Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-08-06


IsoU1H] cN@INA NEWS.
Fse Sea7tanlE EHk city council held
a N9eetnE 6este@ to consider the
HarfhNf5era hdk8 affair Of Satur-
day night and called for the resigna-
tion Of ]. Edward Vernon, chief OF po-
-uce-and Lieutenants IT. Cudd and
r. H. Johnson. These officers refused
to resign and they were summarily dis
charged. 1t was charged that Mayor
be arrested for annoying Mayor Grace.
Mayor John P. Grace spoke at
Greenville yesterday. There were
about one thousand people in the au-
dience. Supporters Of Blease under
took to interrupt and they were put out
Of the building by the police. Mayor
Grace reiterated his statement about
Blease paying the campaign expenses
Of McDuffie Hampton with Southern
railway funds, and said he had docu-
mentary evidence to prove 1t.
- Saluda special Of August to the
Columbia State: The Farmers union
Of this county held highly interest
ing and profitable meeting yesterday
at Richland Springs, seven miles
south Of Saluda. 1t was gathering
of farmers, their wives, their sons and
their daughters. A cool grove with
a sparkling spring nearby was selected
for the meeting. George B. Lester,
president Of the county union, was the
presiding officer. Former Senator
John L. McLaurin and Col. r. B. Wat
son were the specially invited speak,
ers of the day and 1t has been a long
time since two more eloquent address,
es have been delivered in this coun-
ty. Each Of the speakers was at his
best. Each dwelt upon the new era
dawning in South Carolina agricultur-
ally, politically, educationally and in
dustrially. The speakers were fire.
quently applauded.
Lancaster special Of Aug. 2 to the
News and Courier: In response to an
invitation from Heath Springs to ad-
dress a mass meeting of citizens OF
that place today, Judge Ira B. Jones,
though seriously handicapped by rea-
son of a bad throat, spoke enthusi-
astically and very tellingly there this
afternoon to a great crowd Of voters,
besides several hundred cheering wo-
men and children. 1t was a gala day
in Heath Springs, business Of every
kind being temporarily suspended In
honor Of the distinguished candidate
lOT SONeTuOT. FTOuduiy uO CdhuiuatC
in Lancaster county has ever been ac-
ceived with greater warmth Of hospi-
tality and feeling than was Judge
Jones today by the citizens Of Heath
Springs. Banners were in evidence all
over town bearing the slogan, Heath
Springs for Jones" God Save our
STATED" Jones is the Right Man and
We will Stand by Him." At the con-
clusion Of Judge Jones address the
stand on which he spoke was literally
covered with floral tributes Of unusual
beauty and design, while the school
girls and women sang several Jones
songs Of their own composition. The
men and boys gave many hurrahs for
Jones.
- Columbia Record, Friday: Gov
ernor Blease today made a trip to the
state penitentiary where he in
spected the electric chair, recently
set up in the newly erected death
house, and where he conversed with
several Of the men under sentence Of
death, men who will be the first VIC
Tins Of the deadly electrical device
which In the future will supplant the
Governor Blease stated that he visited
ary, with the exception Of the hosiery
mill, and that he found conditions
there exceptionally good. The gov
ernor took hand primary" among
the negro prisoners at the pen, the
result Of which the governor relates
with a laugh. The governor arrived
at the prison when the men were in
line for dinner. He asked of the
negro prisoners that all who would
like for the executive to give them
their freedom to hold up their hands.
Every hand in the crowd went up,
the governors remark getting an
overwhelming majority. The COVER
nor then asked that all who would
try to make good prisoners and live
right In the future to hold up their
hands. The result was equally as
unanimous as that Of the first pri-
mary. Governor Blease at the PEN
itentiary talked to Sam Hyde, the
Anderson county man, convicted Of
numbering his wife and father-in-
law; William Reed, the negro, who
Is to be electrocuted next Tuesday,
and two Of the other negroes under
sentence of death. Reed, who Is to
die Tuesday for attempted assault on
a white woman of Anderson county,
said that at the time Of his crime he
had In mind an assault, but when the
woman screamed he ran. He said he
would like for the governor to exer-
else clemency in his case, but the gov
ernor told him he could do nothing
for him. The governor said that
when he told Reed this the negro's
eyes dampened, but he made a reply
showing that he was ready to accept
the inevitable. Hyde talked with the
governor Of his case, but the gover-
nor did not make public the nature
Of any conversation that might have
passed between them. Hyde's fate
rests In the hands Of a sanity COM
mission, which will report to the gov
ernor sometime in next month.
There was almost a riot in the
Harris theatre at Spartanburg last
Saturday night when Mayor John P.
Blease speech. The Charleston mayor
had been invited to Spartanburg by
the Jones men but 1t was understood of
course that the meeting was open to
all who might care to come. There had
been talk during several days previous
that Mr.. Grace would be howled down
II he undertook to abuse Governor
Blease, and the trouble was generally
anticipated. The Jones people had ap-
piled to the city council for especial
police protection; but no such protec-
tion was forthcoming. On the contrary,
Mayor Johnson gave out beforehand
that he had an engagement out Of town
and he left Alderman o. w. Leonard
to look after the situation as acting
mayor. The people began to crowd into
the opera house soon after the doors
were open, and they filled 1t to its ca
pacity. There were a hundred or more
Blease men in the balcony and else
where throughout the audience. Good
order prevailed until Alderman Leon
ard undertook to introduce Mayor
Grace, and he was interrupted with
howls and jeers. He stood for some
minutes before he was able to make
himself heard. When he started off
with this statement: Gentlemen, when
the governor Of South Carolina went to
the city of Charleston, sat in the au-
dience, and saw that he had a respect
full hearing" Jeers and yells and cries
Of 'Hurrah for Blease" prevented Mr..
Grace from being heard further. He
said something about the right of free
speech being one of the cardinal prin-
ciples on which the liberty of the re-
public was founded, but there was such
an uproar that he could not be heard.
He walked quickly back and forth
across the stage waiting for quiet.