The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-07-16
RIEASE EXCORIATES
FIELDER AND PR0bERS
DELIVERS SPEECH THAT SETS
AUDIENCE A.BUZZ.
Uses Unsoftened Language at Cam
paign Meeting at Bamberg On
Friday.

Bamberg, July 13.-With such Ut
terances as have never been heard up
on the hustings in South Carolina, ac-
cording to the declaration OF political
sages. Governor Cole. L. Blease dellv-
cred speech at the State campaign
meeting here today that set the town
a-buzz. Characterized by unsoftened
language in dealing with the negro
question, bitter excoriatlon OF MS
enemies. denunciation of Thos. B.
Fielder and the dispensary investlgat-
ing committee now meeting in Angus
ia. practical challenge, to any mem
ber of that committee, and personal
reference to his opponent, Judge
Jones. the speech of Governor Blease,
was. in the opinion of many who have
heard him repeatedly, far beyond any
of his former deliverances.
Governor Pulls OH Coat.
Following Judge Jones, Governor
Blease stood upon the steps OF the
court house, facing the audience OF
about 500 gathered in the yard, and
launched into a speech that caused
many to shout with glee and others to
turn away. There were number of
ladies who heard the utterances OF
the governor. After speaking a few
moments, he shucked off his coat.
According to statements from Bam-
berg citizens the audience today con-
tanned large representation from the
Fork section of Orangeburg and quite
number from Colleton. John Black
was in the city today. Mr.. Sam }.
Nichols, prominent young attorney
of Spartanburg, was here also; he
Joined the campaign party at Barn
we'll yesterday.
Blease's Compliments to Fielder.
'sFalse as the hinges that swing the
gates of hell" was the governors
characterization of Thos. B. Felder's
charges made in Augusta yesterday.
"And the scoundrelly puppy knows
it," he added.
81 will give any man $1,000 who will
put Tom Fielder two feet on this side
Of the Savannah river and let me be
present. If he is so clean why does
he not come over here?" asked Cover
nor Blease.
The governors compliments to the
legislative Investigating committee
taking the testimony of Thos. B. Eel
der and Detective Burns are contained
in the following utterance: Why do
YOU send your legislative committee
over to Augusta with old mutton-leac
Sullivan, who IS doing this dirty,
nasty, filthy work, trying to find some
thing against me? That committee is
composed of the dirtiest and most con-
temptible men that ever disgraced a
State, not excepting the days of
Moses and Chamberlain, your free mig
ger loving governors
Denounces Legislative Committee.
And again: when you send that
committee to Augusta-guttersnip
pimps, political prostitutes-to take
the testimony of man who is thief
and knows it, and who the attorney
general knows is the dirtiest rascal
that ever came icto thi9 Gtate, who
does it hurt? Not me- But it hurts
the State of South Carolina to have it
told that your governor is thief
Still another: "Those dirty skunks
who today are trying to hurt my char
acter, are too cowardly to come into
this State where l can face them, but
have gone to that dirty, filth-ridden
State that can't raise nothin' but
pimps and watermelons, and has
governor who hasn't got sense enough
to be even watermelon raiser"
A Challenge.
A challenge to the members of the
investigating committee, with the
nromise TO anply an epithet that would
make a man fight was uttered in the
following:
"If any man on that committee will
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