The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-01-29


to The News and Courier; Mr..
Caldwell sent that report to the
Atlanta Journal. The Atlanta
Journal publishes it as it was:
The News anu Courier garbled
it so as to mislead the people of
South Carolina into believing
that I am trying to prevent the
military companies from going
to Washington. Gentlemen, [
have never been anywhere l was
not invited if I knew it; I have
never been anywhere that
I was not wanted, that I knew
of, and if I had been, as soon as
I found it out would have left:
I don't propose to go to Washing
ton and let a Cuban mixed breed
assign me to a humiliating posi-
ton, possibly so that when they
march up street people would be
saying there is the Governor of
South Carolina, possibly march
ing behind negroes. No; I won't
do it. That shows you what
newspapers do. and how fair
they are.
| Now, gentlemen, I have been
severely criticised for pardoning
people. I just want to show you
that I am not done yet. Listen
here:
estate of South Carolina.
Office of Superintendent of Pen
itentiary.
Columbia, S. c.: Jan. 18. 1913.
To His Excelency, Cole T..
Blease, Governor:
We, the undersigned members
of the South Carolina General
Assembly, do earnestly pray
that you parole Fannie Cooper,
during good behavior, from Dar-
|lington county. Also we earnest
lily recommend that you have
|Sudie Jones transferred from
the Penitentiary to the Asylum
for the Insane. All of which is
respectfully submitted.
/ (Signed) G.. D. Fortner, N. G.
Creech, E. NJ. Fripp, 81. F. Har-
relson, J. P. DeLaughter, W. S.
Rogers, Jr., A. b. Hiott."
| Now, that shows you, gentle
men, that. with all the pardon
ling I have done, your legislators
can come down here and in a
fifteen minutes walk find where
Iother people out to be out Of the
penitentiary. How do you ex-
pect me to stop it?
Now, gentlemen, I suppose
you have noted that [ had no
prepared speech. Ihave simply
lsaid, in a rambling way, some
things that I thought should be
lcalled to- the attention of you
Igentlemen today. There is one
other matter, and that is the
matter Of bonds. and Ishall have
finished. You gentlemen ought
to pass a law prohibiting any
bonding company from carrying
more than a certain amount OF
the bonds of the county or State
| Officials of your State. There
lis q, bonding company in your
State, which, understand. has
|s100, 900 capital, which is posi-.
bly, worth $4,000. That COM
pany is on the bonds today of a
very large number of the County
land State Officers OF South Caro-
ina. Now, gentlemen, I say
that is not right. The American
bonding Company sent pe
bond for the State Treasurer of
ts90.OO0: I signed it after inves-
|tigation with Attorney.Genera
|DeBruhl. The American bonding
! Company sent me some other
bonds. I signed them. Then the
American Bonding Company
Isent me some other bonds, and
| I turned them down. Why? Be
cause I believed the State Treas
urer's bond of 100000, with
these other bonds which I had
lalready approved, gave that
bonding company all the re-
|sponsibility South Carolina
|should have it carry. In the
Gulf and Atlantic States Com
pany they sent me bond after
bond. approved some of them,
but I do not believe company
with only 100000 capital has
any business beng on the bond
of every county treasurer IN
South Carolina. Now, l turned
a good many Of them down.
Some people said it was politics.
| I turned down the bond of Soil
citor Gunter, whom I appointed
to the Office of Solicitor, and
whom the people unanimously
reelected. I turned down the
bond of Solicitor Albert &. Hill,
and I do not think anybody
not even Otts-wou[d say that
Albert E. Hill was not Blease
man. That shows you it was
not matter of politics. but
matter of business, and you
ought to look into it. Your
County Treasures will come up
to take charge of their offices on
the first of July, by special Act
of yours. Is 1t right for all of
them to be bonded in one com
pany? Why, gentlemen, you may
4l,oo ,r;Il vat bo aDy do