Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-01-17
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overnors outburst, ITO hell with the

governors outburst, ITO hell with the
Constitution"
I'VE have already stated that the
objection to the position of Governor
Blease is that a man arrested and
confined on a charge of crime is not
necessarily guilty, even though his
skin be black. Mob law prevents get
ting the right man.
But even after saying Governor
Elease is wrong, we cannot help feel
ing the keenest sympathy for him as
he tried to explain something to those
northern governors that they didn'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
ii lhan the southerners. The writer OF
these lines has tried to discuss the
raue propIem with northern men anu
finally quit because he knew that IN
another five minutes he would nave
the very air blue with profanity and
smelling with sulphur. No man VINO
has never lived in the south will eV-
er believe that negro Is not 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 try to tell them any
thing. Let us go our way as best we
can and let them go their way-the
way of Illinois, for instance, which
for lack Of a law long on the statute
books of Texas, has to be the shame
of the white race in witnessing the
marriage of Jack Johnson to a white
woman. Unfortunately the mistake
the north makes in dealing with the
race problem the south also has tC
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 fata
blunder has to be made we prefer
the blunder of Blease to the blundel
of Illinois. We prefer the mob tc
miscengenation; we prefer a white
race whose hands are red with blood
than a white race whose blood is
tainted with that Of a race we can.
not in such manner help-while we
kill ourselves. And feeling as we do
we are not sorry to learn than Gov.
ernor Blease will go to the senate, az
he boasted he would"
In that connection the following
dispatch from Spartanburg, S. c., tC
the Philadelphia Record, telling o1
the political situation in South Car.
olina, is of interest:
Governor Blease's boast that ht
will go to the United States senate
in 1915, as the successor Of Senator
E. D. Smith, is not idle talk. His bit
terest enemies admit that at the
present time there is no gift in the
power Of the voters of South Caro-
lima which he could not have for ask
ing.
mo harder fight could have beer
made against his reelection as gov
ernor last summer. Every politician
who formerly had exercised any grea
influence 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, Is.
sued the strongest kind Of an appea
for the defeat Of Blease, saying hi:
reelection would be disgrace
Thousands of Carolinians, who hat
not voted for many years, went to the
polls in an effort to defeat the gov.
cast than had ever before been polled
yet RleaSe was reelected by 5000
majority. Blease announced more
than year ago that he would be 6
candidate for the senate.
Senator Smith, BleaSe's pros.
pective opponent in the Democratic
senatorial primary, Is popular with
the farmers. but Blease is idolized by
the cotton mill workers. who hold the
balance of power.
THE governors views on lynching
the race question and the pardonine
Of criminals, have been expressed in
all parts of South Carolina time and
again, and no longer causes STIR"
Gentlemen, call upon you now, in
the light of these facts which have
presented, and the proof of which is
in my office, subject to your inspection
to take action-and speedy action
to apply the remedy, and apply it In
the interests Of the citizens Of the
state and the good name of South
Carolina. And in all seriousness,
state my solemn belief to you. that If
you do not. and somebody later is
killed by some one who is aggrieved,
and to whom the law will not pro-
tect, then upon your heads will be
the blood of that man.
l appeal to you now.
Very respectfully,
COLE. L. BLEASE,
Governor.