The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1912-08-07
MAYOR JNO. p. GRACE
ARRAiGNS GOV. BLEASE
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lrom his Deu room to the depot, on q
cot, at Newberry, a telegram having
Deen sent in advance to the Pullman
conductor to have berth made down
and'ready when he reached Newberry;
that %he said Blease was immediately
put to bed In said car; that we ar
rived in the city OF Columbia about IL
o'clock, that Blease was taken from
the car and carried to Wrights Hotel,
where he was Immediately put in bed
and only few of the members of his
1ahilly and his closest friends allowed
10 enter his room; that this deponent
was so uneasy about Bleases condition
that be persuaded Mrs. Blease to oc-
cupy an adjoining room with some of
the other lady members of Blease's
family and this deponent remained
In the room, during the entire night.
Keeping watch over Blease, as he con
sidered his condition very serious;
that he has noticed a statement made
by John +. Grace, published in the
Columbia State Of July 81, 1912, Col
umn 3, page 3, in which he says:
recall a scene at Wright's Hotel
the night before his inauguration. 1t
was the first real insight | had ever
mad into Blease and the atmosphere
In which he moved, and | think | can
the nastiest recollection of my life
1t was grand carouse
''The above statement is absolutely
raise. There was absolutely no whis-
key drang by Governor Blease for some
weeks before his inauguration and
certainly none the night before or the
day of the inauguration. There was
certainly no carouse in his room for
those who entered the room were very
quiet and walked on tip-toes and were
very apprehensive abont the condition
OF BleaSe. If there was any carouse
around the said hotel during the night
the said BleaSe had absolutely no CON
nectlon whatever with it, and knew
absolutely nothing about it, and | GER
talnly knew nothing about it: that on
the next morning, this deponent went
with the governor to the State
House, assisting him along, and staid
right by his side during the entire
ceremonies of the inauguration, and
that this deponent knows that the said
Blease did not take a drink of whis-
Key, and had not taken one, as above
stated, for several weeks before; that
Immediately after said ceremonies de-
ponent accompanied the governor to
Wright's Hotel, where he placed him
80 wv, piib "llCIc Z Hc WAS WDon / lGlt
him, Just in time to take the c., N. and
L. p. NJ. train, and | directed that
he remain in bed until next morning
and be then taken to the governors
mansion.
"(SignedD w G. Houseal NJ n"
Sworn to before me this 3lst day of
July, 1912. (SigneO w. b. Wallace
CL.S.) tSeaD Notary Public for South
Carolina"
IF Grace wrote any editorials in NV
behalf before the first primary. | have
never seen them and defy him to pro-
duce a single one from the files of his
paper-the only ones ever having been
brought to my attention being his ar
tcle in the two issues of his paper
between the primaries.
AS TO his support OF me in the sec
ond primary and the condition thereof.
ms statements are wilful and malicious
lies, which can be testified to by MIR. l..
c. A. Rocsslcr. Grace's Mayoralty
campaign manager and others, if nee
essary.
AS to the charge of his having had
a certain conversation with me over
the phone, in which he says he had his
stenographer sitting by his side and
taxing 1t down, | desire to say that this
is somewhat strange, for when he went
to talk to me, if he was the friend he
says he was, that he would have a
stenographer to sit right at his end of
the line ready to take down every
word said, | remember of having no
conversation with him over the tcIe-
phone, but whether | did or not. he
ana ms stenographer could fix up any
kihd oi lie and say that that was my