The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-09-12
Watch South Carolina Groan.


The appeal to reason in South
Carolina fell upon barren earth.
From Pea Ridge and Wadmalaw,
from Bandana and Bloomingvale and
Bucklick, from Catarrh and Due
West, from Fingerville and Frog
more and Galivant's Ferry and Hay
vile and Horsegall and Jedburg and
Monks Corner and Plumb Branch
and Pregnall and Turkey and Venus
and Wildcat and Yauhannah the un-
terrified Democracy of the Palmetto
State went to the polls Tuesday and
decreed that the newspapers and
preachers and corporation men have
got to stop kickin' Cole Blease
around, even if he is acknowledge
edly the worst governor the State has
ever had since the renegade Moses
sent messages to mongrel legisla-
ture. Shaking his pompous black
pompadour in the faces of his "ene-
miles," Cooley" sits tight on the lid,
and as their reelected governor pre-
pares to treat South Carolina to the
most continuous menu of crow that
ever was set before the people of any
State There will be plain crow for
the common people who dared vote
against their protector and preserver,
there will be broiled, boiled and rare
crow for the preachers and cotton
mill presidents and prominent citi-
zens, and there will be special extra
dry crow, vintage of '23 with the
feathers on, for the practically unan-
imous press that opposed the man
who consigned the constitution to
place that's too cold for Jones sup
porters. II stand by my friends" is
the battle cry of Blease, and when
there are Offices to hand out, his
friends and none but his friends
will get the hunks of pie. If
any Jones man gets appointed even
notary public, he will stand with the
Ephesian temple and the Rhodesian
Colossus and the other world won
ders.
The triumphal procession yester-
day in Columbia, the South Carolina
capital, must have been thing Of
beauty and a yell forever. What a
martial figure the commander-in-
chief of the army and navy of the
Palmetto State must have cut yes
terday as he blessed the beaming
populace. What rejoicing there
must have been in the "clubs' and
blind tigers, and what "hallelujahs'
must have freighted the air around
the State penitentiary where yeggs
and thieves and crooks and murder
ers await the hour Of their speedy
deliverance And what an experss-
ion of exultation must have lit the
handsome features of 1.-The best gov
ernor South Carolina has ever had
as in his minds eye, his motor driv-
en- chariot sped along, with the form
er chief Justice who was his oppo-
nent, "Cubans" who fought him
hardest of all in the public prints,
the mayor OF Charleston, Uncle
Ben Tillman, the five living ex-
governors who opposed him and his
other foes, all chained to the car of
victory. What a hot time there must
have been in the old town of Colum-
bia last night!
South Carolina has not yet re-
pented of Blease, but sackcloth and
ashes will come. It was an over
dose this time and it will be an
emetic the next time. 1t is true in
politics as in medicine, that there are
times when people have to be made
very sick in order to get them we'll.
| Two more years of Bleaseism WILL
cure South Carolina for all time OF
the things for which Blease stands.
Cole Blease can fool some of the
common people of South Carolina all
of the time, he has just fooled ma
jority of the people some of the time,
but he will come to the end of his
rope. The only antidcte for Blease
| is that familiarity which will breed
| his ultimate defeat.
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