The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-08-20
GREENWOOD COUNTY
HEARS CANDIDATES
BIG RECEPTION FOR BOTH BLEASE
AND JONES.
Many Girls Hand Blease Flowers :
Jones Gets Some, TOO-DIsagree
Over Hand Primary.

big receptions for botn Governor
Blease and Judge Jones at the cam
paign meeting here today-fowers ga
lore for both, and a silver pitcher be-
sides for Governor Blease.
There was a somewhat persistent
endeavor to howl down Judge Jones,
but it was effectually "sat upon" by
Mayor Kenneth Baker, James Rogers,
the chairman, and Robert Elledge, act
ing chief of police.
Neither speaker brought out any
thing new, and the vitriol Of other
meetings was for the most part absent
here. Governor Blease spoke only 80
minutes of his time, On account of the
condition of his throat and because Of
a shower of rain which came up at
the time.
Governor Blease did not fail to take
his inevitable hand primary here, A
colloquy on this point between Cover
nor Blease and Judge Jones is inter
esting.
"I'm satisfied with that primary"
said the Judge to the governor, as the
latter passed him, leaving the stand.
That's all right, ifyou can be-" said
the governor, when two-thirds of
them are Blease men,
THE Blease men are less than half"
rejoined the judge.
When Judge Jones began his speech
he was given big round of applause,
but the yells on the part of the Blease
men did not stop, and it was several
minutes before he was able to speak.
This so incensed Joel Woods, a Jones
man. that he shouted out to the chair
man:
"If they don't let Jones speak, we
won't let Blease speak. That's what
they have come for-to howl Jones
down. You have got enough police
here to keep order, and you should do
it,
It was at this juncture that Mayor
Baker said that it was shame to civ
iIzation that man should be accord
ed such treatment in Greenwood, and
commanded the arrest of any creators
of further disturbance or disorder.
Judge Jones dwelt on that part of
Governor Blease's record which he de-
clared was conducive to lawlessness
and disorder. He mentioned the Char
lesion and sweat blood threats, and
the promise of pardon in the case of
the Watson-King incident. He said
that the governors disregard for law
was further shown in his not respect
ing the recommendation of legisla-
tive delegation of this county in the
case of Magistrate W. H. Kerr, and
also in the case of Magistrates Purdy,
Rogers and Devlin, and \ Township
Commissioners Hinton and Duffy. He
declared that the governor had not
respected the recommendation Of the
Greenwood county delegation in the
matter of appointment of rural police
men.
He cited the fact that Dave Magill,
member of the legislature from Green
wood county, and friend of Governor
BIease, had voted against separate rail-
road coaches.
"Yet is Governor Blease," said the
judge, telling it on his friend all over
South Carolina that he is in favor Of
social equality of races for that rea-
son, as he is telling it to me-
While the judge was speaking OF
the governors promise of pardon in
the King-Watson incident, there were
some cheers from the Blease men.
What miserable, pitiable condi-
ton has South Carolina fallen into"
he exclaimed, when even a few men
can be found to applaud an incitement
to murder!'
At the close of his speech the judge
was presented with huge basket Of
flowers and a number of bouquets were
brought to the stand by Miss 'Addie Ia
tum and Mrs. Pierce Kinard.
Governor Blease read two letters
from Senator Tillman, not to him, but
to other persons. In one the senator
declared that he was sick and dis
gusted with the unfairness and dishon-
esty of certain newspaper headlines to
his letter to j. L. Sims, of Orangeburg,
making it bear a construction which