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iAn Interview
t a urc; d lvir\/IM ;? H
Columbia, S. C., April 12.?"Well,"
i said Governor Blease, looking me
straight in the eye, and smiling just
a little quizically, "Now, what do
you thi?
"Governor," I replied, as I arose
to say goodbye, "you remind me of
Bill Xye's definition of classical munrv+
-nnotItt erv ViOrl oo Vflll
1 vtl Ci 1 UV/U XJ ov wv*v* Ui^ j " v,
sometimes sound!"
Then Coleman Livingston-e Blease,
} , chief magistrate of South Carolina,
' laughed a big, booming laugh, and
said, "All right?that's all right! The
one and only thing I ask is that people
speak the truth of me, when they
speak of me at all."
It is no easy matter to get to Governor
Blease?at least, it was no easy
matter for me. His secretary?a fine
young chap?swore by the great horn
spoon at first that I shouldn't.
T expostulated and explained?he
said there was nothing doing. He
told me frankly why, moreover.
He said, quite engagingly, that the
f governor had so frequently "been lied
r about, up one side and down the other
"by various enterprising newspaper 1
men here and there, that h>? was getting
heartily tired of it!"
I expressed a large measure of sympathy
for that point of view, but I
assured the secretary that T was not
(a liar I insisted, indeed, that George
"Washington had little, if anything, on
me in the matter of veracity!
k * The Secretary Relents.
p*? "Oh, I guess you would see him and
talk to him, whether you did or not,"
said the secretary, menacingly. T wa?
very much pained that the secretary
should have said anything so unkind?and
I am reasonably sure T
looked the part, too.
For presently the secretary said.
"Well you come back here at 1
o'clock, and I will arrange for an audience
with the governor."
I was back at one?a quarter before.
Almost immediately I was ushered
into'the executive's presence,
i Tt xcfls ^vnlained tr> me then that
(the governor had not quite understood
thta it was one of Mr. .Hearst's
newspapers that wished to communicate
with him. He had sent his felicitations
to the Sunday American, upon
the occasion of its first appearance,
and he was quite ready to see its
representative.
* Once I "got the governor going,"
it was all conversationally with me.
Every now and then I edged in a
word or two, but most of the time the
J 4-V? /\ loll'irj o*
guvt-l uur UIU clic: lamia^.
For an hour and a half h-e unbosomed
himself, and he might bp
talking yet had it not been that a
- very black negro?the governor's
|r famous chauffeur?stuck his head in
ft* 1*he door eventually and informed his
R- excellency that "Miss Fannie" was
V waiting.
ft ? When this happened, I was served
Jft with polite notice that I had reached
the end of my rope. "Miss Fannie,"
I learned, is Mrs. Blease.
The remainder of the day I spent
In walking about the streets of Columbia,
asking questions about Blease
?the most talked about governor in
4.-u? t rpallv believe.
liir ovu (/xx wuuj) A w?
Reeks With Personality.
^ ' Coleman Livingstone- Blease simply
reeks with personality and all but
"bursts with individuality.
I have met and talked with many
(public men?I never before met a'
more interesting one than Blease. |
He is as unique as Theodore Roos-e- j
v^lt or Tom "Watson. There is ab-j
f^olutely nothing of the commonplace)
about him. x I
Apparently, he doesn't giveadamski
for anythingovitch. As a matter of
;fact. he do?s?very much. He stands
fire manfully, but he has no <rreat
likins: for it. He hurls back evcjrv
a'legation, and defies cvery all:gator
but h3 feels the cut and lasn ;?f yiverse
criticism keenly, nevertheless.
Talk with him ten minutes. U \v?Il
I c '
suffice +o prove the truth of these
m assertions.
p]-?asf is a perfe?tly natural, and
not at all unwhol-vm?, product cf
South Carolina as it s today. One
gentleman in ColumMi asked ma if
T d;d not think it a "far crv downward
from Wade Homplon to C<>:e
l Blease?" I told him I should not say
P- ' it was. T should not say tt w*s a
B cry either up or down?rather would
I call it "a cry across." For it is a
1 cry across?across a chasm that like^^^lyfnever
will be bridged, albeit those
Hr>n one side of it by and by come to
be nothing more than a memory and
S a song.
Blease is South Carolina up to the
minute. He is far, far removed from
fill the old aristocratic order of things.
He has no ancestors that cut any
Bv particular scallops, socially or other!
I
rith Gov. BWse. I
earst's Sunday American.
wise, in the Palmetto State.
