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04* EXTRA Ii#k TOLUME XlIxq NUXI(BER INTWBERRY9 SOUTH CAROLIA-A, '11"ESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1110.TIEA IE I i G.overnoi C IFS.O,-o ncROI M GI UURAL "_DE8 OF GOVERNOR BLEASE.. Takes a Shot at His PoMtical Eemles ans1akes Number of Secom. mejidatiofs. The Imugural Address. President, Mr. Speaker, Mem the General Assembly of South jLadies and -Gentlemen: ce of thought, freedom of n, an abiding trust in and devoted ye for God have won for me greatest political victory that yet been recorded in the history of uth Carolina. Aligned against me ;a united daily press and an al ost solid 'weekly- and senii-weekly pouring forth all kinds of hood, vitueration and abuse, r. ving the assistance of a number of who call th4nselves ministers of gospel-God save the marl;!-who behind their pulpits and gave vet to envy and. malioe aid slanders e-6m.m5stTiriIe and malicious nature I4 dt me "These hypocrites had left their masks and stood In naked uglines. Vhey vere men who stole the liverY cf Beavin To serve the devil in" all of thee, combined with others, making a set of political character thieve, the meanest and most con temptible people known to man. I was never discouraged. I knew 'that God did -not love ugly, and that - the people of South Carolinta 'were for tair play to all her sons alike. Men have rallied -and fought in hun &eds of-battles, but 'no'band of truer aren orbavrer soldiers or more loyal * arid devoted ,friends ever rallied for a light than those 56,602 brave and hen orable men of South Carolina, who on Septem3ber 13, 1910, said to my ene mies, "You shall not press him down; you shall not destroy his reputation; you shall -not crucify him upon a cross of vituperation, slander and false -bood; you shall not crown him with a crown of persecution, envy and nD 1106." And by the help of an all iswle and all-powerfuli God, then-itory was 'Won, and we caw. and do -today "Praihe God whom all bling fiow,",rsig and my pray'er is that his'choice tiess ings of this arch rest upon my; frienids, and may each of them some y be crowned with a diadem in eaven. For those who opposed me honestly d fairly, I -have no word of censure. was their right to do so, and I feel at they were but exercising their gil right of American citizenship. or the others I have but pity, for I well know that their consciences, if they have any, are giving them cen sure and punishment enough for their cowardly and underhanded manner of opposition. I thank, and wish for you to convey my sincerest, most heart-felt thanks to, your constitu-ents for their assist ance in giving to me the position which was -the zenith of my poli,tical ambition. Should I never be electedI to any position again, personally I rwill have accomplished all that my life's work has been for, so far as poli tical preerment is concerned. The only ambition that is left is that I may perform the duties of the office of gov ernor in such a manner that I may re ive at the close of my term the "well e" from those who placed me in position. the cln2an meeting at FIor f 0 out o eman ence in 1910 I said: "I notice in the editorial columas of the State newspe per of thIs day, 'We-shall in a day or two -have -eomething to say in regard to -the candidacy of Candidate-Blease that -will not be regarded as endorse ment.' I believe that the people of South Carolina are in favor of fair play,eand I now request and invite the man who wrote that aiticle to come on the Testrum at Columbia, at the State campaign meeting at Columbia, next Saturday, August 6th, and have his' something -to- say in regard to- the candidacy of Candidate Blease,' to my . ~ N . 