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LOUIS APPIirLT. ditor. MANNING, S. C., JAN. 29, 1913. PUBLISHIED EVERY WEDNESDAY CAPITOL CORRESPONDENCE The second week of the gen eral assembly has passed with out any radical legislation, and in fact very little legislation of any kind, which to my mind is a good omen, if the entire session could pass away without chang ing the laws or without making any new ones it would perhaps be bette. So far very few bills of a general character have been introduced, the most important one being the cotton warehouse bill of which the Hon. John L. MeLaurin is the author, and it was to secure legislation in be half of the farmers of this State that Mr. McLaurin gave his con sent to have his name enrolled as a member of the senate. Al ready the influence of this dis tinguished gentleman and states man is being felt in that body, he is not treated as a new . mem ber, but looked upon as a coun sellor and a guis for the other members. The inauguration took place last Tuesday and the writer had the honor of being the chairman of the inauguration committee, which, by virtue of this distinc tion placed him at the head of the procession with the Gov ernor-elect on his arm. I have introduced a bill to amend the present law to increase the membership on the board of county commissioners from two to four, believing that with the county being represented from the several sections it will be econgmy and for the betterment of the county service. Ihave also introduced a bill which has not as yet been re ported from the judiciary com mittee,"but if it does become a law it willihave the effect of put ting a crimp to a demoralizing practice in this and other coun ties. I refer to a bill to prohibit magistrates from consenting to the compromise of cases after warrants have been issued thus using the criminal machinery to collect debts and to levy a black mail upon neighbors The Gov ernor in . his inaugural address alluded to this practice, and he told the writer that he would mot hesitate to remove any mag -strate who abuses his authority by permitting the law abused in this manner. He called atten tion of the general assembly to the floating agents and to the class of people who take mort gages and then rely upon getting * heir money by standing in with magistrates who consent to com promise, and give to the magis trates.a "rake off." He says Sthe legislature should stop the -.practice by making the law plain and pnohibitive with a severe penalty if ignored. oAt e~euest of the trustees ofthe Paxville High School I have introduced a'bill to author ize the collection of a contingent fee to aid in defraying the ex pense of thatschool. There will 1esome of the patrons who will -object to paying this fee, but if they want to run a full term the trustees must have money and and the taxation does not yield enough funds therefore it is nec essary to supplement the fund as is done in nearly all of our grad ed schools. The rural police bill for Clar endon was the first bill this ses sion to get through the senate and go over to the House. At the request of Mr. Mitchum it *was referred to the Clarendon *delegation and there it remains *so far 'without being reported back. Ilasked Mr. Mitchumn why be did not take the matter up -with his colleagues, he told me that he had been unwell and would attend to it Monday. If the bill goes through as I intro duced it, there will be no use for those wanting to be policemen to write to me on the subject, as I nor the delegatidin will have anything whatever to do with theselection of policemen. Mr. White is contemplating the introduction of a bill to pre vent appeals from the courts, but I doubt very much if it will -pay him to do so. The right of appeal is a fundamental prmnci pie that no legislature can fail to recognize and respect, and should Mr. -White attempt to -stop the exercise of this right he will have another think com ing to him. The only thing that has come before the general assembly which I regard as unfortunate~ is Sthe letter of Senator Tillman purporting to be a reply to Gov ernor Blease, and it is made up1 largely of abuse and wholesale charge of venality on. the part of the legislators and a. railroad attorney. Colonel,.Abney. I have been a member of the senate a long time, have seen much of Mr. Abney, and I a~m sure Sena tor'Tillman does him an injus tice when he charges that he is a corruptor of the members ofI the members of the general as sembly. Colonel Abney in the capacity of counsel for the South ern Railroad company goes be fore committees, make his argu ments, a right he has. but there is not a member of that body who can truly say that he was approached by Colonel Abney outside of a committee hearimg. I do not know what the practice was when Tillman accepted a railroad pass, but I do know that since