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The Editor of The News and Cou rier, Charleston, 8. C?Dear Sir: I would say that I was surprised at the attitude of your paper in regard to my Charleston speech were it not for the fact that I have heretofore been so malignantly and wilfully misrepre sented by 1L I requested the reporters to take down carefully what I said and told them that I had part of It written out ?that part in reference to metropoli tan police and injunctions, and in re gard to the charges of graft, and that I would be pleased to hand It to them. They took it down to suit themselves and made their own report, and the Inference which you draw therefrom it is as false as any lie could be. Here Is what I said, as I now read from the original notes: "Ira B. Jones voted to put metropol itan police on Charleston?see page 500. House Journal, 1894." "Ira B. Jones voted to deprive the people of Charleston of the right of trial by jury and for injunctions?see page 4 V., House Journal, 1894." "In addition to this, while he was on the Supreme Court Bench, many in junctions were put on Charleston. "I have given you independence and freedom; Ira B. Jones has given you metropolitan police and injunctions. Now. I ask you to answer, down in the bottom of your hearts, a question for me, and show by your ballots your answer: Do you want metropolitan police and injunctions, such as Ira B. Jones gave you, or do you want freedom of thought and liberty of ac-? tlon, such as Blease has given you? If you want metropolitan police and in junctions, I will be governor of this State for the balance of this year and | for the next two years and will give it to you. If you want it, you shall have it." I made no threat towards Charles ton, but simply said that whatever she wanted I would give her during September. October. November, De cember and twenty-one days in Janu ary, and for the next two years. The construction which you have placed on my language?that it was a threat against Charleston?is absolutely wrong. I am willing to leave the con struction of my words to Lieutenant j Oovernor Charlc A. Smith, Railroad j Commissioner John (J. Richards. Sen- ' ator John H. Wharton and any other honorable gentlemen who are impar tial and are willing to state the truth. In this connection) will you please tell me why you did not publish what I read about Jones's speech against Gen Hampton? You are mighty quick to strike me. Why do your reporters not report the truth, and why do you not publish it? Here is what Jor.es said when he seconded Col. lrby's nomination: "When Independenttem was about to blot out the fair escut Cheon of South Carolina, who was it that stood by the State and the Dem ocratic party? Was It Wad? Hamp ton. Was It Donaldson? It was Irby, of Laurens." This Is taken from Lie files of your paper, as printed in your Issue of Thursday morning, Decem ber 11, 1890. You failed to give it in the report of the meeting in Char leston, thereby showing your unfair ness, by endeavoring to shield Jones and misconstrue my words. It is a great pity that the newspapers can not be fair, but the people do cot ex pect it, they are on to your game and your misrepresentations will cost me no votes, but on the contrary will j help me, as it has done in the past, and I will be re-elected governor by a handsome majority In spite of your falsehoods and your misrepresenta tions. I quote from Section 723, Code of Lawb of South Carolina, 1912: "Section 723. The governor shall have authority, whenever in his judg ment it shall be necessary, to arm the constabulary, and, in any emergency, to assume the sole control of the whole or any part, of the municipal police in cities and incorporated towns." From the above, you will see that If Charleston wants me to, I can take ab solute control of her police force and hold them as long as I deem it neces sary. This, of course, I shall not do, and do not expect to do unless Char leston wants lt. I befleve In local self government, and I therefore, believe In giving each county what she wants, and I repeat that if Charleston wants me to take charge of her police force and to place Injunctions on her, why I will give her what she wants; that Is what I said and that is what I meant. Very respectfully, Cole L. Blease. Editorial Note. The News and Courier received the foregoing communication from Gov ernor Blease by special delivery short ly before midnight lastnlght. It is printed with the utmost willingness. Indeed, It gives us great satisfaction The report of the campaign meeting in Charleston as published In The News and Courier did not pretend to be a verbatim report, but In the audience which heard Governor Blease and the other speakers there were several hun dred citizens of this community and The News and Courier would be quite ready to leave with them the question as to whether or not its account of the meeting and of Governor Blease's remarks In particular was fair and ac curate. As It happens, however, It is not called upon to do so,nor is it neces sary for this newspaper to call atten tion to the fact that In every other re port of the meeting