The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1875-11-24
Wednesday, Nov. %, 1875.
Governor Chamberlain and the False.
hoods of New York Sun
Correspondence.

The Charleston Ncws and Courier en-
poses the false statements Of the Charles
ton correspondent Of the NeW YORK
Sun, which make Governor Chamber
lain responsible for the failure Of Solo
mons Bank, and ollege that he is about
to recommend all additional levy of two
mills to make good the State loss, instead
of carrying out his pledges to veto the
pending bill. The statements are thus
shown to be without foundation, and
entirely false:-
"Govcrnor Chamberlain caused it to
be announced Immediately after the
adjournment of the Legislature that he
would not approve the tax bill-this was
long before the failure of the Solomon
bank. The actual veto message cannot
be sent in until the Legislature shall
meet. .. Both Governor Chamberlain
and Comptroller Dunn voted for the in
crease of the deposits in the Solomon
Bank; and there was nothing in the
sworn statement of the condition of the
Bank at that time lnoW, however,
known to have been a false statenent)
that made it unsafe for them to do so.
3. The tax bill for 1875 (which will be
vetoed) calls for a State tax of II mills
in 1870 the State tax was 8 mills; in
1871 8 mills; in 1873 III mills and in
1874 9.64 mills. And this year the spe-
cial County taxes are enormous. 4.
Governor Chamberlain, in his Charles
ton address, having full knowledge OF
the Solomon Bank failure and its conse..
quences, declared that he could and
would show the Legislature that the
State tax could be kept under one per
cent. 5. Mr.. Solomon and receiver
Dunn agree in saying that the bank did
not advance any money to Mr.. Cham-
berlain, in the lasi campaign"
Again. as to the charge that Governor
Chamberlain intends to use the money
of the bank for electioneering purposes,
and that he will be found side by side
with Bowen as nominee of the Re-
publican party, the reply is thus MADE
81. Governor Chamberlain does not
ask for the S2O7,00O that went down
with the bank. g. 1t is unfortunately
far from certain that Governor Cham-
ber!ain will run next year as the regular
Republican candidate. 3, IT is entirely
false that the ultima thule Of the Meas
and Courier is to beat Bowen by run
ming Cunningham against him; but
we shall beat Bowen, unless the Charles
ton Conservatives run straight tlcket,
in which case Bowen will beat them" "
Again, as to the statement that the
opposition to Bowen is chiefly social,
the News and Courier makes the follow
ing effective answer:-
II. The opposition to Bowen is in
tense because of his character, public
and privatc-for further particulars see
previous publications III the NeWs ana
Courier. Mr.. Miles, in his report to the
grand jury last Spring, gave hundreds
of cases in which Bowen, as he alleged,
had defrauded the county. 2. All the
bills Of Bowen have been paid, so far as
they proved to be correct and so far as
the county had the money to pay them,
and in no respect is he worse off than
any other county officials. Charleston
county is heavily in debt, and the in
come this year is insufficient to pay both
current expenses and past due claims.
3. We cannot lay our hands on the exact
figures, but we can show that the eX-
penscs of the sheritr's office under
Bowen, for whites and blacks, arc from
Sl5, ,UU0 to S2O,0 600 year more than they
were under his predecessor"