The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1914-09-25
BLTA$E TALKS POLITICS
Tells a New York Paper That He Will
Be Elected to the Senate Four
Years Hence.

York Herald of Saturdays issue con-
tains the following interview with
Governor Cole l., Blease;
Governor Cole. L. Blease, Of Souta
Carolina, who recently was defeated
as a candidate for United States SEN
ator, is seeing New York. He was at
the Waldori-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, Ne.
Nothing to say" he said when
asked for an interview. Il am just up
here to have a good time with the
boys
But after he had talked to Mrs.
Blease he bitterly assai}ed Senator
Smith, mis- successful opponent; Pres
ident Wilson and William G. McAdoo,
secretary of the treasury. Senator
Smith, he said, was reelected by
false representations, and he de-
cIared President Wilson. and Mr..
McAdoo admitted that they had de-
ceived the southern States in the
matter of financing the cotton grow
ers.
Governor Blease, who freed several
convicts and hopes to free more be-
fore he gees out of office at the end
OF next January, and Tho favored
tie lynching of negroes Tor attacks
on white women, is slightly built,
with black hair and mustache.
He was in a gray suit, broad
hrimmed black so.t nat, a very red
bow tie and a pink striped silk shirt.
In that shirt was diamond, screwed
in tightly. There were diamonds in
his cuff links and 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 it
proved to be the key to his apart
ment No. sol. 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 governor"
Mrs. Blease smiled and suggested
haste to ner husband. He was ask
ed what he intended doing after his
term as governor expired.
81 intend to return to the practice
of law" answered the governor. ''To
the practice Of criminal law, which I
love. But when the next vacancy
occurs in the United States senate 1
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 Blease
had changed his mind, decided to give
a statement, and dictated the follow
ing:
''The man whom opposed for the
senate is called Cotton Smith. He
claims that he raised the price in the
cotton market On the campaign Cor
his reelection he told the cotton far
mers that if he were reelected he
would raise the price of cotton to Is
cents and that ned 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 amount of money to market
put it in a cotton warehouse and that
they would be loaned at II 1-2 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 has
gone lower and now he and mis- Dem
ocratic colleague in the United States
senate publicly proclaim that the cot
ton farmers need no longer look to
the national administration for help,
but must depend upon their States. l
notice even so late as today Senator
Simmons, of North Carolina, an
nounced in a conference of congress-
men and senators from cotton grow
ing States that the national govern
ment could not be deDended uDOn to