The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-07-24
SUMTER s. c.. WEDNESDAY JULY a. 1919

He is i'm favor of abolishing the
office of bank examiner. thus leaving
it easy for an unscrupulous and dis
honest banker To rob the small de-
positor.
He vetoed the appropriation of
s4,133.64 to pay for the medicine
furnished for the poor mans child
In cases of diptheria and smallpox.
He favored putting a burden of
100000 on the taxpayers to i'm
prove the State house. which every
body knows is one of the finest State
houses in the country.
lis he the poor mans friend? He
how 1t?
In 1892 he voted for free passes.
end for free express ana free tele-
graph franks to legislators (House
Journal 1892. page 257.)
f., In 1907 he voted to let the rail-
cads keep IL secret who were carry
ing free passes. (Senate journal, page
3l1.)
I'm 1907 he voted against the bill
requiring the railroads to reduce pas
senger rates. as they were doing in
other States.
He told President Finley of the
Southern Railway that he would have
a friend In the mansion when he
Blease became governor. When he
got to be governor, whom did he take
to live with him? He took Ben Alb
ney, the chief counsel Of the Southern
railway company. the bell wether of
the whole flock Of corporations.
Blease brags about Ben Abney having
made million and half dollars.
and says he Is the smartest man in
the State. Wasn't ii smart of him to
go and live with the governor No
wonder Blease tells you the railroads
gave Abney a raise.
He had to select a private secre-
tary and a clerk. Did he get farm
er's boy or a poor mans SON.? No.
ne went to the railroad offices and
got two railroad clerks; Rowland,
disbursing auditor for the c. N. & l..
railway. and Blackburn. a clerk from
the Southern railway. So the rail-
roads have friends both at the gov
ernor's Office and at the governors
mansion. Does he ever get away from
the influence of railroads? DO these
clerks and Ben Abney ever whisper
IN Blease's ear when the railroads
want favors?
''No governor has ever pardoned so
many crooks and criminals. He has
pardoned and paroled nearly 400. He
pardoned Rudolph Rabens. convicted
Of receiving stolen goods as the friend
and ally of the yeggman and safe
cracker.
He pardOned Wash Hunter, whom
he had defended and who had killed
crippled man.
He paroled Stobo Young. convict
ed of being a CRATER in the Seminole
Securities Company. The parole is
until October. Who will Young work
for. for governor?
He pardOned Glenn. who killed
Rhoden in Batesburg. Glenn says he
paid Geo. r. Rembert $500. Rem
bert Is Blease's floor leader in the
house. Did that $500 pay Mr. REM
ert to explain how Glenn was in
nocent or did it pay for Mr.. Rembert's
influence on Gov. Blease to liberate q
criminal?
He released the Davis Brothers
and Sumter three negroes who beat
and robbed a white man and left
him tied to a tree.
| He pardoned a negro In Lexing-
ton county who burned DR.. Crosson's
barn. Dr. Crosson had opposed the
governor.
| He pardoned Miller. who wanton-
ly shot into the house of John Head
I'm Lexington county In 1910 and
wounded Mrs. Head.
| He parOled Beckwith and
schultz. Yankee pickpockets, who had
tried to bribe deputy sheriff with
5000 TO let them escape. The govern
or turned them out on the eve Of the
State fair.
!, He paroled another Yankee nam
ed Fleming. who had shot down
without excuse the sons Of two Con-
federate veterans i'm the town Of
Springfield. and yet he excused his
pardon of Hasty. because he said he
had shot two Yankees. whom the
jury. by their verdict said were pro-
tccting two innocent girls i'm "a horrl