The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1912-08-09
BLEASE'S RECORD
AS Senator, Legislator and
as the Governor.
SHOWS WHERE
HE STANDS.
How He Voted on Many of the Ques-
tions Affecting the People and How
He PardOned White and Black
Criminals and Turned Them Loose
on Honest People.

on honest feOple.
In his speech in Columbia Judge |
Jones showed up Gov. Blease's record |
as Senator, Legislator, and as Gov
ernor, giving authority for the state
ments from the official records of the
State:
"South Carolina, the State you call
yours the State for which your faith
ers have fought in four wars, is on
trial. You are to decide her fate.
What l say may help you to decide
right. Think it over.
eve are to elect governor
governor to represent you and your
children, to make laws and to enforce
them. Do you want a friend of the
people, an enemy of the criminal and
CRATER, or one who has pardoned
more criminals than any other gov
ernor South Carolina has ever had?
A man who has acted in defiance of
law and order? Whose message to
the legislature was so vile and vulgar
that that body, by an overwhelming
vote struck it from the record-Some
thing that has never been done be-
fore in the history of the State? A
man who poses as a friend of the
poor man and an enemy to lawless
corporations, but whose votes and
whose acts show he cares nothing for
the poor man and has only protected
I bn Il nj
"Blease voted not to investigate the
dispensary. (Senate journal 1907,
pages 60 and co.
"He voted not to take up and con-
slider the bill supplying money to
prosecute the grafters.
"Then he voted to kill the bill sup
plying money to prosecute the graft
ers. (Senate journal 1908, p. 573.)
"He voted against bill to help the
State in the federal court in her des-
perate fight with the grafters (Sen-
ate journal 1908, page 253). The
State finally won and recovered back
many thousands of dollars stolen by
the grafters. If the other legislators
State ever gotten their money? The
echo answers when, and how?
Finally, when he became govern
or, e asked Afor committee. to s,
vestigate the Ansel board. The legfs- 1
lature passed the bill but gave me
committee power to investigate
charges against anyone. That was
just what Blease did not want 80 he
vetoed the bill. The legislature pass
ed it over his head; and that s the
same committee that has been
hearing charges in Charleston obout
blind tigers paying $4,000 mtnun to
the chief constable of the governor.
and the governor still stands by the
chief constable. Do you wonder thai
he vetoed the bill? Only one grafter.
John Black, has been convicted, and !
BlcaSc pardoned him before lie eve,
got in sight of the penitentiary. On,
yes, he stands by his friends-hasn't
he stood by the grafters?
Governor BlcaSc voted not to tax ,
the income fthc rich (Senatc jour
nal 1907, page 1922.
"He voted to shut the school house
door in the face of the child of the
man who is too poor to pay his poll .
tax (Senate journal 1906, p. 463.
HE voted against the bill provid- |
ing for federal help in road build |
ing, which would have made the road .
tax lighter on the poor man. (Senatc
journal 1907, page 337.)
"He is in 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.
"Hc vetoed the appropriation OF
s., ,l"". to pay for the medicine
furnished for the poor mans child
in eases of diptheria and smallpox
ale favored putting a burden OF
S9OOO,O0O on the tax payers to i'm
prove the State House, which every
body knows is one of the finest State
houses in the country.
''Is he the poor mans friend? He
VIII Icli you So, D-I uOcS ms record .
show it?
''In 1892 he voted for free passes
and for free express and free tele-
graph franks to Legislators (House
journal 1892, page 257)
''In 1907 he voted to let the rail
roads keep it secret who were carry
ing free passes. (Senate journal
page 311.)
"In 1907 he voted against the bill
the railroads to reduce pas