The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1912-09-04

worn any mans political collar: have
never been bossed or dictated by any
man, and never expect to, for | have
been elected governor Of South Carolina
by the people and | recognize no boss
but the people, and the people have
shown, last Tuesday, that they recognize
no boss at ALL
In addition to my political support of
you, the position which took as law
yer and witReSs in saving the name of
your distinguished brothers. son from
oeing written upon the pages of the
South Carolina penitentary records
while my position was true and the cor
rect one-ncurred for me the hatred of
the editors Of the Columbia State, and
from that day to this nothing too mean
or bitter could have been said by them
about me. And why? Because | stood
by Tillman. Certainly then | had the
right to expect that you would not take
any part in the race for governor, but
on the contrary that you were friendly,
ana that II were not friendly, most as
suredly that you would be neutral. Par
ticularly, senator, when my defeat
would not only have ruined me politi-
caliy, but blasted my personal char
acter for all time-and yet, throughout
the entire race, | spoke kindly of YOU
and even after yourletter was published,
when friends phoned and wired me what
to do ia regard to you, said that was
willing for the people Of South Carolina
to pass between rs and say which one
they wanted, or if they wanted both.
In Washington Mrs Blease and Mrs.
Tillman were both present when the
conversation referred to took place.
You say Mrs Tillman could not remem-
Der, but wish TO say to you, sir, that
the veracity of ladies should not be in
volved in such matters. You NAV speak
OF 1T, but shall certainly not bring Ell
ther Mrs. Tillman or Mrs. Blease into
this controversy.
AS TO CHARGES.
The charges which you have seen fit
to refer to in your letter have been abso-
lutely and fatty refused (see reply to
Augusta slush and other replies which |
have put forward during this cam.
paign.) | have never received one cent
Tor granting pardon, nor have ever
received one cent for any Official action
since | have been governor except my
salary from the State Of South Carolina.
You did not come to me or my friends
for nNnlDnntinnc Nn, e.,
papers articles for il, when you, your
self, say that they lied most maliciously
on you.
My dear sir what about the charges
against you, when they claimed that
Hubbcll sent you 500 600 which Lvon
and Christensen had the Rev. Mr.. Tur.
nipsced brought before them 10 prove
That he delivered you the packages while
he was express agent at Columbi What
about the piano they claimed you re-
celVed? What about the articles which
they say were sent you by Neal from the
penitcntiary. What about the Oregon
land deal which Mr.. Roosevelt laid at
your door. You said they were untrue.
Olner
friends believed you.
If you want some further information
as TO some Of the Investigations which
were made against you by Lyon and
Christensen, | will be pleased TO fur.
nish you with copies of the Pinkerton
Detective ag .cy's reports. which were
flied with some members OF that com
mittee, but which were never made
known to the full committee and never
made public, and which / have been
only able to get since have been gov
ernor OF my State
You say "HaskelliSm and Bleaseism"
should be buried in the same grave. The
men-the laboring people-who buried
HaSkelliSm, brought forth Bleaseism and
they are faithfully protecting their
cause and Loyalty upholding u sir chief.
Nobody can truthfully charge me with
not being governor OF all the people. |
have stated on the stump, often and re.
peatedly, that when it came to holding
the scales of justice between nv fellow
mon, that in the discharge of my duties
as governor if ! found that my enemy
was right and that my friend was wrong,
that my enemy would be upheld and
that my friends would go down, and
such replies as That is right" That's
the boy" 1--WE know it, governor, "
and loud applause have come back from
the audiences. | added to that, that