The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1890-06-26

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C0nner's knowledge. But if 1t WA:
know II to Mr.. Conmor, he might easily
have reported the matter to this Office
and thus secured action in the matter
or have concluSively shown that dc
not enforce the law. AS it stands 1t Is !;
question between Mr.. Common or his
informant and the sampler, and cannot
be satisfactorily settled But Mr.. Common
fully and amply justities the depart
ment and the LEGISLATURE in another
way. He says: 40 notice, however
was taken of the same by the depart
m4nt, and Mr. Copes sent the guanC
away, as he was completely boycottco
and could not continue business
Why was Mr.. Copes boycotted: simp
ly, as Mr.. Connor writes Capt. Tillman
because the department italicized the
deficient guano. Was it no punishment
to Mr.. Copes to be h0ycotted and have
his business ruined? Was it no injury
to the manufacturers to have their
goods returned to them? Capt. Tillman
saws that mot one farmer in fifty"
sees these publications. Is Mr.. Connor
a farmer? If not, why was Mr.. Copes
bovcotted: We know that the opera
ton and the result Of our method OF
italiZiny deficient brands was as Mr..
C0un0r stated, but we had no hope OF
proving it so clearly by Capt. Tillman
or his witnesses.
4 QUESTION FOR MIR. CONNOR.
Mr.. Conner has been member OF
the Legislature for the past two years.
Will he now, since he has entered this
fight, explain what efforts he has made
in the Legislature to cure the defects IN
the law, or what he has done to protect
the farmers against swindling fertilizer
companies But since he has proven
himself so good Il witness for the depart
ment. will not insist on his eXplana-
ton if his constituents are satisfied.
Mr.. ;. ". Gardner, Jr., comes to the
front to help his friend Tillman out ola
tight place. He bought guano that was
short in weight and then his friend re-
members that he, too, had done the
same thing, and like suffering lambs
they beat out their tale of woe when
the friend wants office. Did not Mr..
Gardner, like Capt Tillman, buy his
guano in the State Of Georgia: Should
he not lodge his complaint in that
State? In any event | will he glad If
he will shcw me any authority IN the
Act creating the department OF agricul-
ture that would Justify me in suing Il
manufacturer for not putting full 2C0
pounds in each sack of guanO sold
either in this State or in Georgia.
AS we'll ask me to sue a grocer who
gave Gardner three pounds Of sugar for
five pounds. The remedy for that sort
of swindiing is, as every sensible man
knows, prosecution under the common
law in every State, and every purchaser
has his remedy.
TILLMAN BUYS IN GEORGIA.
This charge is on par with another
made some time since in the presence
of Mr.. J. +. Tindal and Mr.. w. \.
.Ancrum. Capt. Tillman then charged
similar failure to discharge my duty
because he had bought cotton seed
meal adulterated with resin and his
neighbor had purchased cotton seed
adulterated with hullS. At the time
the charge was made Capt. Tillnlan
knew that both lots had been purch-
ased in Georgia, and yet he endeavored
to injure the department by a charge
that he knew to be utterly unjust and
untrue!
Now, Mr.. O. +. Connor, this time of
Lancaster, says one of his clerks told
him that when the phosphate compa,
nies failed in coming up to the anaIy.
sis required by law they would beg
off, What the clerk probably said to
Mr.. Connor was that they tried to beg
off. And the clerk was right, and Mr..
Connor is right. But whether the an
alyses are below the guarantee, the re-
suits are published in spite Of the beg
ging, unless it is cOncluSively shown
that the analysis or the inspection has
done injustice, and such cases are eX-
cec3!ngly rare. For the past ten years
they can be named on the fingers.
So much for the certificates. 1t
should be noticed, however, that these
are dated May 81, June 3 and June S
respectively-all since Capt. Tillman
made his charges ut Anderson. There
fore his charges at Anderson were not
based on these certificates, and he has
failed beyond dispute to prove that he
had any evidence of any kind upon
which to base his original charge at
the time he made it. This also eX-
plains why my letter has not been an
swered before.
regret that | have not a copy of
Tillman's bill which he had intro
duced and says provided fine and i'm
prisonment for manufacturers Of ferti-
liZers, but l have copy of his bill
proposing to turn over the analytical
work of the State to his Agricultural
College, and in that bill no such pro-
vision occurs. My friend Ioumans
and myself may have killed his little
bill, we were so influential, without
knowing its good points. If so, it was
through ignorance, and not through
malice, as / twill try to show in re-
gard TO another matter.
Capt. Tillnlan has been for years
talking about reorganiZing the depart
me.,t OF agriculture. Finally, the men
whose influence he breads SO much de-
ciGed they would help him in this
work. Col. Ioumans drafted the bill,
and all who had anything to do with
it tried to put into it every good sug-
geStion that anybody, including Capt.
Tillman, had made. We adopted ten
members, rs Capt. Tillman suggested,
we took in Farmers institutes, we pro-
vided for State farmers conventions
and we kept everybody but farmers Off
the board. The Legislature did every
thing it was asked to Do, and we
thought Capt. Tillnlan had every
change he wished. Only one failure
from his standpoint could be pointed
ou'-he failed of election on the board
and that was sufficient to puta plank
in his March platform abolishing the
department. His silly charge that the
department is controlled by lawyers,
etc, is absolutely untrue. There is not
4 professional man on the board. or
connected with it in any way. The
Legislature, to please Capt. TilInan
possibly, put all farmers on the board,
but they refused to Stultify themselves
by putting Capt. Ti!lman on it, and so
OF course he is not happy.
Let us follow Capt. Tillman to his
second attempt 1T specific charges, and
answer them in order.
First. "Why did rot the Attorney