Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1914-12-17
GOV. BLEAsE TALKS M WASH.
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General Julian 8. Carr Also There and
Declars That South's Hysteria
Is Gone.

Two interesting visitors in> Wash
ington during the past several days
We're Cow Cole 4. Blease OF South
Carolina and Gen. Julian s. Carr OF
N. C. These two gentlemen were
interviewed by representative Of The
Washington Post and they are qsoted
as follows:
Gov, Cole l. Blease of. south Caro-
lima, whs asin waslingtoneto attend a
fearing ON Immigration is provoked
ut the reports that he has, emptied the
penitentiary Of South Carolina.
Every time grant executive
clemency to a person In the penintea-
tiary or the allied institutions-the re-
form schools-it is exaggerated, ( and
am pardoned dozen ETAoINNNN
I am charged or credited with having
<pardoned a dozen or 80 convicts, said
Governor Blease at the willard.
5 During my, term as Governor of South
{ Carolina have exercised my preroga-
tive. Of granting clemency to prisoners
lpeThaps 1,400 cases, and of this
number not half have either been par
doned or -paroled. I have commuted
the sentences Of many prisoners from
terms In the penitentiary to seve on
the chaingang employed I'm improving
the public roads and, In many instan-
ices, after a prisoner who served on
the roads for time sufficient to show
that he Is capable Of becoming a good
Citizen, have paroled him or pardon
ed him. / have not emptied the peni-
tentiary In the last batch Of prison-
ers whose cases considered for clem-
ency OH Thanksgiving Dry there were
zenIy few granted pardons. Most of
them had their sentences commuted
to-work on the chaingang. There are
numerous men In, the South Carolina
penitentiary whom i never could par
don or whose sentences 1 would COM
mute. I know the difterenee between
a deserving man and a criminal who
is irredeemable, believe
The hysteria which overrun the
South six weeks ago because of the III
abiifSy ct the 70 c IN farmers to ma.
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ket theiy crop shaa III tirely dissaiq ear
ed,' said Gen Julian IS. Carr OF Durs
ham, n, O., at the New willard.
s : There never was any real founda.
tion for: the calamity howl, and the
thing win do the South good In the
iaR Ya,e .,s sontR s is ss Three
-! .:3 - kaeE
cents a ypound, and, TO say the least, |
the calamity howlers were previous.
Their outcry not only did not help
the farmers, buf1fhj ddlisa The credit Of !
the South. 1t must be borne In mind
that the crop has been. made and to-
day the South has on its hands the
biggest cotton crop on record.
When General Lee surrendered on
April 8, 1865, not cotton seed had
been planted; our mules were gene,
our help had disappeared ;. credit was
gone, but the South did not sit down
and wait for help, nor did it whine.
The people went to work, and after a
little while we began to recover.
g The European war has stopped
tho marketing of our cotton crop for
a time. but we are recovering rapidly,
and we are not begging for help. We
shall profit immensely in the end, for
1t will teach our farmers that it is the
Part of wisdom to diversity, and this
is lesson we required. 1t could not
have been impressed upon our cotton
planters in any other way perhaps
than by actual demonstration. And
the wa-|has given us this object les
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