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

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A SICK BANTAM ROOSTER.
TO Mr.. l.. NJ. Grist-Editor and Proprietor
of the Yorkville Enquirer AS you have seen
fit to abuse and miSrepreSent me bOth-durlng
the Primary Canvass and in two issues OF your
paper since my Election, will you allow me
the opportunity Of Correcting at least some of
the many faulse positions in which you have
placed me 10y not reporting my speeches as |
delivered them, but by publishing your impress
sons as to what | said-m your issue of the
18th Sept. you say THAT no attempt has been
made to quote his speeches in his own Ian
guage. but there has never been any attempt
on the part of the Enquirer to misrepreSent
him in any particular''-I complained of this
fact that you did not publish my speeches Cor
rectly on several OCCASIONS which should have
made you the more particular and give only
my language, if you desired to treat me fairly
so the people could interpret for themselves
In your issue of the 2Sth Sept you report me
as having used in my speech at Iorkville OH
the % the following language, ''Dr. Sam Kell
says that the Editor of the Enquirer mistakng
him for his brother, told him confidentially
that he had supported A. S. Wallace for Con-
gress, but had to do SO on the sly, and it was
not until after he had said this to Dr. kell that
he discovered his mistake'' Now Sir you
shall not evade the charge that you voted for
Mr.. A. S. Wallace by any such subterfuge as
this-I did not say you told the fact to DR.
Kell and it is faulse when you represent me as
ton thinking you were talking to his brother
Mr. Stephen Sutton, who had borrowed money
from Mr.. Wallace, that you had supported
Mr. Wallace for Congress and that DR. Kell
was my authority-for so stating-You very
adroitly dodge this charge by denying hay
ing said so to DR.. Kell, but you do not deny
saying so to Mr. A. G. Sutton, Nor do you
deny having voted for Mr. Wallace as my in
formant states, DR. kell thinking that l was
correctly reported wrote me- the following let
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| FoRT MILL 8 Oct 1882
Capt John Witherspoon Dear Sir regret to
| have to say that you have gotten my statement
in regard to Mr. Grist entirely wrong. I request
that You will at once Correct thro the Columns of
| the Yorkvile Enquirer. again repeat to you
the statement gave before-which was as fol-
lows; Mr. A G Sutton told me that Mr. Grist,
in private conversation taking it for granted that
| his A. G. Suttons politics were the same as his
| brothers Stephen Sutherland having seen A. G.
Sutton with Wallace on the same day Of said Con-
versation) that he (Grist} had supported Wallace
for Congress, and always expected to do so, as he
considered him IWallace) one # the best men in
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er supported a. Wallace, neither could he do
so, so long as he (Wallace) remained in the radi
cal ranks Mr.. Grist, finding he was mistaken
| in his man, said no mOre-Let me hear from you
at once Yours truly s. A. KELL
am willing to let. the people of York see
whether the Charge that you Voted for Mr. A
Wallace for Congress is a "ficton of Capt
| WitherSpoOn's BRAIN or not-1Ou know
whether you voted for Mr. Wallace and you
can deny the fact if you did not. Again you
do me al injustice by Saying in your Paper
that l told the people at Rock Hill i'll my
speech, not to take Your Paper-I did not say
so. | never strike at Il mans pocket OF try to
injure his property said on account of your
uncertain political status and the manner IN
which you had conducted your paper that
many persons quit taking it, and that some
take the Enquirer not from Choice, but from
necessity and mentioned this fact amongst
others to show that you were not in my opin-
| ion such good Democrat as would now Enti-
tie you to determine questions for the Democ-
racy of York-Again you have done ME an
injustice by reporting me as saying-"that at
Hickory Grove paper was going around for
| signatures pledgng the sgners to vote for no
man from the Eastern side of the County and
to 90 against Rock Hill'' You have mislead
the Citizens of Hickory Grove who have given
to what you have published their Emphatic
denial, they can do this as did not say So
certainly never intended to do SOL do not
Know whether the Paper styled Pertinent
Questions and which you were careful to in
form your readers before the meeting at Hick-
ory Grove that ''many Voters was no mythical
Character but real and receiving many sigma
tures' ever reached Hickory Grove or not,
said in my speech at Yorkvile, that at the
opening of the Canvass at Hickory Grove a
move WAS inaugurated to force into the Pri-
mary Canvass the discussion of the Constitu-
tional Amendment relating to the area of New
Counties and the question was discussed.
And that too after this Paper had been Circu-
lated at Yorkvlle mot Hickory Grove) with
the view of influencing the signers or at least
some of them as was informed to vote against
any one who might he in favor of the Amend
ment, and that this fact coupled with the cry
of we are fighting Rock Hill as has been re-
ported (See Rock Herald Sept 14th) was not
calculated to heal sectional feeling or ensure
the success of the Democracy. That forcing
the discussion of the Constitutional Amend
ment in the Primary Canvass was wrong, the
western section of York Co being bitterly
opposed to it, while the Eastern was in fa-
vOr of it, would necessarily be preiudicial to
the Candidates, while their individual opinion
could not settle it, for that is matter for the
people of the State-That it would divide our
people more diSastrously than Geographical
lines could do it, and it's tendency was to de-
prive one section or the other of any represen-
tation whatever-and in this move | said you
were father to the thought and were forcing it
| on.
Again you report me as saying that 'Maj
Hart advised the people at Hickory Grove not
to vote for any man from the Eastern side of
York county'' and Maj Hart takes the occa-
sion at an Independent Meeting at Wilson's
Chapel to Contradict the Statement as report
ed in the Yorkville Enquirer, must correct
this also-I said in my speech at Rock Hill
and at Yorkville that you did not publish the
ohjectional part of Maj Hart's speech at IIick
ory Grove-You have not done so yet, said
this land it is very strange that was not cor
rected by Maj Hart at York H for he sat in
ten feet of he while was speaking) That
Maj Hart after giving the number of whites
and blacks in the Townships forming the new
| County with Rock Hill as it's G, II towit, the
Indian Land of Lancaster Landsford of Ches-
ter Catawba e. EbeneZer of York, showing
that it would be Republican County, with a
Rep-Senator, Said Vote, against the pro-
posed Amendment And vote against any
proposition having for it's object or looking to
a division Of York Co. Then it was that I
said to the Citizens at YOrkville-that in my
judgment Maj Hart might as well have said to
people of Hickory Grove not to vote for any
one from the Eastern Side who was in favor of