The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1911-07-12
GOVERNOR BIEASE
AT SPARTANBURG
Characteristic Speeches Delivered at
Fourth Of July CelebratlOn-Prais-
es for Some, DenunciatiOn for 9th

Fourth Of July Prais.
es for Some, DenunciatiOn for 9th
ers as Usual.
The following is taken from the
Spartanburg Herald, July 8:
Gov Cole. l.. Blease yesterday ad-
dressed two immense and enthusias-
tic audiences of cotton mill workers
in Spartanburg county-at Cowpens
In the morning and at Drayton
mills in the afternoon. Both ad-
dresses were said by those familiar
with the Governor to be character
istic of the man
At Drayton he denounced negroes,
whom he called apes and baboons"
and for whom he said the most eff
fective remedy was "a little gun
powder and few buckshot;" openly
save his approval to lynching;
sneered at prohibitions; condoned
manslaughter committed in the heat
of passion; defended his pardoning
of convicts and justified his other Of
ticial acts which have evoked criti-
cism; slurred Northerners; denounc-
ed newspapers, especially The CO.
lumbia State and The Spartanburg
Herald; spoke contemptuously of the
University Of South Carolina and DR..
5. c. Mitchell, president of the uni
versity, denied that he had sold par
dons, and declared that if he should
be impeached he would go to the
United States Senate as the success
sor to Senator b. r. Tillman
As to Prohibition.
Governor Blease began his address
in formal manner and then said that
he would talk about anything his au-
dience wanted and suggested that
somebody give him text Someone
shouted "Prohibition."
IF YOU can show me where there
is any prohibition i'm South Carroll
ma said Governor Blease. "I'll talk
about it,"
He referred to prohibition again
later in his address. He said he had
received requests from the authori-
ties of various counties to send State
constables into those counties to en-
force 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 abrupt
ly. He told a story of a little boy
whom he had taken into the Cover
nor's office in the State house and had
told him that it was his office as we'll
as that of Cole Blease. and followed
up the story by saying that the State
house and the Governors office were
the property OF all citizens.
But by citizens. he said. Il mean
white men-not apes and balloons. "
CaucaSianS Must Rule.
He then launched into a TRADE
against negroes. The Caucasian race
must dominate, he said and if an in
ferior race got i'm the way it must
be gotten out of the way in the most
manner.
And little gunpowdcr and few
buckshot,' he said are often the
most effective remedy"
Later he said that on a previous oc-
casion he had made statement
which had been taken to mean that
he favored lynching. He said he
saw no reason why he should not be
frank about it-that he did
approve of lynching. And the reason,
he said, why there had been no lynch
ings in South Carolina during the six
in which he had been Govern
or was because the egroes knew that
he would not call out the military to
protect them from lynching if they
insulted white women
Negroes, he said were so fond of
notoriety that often they were willing
to make sacrifice and take chance
of losing their lives in order TO get
their names cmblazoned in the news
papers. But they knew, he said, that
while he was Governor there was no
possible chance of their being saved
from an infuriated mob Governor
Blease said that if any woman of his
family was insulted by negro all he
would ask was that the negro be
caught; he would do the rest himself.
Regarding his veto of appropria-
tion bills he said that by so doing he
saved the State $4,000. He declare
that the government of South Caro-