Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-07-09
Evokes Further Cheers.

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ed by the Blease winding-up commits
sion.
Evo<es Further Cheers.
| Judge Jones. when the prolonged
demonstration which greeted him had
subsided, evoked further cheers by re-
marking that courtesy was a cardinal
characteristic Of Charlestonians and
Charleston gentlemen might be relied
on to give every man fair treatment.
|; He spoke for some minutes of his pur-
| pose in entering the race this year for
governor. No man. he said, had high
| er ideal of that office. His own estima-
ton Of 1t he had illustrated by his ac-
tion In resigning an office regarded by
many persons as equal II not superior
in dignity, in real power and in perma-
| nance as well as in emoluments. He
saw his state facing a great crisis and
his friends thought he should lead the
fight for the restoration Of good gov
ernment. He was actuated by no
malice and by no mercenary motive but
was controlled by a burning desire Of
rendering his state good service. An
swering the accusation that he was
"old," he said his experience and
knowledge were therefore 80 much the
greater. He rapidly outlined his work
as a legislator, speaker Of the house
and member of the supreme court tol
indicate what had been his opportuni-
ties Of acquiring knowledge that would
make him a good governor. Doubtless
he has made some mistakes, being hu-
man, in his % years of public service,
but the criticism Of his record which
Gov. Blease had been able to make
were picayunish. He was proud tol
know that nothing more serious could
be alleged against him than what had
been brought out in this campaign.
Gov. Blease, he said, had made much
Of the effect which his Bishopville
speech would have on the chance OF
Jones for election, but what was refer |
red to in that speech? Judge Jones re-
ferred to his vote for Irby when Irby
and Hampton were candidates for the
United States senate and said that
though he voted for Irby because Irby
was his life long personal and political
friend as we'll as the candidate Of his
party, he honored Gen. Hampton high |
ly and said as much in his speech Sec
onding Irby's nomination. He had fol- |
lowed Gen. Hampton in the reconstruc-
ton campaign. had repeatedly intro
duced him at meetings in Lancaster
and held him in the highest venera- |
ton.
Gov. Blease again had tried to make
1t appear that Jones in voting for Y. ].
Pope for the supreme bench had in
suited Judge Wallace. This was alb
surd, more especially as Judge Pope
was Jones' lifelong friend, an able ju-
rist and a Confederate veteran, and as
Gov. Blease himself voted for Pope as
against Wallace.
AZ to Divorce.
Judge Jones said of the charge by
Gov Blease that he once favored d.
vorce for adultery that this was true.
Divorce for that cause was granted by
all civilized countries and by nearly
every state in the Union except South
Carolina. However, the people were 80
disposed to maintain the peculiar stat
utes of South Carolina in this matter,
that he finally bowed to their will and
in the constitutional convention OF lS95
he helped to write into the organic law
of the state 80 1t could not readily be
changed provision that divorce should
never be granted in South Carolina for
any cause. Judge Jones ridiculed Gov.
Blease's criticism Of him for his vote In
the early nineties on bill to reduce
the legal rate Of interest. Gov. Blease
voted just as did," he declared. But
it was important to Blease to put Jones
on the defensive. They must tell lies
about him. They knew he could an
swer them, but. while he is doing that
he will be consuming his time and sol
lessening his opportunity of taking the
offensive against Blease."
Taking up his votes In the nineties
on the Jim Crow" car bills, Judge
Jones said that IL he was such great
rascal in that matter he at least had
excellent company. He read list OF
Charleston legislators Of that period
who voted as he did on these bills.
Among the names read were those of
c. s. Bissell, R. C. BARCLAY, ]. F. Flick
en-, E. w. Hughes and James Simons.
Gov. Blease, said the speaker, can
make much capital in some places
with a furious TRADE about "niggers'
but he can not do that with Char
lesion audience. The governor makes
much of the fact that once or twice
Jones voted on the same idea of a
question with big niger Wigg
from Beaufort" who was a men,
ber of the legislature. "but. said
Judge Jones, 81 could go through the
records and point out many occasions
on which Gov. Blease voted with this
'nigger Wigg' but what's the use?"
The Liquor Question.
Judge Jones said the governor had
CTltlClSeu Gil ohN'e
ment exempting Marlboro from
liquor law and had tried to make 1t ap-
pear that this vote was against local
self government. That amendment re-
quired a two thirds vote, which Is ex-
actly contrary to the true theory Of
local self government. Judge Jones
said he would not undertake a defense
in detail of his judicial record. He was
content that this be judged by what
ever the lawyers of Charleston or any
other county would say about 1t. His
assertion that he was free, unpledged,
unbought and unbuyable brought forth
hearty and general cheers. He had un-
derstood, he said, that w. H. Andrews,
the big boss" and the "logroller' of
the Atlantic Coast Lumber corporation
had promised Gov Blease to de-
liver to him the vote of Georgetown
county. but L. S. Enrich, called by
enemies the INSCRIPTIONS Jew" was
teaching Mr.. Andrews a lesson and he
would find it not so easy to deliver