The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1916-09-12
BLEASE WINS PIEDMONT
NOTERS TO HIS COLORS
Former Governor Blease Given
Greatest Ovation in History of
State at Great Rally in Pied
mont.

y Special to the Herald and News.
Laurens, Sept 9.-Fully $4,000 REQ
pie were addressed by Former Gov
ernor Blease in spartanburg, Green
Vile and Laurens counties today and
tonight, and Blease enthusiasm is run
min riot in the Piedmont.
The meeting at Dukeland park, near
the city of Greenville, was pronounced
by those conyersant with the political
history of the State, as the largest po
litical gathering ever held in South
Carolina, Sheriff Rector, who presid-
ed, said at the conclusion of Mr..
Blease's speech that there were news
papers in South Carolina which would
probably tomoro"' morning try to
make it appear that there were feN.
Blease supporters in the crowd, and
&when he asked for a hand primary,
etween 10000 and 20,00t hands OF
hen and women from Greenville and
bther counties in South Carolina were
held UP for Blease.
III Holding in his arms the little daugh-
Bter of iMr. Oscar Bramlett, Of Green
vile, who was among the many who
presented the former governor with
great mass of flowers, Mr.. Blease said:
"The good book says, and little child
shall lead them. 1 pray God that I
may, like this little child, lead my
people for truth, for justice and for
right"
Wild Enthusiasm.
Scenes of widest enthusiasm mark
/ ed the appearance of Mr.. Blease as
he drove into Greenville from Spar
tanburg where he had addressed
crowd of probably 5000 people. main
ly farmers.
In beginning his spartanhurg ad-
dress Mr.. Blease referred to the open
ing campaign meeting at Spartanburs'
D at which he had promised to make
4 clean campaign upon principles and
4 said that he had carried out that
promise.
81 regret to say, however" he con-
tinued, ''that hoped in vain that there
would be no attempted corruption by
those opposed to me, but I have the
proof that my present opponents have
committees out today taking UP coliec-
tfons of money from whatever source
thew can get it, in order to try to
buy the votes of the pepople of this
state" He told the people to take
the Manning money and get it in cir
eulation and vote for Blease. Mr..
Cooper and his friends had felt what
please had suffered since he had been
| ir politics, he said, and Cooper had
been given cowardly deal by the
newspapers. Had the second race been
with Cooper, he said, there would -
have been the dirty, coward1y work
going on that is now going on De-
cause the Cooper people would non
stoop to the depths to which the Man
ming crowd had stopped.
Reviews Record. :.
Mr. Blease stated mis- platform and
reviewed the record of Governor Man
ming. which he said had been the
worst in the history of the state. He
showed that Manning had voted as
member of the general assembly
AGAINST the measures for the relief OF
the, cotton mill employees for which ne
was now trying to take the credit he
paid a tribute 20 ". S. Rogers, a.
member of the legislature from Spar
tanburg, as the man who was instru-
mental in securing the passage OF the
weekly pay bill.
MIR. Blease said that he stood for
the equal enforcement of the law and
equal justice TO rich and poor alike.
The cashier of Manning's bank stole
$4,000, he said, from the bank and
,Xanning had refused to allow him to
be prosecuted, yet was boasting OF
putting a man on the \changang Tor
selling a half pint OF liquor
"I did not come here" he said, 'for
the purpose of making votes. l came
here to assure you that, on next Tues
day, if you watch the count, will
be elected governor of your state by
fifteen to twenty thousand majority;
but they are going to try to buy The
vote If they can't buy it, they are
going to try to steal it. Yesterday
,ro,ninont man calling himself a