The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-09-25
SHESD|AMONDS AND
DISCUSSES POLITICS
Interview With Governor Blease
in New York.
TIME FLIES IN GOTHAM.
He Says He Was Defeated by Lies
and Attacks Wilson, McAdoo
and Smith.

days issue contains the following
interview with Governor Cole L..
Blease:
Governor Cole l.. Blease OF South
Carolina, who recently was defeated
as a candidate for United States SEN
ator is seeing New York. He was at
the Waldorf-Astoria with Mrs. Blease
yesterday, and asserted that time
passes so 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 Port
land, Me.
Nothing to say" he said when
asked for an interview. I'm just up
here to have a good time with the
boys"
But after he had talked to Mrs.
Blease he bitterly assailed Senator
Smith, his successful opponent, Pres
dent Wilson and William G. McAdoo
secretary OF the treasury. Senator
Smith, he said was reelected by false
representations and he declared
admitted that they had deceived the
southern states in the matter of
financing the cotton growers.
Governor Blease, who freed sever
al hundred 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 COVER
NOR.
He was in a gray suit, a broad
brimmed black soft hat, very red
bow tie and pink striped silk shirt.
In that shirt was a diamond, screwed
in tightly. 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 il
proved to be the key to his apart
ment, No. 551. In the course of the
talk l had with him he was asked by
Mrs. Bleasc to hasten things as she
was hungry and wanted to go to a
theatre.
There's the real governor of
South Carolina" said Mr.. Blease.
shes red headed. You know by that
she is governor"
Mrs. Blease smiled and suggested
haste to her husband. He was asked
what he intened doing after his term
as governor expired.
Il intened to return to the prac-
tice Of law" answered the governor.
ITO the practice of criminal law,
which 1 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
theatre. However Governor BIease
had changed his mind, decided to
give statement, and dicated 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 far
mers that if he were reelected lie
would raise the price of cotton TO ;
cents, and that he'd guarantee that
the United States government under
the Wilson administration, by virtue
of the currency law, would supply
farmers of South Carolina with a
sufficient amont of money to market
their cotton crop or that they ,.ClId
put it in cotton warehouse and that
they would be loaned at 121R cents a
pound sufficient money to meet their
running obligations
"Of course every sensible man in
South Carolina knew that that was a
lie. Since his reelection cotton ha.
gone lower and now he and his Dem.
ocratic colleague in the United State,
senate publicly proclaim that tn,
cotton farmers need no longer lool
to the national administration foI
help, but must depend upon thei
states. notice even so late as toda,
Senator Simmons of North Carolin.
announced in conference OF con
gressmen and senators from cottol
growing states that the natiJna