The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-11-18


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your paper arc doing enough for aS?',
! IL the paper had not been rendering GILL
cicnt and we'll directed support would inns re;
! ii,ark have been made? Or if the editor and
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fercd to subscribe money To defeat the lhreat.
! nnctl Injustice to his country friends, VINO hau
| stood by him and his paper III trying ulhc,
and recorded, ~ grand victory for the Teinpcr,
ancc cause by n majority of BIS votes within
the ranks Of the Democratic party.
| So Mr.. Galloway will please observe tiitt
the "I)uth'' did not "Score one here" and that
| his remarks arc both untrue and unklnd, after
being lIlly Informed in an extended cohvcl'
Satiou, as TO our reasons for opposing Inc lux.
The next. place Mr.. Galloway struck was
Nh. ".AJducrs s. office where he met Gov. Hal
good eS Senator CalicSon. Major Lewis Jones
and other gentlemen whom he docs not
name Here he ".Or the first time learned the
true situation.' although he has already de-
clared that the colored BARRIERS statement Is
.lhe situation about as well rs u can he tod,
and under the inspiration OF his bltter: hes
tility to those who opposed the levElhs ol Il
- per cent. tAX uron he farmers of the town.
ship, lie is moved to pity the poor little town
OF Aiken. which is in the clutches or the
"airiy lou, DRtch clcmenf' which iiEe 'the
coils of ~ GoicoHn:a, is Gra11,ually ,1,y sqoccz'hs
and sapping the life b!oM!!'
Reader please tell us whatknd ofan animal
is a 'stroErondat" :" We have heard of Il king
dom in In lila of that name, famous all the
we heard of an animal or snake or that
namc!! We suppose, however, that this un-
fortunate gentlemen meant to compare our
thrifty and cntcrprising German frichdS 10 a
terrible snake known rs the Anaconda tnat
cruShcs everything that comes within lls
coils, but in his haste to abuse people got
lost in tic mines o! "GolcohdH.
Unfortunate man! consumed with mlStak
an bajpu made cat GSW (1 bS
others! speak for yourself and tell the pco-
pie of Aiken what you think OF them. 1lcre
it is:
"We pity Aiken As one of the visitors said VIII"
is acquainted with the place: she is = dead Geek IN
the pit Heretofore have not been able T." arpre-
catc the condition nf friends there VII" nave nerh
lahoring so zealolSly Now We ARE. This dirty low,
Dutch element has cnn,,lrte contnl "f the town "l
Aiken. They have all the business houses EXCEPT one
or two They allow no American t" c,ne in. they
arise and crush him ont: II cotton bny'
er comes in they pop cotton up and crush h'n- rs
the thing stands, Aiken. with e50 !nlahitants has one
complete an aaocrat Of Aiken rs the Car of Russia
Alter the he worth SlO; now ~ Is
worth sl5n00O. and is unScrupnous. When Ham
takes SrnE the Germans of Akcn snecs'' and they
cnut,ul the business The whole town Of Aiken is in
the clutches of this Dutch clement and as far rs pros
pcr,y is ned she is in the coils of solcon!a
thai is gradually Suite zi"g and saplng the lie blood
II ever y town needed a r.iroad 1t Is Alkch. We ulu
not !; single house b in: built
Considered as literary effort, the para
graph might certainly occnpy conspicuous
place asa striking curiosity; as q specimen
of incorporate abuse, it would easily obtain
high premium, an us Il statement OF i;tcG IL Is
false from beginning to end. How any one
outside ot n lunatic asylum could haze WIFI
ten such offensive and incXcnsable trash, is
something beyond our comprehension.
The Business Men Of AiAen--.Their
Nationality.
