The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1911-08-15
him, because the Bible says SO.

mentioned them all over this State.
I have spoken this summer to be-
tween $4,000 and 10000 people-more
than I have ever spoken to in State
campaign. I have been down among
the people, face to face, hand to hand,
word to word and mouth to mouth,
and talked to them and asked them
what their will and pleasure was, and
I have tried to do it.
"Not long ago a little girl came
walking into my Office dressed in a
homespun dress-a little cotton mill
girl. Her dress struck her just about
half way between her shoe tops and
her knees, and she had on a little
bonnet She came in and pushed her
bonnet back and said, "Is you the gov
ernor" I said, eyes, what can I do
for you?" She says, "Governor, I
want Bubber." I said, 'Where is
Bubber?" She said, "Bubber, Cover
nor was about is or Is years old,
and he committed. some little trifing
crime, and they sent him over here
to the State Reformatory until he is
21 years old; Governor, when he went
there mother was a strong, healthy
woman, mother was able-bodied:
worked and helped her make a living,
and she worked and we made a 1iv-
ing; but, Governor, mother is paralyz-
ed now, she is lying On her bed in
Camden and hasn't struck a lick of
work in two or three months, and I
can't work in the mill and make
enough for me and mamais living, and
when I am away from the house
mama hasn't anybody to get her a
glass of water or a piece Of bread,
and I want you, Governor, to give us
Bubber." My friends, my home folks,
I investigated that case, and I found
that little girl told the truth, and that
her brother had only committed a lit
tie crime, and I told her I would give
her Bubber: I wrote his pardon and
I sent him home to his mother to help
make bread for her and that little
girl. And when I am criticised for it
want you fathers to stop and think,
where would that little girl have gone
If that bread and meat had mot been
supplied-in a town surrounded by
vices, surrounded by the evil, sur
rounded by the ever-ready panther
looking for the virtue h lay destroy.
I wrote that pardon, and I sent that
17-year-old boy back to Camden to
make a living for that old D'other.
And tha: night when that boy got
home, if that mother put her arms
around his neck and said, I thank
God for my boys coming home, and il
she sent up petition for me- in her
prayers, would rather have had that
than to be governor Of all the States
in the American Union.
"On another occasion woman came
into my Office with one little child in
her arms and leading another little
child by the hand. AS she walked iH
the door the little thing patted her
cheek and says, Mama, bread" The
little thing on the floor said, Mama,
I am hungry" The woman was rag
ged and dirty. 7 ran my hand in my
pocket and gave one Of those children
a piece Of money and she patted her
mama on the face and says, Mama,
bread now" I handed the other little
one a piece of money and he jumped
around on the floor and said, "Get
something to eat" Strong man as
claim to be, I had to turn my face,
and said, GO and feed those child
ren and come back" She did. Her
husband was in the penitentiary for a
small offence, and had served all his
sentence but about six or seven
months. The next day I went to
preaching and T heard a preacher get
up in the pulpit and say, eve are
going to take up collection today;
half OF what we get is going to negro
schools and the other half is going to
foreign missions" They took up a
collection and there was $500 put in
rhe collection box, in the Episcopal
church, in the city Of Columbia $400
for negro schools and s400 for for
eign missions. And yet, right under
the very shadow Of the tower of that
church there were a woman and two
children starving to death, in Chris
tianized South Carolina. In a few
days 7 saw in the paper that that
same minister that took up that col
1ootio, for frna nacrooc ond forpion