The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1912-12-13
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BLEAshs
(From the Roanoke "a Times)
Renewed congratulated to the
free, independent and soveign Dem
ocratic voters of South G'olina on
their choice for governor
But-er-would they mi keeping
him at home hereafter, or sleast out
of Virginia?
He is slightly-er-so t speak
too highly favored for kr taste.
Next time. kindly send us, 4 prefer
ence, as more accurately al credita-
bly, representing the State, he of the
thirty odd gentlemen he expted from
the penitentiary just beforeThanks-
giving and by way of ging the
householders and peaceful citizens
something for which to Il truly
thankful.
The truth is a more sdis.aceful
little rowdy than Blease nsnr has
obtruded himself on the asseiation
of a company of gentlemen. Tamany
in it's worst daysnev er sent anwhere
anything like him. He ACCOMPLISHED
two unprecedented feats. He, IN gov
ernor of State, by speech, drove
the women from his audience; lad he
is the first governor in the histcy of
the country to bring on hipsEf the
formal reputation and rebukek the
assembled governors of twenA five
or more, of the sister States. Is he
holds the record. The first gSkrnol
of State expelled from his college
by vote of the student boSy>fdr de.
liberately stealing another| mani es-
say for prize competition and &C.
cepting the prize won by the .stoler
essay; the first governor to whom
we'll bred women refused to listen;
the first governor formally and off
cially denounced by his fellow Cover.
norS.
Yet the incidents at Richmond
probably will increase the popularity
of Blease at home. He will brag ther,
and strut and tell how he chased tn,
high-toned society women of the coun
try out of hall; and of how he de
fled and insulted the "dead old gov
ernors" of other States; and of hoy
he told everybody to go to hell an
proclaimed himself to the newspape
men as "a cold-blooded fighting man
(whereat the reporters most justifi
ably laughed) and of how he boaste
of his love for lynching and his us
of his pardoning power to turn looS
criminals and shouted ito hell wit
the constitution"
1t is says to say that his constitu
ency will applaud him war; =; Will
the substantial people of the Stat
will look on, grieved and ;helplet
while the South Carolinians SCI ter
through the country will be ashamed
while other people will wonder tina
such thinge can be; while poor oil
Senator Tillman will moan, as we
as he can, over the new standards h
established in South Carolina, o
which Blcase is a logical and inevita
BILE product
We have some Blease spirit an
style here in Virginia just now
prominently but unconsciously ex
pressed in the pulpit and among wo
men and seventy-five thousand al
legged but ananyzed petitions. "T
hell with the constitution! To he
with the courts! To hell with tn
law!" 1t is Blease exactly. Some of u
have no cause to quarrel with him O
to reproach South Carolina. One col
respondent of The Roanoke Times a
ready has expressed his signing for
governor of Virginia like the govern
ors of South Carolina and Tennessee
"Let the people rule"
Fortunately, the weight of the VII
ginia sentiment and power, like tt
weight of Virginia tradition, is for IL
law and order and sure perform
ance of it. Therefore, Governor Mar
and the other governors will hay
the cordial support of the great ma
of Virginians in their reputation al
condemnation of Blease.
MistOOk His Audience.
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