The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-08-13
"Civis's" Reply to DR.. Macune.

To the Editor OF The Herald and
News: I have read in the National
Economist, Of August l, DR.. Macune's
''most ungentlemanly' Ito use his own
language and vituperative reply to a
recent article of mine published in The
Herald and News as well as in the
News and Courier. The Doctor was
evidently very mad when he wrote it,
and had laid aside, for the time be-
ing at least, those excellent traits as a
"Christian gentleman" which we are
assured he possesses. At this we are
not greatly astonished, for the criminal
is apt to think very badly of the detec-
tita xxhnzhnn him down and brings
him to bay. Hence Doctor Macune's
very poor opinion of U. S. Hall, ofMis-
souri,, of Mr. McAllister, of Mississippi,
of Mr.. McGrath, of Kansas, of "Civis''
and others who have been instrumental
in exposing his venal transactions with
Pat. Calhoun in Georgia. I would
ask you to republish his article entire,
as illustrative of the character of the
man who has been proved guilty of at
tempting to sell out the Alliance to one
of Jay Gould's railroad attorneys, and
whom, Notwithstanding, cur farmers
still persist in following so blindly.
But I think so respectable paper as
The Herald and News would object to
soiling its columns with such TRADE
Of calumny and vulgar personal abuse;
"a field in which I have no thought OF
following him myself.
My article, be it remembered, was in
reply to an editorial Of DR.. J. VIM.
Stokes in the Cotton Plant, in which I
showed, not by the evidence of Mr..
Hall or other enemies of DR.. Macune,
but by the admissions of both DR..
Stokes and Mr.. Latimer, both DR..
Macune's defenders, and both I be-
lieve members of the famous Ocala
whitewashing committee, that the
charges against DR.. Macune were true
in every particular.
DR.. Stokes says in his editorial, "Mr.
Calhoun had the money to loan; DR..
Macnne wanted to borrow, he did 6or-
ron Of lNr. Calhoun, (sic); and neither
be nor Mr.. Latimer, both in position
to know, and both anxious to screen
Macune, pretend to deny that he did
both borrow the money and receive
the free railroad pass over the Rich
r1ond Terminal system. Could we
have stronger or more positive evidence
of DR.. Macune's guilt? Then, after re-
ceiving these personal pecuniary favors,
he did, as is notorious, all in his power
to get Calhoun elected to the United
States Senate, thus showing that CAL
houn, though young man, like old
Oakes Ames, of Credit Mobilier noto-
riety, knew where to put his money
$50 it would do most good" My arti-
Gle was mere sitting of the testimony
of others, so to speak; and this was in
brief what it established. I have rco
pretended to know anything of my
own personal knowledge.
In his very ill-natured reply Macune
does not pretend to deny or attempt to
refute anything whatever in my article;
but confines himself to low vulgar
abuse of "Civis," as if that were his
entire stock in trade.
Well, now, would like to inform DR..
Macune that abuse from such a man as
this Georgia transaction has proved
him to be, does not in the least disturb
the mental equanimity of "Civis." On
the contrary "Civis' is rather proud Of
the enemy he has made, and enjoys the
writhing and squirming and contor-
tions of such a man under the exposure
to open daylight of his venality and
corruption 1t shows better than any
thing else could that "Civis" has hit
him in vital spot. Truth hurts worse
than fiction sometimes, and this seems
to be case in point. Macune had
fondly hoped that his conduct had
been so deeply covered with whitewash
at Ocala that no more would be heard
fit. But instead be finds that in a
few short months the whitewash is all