The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-08-16
Follower of Lee
Writes Of Blease
Links Former Governor With Repub
licans, Tolbertism and Negro
Supremacy.

'tfat on his descendants of 1876, who
fted the heels of the Tolberts
nd negroes off the necks of the white
people of South Carolina can vote
for Cole Bleasc, when Joe Tolbert is
writing to Blease fer advice and
6lease answered Tolbert giving Re-
publican Tolbert advice, at the same
:ime commencing Tolbert as the best
Republican leader i'll this state and
congratulating Harding for defeating
he regular Democratic nominee for
president.
Who are the Tolbcrts? Why they
l were the leaders of the negroes i'm
Reconstruction times that oppressed
the white people of the state until
1876. In that year the Red Shirt De-
mocracy rose up under the leadership
of General Wade Hampton and others
true to the white people and to our
women and children and said to che
JFolberts and negroes and scala " ag-
and carpetbaggers, eve are in this
blight to win and we will. If necessary
We will go to the woods, and live on
acorns and fight Eepublicanism until
l we die"
eve, the Red Shirt Democracy, the
Confederate veterans and their chill
! oren said again: "Whon the ides of
| November Z, 1876, comes the old
Palmetto flag will be hoisted high up
and Tolbertism, negroism, scalawag-
ism, carpetbagisnl, Franklin ID. Nose.
ism and Chamberlainism will be GUST
ed and We will seat General. Wade
champion in the gubernator.l chair"
And now, after We made this STATE
safe in that year for white supremacy
l and home rule and about "A years
l have passed, me Cole Blease began
to court with :he Republican party as
an Independent, making a speech at
negro Allen university several years
ago, lauding negroes high up, telling
them they were wronged out of their
| rights, but they were coming into
their own again. Nance, the negro
1 professor, introduced Blease as the
hest friend that the negro had in tIir
state.
Blease did nAt mean what he said
about negroes when lie was running
fer governor, he did that to fool the
ing to fool you again with the same
kind of stuff. He goes before the
negroes and Tolberts and he is Re-
publican; then he goes before the
Democrats and claims that he is JEFF
fersonian Democrat.
Jefferson never sided with the
Wings or Republicans, but Blease has.
Remember this, Democrats. In 1860,
South Carolina seeded from the
Inior. Mr.. Ben Perry opposed seces-
sicn in the convention, but after the
convention had passed the ordinances
by majority, Perry said, "I will be
true to my native state and will be
ruled by the majority. The die has
been cast. From now on 1 stand by
my state and if it goes down I will
go down with it," His son fought in
the Confederate army. Woodrow Will
son opposed war with Mexico or Ger
many for a LONG time. Hughes ran
against Wilson on war platform in
favor of war against Germany and
vas defeated heard Bleaseite say
lat Wilsan was a coward and
wouldn't fight, said Mexico had slap
ped him on one cheek and Germany
the other cheek. The Republicans III;
congress voted almost unanimously
for war with G many. Harding vot-
cd for war. Why didn't Cole Blease
do like Mr.. Ben Perry cf Greenville,
stand like stone wall for his state
when the state had decided to seccdc
| nom the union on state rights? But
hieas@ showed his malice for Wilson.
" by when the state Democratic con-
| rcnticn mo in Columbia that nomi-
| mated i2i'9ItcS 10 the Baltimore con-
| Vcnt!.:, Il delegate got mad and has
shown his malice ever since. When
| he made those Pomaria and Filbert
speeches ne went back on the state
| and the United States and went over
to the German side and now he is
Republican. Why, Confederate vet
Grams, sons and daughters, he was
| not true to the cause of his country
when this country was in war when he
made the Filbert speech.
Confederate veterans, you went
through the fire of war for four long
years, endured hardships that no SOL
diers have endured in any war before
or since. But you stood like stone
wall to Lee, Jackson, Johnson, Hamp-
! ton and the Southland until you were
worn to a fraZzle. But in the world
war Blease made speeches to discour-
age our soldiers. After this country
had gone into war why didn't he do
like General Lee, Ben Perry ard 9th
ers who were opposed to the war Of
the states, but when the states seeded
were tr,c to the Southland as the nee
die to the pole2
Oh! ycI remember the Tolberts and
the shooting down Of n Democratic
manager at an election at Phoenix