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MOV. RLEASK INAKil'RATED AM) BEGINS SECOND TERM (COXTIl'KD FROM PAGE 1 I. ^ |> reduce taxes, and I am going to do my part. The 72,04U people who voted for me shall never say 1 did not carry out every promise I made them, if God gives me the strength and lets i; will ^Alll ?. i r> J? T1 d m 6 JLlVf. DIU LliCJ< nui say, "Oh, if yoa sustain that veto you will shut up the* colleg-e." Then pui it this way: For maintenance, so many: thousands; for new buildings, so many thousands Then if an item for new buildings is vetoed, you can kill it without hurting the college; if an item for any other particular purpose is included, tnat can De >ciucu, you can sustain that veto without hurting tie college; But, gentlemen, j if you allow the bill to pass your * fcouse and senate making an appropriation in bulk sum for such and r6uch college so much money, then, when the veto is applied, the appeal will be made to you upon this floor and I over yonder that if you sustain this ; x-pt/% von will shut up the college, j f ? Gentlemen of the ways and means committee and of the finance committee, I bog you, in behalf of the constituency whom you first begged and then pleaded with last summer, to stand here like men- and help me. reduce taxes in South Carolina. You J may think the people are not watch- j ing, but I think if you would wire this corning to some of the members of J the last legislature they would wire j i?w <?v.^ nAnnie are watching, | UdC A. J I'CiO) UiAV VJC because we are at ho-mie." The Professional Lobbyist. Now, gentlemen, there is a man I want to warn you against?I have had J experience in this house and yonder | both?and that is Mr. Professionalj Lobbyist. Sometimes he is a lawyer j i and paid lobbyist; sometimes a docmj ***>?j^sometimes he is a man who has forsaken the Lord's vineyard?a v \ preacher who has forsaken the Lord's 1 vineyard and gone into me. iiciu vjl . the professional lobbyist, and is hang' ing around the legislature, hired by somebody. When a man pulls you off and begins to talk so much you should j not pass this bill, or should not pass I that bill, ask him what railroad com- j pany is paying him to be here; ask him what corporation is paying him to ' be here; ask him the question, my friends, Are you here for the people of * South Carolina or are you paid tc come here and lobby me on this bill? mi?* nnoBtinn to riut to him, and 111(11 i?) uiv ^uvw t when you put it, just watch your! -man, ajid you will see that he is being paid by a corporation, and is nor working for the interests of the people. How many farmers do you see around here begging you to do something for them"? How many fellows do you see around here begging you * to do something for the people di- < rectly? Oh, they beg you not to pass the two-cent rate1?"it will ruin the railroads." They beg you not cat the legal rate of interest to six per cent. Lcok at the skyscrapers up, street. Who built them? Whv, the! people who paid extravagant interest j and built this town. All over South, 9 Carolina you will flna it. inciauiv, when a man comes to yoa Jobbyiig v for a bill, if lie is a fellow-member, all right; he has a constituency, just as you have; but if he is an outsider, say, "What is your i.amo'. Why arc you here lobbying :or "is 'inns?" i am warning you new members. Some of these old ones have ha?l experience, and they had to beg might/ hard last summer to get over that experience. Bestriet Powers Magistrates. Now, my friends, I uiiei stand there is going lo bf a bill introduced along a line to wliici I want to caU particular attention. Jt is a bill to I prevent magistrates ir.-u, using tho ' criminal courts to collect debts. It is a serious maimer. A n^go goe:; cut * here and works on you.* lam. Some little agent com^s along and wail's j to sell him a clock, or a llitie, or foraet tiling else?possib;v a sowing machine. apr^nt will sit down in the house; a"v and talk to the neg.o and say, "Well, * I want to sell you this- machine." After awhile tlie ne?ro says he will take it. The agent be^i.is to write, and j he looks around jver the house and! puts down everything the poo/ r.<ero ihas, and very often something the po^r' negro hasn't. He will get the negro to sign the paper. Vhat agent wiU witness it. In the fall of the year ' Ko/-?Lr ro nol another agent win /UUJC 1 mvu lect that debt. "Where is your sewing machine"? he will asK. Boss, I never had no sewing machine." "Oh, here is a paper signed bv you saying you have; don't talk about not hav-1 ing any sewing machine." "Where is that agent what come hers?" "Jle is gone." "Where is that hog you had in *- - > W.cr " the pen"? "Boss, I never xma i.'U i i "Oh, yes, it is in the paper.