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Bue publisy ed, ainail connectiong upothe pri ayciin ofsi this State. i ist resetflly recomunihd byha younean bteme felengnra posslyblodpass ate eei this esonaacnnetidn ta chall youblr atrentuon to en pubitor -h CarOli to wngst of September 9; 1910, which is asfol lows: It is-a good subject at this-p&ticu lar tinme, and its importance has bee driven home. The people of South CarolIna aT menated. The menace is unfair newspape methods. The Columbia State of Thursda carried on its first page a cartoon o Mr. Cole. L. Blease, over the Imbel "The Mence." ..... , .. The Oolumlbia State ne .at th. time the eartbcon was published that i was as unfair as it was false. Th 'olumbia State knew when the car tooni was idesigned that it was mis leading and' false. The Columbia Stat< knew that the publication of the cartoon had for its ob.iect the mislead ing of the voters of South Carolina and was, therefore, maliciously false and was a malicious slander of a maa Who led all the rest of the candidate: and ~received thirty per cent. of th< votes oft the State. Is that not an in tentional and gross insult to one thir1 of the voters of this State? -His side will have no showing in tha Columbia Statd. No reply will be al lowed. That is the Columbia State's ni?ethod That is "the mnenace." The Columba State has a large cir culaion.Ther arepeaopie who rea< the State and who do not 'see the oth e:r side, because the State does no print the other side. That is "the menaL-e." Dlefore the first primary the News ai Courier, the Columbia Record anm other n:ewspapers in South Caroline were charging the' Columbia Stat< with unfairness, and, in fact, with ma licious falsehood., Simply because these newspaper: now agree with the State's policy iI the gubernatorial race, will they keej silent under the same conditions whiel existed when they brought thel charg'es against the Columbia State because,'forsooth, then the Columbia State was going against the grain ani now it is cutting along with- it? Surely the manhood of the newspa pers of South Carolina is not a thing of the past. The newspapers of South Carolinm have in the past wielded a wonderfu Iinfluence. It is 'because they have mad< for themselves a reputation of fair ness, and, presen.ting both sides, hav4 urged the claims of the siMa whid1 tM new ooris JiondL won;i:1 be fo: a Biease. - the inteestz of the .State: of South Carollin. The, course which some of them. are .now pur.suJng may help the men of . teir~ choice In ths particular race though -we doubt it-but the profes -Son suffers. e Why not give everybody a "square doal?" r The Colu=bia State, for .instanoe, and other anti-Blease -nwspapers will 7 reprint in their news columns com f mepts favorable to Mr. Featherstonei but ignore aonytbingfvorable to Mr. BIease. That is "nnspapef'" busi ness, with a v-engeaanoe. So far as The'Herald and News is concerned, we dilight in being ignored by the Columbia State-or boycottedf or put on the famous "black list," as you -please--but what we started out to say was that the cartoon in the Co lum-bia State -of Thursday morning was the limit downward in newspaper businese -as we have observed it. The days of fqctionalism and per sonal-prejudice ll South Carolina are happily over, and we believe that the people of South'. Carolina 'hen the. matter Is brought to their attention will resent under-hand and below-the belt methods. For that reason, which is creditable to the people of South .Carolna, we believe the Columbia State and other newspapers who are taking unfair ad vantage of'Mr. Blease in this race are doing him more good (han harm. It is not for Blease that we mourn, but -for the, newspaper profession. I "Th enace"-e- real menae- ~] will .be met by the people of South < Carolina, as they have met all other I -questions. During the campaign and before the fIrst primary election, the Columbia State made a strong fight in ah argu- I mentative manner against Mr. Feath erstonie and,thereby -brought'down the K wrath of a 1-arge majority of the pa-a pers of South Carolina charging it with "uafairness." They had practi cally 'nothing .to say about Mr.