Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-10-19

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SIIOO FLY!
We publish to-day characteristic letter
from Mr.. John G. Witherspoon. During the
primary canvass, when he was hurting his i'll
vectives at this paper and it's editor, he pro-
claimed with rhetorical flourish that 'here-
after he expected to do his own printing and
publishing;" but it would seem that like
many other notable utteances he then made,
he has forgotten the rash threat, and now he
hastens to ventilate himself through our
columns. To his modest request, made in the
difident spirit so characteristic of true great
ness, We yield with becoming obesance, re-
garding it not only a duty, but our highest
editorial privilege, to grant so eminent a pub
lie functiOnary'as himself the opportunity
of embalming his grievances in print and
handing them down for the admiration and
wonder of the world. And in thus contribu-
ting to his happiness, as we hope we do, by
the publication of his latest effort, we COM
ply with his request and print it, in the most
minute particular, just as he has written it
reproducing it in print, rerbatim ct Hteratin'
eC 1dSC, IL 1lO uOSo HOo hSi
after deny having written the letter at all, we
can clearly establish by the production of the
original. We have also endeavored to profit
by his timely suggestion that we ornament
our columns with small rooster. On a for
mer occasion we incidentally characterized
him as the political bantam of York county.
We did not then suppose he would take kind
1,f did fba,, 1-pp,v thnf fho onOpl-
lation would prove so eminently appropriate
but as he evidently prides himself on being
regarded political rooSter'' of the bantam
kind, and as the rooster is a recognized enl.
blem in political heraldry, we cheerfuly graf
ify his desire by supplying a design not unique
in its conception merely, but highly typical OF
his illustrious and brilliant career from the
opening of the primary canvass to it's close,
and which we submit as an appropriate SYM
Dol to be emblazoned on his political escut-
cheon. A little vanity, of which he no doubt
thinks we possess great deal, induces us to
place at the head of this column another
''rooster," not of the gay and festive order,
nor yet a bantam, but one which we hope no less
typifies the ENQUIRER than does the droop-
ing bantam with fallen crest portray the wor-
thy political chieftain in whose honor it is
raised.
Mr. John c. Witherspoon is evidently angry,
and his fury is concentrated on the YOrkvlle
ENQUIRER--a dire calamity it must he con-
fessed, but one which cannot he evaded. He
has evidently been nursing his wrath for
long time, as his most prominent grievance
seems to date back to the days of 1876, when
we failed to recognize by proper ''editorial en-
couragement' the brilliant and conspicuous
canvass he made in the campaign of that year
for Hampton and Reform. All along since
then, it seems, we have been the innocent
cause of adding to his burden of woe until the
eliminating point was reached on the oath OF
last August, by the publication of a short,
respectful and, as we thought, an entirely
proper communication. The communication
was in reference to an important public topic,
and in giving circulation to it we were guided
by no other motives than those which induced
us to print communication Oh the 18th Of
last April, emanating from the pen of Mr.. John
G. Witherspoon, and signed by him, written
ostensibly in support of enforcing the guanO
ordinance in the town of Rock Hill, but re-
ally, as we have since been informed, and as
circumstances seem to confirm, to advertise
himself before the people of the county as an
-prOhibitionist. When we yielded space
in our columns for that and similar publica-
tions, which we did that the citizens of our
mind an important local question to them,
and while in that discussion Mr.. John G..
WitherSpoon was conspicuous as the champion
of the guano ordinance, we heard no word of
complaint from his immaculate lips but when
"Many Citizens'' called through our columns
upon the primary candidates to define their
views upon an important public question, the
milky sweetness of his placid temper changed
to gall and wormwood, and, adopting second
hand metaphor, we were eXcoriated by this
modern Scipio in words of ''burning eloquence,
brilliant with explosive c0ruscatons of hete-
rogeneous thoughts, which scattering like a
shower of shooting stars, ended in the greasy
sunshine of his own Illuminating opacity"
In his letter, which we publish this week,
Mr.. John G. WitHerspoon charges that we have
seen fit to abuse and misrepresent him during
the primary canvass and in two issues of the
ENQUIRER since his election. We have never
abused or misrepresented him on any occasion
and if reference has been made to him in these
columns for two issues since his ''election," he
must remember that one of those issues was
our first after his harangue III the Court House
on Saturday before the election, when for the
occasion he uncorked the "bottled thunder
sealed" that he had been saving
especially for that day, and to which ordinary
of justice would grant us the poor
privilege of areply, especially as our reply was
accompanied with correct report of his own
Probably Mr.. John G. Wither-
spoons sense of prOpriety would preclude us
that right, but it was ours and he can say
whether or not we availed ourSef Of it. The
other illusions to him in these columns came
unsolicited on our part-one from citizens of
Hickory Grove, who innocently thought they
were sufficiently endowed with the rights of
freemen to correct what they alleged to be a
false statement, affecting them, made by Mr.
John G. Witherspoon in the same harangue to
which we had the temerity to reply. The
other was verbal contradiction made by Ma !
or Hart in a public address, correcting one of
Mr.. John c. Witherspoon's reckless assertions
himself. And right here we are
;empted to remind Mr. John G.. WitherspOon !
hat however important factor he is in !
I'll affairs pertaining to this mundane sphere,
md though he may be the great centre
around which lesser planets make their reg
liar orbits, he must not think that he can