Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-03-03

GOVERNOR BLEAsE UPHELD
Senate Sustains Veto of So Called lo-
cal Bills.

| cal olIISs
The senate last Friday Afternoon
sustained the governors veto on the
compulsory education bill for Rich
land county The vote was 81 for pass
ing the bill over the governors veto
and IA against 1t, and as the necessary
two thirds vote was not had, the bill
was killed. The vote was as follows:
Yeas: Alderman, Banks, Beam
guard, Buck, Carlisle, Christensen
Crouch, Hardin, Johnstone, Ketchin
Lawson, Lide, Manning, McCown, Null
Inns, Nicholson, Richardson, Sinkler
Stuckey, Sullivan, Young. Total 21.
Nays: Applet, Black, Clifton, CHM
Goodwin, Gross, Hough, Johnson, Mars
McLaurin, Patterson, Sharpe, Strait
Williams. Total IA.
Governor Blease said in his message
vetoing the compulsory education act
for Richland county that this act re-
quiring compulsory education Is sup
posed to be, and will no doubt be term
ed, local, but in my opinion 1t is but an
other form Of Republicanism breaking
into our state legislature. / told you
| in my general message that would
| veto any such act, and 1t Is with
great deal Of pleasure that I refuse to
sign this one and return it to you. 1t
Is called local, but 1t Is only an open
ing wedge to a general law along this
line and the best people Of South Caro-
lima are opposed to 1t.
when I say best mean the demo-
Gratis who love free government and
free speech and who believe in letting
God Almighty reign supreme and In
letting the fathers and mothers be the
guardians Of the peoples children.
81 consider this bill an outrage to
the decent white fathers and mothers
of this state, and If l were guilty OF
signing 1t, would feel that deserved
the contempt of every child and every
parent who come under its provisions,
as feel those who voted for 1t de-
serve"
Governor Blease In a message to the
general assembly Friday afternoon
called attention Of the senate to his
veto on certain bills and expressed the
hope that every one Of his vetoes will
| be sustained. He said:
I'm my annual message to you, sent In
on the first day Of your session this
year, I stated positively, in language
which could not be misunderstood, that
| IL you passed certain bills I would re-
fuse to sign them and would return
them to you without my signature. 1t
seems that some of you thought was
Joking, or, as my friend Hon. Sam Rit-
tenburg would say, in telling his fam
iliar joke, I was only bluffing.' How
ever, was not doing either; I meant
exactly what I wrote and have done
exactly what said I would do. I re-
gret that it is necessary for me to
send you so many veto messages; they
delay you, because on each there has
to be a roll call, which takes up time
but I will write this message in order
to call your attention to the fact that
you and you alone are responsible fol
the delay, for forewarned you that
would veto these measures; you passed
them, and I have kept my word; so
when you ask yourselves the question
why 1 am vetoing so many acts, just
refer back to my annual message and
you will see that I am doing what
told you I would do, and that the fault
Of the delay is in your endeavor to
force bills through which told you
would take two-thirds of each Of your
houses to do. hope that every one OF
my vetoes will be sustained. The ma
| jority Of the white people of South Car
olina elected me governor; they elect
ed me because Of my opposition to COM
pulsory education; because Of my op.
| position to medical examination OF
school children; because Of my oppo-
sition to radicalism and Republican
ism; because Of my opposition to CEN
tralization Of government, by placing
it in the hands Of few, and so far
have carried out all promises made tc
the people Of my state, and have nc
apologies to make, and propose tc
continue the same way The majority
indorsed me and it is yet to be seer
this summer, whether they will indorse
me again or not. The legislature OF
1912 nearly ran over me and nearly
two thirds Of them were left at home
AS to what the result Of 1914 will be Is
yet to be seen. AS for myself, I have nc
fears, and If my friends will stand by
me and sustain my vetoes, they need
have no fear, for will take care OF
them and myself, too, on the stump II
God let's me live. If He does not, my
last words will be, God protect and
help my friends and keep our state
government from being turned into g
monarchy and the rich and corrupt
from controlling my people"
Governor Blease, Friday afternoon
returned to the senate the Richiant
county medical inspection Of schoo
children attending the public schools
within the county Of Richland, the SEN
ate sustaining the vote Of 25 to 13, the
necessary two-t thirds not being receiv-
ed and the bill is therefore killed. This
was done after a discussion on the
merits Of the bill and on the question
Of local legislation. The following was
the vote:
/ Yeas: Banks, Beamguard. Buck
Carlisle, Christensen, Crouch, Earle
Epps, Hall, Hardin. Johnstone, Ketchin
Lawson, Lide Manning, Mars Mauldin
McCown, Mullins, Nicholson, Richard
son. Sinkler, Stuckey, Sullivan Young
Total 25.
| Nays: Alderman, Appelt, Gross
Johnson, McLaurin, Patterson, Sharpe
Strait, Williams.-Total 13.
In returning the bill without his sig
nature, the governor said:
Il stated to you in my general mes
sage that would veto any such act
and am certainly not child, and wa!
not indulging in childish talk, and
most positively refuse to sign my name
to any such outrageous, uncalled-for