The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-01-21
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fession suffers. ;;;i..5
not glye: every ody e Square are
deal?' $S:;. S.. s;
s:The. Columbia Sta ate;; for instance,
and other .anti-E E,lease IS ewspape
|swfli reprint in their news columns.
comm ents favorable to . Mr.. Feath-.
as1rstone, but ignore anything favor
s55l 8 % d Nj. B lease That is news.
5apers business with vengeance. 8
So. far as The: Herald and News is
concerned, :, We delight in being ig-:
snored by The CoMmb bla state-or.
boveotted; or put Y on the famous,
black list, as you Splease---7but what.
we started out to say was that the
cartaon$ in The Colum bia State
Thursday morning was the limit:
downward Ill newspaper business as
We have observed it. fl s
.sin,...The days Of factionalism and per-.
sonal prejudice in South Carolina
are happily over, and We believe that
the lpeop oplaS Of South Carolina, when
the matter is brought to their at:
tention, will resent under-hand and nd
below-the-belt methods. "a ,@!. & s..i +.
Sss..F So: f or til hatsreason, which is credita-;
ble.s to the. people Of South Carolina,
we; we; believe The Colum bia State and
other newspapers who are taking un--
fair advantage of Mr.: lease in this,
race are doing him more good than
harm. IS. 4
s.".It is not for Blease that we
mourn, but for the newspaper pro.
fession. it:i555 a n
5s. THE menace the real menace.
win ibe met5,by the people of South
Carolina, as they have met all other
questions. 81 :s lII54.2ti q
During the, campaign and beeoie
the first primary election, The Gt-:
lumbia State made a@strong fight in
an / aneum manner against:
nIr. lNeatherstone and thereby
brought down the wrath OF a Ia &c
majority Of the papers Of South Car
olina charging it with 'unfairness.'
They had practically nothing to say
about Mr.. .Blease, he having distinct:
fy, defed them TO make their charges,
II any they had, to his face. They
failed to do so. Now they are max
ing one OF che ugliest and most SLAM
derous. campaigns against Mr.. Blea,e
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.: Biease
and his friends have no manner now
in which to answer them for they
will publish nothing favorable to
Blease; he can. not answer 1T on the
stump, the campaign is over .,.i.
And also an article from the
Shreveport, La, Journal, Of Septem-
Der, 1910: ...s 81. 81. ss.. 81 =. s
I Speaking of The News and Cour-
Ter, tho election was a striking exam !
pie of the wonderful power Of the
press TO mould public opinion. Ev-
ery newspaper in the State. with an
exception Of two country weeklies
supported Featherstone and called
please out Of his name. They sue
ceed led in making the people believe
Blease a regular Satan in one re-.
spect . - s ~ A newspaper possesses
power to direct public opinion only
to the extent iof lis independ dence, Its
honesty and its impartiality. These
three things are hard to find in COM,
bination in a newspaper Of today,
4; And also an article from the Edge
field Chronicle:
""We do not join hands in the ava
lanche OF abuse that has been heaped
upon the head OF the governor elect.
II personality was the Issue, how sad
;a;refection on Mr. FeatherstoIe that
he could not carry his own county,
while Blease carried his by: a sub:
.staptial majority. /" .,.,i si.,...s.'
al. And -.also a comment from the Co
ally Record: 2s e,
.sss$,,.'D Disliking, to. do SO, for obvious
reasons, yet The Record now feels
constrained to say, as a! supporter OF
Featherstone and IAN opponent of
.Blease, that the repulsive cartoon in
The State OF Thursday, portraying
Biease as a pulture, is offensive to
the; sense Of decency and fairness
And an article from the Macon,
Ca, Telegraph, c;ot September Is,
1910: 80 ss.-. ID
. H'..-..sThere is-a citizen over in South
Carolina by the name Of &Blease, w1o
has done j remarkable thing. The
readers OF almost any s . 18th Caro-
lima newspaper a week or two ago
would have found good reason for
the bleief that Blease was every
thing that was bad or undesirable, to
say the least; that in expressing a
desire to become governor be hao
shown objectionable presumption;
that his candidacy was fit subject
for lest, and that he had not the
ghost of chance. The Charleston
News and Courier contemptuously
reported the fact that only three
newspapers in the whole State hal
ventured to endorse the candidacy o.
Mr.. please. All the dailies, large
and small, the religious papers. non-
1escript and what not, thund ern; at
Blease continually. Moreover he was
bomoarded from the pulpit. -. -.
And an article from the New ;'r-
leans Picayune Of September IA,
1910: