The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-08-05
A MAN SOWETH
THAT SHALL HE ALSO REAP"
COLE. L. BLEASE
Lawyer

COLE. L. BLEASE
Lawyer
- Columbia, S. G.
August 1st, 1919.
Col. Ebert H. Aull,
Editor, Newberry Herald and News
Newberry, S. C.
Ny Dear Col
I noticed your editorial Of the 1st.
inst. and thought that you would do
me the justice of printing my plat
form and general announcement as
found in the Charleston American
and the Camp Jackson Jacksonian;
in your next issue so as to let the
readers of your paper see that you
were very much in error or very
much misinformed as to my position
N the 7th district congressional race.
For fear that you may have over
looked it, I am enclosing one to you
with this.
There is vast difference between
a man or set of men going into
primary or convention and when
beat boiling and men who do not take
part in the proceedings of such con-
vention or primary.
The Haskeilites went into the
Democratic convention of 1890 Il
was there), and when they were
routed and defeated bolted and put
up an Independent ticket, that was
wrong, when they went in, they
should have taken their medicine and
acted ike men and supported the
nominees of the party.
Now the same as to the Palmer and
Buckner crowd when they bolted the
Democratic ticket and voted against
the nominees for president, they too
!. should have taken their medicine,
lust as l took mine in 1914, 1915,
and 1918, when I was robbed, either
by coercion, intimidation or pur-
chase of voters as you well know and
every white man in the State knows.
Now, am not boiling, nor appeal
ing to any race or political prejudice,
nor trying to divide the white people,
but simply standing by what l be-
.lieve to be for the best interest OF
the laboring people of this district,
if they do not agree with me l am
not going to find fault or get angry
with any of them but stand by what
has ever been and is yet my idea of
decent government and against fraud
and corruption; and I would appre-,
ciate from you, my once school
teacher and always good friend; to
point out to me wherein my platform
is not purely .Jeffersonian and Jeffer-
sonian democracy and what parts of
it, you do not agree with, and where
in it appeals for any but, white mems
votes.
Am. when deliberately robbed to
sit idle by and say naught? Yes,
When have bound myself to abide
by the primary. And have; altho
I could have shown conclusively
wherein / was robbed and by men
who claim to be white.
Then, am I to always continue to
be robbed and be party to theft in
a primary and be myself particeps
criminis with my eyes wide open? Not
vet, my dear. Then once more, am
to be liar? Well, if say that l
favored the war l am liar. IT l
say that I favor the League of Ma
tions, as now presented, am a liar.
IF say I am for woman suffrage,
by the nation, am liar. If / say
that 1 am a prohibitionist by the ma
ton, am liar. Now if l have to be
these to be Wilsonian then by the
eternal Gods; l am not Wilsonian,
and / am glad of it.
have always been, and am today,
a Democrat and expect to die one,
but 1 don't propose for any man to
lead me away from Jeffersonian, and
Calhoun democracy and when he
leaves their teachings, 1 leave him,
and I don't care who he be. Do you
think that the South has gotten just
ice from the present administration
and that the high cost Of living put
upon US was fair when every other
part of this nation is prospering
while we are on the decline? 90
where you please and you meet pros
perity and happiness except IN the
South where we are bearing the
burden of high cost Of living, high
cost of everything that we have to
buy and selling our cotton at less
than it cost to make it. Is that fair?