1912-08-16

walk up here and shake hands with
your chairman. Jones voted against
Wallace and for Pope. l said nothing
as to that. He swung on to Till
mans coat tail to get Office. That's
all he's In it for. Irby was not the
only candidate of the reform party.
He retired Wallace to private life and
he come home and died heartbroken
because of it. (He (Jones) goes out
OF his way to strike Ben Townsend,
ID. E. Hydrick defeated Judge Town
send. Ben Townsend voted for the
man who defeated his father. That
shows great good in Ben Townsend.
Jones has been held to be a moral
man. A man carries a watch to tell
the time of day, and a cork screw to
open bottle of liquor. They thought
they would eat us up in the Eastern
part of the State. All this week it
has been one straightforward Blease
ovation from beginning to the end.
Yesterday at Spartanburg thew
thought to sweep the field. Jones
made the poorest speech at Spartan
burg he has made yet.
l was born and raised right across
the line. You all know me. No re-
port against me will do them any
good. Went to legislature and senate
and every time I've run Newberry has
given me majority. When Jones
ran for solicitor he was beat so bad
that he turned into "Buttermilk
Jones" He says he was a Tillmanite.
Let's see: He was Tillmanite,
Gonzales carried him up on the sky
scraper and said: You have been a
Iillmanite, reformer? Yes. See
Charleston, factories; Look east,
west. See all this? Nows Jones, if
you will sell out, I'll make you ruler
over all these things. Jones got down
on his knees and said: Can you do all
this for me? Then, 1 consecrate INV
all to thee, sweet nigger-loving Con-
Zales.
Fellow citizens, right there he got
rid of his old friends.
l might appoint him magistrate
over In Lancaster when am reelected.
Fellow citizens, thank you all for
TINS reception. l never saw man
beg as hard to be interrupted and
howled down as Jones has, He wanted
please men and they would not let
Jones speak.
When you come to Columbia come
round to see me. Jones says that
the Southern Railways attorney lives
In my house. I've invited Jones to
come to see me. l think that if the
President of the listed States can
entertain Booker Washington, II
could surely one time entertain Judge
Ira B. Jones.
You will see in your newspapers
that this was Jones crowd. All you
people who are my friends hold up
your hands Large part of the au-
dlence responded)
AT tho cloSo of
speech he was presented with beau
tlful floral wreath and with a large
silver loving cup. Col. Jas. G. Long,
Jr., presented the cup. He said:
Governor Blease, your Union county
friends present you with this loving
cup as testimonial to their faith in
you. They believe your character to
be as pure and spotless as this shin
ing cup; they believe your enemies
who have vilely slandered you to be
as black as the bottomless pit of hell.
Both Judge Jones and Governor
Blease were presented with flowers.
The next speaker was John T. Dun
can, also candidate for governor.
The large crowd dispersed at the
close of Governor Blease's speech.
About four hundred remained to hear
Duncan. He proved to be not the
wild man which many had thought
him to be, and made a speech that
was far more practical and sensible
than many people think him capable
of making. He said: l will tell you
something that neither of the other
speakers told you. have studied pol
itics for 16 years. For 16 years nv
warning was that if you did not stop
the rottenness in your state dispen-
sary you would go down in disgrace.
Today when one side charges the
other with corruption and the other
filings back the charge of stealing, is
it not true that both are stealing ?
l say to the poor man: You never
needed friend worse than you need
1T today. Pm like man who pied
his cause before jury. You want to
do what is best for yourself and for
South Carolina. l am here to tell you
what is true. The other men spend
their time in harrassing their enc
mics. Be reasonable, thoughtful of
the present conditions. Neither of my
opponents dare touch upon it. Cole
l.. Blease was elected in the second
primary. You slapped the prohibi-
tionists and newspapers in the face
by electing c. L. Blease, and yet he
is doing business with those thieves
Blease is my friend, but l can criticise
his public record. | charge that
Blease was in with Gonzales and
Clark in that book deal. Three mil
lions of dollars in that deal. Two dol
lars a head paid by our citizens for
books to Yankee book concern.
When the poor. mans governor asks
you to take drink of mineral water
with Judge Jones' cork screw, ask
him: "Why is it that you dare not
press that book deal against Blease ?"
He dares not lest he tread on Con
zales and Clark's toes. Both Jones
and Blease ride on free passes. They
stampede the crowd to keep them
from hearing the truth.
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