The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1891-06-02


mept is not satisfactory. aud that i
cannot have liz published. Isball. there
fore, be obliged IL you viii make ycur
Own statement to the public on the
subject of my retirement from the
University.
Yours respectfully,
w. j.. ALEXANDER.
ALExANDER's RECONSIDER.
Prof. Alexander Wednesday gave TO
the press the following reply to the
statement OF Governor Tillman IN let
ters, but more especially to the second
the one submitted for publication. but
as unsatisfactory:
As Governor Tillman has at last pub
Iishsd the entire correspondence be-
tween us 1t Is due to him and to the
public that 1 should explain why the
statement that he submitted to me for
publication in lieu of the letter that. he
refused to allow me to publish was not
satisfactory. One has only to compare
n TWO papers to see why the one last
written was unsatisfactory, but 1t will
not he amiss to set forth the principal
reasons explicitly. This 1 shall do as
briefly as possible.
First. Governor Tillmbnin order to
make out a case has manufactured his
facts. BY such "a process n case
whatever could be made out. He saws:
When The trustees met on April 81,
y a majority report and minority re.
port mad been prepared suggesting a
plan OF reorganization" This is true.
He proceeds.
"In both OF these The chairs sohich
yo.t hold SOeTe abolished and the studies
dtotded and adde6 to other classes"
This is not true. aud no one ought To
know better that 1t Is not true than
Governor Tillman himself. Both these
reports We're published, both were sub
united to every member of the board
Tor their careful consideration, both
were doubtless closely examined and
deeply pondered by Governor Tillman,
both are now accessible. Let Governor
fillman show that the majority report,
which Is the real report Of the execu-
tive committee, abolished my chair; on
the contrary, it was proposed to that
commtttoe Gas the minority report ne.
cessakGy implies) to abolish my chair,
as well as to do a number of unwise
Things, and the proposal was deliberate
~ rsJected by four out OF a committee
of five.
Mr.. Mayfield, in presenting the report
of the executive committee, spoke for
every member of that committee but
one when he reported that the chair of
logic and rhetoric should be retained in
Its integrity. That MI. Clark's imprac-
ticable scheme embodied in the minori-
tyreport had very little influence with
h board is evident from the fact that
nearly every n of his characteristic
recommendations was rejected.
During both conferences and the
ten days that interviewed my religious
opinions are the things. and the only
things, that will eventually sever my
connection with the colleges" that will
cause me- to cry out for my dismissal"
stc., etc. After the whole thing is over
1T turns out that both reports OF the
executive committee recommended the
abolition of my chair, and that such
abolition was a fOregone conclusion
from the beginning! Are Governor
Illlman and Mr.. Jones so put to it to
make out a case for themselves that
the Speaker OF the House of Represen-
facts until they do not know them
selves, and that the Governor of the
State must manufacture them out OF
the whole clothp
Second, as the editor the State has al.
ready pointed out, there is a fiat con-
tradiction between the whole spirit
otthe first paper and that of the sec
ond. Looking here upon this picture
and on that" In the first "the frank
aVVWdl VI my religious VlGWS VIII lnev-
itahly sever my connection with the
colleges" in the second those views have
nothing to do with my removal.
In the first my views twill cause men
to cry out for my DISMISSAL in the
second Governor Tillman cannot see
any ground for the cry of religious in
tolerance which has been raised"
In the first / am warned to "expect
persecution and sorrow as my lot" in
the second "you and your co-religion-
lists have no cause for complaint that 1
can see."
But enough; no vender of patent
medicines could get up a more striking
contrast of "before" AMI latter" taking
than u Governor haA done in these
Two papers. Such evasion is unworthy
of him. Had / received his second pa
per before l penned my letter of May
II L could not have written "you have
been frank and straightforward in your
whole course in the matter" For While
! was writing these very words. and re-
Joicing that L could write them, the
Governor was utterly changing his
policy. w. j. ALExANDER.