I have been a member *of the general assembly no rail road attorney has ever approach any measure that was to come s before that body except in the a legal proper manner by argu- t ment before the committee just ju as they would go into court and g argue to a Judge or a jury. f Tillman is wrong. J Friday was set aside as a holi- t day to celebrate Robert Lee's birthday and the legislature ac- c cepted an invitation to go to - Winthrop. I have been to this , institution several times and I each time I find something new I and greater improvement. The 1, girls from Clarendon were de- l' lighted to see us and they went d into ecstacies when they learned a that Mr. White was a bachelor. t They all looked bright and hap- a py ahd gave all of us a good y time, and a specially fine dinner. t Mr. Mitchum's industrial f school bill has not come out from the committee yet, so 1 x have been unable to get a copy t of it. I am told it has many a good features, but at this time I when all of us are watching the c financial budget with our knives out ready to cut there will be a very little chance for his bill to a get through. c Next Friday the railroad com- t mittees from the House and the t Senate will meet jointly to hear t arguments on the rate bill, which t seeks to force the rail roads to give f a two cents a mile passenger rate. I am chairman of the senate com mittee, and will preside over the joint meeting. therefore it will s force me to read the discissions e of the courts of the several a States, and after the arguments of the attorneys have an intelli gent idea how to act. t Inasmuch as the daily news papers only published extracts e of the Governor's inaugural ad dress, I deem it proper to give a to my readers in full, and will say, that aside from his personal , references to certain individuals, I regard it a strong utterance, a deserving of the great applause d it received. Mr. President, Mr. Speaker. Gen tlemen of the House of Repre- c sentatives and State Senate, e Ladies and Gentlemen: r God Almighty has never given to any man truer or more devot ed friends than He has given to me, and no man loves his friends better than I love mine. Hang ing on the wall in the office of the Chief Executive of South Caro lina is a motto which reads: '-Of what shall a man be proud if he is not proud of his friends." Sometimes the question is asked me why it is or how it is that I can get hold of certain informa tion which seems to be a secret between man and man, or some times between a man and his God. It is because my friends r are true; they are ever zealous and always on the alert to pro- ~ tect me and my interests wher ever or whenever the occasion may arise. I hold in my hand the Bible upon which I have taken the oath of office as Governor of Soutn Carolina for the second time. It was my father's Bible. In it I read, '-Thy friends and thy father's friends forsake not." If I never obeyed any other in junction in it 1 have tried to obey that one, and, by the help of God, I shall contir.ue so to do. I read another passage: "And all things whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall re-~ ceive." I hope that the ministers of the gospel who prayed for my defeat last summer feel within their hearts that they believed -when tbey were praying; and, if so, they shall be happy. Those who prayed for the best man to win should certainly be delight ed for, from that passage of Scripture they certainly believ a ed when they prayed, and I have the honor of addressing this 'General Assembly, by the voice of nearly 75,000 of the white pe pe of South Carolina. We were told that some ladies prayed in ~ that campaign. I am satistied they believed when they prayed- ~ God answered-their prayer, and r I thank them for praying for the best man to win. I thank them that Iam here. Gentlemen of the General As. C sembly, I desire to say to you that I regret- the fact that there; is a fight between two of your State colleges-one that I thaik should be investigated by you and one that I think should be e investigated in a serious manner. If I am correctly informed, the Peabody Fund being distributed throughout these United States 6 has, as one of the members of its trustees, the Hon. Martin F. s Ansel. of South Carolina. If I I am correctly informed, the trus- I tees of this fund had agreed to 1 g i y e Winthrop College about t $90,000. The president of the ~ South Carolina College w e n t North, and I am told that Mr. Ansel has in his possession a statement signed by the presi- E dent of the South Carolina Col- I lege, that if the Peabody Fund r trustees would give to the South b Carolina College a certain amount i of that money. that he, as presi- a 4ent of the South Carolii. Col- ~ lege, would agree and consent for the remainder of that money to go to the education of free t negres;- I have tried to get a copy-of that report, and have not J succeeded: but I have the word V of Prof. D. B. Johnson. the able a and distinguished president of 11 Winthrop. that that is true. And, . if it is true, certainly the presi. s dent of the South Carolina Col.