The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-12-11
HALF OF THE WOMEN LEFT
GOV. BLEAsE's COURSE Ian
GUAGE RAN THEM OUT.
They ALI March Out When South Car.
olina's Governor Shouts ITO Hell
With the Constitution"

An Associated Press o1spatcn from
Richmond, Vs., says fully half Of the
fifty women in attendance ct the Con-
ference OF Governor Friday afternoon
hurriedly departed from the meeting
when Gov. Cole L. Blease, for the
second time defending his policy OF
lynching negroes guilty OF criminal
assault, shouted, "to hell with the
Constitution"
~ernor Blease's declaration was
ia In response to a question ask
ed oy Governor Joseph N. Carey, Of
Wyoming. Governor Carey desired
to know If the South Carolina E1ecu-
tive had taken an oath to uphold the
Constitution and laws OF his State,
and if these laws did not protect mel
and il these laws did not protect ne
"I will answer that question" re-
piled Gov. Blsase. when the Con-
stitution steps between me and the
defence Of the virtue OF the white
women Of my state, I will resign my
commission, tear it up and throw it to
the breezes. AS I have said before,
to hell with the CONSTITUTIONS
When some OF the women present
arose and left the hall, Gov. Blease
ceased speaking. Among the women
who made their exist we're the wives
and daughters Of several Governors
1Ax $hn nNrFarnnNn
Governor Albert W. Gilchrist, Of
Florida, took exception to Gov.
Rlease's remarks. Rising to his feet
he declared: "The first thing that
indicates a manly man or a womanly
woman is thoughtful consideration
for other people," Rts remarks were
greeted with cheers from the audi
ence.
Referring to the lynch law doc
trine, Governor John F. Shatroth. Of
Colorado, said: Zone mob can do
more injury to society than twenty
r,urderers, because lynching per-
neates the entire community and
produces anarchy. The influence Of
mob rule is most reprehensible.
When laws are made it should be
the duty Of the governor to enforce
them, whether he approves or not.
When the law prescribes hanging for
an offence, and a man is found guilty,
he should be hanged whether white
Or black and there is no excuse for
mob laws. I conceive it to be our
duty as Governors to declare for law
and order"
During tho, afternoon session pa.
pers we're read by Governors Tasker
L. Oddie, Of Nevada, and James H.
Rawley, OF Idaho, on uniformity Of
divorce laws. This subject was under
discussion when Governor Blease
spoke. After defending the law Of
South Carolina, wheIe no divorce is
permitted, he proceeded to discuss
the race problem and declared that
the inferior race always Is
swept away by the superior race.
Governor Blease also again defended
bis pardon record.
Gov. ". ". Kitchen, Of North Car
olina, announced that there had not
been lynching IN that State in six
years, and expressed the belief that
there should be convictions in practi-
cally every case where there Is a
lynching.
Governor Mann Of Virginia, stated
that he would call out every militia
man in the state II necessary to pro-
tect man under arrest and give him
fair trial.
Movement for the improvement Of
rural life and the upbuilding Of agri-
culture were discussed by Governors
Adolph 0. Eberhart Of Minnesota;
Herbert S. Hadley, Of Missouri; W. H.
Mann Of Virginia; George W. Dough
ey, Of Arkansas, and Joseph N.
Brown Of Georgia. Divorce law
problems were also spoken to by
Governors Joseph N. Carey, Of Wy
oming. and Simeon e. Baldwin, Of
Connecticut.
Miss Mary Johnston, the novelist.
addressed tho Conference on equal
suffrage.