The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-12-11
HAVE A WARM time.
GOVERNORS Do NOT AGREE With
GOV. BLEASE'S
Views ABOUT MOB RULE

for Governors Who Condemn His
Views and Declares he Will Go to
the Senate and be Famous When
They Are Forgotten.
At the close of q stormy session.
which on account Of personal re-
marks and defiant utterances several
times threatened to assume a most
serious aspect, the conference OF gov
ernor at Richmond Friday afternoon
nassed resolutions offered by Gov.
Mann Of Virginia, administering re-
hnke to Gov. Cole L. Blease of South
Carolina for his utterances regarding
lynch law.
Gov. Blease openly deded the COZ
ference and dared it to expel him.
With all the vocal tricks Of oratory
os which he is an undoubted master,
he CHALLENGED the conference to do
its worst. hurting scorn at its mem
hers with al! the bitterness and
scathing sarcasm at his command.
He declared that it made no dlfer-
ence TO him what the conference did.
He had already been elected govern
or Of South Carolina and would be
elected to the United States senate IN
1915, he asserted.
when you are forgotten by even
your own people and obscure IN the
shades of private life, Blease OF South
Carolina will be known from one end
of this great country to the other
he shouted, "and the plaudits of the
nation will be ringing in his ears
vainly Gov. Vessey Of South Dakota
tempora chairman, and Gov. W. ".
Kitchin of North Carolina attempted
to divert the issue, but the confer
ence, apparently indignant that such
remarks should have been uttered by
one of its members, Is an overwhelm-
ing vote adopted the resolutions.
The storm broke when Gov. En-
met O'Neal Of Alabama arose and Oh
fered resolutions putting the confer
ence on record against lynch law and
mob rule. He declared that the re-
marks of certain member OF the
conferen echad gone forth to the
world, and that, inasmuch as the re-
marks were made during the conduct
of a regular session of the conference
and were of such nature as to be
! defiant of law and order and repug-
nant to law-abiding citizens, the con-
ference should without delay repu-
date them as contrary to the views
Of the conference"
He declared that he represented a
State which had large negro popu-
lation, but it had courts, he said,
which would punish criminals. He
denied that it could ever be necessary
to license lynch law, and, looking
full at Gov. Blease, asserted that he
did not believe any law-aoiding State
would countenance it.
Gov. O'Neal's resolution was Sec
orded by Gov. Gilchrist of Florida,
I who warmly stated mat the confer
erce could not afford to allow GOV.
Blease's remarks to go unnoted," and
was for the immediate passage Of the
resolutions.
Amid calls from Chairman Vessey
to be in order, Gov. Kitchin OF North
Carolina took the floor. He argued
with great earnestness for the de-
feat Of the resolutions. He said that
they were aimed directly at mem
Der of the conference and tended to
throttle free speech and the express
SION Of individual views.
Gov. Mann, "the host" offered a
substitute to Gov. O'Neals resolu-
tions. Gov. O'Seal at once accept
ed it and called for vote.
Gov. Baldwin of Connecticut NOV
ed that the substitute be laid on the
table.
Shouts of "No. No. came from
every part of the hall.
PASS the resolutions, pass EN-
pass 'em; what do I care?" shouted
Gov. Blease.
Kisses came from the gallery,
Chairman Massey raped for order.
"The vote on the motion to lay the
resolutions on the table will be taK-
en-" he announced, "and the secTP-
tary will please call the roll.
It was Immediately seen that the
con ference had no intention OF tab
ling the resolutions. Several govern
ors took occasion to explain their
votes, declaring that they stood for
and would always stand for repudla-
ton Of mob rule.
Gov. Blease did not vote when the
State of South Carolina was called.
After the vote had been announced
IA to against tabling-he rose and
said: South Carolina did not vote
because it is Of absolutely no conse-
ouence to South Carolina what this
conference does" AS soon as the
vote on tabling was announced the
Mann resolutions we're put upon their
passage and carried py a rising vote
Of "ayes". There were several scat
tering "noes''. The resolutions or
iginally offered by Gov. O'Neal. which
we're withdrawn IN favor OF Gov.
Nann's were as follows:
"The conference of governors does
not undertake to control the indirid-
ual views of it's members upon any
question Of law or administration; 1t
declares that this government is oas-
ed upon the fundamental principle OF
law and order, that the constitution
Of each state imposes upon its chlef
executive the supreme duty OF taking
care that the laws shall be faithfully
and equally enforced, that 1t ao7o-
cstas all nroner methods for strength