The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-07-27

the governor. What 60 you 40 Tor d
livingo"
None Of your business. l am a
graduate of the University Of South
Carolina
knew You weren't a WORKING
man." said the governor. Judge
JoIes has been talking about college
boys interrupting him. l just wanted
TO show him there We're other college
boys besides the Blease boys"
rs a Parthian shaft, Mr.. Snidrr
launched this challenges:
III explain my record at Carolina,
II you'll explain yours
This remark the governor ignore
or. perhaps, he did not hear it,
/, was Il day of flowers. Handsome
boquets were presented to both Gov.
Blease and Judge Jones, the flowers
being brought to the stand in each
case by a bevy of little girls and
young women. Flower r-bearers to
Judge Jones were the Misses Alice,
May, Bertha, Jennie Brown. Kather-
inc and Sarah Berley and Sarah
Black. Those who brought floral tri-
butes to the governor were the Misses
Margaret LOrick. Blossie Clark and
Ruth Clark. Both candidates made
little speeches of Acknowledgement.
Judge Jones said that very likely the
governor would point to the yellow
In his bouquet and say that color
meant "forsaken," but rather it testi-
fed the rising sun; land on the 9th
of August the sun of South Caroliha's
glory Will again rise-and Ira b. Jones
will be your governor" Gov. Blease.
speaking of the flowers brought by
young women to his opponent, said
Ira B. Jones was already dead, po-
litically; land you never saw a bury
ing without pretty women in attend
ance." Speaking of his own flowers,
the governor said. God bless you.
my people. 1 invite you, one and all,
when you are in Columbia-the de-
cent white part of this audience-to
visit me at your mansion"
Judge Jones told three good
stories we'll at the beginning of his
address and these put his audience
into a pleasantly receptive attitude
and impatience soon ap-
peared, however, when he squared
his shoulders back and settled down
to serious criticism Of the Blease ad-
He said he deplored
the necessity Of attacking his ad-
since there were many things
1t would be helpful to have intelli-
gently debated. He urged the de-
STABILITY Of strengthening rural
schools, adopting the Torrens system
Of land title registration, modifying
the harsh common-law defenses of
fellow-servant contributory negli-
gence and assumption of risk; Of
highway improvement and of estab-
fishing some legal and practical sys-
tenn for financing the cotton crop.
The former chief justice said that
farmers need not despair because of
the recent supreem court decision,
holding the system of state ware
houses contemplated by the legisla-
ture to be unconstitutional. That
decision" he said, contains the germ
of warehOusing plan which would
be constitutional. 1t does not over
throw the right to have a public
warehouse system under the police
power of the State"
Il am glad" the speaker said, "to
see a smile on almost every face
Not Tor your election, though"
retorted.
The great theme of the day"
Judge Jones resumed. lis good gov
ernment in South Carolina.
We've got that" some one inter-
jected.
How are we to have it," Judge
Jones went on, unless we have 4
degree of harmony among the three
At this time your
chief executive is at war, or he has
been at war, with all the other lc-
partInents. What state of things
it is, when the chief executive char
acterizes the members of a co-ordi-
nate department, the Legislative, as
"a set of cOwardly liars
The Blease men SO Justify cheered
at this point, by way of protest against
criticism of their favorite, that the
presiding officer. ID. II. Efrd, who is
coun-y chairman, deemed it neces
sary to make an appeal to the spirit