The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-08-01


dollars, and says he is the smartest
man in the State. Wasn't it smart
of him to go and live with the gov
ernor? No wonder Blease tells you
the railroads gave Abney raise.
He had to select private secre-
tary and a clerk. Did he get a farm
er's boy or a poor mans son? No,
he went to the railroad offices and
got two railroad clerks, Rowland dis
bursing auditor for the c., n. &. L..
Railway, and Blackburn, clerk from
the Southern Railway. So the rail-
roads have friends at the governors
Office and at the governors mansion.
Does he ever get away from the in
! fuence of the railroads? Do these
clerks and Ben Abney ever whisper
! in Blease's ear when the railroads
want favors?
He Has Pardoned Crooks and Grim
inals.
No governor has ever pardoned
so many crooks and criminals. He
has pardoned and paroled nearly
four hundred. He pardoned Rudolph
Rabens, convicted of receiving stolen
goods, as the friend and ally of the
yeggman and safe cracker.
He pardoned Wash Hunter, whom
he had defended and who had killed
a crippled man.
He paroled Stobo Young, convict
ed of being a CRATER in the Semin-
ole Securities Company. The pa
role is until October Who will
Young work for for governor?
He pardoned Glenn, who killed
Rhoden in Batesburg. Glenn says he
paid Mr. Rembert $500. Rembert
says $500. Rembert is Blease's floor
leader in the house. Did that $500
pay Rembert to explain how Glenn
was innocent, or did it pay for Mr..
Rembert's influence on Gov. Blease
to liberate criminal?
He released the Davis brothers and
Sumter, three negroes who beat and
robbed a white man and left him tied
to a tree.
He pardoned a negro in Lexington
county who burned DR.. Crosson's
barn. DR.. Crosson had opposed the
governor
He pardoned Miller, who wantonly
shot into the house of John Head in
Lexington county in 1910 and
wounded Mrs. Head
He paroled Beckwith and Schultz
two Yankee pickpockets who had
tried to bribe a deputy sheriff with
$500 to let them escape. The gov
ernor turned them out on the eve
of the State fair.
He pardoned another Yankee nam
ed Flemming who had shot down
without excuse the sons of two Con-
federate veterans in the town of
Springfield, and yet he excused his
pardon of Hasty because he said he
had shot two Yankees, which the
jury by their verdict said were pro-
tecting two defenseless girls in a
hotel at Gaffney.
Remember-all of these criminals
he has pardoned and paroled, and
hundreds of others. Twelve South
Carolina jurors and an honorable
judge have said they were guilty and
should be punished. One of these
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 who
had been murdered, when he releas-
ed these men? Did he stop to think
of law and order and the good name
of his State? Has he not brought
the good name of his State into dis
repute? He insulted the governor
of Georgia and said he did not have
sense enough to raise watermelons.
He has stigmatized Woodrow Wilson,
the Democratic nominee for presi-
dent, 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 admins
tration. Can you do it and be fair
to yourselves? Think it over.
Governor Blease's Attack.
A violent attack has been made by
Gov. Blease on my political record.
After a service as legislator and
speaker of the house, associate and
chief justice of the supreme court,
all together covering a period of
twenty-one years, invite the closest
scrutiny of every act of mine during
that neriod and 7 feel DOsitiVe that