- d lege has no place in the educa- ~ tional department of South Car- hi olina. If he would rather take ti that money to educate negroesC than to give it to the white girls 2 of South Cacolina, he certainly r' has no place during my adminis. tl tration in any depar-tment of the c government, or. particularly, the u educational department of the ti State. You carn get the informa- 11 tion if you will ask Mr. August 0 Kohn, who, I undetand, was it Dmewhat familiar with thetrans- t etion; or possibly if you will ask is ie State Superintendent of Ed- l cation, Hon. John E. Swearn- 1 en, or if you will summon be- s >re your committee Dr. D. B. a ohnson, the president of Win- t crop College. Now, gentlemen, if the two a olleges are to fight one another -if Winthrop is to fight the Un- s rersity, let Winthrop tight the i Tniversity like a man; or, if the Iniversity is to fight Winthrop, t ?t the University fight Winthrop d ke a man; but, for God's sake, o on't let them use such methods I s I have received this informa- f ion of; don't let one of them say, t fter it has received its measly r pittance, that it is willing that a he balance should go to educate I ree negroes in South Carolina. That is a matter for you to in estigate. and it is a serious mat I er. If they had let Winthrop lone, I am informed she would t Lave got $90,000, and possibly I onsiderably more, but by this inderbanded fight she was cut N own very considerably in that t ,ppropriation, and you will be c alled upon thisyear, as a result, E o make a larger appropriation a han you would have had to I take if Winthrop had received t hat money. I tried to get the a acts plainer to lay them before c -o: 1 wanted to get them in c criting; but I am satisfied that if -on will send for Professor John- 1 on he will tell you what he told r ae, and when he does tell you I 1 m satisfied that you will find (if 3 on will excuse a common ex- t iression) a pretty dirty transac ion on the part of somebody. I This is plain talk, but that is I xactly what I came up here for. Now, gentlemen of the Gener 1 Assembly, I want to call your ttention to another matter. I rant to ask you, when these col- 1 eges present their estimates. nd the appropriation bill i s .rawn, that you require that the tems be separated. Some of you tave been elected on a platform f economy; some of you promis d on the stump to try to help to educe taxes. I stand here to 3 in you in that fight. whatever 2ay be the consequences. And, y friends, don't let the South arolina College come in here - nd say, for the South Carolina 1 ,ollege $218,000; don't let Win hrop say, for Winthrop $118,000; on't let the Citadel say, for the itadel $33,500: If you do, don't e surprised-if I apply the veto, or,. in that event. I expect to do o, even if it shuts up the col ages for the balance of this year; am going to do it: I am going o put the matter squarely up to *ou, because I promised the peo le, by the help of God, that I rould do whbat I could to reduce axes, and -I am going to do my art. .The 72,043 people who oted for me shall never say I .id not carry out every promise made them, if God gives me the 1 trength and lets me live. But hey will come in and say. "Oh, E von sustain .that veto you will I hut up the colleges." Then put this way: For maintenance, so 2any thousands; for new build igs, so many thousands. Then E an item for new buildings is -etoed. you can kill it with'-ut Lurting the college; if an item or aniy other particular purpose included, that can be vetoed, nd you can sustain that veto ithout hurting the college. But, :entlemen, if you allow the bill 1 o pass your House and Senate 2aking an appropriation mn balk umn for such and such college so ich money, then, when the 1 eto is applied, -the appeal will e made to you upon this floor 1 nd over yonder that if you sus-. ( ai this veto you will shut upi he college. Gentlemen if the r Vays and Means Committee and f the Finance Committe, I begC 'ou, in behalf of the constituency I hom you first begged and then t leaded with~ l ast summer, to I tand here like men and help me educe taxes in South Carolhna. 