*' Then no' goes for a little magistrate somewhere and he indicts that negro for :-.ispos- j ing of property under mortgage. Tlie magistrate sends and has the nej;ro dragged into court before him. Then he will say, "Now, if you ?.*ill pay, f this man this mortgage and j>:ty ilie* I | costs, we will let you out." The ne-1 i gro go-, s out of your farm right over j ' to another man, borrows the money I i i to pay this mortgage, and bi ids iii.nj self up under contract to work for that other man next year. And the ! magistrate, in open violation of the | law, uses the criminal part of hii court as a collecting agency, put3 tVio mnniv in Vi?o T\nr?lrot- s?nH I JJU.1 Kr \JL liiwuv.; """ is threatening to ruin the labor of this country. The .Van Higher Up. Xow, gentlemen of the general assembly, we fuss about law and order. Why, I saw men up here last summer hollering, "Law and Oredr," yelling for "Law and Order," and "We must redeem South Carolina," and I sawsome of those same men- down here at the State Fair drinking liquor and mixing it with coca cola, and betting on horse racing. Who is going to re deem them? "Redeem South Carolina! She is ruined! Shut up the Charleston horse races"?ana slipping down here under a stand drinking liquor and coca cola, and slipping up to a fellow backed up against the fence with a little box in his hand, and slipping^out tickets to bet on the horse races! Do you call thac not gambling? Oh, gentlemen, let us also get to those higher up. Here is a (section of your statutes taat is being daily violated?and I would like to ask if anybody in this house is violating it?of course I do not expect an answer: "It shall be unlawful for any person to assume, the duties of any public office until he has taken the oath provided by the constitution, and been regularly commissioned by the governor. The term "public officers" shall be construed to mean all officers1 of; the State that have heretofore been i commissiond, the, trustees of the various colleges of the State, members of various State boards, and other persons whose duties are defined by law." i Are there any men serving in office in South Carolina today as trustees of colleges, or on other boards, who are not serving under commission? If so, gentlemen, they are violating that section of your statutes?section 535?and it is the- duty of the attorney general prosecute them. Thereis no punishment provided in that section, but the general statutes provide that where no punishment is provided, the judge shall impose such punishment -as he sees fit. Now, gentlemen, if you want to go lower down to sustain the law, let the man higher up sustain it. The Primary System. iVior coi/3 ohnnt nrimjirv JIUULL X1U.O UWU' w^v w* v , elections. I do not propose to discuss this question very far. When the pri-, mary started last summer I offered a 1 reward of one hundred dollars each for the first five convictions of men violating the election laws?that is, | betting on the elections, or trying to j use money, wmsKey or mumiaauoii in the elections-. Notwithstanding all these charges of fraud from the State i ex-ecutive committee, notwithstanding this committee's running to Spartan-' burg and GreenvilLe and other places, not a single mail has come and said, "T Tra/nif- nne of those S100 rewards."! No, gentlemen, and well they may not i come. That is enough. I did what I! could to prevent violationis> of the elec-1 tion laws and for a fair "election^ I stand on record in this house and in your senate pleading for a free and1 fair election. I stand on record as a member of the State Board of Canvassers of South Carolina as being thqj: only maaa voting for a resolution de-! man ding it There sits in this as- j < sembiage today a distinguished ex-! attorney general of South Carolina,! who was a member of that board, and | who would have voted with me, butj Illcvess called him to his home. My j actions were bo fine on that occasion : that even my distinguished friends, the Cuban mixed-breeds, paid me a compliment. And yet they holler fraud in the primary. I wish you j would appoint a committee to investi- j gate that fraud, and let me come be- I fore it, and let me send you some wit- j p.esse from Buncomb Street in Green-: