The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-05-10
SONS REPLY TO TTLLAAN,
Especial to News and Courier.

: kindness of Mr.. J. w. Bowden, editor
OF the Cotton Plant, The News and
Courier is able to give the reply OF
President Donaldson to Governor Till
mans charges in advance Of the publ
J cation OF the Cotton Plant. The an
swersog President Donaldson is clear
and to the point. What will the Aiii-
ance do about it? Here is the letter:
GREENvILLE, s. c., May 1, 1893.
Mr. Editor: In replying to Governor
Milman's confession to having black
listed me TO President Cleveland and
the reason he assigns for so doing I
shall not attempt to slink" Mr. Till
man asa citizen and Mr. Tiilman as
Governor, nor vice versa, but to deal
with him as man to man, recognizing
the fact, as the public will also, that If
his conduct in this matter is shown to
1 be true and noble and manly it will
only give lustre to the Office which he
holds, and that, on the contrary, if his
course has been untrue, ignoble and un-
{ manly his Office as Governor will not
shield him from the contempt Of all
right thinking men.
When I first saw the reports in the
newspapers that the Governor Of the
i State had included my name in a black
list TO MIR. Cleveland I, in common
with the people generally, gave but
little credit it, but receiving no state
ment from the Governor denying it /
wrote him letter of inquiry, which
Z letter ne saw fit to ignore. I shall take
up his public statements, however, and
! answer them seriatim.
He disclaims any reference" to my
private character, or any feeling Of
resentment or desire to injure me, and
yet he deliberately proceeds to charge
me with ..betrayal' of the Alliance
and atreachery to the people and to
the Alliance" thus making deadly
thrust at my character and reputation,
We read ofone Joab of olden time,
vino, while maddened and blinded by
political iealously, pursued faithful
servant of the King, one who was on q
mission to unite and harmonize the
Z people, and when he had overtaken
him, this Joab, while stroking the
heard Of his victim, in great show Of
friendship, thrust the cold steel under
hisffth rib. Perhaps Governor Till
man has yet to learn that to stab q
mans character, whether openly, as
Joab did Amasa's person, or under
cover OF supposed secrecy in black
lis. to the President, means death to
the victim
A DIRTY TRICK EXPOSED.
The first reason given by the Gov
ernor to prevent further betrayal Of
the Alliance" is that I was repudiated
by the Democracy of Greenville Coun-
tys etc. So far as my telling to be
elected delegate to the May Conven-
tion is concerned ] have the records to
show, for they are in the hands Of
three as honorable men as live in
Greenviile County, that in caucus of
Resormers, held just before the meet
ing Of the County Convention, ballot
was taken for delegates to the State
Convention to be voted for in the open
Convention. About one-half Of the
ballots cast for me were not reported,
and still the number of ballots counted
for me made me an alternate, which,
according to rule of the caucus, re-
quired that my name be printed on the
tickets to be used in the open Conven-
ton. Having failed, therefore, by the
contingent process to keep me of
the ticket, it was discovered, in the
Convention, after q large number Of
them were distributed to the unsuspect-
ing members, that my name was left
of the tickets. This arousing suspi-
cion in the minds Of some, an inyestiga-
ssea-was made, and the facts as above
stated sworn to and published. by the
investigating committee, it was but
natural, therefore, land certainly moth
ing could be more gratifying to me)
that my friends with whom I had SO
long associated in the work Of reform,
seeing the persecution that was at
sempted towards me, should rally
slmost to man to my support in the
Stste Convention. Is it not remark
able position for the Governor to put
the members Of that Convention in
when he states that Through the in
fuenee of few Alliance men" they
conferred the most honorable and re-
sponsible position within their gift
upon one so unworthy as he would
have me appear?
II there were any "presumptlon" IN
that Convention IS to my being OPP
posed to the nomination of Mr.. Cleve-
land, I was notrsware Of it then nor
,ance. till the Governor makes the bold
statement that such was the case. 10
be entirely frank he makes that state
mert in the face Of indubitable proof
10 the contrary, for my position to-
wards MIR. Cleveland was given to the
press as early as February, 1891, and
was printed in the newspapers all over
this State, and in other States as weil'
and I know be read my views as then
expressed.
sUpposF OF CLEVELAND NO BETRAYAL
oFTHE ALLIANCE.
The Alliance gave no evidence OF
looking upon my preference for Mr..
Cleveland as 6, betrayal of them, either
atthat time or since. Moreover the
Convention voted down q resolution to