Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-02-20

left here, but I heard these other gen.
| tlemen saying the same thing, and,
well, 1 said, why should get out
am only one of several" But l think
lit had simply become, you might say,
unbearable-things have grown from
bad to worse.
| DR.. Babcock: The gentleman speaks
of being an admirer of harmony, and
| how distasteful it is to him to produce
friction; l want to ask the gentleman
if he served with DR.. Allen?
i DR.. Griffin: My relations with DR..
| Allen were very pleasant, and DR..
i Thompson has made the same state
ment here some time ago-the compar-
/ ative statement.
!, DR.. Babcock: Why did DR.. Allen
! leave here?
| DR.. Griffin: l don't know-I heard it
was because they gave me the same
salary-that is what l was told.
| DIR. Babcock: DR.. Allen left here be-
cause Of your intolerable conduct.
i DR.. Griffin: May ask DR.. Thompson
did you ever hear Of any intolerable
conduct on my part?
i Chairman Carothers: l don't think
that has anything to do with this
| thing at alias to what DR.. Griffin and
DR.. Babcock had to do with DR.. Allen.
don't think that bears on the case,
and / rule it out.
Chairman Carothers: Now, DR.. Toole
we will hear from you.
DR.. Toole: I was in hopes l would be
left out of this.
i Chairman Carothers: That is entire
ly left with you.
/ DR.. Toole: l will say that DR.. Saun-
i ders recently has been very nice to me,
and my connection with DR.. Saunders
has been very pleasant. At first. how
ever, it was not pleasant inasmuch as
when J. first came out here. my first
| trip. I met Dr. Saunders-I had never
met her before-I was impressed that
DR.. Saunders was not very well salts
\ fled. However. we made an agreement
that we should go along and keep tab
| with our work all on the same book
| that DIR. Killingsworth had used. do
not recall how many times we used
that book, but in the meantime. on one
occasion. and somehow don't know
how-however. the doctor had contest
ed my election by bringing up some
very hard things
| Chairman Carothers: DR.. Saunders?
| DR.. Toole: DR.. Killingsworth. And in
the meantime 1 felt there was a bad
| fight on me. I was physically hardly
| able to carry through even the work
here. And on this special morning /
| waited on the patients and l noticed
| sheet VI paper lylllS Oll lllS lSiDit' ohu
| my recollection is the nurse said DR..
| Saunders had it. Well, I called for DR..
| Saunders and DR.. Saunders came in
| and as l remember 1t. she said DR.. Kill
linesworth had the book.
| Dr. Saunders: Yes, DR.. Killingsworth
| had the book. He was to meet the re-
gents and wanted to borrow the book
to make up his report.
| DR.. Toole: I told DR.. Saunders, as /
| remember, that we had made an agree
ment that we use the same book and
inasmuch as we had. I was very much
dissatisfied with the matter. However.
Dr. Saunders seemed to be in a little
bad humor herself, not feeling very
we'll somehow. We didn't just get to-
gether, but she did go out and come
back and bring a book and laid it on
the table and said, you can use this
book" AS l have just stated, at first
felt that DR.. Saunders was right hor-
rible. but she has been recently very
nice to me- That is all that I have to
say, and I hope I have hurt nobody's
feelings.
Dr. Saunders: ! want to say one
| thing So far as I know the only disa
| greement DR.. Toole and l had was that
| one morning had him up in the ward
with the people who were not able to
go from the ward. 1t has been my GUS
tom when people are very feeble to al
| low them little drink Of whisky after
it was over. DR.. Toole, to my surprise,
| took drink himself-a big one. I said,
"Dr. Toole, that has never been done
| by an employe Of this hospital before"
| That is all said. The disagreement of
| the book-we did have it. DR. Killings
| worth had been here, and he had used
our records. as all others have used
| theirs He had to make up his report
and he telephoned me to send him the
| book and in the meantime DR.. Kill
| lingSworth's records and DR.. Toole's
are all kept. DR.. Toole's record is kept
to the very best Of our ability.
| Dr. Toole: That same morning, did
not tell you that I was sick, before l
| went on that ward?
DR.. Saunders: l don't remember: you
know ! hear lots of complaints about
| sickness
Dr. Toole: didn't want to offend any
| of the ladies. DR.. Saunders had possi
| bly, half dozen nurses, and it was my
| first visit, possibly, on the ward, and
was sick to start with, and on going on
| the ward there was some fellow on the
| rear hollering a great DEAL and the
odor was very unpleasant, and l felt
| weak, as If | was going to faint. ]
looked around and Dr. Saunders SEEM
| ed to be very much in sympathy with
me. l thought. she is a physician and
she must see that l am little weak. [
didn't presume that anybody had any
strychnine. Finally l spied the bottle.
/ said to a nurse rs that whisky?" She
said, Yes" will you please give me
drink?"-I asked her, "Will you
please give me drink right quick?"
The nurse did, and no sooner than she
| did, l said, Excuse me, it was only for
q stimulant." DR.. Saunders immedi
| ately went for me hot and heavy, and
said they had never had anything like
that on the ward. If 1 offended any
body l was sorry. That was one drink
that was strictly necessary.
| Governor Blease: Was that the first
| drink you ever took?
| Dr. Toole: No, sir.
| Dr. Saunders: DR.. Toole says went
for him hot and heavy. The only
thing l said was, "Dr. Toole, that is
the first time that has ever happened
with an official of the asylum"
Governor Blease: Now, Mr.. Chair
| man, this friction is very unpleasant to
me. have been advised and l believe
| truthfully advised, that since l have
| been governor of South Carolina some
people connected with this institution
have been endeavoring to keep this
| friction up out here in order to injure
me politically. l was reelected gov
| ernor. / do not care whether l ever
| hold any other political office or not.
That was the ambition Of my life. If
/ get into any other campaign it will be
more to help my friends by travelling
| this state and making speeches than it
| will be to help myself. That my family
! know, and that my best friends know.
l appointed you gentlemen-three of
you present here now-aS members of
| this board. l have been told that there
| were people connected with this insti
| tuition who have made very disagreea-
BILE remarks about you as Bleasites. |
| have told you of those remarks. They
| were heard on a railroad train where
it was supposed nobody could hear,
| and the one who was doing the talking
| evidently did not know anybody could
| hear. l had talk with DR.. Babcock
several times. l deplored the condition
Of affairs out here and wanted them
corrected. You gentlemen went to
| work. You elected. to a certain and
| limited extent, new officials. think you
gentlemen will bear me out in the
statement when l say that asked you
to leave DR.. Saunders in her position.
Chairman Carothers: That is correct.
Governor Blease: l asked you not to
leave some other people in their posi-
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