u*or^ 1 in Snartanbure. from i VlllO, V V** U x *** some precincts in Charleston, and one or two in/ the county of Orangeburg, i We were ready for^the fray; we were ready for the investigation; but, like all bubbles, it went out. Now, gentlemen, what I would advise- is this?j and I want to say to you right here, j You got here on tne oriage 01 uie pn- j mary. Are you going to Tjurn. the bridge that brought you over? If you do, you will do it by a two-thirds vote. But, gentlemen, here is what I would submit to you: Pass an Act at this! session requiring the county boards, of registration' of the various counties' to open; the books of registration in | every county in South Carolina during the months of July and August, j 1913?two full months?and require those boards to go to every township in' the county one day or two days, if it should be necessary, so that you i will give every white man in South; I Carolina a fair opportunity to r fzi?tor in July and August. Then, it' any man does not register, certainly he can not blame anybody else, and wh-en you come back here next year, after your books of registration have been ! open for two long mo-nths, and you ! have given every white ma.i the oppor- i tunity 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 I law. They holler fraud. Who committed it? Where was it? nearly all the coun-. t ty executive committes were against me; the State executive committee, j with all its machinery was against me. When I asked the chairman at Snartanbnre to srive me one manager j of electibni at each precinct, he refus-! ed it. Now, in the name of God, could, the Ble-aseites steal, when the other | sid had all the- machinery in their j '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. New, they accuse my friends of be ing "hoodlums," and say they would not support Woodrow Wilson. You get the returns of last year and look at the State vote and the presidential vote, and see who failed to vot-e the State ticket. Why did Wilson get so many more votes in South Carolina than I did? If the Blease people did not support Wilson, why was it Wilson ran so far ahead of me? Definition of A'ristocracy. Now, gentlemen, I shall not take up your time in answering some of the things that were told on me last summer. It is beneath my notice and beneath yours. But I want to mention one thing. When a Yankee actor or actress comes through South Caroli-1 ma and the South Carolina aristocra-; cy sits in the theatre?and the best I definition I know of aristrocracy' I 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, in "The Pink Lady/'| and says, "I will be damned if I do it." J oh! the ladies all yell with delight! When a woman couies out in. "The: Lonesome Pine," and a fellow eays to j her. "Country Maiden; you must re-1 form; love so and so"?naming the: family she hates, and sh^ says, "I could put them in hell," there is loud applause in the Columbia theatre. In j minstrel shows, when the dirtiest j songs are sung, going just far enough j to leave the most vil-e interpretation in the minds of the young, loud applause comes from the men and women. But when the governor of South Carolina j goes to Richmond, Va., and says I what he has said all over his State,1 then the newspapers come out and say, "It is a horrible thing that the: governor said hell." Pooffirma Position. UUIA liA..7 JL I tell you, members of the legislature, today, what I said then?I repeat! it now: Notwithstanding the oath ofoffice which I have just taken from my J distinguished friend from Lancaster,1 who stood by me through thick and i ! thin^ and who was re-elected chiet justice of Lancaster if they did fight him because he was a Bleaseite, I will never order out a military company, so help me God, and tell my home boys and girls?-if the girls belonged to the militia?to shoot down a white boy, | their neighbor and their friend, to proA?x - '""" a ttpVin hqo laid his L?CL <t UICLKJIV' in ui\> njav ? hands upon a white woman. I will niever do it And every time I told the white people of this State that this summer, they hollered back to me, "Go on, boy, you are right; don't ever do it." And I am here today, and I am still right, and I am going to stand hv it as Ions as God gives me heart | and mind and power. But it is all right when a little Yankee show woman comes down here and says dirty things; that is to be applauded. And yet if a man. were to meet you, with your wife, on the street and make the same remark to you, you would