The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-06-11
AN UNsUsrA1NED DENIAL.

The Columbia Register, as we expected,
pays especial attention to the article of
the INrEL1IeENcER of last week, and
pursues its usual course of yenomous
vituperation. It views the whole field of
its. differences with the INTELL1GENcER,
and as to the first article from which We
dissented, and which gave to the Register
such mortal ofense that journal reiter-
ates:
a*s* The Register, citing the
facts as it received them from many
journals having correspondents in Wash.
ingtop, chose upon the recited facts. to
concur in the censure visited on the Sec
retary. That is, We added our humble
voice to the condemnation of appoint.
ments proceeding on personal fayoritism.
This is all, and positively all, OF our
offending, Y If Mr.. Bayard was
wrongfully charged, It was not our charge,
but that of some Of the most important
and trustworthy journals in the country
in and out of the Democratic ranks
! We have already pointed out that this
statement of the Register is peryersion
of The facts about its first article. 1t did
not upon reoited state of facts censure
Secretary Bayard, but it endorsed state
ment of facts by saying that the criticism
based upon these facts was just what he
deserved. Therefore, it was its charge.
It, may have also been somebody else's
charge, but the Rsgister made the charge
its own, for it alleged that the criticism
was just what the Secretary deserved.
IF it was not based upon true statement
of facts, it was not what the Secretary
deserved; but the Register asserted that
he deserved the censure, without qualif-
cation, and thereby made the charge on
its own account. Here are the Registers
own words, and they show that it had no
qualification in its denunciation
aIt is safe to say that Mr.. Bsyard has
suffered serious loss in the respect and
confidence of Democrats in all parts of
The Union. The storm of criticism which
has befallen the new Secretary for treat
ing his Office as his own personal proper.
ty, emitting him to bestow positions and
preferments on his personal favorites to
the exclusion of others, is just what he
deserves. This sharp criticism of Mr..
Bayard's course, it is said, is approved by
his Cabinet associates. People near home
may profit by Mr.. Bayard's example with
much advantage to themselves. Every
body is about tired of this sort Of thing,
and are going to show their teeth about
st."
No matter where the Register got these
charges, it makes them its own here.
We shall not use epithets here to describe
the yeracity of the writer who penned
these two extracts. They speak for
themselves. Therefore, the INTELL1eEN-
GER in criticising the first article could
not have been far from right, for the
Register has persistently tried to change
the meaning and responsibility for its
unworthy attack upon faithful public
officer. Our Columbia critic next says :
'From this original cause of difference
and our sharp retort to the 1NTELL1GEN-
GERS gratuitous censure of our course,
that journal chose to justify, in contra:
diction to the views of almost unani.
NOUS State press, the appointment of
Consul Morgan as favor to Captain
Dawson, a member of the National
Executive Committee.
Really the Register assumes too much
when it imagines our article upon the
Blackville meeting had anything to do
with the original cause of difference
with the Register, and it is very poor
Judge Of newspapers if it thinks the
INTELL1GENcER suppresses an opinion
because a majority Of the press Of the