The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1886-06-09
Abbcville and the Congressman.

The Abbcvillc Messenger quotes our
article of list week in reference to Judge
Cothran:s being brought into the race
fnr Congress to hold the representa-
tive in that county. and says:
We would like for our neighbor to
uamc the papers which have made the
statements. The editor OF the Intelli-
@cncer certainly knows Judge Cothran
well enough to know that he would not
enter the race with any such motives.
ii he is .hr best qualified man in the dis
iricf ior Congress and it is univer-
sally admitted that he is-he ought to be
our representative even If he were born
in Africa. The demand for him to enter
the race has come. Is much, II not more,
from other counties in the district, as
from Abbcville, and the uaanimity with
which lie will DC nominated will prove
the truth Of our assertion.
F. Tell us. pray, when is this continual
runniny down OF men, simply because
:lev are Abbcville men, to cease? Has
it become Il political crime to be born in
the county that gave birth to Calhoun,
McDntlic and others equally we'll noted
in the history of our State? Does it dis
qualify Il man from holding political
Office, because his home is in AbbeYllle ?
Il would seem 50, when such ably con-
tluctcd papers as the Anderson Intelli-
gcncer is willing to use its columns in
that direction.
Tie remarks Of the Intelligencer are
unfair to Judge Cothran, and places him
in a position he would not occupy under
any circumstances.
We would say to our friends OF the
Messenger that the ground upon which
we made the statement was an article in
tie Anderson Journal, which said:
We learn that there is {; movement on
foot at Abbeville c. II. to secure Judge
Cothran's consent for his name to 60
before the convention for nomination as
the Democratic candidate for Congress
in this district in case Col. Aiken's state
OF health will not permit him to be in
the field. Abberille purposes to stand
by Col. Aiken if he is in the field, as we
are informed, but if he should be out it
is deemed certain that Judge Cothran's
name is the only chance to hold the rep
rcSrntatve in Abbevllle County.
This paragraph was copied into differ
cnt papers in the district and out OF it,
and for near three weeks not one word
OF disclaimer was uttered from any
source. The paragraph was copied, We
believe, in one or more papers at ADoe-
vile, and their acquiescence in the state
ment By silence naturally induced the
impression that Abbevlle's position was
correctly stated. We have not uttered
one word OF ccnsure for Judge Cothran,
but We did dissent from the idea that
AbbcyilIc sh0iild call into requisition
the services of Judge Cothran merely to
enable her to retain the Congressman.
Judge Cothran may be unanimously
nominated for all that we know, and it
so. we are satisfied that the Interests OF
the district will not suffer, for we know
him to BE- an able gentleman, and we
like him, but in all candor we think Alb
bcvillc has had and still has enough.
The Associate Justice, the Circuit Judge
under two men. one OF the Code Com
miSsioncrS. Solicitor and member of Con-
%rcSs for ten years are a pretty good
share for one county, and it is no dis
arrangement OF Abbeville men to say that
some other men should have some show
inc in the honors OF the State. Ander-
sou and Oconee have never had any
thing. and Ncwberry and Pickens have
had very little. Therefore it is not in
disDaragement of Abbeville men, but in
defense Of other men, that we wrote.
II the Messenger will show us where We
have ever said or done one single act
10 run dowa .Abbcville men we will be
rIad to make amends. They are as
homorahle. as intelligent, and as high
toned as the men Of any other county,
but ii they combine to hold everything
in Ahbcville we think they might reas-
onablv expect the other counties to
combine to secure little in the distri-
button OF the public oftices.-Anderson
Mteliycncr. June 3rd.