Isitnot unhccoming in one who claims to
ne Il cErl>tai'a gentleman. to stigmatiSc Il
thrifty, upright and patriotic body OF
adopted German citlZcnS as Il set Oh 't01r 0u-
IN Dutch," who tnrottlc enterprise and arc
tryiug to squeeze the lite-U blood Oul OF the
town, which has given them Il friendly home,
and where they have pro>pered by their econ
0my, "OOd-s2nSe &nd enterprise? lhcre are
only eleven German business FIRMS IN AIKEN,
out of Il total Of sevcnty-hve business lrmS.
and yet, Mr.. Galloway says, they have az
the business houses, except one or two In
cluding all occupations, except the hparulns
composed as follows: Eng lShmcn l; Irish
men ]: Canadians 3: Germans il: Ancri-
cans 50; nearly all of The latte: being South
Carolians. OF the eleven German firms, three
of the principal houses have native born Car
Olians in co-WlrtEcr:hip-and what lis still
more notthic Is, That Of these men. VIZ,
Henry Hahn, G. Katie, Henry SCHROEDER. Z.
F. Nurnburgcr and j. II. Busch, before they
had even become naturalized citizens. barred
til cir breasts 10 the storm of battle, in defence
of their adopted State during the late Conied-
crate war. Another there was, by the name
of John BecI,nan, who belonged to this same
patriotic band, but he is now Il prosperous
merchant In our sister State Of Georgia. Does
this looP as If they were 't0W, dtrty Dufch,' nj
only to be scoticd at hy the stranger; or does IL
look as il they were riSht-thlnklnS, honorable
men and patriotic citizens?
The Germans Of Aiken Did not Con-
sort with the Honorable Paris
SimpAins in IS7e-.What the Rail-
road Men Eid in 1858.
And again, in 1876, when our people were
groaning under Il burden imposed by an ig-
norant, Infamous and dishonest negro. carpet.
bag and scaawag radical govcrnment. did
these men consort with the Honorable Paris
Smpkinss Or did they. headed by Henry
Hahn and II, Schroeder join hands with ma
tive Carolinians and strike the manifest OF
blows for tho heathStoncS Of their adopted
mother, contributing freely Of their time and
money, and then asking nothing in return,
but the rcspectand kind feeling of their fcl.
low -citiZcns? Are such men to be jeered and
earth, and s,i-matized as "1oO, dirty Bntch,'
when in fact, they aie reputable men, honor
able merchants and patriotic citizens? 1t
may be done; Lut never without the indig-
nant protest and scornful rcbnle of every
rigbt-thinking, honorable citizen Of Aiken
county!
E1alln's Success Greatly to His Cred
it.
This man Hahn, "thc autocrat of Aiken
the ''Snuit taier' and the ring-lcader Of this
gang OF "iow, dirty Dutch,'' is spit upon by
Mr.. Galloway. because 'aftcr the war he was
worth SO; ROW lac is worth Sl5o,O0O and Is un-
Scrupul0us." IN this great Republican cnun-
try of ours, the small beginning OF the sue
ccsSful man has ever been deemed Onlething
greatly to his credit, and if our friend Hahn
had started with only ten cents instead OF $40,
it would nave been all the moro to his credit,
as it would have illustrated that even greater
sclfcontrol, economy and business Sasacity.
was necessary 10 achieve success imam Win Il
larger amount.
In eur great Republic, Il boot black has
been known to develop into Il United States
senator, and two tai!urs into Presidents, of
face Of the globe, and yet, Mr. i. =. Galloway,
of Due West, den0unccS Mr.. Hahn ms "Hi,ScrH-
pulouS." without assigning any other reason
than that he started business with ten dol
hensible presumption! No man should make c
such Il charge against a fellow citizen without
being able to subStantiate the fact by legal
proof. If Mr.. Galloway had been really look
ing for an inscriptions man, one who bears
the stamp Of iniamy all through the reports
of the fraud commission, he had only to
glance at the Honorable Paris S!mpkinS, who
SpOk G from the same stand on which he sat
on "Wednesday, and who consortcd for two
days with the advocat cs Of an iuiQuitiouS IN
crease of taxation, to the tune srvcnty-tive
per cent upon the farmers OF Aiken Town
ship!
$4,000 worth of New Houses Built
Contract.
Mr. Galloway was so blinded by partisan
ship that he declares he did not see Il single
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