Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-09-25
Mistrllanraus BEADING.
GOVERNOR BLEAsE IN NEW YORK
What He Gave the Herald and What
the Herald Gave Him.

| INA, VINO recently was NNANNNNN
candidate for United States senator. Is
seeing New York. He was at the wal
dorf-Astoria with Mrs. Blease yester-
dav. and asserted that time passes Sc
fast in this city that he does not know
how long he has been away. He came
. north to attend the Great Council OF
: Red Men in Portland, Me.
Nothing to say" he said, when ask
ed for an interview. I'm just up here
70 have a good time with the boys"
But after he had talked to Mrs
Blease he bitterly assailed Senator
Smith. his successful opponent; Pres
ident Wilson and William G. McAdoo,
secretary of the treasury. Senator
Smith, he said, was reelected by false
representations and he declared Presi-
den; Wilson and Mr. McAdoo admitted
that they had deceived the southern
states in the matter of financing the
cotton growers.
| Governor Blease who freed several
convicts and hopes to free more before
he goes out of office at the end of next
January, and who favored the lynching
of negroes for attacks on white women
is slightly built, with black hair and
mustache.
Diamonds Adorn the Governor.
| He was in a gray suit, broad-brim-
med black soft hat, very red bow tie
and a pink striped silk shirt. In that
shirt was diamond, screwed in tight
| ly. There were diamonds in his cuff
links and a ring flashed on a finger of
his left hand.
In the top pocket of his coat there
hung something that looked like a
medal, but on close observation 1t
proved to be the key to his apartment,
No. 551. In the course of the talk had
with him he was asked by Mrs. Blease
to hasten things as she was hungry
and wanted to go to theatre.
There's the real governor of South
Carolina" said Mr.. Blease. She's red
headed. You know by that she is gov
ernor."
Mrs. Blease smiled and suggested
haste to her husband. He was asked
what he intended doing after his term
as governor expired.
II intend to return to the practice of
criminal law, which l love. But when
the next vacancy occurs in the United
States senate l expect to be elected to
the place"
Dictates a Statement.
BY that time Mrs. Blease was the
more anxious for her dinner and the
theater However, Governor Blease had
changed his mind, decided to give a
statement, and dictated the following;
The man whom l opposed for the
senate is called Cotton Smith. He
claims that he raised the price in the
cotton market. On the campaign for
his reelection he told the cotton farm
ers that if he were reelected he would
raise the price of cotton to Is cents,
and that he'd guarantee that the Unit
ed States government under the Will
son administration, by virtue Of the
currency law, would supply farmers of
South Carolina with a sufficient
amount of money to market their cot
ton crop or that they could put it in
cotton warehouse and that they would
be loaned at 123 cents a pound sufti-
cient money to meet their running OBJ
legations.
"Of course, every sensible man in
South Carolina knew that was a lie.
Since his reelection cotton has gone
lower, and now he and his Democratic
colleagues in the United States senate
publicly proclaim that the cotton farm
ers need no longer look to the national
| administration for help, but must de-
pend upon their states. / notice even
so late as today, Senator Simmons of
| North Carolina, announced in a con-
ference of congressman and senators
| from cotton-growing states that the
| national government could not be de-
pended upon to give any relief, and
that the farmers should no longer be
deceived, but should know that they
| need not expect help from that source,
| which shows that Senator Smith was
re- elected by false representations and
pretenses, and Mr.. Wilson, who claimed
on the stand to be a southerner, with
his son-in-law, Mr.. McAdoo admits
that they have deceived the southern
states in this matter, and now throws
them, as every other well-pOsted man
| in public life knew would be done,
back upon each state to take care Of
| its own interests and be the architect
of her own fortune.
1t will not take the people long to
learn who are their real friends. Presi-
dent Lincoln once said, You may fool
all of the people some of the time
and some of the people all the time,
but you can't fool all the people all
of the time
He Suggests a Remedy.
when the people of the south go to
pay this new war tax along with their
present state local tax, particularly the
people of South Carolina, they will re-
alize that Abraham Lincoln, whether
Il great statesman or not, was indeed
a prophet.
In view of this condition of affairs,
| called an extra session of my legis-
| laturc to meet October 9Th, at which
time l expect it to appoint a commit
tee to confer with the legislatures of
other cotton growing states for the
purpose of passing such laws as will
give relief. And, speaking for my own
state, l think that the only relief pos
Sible to be given is Il law prohibiting
the sale of any property. real or per-
| Sonal under lien or mortgage, within
twelve months, and the extension uf
the time Of the payment of taxes for -
ths."-New York Herald, Septem-
| Der %.
WORLDS MERCHANT MARINE