The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-06-21
VICIOUS AND FALSE
SAYSEx. GOV. GLENN
His Speeches Contain no
Reflection on South
REPORTS ARE ISLANDERS

Ex-Governor Declares Again His Love
for the State-Denies Emphatically
Reports as to His Cleveland, Ohio.
Speech and Says He Believes That
Sucf, Sianderous Reports Are Being
Sent Out by Some Designing Person
in the Interest of Some Special Par
ties Trying to Break the Force of
His Speeches On Moral Lines.
Ex-Governor Glenn denies absolute
ly the truth of the statements made in
kilograms sent out from Cleveland,
Ohio, as to a speech he made there in
which he is quoted as rejecting upon
the South in its treatment Of the ne
gro. He declares that he believes that
ISLANDERS are being circulated about
him by some designing persons with
special interests to serve that he loves
the South as did his father who was
a Confederate soldier and that the
statements attributed to him are abso-
lutely false, made with the purpose to
injure and to discredit him.
No one in North Carolina or the
South who knows Robert B. Glenn
would believe that he reflected upon
or ~slandered the South. for his love
for it is known. and those who know
him require no statement from him
that the reports concerning his speech
are distorted and warped. Those who
do not know him may be misled, and
feeling that a statement direct from
Ex-Governor Glenn as to what he did
say might serve to set at rest the
mischieyous reports, his was
called to the reports sent out from
Cleveland and to articles published
in the Tarboro Southerner, the Even
ing Times, the Ledger-Dispatch Of Vir-
ginia, n other papers and Mr.. Glenn
was asked concerning the truth Of the
reports as to what he said in regard
to the negro and in reply, in a letter
to Mr.. Edward f. Britton. of Ra-
leigh, he gave an emphatic denial as
follows:
Declares Reports Absolutely False.
I'm reply to the question as to
speech in Cleveland, Ohio. as
reported by some special or
respondents, that the South had failed
in it's duty to the negro, and that while
the negro population was about 40 per
cent Of the entire population, the
only received Is per cent of the school
fund. l can only say that every word
Of such statement is absolutely false,
made l believe by some designing per-
son, who in the interest Of some spe-
ciai parties was trying to break the
force of my speech on moral lines, by
appealing to prejudice and uttering
false statements, hus hoping to dis
credit me. All the papers wherever /
spoke had accounts of my speeches,
and nothing like the false reports Civ
en- by this special correspondent ap-
peared in any of their columns.
This is what / said, and every word
and utterance was a defense of the
South.
Slavery was introduced not only in
the South, but also in the North. but
the North could not utilize their slaves
on account Of the climate and their
being a manufacturing people. so they
sold them (did not free) to the South
for a fair conside Grafton. That after
wards they by force freed them, pay
ing US nothing and left them or our
hands to protect and care for
That we had lone the best we could,
that in North Carolina land / thought
the same was true in other Southern
States) we rave them their pro alta
part of the school fund-we getting
two-thirds and they onethird, that be-
ing about their proportion of the
lation.' " That the North was
as much responsible as we, and there
fore should do its part, and could not
point its finger at us and say we had
failed in our duty, unless it first did
its duty in helping US properly care
for them-physically. mentally and
morally
Il then described the object Of the
Durham school and took the ground
that it was the only school that prop
erly educated the negro, for here he
was to be trained to work, to have his
mind improved, and his morals built
up. | then took the position that the
negro race could not rise higher than
its leaders. that it's leaders were in
many instances preachers unfit to lead
and guide. and SO it was our duty and
the duty Of the North to have a place
where such leaders could be trained.
| then told that North Carolina had
given the land and $3O,O 0 for this
school and called on the North to give
us an equal amount.
In no speech did I utter q vord