The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-08-26

zales were not in politics anl You
can't Ii at them. While not conde-
scending TO hold an office they have
their servants do this, While they are
after greater things, and keep their
hands into everything up to their arm
pits.
You good people too have suffered
and sorroWed bad, but your average
good citizens who were not able to
withstand the temptations Of our capi-
tai city and fell. Mothers, sisters, and
loved ones bow their heads in sorrow.
Your ministers tell you of the fire
and of the wrath to come, but I tell
you for all present purposes Colum-
bia is HE'LL.
The System plan, its servants exc
cute. Behold, Gonzales caught in the
proposed Asylum deal, in which We
saved four or five million dollars for
the taxpayers, see our $1,000 beauty
when caught robbing Luther Kelly.
See his great Seminole Edition of The
State paying him thousands, but when
exposed We find him as ever swing
ing to Hamptons coat-tails, and yet
Wade Hampton voted 1or John T.
Duncan, and said that every honor
able man should have done so.
Ny independence I have never re-
linquished, and l own no master, but
my God.
I believe that he has a work for me
to do, and that you are going to join
hands with me for its accomplish
ment.
have recently fought and Won for
you, with the invaluable aid Of good
men. a victory for the taxpayers OF
South Carolina which involved MI
lions Of dollars in that asylum deal,
and more recently our capital city,
that place so appropriately described
by Sherman in his definition of war,
poor, robbed and graft ridden Colum-
bia, has been aroused to the smash
ing of Gonzales and the Rings slate.
I bring you a gospel Of hope and OF
better days to come. Surely, the past
served out to ne the blacklist draught
ever pressed to the lips of mortal
besmirching the fair name of which
> had the right to be proud, and driv-
ing from my impoverished board tC
: the generous care of kindred my wife
: and children, for whom did duty call
would yield up my life.
The unsupported word of a perjur-
ed and repurjured negro, was all suf-
= fcient for a willing and subservient
court, aided by character witnesses
who, with one exception though bent
On being rid Of me as an obstacle in
their crooked work nevertheless fail
ed to give that positive answer which
the rule requires.
I am not here to discuss myself, but
I will say that a fouler slander was
never charged to man, than that press
ed against me by my enemies.
The court knows it now, the court
knew it then, but later seeing their
false affidavit charge did not kill, they
sought to end my agonies by declar-
ing that agreeing to pay a fine was
practicing law, and that We were in
contempt.
The court ordered US to pay fine
} or suffer Imprisonment.
We again did it's bidding. We deem
it better to suffer injustice than I'M
pose it. We would not like to be press
ed just yet to give our opinion Of the
individuals of that court, while we
strive hard to respect its constituted
authority We seek not to destroy, but
to reform.
We know our constitutional right
of free speech, and dare to exercise
it. The Sovereign voters Of free coun-
try constitute our final court of all,
and to you I appeal for the good OF
mankind, to save your institutions IN
their integrity, and so man them as to
deserve the respect and obedience of
honest men, and the regard of all.
Our moral pace-setters strike at bad
personal habits, but act as if th'
was something sacred about money
getting.
The master iniquities Of our time
are connected with money-ma:
and there you are hands off.
You deal in platitudes about good
roads, good schools, good liquor, and
the good Lord knows that We all want
all the good that comes our way, and
some of US are even willing to go to
meet it.
Now those Of you who have moth
ing more important to discuss than
how you will take yours may handle
that, while I show our people the
needs of the hour.
I wish to say that as governor am
ready to approve such laws as I may
not deem vicious, and if your legisla-
ture passes prohibition law,
II will sign it and do my
best to enforce it, thought I have
little hope of its effectual en-
forcement until congress relieves US
from that interstate commerce law,
that permits the shipping Of liqours
into nroh hihitiOn territory IF the law