The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1914-09-01
GOV. BLEASE DECLARES
FOR MIR. RICHARDS
Letter From the Governor In Which
He Declares For Mr.. Rich
ards.

The following letter was received
in Newberry on Thursday afternoon:
Columbia, S. c., Aug. 30. 1914.
Ny Dear Friend:
The second race for governor, as
you see, is between Richards and
Manning. The election of Manning
means the overthrow of the rights Of
the laboring people of this State. Man
ning's grandfather was governor, and
dis .ather was governor, and he comes
directly from the "aristocracy." as
they term themselves. His ote in the
house of representative and in the
senate, when he was there as rep
resentative from Sumter county, were
always against the interests Of the
laboring people, and his election to
the governorsaip means the loss of
everything that the laboring man has
worked for since 1890 in the politics
OF this State, and it will take years
for them to recover and get justice
and their rights if they sit down now
and allow Manning to be governor l
beg of you, not 1or myself, but for
the people whom | represent, to get
busy and do everything within your
power to elect Major Richards COVER
nor. All | can do is to beg the peo-
pie not to make the mistake Of elect
ing Manning, and | am begging you.
Manning voted in 1902, as senator,
wnen a bill was introduced to prohibit
trusts, against tie bill and for the
trusts. See senate journal, 1902, pages
ASP and 472 At the same session,
Wen the railroad relief bill for en-
ployees was offered, he voted to kill
the bill and against the interests Of
the employees See Journal, pages
262, 276 and 504 BY voting to kill
this bill he voted to prevent the am
lily of the railroad employee who was
killed by negligence Of the railroad,
or it's servants, from recovering any
danra ges from the railroad corpora
ton. At the same session, when the
State was endeayoring to repeal the
a.arter of the Virginia-Carolina
Chemical company, trust throttling,
or attempting to throttle, the farmers
of South Carolina, and which Attorney
General Bellinger and his assistants
were fighting with all their power, Mr..
Manning voted against the bill to sus-
pend this corporation, and against the
interests of the farmers and laboring
people. See journal, 1902, page $50
In the session of 1900, journal, page
206, you will see where Mr.. Manning
voted against the caild labor bill and
against tie interest of the cotton mill
employees. In 1905, as senator, he
voted against he bill to prevent strik-
es and lockouts, which was introduced
to meet emergencies and to help the
cotton mill employees, thus voting
against the laboring man and in tavor
of the corporation. He also voted
against the bill for ten hours in
cotton mills. You will find that in the
session of 1893, house journal, page
1856. Also in the senate journal of
1900, page 365, he voted against sep
arate coaches for the two races, thus
voting isor white ladies to be thrown
in the some coaches with negro men.
1t will thus be seen that this man,
who is now the president of bank in
Sumter, and a director in many other
large corporations in this State, on
every occasion, as senator and rep
resentative oted against the interest
of the laboring man for the corpora
tions, and he is today the candidate
OF the corporations and tnelr ofncerS
and attorneys, and is. receiving their
unanimous and solid backing.
In addition TO this, re was in the
Sheppard convention, which met in
March, 1892, as a delegate from Sum-
ter county, which convention denounc-
ed Ben Tillman's administration in
these words: eve pledge ourselves
to the most rigid economy in the ad-
ministration of the government, made
more tnan necessary by the misfor-
tunes of tne people and the impending
deficiency in our treasury, resulting
from the unwise management of the
present administration. At another
place, in speaking Oh the then Gov
their OlatfOru