1 ou may think the people are e ot watching, but I think if you ould wire this morning to somec f the members Qf the last Leg-t shture they would wire back, t Yes, the people are watchmng,. ecase we are at home." Now, gentlemen, there is a 1 ian I want to warn you against - -I have had experience in this 1 ouse and yonder-both--and that s Mr. Professional Lobbyist. sometimes he a lawyer and paid bbyist; sometimes a doctor; I ometimes he is a man who hasJ orsaken the Lord's vineyard-a r reacher, who has forsaken the I 4ord's vineyard and gone intod e field of the professional lob- I yist, and is hanging around the egislature, hired by somebody. Vhen a man pulls you off and 1 egins to talk so much you should ot pass this bill, or- should nots ass that bill, ask him what rail 1 oad company is paying him to I e here; ask him what corpora-t ion is paying him to be here;t sk him-the question, my friends, Lre yvou here for the people of t outh Carolina, or are you paid s come here and lobby me on f iis bill? That is the question to C ut to him, -and when you put it, ( 2st watch your man, and you t ill see that he is being paid by 1: corporation, and is not work- c ig for the interests of the peo- t le. How many farmers do you r se around here begging you to e o something for them? How v any fellows do you see around t ere begging you to do some- a sing for the people directly? i I. they beg you not to pass the p ent rate-"it will ruin the rail- ti ads." They beg you not to cut b e legal rate of interest to 6 per v ant. Look at the skyscrapers il p street. Who built them? Why, r e people who paid extravagant s iterest and built this town. All d er South Carolina you will find e Threfore, whena man comes a o you lobbying for a bill, if he a a fellow-member, all right; he tas a constituency,' just as you Lave; but if he is an outsider, ay, "What is your name? Why ,re you here lobbying for this hing?" I am warning you new aembers. Some of these old nes have had experience, and hey had to beg mighty hard last ummer to get over that exper ence. Now, my friends, I understand here is going to be a bill intro luced along a line to which I vant to call particular attention. t is a bill to prevent Magistrates rom using the Criminal Courts o collect debts. It is a- serious natter. A negro goes out here mnd works on your farm. Some ittle agent comes along an d vants to sell him a clock, or a 3ible, or something else-possib y a sewing machine. The agent will sit down in the house and alk to the negro saying. "Well. want to sell you this machine." after a while the negro says he kill take it. The agent begins o write, and he looks around >ver the house and puts down :verything the poor negro has. end very often something the >oor negro hasn't. He will get he negro to sign the paper. That gent will witness it. In the fall )f the year another agent will :ome back to collect that debt. 'Where is your sewing machine?" ie will ask. "Boss, I never had io sewing maching." 'Oh, here s a paper signed by you saying ro have; don't talk about not laving any sewing machine." 'Where is that agent what came sere?" "He is gone." "Where s that hog you had in the pen?" 'Bose never had no hog." -O' , it is in the paper." [' a g >es for a little Magis ra s there, and he indicts hat for disposing of prop ,rty unter mortgage. The Mag strate sends and has the negro cragged into court before him. rhen he will say, "Now, if you ill pay this man this mortgage Lnd pay the costs. we will let rou out." The negro goes out of rour farm right over to another nan, borrows the money to pay his mortgage, and binds himself ip under contract to work for hat otter man next year. And he Magistrate, in open violation >f the law, uses the criminal part >f his court as a collecting agency, puts part of the money n his pocket, and is threatening * ruin the labor of this country. Now, gentlemen of the Gener L Assembly, we fuss about law nd order. Why, I saw men up i e r e last sifmer hollering, 'Law and Order," yelling for 'Law and Order," and "We must -edeem South Carolina," and I ^aw some of those same men lown here to the S'tate Fair dimk ng liquor and mixing it- with ~oca cola, and betting on horse -acing. Who is going to redeem hem? "Redeem South Carolina! she is ruined! Shut up the Char eston horse races"-and slip. ing down here under a sta.nd Iringing liquor arid coca-cola, nd slipping up to a fellow back d up against the fence with a ittle box in his hand, and -slip ing out tickets to bet on the iorse races! Do you calU that not ambling Oh, gentlemen, let is also get to those higher up. 3ere is a section of your statutes hat is being daily violated-and would like to ask if anybody in his House is violating -it--of ~ourse, I do not expect an ans ver: "It shall be unlawful for any erson to assume the duties of ny public office until he has aken the oath provided by the jonstitution, and being regular y commissioned by the Gover or. The term 'public officers' bal be construed to mean all fficers of the State that have eretofore been commissioned, he Trustees of the various col eges of the State, members of rarious State Boards. and other ersons whose duties are defin d by law." Are there any men serving in ffice in South Carolina today as rustees of colleges, or on other oards, who are not serving un ler commissions? -If so. gentle ne~n, they are violating that sec ion of your statute--Section 535 -iAd it is the duty of the Attor iey General to prosecute them. 