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'party o tin- first part, a party of the
second part, and it would be found j,
il'"* * ^ 1. W .. tllA ?l'l I't /\r* t )i o !
mat '.lit* lei u*v ri uiv i v?i uiv. Ij
whole part/'
T. t- lawyer, he said, was like a doc- :
tor?anecessarv <_vil. T'iie speaker S1
was not against t.ie lawver or any Q
i O
other class so much as he was tor his C(
crowd (the tarmer). He wasn't !
against anybody particularly, but, "bv r
George, that crowd has Deen agamsi g
us particularly.'' He wasn't so anx- g
ious to make new laws as he was to 0
get some old laws off the statute ' t(
books?"some old laws that were j
against the farmers." He told some '
jokes to illustrate his- point. j p,
A knowledge of black marks on a ai
printed page, he said, no more constituted
an education than 'fruit jars &
c nsrituted fruit. Some of the best
educated men <he ever saw could hard- j s;
lv read or write, and some of the least J $
educated men he ever saw had a ! jr
sheep skin in their hands and a sheephead
on their shoulders. fr
Some of the gentlemen had said jr
h'.s record was so weak and Biease's
so bad "you can't stand on either."' tr
"Before we get through witft fa is e(
race," he said, ''some of them will i w
wish to God they had a weak record a,
liko minp"
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He had come today to tell of his re- j
cord. He spoke of his big vote six i g
years ago?the biggest majority, he I v,
said ever given a man in this State
*.nd he said he had kept Che faith. He n:
had got an appropriation of $46,000 to 0]
test cotton grades, he said. g
H? paid a beautiful tribute to his
mother, who had contended with pov- g
erty for her son, and with veneration a
spoke of the inspiration which her
life of consecration 'had been to him ic
in his work. He said he had the sat- a
isfaction of knowing that he had
fought to give the younger generation
a better chance than he had had, and Si
be never would be driven off the bale j e;
of cotton?"and if it wasn't for cotton, j jr
you'd have no town, you'd -have no
lawyers?the first would be a dis- 0
aster, I don't know about the second." s.
He drew a picture of a farmer fol- b
lowing a cotton buyer around, "won- p
dering what be is going to grade it?
and he don't know any more about ^
it than you do. And while you are ! tj
standing there wondering what the a
millionaire exporters are going to tell c,
you, you are wondering what you are
going to say to the wiife and babies g
When you get back home. And, by the I ^
help of God, I propose to stand between j c
tne rarmer ana any man Avnu wuuiu i ^
oppress him." i V(
He explained his efforts in the mat- j e(
ter of securing the $46,000 appropria-; t]
tion for testing cotton grades. He j a
presented a chart to his audience, say- j
ing the government had proven that j R
"low middling is a little bit betterj e
than middling" j d
Replying to a former speaker, he j ^
said the reason he bad taken on the j
fat was because he was a thorough- j e
bred. "You can't fatten a razor back 0
i s
but you can 'fatten a thorough-bred." | jj
He said he had promised the peo- j v
pie to work for a bill to regulate the | ^
cotton exchanges, and said he had got j h
his bill through, although it had been ! Q
amended, and was now in conference, j g.
but would have to became law in some 1 ^
shape or other. ! N
iie tOld a JOKe lO inusuaic uu as- | ^
sertion that "we (the farmers) are j
cow holding Our own."' c
He took up the banking and cur- ^
rency law, explaining how he saiO the
people with their collateral coul i gJ j a
to the banks and demand t\ie loans i 0
they wanted, instead of going and beg-. a.
ging for it. "Now," he said, "we can j
go and demand our own money on our i
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own wealth, and dictate the interest.'* i s1
He concluded with a perorati n in ^
which he said that "with Kd Smith in s]
the senate leading the light, we will ?
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come into our own." /
During his remarks, When he said fi
that "when I go back, as 1 will," he ;
was interrupted with applause and tl
cries of "yes, you'll go back," mingled j a:
with shouts for Blease.
