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GOVERNOR G1V?S VERSION OF TALK STKXMiKAI'HIC REPORT ON CONFERENCE OF GOVERNORS. vt.itn.iuiif Haw I<v:ip<I Hniwliiv vJfHO III V All T ? M v. ... . Tliroiiffh Columbia Correspondent of >ews and Courier. The governor Monday gave out a stenographic report of his statements at the conference of governors held in Richmond last week. The report thrnno'h w F. Caldwell. Columbia correspondent of the News and Courier of Charleston, the only representative of the press to visit the office of the governor. The following was given out with request to publish: }Ir. W. F. Caldwell. Columbia, "Dear Sir:?As the representative of the daily pres of the entire Suite, fov tliic: r>ffir>p io onnr?prnPrl 1 ou JLCtJL CIO Viii-O V144W - o vvr?w* * herewith hand you copy of stenographic report of the Richmond speech, as furnished me by the Times-Dispatch News Bureau of Richmond, tor which 1 have paid five dollars. Since the press of Jthe State have made such a 1 great fuss about the matter I request you to furnish them copies of this and ask that they publish it, in order that 1 the people may see just what the speech was, just what my answer to, Governor Carey was, and then let the ; I "white people of the State judge whether there was anything in it to raisu j such a great row over. I have also ?J ^ + s\ r\U 1 ^QnAVt1 fmni j IC4UWICU ct otcau5iapuiv. nvxu , l the official stenographer of the cont'fr enc of the speech 1 made after the adoption of the resolution which was offered in reference to this speech which I now hand you. When it is received I shall also ask the papers to publish it. Both of them I will incorporate in a message to the general assembly, in order that it may be made a part of the official records of this State. "I stand by every word I said. I liave absolutely no apologies to make to any man or set of men in this State, or outside of it, and, as I said in Richmond and repeat now, I do not care what the govern'or or governors of any State or States thought about it or what anybody else in the American .union thinks about it. This is what I think, and I said there only ^hat I said on the stump all over South Carolina. And 1 am r-ceiving ^ ^ ^ * /vl /vt?n O 1 1 Idlers ailU ?tf itgi uiw? num cin uici this State, and from many other States of the union, congratulating i upon my position. If your papers dp sire it, 1 will be very glad for them to have the original letters, provided they -snll publish them." r "'Very respectfully, v5 "Cole. L. Biease." / - - * " i The views of Governor 31?ase on ' marriage and divorce were brought out forcibly in an address delivered before the governors' conference on Thursday afternoon. Governor Wn;. H. Mann, of Virginia, had just finished a discussion of turning the trend of population from th? towns and cities to the country, and referred to the great work being accomplished by jthe 'Boys' Corn clubs, giving statistics as to the corn yield accomplished by th:se young farmers. Governor Blease ;said: "Mr. Chairman: 1 shall not under take to discuss with the distinguished ; .governor of Virginia the question of; raising corn, because South Carolna -holds the world's record and as to the j quality of his corn, I would not for a moment discuss that, because all through prohibition South Carolina' we have examples of the quality of his corn, shipped from the capital of his State by his wholesale dealers. i >*o Divorce Decrees. "But, Mr. President, the other ques- | lion in which South Carolina stands j alone, and in which, in my opinion, <5tte is superior to all the States of. tiie American union, written in the! fundamental laws of my State by a constitutional convention, coaiposc-d j of men of both races, in 1S6S. and even more emphatically in 1895 by the ! white people of South Carolina, are i xhe words: 'No divorce from the bonds! of matrimony shall ever be granted.' It may be, sir, a hardship in some cases, and possibly I might refer to oases where other States might think it was right, still I say to this audiience this afternoon, and I say it with pleasure, that the only correct rule followed both the Bibical injunction and the injunction of man, is that -winch South Carolina follows when she says: 'Those whom God hath joined together, let no man put asunder.' If there be one thing in the American union that is a disgrace to American civilization, it is the sale of American womanhood for wealth; if there bo another, it is the wholesale ard tin I ! cause, forsooth some woman or some ! men has not got as much money b> their marriage as they expected when i the marriage ceremony was perform: ed. 1 am glad that we have no divorce law in South Carolina, personj ally, and if you will look to the rear _ 1? a Y_ ! V .. 