The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-08-16

l let the man out some little ram-snlf-
fe goes off with a lie and says l was
paid so much. Walter Hunt didn't pay
Hayward anything. He had right to
his $1,000 and he got it. This is the
same thing, l suppose that has been
going on with me, but instead OF CIV
ing me an honest deal and fair men
ton in the matter they go to Work
and say, He is pardoning too many
people, If it wasn't for the pardon
ing power of God there are people l
know of living in Newberry county to-
day who would have been in hell long
ago." whenever you send petitions
to me and ask me to turn people out,
1 am going to do it, and Ira B. Jones
and his gang can't help it, he said.
Governor Blease then scored Judge
Jones on his vote against the separate
coach measure, when, said the COVER
nor. he voted "to make white women
and negro men ride in the same coach,
and the worst part about it is he had
a free pass in his pocket and when L
got after him about it he didn't say
anything, but after awhile, when 1
kept nagging him, when he got to
Bamberg he says, Yes, l had free
pass, and l admit the railroads bam-
boozled me- If the railroads could
bamboozle him as speaker with a small
thing like a free pass what in the
name of God could they do with him
if they got him in the governors Of
fce?"
The governor said he couldn't un-
derstand what the railroads had want-
ed with Judge Jones son, Charlie, in
their employ, unless they wanted him
to megaphone up to "pa, on the su-
preme court bench, "-"Son Charlie" ;"
he said, "who never has been accused
of being a lawyer, Jones himself hav-
ing said he never had but one measily
little case in the supreme court"
Gov. Blease charged that Judge
Jones had gone all over the State
calling the Blease supporters anar-
achists, and had then called them
hogs, and last, suckers. Who started
this dirty campaign? he asked. He
said he had not mentioned Judge Jones
until Judge Jones had gone all over
the State abusing him before the cam
paign opened; that he did not mention
anything about Jones at the opening
meeting at Sumter; that Jones got up
and continued to abuse and villify
him, and when they got to Bishopville
Jones had got up again and abused
and villifed him, "and then 1 delivered
a speech showing him up as hav.n.
made the blacklist recori :aat duy man
with white skin ever made iii the
South Carolina legislature"
He said his opponents had been pub
fishing and circulating all kiras ot
dirty lies upon him. "They have not
only hit me, but they haven't spared
my family. In going down IN the mire
to try to bring up something they are
so dirty aod so filthy that they have
published things and said things and
done things that l do not see how any
decent people could put up with. They
say, oh, but the Jones men are the
gentlemen, they are the Christians
They are the dirtiest set of liars that
ever disgraced the State" eff the
kind of campaigning they are doing
comes from Christian people, God save
the churches of South Carolina
Gov. Blease said at the Lancaster
meeting, Judge Jones home, he had
expected Judge Jones to get up and
say few pleasant words to the aud
ience, and then to introduce the other
candidates, but that Judge Jones had
criticised and abused him in Lancas-
ter, and l certainly have done my
best to hand it back to him in New
berry today in full measure"
When the governor told the audience
that his time was about up there were,
calls for him to go on. bu;
he said that would not be fair. H.
said he had stuck to his friends and
would continue to do so. When it
comes to your governors Office, be-
tween friend and foe, if my friend is
wrong and my enemy is right, will
stand by my enemy in discharging my