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SCORES GOVERNOR'S j PARDON RECORD. COLUMBIA EDITOR SHOWS DISCREPANCY BETWEEN BLEASE'S PREACHING AND PRACTICE. What has always puzzled us .r.'>out Governor Blease's pardon record is to connect it up with a credible motive. Of course.in a matter of such extraordinary moment there must be a sufficient motive of some sort, either (rood or bad. Justice, of course, would account for a small percentage of the Governor's pardon* commutations and paroles. Mercy would take in even a larger percentage. But neither justice nor mercy nor both combined reasonably account for turning all the convicts out of the State penitentiary, which is declared to be the Governor's policy, and is certainly his substantial practice up to date. It is true that Governor Blease himself claimed in his pardon message to the General Assembly in 1912, at the end of his first year in the Executive office, when he took "the greatest delight" in reporting tLut he had "pardoned, paroled and commuted 317 people," that he was actuated by the quality of "mercy," and he preached a sermon of which any exhorter might have been proud, from the text, "Thp Mprcv 1 to Others Show, that Mercy Show to Me"?a plea which 4 he repeated again in his pardon messages of 1913 and 1914 when he re* ported in st-U greater volume his acts of clemency But it is impossible to seriously reconcile this statement; which includes and refers to numbers of pardoned or paroled negro rapists?along with murderers, firebugs, burglars and others?with the fact that only the other day he offered a reward for an alleged negro rapist who had not yet been convicted,and specified in the advertisement that the reward would be paid for the negro dead or alive, the only condition being that a piece of iv * QiiffifMpnf iVir flip CJI til UC ?IU UUIIIVIV ? ~ purposes of identification. What curious and magic alchemy can it be that is inherent in the stones of the penitentiary walls to chancre a negro rapist into a fitting subject of mercy and of freedom when the accused negro rapist outside, who may even be innocent, is not granted the privilege even to make a plea for his life? ' ' Again, we can conceive of a molive for turning out by pardon, parole or otherwise the white convicts to the number of three hundred and more. But what of the nine hundred negro convicts? These have no vqtes, and they have no influence or influential friends of themselves that conld make it of interest to turn them out on their own account. And j the preposterous feature of it is that Governor Blease does not love the I negro?that he is a "nigger-hater," in fact, if we judge from his talk on the stump and elsewhere, on every possible occasion. And, yet,he would have us believe that when he is touched on his merciful side by the pitiful plight of these poor brethren in black, that he cannot forbear to open wide their prison doors and bid them go forth?to give to each and every one of them, as he eloquently expressed it, the opportunity "to make a good citizen for your State, and, above all, the opportunity to save the soul which God has given you." But what of the alleged rapist outside, uncaught and unconvicted? Has he no soul to save like the other, and why not? Our logic and reason, therefore, bid us re;rtct Governor Blease's divine plea of 'mercy," and yet, we contend, there must be a motive for his wholesale prison-deliveries. If not mercy, what is it? He tells us himself in his pardon message of 1913 that "I do expect a reward,not only here, but hereafter," for showing mercy to his fellow men. and he declared, in fact, that he "firmly be' lieved that my pardon record had more to do with causing my re-election than any other one thing." How true this may be we can only speculate. Governor Blease piously attributed this effect in which he "firmly believed" to the divine interposition of Providence, but while we freely give him credit for knowing what helps or hurts him politically, w?e trust we do not write ourselves down so irreligious as to be utterly lost when we confess that we are of that skeptical class who ob~ i i.i_~i. serve iiuiii pracucm experience uiai the rain falls on the just and the unjust alike?who are convinced that Providence doesn't make a practice of intervening to heap earthly rewards upon the doer of virtuous j deeds on the spot and at the moment , so much as you might notice it?and ! we are compelled by common, hard , horse sense to look for other and ! more direct and immediate cause for ] this effect to which the Governor J testifies. We can readily understand how j the pardoning and restoring to citi- , zensbip of three hundred, more or less, white men would help the Gov GO WHERE YOU PLEASE " EAT WHAT YOU PLEASE That is what you can do if you take Dodson's Liver Tone. Many, people know the danger of calomel, yet they take it because they know of nothing better. Other people are not afraid of calomei, because they do not understand what a dangerous drug it is. Because it has never hurt them they believe it never will. No one needs to take dangerous calomel (which is just another form of mercury). , Dr W V Brockington sells Dodson's Liver Tone for fifty cents a bottle and guarantees that it takes the place of calomel. Dodson's Liver Tone is a pleasant tasting vegetable remedy that livens up the liver without causing any restriction of habit or diet. It has none of the many bad after-effects of calomel and is safe for children as well as grown-ups. You don't run a single risk when you try Dodson's Liver Tone, because if you aren't entirely satisfied all you need to do is go right back to where you bought it and have your money cheerfully refunded to, you with a smile. Isn't that fair? ernor in his elections, for after all is said and done to the contrary, gratitude is a potent and lively factor in the affairs of men. All that a man hath will he lay down for his life, and besides those who receive pardons, paroles and commutations in such a large, generous and openhanded way, there are their friends, and not infrequently their lawyers, who are welded with hooks of steel to the benefactor who bestows so magnificently and freely of what costs him nothing. We have even been told instances of eminent lawyers and others who have lost their cases in the court house?men whose tastes and antecedents 'were all foreign and antipathetic to the Governj or?who have become converted into his most devoted and enthusiastic eulogists and supporters by the magic of a pardon that saved their clients and their professional reputations. Now, if we suppose cases of this kind by the score or more.atfectinir in each case quite a number of persons and multiplying them into the hundreds, we can conceive what a real, visible and proof positive effect it might have at the ballot box in its bearing on one's election. The problem, so far as the white convicts are concerned, therefore, appears capable of a simple and easy solution. But what of the nine hundred negro convicts and more,stated to have been pardoned, paroled and commuted? What of these friendless.poverty-stricken and supposedly uninfluential pariahs of a hated racei on which Governor Blease pours out the vials of his denudation from time to time in his desperate fight ; to retain the votes he daims he had jtwo years ago? " Who are the kind," [ solicitous and devoted friends on the outside who industriously una excuses for all of these negro criminals and, with or without petitions, prevail upon the Governor to turn them out,and what is the object and motive of their activity? Why is it that the Governor and his political1 friends, who denounce the negro outside of the prisons as unfit to enjoy the privileges of citizenship, and sometimes seem to think they are unfit to enjoy the rights of human beings ?why is it that they are so God-like in their sentiments of mercy and of justice to him when he happens to be in the penitentiary expiating his crimes against society by salutary and profitable labor for the State? These negroes cannot vote in the Democratic primaries, as we have said, if any one is malicious enough to suggest that vote-getting is the Governor's motive in turning them loose upon the people. What, then, is the strong provocation of the Governor and his friends in overturning the verdicts of the juries and reversing the sentences of the courts to give these criminals their liberty? Why should Mr Brown or Mr Jones or Mr Smith expect to get his money back and some compensation for his time and trouble in getting up the petition? What is this system of "parole" of which Governor Blease is so proud and from which he sees some great benefit to society and the people that no one else can discern? In his report to the General Assembly of 1913 he said he considered the "parole system the best system ever devised for handling convicts," and he explained this wonderful system as follows: "Now, for instance, you parole a man during good behavior, who possibly has served more than half of the sentence imposed upon him? sometimes they have been paroled when they had only three or four more months to serve?you do not turn him loose, but say to him, go forth, make a man of yourself, for if you do not, and you are ever convicted again, you have to go back (Continued on page five). [ Our Mid ) Is proving I cessful mone; f I If you have not ta so now while the Your opportunity seasonable merchi I M Is. MA >B m/vofvAA | ivmgaiicc, W. J. 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I after personal interviews and examinatioi Next session opens September address W. W. DANIEL, College Plac CHICORA e GREENVILL A College of Refinement, Distinction and A High Standai A Large and Al A Select Studei On the Slope of the Blue Ridge, 1000 fee Grounds and Handsome, Modernly Equipj A College of Liberal Arts and Scienc< the Degrees of M. A., B. A.. B. S., and 1 * i. .r ia.U:A n* A ^onservaLury ui iu rare, vimiu^ v^u of B. Mus. Schools of Art*, Expression anc CHICORA,AN For free Catalogue and Announcemen REV. S. C. BYRD, D. D., - - G f Medical College of the State CHARLESTOP Schools of Medicine i Owned and Controlled 86th Session Opens October 1,11 Fine New Building ready for occupancy October 1. site Roper Hospital, one of the largest Hospitals in tl Practical work for Senior Students in Medicine and Large and well-equipped Laboratories in both Scho Department of Physiology and Embryology in affili Nine full time teachers in Laboratory Branches. Six graduated appointments each year in medicine, ll For catalogue address: OSCAR W. SCh ?4*?i*f i?ir-nf Drink?! >ut the ** i Water t Drug Co? j better! ] ? t nanasome reirigeraior would like for you to ; Articles,firbber Goods, I and Supplies. r y Compounded. 1 % Company i $? ? { ? ? ?*y* "t*?"f* ^ i nd Hot Call at ream Parlor^ 1 it drinks, that made y for cash, no order 's why we can serve Cream' from my own : Cigars, also Park & ihanges in store next # i >"1 ke always on hand. iTNEVS I I Cleanliness. ? i~ I | [ORSE WAGONS t cost. jl rd Buggies Just Received :ring Mowers j bargain. N JJLER 1 19141 jjgjA 9 E'G'E H EOE FOR WOMEN I ' * J H ! higher education of, written. H road and deeD culture and care1 tian influences. ? icreation, with new buildings, jH y trained teachers conducting H9 agogy and Business. H ent lead to degrees of B. A., M C.M.,L.T.C.L.,who has so ably M ee sessions, is in New York [H ie will employ these teachers M as. an 25. For free catalojfue,^B| President, gS :e, S. C. 9 .OLI1F1GE 1 Ci '8? C> iSfl Character B rd College j * ble Faculty I \ it Body ' | t above Sea-levef. Beautiful jm ;ed Buildings. is. offering Courses' Leading to flj 3. Ped. urses Leading to the* DegiBBMH 1 Business. ;al college fortHH DUNG WOMEN V ts, address [6-25-5t reenville, South Carolina.^^H i of South Carolina, ?i i, S. C. W| &nd Pharmacy. jjUjBjfl by the State. 914, Closes June 3,191 1914. Advantageously located oppo^MBS le South, contains 218 beds. 'mbMU Pharmacy a Special Feature. ation with the Charleston Museum. [i-uitH 1LEETER, Registrar, Charleston, S. 21 m ... ^