Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-07-31
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(News and Courier. 25th,) }

'a"eS -. TFlst reports IN the York
vile Enquirer speech delivered By
Ex-Governor Biease at Branwood,
suburb of Greenville, last Wednes-
day evening. In concluding his
speech Mr.. Blease, according to Mr..
Grist, assailed the present State ad-
mlnistration and Governor Manning.
Mr.. Grist quotes him as follows:
The Governor brags that he has
five sons who are in the service. 1t
is so. Yet all Of them are strutting
about in petty uniforms and holding
commissions and are in no more dan
ger of meeting the bullets than Is
this electric light under which 7
stand"
What are the facts?
The facts are that Governor Man
ming has six sons in 9he service, all
of whom, with one exception, entered
as privates. Two have earned COM
missions since their enlistment, just
as thousands and tens Of thousands
of other young men have done. Three
now. 1t Is probable that four Of
them will be there in the near future.
They are all soldiers with no strings
tied to them ready to do their full
duty wherever they may be ordered.
The only one Of the six who en-
tered the service as an officer is
Capt. Wyndham Manning. He was
graduate of West Point, having gone
there as the result Of a competitive
examination. He had served in the
army before the war, but returned to
civil life some years ago. When the
situation with Mexico became acute
and the Charleston Light Dragons
underwent reorganization they
elected him as their captain. He
commanded the troop while it was on
the Mexican border. When the war
with Germany came he was transfer
red to the field artillery at his own
request, going to the training camp
and proving his right to his, commits
sion, He is now overseas.
We do not think that even those
who may not like Governor Manning
will sympathize with Mr.. Blease's
wanton attack upon Governor Man
ning's sons. The News and Courier
does not admire the course Mr..
Roosevelt has followed in this war
1t would despse itself If on that ac-
count it had gone out Of its way to
- cast aspersions on his brave boys who
were quick to rally to the colors; and
one Of whom has just sealed his SER
vice with his life.
The course which was taken by Mr..
Blease at Branwood gives color to
the whisperings which have been
heard before now, of subtle efforts to
stir discomfort and class feeling in
Sonsh Carolina, by trying to build
up the impression that the sons Of
poor men are being sent to the firing
line in France while the sons of the
rich and influential are being kept
here at home in safe berths at the
training camps and elsewhere. OF
course this Is not true. Every in
formed man knows that 1t is not true.
Inc Usually lists are proving its fall
sity every day. Within the week we
have seen one son of an ex-President
OF the United States killed and ano-
ther wounded. That Mr. Blease
should resort to such tactics is only
in keeping, however, with his course
since the war began, with his course,
for that matter, throughout his whole
career. This time, howeved, we be-
lieVe that he will find that he has
overshot his mark.