The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-01-18
In Scathine Message to
Legislature, Governor
Scores United States
Senator and Press Of
the State.

generally and a severe denunciation
of Senator B. r. Tillman, is made
by Governor Blease In message
transmitted to the General Assem-
bly, today, in which he urges some
restrictions to be placed on the
press, giving as a reason that the
personal reputation and even the
good name of South Carolina may
be properly safeguarded from un-
warranted villification and assign
ing further that newspaper domina-
ton may be avoided, which domina-
ton the governor says, was broken
. In his election. Referring to Sen
ator Tillman, he says in part:
"1t will be necessary in order
that the true situation and true
conditions may be brought to light,
that the conduct of no less a per-
sonage than the senior senator
from South Carolina may be re-
viewed to some extent.
d" SHATTER AN IDOL"
: eff that cosduct be what his
friends and supporters would never
have suspected or expected of him,
] shall regret that 1t has been neces-
sary to shatter an idol"
The governor gives extracts from
\ certain letters which he said were
written by Senator Tillman during
the last campaign, promising to be
namtral pIaoun and
Jones in the race for governor and
processing friendship for Blease.
He quotes what, he says, are
copies of kilograms which passed
between the editor OF The State and
its Washington correspondent in
which Senator Tillman was urged
to give out for publication a letter
he had written to Harrison Fergu-
son in Spartanburg in which Blease
was scored and finally this letter
was printed on the eve of the cam
paign.
Tillman coming out squarely for
Jones and urging the people to re-
pudiate Blease as he had in the Ian
guage of the senator, made the
name OF South Carolina "by..
word and hissing."
STABBED IN BACK.
The governor charged that this
was the result of a conspiracy be-
tween the editor of The State and
State Chairman John Gary Evans,
in which Senator Tillman was led,
by reason of which he came out
against the governor .on the eve Of
election He virtually charges that
Tillman was persuaded against his
,lEill in writing the now famous let
tter. The governor says that, while
Senator Tillman was protesting
friendship for him, he was stabbing
him in the back.
or the now famous Ferguson let
ter, in speaking OF how Tillman had
pretended friendship up to the close
of the. campaign, he says:
"But in the darkness of the night
the conspirators, working through
all his time, it proved by later
events, that one of the fouIest con-
spiracies ever hatched In the poll
tics of any state was brewing The
conspirators had not met yet, be-
cause they were personal and poll
tical enemies OF the twenty-One
years standing. The jealousy of
mind, the heart OF one, however,
and the deep malice against the
heart OF the other at last brought
them together"
He then refers to the killing of
N. @. Gonzales by James H. TILL
man, and the bitter political and
personal feud which existed between
the families. He said that the peo-
pie repud!ated and rebuksd TiIlman
and reelected him governor.
Reviewing the sending of certain
kilograms to a Washington CORES
- pondent, for him to urge TiEmau
10 give out for publication letter
ne had written 10 Ferguson de-
nouncing Blease. the governor says
OF the letter:
This foul stuf was signed B. n.
Tillman and hope that before the
senator passes to the great beyond