The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-09-14
REFORNERS TO NOMINATE
THEIR OWN CANDIDATES.
Cole L. Blease Will Abide by Decision
Delegates and Work for Nominees
Will Not Run for Congress,
But Willing to Gust Tillman
Charleston American.

SudrlSStOu AueT1Cdu.
Columbia, Sept. st is my idea
and has been, as expressed publicly
and privately for more than year,
that the Reform party should meet
in the city of Columbia, with proper
delegates from every count, and
nominate a ticket for United States
senator on down. and those nominated
should go on the stump and fight
side by side for the interest of the
party"
That is the view expressed by for
mer Governor Blease, leader OF the
Reform party, as to the manner IN
which the organized campaign OF 1913
should be started.
"Ano when the Reform party 80
meets" ne continued, "and puts It's
ticket in the field, am going to ABIDE
by it, regardless of whom they put up
or for what position, and light as long
as / can fight for its success. That
has been my position all the way
through, and the more see of the at
t,tnde and action and bitter partisan
shin and meanness OF the other SIDE
the more thoroughly convinced l am
that that is our duty. But, aDoVe all
o1so we must attend the club meet
ings in April and get control OF the
machinery of our party, or at least
enough of it to guarantee us a free
ballot and a fair count. Without this
we can never succeed, for if We get
the votes they will be stolen as they
were last year when was elected
governor, and the election was stolen
from me by perjury, bribery, fraud
etc. I am for the reform party and
for it's best interest, and am going to
abide by whatever majority OF its
members say, candidate or no candl-
date"
While in Anderson the past week,
in response to a question from a
newspaper man as to politics, the
former governor is quoted as say
ing:
Had the People Been Asked
when asked in reference to poll
tics. he stated that he had nothing to
say along that line, except he was
very much gratifed az every place
he had been this summer and spoken,
that sentiment was strongly, in fact,
almost unanimously with him in his
position on the war, and that he was
thoroughly satisfied that had the
white people of the state been given
an opportunity to vote as between
war and no war, fully Is per cent OF
them would have voted mo war, and
that since the matter had progressed
as fas as it has, he is satisfied, ii
were left to vote of the white peo-
pie today 80 per cent of them would
vote for peace on honorable terms.
AS he found it, he said, the great heart
of the people of South Carolina is not
in this war, and he thought no higher
proof OF this was needed than the
labored efforts that had been and are
being made by certain orators (D
running around all over the state
clamoring and pleading, trying to get
up war sentiment He said he wa1
still at loss to know why some peo.
pie who. were: so loud in their clam
oring for war did not go to war; that
Mr.. WILSON, when he was elected pres
ident certainly must have known tha
he was being elected COMMANDMENTS
chief of all the. American forces, and
Mr.. Manning certainly must have
known that when he was declared
governor he would be commander-in
chief of all the South Carolina forces
and Mr.. Blease said he thought botl
these gentlemen owed it, to the peopl
Who elected the INTO have gone to the
front when, their forces had to go into
the war. that he offered to do so when
he was governor and would do sc
now if he were president or governor
and that every senator and congress
man who voted for war should have
resigned and rendered his services t.