slap his face. But you sit in the opera house and applaud. * The Difference* Now, gentlemen, a few days ago the j News and Courier came out with aj great headline?on Sunday, I think it, was?with a great displayed headline, "TT*11'- ?o nnvel written! xxtiii y ria;giuuuu ? - ? by a Yankee novelist, putting the title in big headlines for your daughters to read. But it was a terrible! thing when the governor said "hell." The News and Courier and the Columbia State and other papers displayed with great glee the dirtiest campaign joke and lie that has been told in South Carolina in a century, j They say, "We are family papers^ we can't publish any reply of the gover- J nor, because it hasn't the proper lan-1 guage." But tliey could send to your daughters, sweet girls* fifteen and sixteen years of age, the dirtiest lie that ever fell from the disgraced lips of anything shaped up or called Grace. Degree for Foot Ball Expert. Now, gentlemen, another matter that 1 desire to caii to your attention is this playing oi foot ball. Vou certainly oi?gin to put some re-triction or regulation on it. 1 bold in my hand a headline in the paper, "Has Broneii Xose." Another big headline, "Johnstone's Spinal Columm Is Wrenched, j\iay lie A Helpless Cripple." I am proud to say that I understand the young man is getting better, and 1 hope he will Ge restored to his strong manhood. But, here we find an article written by the editor of the Columbia State, in which he has the effrontery to say that foot ball is the quickest device ever invented by which many a lad may overcome a college handicap, and going on to say that it breaks down the barriers of social distinction, and by being a good foot bali player the lad gets to be better in society, has more recognition, j A ne iact his being a foot ball player carrying him rato society he could notj otherwise reach, says the Columbia | Ctotn Hnnf 1 Amnri + O f 1C tVlO firct vjre^xilivjiulv^xi) iiiau i?j uuv/ axa ?-?c. i time in my life I ever heard that a | ,man had to show the capacity of a' prize fighter or a bull dog to become i a gentleman. Yet here it is in the great j advocate of your State colleges?the 1 great paper that hollers* for your State colleges. The Evening Record comes out and says, with big headlines, "Dirty Foot Ball," and writes of the dir ty manner in which the game is play-I ed, the dirty manner in which some, young men take advantage of others, to cripple them, if you please, and get them Out of the game. Now, I think you ought to do one of two things; either abolish foot ball playing in your colleges, or else fix a degree for it, and confer upon a man. Doctor of Society because he has the tenacity of a bull dog or fighting capacity of a Durham bull. The Song of Prosperity. Now, my fri-ends, from every city and hamlet in South Carolina we hear the song of prosperity. Notwithstanding we were told that if Blease was (elected governor South Carolina would be financially ruined, that she would go to the dogs, yet if yo-.i willj read you will find, in all the history of your State, the year 1912 towers- in nrnsneritv abnve all the vears that have gone before. More capkal has been invested in your State ciiaj ever before, and today one of the appeals that is being made to yoa for higher appropriations is based on the fact that the State is so prosperous'. And yet they said if Blease was elected the State would be ruined. Charleston Race Course. I want to call your atteuio:ii to another false impression that the newspapers are trying to create. They are trying to lead uninformed people Jil tins state to uenctc juu iiu.-. c a. special Act on the race course in Charleston. There is not a & >r l of truth in it, and the editors write these things knowing they are writting what is not true. Here is your Act. j "That any person wuihl this State,: who engages in betting at any race track, pool-selling, or book-mak'ng, with or without writing 2. any time or place; or any person) keepj or occupies any room) sued, tenement. Dcom or DUliamg, noac w vesswi. ui . any part thereof, or who t^cup'es any place or stand of any kind, upon any public or private grounds, T ithin tnis State, with books, papers, apparatus, or paraphernalia, for Lhe purpose of recording or registering tets or wagers. or of selling posts, and any per-i ~?J _ r\y I son WI1U reuuius U* i ;;,im,cio - - -o wagers, or sells pools or make-; boolirf, with or without writing upon ihe re- 1 eult of any trial or eon^st of skilV speed or power of 9.nrtaranc% of or beast; or upon the result of any: political nomination, appointment, or election"? j Suppose you had all the fellows in- j dieted that bet on the prijiiry last . t -nrrm 1/1 hnvo to aUIUIHCi ? gC.L?Ll,CXLK?il , J. nuu.u havo some more pardon blahKs print- j ed. Now, listen: They arc yelling J "What is the governor going to do! about the Charleston raies? "What is! the new attorney genera) going to do! about the Charleston rac.