The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-08-13


dress and he was presented with sew
eral handsome floral tributes. Miss
Dorothy Zemp, of Lexington, and Miss
.Lessie Johnson and Mrs. A. H. Brey-
er, of Spartanburg, brought to the
stand in person their wreaths of flow
ers for Judge Jones, who made brief
but graceful little speech OF thanks.
During the corkscrew episode, the
candidates on the stand had a lot OF
fun. Judge Jones ironically extended
his ccrkscrew to Gov. Blease, VINO
took it in his hands and laughingly
examined it, returned it with bow to
it's owner in a few minutes.
Gov. Blease was greeted by prolong-
ed cheering. Referring to the cork
screw incidents, he said that for Judge
Jones this meeting was a frost, and
because it was cold day in August,
he would need that corkscrew when 1t
came to warm up at his hotel IN
the afternoon. The governor announc-
ed that he would address an audience
of his friends on the court house lawn
in the evening, because, he said, there
we're $4,000 Blease men in Spartan
burg county who were locked up today
in the cotton mills and could not get
here. but who would turn out TOR
Blease on election day, Lewis Parker
and Tom Moore to the contrary not
withstanding"
He said he had challenged Judge
Jones every day this week to make
affidavit, as he himself had done, as
to the sources of his campaign funds
and whether corporations were fnanc-
ing his race. But Judge Jones had
ignored the dare.
He said that if he had done nothing
else for the poor man he had at least
stood between them and Corporation
Jones"
Defending his action in pardoning
three negroes, convicted of robbing
and beating a white man in Richland
county, he exhibited letters recon-
mending pardon from D. E. Hydrick,
now an associate justice of the su-
preme court, but formerly circuit
Judge, and from Christie Benet, of Co.
lunlbia, who was, he said, Judge Has
kells son-in-law and campaign man
ager for Judge Jones, in Richland
county.
81 regret to hear" said the gov
ernor, "that there is a report being
circulated in your county today. 1 do
not like to speak of it, but l feel COM
pelled to notice it. A man named
Massee was taken off the train here
the other day. He was wanted in Ten
nessee. I granted the requisition. They
appealed to Judge Sease for writ OF
habeas corpus and asked for hear
ing. I told them they had appealed to
Caesar and by Caesar they must be
Judged. Judge Sease, who is an hon:
orable Christian Judge, heard the case
and the man was turned loose. I had
nothing to do with it. Yet some peo-
pple today in your county are circulat-
ing report that Massee paid me s5,-
0C0 to hand the case up to Judge Sease.
The man who said. it is a
dirty and black-hearted liar as
ever disgraced a Christian State. The
attorney who came here on behalf of
the State of Tennessee is here in this
audience. When he asked me to grant
a hearing. I told him I would have
nothing more to do with the case. l
will ask Stokes if I did not tell him l
wouldn't have anything more to do
with it."
"You certainly did," replied the Ten
nessee attorney, Harry Stokes, OF
Nashville. who stood near the stand.
Then the governor took up the die
tagraph incident now listed among the
classics of South Carolina political
history.
"You had great machine here not
long ago." he said. "They tried to
drag down one of your best young men
by an Internal, lying dictagraph in or
der to hurt Cole. Biease. That led
them to nothing but the darndest beat
ing you ever heard of on August 81.
You had another happening. I don't
like to mention it. But somebody ask
ed me: Why didn't they serve brains