1 1 1 I /-.l, 1 i t V* /-\ l\ /\n ^ 1 /~V y-v 1 ? or iins nau anu jj uv uui tut- ue&i iuuki ing red-headed woman in this State, you will see why I object personally to divorce. But, Mr. Chairman, when : you lay down the law you will reap the harvest that the distinguished govj ernor of Nevada has pictured to this | conference. i "My State stands alone. AVe grant i ; no divorces; we recognize no divorces, j If a man leaves the State of South j Carolina, or a woman, and goes into I another Stafp and obtains a divorce from his wife, lie may come back into ! South Carolina and live, but if he again marries and moves back within the State with a second wife we hold him ! and his wife guilty of adultery and | punish them accordingly; and if there | are children born to the union after the divorce the supreme court of South 1 Carolina has stated in their opinion i that they are illegitimate and can not ' inherit the property of the parent. : That, I say, may seem to some of you I a hardship; but, my friends, it is far better that in a few instances some | good woman may suffer or some man j may be caused to suffer, than to lay, down a law which would bring, and which is bringing today, in disrepute the solemn bonds of matrimony, which only under any conditions or any cir- | cumstances should be contracted for! love, sanctioned by a divine power, j Iii Other States. "Mr. President and brother gover-! nors, we do not apply to your States anything wrong. It is your way of looking at the proposition. We do not mean for a moment to condemn you, | nor would South Carlina or South Carolinians for a moment set itself up as the only or the proper guardian of the morality of the American nation; but we are glad of the distinction that we hold; we are proud that it is written in our fundamental law, so that no legislature, elected possibly by a wave of excitement or from other causes, can change it; it is so written that it is impossible to change, and of that we are proud. "Now we can not follow this ruie of desertion all the way through, but in South Carolina when a white man deserts his wife and children, or if he de serts his wife and they are without children, it is a criminal offense to fail to support that wife, or to fail to support the children, if ther? be such. Conse-quently th-j wife ch\ go into a court of justice uiti prosecute her husband for non-support oV herself :u d for non-support of her children, and we punish him as a criminal for failing to do his duty lo t.ha: woman, to those children, to society and to his State. Therefore, we have but little i : trouble on this score. Sometimes we, have a citizen who drifts tReno; sometimes we nave a citizen tnac crosses to Augusta, only going across ; the Savannah river, but when I12 real- j izes that when he comes back into fne ! State that a criminal prosecution will 1 hang over his head for the desertion J of that woman, who has sworn, not 1 only before man, rot only for her love for him, not only for the devotion which she has for her State and her nation, but for her belief in the hereafter and in the God that gave her; life that she would stand by him in health and in sickness, old South Car-, olina says to him, 'As she stands by ' you. you have got to stand by her' j We are proud of it; we love the distinction. "Now, there is a race of people in my section of the country?and 1 am j pointed to the world sometimes as their enemy, but I am not, and if the ! governship of South Carolina depend- ; ed upon an election next Tuesday and! they would leave it entirely to the negro vote, disfranchising for the time the white vote, I could receive without trouble 75 to 90 per cent, of the negro; vote of the State to be their governor,! and notwithstanding that I stand alone 1 in this conference and in other places of this great nation, not as governor of! South Carolina, but in my individual no riitx* )\/il ir^Tx? ti /* fV? A??/\ I r. V.,? t r* uciio 1U5 tucic ib uuc uiivr ; punishment, and that must be speedy,' when that negro lays his hands upon the person of a white woman. Such a thing as happened a few days ago in a certain State, can't happen in South Carolina; the boasted her? of the black race who clainii to be the ' superior of the white man in the prize ! rinz could not dissrrace South Caro lina by having himself united to a white woman within its borders, thank God, and if it did happen the ! law provides a punishment for him and a punishment for her, and the only reason thai the law would be called ! in to protect them would be the location of the place in the State in which the- crime might have been committed. 'Otherwise there migiit be no need for' i a grand jury to present a true bill. Mr. 'chairman, o: that we are proud. I ?i?i iii i "Of course, we can not apply that , to this individual race, and why not? iU^-ause, my friends, you do not tini derstand those people. You condemn us of the South, and yet Ohio follows the example: in Springfield they followed it; New Jersey follows it; PennI sylvania will follow it. All other States i nf tho Anipripfln union will follow it. ! because, no matter where it b^, North ; or South, East or Test, whenever you ; touch the Caucasian blood it ;s the j .same, and it will prove itself to be the ; superior and the history of the world has proved it (both Bible and profane j history) that whenever the inferior I race gets in the way of the superior , that the superior will rule and con. j trol. even though it be necessary to ! wipe the inferior race from the face j of the earth. Some men condemn this, ! and that is their privilege, but in the 'Southern States we love woman; \v-> f VlirrVtA,. thin oil tlll'IO.' 1IU1U lUCIIi lllgiid uiau w.11 11 n.jt,5 and whenever anything steps be:w*ie.i a Southern man and the- defense of the virtue of womanhood of his nation an.I his State, he will tear it down and j walk over it in her defense, regardless of whatever may be the conse| quence or whatever may be his pun! ishment or the result to himself. "Now. Mr. Chairman, we have a judge in our siaie wnum i cunsiaer the ablest man who has