The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-08-01

SpuCClnS. am Wllhug That the pup
lie shall decide whether or not / have
misrepresented your committee. You
are at liberty to publish this CORES
pondence from beginning to end and
The letter of MIR. Gonzales, published
in the News and Courier of May 10th
with it, but it must be all published.
Very respectfully,
SAMPSON POPE.
GREENvILLE; S. c., July II, 1890.
DR.. Sampson Pope, Newberry, S. G.
Dear Sir: I am just in receipt of
your favor of the 10th inst. I regret
that you did not see proper to in
form yourself as to the facts before
introducing the resolutions into the
County Convention. You seem un-
fortunate also in not being able to
procure copy of the News and
Courier of May 10th, as that seems
to be your authority for making the
positive statement to which your at
tention has been called, namely, that
the State Executive Committee by q
vote of thirteen to one refused to Or
der State primary. In order that
you may learn, at this late day, what
N. G. g. said in his correspondence
on the 10th of May, will quote the
paragraph in full: "The members of
the Democratic State Committee left
for their homes today. While they
have taken no official action in the
matter, and have endeavored to make
no discrimination in favor of either
tho Tillmanites or the Anti Tillman-
ties, 1t is an open secret that the
members of the committee regard
the Tillman movement, as organized
and pressed, a serious menace to
the soidity of the Democratic party,
and that none of the fourteen who
gathered here last night are support
ers of Tillman, except Mr.. Gary, of
Abbeville."
I do not know the source from
which Mr.. Gonzales received the in
formation, and which was evidently
obtained after the members had left
the city, but I do not doubt the cor
rectness Vi nis statement. Yet what
is the relevancy between his state
ment and the declaration you made,
deliberately and without qualification,
that the State Executive Committee
had refused by vote Of thirteen
to one to order State primarya You
are obliged to admit that there is no
connection whatever between the
statement of Mr.. Gonzales and the
declaration contained in your resolu-
tions. Because thirteen out of four
teen were opposed to Mr.. Tillman, as
q matter of fact, is no justification
whatever for an absolute declaration
that is utterly grorlndless and with
out the shadow of foundation. The
thirteen members who are thus mis-
represented by you have just as much
right to oppose Mr.. Tillman as you
have to support him, and to distort
their opposition to him as being
against primary is one of the very
queer features of this campaign. I
repeat again that no such action was
taken on the question of q primary
election on the 9Th of May, or any
thing akin to it, and the statement
contained in your resolutions is en-
tirely baseless and gratuitous. There
fore, you had no right to infer from
the correspondence of N. q. G. "that
vote on calling convention for
primary had been taken, and that it
stood 13 against and for" It fol-
lows that there could be no denial of
thing which never existed, and it is
plain enough that your authority
disproves your own assertion.
The only vote by yeas and nays on
that occasion was upon the date for
holding the nominating Convention.
Some favored September 3rd and
others September 10th, which was
offered as substitute, and the vote
was upon a motion to lay on the ia
ble-ayes 8 and nays 8. The substi-
tute (September 1Oth) was then adop-
ted.
I am not writing at random, but
with an exa.. ,opy of the minutes be.
fore me, nor am / taking so much
pains to correct your egregious error
on account of any personal reasons
but because you succeeded in getting
the endorsement of the Newberry
Democratic Convention, thereby
giving the declaration an importance
in did otherwise possess.
/ cannot close without giving 6
moment to the extraordinary query
contained in your last favor, wherein
you say: "Is it not possible, then
that an outside agreement was had
on the question, and decided so al
to avoid the question coming up il
the meeting9" The members of the
State Executive Committee have al
ways shown the courage andmanlinest
to act openly and in accordance witt
| their convictions, and the insinua
tion you make is only another injus
tice added to the injury already done
There is not the slightest shadow OF
pretext for this violent suppositior
on your part, which is in keeping
with the spirit of your resolutions.
i will furnish this correspondence,
| to the newspapers, 80 that the pub
lie may Judge as to your course IL