The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-07-23

boy or a poor mans son: No, ne
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 both at the COVER
nors Office and at the governors man.
sion. Does he ever get away from
the influence of the railroads? DO
these clerks and Ben Abney ever Whls-
per in Blease's ear when the railroads
want favors?
No governor has ever pardoned SO
many crooks and criminals. He has
pardoned and paroled nearly four hun
dred. 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, convicted
of being a CRATER in the Seminole So
curities company. The parole is uLtil
October. Who will Young work for
for governor?
He pardoned Glenn, who killed
Rhoden in Batesburg. Glenn says he
jpaid Mr.. Rembert $500. Rembert is
Blease's floor leader in the house. Did
that $500 pay Mr.. Remhert to explain
how Glenn was innocent, Or did it pay
for Mr.. Rembert's influence On Cover
nor Blease to liberate a criminal?
Geo. Rembert denied having re-
ceived any money!
He released the Davis brothers and
Sumter, three negroes who beat and
robbed a white man and left him tied
to tree.
He pardoned negro i'll 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 wound
ed Mrs. Head.
He paroled Beckwith and Schultz,
two yankee pickpockets who tried to
bribe a deputy sheriff with 5000 to let
them escape. The governor turned
them out on the eve of the State Fair.
He paroled another Yankee named
Fleming, who had shot down without
excuse the sons of two Confederate
veterans in the town of Springfield,
and yet he excused his pardon of Has
ty because he said he had shot two
yankees which the jury by their ver-
dict said were protecting two defense
less girls in hotel at Gaffney.
Remember, all of these criminals he
has pardoned and paroled and hum
dredse of others. Twelve South Caro-
lima jurors and an honorable judge
have said they guilty and should be
punished. One of these pardoned GRIM
inals may shoot down you or your
brother or your son in the hope that
even if he is convicted his friend,
Governor Blease, will pardon him. Did
the soft hearted governor stop to think
of the widows and the fartherless chill
dren of the men who had been muir
dered 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 the good name of his
State into disrepute? He insulted the
governor of Georgia and said he did
not have sense enough to raise water
smelons. He has stigmatized Woodrow
Wilson, the democratic 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 MS administra-
ton. Can you do it and be fair to your
selves? Think it over.
THE RONORS WERE ABOUT
EVEN AT ST. MATTHEW'S
Crowd Well Divided Between Jones