Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-06-28
BLEASE AND JONES.
teview of Campaign Developments Up

In the Columbia Record of yesterday
the campaign developments up to date
are reviewed by Wyatt A. Taylor, a
staff correspondent, travelling with the
campaigners and reporting the meet
ings for his paper as follows:
| Two meetings Of the campaign this
week stand out as among the unusual
ence on Tuesday and that at Dillon
yesterday. The former was marked
by large sentiment in favor Of
Blease and the largest share Of the
demonstration for him, while the
meeting at Dillon was marked by
demonstration for Judge Jones and
by a strong Jones sentiment. There
were cheers and hurrahs for each Of
these candidates at both of these
meetings, but at one the Blease senti-
ment was apparently in the majority
and at the other the Jones support ap-
peared to be in power.
The Florence meeting was marked
by the greatest disorder and the
greatest number Of sensations Of any
yet Of the campaign, and while the
crowd at Dillon was little less dem
onstrative there was lacking the ele-
ment of disorder and rowdyness that
so marked the Florence gathering.
There was applause at Dillon for
Jones and Blease. but the applause
was confined to cheers and hand-clap-
ping, while at Florence there were
shouts of every description, jeers. hiss
ings and all imaginable forms Of
campaign uproarings.
Ladies Present.
One feature Of the meeting at Dillon
was the large number Of ladies pres
ent There were several scores Of the
fair ones of the Pee Dee section pres
ent and they were not wanting when
1t came time to shout for one favored
candidate or another. Ladies in the
Dillon audience presented Judge Jones
and Attorney General Lyon with
| flowers.
| For Jones or Blease?
There is a question that is always
asked after one of the campaign meet
| ings and that Is, WAS 1t a Blease or
a Jones crowd % This question can
be partly answered by a careful dag
nosis of the applause and greeting ac-
corded the candidates, though there
are sometimes elements to be con-
sidered which are not portrayed in
crowd may be gathered largely from
one section Of the country, either a
Jones or a Blease section, and this
may cause the applause to be one
sided. At one meeting there were
evidences Of drunkenness and this
likely added to the noise Of applause.
How They Stand.
If demonstration and applause were
an index of the political sentiment In
a county, the counties thus far visited
by the candidates could be lined up as
| follows:
Sumter is for Jones.
Lee county will go for Blease.
Marlboro county will vote for Judge
Jones.
Florence will go for Governor
| Blease.
| Dillon is a Jones county.
| Darlington and Chesterfield, judged
by the campaign meeting applause,
are almost equally divided, with prob
ably a slight majority Of the voters In
the former favoring Judge Jones cleo
ton and Governor Blease holding
Chesterfield county by a slight ma
jority.
| However, such predictions are
based solely on the demonstration OF
the crowds at the campaign meetings
and their correctness would likely
seem REPUTABLE when viewed in the
| light of convictions" maintained by
certain obdurate politicians In the
several counties.
For instance, a citizen of Florence
county stated that the crowd in the
theatre there was almost the entire
Blease strength of the county and the
demonstration was therefore no indi-
cation of the county's political stand
ing. Another citizen strongly main
tanned that the sentiment manifested
there was a clear expression OF the
sentiment Of the voting population OF
the county.
Blease, the campaisner.
A fact that must be considered in
reviewing the campaign is the mas
terfulneSs of Governor BleaSe as
campaigner and as a man who can
| play upon the fancies Of throng. In
many of the meetings Governor Blease
| has gotten the better hold on the Vo-
ters present and by his art of hand
| ling a tense political situation has
won for himself the plaudits of
hundreds Of hearers. However, Judge
Jones has at several recent meetings
gotten a better hold" on his hearers
| and the expression is often heard,
Judge Jones is improving as stump
speaker as the campaign goes on"
Some one has said that for an OPP
ponent or a hearer to answer charge
or an imputation made by Governor
Blease is like baseball player try
ing to answer the, rootings OF a stand
of fans. No matter how reasonable
the answer of a player to the criti-
cism of the bleachers, his reply will
be hooted and a criticism more bitter
be hurled at him. Governor Blease
has the art of always being ready
with an answer, no matter how just
the demand made on him, and that
answer usually is of such nature as
to gain for him the plaudits Of his
followers to the confusion of his oppo-
nents.
On Separate Coach Law.
Judge Jones at Dillon advanced
new answer to the charge Of Governor
Blease that he had voted for social
equality on the separate coach law.
this reply taking his hearers by storm.
This was that there were others
prominent in the states affairs that
had voted with him on the measure,
some of whom are Blease supporters
now, and he listed several who had
voted as did he on the law. Among
those named by Judge Jones were ID.
Mcintyre. l.. B. Rogers, ]. l.. Nc
Laurin. II. M. Stackhouse, James Nor
ton. B. B. McQuite, S. B. Chandler,
]. o. Byrd, w. E. Finklea and B. L.
Abney, and Judge Jones made much
of the fact that the last named is
cousin Of the governor. This was the
first time Judge Jones used this ar
gument and it was we'll received by
his supporters.
Interest Increasing.
Interest in the circus" Is increasing
as its season rolls away and the crowds
are larger at each town visited than
at former stops. The largest crowd
that has yet heard the candidates
was that at Florence Tuesday and
more than a thousand people heard
the speakers at Dillon. There were
fewer personalities dealt in at Dillon
than at some Of the previous meet
ings and it is thought that the cam
paign from now on will be marked by
less of the sensational.