The news and herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1876-1881, 1880-09-22

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also in the success of that most excel
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More anon. G.. B. B.
COL. Z. STOBO FITROW.
He Replies to Charges Against Ills Demo-
cratic Record.
Col. T. Stobo Farrow replies m tho
Spartanburg Herald to Major Wood
wards last letter. The letter is long
and our columns arc crowded. We
will in justisc to Colonel Farrow, how
even, give his sanswcr to the tindircct"
change that che had ru1, as candidate
for mayor oaNtElnta OH tbs. Radical
tickct.' Colonel Farrow SAYS that
Major Woodward might have learned
nom any reliable person in Spartan
burg that this stale charge was a foul
slander long since successfully rciutcd.
An extract is takcTtrom the Atlanta
Hcrdhd of November 2I, 1872, ga
staunch Democratic paper which SUP
ported Colonel Farrow and his whole
ticket (cvcry one on which ticket WAS
u true Dcmocrat) in the muuiciDal
election IL Atlanta in 1892, .whivh ia
per Was Owned and edited by the late
Col. II. a. Atston> Henry Grady and
n. 81. Clair Abrams, whose Democracy
has never hccn questioned III Georgia..
In announcing the withdrawal Of a
ticket headed by Judge ID. T.. Ham-
mond, and stating the report that the
ltadIcHls would make Il nomination, the
UcfWH says: "Thcrc remains in tlIc
llcld only the ticket headed by Mr..
Hammock aud Mr.. II. Stobo Farrow,
and The contest is narrowed down 10
one between them" 1t adds: "Thcrc
are interests at stake which compel us
to take part in the municipal canvass.
lhcre has been gross extravaganza
displayed by thc majority Of tho pres
cnt council" Then follows an ar
raignmcnt charging the council with
| taVoriiiSm, carclcSsness, eXtrayau uancc
! and general disregard Of the interests
OF taxpayers. 1t then calls on all per-
sons who favor economy 10 vote for
Colonel Farrow's ticket, and says that
the Rtformcrs are not sorchcads as a
majority Of the candidates arc on both
tickets. 1t concludes: eve insist that
III this contest the question OF party
has not amy right to abrilge itself.
| Both tickets are composed OF Demo
! Gratis. We cannot recognize any obli-
CATION dcvolving upon The citizens to
vote for men Who were not nominated
| by Il majority Of the Democracy of
Atlanta. The ring organ in this city,
with its slavish suhscrvancv 10 the
party lash, has already notified the
! people that Federal and State politics
will be drawn into tho canvass. We
90 not recognize any Democracy
WhatcHcrin in the campaign but merely
local Struggle for good government
and the ticket which VIC support will,
Ill our opinion, give us such good gov
ernurn.'
Col. T. ". Avery, who Is at present
private secretary Of Governor COluuitt
and wIio is: editor of the Constitution
opposed Colonel Farrow in 1872, wrote
rs follows in September, 1876:
Got. 7. Sfo6o tn1Tov, ,Spu7tan a,tr1,
S. c.:
| Nv. DEAR COLONEL: IN Yep,y TO
your inquiry l am plcasod TO static That
during your residence in Atlaiaa YOU
never ran for any Office as O., Radical
candidate. In November, 1872. YOU
ran rs an lndedcndcnt Democratic cam
didatc for Mayor in opposition to-
"rolicc monopoly" was Editor of
Tho 'Atlania Daily Constitution" at
the time, which paper opposed you.
But during thc canvass your personal
! Democracy was not questioned, and
ycu.Wsre supported by the "IIcrald." !"
a Democratic paper, and after the cleo
non The Democratic, press. that cpposed
you here acknowledged your Integrity
as y Democrat. Truly yours,
I. W. AYEitY.
Ihe Atlanta Constellation in Dcccm-
Der, .lS77, says
"Ihc many friends of this cultivated
gentleman and. uliswcrving Democrat
! viii rejoice to learn that he has been
elected Clerk Of tho Senate of the
State Of Soul II. Carolina. Colonel FAY
row once rcsidcd in our city, but re-
turned to his native State in the hour
OF icr sorcst trial and greatest. need.
ana. established. o. paper at Spartan.
burg (thc Uc'ahO TO aid,in -ctlecmine
Inc noble old Palmetto State from. the
| VnhdAls who had ovcrrun it,. And his
election to the Clerkship Of. the Senate
IS lifting recognition Of his valuable
services as a.mombcr of The Democrat
ic State Executive Committee during
the campaign which made HAMPTON
governor and forever forced the State
trom negro rule. We congratulate
the Senate of.South Carolinn in the
choice Of so good a man and so true a
Democrat"
Colonel Harrow im conclusion saws
ne has been u member of tho State
Executive Committee ofSouth Carroll
ma Tor three terms. lie was one OF the
eight members who called the Straight
out Convention OF. 1876, against n
! minority Of seven. Lin 1873 and in
. 1880 he was reelected, aud no Straight
out Democrat, EXCEPT, Major Wood
ward, has complained Of his being on
that committee because Of lis being of
"doubtful political position" In con-
ofuSlon. .Coloncl Farrow SAYS:
I'm conclusion,. VIC would say to
Major Woodward that we do not 'firc
or our 'loadcd jaw at gcntcmcn,' nor
'dog-bitc decent peoplc'' in our paper,
and then shirk responsibility. We
have been connected. with, the Press
or THIS State for tho last seven. years.
ana ana hayG never yet shirked any re-
sponsibility for what we have written
or published in onr papcr,"