The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-07-14
FARLEY BLACKLIsTs IRBY.

The AdJutdnt General Talks pith the Bark Of:
sPARrANBURG, July 6.-Geu. II. l.. Farley
has preparded n communication 70 the re-
form papers Of the State. The first one re-
cei'iug it refused publication. The Others
may refuse and in order that the reformers
Of the Piedmont section may see what the
General has to say / have secured il for the
GreenrtHe Nc,cs, which is herewith enclosed
To the Editors of the Register and Headyight:
SIRs Var Gus articles in reference to
politics and the "blacklIstiog' which is GO
ing on have appeared 10 the newspapers of
this State, and my name has been frequent
~ used in connection herewith, but l have
paid very little attention to them, regarding
them os merely sensational in most cases or
ms the petty malice of designing parties who
only wanted to create more bitterness and
division in the reform ranks, to which did
not wish 10 contribute.
Later developments, however, have con-
vinced me that there is settled, malicious
and determined purpose, on the part Of GER
tain parties, not only to blacklist but TO
misrepreseut, and malign me aud others,
which has found expression in such way,
rs to cause my frieuds to osk me the reason
for it, and demand that it shall be exposed.
The first intimation had of this, was in
the appearance of the following correspon-
dence in the Augusta Chronicle, signed
''Craddock,' which appeared Immediately
after the inaugural of President Cleveland,
and was copied by various papers in this
State:
..Thc leaders of the South Carolina re-
form movement that assembled in Washing
ton during the Inauguration seemed to have
more important business than sight seeing.
The rank aud file of Tho reform m ivsmaut
sat'shed with the leadership Of Tillman and
lrby, but net SO with some of the lieuten-
ants. One of the State officials announced
TO supposed enemy Of Governor Tllman
and Senator lrby that the following combi-
nations had been agreed upon: Congress
man Shell, who signed he prepared mani
feSto i'll 1890 and who all mt once recently
became so disgusted with politics and poll
,lciaus that he had himself interviewed
announcing his retirement from politics, is
to be the an,i-Tlllman candidate for Gov
ernor, posing as n healing plaster between
the two factions. Senator Butler is to be
their candidate for reelection. General
Farley Is TO succeed Shell in Congress. Mr..
Talbert is 10 have no opposition from the
conservative faction for Congress, aud is to
receive the conservative support. The posi-
tion of Adjutant General Farley is s,id to
have been offered 10 Capt. j. II. Tillman,
but it is likely that he will not accept"
-, 1~.r- 80. .rticls appeared in the Laurcns-
vile Hcrdtd, IN which the charge is made
that L have attended the Donaldson caucus,
at Spartanburg, i'll which various parties
mentioned as "traitors,' etc. were ''sharp-
ening their Brutus dagger for Ben Tillmau,'
and like expressions.
Now, L would have been content TO let
these things go by without dignifying them
by denial, relying upon my record and
character and sufficient refutatiou with all
interested AMI well informed parties, as
aud any others saw the animus and pur-
pose with which they were written, and
could easily tell the source from whence they
came, but later developments have convinced
me that it is my duty to expose them. 1t
may be as well, however, while | am writ
ing to say i'll my own behalf, as well as the
others named, that there is not one particle
of truth in the alleged .'combination'' said
to have been agreed upon in Washington,
aud that the whole thing sprang from the
malice and the imagination of one who evi-
dently aspires 20 be the champion liar of
the State.
This is not only q simple denial, but q
challenge to the real author OF the Grad
SaGk, aylicle, who shall name, to produce
e. Dur1rf; SneH, -1arperr
Aos to whether there has