The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-01-15
Defends the Governor.

| Defends the Governor.
Chester. S. c., December 81. 1912.
Editor The Stakeholder the cap
ton, "Poor Old South Carolina" you
readers have been furnished with the
adverse criticisms of some OF your con
temporaries about Gov Blease's utter
ances before the conference of COVER
nors at Richmond. One exchange stat
ed that all self respecting ladies left the
hall when Blease said "to hell with the
Constitution Such modesty is incon'
ceigable around those parts. and would
cause the life OF that holy virgin, Mar!
Magdalepe. to pale into insignidcance.
Scores Of telegrams aud letters have
been received by Gov. Blease heartily
comuending him for his manly attitude
regarding the virtue of the womanhood
OF onr Southland OF course, thousands
of Beaseites will never see these, ow-
! ing to the peculiar condition which pre-.
walls, viz: the deep-seated malice of
nearly every editor in South Carolina
towards Cole r. Blease. But, Mr. Edi-
tor, until the characters of some OF these
editors have been passed upon by COM
petent examiners, they should not ex.
pecJ the public to accept them as watch
dogs of respectfully and rs armor bear
ers in the war being waged against
Blease by few old thread-bare arlsto-
Gratis.
Blease was elected Governor; in spite
of many seemingly insurmountable bar
riers, and before some politicians would
take their medicine like men, they had
to be drenched like lower animal, by
their own investigating committee.
That the influence of the press is sadly
on the wane in South Carolina was fore
IDLY demonstrated during the recent
State campaign; when with every daily
and every weekly, with but five or six
exceptions, bitterly attacking Blease's
private as well as public life. be made
race never equaled in these parts except
by Halley's Comet.
Now, Mr. Editor, Gov. Blease has said,
upon many occasions, that before he
would order out the militia TO shoot down
his fellow countrymen who had deter
mined to lynch negro brute who had
laid is polluted iepdish hand upon vir-
tuOus white woman, that he would re-
sign his office, tear up his comm SsIon,
and, if necessary. accompany the mob.
And further that if the Constitution !
compelled him to do otherwise, "to hell
with the Constitution"
If the press would deal fairly and
squarely with man, be. he friend or
- sol ifa lnct inf
but truly by misquoting, distortlns and
cooceallng material matter. as is so fire.
Quently. done in reporting BIease, II
uuss be said OF the press OF South Caro- |
llna-"B-hold mountain hath labored
aud brought forth q mouse"
1t would rot require T. Bum Fielder,
nor Burns AID his little devilish dlcta.
graph 70 furnish sufficient evidence
against some Of these anti Blease edl-
uors 10 have them begging for pardonS.
l presume that every citizen 10 South
Carolina, who boasts OF having pure
Anglo Saxon b'ood coursins through his
veins, deep down in his heart says amen
to Blease's utterances at Ricn nona.
The good book says tout of the ahun-
dance Of the heart the mouth speaketh,"
and Biease truly speaks what be feels.
Presumlnp that you have a few
Bleaseites among your SUBSCRIBERS, and
that a few CONNER nts regarding YOUR
dope on poor old South Carolira"
would be of interest TO them, is my only
reason for asking that YOU give me- 4
little space in your valuable columns for
tins arLlcle. BY some peculiar construc-
tiun of the ''ethirs of journalism" it
has become a difficult matter for a
Bleaseits 10 be heard through the col
umns of some anti-Bease papers, ex-
cept as paid advertisement. Still those
same papers claim TO be fair and i'm
partial.
No more fitting epitaph could be in-
>cribei upon The Lom5 of Coleman L
Blease but Nom Knew Him But TO
Love Him" Mr.. Editor, there used to
be a time when the % mlnnrity submitted |
to the majority in South Caroliua, but
now it seems tnat the minority are en-
deavoriug to keep up this war of bitter
ness and strife. Untl this ceases. the |
whole nation can upaiochingly proclaim |
''puor old South l;aroliua " Occasional
ly you hear OF some modern Pharlses
who thauk God that he is not as other
men are, aud who dep;ores the fact that
he is South Carolinian. Now, if the
s-archiiyhJ of publicity were 10 be, mer-
cilessly cast upon the acts OF some OF
these, "believe me-" there would be
ample grounds for the exclamation
poor old South Carolina"
In conclusion, Mr.. Editor, will State
that l expect YOU to Strip me uD the /
back" on account of this article, as you,
of course, will feel it incumbent upon |
you 10 defend the proud conservative
prose Of "Poor Old South Caroiina-''
J. MONTAGUE POWER.
P. Sit Is strange Indeed how our
so-called conservative press can PRINT
itselt To be subservient to the Yellow
Journals of the North: To be the mouth |
piece OF renomous and vindlctive poll
ticians.
We notice in Gov. Blease's letter TO
Mr.. Caldwell that Miss Mary Lee,
daughter of The South's Greatest Hero,
Robt E. LIE, was present aud remain
ed during the speech 10 question. Why
did not this daught of this greatest
chieftain Of our Southland depart. as
did those demured Yankee suffrarettes.
J. M. P.
Cut The high Cost of Living.