The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1892-08-25
WHAT MR.. ChIIDS SAYS
IN ANSWER TO Mr.. NETT.ES' RE.
CENT LETTER.


sitton Defned---Mr. Childs rnlk- y,ry
Plainly.
10 Mr.. S. A. Nettles, Nam inv, :. c.,
Sir: Your communication q ted Aug
ust 2 J, covering a printed copy or IN
open letter to me rs chairlI an of the
Prohibition Executive Comm .ttee, pub
llshcd III the daily papers OF Charles.
ton and Columbia August ~, came to
hand the day alter such publ cation
Your letter, If not designrd to give
aiG and comfort TO the entm as of pro-
hibitiOn, was certainly rerartrd by the
papers to which yOu sent it for publ.
cation as admirably ada yte'i to such
use, If | am 20 judge by the SENSATIONAL
head lines which they adapt ed to her.
aid it to their readers.
, | should not have thruGt that il
needed any furthur notice 1t ny hands
than the simple acknowledge ntnt thai
1T had been rtcelVe,', but fC.' the fact
that you have made it the W licle OF Il
charge OF deception against .yselfand
the comm ice, which Is att !rly with
out foun alton Ill fact, as | shall pro-
coed to show. This teaturr OF YOUR
comnI2'ication compelS me, ..rluctHnt
ly, TO meet your charge IN Sc uihlic
manner which you have adopted for
making it; hence address yo through
Inc columns of the daily papers III
which your letter appeared
AS to what you have 10 say to the
public of your differences with tks, COLI
vention during the discussi0 IS of that
body, L shall take no rotlCr, as it does
not touch the points III your letter
which are necessary TO be not .ced.
Your specific allegation, stripped Of
sab nvfr
cutive committee, in demanuing that
candidates for the Legisla,,,ce should
pledge themselves to vote fcH prohibl-
tion legislation. have departed from the
platform Of the convention, and that
you have been deceived by them, IN
that they led you to believe That they
would do no such thing.
The statement of a few facts WILL |
think, he sufficient to convince any un-
prejudiced mind that the charge YOU
have made is utterly without founda-
tiOn.
state as Il fact that the convention,
after free and full discussion, adopted
your suggestion Of a ballot box, divest-
cd of any convention which woulu give
color to your idea that the result of the
vote in it WAS designed to bird the can-
didates for the Legislature for or
against Prohibition.
| state, us a further ftci, that the
convention adopted as a part of its adj
dress the recommendation hat "the
people demand that the cahd dates for
the House and Senate place t.. rmselves
on record on this question, ~ the end
that tho prohibition votes of The coun-
try may be intelligently cast
state, as additional facts, that yon
returned to the convention, signitied
y0ur -niU+-t with its ACTON, was
placed on the executive CONN. iitte and
made chairman Of the committee for
your own county, and were erected sec
retary and treasurer of the committee.
You expressed by word anG act, your
Willingness to cooperate in The work
of organizing the movement III the sew
eral counties of the State in accordance
with the purpose of the convention,
and when |, as chairman of he eXecu. .
tive committee, sought and obtained,
through Chairman Irby, the agreement
Of the Democratic committee, to place
the boxes at the polls of the lirst prim-
AIRY, and to question caudl, Ates rs to
their status on the question CT prohlbi-
ton, you wrote me on the y :hlication
OF that correspondence to hich you
referred, "Allow me to COZ gratuiate
you Oh your very successful manage
ment OF the lrby correspondence The
closing sentence Of Mr.. IIUyi letter on
the subject reads: CAS- Chi ,rman of
tho State Democracy, | can ollv recog-
niZe the request OF the Stat, prOhibl-
tiOn Convention, and while think it
would have been better to cal ry ont the
idea of not catechisiDg the C 'ndidateH,
yet realize that MIR. Nettles could not
bind the State Convention hch net
afterwards. Consequently, l hall have
the boxes placed all over thGS ste with
out demanding any condition. OF the
prohibition element"
With full knowledge tllar this Ian
guage Of Mr.. lrby meant tina his COM
mittee, in view Of the facts, lad reject
ell your offer to place the ,xes 3rith
condition that candidates were not to
be "CatGChised" on proIiui, ,lon, and
agreed TO the request Of tn, cOnvel-
tion to allow the boxes 0Itl the Ques-
tiOning of candidates, alth' ugh you
thought that Mr.. lrby had cone even
farther than you expected o" dcSired,' -
your congratulations were rendered
Notwithstanding. And yet sou make
the Charge that in carrying cut this as
The plan and purpose of the CO lventlon.
L anu the convention have deceived
you.
wish to state as a fact, that within
~" NSSo "AICl tut puUllCalNOl Oh lhG
correspondence with Mr.. Irbr. and the
reception of your letter Of cOngratnla-
tlOn, III Il personal conference 1T Colum.
bia you agreed to the general plan for
organizing the wOik IN the several
counties, and that the result of that
conference was formulated in a circular
addressed to the Prohibition County
Executive Committee" IA copy Of which
was sent to you, and which contained
the following suggestion for their guild
anCe:
"The objective point in all our work
Is TO secure an undUubted majority in
each branch of the next GeneI Al Assem-
bly, pledged to vote for So,Ac proper
measure for State Prohibition. Ia pur-
suance OF this object, let it Uc your first
duty to ascertain, as soon as - candi-
gate Is announced, whether or not he Is
IN 1aVOr OF our movement, aHd secure
from MIN this assurance in writing If
possible, or by some unequiyocai public
utterance. If he declnrs ar fails 10
take this position, let him understand
that we are seeking TO enlist the co.
operation or good Democrats IN the
fight, and that to be outsp ken and