- Blease, he bavinig distinetly. defied 'them to make their . charges;, if -any - they -had, -to his face. They failed to.. do so. Now they are making one..of the .ug liest and most slanderous campaigns t algainst Mr.. Blease that has ever -been Swaged in the State of South Caro line. What do the news apers think .of this fight at this time? Is it fair? Mr. Blease and his f-riends have no manner now in whicn to answer them for they will -publish nothing favor able to Bleease; -he can not answer it on the stump, the campaign is over. s And also an article from the Shre veport, La., Journ'al, of September, 1910: "Speakin~g of the- News and Courier, the eleetion was c. striking example of the wondefful ' power of the press" to mould public opinion. Every newspaper in the State, with the ex - ception of two country weeklies, sup ported Featherstone and called Blease - ut of his name. They succeeded in , making the people believe Blease a - Iregular Satan in one respect * ** A t newspaper possesses power to direct public opinion only to the extent of its ind,ependenCe, its honesty and its I impartiality. These three things are hard to find in combination in a nefws -paper of today." ~ -And also an article from the Edge edChronicle: 2 "e do -not join hands in the aval anche of abuse that has been heaped 1 upon the head of the governor-elect. If personality was the issue, how sa-1 a reflection on Mr. Featherstone that -he could not carry his own county, while Blease carried, his by a su'> stantial -majority." -And also a emment from the Co lumbia Daily Record: "Disliking to do so, for obvious rea sons, yet the Record nows feels con strained to sa.y, as a supporter of - Featherstone and an opponeht of Blease, that t.he repulsive cartoon in S"the Ste"& of Th::rd.ay, portrayir:s (Ciomnvl on page two). - EW ADMIMTOATUN TAKE FF0ME TOIAY 10VERNOR ANSEL RETIBES TO -PlfnvATE -IFE. oe. L. Blease, Governor-eleet, Sworn In by Thomas'S. Dunbar, a Magstrate. Gov. 'Martin F. Ansel, who'has serv 3d the best interests of Wepeople of South Carolina in the executive of iee during the last four .yeas, today at noon dIscharged his last offielal iuty. The office of the governor of South Carolina was then turned over to his successor, Cole. L. Blease, of Newberry. The joint: committel- of the .two 7ranches of the general asseibly yee *rday conferred with the .-governior flect and with the lieutenant :gover or-dleet, and after eliminating ques ions which arose becauae the lncom g governor preferred to besworn in )y a magistrate-thc unbroken pte .edent being for a judge or a justice >f the supreme court to have that duty -the following report was made, and ras accepted -by the house of repre metatives and -the 4enote. today: The Programme. "The house of representatives, be ng in session at 12. o'clock M., Jan xary 17, -will be joined by - the. senate, n.eecordance with the' invitation -giv mn by the house. As soon as the:joint wsembly -shall have.,been organized w.d seaed, the goverdlr-elect and eutenant -governor-elect, the -sena ors and repiesentatives in- congress !rom this -State, who may be in' .Co ambia, the chief justice and associate ustices of the, supreme .court, the ircuit judges of the S:tate, and' the 3nated -Staites judges: who maLy be )resent in Columbia, and the 'S;ate >ffiers incumbent and elect, the trus ees and faculty of, the University of gouth Carolina and students of said iniversity, said university' being a Rtate institution located at the capi al, will be escorted by the committee >f arrangements from the executive hamber to the ball of the house of epresentatives. To Announce Approaeh. "As they approach the rostrum the ergeant-at-arms of the 'house 'of rep 'esentatives will' announce 'His ex ellency the governor-elect and his escor. "The 'joint assemibly, at the 6rder of :he president of the senate, will arise rd receive him, standing until they are seated. "The governor-elect and lieutenant governor-elect and the chief justice md associate justices will be seated >n the rostrum at the speaker's desk. Ihe escort accompanying him will be seated to the right and left 'of the speaker's desk. The' Ceremonies. "The easseibly haying been called to order, the presidlen't of the senate will announce that the proceedings will be opened -wth prayer by the1 Rev. Dr. 3. W. Daniel, and after pray r the president of the senate will annouce that the Hon. Cole. L. Blease, governor-elect, is present and ready to qualify.. Thereupon the gov snor-elect will advance to