The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-08-23
POLITICAL SITUATION
IN THE UPPER SECTION
SOME CAMPAIGN REPORTS ABSO-
LUTELY REFUTED.
The Situation as Seen in Greenville by
StaH Correspondent of The Her.
aid and News.
(By JnO. h. Aull.)


hours, the last meeting OF the State
campaign of 1912 will be on, and pro-
phecies as to it, in face of the facts
which will be reported in the same
issue of The Herald and News in which
this will appear, will be idle. =
Governor Blease reached Greenville
shortly before midnight last night. He
was accompanied by "whole lot" of
flowers, Notwithstanding the report
that in Abbeville he sent out to buy
flowers. More of that report in a mo-
ment, as of another report, which will
be dealt with.
| reached Greenville yesterday af-
ternoon at 6::35 o'clock. So far as the
city of Greenville was concerned at
that time, one would not have known
there was to be a State campaign
meeting here today-much less the
last meeting of the campaign.
There have been two "incidents"
talked of the Greenville meeting. One
has been the. king Watson affair." as
it has come to be called, and the other
is the threat of Major Barnard B.
Evans to attack former Governor NJ.
F. Ansel here. Mr.. Evans told me last
night he was going to make good" on
his threat, which has been, as have
understood the newspaper reports, to
make a somewhat vigorous attack ND
on the former governor vigorous
attacks of this character, however,
are somewhat silly, unless there is
some Justice and reason behind them.
and they sometimes act as boomer
ang" when they are directed at one
who would resent an insult under or
binary conditions, but who knows
that to resent it under existing con-
ditions would be liable to precipitate
a condition which might work to the
harm OF some innocent person. AS an
example, witness the attack of Cam
sler, of Tirzah" upon the editor of
The Herald and News at the Newberry
meeting, when the reporter for the
Atlanta Journal seemed to take pleas
ure in reporting that Mr.. AulPs son
was present" not, however, stating
Canslers physical condition or the cir
cumstances under which the "son" lab
ored. If one wonders at my noticing
such matter in this correspondence,
| would call his attention to the num-
Der of people who On the train yester-
day afternoon told me that 'Cansler
was not known in Georgia. This,
however, is not pertinent to "the is
sue"
Governor Dlease brought to Green
Vile with him a large quantity of flow
ers, which had been given him yester-
day and last night. 1t was reported in
Abbeville, on the streets of the town,
on the day of the campaign meet!ne
there, by some of the opponents OF tn.
hot hn ont
to telephone for flowers to be sent to
be presented to the governor; that the
person sent came back and reported
to the governor in a crowd that the
flowers could not be secured, and that
the governor went into a "tantrum," ="
as some people say. Those who know
the governor know that such report
is false, Notwithstanding the fact that
it was printed with great glee by the
Greenwood Daily Journal, because
those who know conditions and those
who know the governor know, in the
NrSL Dlace, llldI IL 10 ilOI lCSCoSdAy 1Oi
the governor to look after such mat
ters as flowers, even if his mind had
that bent, because his supporters
have been overlooking. him with fow-
ers and gold watches and loving cups,
in this campaign: and those who know
the governor know that he would new
er have thought of such thing, any
way. have learned since have been
here that the man who had sent some
one to order flowers" was the sheriff
of Abbeville county, Mr.. C. J. Lyon,
who wanted some cut flowers to pre-
sent to the governor, but who, after
all, failed to secure them.
There was another report" put out
~ So zc:arnor il Abb:ville, to the
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