Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-02-10
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1914.

reflected on his daughter 1 said, Mr..
Sanders is making a serious mistake.
Nobody thinks there Is anything
wrong with his daughter. But IL he
makes you go into an investigation he
will make you think there Is some
thing wrong. And the old gentleman
will put her In a false position, and /
would pass a resolution dismissing his
request and asking that the whole
mater be dismissed and let 1t pass
over. Now that Is the facts. / have
done all could to have peace out
there. And DR.. Babcock knows 1t, and
this board of regents knows 1t. went
before the board of regents and told
them in the presence of DR.. Babcock
that l wanted them to get together
and IL they didn't get together some
body had to get out; that those poor
people out there could not be made to
suffer with this fight going on"
The governor then asked who paid
for the use of the laboratory when DR..
saunders was studying under DR..
Cooper.
Yesterdays Proceedings.
Columbia special Of Feb. 9 to Char
lotte Observer: ElE
The startling political admission
that DR.. ]. w. Babcock, superintendent
Of the STATE hospital for the insane,
had been urged by him to run for gov
ernor, II the alleged friction there be-
tween the officials and the board Of re-
gents was made an issue. was made
by Col. Elbert H. Aull Of Newberry,
secretary of the hospital commission
and a close personal and political
friend of Governor Blease, during the
inquiry by legislative committee late
today into the operation Of the asylum
and alleged personal imputations
against its officials.
Colonel Aull admitted this much, but
stated he did not remember the re-
mainder Of a personal conversation be-
| tween him and Doctor Babcock during
the tensest part Of the hospital wran-
gle last fall. He characterized himself
as would-be peacemaker in this
trouble. Witnesses heard today re-
viewed the statements made by Sena-
tor B. r. Tillman, Governor Blease
and Doctor Babcock during the hear
ng Saturday. It developed that Gov
ernor Blease had prevented a threat
ened insurrection Of the asylum nurses
last July.
Mrs. Bessie Allen Sanders, former
stenogra pher at that institution, denied
the charge that F. II. Dominick. then
chairman Of the board Of regents, had
told her Doctor Babcock would be re-
moved. This was In reply to the state
ment Of DR.. Eleanora B. Sanders,
against whom charges OF indiscreet
conduct were made which provoked
this inquiry.
Political Affair.
Governor Blease endeavored to show
that Senator Tillman's appointment Of
DR.. Babcock to the position he now
holds and a number of asylum officers
in 1891 was for political purposes. He
featured the hearing by an extended
and vitriolic reiteration that he would
hold anyone personally responsible
who brought into this hearing the
names of any of his female relatives.
The hearing will be continued to-
morrow. when DIR. Saunders will prob
ably take the stand.
g .. Attacks Papers.
Governor Blease today sent mes
sage to the house claiming that he was
misrepresented by some Of the newspa-
pers, particularly a local morning
newspaper, in the report Of his testi-
mony before the asylum investigating
committee. 81 have nothing to con-
ceal; ON with the dance, and let Joy
be unconfined,' said Governor Blease
in his message. The governor wrote
the general assembly as follows: Gen
tlemen Of the General Assembly:
II suppose you have noticed how
Senator Tillman's and Doctor Bah
cocks statements before the legislative
asylum investigating committee were
handled by the newspapers, and how
the newspapers cut up my statement.
printing part Of 1t and leaving out part
Of Notwithstanding the fact that
hoA hn nh nd
the same people to take down TILL
mans and Babcock's statements that
had to get mine. But in their mean
ness and unfairness, as usual, they
wanted to deceive their readers and to
keep from them my statement, for
they saw that I had put some people
in a hole. - r:...s,si;;,s-
Lied Upon, He Said. f'-e
Knowing how / had always been
lied upon and misrepresented by GER
tain people and editors. ] had a ste
nographer present who took my state
ment, and I herewith send II to you in
full, so that what / did say can be
read as 1t was said and not as misrep-
sented. Such tactics as this by some
Of the newspapers have never hurt me.
but I desire to keep the record
straight. t
lhe kupdn euitor VI the Soi tupid
State should get Doctor Babcock to
tell the committee what Doctor Bab-
cock told me as the reason why he
testified in the Tillman case, and who
deceived him and made 1t appear that
he had proven traitor to Ben Tillman's
nephew, and maybe they would not
be so free to publish all that Babcock
would say about all things. AS have
said heretofore. and say now. have
nothing to conceal, on with the dance,
and let Joy be unconfined.' t
VERY respectfully,
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