The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-01-13

! ponent need such q enormous cam
paign fund? Was It TO pay his cam
| paign expenses around over South
I Carolina? Was 1t to pay his sons ex-
| penseS In travelling with him and car
rying his books? Was IL 10 pay the
legitimate expenses of his campaign
manager? What was 1t for? Who
was to use II. and for what purpose ?
Why did the railroads make large
contributions to Blease's opponents
campaign fund? Why did certain
cotton mill presidents make such
large contributions tn Dlease's op-
| ponents's campaign fupI? Had any
candidate in South Carolina ever be.
| fore needed q campaign fund such as
was raised against Blease? Did Till
man use 1t, or Evans, Ellerbe, Nc
Sweeney. Hayward, Ansel or Blease?
Did General Earle use 1t? Then
why this powerful compaign contri.
button for the primary of 1912? II
that primary was corrupt, who COR
rupted It? II men voted in It who
were not entitled to vote, who hauled
them from North Carolina and from
Georgia and paid their expenses?
1t is plain to any thinking man, and
1t will be admitted by any honest
man, that these large sums OF money
raised by contribution and handled
at central bureau in Columbia and
by parties in other parts of the State,
are what corrupted II, IL It was cor
rupt, and only by the true manhood
OF the honest citizenship of South
Carolina rising In it's might and re-
:3s!aS &c be bought anu denauciled
by this crowd, was South Carolina
saved from q corrupt government
bought at the ballot boz.
Now, who is responsible for this
great cry OF fraud IN the primaries? /?
The Governor ppbucly stated on the
State House steps, the night after the
election, that the other side had sto-
len more votes and put them in the
the ballot box than they knew what
to do with. This statement was a
slapder, why s'wasn't he prosecuted? :?
If his statement was a slander, why
was 1t that the committee OF the State
Executive Committee, large major
fty OF whom, were composed OF his
Interest opponents, after they had
gone to Spartanburg and to Greenviile
and to Anderson and. TO orangehurg,
disbanded, gRve up their anvestigas
ton. and sneasssAaa on quietly ana went.
Into. their littlet holes?
These charEeg Sof fraud and corruD-
ton are absolutely unworthy but In
line with the sotEce from which they
come The man who introduced the
resolution in the State Executive
Committee charging the white people
OF this State with fraud ard cnrrnr-
ton In that election. pulled then the
rope which rang the bell sounding his
death knell throughout the pemocrat@
ic party Of this State. The partisan
majority Of tine committee which took
:.S> "a ;!ii. And that s is n III taEe them
years of hard. honest struggle to re-
deem themselves in the eyes of the
pie arc alive to- the fact that these
charges Of fraud and. perjury and cor
ruption have been made against them,
the white people e9 South Carolina,
and when the time comes, II men with
the moral courage and the political
backbone get upon the rostrum In this
Stste eat expose tha RefaPiOcSaes5 of
those who made md who took up
these charges. every one OF them will
be wiped from the face OF the politi-
cal arena, and those who stood with
tho majority In that election will
again stand with the majority, for
fair dealing and for honesty.
No, 1t is not tho syateni that needs
Improving; 1t is not the law that
needs ainending-we have law enough
but It Is the enforcement of the law
Ilat we necd Prosecute 7he men who
handed put money and whiskeg or
who III the future hand sout money
and whiskey. FTQsEcute the men who
try to buy voters Prosecute the, peo-
pie who hire men To travel through
out the State under the, suise OF book
agents, newEpaper reporters and
subscription list hunters, Knd under
other guises, and insteadsof following
the vocations which they claim to
follow, go. around trying 70 buy vot-
ere, trying to debauch the citizenship
of the State, and telling the most will
full and malicious lies upon the then
Governor OF their commonwealth.
Such men and their accessories are,
the men who attempted to eorrupt
the primary, and 1t was only by
Blease exposing their schemes from
the public stump that they were
wbipped--by his showing np that they
had caused shortage In the ballots.
that they had spent money nnd done.
everything that could no possibly,
6pne, to defeat q aman--and then, when
they we're Whipped, = all they could
holler wRs frsud. when every man
Ia Sonth Carolina who is honest and
decent knows sfere was more fraud
and corruption used BY them against.
the man who fSwAipepd them than
conld possibly have been used for him
Prosecute thes men who vioiate fhe
election laws. prosecute the men who
tFysto bribe voters, prosecute the men
who commit pcriurf Mt the hAlinf llnx
and you have. gat law enough. y6u