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rict would put it, "Coal Blaze's" hat

Is in the ring and all doubt about

the gubernatorial campaign being a

pink-tea affair in South Carolna this

autumn has passed. As we write that

the Honorable Cole Livingston Blease-v*v. >

is again in the battle zone, with a

third term in the governorship as his

goal, the mauve syrnga lends its fragranceto the zeffthyrs of spring and

the ringin intonations of the one-gallusvoters of the commonwealth, who

are for Blease first, last and all the

time.pi. . The Blease boom came up with the

crocus, but it failed to pass out with

the pussy willow- It hangs on like

high taxes and red mud in the piedmontsection^ because Mr. Blease

known from the mountain tops of

Dark Corners to the sands of the sea

at Charleston, as "the stormy petrel%

of politics," never yet has shown the

white feather. He is as fond of a

political battle as a bulldog, and he

never quits until his jaws are priedor his friends succeed in carrying

. < hm to higher channels.

When Mr. Blease, then serving his

second term as governor, resigned that

office in 1915, he had the stage set

for him to step into the United States

Senate, but it proved even for an expertpolitician and near-statesman, as

he was at that time, a case of toe

many cooks spoiling the broth. And

so instead ongoing to the Senate, Mr."* " * .iftf 1QW

JSleaae resumed uie piatuvc v.. .....

in Columbia. In matters of criminal

juris-prudence, there are few lawyersof the capital city who know the

law as he knows it, and still fewer

r who can even approximately matchhis wits at the bar when it comes tc

wringing a verdict from'a jury.

Mr. Blease began his politicalcareer, as fa/r as state estimation is

concerned, in 1896 when he became

a presidential elector, but he had

been a member of the South Carolina

fiouse of Repreesntatives, and

Speaker, pro tem, of that body from

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campaign. As a presidential elector

he soon won popularity on the stump.He has been in office most of the

time since he was licensed to practicelaw, except during the last decade,

hav.ng been maycr of his city, representativeof his county and districtin the South Carolna House and Senate,and twice governor of the state.

He is a candidate, he says, now, not

because it will satisfy any personalhAMusA hia friends in-

sist on his saving the state.

""And when the pcturesque individual

. whom the loyal Bleaseites refer to as

L Coal Blaze, or just plain "Coley," gets

5 on the hustings, we are ready to in.form the six or eight aspiring gentleImen who also have their hats in the

gubernatorial ring, that they will

, know that they have been in a fight. when the smokescreen lifts next November.For be it known that the

Honorable Cole Livingston Blease is

the equal of the late Representative(Private) John Allen, of Mississippi,when it comes to repartee, as wittyas the eminent Senator John SharpeWilliams in political story-telling and

as vindictive as Thomas Brac-kettReed ever was in debate.With these spltendid equipments on

the stump, coupled with the fact thatMr. Blease knows the political historyof practically every public man

in South Carolina, he is well-nighimpregnable. And as he has announcedthat he will speak in every

county in the commonwealth beforethe primaries close this year, the rank

and file of the men voters are pre1dieting a hot time in the old state this

year. As far as the women voters

are concerned, there is an element1 of doubt, but Mr. Blease says he cal'culates to get his share of that- vote

because he was a consistent opponentof woman suffrage, but a warm sup'porter of the law when the majorityput it across.

The strength of Blease, by iongodds the most talked-of man in South

1 Carolina, and the causes of Bleaseism1are results of the social and economicconditions of the state, and of the

quaint manner the one political party,t the Democratic, conducts its camipaigns here. The primary is all-imIpor;ant. The general election is a

mere form, since there is but one set

of nominees. A rule of the party is

that candidates shall make a tour of* sam

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masse, adhering to a schedule arrangedby the executive committee.This round of speech-making and

hand-shaking comes always in the

summer months, when men's tempersare, at best, eccentric. But this

is a slack time for farmers and South

Carolina is an agricultural state. The

county-to-county method is a decided

advantage to the stump speaker, particularlysince the campaigner can

usually beat the metropolitan newspaperto the audience.

Then, too, in South Carolina, politicsis more than politics. It is a

recreation, a part of life, a thing in

which the citizen at large has a biginterest, a medium through which

men express themselves. For this

reason a political fight is usually as

welcome in the rural districts of South

Carolina as a genune circus. Men

gather at the county seats from villagesand country-sides.far away. Automobilesare parked with rare abandonment,but there are yet remainingin this state many buggies and farm

wagons and they are in evidence at

these political meetings. Another

unusual feature of the South Carolina

political gathering is that scores of

Negroes are there, not that they expectto v*>te, but they want to hear

the jokes that they feel sure they will

hear from the candidates.At some central place, a platform

is erected and the candidates appear

on it to tell the opening joke about

themselves or their opponents, for the

fortieth time. In past campaignsgenerally the opponents of Blease

have spoken first. One after the

other they have their say and then

the time arrives for Mr. Blease to

speak. Instantly there is a wave ofanimation. Any stranger could pickout Cole Blease from those who opposehim, for their faces are expectant."Tell 'em about it, Coley,"shouts a man out in the crowd, and

instantly the Blease men, scatteredwiedly al lthrough the audience:shout abck such enthusiastic answers

as, "He'll tell 'em," and "Lawsy,massy, ain't he a man!"Mr. Blease runs his fingers through

his long bushy hair, takes a sip ofwater, smiles, as his fighting jawbonegets reauy iur auuuiii etna

into his speech, with his sleeves rolled

up and a dare for any contender

plainly written on his banner. Hedenounces his enemies, either persona]or political, lauds his friends, declares

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never did and never will apologizeand the cheers of his friends drown1out the remainder of his battle-chargebarrage.Then Mr. Blease takes a fling at the

"hostile press" and that generally includesall the larger newspapers ofthe state and the South, not to mentionthe nation at large. He attack*

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and so on, until the driving, dynamicconcluding rhetoric is again drownecout n the cheers of his friends. Heknows the chords to play upon.

It would be a long story to continuethis narrative to its logical conclusion.Mr, Blease is in a class by himself.He would have made good as an actor.He might have shone in the

business world as a captain of industry,or possibly he could have been:"

wearing the shoulder straps of a

lieutenant general. He is versatile.!There is no gainsaying that fact. But

he chose the law and the politlcaihustings for his very own and these

mistresses have never found him a

slacker. He is a spellbinder but heis notr.-auy more like the late Senator

("Pifcchlork") Tillman than SenatorTillman was like the dignified anderudite General Wade Hampton.The one thing that has caused the

comeback of Mr. Blease in the politicaldomain of South Carolina politicsis the after-the-war reconstruction,incidental hard times, due to the cottonKbH wnvil T.d high taxes. Mr.

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Why tobacco sold in Kentuckythrough the Cooperative Associationbrought $29. per hundred while burleytobacco on the auction floors averagedless than $21. will be told bymembers of the Farmers Burley Pool.

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All resident qualified electors ofthe age of twenty one years, in Fairviewschool district No. 27, wijlplease take notice that an electionv'll be held at the school house therein,known as Old Fairview schoolhouse ,on Thursday, the 29th day ofJune, 1922, to vote an additional-10milLs levy for school purposes. Pollswill open at 7 a. m. and close at 4p. m. Bring tax receipt and regisItration certificate.

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