The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1913-11-06
McLAURIN AND SAWYER
FROZEN OUT
AT THE BLEASE POWWOW IN
COLUMBIA FAIR WEEK--SIDE-
LIGHTS ON THE SITUATION.

LIGHTS ON THE SITUATION.
Columbia, October S1:-Remem-
Der the story in Esop of the satyr
who finding a traveller freezing and
blowing his fingers. took him in and
gave him hot soup, which the travel
er promptly blew upon? Why did
you blow your fingers?" asked the
satyr? ITO warm them," said the
traveller. ''And why did you blow
the soup?" To cool it," said the
traveller. Then get you gone,
said the satyr, for l can trust no
man who blows hot and cold with
the same breath"
That is the way it was with the
Bleaseite pow-wow in this city We'd
nesday night at the Hotel Jeffer-
son-the swellest feed joint in this
town. An onlooker in Venice
wouldn't have imagined that the
sleek and perfectly groomed attend
ants upon the feast. as they dallied
with the walnuts and the wine
amidst sparkling cut glass and shin
ing silver and egg-shell Sevres
china, were wool-hat, one-gallus boys,
representatives of the Pee-pul, "
whose offices they were gathered to
apportion among themselves and
their friends. One could imagine
the gathering wiggling a collective
finger against a collective nose at the
very idea of the gullibility of the
aforesaid "Pee-pul."
But the gatheri-g blew cold and
blew hot with the same breath. The
breath was so cold that it froze the
marrow in the bones of the Nc
Laurin candidacy for the Blease
mantle; froze the marrow so hard
that the candidacy broke all to pieces
too small to be swept up. McLaurin
has quit, dead, in disgust. And it
takes a lot in politics to disgust
"Curley-Headed JOHNNY" If Blease-
ism is rank enough to turn his
stomach h-well.
Nor was McLaurin the only one to
get the icy blast. There were lots
of eager and receptive candidates
a.huntin' and a-fshin' around i'm
modestly for "Coley's" official boots
and breeches. One of them was
Sawyer, of Georgetown, who was
the chief hot-air artist of the even
ing. True as gospel, Sawyer came
here with a gubernatorial bee in his
militant shake. He's fighter.
Sawyer is. He admits it himself.
He said it in his speech. He wants
blood; buckets of political blood. He
doesn't want peace and harmony.
To hell with peace and harmony. ne
said in effect. His idea is that there
can be no peace except a desolatlon
Of those who oppose his peculiar
politics, which he impressed upon
the gathering was of the Blease
brand-the brand being blown in
the bottle and thus permanent.
Sawyer said he was going so keep
up his fight in Georgetown until all
OF his enemies had been eliminated.
Eis fight; his enemies-see? For
confirmation of this assertion, see
Caldwell's report in the News and
Courier; and Caldwell is one of the
most conservative correspondents in
the newspaper business.
But Sawyer's ambition, despite
his own hot blast of fighting talk,
received the icy mitt. 1t wasn't
even one of the "also rams" 1t
wasn't mentioned above a whisper,
il even that much.
The present favorite in the run
hing under the Blease colors, Slmms
of Barnwell, is said to be man who
will out-Blease the Governor If ne
gets chance. McLaurin says the
campaign is going to be one OF
''class hate and prejudice" Simms,
they say, is a man for that sort OF
contest. = Ge0rget0acn Times.