Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-11-16
J. ADAMS, PROPRIETOR.

Governor of a State to utter false
hoods concerning private citizel
to cover his pet scheme.
"There are those I believe, wht
do contend that a lie is under c. r
tain circumstances justifable, bu
even the foremost of that schoo
will be forced to admit, that tht
provocation, the mere desire OF
your part to shield the spy system
and save it from odium, is by ne
means sufficient provocation."
Yesterday Governor Tillmar
sent the following reply to Mr.
Darlington:
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
EXECUTIVE CHAMBER.
COLUMBIA, S. c., Nov.6, '93.
J. c. Darlington, Esq, Editor
Spartanburg Herald.
S1t: A marked copy of the Her.
aid: Nov. 3, containing your edi-
torial, "Who Has Lied?" reached
me yesterday and 1 take it, there
fore, as personal communication.
1 also notice in The State of Sun
day an open letter addressed to
"B. R. Tillman, Governor" copied
from the Herald of Saturday. 1t
has been my custom to ignore
abuse and falsehood about myself
appearing in the newspapers, but
l depart from it in this instance,
in order that the people of the
State, and your readers in particu-
lar, may be able to answer the
question, "Who Has Lied?" to
their own satisfaction.
In The State newspaper of No
yember 1st appeared special as
follows:
SPARTANBURG, S. c., Oct. 81
One of Governor Tilln1an's liquor
constables who seized a blockade
wagon on Saturday was himself
arrested to-day by United States
for. retailing liquor with
out license. He was selling by the
pint at Clifton. His name is Hen
derson."
No name was signed and there
fore knew nothing as to it's au-
thorship. When asked about it by
the reporters who daily visit my
office, I denounced it as lie, and
took occasion to characterize the
newspaper in which it appeared in
fttingterms: as q purgeyor Of
falsehood.- Nothing aPPeavSttu'
the News and Courier or the Reg
lister about the arrest, that | saw,
and I felt justified in what l said
because similar special from
Charleston to The State, in which
it alone appeared, had charged me
with playing the part of a spy at
the Charleston Hotel when [ last
visited that city in company with
Miss Cara Barton. Yeu now step
forward and avow the authorship
Of the special and seek to shield
yourself by having it appear that
Henderson is a "spy," and there
fore the Governor has "lied." But
you cannot wiggle out of your un-
comfortable predicament hy any
such change of terms and facts.
It has been a common and ac-
cepted rule among the Haskellite
newspapers end those which are
the mouthpieces of the whiskey
men to call the State constables
"sples" and "sneaks" and other
opprobrious names. They glory in
thus befouling the States officers
and encouraging opposition to the
Dispensary act, which is the law
of The land. When The State pub
lished the lie on the hotel matter,
I said nothing; when it published
your special seeking to bring the
constables into disrepute as law
breakers and directly rejecting on
me, upon whom the duty of ap.
pointing them rests, I thought ii
time to speak out, and did so in
my usual, positive way.
Now, sir I said no constable was
on the force by the name of Hen.
derson; no constable had been ar
rested for retailing liquor, and the
statement in The State was a lie
You Immediately jump on the
name "spy," which is not synony
nous with constable, and which
YOU did not use in the dispatch
and produce Mr.. Tompkins's lette
to Henderson offering $25 TO
proof to convict" and thus seel
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