The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, August 22, 1918, Page 2, Image 2
BLEASE SOUGHT TO STIR NEGROES;
APPEALED TO THEIR PREJUDICES
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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.
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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
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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Mance and the faculty that the invitation be withdrawn,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
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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,
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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.)
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