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f YORKVILLE ENQUIRER. ISSUED SEMI-WKKHLT. L. *GRISTS 8018.'PrtKta. ( & 4*??8 S"W: jf" |raMrti?n OK jpalitiffll, g-grieattural and Commercial gnlcrcstg of ih< g?gt<. ^ { ST* established 1855. YORKVILLE, S. C., TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1913. NO. 8. ? THE AMERICj ? _ ! I By ETTA V ? CHAPTER XVI. Mr. Finch. The paper dropped from Miss Affry's hold. Her heart gave one great, suffocating bound and then seemed to stand still. The room whirled around her. At last?at last! She snatched up the notice and read it again. No, her eyes had not deceived her. She was wanted ?Val was wanted! She looked at the clock; it was scarcely'past two. Miss Affry flew to her closet, flung on her bonnet and shawl, thrust her shaking hands into her cotton gloves and with out a word to Mercy, wun no muie thought of the girl than if she was not in existence, she rushed wildly out of the house and out of Seedy Court. How she reached Devonshire street she never knew. She had a dim consciousness of tearing blindly along noisy thoroughfares?of elbowing her way through crowds of people, who looked down on her shabby, insignificant figure in angry amaze?of feeling half choked with the wild throbbing of . her heart; but to her scattered wits [ these things seemed as vague and indlstinct as the things of a dream. Some good angel miist have guided her, however for presently she found herself standing on the sunless side of Devonshire street before an entrance that bore the number and sign she sought. Ascending flight after flight of stairs, Miss Affry pushed open a door on the third floor of the building and stood In the office of the British consulate. Several persons were present, transacting business at the desk or waiting for a chance to do so. No one seemed to notice Miss Affry's entrance. She cast one sharp glance around the place and then walked straight up to a small, gray gentleman who was seated with his back to a window, reading a copy of the London Times. He looked up as she approached. "I want to see the London lawyer who advertised for Robert Arbuckle's son " said the old woman, in a trembling voice. "Is he here?" , The little gray man arose to his feet "Who are you?" he demanded. "She drew nearer and peered up in his face with breathless eagerness. They had known each other well twenty-five years before. Had the wear and tear of a quarter of a century changed both beyond recognition? Scarcely. "I am Affry Black," answered the woman, "the sister of Robert Arbuckle's wife. And you?merciful Heaven! You are Peter Finch himself!" , Mr. Finch's face was as expressionless as a piece of leather!" "Follow me," he said, and straightway led Miss Affry into an inner room, closed the door and sat down beside her, scanning her closely with a pair of eyes that meant Dusiness. "You say that you are Affry Black " remarked Mr. Finch, calmly. "The person who answered to that name at Deepmoor Hall twenty-five years ago was not In the least like you." She looked him squarely in the face. "That's true enough, for Affry Black was young then, an<V pretty?you told me that yourself one day In Lady Arbuckle's laurel walk. I was coming home from an errand at Deepmoor rectory'. and I met you there?do you remember??just where the path dipped down to my lady's rose-garden. You tried to kiss me behind the laurels, and I boxed your ears; I was not used to the free ways of lawyer clerks." The blood arose in Mr. Finch's gray cheek at this reminiscence of youthful gallantry; then he laughed. "Go on?tell me more!" he said, in a sprightly tone. "What shall I tell you?" flashed the old woman, a fierce excitement leaping into her face and voice alike, "that twenty-six years ago my sister. Christine Black, was waiting-maid to Lady Arbuckle?that she was the prettiest girl in all Lincolnshire?that not a picture amnnp nil the famllv Dortraits at Deepmoor Hall could compare with her? You remember her blue eyes, I dare say. and her white skin and her yellow hair, for the person who saw her once could never forget her. Shall I tell you that we were the twin daughters of old Sir Godfrey's gamekeeper who had been shot by poachers the year before we took service at the Hall? ?that we were alone in the world and loved each other dearly? Shall I tell you about the baronet's two sons? young Mr. Godfrey, the heir, a born aristocrat, like his father, and Mr. Robert, a gay, wild, ne'er-do-well, the black sheep of the Arbuckles?a man who could never withstand a handsome face whether gentle or low-born? Shall I tell you how Mr. Robert fell in love with his mother's waiting-maid, and fled with her to London, and there married her like the true gentleman which he was, in spite of all his faults? I can show you Christine's marriage lines Peter Finch, and her weddingring. I have kept both all these years, as the most precious things I had in the world!" "No one ever doubted in the least that Robert Arbuckle married your sister." answered Peter Finch; "poor young man! He was stark, staring mad." "Mad or sane," said Miss Affry, bitterly, "he was the only one of the Arbuckles who was born with a heart. Ah they were a hard race, sir?a stiffnecked, iron race! Her ladyship turned me from my place at Deepmoor Hall? turned me into the street, although I had no hand whatever in Christie's marriage; indeed, it was as great a shock and surprise to me as to anybody sir. I took the little money I had and went up to London and found the young pair in rniaerauie musiuga uumi Old Brompton way?a dismal hole, as damp as a wash-house, for the old baronet had cut off his son's supplies. Mr. Robert was sure, though, that his family would forgive him; but he reckoned without his host. They didn't forgive him, as you know well sir?they cursed and disowned him, and left him to take his choice of beggary or starvation. I don't think Mr. Robert had five pounds in the wor d at the time I Joined Christie in London. After a while he was forced to write and ask help of his father; but his letter was never answered. Lady Arbuckle, though, sent the poor lad two fifty-pound notes?^he had a little feeling for him, though she was quite as furious as the others at his marriage. You brought the money to us?do you remerr.ber??and witn it some motherly advice from her ladyship; she thought Mr. Robert had better leave England at once?take himself and his wife to America or Australia, or some place where the relatives he had disgraced would never hear of him more. How Christine wept and walled when you told us!?you see that my memory has not gone the way of my good looks, Peter Finch?and poor Mr. Robert went quite wild with wrath and disappointment. He bade you tell his lady mother that he would go?that he would never see her face again, nor the faces of any of his kindred. Two days after he sailed with Christine for America, and I went with them. I swore then that I would never forsake the poor foolish pair, and I never did." Mr. Finch started up?he could contain himself no longer. "Where is the boy?where is Robert Arbuckle's son?" he cried, breathlessly. "Here?in this city?with me." answered Affry. "Alive and well?" "Alive and well." "Thank God!" , She turned sharply on the old barrister. "What do you want of my laddie?? iN COUNTESS h + b ? r< Si i p V. PIERCE. | J f ' ----- I.. wno sent you to nnd mm? mow tnat Sir Godfrey has lost his own brood, does he begin to think kindly of poor c< Mr. Robert's boy?" "Then you know that the baronet's it sons are dead?" said Mr. Finch. "Yes. Weeks ago, in the foreign 01 news of a daily paper I read that 8lr tl Godfrey, the man who lately made t< some great conservative speech in parliament