Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-08-25

pardoned so many prisoners. PROBABLY
he did pardon some men who ought
not to have been pardoned but as eX-
planned earlier in this letter he did it
to enforce a needed reform.
Governor Blease probably would not
have been criticised so severely by
hundreds Of people if he had had n
gizzard instead of heart. ] know that
he pardoned seventeen hundred prison.
ers 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 circumstances while
others were natural born criminals who
were born wrong, but know that lots
of them. were born again and born
right. There are people who would sit
in Judgment on the Christ of God l
was preaching one. might and man
sat down in front with tears rolling
down his face like bubbles on noun
tain stream. After the service he v,-lk-
ed up 20 me and said, MACK, / know
what it means to be pardoned twice.
He looked me in the face while his
breast heaved like bellows and said,
five years ago God 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" l 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 gov
ernor pardoned him.
Jerry McCauley had served seven
years of "a fifteen years sentence. He
was a natural 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 super
intendent of the Jerry McCauley Mis-
sion in New York, had committed so
many crimes and had so many aliases
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 doing for the Lord today.
l 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 hu-
man 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
howl and criticised the Son of God for
his pardoning record were the mildew-
ed, white washed, sanctimonious, hyp-
ocritical, law and order Pharisees.
I will say in conclusion that Cole
l.. Blease stands for social and eco
nomic justice. He has never been
found cooperating with the hired rep
of corporate or other in
terests..
Tom Mcleod is the candidate of the
the anti -Blease machine,
but the machine of the gang 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 COMPANY. If Blease was Il
rubber stamp, pliable and plastic, they
would just as lief have Blease as any
body. Respectfully,
B. +. McLENDON.