The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-06-12
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'HIouSu tnc IOuTtn district al this par
ticular time.
Over here they have three c:i11sdi-
datSs 'FSf''r,tfsgY er he SeficufnbAnt.
JOS. I. JOhnstOnc. Thos. &. Duncan and
Sam j. Nichols. All are men of abil-
ity and Of some prominence and each
has good following of strong friends
scattered throughout the four coun
ties who will do Trojan work for
their favorit4this snIiim4r: .Eeacit1one
is ON good farms withl3he govenIor.
though MIR Nichols isitcallcd Aihe
l'lease cand idate" and Blk weeks ago
he seemed To have Il waIk-0ver. but!the
kalideOscOpic changes In the guberna-
torial race. is actually felt in the con-
grcssiOnal race
II now looks like JOhnstone will be
In the second race with either Duncan
or Nichols. and If Duncan. so say
many politicians, the next congress
Sman Will be Duncan. In case 1t Is
Nichols and Johnstonc the prophets
say Duncan's friends will go to John
stone, expecting to beat him next
time. In case Duncan goes in the sec
ond race with either. 1t is thought that
the friends OF either Of the other two
would support Duncan.
CllnScuIeS at Spartanburg. Brown
ing at Union and Cooper and Irby at
lIaurens all running for governor adds
further to the complications
They say that many Of Mr.. Irby's
friends are talking out in meeting lust
now about Blcase candidates catering
to the friends of the opposing candi-
dates and think that Mr.. Nicholl's
friends should support Mr.. Irby for
governor openly, If they expect Ir-
by's friends to support Nichols. Irby
hpinD fhn
governor in this district On the 9TH
er, hand the friends of Messrs Cooper.
Clinkscales and Browning are saying
that Sam Nichols must stay hands
OFT In the gubernatOrial race If he ex-
poets to get to congress.
To further cOmplicate matters, many
strong Blease men are supporting all
three antt-Blease men for governor on
personal grounds and Messrs John
stone and Duncan both have ardent
supporters in the Blease ranks, while
some influential anti-Blease men are
supporting Nichols. They say Mendel
Smith Is being supported by q great
many Blease men also, especially in
Union county. and The double and twis-
ted, double -back-action and easily re-
Versible John G. Richards, has made
some alliances among the Bleasites up
this way that will surely bring down
the wrath OF the Irby clansmen upon
both Richards and Nichols in the sec
ond primary, according to local poll
tlctans. who seem to understand the
situation that while John Cannon was
alive he held things together, but
there's is no one to take This place and
we are splitting up now badly"
Many Bleasites say that John Cam
mons death will lose Governor Blease
mt IN,
| don't know but that is what L hear
over this way. and frankly hope they
are all wrong. There is trong talk in
Greenville OF B. A. Morgan entering
the senatorial race. / heard last fall
fias "a strong Greenyiiio iawyer':
would run for the senate and publish
ed 1t In the Columbia Record. but did
not have his name. 1t seems now that
MIR. Morgan is the man that intends
to enter. In that case ". T. Pollock
of Cheraw will certainly enter also,
and with four good speakers in the
senatorial race 1t becomes more doubt
ful than ever as to the issue.
There is no doubt but that Senator
Smith will take some of the former
vote from Governor Blease while the
Governor will make that up from
town vote that loves Smith less than
they do Blease.
Mr.. Morgan's friends think that he
can get enough Of the element not sat
tsfied with either Blease or Smith to
put him In the second race with one
OF the two. in which event the follow
ers of either would elect him. Mr.
Pollock Is depending' on that also. !
They both may be right or they both
may be wrong, hut anyway it Is GER
tain that IL either or both OF these
nQnfrn1 OanHfIofac IL
Q second race between two Of them.
Everybody over this way Is waiting
to see what ben Tillman will say
next" and by the way. anybody who
discounts Ben Tiliman's influence is
due to receive n shock. The old man
IS pretty lively corpse and is q yery
strong factor in politics yet. It is be-.
Ing told that Richards had his consent
to form an alliance with Blease. so
Blease could help Richards and Till
man help Blease on the quiet. don't
know how much truth there Is in It,
but l understand that Richards
friends are telling 1t. 1t is also re-
ported that Richards made the state
ment In the caucus in the Governors
office on the first Of June that he had
writte1 Senator T:!!man of his in
tention to come out for biease :aa
shat 1t was agreeable to Tillman, and
otherwise gave them to understand
that 1t was alright with Tillman. II
sss sss5 ;ss3|sNS, s3sS PssP's| sss
worth. II will perhaps make interest
Ffngss reading sfncorreetr- '.sc.t.s
The Newberry Herald and News. ed
itorialiy critfcisihg Governor" Blease1
TOT the Blease rru6us at WhitYnires fs
(Attr1GftnH a
way on account OF that papers iapplE
catfon with the governor and people
are wonderingrnow whether that ed
itOrtal means a. break with The zo,.