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BLEASE'S UTTERANCES STIR UP CONFERENCf SOl'TII C AROLINA STANDS BY AM DEFENDS HIS CONVICTIONS. Resolutions Adopted Condemning Position ? Blease Receives Threatening Letters. * Richmond, Va, December ti.--Th< governor's couf>-ence una.rmcuul) repudiated to-dav the recem utterances of Governor Blease, of Sourl] Carolina, concerning tne lyncning oi negroes. By a vote of 14 to 4 it adopted a resolution declaring against mot violence and for the impartial enforce, ment of the law. The four governors who opposed the resolution declared themselves <*s strongly endorsing its support, but voted no because they thought they had no right to reprimand a colleague. Governor Blease himself, target for ? J-L- r>v 1 tne a,na.cK, uuuj' ucicuucu xno w**lotions, snapped his fingers in the face of his colleagues, told'them to "go to it," declared he cared not a whit what the conference said, thought, did, or did not do, and announced that all the resolutions they might ever adopt would neither keep him from the governor's chair nor from a seat in the United States senate in lyl5 or earlier. Four times within as many hours he asserted his life had. Deeii tnreaieneu because of liis utterances, but this appealed to him as little as the resolu: tion. The four threatening letters Governor Blease received were ail anonymous. One was mailed in Richmond, another in Washington, the third in Louisville and the fourth in Pittsburg. The, Washington writer told him he would pay the penalty if he ever came +?-w *>>a+ Pitt^hnrpr writer said. W LUUU * J v**v * - vvk.^ v.- 0 7 "You will be taken to account on sight for your words;" the Richmond and Louisville missives were unprintable, j * Governor Blease was taken to task ; by a dozen governors. Governor Ca-; rey, of Wyoming, denounced him for "claiming a monopoly for South Carolina of the respect of the white men for women." Governor Hadley, of Mis ?. souri, declared that the floor of thej conference hall was not a "clearing! . house for local and personal contro- ; versies." Governor Goldsborough, of Maryland, declared that he stood solidly by the resolution because it was a matter of right. Governor Dix, of| New York, thought it would be "most: unwise" not to adopt the resolution, i Governor O'Xeil, of Alabama, in ai V I -rineine- sneenh. which was drowned: time after time bv applause, asserted j his belief that the entire conference! had been belittled by the South Caro-I linian's remarks and that it was the 1 sworn duty of every .executive to uphold the law and enforcement of law. To these declarations Governor Blease replied that he had been quoted ' yesterday as saying "to hell with the constitution," and that what he said yesterday he repeated to-day to "all; the good governors here; to all the | governors of all the States." .Oncej when his voice was drowned in a storm 11 of hisses, he turned to the galleries: and to his colleagues and laugheft. j ] "What care I for vour hisses?" hej I 1 asked. Then shaking his clenched . -fist, he exclaimed, "Hiss if you must.: Only snakes and geese hiss." j 1 Governor O'Xeal -unloosed the storm J when he introduced the following res- j olution: I j "This conference of governors does j not undertake to control the individ-! i ual views of its members upoa any questions of law or administration: it t declares that this government is based upon the fundamental principle of 'aw i and order: that the constitution of}? each State imposes upon its Chief Ex. \ ecutive the supreme duty of takingcare that the laws shall be faithfully ? and equally enforced: that it advc- ? eates all nroner methods for strength- * ? ening and simplifying our methods of, civil and criminal procedure. "This conference ^protests against;! a*y disposition or utterances by those entrusted with the execution of th* law; ia any of the States of this Union ] which tends or could be construed as tending to the encouragement or jus-! tification of mob violence of intprfer- j eace with the orderly pro?^sses of; I law." | To this Governor Mann, of Virginia.; objected and offered the following substitute, which was accepted ajd amended: l "Resolved. That it is the sentiment; of the governors' conference, {n ses-j t sion at Richmond, Va., toda}\ that the I whole power of the several States j should be used whenever necessary to protect persons accused of crime of i PVorr t-1n/ } atrainst <->1^ -L-inl r\f 4 v VA WpWilikJV WA&V ? IVAVIIV^ Vi mobs and to provide for speedy, order- j ly and impartial trials by courts of j competent jurisdiction to the end that . (CONTINUED OX PAGE 6). 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