The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-07-29
GEN. JONES COMMENDS
GOV. BLEASE'S ACTS
CHIEF EXECUTIVES POSITION
SUSTAINED BY OFFICERS.
Governor BIease Replies to General
MOore-The Militia Situation as
Now Developed

or Blease's original charge that the
adjutant general should have issued
federal funds to certain military COM
panies was given out in an interview
from the governors Office.
The interview is given over to
refutation of the adjutant generals
characterization of the governors
conduct in the military muddle as
<'cheap politics and play to the
grandstand" The governor says that
his position is sustained by response
BILE military men throughout the State,
Colonels Lewis, Cogswell and Lips
comb and Brigadier General Willie
Jones being mentioned.
e"I know Of nothing in this military
controversy in which do not approve
of the governors conduct" said Gen
eral Jones when shown Governor
Blease's interview this morning. Gen.
eral Jones gave out a short interview
sustaining the position of Governor
Blease.
The interview by Governor Blease
follows:
I have noticed the adjutant gen.
erals interview, and have also re-
ceived his letter.
Possibly it is, as he describes it
cheap politics on my part, in the
handling of the military affairs, late
ly, but, if so, it is strage that Brig
adler General Jones and the three
colonies, Lewis, Cogswell and Lips
comb, and every other military man
who I have heard of expressing an
opinion say that the governor is right.
I am willing to leave my action with
Col. Cabaniss and Col. Babb, Of the
adjutant generals Office, and if they
say that l am wrong, I will apologize
to the proper parties for whatever 1
have done; or, if they say the adju-
tant general is correct, 1 will apollo
gize to him.
1 notice he says it is his duty as
adjutant general TO attend all en-
campments and that special order No.
so was not necessary. If this is so,
it seems strange that he should, with
out notice to the commander-in-chief
issue special order No. so, which
reads:
Columbia, S. c., July 16, 1913.
Special Orders, No. so.
Brigadier General William w.
Moore, the adjutant general of South
Carolina, is directed to proceed in
person to the camps of instruction OF
the Third, First and Second regiments
of infantry, and Field Hospital, N. G.
S. c., at Aiken, Anderson and Camp
Willie Jones, Lexington county, July
18th to August 5th, 1913, inclusive.
The travel enioined is necessary in
the military service.
By order of the commander-in-chief.
VIM. w. Moore,
The Adjutant General.
(Omcial Seal,)
Oscar w. Babb,
Colonel Adiutant General.
And, under which order he is pay
ing himself, or is receiving pay, to the
amount of sixteen dollars and sixty
seven ($16.6O per day extra pay,
which he could not receive unless
proper authority was given him to do
so, namely: A special order from the
commander-in-chief Now, you will
see, without special order No. so, he
could not receive this pay. 1 did not
issue this order, although it reads,
ssBy order of the commander-in-
chief" nor did l authorize any one
else to issue it; nor did know it had
been issued until it was called to my
attention July 22d, and then I had
to send to the adjutant generals Of
fee in order to obtain copy thereof.
Now, if it is the adjutant generals
duty, as he says it is, in the last
paragraph of his letter, to attend
these encampments, and that he did
not have to have the commander-in-
chiefs consent to do so, why this
special order? Why this extra 1913
per day for doing the duty that the
taxpayers are paying him an annual
salary to do? Cheap politics, posi-
bly,. Well, surely not cheap extra pay
for doing ones duty. However, 1 do
not care to enter into any controversy
with the adjutant general. 1 leave the