He said he was ranking member ofj bi
tbree big committees and chairman tl
r?f rv.Q immicrrntion committee, aiid was ,
in favor of keeping out the "riff-raff1 C(
xV.ho would compete with our labor.'' ' NV
At the conclusion of his address he |
was ..resetted with several bouquets j r
I V. 1
and several baskets of peaches. h;
Governor Cole. L. Blease. . ;
reached the meeting during the latter ! b<
part of Senator Smith's address, and j
the governor was received with voci*- h,
"Toils applause wp/n he took his seat' si
upor. the stand. jj<
The governor began his address by. a(
saying: . ci
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"f 1~(i\'<' ;i!\vnvs been proud o'* New- ! ai
berry, lut for the first time inj my ; bl
"ife I t : ashamed of some' Xevrberry it
people. Senator Smith is a i.rup.st of. c(
Xewberry today; I . mi at home; and sj
I am surprise'! a* the reception you oi
gave him. Six vears ago Senator iu
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ihe i-i ?tloll. :i:11i lo raise ;
!t- .)! Hi-' bit 1 . Now ;.e com* s j
L.ck to Xewbfrrv to :;iv lumi audi
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ley go .'own >; re? t and get ;t bale oi j
?look at the sizi- of it (exhibit- J
lg a miniature bale f cotton), and
lev ride Smith out to the campaign
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lt'CllIlg, auu, 1U (lliu uniuiu, LUCV Iiui
ini upon stuff the Fanners' Oil Mill j
tole from t'.ie farmer. Aren't you |
mith people ashamed of t^.at? That ;
otton wouldn't bring two cents a
i
ound on the market, and yet tney are ;
iding a l"?-cents-a-pound United 1
tate senator on it. 1 know Senator i
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mith was ashamed to ride out here j
n it, but of course he was too polite ,
) say anything, and he had to ride."
This reference of the governor to '
le ride of Senator Smith to the cam- j
aign meeting was received with loud i
cclEiim, and t'ne governor added:
"That is good campaign stuff; I will .
et to tell that some more."'
The governor held in his hand aj
imple of the bale of cotton on which i
enator Smith was ridden to the meettg,
the bale being styled as "linters." j
The go. ernor tiien quoted figures I
cm the Columbia State prognosticat-j
ig the election oi two years ago. On 1
le 16th day of August, J912, he said, !
le Columibia State had published an j
iitorial of two columns and more i
hich was characterized by that paper i
5 "a forecast and not a guess."' That
iitorial, said the governor, predicted
lat Jones would receive 61,100 votes,
lease 46,400 votes, and Duncan 3,000 j
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ates, and tftat Tne Columbia staie
elieved that it was sounder judglent
to figure that the Jones plurality
t 14,700 would be several thousand
reater. The governor quoted the edi)r
as saying that the figures were
rounded on logical consideration?
nd t^e governor added: "And on
lese logical considerations a whole
>t of Jones men bet their money and
whole lot of Blease men put it in
ieir pockets."
One of the editors of the State, he
lid, bet on the election?violating the
lection laws, although always preachlg
law and order?"and here," he
aid, '*:s a letter written by one editor
? that paper, and here is what he
lys: "J. M. lMcInto&h, Esq., Columia,
S. C.,?Dear Mr. Mc: I am droping
you this note to remind you not
) turn loose any of the bets in which
tr. Murpay or myself are parties, as
ie election is by no means decided,
nd may not be for several days. Sinerely
yours, Robert E. Gonzales."
"'l nere is me iorecasi, saiu me
overnor, "telling you people in Newerry
and telling the people in South !
arolina that a:'ter logical considera- j
ons I would be defeated by 17,000
tes, and when the votes were countd
Jones went hom^ and dreamed of
le fact that "once I was but now I
:
?
m not." j
The govenor's references to these !
latters were interrupted by prolonged
applause, as were other utterances
uring the course of his entire adress.
Governor Biease then reviewed his
arly struggles from the time when he
tarted life in his father's hotel and
ivori- dtahlo in Voivhorrv until hp
as admitted to the bar and began |
tie practice of his profession in his |
ome town, when he faced lawyers \
f eminence and said that, notwithstanding
the odds against which he
ad to contend, that when he left
'ew,berry to go to the governor's of
ce his name was on tile dockets or j
le courts in Newberry county in more !
riminal and civil cases "than all the !
!
alance of the bar put together."
He spoke of the candidates New- '
erry had -had for governor, for c/m- j
ress. and for the United States sen- j
te, who had been defeated, men Whom
e characterized as of the aristocracy,!
lying that it was left to a livery j
:able boy "to come out and say New- j
erry, by the grace of the living God. !
flail have a governor, and by that j
Xitft' MIC J1US it. ,
It was not blood that made that ;
ght, he said.
