The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1912-08-09

wonder Blease tells you the railroads
gave Abney raise.
HE had to select a private secre-
tary and clerk. Did he get farm
er'S boy or poor mans son? No,
he went to the railroad offices and
got two railroad clerks; Rowland,
disbursing auditor for the C. N. & l..
railway, and Blackburn, 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?
mo governor has ever pardoned so
many crooks and criminals. He mas
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.
lie pardoned Wash Hunter, whom
he had defended and who had killed
a crippled man.
He paroled Stobo Young, convict
ed of being 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 Batcsburg. Glenn says he
paid Geo. R. Rcmbcrt $500. Rem
bert is Blease's floor leader in the
House. Did that $500 pay Mr.. Rem
bert to explain how Glenn was inno-
cent or did it pay for Mr.. Rembert's
influence on Gov. Blcase to liberate a
criminal?
He released the Davis brothers
and Sumter, three negroes who beat
and robbed a white man and left him
tied to tree.
He pardoned a negro in Lexing-
ton county who burned DR.. Crosson's
barn. DR.. Crosson had opposed the
Governor.
He pardoncd Miller, who wanton-
Iy shot into the house of John Head
in Lexington county in 1910 and
wounded Mrs Head.
He paroled Beckwith and Schultz.
Yankee pickpockets, who had tried to
brbe a deputy sheriff with 5000 to
let them escape. The governor turn
ed them out on the eve of the State
fair.
He paroled another Yankee nam
ed Fleming, who had shot down with
out excuse the sons of two Confeder-
ate veterans in the town of Spring.
field; and yet he excused his pardon
of Hasty, because he had shot two
Yankees whom the jury by their YER
dict $sald were protecting two de-
fepseless girls in a hotel at Gaffney.
a <<ersnsSefty rvAeAs~srissiaals-
be has pardoned and paroled and
hundreds of others. Twelve South
Carolina jurors and an honorable
judge have said they were guilty and
pardoned criminals may shoot down
you or your brother or your son, in
the hope that even if he is convicted,
his friend, Gov. Blease, will pardon
him. Did the soft-hearted governor
stop to think of the widows and the
fatherless children of the men VINO
had been murdered, when he released
these men? Did he stop to think of
law and order and the good name of
his State?
Has he not brought tho good
name of his state into disreoute? He
insulted the governor of Georgia and
said he did not have sense enough
to raise watermelons. He has stig-
matized Woodrow Wilson, the Demo-
cratic nominee for president, as the
tool Of corporations. He has made
the citizens of his State ashamed
when they go abroad in the land, and
now he is asking you, by your votes,
to indorse his administration. Can
you do it and be fair to yourselves?
Think it over"
I'VE had proof even while the
committee was in session that Mich
OILS was coming along nicely in his
negotiations with the governor to
sell us Dcntley's pardon. OF course
the telegram telling me to come and
wind 1T up meant that the governor
had accepted $4,000 for the pardon
and was ready to issue it, But the
dictagraph may do still more clever
work in this case if it's needed any
more"