Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-07-03
devil and the lawyers, he was going
back to the United States senate.
Governor BIease.

The meeting was concluded with
the address of Governor Blease
who, upon his appearance, was re-
ceived with enthusiastic applause.
Referring to the address Of Senator
smith, the governor said he had paid
a glowing tribute to his mother du-
ring his address, which he commend
ed. He did not think the senators
family was as poor after the war az
the senator had stated, since one oI
the sons had been educated sufficient
ly to become a high church ofticla
and another, by accident, had become
a United states senator.
Gov. Blease said Senator Smiths
talk about raising the price of cot
ton was a joke and the intelligent
people of York would not believe II
although the people of Beaufort
might. So far as Senator Smith
bill was concerned, the speaker said
it was merely for the protection OF
one gambler against another.
The governor ridiculed Senator
Smiths statements regarding COM
mittee appointments, saying that when
the Republicans again came into
power, all the Democrats would be
knocked out. He said that when he
went to the senate he would receive
as good committee places as had Sen
ator Smith and that If he did not
make better use Of them, he woulc
not stand for reelection.
Senator Smith, he said, was a good
fellow, and he denied that he had
said the senator was a Republican
The speaker read an article from the
News and Courier of June Is, in re.
gard to Senator Smiths election anc
said that while the senator boasteo
of his big majority, he had little tc
boast Of There were only two in the
race, Smith and John Gary Evans
and the people merely supported the
least of the two evils. The governor
further declared that had Smith
been opposed by half a man he would
never have been elected.
The governor declared the senator
a joke. He asserted the senator's
immigration bill was still pending
brother senators pass 1t. The sena'
tor says he is a friend of the farmer
and yet he voted against Winthrop
farmer boy U can see the corns ir
io"I NotSu oooiiAoS NitSS>
farmer institutions.
The speaker declared that all Sen.
ator Smiths former enemies were
now supporting him, the list includ'
ing that half breed sheet, the Co.
lumbia State, and the old granny In
Broad street, Charleston" The govern
or referred to the appointment o
Hayward, the "cobble-stone farmer,
as income tax collector, and of Franci:
H. Weston as district attorney. He
charged Senator Weston with being
a corporation attorney as we'll as 6
stockholder in corporations. The
Democratic party is discussing trus
breaking, and yet your senator ap'
pointed a corporation attorney as dis
trict attorney!
The speaker referred to the APP
pointment of Jas. l.. Sims. the Or.
angeburg newspaper editor, as United
States marshal. Sims, he said, work
ed on a Republican newspaper, In
which an octoroon negro was inter
ested, in 1876. When the red shirts
were fighting negro rule. The gov.
ernOr declared that all the appoint
ments were cut and dried and that II
was useless for others to apply
The appointment Of marshal should
have been given to anybody. other
than a man who was with the Re.
publicans in 1876, and before I would
have made such an appointment,
would have walked from Washington
to Newberry, and the people could
have had my office.
But continued the governor, my
friend, Senator Smith, was in the
legislature once. Pity, too! He vot-
ed against the separate coach law
He did worse than that, because he
voted to pay $4,000 to the family OF
one who had been lynched. Smith
voted to pay $4,000 to the family Of
a negro who lays his hands upon q
white woman. Voted to pay $4,000
to negro families because white mer
protect their homes. Does that show
him to be friend of the farmer?
pretty rough" came from the
crowd.
"Yes, it's rough. but it is the re.
cord" replied the governor.
The governor said he did not claim
to be a farmer, but only wished he
was one.
Senator Smith tells how to get mon.
ey on account Of the new currency bill
said the speaker. The new bill is NJ
better than the old law, because by
the old method, farmers borrowed from
the bank direct, whereas now the bank
merely endorses the farmers note
What the senator should do, he said
was to enact law to put bank people
who charged the farmers ten and
twelve per cent interest in Jail, and
whom l could pardon before l leave
the governors chair" The statement
was followed by applause.
Tho opvnrnnr raai 1pttar Whi oh
told Of whites and negroes working
together in Washington and spoke OF
seeing negro mail carriers in the lower
part Of the state.
If that happened in this country
when Mr.. Niger drove around, he
would be told not to round" back
again; and if he did, his family
would have q chance to draw that
$4,000 under Senator Smiths bill.
The governor showed pictures OF
whites and negroes at Benedict college
Columbia. and scathingly denounced
the school. The newspapers were con-
tinually deriding him because Of his
attitude in the matter, he said, but he
intended fighting this kind of "nigger-
ism" until he died.
He paid his respects to the recent
state convention, many members of
WHICH, he Sdlu were cigarette SUCK
ers and liquor drinkers"
The speaker referred to the York
county convention, saying that the
anti administration forces, when they
saw that the Bleasites had elected q
chairman, moved for a re-
cess and got enough Of their friends
to give them a majority Of six or sew
en-.
The speaker said that any kind of
delegates were taken to Columbia to
the state convention so as to make it a
for the farmers to enroll.
you'll have to sign it," came from
the audience.
Yes am going to sign it," retort-
ed the governor, "and / want every
man to register whether he is going
to vote for me or not"
The speaker declared that while he
was willing to work for the Democrat
ic party in any state, the Republican
party would some day be back in
power. When it does, the new rules
are likely to cost the state two repre-
in congress and the anti
Bleaseites would thereby hurt them
selves. South Carolina representation
in congress. he said. was based on the
primary vote and not the general cleo
ton. If enrolment is cut to 10000.
and Republicans return to power, they
will demand that South Carolina's s
delegation be cut in proportion to the
the crowd who fixed up
the enrolment thievery will therefore
rob themselves.
The speaker told his hearers not to
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