'here is no punishment provid d in that section. but the Gen ~ral Statutes provide that where o punishment is provided the rudge shall impose such punish nent as he sees fit. Now, gen lemen, if you want to go lower lown to sustain the law, let the nan higher up sustain it. Much has been said about pri nary elections. I do not propose o discuss this question very far. hen the primary started last ummer I offered a re ward of one rund red dollars each for the first [e convictions of men violating he election laws-that is, bet ing on the elections or trying to ise money, whiskey or intimida ion in the elections. Notwith tanding all these charges of raud from the State Executive sommittee, notwithstanding this jommittee's running to Spartan surg and Greenville and other laces, not a single man has ome and said, "I want one of ose $100 rewards." No, gen lemen, and well they may not ome. That is enough. I did -hat I could to prevent viola ions of the election laws and for fair election. I stand on record a this House and in yon Senate leading for a free and fair elec ion. I stand on record as a mem er of the State Board of Can assers of South Carolina as be g the only iran voting for a esolution demanding it. There its in this assemblage today a istinguished Ex- Attorney Gen ral of South Carolina, who was mmber of that Board,: and who would have voted with me, but illness called him to his home. My actions were so fine on the occasion that even my dis tinguished friends, the Cuban mixed-breeds, paid me a compli ment. And yet they holler fraud in the primary. I wish you would appoint a committee to investi gate that fraud, and let me come before it, and let me send you st.me witnesses from Buncombe street in Greenville, Ward 1-in Spartanburg, from some pre cincts in Charleston, and one or two in the county of Orangeburg. 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-and I want to say to you right here: You got here on the bridge of the primpary. Are you going to burn 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 Registra tion of the various counties to open the books of registration in every county in South Carolina during the months of July and August, 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 will give every white man in South Caro lina 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 months. and you have given to every white man the op portunity 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 com mitted it? Where is it? Nearly all the County Executive Com mittees 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 pre cinct, ha 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 being "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 vote the State ticket. Why did Wilson get so many more votes in South Car olina than I did? If Blease peo pie did not -support Wilson, why was it Wilson ran so far ahead of 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 Carolina and tbe South' Carolina aristoc racy sits in the theatre-and the best definition I know of for aris tocracy 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," oh! the ladies all yell with delight. When a woman comes out in "The Lonesome Pine," and a fellow says to her, "Country maiden, you must reform; love so and so"-naming the family she hates, and she says, "I could put them in hell," there is loud ap plause in the Columbia Theatre. In minstrel shows, when the dir tiest songs are sung, going just far enough to leave the mrost vile iterpretation in the minds of the young, load applause comes from the men and women. But when the Governor of South Carolina goes to Richmond, Va., and says what he has said all over his State, then the newspapers come out and' say, "It is a horrible thing that the Governor said hell." I tell you, members of tne Leg islature, today,'what I said then -I repeat it now. Notwithstand ing 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 Jus tice of Lancaster if- they did tight 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 rotect a black brute who has laidi his hands upon a white wo man. I will never dot it. And every time I told the white peo ple of ttuis State that this sum ~mer, 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 go ing to stand by it as long as God gives me heart and mind and power. Bat it is all right wvhen a little Yankee show woman comes down ere and says dirty things; that is to be applauded. And yet if a nan were to meet you, with your wife, on the street, and make the ame remark to you, you would slap his face. But you sit in the pera house and applaud. Now, gentlemen, a few days tgo the News and Courier came >ut with a great headline-on Sunday, I