Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-07


 nors' conference unanimously repudi- ated today the recent utterances of Governor Blease of South Carolina concerning the lynching of negroes. By a vote of IA to 4 it adopted resolution declaring against mob vio- lence and for the impartial enforce nent of the law
 The four governors who opposed the resolution declared themselves as Jtrongly endorsing it's purport, but voted No" because they had no right to reprimand colleague.
 Defies the Other Governors.
 Governor Blease himself, target of the attack, hotly defended his con- victions, snapped his fingers in the face of his colleagues. told them to "Go to it." declared he cared not whit what the conference said, thought, did or did not do, and an- nounced that all the resolutions they might ever adopt would neither keep bim from the governors chair nor from a seat in the United States sen ate in 1915, or earlier. Four times within as many hours, he asserted, his ffe had been threatened because of bis utterances, but this appealed to him as little as the resolution.
 Four Threatening Letters.
 The four threatening letters Cover nor Blease received were all anony nous. One was mailed in Richmond, another in Washington, the third in Louisville and the fourth in Pittsburg The Washington writer told him he would pay the penalty if he ever came % that city; the Pittsburg writer said: You will be taken to account on sight for your worlds" the Richmond and ,r1rir1 Ia
 Governors Denounce BIease.
 Governor Blease was taken to task by a dozen governors. Governor Carey of Wyoming denounced him for claim Ing a monopoly for South Carolina for the respect of the white man for women" Governor Hadley of Missouri declared that the floor of the confer ence hall was not a clearing house for local and personal controversies. Gov ernor Goldsborough of Maryland de- clared that he stood solidly by the Resolution because it was a matter of right. Governor Dix of New York thought it would be most unwise" not Co adopt the resolution. Governor D'Neal of Alabama in a ringing speech which was drowned time after time by applause asserted his belief that the entire conference had been belittled by
 
 that it was the sworn duty of every executive to uphold the law and the enforcement Of law.
 "onIy Snakes and Geese Hiss"
 To these declarations Governor Blease replied that he had been quoted yesterday as saying "To hell with the eonstitu;ion,' and that what he said yesterday he repeated today to "all the good governors here, to all the gover- DOTS of all the states, to all the peo- ple of the United States" Once when bis voice was drowned in storm of hisses he turned to the galleries and to his colleagues and laughed.
 What care I for your hisses?" he asked. Then, shaking his clenched fist, De shouted: Hiss if you must; only makes and geese hiss"
 Resolution Presented.
 Governor O'Neil unloosed the storm when he introduced the following reso- lution: This conference of governors does not undertake to control the in sividual views of its members upon Any questions of law or administra- ton: it declares that this government is based upon the Fundamental prin- Siple of law and order: that the consti- tution of each state imposes upon its ehief executive the supreme duty of taking care that the laws shall be faithfully and equally enforced: that k advocates all proper methods for strengthening and simplifying our methods of civil and criminal proceed gre.