The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1912-07-25
JUuGr Jones SPEECH
Ar CuIGhS3iA JULY 13
INDISPUTABLE ARRAY OF FACTS
CONCERNING BLEASE'S REC
ORD AS GOVERNOR.

yours the State Tor which ycuF Ia
thers have fought in four wars,ls on
trial. You are to decide her fate.
What | say may help you to decide
right. Think it over.
We are to elect a Governor. a
Governor to represent YOU and Your
children, to make laws and 10 enforce
them. Do you want friend Of The
people AN enemy Of the criminal ard
CRATER or one who has pardoned
more criminals than any other Gov
ernor South Carolina ever had? A
man who has acted in defiance Of
law and order? Whose message to
the Legislature was so vile and vul-
gar that that body by an overwheim-
ing vote struck it from the record -
something that has never been done
before in the history of the State
a man who poses as friend OF the
poor man and an enemy Of laWleSs
corporations, but whose votes and
whose acts show he cares nothing for
the poor man and has only protect
el the criminal and the CRATER.
BLEASE AND THE DISPENSARY GRAFT
He voted not to investigate the
dispensary. (Senate journal, 1907 ,
pages 6S and 60.
He voted not to take up and con-
slider the bill supplying money to
prosecute the grafters.
Then he voted to kill the bill sup
plying money to prosecute the graft
ers. (Senate Journal, 1908. page
573).
He voted against bill TO help the
State in the federal court in her des-
perate fight with the grafters. (Sen-
ate Journal, 1908, page 253). The
State finally won and recovered back
many thousands of dollars stolen by
the grafters. If the other Legisla-
tors had voted with Blease would
the State have ever gotten this mo-
ne? The echo answers when and
how?
Finally, when he became Governor,
he asked for committee to investi-
gate the Ansel board. The Legisla-
ture passed the bill but gave the
committee power to investigate
charges against anyone. That was
Just what Blease did not want, so he
vetoed the bill. The Legislature
passed it over his head-and that is
the same committee that has been
hearing charges in Charleston about
the blind tigers paying three thou
sand dollars month to the chief
constable of the Governor and the
Governor still stands by the chief
constable. Do you wonder that he
vetoed the bill? Only one CRATER,
John Black, has been convicted. and
Blease pardoned him before he ever
got in sight of the penitentiary. Oh,
yes, he stands by his friends. Hasn't
he stood by the grafters?
is GOVERNOR BLEASE A FRIEND OF
THE POOR MAN?
He voted not to tax the income Of
the rich man. (Senate Journal,
1907, page 452).
He voted to shut the school house
door in the face of the child Of the
HAL NllO IL IOo pun " pay HIS po'i
tax. Senate Journal, page 463)
He voted against the bill provid
ing for Federal help in road build
ing, which would have made the
road tax lighter on the poor man.
(Senate Journal, 1907, page 33O.
He is in favor of abolishing the
office of bank examiner, thus leaving
it easy for an unscrupulous and dis
honest banker to rob the small de-
positor.
He vetoed the appropriation of
81 1854 to pay for medicine fur
nished for the poor mans child in
cases of diphtheria and smallpox.
He favored putting a burden Of