The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1918-06-20
THAT FILBERT SPEECH.


to The Herald's editorial last week
regarding the utterance of the form
er governor of South Carolina at
Filbert, York county, when he said:
"They talk about free America. l
don't care what kind of America 1t
is when l am dead and gone, after
reprinting the editorial in question,
says:
Pretty shrewd political squib this,
and one of many of the same kind
that has been going the rounds 10
these many months.
THE Yorkville Enquirer is
newspaper of veracity.' Thank you,
it tries to be. 1t would not misrep-
resent anybody through fear, favor,
reward or hope of reward.
Mr.. Blease used the words quoted,
or substantially those words, at Fill
bert, on the occasion in question, or
he would not have been so re-
ported; but surely The Bamberg
Herald does not assume that the
Yorkville Enquirer is able to COM
column and half. .....
In order to emphasize the parts OF
the speech they did print, both the
State and the Herald undertook to
emphasize the fact that the Enquirer
is "a Blease supporter"
We have reported Mr.. Tlllman at
Filbert, also Messrs. Lever, Rich
ards, McLaurin and scores OF others,
and we have tried to report one as
fairly as the other.
The testimony that the Yorkville
Enquirer is a paper OF VeracltE
sounds pleasant; but we would not
give much for the veractty of
newspaper that would be influenced
in its report of a speech by its lik-
ing or disliking the speaker.
If the Yorkville Enquirer is Blease
or anti-Blease, we simply do not
know it, that is all. We are aware
that just as Tillman says he tied
McLaurin and Blease together" with
the idea of hurting them and bene-
fiting his own side, different indi-
viduals have tried to tie the Enquirer
and Blease together for the purpose
of injuring both and benefiting them
selves.
This paper belongs only to" the
publishers and the politicians under
stand that fact about as we'll as the
public understands it.
Mr.. Blease says he is coming to
Yorkville to discuss this F1l0ert
speech before the people of York
county, and when he comes, the En-
quirer will do as it did in the case
Of the Filbert speech-report him as
completely as it can.
The Enquirer also calls The Her.
AIDS attention to a portion of the
speech of the former governor which
we did not reprint. We were not
discussing the former governors
speech. The question is one of We
racity between the former governor
and the Enquirer. The Enquirer
says the former governor said what
he was reported as saying. The
former governor does not exactly
deny saying it, but he does say "They
knew they lied when they said it"
The Enquirer reiterates that the
former governor says what it report
ed him as saying. That is sufficient.
That one assertion, that che didn't
care what kind of America there is
after he is Dead" negatives every
thing he could have said in favor
of the war.
We did not think it amiss to ask
the Enquirer what it thought about
such a man-especially in view of
the fact that it had supported that
man. We still don't think it amiss.
We have no desire to embarrass the
Enquirer, but we feel sure, speak
ing from a broad standpoint, it
would not mind saying whether or
not it will lend it's support to any
candidate who does not care what
kind of country we have after he is
ad-regardless of how many times
he subsequently vociferates his pa
triotism. To be entirely plain, will
the Enquirer support a man who
denounces it as liar?