The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, December 13, 1912, Page TWO, Image 2
GOVERNOR G1V?S
VERSION OF TALK
STKXMiKAI'HIC REPORT ON CONFERENCE
OF GOVERNORS.
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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
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IC4UWICU ct otcau5iapuiv. nvxu
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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."
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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.
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>*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
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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.
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"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."
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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.
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Clerk.
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the sixth day of said month, during
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December 3, 1912.
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To the Stockholders of the Farmers!
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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.
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