The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1913-09-18
" P BEARD BACK
At G R REMbERT.
BLEASE FACTION INTENDED TO
BOLT IF JONES HAD BEEN
DECLARED ELECTED.

for publication:
Hon George R Rembert,
Columbia, S c.
Respected Sir: You make an un-
called for attack on me in the public
prints which | shall not allow to
90 unnoticed. You wrote letter
attacking Senator j L McLaurin
and sent it to one of your hench-
men in Anderson, who signed it and
gave it to the paper there. The
editor of the paper, Col Y b Ches-
hire, taxed the party with it and he
confessed. You were caught with
the goods" and TO escape the con-
sequences of your puerile conduct
YOU divert attention to Bull Moose
Beard. | had nothing whatever to
do with the matter. | am not a
candidate. | have no connection OF
any kind with Senator McLaurin
other than friendship and brand
YOUR statement as wilfully and
maliciously false. You say l have
been attacking you for three months.
This is also untrue. | said in the
interview that you were not CUB
ernatorial timber | am sure that
a careful consideration of your in
ane bombastics would convince any
intelligent observer that | under
stated this proposition. | have
heard many, mot half as well in
formed as y say that they did not
want a Cheap imitation
Your reference to Bull Moose
comes with i'll grace. You are as
much Bull Moose" as l. You know
as we'll as do that | was only a
small pawn in the game last year.
Every indication pointed to the fact
that certain influences dominating
the Jones crowd intended to count
Blease out and you, as well as |, IN
tended to 60 to the general election
with a full independent ticket if
they did, Proof of which is contained
in a letter from me to The News
and Courier during that period
putting out such a ticket, which,
by the way, you did not protest
against at the time. All of us, you
as we'll as l, took advantage of the
Progressive party to provide the
machinery for such contest at the
general election. Am | to be the
scapegoat? This threat is what
kept John Gary Evans and others
from forcing the issue. 1t is also
what frightened Tillman into line.
| did my duty as saw it and | am
willing to take my medicine like a
man. But refuse to permit one
of the men who was as much in
favor of it as | to have the monu-
mental cheek to twit me with Bull
Moose" You are tarred with the
same stick.
stated in a letter once that |
would support you as the Bleaseite
candidate if you proved to be the
strongest, otherwise | would sup
port John L McLaurin. can't help
it because you cannot measure up
to a standard that will lift you out
of obscurity. | have no malice to-
wards you and after our converse
ton on the train going up to Hen
dersonyille, cannot understand why
you persist in attacking me. Unless
indeed it be last desperate effort
to draw to yourself the notice of
the press, which seems to either
have forgotten you or never have
had the pleasure of your acquaint-
ance. This is not the first time have
had minnows to nibble at my hook
or tom-tits to challenge my fire, but
l have, and do still, refuse to waste
my bait and ammunition on such
trifing targets.
Regretting my inability to afford
Mr. Rembert, through useless and
unproductive controversy, that pub
licity he seems so much in need of,