In the past few years, there have
come into South Carolina thousands
of cotton factory votes?they are for
Bleas-e, to a man!
Looked On As Disturber.
Th-s ancient oligarchy?somebody
handed and it hath
handed me that sonorous term in Columbia,
and it hath a "smug ring"?
hates Blease. It looks upon him as
q tonTr intrndpr nn rmtsidpr. a dis
turber of the peace?in short, a most
unwelcome "buttinski."
It doesn't distress Blease in the
least, however, that such is the case.
"A man's a man for a' that," and
Blease believes that the vote of an
intelligent, honest, and well-informed
cotton factory hand named Brown is
quite as well worth having as the
vote of Reginald Montmorency, Reginald
and his ancient and honorable
ancestors to the contrary notwith
sianamg:
And right here, let me say that the
trouble with Blease?such xuuble as |
there is with him at all?in so far as
the things he says are concerned is j
not in the substance of his utterances '
so much as in the occasional form
thereof.
His most famous promulgation, i
perhaps was delivered a few months [
ago in Richmond, at the gov-ernor's
conference.
Here is exactly what he said:
I would never order out the
militia and ask the home boys of
South Carolina to shoot down
their friends and their neighbors
to protect a black brute who had
assaulted a white woman o our
State, and I will never do so.
If the constitution of my State
causes my State to blush and allows
her women to be forsaken,
thrfifl say, to hell with the constitution.
Now, be fair to Blease. There was
a pretty rough way of saying what
he had in mind, to be sure?still,
haven't you heard thousands and
thousands of good men and true say
in substance exactly the same thing?
in politer and more chaste language,
perhaps, and without references to
hell or any other unpleasant place?
but he same thing, for all that?
That "to hell with the constitution" j
was seized upon, and used to Blease's I
J- ~ J ; J- V, I>nrlnin(r in mnnv Inp.ali- I
U.I?>UI cuit anu uxiuviu^ ,
ties?and yet when you come to judge j
the substance and not the form of !
what he said, and how he said it, and i
the circumstances of it, why?well, j
just be fair to Blease, anyway in \
reachiJTsT tUSTlusions.
The things that Blease says he said;
in Richmond are sworn to by the official
stenographer of the Richmond
gathering, and he produces the signed
statement of that stenographer to
show precisely what he did say.
Scores Prevailing Costumes.
? tn an
IjrUlLlg UU JLI Ulll LlllO vw
other, the governor said this:
"It is not so much the black brute
in life that makes the fearful and the
! fate of the women in the South, we
will handle the black brute as they
deserve?but it is the sinister, persuasive,
ingratiating evil influence of
fashion that causes me to tremble for
them. When I pass along the streets
today and see the costumes, fashioned
in Paris and in effete Europe,
that our woman wear?costumes that
are destructive of that sweet modesty i
- ? i r? i
I we love so in our women?iueu ia;
I when I fear for them. We can, and
! we will, protect our women against
tnose d-eadly foes we can put our
hands upon, but our women themselves
must protect themselves'
against themselves."
: Anything revoli tiomrv -in] nr. or
rambunctious in th;:-? Mnyho r-o?
and yet thousands and tl^ou^mils of
people are saying tho sain thing
every day. j
When the governor of South Carolina
looks out one window of the cap-:
ital he s^es a statue of Gonzales, th?
j
man killed by the famous "Jim" Till-,
i man. Bl-ease helped defend Tillman,
! and the shadow of that tragedy hangs
over South Carolina still?even as,
i
the slaying of Carmaek hangs over;
Tennessee. I
The governor looks out another win-'
dow, and there s-ees a bronze statue
of Wade Hampton, in which is represented
all the glory of the ancient order
of things. And that order has no
use for Blease, and only tolerat-es him
because it has to.
nnnprs. and in
tie lUUivS U>
all South Carolina, only some half
dozen or so have a good word for
the governor.
He drives down the streets of Columbia?sullen
ac-quisesence in a distasteful
situation is his greeting from
the citizens.
And yet he sits in the capital
! ]
of proud old South Carolina,?as duly
accredited governor by the abso- i
1 I
Into and undisputed will of a sov-1
ereign electorate, at orce both the
Lest beloved and the most hat d man
! within the commonwealth!
There's \o Middle Ground.
