The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-06-28

TSSlOu VI "ulCu 10 Sltuoleo th1o Ao1h
inally boom town, Prosperity, We clip
the following startling and alarming
intelligence:
IA MYSTERIOUS VISIT"
soF BUTLER's PRIVATE SECRETARY AT
NEwBERRY-BE ON YOUR GUARD
REFoRMERs."
Senator Buffers private secretary,
Mr.. Roper, was in Newberry last
month. The object of his visit is a
mystery unless he was there for the
purpose of buying some Tillmanite to
desert his faction in order to be Post
master at Newberry. Wait fellow Re-
formers and you may see who the
traitor is. He is known, and is being
watched"
"REFoRMER."
Performers" of Newberry, from the
caveruous depths of its heart the Ad-
vertiser deplores your most piteous
plight. When the Erymanthean boar
laid waste the country round about
Psophis there was a vigilant and aveng-
ing Hercules to catch him in net but
it would appear that this ravening Sec
retary has done the damage while you
slept. Will you kindly infolm US
where your Hercules was at?
Newberrians, it is, alas! and 10 g
horrible fate that has visited you. 1t
"cuts US to the heart' to contemplate
how this fend in secretary's form, or
serpent's form, or crocodile form or
perhaps reform or some other terrible
form has circulated among you and
wrought havoc "last month" violating
the sweet and fragrant serenity of bal
my May. When we remember that
the object of his visit is still
mystery" it racks our soul to consider
the unknown and unimagined seeds of
devilment that he may have sown.
Who can say that this creature insti-
gated by the very old Satan himself
did not spread the contagion Of "polit-
ical leprosy" and that it is not secretly
raging from Mollohon to Dutch Fork :?
We conjure you by all the tribe OF Ben
jamin to freely use disinfectants. 1t is
moreover our solemn duty to warn the
Performers" Of Laurens to declare a
strict quarantine against all Newberry
reformers until every suspicion of the
foul disease is banished from your
metes and bounds.
But what means the ominous lam
guage Of "buying some Tillmanite :"
Is our fondly cherished faith that
Newberry "Reformers' were urpur-
chasaole to be thus rudely shattered :?
Can it be that they may be enticed by
paltry allurements of a postofflce in an
Anti-town? Or do you mean to con-
vey the idea that they will not come
much higher than three for quarter ?
We respectfully suggest that you rise
in your wrath and exterminate the
traitor" alluded to. 1t is no use to
swat, 'reformers,' that you may see
who the traitor is" Stab him in the
dark and shoot him on the spot. His
case calls for condign punishment. The
proper thing to do is to lynch him
quick or else apply the deadly black
list.
The time has come for action "re-
formers Of Newberry." It is your duty
to hold another caucus, pass q resolu-
ton and so blast forever the traitor"
whose existence is suspected and
whose physiology the willy and wan
dering secretary may have rubbed up
against.
To quote the burning words of a GEL
ebrated secret circular issued in an
cient times by an eminent statesman
who seems about to disappear into the
abysmal depths Of private life, "let
none pass and repass unless they are
properly vouched for"