The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-01-26
BLEASE SCORES EDITORS
A POLITICAL STUMP SPEECH
FOR INAUGURAL ADDRESS.
Newspapers and Preachers CRITICS.
ed-Negro Schools Should Not
be Supported by Whites.

governor Dy the JO1nI assembly, Ihe
aged Magistrate Dunbar, of Ellenton'
administering the constitutional
oath in the presence of an uproar-
ious crowd that overfowed far into
the lobbies of the house of rcpresen-
tatives.
Lieut.. Gov. Charles A. Smith, of
Timmonsville, was sworn in by Chief
Justice Jones, of the Supreme Court.
The crowd was large, overfowing far
into the lobby and was at times dis
orderly.
In the crush in the gallery, B. F.
Ellison, aged seventy-five, of Winns-
boro, was stricken with apoplexy.
Denounces the Press.
Declarisg that independence of
thought, freedom of action, an abid-
ing trust in and devoted love for God
won for me the greatest political vic
tory that has yet been recorded in
the history of South Carolina" Gov.
Coleman Livingston Blease, of New
berry, this afternoon delivered no
table inaugural address. Nearly one
half of his address was taken up in
a denunciatioh of the South Carolina
press, the other part being devoted
to a discussion of issues, all of which
he discussed in the campaign last
summer.
In his Introductory, Gov. Blease
said: ALIGNED against me were
united daily press and an almost
solid weekly and semi-weekly press,
pouring forth all kinds of falsehoods,
vituperation and abuse, receiving the
assistance of number of men who
called themselves ministers of the
Gospel-God save the mark!-who
stood behind their pulpits and gave
vent to envy and malice and slanders
of the most virile and malicious ma
ture against me all of these,
combined with others, making set
of political character thieves, the
meanest and most contemplate peo-
pie known to man."
Gov. Blease singled out The COL
ambia State from among the other
papers for his choicest epithets, al
though he did not fail to pay his
respects to all other papers which
opposed his election as Governor.
Nearly one-half of his address was
devoted to the newspapers. He
quoted freely from a number of them
and included all in his general de-
nunciation.
All Praise for the Deity.
After concluding his discussion of
the newspapers and taking up his
recommendations to the general as
sembly, South Carolina's new COVER
nor closed his address with an apos-
trophe to the Deity, to whose good
ness he ascribed in large measure
his remarkable victory at the polls.
In his address Mr.. Blease repeat
ed parts of his platform, as announc-
ed at the beginning of the campaign
last summer. His principal recon-
mendations are:
Honest admin stration of all laws
and enforcement of all laws.
Obedience to the constitution Of
the State and the United States.
Keeping separate and distinct the
legislative, judicial and executive de-
partments of government.
Trial by jury of all persons accus-
ed of crime. He considers govern
ment by INDUCTION vicious and de-
grading"
For Biennial Sessions.
Biennial sessions of the legisla-
ture.
Liberal appropriations for Confed-
crate veterans and State institutions
of learning, but thinks the 1egisla-
ture has been too extravagant IN It's
appropriations to educational insti-
tutions.
Opposes the use of white peoples
taxes to educate negroes.
Recommends marriage license law
or registration of marriages.
Favors having mileage pulled on
trains, as the present System OF
ticket collection is abominable."
He calls attention to the cocaine
evil, would prohibit the sale of ciga-
rettes, would prohibit boys under
sixteen years from smoking them,
would outlaw toy guns and pistols
and prohibit boys under sixteen
years having a gun in their possess
ions or owning them.
Recommends that each judicial
circuit be allowed representative on
the board of regents of the State
hospital for the insane.