had lost his entire family with- al in six months?one son by fever and two by drowning. Mark you, till that P' night I had never told my laddie who L or what he was. Then, for the first > time, he knew that he had blue blood b< In his veins. With his dying breath Mr. Robert charged me to give the boy his mother's name, and keep from him, as long as I could, all knowledge of his English relatives and I obeyed him to the letter. He was very bitter against V his own people, was poor Mr. Robert, y< and very anxious that Val should be ?? brought up in ignorance of them all and h< with no expectations whatever. Christie died at the child's birth?died in gi poverty and despair sir, and Mr. Rob- tli ert followed her a few months later; gi so the lad was left to me." &< Mr. Finch cleared his throat with a slight cough. of "Yes. Robert Arbuckle wrote to his th mother about the death of his wife, and af the birth of the ch'ld. That letter was ai given me to keep?also the one in w which you told her ladyship of Robert's n< death. Ten years ago I heard of you y< again from a former housekeeper at ar Deepmoor Hall, to whom you sent in- y< formation that the iad was strong and be well, and that you were supporting him yc by any work your nandr could find t<do. Happily for us all, my good Afltr>, these bits of intelligence guided me straight to this city, and made your discovery comparatively easy." In her fierce impatience she grasped H his arm with both hands. "What do you mean Dy an mis rain: Speak! What brought you to America in search of Val?and I?" re "Be calm, Affry?I have great tidings t for you. Sir Godfrey Arbuckle is dying of an incurable disease at Deep- F1 moor Park. The ancestral estate will ti( be your nephew's by entail?the title |D will be his, and more than this, Sir Godfrey has acknowledged him as his 111 rightful heir and bequeathed to him? la he wishes you to know this?all his th other possessions. He has also sent me . to And and bring you both immediately to England?he is mad to see the boy before he dies." m Aflfry's hands dropped away from the W) !awyer's arm. Her withered face grew . colorless as death. 1 What news was this, after all her wl weary years of poverty and privation! ag what news was this for the laddie she ^ loved so well! Sir Godfrey's acknowledged heir?the next baronet of the Wl name?her Val! The room went round vc and round before her eyes. f0 "Come," cried Mr. Pinch, "where is your nephew D?t us go to him at once." th She rose, mechanically. 01 Vol la n rlerk in a banking-house mi near by. My head is a little unsteady, sir?you must know that this, is Indeed m great news for me?I never dreamed It th could be?never! with the baronet's jn strong sons betwixt my lad and the title; and even after I knew the boys were dead I said, and Val Bald, that In the chances were Htill against anything itj of the kind. Sir Godfrey was not an hj old man?he might marry again and have other sons?It was more than likely, and ever since we have been fu trying, both of us, to give no thought ta to the matter, to Indulge In no false hopes." She was trembling so violently that wi Mr. Finch hastened to support her. C] "I rejoice with you." he said, heartily, y, "you have suffered and sacrificed a great deal for the lad, I doubt not and P1 now your reward has come. Be calm, st It Is all right. If you are able we will w go at once?I do greatly long to see Robert Arbuckle's son." Oh, what would Val say? That was Ai the first thought that came to Miss At- w fry, even In her own excess of Joy. How would he receive this sudden change of fortune? She descended the u stairs with Mr. Finch?he gave his arm st to her as If she had been a duchess. at She was no longer In his eyes the exhousomald of Deepmoor Hall, but the aunt of Its future lord and master. h< "A banker's clerk," he murmured, as of they trotted away together; "you have rt| managed, then to give him some sort of an education?" "Yes," she answered, "in the public ed schools?it was all I could do for him. jn He was a bright scholar always, the . first in his class. Look at these hands they will te'.l you how I have worked 8t for my laddie," a id she spread out her crooked toil-knotted fingers expressive- ti< ly. of They reached the banking-house of cc Sardis & Co.. to find Val out upon some errand for the house. to Jacob Phillips, to whom Mr. Finch briefly explained his business, conduct- A ed the two to an inner room to await ki the young clerk's return. C< Fifteen minutes passed?half an hour Fi Miss Affry was growing wild with im- H patience, when the door suddenly open- le ed, and Val's stalwart figure and heavy ly face appeared on the threshold. He en- L: tered briskly. M "Halloo! little woman, anything w wrong?" he began, bestowing a rather O quizzical look upon Mr. Finch. te Miss Affry turned to the lawyer. R "This is my nephew," was all she SI could say. T Mr. Finch stepped forward, quickly. W His keen eyes ran over the young fel- lit low from head to foot, and filled with le prompt approval. A true Arbuckle this ?ay. Sir Godfrey's very Image?red B hair, square shoulders general.ugliness D and all. G "No, nothing Is wrong," he answered, w I "don't mind your aunt, she Is quite up- E set. I am Mr. Finch of London, the L family solicitor of Sir Godfrey Ar- Q buckle and?I have news for you!" P Val stood looking from one to the M other, but he spoke not a word. la Peter Finch advanced nearer and m held out his hand. "Mr. Valentine Arbuckle," said he, "I am happy to tell you that I have been sent by your uncle, Sir Godfrey, to bring you to England. He has acknowl- C edged you as his heir, and he prays you to hasten to him at once. He is dying of a hopeless malady, and we aVtoll Kn JnHooH \f U'P flnrt I Si him living by the time we reach Lincolnshire." pi Ever since that birth-night, when Miss AfTry had read of the death of the y baronet's sons and had revealed to her E nephew his father's tragic story, Val pi had known that such an event as this 0l was. at least, possible?that, unless Sir Godfrey should marry again, he might H some day Inherit Deepmoor. Nevertheless, Mr. Finch's news fell upon his u ears like some Arabian Nights story? n: as unreal and absurd. n: Miss Affry flung her arms about his ai neck, and told him how Sir Godfrey's ol heart had been turned to his brother's ol son?how Mr. Finch's advertisement h had chanced to meet her eyes that af- hi ternoon?how that he?Val?was no longer a shabby clerk, with a salary tl scarcely sufficient to meet his necessl- d; ties, but the heir to a baronetcy, and fc twenty thousand pounds a year. g He broke from her with a wild laugh ai and began to stride up and down the p room as if his head was turned. "I the heir of twenty thousand per fc year! I a prospective baronet!" ho ai cried. "I look like it, do I not? I, with u the clown plainly written all over me, b< with the manners of a hod-carrier! h< rest God! It must be that we are all ?ad together!" "Not at all," said Mr. Finch cheerfulr; "It is quite true; and pardon me If assure you that you do look like a aronet for you have the face, the hair, He figure that have been In the Aruckle line for generations. A proud ace, a stern race, but never a handome one." "Oh, Val, believe It, won't you?" en eated Miss Aftry; 'believe that the overty's over, and the clerking, and tie lodgers that don't pay their icnt nd the pinching and contriving"? Words could no further go, but two reat tears of unspeakable joy rolled own her withered cheeks. Val turned ulckly upon her. "Mercy!" he cried, breathlessly? does she know?" Miss Affry started as If she had revived a douche. It was the first time tie had thought of the girl since leavlg Seedy Court "Certainly not," she answered; "I ran ut of the house as soon as I had read le notice, and without saying a word ) any one." "Good heaven! and we are wasting II this time here, away from her. Let b go home at once. Mercy," he exlained, turning from Miss Affry to the ondon lawyer, with, an uncertain nile "is my betrothed wife?I am to s married this very night." Mr. Finch gave an unpleasant start. "Married!" "Exactly." "May I ask who the lady is?" "She is not a lady at all," answered al, with a defiant laugh?"that is, as >u understand the term. She Is a poor amstress. who earns her living by ?r needle." Mr. Finch's face grew supernaturally ave. The heir of Deepmoor Hall on le verge of a mesalliance with a work rl! Robert Arbuckle's folly all en:ted over again! This was too bad. "My dear sir,* he said, in a voice full ' suppressed agitation, "you are not le same person that you were an hour fo. In view of your altered prospects, id your new duties especially those hlch you owe to Sir Godfrey, may I >t suggest that it would be wise for >u to pause a little before taking such i important step as matrimony? For >ur uncle's sake, for your own sake, ? prudent, I beg you?do nothing that >u will regret." (To be continued.) THE FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT ouse Puts Through Resolution Asking for Its Repeal. The house last Thursday passed a solution calling upon congress to ke steps looking to the repeal of the Ifteenth amendment to the constltuin of the United States. The resolun was introduced by Chairman Wll' ?- AnmmlttaA nr? U'oHorci 1 Pp. till D UI ilic CUIIlllUiiw VII A vwviw. tions. It came up suddenly and alough there were many members who r various reasons did not want to see pass, it was acted upon quickly. The aln point brought out in the debate as the fact that southern representajn in congress Is based on the total hite and colored population of voting re. if the Fifteenth amendment would > repealed southern representation ould be reduced to a basis of white iters alone. The resolution was as Hows: Whereas, the present civilization of e white race has been achieved witir* it the assistance of the negro race, tie negro race has made no advanceent only aB he comes in contact with e other human races. His presence the United States is because of his >t having a government of his own Africa sufficiently strong to protect i subjects, the reason for which Is 8 weakness. The people of these nited States have advanced the negro rther than any other nation, having ught him the most extensive lan lage on the globe, the use of tools, the earing of clothing and above all the tiristlan religion. In return for all ese advantages he has given the peoe of these United States only anxiety, rife, bloodshed and the hookorm. So long as he has the ballot he ill be a menace to the civilization of merlca. The ballot was given to him ithout his fitness, or his asking for it, id given him at a time when these nited States were riven asunder by rife prejudice, malice, hatred, anger id revenge. Therefore, Be it resolved by the >use of representatives of the state South Carolina, the senate concurng. First, That the congress of the UnitI States be, and are hereby, asked to lmediately take action for the repeal ' the fifteenth amendment to the Conitutlon of the United States. Second, That copies of these resolucms be printed and forwarded to each our senators and representatives in ingress. Here is the yea and nay vote, yeas r and nays against the resolution: Yeas?Speaker Smith, Addy, J. W. shley M. J. Ashley, Atkinson, Basn, Bowers Browning, Clowney, ourtney, Cross, Daniel, Delaughter, ortner, Fripp. Gray, Greer, Halle all, Hardin, Harrelson, Harvey, Holy, Hutson, W. A. James Jones, Kel, Kennedy, Kibier, Klrby, Lumpkin, ybrand, McCravey, Malpass, Massey elfl Miller, Mitchell, Mltchum, Moore, [oseley. Mower, Murray, Nelson, 'Quinn, Pyatt, Ready, Rembert, Ritnberg, Robertson, Robinson, L. M. ogers, W. S. Rogers Jr., Schroder, herwood, Shirley, Stanley. Sturkle, hompson, Tindal, Walker, Welch rhite Whitehead. Jr., Wllburn, Wilims, C. C. Wyche, C. T. Wyche Zeigr.?70. Nays?Belser, Bethea, Blackwell, oyd, Brice, Busbee, Charles, Creech, antzler, Dick, Epps, Evans, Friday, asque, Goodwin, Harper, Haynesorth, Hiott, Hunter, Hutchison W. . James. Johnston. Kellehan, Kirk, ee. Long, McDonald, McMillan. Mcueen Martin, Means, Miley, Mlxson, egues, Riddle, Riley, Sanders Walter [. Scott, Smiley, Stevenson, Strick.nd, Warner, Warren Whaley, Youlans.?46. AS THE BIBLE PRtSliKI UtU olored Evangelist Had Holy Oil Mixed According to Exodus. "We had a funny experience In our :ore the other day," said a drug clerk. \n old colored man came Into our harmacy and gave one of the boys a rescriptlon, relates the Columbus Ispatch. It was In the form of two assages from the thirteenth chapter f Exodus, which he pointed out in a Ible he was carrying. "The passage read: "Take thou also nto three principal spices, of pure lyrrh 500 shekels, and of sweet cinamon half so much, even 250 shekels, nd of sweet calamus 250 shekels. And f cassia 500 shekels after the shekel f the sanctuary, and of olive o.. a in.' This was for the forming of the oly anointing oil. "In the same chapter it was stated lat a shekel Is 20 gerahs. The head ruggist went to the public library and >und that a shekel is formed of 244^ rains, and that a hin is 1.6 gallons, nd armed with that knowledge he repared the prescription. "When the old man came back we >und that he is a traveling evangelist nd that he expected to use this oi! pon his communicants, after it had een prepared after the instructions anded down from heaven to Moses." ' THE GOVERNOR'S INAUGURAL 2 u tc Outline ol Executive Policy for the [; Next Two Tears. " w POSITIVE VIEWS ON CURRENT HATTERS t ai S< Appropriations for Collsgss Must bo Itemized. Give the People a Chance to Register Before Amending Pri- flj mary Rule*?Important Investiga- tt tions Called For?Matters Personal ^ and Otherwise. bl Following Is a stenographic report of h' the address that Governor Blease de- hi llvered to the general assembly in Joint 1,1 session and to crowds of visitors In the J11 house galleries on last Tuesday, the '? occasion of his second inauguration as y< governor. tr Mr. President, Mr. Speaker, Gentle- to men of the House of Representatives y< and State Senate, Ladles and Gentlemen: w God Almighty has never given to any H man truer or more devoted friends than h? he has given to me, and no man loves his friends better than I love mine. ar Hanging on the wall in the office of the th chief executive of South Carolina is a motto which reads: "Of what shall a "I1 man be proud if he is not proud of his y? friends." Sometimes the question is to asked me why it is or how it is that I er can get hold of certain information th which seems to be a secret between man es and man, or sometimes between a man C* and his God. It is because my friends w' are true; they are ever zealous and al- a ways on the alert to protect me and my r,l Interests wherever or whenever the oe- y? casion may arise. I hold in my hand "V the Bible upon which I have taken the he oath of office as governor of South Car- wi olina for the second time. It was my th father's Bille. In it I read, "Thy th friends and thy father's friends forsake m' not." If I never obeyed any other injunction in it I have tried to obey that '8 one, and by the help of God, I shall continue so to do. I read another passage: at "And all things whatsoever ye shall ask ,8< in prayer, believing, ye shall receive." I to hope that the ministers of the Gospel A who prayed for my defeat last summer y? feel within their hearts that they be- ah lieved when they were