appearing in other newspapers practically the same lan guage was put Into the Governor's mouth as that which In The News and Courier calls a misquotation. The fact is that the language which The News and Courier attributed to Governor Blease unqestionubly was his own laguage because he revised it himself with his own hand and the copy is now In The News and Cou rier's possession. The reporter of The News and Cou rier not being absolutely positive as to the verbiage employed by Governor Blease In speaking of his intentions to ward Charleston in the event this city voted for Judge Jones, an eminently trustworthy representative of this newspaper was dispatched to Governor Blease with a note requesting that he "write out the statement." This reporter found Governor Blease at the Irish Volunteers' Hall and to gether they went to the Charleston Ho tel. There Governor Blease borrowed the reporter's pencil and did as requested. The statement as reported by him reads as follows, and it was so pub lished: "I will be governor the last part of August, all of Sept.. Oct.. Nov.. Dec. and 21 days In January and If you want government by injunction & metro police vote for Jones & for the rest of this year & the next 2 I will do my best ti give it you." The News and Courier knows noth ing of what Governor's Blease's own notes showed, and care less. It does know that the statement which he pre i pared for publication in the columns I of this newspaper upon this point read ; as quoted above, and it is so written I in his own handwriting. if this statement did not accurately express his sentiments, Governor . Blease has only himself to blame. ? News & Courier, July 10.) Governor Blease having accused this newspaper of misrepresenting him In Its report of the campaign meeting at Charleston) and The News and Cour ier having shown that the language to which the governor raised objection had been revised and written by him with his own hand. Governor Blease yesterday telegraphed us as follows: "To the Editor of The News and Courler: I stand by what I wrote and by what I said. Neither is a threat as reported and as charged by your pa per and was not so intended. Simply a promise to give Charleston what she wants, which I will do. Pleuse pub lish this. Cole L. Blease. "Columbia, S. C, July 9. 1912." Publish it? Of course we are pub lishing it. Let us republlsh also the statement which Governor Blease wrote, which he subsequently disclaim ed and which he now says that he will "stand by." Here It Is: "I will be governor the last part of August, all of 8ept., Oct., Nov., Dec. and 21 days In January and If you want governmet by Injunction ft metro police vote for Tones A for the rest of this year A the next 2 I will do my best to give It you." Governor Blease denies that this is a threat. He denies that It was so In tended. He claims that It was "sim ply a promise to give Charleston what she wants." For our own part we are perfectly content to leave it to the individual Judgment of the Individual citizen as to what Governor Blease's words mean and what they were Intended to mean. It Is perfectly evident that he is try ing to back out of the position which he took last Friday. He may have said I more than be purposed saying. He may have said more than he recollect ed saying. Nevertheless his own words as spoken at the Hibernian Hall and his own words as written by himself and published by us are conclusive that his "promise to give Charleston what she wvnts" wak and Is contingent upon whether or not Charleston votes for Jones at the primary election to bo held on the 27th of next August. Call the governor's statement a "threat" or call It a "promise" as you like. The fact that stands out clearly is his disposition to reward his friends in the only way he knows how to re ward them, that Is by conniving at their defiance of the law; and to oun lsh his enemies by Invoking against them such powers as are vested In the office which he chances to occupy. We repeat that neither in Charleston nor anywhere else in South Carolina in the progress of the present cam paign has Governor Blease made any appeal for re-election to those who love decency and the desire of whose hearts it is that the majesty and dig nity and righteousness of the law shall be vindicated. Certainly hiB appeal for votes in Charleston has been addressed on the one hand to those who are so lacking in virtue or In patriotism that for the sake of their own private gain In ODe way or another they are willing to sac rifice their city and their state; and on the other hand to those who can be spurred on by craven-hearted fear to do that which should make them de spise themselves and should cost them dearly !n the respect of their fellows. We venture the opinion that there is not a man In Charleston county, be he who or what he may. who knowing Cole L. Blease honestly regards him as a fit man for the governorship; but "the ox knoweth his owner and the ass his master's crib." Governor Blease does not labor un der the necessity of uttering in words either "threats" or "promises" in or der to get votes. 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