The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-08-06
False and Observation-Disclosures Go0er-
With the Night Before the
Eoauuroion- Railway Money Handled by Bkase

Governor Cole. L. Blease has issued
the following statement:
have read the statement sent out
by John P. Grace from Glenn Springs,
s. c.. which contains that foul and
dirty lie, displayed in large head
lines in the Columbia State, GA Negro
Story
It is so UNANIMOUSLY false and con-
temptible that I do not desire to low
er myself as a gentleman to further
notice it, and am satisfied that all of
the people of South Carolina will
agree with me that nobody with any
gentlemanly instinct whatever would
make such foul and filthy statement.
I could not but wonder what the moth
ers of this State thought when they
saw that the daily papers would pub
lish such thing, to be read by their
sweet and innocent daughters, par
ticularly those between the ages of
twelve and eighteen. These same
newspapers recently refused to pub
lish some remarks of mine because
they said they we're not fit for pub
lication, yet they were made from the
stump, But, they now give space and
herald to the world, in great head
lines, the ilthiest article that has ap-
peared in the South Carolina papers
in many. years. This is but another
evidence Of their unfairness and
meanness. Shame upon a press that
would publish such thing, even
though it be true-but this is truly
in keeping with the paper which the
editor of the State recently read upon
the Ethics of Journalism" it is
a pity that a city, composed of such
proud people, should have such a per-
son for it's mayor.
AS to The Southern Railway.
AS to his statement about the
Southern railway, that is absolutely
and maliciously false. I never made
such a statement to him or anyone
else in my life, and when he speaks
of the son of South Carolina's grand
old hero, Wade Hampton, as com
mon drunkard, he speaks falsely and
places himself beneath the notice Of
any man with pure white blood in his
veins. Mr.. McDufie Hampton and my
self were on the campaign together
two years ago; we were friends; l
treated him kindly and politely, as !
treat all gentlemen. The statement
that I handled money for the South
ern railway and took vouchers from
Mr.. Hampton for the same is as foul
lie as was ever spoken or written
by human being. I have never han
died a. dollar of Southern railway
money in my life and l have never de-
livered dollar Or any other sum of
money to Mr.. Hampton during the en-
tire campaign, and I have never so
stated to any man; in fact, I did not
even loan him any amount of money.
As to Grace's Support
AS to Graces statement that he sup
ported me; he told me himself that
he did not support me in the first pri-
mary, and l was informed by those
who had charge of affairs for me in
Charleston that he was against me
and for Mcleod, but that he claimed
to be for me in the second race. If he
was for me and worked for me in the
first primary, he must have had very
little influence, for I only received six
hundred and sixty-three votes in the
entire county of Charleston.
AS to appointing him on my staff
have already said that that was done
at the request of Mr.. Rosseler. I did
not want Grace on the staff, but want
ed Mr.. Rosseler. Mr.. Rcsseler insist
ed that 1 appoint Grace, which I did
The ST. B." Letter.
AS to showing him the "T. b. let
ter. When it was given to me, some
weeks after my inauguration, along
with the other letters, I Immediately
locked it up in my safe and soon
thereafter transferred it to strong
box in the Palmetto National bank
where it is now, along with the 9th
ers, and has been except when it was
presented to the grand jury, and dis