Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1890-07-03

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the Department., will not insist on
his explanation if his constituents
are satisfied. Is 81 n.
Mr.. NV. Gardner, Jr., comes to
tho front to holp his friend Tillman
out of q tight place. He bought
guano that was short in weight and
then his friend remembers tha6 he
too had done tho same thing; and
Hike suffering lambs they bleat out
their tale of woe when the friend
wants Office. Didnot Mr.. Gardner.
like Capt. Tillman, buy his guano in
the State Of Georgia. Should he
not lodge his complaint in that State ?
In any evont | will bo glad if he
will show mo any authority in the
Act creating tho Department of
Agriculture that would justify mo in
suing manufacturer Tor not putting
full 200 pounds in each sack of qua
no sold either in this State or in
Georgia.
/ AS well to ask mo to sue a grocer
| who gavc Gardner three pounds of
sugar for five pounds. Tho remedy
for that sort Of swindling is, as every
sensible man knows, prosecution un-
der the common law in every State,
and every purchaser has his remedy.
/ This charge is on par with another,
made some limo since III tic pres
cncc of Mr.. j. E. Tindal and Mr..
| w. A. Ancrum. Captain Tillman
then charged similar failure to dis
charge my duty because he had
bought cotton seed meal adulterated
with rosin and his friend had bought
cotton seed meal adulterated with
hulls. At the time the charge was
made Captain Tillman knew that
both lots had been purchased in
Georgia, and yet he endeavorcd to
injurc the Department. by charge
that he knew to be utterly unjust
and untrue
| Now, Mr.. 0. L. Connor, this time
of Lancaster, says one Of my clerks
told him that "when the phosphate
companies failed in coming up to the
analysis 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
whenever The analyses are below the
guarantee, the results are published
i'll spite of the begging, unless it is
conclusively shown that the analysis
or the inspection has done injustice,
and such cases are exceedingly 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 arc dated May 31st, juno 3d
and June 9th respectively. All
since Captain Tillman mad his
charges at Anderson. Therefore 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 lie made II. This explains,
also, why my letter has not been an
swcred before.
regret that | have not a copy of
Tillman's bill which he had intro
duced and says provided fine and
imprisonment for manufacturers of
fertilizers, but | have copy of his
bill proposing to turn over the ana
! lytical work of the State to his ag-
ricultural college, and in that bill no
such provision occurs. My friend
Youmans and myself may have
killed his little bill, we were so in
tucntial, without knowing his good
points. If so, it was through igno-
rance, and not through malice, rs I
will try to show in regard to another
matter.
Captain Tillman has been for
years talking about re- organizing tho
Department of Agriculture. Finally
the mon whose influence he breads
so much decided they would help
him in this work. Col. Youmans
drafted the bill, and all who had
anything to do with it tried to put
into it every good suggestion that
anybody, including Capt. T'illman,
had made. We adopted ten mem
bcrs as Capt Tillman suggested, we
took in farmers Institutes, we pro-
vided for State farmers convention
and we kept everybody but farmers
off the Board. The Legislature did