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BLEASE SOUGHT TO STIR NEGROES; APPEALED TO THEIR PREJUDICES ? In Address at Allen University, Blease Said Negroes Are Bobbed of Rights by Not Being Allowed on Juries. Would Trust His Daughter in Negroes' Hands. Told Negroes State is Rotten. i Reports of the speech delivered by Cole L. Blease at Allen University to the negroes between the primary and the general election in the fall of 1916 were published in - - ~ tt mi, ? i two papers, the State and the Samaritan xieraiu. me report in the State was denied by Elease 19 days after publication. The report in the negro newspaper was never denied. The following report of the speech * appeared in The State, October 4,1916: Cole L. Blease was the chief speaker yesterday at the opening exercises of Allen University, a large negro school in Columbia, despite the protest of Tuesday morning by alumni and former students, who petitioned President Mance and the faculty that the invitation be withdrawn, '4 as it will greatly embarrass our wives and daughters to have ex-Govemor Blease speak to them, since he has spoken so harshly in the courts and on the stump against the virtues of the negro women and the respect and decency of negroes in general." ' Sir. Blease made no direct reference in his speech to this petition, but the Rev. W. D. Chappelle, D. D., bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal church in this State, who in - . *? i troduced the ex-governor as "the strongest^wmte man m the State of South Carolina" and one whose pardoning record had removed all sting in things "said on the stump" was somewhat scathing in his denunciation of those who presumed "to dictate the policies of a great church." "Who are they, anyway?" Chappelle asked. Then in answer to his own query he remarked, "They aren't known outside of their own backyard." The harsh things said on the stump, the1 bishop observed; were only to tickle the ears of the voters and thereby gain their support. Blease Greatest, Chappelle Says. Ten minutes were consumed by Bishop Chappelle in his speech of introduction, generously seasoned with superla. tives, In asking the ex-governor, he had sought, he said, to get the strongest man in the State. He had gone carefully H nvpr thp -rpporrls. eareers and deeds of all the governors of South Carolina, and Mr. Blease, he said, easily held first rank. Several pardon cases, where the former governor "by a single stroke of the pen set that negro free," were cited. One of these was that of 14 year old negro boy sent up for life. The congressional controversy between the negro, George Washington Murray, of Sumter, and a white man, Colonel Moise, of the'same district was also reviewed by the bishop in all its ramifications. Later in his , / speech Mr. Blease reminded the bishop that it was he (Mr. Blease) who had made Murray the congressman from this State instead of the white man. Mr. Blease was then a member of the canvassing board and cast the deciding vote. "If I had got justice three weeks ago and if the board had been as honest," he said yesterday, "I would be the next governor of South Carolina." He had always sought, he said, to do justice to the negro, regardless of his color. Much speculation had been engaged in by the negroes themselves as to the character of speech Mr. Blease would deliver* but the speaker throughout the discourse spoke guardedly and with moderation. He said he had been misunderstood by the negroes, whom he greeted as "my friends." In politics.he had always urged that taxes negroes paid should go to the support of negro schools. School boards, he said, chisled the negroes out of the/r just apportion when making apportionment for the schools of the two races. Christian citzenship was earnestly commended to the students of the school. " I don't make much . profession myself. I have been so hounded, villified and t orn hv mv own church, refusing to enter, OWUO^U 111U t x V/J , w because I know that there are hypocrites and scoundrels . at the communion table, who are a disgrace to God Almighty." The students were told to "aim high, tell the truth and to attain the ends of a worthy ambition honestly," and not by slipping books under the desks in the examination room or copying information from their cuffs. * 'Never Insulted Women.'' Referring to the sentiment in the petition, by inference . Mr. Blease said*he had never insulted "a colored girl." "I have never wronged any woman, white or black. Neither have I spoken a word of slander against any woman." A slanderer was denounced as "a most contemptible cur." The ex-governor's attitude toward convicts was somewhat enlarged upon. He sometimes thought^ he said, that all penitentiaries, jails and court houses might be abolish ed. What was the use of these and the church too, he asked his audience, that applauded his words with increasing volume, and punctured the unfinished the sentences often with -confirmative comment. An overruling Providence was held up as the mighty avenger of all wrongs, both political and spiritual, and certain political controversies were enumerated to sustain this assertion, the names of <, those wronged being tastefully withheld. In urging that the negro students hitch their wagons to a star, the race jus* up from slavery, was cordially commended for its entrance into professions and the varied phases of commercial life. "You are coming into higher things," they were told. "They can't hold you back despite what I or any other white man may say," he said, while the auditorium roared with cheers of approval. B. W. Mance, president of the university was reared in Newberry county, and the Newberry negro was the choice of Mr. Blease to head the State negro college at Orange(Continued on page 6, column 1.) CITATION NOTICE. The State of South Carolina? County of Bamberg?By J. J. Brabham, Jr., Esq., Judge of Probate. Whereas, Mrs. Elizabeth Kinard made suit to me to grant her letters of administration of the estate and effects of John Lucius Kinard, deceased. These are therefore to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred and creditors'of the said John Lucius Kinard, deceased, that they be and appear before me in the Court 01 Probate, to be held at Bamberg, on Friday, the 23rd of August next after publication thereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said administration should not be granted. 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