The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-10-08
BLEASE WANTS TO CAPTURE
PARTY MACHINERY
CALL Faction TO MEET
A Conference Of the Governors Fol-
lowers Called for Fair Week in
Columbia to Map Out Campaign to
Capture the Clubs and County and
Ctafa Conventions

Leaders Of the Blease faction in
the Democratic party in South Caro-
lima will meet in a conference in Co.
lumbia during Fair Week, to map out
plans for capturing the next Demo
cratic Convention and controlling the
election machinery Of the Democrat
ic party. This announcement was
made Tuesday by Governor Blease,
in conversation with The News and
Courier representative at Columbia.
The conference will be participated
in by the Blease leaders from every
county In the State. The call for the
leaders to come to the conference
has already gone out. Administra-
tion leaders at every county seat and
in every section Of the State have
been summoned to gather in Colum-
bia for an important meeting during
the week Of the State Fair. The con-
ference may last two days.
Plans for a full attendance Of the
Bleasites at every Democratic club
meeting next April, when they assem-
Bile to elect delegates to the county
conventions, will be talked over.
Through control Of the club meetings
the Blease forces plan to capture the
county convention, or majority
thereof, and through them the next
State Convention, which meets In
Columbia on the third wednesday
in next May.
Control of the county conventions
will insure control OF the State DEM
ocratic executive committee and the
State Convention, and thus place the
machinery Of the Democratic party,
under which the primary elections
are held, in the control Of men friend
ly to Governor Blease. Any change
In the rules and constitution Of the
party will be defeated II the Blease
forces carry out their plans and cap
ture the next State Convention.
Former Governor John Gary Ev-
ans, the present chairman Of the
State Democratic executive commit
tee, and the others who are at pres
ent prominent in the running Of the
party, are marked for the slaughter
by the Administration forces If the
Blease forces control majority OF
the county conventions throughout
the State next May, there will be
complete overturn of the election ma
chinery officials
Chairman Evans and his fellow
workers Of the Antf-Blease faction
will be relegated to the rear and new
men, high in standing with the pres
ent State Administration, will be
ploced at the head Of the Democratic
party. At the tBlease conference Fair
Week the plans will be mapped out
to the smallest detail and the leaders
will then return to their various
home counties and pass the word
around for all the Blease voters to at
tend their club meetings in force.
eve are not going to be caught
mapping, as was the case last year,
said Governor Blease, referring to the
overwhelming mnnner in which the
anti-administration people captured
club meetings, county conventions
and the State Convention in 1912.
eve are going to have a full attend
ance at every club meeting in the
State and we propose to capture th'
county conventions. Rest assured
we are going to control the next
Democratic State Convention" en-
phatically declared the governor.
The plans for the Blease forces to
control the conventions and election
machinery next year were formed
right on the heels Of the reelection
Of Governor Blease last summer,
Leaders Of that faction Of the party
have been working on the details
ever since and they have called the
conference for Fair Week to put
these plans in action. AID u-rtect
such other details as will be deemed
advisable to carry tie matter to
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