The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-07-02
GOING AFTER The
men HIGHER UP"
DECLARED LAWS WOULD BE KEPT
IN CHARLESTON, TOO
Chief Executive Stated That He Was
Not Through With the Situa-
ton at Charleston.
Greenville Piedmont, June 3Oth.

Greenville Piedmont, June Goth.
The last day of tie forty-f1rst an
nual meeting of the South Carolina
Press association at Chick Springs
was characterized this morning by
an able address by Governor Man
ming which dealt emphatically with
the subject OF law enforcement in
Charleston and elsewhere in the
State Commissioner John L. Nc
yLaGrin also addressed the assembly,
4 explaining in detail mis- warehouse
system. This afternoon the associa-
ton will have the pleasure Of hearing
an address by Gen. M, L. Bonham Of
Anderson, after which the new officers
for the ensuing year will be elected
8 and the next meeting place selected.
The delegates and their friends will
then come to Greenville for an auto
mobile ride over the city, returning
to the springs on the $50 o'clock in
terurban train. The program will
culminate tonight with an elaborate
banquet at TIE Chick Springs hotel.
Addressing the newspaper men,
master printers and their friends,
Governor Manning declared that he
wanted the people to<understand that
the laws. are going to be enforced,
though he makes no threats. 'I pro-
pose TO go after the big men, the men
higher up" stated the governor. who
insisted that he did not propose to
have it said that the small fellows
were being bounded and the big deal
ers left alone. He asked the press to
+ be patient as to the situation in Char
lesion, promising that he would not
esIet up" but do all in f6is power to
enforce the laws there. He said he
was not discouraged by the action Of
the Charleston county grand jury in
throwing out the cases against "blind
tigers
The governor said he was anxious
Ito enlist the cordial support Of the
press. He told how in making ap-
pointments he did not consider for
mer factional lines and made his
selections simply on the matter Of
merit, recalling that in naming the
board of asylum regents and State
board of charities he found not a
one of them had been applicants.
The governor said Fte did not know
what the political effects would be
he did not consider tnat-but he was
working for the good of the State and
not concerned with the political end.
\ The governor talked on law enforce
nlent, reminding his hearers that he
did not make the laws but was re-
sponsible only for their enforce
ment. He said tat he paid particu-
lar attention to the violations of the
liquor laws because if there had
been one law which had been brazenly
n and fagrantly violated it was the
;iquor laws. The governor told of
how he had started at-tne top" in
enforcing this law and had not known
sEhigh or low, rich or poor, friend or
foe," in the enforcement of law. The
social or locker clubs, he said, had
told MIN they would be ruined fnan-
; ciaIly if the law was enforced, but he
told them he had no choice-the law
must be enforced and they should set
the example. Tee governor sent out
circulars to the sneriffs and results
began to come in. Many of the clubs
voluntarily took out their lockers and
wrote the governor that they were go
n ing to uphold his hands. He told of
one of the big clubs in Charleston,
enc of the exclusive social clubs re-
moved the bar and put in lockers vol
unfairly at a cost of 5000, but the gov
ernor said he wrote them they could
not have lockers under the gallon-a-
month act and the club promptly re-
h moved the lockers, a statement which
drew applause. The governor said
the campaign had brought results.
Gov. Manning urged the press to
Eextend the hand of friendliness to
Charleston and observe them with
kindness and not criticism. He said