the desk1 n the right of'~the speaker and Thos. 3. Dunbar, Esq., will advance, to the iesk on the left of the speaker. The >ath of office will then be admiids-, ered by Thos. S. Dunbar, Esq., to the ~overnor-eect, who will then deliver is inaugural address.' "At the conclusion of the address, ;he president of the senate will then nounce that the Hon. Chas. A. Smith, l.ieutenant governonl-elect, is resent and ready to qualify. "Whereupon the lieutenant gover or-elect and the chief justice of the u-preme court will advance as in the :ase of the governor-eledt and the :hief justice of the supreme court will dminister the oath of office to the ieutenant goverg~or-elect. "When the lieutenant governor lect shall have made such acknowl ~dgmet as he ma,y be pleased to nake, he will a.nnounce: "'The purpose for which .the joint issembly has convened being accom lished, the joint assembly is dissolv id. The senate will return to its :hamber.'" The above report is signed by Sena .ors Weston and Hough, and Repre-. -i mentaie Gay n Wyche. MAGISTRATE -M~AR ADI)NISTERS OTIl GOVERNOR BLEASE ABLE TO PRESENT. . Xot Able to Deliver Address,. k ttI His equest Read by Teadifg CIerk Shnms. Spedial to The Herald and. Yawp. Columbia, S. Cjsi. 17.-Goverw 'elect Blesse dAd zot -eacbW,Go undl last night. It suffered aSl attack of acute indigetA *Sia day and was quite siek at his -ahn a . -NewberrY Sunfay night and -Mandy. He was able to Coe to-Go= jsg night. He-was. deomftied Y ! bers of hig famly and h*rtalmy ViV scian, Dr. W. G. Ho eaL He has quarbers at Wright's hdW and passed a vielry god night 7S morazing he was able to go to the S-'tas house, and at a few miDutes after 12 o'clock he took the oath of/offlee. s governor, the oath being a te ed accordibg-to bisreet4 by.'N4g0 trate Thomas S. Dumbar, of Barnwel eonty. Thft is the first time sbee-the. inauguraidom of Governor Vde lampton that the oath-f.office .wd not been administered by -a Ittmof the suprene court. Thee is a Very lagcd pinat from all part of ,tbe State. to: tV ness -the iSauguratoe. GoveIadr Blease was not able- to delver hIs*_ dTees but it was read :y the reo g elerk- of the house. The-oath of omce was" to Lieutenant Governor has. Smith, -o Florence, and the Qther State officers. It "will be gratifying !e. tot - -many frends of Governor Biesse throughout the State to know tbathfs ill.nes is not considered serious,.ad it is hoped that he will be entiretY_ well in a few days. His famly pv siian, Dr. W. G. Housleal, is still 'w.h & him in Clumbia today. Governor ,Blease came in tihe hUaf 2 the houeeg,on the amn of Rp~, tive Gary, and was .copne bie .family physician, Dr. W. G. He u eeal. - Governor Ansel .came in accompa-' nied by Senator-Weston. < Lieutenant .Governor 0. A. Smith was accompanied by Senator. Hough. The oath of office was nmsm to Lieutenant Governor Smit by~ Chief Justice Ira B. Jones. - Juo.K. Au1. The Play Was TooOpenl. ' H. C. Thayer ("Pap"' Thayer) 'oI/ - Penylvania football famne, ws 8 R 'ng at the Rittenhouse clab inr. delpia about be niew footbaHI -rai~ "They provs 1ess fitted to atack ad generaip an the old rul~es." 'he said. "They make the pley1A0 open that any attempt at strat6gy as lke-wd11, like the Swiss 'waiter. "Once, on a walking tor in the Bor!ese Oberlanid, I reproached th~e waiter at a little imi' for bringlig'me the wron.g wine. -' "'Here, you've brought me Chateau Mouton Rothschild,' I said, 'when I ' ordered Pointet Can'et.' "The -waiter retired and through the glass partition I saw him take his napkin and quietly 'wipe the still wet - label.off the bottle. Then be .ac13ed "'Hans, another label. Pentet Canet, qick!' "-Philadelphia Record. No Easy Job. Grouchy Visitor-Where can I get bold of the boss? Office Boy-Got me! He's bald, got no neck to speak of, greases his boots and wears suc~h tight trousers that you can't get a 'grip on himn anywhere! -Puck. Just a Few Notes.. "You are niot in it with me," sneer ed the nighigl :"Why, you cani't - touch a high note at all." "True," rejoiced the ostrich,. "but my feathers can reach more $10 notes in a day than you could in a thousaid -,..."-Cag News.