-is?" You have j no special Act on it. It goea on abcut. "the result of any political nw.na-j tion," etc; "or upon the result or'any,1 lot, c hance casualty, unknown or con tin gent event whatsoever," and so on. Therefore, my friends, your Act not only covers the race track in Clarieston, but it covers gambling oti political primaries, gambling on c-^rds, church raffles, turkey raffles, or any other game of chance. Do vou want me to put on a beaver hat and a Prince[ Albert 6uit, and kid gloves, and carry j a gold-headed cane, and play preacher, and go around to plead with fhem not to violate this Act? Do you want mo to so ud street here in a disguise and go into a gambling den? No; you j would think it was beneath the dignity | of the office, and unbecoming a gen-j tleman. Yet some people see n, to want ' me to go to Charleston and sniff around and see if I can find someoody betting on horse races. It is done to mislead the uninformed. That is all. My position in the enforcement of all law is this: It' ;< law is vi nat d, lot. some man swear out a \w?:va::t and charge the guilty ones with ;iolation of.lt. 11' the magist.atj do sn't ! do his dutv I acatnn'ckaauaha.. crld i i do his duty I can't remove him. Your j honored supreme- court says taut th-? little magistrate is above the chief magistrate. No; I can't r?mo'.'o hi.n. | But tiie grand jury may bo al'e to ! do something to him wii :n they meet about six months afterwards as, for ! instance, in Dorchester wnsre iney have court twice a year. 11' y.ur ina.i'istrate and sheriff ?ay they can't enforce that law, if they call on me I I j -will enforce it, just as 1 dU the town of the senator frorn i^ambeie, when the blind tigerc were running over the little town and the- maycr called on me to help Li 11, * ::ie Llind tigers are about to take the town." I sent him help and enforced the law, if they did make two of my uien walk out of town with their hats in tlicir hands. I am not going oj.. the sly, but I am going to enforce .the law, and I am tired of hearing them holler, "What is the attorney general going to do?" I will tell you whit he is going to do; any man who can eat up a Lyon certainly can do his duty as attorney general. The Militia and Inauguration Trip. Now, my friends, I want to sp*ak , to you of anotner thing. In yesterday | morning's News and Courier you find ; in big Headlines, "Blease Blocks Mil:l tia's Trip. Will not go to Washington | if he acn prevent. Governor will not j permit State militia to participate in [ inaugural parade and will keep Clemkoh, and Citadel cadets at home, if in his power. Reasons for attitude." j Now, gentlemen, here are the "reasons j for attitude": "The governor said said that no formal invitation had been extended and that umess such was forthcoming he wo'^ld not permit the militia to go to Washington., if in his ! power to prevent, and that he had declined to sign the adjutant general's order to that effect. The governor stated as further reason for his attitude that Capt. William E. Gonzales, J of Columbia, would have control *of I the South Carolina part of the inauguration; that it was his opinion that Mr. Gonzales would, if possible, 'place the governor, as commander-in-chief of -i-i? o-n oidharrflSRin? LH6 lYi.JLXX LICLy lix ri-11 vjluwm* * mww.s-q position, and that he~?id not wish the [ State troops to suffer-thereby. Asked ; if his .prohibitive s-tSad included the j Citadel and Ciemson; the governor j said "he did not know whether or not | h>e had authomy over these institu| tions, but if so, he would prevent the | cadets going to Washington." Now, the same man that sent that report to the Mews and Courier sent ; this report to the Atlanta Journal, and ;'I wanit you to listen to the two reports and see what lies the News and Courier's big, glaring headlines give you. Here is my position, plainly staled, in the Atlanta Journal: "The governor replied: "In part your information is correct. The adjutant general's department presented me witn a written order, I presume you would