The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1916-01-04

ties, whose secretary drew as mucn
salary as the governor of the state,
with an assistant at $500 a year.
officers whose duty it was to go around
and see that the chain gangs were
worked properly, and the jails kept
clean, and the penitentiary swept out"
All these reforms, he said, he had
fought for as governor, and had eff
fected some Of them, and reform was
needed and should be had, but it was
the duty of those vested with the
proper authority to make them, and
the board of charities, running around
over the state making recommenda-
tons, was a waste of the peoples
money
He said the legislature had attempt
ed to fool the people on the state levy,
fixing it at 5h mills, but that in real
ity is was I mills, there being an extra
levy of l mill for pension and Il mill
for the state hospital for the insane.
He said that Senator McLaurin de-
served the credit for the warehouse
system, and that it was "the extra ses-
sion of the legislature called by
Blease'' that gave it to the people,
through the efforts of Senator McLau-
rim He told of a gentleman who came
to his Office wanting to borrow $1,000.
That man, he said, was a large farmer,
his lands being worth from 500 to
5000 an acre, but ne could not borrow
a cent of money either on his land or
his cotton. 81 sent him to McLaurin
foc state warehouse receipts on his
cotton, and within thirty minutes he
had borrowed his $1,000, and he got it
at 6 per cent interest"
He said nobody wanted to injure the
higher institutions Of learning, but
they were Icing eXtravagantly sup
ported, and he referred to the borrow
ing of SS5, 900 by Clemson last year,
and 100000 being asked for this year
-mnoey, he said, which would neTer
be paid back: Clemson, he said, would
be of Just as much benefit to the peo-
pie of the state if she were run eco
nomically. The idea of these demon
strators, he said, going around teach
ing the farmers how to plant pinders.
These farm demonstrators are going
around pretending to deliver farm lee
lures, but in reality they are preaching
politics, and using their offices for po-
litical purposes"
He said the year 1915 had written
the bloodiest record South Carolina
had ever known-16 white women hav-
ing been criminally assaulted, and
more murders having been committed
than during any previous year. He
said that with all this crime, not one
single bit of it had been laid to the
door of any of the convicts he had pa
rolled or pardoned with the exception
of one poor crazy fellow who they
say killed a woman and then commit
ted suicide-but if you will take the
testimony and read it l believe you
will come to the conclusion that the
woman in her shame and degradation
killed him and then herself" He re-
ferred to a letter which he said was
the direct cause of the Winnsboro
tragedy. 81 have a letter in my pos
session." he said, written by Sheriff
Hood have never mentioned it be-
fore because 1 did not care 10 bring
politics into that trial. have letter
written by Sheriff Hood to Clyde Isen-
hover, and in that letter he said these
words: 4 have got to protect tle pris-
oner az all hazards or lose my COM
mission, Governor Manning has al
ready told me that The life Of Hood
and the life of Boulware and the life
Of Isenhower are charged directly and
positively to the Office where these in
structions went out, that you must
protect that Internal brute at all narz-
ards, and Hood, acting under the fear
of losing his Office, shot Clyde Isen-
hover, for which he died.
He said he was not candidate for
governor for his own ambition, and
if the people he represented would
agree On any one man he would with
draw in his favor. But that was the
only thing that would take him out Of
the race-he proposed to fight the peo-
pies Cbattle. There would never be
political peace in South Carolina, he
said, so long as one faction turned out
all the other faction as soon as it got
in once-the faction now in power
ovo0 aYnoo6n6 itr authority in turning