The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1913-01-24
INAUGURATION DAY AT CO.
LUMBIA LAST TUESDAY.
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College getting 100000 and urged
that the matter be Investigated. He
cited Mr.. d. b. Johnson, Mr.. j. E.
Swearingen and Mr.. August Kohn as
material witnesses, so to speak, and
so far as this ctrustee is concerned,
he would delight in the fullest inves-
tigation and publicity of any Act or
vote that he, as an individual trustee
or in concert with the other members
of the board, has taken at any time in
University matters. The University's
record is always open and an injus-
tice has been done it.
Appropriations.
Governor Blease then took up the
matter of the appropriations for the
State colleges and said that they
would have to be separated; so much
for maintenance, so much for new
buildings, and so much for any other
items that might be appropriated, or
that the Legislature might expect his
veto. If, however, the individual
items appealed to him as proper, it
would be quite another matter, but
he would not submit to the Jumping
of any appropriation and then having
it said that he was responsible for
the whole thing being cut out.
Next the Governor took shot at
the professional lobbyist, who, he
said, might sometimes be preacher
or doctor or lawyer or anything
else, and it would be a good policy for
the new members to beware of those
who solicited votes without showing
their interest.
In connection with his effort to Sc
cure the reduction of the rate of in
terest, the Governor pointed to the
new skyscrapers that are going up in
Columbia as evidence of the prosperi-
ty of the banks here.
He took occasion to warn members
of magistrates who tried to enforce
the collection of debts and occasioned
applause by referring to those who
mixed coca-cola and whiskey and bet
on horse races, as being some of the
very fellows who are bowling for the
enforcement of law and order.
Alleges Dual Office Holding.
Next came the matter of those
who, the Governor insists, are hold
ing two offices, that is, as members
of the Assembly and perhaps others
who are doubling-up; this, the Gov
ernor insists, is illegal and he expects
to stop it if he can.
AS to the proposed change in the
primary law, the Governor thinks |
that it would be we'll to have the su-
pervisors of registration open all the |
books for two months this summer
and encourage registration and then
next year, which will be before an
other primary, consider what had
best be done, but in the meanwhile he
asked the members whether they
were going to "burn the bridge that |
had brought them over"
AS to fraud in the last primary he |
said he would like to be heard upon
that subject and that he thought that |
some of his friends would have some
interesting testimony, especially with
reference to the Buncombe street pre-
cinct in Greenville, ard in Spartan
burg, and Charleston and Orange
burg.
The Governor explained why, in his
opinion, his friends all voted for Will
son. Then he took up his Richmond |
speech and insisted that he would re-
iterate and repeat whenever the oc-
casion arose all that he had said in
this speech.
He is opposed to football as it is
now played, and said that either of |
two courses would have to be pur-
sued, either abolish football or con-
fer special degree of distinction on
those who had played.
Horse Racing and Charleston
He next took occasion to have a |
good deal to say on the matter of the |
horse races in Charleston and said
that there was no special law appli- |
cable to the racing situation in
Charleston; that the law was general
and applied to horse racing anywhere
as we'll as it did to any form of gamb-
ling, cards, rafting or anything else.
AS to his taking hand in the mat
ter, he felt that he was as much
called upon to go up town and stop
game of poker as he would be to stop
horse racing. There was, he said, a
decent and proper way to do these
things and if magistrate or sheriff
reported to him that they were una
BILE to enforce the law in this or any
other particular, then it would be