Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-09-28
the subtlety of this giant intellect! A thought

Cile InOuSnC l" llQ Cl6 ENQUIRER auQreSS Illo
memorial emanating from this county last
year to the special joint commission that met
in Greenville, having as q part Of it's duty
the consideration of recommending Con-
stitutional amendment for reducing the area
of counties :? Is that the thought of which
the ENQUIRER is the father? We did print
that memorial or address but does Sir Ora
Gle of Rock Hill know where it originated !?
And again, last summer, when gentleman
all the way from Gaffney City came here, ap-
parently with the view of Immediately taking
possession of the western part of the county
and attaching it to a corner of Spartanburg
was the ENQUIRER father to that thought :?
Ask the people along Broad River how the
thought was'impressed upon them. The in
nocency of the Captains guileless heart pre-
sents a touching example of verdancy. Re-
ally, he seems to think that the question of
cutting York county up into shoe-string baili-
wicks, never occurred to any one until that
memorable day at Hickory Grove, when,
though the sun shone brightly to all others
there, to his eyes the atmosphere was nebu-
lous and hazy, while his mental vision was
overwhelmed with doubt, uncertainty and
surprise.
But right here, and we had almost lost sight
of it, he charges that in the new county move
ment we see looming up before us the pros
pective loss of patronage by the establishment
of press at the new Court House. Well,
there is and has for several years been a press
at our sister town, and while we ecommend the
enterprise of those who conduct it-and we
think they maintain it without any lavish pat
ronage from Capt. John G. Witherspoon-we
are glad to know that the press of that town
and the ENQUIRER have always been on the
most amicable terms !; and though we dislike
to break unpleasant tidngs abruptly, yet we
cannot let the occasion pass without whisper
ing to the Herald's ear that it has been said
that somebody said that they had heard some
one else say, that Capt. John G.. Witherspoop
said that when they got Court House at Rock
Hill they intended to start new paper. Now
we have broken the news to our neighbor as
gently as we could, but not with the view Of
discouraging our brother of the press nor,
we may be permitted to add, in a very envious
frame of mind Ourself as regards this prospect
i've enterprise. -
But the Sage of Santuc says he is satisfied
that the people of the west would oppose any
interference with the county boundaries. We
are glad that he acquired some knowledge
while in that section, despite the minor draw
backs of clouded vision, the bother of keeping
the points of the compass and the "surprise"
which attended his first appearance before a
western auditory. The truly disinterested mo-
tives that would prompt him in resisting a
severance of the western part of the county
are refreshing in these days of political degen-
eracy and challenge the admiration of CRATE
full people.
He says that we once told Dr. Sam Kell-
mistaking the Doctor for his brother-that we
supported A. S. Wallace for Congress, but
had to do so on the sly, and that it was not
until after we had said this to Dr. Kel that
we discovered the mistake To this we have
only to say that the statement, no difference by
whom originally made-whether fiction of
Capt. Witherspoon's brain, or told to the Cap
tain by DIR. Kell-is absolutely and unquali-
fiedly false. ...
The Captain next complains that none of
his speeches shave been quoted in the ENQUI-
RER in his own language." This is very dis
ingenious method of conveying a false impress
sion to his hearers. No attempt has been
made to quote his speeches in his o,cn language,
but there has never been any intention on the
part of the ENQUIRER to misrepresent him in
any particular. He says his Hickory Grove
speech was not properly quoted, and if it had
hao lo ho1, bo
he did towards the ENQUIRER. His speech at
Hickory Grove was made Oh Thursday. The
issue of the ENQUIRER containing it was
printed on the following Wednesday, six days
after he spoke at Hickory Grove yet on the
following day after the Hickory Grove meet
ing-Friday, September 1st, he went to Clark's
Fork, and at the meeting there on that day
opened his batteries on the ENQUIRER ; the
next meeting was at Clover on Tuesday, Sep
tember 4th, where again he attacked the En-
QUIRER in the same manner as at other places
subsequently. The ENQUIRER containing
report of his Hickory Grove speech was print
ed the next day after he spoke at Clover. 1t
was nGjnted subsequent to two of his speeches
-assailing the paper, and yet he was impelled to
pursue the course he did on account of the man
ner in which his speech was printed the next
day after his second assailing speech = How does
the veracious Captain account for this remark
able gift of penetration ? At Clark's Fork,
as we are informed, he made his first attack
upon US before the copy of his speech was
even i'll the printers hand ; his second attack
at Clover before it was issued from the press
and yet but for the nature of that report, he
would have said nothing about the ENQUIRER
during the canvass ! a remarkable preset
ence, surely Ora very defective memory, to
say the least. ~-.--.
Our friend still labors under the depression
caused by the absence Of "a line of editorial
encouragement" as he now qualities it, in the
ENQUIRER during the stormy days of 1876
We can only construe this commission on ouf
part as a failure to make an editorial appeal
to him to come forth from his secluson and
raise his mighty voice in behalf of his Pros
trate State, While we have shown what this
paper performed in that canvass, I'VE have
also shown that Capt. J. c. Witherspoon spoke
at but one meeting of any consequence in the
county. This was on the occasion of ''bar-
becue" at Pride's Old Mill, and as the burden
of his speech then was that it was ''not
question of principle but one of bread and
meat" the inference now is that he was at.
tracted more by prospective mutton than
desire to rally the people under the banner of
Reform.
With wonderful acuteness, the Captain
asks if the ENQUIRER would have pushed