Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-01-20

the State and who do not see the other
side, because the State does not print
the other side.
THAT is the menace
Before the first primary the News
and Courier, the Columbia Record and
other newspapers in South Carolina
were charging the Columbia State
with unfairness, and, in fact, with ma
licious falsehood.
because these newspapers
rl>E- agree with the States policy IA
the gubernatorial race, will they keep
silent under the same conditions which
existed when they brought their
charges against the Columbia State
because, forsooth, then the Columbia
State was going against the grain and
now it Is cutting along with 1t?
Surely the manhood of the newspa-
pers of South Carolina Is not thing
Of the past.
The newspapers of South Carolina
have in the past welded a wonderful
influence. 1t is because they have
made for themselves reputation OF
fairness, and, presenting both sides,
have urged the claims of the SIDE
which the newspapers thought would
be for the interests Of the state OF
South Carolina.
1.-The course which some Of them are
now pursuing may help the men or
their choice in this particular race
though we doubt it-but the profession
suffers.
why not give everybody square
deal?'
The Columbia State, for instance,
and other anti-Blease newspapers Will
reprint in their news columns COM
ments favorable to Mr.. Featherstone,
but ignore anything favorable to Mr..
Blease. That is newspaper business
with a vengeance.
$50 far as the Herald and News Is
concerned, we delight in being lg-
nored by the Columbia State-or boy
cotted, or put on the famous black
list as you please-but what we
started out to say was that the car.
toon in the Columbia State Thursday
morning was the limit downward in
newspaper business as we have OBJ
served it.
THE days of factionalism and per-
sonal 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 De-
lieve the Columbia State and other
newspapers who are taking unfair ad-
vantage of Mr.. Blease in this race
are doing him more good than harm.
1T is not for Blease that we mourn,
but for the newspaper profession.
1.-The menace'-the 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 Column
bia State made a strong fight IN an
argumentative manner against MT.
Featherstone and thereby brought
down the wrath of a large majority OF
the papers of South Carolina charg--
ing it with 'unfairness.' They nad
practically nothing to say about Mr.;
Blease, he having distinctly dehed
them to make their charges, II any
they had. to his face. They failed TO
do so. Now they are making one or
the ugliest and most slanderous cam
paigns against Mr.. Blease that has
ever been waged in the state OF South
Carolina, What do the newspapers
think of this fight at this time? Is 1t
fair? Mr.. Blease and his friends nave
no manner now in which to answer
them for they will publish nothing
favorable to Blease; he can not an
swer it on the stump, the campaign
is over"
And also an article from the
Shreveport, La, Journal, OF Septem-
ber, 1910:
Speaking of the News and Courier
the election was a striking example OF
the wonderful power of the press TO
mould public opinion. Every newspa-
per In the state, with the exception
of two country weeklies, supported
Featherstone and called Blease out OF
his name. They succeeded in making
the people believe Blease regular Sa-
tan in one resnect A news
naper possesses power to direct pub
lie opinion only to the extent OF its IN
dependence. its honesty and it's impair
tiality, These three things are hard 10
find in combination in newspaper OF
today"
And also an article from the Edge
field Chronicle:
I'VE do not join hands in the ava
lanche of abuse that has been heaped
upon the head of the elect.
If personality was the issue. how sad
a reflection on Mr. Featherstone that
he could not carry his own county,
while Blease carried his by sub
stantial majority"
And also q comment from the CO.
lumbia Daily Record:
"Disliking to do so, for obvious rea-
sons, yet the Record now feels con-
strained to say, as supporter OF
FeatherstOne and an opponent OF
Blease, that the repulsive cartoon in
the State of Thursday, portraylng