Show SUPPOSE I I In Richmond in Ms lIis' harangues s Governor Blease of South Carolina expressed the belief that he would be elected United States senator The rh of the east is that he lie will ivill be and anil an that his incendiary speeches nt ot the governors governor's f confere conference c will win help him bim with the maj majority ri of people in South Carolina i 1 Should lie he be then th the question will come up up is he entitled to toa a seat in In the senate He will h have h ve c his credentials regularly arl he will have haye a aI aI I 1 commission from some one in authority in his i own state the proof of his election will be cle clear r l' l f hut but after all so long as the senate is the sole 1 judge of the qualifications of its members would t i it IC not br be well for that body to declare that Governor Gov Gov- Blease is barred from a place in that sen- sen senate senate late ate because if he takes an oath to support the i. i co constitution and the laws aws he will take it under pr prOtest test or 01 he will take it intending the from start t it MO to ignore He le is not fit to bo hc a f. senator of the Unit United Stats States St t s. s lIe He is all right a as at governor go ernol of South Carolina Carolina Carolina Caro Caro- lina e South Carolina has never been 1 1 fairly in the the union since 1861 But is ib the senate obliged to take such a a. member merner mem- mem L ber er Would it not be an outrage to receive such sucha a a member when he the tile knowledge is apparent that could tire the whole senate be like him the first thing it rit would do would be he to tear teal th the constitution to tatters and to return the tho colored man to slavery I. I It ma may be he said that he is no worse than Till- Till was when he lie went to the senate but he is F t tl l was a hot headed fanatic al tic but bUt down deep deepan pe an u honest man He ne did Jd not want to de- de stroy the government but wanted anted to tomake make it over Ms li wa way ay and then then outside of or his born antipathy flo to that power which made the thc colored man in jS Carolina his political equal qu L he was a a 1 most lovable abl man H lie JIe has l lost st lila his malignant gnant tongue but ont but we e believe that th t is through physical ti lies tiet i We Ye do not ot beli believe belie e his spirit has changed at ill u ll since ince he hc first was sea seated te t. t But by bj comparison after all he is a a vastly superior s man in ill e every sense enSe to this man lease Blease and aud our out thought is that in case Mr 11 Blease Bleas is ever sent sat c to t the th senate it would be b in perfect order o der 1 t to introduce o duee n a resolution n that n no man mall who disregards I H gards nr Is and a assails sails the constitution of the United l lS is entitled to a scat seat in the hc United States g senate r We e believe a to two vote ote would sustain st in that resolution Wand and tn after Mr 11 Blease got through his swearing scaring and and raving and his defiance dej anc I Iff eV everything decent Jie lC would b be he obliged to re I return re- re Jurn turn urn to South Carolina and and to confine contine l his if opera opera- ti i ns s thereafter to his own tate slate |