The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-09-16
TILLMAN TO BLEASE.

The choosing by South Carolina OF
| Cole l.. Blease 10 succeed himself a.
Governor Of that State has disturbed
| cause Blease announces himself as q
lawless man, fomenter OF mobs and
of lynch law, making the open declar-
alton not only that he would not do
anything TO prevent the lynching of
| negroes but that, on the contrary, he
would Join the lynching party and
help, Blease has been accused of NAL
feasanee in Office, of tampering with
the public funds, Of vicious use of the
pardoning power in turning loose upon
The community large numbers Of des-
perate criminals, and of being a row
dy, ruffian, and contemner of the law,
of precedent, and OF Just light
administration of the chief i've
Office of the State
And yet, in spite OF all this, he has
been chosen by the primary in South
Carolina (Which amounts 10 an elec.
tion) to succeed himself ms Governor
Of that State, True. ii ia claimed that
vast frauds attended that primary elec.
ton, and that larger number of
votes were polled ihereat than there
are voters in the State; and the in
tImation is made that Blease was at
the bottom Of this lawless padding Of
the voting lists and Of the fraudulent
voting that ensued, and that he got
1. n.SA % L.
be, the fact that such man as Blease
could receive the apparent majority of
the votes of South Carolinans for the
Office of Governor is an appalling thing
In view OF his record.
1t has been claimed in his behalf
that Blease is only carrying r little
further along the vicious sentiments.
acts, and principles Of the ideas upon
which years ago Senator Tillman was
elected Governor of the same State.
But if this is so, Tillman has changed
very much, and Blease has carried the
Tillman reeklessness to point far
beyond anything ever dreamed Of by
Tillman himself. And so Tillman, old
and much wiser than he was when he
was Governor of South Carolina. writes
a pathetic appeal to Blease to be de
cent, or if he cannot be altogether de-
cent to be as decent as he can. 1t is
plea as Of a father to an errinc
SOD, and ought TO be received by
Blease as pathetic voice almost from
the brink of the grave calling upon
him TO beware Of going further in his
auarchistic and lawlcss course as GOV
ernor of the State of South Caro-.
lima
IL is probable, however, that BIesse
Will pay little attention to this appeal.
for no doubt his aim is to be elected
30 the United States Senate from South
Carolina. He sees that TiIlman was
elected TO that nigh office, and proba |
bly, he does not consider himself any
more offensive. either in his person and |
acts, than Tillman was considered at |
the time OF his election. He sees also |
that the ranting JEFF Davis of Arkansas !
goes TO the Senate. and also the vi |
clous dcmagoguc Eardaman is chosen |
p,, and with these preccdcnts in mind |
Blease can hardly be blamed If he |
that the approach TO his own
Ddious personality and official baseness
has been so gradually made that there
ought to be no particular revolt against
him as candidate for the United
states Senate from South Carolina. and
f he does so think, who can blame
limi For the steps have been pre-
;isely as stated, and although he is
more extreme than any of the three II
others named, the gradation between
hem Is so small that it would be i'm
possible for any one to put his finger
IN any one point and say, here must
'toP the descent TO further degrade.
ion.