Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-08-09
THE LANCASTER MEETING
Things Passed OF Quietly and Honors
Appeared to be About Even.

| Lancaster county, the home Of Judge
Ira B. Jones, says the correspondent o.
the Atlanta Journal, furnished the cam,
paign speakers last Tuesday with ar
orderly crowd of 1000 persons, but will
| no sensations so far as the gubernato.
rial candidates were concerned. A
brush, however, between Attorney Gen.
eral ]. Fraser Lyon and J. r. Earle
one of his opponents, almost resulted
in blows, while the interchange Of de-
nunciation between Mr.. Lyon and B
B. Evans, another Of his opponents
was unusually vitriolic.
Both Judge Jones and Governor
Blease were temperate in their utter
ances and the crowd, in which both
had large number Of followers, ac-
corded each speaker an attentive hear
ing.
Judge Jones devoted himself more
particularly to criticising the acts and
utterances Of the governor, which, he
contended, were productive Of law
lessness.
Governor Blease stood on the steps
Of the state house." said he, "the build
ing where laws are made by the acting
governor and interpreted by the courts,
and whence they should be enforced by
the executive, and said he would par
don any one who killed a man, who
used in the slayer's house language
that Watson and King used in the gov
ernor's mansion. The chief executive
ought by his example to uphold the
law, instead Of melting to murder with
the promise Of a free pardon"
Replying to this Governor Blease
said. II was well within law In what
I said on the state house steps, and
the law as upheld by Judge Jones and
his associates Of the supreme court.
when q man enters your house and
you tell him to leave, and he does not
do 80, you have the right to eject him,
using as much force as Is necessary,
even II you have to kill him and throw
him out.
II have no apology to make for what
l said. tell you again that II man
comes to your house and uses the kind
Of Language referred to, and II you
knock him down and throw him out,
and there Is any jury fool enough to
convict you. I'll wire you pardon"
At the close of his speech the gov
ernor took another hand primary, that
the newspaper men, he said, might not
say that he was afraid to call for such
a vote in Judge Jones's home county.
Look at 'em there" said he, as
large number Of hands were held up,
"see the majority Of them"
The Jones men, however, contend
that the hands raised represented only
fractional part Of the crowd and that
the attendance from the Lancaster cot
ton mills were the principal voters in
evidence.
Judge Jones. when he returned from
Camden yesterday, was given big
ovation by a crowd that had collected
at the railway station, and Governor
Blease was accorded similar demon
stration by his followers when he
reached Lancaster this morning from
Camden. Four or five hundred Of his
followers met him at the station and
carried him on their shoulders to the
conveyance which he took for the
speaking grounds.
When Judge Jones finished his speech
today he was fairly overwhelmed with
applause and flowers. His flowery trib-
utes numbered ten and were in bas-
kets and in all manner Of designs.
They were brought to the platform by
four little girls: Eliza Moore, Glider
sleeve Wylie, Ruth Mackey and Laura
williams.