ever been on the bench there. On one occasion several indictments were hand.jd out by the solicitor to the grand jury, and he sat there and heard the solicitor hand out indictment after indictment. After; a while, he turned around and said, I 'Mr. Solicitor, are these white people j or darkies you are handing out these! indict.ments against?" The solicitor J said, 'May it please your honor, they are against colored people.' The judge ; looked over to tne grand jury and said: 'Gentlemen, you can find no true bill against these negroes for the crime for which the solicitor is handing out these indictments. Do you want any cotton raised this year; do you want your i fields cultivated; if so, it will not do to bring in true bills on these in- j dietments against these negroes.' The result was no true bills were found, j So, it will be seen that we can't treat j them as we do ourselves. We treat j them as servants. We pay them hon-' estly for the day's work, and I amj proud to stand here and make this I statement?and when I speak here I j know I speak to thle American nation, because it has been heralded all over the country and all over the world what my opinions are on these subjects. "I am proud that I have paroled or pardoned more negroes than all the governors of South Carolina put together since 1876, when we redeemed ourselves and went back to white supremacy in the old State of South Carolina; therefore, I say that I am not his enemy, but his friend, and I know him better than you know him. ?But we don't give the negroes divorce?" (the speaker was here intprrnnf-pri Question Asfced. By Gov. Carey, of Wyoming: "Gov. Blease, when you were sworn in as governor of South Carolina, did you not swear to uphold the constitution and laws of the State of South Carolina?" By Gov. Blease: '*1 did, siV." By Gov. Carey: "Don't you have a law on the statute book's of South Carolina protecting the negro the sambas you do the white man?" By Gov. Blease: "Yes, sir. I will answer the governor of Wyoming, as I answered this question on the rostrum in South Carolina?I wish to call upon the newspaper men present not to say that I am excited; in South Carolina, thank God, I have a record of not only being a fighter, but a cold-blooded fighter?I answer you, sir, bv saying this; that whenever the constitution of my State steps between me and the defense of the virtue of the white women of^.y State, I will resign my commission, tear it up and throw; it to the breezes and march fo the de- j fense of her honor and her virtue, regardless of what may be t"i 3 consequences. "I would like for the n?nv_-p; per r?. pcrters here to get this correct iy: l! i was quoted in a campaign speech to have said. "To hell with the constitution.' Seventy-five thousand whue men of my State indorsed it is 1 said it, and here is the way I u>e:J ic? i ; I said, I will never order out a company of 'militiamen or regiment and i order them to do something which I would not do myself, and I will never order out a company of your?g men to shoot down their neighbors and friends to protect a black brute wqd has committed a crime upon a white ; woman, and when the constitution of my State stands between me ;tnl the defense of the virtue of the whice wo .men of my State, as I have just s;,id. 1 will resign my commission, roar k up and throw it to the br o?z.s and -.march tr? the defense of their hDnor asd their virtue.# It this be :r-ason, in ti^words of the great Virginian, 'Make the most of it.' A;:d for this ^ explosion I have no apologies to jj make to any man or sot of men." \IITII V Til CI \IU V \ TV Notice is hereby given that the annual meeting of the County Board of Commissioners for Newberry County will he held on Thursday, the ninth day of January, 1913. All persons holding demands of any kind a'gainst the County, not previously presented to the Board, will file the same with the Clerk on or before the first d iv of January. L. I. Feagle, County Supervisor. TT C* IT 1 ^ s n. ^. nunu\>a>, Clerk. Dec. 8, 13, 20 and 27. FOR SALE. i i ! i We the undersigned will sell on' j salesday in January, 1913, being Monday the sixth day of said month, during the usual hours of sale, before the court house door in the city of Newberry, S. C\, to the highest bidder for cash three shares of National Bank stock, of the National Bank of Newi berry, S. C. W. S. and J. H. Atchison. I December 3, 1912. 12-6-St. j SOTiCE. | To the Stockholders of the Farmers! bank, Prosperity, Sr C.: Notice is here-j by given that, pursuant to a resolution' adopted by the board of directors of ( the Farmers Bank of Prosperity, at a meeting held at Prosperity, S. C., on ; | the 24th day of October, 1912, a spe-jl cial meeting of the stockholders of the'8 said bank will be held at 2 p. m. on 8 tie 12th day of December, 1912, at I the banking house of the said bank, in I Prosperity, S. C., Tor the purpose of | amending the constitution and by-laws ;| of said bank so as to increase the; | number of vice presidents and thej number of directors,.and for the trans- J action of such other business as raaviB come before said meeting. H. T. Patterson, Secretary. | . "* o r~f Q i Q1 ) .frosperuy, o. SOUTHEBJi RAILWAY, j i Schedules Effective December S, 1911 .Arrivals and Departures >ew. berry, S. C. i I v (N. B.?These sc^^dule figures art shown as information ouly and are noi ! guaranteed.) 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