The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-08-01
GRACE TELLS ALL OF 1T.

mors to the effect that there are 9TH
er more fragrant cases. The only
one, however, of which l know is the
one of which he told me himself.
Railroad Corruption.
Second: I also said that l would
prove Gov. Blease was guilty of cor
rupt connections, with the Southern
Railway. This | have, also, from his
own lips, and to the best of my recol-
lection, it was in the same conversa-
| tion.
I'VE had been talking about the
primary through which he had just
passed and about the primary in gen.
eral and it's operations in our State.
told him that he never could have
been elected governor but for the pri-
mary system. He admitted that but
replied very contemptuously about
the primary in general.
HE said, For instance, you people,
| (meaning the people of South Caro-
lina,) think you elected railroad
| commissioner the other day..
All for the Southern.
81 said, Yes, l know I worked
mighty hard to elect McDufie Hamp-
ton
HE said, We'll, who do you think
you were working for?' or something
| to that effect, and l told him, of
course, for McDuffie Hampton.
He said, Well, that is exactly
where you are badly mistaken He
said, why, you were working for the
Southern Railway and you did not
know it, but 1 knew it. 1 had every
reason to know it,
II said, We'll, how is that?'
He said, why, practically paid
the campaign expenses of McDufie
Hampton out of money furnished me
by the Southern Railway and gave
them vouchers signed by McDufie
Hampton for the amount
He said, Moreover, 1 was charged
with the duty of wet-nursing him
through the whole campaign He
said, You know he is terrible
drinker..' In fact,' he said, he's a
drunkard, and I had the hell of a
time
Says Blease is "Stake-Holder."
After the first part of his state
ment Mayor Grace replied to the
Graves statement concerning him. He
said he wanted the people of South
Carolina to consider carefully his
charges of corruption in connection
with the election of Hampton, and he
asks whether or not the governor is
doing the same thing in the cam
paign this year.
He replies to the insinuations made
on the stump by Blease that Blease's
cousin, Ben Abney, could reach the
ears of the supreme court through tne
son of the Chief Justice Charley
Jones. He charges Blease with be-
ing the stakeholder for corporations
when going about the State posing as
the peoples friend land dealing out
money in dribblets to c common
drunkard for the Southern Railway y
Has Written Proof.
Mayor Grace says that he has writ
ten proof that he did support Blease
at the election two years ago and says
this proof is written in his paper,
Common Sense and that his edito-
rials were published in certain Blease
newspapers. He quoted at length
from his testimony given before the
dispensary investigating committee
when he told of friendly relationship
existing and the overtures made to
him by the governor to get him to
serve on his staff, and when Blease
promised to consult Grace in all mat
ters pertaining to Charleston.
Says the Governor Lied.
He tells of various visits to the
mansion and says, "Blease knows he
is lying when he states that l have
never been in the mansion on but two
occasios.'
Grace reviews the incident of the
game rooster and tells of asking the
governor, who had promised him
many things, of naming his brother,
who is a graduate of West Point, and
now a first lieutenant in the army, to
post on the Mexican border.
Mayor Grace also tells of seeing
the famous ct. B." letter in possess
sion of the governor, the States chief
executive, when this matter was the
evidence which the State sought in
order to prove that graft had existed
in the State dispensary, and stated