praying; and, a if so, they should, be happy. Those who a?' prayed for the best man to win should do certainly be delighted, for, from that W passage of Scripture, they certainly be- th lieved when they prayed, and I have 8a the honor of addressing this general as- to sembly, by the voice of nearly seventy- tio Ave thousand of the white people of P? South Carolina. We were told that some th ladies prayed in that campaign. I am t* satisfied they believed when they pray- 88 ed. God answered their prayer, and I ye thank them for praying for the best co man to win. I thank them that I am 'ni here. ne Gentlemen of the general assembly, I he desire to say to you that I regret the y? fact that there is a fight between two an of your state colleges?one that I think ag should be investigated by you and one "V that I think should be investigated in a P? serious manner. If I am correctly in-, ye formed, the Peabody fund being distrib- foi uted throughout these United States he has as one of the members of its trus- pr tees the Hon. Martin F. Ansel, of South tri Carolina. If I am correctly informed, In1 the trustees of this fund had agreed to & give Winthrop college about $90,000. Ih The president of the South Carolina *ri college went north, ami I am told that * Mr. Ansel has in his possession a state- ho ment signed by the president of the South Carolina college that if the Pea- tri body fund trustees would give to the ye South Carolina college a certain amount lai of that money, that he, aa president of of the South Carolina college, would agree pa and consent for the remainder of that th money to go to the education of free co negroes. I have tried to get a copy of that report, and have not succeeded; sei but I have the word of Prof. D. B. John- W son, the able and distinguished presl- ho dent of Winthrop, that that is true. "L And, If It is true, certainly the presl- de dent of the South Carolina college has of no place In the educational department Bti of South Carolina. If he would rather wi take that money to educate negroes rai than to give it to the white girls of "H South Carolina, he certainly has no ed place during my administration in any ra< department of the government, or, par- a i tlcularly, the educational department of an the state. You can get the information &g if you will ask Mr. August Kohn, who. hli I understand, was somewhat familiar on with the transaction; or possibly if you no will ask the state superintendent the all Hon. John E. Swearingen, or If you se< will summon before your committee da Dr. D. B. Johnson, the president of if Winthrop college. ?1 Now, gentlemen, if the two colleges 1 are to fight one another?if Winthrop to is to fight the university, let Winthrop flc fight the university like a man; or, if vi< the university is to fight Winthrop, let rei the university fight Winthrop like a or. man; but for God's sake, don't let co: them use such methods as I have re- sti ceived this Information of; don't let one mi of them say, after it has received its Co measly pittance, that It is willing that Qu the balance should go to educate free noorSAoa In Qnnt Vi Pcirollno That Is a matter for you to lnvesti- jn' gate, and it is a serious matter. If they c0 had let Winthrop alone, I am informed no she would have got $90,000, and possi- _e bly more, but by this under-handed tlo fight she was cut down very consider- lt ably in that appropriation, and you will pr( be called upon this year, as a result to ^ make a larger appropriation than you _e would have had to make if Winthrop pu had received that money. I tried to get the facts plainer to lay them before j^( you; I wanted to get them in writing; e but I am satisfied that if you will send for Prof. Johnson he will tell you what he told me, and when he does tell you I am satisfied that you will find (if you ^ will excuse a common expression) a mj pretty dirty transaction on the part of rgl somebody. That is plain talk, but that is exact- |nJ ly what I came up here for. on Now, gentlemen of the general as- ey sembly, I want to call your attention to tlo another matter. I want to ask you, 0f when these colleges present their esti- mi mates, and the appropriation bill is rui drawn, that you require that the items an be separated. Some of you have been coi elected on a platform of economy; some jn of you promised on the stump to try to W help to reduce taxes. I stand here to i , Join you in that fight, whatever may be tlo the consequences. And, my friends, fal don't let the South Carolina college ho come in here and say, for the South fr< Carolina college $218,000; don't let 0r< Winthrop say, for Winthrop $118,000; ca don't let the Citadel say, for the Cita- thi del $33,500. If you do don't be sur- de prised if I apply the veto, for, in that Sei event, I expect to do so, even If it shuts toi up the colleges for the balance of this wj year; I am going to do it; I am going wc to put the matter squarely up to you, ea because I promised the people, by the w< help of God, that I would do what I m; could to reduce taxes, and I am going mi to do my part. The 72 043 people who At voted for me shall never say I did not mi carry out every promise I made them, mi if God gives me the strength and lets let me live. But they will come In and say, yo "Oh, if you sustain that veto you will sti shut up the college." Then put it this tai way: For maintenance, so many thous- les ands; for new buildings, so many Or thousands. Then If an item for new fri buildings is vetoed, you can kill it tic without hurting the college; if an Item N( for any other particular purpose is in- is eluded, that can be vetoed, and you can he sustain that veto without hurting the pr college. But, gentlemen, if you allow br the bill to pass your house and senate do making an appropriation in bulk sum Bi for such and such college so much su money, then, when the veto is applied, sei the appeal will be made to you upon rei this floor and over yonder that if you op Sustain this veto you will shut up the co college. Gentlemen of the Ways and m< Means committee and of the Finance ful committee. I beg you, in behalf of the to constituency whom you first begged on and then pleaded with last summer, to ne And here like men and help me reduce ixes In South Carolina. You may think le people are not watching, but I link if you would wire this morning > some of the members of the last leglature they would wire back, "Yes, ie people are watching, because we re at home." Now, gentlemen, there is a man I ant to warn you against?I have had cperience in this house and yonder Dth?and that is Mr. Professional obbyist. Sometimes he is a lawyer nd paid lobbyist; sometimes a doctor; imetimes he is a man who has foriken the Lord's vineyard?a preacher, ho has forsaken the Lord's vineyard nd gone into the field of the profesonal lobbyist, and is hanging around ie legislature, hired by somebody, fhen a man pulls you off and begins to ilk so much you should not pass this >11, or should not pass that bill, ask lm what railroad company is paying Im to be here; ask him what corporaon is paying him to be here; ask him ie question, my friends. Are you here r the people of South Carolina, or are >u paid to come here and lobby me on lis bill? That is the question to put him, and when you put it. Just watch >ur man, and you will see that he is ting paid by a corporation, and is not orking for the interests of the people. 