Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-11-03

that the dispatch was afrom Char
Ileston.'' But admitting that tn
Financial Chronicle could have
been mistaken in its statement
can any one in his senses beiiev'
that Governor Tillman could have
been mistaken in 3 matter ii
4 which he was 80 much interested
or that he could have been deliber
ately lying when. he said in hi
interview, which the News ant
Courier starts out by quoting, tina
ssto further this object telegram
was sent from Charleston anc
published in the New York papers
the day after we reached there
asserting that ne were in favor O
thei issne of A per cent bonds tt
redeem the 6 per cent bonds, and
the issue of new bonds to the
amount of 81, 100000 to toke ur
the fraudulent bondss" Does any
Zone believe that if such a telegram
was published concerning his visit,
Governor Tillp1an would not have
seen, read ard marked the date
line of it so clearly as not to have
read "Charleston" for "Colum-
lbia?n
The News and Courier is equally
laundering and disingenuous in
trying to shift the responsibility
to Columbia and to the Register.
What possible motive could Gov
ernor Tillman's "organ" have for
interfering with the Governors
plans2 This shifting of the local
ity, however, and of the aagents"
does not relieve the principal, for
the Register is the agent" in
Columbia just as the News and
Courier is the "agent" in Charles
ton of the Associated Press. If
the dispatch was sent from Col
umbia and dated from Charleston
the forgery, SO to speak, must
have been authorized by one of the
two newspapers, viz the News
and Courier and the Register,
which repreent the Associated
Press at Columbia, or by some of
their editors, managers or other
agents is that place. The Regis
ter could have had no conceivable
motive for sending it, and appear
ances in that case would still be
against the News and Courier.
be ngsnuo ouaness Of the
News and Courier goes still fur
ther in stating that Governor
Tillman charges that Charleston
is party to a conspiracy to prev
ent refunding of debt" as it pro-
feses to have done in its telegram
to the Financial Chronicle, and as
it repeatedly does in effect throug-
hout it's article this morning not
-withstanding the fact that its
quotation of Governor Tillman's
own words does not warrant such
reconstruction. What the Gov
ernor does say on that head is
this: 1T SIN sorry to see that some
of our own people in Charleston
are lending said and comfort and
are in combination with some New
York sharks who fattened on the
States misfortune during the re-
construction period" which is
very far from indicting the ''whole
community" as our contemporary
falsely puts it.
And this brings us to its last
effort at disingenuousness-its
attempt to make it appear that the
whole of Charleston is bound up
in the News and Courier aid
identified with the alleged con-
spirators, whoever they may be,
that temporarily wrecked the crod-
it of the State abroad. This is an
old tune which has been played by
the 'sorgan" "many and many a
time before" but it is due to truth
to state that there are rascals ill
Charleston just as there are every
where else and charge against
one or more of them does not
constitute an indictment of the
swhole community" Charleston
Sun.
A Plea For Good Roads.