The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-07-12
WHAT He SAID
GeYeraor Blease Defends His Actions
Before a Largs Crowd.
TELLS ABOUT FIELDER

TELLS ABOUT FIELDER
The Governor Describes his official
Career and Tells Why He Did Ger
tain Things.-He Discusses Many
Other Things, on AL Of Which He
Speaks Out Plainly.
The Spartanburg Herald says Gov.
Cole L Blease addressed two i'm
mense and enthusiastic audiences OF
cotton mill workers on Tuesday at
Cowpens and Drayton Mills in Spar
tanburg County. The following is
report of the speeches as we find
them in the Spartanburg Herald:
Gov. Blease began his address IN
a formal manner and then said that
he would talk about anything his
audience wanted and suggested that
somebody give him a text. Someone
shouted prohibition.
eff you can show me hhere there
IS any prohibition in South Carolina,
saidGov. Blease, "I'll talk about 1t.
He referred to prohibition again
later in his address. He said ne
had received requests from the au-
thortties of various counties to send
State constables into these counties
to enforce the liquor laws. But, said
Blease, he told them that since they
had voted to be dry they could en-
force the liquor laws as best they
could.
The governor then switched from
one topic to another rather abruptly.
He told a story of a little boy whom
he had taken into the govssnpr's OF
fee in the State house and mad tolo
him that it was his office, as well
as that of Cole Biease, and followed
ND the story by saying that the State
House and the governors office were
the property of all the citizens.
stBut BY citizens" he said; Il mean
white men-not apes and balloons.
He then launched into TRADE
against negroes. The Caucausion race
must dominate, he said, and II an
inferior race got in the way 1t must
be got out Of the way In the most
conyenient manner.
.eAnd a little gunpowder and Few
buckshot," he said, "are often tae
most effective remedy.
Later he said that on previous oc-
casion he had made statement
which had been taken to>mean tnae
he favored lynching. He said he sa"
no reason why he should not be per-.
fectly frank about it-that he dlo
approve Of lynching. And the reason
he said. why there had been no lyncn-
inss in South Carolina during the SIX
months in which he had been govern
or was because the negroes knew tnat
be would not call out the military TO
nrotect them from lynching II they
tnsulted white women.
Negroes, he said, are so fond OF
notoriety that often they are Wiling
to make sacrifice and take chanee
Of losing their lives in order TO get
their names efnblazoned in the news
napers. But they knew he said, that
while he was governor there was no
nossible canoe of their being saved
from an infuriated mob. Gov. blease
said that if any women of his FANNY
was insulted by negro all be woulo
.sk was that the negro be causht'
he would do the rest himself.
Gov. Blease took up various OF ais
official acts which have been cruces
cd and defended them. The purpose
Of revoking the commissions or the
notary public was to get rid OF nesIo
notaries. He now makes 1t rule
he said, not to issue commissions 10
notaries without the recommendation
of r. member of the legislative dele
cation of the county in which tneS
live.
Regarding his veto OF approprla-
ZION bills. he said that by so dong ne
saved the State $4,000 He declared
the government Of Souta Carohna
was the most extravagant or any
State Of the Union. He denounced
the extravaganza Of the state eou-
ca+ional institutions especially. Gov
please declared that there were men
travelling in Ehrope and en1ovlns
themselves and at the same time
6-aving salaries from the State as
members of the faculty Of some OF
+be stase educationaY institutions.
We said the excuse for permitting
them to travel in Europe was tna'
+hev were being trained to teach.
"But why the devil" ne asked
"were they employed to teach II 1nes
didn't know how already?
He said he had respect for the ed
ncational institutions conducted os
tho State. and yet they had given NJ
men to public office, whereas otner
colleges in South Carolina. notaois
wofford College, had produced nus
+r,ors men. He mentioned that Wo1'
ford had produced Senator ~
smith. with whom he had ridden 10
spartanburg from Florence.
"And Henry synderc,' he SAD, re,
ferring to the president OF Wofforo
college. tshas more sense and eduea'
+ion than Dr.. Mitchell has brains
enough to learn.
Speaking of his tilt with the SD,
preme Court over the appointment o,
special judges, Gov. Blease said tina,
he did not intend to appoint speela
indges when regular circuit Judges
we're sitting around in club rooms
sr;,rine cocktails and playing PIN
ochle. And he added Venemen'i!
that he could prove that tnls hoe