1 ow many farmers do you see around 1 re begging you to do something for em? How many fellows do you see ound here begging you to do someing for the people directly? Oh, they tg you not to pass the two-cent rate? t will ruin the railroads." They beg u not to cut the legal rate of Interest six per cent Look at the skyscrap8 up street. Who built them? Why e people who paid extravagant Intert and built this town. All over South irollna you will And It Therefore, nen a man comes to you lobbying for bill, if he Is a fellow-member, all fht; he has a constituency, Just as u have; but If he is an outsider, say, That is your name? Why are you re lobbying for this thing?" I am irnlng you new members. Some of ese old ones have had experience, and ey had to beg mighty hard last Burner to get over that experience. Now, my friends, I understand there going to be a bill introduced along a te to which I want to call particular tention. It Is a bill to prevent mag;rates from using the criminal courts collect debts. It is a serious matter, negro goes out here and works on ur farm. Some little agent comes Nig and wants to sell him a clock or Bible, or something else?probably a wing machine. The agent will sit wn in this, house and talk to the neo and say, "Well, I want to sell you is machine." After awhile the negro 1 ys he will take it. The agent begins ] write, and he looks around over the use and puts down everything the 1 or negro has. and very often someIng the poor negro hasn't. He will 1 t the negro to sign the paper. That 1 ent will witness it. In the fall of the ' ar another agent will come back to 1 llect that debt. "Where is your sew- 1 g machine?" he will ask. "Boss, I 1 ver had no sewing machine." "Oh, j re is a paper signed by you saying ' u have; don't talk about not having iy sewing machine." "Where is that ent what come here?" "He is gone." yhere Is that hog you had In the n?" "Boss, I never had no hog." "Oh, a it is in the paper." Then he goes r a little magistrate somewhere, and indicts that negro for disposing of operty under mortgage. The magisite sends and has the negro dragged to court before him. Then he will y, "Now, If you will pay this man Is mortgage and pay the costs, we :)1 let you out" The negro goes out your farm right over to another man, rrows the money to pay this mortge, and binds himself up under conict to work for that other man next ar. And the magistrate, In open vlotion of the law uses the criminal part his court as a collecting agency, puts rt of the money In his pocket, and is reatening to ruin the labor of this untry. Now. gentlemen of the general asmbly, we fuss about law and order, hy, I saw men up here last summer Ilerlng, "Law and Order," yelling for aw and Order," and "We must reem South Carolina," and I saw some those same men down here at the ite fair drinking liquor and mixing it th Coca Cola, and betting on horse cing. Who is going to redeem them? :edeem South Carolina? She is ruin! Shut up the Charleston horse ces"?and slipping down here under Btand drinking liquor and Coca Cola, d slipping up to a fellow backed up alnst the fence with a little box in 3 hand and slipping out tickets to bet the horse raceB! Do you call that t gambling? Oh, gentlemen, let us 10 get to those higher up. Here is a cnon or your statutes mat is ucmg ily violated?and I would like to ask anybody in this house Is violating It t)f course I do not expect an answer: "It shall be unlawful for any person assume the duties of any public ofe until he has taken the oath proled by the Constitution, and been fularly commissioned by thegovernThe term "public officers" shall be nstrued to mean all officers of the ite that have heretofore been comssioned, the trustees of the various lieges of the state, members of varls state boards, and other persons lose duties are defined by law." Are there any men serving in office South Carolina today as trustees of lieges, or on other boards, who are t serving under commissions If so, ntlemen they are violating that sec - " roc ?M/1 in 01 your buhuicb?dcuhuii uou?anu is the duty of the attorney general to osecute them. There is no punlshsnt provided in that section, but the neral statutes provide that where no nishment is provided, the judge shall pose such punishment as he sees tit. >w, gentlemen, if you want to go lowdown to sustain the law, let the-man ?her up sustain it. Much has been said about primary actions. I do not propose to discuss Is question very far. When the priiry started last summer I offered a ward of one hundred dollars each for 8 first five convictions of men violat? the election laws?that is, betting the elections or trying to use mon, whisky or intimidation in the elecns. Notwithstanding all these charges fraud from the state executive comttee notwithstanding the committee's nning to Spartanburg and Greenville, d other places, not a single man has me and said, "I want one of those )0 rewards." No, gentlemen, and ill they may not come. That is enough. Aid what I could to prevent vlolams of the election laws and for a Ir election. I stand on record in this - - * - fl use ana in yon aenme incaumg ? ? ie and fair election. I stand on recti as a member of the state board of nvassers of South Carolina as being e only man voting for a resolution manding it. There sits in this asmblage today a distinguished ex-atrney general of South Carolina who is a member of that board, and who >uld have voted with me, but t!lness lied him to his home. My actions >re so fine on that occasion that even f distinguished friends, the Cuban xed-breeds, paid me a compliment, id yet they holler fraud in the priiry. I wish you would appoint a comittee to investigate that fraud, and me come before it, and let me send u some witnesses from Buncombe reet In Greenville, Ward 1 In Spar- J nburg, from some precincts In Char- ' iton, and one or two In the county of 1 angeburg. We were ready for the J ly; we were ready for the lnvestlga- 1 in; but like all bubbles, It went out. >w, gentlemen, what I would advise v this?and I want to say to you right t re, you got here on the bridge of the \ Imary. Are you going to burn the p Idge that brought you over? If you c , you will do it by a two-thirds vote, c it, gentlemen, here Is what I would t bmlt to you: Pass an act at this s ssion requiring the county boards of p glstratlon of the various counties to t en the books of registration in every r unty in South Carolina during the r jnths of July and August. 1913?two 1 II months?and require those boards c go to every township In the county, p e day or two days, If It should be \ cessary, so that you will give every c white man in South Carolina a fair opportunity to register in July and August. Then, if any man does not register, certainly he can not blame anybody else, and when you come back here next year, after your books of registration have been open for two long mnnth? nnH vnn ha up tri van trw svorv white man the opportunity to put his name on the books of registration, then you will be In a position to pass upon the question as to how you will amend your primary law. They holler fraud. Who committed It? Where was It? Nearly all the county executive committees were against me; the state executive committee, with all Its machinery, was against me. When I asked the chairman at Spartanburg to give me one manager of election at each precinct, he refused It. How, in the name of God, could the Bleaseites steal, when the other side had all the machinery in their hands? The only way you can account for It Is on the theory that the other side will admit they were a set of fools and did not know what to do with It after they had It. Now, they accuse my friends of be- < lng "hoodlums," and say they would not support Woodrow Wilson. You get 1 the returns of last year and look at the state vote and the presidential vote, and see who failed to vote the state i ticket. Why did Wilson get so many more votes In South Carolina than I i did? If the Blease people did