The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-07-24
CANDIDATES A1ST MATTHEWS.
CALHOUN COUNTY CITIZENS
GIVE CANDIDATES. FAIR PLAY
AND REQUIRE VISITORS
49,. TO DO LIKEWISE.
No Features Mark Speaking-Aud-
ience of 700 persons Listen Atten.
lively to SpeakerS-Intense Heat
RcprcsSes Outbreaks.

st. Matthews, July 1S.-Promptlv
disclaiming and repudiating visitors
from an adjoining county when thew
began an effort to howl down Judge
Jones, an orderly audience Of 700 Cal.
noun citizens today gave fair hearing
and close attention TO all of the cam
didates for State offices, who appeared
before them 1t was patent to OBJ
servers that no Indifference. but
rather spirit of fair play, with
sense of what was due their own self
respect. held within reasonable
bounds their manifestations Of indi-
vidual preference. Perhaps because
of the attitude Of their hearers. and
probably because of the oppressive
neat also, even those speakers who
ordinarily provide whatever sensa
tions develop refraned today from
exhibition of their peculiar abilities
along this line. For this reason
review of the meeting, satisfactory as
the occasion proved to candidates and
people. yields little that requires ex-
tended comment in newspaper corre-
spondence. Devoid Of sensational
Incidents however, is a description
which can never be applied to a
South Carolina political meeting en-
cept in relative sense.
So far as preference could be
guessed by open manifestation, the
division Of sentiment in the crowd,
as between Jones and Blease. was
close. Blease men predominated.
apparently, among the citizens from
the Lexington side, Jones men SEEM
ing most numerous among the towns
folk and the planters from such sec
tions as the Cameron neighborhood.
No mention of the legislative COM
mittee hearing in Columbia today
was made by any candidate.
Gov. Blease denied in strong terms
report which he said was being cir
cuiated in this county that he declar-
ed at Barnwell that Judge
Jones had Jew blood in him and
Jews were no better than negroes"
The governor said some of his strong
est friends in the State and without,
were Of Jewish blood. and he had
ne criticism Of their race t. make;
nor did he undertake to say that
Judge Jones had Jewish blood in his
veins. sc -
Judge Jones made an earnest and
moving appeal for the sinking Of fac
tional differences in the face of
critical condition Of public affairs in
the State He said this was no day
for the good people of South Caro-
lima to be fighting among themselves
over non-essentials. That which was
of most immediate necessity was that
the law-regarding. law-loving citizens
should get together and redeem the
humiliation under which she is now
suffering" They could not afford, he
said. even to appear to indOrse law
lessness or TO allow friends Of law
lessness to hold the reigns Of govern
ment but must raise up a new and
general spirit of reverence for their
public office to the plane of public
trust. To be held and administered by
liberty-loving and patriotic public
servants.
GOV. Blcase made light of the fact
that Judge Jones cited. in defense of
his vote on the Jim Grow" car bills
of the nincties that j. II. Dukes and
other prominent citizens of this sec
tion. some of them now Bcase back
crs. voted as he did on these meas
urcs. He said these men perhaps
voted once against separate coaches
while Jones voted against them
throughout five years
Judge Jones, the governor assert
ed, would soon be retired to private
life, unless Hlease's friend, Magistrate
Pink Caskcy of Lancaster, should re-
sign, in which case the governor.
"out IF pity for the old gcntlcncn."
might appoint Judge Jones to he
magistrate.
Where was Judge Jones" Blease
demanded, last Sunday evening
when | was resting at the mansion?
Ask him if he did not visit the Office
| not meet ON the street two drunKcn
mon whom had put out of my
house. ANA who later went to The
state office and wrote dirty lies about
me. | don't have to &" To The state