The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, July 23, 1914, Page TWO, Image 2
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
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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~
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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
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if you aren't entirely satisfied
all you need to do is go right back
to where you bought it and have
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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).
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