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erary institution for the purpose Of
prostituting the Laws Of the town
over which I am elected to preside. -
Mr.. Blease referred to the report
which he said had been circulated to
the effect that he was running for
mayor for the purpose Of becoming
a candidate for Congress next year.
He said he would not go to Congress
next year if the place should be offer
ed to him by every voter in the 3rd
district. j.:.. 4.
Mr.. Blease said that if he was elect
ed mayor he would promise the peo-
pie Of Newberry that no shows where
white women degraded themselves In
the presence Of young men and boys
and negroes, Of shows with any I'M
moral feature, should come to New
berry. He realized, he said, that the
F; town needed money; but If it had to
get that money by licensing shows
with indecent features and where IN
decent pictures were sold, and thus
dragging down the morality OF the
young boys, then he would prefer to
let the money go and let the streets
grow up. in grass.
Mr. Blease said there was another
report to which he desired to refer
and to contradiet-the report that ;he>S
had promised to support any man for
Office if he should he elected mayor.
| He denied alphabetically that he had
promised, or would promise to sup
port any one for chief Of police, clerk,
or any other Office. He said that he.
was running for mayor on his own
merits. = s. & - (. 3s::5Es5 - n;
| 1t had also been used against him,
tsaid Mr., Blease, that he had defend
ed blind tigers. In this connection
| he said he wanted to read an editor.
ia1 from the NeWberry Observer of
! August s, 1909, in answer to an edi-
torial in the Orangeburg Times and
Democrat, as follows: &. /: i'sszs2E& !: &
Ethics Of the Law. = *S
"a subscriber wants to know # q
lawye. who advocates prohibition
would be justified in defending I
blind tiger in the courts. We do not
know much about the ethics Of the
legal profession, but we would say
that prohibition lawyer would not
be justified in defending an Illegal
seller Of whiskey.--0 0rangeburg Times
and Democrat. is b. z:: &:
HWould a lawyer be justified in de-
Tending an illegal slayer of his
fellow-man? Certainly Then Why
not an s'illegal" seller Of Whiskey :
tHWe should think that a lawyer IS
bound to defend any accused person
that comes to him for his professional
services; but he IS bound to do it IN j
an honorable way. No man can go
SO low, or 50 high, in crime that he
.cannnt get lawyer. to defend him lrn,,
A lawyer is an officer Of the court,
and where an accused person IS not N Z
able to employ the services Of a laW-
yer the court appoints one or more ]
to defend him. A court would not be
justified in doing this if there were !:
not an obligation on the lawyer to de-
fend. 5. ;. -..sz22g So zf s. I
"a lawyer can refuse to take the
case Of a client if he: chooses, but no
lawyer should be blamed for defend
ing an accused person, whether the ae-
eusedzis guilty or innocent. 70 do SO
would be to set himself up as a judge
and to condemn the accused without
a jury."-NeWberry Observer, Au-
gust 9th, 1862.
"That was not written in my be- 4
half" said Mr. Biease, but was
printed in the Observe Of August
9Th, 1909, and was written by its ed
itor, Mr.. W. q. Wallace, whose rela-
tions to me are well known. .ss=
Mr. Blease said he had defended
blind tigers, but he had done it hon
orably, and when the courts had SAID
they were guilty the fines mad been
paid or term served on the gang.
Mr.. Blease then took up the plat 1
form which he had published in the
Newberry papers some time ago.
In that platform he had stated that
he favored open sessions Of the coun-
Gil, so that any citizen could attend
and all the people could know what
was being done and how it was being
done. He did not believe in secret
sessions, he said. IF there was any