His 'friends idolize him,?his enemies
detest him. Th-?re is no such
thing as getting an impartial view of
him in South Carolina. There he
j wears either hoofs and horns or a
; halo. In order to get at the truth
; about iiiease, on-e musi nave no ni-i
rect or personal interest in South
Carolina politics.
"I am this way," he said to me. "I
am for my friends and against my
enemies. No man who isn't for me
j need ask anything of me?h-e won't
I eet it. T make onlv one exception to
that rule?in the matter of pardons,
I cast aside absolutely the question
of factional alignments."
I reminded him that he had been
criticised severely for issuing so many
pardons.
"Yes," he said, "I have issued many
?the one, I issued today runs my
grand total up to 607. By the end of
my term, I hope to make it an -even
1,000."
"I love the pardoning power. It fur|
nishesmie a chance to give many poor j
J deviJs another chance.
"I parole, however, more than I
pardon and some?many?of my total j
of 607 really are paroles operating as j
pardons as long as they are not vio-|
lated.
"A man commits a crime under the,
influence of drink. After he has
served a time, and I am persuaded
that the man really came to grief,
I
not through natural inclination so
much as through the misfortune of
unwise drinking, I say to him, ?Go,
drink no more! So long as you keep !
free of liquor, all right?I'm your
friend?get drunk, and back you come
to prison, and my hand is against
you hereafter. Am I wrong in that?
I like to get petitions for clemency.
Whenever the good people of a community
ask clemency of me, they get
it. I am their servant?if they knowing
the immediate circumstances of
the crime, ask pardon or parole, I
give heed.
"If we had in South Carolina such
a system as they hove in Colorado, I
would not have to issue so many par-!
dons and paroles?but we haven't. 11
go to the p-enitentiaries in person. I j
investigate the cases seemingly de- J
serving of clemency, in person, and I
make up my own mind what ought
to be done.
"I do not think the theory of imprisonment
for crime demands pun-1
ishment so much as reformation. 1j
believe in giving a fallen human being
another chance, wherever it can be j
done. I may have made mistakes in!
the exercise of the power of clem- <
ency?if so, I have erred on the side 1
of mercy, anyway, and that is what;
I prefer to do, if I must err ever."
ftnnnceri to "Divorce.
vrt-v^^~
"You say, governor that you believe
in giving a man another chance
and yet you oppose divorce." I ventured.
"Oh, well, that's another matter,"
laughed the governor. "And seriously,
I do oppose divorce?it isn't right! i
"On the question of divorce, South |
Carolina stands alone. She is supe- j
rior to all the other States in the
American union, because, written in
her fundamental law are the solemn
words. 'No divorce from the bonds
of~ matrimony shall ever be granted.' |
"It may work a hardship here and
there, still I sayUhat the only correct
rule to follow is that sanctioned
by both Biblical and human injunction,?what
God hath joined together,
let no man put asunaer.
"The sanctity and safety of society j
depends upon the home. And in this;
State no home ever is broken up by j
esal m-ans."
Gov rnor T le?..ce will, T think, be
nrmed iv the primaries next j
year to succeed E. D. Smith, the pres-.
ent junior s'^tor from South Caro-1
lina. He will be named. I beli-eve,;
simply because- he has the votes.
There will be a mighty fight made;
upon him. He will be in the linve-:
light constantly and will say many i
shocking things. He's a shocker from ;
away back, when in action!
A lot of things will be twisted to;
i
his discredit?and he will say a lot j
of things he ought not to say, no
doubt. He's pretty much of a demagogue
at times u ^Questionably what
i ever that is.
i- But he will be named senator, be1
cause he represents the majority
; opinion of South Carolina politics to'
1 - J1 ...U /si-U/vM V\ r\ Ail f \
! oav. Kegaruress ui wucmci uc vu?"*.
to, he does!
Senator Tillman hates him vigor|
ously, and will undertake to defeat
j him. Tillman was looked upon in
; South Carolina very much as Blease
; nowadays is looked upon. He said
! quite as many offensive things.
Tillman knocked the ancient, order
?that "oligarchy" business somebody)
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and all the king's men cannot put that
oligarchy together again!
There is much sound and iury anoui
Go\ernor blease at times, but the always
painting of the dark side of
thf picture has not been square. He
might be better, he might be worse
?he is governor of South Carolina by
the honest voice of the people, twice
emphatically expressed!
Is he a statesman, real or near?
Opinions differ?even as tastes. Certain
it is that he is the most talked
-i?..i. in nivio fnrfav and the
(iUUUL man, iu lyi-viv, t ?
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