Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-09-03
CONFLICTING VIEWS.
What the Newberry Papers Think Of
Result Of Election.

What the Newberry Papers Think Of
Result Of Election.
We are told that the vote cast on
Tuesday was a good many thousand
larger than any vote In any previous
primary in South Carolina, and the
size of the vote in the governors race
is being compared with the popula-
tion in South Carolina, the increase
in census returns, and all such mat
ters. Well, didn't the newspapers urge
them all to come home from the noun
tains, and didn't they tell us they were
coming home by trainloads? And
didn't they tell us that they were all
against Blease, and cite as an instance
that on one train Of about $50 q poll
was taken and that only six were for
Blease?
Gov. Blease, you have won q splen-
did victory against overwhelming odds.
You have been fought more bitterly,
perhaps, than any other man has ever
been fought in South Carolina politics.
You have, perhaps, been more abused
than any other man has ever been
abused in So,,th Carolina politics. In
the face vi all that has been said and
done against you, you have kept your
head as perhaps few men could have
done. In the heat Of the campaign
not to have said, 1t Is true, but human
endurance has a limit, and surely
yours has been overtaxed. You have
won, and your vindication at the hands
of your ellow-countrymen is COM
plete.
The Herald and News believes as
firmly in your uprightness, in your
honesty and in your integrity as 1t
did in the days Of your younger man
hood, when you lived among US and
daily touched elbows with US. Had
the Herald and News not so believed,
1t would not have espoused your cause.
This newspaper. In supporting you
cast its lot with you in the face OF a
bitter opposition, and has fought with
you to the victory, and If the ballots
had gone the other way would cheer
fully have gone down with you into
the defeat.
Your ability Ia unquestioned even by
your opponents.
South Carolina has now again, by
that free and untrammelled ballot
which our fathers were willing to give
up their lives for, placed you in lead
ership.-Newberry Herald and News.
The election on Tuesday last was
the rottenest election that ever occur
red in South Carolina. Twenty-Five or
thirty thousand more votes were cast
than the state has voters, and there
fore the only inference Is that that
number of fraudulent votes was cast.
The big state Of Georgia, In It's state
al h
running, cast only 100000 votes. This
state two years ago polled at the first
primary for governor 1O5,364 votes,
and at the second primary 106,S55. This
year the vote runs up to about 14O,-
900. There has been no great Increase
in the population of South Carolina
In the past two years, and the highest
estimate Of what the vote ought to be
this year, and would be, was 10000
to 115,000. The reasonable conclusion,
therefore, is that there have been
fraudulent votes cast In the state.
The increased vote In Newberry
county, for instance, has been out Of
all reason and the increase here will
not begin to compare with that In
some other counties. Two years ago
the vote for governor in this county In
the first primary was 2,4S2, and in the
second primary 1855. This year the
vote was 3,116-an increase Of Is per
cent whereas, according to the census
our natural increase in population is
only 13 per cent for ten years. less
than per cent for two years Making
allowance. for natural increase in the
vote Of the county and adding IS votes
for the new mill at Oakland, 1t Is
plainly seen that there must have been
a good many fraudulent votes cast In
this county; and in other counties the
situation Is a great deal worse.
What Will be done about 1t, II any
thing, we do not know. We do know |
however, that the election is rotten, |
and that it would be far better to have |
no primary at all than such as this
has been.
The state is face to face with a very
serious problem, and all thoughtful
men realize it.-Newberry Observer.