The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-01-22

with, with the request for publ
cation, an editorial clipping from
the Austin (Texas) Statesman OF
December 18th, sent to this Office.
Governor Blease has received
many newspapers and newspaper
articles commencing his stand,
and hundreds Of letters and tele
grams of congratulatlou from all
over the country; but this par
ticular editorial comment is sent /
to you with the desire to call par
ticular attention to this para
graph, which is, Of course, best
understood when read in connec-
ton with the entire editorial
herewith enclosed:
"We merely meant to say that
if fatal blunder has to be made
we prefer the mob to miscegena-
ton; we prefer a white race
whose hands are red with blood |
than white race whose blood is
tainted with that of a race we can
not in such manner held-While
we kill ourselves. And feeling
as we do we are not sorry to learn |
that Governor Blease will go the
senate, as he boasted he would. "
In the interest of fair play,
ublication of the entire editorial
is respectfully requested, in the
manner in which you have been
reproducing many adverse crit
icisms of the press.
Respectfully,
John (. Aull,
Secretary to the Governor.
Editorial clipping from Austin
(Texas) Statesman of December
l2, 1929
"BLEASE IS SURE OF SENATE"
The condemnation of Governor
Blease, of South Carolina for his
declaration at the Conference of
Governors. to the effect that he
would never call out the militia
to protect rapist, has been, we
think, as Incorporate in it's Sc
verify as was the governors out
burst, ''To hell with the constl-
tuition"
We have already stated that
the objection to the position of
Governor Blease is that man
arrested and confined on charge
of crime is not necessarily guilty,
even though his kin be black.
Mob law prevents getting the
right man.
But even after saying Cover
nor Blease is wrong, we cannot
help feeling the keenest sympa.
thy for him as he tried to explain
something to those Northern gov
ernors that they don't know any
thing 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 it than the Southerners.
The writer of these lines has
tried to discuss the race problem
with Northern men and finally
quit because he knew IN another
FIVE minutes he would have the
very air blue with profanity and
smelling with sulphur. No man
who has never lived IN the South
will ever believe that nngro is
a white man whose skin happen
ed to be black. As long as they
are so dense and so stubborn in
their ignorance it is just as well
not to try to tell them anything.
Let US go onr way as best we can
and let them 20 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 mistakes the
North makes IN dealing with the
race problem the. South also has
to pay penalty for, while for our
sins we alone suffer.
This Was not meant, however,
to be a discussion Of that danger.
Gus topic. We merely meant to
say that if fatal bunder of Blease
to the blunder of Illinois. We
prefer the mob to miscegenation;
we prefer a white race whose
hands are red with blood than a
white race whose blood is taint-
ed with that OF race we cannot
IN such manner help-whlle we
kill ourselves. And feeling as
we do we are not sorry to learn
that Governor Blease will go to
the senate, as he Doasted he
would.
In that connection the follow
ing dispatch from Spartanburg,
S. c., TO the Philadelphia Rec
ord, telling of the political sltua-
ton in South Carolina, is of in
terest:
"Governor Blease's boast that
he will go to the United States
sonata in 1915, as the successor
of Senator b. D. Smith, is not
iale talk. His bitterest enemies
admit that at the present time
there Is no gift in the power of
the e voters Of South Carolina
which he could not have for the
asking.