The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-08-03

fair fight, but if you can't stand these
affectiOnate missions, or pleasant pas
guinades, of NINE. and conclude to risk
it, dOn't try to drag in friends or rela-
tiveS to do your lighting-aS you have
an old and important habit of doing,
but come by yourself Johnny, for you
know you can get fair play and always
find rricrc an Gt." You are getting
into serious trouble, John, and the only
way to get out, is to keep quiet, and
quit getting other people 10 do your
dirty work. The McElrOY experience
vas sufficient to have satisfied you, for
when you denied thatyOu had instigat
ed his article, he told yoI that you were
"a liar" to your face. and you had to
take it. John, you are not a brave man
anyway, but "cOnscience makes COW
ards of his all, and know that you are
wiify. Take this advice John, for if
you don't, 1t will not be long before
keep out Of the papers too, John, and
quit charging other people, with being
"traltors," because your record will not
bear any airing, and besides | am pre-
pared to prove you Ut McUrt a tWitDr
TO your friend Governor Tillman, Il
traitor to the 1WiuHcc and a tr ,itOr to
the Reform Move nent, and if near
anything more from you, I'll do IT,
John.
Before CLOSING, | wantto say word
to my old friends Of the Alliance. and
more particularly those in NY native
county Of Laurens.
Without waiting to hear both sides
or the controversy, some of YOU have
undertaken to decide it by resolution
SardiS Alliance went 50 far as to with
81 ftc
them.
Gentlemen, that was not fair, nor
right, for this was a personal matter,
and no r~f)rm Il Alliance matter
were involved. was reared in Lau-
fensr county, and am well known there,
and no resolution by all the Alli lance OF
the State can give me Il bad character
or john lrDy good Onp. | made you
agoOd soldier in war times, and, though
BOY, fought nv way up from the
ranks. | stood 10y You, and was sent
here to Al! for YOU in Radical and klu-
kluX times. | tOnJht for you and
wrote for You in 1876. Long before
you were aroused to IL knowledge and
appreciation Of your own wrongs, and
long before Ben Tlllman's volc" was
heard in the land, had been work ing
and writing for free silver and linan
cial relief and nearly every plank in
the reform platform. Many Of you
know 1t, and besides xiii prove it, by
the record.
| belong to the reform movement
and not to any individual, and am in
Sympath with all the essential de-
mandSy of the Alliance, and shall aivo
cate, work and vote for the princi pies
that tNeN now represent, as long As they
Keep WI hin the D1mOcratic party. NV
position Is the result OF my record
which is well known and consistent anC
is not due to pOlitica.-trimming OF
coat tail swinger." Since arriving a.
manhood, | have done the best cJulG
LOT the State, for you. and the Reform
Movement.
l. have always expressed myself fear
lessly and independently. and shall con.
tlnue to do 50, regardless everything
except my sense of right ani my duty
to the State
The fear Of losing or the hope of get
ting otice shall not control me, for no
matter what other people may think
and do, | had rather be IAN honest
statesman or citizen ont of Il JOB" than
Il Political trickSter and shunuer, or a
deep dyed william. in th= United States
Senate. Yours very respectfully,
II. i. FARLEY.
Gen. Farley, rs an appendix to his
article, gives the following:
Rock HILL, 5. G., July 23rl, 1888
Gen. II. l.. Farley. Columbia. :. G..
DEAR SIR: Under date Of July 2l>i ,
1898, you addressed me the following let :
let.
COLUMBIA, \. G.. july DIST, 1898.
Senator NJ. &. Butler, Edgplirld, ). &,
DEAR SIR: You are aware that there
lSa heated political controversy now going
on between your co'lraguS, Senator Irhy,
and myself, arising out of the publicat ton
in the Augusta Chronicle March ETH, Of
a certain article signed "C,addock" com
ing from its Washington corr, SpOndrnt
Whlch charged thata combination had been
agreed upon" by which Congressman
Shell was to be ma 70 Governor yourself
TO remain as Unite Safes Senator, Nv. Tat
bert to run without opposition for Con-
GrcSS, l to succeed Shell for Congress and
James ii. TIlIman to be made Adulant
General of the State of South Carolina
NOW while there may be some political
dilierenccS between Us as Demo .arts, and
although we are on somewhat different
political lines, yet | feel sure that | will
DC ale in asking you to make II simple
statement of facts in order that Justice
may be done in this matter.
Therefore | write to ask YOU to STATE
clearly and unrcSrrvcdly whether there has
ever h"en at Washington or elsewhere
any aIlcmpt, conversation or intimatiUn
citncr implied or expires ed, looking To any
Such combination with any or all of the
pa ties mentioned.
Hop ng that have not annoyed you un.
necessarily, or presumed too much in tai,
Ii after, am, very truly,
II. l.. FARLEY.
In reOly be, to say, without hesitation
or reserve, there is not Il word Of truth il
| the charge that q combinations had been