The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-02-18

stigate the attack upon him by the
governor in his inaugural.
"Mr. D. w McLaurin's sworn tes-
timony, Gov Blease's original letter,
| written in 1911, when he first got his
information from Mr. McLaurin. The
oral testimony of Gov. Blease at the
beginning of this investigation. The
| written statement of the three men
who heard what was said in the gov
ernor's office And ! will say here
that / do not recall having mentioned
Dr. Mitchell's name to the governor
at any other time.
Why try to put all such evidence
aside and still make the charge that
! | instigated Gov. Bleases attack. Why
does he attack me instead of the gov
ernor, who made the attack upon him?
i fear Dr. Mitchell has been very bad
! ly advised by mischief makers.
J 1T is proper always to consider mo-
tive in such matters as this. What
motive under the sun could possibly
! have had to prompt me to stir up
strife between the university and
Winthrop. That would have been the
veriest folly, the very way to lose out
! with the peabody board. AS a result
of this fight I fear that neither insti-
/ tuition will get another dollar. Such
action on my part in 1911 or 1912 or
1913 or at any time would have been
foolish in the extreme. The university
and Winthrop must stand together;
must work harmoniously for the cause
of higher education in South Carolina
to prosper.
I'm reply to the question then,
What shall it profit a university if it
gain new building and lose its own
SOUL, would say that the very way
to lose the new building would be to
do that which is insinuated in this
question.
I'm the subtlest way the negro
question was introduced
Letter to Mr. McMaster.
Mr.. Chairman, my letter to Mr..
McMaster in 1911, in reply to his let
ter to me, contained what | have had
to say on that question. expected
Mr.. McMaster to show it to DR..
Mitchell, or some one connected with
the university. There was nothing un-
derhanded or subtle about that.
I said that the petition had been
signed by representatives of Southern
universities including our own, asking
for certain amount of money for
each of them, and that the remainder
be given to the negroes, thus cutting
Winthrop out without dollar. | did
not think that they should have mada
any petition for the disposition of the
remainder after asking for certain
amount for themselves. They were
not responsible for the distribution OF
the whole fund like the members OF
the Peabody board
81 have been urging the Peabody
board for over 20 years to give VIM
throp a large appropriation, but 1
have never assumed to suggest that
the remainder should be used in such
way that the university could not
get a dollar of it. After securing
large appropriation for Winthrop
would have been glad to have the uni
versity secure as large an appropria-
ton as possible.
DIR. Mitchell insinuates that l
should have known Of the special re-
! Fort Of 1906, whereas a minute print
ed in the proceedings OF the trustees
for October 3, 1906, page 10, says:
1t was ordered that in the meantime
a typewriter copy OF the report
should be sent to each member and
be regarded as confidential This re
port was not published u@til the WIN
ter of 1911. and Gov Ansel, a mem
that he did not know of it until the
ber OF the Peabody board, has said
! yooot;no of his cnecial committee It
was certainly not published to the
world, as DR.. Mitchell said, until
1911.
Il do not know how the presidents
Of the Southern States universities
knew about it. I know that |, like
Gov. Ansel, member of the Pea
body board, did not know about it