Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1914-07-22

81 did," said John T. Dyar, one of
the most prosperous farmers of Oco-
nee, who resides in the Seneca-Newry
section.
Eyes, your clothes look like you
had gotten a whole lot for your cot
ton" came back from the Governor.
II got more by holding on his ad-
vice"
You're a nice looking something
to come up here and interrupt a gen.
tleman when he is speaking, aren't
you What you want to do is to go
back home and learn some manners.
You look like you need to stand there
and hold to the back Of that chair.
You ought to get down behind it for
shame at i~nterrupting a gentleman"
From this the Governor jumped to
a TRADE on the newspaper cores
pondents - camp followers" he
said, turning to the press table, "who
go about over the State saying that
Smith is gaining ground and Blease
losing ground--newspaper liars that
go around every two years telling the
same old lies. They tell the people
of the lower part Of the State that
Blease is losing ground in the Pied
mont, and in the Piedmont section
they tell the people that Blease Is
losing ground in the lower part Of
the State. These liars are represent
ing the papers whose editors are al
ways ready to raise the devil and
boiler fraud, and some of these same
editors bet Oh the elections in viola
ton Of the laws of the State. In the
last election one Of these editors, a
Cuban miXed-blood, lost his money
along with the balance
They say Blease cries "nigger."
Yes, and | want to show you this
(handing out a catalogue Of Benedict
College, a negro institution). Look
at it-how do you like it? Negro
teachers and white teachers there
all together. n white woman with
her hand on a negro mans shoulder"
Some one in the crowd said CYAN
KEGS" to which Mr.. Blease replied,
Yes, Yankees-blue-bellied Yam
KEGS" He said that this school
sends out literature that tells to the
negro youth that that school gives
them not only an education, but holds
out to them the hope Of social equal
ity.
Going from the negro college sub
ject Governor Blease took up the new
primary rules, characterizing them
as the work Of a gang of the worst
cut-throats, thieves and ~scoundrels
the State had ever Known. Why, he
said, it's a disgrace that a man who
cannot write his name cannot now
get on the club rolls without going
to cigarette-sucking dudes and MAX
ing his mark while this little dude
puts his name on the roll. You old
Confederate soldiers, if you submit to
it the love of freedom and every
spark Of manhood has departed from
you. you've got to do like the Mig
ger before you can vote"
Haskell appealed to the negro a
few years back and tried to defeat
Tillman and put you back where you
were before reconstruction. / say go
and enroll and be a Democrat. The
dirty towards who follow the cam
paign say that | will appeal to the
niger in the general election. More
Of their dirty lies"
"They say / have made you sweat
four years. Yes, and I'm going to
make you sweat more. They talk
about my pardon record, and | tell
you | am going to pardon others yet.
So long as you send me petitions ask
ing for pardons, just SO long am
going to pardon convicts III the peni-
tertiary. If you want a man par
doned all you've got to do is to send
me the petition properly fiXed up
and signed and I'll pardon the con-
vict. | am your servant, and am
going to do your bidding. If you
don't want pardons don't send up
petitions.
"No, I'm not through pardoning
yet. If it wasn't for the pardoning
power Of God Almighty where would
some Of these preachers be? They
ought to appeal to God for pardon for
themselves and their congregations
! Two years ago they prayed that the
best nan might win, and the best
man did win, but If their prayers
don't avail more for the accomplish
ment of what they desire down in
their hearts they had better quit
praying"
The Governor briefly paid his re-
spects to Senator Smith and his cot
ton record, claiming that Hoke
Smith, Of Georgia, was the author Of
the sections in the cotton and finan-
cial bills that sought to benefit the
farmers. and not e. d. Smith, of
South Carolina. He closed with the
assertion that Senator Smith had
held the Senatorship for so long that
lie HOW thought Tue ONCE belonged W
him and that he was "holding his
own But on March 4th, 1915, E.
p. Smith will have to arise in the
Senate Chamber and say: "Mr. Pres
ident, I have the honor to present to
his body my successor. the EonorG-
Bile Coleman Livingston Blease, of
South Carolina"
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