The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1911-01-17
Governor of South Carolina
r Coleman Livingston Blease.

the interests OF the State: of South
Carolina.
The course which some Of them. are
NOW pursuing may help the men OF
their choice in this particular race
though we doubt it-but the profes.
sion suffers.
Why not give everybody a "sauere
dea1?"
The Columbia State, for instance
and other anti-Blease newspapers vii
reprint in their news columns com
mepts favorable to MIR. Featherstone
but ignore anything favorable to Mr
Blease. That is newspaper" busl-
ness, with a vengeance.
So far as The Herald and News is
concerned, We delight in being ignored
by the Columbia State-or boycotted,
or put on the famous 'Fblack list" as
you please but what we started out
to say was that the cartoon in the Co
lun1bia State of Thursday morning
was the limit downward in newspaper
business as We have observed it.
The days Of facticnalism and per
sonaI prejudice in South Carolina are
happily over, and we believe that the
people of South Carolina when the
matter is brought to their attention
will resent under-hand and below-the-
belt methods.
For that reason, which is creditable
to the people of: South Carolina, we
believe the Columbia State and other
newspapers who are taking unfair ad-
vantage of MFR. B1ease in this race are
doing him more good than harm.
It is mot for Blease that we mourn,
but for the newspaper profession.
"The menace Che real menace
will be met by the people of South
Carolina, as they have met all other
questions.
During the campaign and before the
first primary election, the Columbia
State made strong fight in an argu-
roentative manner against Mr.. Feath-
erstone and thereby brought down the
wrath of a large majority Of the pa
pers of South Carolina charging it
with "unfairness. They had ~practi-
cally nothing to- say about Mr.. Blease,
he having distinctly defed them to
make their charges, if any they had,
to his face. They failed to-, do So
Now they are making one, of the :ug-
lest and most slanderous campaigns
against Mr.. Blease that has ever been
waged in the State of South Caro-
lima. What do the newspapers think
of this fight at this time? Is it fair:
Mr.. Blease and his friends have nc
manner now in whicn to answer them
for they will publish nothing favor
able to Blease; he can not answer II
on the stump, the campaign is over.
And also an article from the Shire
veport, La, Journal, Of September
1910:
Speaking of ttc News and Courier
the election was c striking example
of the wonderful power of the press
to mould public opinion. Every
newspaper in the State, with the ex-
ception of two country weeklies, sup
ported Featherstone and called Blease
out of his name. They succeeded in
making the people believe Blease a
regular Satan in one respect A
newspaper possesses power to direct
public opinion only to the extent OF
IFS 1uUSpGlIuSliCS, tlS AohCoeJ NAAN Ao~
impartiality. These three things are
hard to find in combination In a news
paper OF today"
And also an article from the Edge
field Chronicle: +
Eve do not Join hands in the avail
anche of abuse that has been heaped
upon the head of the goVernor-elect.
II personality was the issue, how sal
a reflection on Mr.. Featherstone that
he could not carry his own county,
while Blease carried. his by a SUB
stantial majority"
And also a comment from the Co.
lumbia Daily Record:
"Disliking to do 80, for obvious rea-
sons, yet the Record nows feels con-
strained to say, as a supporter OF
Featherstone and an opponent OF
Blease, that the repulsive cartoon in
"the State" Of Thursday, portrayir3 9