The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-04-16
BLEASE SPEAKS TO A
BIG ANDERSON CROWD
SCORES THE LIQUOR PROBERS
AND LEGISLATORS.
MANY Different Matters Discussed
Pays Respects to Senator Sulli-
van and Representative
Carey.

Anderson, April ia thousand
voters of Anderson county heard Gov
ernor BIease here this afternoon, when
he severely arraigned the members OF
the commission to investigate the An
sci dispensary board and criticised the
legislature, paying particular respects
to Senator Sullivan and members OF
the lower house from this county.
After an invocation, made by the
Rev. w. T. Myers, OF PeIzer, the gov
ernor began by saying that the legls-
lature appropriated half million dol
lars more than they arranged to col
Iect. He told OF savings he had made
to the State; OF turning back more
than $4,000 of the governors con-
!tingent fund; that the revocation OF
commissions for notaries public not
only put out of Office a great many
incompetent white men and negroes,
but brought $4,000 in the treasury; OF
his vetoes of the 1911 general assembly
whereby taxpayers were saved $S6,OOO.
He said he saved the people more than
100000 during 1911.
He said that when the 1912 general
assembly met organization was per-
fected, the object being to defeat his
reelection, and the result was that not
one law was passed which will benefit
all the people Of South Carolina.
He said F. NJ. Cary, a member of the
Oconee county delegation, stated on
the floor of the house that all he want
ed to know about a measure was
whether it had the approval of the
governor and if it did he was against
it.
Governor Blease said he has stood
for impartial government for all the
peopIe; that some people did not like
him. because he would not submit to
being bossed. He has been governor
for two years and will be for the next
two, he said.
He explained MS side of the contro-
versy over the appointment of special
iudges. claiming his motive in refus-
ing to commission some other person
when a circuit judge was disengaged
was to save expenses. Anderson coun-
ty has Just had a special term Of court
and a judge was found disengaged, SO
that the county was saved more than
$3.50, he said.
The governor favors building up the
schools, but is unaIterably opposed to
the taxes of the white people going to
negroes. He read from a pamphlet OF
Prof. w. K. Tate, in which it was stat
ed that 1913, 400 negroes are going to
school and $349,S34 is being spent on
their education. Prof Tate stated that
when he enters school rooms he often
thinks that the State is wasting TOO
much money on negroes.
Governor Blease said the editor of
the Columbia State is doing more
harm among the negroes than educa-
ton is doing. when white men rise
to the defence of the women he makes
the negro brute out a hero and calls
white men murderers, said the COVER
nor, who declared such endorsemlt
encourages negroes in their devil
ment, when the editor writes such an
article he is just as bad as the negro.
"As for me, if the commission of the
governors office stands between me
and the protection Of the women Of our
State, I will tear up my commission
and go to their Defence" he said.
He next referred to the Rucker bill
to regulate negro secret societies. He
declared these were responsible Tor the
killing of Bryson, in Laurens county,
and the burning of three houses at
OIar, which resulted in the lynching
of three negroes.
The governor wants to know what
Winthrop college is going to do with
the S242,OO it is going to get this year,
100000 of which comes from the Pea
body board. He said he is friend OF
Winthrop, but he thinks rural schools,
which exist only for four or five
months, with scarcity of teachers,
are more in need of money.
The governor then raped the legls-
Iatvre, saying everything was done to