term it, for the national guard to take part in President Wilson's inauguration* I declined to sign the saine upon the ground uiat no toimal iuvitauon to the governor of South Carolina as commander-in-chief, or the adjutant general, has* been received, asking that we participate in the inaugural ceremonies. Until such is I received, or unless such is received, I I most assuredly will not attend the in1 auguration, nor will I permit, if I can I possibly help myself, any military company from South Carolina, to participate in such ceremonies. I do not proposs for the South Carolina troops to go to Washington and be mistreated. or treated discourteously, because jl their commander-in-chief, knowing full well who will have control or the South Carolina part of the inauguration, William E. Gonzales, and knowing that it will be his pleasure to place the governor of South Carolina in any embarrassing position on that occasion in which he could place me, by fair or foul means, or by treachery, which is so well known to his race ot people. Therefore I decline to allow myself or the South Carolina troops to be placed under his command or in any manner or form und-er his dictation. If an invitation come? from the. kroner source which will guar an ??. v x- X- ? ? tee to my troops an honorable position in the inaugural parade, and will guarantee to them fairness and equal- j ity, I am in favor of accepting it and of their participating in the inaugural j ceremonies. Otherwise I am not. That is all there is to it, and this is what; I propose to stand by. I do not pro-; pose to let our troops go to "Washing- j ton and possibly be put in behind j some negro troop, as was done on one j occasion when General Wilie Jonies j received the humiliation of his life and by his military genius and strategy switched positions on the negroes and placed himself in a re ( CONTINUED ON PAGE 8). j Arcade i i Friday, Jan. 24. The Militant I ! Suffragette CAST Mary Dout, the Militant Suffragette?"Marguerite Snow." John Strong , her fiance?"Jas! Creeze." Mrs. Henry McGuire, who converted her husband?"Mrs. Laus:>n Marston." ! Mr. Henry McGuire, who was ?"Rilpv Chflmh^rlflin ,y I J > President of suffragette Club? Ann Drew. This picture we can safely say is- * a Thanh ouser masterpiece, the sto' rv dealing with the doings of the ' Suffragette world, interwoven with, a strong love story. Take our word for it, it is up to Thanhous1 er's Standard. THE ARCADE | "The Show with the Goods/* THE SAtfE I> GREENWOOD - Greenwood Residents Speak oat For tne Heirarc oi tne ruonc. ; It is just tlie same in Greenwood as here in Newberry; our friends ther> , s-peak out in the same glad, earnest I'was as so many greatful Newberry men and women have spoken in these \ Columns for years past Mrs. Mary A. Owens, 218 Forrest Ave'., Greenwood, S. C., Bays; "I had rheumatic pains in my shoulder and i my kidneys wer^ in bad shape. My back .ached. .intensely and I was bothered by dizzy and nervous spells. Nothine seemed-- to helD me and as I was well along in years, I hardly expected to find-relief. Finally I began taking Doan's Kidney Pills and they helped me at once. It was not long before I was permanently cured. My experience with Doan's Kidney Pills has been so satisfactory that I highly recommend them. For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. | Remember the name?Doan's?and IHH.V 11U Utile.. "Duty and The Man" A Reliance feai ture in 2 reels at the : ARCADE Saturday Jan. 25. Why look at an unfinishstyry v*hen you can see a complete one (in more than one reel) at the ARCADEL very often. > j DO>'T OOW THET HAYE APPENDICITIS! Many Newberry people who have chronic appendicitis, which is not very painful, have doctored for years for' gas on the stomach, sour stomach or constipation. W. G. Mayes states i? these people will try simple buckthorn hark, elvcerine, etc.. as com pounded in Adler-i-ka, the German appendicitis remedy, they will be surprised at tke QUICK benefit A SINGLE DOSE relieves these troubles INSTANTLY. SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY. < In accordance with an order of the Probate Court, and as administrator of the estate of John A. Graham, deceased, I will sell at 11 o'clock In the forenoon, Feb. 11, 1913, the following personal property, of which the said John A. Graham died, seized and possessed. ! 2 mules. 1 Mare. Corn. Sheep. Farming Implements. Stocks and bonds. Terms of sale, cash. J. L. Graham, Administrator. 3tltaw. I