The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-05-31
BLEASE MAY AGAIN
ENTER POLITICAL LISTS
Former Governor Says That it is
Entirely up to Friends-Taiks
About Present Conditions

of South Carolina" who served IN the
gubernatorial chair of the Palmetto
state for four years undertake to
come back?
Maybe SO Maybe not.
The former governor says that it
is up to his friends-if they want him
to get into politics again he'll do it.;
but personally he doesi't care any
thing about it. He has served his
state as governor for four years and
in so doing has achieved his life's am
b;tion. Personally he is willing to go
on to the end of the lane practicing
law in the state capital.
The former South Carolina chief
executive, one of the most spectacu-
lar and best known figures in the
public life of the state and the natio:,
hasn't lost any of the old time vim
and pep so characteristic of him in
the days of his gubernatorial cam
paigns when Carolina politics was so
hot that the atmosphere fairly seethed
and both "Bleasites" and anti-Bleas-
ties often teted a gun on each hip,
each waiting for the other to start
something.
aBlease, claimed by some to have
been political child of the late SEN
ator Benjamin Ryan Tillman of South
Carolina (Pitchfork Benz "out Till
named" Tillman.
No political figure in the history of
the state has ever had more loyal
friends and more bitter enemies than
Blease.
:. Twice Elected Governor
He was twice elected governor on
his famous platform: II Stand by
My Friends"
When he dies he says he wants
carved on his tombstone: "Here lies
Coleman Livingston Biease-He stood
bys his friends"
The former governor, who has been
out of Office for eight years now is
little grayer than in the palmy days
Of political peppering. He also
Still wears his famous gray beaver
hat and red neck ties and gray, loose
fitting clothes "a handsome figure of
a man.
He was in fine fettle when his in
tsrsiewer visited him and he talked
in characteristic manner of affairs of
the nation and of the state.
ssfou-ask me-" said he, eff l did
not pardon or parole great many
people While governor of South Car
oliha?"
Talksof Pardon Record
eyes, / did to the extent of about
1,sOo presume, and ninety-nine out
Of q hundred of them were poor men
who did not have the money to fight
their cases through the courts, that.
is, to a final finish. And they did not
have the money to pay anybody to
look after their interest or care for
them after they went in the peniten-
tiary.
"Why, my dear boy, there are some
in the pen right now that should be
cut; because if they had been men OF
means they would never have been
put there. And not wishing any OF
Ace by false pretenses l will say that
should l ever again be governor all
such cases will be carefully looked
into and relief granted wherever IN
my opinion injustice has been done
nv fellow man, be he black or white,
native or foreign"
Want No Bolshevists
Discussing national affairs Former
Governor Blease said: "This country
hasfhad a series of crimes which
sheald be stepped. We do not want
any Bolshevists We want law and
order
!We want to get back to our good
old<selYes, where every mans home is
HIS castle and where he has the right
to protect it We want conditions OF
living where equal justice is done to
all alike; where the man of money has
no advantage over the poor man IN
the courts of justice; a condition
where corporations and rich men shall
pay their share of taxes.
"We want condition where rlch
banker who steals from his bank the
denositor's money shall be put IN the
penitentiary just as is done with the
poor man who steals the rich mans
auto or other luxury Money does
not make citizenship. Neither should
it be allowed to shield thief.
N.>J 80 owe God