The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-27
MAKES A CHANGE
NEWS AND COURIER OBJECTS TO
BLEASE COLONEL.
Columbia Correspondent Asked to
Resign From Governors Staff,
But He Refuses to Do So.

Leon NJ. Green, Columbia corre-
spondent for the News and Courier,
has refused to accede to the demands
Of his newspaper that he resign an
appointment recently received upon
the staff If Governor Blease and
says he will resign as correspondent
Immediately. Ills resignation will
he handed to the head of the News
and Courier's Columbia bureau, Au-
gust Kohn, upon the latter's return
this week from a Canadian tour. =.
Il resign under pressure, said
Mr.. Green. II can net comply with
the demand made on me. When l
was arpointed on the Governors staff
accepted because of the honor, and
I know that the position was given
in the right spirit. For the paper l
represented to seek to tell me that |
should resign either from the paper
or from the governors staff was, in
Try opinion, an encroachment upon
my personal rights.
II Gelt, that could still remain on
the governors staff. as have always
sought to give unbiased reports of
official acts Of the chief executive of
the State.
"The position taken by the paper
appears to me, and l have no Doubt
Will so appear to many others in the
State, untenable, for the particular
reason that the position occupied
here for the paper was that solely of
news correspondent. had nothing
whatever to do with the editorial pol
icy of he paper. What I have been
sending to the papers 1 represent was
The news cf the day here-nothing
more
Mr.. Green Monday night gave out
the letter below which he stated
had been written him by Robert La
than, the editor of the News and
Courier. Mr.. Latham said last night
that he had nothing to say concern
ing the matter. Mr.. Lathan's letter
to Mr.. Green is as follows.
"Mr. Leon M. Green, Columbia, S. G..
Dear Mr.. Green: I have just re-
ceived your letter of July 20 and re-
gret very much to- learn Of your de-
termination to remain on the staff of
the governor rather than on that OF
The News and Courier.
GAS / wrote Mr.. Kohn. do not re-
gard 1t as proper for a newspaper
correspondent to hold two such posi-
tions at the same time; my under
standing of the matter being that the
acceptance Of an appointment as one
of governors aides entails upon the
person accepting it responsibility
of doing all that he can to uphold
whatever the governor may do.
81 think it should be rule Of the
paper that no one of its staff should
occupy any position which might ex-
pose him to the criticism that his i'm
partiality might be affected, whether
such criticism be well founded or
not. '.
"It is the desire of the News and
Courier to do every public official
justice fairly and impartially, and in
order to- do so think the above men
toned rule good one.
ut is true that Mr.. Kohn was at
one time an aide to governor but
that was before I became editor OF
the paper. -
81 appreciate your offer to look
after matters connected with the bu-
reau until Mr.. Kohn returns, but
perhaps it would be better to con-
tinue the present arrangement until
that time, allowing Mr.. Horton to
cover whatever may happen, as he
has been doing since you have been
away from Columbia
''Let me repeat to you personally
what I have already said to Mr.. Kohn
as head of the bureau, that the News
and Courier appreciates the general
excellence of the service you have
givn it during the period of your
connection with the paper, and that
am genuinely sorry that you have
chosen to take a stand In this matter,
a most important one as I see 1t, to
which this paper can not give it's in
dorsement.
t"Yours truly,
"Robert 7 Latham "