not sup: port Wilson, why was It Wilson ran so I far ahead of me? > Now, gentlemen, I shall not take up ? your time In answering some of the 1 things that were told on me last sum- < mer. It is beneath my notice and be- < neath yours. But I want to mention i one thing. When a Yankee actor or i actress comes through South Carolina and the South Carolina aristocracy sits in the theatre?and the best definition [ know of for aristocracy Is some fellow who does nothing, lives on his daddy's name and doesn't pay his debts ?when they all sit In the theatre, and some man comes out, as, for Instance, tn "The Pink Lady," and says, "I will i>e damned If I do It," oh! the ladles all rell with delight. When a woman comes nut in "The Lonesome Pine," and a fellow says to her, "Country Maiden; rou must reform; love so and so"? naming the family she hates, and she lays, "I could put them in hell," there Is loud applause in the Columbia theatre. In minstrel shows, when the dirtiest songs, going just far enough to leave the most vile interpretation in :he minds of the young, loud applause eomes from the men and women. But when the governor of South Carolina toes to Richmond, Vs., and says what He has said all over his state, then the newspapers come out and say, "It is a norrlble thing that the governor said nail." I tell you, members of the legislature today, what I said then?I repeat it now: Notwithstanding the oath of office which I have just taken from my distinguished friend from Lancaster, who stood by me through thick and thin, and who was re-elected chief lustice of Lancaster If they did fight llm because he was a Bleaseite, I will lever order out a military company, so Help me God, and tell my home boys ind girls?if the girls belonged to the nllitla?to shoot down a white boy, their neighbor and their friend, to protect a black brute who has laid his s- ? - n.kf?A ? sartll nanus upuu a w uivo wuuuui. * mu lever do It And every time I told the white people of this state that this jummer, they hollered back to me, "Go m, boy. you are right; dont ever do it." And I am here today, and I am still right and I am going to stand by it aa long aa God gives me heart and mind and power. But It is all right when a little Yankee show woman comes down here ind says dirty things; that is to be applauded. And yet if a man were to neet you, with your wife, on the street, ind make the same remark to you, you would slap his face. But you sit in :he opera house and applaud. Now, gentlemen, a few days ago the Mews and Courier came out with a freat headline?on Sunday, I think it was?with a great displayed headline, 'Hell's Playground"?a novel written >y a Tankee novelist, putting the title n big headlines, for your daughters to ead. But it was a terrible thing when !he governor said "hell." The News and Courier and the Coumbia State and other papers disilaved with great glee the dirtiest :ampalgn joke and lie that haa been :old in South Carolina in a century. They say, "We are family papers, we :an't publish any reply of the tfovern>r, because it hasn't the proper lanruage." But they could send to your laughters, sweet girls fifteen and six:een years of age, the dirtiest He that iver fell from the disgraced lips of inything shaped up or called Qrace. Now, gentlemen, another matter that desire to call to your attention is his playing of football. Tou certainy ought to put some restriction or 'egulation on it I hold in my hand a leadline in the paper, "Has Broken Vose." Another big headline "Johnitone's Spinal Column Is Wrenched, day be a Helpless Cripple." I am proud ;o say that I understand the young nan is getting better, and I hope he vlll be restored to his strong manhood. 3ut, here we find an article written by :he editor of the Columbia State, in vhich he has the effrontery to say that 'ootball is the quickest device ever Inrented by which many a lad may over:ome a college handicap, and going on o say that it breaks down the barriers if social distinction, and by being a rood football player the lad gets to be * * " * rnnntrnltlAn >euer in aocieijr, IIU mvis iswb......... , The fact of his being a football play- { !r carrying him into society he could t lot otherwise reach, says the Colum- f )ia State. Gentlemen, that is the first t ime in my life I ever heard that a ( nan had to show the capacity of a j irize fighter or a bull dog to become a s rmtleman. Yet here it is in the great t idvocate of your state colleges?the i rreat paper that hollers for your state v colleges. The Evening Record comes a >ut and says with big headlines, "Dir- c y Football," and writes of the dirty a nanner in which the game is played, r he dirty manner in which some young e nen take advantage of others, to crip- t lie them, If you please, and get them 8 >ut of the game. r Now, gentlemen, I think you ought a 0 do one of two things; either abolish | ootball playing in your colleges, or r dse fix a degree for it, and confer upon e 1 man Doctor of Society because he s las the tenacity of a bull dog or the t lghting capacity of a Durham bull. t Now. my friends, from every city t ind hamlet in South Carolina we hear t he song of prosperity. Notwithstand- r tvara fnirf that if Blease was I sleeted governor, South Carolina would F >e financially ruined, that dhe would 1 ;o to the dogs, yet If you will read a 'ou will find, in all the history of your c itate, the year 1912 towers in prosperi- i y above all the years that have gone >efore. More capital has been invest- f )d in your state than ever before, and t oday one of the appeals that is being J nade to you for higher appropriations t s based on the fact that the state is t jrosperous. And yet they said if Blease r vas elected the state would be ruined. F I want to call your attention to an- g ?ther false impression that the news- h japers are trying to create. They are i rylng to lead uninformed people in a his state to Deueve you nave a a^w.a. ict on the race course in Charleston. I There is not a word of truth in it, and d he editors write these things knowing a hey are writing what is not true, n lere is your act: n "That any person within this state, ^ vho engages in betting at any race F rack pool-selling, or book-making, . vlth or without writing, at any time or >lace; or any person who keeps or oc- J upies any room, shed, tenement, booth 0 >r building, float or vessel, or any part hereof, or who occupies any place or itand of any kind, upon any public or irlvate grounds, within this state, with " looks, papers, apparatus, or parapherlalla, for the purpose of recording or eglstering bets or wagers, or of sell- g ng pools, and any person who records e r registers bets or wagers, or sells c iooIs or makes books, with or without i vriting upon the result of any trial or r ontest of skill, speed or power of en- t durance, or man or beast; or upon the th< result of any political nomination, ap- Is polntment of election"? D. Suppose you had all the fellows in- H. dieted that bet on the primary last S. summer, gentlemen; I would have to 1 have some more pardon blanks print- thi ed. Now, listen: They are yelling, do "What is the governor going to do h? about the Charleston races? What Is wt the new attorney general going to do th< about the Charleston races?" You have no special act on it It goes on about 1 "the result of any political no.nina- no tlon," etc.; "or upon the result of any I 1 lot, chance casualty, unknown or con- >01 tingent event whatsoever," and bo on. cal Therefore, my friends, your act not only covers the race track in Chirles- an ton, but it covers gambling on politl- shi cal primaries, gambling on cards, oui church raffles, turkey raffles, or any boi other game of chance. Do you want thi me to put on a beaver hat and a Ihince the Albert suit, and kid gloves, and carry sta a gold-headed cane, and play preach- yoi er, and go around to plead with them I1C not to violate this act? Do you want wo me to go up street here in a dliiguise hoi and go Into a gambling den? No; you th< would think it was beneath the dignity Ca of the office, and unbecoming a gentle- 18 man. Tet some people seem to want cot me to go to Charleston and sniff tre around to see If I can And somebody inv betting on horse races. It Is done to D?' mislead the uninformed. That is all. P&I My position In the enforcement of all 'Iff law Is this: If a law Is violated, let 601 some man swear out a warrant and *n< charge the guilty ones with violation 041 of It. 