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EOT A POLITICAL GAME ix-Goyernor Cole L. Blease Shows Wky Reform Party Had to Take Hand Against Manning's Autocracy. Columbia, June 25.?"I think the editorial in The Charleston American is an amply sufficient reply to John ? - - - * T~- ?/M^ Kiotiarason, signing juuusch, uw Time Bleaseite,' whose open letter to m? was published in The American on Saturday," said former Governor Ble&se today. The protest which I kave entered as io the exemption boards for South Carolina, recom mended by the governor, was not myself, nor was it with any view of securing any offi-ces ror any of my friends at the hands of this admin istration. It was simply and solely as appeal to the War Department at Washington that the members of the Reform party of South Carolina, ?umbering more than half the white people of the state, be not discrim mated against m luc SOICVUVU V?t those who are to be called upon to leave their homes atid their loved ones ?some of whom may be left in want, aad all of whom 'will be left in dis tress?to fight a foreign war. This is no game of politics. If it were, the part of politics would have been to have allowed Manning to go the extreme limit, because the further he goes the more are the people resentful and disgusted. But it is a matter affecting the families and the lives of the young manhood of South Carolina, in the most serious crisis; which the nation and the state have' ?Ter faced, ana it was as one V?11 V/ is looker upon as the leader of the Re ^orm party of the state (whether Justly or not) that I went to Washing ton as chairman of the committee of: our party, and placed tne situation In this state before the authorities there." >~ot Personally Affected. Former Governor Blease is proba bly as little affected personally by euch action as any man in South Car olina, so far as bis family is concern ed. He has no children, and he has ?nly one relative, either among the. ^ family connections of himself or Mrs. i X' 1 Blease,-who is within the military' "Open ' and I'll Give Crisp, delicious cooli flame stays put?yoi Twice as convenient as range and costs no moi wood to lug, no dirt, no fire or a simmer, just as r-r?o] L-ifrVi^n all the time, Ask your dealer to sho"s ST7 Washii Norfoll Richm age limits, and this young man, nephew, applied tor admission to th military training camp, and wa promptly rejected. In this connection, the remark ( Mr. iJlease as he left the governor office in January, 1915, is recalle* "What of the situation now?" one ( his friends asked. "So ar as I am pe; sonaliy concerned/' repied Mr. Bleas "they are in the saddle, and d? them, let them ride." In the con "-J"" ?< ' imc ha rtolla/l ortoTitinn 1 \J i. iC-lU uilltu UIIV/UHVU < the bitterly partisan attitude of tfc Manning administration, but othe wise be bas uttered no complaii as Reformer after Reformer bas bee displaced by the most actively bitt( anti-Reformers, and as every aj TV-kinf-mPTit has heen characterized t the most intense partisanship. Thei was no murmur from him when, soc after Governor Manning was inai gurated, with the echo of his -pron ise know, no factionalism still ech( ing in the ears of the people of th State, he removed Attorney Generi Peeples' father rrom tne isan well county dispensary i>oara ,alon with the entire board of Reformer Nothing was said by hini when short) afterwards Governor Manning atemp ed to remove Sheriff Huckabee, c Kershaw county?a step so far b< yond the law that the supreme couj of foe state called a halt and to] the governor that he had exceeded h: power in trying to remove a sheri re-elected by the people of *Kedsha^ In this connection, it may be state that in the following campaign o?. 19] Sheriff Huckabee, now deceased, wj re-elected by the epople of,Kershaw Affl nn of iv?A tlTTIO Af b aau iidiu uic uuii-c av uiv w- _ death. Never Squealed. There was no complaint from M Blease when the entire state boa] of education was removed with 01 fell swoop, ana administration mt appointed; nor when, between ml( night and morning of a Sabbath d? the board of regents of the State ho, pital for the insanse were regelated ii to official oblivion and suceeeded t Manning partisans; nor when form* Congressman and* former State Sei ator Thomas J. Strait, of Lancaste was removed as superintendent < that institution, with all sorts < charges against his management an with no opportunity for him to ha^ the . charges against him hean replaced with Dr. Williams. There was still no complaint froi Mr. Blease when Governor Mannin attempted to force Attorney Generf Peeples to ask for the resignation t Assistant Attorney General Frederic H. Dominick, Mr. Blease's former la partner, now congressman from tb third South Carolina district?anothe partisan effort in which the governc failed. There was no protest from M Blease when the governor cleancd ou lock, stock and barrel, every k< former connected with the Confederal if our Mouth and Shut Y You Something to Mai :ies?and never a burnt oi 1 don't need to watch the a coal or wood feature, the : :e, No coal or |jge ashes. A quick you like, and a ALADDJ a superior I v you the new It's always cl< ^NDARD OIL COMF (New Jersey) igton, D.C. RAT T1 MORE C!*ar] ;omo, nor when Col. D. W. McLaurin, an ex-Confederate soldier was re-j placed in his position with the state1 sinking fund commission bv a son of^ Senator Aian Johnstone of Newberry; i nor when the governor began the sus- j pension of magistrates who happened! to belong to the Reform party, in one of which suspensions, at least, in Aiken county, he was overridden even by an administration senate. Richardson's Case. . There was no protest on the part of Mr. Blease when after hundreds of partisan appointments and partisan removals from office, it became evi dent that the governor had made up his moind to get rid o* the last ol! the Reformers in South Carolina holding an appointfnve office ? Col. Alfred A. Richardson; not even when the gov-j ernor, in order to carry out his in- j tention in this regard, first vetoed! an act to place the election in the hands o fthe legislature, and the veto- j ? * *u - Tr> ' *{ ed and act to piace LUC Civvtivu ^ l~ I the hands of the people, in order to j keep the appointment in his own hands, oust Richardson, and appoint' one of his own political supporters to ] the position. j These were political appointments, j and Mr. Blease adhered strictly to [I I ? 