He was interrupted by a voice in
le audience to the effect t'hat it was
mbition.
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"Yes," replied the governor, "and j
rains?and the aristocratic crowd j
lat tried to make it, their blood had I
! ipped so deep that, like some of their j
>tton blooms, they had turned the j
rong color and couldn't come."
Toe governor said that :he went to
olumbia to be governor and that he
ad been governor. Ho said that he
tiew it hurt a lot of people in XewBrrv,
but that they could not help it.
He pictured the conditions in the ,
osiery mill in. the South Caro-ina
tate penitentiary, and his successful
;ht to abolish that institution. Cnar terizing
the institution as a tuber
liosis inciiDaror. said mai ir was i
i institution which was taking the I
lood and the bono and t-ie flesh of!
s inmates, even though they had;
>:nmitted crimes. El quently he j
ioke of the conditions, and with pride j
' his successful fight winch resulted '
i the abortion of tne mill.
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!<'iTcii '<> tii** I'acl that he - ad coiniiiv
of many prisoners
10111 th penin-nthiry to the county
chainuaiiiij, to w rk Die roads, aiui
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yet in each 01' rhese instances ih<i
newspapers had '.n-ralded his action as
a pardon or a parole. H?' asked '.c
s\r>,. ulujt hnr t lwn- VUl'ni'!'
Id I 1UC1 r> liv LUV i lip ; M vuiu . ?.?v .H
."ave tlnse prisoners in the penitent-jfi
iary or on the State fa. us in ( (mipetition
with them, and wa< greeted I
with shouts of approval.
He said that he understood that j
something had been said about t'.ie J
c^lor red. "It may be the sign of tne j
anarachist, ruffian, and hoodlum, but, '
thank God, the men who are wearing !
it today are either themselves tne j
men or the sons of the men who wore i
that same color of red and followed
Warip Hamilton in '76. and kicked Cue |
negroes our of office in South Carolina. j|
If it was anarchy to wear it in '76 I
1 am proud you wore it; if it is anar- I
c-'ny to wear it today, I am proud you I
wear it."
The governor said that he saw some I
people going around wearing cotton I
blooms and that they ought to be g
ashamed of it, "because every tin e you I
put on a cotton bloom you are rob-,I
bing some poor man out of that much <1
r>ott/-\n ti nut in -a hale''
Referring to the prediction on the I
part of some that if he was elected I
governor the State woul be ruined, fl
he said that the State was ,-n better 1
condition during the toree pnd a half
years he had been governor than it I
had been before, and that more money I
had been invested by Northern cap- |
? aHctc in Carolina than for I
five or six years previous, and that
the figures would ^how that the State
was in the most prosperous condition
in Which it had ever' been.
He took up -his fight for the country
schools, showing his advocacy of the
one-mill tax for the country schools
which had been levied by the last
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ICglSIitlUI C, <iuu CiJC 1COU11. v?JL
today, and the result will be in the
hereafter," he said, "that South Carolina
will have better schools, better
school houses, more convenient
and more comfortable school houses,
and pay her teachers 'bttter salaries
than have even been paid in the past."
Referring to what he had done for
the laboring people, he cited his St.
Matthews address, quoting the resolutions
of the labor unions, one of which
stated that he had done more good for !
organized labor than all the other j
governors in the last 25 years.
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\XU V tfl UUl DlCdOC tiicii ncui 1UI.U n ?
discussion of the lill mergers, citing j
the record of his fif:ht against these ! ?
mergers. "They took men." he said,
"who were working for tftem, and said i
to those men. we find you have in the j
bank so many hun?\red or so many j
thousand dollars to your credit, and j
you are drawing $3,000 a year out of j
our mill, and you have made this j
money out of our mill; to another, you
are drawing -six dollars a day and
you have made this money out o): our
mill: now we want you, in fact, we
demand that you take the money you
have made and nut it in this mill
*
merger as an investment." Tiie governor
said that the result had been
that those cotton mill people by investing
in this manner had lost it,
that stock had gone down to seven
dollars a share and lower, and that the
other day a man had gone to a bank
to borrow money and when he presenter!
bis r-otton mill stock as secur- !
