Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-08-04

LOlIOh 4GE01L1CR' AhS
letter I this day sent to. the Au-
gusta Chronicle editor, declining
longer to take that paper on
account of the stand it, in my
judgment, has taken against the
administration. The reports, as
published by it, of our campaign
meetings sound like the reports
of the State.
You are at liberty to use the
whole or any part of this letter as
you may see fit.
Yours truly,
J. B. HOFFMAN.
Blackville, S. c.. July %.
The letter to the Augusta ed
itor, which is referred to in the
foregoing note, is a clear and
mastery exposition of "causes
and effects" as connected with
South Carolina affairs in general,
and the present State campaign in
particular.
- Mr.. EDITOR: Please discontinue
the paper to me and send state
ment of amount | am due you
for same.
Your agent, through whom /
subscribed, assured me that your
paper would give only true and
impartial reports of South Carolin
affairs and happenings, and it was
for this reason, and this alone,
that I consented to take it. When
your paper, in its report of the
campaign meeting at Columbia,
tried, it seems, to create the I'M
preston that Governor Tillman
awent out of his way" to criticise
and abuse General Hampton, it
certainly showed a spirit OF
extreme partiality. confidence i'll
the correctness and impartiality
OF its reports has therefore been
DESTROYED, and / don't feel under
obligation to continue my pat
ronage of the paper any longer.
Governor Tillman showed great
reluctance to speak of General
Hampton, and 1t was only in
resnonse to repeated questions
from the crowd that he made the
remarks he did about the grand
old hero of past conflicts and Of
the Lost Cause.
No one regrets more deeply the
course General Hampton has
taken in regard to State politics
than does Governor Tillman, and
he certainly would never mention
Hampton's name did not some
bulldozer in search of political
capital force on him the perfor-
of the unpleasant task.
AS to the justice of Governor
Tillman's answers to the oft
repeated question, "Where is
Hampton?" it seems to "a man
up a tree" that General Hampton's
letter to The State, in reply to the
remarks of Governor Tillman
about him, furnishes all the evid-
ence necessary to establish a true
in the case.
I am a Tillmanite Democrat.
I love the name of Tillnan be-
cause he who wears it is true
hearted, brave and intelligent
and is not afraid to stand up for
the rights of the down-trodden
people of our Commonwealth.
The ballot by which Tillman
was elected Governor of South
Carolina was as pure and solid a
Democratic vote as was ever cast
in the State. That ballot was so,
200 majority strong. Who bolted
his strong Democratic ticket or
which Tillman was elected? When
/ man ignores and disgraces Demo-
cratic principles by refusing to
submit to such q strong popular
will of his party what is he?
This is the cause of so much
political turbulence in our State
;o-day. Haskellism is at the
bottom of it all. Take this element
,ut of our politics, and a more
'rderly, prosperous, happy and
peole could nowhere
lse be found than the people of
south Carolina.
The ballot box is the burial
lace of all political differences
n elections and if they are not
,uried there, but on the contrary
arried around in a state of
decomposition by the public press
nd otherwise to the homes of the
'eople, they produce a great
tench and corruption, which in
urn, produce political disease,
.iscord and death.
You say that you are accused
y the Haskellites of engineering
our paper in the interest of the
nird party of South Carolina.
You had been giving fair and
reports of the Carolina
ampign meetings, and this did
OF suit these chronic grumblers,
5 it invariably showed them up
j a hopeless minority fighting
yainst the great popular will.
hey thus accuse you in order to
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