Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1914-12-17
GOV. BLEASE TALKS IN WASH
INGTON
General Julian S. Carr Also There and
Deelars That South'S HySteria
is Gone.

Two interesting visitors in Wash
ington during the past several days
were Gov Cole l.. BleaSc of South
- Carolina and Gen. Julian =. Carr of
N c. These two gentlemen were
interviewed by II representative of The
Washington Post and they are quoted
as follows:
Gov. Cole l.. BleaSe of South Caro-
lima. who is in Washington to attend Il
hearing on immigration is provoked
lat sle reports that he has emptied the
penitentiary of South Carolina.
Every time l grant executive
clemency to Il person in the peninten-
tiary or the allied inStitutiOnS-the re-
form SchoolS-it is exaggerated. and
am pardoncd dozen ETAOINNNN
/ ain charged or credited with having
pardoned a dozen or 80 convicts,' said
Governor BleaSe at the Willard.
sDuring my term aS Governor Of South
carolina | have exercised my prero"a-
tive of granting clcmency to prisoners
I'm perhaps ] 400 cases, and Of this
pumber not half have either been par
doned or parolcd. | have commuted
the sentences of many prisoners from
terms in the penitentiary to seve on
the chaingang employed in improving
the public roads and. in many inStan-
ces. after prisoner who served on
the roads for q time sufficient to show
that he is capable of becoming Il good
citizen,/1 have paroled him or pardon
etlhim. have not emptied the peni
tentiary. In the last batch of priSon-
ers whose cases / considered for Glenn
ency on Thanksgiving Dry there were
only few granted pardons. Most Of
them had their sentences committed
to work on the chaingang There are
numerous men in the South Carolina
penitentiary whom | never could par
don or whose sentences l would COM
mute ! know the difference between
q deserving man and criminal who |
Is irredeemable, l believe
." the hysteria which overrm the !
South six weeks ago because of the in-
ability of the 20 .t,n farmers to MA;
Ret theft crop has IL tirely dis>all Car
ed said Gen. Julian S. Carr of Dur
ham, N. c., at the New Willard.
there never was any real founda-
ton for the calamity howl, and the
hins win dcsthe South coed In the
va The South is an right Three.
bfsze5oFt'-vf- 7u,esra' 49, sccnf
odd; at prices varying from 10 to 10
dents a pound and, to say the least.
the calamity howlers were previous.
Their Outcry not only did not help
the farmers, but injured the credit OF
>fhe South. 1t must be borne. in mind
that the crop has been made and to-
day the South has OH its hands the
biggest cotton crop on record.
:" When General Lee surrendered on
April 8, 1865, not cotton seed h2o
been planted: our mules were gene. !
our help had diSSar.. cared: credit WAS
gone. hut the South did not sit down |
and wait for help. nor did it whine. |
Tho people went t" work. and after Il
LITTLE while we hc.:an to recover.
The Eurorcan war has >t"p!"d
the marEc:in@ ii car cotton crop for
Il time hut we are recovering rapidly.
and we are not hc"in= for help. We
shall profit Immensely in the end. for
il will teach our farmers that ii Is the
liN 0f wisdom To diversity, and this
i !; lesson we required. 1t could not
have been impressed upon our cotton
plantcr< in any other WAY perhaps
than by actual demonstration. And
the WAR has given us this object I"&
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