'f the magistrate doesn't do his hoi iuty I can't remove him. Your honor- wh! ed supreme court says that the little bor magistrate Is above the chief magls- Soi trate. No; I can't remove him. But In the grand jury may be able to do comething to him when they meet about six *PI months afterwards, as for Instance, in bel Dorchester, where they have court caI twice a year. If your magistrate and bor sheriff say they can't enforce that law, 8?' If they call on me I will enforce It, Just is I did In the town of the senator It ^ from Bamberg, when the blind tigers of were running over the little town and to the mayor called on me to help him, P?o 'the blind tigers are about to take the ed town." I sent him help and enforced HII the law, If they did make two of my ev< men walk out of town with their hats Hll In their hands. I am not going to en- you force the law. and I am tired of hear- a n Ing them holler. "What Is the attor- I?ol ney general going to do?" I will tell wll rou what he is going to do; any man Ace who can eat up a Lyon certainly can <> ) io his duty as attorney general. be Now, my friends, I want to speak to tlei rou of another thing. In yesterday an> morning's News and Courier you find ba\ In big headlines, "Blease Blocks Mill- eve :la's Trip. Will not go to Washington Jj f he can prevent Governor will not '"fr permit the state militia to participate tbe n inaugural parade and will keep for Dlemson and Citadel cadets at home, out If in his power. Reasons for attitude." <n? Mow, gentlemen, here are the "reasons mu for attitude." "The governor said that J?' io formal invitation had been extend- bor ?d and that unless such was fortlicom- ,ta Ing he would not permit the militia to ro to Washington, If in his power to ot 1 prevent, tuia uui ne iiau uecm.cu iu ?? ilgn the adjutant general'' order to A11) :hat effect The governor stated as U < 'urther reason for his attitude that -apt William E. Qonsales, of Colunt- tee Jla would have control of the South Carolina part of the Inauguration; did that It waa his opinion that Mr. Gon- l*ti sales would, if possible, place the gov- h ?rnor, as commander-in-chief of the ?n state mllltla, in an embarrassing post- clei tlon, and that he did not wish the state troops to suffer thereby. Asked If his *?? prohibitive stand Included the Citadel 1* ind Clemson. the governor said he did wh sot know whether or not he had au- ha* thorlty over these institutions, but if f so, he would prevent the cadets going ord to Washington." to Now, the same man that sent that no* -eport to the News and Courier sent tag this report to the Atlanta Journal and P&r [ want you to listen to the two reports *ha ind see what lies the News and Cour- ?1< er's big, glaring headlines give you. b? -Iere Is my position, plainly stated, In my he Atlanta Journal: cltl 'The governor replied: Tn part line rour Information la correct The ad- hea utant general's department presented trui ne with a written order, I presume onl: rou would term It for the national not ruard to take part in President Wll- resi ion's Inauguration. I declined to sign wal he same upon the ground that no for- sell nal Imitation to the governor of South sta: Carolina as commander-in-chief, or to sta: he adjutant general, has been receiv- the id, asking that we participate In the do naugural ceremonies. Until such Is Ace ecelved, or unless such Is received, I ?on nost assuredly will not attend the In- *ay luguratlon, nor will 1 permit, if I can will Mssibly help myself, any military will inmntnv from 8outh Carolina, to par- get lei pate in such ceremonies. I do not an iropose for the South Carolina troops wtp o go to Washington and be mistreat- my id, or treated discourteously because fori >f their commander-in-chief, knowing aga ull well who will have control of the tauj South Carolina part of the inaugura- mui Ion, William EL Gonzales and know- cles ng that it will be his pleasure to place to t he governor of South Carolina in any kln< imbarrasslng position on that occa- tlve lion in which he could place me, by met 'air or foul means, or by treachery, datl vhich is so well known to his race of real jeople. Therefore I decline to allow ceh nyself or the South Carolina troops to sen >e placed under his command or in me iny manner or form under his dicta- if I ion. If an invitation comes from the and >roper source which will guarantee to on, ny troops an honorable position in the firs naugural parade, and will guarantee T o them fairness and equality, I am in go 'avor of accepting it and of their par- miti iclpating in the inaugural ceremonies, day otherwise I am not That is all there thai s to it and this is what I propose to wor itand by. I do not propose to let our ber roops go to Washington and possibly uar >e put in behind some negro troops, as The vas done on one occasion when Gener- cou il Wilie Jones received the humiliation first if his life and by his military genius thai ind strategy switched positions on the But iegroe8 and placed himself in a re- be i pectable position." "Does that prohi- ast> iltion Include the Citadel and Clem- kno ion?" the governor was asked. "I do But tot know " he replied, "that I have any had luthority over those two Institutions hav n regard to the matter, but if I have, I can nost assuredly will protect the farm- be ( rs' sons, at Clemson, and the profea- hav ional men's sons at the Citadel from exc< teing humiliated, and I am satisfied Stat hat if the authorities in charge of slig! hese institutions will stop and think tlen hey will agree with me. Some people resi nay say, "Oh, well, there is nothing mov n it." "Possibly not but I do not pro- sent >ose to put myseu in a position to uc mm nsulted and then, if I am Insulted, do nd I am not the cause of it, I will take thai are of the man that does the Insult- fore ng." ' adm Mr. Caldwell sent that report to the hlgl Jews and Courier; Mr. Caldwell sent sat! hat report to the Atlanta Journal. The in t Atlanta Journal publishes It as It was; fore he News and Courier garbled it so as old o mislead the people of South Caroll- com la Into believing that I am trying to Hea trevent the military companies from can ;olng to Washingtoh. Gentlemen, I "Fa lave never been anywhere I was not bed nvlted if I knew it; I have never been Car .nywhere that I was not wanted, that Fini knew of, and If I had been, as noon as gov found It out I would havejeft, and I kepi lo not propose to go to wasmngton isne nd let a Cuban mixed-breed assign tire, tie to a humiliating position, losslbly A narchlng behind negroes. No; I won't thai lo it. That shows you what newspa- I he iers do, and how fair they are. for Now, gentlemen I have been severe- ma; y criticised for pardoning people. I one ust want to show you that I am not and one yet. Listen here: grai "State of South Carolina?Office of ?"r Superintendent of Penitentiary. shaJ Columbia, S. C., Jan. 18. 