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

what is best 1Or SOutn CarOllnd. WnaL
did he say that was worthy of gov
ernor of South Carolina? All vituper-
alton, all malice, all hatred, all dirt
nothing worthy of an audience like
this, nothing worthy of the governor
of South Carolina, nothing worthy of
our great old State"
He said his ideal of government was
that a government must be govern
ment of ali the people of the State. l
want to lift up South Carolina. Is
that your ideal-that the government
must be for men that vote for the gov
ernor, or must the government be for
all the people of the State, white and
black, high and low, rich and poor?
A government which is a government
for friends only is government of
the spokesman and is not a government
|of statesman. I have said that
Bleaseism leads to anarchy. do not
mean to say that those who vote for
Gov. Blease are anarchists. | have
never said so, although one paper did
put that word in my mouth. There
were other papers reporting that
meeting which credited me with say
ing, Down with anarchy and that is
what was in my mind and that is what
I recollect 1 said, Down with anarchy
and l say that today. 1 am charging
no man with being an anarchist un-
less he understands the proposition
and then promotes it. l charge Gov.
Blease with being an anarchist, and
can prove it from his own mouth. That
doesn't need any newspaper lie.
"It is a mighty funny thing about
the newspapers-the way they talk
about the Newspapers. If you see it in
the State or the News and Courier or
the Spartanburg papers it is all lie.
But if you see it in the News-Scimiter
that Gov. Blease's body-guard carries
around and distributes among the peo-
pie, then it is a message straight from
heaven.
eff you see it in The Herald and
News it is mighty nigh true, according
to them. But if you see it in the OBJ
server, in the paper edited by that
manly, virtuous, able, truthful man,
Wallace, it is all a lie. That is the
kind of campaign we are having. But
1 don't need to go to the newspapers.
1 can convict the governor out of his
own mouth"
Here Judge Jones quoted the re-
marks attributed to Governor Blease
at the Charleston meeting, which he
said were threatening Charleston, and
the remarks attributed to the governor
at the Camden meeting, in which the
governor was quoted as saying he
would have all the rest of this year
and would make that gang sweat
blood before get through with them, -
and also the remarks of the governor
on the State house steps in reference
to the King-Watson incidental of
these matters having been fully re-
ported in The Herald and News.
Haven't 1 proved Gov. Blease is an
anarchist? That he wants to take into
his hands all the power? And for
what? For the purpose of revenge.
Oh, the lowness, oh the meanness, oh
the contemptiblenes of such ideals of
government in South Carolina"
eve want NO czardom in South Car
olina; we want no exhibition of re-
venge in the administration of the af-
fairs of South Carolina, but we want
an honorable, high-toned, liberty-lov-
Ing, misunderstanding, ClSdu-uSdI ISu duu
clean-handed man to administer the
affairs of this great State"
Lets lift up the standard of gov
ernment, let's re-enthrone law in
South Carolina, let's have law and or
der, which is the best protection of the
poor man, in South Carolina, re-en-
throned in our State.
Let's have respect for law in the
chief executives Office" Judge Jones
referred to his his early life here,
saying he was the son of carpenter
and of woman that started her life
working on the farm and finally work
ed and made dresses to help support
the family, "and if, from that humble
origin, this son of Newberry has risen
to the highest seats in this old State.