The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-01-24
stabbing him in the back.

Of abiding him in the back.
Ine charge Of hypocrisy can best h'
an. w,red by pointing TO my public and
private life. If there is any vice III
human beings that despise. it hypo-
crisy and double-dealing 1t is next
to cowardice, the most despicable Of
human traits.
Governor BIease stresses the point
Of secret letters, and, with great cum
ming, picks out sentences from pri-
vate letters which l had written to
my friends, Or men who represented
/ themselves as my friends, to prove
that | was not frank. He stresses the
fact that Mr.. Sims was not his friend
and 81 delighted to find l had writ
ten one letter to man not a Blease-
ite. l do not believe many people in
South Carolina will accept his theory
that l am a hypocrite and double
dealer because, in writing personal
letters and marking them confident
ial," l explained to these men who
were Blease's friends and who claim
ed to be my friends what my real opin-
ions were Because l said | would be
hands off" did not mean, nor is it
reasonable to claim that it meant l
would be dumb.
{ 3rd The conspiracy with w. E. Con
zales is not conceivable or believable
by anyone except a man who in his
desperation, made that charge in or
der to fire the hearts Of his followers.
The people of South Carolina we'll un
derstand the relations between the
Gonzales brothers and the Tillmans.
The feud is of long standing and all
we'll informed people know what pro-
vocation the Tillmans have had and
with what relentless energy and with
what ability the Gonzales brothers
have prosecuted their side Of it. | do
not wish to stir the embers Of this
feud anew, and l have no such pur-
pose in calling attention to this long
standing quarrel. Governor Blease
knowsthat he did not believe, when he
wrote his dodger last August, that l
had entered into any conspiracy what
ever with W. E. Gonzales. have been
told that the Gonzales brothers voted
for me in the primary last August.
t. tr this is so or not, do n
know and do not care. But l know
that 1 never that l never saw Pat
MCGOWAN or read Gonzales private
kilograms to him which some Of
Blease's friends stole off the wires; !
and if had it would not have influenc-
ed me at all.
Right Here, I will ask Governor
Blease to answer point blank, how did
he get copies of Gonzales telegrams
to McGowan? He is such a stickler
for the forms of honesty in others,
will he honor bright and tell us who
stole them?
know ard assert On my honor that
alone wrote the Ferguson letter and
that no one else had anything to do
with it. or anything else l have writ
ten or signed,
The following statement has just
been handed me by Mr.. A. NJ. Carpen-
ter, of Anderson, South Carolina, tel
ling how the Ferguson letter came to
be given. out and how the statement
which accompanied it was made up
for the press.
Carpenters Statement.
About 6 o'clock IN the afternoon of
August %, 1912, / met Senator and
Mrs. Tillman at the North entrance to
the Capitol building. They had start
ed for home, and had stopped and
were talking to Mr.. J. NJ. Baker, one
of the officers of the senate. Senator
Tillman stopped me and said he want
ed to ask my advice. He stated that at
the beginning Of the gubernatorlal
in South Carolina he had
declared he would take no part in it,
and had tried to follow that course,
but that during the two Or three weeks
lust previous he had received number
Of letters from people in the State
whom he thought to be his friends,
asking his opinion of Jones and Blease,
and that he had replied to these let
.ars frankly, that in each case he had
made it plain to his correspondent
that he was writing in confidence, but