Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-04-14

party to which my people have be
longed for generations-to which l be
longed in 1876, and have ever since be
longed, and for which 1 followed
Hampton, Butler and Gary in 1876
when, although but n boy, rode as {
courier in the Red Shirt parades a
Newberry, and obeyed, along with m,
people and your people, every call tha
was made upon us.
And the only time that my Democ
racy has yet been questioned, or is to-
day being questioned, is by the editor
J Of a newspaper who bolted the Demo
| cratic party and voted for an indepen
dent against the regular Democratic
nominees, both state and national
the editor Of newspaper that was
born in independentism, was nursed ir
the cradle OF an alliance Of white peo.
pie with negroes in an attempt to de-
throne the Democratic party-a news
paper that from that day on, under
the control Of this editor, has been ar
upholder and a defender of the negroes
as having rights on an equality with
the white men, and has on every pos
sible occasion condemned white men
by calling them murderers and out
laws and hoodlums, who have dared to
stand in the open in the defense Of the
virtue of the white womanhood Of our
state-our mothers and sisters That
is the man, with his associates, with
his independentism, with his record as
a bolter and as aligning with negroes
against white people, who dares to
criticise my Democracy.
Before becoming a regular candidate
other candidates, will take the follow
ing pledge provided by the Democratic
party Of this state:
'.As a candidate for the office II
United States senator in the Demo-
cratic primary election, to be held on
the last Tuesday in August, 1914,
hereby pledge myself to abide the re-
suits Of such primary and support the
nominees thereof, and declare that
am Democrat and that l am not, nor
will l become the candidate of any
faction, either privately or publicly
suggested, other than the regular
Democratic nomination. will support
the political principles and polices OF
The Democratic party during the term
Of office for which l may be elected
and work in accord with my Demo-
cratic associates in congress on all
party questions"
BY that pledge we will be bound. II
| am elected to the United States SEN
ate, as l will be, will support the
platform and the principles Of the
Democratic party, and when questions
arise which are set out in that plat
pies I will unhesitatingly give them
my support and my vote. Such ques-
tons as are not covered in that plat
form, and are independent Of it, after
giving them my most serious and care
full consideration, shall act upon as
I believe to be for the best interests OF
the citizens Of the nation, whom
will represent, and especially the
people Of South Carolina
Not Opposed to the President.
1t has been charged, falsely, that
have criticized the President Of the
United States. That is known to be
absolutely untrue. l was against Mr..
Woodrow Wilson for the Democratic
nomination, and in favor Of another.
But after he received his nomination,
I not only voted for him myself, but
that time were being most unfairly
and unjustly treated by being charged
with fraud in the state elections, and
when the Bull Moose party was at
Democratic ranks in this state-I
wrote this appeal to my friends and
begged them to go to the polls and
support the nominees of the national
Democratic party, and to roll up q
large majority for our congressman as
nominated, in order that no contest
could be brought which might keep
them from being seated if the Repub-
lican party controlled the national
congress. If the vote for me will be
compared with the vote for Mr.. Will
son, it will be shown that my friends
and l were more loyal to the Demo-
cratic nominees than were the other
side because Mr.. Wilson received more
votes in this state than l received, and
most assuredly any fool will admit
that the Blease men did not vote for
vote for Blease. Therefore, it must
have been the other side who went to
the polls and voted for Wilson and
violated their primary oath by declin-
ing to cast their votes for me as the
Democratic nominee for governor. The
official figures are as follows: Vote
for Democratic electors, 4S,357, except
McMahan, who received 1885. Vote
for Blease, 44,122. Who swore falsely?
And yet this dirty, miXed-breed editor
is attempting. through the columns of
his paper, to hold up to the people of
this state that l am not in sympathy
and accord with the national Demo-
cratic platform.
/ am not running on Mr.. Woodrow
Wilson's coat tails. ] am not swing
ing on to the Cubans and mixed
breeds and other Haskellites, negro
Deas ties, and other aligners Of 1890
and 1894 to be elected to the United
States senate from South Carolina. |
was not a member Of the Haskell con-
vention. l stood out in the open and
supported Tillman and the regular
Democratic nominees. I stood for the
true Democratic principles then, as
stand today and as l stand in this
campaign, and l am willing to COM
pare records with those who are today
attempting to criticize me.
l am sorry, my fellow-citiZens, TO
have to refer to these matters here to-
day, but you see the trend that some
people are taking and the effort thai
they are making, endeavoring to show
that | should not be elected to the
United States senate because OF the