The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1913-07-23
SENATOR TILLMAN
BACK AT BLEASE
Senior Senator Makes n Few Remarks
In Regard to COley's Hendersonyille
Speech. Warns Supervisors of

Speech. Warns Supervisors of
Registration.
Washington, July Referring to
affairs in South Carolina Senator Till
man said tonight:
Il notice that Governor Blease has
broke loose again. He makes mis-
statement, to speak mildly, and /
feel compelled to correct him. He
wrote to Hendersonville the other day
and in telegram to the Columbia
Record he is made TO say:
Senator Tillman ruined himself
with the people of South Carolina in
just the same manner when he went
about lecturing, instead Of remaining
in Washington and attending to the
business in the senate"
IL have lectured very extensively
throughout the country, but l never
neglected any senatorial work to do 1t
as the record will show. / do not
recall ever having left Washington
while the senate was in session ex-
ceeding half dozen times to deliver
lectures. Then / went to nearby
points which l could reach after the
senate adjourned for the day, deliv-
cred the lecture that night and. re-
turned to Washington the next morn
ing. l have received offers time and
again to lecture while congress was
in session, but l always declined. /
could have made tens Of thousands of
dollars had l believed 1t right to do
so.
Governor Blease has recently done
two things about which Iwant to
say something. / have been amused
at the subtleross and cunning he has
shown in getting out Of the militia
muddle. He double somesaulted in
stantly, and was so anxious to COM
ply with the requirements of the war
department that he telegraphed his
acquiescence to the secretary's de-
mands. The mail was too slow for
him. Another thing the governor
has done recently is the letter he
wrote to the supervisors Of registra-
tion ordering them peremptorilly to
register all white men. His exact
words are: Let no white man be re-
fused"
81 have examined the law carefully
to see just how far the supervisors
ought to go, and take liberty
of advising them to obey the law
the strict letter of the law-and reg
lister only men qualified under the
law wo will take the oath required.
That oath is as follows:
II do solemnly swear (or affirm
that am male citizen of this state
and of the United States; that | am
twenty one years of age or more; that
/ have resided in this state for two
years, and in this county for one year,
and in the polling precinct in which
! apply to be registered and in which
| will offer to vote / registered for
four months; and that / have not
been convicted of burglary, arson, OBJ
tanning goods or money under false
pretense prejury, forgery, robbery,
bribery, adultery, bigamy, wife beat
ing, housebreaking, receiving STOLEN
goods, breach of trust with Fraudulent
intent, fornication, soodmy, incest, as
sault with intent to ravish miscegencr-
alton, larceny or crimes against the
election laws"
lam very anxious to have all
white men who can take the above
oath register, and thus be able to full
| fill their duties as citizens, but it will
be a fearful blunder and crime for
anybody in South Carolina to lay the
| foundation or give excuse for the
house Of representatives or the United
States to throw out senator or con-
because Of illegal registration. The
republicans are not in power and the
danger is not as 1t once was. But even
democratic senate and q democratic
house cannot afford to tolerate any
thing smacking Of Illegally of fraud.
THE law as it stands now requires
the people to elect senators by direct
vote and / do not want to see South
Carolina jerked up for Illegal voting.
Until we get our primary laws amend
ed by the legislature so as to remove
all possibility of the charges of fraud
and hrihpry in the urinary we can