The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, 1922-09-06


TO reduce taxes by vetong useless
and eXtravagant appropriations anG
cutting the heads of an army Of po:i;i-
cal leeches who were devouring the
substance Of the people, and they will
answer in the affirmative, and ninety
n:ne times out of hundred the only
fault they can find with him is that
he Dardoned so many prisoners.
Probably he did pardon some men
who ought not to have been pardoned
but as I explained earlier in this let
ter he did it to enforce a needed re-
form.
Governor Blease probably would
not have been criticised so severely
by hundreds of people if he had had
Il gizZard instead Of a heart. l know
that he pardoned seventeen hundred
prisoners during his term of office.
Lots of them were moral or mental
detectives for whom the state should
have made other provision. Others
were good men but victims Of circum-
stances while others were natural
born criminals who were born wrong,
but l know that lots Of them were
born again and born right. There are
people who would sit in Judgment on
the Christ Of God. I was preaching
one night and man sat down in
front with tears rolling down his face
like bubbles on a mountain stream.
After the service he walked up to me
and said. Mack, 1 know what il
means to be pardoned twice, He
looked me in the face while mis- breast
heaved like bellows and said. five
years ago Gcd pardoned me at two
o'clock in the morning in my cell in
the Columbia penitentiary, and this
afternoon Governor Blease gave me
my second pardon" have watched
that man from that day until this and
he has walked right and kept straight
Harry. Monroe, the man who led
Billy Sunday to God, was a yeggman
and the Lord saved him one day in
the penitentiary and a kind hearted
governor pardoned him.
Jerry McCauley had served seven
years Of a fifteen years sentence. He
was a ma tural born criminal, thief and
thug. The Lord saved him one night
in his cell and a Christian governor
pardoned him. The Pharisees raised
hell, but before he went to Heaven
they named him in New York city
the Apostle to the Lost.
John Callihan, who is now the
superintendent of the Jerry McCauley
Mission in New York, had committed
so many crimes and had so many
aliases that he didn't know his real
name, and Mrs. Clark (the wife OF
Col. Clark of the Pacific Garden
Mission in Chicago, led him to Jesus,
and secured pardon for him from
the governor. and look what he is
dang for the Lord today.
| could go on and give hundreds OF
illustrations like the above. When
the Lord Jesus Christ came out Of
the infinitudes and walked the path
Of human life he looked upon poor
fallen humanity, had compassion on
them, and pardoned thieves, harlots.
crooks, adulterers and law viOlatOrs
upon whom the sentence of death
rested, and the only persons who
raised q howl and criticised the Son
Of God for his pardoning record Wee
the mildewed, white-washed, sanct:-
monious, hypocritical, law and order
Pharisees.
1 will say in conclusion that Cole
Il. Blease stands for social and eco
nomic justice. He has never been
found cooperating with the hired rep
'resentatives Of corporate or other in
'terests.
Tom Mcleod is the candidate o:
the machine-not the anti-Blease
machine, but the machine Of the Sans
that has the state by the throat in the
interests Of its own domination-the
machine for which Manning and
Cooper carried the flag. This
machine is not so much opposed to
Blease as it is for WE, Us AND CON-
PANY. If Blease was a rubber stamp,
pl;able and plastic, they would just
as lief have Blease as anybody.
Respectfully,
B. F.. McLENDON.
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