ity, at the sa*me bank at which he had |l
been borrowing for years t'he bank i
cashier had pushed it back and said, H
"You can't barrow on that any longer. 11
it is no good.'' The governor said -he ill
had tried to get the legislature to j
save the people in this particular, but j
the legislature had refused. As a re- *
suit, there were now lockouts in South j
Carolina?two mills he knew of locked :
down. "What is the purpose?'' The j
reason for t'he new rules by those who ;
made them, he said, which he cnar- mmmm
acterized as "dirty, scurrilous, negro-' . ,
IU* 111ft Illicttl.1, >>?.-> <.<_? UV;III.V ^..v, . ^
laboring man of his vote."' He said he j
had warned them of this before the j * ?l
rules were adopted, and had predict- Caus
ed these lock-outs and others which '*v
v bery
were coming in his opening speecn,
and it was coming true. He referred i a
. . TT . 1 he h
to the posting ot a notice in a t mon l .
in t?
mill, right next door to Newberry, as
to the closing down of the mill?the
object being "to try to make those mill atlir
Dconle move from one mill to another
mem
to try to deprive them of the right
of participating i 1 the primary in ^
August."
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Incidentally, without referring ,to " *.
any charges, but' evidently referring
to rumor wftich had reached his ears,
close
he said that -he had done what he had
State
done as he believed was for the best
interest d: the people of the State, >*ou
and that when any man who ever came jl iie *
into jis office said that that man had 151
ever paid one dollar or one nickel ?ct 1
or any other amount for any favor? repoi
for a parole, pardon, commutation, or back
any other favor?"h? is a dirty, cow- cii?ar
ardly liar, and he can not come to my lo?sc
race, but has to slip around be'.ind Go
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i'e governor said that lie had nevei
siened an annropriation bill, bo
e he believed the bills as writter
le legislature amounted to a robot'
the people, and he said thai
Dtoing t'he last appropriation bill
ad saved the people of the State
ixes this year $98,000, and notstanding
the fact that the legise
had said the State could ncrt run
3ut the amount, the State governwas
still running.
o\v," he said, "they are trying tc
up to you that we cannot borrow
money?to at certain State instills
are going to have to shut
that the asylum will have to
, and that the institutions of the
will be seriously injured. Don't
worry your 'heads a bit. When
ime comes to ger the money Cole,
ease knows where he is going to
t, and when you hear those little
*ts you simply push your hats
on your heads and say. "Another
ette-sucking liar has broke
vernor Blf'ase said that 011 the
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$558,415.66
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last two occasions he had appeared
- in Newberry as a candidate ifor office
. he had had to take up personal local
t matters, and 'he congratulated himself
. this time, and the people, that he was
; able to devote his time to his record
[ and to a discussion of the issues. He
^ took up his pardoning record, and said
. that he had on apologies to make for
. any pardon he had granted, or for
any other act or' his career. Day be.
fore yesterday, he said, he had granted
executive clemency upon a petition up|
on which the name a:' C. D. Jones,
. son of former Chief Justice Ira B.
...Jones, who opposed Governor Blease
. two years ago, naa appeared prominently,
and upon which petition there
were no friends of the governor. The
governor said that in matters of this
kind, as in all other, official matters,
he held the scales of justice with an
: even hand. He reiterated his asserI
tion, however, tr.at in the placing of
I - . , ,u.
positions none out a menu 01 ms nccu
apply, saying tiiat he had told the people
this two years ago, and that he had
not tried to mislead them in this or
> in any other manner, and had done
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.1 ABILITIES
:k $ 50,000.00
profits ... 76,155.71
npaid 4,648.00
...... 427,611.95
$558,415.66
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1 exactly what he -had told the people
he was going to do. ^
He referred to the fact that he was
the first governor Xewbery county
had ever had. In feeling words, he j
spoke of the fact that his kinaspeople
who had gone to rest were buried in
Rosemont ceinertery, and said that one
day his remains would rest there, and
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til CL L LllUO^ ?? uuwu nv>>) ~ ?
account of local animosities in this* 1
county, might still h^te him, and might j
teach their children and grandchildren A
to hate him, as he supposed some of *
them would, but some day, in the
years to come, his monument, however J
smajl it might be, would he pointed to j
as the monument of a man Who had
been the first governor of South Carolina
from' dewberry county, and as a I
man who-h^d represented Newberry J
county in the United States senate. \
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