The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1912-08-14

You certainly did" replied the
tennessee attorney. Harry Stokes, of
Nashville, who stood near the stand
Dictagraph Incident.
Then the governor took up the die
tagraph incident, now listed among
the classics of South Carolina po-
iltical history. You had great
machine here not long ago." he said
They tried to drag down one of
your best young men by Internal
lying dictagraph in order to hurt
Cole Belase. What did they get?
Nothing but the damdest beating you
ever heard of on August 27. You had
another happening. | don't like to
mention 1T. But somebody asked me,
why didn't they serve brains with
the eggs| and | Id them, Because
the Jones men didn't have enough
brains (This was in reference to
the throwing of rotten eggs from the
gallery at John p. Grace, mayor of
| Charleston, when Mr.. Grace spoke re-
Gently in the theatre here)
1T was great crime" the speaker
went on, when in Spartanburg some
people howled down speaker, but at
Manning, when the mayor stood in
the crowd and let Jones who.ps howl
me down, he was great man"
PutS q. IL. on Johnson.
| Governor Blease in passing put his
o. k. on Olin l.. Johnson mayor of
| Spartanburg, who has been severely
| criticised because of his attitude in
regard to the disorder at the Grace
meeting, You'll never have more
| honorable man" said the governor.
"nor greater friend of the poor man
than Spartanburg has in the mayors
chair right now. You're going 20
send him up higher too"
1 Jones, Blease said, was one of those
who voted to retire Wade Hampton.
! let some of the same crowd who
swor they would never vote for a
man who voted against General Hamp-
ton were now lined up behind Jones.
He says the Daughters OF the Con-
I federacy are praying for him. Yes.
and the Sons of the Confcderacy and
those who fought in the war are not
/ praying so much but they are voting
| FOR Cole BleaSe. | suspect that some
Of those same Daughters of the Con-
/ federacy had better be praying for
their husbands. who lie around the
clubs in Columbia and play poker and
/ get drunk
Repeats Old Charge.
! Repeating his familiar declaration
that Judge Jones wronged General
Hampton by crediting Irby instead of
/ Hampton with stamping out indie
pendentism," the speaker said. Let's
see what lrby said of your fellow
townsman, John Gary Evans" and
read from memorandum string of
epithets including traitor" liar, =
and several other terms of like sever
ity. He did not say when or in what
circumstances this language was used
by the late Senator Irby.
cites News and Courier.
Governor Blease read an editorial
printed in the Charleston News and
Courier of April n. last, in which the
method employed by the Atlanta de-
tcctives engaged i'll TIC Beach case at
! Aiken by Solicitor Gunter and Mayor
| Gyles was CRITICISED. yet after that"
said the governor, they published on
me dirty, filthy story that was not
| hovel in the state In one case. il
was to convict millionaire. in the
other TO hurt me for political pur-
| poses. Then ii was Anything, Lord.
to beat Blease!" The speaker de
clarcd jones would never be elected
governor, because tn people would
| not make that man" governor in
name only and let Gonzales" be gov
ernor in reality
They quoted" he said, from Till
man today They've been doing ev-
| crything they could to get him TO
come out against me. But they'll
never find Ben Tillman lined mp with
that gang that runs The State and
| The Spartanburg Herald. Jones saws
that if YOU take the niggcr" out OF
my speech, there's nothing but froth
left but ] found out today that if you
| take the corkscrew out of his pocket
! he has no brains left" Judge Jones,
the governor said, had not told him,
because he was afraid Gonzales
would take him out and spank him.
whether or not he would order out
militia to defend a negro who laid his
| hands on white woman"
Sarcastic on Grace.
Sarcastically referring to the sup
| port of Judge Jones candidacy by
Mayor Grace, of Charleston, Governor
Blcase lapsed into a parody:
"Amasing Grace, how sweet the sound
'Tis music around on Jones ground
Replying to Judge Jones declare
tion that specified persons. formerly
| legislators from this county. had vot-
ed with Judge Jones on the separate
coach bill, the speaker said that all
of these were dead but one. Stanyarnc
| Wilson And he" said the governor
rs quietly sleeping in political pri-
Vate life. I'm satisfied if he were
here he would say he was sorry he
voted that way"
The governor declared that the men
who earned their bread by the sweat
| fhnir nIe L, ,i.,,