The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-06-03
ALEXANDER's REJoINDER.

Prof. Alexander Wednesday gave to
the press the following reply to the
statement of Governor Tillman in let
tiers, but more especially to the second
the one submitted for publication, but
as unsatisfactory:
As Governor Tillman has at last pub
lished the entire correspondence be-
tween US it is due to him and to the
pub.ic that l should explain why the
Statement that he submitted to me for
publication in lieu Of the letter that he
refused to allow me to publish was not
satisfactory. One has only to compare
the two papers 20 see why the one last
written was unsatisfactory, but 1t WILL
not lie amiss to set forth the principal
reasons explicitly. This l shall do as
briefly as possible.
First. Governor Tillmbn in order to
make out a case has manufactured his
facts. BY such a process any case
whatever could be made out. He says:
'When the trustees met on April Il,
1891, a majority report and minority re-
port had been prepared suggesting a
plan Of reorganization This IS true.
He proceeds.
SIN both Of these The chairs aChich
you hold ecere abolished and the Statdtes
dicided a7aC added to other classes"
This is not true. and no one ought to
know better that it is not true than
Governor TiIlman himself. Both these
reports were published, both were sub
mitted to every member of the board
for their careful consideration, both
were doubtless closely examined and
deeply pondered by Governor TIllman,
both are now accessible. Let Governor
rillman show that the majority report,
which is the real report of the execn-
tive committee, abolished my chair; on
the contrary, it was proposed to that
committee (aS the minority report ne
cessarily implies) to abolish my chair,
as well as to do a number of unwlse
things, and the proposal was deliberate
ly r'jected by four out of committee
of five.
Mr.. May6eld, in presenting the report
of the executive committee, spoke for
every member of that committee but
one when he reported that the chair Of
logic and rhetoric should be retained in
its integrity. That Mr.. Clark'S imprac-
ticaole scheme embodied in the minOri-
ty report had very little influence with
the board is evident from the fact that
nearly every one Of his characteristic
recommendations was rejected.
During both conferences and the
ten days that intervened my religious
opinions are the things. and the only
things, that will eventually sever my
connection with the college," that will
cause men to cry out for my dismissal,
etc, etc. After the whole thing is over
it turns out that both reports of the
executive committee recommended the
abolition of my chair. and that such
abolition was a foregone conclusion
from the beginning! Are Governor
Tiilman and Mr.. Jones so put to it to
make out a case for themselves that
the Speaker of the House Of Represen-
tatives must distort and caricature
facts uutil they do not know them
selves, and that the Governor of the
State must manufacture them out OF
the whole cloth9
Second, as the editor the State has al
ready pointed out, there is a fat con-
tradicJion between the whole spirit
of the first paper and that of the Sec
ond. Looking here upon this picture
and on that" In the first 'the frank
avowal of my religious views will inev-
itably sever my connection with the
college," in the second those views have
nothing to do with my removal.
In the first my views "will cause men
to cry out for my Dismissal" in the
second Governor Tillman cannot see
any ground for the cry of religious in
tolerance which has been raised"
In the first am warned to expect
persecution and sorrow as my lot;;" in
the second ''you and your co-religion-
lists have no cause for complaint that L
can see.'
But enough; no vender of patent
medicines could get up a more striking
contrast Of before and latter" taking
than our Governor has done in these
two papers. Such evasion is unworthy
of him. Had I received his second pa
per before l penned my letter Of May
q I could not have written ''you have
been frank and Straightforward in your
whole course in the matter" For while
l was writing these very words. and re-
joicing that I could write them. the
Governor was utterly changing his
policy. W. j. ALEXANDER.