The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-08-13
JONES HAD HARD GOING
AT The UNION MEETING
MADE DETERMINED EFFORT TO
SPEAK TO HOSTILE CROWD.
Blease Received Cheers, Loving Cup
and FlOwers-Says Jones Using
Corporation Money.

Corporation Money.
Union, Aug. 1O.-Judge Ira. B. Jones.
candidate for governor was almost
howled down by supporters of his op-
ponent, Governor Blease, at the State
campaign meeting here today. That
the greater part of the audience of
about 1000 was in the humor to pre-
vent Judge Jones speaking was very
apparent, and it required the combined
efforts of County Chairman McBeth
Young, Sheriff J. G. Long and Mayor
T. C. Duncan to hold in check the dem
onstration against the former chief
justice.
Judge Jones chided his tormentors
for their disposition against according
him a fair hearing. He was full Of
fire and his words breathed defiance
when, in conclusion, he shouted, 81
want to say 1 propose to be the next
governor of South Carolina. The peo-
pies will will be registered on the
9th of August, and neither men who
make noise, hold up their hands in
primaries nor bowling mobs will con-
troll the destiny of South Carolina, but
the men of South Carolina will do
their duty and save their State
Governor Blease's voice was in bad
shape today. He declared he had al
ready made fourteen speeches this
week and would make it fifteen at
Jonesville tonight. The governor made
no effort to attain the standard of
oratory reached by him at former meet
ings, nor did he inject the usual
amount of spice into his address, even
cutting short the repetition of his at
tacks on Judge Jones. He probably
thought whats the use? nearly all of
them are for me any way"
And the bulk of the crowd was for
him. The governors adherents at the
cotton mills here turned out in full
force, the mills having shut down at
noon (as is customary on Saturday,
and by the time the governors turn
came to speak, there was no mistaking
for whom the vociferous cheers were
intended.
Governor Blease today directly
charged Judge Jones with using cor
poration money to finance his cam
paign, declaiming that such conclusion
was justified by the failure of the
judge and his campaign managers to
make affidavits to the contrary.
Evans's Hickory Stick.
Mr.. B. B. Evans, in replying to the
threat of arrest for SANDER, made at
Spartanburg by Attorney General Ly-
on, defed that official to carry out his
announced plans of haling him before
the courts, and stated that he would
retaliate by indicting Lyon for 'pilfer-
ing"
Where is the warrants?" Evans
asked. ga good hickory stick is all
the warrant I want
"Now, they have threatened me with
arrest for SANDER" said Mr. Evans.
"How can we slander a man without
character. I never make statement
I can't prove" he continued eff I
have slandered them what have they
done to B. B. Evans?'
"Where is the warrant?" asked Mr..
Evans. ''The sheriff, he hasn't got it.
I suppose Abney, Fielder or Stevenson
interpreted the act for him Lyon) or
he wouldn't have known it was on the
book"
AS for the hickory stick Mr.. Lyon
said this was not the first time he was
so threatened, "and by some with more
sand in their gizzards than this man
has. If he uses a hickory stick on
me, he'll find he hasn't as much hair
on his head as he has now," concluded
Mr. Lyon to yells of delight from the
crowd.
Another Cup for Blease.
Governor Blease received another
loving cup today bigger than the one
he got at Spartanburg yesterday. On
one side of the cup the following was
engraved, "Rdeemed, Carolina's best.
Hampton-Tillman-B -Blease." On the re-
verse side was, "Govenor Blease, from