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

Two interesting visitors In, Wash
ington during the past several days
were Gov. Cole l.. 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 quoted
as follows:
Gov Cole L. Blease Of South Caro-
lima, whs.is, in Westinghouse to attend a
hearing ON Immigration is provoked
ut the reports that he has emptied the
penitentiary of South Carolina.
Every time l grant executive
clemency to a person in the peninteH-
tiary or the allied institutions-the re-
form schools-it is exaggerated, and
/ aim pardoned dozen ETAOINNNN
1 am charged or credited with having
=pardoned dozen or SO convicts,' said
Governor Blease at the Willard
During my term as Governor of South
Carolina l have exercised my preroga-
:, tive Of granting clcmency to prisoners
lii perhaps i 400 cases, and of this
number not half have either been par
doned or ~paroled. I have committed
the sentences Of many prisoners from
terms in the penitentiary to seve on
the chaingang employed In improving
the public roads and, in many instan-
n ces, after a prisoner who served on
the roads for q time sufficient to show
that he is capable Of becoming good
citizen, have paroled him or pardon
ed him. have not emptied the peni-
tentiary. In the last batch of prison.
ers whose cases I considered for elem.
ency OH Thanksgiving Dry there were
zenly few granted pardons. Most Of
them had their sentences committed
to-work on the chaingang. There are
numerous men in the South Carolina
penitentiary whom / never could par
don or whose sentences I would COM
mute. know the difference between
deserving man and criminal who
Is irredeemable, 1 believe
The hysteria which overrun the
South six weeks ago because Of the Ill
abiI'Ty Of the 20 IN farmers to ma:
ket theil crop In. I'll tirely dissaIIt:;
ed,' said Gen. Julian s. Carr of Dur
ham,, N. c., at the New Willard.
:" There never was any real founda-
ton for, the calamity howl, and the
Thing will do the South good In the
;;apE The South Is all risSt. Three
Unr taiV ci.ops., 81. cottoi ~, beese,nr 4
sold szdt prices varying from 10 to 15
cents a aspound, and, to say the least,
the calamity howlers were previous.
Their outcrX not only did not help
the. farmers, but injdlieaa ttire credit OF
the South. 1t must be borne In mind
that the crop has been made and to-
day the South has on it's hands the
biggest cotton crop on record.
When General Lee surrendered on
April 9, 1865, not a 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 Il
little while we began to recover.
THE European war has stopped
o. the marketing Of our cotton crop for
time. but we are recovering rapidly,
and we are not begging for help. We
shall profit immensely in the end. for
II will teach our farmers that it is the
rart 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
son.'."k3