Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1914-04-23
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LOSES the EN- NCAMPMEnT

FORE" said Gov. Cole L. Blease,
in a letter Sunday morning to
Secretary of War Lindley M.
Garrison, replying to the latter's
ultimatum over the maneuver
camp. AT the request of cerr
tain parties, / ask you to allow
the encampment to be held with
in the State of South Carolina
but at what point l have no
suggestion to make. If this is
satisfactory to you. all well and
good; if it is not, the encamp-
ment will have to be held else
where" says the Governor.
Governor Blease insists that he
was treated discourteously by
the Secretary of War in the ar
rangements for the maneuver
encampment and refuses to
withdraw that statement and
says that he can place it only
upon the ground that he had
been maliciously misrepresented
to the Secretary of War.
Speaking of the statement
attributed to Mr.. Garrison that
the Governor must come down"
the letter of Governor Blease
says: ''Blease is not coming
down, and he did not come
down before as the records
show, and l can hardly believe.
sir. that man holding the high
position that you do would have
used this slang attributed to you,
and l must believe that you have
been misrepresented by the re-
porter who sent out this state
ment.
The Governor denies that he
has ever objected to the en-
campment being held in this
State or that he stated that he
did not propose to have troops
of other States brought into
South Carolina without his being
consulted. He says that the
only possible construction of that
portion of his letter was that the
South Carolina troops could not
attend the encampment without
his permission.
The Governor declines to
select any site in the State for
the encampment, only asking
that it come TO South Carolina.
The letter lays emphasis on the
statement that it was a proper
courtesy for the Secretary of
J War to have consulted the
Governor in the matter and says
he was ignored by everybody
connected with it, the United
States Senators, Congressman,
Secretary of War. Chief Di-
vision Militia Affairs. He
assures the Secretary of War
that the people of the State
would be pleased to have the
encampment here but, Il do not
believe there is one who would
want it at a sacrifice of the
dignity of the Governor of the
State" he says. He declines to
withdraw the statement-that he
was treated discourteously until
Mr.. Garrison disclaims any such
intention towards him.
The Governor says that he can
only draw the conclusion that
. political enemies of his are en-
, deavoring to persuade the
Secretary of War to take the en-
campment to some other State
= in order that they might say it
e was his fault and thereby iniure
e him politically.
5 Information from Washington
e Monday was to the effect that
the maneuver camp next sum-
mer for regular troops and the
militia of North and South Caro-
\ lima, Georgia and Florida will be
q located outside of South Carolina
d because of Governor Blease's
e failure to comply with demands
S made by Secretary Garrison.
> The secretary had given Bfease
e until Monday morning to dis
avow all previous statements on
the subject and to invite the wal
department TO have the ma
:, :; neuvers on the Isle Of Palms,
Il but instead of such compliance
: Mr.. Garrison received a tele-
" gram from Governor Blease say
ing he was sending a specia