The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-01-24

ter in July and August. Then, If any
man does not register, certainly ne
can not blame anybody else, and when
you come back here next year, after
your books Of registration have been
open for two long months, and You
! have given every white maa the oppor-
tunity to put his name on the books
of registration, then you will be in a
position to pass upon the question as
to how you will amend your primary
law.
They holler fraud. Who committed
it? Where was it? nearly all the coun-
ty executive COMMITTEES were against
me; the State executive committee,
with all its machinery was against
me. When 1 asked the chairman at
Spartanburg to give me one manager
Of election at each precinct, he refus-
ed it. Now, in the name Of God, could
the Bleaseites steal, when the other
sid had all the machinery in their
hands? The only way you can account
for it is on the theory that the other
side will admit they we're set of
fools and did not know what to do
with it after they had it.
Now, they accuse my friends of be-
ing 'hoodlums. and say they would
not support Woodrow Wilson. You
get the returns of last year and look
at the State vote and the presidential
vote. and see who failed to vote the
State ticket. Why did Wilson get so
many more votes in South Carolina
than 1 did? If the Blease people did
not support Wilson, why was it Wilson
ram so far ahead of me?
Definition Of Eristocracy.
Now, gentlemen, l shall not take up
your time in answering some of the
things that were told on me last sum-
ner. It is beneath my notice and be-
meath yours. But I want to mention
one thing. When a Yankee actor or
actress comes through South Caroli-
na. and the South Carolina aristocra-
CIV sits in the theatre-and the best
definition know of aristrocracy
is some fellow who does nothing,
lives On his daddy's name and doesn't
pay his debts-when they all sit in
the theatre, and some man comes out,
as. for instance, in "The Pink Lady, .
and says, 81 will be, damned if Go it
oh! the ladies all yell with delight.
When a woman comes out in The
Lonesome Pine" and a fellow says to
her. Country Maiden; you must re-
form; love so and so''-naming the
family she hates, and she says, L
could put them in hell" there is loud
applause in the Columbia theatre. In
minstrel shows, when the dirtiest
songs are sung, going just far enough
to leave the most vile Interpretation In
the minds Of the young, loud applause
comes from the men and women. But
when the governor of South Carolina
goes to Richmond, Va, and says
what he has said all over his State,
then the newspapers come out and
say, at is horrible thing that the
governor said hell"
Reaffirms Position.
I tell YOU, members of the legisla-
ture, today, what I said then-I repeat
it now: Notwithstanding the oath OF
Office which have just taken from my
DISTINGUISHED friend from Lancaster,
who stood by me through thick and
thin and who was reelected chief
Justice of Lancaster if they did fight
him because he was Bleaseite, l will
never order out a military company,
so help me God, and tell my home boys
and girls-if the girls belonged to the
militia-to shoot down white boy,
their neighbor and their friend, to pro-
tect black brute who has laid MS
hands upon a white woman. l will
never do it. And every time 1 told
the white people of this State that
this summer, they hollered back to me-
GO on, boy, you are right; don't ever
do it, And l am here today, and 1 an
still right, and am going to stand
by it as long as God gives me heart
and mind and power.
But it is all right when a little Yam
kee show woman comes down here
and says dirty things; that is to be ap-
plauded. And yet if man were TO
meet you with your wife, on the street
and make the same remark to you,
you would slap his face. But you sit
in tho onera houSe and applaud.