The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-10-01
OUT OF WHOLE CLOTH.

Under the headline "Is it true?" The
Newberry Herald and News prints an
anonymous correspondence, no-date,
nowhere, in which occurs the follow
ing:
II was III Walhalia few days ago,
and bad conversation with one OF the
directors of the Oconee News. The
director told me that J. VIM. Stokes,
of the Cotton Plant. refused to ex-
change with the Oconee News, because
the Oconee News was an Alliance paper
end had taken some subscribers from
the Cotton Plant.n
AS matter of fact, if We have ever
refused to exchange with the Oconee
News, we do not know it. We do
know that We ordered it upon our list
of exchanges. We get the News occa-
sionly, and supposed the Cotton Plant
was going to the News office. We do
not know that the News has taken any
of our subscribers; but If 1t has, we
cheerfully say that We don't know any
paper we would rather benefit by our
loss. Whenever any OF our subscribers
III Pickens conclude to leave US, we
will regret to part with them, Of course;
but trust they will always take some
other true Alliance paper.
But suppose we had rated the News
as rival (Which we certainly did not
what common sense relation would our
refusal to exchange with rival bear to
fairmindedness. We are not surprised
the originator Of so verdant an idea
should write from nowhere, no date,
and be ashamed to sign his name.
We trust The Herald and News will
illustrate the fairness it breaches so
well to Us and answer the question it
asked in that headline.-Cotton Plant.
Certainly, with pleasure, headline
and all. Remember now that the
headline to this article is that Of the
Cotton Plant and not OF The Herald
and News. We will do more, too, and
say to the Cotton Plant, that the writer
Of the squib il question lives some
where, and is not ashamed 10 sign bis
name and that he is ready to substanti-
ate what he said, to wit: thata director
of the Oconee News Co. gave him the
information. His name is Warren G.
Peterson. His post office addres is
Belmont, S. c., Newberry County. He
lives some ten or twelve miles west Of
Newberry, and is 2 farmer. Further,
he is an honest, upright and truthful
citizen, means what he says ard says
what be means, and is not ashamed to
sign his name to any statement he may
make. We do not know whether he
belongs to the Alliance or not.
But the truth Of the statement in
question is between the director ofthe
Oconee News and the Cotton Plant.
Mr.. Peterson got bis information as he
said from s director Of the News Pub
fishing Co. That director is Mr.. John
S. Floyd, of Oconee County, q member
Of the Alliance, strong advocate Of
the Alliance demands. The Herald
News does not know his post office ad-
dress, but supposes the Cotton Plant
does, as he is subscriber to that publ
cation, and in order to get clippings
from it for the News he has to cut them
from his paper, and he gave Mr.. Peter
son the information that the Cotton
Plant would not exchange. This was
about the 18th Of August.
The editor of The Herald and News
has not seen NJ. Peterson in some time
and obtained the above information at
the time ne handed Us the squib, as we
thought possibly there was some mis-
take.
Is the Cotton Plant satisfied with
this illustration of fairness? It's all
wool and yard wide.
We would like to suggest that the
Cotton Plant keep cool. There is no
use getting excited. The correspon-
dents of The Herald and News are real,
live, living beings, who live somewhere,
and write at some time and are not
ashamed Of what they write. The
Herald and News not only breaches
fairness, but it practices it.