The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1916-09-05
STATEMENT ISSUED
BY COLE L. BLEASE
Says He Will Try to Create
Among All the People Love
for Peace.
News and Courier.

News and Courier.
Columbia, August 31.-The follow
ing statement was given out here to-
day by former Governor Cole L.
Blease:
Ito the Democratic Voters OF South
Carolina: l desire to express to you
MY highest appreciation of the very
complimentary vote which was cast
for me and for the principles for
which stand, in the primary election
held last Tuesday, and l desire to call
your special attention to the follow
ing facts:
in the home county of Mr. Mannin {,
Sumter, he only led by very small
vote In his former home county,
whose county seat is named in honor
Of his grandfather, you will find a
handsome majority for me; and in
each of the border counties touching
his home-F1orence, Darlington, Lee,
Kershaw, Richland and Clarendon.
you will find that 1 have defeated him.
TD my former home county, Newberry,
I have led, as also in the counties ad-
joining it, viz: Saluda, Greenwood,
Lexington, Fairfield, Union, and I only
lacked few votes of eQualing thu
vote of IMr. Cooper in his home county
of Laurens. In my adopted home,
Richland, where 1 have lived for the
past six years, and where now vote,
the result was as follows: Blease, g.
924; Manning, 1875; Cooper, 1,013.
Now, fellow citizens, take these re
spective votes and compare them and
see which of the two men stands best
and has the most friends where he
Was born and reared, and where he
is best known If it be by that crite1-
ion that you judge us, your conscience
viii dictate that you vote for Blease.
Now, again take the counties that
leave the largest primary vote-for in
stance. Anderson, Greenville, Spar
t. nburg. York, Cherokee, Pckens-
al look at the heavy vote received BIZ
me there and you will find, that while
Mr.. Cooper received a very compli-
mentary vote, / led in the race, and
Eh;.t Governor Manning was repudia
ed by receiving a mere pittance.
"In a very few of the counties of
the State did Mr.. Manning even re-
ceive a plurality. In the Pee Dee,
where his friends GAINED that he
would sweep the field, you will find him
in a minority In Horrv, Marion,
Dillon, Marlboro, Chesterfield, Oar
lington, Florence, Georgetown. his
friends are sorely disappointed and
weeping because of the fact that his
administration has proven distasteful
t, the white people throughout Sie
entire State.
'In his statement he says: "A ma
jcrity of the votes were cast against
Blease' 1 think, if you will notice,
you will find that much larger ma
jority was cast against the present
Governor. He further says: He
(Blease) polls his full strength in the
first primary always I presume he
has forgotten the use OF the English
language, when he uses the word
always and he has forgotten the
truth when he says full strength.
This is only the second time that 1
have been in a second primary for a
State Office, and in the second pri-
mary of 1910 my vote was materially
increased over the first and / was
elected Governor. The same thing
will happen again in 1916.
"He also says: "A Cooper vote is an
anti-Blease vote If am any judge,
I think it could be more truthfully
said that a Cooper vote is an anti
Manning vote, for he, and not 1, is the
Governor who has been repudiated BY
the Cooper people. He further says:
4; is the same situation as two years
ago. Again he forgets the truth. two
years ago was not in the Guberna-
torial race. Had l been, the State
would never have been humiliate7
with the Manning administration.
Again, he says: 4 started this
morning to win the fight, and I am go
ing to win it. l am proud to say that