Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-12-13
NO APOLOGIES, SAYS BLEASE;
IDON'T CARE WHAT ANYBODY
IN AMERICAN UNION THINKS
Governor Says he is Gping
to Incorporate His Rich
mond Speeches in Message
of South Carolina General
Assembly so as to Get
Them Part of Official Rec
ord.
(special Dispatch to The Journal)

Especial Dispatch to The Journal)
COLUMBIA. S. c., Dec. 10.-"I hope
that when these governors nave been
repudiated by their people retiring
them to private life-I told them they
soon would be-and when they have
more time to think, that they will real
ize the fact that we southern people
are not negro lovers as some of them
clearly seem to be-" said Governor
Blease this morning in a letter adj
dressed to the acting secretary of the
asking for a stenographic report of his
speech the day the resolution condemn
ing him was passed by the governors.
eff you take your report from the
newspaper accounts, your official rec
ords will bear a distinct lie upon it's
face" ne says.
Referring to the speech wanted, he
calls it copy of speech made on Fri
day after the adoption of the Mann
substitute resolution oposing, 1 pre-
sumo would say, the protection of the
white women of the southern states
from the negro race"
Governor Blease returned yesterday
from attendance on the governors con-
ference at Richmond wnen he raised
such a storm by his views on lynch
ing. He charges that he was misrepre-
scented in the newspapers accounts and
this morning handed the reporter a
copy of the stenographic report of his
remarks at Richmond when he said ur-
der certain circumstances ito hell with
the constitution"
In a formal statement to the news
papers he says:
hxr vynrd said
have absolutely no apologies to make
to any man or set of men in this state,
or outside of 1T, and, as 1 said in Rich
mond and repeat now, 1 do not care
what the governor or governors of amy
state or set Of states thought about it
or what anybody else in the American
union things about it.
This is what 1 think and said
there only what / said on the stump all
over South Carolina. And 1 am receiv-
ing letters and kilograms from all over
this state and from many other states
OF the union congratulating me upon
my position. If your. papers desire it,
will be very glad for them to have
the original letters, provided they will
publish them"
The governor says that he is going
to incorporate his speeches at Rich
mond into a message to the general as
sembly in order to get them into the
official records of the state. The gov
ernor is vehement in his references to
the governors VINO led the fight against
his position, and also charges in Bit
ter terms that the press misrepresented
what he said in their headlines. He
denounced as false tn report in Wash
ington that no attention was paid to
him, and says that as far as being re-
fused an invitation to the Gridiron din
ner that he left Washington that aft
ernoon and didn't even know there was
a Gridiroh dinner
Especially is the governor sarcastic
towards Governor Carey of Wyoming,
who quizzed him when the South Caro-
lima executive was making his speech
before the governors on lyncning which
led the governor to shout in character
istic terms that he would never order
out militia to protect a negro guilty
of assaulting a white woman from
mob violence, and that If the constitu-
ton demanded this then ito hell with
the constitution"