The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-08-21
THE LAKE CITY PosToFFlcE.
Indignation Of the People, Mass Meet
ing Resolves TO Boycott the Office and
to Petition the Postmaster General Tor
paIinf

ing Resolves TO Boycott the Ofice ana
to Petition the Postmaster General Tor
Relief.
At meeting of the citizens of Lake
City, held in the Academy, on August
19, for the purpose of expressing their
indignation at the appointment of
DR.. NJ. Kelly postmaster, and at the
manser in which said appointment
was made, the following preamble
and resolutions We're unanimously
adopted:
Whereas, in january last the post
Office at Lake City, Williamsburg
County, State OF South Carolina, be-
ing abandoned by the postmaster, R.
D. Rollins took charge Of said post
Office 70, the sureties of said post
master and conducted the affairs OF
the Office to the complete satisfaction
of ali; that in February last, in mass
meeting assembled, the citizens OF
this town and patrons Of this office
almost, if not quite, unanimously Sc
lected him, the said r. D. Rollins, as
postmaster and recommended his ap-
pointment to that office; that upon
this recommendation and petition said
R. D. Rollins was appointed rostmas-
ter and his bond duly executed and
filed in the proper office in Washing
ton, and continued in charge of said
office until August II, making an able
and efficient officer and giving salts
faction to all with whom he had deal
ings.
Whereas, some time since DR. NJ.
Kelly secretly circulated a petition tol
his appointment as postmaster; that
said petition was totally unknown to
a very large majority, nearly all, ol
the citizens of this town and patrons
of this Office, which is not less than
one thousand, and that he claims that
thirty or more, some ladies, signed
that petition; that when parties were
asked to sign this petition they We're
requested not to mention it; that DR.
NJ. Kelly was appointed postmaster
few days since and is now acting in
that capacity; that on the back of the
bond which was sent NJ. Kelly to be
filled was written the words ''R. D
Rollins, abandoned Office" which is
totally and unequivocally false.
Whereas, DR.. NJ. Kelly, as postmas.
ter, aside from politics, is the most
Objectionable man for that position
that co2ld have been found in eastern
South Carolina, and is not at all &C
ceptable to the patrons of this Office
that we believe the Administration
has been misled by the fale represen
tations of some designing person OF
persons unknown to US to secure this
appointment. Therefore, be it
Resolved, That we feel aggrievec
and feel that the wishes and feeling:
of the decent people of this commu'
nifty have been disregarded in the
making of this appointment.
| Be It further resolved, That we vii
not patronize this office by mailing
our letters at this place, and that W.
will employ some suitable and reliable
person by whom we will send all mai
matter 10 the nearest postotfice.
Be it further resolved, That we re
spectfully petition the postmaster gen
eral that, for Gods sake and that o
our country, he remove this our atflic
ton and not further impose upon u:
by the continuation of the said NJ
Kelly in office.
Be it further resolved, That these
be ps3sjshed in the Lake
u; rvs-s.> >-<.-
Times, Manning Times, The News ant
Courier, and Sun, as these papers have
circulation in this community.
4. H. WILLIAMS, Chairman.