The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-04-09
BLEASE CONTINUES His fight ON
MITCHELL
WANTED HIM TO resign
Only One Vote Was Cast by the Trus-
tees in Favor Of Asking the Resig-
nation Of the President of the
South Carolina University, and
That Was by Blease.

A resolution requesting the rtsig-
nation Of Dr.. S. c. Mitchell, the pres
ident of the University Of South Car
oiina, was presented by Governor
Blease, at a meeting Of the board Of
trustees in the Office Of the Governor
Wednesday morning. The resolu-
ton was overwhelmingly rejected,
only Governor Blease voting for it.
Those voting may" were: W. T.
C. Bates, of ST. Matthews; C. E.
Spencer, of Yorkville; J. G. Davis,
of Winnsboro; P. a. Wilcox, of Flor
ence; David R. Coker, of Hartsville;
August Kohn, of Columbia; c. T.
Wyche, of Prosperity, and Superin-
tendent of Education J. E. Swearin-
gen, of Columbia. The following is
the resolution submitted by the Gov
ernor requesting the resignation Of
Dr.. Mitchell:
Whereas, at the recent session Of
the General Assembly certain investi-
ga ions were had in reference to the
connection of DR.. S. c. Mitchell, pres
ident of the South Carolina College,
with the distribution of certain funds
belonging to the Peabody estate
among the colleges of this State, aud
it being shown by a written instru-
ment signed by DR.. Mitchell that he
requested that certain money therein
be used for the education of negro
teachers, stating in said paper We
most earnestly request that your hon
orable body (trustees Of the Peabody
education board) donate 100000 to
each State university in those states
participating in this fund, for the
training of white teachers and the
remaining for the training of negro
teachers in same states; and
"Whereas, it is to the best inter-
ests of the educational department OF
this State that there shall be no frlc-
ton among the colleges, and that
there shall be no one at the head OF
any of the colleges who is in favor
of using white peoples money to ed
ucate free negroes, and especially
that there should be no one at the
head Of any of the colleges who is In
favor of taking money from the
white girls of South Carolina for the
education of free negroes; and
whereas, Dr.. Mitchell acted with
out the authority or advice Of this
board, thereby exceeding his iurisdic-
ton and going far beyond his duties
as president of the College, when he
signed said agreement; and,
"Whereas, this College is not
common beggar, but is supported by
the taxpayers of South Carolina with
the peoples taxes, and the trustees
would prefer never to receive one
dollar of outside aid if principle must
be sacrificed, as was done here in the
effort to secure outside aid. There
fore be it
Resolved, That it is the sense Of
this board that DR.. S. c. Mitchell
should tender his resignation as pres
ident of said institution.
AS soon as this resolution was Of
fered by the Governor a motion was
made that record vote be taken,
which was done, and it was over
whelmingly rejected.
The Governor said that the object
of his grievance against DR.. Mitchell
was his understanding that DR.. Nit
chell had requested the faculty to
pass a resolution to the effect that
sign the diplomas Of the College
which are presented to the students
on graduation, it being customary to
sign the diplomas at the June meet
ing of the board.
Immediately on the Governor max
ing this statement, Superintendent
Swearingen offered resolution that
this charge be investigated by the
committee on organization and re-
port at the June meeting. The mo-
ton was seconded by Mr.. August
Kohn and unanimously adopted. The
members of this committee are Su-
perintendent Swearingen, c. E. Spen-
GER, of Yorkville, and David R. Coker
of Hartsville.
The board adjourned to meet again
in the Governors office on June 10.