Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-08-08
SCORES GOVERNORS CONDUCT
Belton Paper Says He Is Not GEN.
tIennan.

There are several ways of recogniz-
ing the Unborn qualities that go to
make up a gentleman, and one Of the
qualities which we must not find lack
ing is a courteous regard for the
rights of others. The man who forgets
that others than himself have rights,
does not quite measure up to the
standard of what we mean when we
use the term gentleman" nor does
the man who, recognizing the fact that
others have rights, deliberately disre-
CARDS them. And when a man not
only absolutely disregards the rights
OF others, but in the doing of 1t uses
insulting language to a lady whose
duty it Is to request that he not usurp
the others rights, he not only falls
far short Of the term gentleman put
he gets down on level with the
beasts Of the field, and deep down IN
his heart he can have nothing In COM
mon with that great mass or MS tel-
Iowmen who highly prize the honor OF
their state, and still more highly their
respect for pure womanhood.
comes into Relton in the afternoon at
5.25 lust ten minutes before the train
coming from Columbia gets into the
station here. At $50 the Anderson
trolley car comes in. Both the Blue
Ridge railways train and the Ander-
son trolley brings a greater or smaller
number of people who want to Duy
their tickets and board the train from
Columbia going towards GreenVllle,
and when the number Is unusually
large, as ii was Saturday afternoon,
Miss Rogers, the ticket agent, has dill
ficulty in selling tickets to all who ap-
ply for them. The train going to Co
iumbia from Greenyille gets here at
{. 20 I'm the afternoon, and passengers
who come over on the Blue Ridge
have fifty-five minutes in which TO
buy their tickets.
Saturday afternoon when the Blue
Ridge train pulled in at 5.25 and the
trolley car followed at $50 consisting
of something like q hundred people,
men and women, rushed into the sta
ton to get tickets for points up the
road. There were numbers of ladies
standing around waiting their turn 10
get q ticket for some point north OF
Belton. A tall, black haired man
walked up to the window, handed MISS
Rogers, the accommodating agent, two
mileage books that were nearly USED
nm and asked for a ticket to Columbia.
There was not enough mileage in the
two books combined to buy the ticket;
so he asked her to tear the mileage
out of both the books, subtract 1t from
the number of miles to COLUMBIA anu
he would pay the difference In cash.
Miss Rogers kindly asked him II ne
wouldn't wait until she had sold the
tickets for those ladies and gentlemen
who were waiting to catch the north
bound train. She explained to him
that ne had until $50 to get his ticket.
Instead of giving place to those who
ought certainly to have been given
place at the window, the man straight
ened himself, and in a most insulting
manner informed Miss Rogers that she
must not know who she was talking
to-" He further informed her that II
am Cole Blease, the governor or South
Carolina; I've got right to buy
ticket any time I call for 1t, and you've
got TO sell it to me-" He took occa-
sion to tell her that If he didn't have
to. he would never have ridden on
her old Southern road" He also in
formed Miss Rogers that he was going
to write her up to her superinten-
dent.
The southern's agent. Mr.. Harper
was not i'm the office when Mr.. Blease
called for his ticket. or we imagine
the governor would never have taken
the advantage which he took OF tine
lady at the window. He was asked In
the most kindly way If he wouldn't l
give place for a few minutes to the la
dies and gentlemen who wanted to
catch a train almost an hour earlier
than the train on which the governor
was going to Columbia. And as a mat
ter of fact. tickets are not supposed to
he placed on sale for any train until
thirty minutes before the train arrives.
Governor Blease had no more right to
demand a ticket for Columbia at the
time than he did than did any other
man I'm tn world Just because he Is
"COle Please. the governor OF South
Carolina" is no reason why he
should have demanded the ticket at
the time that he did and especially In
the manner that he used in demand