1913. and To His Excellency, Cole L. Blease, ?tar Governor: *Pn We the undersigned members of the iouth Carolina general assembly, do . arnestly pray that you parole Fannie Jooper, during good behavior, from "All larlington county. Also we earnestly L ecommend that you have Sudle Jones Brir ransferred from the penitentiary to And i asylum for the Insane. All of which respectfully,submitted. (Signed). C. Portner N, C. Creech. E. M. Frlpp. F. Harrelson, J P. DeLaughter, W Roarers, J*? A. M. Hlott." Mow, that shows you, gentlemen, it, with all the pardoning I have nfc your legislators can come down re ??d in a fifteen minutes' walk find tere .-other people ought to be out of t penitentiary. How do you expect t to stop it? Mow, gentlemen, I suppose you have ted that I had no prepared speech, tave simply said, in a rambling way. me things that I thought should be lied to the attention of you gentletn today. There is one other matter. a mat is me matter or bonds, and I ill have finished. Tou gentlemen ght to pass a law prohibiting any riding company from carrying more in a certain amount of the bonds of i county or state officials of your te. There is a bonding company in ur state, which, I understand, has 10 000 capital, which is possibly rth $40,000. That company is on the nds today of a very large number of ! county and state officers of South roMna. Now. gentlemen, I say that not right. The American Bonding npany sent me a bond for the state asurer of $90,000. I signed it after estlgatlon with Attorney General Bruhl. The American Bonding comly sent me some other bonda I ned them. Then the American ndlng company sent me other bonds, 1 I turned tbem down. Why? Beise I believed the state treasurer's id of $90,000, with these other bonds Ich I had already approved, gave that idlng company all the responsibility ith Carolina should have It carry, the Gulf and Atlantic states comly they sent me bond after bond. I )roved some of them, but I do not leve a company with only $100 000 >ital has any business being on the id of every county treasurer in ith Carolina. Now, I turned a good ny of them down. Some people said ras politics. I turned down the bond Solicitor Gunter, whom 1 appointed the office of solicitor, and whom the >ple unanimously re-elected. I turndown the bond of Solicitor Albert E. 1, and I do not thlnlr anybody?not n Oita?wnnM uv that tlhni4 p 1 was not a Blease man. That shows i it was not a matter of politics, but latter of business, and you ought to k into it Tour county treasurers I come up to take charge of their ofs on the first of July, by special act fours. Is it right for all of them to bonded in one company? Why, gennen you may say there will not be r defaulters; you may say you won't re any defaults. Why, nobody would r have blamed, the officials of Lexton for putting money in *Jie Lexton Savings Bank; nobody blames superintendent of the penitentiary putting money there; and yet, find what South Carolina and what Lexton county have lost by putting too ch money in the hands of one man. j ought to have an act that after a iding company is on the bonds of te or county officials for a certain ount, they can not be on other bond state or county officials. That is a tt a** fnr vah T sia* r; but I call it to your attention, so my shortages do occur, and you I there are on bonds behind the ofirs, the people to whom I am pledgto <1? my duty can not say, "You not call the attention of the Iegisiire to It" fow, gentlemen of the general asibly, today the governor's office is in. There la not a letter In it tc be iwered?they are all answered uni It be one or two which have come this morning. All the messages Ich I have proposed to send to you 't been sent possibly to the extreme tiAcatlon of some of you. The reels clear. If another man were to down and take charge of the offl<v v. he would And it clean, with nothon his handa The petitions for don have been passed upon. And 1 II try?and God help me that I may 3 wipe off the slate and let the past the past. I hold, so help me God, In heart malice for no South Carolina sen?remember, I said 8outh Caroi citizen. I hold no malice in my rt, so help me God. towards any ?-blooded American citizen?and f a few who are not and they are far from us. What I say here I am ponsible for on the streets. I often k the streets of Columbia by myI go to the office at 10 o'clock and j until 2, and go back about 4 and / until such hour in the evening as business will permit me to leave. I not hide behind the governor's otto say or do anything. I am perally responsible for every word I and those who think otherwise i And themselves mistaken If they simply make up their minds and the courage and backbone to resent insult. But I have endeavored to e the slate clean and I shall start new administration as governor, riving everything that has been done Inst me in the past; because I am jht that If I want forgiveness I at fnpwfvA T Via xr a vlnnH tha alatp in. Those whose duty It is to come he governor's office will receive the lest treatment. Those representas of the people who have recoinitiations to make?their recommenlons, unless there be some gcod ion given to the contrary, will ere proper consideration. I hope to re the people as they would bv/e serve. But, understand gentlemen, am struck I propose to strike back, i say to the man who strikes, ' Jjiy Macduff, and damned be him who t cries, hold, enough." ell your people, please, when you back home, that you saw, at Ave lutes past one o'clock, on the 21st of January, 1918, the happiest man t God Almighty has ever created. I ked from 1890, as an humble memof this house, until the 17th of Jany, 1911, to be governor of rny state, it was the height of my amoition. I Id have retired at the end of my t term and truly said to my people I they had given me all I wanted. when I was told that I could not re-elected. I proposed to show some ite politicians that they did not w what they were talking about. . standing before you today having my term as governor endorsed. I e received the highest honors that be given any man. I would rather jovernor of South Carolina than to e any other position in the world. ?pt the presidency of the United tea, and that I do not have the htest idea of ever having. But, genlen, If one of your senators were to gn today, and you were unaniisly to elect me to serve you In the ite of the United States, I would ik you and decline, because I can more for my friends as governor i I can in any other capacity. Therei I say to you that I start th& new ilnistra' .on, having attained the lest ambition of my life, perfectly sfled at Its end, or, If it please Qod. he midst of It, to retire forever and ver from public life, and go back to Newberry. And when the day shall ie that I shall meet my father in iven, on that great Judgment day I look him in the face and say. ther I promised you on your dying t tifaum ha emvamnr nf Smith l"01 A nvu?u o- ' ...... olina, and I am here on this day of Eil Judgment to tell you that I wa? emor of South Carolina and that I t the faith." Then I shall have fln>d my work; I shall be ready to res a final word, gentlemen, I hope ? you will have a pleasant session; >pe it will be a session full of good the people of our state; that wo r join hands and work together In common cause?the upbuilding the uplift of the people of our id Commonwealth?and that when lives have been finished, and we II be called to the other world, you ' I, and all of us, may be able to id and join in the great acclaim. sUse God from Whom all ble3sing;< r" and with that great Heavenly L, have our part In the glad and ious song of praise. hall, the power of Jesus' name; et angels prostrate fall; ig forth the royal diadem, I crown Him Lord of all."