The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-07-30

it. That is where the snoe plnches.
l will tell you what | tell them; tell
then whenever the table is set and all
the fancy things are put on, and the
good jobs are sitting up, and all the
Blease men come in and eat and get
through, if there are any scraps left
then the anti-Blease men can come in,
but they haven't got any showing un-
! til then" He said he loved fair, !
clean fight, but he was going to stick
by his friends, whether in politics or
anything else.
As to Lynch Law.
"They tell you l am in favor OF
lynch lava powerful bad man." he
said. "They call me an anarchist, and
all my friends anarchists, that believe
| in all kinds of lawlessness. They say,
Yes, you believe in lynch law. Some
of YOU have been on the jury, and
you have heard me stand in the old
court house, and plead as hard for a
negro as any man could plead for a
white man. When l took his money
I owed him as good service as l owed
YOU. When l put his money in my
pocket | owed him my best, and l be-
| lieve in giving him justice. We have
white lawyers, white judges, white
juries, white solicitors, and the law |
yer that defends a negro has to be a
white lawyer, and 1 believe in giving |
him his rights. When you promise
him pay for days work l believe |
in paying what you promise him, and
doing what is right. But whenever he
steps out of negro's place l believe
in inviting him back, and if he doesn't
get back l believe in picking up some
thing and helping him back. Now,
gentlemen, here is what l say about !
; lynch law, without any apologies to
any man. Put it down, and publish it !
to all the civilized world, to all the
nations of earth-here is what | say |
and here is what l meaA. Whenever !
negro lays his hands on white
woman in South Carolina, will never |
order out military company and tell |
the boys to shoot down their neigh
bors and friends in the defence of that
black scoundrel. l tell you more than
that; whenever one of them lays his |
hands on a white woman, the sooner
you put his dead body six feet under
the ground, the better for all the wo-
men of South Carolina. l go further
than that; l say that whenever my
commission as governor stands be-
tween me and the defence of the good
women of this State, I will tear it up
and throw it out on the State house /
isteps and go myself in the lead of that
crowd which goes to defend the virtue
of the womanhood of the proudest old
State in all the galaxy of the States
of this American Union. Now, gen.
tlemen, if that is favoring lynching
then l favor it-that is all, governor
or no governor, and if any of you I
don't like that, vote for somebody else,
because l don't want the vote of any
man who is in favor of letting negro
insult a white woman and is too COW
ardly to resent it,
Negro Education.
The governor reiterated his posi-
ton against the education of the I
negro with the white peoples money, /
stressing the argument that the edu-
cation of the negro was a greater
menace to the farming people than
to any other class. you ought, he
said, "to take these matters into con-
Isideration (the arguments he had ad-
vanceO and ask your senator and ,
ask your representative if they voted .
at the last session of the legislature
to pass the bill over my veto putting |
a heating plant in negro college, !
paying $500 of your tax money for
it, when all over the country there |
are little white girls and boys walk !
ing two and three miles to school, and
the first one that gets, there builds