The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-08-31


s.ve.y identified with partisan poll
ties in South Carolina in recent years.
There is talk that such man viii De
in the gubernatorial race.
The Piedmont gives no indication
as to who its dark horse may %.
One thing may be stated delniteiJ.
however. that the people OF SouCA
Carolina next year are not going 70
elect any man governor who does nor
take positive and definite stand upon
the issues, both state and national
about which they are now thinking
and making up their minds.
AS to the Tillman prophecy, Tie
Piedmont makes the same prediction
which has already been made in this
orrespondence-that Senator Tlliman
viii be a candidate for reelection anu
that the race for the senate is going
TO narrow down, to all intents and
.purposd5, between senator I1limaii
and former Governor Blease. MI.
Blease made the significant statement
in his address at Pickens YESTERDAY.
as reported in this correspondence:
He denounced Senator Tillman as
a traitor to the reform party and
said if Tillman was a candidate ro4
reelection to the senate next summer
he expected to tell him so on 80
stumps throughout the state if he mas
the manhood to come and not holler,
4 am too i'll to face the people; in
other words, play the baby act ana
stay at home"
Blease for Senator
That was taken by the audience as
practically positive announcement
that Mr.. Blease would be in the sens-
torial race next summer.
AS indicative of the attitude taken
by Mr.. Blease in regard to this mat
ter it may be stated that when asked
the direct question by newspaper
man in Greenyille yesterday morning
if he had any political announcement
to make, he was correctly quoted as
saying: 81 will not be candidate
for any office next year so far as ]
know" Then Mr.. Blease's statement
in his addres was made several hours
later, after he had reached Pickens,
and had been approached by hundreds
of people urging that he make tAe
race for either the governorsn!P or
the senate 1t can be stated as pos
tive fact, in view of the statement in
the Pickens speech thai Ar. B1ease
will be in the race for the Baited Stats
senate unless developments between
. now and the campaign shosid be such
that he can serve the reform party
better in some other capacity. That
he Will not be candidate for COVER
nor, however, he again stated posi-
lively in his Pickens speech.
No Splits
The anti-reform party, (What is left
of it,, continues to try to make it ap-
pear that there are splits in the
reform faction in regard to the war
question. If the reform faction Lad
split into as many pieces as has been
! the effort to make it appear, it would
now have been split into about $4,000
of 10000 pieces, each individual form
i ing wing" of his own. The reform
| party, however, as mater of fact, is
more solidly lined up behind the prtn-
ciples for which it has fought IN re-
cent years than it has ever been be-
fore
Again quoting from the Piedmont
up in the section where the campaign
has been active lately:
eff Blease's speeches meant any
thing at all they meant clear-cut
break with these men, for a politician
is not apt to remain politically friend.
ly with man who asserts that he ought
to lose his public Office. But the Co.
lumbia correspondent of The Charles.
ton American, who has a habit Of ed
torializing as to the news he SENDS
his paper, asserts that those who are
counting on a break between Blease
and some of those who have been his
political friends because of his Po-
maria and Filbert speeches are max
ing a miscalculation We shall see
what We shall see."
Evidence Of Fear
It may be stated that in thi smoye-
ment Of the people which is aow ca