The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-01-17

verse criticisms of the press.
Respectfully,
John K. Aull,
Secretary to the Governor.
Editorial clipping from Austin
(Texas) Statesman Of December ~
1912:
"Blease is Sure of Senate"
The condemnation of Governor
Biease. of South Carolina for his dec
laration at the Conference Of Cover
nors, to the effect that he would never
call out the militia to protect raplst,
has been, we think, as Incorporate IN
it's severity as was the governors out
burst, "To hell with the constitution.
We have already stated that the OBJ
lection to the position of Governor
Blease is that a man arrested and con-
fned on charge of crime is not nee
essarily guilty, even though his kin be
black. Mob law prevents getting the
right man.
But even after saying Governor
Blease is wrong, we cannot help feel
ing the keenest sympathy for him as
he tried to explain something to those
Northern governors that they don't
know anything about and never will
know anything about until they move
South. And the pity Of it all is that
they assume they know more about 1t
than the Southerners. The writer OF
these lines has tried to discuss the race
problem with Northern men and finally
Quit because he knew in another five
minutes he would have the very air
blue with profanity and smelling with
sulphur No man who has never lived
in the South will ever believe that
negro is not a white man whose skin
happened to be black. AS long as they
are so dense and so stubborn in their
ignorance it is just as we'll not to try
to tell them anything. Let US go our
way as best we can and let them go
their way-the way Of Illinois, for IN
stance, which for lack of a law long
on the statute books of Texas, has to
be the shame of the white race in wit
Messing the marriage of Jack Johnson
to white woman. Unfortunately the
mistakes the North makes in dealing
with the race problem the South also
has to pay penalty for, while for our
sins we alone suffer.
This was not meant, however, to be
a discussion of that dangerous topic.
We merely meant to say that if fatal
blunder of Blease to the blunder OF
blunder Of Bleas to the blunder of
Illinois We prefer the mob to mis-
eegenation; we prefer white race
whose hands are red with blood than
2. white race whose blood IS tainted
with that of race we cannot in SUCH
manner help-while we kill ourselves.
And feeling as we do we are not sorry
to learn that Governor Blase viii go
to the senate, as he boasted he would.
In that connection the following dis
patch from Spartanburg, S. c.. to the
Philadelphia Record, telling of the po-
litical situation in South Carolina, is
of interest:
governor Blease's boast that he
will 90 to the United States senate in
1915, as, the successor of Senator E. D.
Smith, is not idle talk. His bitterest
enemies admit that al, the present time
there is no gift in the power of the
voters of South Carolina which he
could not have for the asking.
"No harder fight could have been
made against his reelection as COVER
nor last summer Every politician who
formerly had exercised any great in
fiuence in the affairs Of the State
fought Blease. Senator Tillman, whose
wish once had been law, so far as the
voters of this State were concerned,
issued the strongest kind Of an appeal
for the defeat of Blease, saying his re-
election would be a disgrace. Thous-
ands of Carolinians, who had not vot-
ed for many years, went to the polls
in an effort to defeat the governor, and
10000 more ballots were cast than
had ever before been polled, yet Blease
was reelected by 5000 majority.
Blease announced more than year
ago that he would be candidate for
the senate.
Senator Smith, Blease's prospec-
tive opponent in the Democratic SEN
atorial primary, is popular with the
farmers, but Blease is idolized by the
cotton mill workers, who hold the bal