3 the course which he had mapped out Ig for himself, personally, when he left fp the governor's office?"D them, v>; they are in the saddle, let them ride." :d J He even made no statement, nor L6 any comment, when Governor Man is: ning promoted other officers over the 1 head of Capt. J. Frost Walker, Jr., of *s Union, of the First regiment, South ! Carolina infantry, last sumer, when j the troops were mobolized prepara "? tn thp Mexican border; j lory to 6umo ? ? .{j! nor has he made any comment as to ie! many oiher appointments in the na >n tional guard of South Carolina, which j_: have been promoted over the heads iy J of other officers v,*ho were Reformers; s- politics has held free sway in na a_ I tional guard appointment^, just as ,y! if they were political offices?and still j the governor has wonaereu ?uj. a_; though he said prior to the declara ,r<! tion of war that the people of South Carolina were eager for war, that the jf ' ranks of the national guard have not 1(j filled by voluntary enlistment. rQ These partisan discriminations were j'j noted?they spoke for themselves, but 1 past actions of the governor Had led ^ ! the Reformers to expect nothing else, " and the matter passes Dy. 5 i il, Coming down to tlie war emergen )? oy, there was no protest by Mr. Blease k nor by any of the Reform leaders, w when a partisan civic preparedness i , i is commission was appointee and a 1??~ wVinsr? :r i bottery or speaiiei a dCl^vvvu >r' personnel would have done credit to r.j a list of selections made for the pur-j ! | t,' pose of carrying the doctrine of par s' tisan politics a la Manning to the, ;e people of the state, rather than the our Eyes le You Wise!" lie! The steady, even New Perfection. reversible glass reservoir. [N SECURITY OIL terosene, for best results, ean and clear-burning. 'ANY otte, N. C. on, W.Va. sston, S. C. doctrine of enlargement cf food crops and food conversation in a great war emergency; nor when the governor appointed a state council of defense, which included three Reformers out of some thirty, even aftei he had sent for one of the Reform leaders anil equested the suggestion of six names of those who were known to be op posed to him in politics; nor when j various other boards, commissions, j committees and councils have been ! appointed, though there was carried j out, even on these war emergency boards, the most bitterly partisan propaganda ever attempted Tn the history of South Carolina, and carried out by a governor who, in his first inaugural address, had promised to KIIOW no lacuuii. iue nayimcis uui ing the past week, have contributed according to their means to the Red Cross fund, though the war council appointed by Governor Manning to carry me campaign iur iuuus juiu the various campaigns included one Reformer out of forty-eight members with the governor and the two sec retaries. Another Matter. f i But when it came to the- registration | and the exemption borads, the pro i position was entirely different. These are not positions ordinarily sought "by any one. Conscription is not a ' pleasant task, at best. Did it not In ! volve the lives and the liberties or the people of South Carolina, the Re ! form party would have been glad for I Governor Manning to parcel out tne j machinery among hh partisans. But when reliable information cane from i Washintgon thafc the governor naa told the War Deparament that if the | normal boards were appointed m j South Carolina, "that 'slackers' might j have their day, and that politics would i control the work in South Carolina;" j when, in the face of this conversation j with Major John G. Richards, he ap j pointed partisan registration boards, and has recommended partisan exemp j tion boards, Mr. Blease felt that the time had come for a protest to the ; War Department, and for a request , for fair dealing in a mater of Ilel j and death?not in the parcelling out of petty political offices or the dis tribution of petty political spoils, but ) in the selection of the flower of the young manhood of South Carolina, who are to be called upon, if need be, to offer up their lives. Life and Death. That Dolitics should be allowed to i play a part in the selection of ma ! chinerv which deals witn life and 1 death almost passes understanding? i but facts arc fsctn, and thev spenk I f j of themselves. The publication in The Charleston American on last i Thursday morning of the exemption boards recommended by Governor Manning surprised those who were expecting nothing less than mat par tisan appointment SUUU1U V.~? ize even these boards. The Reform ers are not seeking any onices or any appointments, either of profit or of ' honor, at the hands of the Manning administration, but they were determ ined at least to let the War Depart ment know the methods which were being pursued in South Carolina, where a partisan administration In playing a game of petty politics, is making pawns of the lives of men and of the welfare and the eharts of women and children?a political game, in which the might of legally constituted authority is tnrowu wmi full force against a fact'on of the Democratic party of the State that has always done its full duty to South Carolina in peace and in war; which is the backbone of the state, both in civic and military prepared ness?on the farms which must feea the armies, and in the ranks of pri vates?not officers who hold commis sions by grace of a partisan state ad ministration ? who must do South Carolina's share of the real fighting in this war. Fowler-SJiealy. SDecial- to The State. Clinton, June 23.?"Wednesday af ternoon at tj o'clock at the home of .Mr. and Mrs. Olin Shealy a wedding that came as quite a surprise to their many friends was solemnized when Miss Gertrude Fowler and Jack Shealev were married, the Rev. Jas. D. Kinard of Greenwood officiating. The ceremony was witnessed by only a few friends and relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Shealy left on the evening vesti bule for a Northern trip, after which they will be at home to their friends here. The bride is a popular young woman and has a large circle of friends who will be interested in her marriage. The groom holds a respon sible position with the local Seaboard Air Line railway office and is held in high esteem by all of his associates. Accounted For. Aunt?"Mv goodness, Eddie, wliv did you take the biggest apple in the dish?" Eddie?"I was afraid some one else would get it."?The Delineator. A Stickler. 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