think it was-with a reat displayed headline, "Hell's Playground"-a novel written by i v ankee novelist, puttingr 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 dir tiest campaign joke and lie that has been told in South Carolina in a century. They say, "We are family papers; we can't publish any reply of the Governor, be cause it hasn't the proper langu age." But they could send to your daughters, sweet girls fif teen to sixteen years of age, the dirtiest lie that ever fell from the disgraced lips of anything shap ed up or-called Grace. Now, gentlemen, another mat ter that I desire to call to your attention is this playing of foot ball. You certainly ought to put some restriction or regulation on it. I hold in my hand a headline in the paper, "Has Broken Nose." Another big headline, "John stone's Spinal Column is Wrench ed; May Be a Helpless cripple." I am proud.to say that 1 under stand that the young man is get ting better, and I hope he will be restored to his strong man hood. But, here we find an ar ticle written by the editor of the Columbia State, in which he has the effrontery to say that fbotball 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 be ing a good football player the lad gets to be better in society, has more recognition. The fact of his being a football player carrying himintosociety he could not otherwise reach, says the Co lumbia State. Gentlemen, that is the first time in my life I ever beard that a man had to show the capacity of a prize fighter o~ a bull dog to become a gentleman. Yet here it is in the great advo cate of your State colleges-the great paper that hollers for your S t a t e colleges. The Evening Record comes out and says, with big headlines, "Dirty Football," and writes of the dirty manner in which the game is played, the dirtymannerin which some young men take of others to cripple them, if you please, and get them out of the game. Now, gentlemen, i think you ought to do one of two things, either abolish football playing in your colleges, or else fix a degree for it, and confer upon a man Doctor of Society because he has the tendency of a bull dog or the fighting of a Durham bull. Now, my friends, from every city and hamlet in South Carolina we hear the song of prosperity. Notwithstanding we were told that if Blease was elected Gover nor South Carolina would be financially ruined, that she would go to the dogs, yet if you will read you will find, in all the his tory of your State, the year 1912 towers in prosperity above all the years that have gone before. More capital has been invested in your State than ever before, and today one of the appeals that is bemng made to you for higher appropri ations is based on the fact that the State is so prosperous. And yet they said if Blease was elect ed the State would be ruined. 1 want to call your attention to another false impression that the newspapers are tying to create They are trying to lead uninform ed people in this State to belheve you have a special Act on the race course in Charleston. There is not a word of truth in it, and the editors wire these things know ing they are writing what is not true. Here is your Act "That any person within this State, who engages mn betting at any race track, pool selling, or bookmaking, with or without writing, at any time or place; or any person who keeps or occa pies any room, shed, tenement, booth or building, fioat or vessel, or any part thereof, or who occupies any place or stand of any kind, upon any public or private grounds. with this State, with books, pa pers, apparatus, or paraphernalia for the purpose of recording or registering bets or wagers, or of selling pools, and any person who record or registers bets or wag ers, or sells pools or makes books, with or without writing upon the result of any trial or contest of skill, speed or power of endur ance, or man or beast: or upon the result of any political nomi nation, appointment >r election" Suppose you had all the fellows indicted that bet on the primary last summer, gentlemen; I wcnld have to have some more pardon blanks printed. No w, i s t en: They are yelling, "What is the Governor going to do about the Charleston races? What is the new Attorney General going to do about the Charleston races?" You have no special Act on it. It goes on about -ae result of any political nomination," etc.. o npon the result of any lot, chance casulty. unknown or contingent event whatsoever." and so on. Therefore. my friends, your Act not only covers the race track in Chareston, but it covers gamb ling on political primaries, gamib ling on cards, church rafls tur key raffies. or any other game of chance. Do 'ou wanit mec to put on a beaver hat and a Prince Al bert suit, and kid gloves, and caryv a gold headed cane, and play preacher, and go around to plead with them not to violate this Act? Do you