The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1913-01-08
NOTARiES PUBLIC
SHORN OF POWER
Governor Blease Depriving his "En-
emies" of Commissions sa Notaries
Starts in at Columbia.

laIleS puollc OF the following:
Henry ]. Hardy. pressman for them
Columbia State; Capt Dfbert Jack
son, affiliated with the reportorial
stan of the State; Col. August Kohn,
head of The News and Couriers' Co
lumbia Bureau; Alva NJ Lumpkin,
Representative-elect from this county;
A. j. Beathea, private secretary to
Governor VI. F. Ansel during his term
of Office; David Harper Means, clerk
of the State sinking fund commission.
and of George Powell Miller, Walter
Taylor Love. William d. Love and
William Stephen Hough, all of Colum-
bia Commissions to notaries public
are issued during the governors
pleasure and can be revoked at will.
Noticing the revoking of cimmissions
OF SO many notaries public, Governor
Blease was asked this morning why it
was being done or what it meant, AMI
in reply made the following statement:
Governors Statement.
You remember when 1 first came
into Office / revoked the commissions
of all notaries public, INF reason for
so doing being explained at the time;
also on the stump during the recent
campaign, at which time one of my
opponents would yell, every day, He
cut of the heads of all the notaries
public His protests had no effect
upon the people, for they realized that
1 was right in the step that / had
taken. said then, and repeat now,
tha. under the Constitution, the com
missicners of every appointive officer
should be made to expire with the term
OF the Governor who makes the ap-
pointment. / still believe that, and in
carrying out that policy / have called
In the comm: ss:nls of all detectives
and constables working under me,
January /. 1875. and am revoking the
commissions of many notaries public
along the same line.
II would have issued a general or
der, but two years ago this was very
much objected to, and / was asked not
to enforce the order because it would
interfere with the banking institutions
and others in handling their business
affairs.
VIII Let Some Stand.
There are some commissions
throughout the State that / shall not
revoke, and i a msatisfied that there
revoke, and / am satisfied that there
commissions are revoked, because |
have heard Of them saying that they
did not want to have any commission
signed by Blease; that they were
ashamed Of them, but that they had
to have them on account of their bus
ines affairs; therefore, as far as 4
can, am trying to relieve them of
their shame
Furthermore, I do not think any
man should hold commission under
the State Government who openly vio-
lated the laws OF the State last year by
betting on the result of the primary
election. know of no better way to
stop such gambling than to carry out
the law and deprive those of their
commissions who were guilty of that
offence, as provided for under our Con-
stitution and statute laws. Therefore,
when 1 have the positive proof, shall
revoke commissions for this cause.
This, in short, is what 1t means. and
this is all 1t means.
Believes in Spoils System.
Il Furthermore state that no man
need apply to me for position unless
he be a Blease man; mean that. II
was censured for 1t, yet now some of
the same newspapers who condemned
me so severely for my position, are
hollering to the victor belongs the
spoils' when 1t comes to the appoint
ments to be made by the President
'ect of the United States, Woodrow
Wilson. If the 'spoils belong to Will
IN and his crowd, why should not
the Blease men reap the rewards or
the 'spoils' from their victory. Yet
they praise Wilson for sticking to his
friends, and condemn 3lease for stick
ing to his. Truly 1t can be said, oh!
consistency, thou art jewell and Il
beg to add, "A ciear-cut diamond.
"Of course. where appointive offices
were submitted to the primary and
elections were held by the people, the
will of the people should and must be
carried out, unless some good cause is