The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1884-06-19
THAT PETITION.

to this county by superintendent
Of Education Coward. Last week,
three weeks afterwards, the HER
AID and the Meas reply to the
article, and do so in such way as
to lead one who had not read the
Observers article, or having read it
had forgotten it, to infer that the
Observer had perverted the facts in
the case. The HERALD ''fears' that
our article ''was construed as in
dicating that the work Of obtaining
signers was abandoned because the
sentiment Of our community was
against it" Itproceeds to give its
own version "as a matter Of fact
While the HERALD does not charge
the Observer in so many words
with saying the petition was aban-
doned because the sentiment Of the
community was against it, nor that
it was chilled by public sentiment,
vet, it's editorial being in the nature
of a reply to ours, that is the In
ference.
Our remarks were not in the na-
ture Of a reply to the Observer; the
HERALD did not speak Of the o.
serrer'S article so as to lead any
one to infer that facts had been
perverted; and it did not charge
our contemporary with anything,
either directly or inferentialiy. The
HERALD said nothing about the
matter until it found that the o.
Server's article had been construed
by persons in Newberry ':as indi-
eating that the work of obtaining
signers was abandoned because the
sentiment Of our community was
against it." and it feared that it
would be so construed elsewhere.
This explains why our remarks
were published three weeks after
the OJserrer's article.
The HERALD did not proceed
to give it's own version "as matter
of fact" It obtained its facts from
the citizen who carried the petition
around, and the Observer has not
vet said that those facts are incor-
rectly stated. We said that the
petition was presented to some
twelve persons. the majority of
whom signed it; the Observer says
that it was presented to eleven per-
sons six Of whom signed it. Our
contemporary might have added
that one Of the five refused to sign,
on the sole ground that he feared
that it was an attempt to injure
Senator Butler--he has since signed
the petition; another refused, not
that ho was opposed to national
aid, but because he had not decided
about the matter; two of the others
were in the same Office with the
gentleman who had the petition in
hand. and he knew their views be-
fore he presented the petition to
them the fifth was too busy to talk
about the petition, but would have
signed it, and has since done
so. Of the nine to whom the petit
ton was presented outside the gen
tleman's own Office, we may say
that not one was opposed to it.
The HERALD knew most Of these
facts three weeks ago.
We esteem our contemporary,
and if we ever have charges to
make against him, we promise
that they shall be plain and specific.
We think that a more careful exam
ination Of the matter will convince
him that he has no cause Of quar-
rel with the HERALD.
The Obsercer'& words, to which
the HERALD referred three weeks
after they were published are as
follows:
One Of the blank petitions was
sent to School Commissioner Boyd
at Prosperity several days ago. AT
ter some effort, Mr.. Boyd succeeded
in getting taro signatures to the pc
tition. Becoming discouraged he
sert the petition to q citizen Of the
town of Newberry, and asked him
to carry it around. He did not
meet with much encouragement,
and not having time to devote to
the matter, he returned the petition
to Mr.. Boyd. When it is re-
membered how easy it is to Sc
cure signatures to almost any
sort Of petition, the above facts
indicate very strongly if they do
not prove, that the people Of this
section are opposed to national aid
to education, especially in the shape
Of the Blair bill.
Our contemporary will Of course
state what the HERALD stated a
week ago, that petition exactly
like the one mentioned here has
since been sent to Col. Aiken from
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