wvant me to go up street herei in a disguise and go into a gambling den? No, you would~ think it was beneath the dignity: of the office and unbecoming a gentleman. Yet some people seem to want me to go to Char-leston and sniff around to see if I can tnd somebody betting on horse races. It is done to mislead the:i uninformed. That is all. My p0-:i sitin in the enforcement of the law is this: If a law is violated, let some man swear out a warrant and charge the guilty ones with violation of it. If the Magistrate doesn't do his duty I can't remove h i m. Your honored Supreme Court says that the little Magis trate is above the Chief Magis trate. No, Ican't remove him. But the jury may be able to do some thing to him when they meet about six months afterwards, as, for instance, in Dorchester, where they have court twice a year. If your Magistrate and Sheriff say they can't enforce the law, if they will call on me I will enforce it, just as I did in the town of the Senator from Bamberg, when the blind tigers were running over the little town, and the Mayor called on me to help him. "The blind tigers are about to take the town." I sent him help and en forced the law, if they did make two of my men walk out of tbe town with their hats in their hands. I am not going on 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 what he is going to do; any man who can eat up a Lyon cer tainly can do his duty as Attorney General. Now, my friends, I want to speak to you of another thing. In yesterday morning's News and Courier you find in big headlines, "Blease Blocks Militia's. Trip. Will Not Go to Washingeon if He Can Prevent. Governor Will Not Permit State Militia to Partici pate in Inaugural Parade and Will Keep Clemson and Citadel Cadets at Home, if in His Power. Reas' ons for Attitude." Now, gentle men, here are the -rersons for attitude:" "The Governor said that no formal invitation had been extended, and that unless such was forthcoming he would. not permit the militia to go to Wash ington, 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, of Columbia, would have control of the South Carolina part of the inauguration; that it was his opin ion that Mr. Gonzales would, if possible, place the Governor, as commander-in-ohief of the State militia. in an embarassing posi tion, and that he did not wish the State troops to suffer thereby. Asked if his prohibitive stand in cluded the Citadel and Clemson, the Governor said he did not know whether or not he had authority over these institutions, but if so, he would prevent the cadets go ing to Washington." Now, the same man that sent that report to the News and Cour ier sent this report to the Atlanta Journal, and I want you to listen to the two reports, and see what lies the News and Courier's big, glearing headlines giveyou. Here is my position, plainly stated, in the Atlanta Journal: "The Governor replied: "In part sour information is correct. The Adiutant-Generai's depart ment presented me with a written order, I presume you would term it, for the National Guard to take part in President Wilson's inauz uration. I declined to sign the same upon the ground that no formal invitation to the Governor of South Carolina as commander in-chief, or to the Adjutant Gen eral, has been receiyed, asking that we part icipate in the inaugu ral ceremonies. Until such is re ceived, or unless such is received, I most assuredly will not attend the inauguration, nor will I'per mit, if I can possibly help myself, any military company from South Carolina to participate in such ceremonies. 1 do not propose for the South Carolina troops to go to Wash ington and be mistreated, or treated discourteously. because of their commnazder-in-chief, knowing full well who will have control of the South Carolmna part of the inauguration, Wil liam 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 of people. Therefore, I de cline to allow r yself or the South Carolina troops to be placed under his command or in any manner or form under his dictation. If an invitation comes from thle proper source which will guarantee to my troops an honoable position in the inaug ural parade, and will guarantee to them fairness and equality, I am in favor of accepting it and of their- par-ticipating in the in augural ceremonies. Otherwise I am not. That is all ther-e is to it, and this is what I propose to stand by. I do not propose to let my troops go to Washington and possibly be put in behind some negro troops, as was done on one occasion when Gener-al Wilie Jones r-eceived the humili ation of his life, and by his mil itary genius and str-ategy switch d positions on the negr-oes and placed himself in a respectable position. "DPoes that prohibition include the citadel and clemson?" the Governor was asked. "I do not know." he replied. "that 1 ave any authority over those two institutions in