The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-02-25
burst into TEARS
ATMOSPHERE OF INSINUAT1ON
AGAINST HIS FATHER.
DR.. TAYLOR TEsTIFlES

Member of Board of Regents Tells Of
Executive Session, From Which
DR.. Saunders Lawyer, Her Father
and Stenographer, Were Excluded
on Motion OF Governor Blease.
That Governor Please. in executive
session of the board Of regents Of the
State Hospital for the Insane, on
December 12, 1913. by word and
manner, cast insipuatio1 and insult
on DR.. Eleanora 2 Saunders, woman
physician at the asylum, was testl-
fed to Tuesday afternoon before the
asylum investigating committee, by
DR.. julius H. Taylor OF Columbia,
member of the board of regents, who
was present throughout the entire
executive session. Not alone the pro
| fessional standing, but the character
of Dr.. Saunders, we're brought into
question by the governor time and
again by the insinuating nature of
the questions which he asked and
the statement which he made. said
DR.. Taylor.
The fact that, in his opinion, Dr.
Saunders personal chara'tei had
been attacked was the reason. said
DR.. Taylor, why he would not vote
for resolution, introduced and
adopted, stating that no personal
charges had been made, and that it
was for the best interests of the lady
and everybody else concerned that
the investigation begun at that time
be dropped. Dr.. Taylor stated that,
in his opinion, the character of the
woman physician had been brought
i into question and that the wording
Of the resolution implied that an in
vestigation might substantiate the
charges.
DR.. Taylor paid high tribute to
the character of DR.. Saunders as a
woman and as physician. declaring
that she was "head and shoulders
above any other subordinate member
Of the medical STAFF. All Of the
charges made by her fellow physi-
clans at the executive session, "were
absolutely puerile," said DR.. Taylor,
who explained that they related to
removing q table from a certain
room, use Of typewriter, and SINH
lar allegations. "Yet unconsciously
every physician who testified there
against her paid the most magnificent
tribrte to her work and her ability,
said DR.. Taylor.
AS to the executive session. d.
Taylor said that every one except
members of the board of regents. Col
John K. Aull, private secretary 70 the
governor, and members Of the asylum
medical staff we're excluded IN mo
ton of Governor Blease. Among
those excluded inder this order, he
said, were lawyers for DR.. Saunders
her father and her stenosrapher, Mt
A. NJ. Deal.
"The whole meeting was surcharg'
ed with an atmosphere of insinua'
tions against Dr.. Saunders" said Dr.
Taylor, who told Of questions asked
by Governor Blease, in his opinion
involving the character of the lady
physician. There were so frequently
and so insistently made, said DR.. TaT'
lor, that DR.. Saunders burst into
tears, as he thought any other lady
would have done under the circnla'
stances.
DR.. Taylor stated that it was his
impression that the statement by DR.
Griffin, in reply to a question, thai
! DR.. Saunders "is supposed to be g
single woman, had been made in an
insinuating tone Dr.. GTiHln has de-
MED to the committee that he in
tended any reflection whatever on the