r-egard to the matter., but if I hav-e. I most as suredly will protect the farmers' sons at Clemson and the profes. sional men's sons at the Citadel from being, humiliated. and I am satised that if the authorities of these two institutions will stop and think they will agree with me. Some people may say. "Oh well, there is nothing in it.' Possibly not, but I do not pro-. pose to put myself in a positionj to beinsulted,9 inlited, and I of it, I will take care of the man A that does the insulting." Mr. Caldwell sent that report to The News and Courier; Mr. Caldwell sent that report to the Atlanta Journal. The Atlanta Journal publishes it as it was; The News and Courief garbled it so as to mislead the people of South Carolina into believing that I am trying to prevent the military companies from going to Washington. Gentlemen, I have never been anywhere I was not invited if I knew it; I have never been anywhere that I was not wanted, that I knew of, and if I had been, as soon as I founl it out I would have left. I don't propose to go to Washing ton and let a Cuban mixed breed assign me to a humiliating posi tion, possibly so that when they march up street people would be saying there is the Governor of South Carolina, possibly march ing behind negroes. No; I won't do it. That shows you what newspapers do, and how fair they are. Now, gentlemen, I have been severely criticised for pardoning people. I just want to show you that I am not done yet. Listen here: "State of South Carolina. Office of Superintendent of Pen itentiary. Columbia, S. C.. Jan. 18. 1913. To His Excellency, Cole L. Blease, Governor: We, the undersigned members of the. South Carolina General Assembly, do earnestly pray that you parole Fannie Cooper, during good behavior, from Dar lington county. Also we earnest ly recommend .that you have Sudie Jones transferred from the Penitentiary to the Asylum for the Insane. All of which.is respectfully submitted. (Signed) C. D. Fortner, N. C. Creech, E. M. Fripp, H. F. Har relson, J. P. DeLaughter, W. S. Rogers, Jr., A. H. Hiott." Now, that shows you, gentle men, that. with all the pardon ing I have done, your legislators can come down here and in as fifteen minutes' walk find where other people out to be out of the penitentiary. How do you ex pect me to stop it? Now, gentlemen, I suppose you have noted that I had no prepared speech. I have simply said, in a rambling way, some things that I thought should be called to the attention of you gentlemen today. There is one other matter, and thnt is the matter of bonds. and I shall have finished. You gentlemen ought to pass a law prohibiting any bonding company from carrying more than a certain amount of the bonds of the county or State Officials of your State. There is a bonding company in your State, which, I understand, has $100,000 capital, which is possi bly worth $40,000. That com pany is on the bonds today of .a very large number of the County and State Officers ot South Caro ina. Now, gentlemen, I say tat is not right. The American Bonding Company sent pie a bond for the State Treasurer of $90,000: I signed it after inves tigation with Attorney-General DeBruhl. The American bornding Company sent me some other bonds. I signed them. Then the American Bonding Company sent me some other bonds, and I turned them down. Why? Be cause I believed the State Treas urer's bond of $90,000, with these other bonds whch I had already approved, gave that bonding company all the re sponsibility South Carolina should have it carry. In the* Gulf and Atlantic States Com pany they sent me bond after bnd. I approved some of them, but I do not believe a company with only $100,000 capital has any business beimg on the bond of every county treasurer in South Carolina. Now, 1 turned a good many of them down. Some people said it was politics. I turned down the bond of Soli citor Gunter, whom I appointed to the office of Solicitor, and whom the people unanimously re-elected. I turned down the bond of Solicitor Albert E. Hill, and I do not thmnk anybody not even Otts-would say that Albert E. Hill was not a Blease man. That shows you it was not a matter of politics, but a matter of business, and you ought to look into it. Your County Treasurers will come up to take charge of their offices on the first of July, by special Act of yours. Is it right for all of them to be bonded in one com pany? Why, gentlemen, you may say there will not be any de faulters; you may say you won't have any defaults. Why, nobody would ever have blamed the offi cials of Lexington for putting money in the Lexington Savings Bank; nobody blames the Su perintendent of the- Penitentiary for putting money there; and yet, find out what South Caro lina and what Lexingtou County have lost by putting too much money in the hands of one man. 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